Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Tokyo Gumen, three riders galloped down the avenue in the form of finished characters, and shouted loudly as soon as they rode far: "Get out of the way, get out of the way!" It is rare to see such an arrogant battle on the streets of Tokyo.

When a person is wearing armor and has three red flags on his back, and this word is written on each side, the combination is: Urgent! urgent! urgent! While running, the man shouted: "Good news, good news! Guo Shao, the forward of the Western Expedition Army, captured ten thousand people from the Shu army in ten days... Good news..."

Countless people and passers-by stopped to watch and listen to the news. The so-called military affairs are now known to everyone in the blink of an eye. Of course, there is no harm in the good news being widely known.

Prime Minister Wang Pu was on the straight road when he heard the sound of horses' hooves and shouts, so he also asked someone to let the official sedan chair over to the side of the road. For such an urgent report, it is rare for the prime minister to care about superiority and inferiority, and he is not in the mood to argue with a few sergeants. On the contrary, he was in a good mood, and he stepped out of the sedan chair, looking at the galloping horse with great interest, with a calm expression on his face.

Both Xiang Xun and Guo Shao were recommended by Wang Pu. As a prime minister, recommending talents and recommending the right talents is one's duty.

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Outside the mighty city, Guo Shao was looking to the northeast in front of the army tent, and there was a big cloud of yellow dust in the air. The first part of the Fengxiang Army is coming soon.

General Du Yuhou of the Second Army rode up to the tent, got off his horse, followed Guo Shao's gaze, walked over and said, "Master Wang Laojie is sure of victory. When we are almost finished, he will pick up Weiwu City. There are not many defenders left in this city, and there are no reinforcements outside. Surrounding the city and attacking all sides will consume the Shu army. The credit for capturing Weiwu City is already a certainty."

Guo Shao said casually: "Let's finish eating the meat outside, and how many bones are left for others?"

"There is oil in the bones." The general said.

Guo Shao thought about the general's words for a while, and felt that the most valuable oil and water in Mighty City was food. A military town like this would definitely hoard food and grass for more than half a year to avoid being besieged and destroyed.

He then said, "How much food can one person carry? Can everyone carry it back to Tokyo, and we'll be fine if we eat some."

At this moment, Li Chuyun also walked towards the big tent, and when he heard what the two said, he smiled and said: "Now Wang Jieshuai won't say that the lord underestimated the enemy and rushed in."

Guo Shao thought, "It's just good luck. Whether the garrison in Tangcang Town can be quickly eliminated, and whether the 20,000 Dendrobium grain can be preserved, these two links have countless possibilities."

He said calmly: "Wang Jieshuai seeks stability, but he is still very experienced in deploying the overall situation of the battle. He can't draw pictures like me, but he knows the situation of mountains and rivers in his mind. Let us march into Guzhen. This is a bloody move."

Go south along Chencang Road from Weiwu City, and the southwest direction is Fengzhou. Going westward, Fengzhou is no longer in the main mountains of the Qinling Mountains, and the roads are flat. Guzhen is tens of miles to the west; and Chengzhou is to the west.

Qigu Town is an important military location, because forty miles to the south is Qingniling; Qingniling is a key point for the Shu army to reinforce the north from the hinterland, and it is the throat of the Shu Road. If you occupy Guzhen, you can easily threaten the reinforcements from Qingniling; if you pinch the throat of Shu Road, Qin and Feng will have no hope of reinforcements.

Guo Shao turned his head and said to the general: "The first army is handing over the defense at Tangcang Town. This time the second army will take the lead. As soon as the Fengxiang army arrives, they can set off, and the whole army will approach Fengzhou City! If the Shu army is found to be out of the city, form an array first and wait for the first army to catch up... Be careful to send more scouts."

The general clasped his fists and said, "Decree."

Guo Shao looked at the mighty city tower for a while, and remembered Wang Huan, the mighty military governor who prevented him from shooting him a few days ago. At this moment, there are all Zhou troops under the Mighty City, swaggering past under their noses, I don't know how Wang Huan feels when watching such a situation?

The Fengxiang army will take the lead to arrive at the forward camp and hand over the defense. Guo Shao handed over the siege of Weiwu City to the Fengxiang Army... When the large army behind came from the main road, Guo Shao saw many ladders with his own eyes, and thought to himself: It turns out that the old general Wang Jing also relied on climbing the wall to attack the city.

In the afternoon, Wang Zhang and Luo Yanhuan also came from the valley in the northeast, and Guo Shaosui and most of the First Army continued to march along the Shu Road.

When I arrived at Fengzhou, I saw that the city was bigger than Weiwu City, but the Shu army stayed behind closed doors, and it seemed that they planned to defend it to the death. According to Li Chuyun's suggestion, Guo Shao left more than 2,000 people from the second army and a group of civilians who followed, and built a layer of earthen walls outside Fengzhou to keep the Shu army from coming out. He led the Seventh Commander of the First Army to approach Guzhen without stopping.

Before the army arrived, Zhou Jun's scouts had just arrived near Guzhen when they saw a group of ten cavalry coming from the direction of Chengzhou.

Zhou Jun's scout didn't figure it out, of course he didn't know that there was a big shot in that small group. One of them was none other than Han Jixun, the Xiongwu Jiedu envoy of Qinzhou! Controlling Longyou might threaten Guan's mighty army at any time, so the chief general only led ten horsemen to run wildly.

