generation hero

Going north by boat and crossing the river, Yuantang's mood is not as relaxed as when he came here. He has infinite yearning for life after taking office in Qizhou, the feeling that he can finally do something, and he also has concerns about Xiangjing, which is getting farther and farther away. .

I don't know when we will see Feng Cong again. Yuan Tang didn't say anything to Feng Cong, but what else can he say?He set off in a hurry, and really expressed his feelings to Feng Cong. If Feng Cong couldn't accept it, would it be difficult to see him again from now on, and then he would find someone to cry with.

But let's not talk... With the Queen Mother's action, when Feng Cong becomes king, he will probably find a wife for him. When they meet again, Feng Cong will already have a wife and son.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the future was bleak, Yuan Tang tossed and turned in the cabin and sighed, which alarmed the night watchman, thinking that he was having nightmares at night.

After passing by Shangyun, Yuan Tang went to Shangyun's military mansion to meet King Huan.

As Yuan Tang, even though he was known as a teacher and student with King Huan when he was in Taixue, he did not dare to expect King Huan to meet him. Even if the palace sent a steward or aide to meet him, he would be considered highly respected.

Unexpectedly, King Huan actually came in person. Yuan Tang was frightened, cleaned up his clothes, and paid a visit to King Huan.

King Huan still had an amiable face, and his face was a little tired. He heard that Yuantang was about to take office in Qizhou, he encouraged him, and then asked about the affairs in Beijing.

Knowing the inside story of Baoxiang Hall's fire, King Huan stroked his lapel and sighed: "Your Majesty trusts Xiao Shi, but he is also too indulgent. How can Xiao Shi be allowed to do anything wrong in the palace confinement."

King Huan said again: "It's too risky for Feng Cong to lure Xiao Shan into the trap. At the beginning, I didn't agree with the Queen Mother to take him back to the palace. A storm."

Yuan Tang's heart moved, and after thinking about it, he realized that King Huan was the patriarch of the clan, and he seemed to be very close to the former prince. He took care of Feng Cong for many years, and King Huan should also know the inside story of the former prince's death.

King Huan was surprised by Yuantang's unsurprised expression. He smiled and said, "It seems that A Cong trusts you very much. He looks stubborn and unruly, and he seldom let go of his guard against others. One person, you are also one person. Hey, I can’t sit for a long time when I am too old, so you go out for a walk with me.”

Yuantang and King Huan came to the small garden of the palace, and King Huan sent back the left and right sides, saying: "When the former prince returned to the court, the late emperor appointed the current emperor as the prince. Because he regretted the suffering of the former prince in Beicheng, he did not withdraw the title of Prince Wenxi. The prince has been living in Beicheng for many years. He felt that the mountains and rivers were in chaos. The bane..."

"In fact, not everyone in the court supports the crown prince's idea of ​​marching troops to the north. Shen Jiasanlang also reported on this matter before, and the court did not highly respect it. The Xia Kingdom has been in peace for a long time, and the monarchs, ministers and common people are all content with the wealth and honor of the South Township, and it is difficult to compete with them. All the tribes in the northern border are fighting for the front." King Huan sighed.

"The former prince thought that the Northern Expedition was a good time, so he urged the reform of the government, military and military. However, his actions also touched the roots of the families. At that time, even Shen Shangshu did not agree with Prince Wenxi's actions. Relying more on the family, the first emperor was worried that the family would be alienated, and he didn't want too many troops from outside the town to threaten the court. In addition, at that time, the emperor's dragon body was declining, and the dispute between the two princes in the court intensified. I had to make a decision..."

Yuantang heard the conversation between the queen mother and Feng Cong that day, and already knew that the death of the first prince was very strange, and only after hearing what King Huan said did he sort out the whole story.The blood and swords in the royal family are no less than that of the battlefield. Prince Wenxi was lost at the hands of his relatives. What shocked Yuantang even more was that King Huan actually told him all these secrets.

Yuan Tang felt even more panicked, but King Huan said: "You follow His Highness, you will know these things sooner or later, why don't I tell you first. If you don't know how to be prudent and casual, I have a way to keep you from speaking."

King Huan smiled slightly, and Yuan Tang realized that although they were in the garden, they were surrounded by King Huan's guards, always on guard, and when Yuan Tang came to visit King Huan, he didn't dare to bring any more followers, Yuan De was still waiting in the outer courtyard , Yuan Tang was so startled that his back was covered with cold sweat, he hurriedly said, "I'm sure I'm not talking nonsense."

