Delong

Chapter 178 The Knight's Walk (8)

Guo Jingke didn't know whether he had completed the task ordered by the two big leaders, he didn't even know what he was doing, and who belonged to him?

It must be known that his business is originally in Hebei, mainly selling horses... But similar to the trendy business, this kind of gray business often requires more straightforward personal attachment, so for his leader Xiao Guo, he always has to deal with Youzhou. A military leader over there is inferior to Xu Dalang from Henan.

It was precisely because of this that Xu Dalang brought him into the group hastily.

Since he followed Xu Dalang into the group, and Xu Dalang is also a member of Li Shu, the leader of the left, he is naturally not the same as Mr. Zhang Sanye, the leader of the right, but when they got off the boat, the two leaders talked about it face to face, so they casually mentioned it. It was necessary for someone familiar with the land to do a small thing here in Qinghe, and he, Guo Jingke, took this responsibility.

To be honest, this group joined in hastily, and the live connection was also hasty. From the beginning to the end, there was a feeling of being pushed away... In this case, the righteousness of An Tianxia is to feel a little excited on the day of joining the group. , I forgot before crossing the river; after receiving the subpoena, Zhang Jincheng had to be lured to beat Potai, and after joining the gang, he saw Zhang Jincheng killing people indiscriminately; on the contrary, Zhang Jincheng later A lot of gold and silver artifacts were rewarded, which somewhat touched his poor and accustomed Mr. Guo.

Coming and going in the wind and rain, selling horses and joining gangs, isn't that what the picture is about?
Of course, considering Zhang Jincheng's strange appearance after the rebellion, plus Xu Dalang's power, and the pretentiousness of the two leaders, he has not forgotten to send a letter to tell Zhang who doesn't know where he is. The leader, he only said that with Guo Jingke's efforts, Zhang Jincheng finally went to fight Putai.

Thinking about it is also a great achievement.

However, Guo Jingke soon realized that at least his subpoena itself was meaningless... because once Zhang Jincheng made up his mind, he set off quickly, and the commotion was so loud that no one was needed to subpoena him.

"what is that?"

In front of the blue-yellow field, the autumn wind swayed slightly, and Guo Jingke, who was waiting in the open space outside the city with two hundred riders, was at a loss for a moment, because when everyone was waiting for Zhang Jincheng to appear, someone unexpectedly brought out a bunch of similar to Zhang Jincheng from the gate of the city first. Yu Jianyu and the like exist, which is commonly known as the double lifter.

"That's the car of the big boss." Immediately, someone who had followed Zhang Jincheng for a long time and was acquainted with Guo Jingke immediately came to explain.

Guo Jingke thought for a while on the horse, but couldn't help but scratched his helmet: "It's just a lift, why do you need so many? One is enough? Besides, riding a lift is not as convenient as riding a horse?"

"Guo Tou-ling doesn't know much now." The acquaintance rubbed the scar on his face and said with emotion. "I learned this from the emperor. Doesn't the emperor have a car to watch the wind? It is said that it is a wheeled cart made of thousands of carts. There are hundreds of beauties on the cart. They eat, drink, and sleep. Above. Although this big leader does not dare to be like the emperor, he can make a big one out of dozens of pieces, which shows his ability..."

Guo Jingke was at a loss for a while, but soon, he realized what was going on.

More than a dozen shoulders... that is, lifts... After they were made, they were immediately joined together with iron rods and connected with ropes, and then quickly pieced together and combined into a huge square chain lift... lifts The person who is stuck in the hole can still move, but there is a large hole in the middle of the lifter, which is more than a square meter.

At this time, someone again lifted a huge wooden square wooden couch, which happened to be stuck in the gap in the middle of the couch.

Immediately, dozens of strongmen worked together to lift up the huge chain lift, and on both sides quickly rushed several ox-powered and horse-power four-wheeled carts and stuffed them around the lift.

So far, a strange, but certainly spectacular half-lift, half-car colossal vehicle has been assembled successfully.

