Chapter 10: Putting the Great Wall on the Empty Self-Promise (2 in 1)(1/2)
What did Chen Guofu Han Tuo do?
Of course, the food was burned. The 200,000 shi of food that everyone in the Chen Kingdom had worked hard to accumulate during the troubled times was probably reduced to ashes at this time.
In the storage area, grain, fodder, as well as painted spears and feathered arrows were piled into the mountain. The most feared thing was fire, let alone deliberate arson. Moreover, the person who set the fire was theoretically the only one in Chen County.
Two Thousand Stones is also the leader of the country. Where is the most popular tutor in the country after the death of the Prime Minister?
In fact, after the man came late at night and personally threw the lit oil lamp at a specific warehouse, no guard tried to stop him during the whole process.
On the contrary, these Chen people subdued Sun Jian's remaining military officials, and until Sun Jing saw the intensity of the fire and personally led the remaining troops to arrive, everyone stood outside the door, dragging Han Tuo, and watched the fire quietly.
It rose like a raging fire and wiped out Chen Guoren’s five or six years of hard work!
"It's not that I don't want to save!" Sun Jing, who was kneeling in the tent, couldn't help but burst into tears when she thought of the 200,000 shi of food. "Brother, this old thief was already prepared. Before we got to Chen County, he would kill a
The central granary was emptied and then filled with fodder. I didn't pay much attention when I saw it, because fodder was also stored in a serious way. Unexpectedly, this old thief asked his family members to go ahead and hide it full of paint and kerosene, and then it was just a
It's just the flame of an oil lamp, and it won't go away..."
"Don't say it anymore." Sun Jian, who was slumped back on the captain's chair in the tent, felt his breathing became difficult. Once a storage area of that size explodes, it doesn't matter how many days it takes to burn it out. It is destined to wait.
Rain or the fire would extinguish it on its own. He knew this better than anyone else, so the matter was irreversible.
However, the key point is that this feeling of gaining and losing is too bad, and the feeling of being played in the hands of an old man is really too bad.
This Jiangdong tiger is easy to kill but difficult to control at a young age. He is not afraid of defeat at the hands of Dong Zhuo, Gongsun Xun, or even his two "sworn brothers". He is even used to seeing life and death, and he will not think of dying on the battlefield.
There is something unacceptable about being hit by a certain soldier... But, so to say, but, being killed by an old man, an old man with white hair and beard, an old man famous for his poetry, a man who surrendered to himself
Old man, using this method to trick and inflict severe injuries is hard to accept.
"Mr. Han is the time for Cao Mengde to die, right?!" Just after countless military generals rushed over after hearing the news, suddenly, Sun Wentai, who had been sitting on the lieutenant's chair in a daze, suddenly stood up, and his eyes were bright.
, full of expectation, he shouted sternly at the old man who had to rely on the legs of a soldier to stay seated. "It was Cao Mengde who instigated you to carry out this strategy, right?!"
"I have heard of Cao Mengde." Han Tuo, who was tied up, replied calmly. "I have also read his poems, and I know that his poems are good. But I have never seen them, let alone recognize them... I have just said that
, I just want to live to live up to others and die to live up to ghosts, that’s all!”
Sun Jian was extremely angry and laughed back: "You have the nerve to say that life is not worth living to others? In today's troubled times, there is a shortage of food everywhere. Do you know how many lives two hundred thousand stones of food can save? You burned down the fire, but you still survived.
Dare you say that life is worth living?"
"How could I not know how many people two hundred thousand stones of grain can save?" Han Tuo still leaned on the soldier's legs, looking at each other coldly, and said slowly. "I arrived in Chen State a year earlier than Prime Minister Luo.
I have been in six years and he has been in five years. In the past five years, the country has been stable and we have accumulated a lot. However, he has never been stingy with his inventory and has never taken advantage of the county and the country. Counting from the flood of the Central Plains county four years ago, every four years, the country's prime minister
They distributed more than 100,000 dan of grain to the surrounding areas, recruited more than 100,000 refugees, and divided the land for them to farm for production. Therefore, Chen State’s grain production became more and more. I saw with my own eyes that these grains grew from Chen State’s fields.
, I even wrote poems in the fields during the autumn harvest... Actually, I would like to ask this thief, Shisui, if he knows how many families were destroyed during your previous battle in Yingchuan? How many Yingchuan people fled into Chen
The country wants to survive? If I don’t burn the grain and give it to you, a villain who only knows how to commit crimes, wouldn’t I be causing greater harm? Wouldn’t I be betraying Prime Minister Luo and the people of Chen State who have worked hard to farm the land?
"
Sun Jian was silent for a long time, but suddenly he couldn't help laughing. Then he couldn't help laughing at the generals in the tent and asked: "Han Gong said that I am a thief, but I am actually a thief? Do you think I am a thief?"
The generals in the tent had been with Sun Jian for a long time, so no one dared to answer.
