Chapter 1458 Puzzle


    Just when Zhengxi General Fei was laying out the layout of the Pingyang Shoushan Academy, using the Academy and the Book of Books as pawns, and began to play a game on the big chessboard of Confucianism and thought, Hanchang, who was far away in Sichuan and Shu, also launched a game. A game between flesh and blood.


    Hanchang County, although not big, is the east gate of the entire Brazilian County. In the land of Sichuan and Sichuan, there are many mountains and mountains. Many roads have not been touched by people since ancient times. Maybe they can be walked, but after all, it is not convenient and safe to travel according to the existing roads.


    From Hanchang to the west, and then down the Langshui River, you will go straight to the hinterland of the center of Sichuan and Shu, and from Hanchang to the north, you will be Hanzhong. If you don''t go through Hanchang, you can only detour to the direction of Jiange, which not only takes time, but also bears the impact of a series of adverse factors brought about by the rugged mountain road, such as food and grass transfer, soldier reduction, miasma, insects and snakes.


    Zhang Ren led his soldiers to the canyon outside Hanchang City, and finally showed a smile on his face. Since the fall of Nanchong, Zhang Ren lost his smile about the confusion of the future and the fear of the unknown until today.


    Looking far away at the Hanchang City shrouded in mist in the mountains in the morning, Zhang Ren, who was covered in dew and stayed up all night, called Yuan Yue and gave a few orders in a low voice. Then Yuan Yue hesitated, but still nodded in agreement. down.


    Hanchang City shrouded in mist in the early morning, the suspension bridge was slowly lowered.


    It is already Chen time, and the city gate is about to be opened.


    In the past few days in Hanchang City, many soldiers have lived in, but after a few days of panic, the people who originally lived nearby have gradually discovered that these soldiers under another banner do not seem to be evil, even To a certain extent, it is better than the original Sichuan and Shu soldiers, at least these soldiers who conquer the West have money...


    The standards of the people are always extremely low, just like the original residents in Hanchang now, as long as they don’t plunder their property and give money for buying and selling, they are already satisfied, and these residents can feel more or less at ease.


    Therefore, Hanchang gradually returned to its original living habits. Every morning, residents gathered at the gate of the city, either entering the city to buy, or going out to collect firewood. At the gate of the city, many residents gathered. People, chatting with each other, loud and squeaky, everything.


    In the Han Dynasty, there were strict regulations, ordinary people were not allowed to wear any colored clothes, they could only wear natural color linen, as in TV movies, ordinary people would lose their heads if they wore colorful clothes at that time . This ban lasted until the end of the Western Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the imperial court relaxed a bit and allowed ordinary people to wear some Tsing Yi, but after all, dyed fabrics are more expensive, and ordinary people are not willing to buy them, so it is only during festivals and so on. Only when they are down, they will wear some blue clothes. On weekdays, most of them still wear natural color hemp clothes.


    Unlike the children of the gentry, the people of the Han Dynasty most likely only wore a robe with a cross-collar and a short hem close to the knee, and then tied it around the waist with a linen rope. It was a bit like a short bathrobe in many hotels in later generations. Of course, the fabric The material is rough and dirty, and many people don''t even have to take a bath once a year, let alone wash clothes.


    The reason is very simple. Under the conditions of the weaving technology of the Han Dynasty, the clothes are washed too much and are easy to be damaged...


    Therefore, when the vast majority of people stand together, it is difficult to tell who is who, because basically the costumes are similar, and Zhang Ren just asked Yuan Yue to send some people to pretend to be ordinary people in an attempt to mix in In the city, create riots and rob the city!


    On the city of Hanchang, the soldiers who conquered the west held their weapons, and a non-commissioned officer with the appearance of a village chief slowly walked up the city wall from the galloping road, and turned around the city gate...


    Several soldiers led people to the city gate, chatting with each other happily, waiting for the order from the city to open the gate.


    Liao Hua stood on the city gate tower as usual, glanced left and right, raised his arms habitually, and was about to order to open the city gate, but suddenly felt that something was wrong, so he stopped and turned his head to look...


    Liao Hua walked all the way from Yuzhou, to Heluo, and then to Guanzhong. Originally, Liao Hua didn''t intend to join the army. If he had wanted to join the army earlier, Liao Hua would have joined the army long ago. But after arriving in Guanzhong, Liao Hua discovered that besides joining the army, he still had no better way to make ends meet. Make a name for yourself.


    Of course, it was a trivial matter that prompted Liao Hua to make this decision.


