Great Han Empire

Chapter 385

"The Journey to the West"

Author: Scarlet Coral
Chapter 20 Hu Jia Eighteen Beats

When the north gate was opened, a Pegasus immediately reported to Guan Ping.Because the officer in charge of the key escaped, Ximen was forced to find a hammer to smash the lock temporarily, so he delayed opening the city gate for a quarter of an hour.At this time, the cavalry left by Zhao Guang at the west gate had gone around to the north gate to enter the city, so only Guan Ping and Zhang Bao's cavalry entered the city from the west gate to defend the main streets and alleys in the city.According to prior agreement, only some of Guan Ping and Zhang Bao's troops assisted Liao Hua and Zhao Neng in defending the four gates of Chigu and patrolling the city, and most of them entered the city.After Guan Ping and several cavalry had entered the city, he brought a large group of personal soldiers into the city.

After gathering the cavalry of Guan, Zhang, and Luo, Guan Ping led a large group of people and marched towards the palace. After walking not far, they encountered a small group of cavalry led by He Chong at the intersection of the cross street, and hurriedly turned to the right.Guan Ping stopped him and asked:

"Zaigan, the south gate has been opened?"

He Chong replied: "The south gate and the east gate are both open. As soon as the loyal Wusun people in the city saw the fire at the north gate, they immediately dispersed the soldiers loyal to Le Guangmi, tied up the prime minister, and opened the south gate. The east gate was also a mutiny. The soldiers opened it, and General Zuo was also captured by them."

Guan Ping asked again: "How many people are in your team?"

"I brought in a hundred cavalry, and now I am separately guarding the front and back doors of the residences of civil and military officials in the city. According to the general's order, no one is allowed to enter or leave, and the search will begin after dawn."

Guan Ping waved his hand to let He Chong's men pass by.Then he came to the west gate of the palace, and saw that there were already Zhao Guang's cavalry guards there, and there were several corpses of the Wusun rebels who had entered the palace to rob them lying on the street.They got off their horses and were about to enter the palace when they saw Tuobafeng coming out.Luo An hurriedly asked: "Madman, did the dog king catch it?"

Tuobafeng said: "This dog king is too cunning, he ran away again!"

Guan Ping asked anxiously, "Where is Ziyuan now?"

Tuo Bafeng replied: "Master Zhao continued to search everywhere in the palace, and at the same time arrested some servants for interrogation."

The few people were relatively silent for a moment, silently thinking about how Le Guangmi could escape and where he would flee.At this moment, a group of cavalry mixed with Han troops and Wusun people passed by the gate of the palace. At the end was a Du Bo, holding Guan Ping's command arrow, and at the front was the talkative Feng Xun.He beat the gong and loudly called Guan Ping's Anmin Xiaoyu.

After the cavalry passed by, Tuobafeng hurriedly went to the north gate to deploy soldiers to search for Le Guangmi separately, and quickly got on his horse and left.Luo An thought for a while, then got on his horse and rushed to Ximen.Guan Ping walked into the palace gate, wanting to ask Zhao Guang about the situation.But once inside the palace city, there are palaces and pavilions everywhere, winding corridors and corridors, and Zhao Guang's soldiers are guarding the gates of the palace everywhere, and some people are hurrying around in the courtyard.Guan Ping didn't have time to appreciate the majestic buildings and luxurious furnishings in the Wusun Palace, which were modeled after the Weiyang Palace of the Great Han Dynasty. He stopped a corporal leader who was searching, and asked angrily:

"Where is your Captain Zhao?"

Seeing that the chief general Guan Ping was so angry, the corporal leader turned pale with fright, and quickly stood up with his hands down, and replied that Mr. Zhao was interrogating the servant at Nafumen.Guan Ping asked sharply again:

"What Navmon? Where is it?"

"It's the back door of the palace."

Guan Ping scolded: "Damn it, the mere barbarians are so particular, the back door is the back door, what Nafumen! Is it far away? How to get there?"

The head of the corps replied: "It's nearly a mile. The road in the palace courtyard is winding and there are many gates. I will send someone to lead the way for General Guan. It is closer from Xiyong Road."

