Chapter 44: The Turn of the Neck(1/2)
Bai Zhong looked at the Wuling Iron Cavalry fief near in front of him, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, because he not only saw the tall stone gate of the fief, but also saw a large army of 5,000 in armor coming to pick them up.
"Stop!" The general of the Imperial Guard looked at the private armed forces appearing in the Wuling Iron Cavalry's fiefdom and immediately ordered the pursuit to stop, watching Bai Zhong and the families of Wuling Iron Cavalry return to the fiefdom.
Bai Zhong also stopped and saluted at the general of the Imperial Guard who deliberately let them go.
The general also gave a greeting and then led his army to retreat to Handan.
"Who is he?" Bai Zhong was curious. Luowang didn't have any information about such a person.
"He is a general of the Western Camp of the Imperial Guard, and a war orphan adopted by our Wuling Iron Cavalry. Therefore, the patriarch named him Zhao Fan, hoping that he would be ordinary for the rest of his life. At the same time, he hoped that there would be no war in this world and that everyone could live their entire life in an ordinary way." A 14 or 15-year-old boy beside Bai Zhong looked at Bai Zhong in a daze and said.
"Zhao Fan!" Bai Zhong nodded, he remembered it!
"What's going on?" asked the leader of the army who was temporarily organized in the Wuling Iron Cavalry fiefdom and looked at the group of tribe members who were driven back.
"This matter is a long story. Let's go back first. When you beat the war drum, everyone will go to the ancestral hall to discuss matters." said the leader of the Wuling Iron Cavalry.
The leader nodded and escorted the people back to the fiefdom, while the dull war drums were also beaten.
In the fiefdom of Wuling Iron Cavalry, everyone heard the sound of war drums, put down their work and left their homes to go to the ancestral hall.
It is called a ancestral hall, but it is actually a huge schoolyard. Because as the families of Wuling Iron Cavalry, they have to receive military training such as riding and shooting since childhood, so there is such a standard schoolyard in the Wuling fiefdom.
"Who are you?" In the ancestral hall of the schoolyard, the Wuling clan leader and a group of clan elders looked at Bai Zhong and asked.
"Qin State, the second son of Wu'an Jun, Bai Zhong! I have seen you all!" Bai Zhong did not intend to hide his identity.
"Bai Qi's son!" All the elders of the clan stood up and looked at Bai Zhong with bad eyes, but did not take action.
"It's true!" The Wuling clan leader looked at Bai Zhong and nodded. He felt that there could not be two people so similar in this world.
"I think you saved my tribe members, we won't make things difficult for you, go!" Wuling clan leader continued.
"I'm leaving, what do you do?" Bai Zhong asked back as he looked at the clan elders in the middle of the ancestral hall.
"This is our own business in Zhao State, and you don't have to care about it anymore!" said the patriarch.
Bai Zhong shook his head and said, "Do you think you are safe now?"
"What do you want to say?" The patriarch's eyes narrowed slightly, and he knew that this time the matter was not so easy to expose.
"The prince killed someone, you go and ask for an explanation, and then Handan dispatches a large army to suppress it. If it weren't for Zhao Fan's cover, how many of you would think would be able to come back alive?" Bai Zhong continued to ask.
"This is our problem with Zhao, and it has nothing to do with you. We are very grateful to you for helping you, but now, please leave!" The patriarch said seriously.
"Wuling Iron Cavalry and Zhao's army were both confined to the front line. What should you, old and young, use to face the 30,000 imperial guards in Handan City?" Bai Zhong said to the elders of the clan.
"That has nothing to do with you!" said the patriarch. It was still the internal problems of their Wuling Iron Cavalry and Zhao family. Once Bai Zhong, a Qin man, or the son of Qin Wu'an Jun, participated, they were really defined as being a rebel.
"You think Zhao will let you go. If I guess correctly, the imperial guards in Handan are on the way, and this time there is no Zhao Fan." Bai Zhong said.
Outside Handan City, as Bai Zhong said, the Imperial Guards did not retreat to Handan, but gathered outside the outer city, and Zhao Fan was also taken down.