    When Liao Hua was in Guanzhong, he saw a few inspectors under Zhengxi quarreling, and the reason for the quarrel made Liao Hua who happened to be on the side dumbfounded...


    From a certain point of view, Liao Hua has a somewhat stubborn personality. He will not accept what he thinks is bad, just like he thinks that Cao Cao''s army did not do anything good in Yanzhou, Yuzhou, so he let Cao Cao and others He was unmoved when blowing the sky when recruiting soldiers.


    In Guanzhong, Liao Hua was moved to join the army because of the inspection in the city.


    As we all know, under the western conquest site, many patrols in the city are served by veterans who are injured or slightly disabled, and besides maintaining the city order and law and order normally, these veterans are still in certain positions. To a certain extent, it undertakes some teaching and recruiting work.


    Liao Hua saw these patrol inspections under Zhengxi, and in his free time, he was not going to have fun, nor was he drinking or splashing, but was practicing and studying with a brush on bamboo slips. Arguing with each other over the different understandings of the chapters and sentences in the scriptures, not over who drank a few more glasses of wine and took more money...


    This is incredible!


    Liao Hua has never seen anyone other than the sons of the gentry seek knowledge like this in any other place!


    So Liao Hua decided to go to Zhengxi Army to take a look...


    Then unexpectedly, he followed the army to Sichuan and Sichuan.


    Liao Hua looked at the crowd outside the city, and it seemed that there was nothing unusual about it, but Liao Hua still felt that something was wrong, and suddenly he had a thought, and asked aloud, "Is there a market in the city today?"


    The soldiers on the side laughed twice, and replied: "Mr. Liao is short of utensils? There is a large gathering on the second and sixteenth sides of the city. Today is only the eleventh, and it will be three or four days..."


    "Then why are there so many people outside the city today?" Liao Hua said while lying on the battlements, looking at the crowd waiting to enter the city.


    "Huh? There are too many people? Ah, indeed, it seems that there are a few more..." The soldiers on the side also scratched their heads, and even tilted their heads a little. Although there are shade trees in Sichuan and Shuzhong, it is still relatively hot. Even though many soldiers were allotted with leather hoods, it was too stuffy, so they still wore more hoods in normal times.


    "Not good!" Liao Hua looked at the soldiers beside him who thought the weather was hot, and even opened their leather armor. Suddenly, he realized why he felt something was wrong, and immediately shouted at the city, "Slowly open the city gate! Be careful! There is fraud!"


    Now that the weather is getting hotter, even the soldiers in the most disciplined army are not wearing leather armor, let alone ordinary people, and there are twenty or thirty people outside the city wearing more tightly covered robes!


    If these people were dispersed, it might not have aroused Liao Hua''s idea, but the people who knew nothing about specific military tactics naturally gathered around Yuan Yue subconsciously...


    In order for people not to see the weapons on their bodies, it is impossible for these people to wear short robes with bare arms and legs. Naturally, they need to use long robes to cover them up. , of course it looks very weird.


    Although Liao Hua is still not completely sure whether there is a problem, it does not prevent Liao Hua from directly bluffing!


    The people who followed Yuan Yue to **** the city gates were not doing such fine work, and they were all uneasy. Standing outside the city, their palms and feet were sweating continuously, stepping on footprints one by one, and they were a little anxious While waiting, I suddenly heard a shout from the top of the city, and immediately panicked...


    "@&#@!"


    Yuan Yue swears in a Chinese dialect. With a relatively small brain capacity, he didn''t think about anything, so he ordered his subordinates to rush up, but he didn''t even think about whether his little people could cause any harm to the city gate, let alone Think about the consequences of what he did...


    At the gate of the city, there was a great chaos!


    Zhang Ren''s soldiers, who had lurked into the city a day earlier, heard the sound of the city gate, and thought that Zhang Ren had led people to attack outside the city, although most of these people only had weapons such as small axes and short daggers in their hands, and They didn''t have any armor to protect themselves, but they rushed out one after another and took the city gate straight!


    Zhang Ren, who was looking forward to it in the distance, was overjoyed when he heard the clamor of killing at the city gate. This journey is full of wind, food and sleep, insects bite and snakes sting, and they finally arrive at Hanchang City. Now they only need to take down the city gate and attack the city, no matter what, it can be regarded as a victory! Finally, he lived up to Liu Zhang and Liu Yizhou''s entrustment!


    Zhang Ren waved his hand violently and ordered: "Go forward, assault, grab the door, enter the city!"


