Corrupt official in the Red Chamber

Chapter 123
Zhang Ji was speechless by Jia Rui, but these three people must be saved. Otherwise, who in the army would listen to him and who would sacrifice their lives for him?

"You are only an imperial envoy, and I will still be in charge of this army. Please, Mr. Jia, hand over the talisman and arrow."

Jia Rui looked at Zhang Ji for a while and suddenly smiled, then took out a seal from his arms and threw it to Zhang Ji.

Zhang Ji got the seal, then raised the seal high, and said to the people below: "The commander-in-chief's order, although Liu Wenyuan and the other three delayed the military plane, there was a reason for the incident, and the crime is not worthy of death. Pull them out and beat them with thirty army sticks." , to make the best of you.”

At this time, Jia Rui also stood up, waved his hand towards the team and immediately rushed out from there, and more than 20 people surrounded Jia Rui.

After Zhang Ji passed the order, he turned around and said to Jia Rui: "Master Jia, I am in command of the army now, you can go to the back and rest."

But Jia Rui didn't move, but stood there, watching Liu Wenyuan and the other three who were not far away were beaten to pieces, howling endlessly.

Zhang Ji didn't have much to do with Jia Rui, but he still tolerated Jia Rui's current actions. After all, Jia Rui had suffered such a big loss, and no one could say anything when they saw Liu Wenyuan and the others suffering and making him angry.

After a while, the Thirty Army sticks were beaten, and the three of Liu Wenyuan were dragged back.

Zhang Ji looked at the three of them and said in a deep voice, "What do you three have to say?"

The three men reluctantly knelt down on the ground and kowtowed to Zhang Ji repeatedly, "General, please wait. Thank you for not killing me. From now on, I will obey your orders."

Zhang Ji was very happy this time, not only saved Jia Rui's face, but also kept his nails in the army, this incident was barely over.

In fact, among the three generals, only Liu Wenyuan is Zhang Ji's confidant, and the other two are incidental.

Not only did Liu Wenyuan save this time, the other two generals were also grateful to him, and they could slowly recover in the future to add some help to the emperor.

"Okay, you are all injured, go down and rest."

The three of Liu Wenyuan kowtowed quickly after hearing this, and wanted to retreat with the support of the soldiers.

Just when the three of them were about to retreat, Jia Rui, who had been silent all this time, spoke up.

"Wait a moment, three generals."

After listening to Jia Rui's words, Liu Wenyuan and the three of them froze for a moment and turned to look at Jia Rui, not knowing what else this guy wanted to say.

"Master Jia, this is enough, I am still the commander-in-chief of the army."

Zhang Ji is telling Jia Rui to stop making trouble. You have no trump cards. If you continue to make trouble, everyone will look bad.

Jia Rui didn't even look at Zhang Ji, but turned around and stretched out his hand.

A spy behind him hurriedly delivered a yellow cloth package to Jia Rui.

Jia Rui took the yellow cloth package, opened it in front of more than [-] troops, and revealed Shang Fang's sword from inside.

Zhang Ji frowned when he saw Shang Fang's sword.

At this time, Jia Rui raised Shang Fang's sword high.

Seeing this scene, the [-] troops knelt down together and shouted long live.

Even the general Zhang Ji had to kneel there.

Jia Rui held Shang Fang's sword in his arms and shouted to everyone: "Liu Wenyuan and the other three are guilty of delaying the military plane. They should be pushed out and killed."

Kneeling Zhang Ji naturally couldn't let his own people be killed by Jia Rui, he immediately stood up and said to Jia Rui:

"Lord Jia, I have already punished these three generals just now. There is a saying: one crime does not deserve double punishment, what else do you want?"

Jia Rui glanced at Zhang Ji coldly, then patted the Shang Fang sword in his arms and said in a sinister tone:

"The Supreme Emperor gave me the Shangfang Sword, and I have the right to kill first and then report. If you are not convinced, you can impeach me. But now that you see the Shangfang Sword, you are like seeing the Supreme Emperor. Do you dare to resist the order?"

Zhang Ji shook his hands angrily when he heard this, but there was nothing he could do.

Because when Zhang Ji squinted just now, he had already noticed that several other generals put their hands on the swords under their waists.

It seems that as long as he dares to resist the order, several members will be able to step forward and chop himself up.

From this, we can see the prestige of the Supreme Emperor in the military, and we also know how difficult it is for the emperor to gain military power as long as the Supreme Emperor is around.

These generals may have only seen the Supreme Emperor once in their life, but they have already been loyal to the Supreme Emperor. Now that Jia Rui is just holding the Shangfang sword bestowed by the Supreme Emperor, they dare to fight against the commander-in-chief of the army.

If in the future the Supreme Emperor signaled that he had a heart of rebellion, these people would dare to take their lives directly.

Seeing that there was no way he could do anything, Zhang Ji could only turn his head aside helplessly.

At this time, Liu Wenyuan and the other three had been tied up again, and their heads were beheaded right in front of the [-] troops.

