Chapter 125: Brave and Loyal
With the autumn wind in September, the weather should get cooler and cooler. On the side of the road, the wide sycamore leaves float in the wind, like paper money, embellishing the heaven and earth with a solemn and murderous aura out of thin air. The army is driving in such a terrifying and killing.
The post road was covered by soldiers and horses, and the dust stomped by horses fluttered in the autumn wind, mixed with the shadow of falling leaves, and it seemed like sand and stones were flying in the air. In addition to the army on the road, there were also single-row men and horses on several small roads between the rice fields on both sides, and countless people were in groups, as if the land was occupied by moving ants.
Guo Shao turned over and his face was very calm. At this moment, the relaxed mentality of the scenery was over. Even if nothing happened, he could not relax. After all, the 20,000 troops were in his hands, so it would be a big deal to make a mistake.
The middle coat on his body was gray cotton, because the white cotton lined on the smokey road easily made the collar look dirty and dirtier. The fluorene head on his waist was red satin with patterns embroidered on it, which was something that a higher-level general could wear... I just brushed my teeth in the morning and took a shower, but now he was clean all over. When I took a shower, I was muttering to the shadow in the water: I have found the best condition!
He just turned 20 at the end of last month, without any celebration or publicity, and no one around him paid attention to when his birthday was. However, Guo Shao looked relatively mature... Perhaps because of the long-term wind and sun exposure, his face was flat, but his skin looked yellow and old; the muscles on his body made him look less like an ordinary young man. His appearance was completely different from that young man in the high school. His two sword eyebrows completely destroyed his elegant and elegant temperament. His tall and upright body, long arms, firm facial contours, and quiet and bright eyes made everyone not pay attention to the fact that he had just turned 20.
Guo Shao and his personal soldiers rode out in an open manner. He strangled the horses again and observed carefully the situation of the team's departing.
At this moment, I suddenly saw a cavalry riding a horse outside the camp, with two infantry and a woman coming to the barracks. The woman was shouting: "I am not a traitor | I am not a spy!"
Guo Shao thought to himself that he had already ordered the people not to disturb the people. Where did these soldiers arrest the women on the day they started the camp? He kicked the horse's belly and stepped forward, pointed at the woman with a horse whip and said, "What's going on? Where did the woman be caught?"
The cavalry dismounted and reported: "Reported to Guo Du Envoy, she was looking around the army and was in a strange place. Let's take it back and hand it over to Shangfeng."
The woman said anxiously: "I came from Kaifeng Mansion and came to find someone!"
When Guo Shao heard that she spoke in Kaifeng Mansion accent, he looked up and down. The woman was covered in dirt and dirty face, and even her shoes were broken. Then he stared at her eyes for a while and felt that it didn't look like a fine work. The woman looked dark and colorful, but she seemed to have deliberately smeared her. Otherwise, she would have time to wash her face by the river, and there would be rivers everywhere in Huainan. But Guo Shao still found from the point where her ears became famous and the woman's skin was actually good.
"Who are you looking for?" Guo Shao asked.
The woman said: "I'll look for Guo Er."
Guo Shao's face turned dark: "Who is Guo Er? I'm asking you what identity you are looking for, why do you come here to find it?"
The cavalry dismounted beside him shouted: "Tell me honestly, this is our general. If Marshal Guo thinks you are a meticulous work, even a god can't save you!"
The woman was startled, cried, and choked and said, "Guo Er is my husband. I just got married a few months ago. Before I could pass the door, my husband was ordered to go out to fight, and there was no news... The other husbands in the town had their messages back, but he didn't... The husband was the infantry commanded by the first command of the First Army of the Left Fang of the Hujie Army. After I passed the Huai River, I asked many people, and they all said they were here."
Guo Shao had thirty-eight commanders alone in the left wing, but he happened to remember that the general of the first command of the First Army was Li Dazhu, because this guy followed him to attack Qin and Feng's generals. He then asked the woman again, which city and which team it was.
This woman is agile and able to speak clearly.
So Guo Shao sent an order: "Go and find Li Dazhu and ask him to call the ten generals from the second team of the third capital to the Central Military Camp."
Not long after, I heard that the commander and the ten generals rushed over. After asking, there was really someone like Guo Er... It seems that it is basically certain that the woman is not a spy.
Guo Shao ordered: "Release."
"Where is my husband..." The woman did not leave and asked with her pestering ten generals.
Ten generals said: "I died in battle."
"What...what?" The expression on the woman's face immediately seemed as if she was dead. She shook her head and said, "You lied to me, lie to me."
The ten generals said, "What am I lie to you? Just ten days ago, we attacked Shouzhou and were hit by the heavy turbulent oil that fell from the wall..."
"Okay!" Guo Shao stopped him. He immediately felt a tragic situation in his mind, which was stuck in the body by oil and ignited. He was covered in black and covered in large areas of burns and blood. It was a way to die that life was worse than death.
