A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 317 Lang Youqing came to concubine with intention, and the Han Dynasty left the Yumen West without peace

In the west of Luoyang City, in a neighborhood not far from the city gate, Bai Zhi and his entourage stopped at a house with three entrances.

"Dong dong dong!" Bai Zhi asked his entourage to take care of the horses outside and went to knock on the door himself.

After waiting for a while, "Squeak!" The door was opened a crack, and a woman who did not apply makeup, but made people feel very capable and clean opened the door.

As soon as Bai Zhi looked at the person, a smile immediately appeared on his face, and he saluted, "Zhaomei!"

Ban Zhao looked at the people outside the door, first bowed in return, and then said happily: "It turns out to be Brother Bai Zhi, are you here to see my brother?"

Bai Zhi's expression changed, and he asked nervously: "Ah, is Brother Meng Jian here?"

Bai Zhi knew very well that after Ban Biao's death, Ban Gu had become the pillar of the Ban family. In order to raise his younger brother and younger sister, he was the most rigorous and serious man, just like their father.

When Ban Zhao saw Bai Zhi being so nervous, he covered his mouth and smiled slightly: "I see you are nervous. My brother has gone on duty and has not returned home yet."

Bai Zhi breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good." Then he felt something was wrong. Seeing Ban Zhao's teasing eyes, he immediately explained: "Ah, no, I didn't mean that. By the way, that's it. Brother Zhong Sheng wrote it to me." A letter containing something to send to you, please let me deliver it on your behalf.”

"Ah, second brother, did you write a letter? Did you mention me? What did you say?" Ban Zhao said happily when he heard Ban Chao's letter.

Bai Zhi said awkwardly: "This letter contains some discussions between me and Brother Zhong Sheng. He only asked me to hand over the contents of the package to you at the end."

Ban Zhao immediately turned cold: "Huh, I knew he didn't mention me. Really, I've been like this since I was a child. I don't know if he still has my sister in his eyes."

Bai Zhi didn't know how to comfort him: "By the way, here you go, these are the things Brother Zhong Sheng brought with the package. I think they are all stuff from the Western Regions."

Ban Zhao took several items from Bai Zhi, including a bone whistle handmade from animal bones by Ban Chao in his spare time, some women's supplies from the Western Regions, and some rare history books from the Western Regions.

Ban Zhao immediately became happy when he saw it, and he took the history book and started reading it.

Bai Zhi stood there without disturbing her, just looking at her quietly.

Suddenly Ban Zhao realized something and said to Bai Zhi: "Ah, by the way, I can't take them out as soon as I see these history books. Brother Bai Zhi, I'm sorry."

"Hey, it's okay. By the way, your brother is on duty. What are you doing at home? If you are bored, I will ask my sister to come and play with you."

Ban Zhao smiled and refused: "How could it be boring? My brother and father left so many historical documents for me to sort out? When you first came here, I was sorting out the events of Emperor Wen and Emperor Dang, but I didn't know How to define the position of Queen Ren.”

Bai Zhi thought about it and then said: "There are some secrets about the period of Queen Ren in my family, which are some of the conversations between Queen Ren and the family ancestors. If possible, I can go home and ask the clan uncle in the library. It's not a big deal for me. If you make some blood, just buy him some flower sculptures."

Bai Zhi seemed to have made up his mind.

"Yes, that's great. If there are some secret things provided by your Bai family, that period of history will be clearer."

Bai Zhi just laughed and didn't answer.

At this time, Ban Zhao asked the doubts he had always had in his heart: "Brother, what are you going to do in military uniform in this life? Aren't you a minister of history? You still need to go to the battlefield, right?"

When Bai Zhi heard this, he immediately coughed and said: "I want to learn from your second brother and join the army. I have asked Your Majesty to lead troops to the Western Regions to help your brother. I will go on an expedition in the near future. Today is my duty to replace Brother Zhong Sheng." I am handing over my belongings and saying goodbye to you."