"Zhao Fan, do you know your crime?" Zhao Cheng, the commander of the Imperial Guard, said coldly as he looked at Zhao Fan.
"What's the crime at the end?" Zhao Fan asked calmly.
He had already known that this would be the ending since he deliberately let the Wuling family go, but he did not regret it.
He grew up eating a hundred families of food, and he was trained by the Wuling Iron Cavalry today, so he would never have no blood relationship with his own family, but his relatives were all fighting.
"Disobeying orders and letting go of the mob is a crime of one; obstructing friendly forces and delaying military information is a crime of two." Zhao Cheng, the commander of the Imperial Guard, looked at Zhao Fan and said seriously.
"Where did the mob come from? What I saw were the righteous men who sacrificed their lives and blood for Zhao State for generations. What I saw were the civilians who were unarmed and killed by the prince and were powerless." Zhao Fan said.
Zhao Cheng looked at Zhao Fan. Except for the cold wind whistling in the entire open space, all the soldiers looked at the two of them silently.
"If you pull it down, you will be responsible for eighty times!" Zhao Cheng ordered.
"Zhao Cheng, you and I are friends who are slashing each other. Today I will not let you take your army to Wuling!" Zhao Fan said to Zhao Cheng.
"We are soldiers, not politicians. Even if we are wrong, we can only execute them!" Zhao Cheng looked at Zhao Fan and said. If he did not punish Zhao Fan, Guo Kai and Han Cang came later, Zhao Fan would definitely die!
"Yes, we are soldiers, but we should know more about what we are doing now!" Zhao Fan broke free from the guards of the law enforcement team, snatched the guard's sword and pointed at Zhao Cheng and shouted.
"What do you want to do? Point the sword at me?" Zhao Cheng was also angry. The sword was not against the inside. This is the rule of the army, let alone they were still friends who were slashing their heads.
"A friend who is slashing his neck has great righteousness. No one will leave, no one will survive!" Zhao Fan said, and when his wrist turned, the long sword directly passed through his neck, blood was pouring on his eyes, and his eyes were fixed on Zhao Cheng, and finally fell to the ground.
"You!" Zhao Cheng was struck by lightning. He could not have expected that Zhao Fan would force him to death and not allow him to send troops. He would fall in front of the battle. This is a taboo in going to war.
"A friend who died in the neck, no one left, no one survived! That's all, I'll accompany you for a while!" Zhao Cheng looked in the direction of Handan, sighed deeply, and picked up the long sword left by Zhao Fan with the passionate blood of the righteous man.
"After I leave, everyone will lead the army back to the camp!" Zhao Cheng said to the other generals.
After saying that, the long sword carrying Zhao Fan's blood also slashed across his neck and fell beside Zhao Fan.
The boiling blood dyed the snow-white earth red, and two dazzling blood flowers bloomed.
The 30,000 Imperial Guards look at me, but I look at you, but they are speechless. The commander died and the generals died. What should they do?
"I will stop fighting anyone who wants to fight this battle!" An imperial guard general took off his armor and threw it on the snow, turned around and left.
"Crazy~" There was a sound of removing armor, and many soldiers took off their armored clothes, leaving only a single clothes, and followed the general to leave the guards.
Guo Kai and Han Cang did come, but they both felt that the atmosphere of the Imperial Guards was wrong. Everyone was now on the snow, looking at them intently, but their eyes were full of anger.
"Where is Commander Zhao Cheng?" Han Cang asked angrily.
No one spoke, but gave up a way and guided the two to the corpses of Zhao Cheng and Zhao Fan.
"What's the situation!" Guo Kai frowned. The chief general and deputy general of the Imperial Guard were both dead, and they all committed suicide depending on the situation.
No one spoke, just looking at Guo Kai and Han Cang, and just staring at them. If the military orders asked them to collect the families of Wuling Iron Cavalry, they would still be chatting and laughing in the camp, but now their commander, their robes, were dead and gone.
"I'm all mute? Talking, the Prime Minister asks you!" Han Cang scolded angrily.
However, Guo Kai stopped Han Cang from continuing to speak. If he continued, the bombing of the camp would happen, and they would all die in the chaos.