The next moment, after Sun Jian finished asking and turned around, Zu Mao, who had always had a bad temper, suddenly drew his sword and slashed directly at Han Tuo on the ground. At the same time, Sun Jian turned around suddenly and kicked him.
He kicked Zu Mao to the ground, causing him to do two somersaults and roll out of the tent.
At this moment, the whole tent was silent, as if frozen. Not to mention interrupting, no one dared to make a move. Even Zu Mao at the tent door quickly turned over and lay still... Because everyone knew that Sun Wentai was the only one who
The tiger is really angry to the extreme!
In the silence, Sun Jianfu came to Han Tuo again, then leaned down and squatted down holding the ancient ingot knife in his waist, looked directly at the old man in front of him, and spoke calmly as if he was talking about something commonplace: "Han Gong...
You say, how can I be a thief? I am someone who begs thieves for the country, right? You can't be unreasonable."
"Those who seek thieves lead troops into other countries' borders to kill the princes and kings of the Liu family of other countries. Should they kill a prime minister who only knows how to farm the land and feed the people and save lives? Or should he pretend to be a guest and assassinate him in the middle of the banquet?" Han was bound.
Tuo was not afraid at all. He glanced at the hand holding the knife that was only a fist away from his messy beard and hair, and then raised his head and looked at him. "You behave like this, but you say you are not a thief, so what exactly is a step? I heard Wei
The general said in Hedong that in troubled times, some people are excusable, but some people can never be forgiven. Isn't the latter one talking about thieves like you?"
"King Chen died when he encountered a stray arrow." After a long pause, Sun Jian explained sincerely. "The person who assassinated Luo Xiaoyuan was General Yuan Gongliu, not me."
"Isn't it me who started the war when we attacked Chen State?" This time it was Han Tuo's turn to laugh. "As for General Hou... Sun Yuzhou, who is ridiculed by the people of the world, and General Hou are one and the same. Isn't this the world?
Is it something that everyone knows? And if I remember correctly, weren't the two of you who killed Wang Rui, the governor of Jingzhou, and Zhang Zi, the prefect of Nanyang, in an open fire? You people, for the sake of territory and merit, have no regard for benevolence, no regard for righteousness, and no regard for justice.
Being reasonable, not caring about the people, killing innocent people indiscriminately, causing devastation... What is the difference between what you did and Dong Zhuo? After you have done so many things, why do you still care about whether people in the world regard you as a thief? If you do, why did you do it at that time?
What are we going to do again? What is this, hiding one’s ears and stealing the bell?”
After saying this, Han Tuo was already out of breath, and Sun Jian looked at the other man's white beard and hair that were trembling up and down as he breathed, but the hand holding the knife was also shaking like the other man's beard and hair.
"Don't look at me anymore." Han Tuo took a few breaths and calmly made up his mind. "The ones who are causing chaos in the world are you traitors who pretend to be heroes! I offered food and grass that day because I was afraid that you would massacre the city as an excuse, and also to send me away.
The surviving family members of Prime Minister Luo are so-called for the sake of the living; today they burn the food and grass, but it is to live up to the dead, and not to let Prime Minister Luo's hard work become a thing for you evil thieves to kill!"
Sun Jian stood up and suddenly drew his sword, but he directly cut the rope on the opponent's body.
"Go, save his life, just find a carriage and horse to send him to any city. I don't want to deal with such an old man..." Sun Jian pointed to the man in front of him who had been being taken care of by Han Tuo.
He leaned against the soldier who was sitting upright and said, "Send it out quickly without delay."
The young soldier did not dare to say anything, so he quickly lifted up Han Tuo, who was completely weak at his feet, with both hands, half dragged and half pulled, and hurried out.
"Please pardon the warehouse clerk!" Han Tuo was already very old and had been tied up for several days. He was already so exhausted that as soon as he untied the rope, his whole body went limp and weak. However, he remembered something and shouted again.
."This matter has nothing to do with them!"
Sun Jian took a long breath, nodded reluctantly, and waved his hand to urge him.
And soon, as soon as this person left, Sun Jian's tent fell silent again, because others could still see Sun Wentai's anger and depression... If nothing else, this battle-hardened general thought several times.
He put his ancient ingot sword back into its sheath, but failed several times.
In the end, he simply inserted the exposed-edged knife directly into the ground of the Chinese army's tent, and then sat back on the chair in a daze.
"Uh... Jiang Qin... Chen County... Cao..." After a long time, Sun Jian finally came back to his senses and took the initiative to speak, but he didn't know what to say several times.
"Junhou." Huang Gai sighed and advised sternly. "A mere rotten scholar just has a good relationship with Chen Guoxiang and wants to take revenge... Junhou has a great career, how can he lose his composure because of such a thing?
What? Besides, haven’t you already pardoned him? What else do you want? That’s 200,000 stones of food, and how many weapons and goods there are..."