Sometimes, you have to admit to someone's imagination.

It was not until this time that Zhang Jincheng came out of the city with his head held high and his head held high. Then he stepped on the back of the people and boarded the car, followed by his attendants, who opened the umbrella on it.

This was not over yet, and immediately the soldiers of Chief Zhang came over and asked all the chiefs to come forward and say hello.

Guo Jingke looked at it in a daze, and didn't dare to be negligent at this time, so he hurried over with dozens of other leaders, bowed his head and half-kneeled to greet Zhang Jincheng, who was sitting there with Dama Jindao, and then heard a promise from above, got up in a hurry, He was quickly dragged to the side of the road by someone he knew well.

At this time, I only heard the shouts of the powerful men and the coachmen in unison, and saw the oxen and horses on all sides move first, and the manpower in the middle supported them, and the huge carriage started slowly.

"Guo Boss, don't look at it." After the car had walked a hundred steps, Guo Jingke was still in a daze, and the scarred leader surnamed Wang next to him urged him immediately. "This is the prestige that only the big boss has. The two of us are leading the cavalry, so we quickly lead people around the front to open the way for the big boss."

Guo Jingke responded, and set off with the other party, but forced some thoughts in his heart - he actually wanted to ask everyone else, is this kind of thing really powerful?Is it ugly or handsome? Don't you understand?This is where the emperor sits?

And half a county, 5 to [-] people, what exactly is it?Don't the sheriffs also ride horses and chariots?Isn't that Mr. Zhang also the one who abandoned the sheriff?He also led the mule off the boat by himself.

After getting on the horse and passing by the two wings, Guo Jingke glanced at the strange car again, and then vaguely remembered that at this time last year, he came from the north to sell horses, and he seemed to be drinking with Zhang Jincheng. Afterwards, he easily subdued a stubborn horse with a hint of a dragon in it. He looked majestic and heroic... So, he couldn't understand why he was a different person after only a year?

Could it be that he killed too many people and was cursed by Sanhui and Siyu?

With this thought in mind, Guo Jingke could only speed up and move forward in a hurry, leaving the car and old memories that made him feel uncomfortable.

But no matter what, the tens of thousands of troops finally rolled away to the east.

However, even though he had brought dry food for more than ten days, without any extra family members and children, he felt a little light-packed, but if he really wanted to march, there would be countless troubles...

For example, there is the ability to set up a camp. Who in the Wei Dynasty has not been conscripted to be a civilian husband?But dig a hole and line up a fence at most... In fact, there are very few fences, because the rope is precious, and once it is used, it will be stolen by the people in the next camp, so the guards responsible for recycling sue every day.

There are also avant-garde flankers, but except for the two cavalry in front, most of the troops will lose their sense of direction when they walk, and the speed of each unit is inconsistent. It's all normal.

There are also military discipline troops, such as the pro-army led by Zhang Datou, but the final result is often determined by the amount of bribes collected when they come down for inspection.

As for collective diarrhea, accusing each other of who dug the cesspit to the upper hand, blocking the march, hiding concubines and prostitutes, etc., there are countless.

In this case, within two or three days, Guo Jingke, who has always been smart, faintly realized something...or roughly understood why Zhang Jincheng made such choices in certain things.

To put it bluntly, although Zhang Jincheng is a big leader, he has no ability to manage the people below in detail. He can only control the entire army by setting up some leaders.

And the model of the leader leading a group of people is destined to form gangs and gangs based on regions and relatives.Once this kind of group or gang is formed, first of all, it will become extremely united internally, and then the confrontation with each other will be very serious.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Jincheng, who had no way of knowing the situation below, could only continue to use various methods to strengthen and act as an agent of his own authority. It was for this that he killed people, and it was for this that the strange and imposing car was used, forcing the leaders to treat him ritualistically. The salute is also for this, every morning and evening, when there is nothing to do, the leader must meet with the army to discuss it, or for this.