"Are they a friend who died?" Guo Kai asked in a calm tone as he looked at the remaining commander of the Imperial Guard.
"General Zhao Fan once saved General Zhao Cheng, so General Zhao Cheng married his sister to General Zhao Fan, and the two of them also became friends with each other." said the ten thousand men.
"A true gentleman is a righteous man!" Guo Kai sighed, then bowed deeply, turned around and took people away from the Imperial Guard.
"Just keeping aside the Prime Minister?" Han Cang asked looking at Guo Kai.
He is afraid of death now. If the Imperial Guards do not move, it means that Handan will hand over all the relevant personnel of the prince's murder to the Wuling Iron Cavalry.
As the crown prince, King Zhao would definitely not hand over Zhao Jia, so he would only hand over him to take the blame.
"It's useless!" Guo Kai said. Now it's no longer possible to solve the problem by just handing over someone else. The moment the Imperial Guards were dispatched, it meant that Handan and Wuling Iron Cavalry broke up.
The Wuling Iron Cavalry could no longer trust Handan or Zhao.
"The Imperial Guards are no longer trustworthy, please draw the inner guards to do it!" Guo Kai looked at Han Cang and said.
He always knew that King Zhao had an unknown inner guard dead soldier, and this team was in the hands of Han Cang.
If Han Cang had not had such a force in his hands, how could he, as Prime Minister of Zhao, be a brother to Han Cang?
"Here!" Han Cang nodded hurriedly. What he feared most now was that Handan would hand him over. Therefore, if Guo Kai did not take action, he would really die by then.
Looking at Han Cang's figure leaving quickly, Guo Kai felt a little cold. He turned around and looked at the direction of the Imperial Guards, as if he could still see the two fallen friends.
He has many disciples and many friends who call him brothers and sisters, but he can do nothing but not one person.
Han Cang is like this. "Han Shen" who had known before, who felt chivalrous, hid back to the Mo Family General Hospital after the fall of Jingxing Pass and other cities.
Only then did Guo Kai realize that even if he was powerful and wealthy, he would be alone.
"Go back!" Guo Kai looked at the coachman and said, hiding in the car and wrapping his body tightly with a fox fur, as if this would make him feel a little warmth.
"No one can rely on it, only money is his own!" Guo Kai whispered at the fox fur worth tens of thousands of yuan.
In Wuling, Bai Zhong was still looking at the elders of the clan, but when dusk fell, he never saw the Imperial Guards.
Bai Zhong frowned. He knew the virtues of the big men in Handan, Zhao State, very well, but what is the situation now?
"Handan is still trustworthy!" The patriarch also breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, he agreed with what Bai Zhong said in his heart, but he had not seen the arrival of the Imperial Guard until now, and he also became suspicious.
"Class leader, there are six swordsmen outside the village asking for a visit!" a child ran into the ancestral hall and said.
The patriarch glanced at Bai Zhong and said, "Is it yours?"
Bai Zhong thought about it and found that it was the Six Swordsman who came to convey information to him.
"Luowang Six Sword Slave, my subordinates, send me information!" Bai Zhong said.
"Please come in!" The clan leader nodded. They also wanted to know what happened in Handan, but the Imperial Guards did not move.
The Six Swordsman walked into the ancestral hall under the gaze of the families of Wuling Iron Cavalry.
"Chief!" The six sword slave held the sword and saluted.
"What happened in Handan?" Bai Zhong asked directly, and he was eager to know what happened in Handan.
"The Imperial Guards roared the camp, so they all retreated to the garrison. The specific reason is unknown." Liu Jiannu said.
"Xiaoying?" Bai Zhong and the clan elders were stunned. They had all experienced wars. Things like Xiaoying were usually attacked by enemy forces. The main general and a group of generals died and the army was unleased. They usually happened at night. It took the right time, place, and people to form Xiaoying.
As the most elite army of Zhao State, the Imperial Guards were enforced and were near Handan. How could the roar camp occur in broad daylight?
Bai Zhong and the clan leader looked at each other, completely unable to understand how the Imperial Guards did not attack the enemy in broad daylight.
To be continued...