King Huan stroked his beard and smiled softly, without any threat, more like a joke with Yuan Tang'an.

"After the prince left, the late emperor couldn't bear to see Feng Cong's resemblance to the former prince, so he sent Feng Cong to Shangyun, and then, His Majesty ordered him to practice in Shangyun."

"When Feng Cong first arrived in Shangyun, he was full of hostility. The late emperor ordered me to guard him at all times. I am ashamed to say that I have been worried that he will resent the Feng clan all these years," King Huan said, "However, I have watched his words and deeds for many years. He is not a narrow-minded person, nor will he be blinded by hatred, but he still can't let go of Prince Wenxi."

As a son of man, how could he just let go of the hatred of killing his father and mother.

King Huan said regretfully: "He has been smart since he was a child, if he can grow up in the palace, then he should... well."

Sighing, King Huan asked Yuan Tang how he had learned the art of war, and Yuan Tang responded with great energy. Seeing that he remembered it well, King Huan told him: "Martial arts can't be satisfied on paper, you will join the army." , You still have to practice in the army."

Yuan Tang said more and more respectfully: "Yes."

King Huan looked at Yuan Tang and said, "Do you think that I handed over those military books to you because you followed Feng Cong?"

Yuan Tang looked up at King Huan, and saw King Huan sighing helplessly.

Yuan Tang hurriedly said, "The student knows his mistake."

He claimed to be a student, and King Huan's face turned pale, and he said, "You were born in Jiangmen. It's a good thing that you don't have any anxiety, but you also lack the ambition to win. You are more benevolent and less decisive. You are smart but have no ambition. You will be a martial artist in the future." , You need to know that life depends on death, and if you want to be a general, you must become a general of the country."

Yuan Tang felt that he had been seen through by King Huan's eyes, like when he copied his homework when he was a child and was discovered by his teacher. Even though he has been practicing martial arts and studying the art of war very hard, he still felt ashamed and said, "Students, keep it in mind."

Sighing, King Huan said again: "Let me ask you a question. In today's world, the chaos is still there. Nanxia and Beicheng each have strong soldiers, dividing the mountains and rivers. How do you think they can be called strong soldiers?"

Yuan Tang panicked, and searched back and forth for the military books and notes he had read, but he didn't know how to answer. He wanted to make a few sentences based on the military books, but he couldn't get it out when he looked at King Huan's expression.

King Huan said, "If you can't figure it out, don't answer it. Tell me when you figure it out."

After that, King Huan left.

There seemed to be a ray of light in Yuantang's heart, but it seemed that he was still in the mist. When he left Shangjun's military mansion, he was still thinking about King Huan.He exhausted all he knew and learned, but none of the answers he came up with seemed to be correct.

Due to the limited schedule, Yuantang could not stay in Shangyun for too long. Before leaving Shangyun, he paid a farewell to King Huan again and wanted to ask King Huan for advice. This time King Huan did not see him, so Yuantang could only leave with regret.

Yuan Tang only returned to Jiyang in the first month, and the whole Yuan family and Zhou family were overjoyed for him to get the post of secretary and joined the army. They didn't stay at home for a few days, and then set off for Baiyu City, the seat of Qizhou government. Arrived a few days ago.

It was Su Zicong's father, Su Shoukui, the general of Guangwei, who was in the town of Baiyu City in Qizhou. General Su took refuge in the Wang family.

According to Yuan Tang's later observation, General Su had no complaints about being transferred to Qizhou, and was even very satisfied. He couldn't help but suspect that the Queen Mother had misunderstood Wang's intention to send General Su to assist Feng Cong.

Recalling the empress dowager's deep intentions, Yuan Tang still can't see through it until now.

Yuan Tang also joined the army on the recommendation of the Wang family. He and General Su counted as one faction. In the early years, General Su and General Yuan still had friendship. General Su was very polite to Yuan Tang. On Yuan Tang's first day in office, he hosted a banquet To wash the dust, invite all the Baiyu clan and officials to wash the dust for Yuantang.

As soon as he sat at the banquet, Yuantang felt the pressure.

Except for the 26-year-old Chief Shi Liu Yanping, everyone in the military government is a circle or two older than Yuan Tang. Sima and several other soldiers who joined the army are all close friends of the Soviet general. With a similar killing spirit, Chang Shi Liu Yanping was born in a wealthy family in Qizhou. Sheng.

