Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 673: Gold Mine in Sancha Valley
Lu Dezhi is 44 years old this year. As a veteran of the Northwest Frontier Army with no achievements, his promotion is extremely slow.According to the regulations of the frontier army of the Song Dynasty, he will be dismissed and returned to the field at the age of 50. He is still just a squad leader. If there is no accident, it will be difficult for him to become a high-quality officer in his life.The only errand now is to lead people to check everyone who enters the city all day long. Although it is a bit hard, it is also a lot of money.

Last winter, I grew up with him and was ten years older than him. The child bride-in-law who had a deep affection died of illness. Two daughters also married four or five years ago. Now there is only Lu Dezhi was alone, and when he got sick occasionally, he had to entrust those rough-handed soldiers to cook soup and rice for him. His life was really miserable.

However, in the past seven or eight days, he felt that his life was moving forward, so that no matter who he met all day, he was always smiling, and the crow's feet at the corners of his eyes were piled up when he went to the city every day. Farmers who buy vegetables feel less troubled.All this is because Lu Dezhi picked up a daughter-in-law a few days ago.

Yesterday, when Lu Dezhi led someone to inspect a convoy entering the city, he found a young woman tied with a rope and her mouth gagged in a hidden compartment of a truck. At that time, the owner of the truck secretly gave him a coin. bag.This kind of situation happened from time to time in the past. Lu Dezhi knew that this was a human trafficker, and he was even a little used to it. He took the money every time, pretended not to see it, and then let him go.

However, today Lu Dezhi was uncharacteristically, because the woman in the hidden compartment looked three points similar to his dead wife, and compared to his dead wife, she was very handsome, taller, and more charming. The woman is very young, looks to be 20 years old at the most.

Therefore, Lu Dezhi became a good person once in his head, rescued the woman, and took him to his residence to settle down.The soldiers guarding the north city gate couldn't help but be amazed, the squad leader who was always timid and greedy, who loved to take advantage of small things, actually showed kindness?

"Be kind, hum! I have experienced five generations of troubled times. I have never seen anything. I have eaten human flesh. I will be kind." Lu Dezhi listened to the whispers of several soldiers, kicked them away, and muttered to himself. .

"I happen to be short of a woman who will take care of me and warm the bed." Lu Dezhi turned his head to look at his house, rubbing his hands happily, thinking about how he had lived in the past half a year. Now that this girl has moved in, it will be different Yes, it will soon gain popularity. Not to mention, look at how clean and bright Lao Tzu’s small courtyard is now. When it’s time to eat, I used to go to the opposite restaurant to grab a casual bite, but now I can have hot meals as soon as I enter the house .

"Ah! This must be because I spent most of my life defending my family and the country without merit or hard work, so the late emperor had a spirit and rewarded me." Lu Dezhi thought to himself.

Thinking of this, he felt that it was only natural for him to get this girl into his bed.

"After all, that small appearance, that figure, that pair of watery peach blossom eyes, tsk tsk tsk, makes people look at it, and even the bones are crisp. Another day, I will find Liu Banxian, a fortune teller by the city gate, to see a lucky day and do something simple. , by the way, let those twenty boys give me filial piety, and then I can enjoy the white and tender body of the little girl."

Lu Dezhi was thinking about the beauty, when he heard the sound of a horn on the city wall, Lu Dezhi was startled for a moment, then stood up suddenly, raised his neck and shouted loudly at the city wall: "What happened? What's the situation?"

Someone stuck his head out and shouted at him: "Old Lu, you idiot, close the city gate quickly, the party's army is rushing towards Lingzhou City."

Lu Dezhi was taken aback when he heard this, jumped up and shouted at his soldiers: "You bastard, close the city gate quickly. Hurry up, you sons of a bitch..."

As soon as he said this, he stopped abruptly, and then suddenly took a step, and then he threw his neck back suddenly, a sharp cluster of arrows appeared in his throat, his eyes suddenly protruded, and his face looked terrified. He yelled, and reached out to touch his throat. When he touched the arrow point, his whole body fell limply, but he was not dead yet, and kept twitching.

"What's going on here? Have the party members already entered the city?"

Then, from the corner of his eyes that gradually faded, he saw a woman holding a short crossbow, passing by him and running towards the gate of the city.

Lu Dezhi was lying on the ground, watching with disbelief that the woman who looked a little like his dead daughter-in-law rushed to the city gate like flying, and waved at the ten soldiers who were closing the gate. Ten soldiers fell to the ground.

Lu Dezhi is not young, but his vitality is quite strong, with a crossbow arrow stuck in his throat, like a chicken whose throat has been cut, and continues to twitch its body.He knew that he was going to die: "I..... the first time in my life to save someone, and I helped this girl so much, and I didn't sleep with her, so I died like this. I'm at a big loss... "

…………

…………

Zhu Yuzhu experienced three extreme emotions of great joy, great anger, and great worry within an hour.