Guan Ping turned his head and said to his soldiers: "Go outside the palace gate and bring all the horses!"

The corporal quickly said: "It's faster to ride a horse around the outside of the palace and bypass the back door. Mr. Zhao has an order that no one is allowed to gallop inside the palace."

Guan Ping saw that the corporal leader dared to say Zhao Guang's order to prevent him from leading the horse into the palace in front of him. This young man, that's fine." He gestured to the soldiers behind him and said:
"Don't enter the palace with horses, go and lead them to the back door with a few brothers." He said to the corporal leader again: "Quickly ask someone to lead me the way!"

Guan Ping followed the leading soldiers and led a group of soldiers through a long alley, turned two turns, passed two or three doors, and saw a tall house with a big lock on the door. There were five or six people outside the door. A brother guards.He inquired about it, and knew that this was the royal palace's warehouse, which was full of high-grade silk, all kinds of precious jadeite, jade, gold, silver, copper, lacquerware and various luxurious furnishings.There are three corpses dressed as Wusun guards lying nearby.He continued to walk forward in a hurry, bypassing the back garden, and saw some brothers carrying lanterns and torches up and down the rockery in the garden, around the stables, looking everywhere.The stable door had been opened once, and several fine horses came out of the stable by themselves to graze on the grass.After crossing the garden, and passing through a white jade gate tower, we arrived at the back gate of Miyagi.Du Bo, who was in charge of guarding the back gate of the palace city, heard that Guan Ping was coming, so he hurried to see him.Guan Ping had seen this person before, and asked with a serious expression:

"Where is your Captain Zhao?"

The Dubo replied, "Master Zhao led a cavalry out of the city."

Guan Ping asked, "Have you found any trace?"

"Master Zhao interrogated a group of servants just now, and only then did he know that when the city was broken, Le Guangmi ignored his wife and children, changed his clothes secretly, and was escorted by a few followers and personal guards to go out to the south city through the back palace gate. It's just the servants left behind They are not self-serving people, so they are not allowed to follow, so they don't know where they left the palace. Master Zhao has sent several groups of soldiers to search the city above and below the city under the moonlight, and he himself escorted a few servants out of the city. "

Guan Ping wondered, "Did the dog king's concubine and prince run away?"

"Yes. The dog king only cared about his own life and left his wife and children behind."

"It's really not a thing!" Guan Ping was anxious, and cursed: "Bastards! What are you guys doing? Are you looking for death? Why did you let that dog king escape through the back door? Tell me! Don't think I won't I will kill you first!"

Guan Xing followed all the way in, seeing his elder brother being so angry, he was terrified, but he tried his best to keep calm, and persuaded him, "Brother, please calm down, I'm afraid Brother Zhao is not to blame for this matter. When we attacked the city, we didn't expect the west gate to open." It was late, so at first only the cavalry led by Brother Zhao came in from the north gate. After entering the north gate, the soldiers and horses were divided into several groups, some went to occupy important streets, some went to various important government offices, and some Ziyuan was afraid that the imperial guards of the palace city would resist desperately, so he led three hundred cavalry straight to the palace gate——I heard what Luo An said just now. The streets are so chaotic, Brother Zhao has to deal with the imperial guards , to divide the troops to guard the gate of the palace, to protect the princess and to search the palace, the manpower is really insufficient!"

Guan Ping thought for a while, then calmed down, and said to Guan Xing: "An Guo, you immediately bring more cavalry to help Ziyuan find it. You pass my words to Ziyuan: others don't care, this dog king must be found. He escaped." Le Guangmi, our trip will be in vain!"

Wait for Guan Xing to say "obey the order"!Turning around to leave, Guan Ping stopped him again, took a step closer and said in a low voice, "Tell Ziyuan for me that I don't treat him as a little brother now, but as a powerful general of a big man. You ask He, why did we break Chigu? I will entrust you, a young general like Zhao Guang, with the burden of capturing the enemy's monarch alive. If you escape the dog king, how will you explain to the two generals? How will you deal with the entire army of the Western Conqueror Soldiers, tell me? Although you, Zhao Guang, are my good brother Guan Ping, who fought hard together in Congling River, but if Le Guangmi escaped tonight, it would not be a trivial matter. The Han army has always been selfless, and Pang Shuai enforced the law like a mountain. , you must not forget!"