Yuan Tang, who was airborne and joined the army, had not yet reached the age of weak crown. Sitting among a group of Bai Yu officials, he naturally had an unreliable aura.

After drinking and eating, Yuan Tang was helped back to his residence by Yuan De.

Yuan De wiped Yuan Tang's face with a handkerchief, and said, "Hey, our A-Lang drinker is good, this is the first job in office, so I've got it."

Yuan Tang fell on the quilt and shook his head, laughing: "Others drink with the stories of killing the enemy in the past, and the blood is full of blood after a meal. I don't have any condiments to add to the fun, and I can't drink it. Wouldn't I be looked down upon?"

Yuan Dedao: "When Alang also went to battle and killed the thieves, it will be there. Now that he has joined the Qizhou Army, I am afraid that he will not have a chance to earn military merits."

Yuan Tang said with a smile: "Uncle De originally joined the army under my father, but now he is serving as my follower. Uncle De has been wronged."

Yuan De said: "Don't say that, I'm still waiting for Alang to join the army in the future."

Yuan Tang was a little drunk, and buried himself in the pillow faintly.

Sleeping well with wine, but at night Yuan Tang was woken up by the sound of snow particles hitting the window frame, and was chilled by the quilt. The wind in Qizhou was not as gentle as that in the south of the river. Yuan Tang couldn't help but think of the snowy night more than a month ago. How is Feng Cong now?

Yuantang paid attention to the documents sent from Xiangjing to various places, but he did not see Feng Cong Feng Wang, and he wrote to the capital, and he did not know whether Feng Cong received it.

The colder the night, the more I miss the warm Xiangjing and the people there.

General Su sent officials and guards to Yuan Tang. The recorder and join the army have the position of supervising the military government. Previously, no one in Baiyu Mansion took up this position. Assign the task of supervising the camp.

The Beicheng cavalry often took advantage of autumn and winter to attack, and it was still the season for them to dispatch frequently at the end of winter and early spring. It took only three or four years for Nan Xia to capture Baiyu City from Beicheng, and the battle line could no longer move forward. Beicheng never gave up on taking back Baiyu. Every year, Yu would ride his horse to the vicinity of Bai Yu.

Since Baiyu was once owned by Beicheng, and there are many residents of various ethnic groups in Beimo, there are mixed fish and dragons, and spies may get in if they are not careful. Baiyu's city defense task is extremely heavy.

When there were not many official duties, Yuan Tang often rode out of the city on horseback. The peasants and soldiers were digging trenches outside the city, building low walls, and setting up horses. No vegetation grows.

Over the years, Baiyu battles have been fought intermittently, and the Qizhou army has fortified the walls and cleared the fields, and some surrounding villages have long been deserted.

The leader of the guards sent by General Su to Yuan Tang was a dark-skinned man known as the Black Tiger Head. Yuan Tang himself brought some soldiers with him, but he still accepted the guards sent by General Su.

Recording and joining the army can theoretically monitor the military government. Yuantang and General Su belong to the same party of the Wang family, and are still sent by the court. He is an outsider to the cronies who followed General Su from Muzhou.

Heihu is not a native of Qizhou, he is a refugee who fled to Qizhou from Beicheng. He is strong and strong, and he joined the Qizhou army nearby.

He is the most "murderous" person Yuan Tang has ever seen besides Yuan De, with a straight face and fierce eyes all the time.

Yuan Tang rode out of the city on horseback, but Hei Hu didn't quite agree: "Bei Cheng's cavalry may appear outside the city at any time, it would be bad if Bei Cheng caught him if he joins the army."

Yuan Tang gradually realized that Hei Hu regarded him as a young master who came from a general family but knew nothing, but in fact Hei Hu was right.

With Yuantang's background, and at this age he has not yet made military achievements, it is not enough to be awarded a school lieutenant in the court.General Su's eldest son, Su Zishan, went out with General Su since he was a child. At Yuan Tang's age, he had already fought dozens of battles with his father, and being able to command thousands of people was much better than Yuan Tang being named a school lieutenant.

The more this is the case, the more planning Yuan Tang has to do. He said: "Walking outside the city is considered familiar with the surrounding terrain of Bai Yu, otherwise I can't even tell the difference between the south, the south and the north in a real fight. If there are people from Beicheng, it will be a big deal for us to fight with Bai Yu." They have fought. Of course, I still need to ask Brother Heihu to lead the way, after all, I am not familiar with Bai Yu's surroundings."