After Ban Zhao heard this, he paused without saying a word and just asked Bai Zhi to wait at the door. Then he gently lifted up his skirt, closed the door, and ran towards home.

Not long after, Ban Zhao reappeared at the door, took a slight breath, wiped the sweat from his head, and handed two things wrapped in cloth towels to Bai Zhi.

"Give"

"what is this?"

"The one on the left is the brush I prepared for my second brother. I bought it from Biqu Pavilion with the money I earned from transcribing for others. When I thought about it, the hair on my second brother's brush might be almost bald. You want to go The Western Region supports my second brother, so help me bring this to him."

Bai Zhi nodded, put it in his arms and put it away: "What about this one?"

Ban Zhao turned sideways, pressed the wooden door with his clean and slender fingers, and said nonchalantly: "This is for you."

"Ah?" Bai Zhi thought he heard wrongly.

"Idiot, I told you, I gave it to you."

"Oh oh oh." Hearing that Ban Zhao was angry, Bai Zhi quickly shrank his neck and opened it. It was a sachet. There was a line of delicate words on both sides of the sachet. It was obvious that Ban Zhao wrote it himself. The book "tranquility reaches far" and "strength leads to clarity"

Bai Zhi looked at the two lines of words above and smiled like a fool. Seeing Bai Zhi's appearance, Ban Zhao couldn't help being amused, covered his mouth and turned around to laugh.

Bai Zhi took out the writing brush just now, put the sachet inside, then put the writing brush in, and patted it: "Zhaomei, don't worry, I will bring this writing brush for you. Brother Zhong Sheng must see it. This brush will definitely make you very happy.”

Ban Zhao nodded, then looked into his eyes and said seriously: "Can you help me bring my second brother back safely?" Bai Zhi said solemnly: "Don't worry, even if I risk my life, I will bring Brother Zhong Sheng back to his safety." Return to Luoyang."

Ban Zhao continued, "And you, you must come back safely, otherwise, hum, I will marry an old man."

Bai Zhi scratched his head and said with a smile: "That won't work. Don't worry, I will come back safely. Don't think I am just a minister. I have also learned a lot of martial arts at home. Even the guards at home may not be able to fight. Pass me."

Ban Zhao nodded silently: "That's good."

"Sir!" The attendant on the street reminded Bai Zhi that it was getting late.

Bai Zhi suddenly stared into Ban Zhao's eyes and said seriously: "When I come back, I will ask my father to come to propose marriage, okay?"

Ban Zhao pursed his lips and nodded.

Bai Zhi suppressed the excitement in his heart. There was an infinite power in his heart that he didn't know how to release. In the end, he had to stamp his feet hard, then pulled off the jade pendant he was carrying, handed it to Ban Zhao, and said, "Wait for me!"

Then he turned decisively, got on his horse, looked at Ban Zhao again, pulled the horse's head, and drove out of the street.

Ban Zhao walked to the middle of the street, looked at the two speeding figures in the distance, looked down at the jade pendant, polished it with his hands, then returned home, silently closed the door, and promised everyone that he was the only one left. I am dead, but fortunately, I still have hundreds of volumes of scattered historical materials to accompany me.

Bai Zhi asked his entourage to go back home and tell his father Bai Guang about the promise to Ban Zhao. He had done it for him and asked his sister to go to Ban Zhao to relax if she had nothing to do. After it was done, he would come back to the army. Looking for myself, and now I go to the military camp outside the city to select the soldiers who will go with me.

Five days later, Bai Zhi recruited 500 more cavalry on the basis of the 500 garrison cavalry. They were all tough guys who had been in the frontier all year round and were good at riding horses and drawing bows. They all came to Luoyang to look for opportunities. Many of them are even retired veterans.

After gathering the soldiers, Bai Zhi paid his respects to Liu Jin. Liu Jin did not hold any swearing-in ceremony for them, and everything happened in peace.

Because the expedition of a thousand men is no longer considered a big war for today's big men.