Thinking about it this way, Guo Jingke felt a little bit weird about Chief Zhang again, and he began to feel that this old Chief Chief was actually not so unreasonable.

"correct!"

This morning's routine breakfast military meeting was coming to an end, Zhang Jincheng, who was sitting on the huge square couch, thought for a while, then suddenly put down the things in his hands and looked up. "I have something to say... Isn't this the crops in the field that will be harvested in another month? Then it will be our food, so I thought about it, we shouldn't be so trampling on the march... What a pity."

All the leaders nodded, and this time many people agreed from the bottom of their hearts, because the vast majority of people have access to farming, regardless of what is going on with "it will be our food at that time", you can protect The crops that are about to mature are really in line with everyone's perception.

Guo Jingke is one of them.

"Well, from today onwards, when you go back and march, you should pay more attention to the official route." Zhang Jincheng continued to order casually. "Anyone who tramples on the crops will have his head cut off...don't take my military law as nothing, I have always been clear about rewards and punishments."

Hearing this, the leaders were shocked and immediately raised their voices to agree.

To put it bluntly, this big leader Zhang really doesn't care when he kills people... He usually says he wants to kill, and if something happens, he must kill him, otherwise he feels that he will be underestimated by others... And this matter has just been Proposed, likely to be caught typical.

"That's good, let's all wait outside!" Seeing this, Chief Zhang seemed to be in a slightly better mood, so he simply signaled. "The weather is fine today, let's start early..."

Naturally, everyone was speechless, immediately put down their breakfast, rushed out, and waited in front of the door.

After a while, naturally another huge car was formed, and then Zhang Jincheng boarded the car to accept the procrastination of all the big leaders half kneeling and saluting.

After finally tossing and tossing, all the leaders returned to their positions and hurriedly set off with their respective troops. Guo Jingke routinely led his horse dealers and cavalry ahead, but half an hour later, he suddenly met another man in the bright morning sun. A small troop of cavalry.

There are not many people in this team, not more than ten riders, but the leader is someone he knows.

"Leader Guo."

At the foot of the hill, Niu Da, who had been waiting for a long time, took the lead and came out alone a hundred steps away.

"Nautou leader." Guo Jingke was inexplicably excited, but he still hurried forward to meet the other party. "Is there any teaching?"

"Thank you, Chief Guo." Niu Da whispered as the two horses crossed. "Things are ready. Starting from the Lujiao Pass in front of you is the Douzigang Salt Pond in Bashili. We will start from there. Before noon today, we must leave Zhang Jincheng's brigade and enter the Lujiao Pass first to join the army... Just in case of accidental injury... By the way, try to lure another cavalry in and eat it first."

"Understood." Guo Jingke answered seriously, and then, like a ghost, he told him in a low voice after he had brought all the headquarters out. "But I still have more than a dozen brothers, who were drawn by Zhang Jincheng and placed behind the Chinese army. I will ride over alone first, and give them an order to let them run away from behind by themselves, and then come back to guide... There will be no delay .”

Niu Da glanced at the other party, without any doubts: "Care is the best thing. After all, Zhang Jincheng has tens of thousands of soldiers, and the armaments are thrown away by the court. There is absolutely no shortage. We have few people, and if one is not good, he will be trapped in it." ... Forget it, I'll wait for you behind the Lujiao Pass, the red flag is planted on the post, you won't miss it."

Guo Jingke nodded repeatedly.

Just like that, after the two sides had joined forces, Niu Da led a dozen of his own cavalry to gallop away first, while Guo Jingke hesitated for a moment, and only let his deputy lead the troops to walk ahead slowly, and then galloped to the central army alone.

Coincidentally, when he arrived at the "car" of the Chinese army, Zhang Jincheng was killing people.

More than a dozen young men in civilian clothes were pushed down by a small river ditch, crying and begging for mercy, weeping, but it did not delay the soldiers cutting one by one, and then performed a routine demonstration of beheading.

"what happened?"