After hearing Guan Ping's words, Guan Xingshen felt that his feelings were indeed very serious, and he replied loudly, "Don't worry, big brother! Regardless of whether this dog king goes to heaven or earth, we must arrest him and bring him to justice. Big brother's orders will be passed on to Zhao Zhao every word." Brother knows. The military order of the big man is strict, the rewards and punishments are selfless, and Pang Shuai enforces the law like a mountain, I dare not forget it!"

He turned around and strode out of the Nav Gate, handing over the task of guarding the gate to a Dubo, leaving fifty cavalry behind, and taking all the cavalry he led and the cavalry that came together later, a total of four hundred cavalry, and galloped out of the city. .Guan Ping then also walked out of the palace gate, and saw that several of his personal soldiers had already led the horses from the front gate of the palace.He looked at some dead bodies lying on the ground nearby, as well as severely wounded mutinous soldiers groaning in the corner, and saw soldiers patrolling the head of Nancheng not far away.He turned his head and glanced at the soldiers behind him, and said in a deep and majestic voice:
"Get on the horse! Go meet the Wusun adults who surrendered."

As soon as Guan Xing left the south city gate, he met Zhao Guang returning with his team.Guan Xing hurriedly relayed Guan Ping's words. When Zhao Guang heard this, his face flushed with shame, and he pointed to a middle-aged man who was tied up like a rice dumpling on his horse behind him: "Finally fulfilling the mission. After chasing for several miles, at least the This guy has been caught." It turned out that after Le Guangmi escaped from the city with a few confidant guards, he fled to a secret camp in the southern suburb of Chigu, intending to transfer to Shule from there.Unexpectedly, after all the tricks were exhausted, the Wusun rebels in the city saw him, shot his horse, and reported to Zhao Guang. superior.When Le Guangmi's injured horse ran down the steep slope in a hurry, its front legs gave way, and it fell down, throwing him to the ground.Left and right hurriedly helped him up from the ground, and just after running a few steps, Han Qi had already slapped his horse and killed him, hacked to death his personal guards with knives, and captured him.

After taking Le Guangmi into custody carefully, Zhao Guang and Guan Ping met with the surrendered Wusun generals at the South Gate, and agreed on a charter for jointly guarding the city. I was busy until the next morning before it came to an end.

"We're about to meet Haiya!" On the way back to the camp, Zhao Guang kept looking around on the horse.The scale of Chigu City is small, and the buildings are not as tall and majestic as Qiuci, nor are they crowded with each other like Shule, but instead exude a strong natural atmosphere.I saw that the roadside houses were mostly low wooden buildings with wide spaces between them, among which were scattered everywhere big trees, grasslands, and flowers, bright red and green, and the scenery was full.He was full of joy and couldn't help thinking wildly, Haiya's shadow was always around him.He was intoxicated by the roadside scenery along the way, more precisely, he was intoxicated by the frantic, sweet, fresh, exciting, anticipating, hopeful and distressed love.

The most memorable scene, on the way to the west, the luggage team camped by a small river, and he and Haiya sat by the river.The breeze is so gentle, the sun is so warm in the evening, and the lush weeds on the roadside and river bank have been exposed to the sun for a day, exuding an intoxicating atmosphere.He couldn't guess what Haiya was thinking alone, but he felt that her face was more beautiful than usual, and her eyes were more radiant than usual, so he couldn't help beating her heart when looking at her, and he didn't dare to look at her face more .On her temple was a twig that Yang Zhao Guang plucked for her. There were a few small half-bloomed wild flowers on it, and a bee was flying around her hair, refusing to leave.A few fallen leaves fell on her knees and body, she didn't seem to notice, and gently blew on a pinch of Hu Jia.A little butterfly flew and played around Haiya with the melodious sound. Haiya flicked her hair, but it didn't care, and continued to approach her and dance left and right.