A thousand soldiers who went on an expedition to the Western Regions quietly headed northwest. In addition to their public intention to fight for the country, they also had the selfish intention of making achievements. They were soldiers of the Han Dynasty. They went here to open up territory and expand territory for the Han Dynasty, and their bodies were wrapped in horse leather. .

A thousand people passed through Youfufeng, Liangzhou, and out of Yumen Pass. However, they did not go directly north, but turned westward from Shanshan State, crossed the South Road of the Western Regions, and went north from Congling to Shule, and then found Ban Chao's army.

By the time we arrived in Shule, it was already the seventh year of Jianchu.

In the fifth year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Ban Chao asked the court for reinforcements, but for a year, the court did not take any action. The king of Shache State thought that the Han Dynasty had abandoned the Western Regions like the previous Han Dynasty, so he surrendered to Qiuci State.

This made Banchao vulnerable to enemies from both sides. When he heard about the rebellion in Shache, Banchao quickly left two thousand men to guard Shicheng and rushed back to Shule with hundreds of cavalry.

With the rebellion of Yarkand, the Gumo Kingdom, which had long had dissent, also surrendered to the Kucha Kingdom, and sent troops to attack Shicheng with the Kucha Kingdom, hoping to take back the stone city.

After Ban Chao heard about it on the road, he took his men back and defeated the coalition forces of Kucha and Gumo. After thinking about it, he decided to abandon Shicheng and go back to Shule to defend with his only 2,000 soldiers.

When they arrived at Shule, before Ban Chao had rested, Fan Chen, the new captain of Shule, also rebelled.

In desperation, Ban Chao had no choice but to retreat to Wuji City in the west with his remaining few hundred people, because further to the west was the Dayuan Kingdom. They were Yuezhi people and had always had good relations with the Han Dynasty and could get supplies.

Therefore, he wanted to rely on Wuji City to hold on to the city and wait for reinforcements from the Han Dynasty.

Because Bai Zhi didn't know where Ban Chao was, he asked Lu Sheng to go forward and take a dozen knights to find Ban Chao's whereabouts.

After exploration, Lu Sheng learned that Ban Chao was now retreating to Wuji City, so he immediately set off for Wuji City, and then asked a few knights to return the same way and confess to Bai Zhi.

Ban Chao, who had stayed in Wuji City for two months, finally arrived at Lu Sheng, and learned from him that the imperial court had sent Bai Zhi with a thousand elite soldiers to assist him.

Ban Chao was very excited and jumped up and said: "Your Majesty, the Western Region is available, and now that Brother Bai Zhi is helping us, are you still worried about not being able to make great achievements?"

After thinking about it carefully, he decided on a plan and asked Lu Sheng to go back and tell Bai Zhi his plan and ask him to cooperate with him.

Because Ban Chao had been in the Western Regions for a long time, Bai Zhi was only Ban Chao's deputy general. Liu Jin decided that Ban Chao should still decide on matters in the Western Regions.

Lu Sheng kept everything Ban Chao said in mind, and then at night, secretly and a few cavalry, bypassing the spies outside the city, went to look for Bai Zhi.

Soon, they found Bai Zhibu hiding beside a pond. They were dressed in business travel attire, with their armor and standard weapons placed on the camouflaged commercial vehicle.

Although it is a caravan, the one thousand people are all strong young men. Those horse bandits are all old bandits with vicious eyes. They can tell at a glance that they are in trouble, and something is very wrong. There is something going on inside, and they are far away from the caravan. Don't touch this brow. Therefore, along the way, Bai Zhi didn't encounter anyone who didn't like him.

When Lu Sheng saw Bai Zhi, he was bathing and grooming horses by the pool with his head wrapped in white cloth.

After listening to Ban Chao's strategy conveyed by Lu Sheng and staking his horses, Bai Zhi nodded in agreement, thinking Ban Chao's strategy was very feasible, and ordered his subordinates to start preparations.

(End of this chapter)