    Already hungry and thirsty Zhang Ren''s Sichuan and Shu soldiers, well, this is really hungry, so they rushed out of their hiding places and ran towards the gate of Hanchang City.


    In order to capture the city, it is naturally impossible for the soldiers to form a long snake formation. After the two dragons emerge from the water formation, they will come to seize the city. Of course, whoever runs fast will rush to the front. No matter what formation to speak of, it is naturally impossible to have any mutual cover, support and cooperation...


    It''s like a Jianren with light armor or even no armor. Naturally, they run faster than Sichuan and Shu soldiers with armor and blades.


    Halfway through the rush, the original joy on Zhang Ren''s face faded involuntarily, and the still dark city gate seemed to extinguish Zhang Ren''s light of hope, making Zhang Ren''s heart sink to the point of icy coldness. In the deep pool.


    Why didn''t the city gate open!


    How could the city gate not be opened!


    How could the city gate not be open!


    At this moment, Zhang Ren really wanted to go crazy and yell, but before the gates of the city were even opened, he started yelling and killing! What the **** did Yuan Yue do!


    However, the Sichuan and Shu soldiers who rushed out could not just retreat like this, nor could they just return without success like this. Among other things, the consumption of food and grass along the way alone has reached the limit. If they just retreat like this, what will they eat? Is it impossible to plunder the poorer Shanzhai?


    Zhang Ren''s eyes turned cold...


    "Kill! Kill!" At this point, Zhang Ren could only hope that the soldiers in the city would be able to open the city gate bravely, so he shouted loudly in an attempt to boost morale, pinning on his meager expectations, "grab It will take three days to go down to the city!"


    The people who followed Yuan Yue roared excitedly, as if they had captured Hanchang City. However, the rain of arrows pouring down from the top of Hanchang City caused these fanatics to suffer a dull loss.


    Even though things started in a hurry, Liao Hua still quickly issued a defensive order, asking the soldiers on the top of the city to warn people to pull up the drawbridge, and at the same time assign soldiers, some to block the lurking soldiers rushing out of the city, and some to stand on the battlements , began to pour arrows down the city.


    Soon, soldiers from all over the city received the alarm and rushed over one after another, hacking and killing the soldiers dispatched by Zhang Ren in advance who were trying to seize the gate, and then began to climb the city wall and began to coordinate defense.


    As Zhang Ren''s soldiers in the city were wiped out one by one, Zhang Ren outside the city also heard the shouts of killing at the city gate gradually weakening, and the only hope left was shattered. After staying for a while, he turned around and left, leaving Xu Shu who came in a hurry confused...


    What is this for?


    Xu Shu was puzzled, frowning, and circling several possibilities in his mind.


    Could it be that Wei Yan made a mistake?


    Or is there any change in Sichuan and Shu?


    Or is it a temptation by the opponent?


    Or are you deliberately using this crude method to numb me?


    "Are there any survivors for the rebellious soldiers in the city?" Xu Shu turned his head and asked.


    The guards on the side quickly went to check, and came back after a while, "My envoy, there are two more..."


    "Look at it, wait for someone to go and ask questions..."


    Xu Shu felt that he had to find out what happened, otherwise Xu Shu''s character would not be able to sleep well, but before he left, he praised Liao Hua and praised Liao Hua on the spot for protecting the city. , defended well, and specially summoned Liao Hua to ask about Liao Hua''s personal situation...


    "Oh? Yuan Jian is actually from Miannan?" Xu Shu said with some surprise, if it wasn''t for Liao Hua''s outstanding performance this time, Xu Shu basically wouldn''t pay attention to the hometown of a village chief in the army.


    Liao Hua clasped his hands and said, "That''s right." Liao Hua was relatively taciturn in his daily life, and his family was destroyed in the flames of war. For anyone, it was not something worth recalling and talking about every day, so he seldom Mentioned to others, if Xu Shu hadn''t asked, I''m afraid it would not have been known.


    "Good." Xu Shu nodded, looked Liao Hua up and down again, and said, "You are a good guard, and in the merit list, your achievements today are indispensable!"


    "Thank you, Shijun." Liao Hua cupped his hands in thanks, and then withdrew.


    Xu Shu nodded secretly, thinking that Liao Hua is also a talent that can be created, and he might as well raise one or two in the future if he has the opportunity, but now Xu Shu is more concerned about the situation in Wei Yan. What happened in Sichuan and Shu?


    (end of this chapter)