Seeing his own people being killed, Zhang Ji couldn't suppress the fire in his heart. He said to Jia Rui in a deep voice:

"You have Shang Fang's sword now, I can't do anything against you, but I can still make a booklet, you wait to be used."

Jia Rui smiled coldly, and then said: "Don't talk so beautifully, do you think your ass is clean? I will refer to your book, and it will be sent to Beijing soon."

Zhang Ji looked at Jia Rui coldly for a while, then cupped his hands and said, "Master Jia is tired all the way, go to the rear and rest." People are gone.

Zhang Ji kept staring at Jia Rui's back until he disappeared into the army.

Zhang Ji turned his head again, and said in a deep voice to the generals below: "Su Si has already fled. I order you to divide the troops into three groups and encircle from three sides. We must surround Su Si within three days. .”

The generals below were stunned when they heard this. You must know that the Su family led cavalry. Although there were some cavalry in their army of more than [-], most of them were infantry. joke?
"Marshal, this is a bit difficult for others, and I am afraid that the last general will not be able to complete it."

"Can't finish it? Then come and see me."

After Zhang Ji finished speaking, he turned and left.

The generals below looked at each other at this time, finally looked at each other, sighed, each responded without rest, and immediately led the army into three groups to cover and kill.

These generals are also thinking of a dead horse as a living horse doctor. As long as they try their best, even if they can't catch up with Su Si, they can save their lives by pleading with Jia Qin envoy in the end.

After all, no matter how powerful you are, Zhang Ji, you can't kill all the generals in the army, right?

If this is really the case, I am afraid that the emperor will not be able to keep you, and will definitely use your life to appease the anger of the army.

After Jia Rui heard Zhang Ji's order in Houying, he was also very angry.

He thought it was Zhang Jigong's personal revenge, because these generals were on his side just now, Zhang Ji used this method to torture the generals.

But now Jia Rui has no military power, only supervisory power, so it is useless for him to object, he can only stand up and speak out when Zhang Ji punishes these people to save their lives.

In fact, Jia Rui is also a new recruit, he doesn't understand many things in the army.

Although Zhang Ji had a hint of revenge, he didn't go too far.

Zhang Jike was born as a civil servant and turned into a general. His combat experience is not only gained on the battlefield, but also accumulated through extensive reading.

Zhang Ji is also good at learning. After these years of experience, he discovered an interesting thing.

That is, the cavalry is not as fast as the infantry during long-distance marches?

Any reasonable person would scoff at this conclusion, but after Zhang Ji's long-term experimentation, he found that it was really true.

If the cavalry wants to obtain long-distance high-speed maneuverability, several prerequisites are required. One is to have one person with two horses or three horses, and ride in rotation, and it is forbidden to ride war horses when marching.

The second is to have strong logistical supply capabilities accompanying the cavalry, otherwise the little supplies the cavalry brings will be gone in a few days.

The third is to feed the horses concentrated feed, grains, beans and even eggs, similar to what the landlords eat, so as to ensure that horses do not lose weight and can continue to fight.

If you just rely on eating grass along the way, more than half of the time each day will be used to let the horses graze, and the maneuvering speed of the horses is about the same as crawling.

This time, Su Si's cavalry was scared off by Jia Rui and did not bring any supplies. Under this situation, the cavalry could not maintain a high-speed march and finally had to stop.

This is a good time to wipe out Su Si.

Besides, the current Jia Rui has nothing to do about it, besides, he is extremely tired now, so he fell asleep when he lay down on the bed.

This sleep lasted until noon the next day, and then barely woke up.

In fact, Jia Rui can still sleep, but his soldiers are frightened. Is this guy unable to wake up?

So he had the courage to shake Jia Rui awake.

Jia Rui opened his tired eyes and looked at the sunshine outside the tent, and then he felt that he was alive again.

With the help of his personal servant, he sat up from the bed, and then ate his meal under his service.After changing clothes, he walked out of the big tent.

He only saw a few spies following him outside the big tent, guarding the entrance of Jia Rui's tent like guards.

It turned out that everyone in the camp knew about Jia Rui fighting through the siege and rescuing Zuize by himself yesterday.

For such a heroic commander, everyone will respect him from the bottom of his heart.

Therefore, these spies spontaneously stood guard for Jia Rui.

"How's the front? Is there any news?"

Jia Rui was still worried about the battle ahead.

"Returning to my lord, according to the military information from the front, the generals chased forward for 160 miles in one day and one night, but still failed to catch up with Su Si."

Jia Rui also held his breath in his heart, "Zhang Ji is really messing around, asking the infantry to chase the cavalry, what does he think?"

But now that Jia Rui has no command, he has nothing to do even if he objects.

In the next few days, Jia Rui paid close attention to the news on the front battlefield in real time. Every time the news came back, the infantry marched a lot every day, and Su Si was not found.

Just when Jia Rui couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to go to Shuai Zhang to ask Zhang Ji for an explanation, a piece of military news came back that shocked him.

(End of this chapter)