The soldiers of the First Army followed him to fight Shu Kingdom, and then helped him win a life-and-death battle in Shouzhou City. Guo Shao's emotions were immediately affected. He had a positive expression and said to the woman in a gentle voice: "Your husband is brave and loyal. In order to end the noble cause of unifying the mountains and rivers of the civil war, he sacrificed his precious life for the people of the world to live a good life. He died without any pain and was very peaceful."
After hearing this, the soldiers around him were in awe. The ten generals hurriedly echoed: "Before Guo Er died, he told me that when he saw his wife, he told her to marry a good family again and live a good life."
Guo Shao also ordered his personal soldiers: "Send her to Xiacai Town and find Jingniang. Let Jingniang take care of her first, and take her all the way back when she returns to Tokyo. I personally pay for the money to pay 50 pounds of money to pay Guo Er's family."
But the woman did not leave. Tears washed the dirt on her face into two rows of white marks, shook her head and cried: "I don't believe it, I want to see him...whether of his body?"
The ten generals whispered: "Too many people died that day, and the Southern Tang soldiers and Zhou soldiers were mixed together. The soldiers were afraid that the plague would be delayed for a long time, so they were buried all over, and they didn't know where to bury them... Look, there is a pit in the east of the city, and hundreds of people were buried."
When the woman saw him, she ran towards the east of the city. As soon as two Guo Shao's personal soldiers were ordered to escort her to Xia Cai, they followed.
Guo Shao did not force his army and continued to go out of the camp. He turned around and said to his generals: "When you lead troops to fight, you can reduce casualties, so as to minimize the number of generals... He ordered all generals to be strictly prohibited from killing innocent people along the way."
"Here." The general replied with his fists.
At this time, Yang Biao said: "Then Zhao Chao ordered the killing of three thousand surrendered soldiers overnight. What are you thinking about? What are the benefits of doing this?"
A general took the speech and said, "Some people are unscrupulous and like to do this, there is no reason."
Guo Shao and others walked up the post road. He turned his head and saw the woman desperately digging the soil with her hands. The personal soldiers behind him took a shovel.
So pitiful!
He couldn't help but think that if he could not die, he had to live. Of course, high-level generals don't have to fight to the battlefield, and the chances of being killed by someone are very small... The biggest danger of life worries comes from his own people!
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The lack of sense of security made Guo Shao feel very restless now. The person who made him a little nervous now was Li Chongjin. In my impression, Zhao Kuangyin was the one who accomplished great things. He didn't know who Li Chongjin was before, so he would definitely not be able to become a great person; but whether he accomplished or not was not important for the time being, the important thing was that this guy could threaten himself at the moment.
This gave Guo Shao an instinctive reaction that urgently needed to increase his power and strength, otherwise would there be good results in Li Chongjin's hands?
Human needs are really endless, survival, security, desires. For most people in this era, I am afraid that they will envy Guo Shao’s status in their dreams; but when they reach this position, they will still be eager to want more!
It’s not that Guo Shao is insatiable, he is already quite satisfied with his current material life, and he lives much better than those countless people who can’t even eat enough; but he has less power and weaker strength and lacks security.
Military achievements, greater power; marriage, broader connections, stronger backing.
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In Haozhou, Chai Kehong had just received a letter of appointment. He now began to take over the military power of the 50,000 troops in Haozhou City and all the Tang army in the entire Haozhou area, and was fully responsible for deploying defenses.
Li Jing, the king of the Southern Tang Dynasty, placed high high hopes on this famous general. The earnest words in the imperial edict were as if they were in their ears. The emperor almost had to open his heart to a military minister. Huainan and the entire Southern Tang Dynasty rely on this battle! I hope Chai Kehong can defeat the Zhou army, cheer up the morale of the soldiers across the country, and reverse the situation of being defeated again and again!
Chai Kehong walked up to the city tower of Haozhou, and the Tang soldiers on the city were cheering, and the atmosphere was so warm that it was during the Chinese New Year and the festival.
"Haozhou is finally hopeful!" The officials, generals and even the military and civilians of Haozhou City were extremely excited.
Chai Kehong waved to the city, and there was another crazy and passionate cry. The enthusiasm of the scene was not inferior to the gathering of modern star-chasers.
The Tang army's invincible general! Since its expedition, it has conquered tens of thousands of Wuyue troops in Changzhou, and defeated the elite general of the Zhou army with the old and weak! He is the Southern Tang general of Huainan with the hope of millions of soldiers and civilians. He is afraid of the elite and powerful Zhou army, and will follow this general to regain the dignity of the Tang army!
At this moment, a general walked up to the city and whispered beside Chai Kehong: "It is reported that 20,000 vanguard troops of the Zhou army have been departed from Shouzhou... The main general is Guo Shao, who defeated Liu Renzhan's Guo Shao!"
"Hahaha..." Chai Kehong suddenly raised his head and laughed loudly, "I just received military information. Zhou army is here. The chief general is Guo Shao! Guo Shao who destroyed Liu Gong of Shouzhou! However, he met me, Chai Kehong! The soldiers from Haozhou, the villagers will wait and see, and see how I will find my face for Liu Gong! Hahahaha..."
Chapter completed!