Guo Jingke casually asked an officer of Zhang Jincheng's personal army who was in charge of the execution.

Seeing that it was Guo Jingke, the officer was very polite: "Master Guo, don't worry, these men are stupid, violated the military law, and trampled on the crops..."

Guo Jingke nodded again and again, ignored it, and continued to walk towards the huge car... In fact, if it weren't for today's military order that trampled on the crops to pay for his life, his leader Xiao Guo might not have chosen to go through this... He had a vague feeling that even if this old friend was not a good person, he was more or less a lunatic without killing people. Coupled with the previous reward, he decided to come over and make a proper reminder.

It's not betraying anyone, but repaying this kindness, as long as Zhang Jincheng knows that there are serious enemies coming to beat him.

However, after walking a few steps, under the sun, Guo Jingke reined in his horse suddenly, because he clearly saw that the car did not stop there voluntarily, but was tilted in the crop field beside the river... Turning around again, this It was found that the feet of those begging for mercy were wet and muddy... In other words, it was precisely this car that trampled on the crops, and it was the strength of this car that died to maintain the military law.

The reason why the whole car trampled on the crops was undoubtedly because the feet were wet when crossing the river, and it was impossible to support such a thing.

Guo Jingke didn't read much, and he didn't know what words to use to describe his weird mood at the moment.

At this time, Zhang Jincheng, who was still sitting on the huge couch in the car, beckoned and asked from a distance:

"Xiao Guo, why are you here? Is there anything going on ahead?"

"Yes." Guo Jingke dismounted immediately, bowed down from a distance, and then raised his head respectfully to inform. "The cavalry probed forward and found that Douzigang was more than a dozen miles away... The chief is a local, and he should know this place. It is a salt marsh and a low hill, and there are rivers. There must be a lot of ruins hidden in it. Soldiers and robbers... I don't know how to deal with it, so I came here and asked the big boss."

"Indeed, Douzigang is a bit troublesome... Actually, if it wasn't far away from home, I would have wanted to come to Douzigang, but Douzigang is poor." Zhang Jincheng sighed a little irritably. "That's good, let's not go to Douzigang, let's take the official road to the north of Douzigang, you go tell Wang Dabaoyu, pass on my order, and go to the south of Douzigang to take cover together, whoever dares to go from there Let's kill whoever gets close... This time, just grab the food from Putai and leave, don't do anything unnecessary."

"I know, I know." Guo Jingke saluted respectfully on the ground, then immediately got on his horse and fled away from the hanging heads.

In the morning of the same day, after turning back, Guo Jingke led the cavalry from the headquarters to the abandoned Lujiao Pass first, entered Douzigang, which stretched for dozens of miles, and joined Niu Da.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Dabao, the leader of another Zhang Jincheng avant-garde force who received Guo Jingke's message, also led his troops into the Lujiao Pass without any precautions two quarters of an hour later, and followed Guo Jingke's cavalry from a distance after the pass. There are several small rivers and swamps.

Then, he was ambushed by soldiers and horses several times larger than himself in a narrow area behind a hill, and the whole group collapsed in just two quarters of an hour. A small number of cavalry mixed with three hundred donkeys and horses died in battle. , most of them chose to surrender to the leader of the other party, a young man named Cheng Mingqi.

After the battle was over, as the semaphore was played, Cheng Zhili, who was also in ambush in Douzigang, led [-] cavalry to attack. By going around and attacking, he carried out a typical mid-range cavalry raid, and then attacked the cavalry not long after they set off. , Zhang Jincheng's rearguard troops who were preparing to cross a small river ditch easily succeeded and burned the camp supplies that had just been collected in the camp.

The battle started suddenly.

It wasn't until this time that Zhang Jincheng, who had already reached the official road on the side of Douzigang, realized that Xiao Guo was right in reminding him that the thieves in Douzigang might be troublesome, and the road ahead might be a bit difficult.

PS: Good night everyone.

(End of this chapter)