Zhu Yuzhu is a military commander in the Northwest Frontier Army, and also Gao Huaide's true confidant and beloved general.He was ordered to go to Sancha Valley to look for gold mines. The plan was to kill and capture a group of young people in Sancha Valley first, and then go to the gold mines under the leadership of the commander's two personal soldiers.However, these thieves in Sancha Valley were so cunning that they got the news in advance, and when he led the army to Sancha Valley, they ran away without even finding a single person.

Zhu Yuzhu regretted that no one was killed or captured, and all the property in the Sancha Valley was looted in an instant. After all, he found a gold mine.However, this does not affect his business.

Soon they found a suspected gold mine about seven miles west of Sancha Valley, because there was already a deep mine here.Zhu Yuzhu personally led people into the mine. Originally, the plan was to catch some people from Sancha Valley to dig for gold. Now that no one was caught, he had to order [-] soldiers to dig. Soon someone dug up some broken gold. But this is not enough, Zhu Yuzhu needs to figure out how fine the gold in this gold mine is.So, ordered to keep digging.An hour later, another thousand soldiers were sent in to replace the thousand soldiers inside, taking turns to rest.

However, when the thousand soldiers first entered, a change occurred.

A loud bang came from the entrance of the mine, and then the entrance of the mine collapsed. At this moment, two thousand soldiers were buried in the mine.

Zhu Yuzhu was taken aback, and shouted: "Hurry up, all go up to carry the gravel and save people."

As soon as he gave an order, the three thousand soldiers outside started to move.

Zhu Yuzhu looked at the green smoke rising from the gravel with an ugly expression, and thought of the powerful gunpowder secretly made by the legendary Chinese Xiawei Mansion. Is it from the Huaxia Weifu, or is this a conspiracy in itself."

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuzhu immediately called for a captain and said, "Li Mazi, take 100 people under your command to Huanzhou to find the commander-in-chief quickly, and report the situation here to the commander-in-chief."

The man named Li Mazi clasped his fists to promise, and then he called his [-] soldiers to get on their horses and leave.

After half a stick of incense, Li Mazi and his party encountered an ambush when they were about to walk out of the mountainous area, and the entire army was wiped out.

…………

…………

More than 100 miles southwest of Huanzhou, Ye Chen and his party of more than 1 people are resting.

Han Xizai picked up the wine and respected Ye Chen first. After Ye Chen tasted it, he smiled and said: "I always have two questions in my mind. I want to ask the prince to clarify."

Ye Chen had further contact with Han Xizai these days, and found that Han Xizai's erudition is the No. 1 he has seen since he came to this era. Ludosun was weaker than him.The most important thing is that Han Xizai has a deep understanding and unique insights on governing the country and the world.Of course, after getting along with each other these days, Han Xizai also gradually discovered that although Ye Chen is becoming more and more dignified, he is actually a very easy-going person. Compared with some superiors who pretend to be approachable, Ye Chen is sincere. There is no airs, and getting along makes people feel like a spring breeze, and it is heart-wrenching.

Therefore, facing Ye Chen now, Han Xizai was less restrained than in the beginning. Otherwise, if the question like this was asked a few days ago, Han Xizai would really not dare to ask more.

Ye Chen didn't think too much, and said curiously, "I don't know what questions Mr. Han has?"

Han Xizai said with a smile on his face: "The first question is about the 5000 cavalry capturing the Eight States. The officials have carefully calculated that the prince's many arrangements can delay Gao Huaide for a day at most, and the troops in each of the Eight States No less than [-] people, how can my lord let the [-] party troops who are not good at siege conquer the eight states in one day. Even with Yang Taiwei and the others, I am afraid it will be difficult to change the overall situation."

Ye Chen smiled and said: "There are six military strongholds outside the eight prefectures. The Song Dynasty's military power has been strong these years. These eight prefectures have not had wars for nearly ten years, and the defenders in the cities have long since slackened. In addition, each prefecture There are already our internal support in the city. And the [-] party cavalry will divide into eight groups and attack the eight states at the same time. Of course, any situation or accident may happen during the war, and the king cannot guarantee that the eight states will They can all be attacked."

Han Xizai suddenly realized, nodded and said: "So that's how it is. These things count the time, and we have already started preparations when we set off from Kaifeng. The prince has planned a strategy and will win a thousand miles!"

Ye Chen is used to Han Xizai's liking to flatter him. Everyone has their own unique personality. As long as this person has his own strengths, Ye Chen will not force anything on him.What's more, a prime minister like Han Xizai.

"Han Xianggong just asked the first question, what is the second question?" Ye Chen asked.

Han Xizai said: "The lower officials have always been curious, how did the prince know that there is a gold mine near Sancha?"

(End of this chapter)