"You don't understand." Sun Jian waved his hand helplessly. "But you are right, both the food and the people have passed. There is still a war at this moment. It is such a big deal. I shouldn't be so rude... The food is gone."
, It’s useless to think too much, you have to ask the general for food; and as for the man, as long as he goes back safely and goes to any place, I won’t bother to care about him in the future.”
Sun Jing was about to speak but stopped.
"Say what you want to say." Sun Jian immediately noticed his brother's gesture.
"Brother." Sun Youtai, who couldn't hide the tired look in his eyes, asked with his hands raised. "Are you sure you want to save this man's life?"
"That's right." Sun Jian responded. "It won't work unless I guarantee it..."
"Then you have to be more careful." Sun Jing tilted her head and said helplessly and angrily. "This old man was planning to commit suicide by jumping into the fire when he set the fire. He was hugged by the warehouseman and caught by me.
After I moved in, I also had thoughts of seeking death, and it was only a few days since I said I wanted to come see you..."
Sun Jian suddenly came to his senses and immediately ran out of the tent. Although the generals in the tent were puzzled, they all caught up with him from Sun Jing on down, including Zu Mao who had knelt down to plead guilty.
By the way, Sun Wentai woke up and asked after leaving the tent. He learned that the soldier just now was passing orders outside the tent. He found an ox cart to deliver goods and took Han Tuo out of the camp along the Suishui River to the nearest urban valley.
He went to familiarize himself with the county seat.
Sun Jian did not dare to neglect, and immediately rode his horse down the river to pursue him. The surrounding generals also led their guards to follow. Soon, the group saw an empty ox cart and two helpless people by the roadside three or four miles south of the camp.
The people... one was a coachman. When he saw so many knights arriving, he ran to the roadside in fright. The other was the armored man, but he actually didn't have any iron armor on him.
"Where's the man?" Sun Jian pulled up his horse and walked to the car and asked with a sneer. "Where's your armor?"
The armored man was a member of Sun Jian's tent. Why didn't he understand Sun Wentai's temper? He immediately trembled and knelt down to plead guilty. At the same time, he didn't dare not reply: "Report...I report back to the king. I am with you, and I am with you in the river!"
"
Sun Jian became angry and wanted to draw his sword, but found that there was only a scabbard in his waist. He jumped off the horse and turned around to pull out the sword from Zhu Zhi behind him. But how could Zhu Zhi let him kill his own people for no reason? He quickly dodged.
, while Huang Gai and Zu Mao hurried forward together and hugged Sun Wentai tightly. Only then did the man on the ground save his life.
"What happened?" Upon seeing this, Zhu Zhi stepped forward and asked sternly. "A mere old man with limited mobility...how did you let him jump into the river? And how did your armor get into the water together?"
"My subordinates recruited a cart and a cart driver, and were ordered to take the old man to the nearest grain harvest." The man knelt down and said with an aggrieved face. "But as soon as he left the camp gate, he lay on the cart and pointed at me.
It must be said that the armor I was wearing was the armor of their Chen Kingdom... I said no, he said he could see clearly when he leaned on my legs in the tent that it had the mark of their Chen Kingdom's armor on it..."
"In addition, it was too tiring to travel with the armor on, so you took off your armor. Actually, you wanted to put the armor on the car to make it easier to travel?" Zhu Zhi knew what was going on without even thinking about it. "Then he said.
Are you thirsty, should I relieve myself, or should I wash the stains on your armor so that you can see the marks clearly?"
"I got out of the car when I was thirsty." The soldier replied with a sad face. "After finding a deep place to drink some water, the old man sat by the river again and called me to get my armor, saying that he wanted to show me... I see Junhou
I was polite to him, so I didn't dare to disobey him. As a result, he took it himself, put on the iron armor, and fell straight down."
Everyone looked at the calm Suishui River beside the road, and saw only a slight ripple when the free spring breeze blew by. They all couldn't help but lose their voices.
However, at the next moment, almost everyone shouted in panic - it turned out that Sun Wentai, who had not been afraid of mountains of corpses and seas of blood for the rest of his life, was so excited by this message that he fainted.
Of course, it's just a surge of energy and blood.
Everyone leveled Sun Wentai on the road, and someone untied his quiver from his horse and went to the river to fetch water for his face. As soon as half of the water was poured out, Sun Jian opened his eyes and sat up. Then he ignored him and grabbed the quiver again.
, struggled to get up and threw it into the river.
The quiver fell into the water and floated unsteadily. As soon as it spun around, Sun Wentai on the bank looked at the river and howled like a real tiger. The sound shocked the wilderness, alarmed both sides of the bank, and made people feel fearful.
However, this was not over yet. After Sun Wentai roared loudly, he staggered to the road again and lay down on the ox cart. Then he was so overcome with emotion that he couldn't stop crying.
"Junhou!"
"Brother!"
To be continued...