The Qin, Feng and Shu army had surrendered from the original dynasty, and their armor was not much different from that of the Zhou army. It is hard to tell apart from the belly pattern on the waist. However, the armor of Zhou Jun's forbidden soldiers is not so bloated, and the helmets are also different, which can be distinguished after a little careful observation.

Han Jixun recognized Zhou Jun's scouts, and couldn't help sighing: "If we leave a little later, we won't be able to leave! Zhou Jun is too fast, has he reached Guzhen?"

The entourage scolded: "Wang Huan, the mighty military governor of Fengzhou, is such an idiot that he lost most of the mighty army in ten days! Fengzhou's Gu Town is lost, and the road is gone. Who do we rely on in Qinzhou for rescue?"

Han Jixun said: "The main reason is that the garrison of Tangcang Town was lost. I heard that the forward of the Zhou army is called Guo Shao, he is very unusual... Tangcang Town's army left Huanghua Valley, Guo Shao was able to detour to Tangcang Town to set up an ambush first? Damn, not only the soldiers are fast, but the timing is too good!"

A group of people rushed to Qingniling, and then heaved a sigh of relief. They changed horses at the posthouse, and then went straight to Chengdu.

... The one who moved faster than Han Jixun was Zhao Jizha, who arrived in Chengdu not long after. The Shu army escorting him fled halfway. He ran too fast, and the staff around him also got separated. Zhao Jizha rode alone to Chengdu.

Because no one took care of him, his clothes were all messed up and he was in a mess. Such a man rode a horse and was questioned at every post house and city gate. Officials everywhere knew that Shan Qi, the military supervisor appointed by the emperor himself, had returned. Rumors arose for a while, and people thought that the Zhou army was about to hit Chengdu. When Zhao Jizha walked all the way, the officials and people along the way panicked.

As soon as he reached the city gate, he saw an eunuch and a group of soldiers waiting there. The eunuch said: "The emperor wants to see you, so come with us."

Zhao Jizha said: "It's too impolite to face the saint like this, let me go home and change clothes."

The eunuch said coldly: "You are in such a hurry, do you still have time to change your clothes? Is it important for military and state affairs, or etiquette? Let's go!"

Zhao Jizha had no choice but to go to the palace in embarrassment. When he walked to the front of the main hall, he saw the guards, ministers and palace people looking sideways. He drooped his head, walked in dejectedly, and hastily fell down on His Highness. There was someone sitting on the throne far away, how dare he look at it?

"Aiqing, what happened ahead and what made you look like this?" A voice asked urgently.

Zhao Jizha's mind went blank, he lay on the floor tiles without saying a word, he really didn't know how to start. A minister said angrily: "Mr. Zhao, the emperor is asking you something!"

"I..." Zhao Jizha said anxiously, "I don't know, I don't know."

The person who just called Ai Qing suddenly changed his tone: "I sent you to inspect Qin and Feng, but you didn't go?"

"Go... the minister has gone." Zhao Jizha felt the emperor's anger, and his body began to tremble in fear.

The majestic voice said again: "Then you ran back like this, Qin and Feng are gone?"

"I don't know, I really don't know!" Zhao Jizha cried.

"Trash!" the voice cursed, "Come here..."

At this moment, a minister hurriedly knelt down and begged: "The emperor appeases his anger, Mr. Zhao has insulted his mission, but he is only going to inspect the defense, not commanding the northern army, so the crime does not deserve death...The emperor is kind."

"Get out! Get out!" The voice yelled, completely throwing away the previous calm tone.

After hearing this, Zhao Jizha knelt on the ground, backed up and moved quickly towards the palace gate. This movement is simply difficult. It is not easy to walk on knees while kneeling, but he can also move backwards, and it is very fast.

He secretly rejoiced that when he was in Fengzhou Qinzhou, he saw Han Jixun and Wang Huan had many soldiers, and he planned to go back to Chengdu, so Mao recommended himself and wanted to be the coach again! Fortunately, Zhou Jun came quickly, otherwise he would really be the coach, and he would still be able to keep his head after defeat?

At this moment, behind the small curtained door on the side of the throne, a graceful figure gently walked away from the door.

... A few days later, Wang Zhaoyuan, an official of the Privy Council who was deploying troops on the Shannan West Road, rushed to Chengdu, and the emperor of Shu probably understood what happened ahead.

Wang Zhaoyuan calls himself Wolong, and often tells people that he is the Zhuge Kongming of today, and he has always had great ambitions. He probably explained Qin Feng's matter clearly in the report, and this was infinitely better than Zhao Jizha who knew nothing about everything.

Zhou Jun went south along Tangcang Road and had already settled down in the town, but the important towns of Qin and Feng were not lost. Wang Zhaoyuan didn't think this was a bad thing, but thought it was a great opportunity to counterattack. He asked Chengdu to increase troops, and asked himself to be the leader of the North Route Army.

The strategy is to encircle and wipe out the isolated Zhou army first, and then divide the troops into two groups, attacking the pass from Qinzhou and Sanguan.

At this moment, I suddenly heard that the envoy of Nanping Kingdom came to see him. First, the envoys of the Nanping Kingdom persuaded the emperor of Shu to give up the title of emperor and profess his ministers to the Zhou Dynasty, and then the crisis could be resolved.

Wang Zhaoyuan's view is very optimistic; but the attitude of Nanping Kingdom is as if the Kingdom of Shu is about to perish. The views and attitudes of the two sides are completely opposite.

The emperor was annoyed, and said to his ministers in the main hall: "When my father led troops into Shu to proclaim the emperor and establish his foundation, the people of the Guo family were still running around like mourning dogs!"