Hei Hu didn't care much about Yuan Tang's words, and believed in his heart that Yuan Tang was a young master who didn't know much about the world.

One evening, when they went to Gaogang, west of Baiyu, they passed through a forest and met Beicheng Bing.

There were only three Yuan Tang, Yuan De, and Hei Hu, and the other party had more than a dozen people, which seemed to be a small investigation team.

As soon as the Beicheng people found out, they surrounded the three of them.

The black tiger was full of vigor, and without a word, he swung his knife and slashed at a Beicheng soldier, but Yuan De wanted to protect Yuan Tang, Yuan Tang drew his knife, and said to Yuan De: "Don't worry about me."

This moment will come sooner or later, born in troubled times, living in the general family, if you want to make achievements and shine on the lintel, how can you not use blood in exchange, if you don't want to bleed yourself, then you can only let others bleed.

Yuantang misses that peaceful and stable world, but he can't indulge in nostalgia.

The setting sun was red, and in the end the three of them surrendered two horses. They killed several Beicheng soldiers, ran away a few, and captured four.

They took the captives to the nearest military camp. Yuan Tang was covered in blood, which belonged to others. Yuan De went to find someone to dispose of the captives. Yuan Tang sat in front of the tent holding the knife handle, his hands were still shaking.

Heihu took a small jar of wine to Yuantang from nowhere, and asked, "This is the first time you join the army and kill someone?"

Yuan Tang took a sip of the wine, smiled without saying a word, the wine was bad, it was choking, but it was enough to suppress all the churning in his stomach.

"Using a knife is not sharp enough." Hei Hutou commented.

Yuan Tang could only watch the sunset with his eyes open, because he would see the scene just now when he closed his eyes.

There was a cooking stove in the camp, and there was a lot of noise in the northern camp, and the soldiers on duty also looked north.

"What's going on?" Yuan Tang stopped a soldier and asked.

The man didn't recognize him, but he recognized Heihutou, he stood still and said, "It's time to fight."

It is against the camp rules to make noise and fight privately without any reason, Yuan Tang put the knife back into its sheath and said, "Go and see."

A lot of barriers and towers were built outside Baiyu City, taking advantage of the terrain and the defense of the city wall to form an angle to resist Beicheng's attack.

There are Qizhou Army stationed near these places, each battalion and Bai Yu's left and right battalions rotate from time to time, and the two groups that clashed just moved to the Xigaogang camp today.

Coincidentally, one of them was Yuan Tang's private soldiers brought from Ji Yang.Except for some of them who stayed in the government office to serve as guards for Yuantang, the rest were incorporated into the Qizhou Army and trained together with the Qizhou Army.

The other group were local sergeants in Qizhou who were also recruited from refugees.

In the military camp, soldiers belong to different departments, and the treatment of the army is different in many aspects.

The best treatment is naturally the general's personal soldiers.

In the Qizhou Army, there are about 3000 to [-] personal soldiers of General Su. They are powerful and well-equipped, and they are the elite of the Qizhou Army.The rest, such as Changshi Liu's private soldiers, and other families or officers' subordinate soldiers, each had their own supplies. The soldiers brought by Yuan Tang, in addition to the leader's rations, weapons, armor and clothing were all tributed by Yuan's family, and the extra rewards were also provided by Yuan Tang. Tang decided that when they went to battle, they would mainly fight with Yuan Tang.

These are beyond the reach of ordinary soldiers. Ordinary soldiers have nothing to rely on, and they may be arranged at the forefront to serve as cannon fodder during war. It is much more difficult to survive and earn military merits than generals.

Of course, generals will also promote brave people to their own command as appropriate.

Yuan Tang could tell at a glance that the people fighting in the scuffle were his own private soldiers, precisely because their armor and military uniforms were neater and newer than ordinary soldiers.

The two groups mingled together, pushing and yelling, yelling and cursing, but fortunately they didn't use a knife, and there were no camp officers around. Yuan Tang saw the leader of his personal soldiers mixed in the crowd, and expected that the Qizhou army would also have all members Into the scuffle, no wonder no one stopped.

He yelled twice: "Stop beating, stop!" His voice was drowned in the shouting.

Both sides were red-eyed, and they couldn't pull it.

There was a playing drum standing in the corner, Yuan Tang ran over and knocked hard on the drum three times.

"Stop for me!"