Now this impression is vivid in front of Zhang Nai.With the two letters on his chest, he flew back to the river bank, unaware that he was lost in thought on the saddle, dreaming about something wrong;He thought, if he could be that bee, flying around her cloud temples forever, get very close to her but dare not touch her ears and cheeks; or become that butterfly, fluttering around her ponytail forever; It turned into the petals of falling petals that I saw just now, falling on her body, letting her inadvertently press it under her legs, or falling on the wet green grass, letting her trample on it, turning into mud, sticking to the soles of her shoes, following her run away happily
When he arrived outside the big tent of the Han army, he woke up from the dreamy lovesickness, regained the heroic spirit of a young general, got off his horse, handed over the horse to a soldier, and strode into the tent.Many generals are coming out.Zhao Guang bowed his hands to everyone, before he had time to speak, he walked in quickly to see Guan Ping.Guan Ping was busy reviewing documents and account books, looked at Zhao Guang, and felt that this little brother was really handsome with a red face, natural sword eyebrows, bright eyes, and a mighty spirit.He smiled and ordered softly:

"You came back just in time, let's go to freshen up and take a rest. In the afternoon, I will go to Atami Palace (Atami, today's Issyk-Kul Lake, with an area of ​​[-] square kilometers, is the second largest alpine lake in the world) to visit Princess Haiya and Wusun, all the adults, go!"

"Yes!" Zhao Guang intervened and saluted, then turned around and withdrew.

Thirty miles northwest of Chigu City, Atami Palace.

Rehai Palace, said to be a palace, is actually a large group of yellow-roofed tents with Wusun characteristics, located in an extremely magnificent lake and mountains.Since the Wusun people migrated here, they have gradually settled down around the lake, and they also regard this beautiful and rich lake as their mother lake and holy sea.Whenever there is a major festival celebration, there will always be gatherings by the lake to celebrate, singing and dancing, and holding banquets, often lasting more than ten days.Gradually, the shore of Wusun Lake also became the trading market place of various nomadic tribes, and once formed a seasonal town.It wasn't until the completion of Chigu City that Wusun Lake returned to its original appearance, and tents for the royal family and various adults were built.

Haiya received the generals in a giant dome tent that could accommodate hundreds of people for banquets.Today, in order to receive athletes from her mother country, she specially dressed in a Han palace attire, which matched her exquisite figure and made her look even more graceful.Although his face was slightly tired, there was a sense of relaxation and joy from the heart.

"My Wusun is unlucky, and there is joy and glory in the country. Fortunately, the help of the heavenly soldiers of the Han Dynasty can eliminate this disaster. Haiya is very grateful, and there is nothing to repay, but to present a ugly song, and talk about it."

After Haiya finished speaking, she bowed slightly to the crowd, raised Hu Jia to her mouth, and while the crowd wasn't paying attention, she sneaked a glance at Zhao Guang's side.

She... she's looking at me, she's still so beautiful.Seeing me, is she as happy as written in the letter?When Zhao Guang was thinking wildly, Haiya's Hu Jia sounded.

The sound of Jia is full of emotion.The blower expresses the majestic scenery of the mountains and rivers in front of him through the sound of Hujia; he also integrates the joy of victory in the battle and the expectation of happiness into the melodious sound of Hujia.Sometimes the sound of beards is like a gust of spring breeze blowing across the green and fluffy grass, and the scattered sheep bleat while walking and grazing; sometimes the sound of beards is cheerful and lively, like thrushes singing on the branches; sometimes The passion was surging, like a violent storm, lightning and thunder, which reminded Zhao Guang of the deafening sound of killing and galloping horses on the battlefield.After this rush, majestic, and passionate sound, the rhyme gradually calmed down, as if the tide was going down, the moon was bright and the wind was clear, and the people on the sandbank were quiet.After a while, there was an intermittent humming in Zhao Guang's ear, as thin as a gossamer.He suddenly remembered that there was a time when he was marching on a moonlit night, the wilderness was quiet and the dogs were silent, but he saw a lone goose flying slowly over the cold forest and disappeared in the vastness.Zhao Guang looked at Haiya, and saw that she was calm, still blowing the Hujia, and the lingering sound seemed to be there.Finally, Yoko left her lips, and she smiled at everyone, ending the performance.

(End of this chapter)