Chapter 1458 Puzzle
Just when Fei, the general of the Western Expedition, was planning his layout at the Shoushan Academy in Pingyang, using the Academy and the Book of Books as chess pieces, and began to play a game on the big chessboard of Confucian classics and thoughts, Hanchang also started to develop in Hanchang as far away as Sichuan and Shu. A game between flesh and blood.
Hanchang County, although not very big, is the east gate of the entire Brazil County. In the land of Sichuan and Sichuan, there are many mountains and mountains. Many roads have not been visited 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.
Going west from Hanchang and then down the Langshui River, you will go straight into the heart of the center of Sichuan and Shu. Going north from Hanchang is Hanzhong. Although it is not a majestic pass, it is the only way to enter Sichuan and Shu from the west. If Without passing through Hanchang, we can only take a detour to the direction of Jiange, which not only consumes time, but also has to bear the impact of a series of adverse factors such as the transshipment of grain and grass, attrition of soldiers, miasma, insects and snakes brought about by the rugged mountain road.
?Zhang Ren led his soldiers to the canyon outside Hanchang City, and finally a smile appeared on his face. Since the fall of Nanchong, Zhang Ren has lost his smile due to the confusion about his future and the fear of the unknown, until today.
Looking far away at the Hanchang City shrouded in the mist in the mountains in the early morning, Zhang Ren, who was covered in dew and stayed up all night, called Yuan Yue and gave a few instructions in a low voice. Then Yuan Yue hesitated for a moment, but still nodded in agreement. Come down.
In Hanchang City shrouded in mist in the early morning, the suspension bridge was slowly lowered.
It is already Chen hour, and the city gate is ready to be opened.
There were many soldiers living in Hanchang City these days, but after a few days of panic, the people who lived nearby gradually discovered that these soldiers under another banner were not evil, and even To a certain extent, they are better than the original Sichuan and Shu soldiers. At least these soldiers who conquered the west have money...
The standards of the people are always extremely low, just like the original residents of Hanchang now. As long as they don''t plunder property and pay for buying and selling, they are satisfied, and these residents can feel at ease to some extent.
Therefore, Hanchang gradually returned to its original living habits. Every morning, residents gathered at the city gate, either going into the city to buy things or going out to collect wood. Many people gathered at the city gate. People chatted with each other, had loud voices and shrill throats, and everything.
In the Han Dynasty, there were strict regulations that ordinary people were not allowed to wear any colored clothes, and could only wear plain linen. Even if ordinary people wore colorful clothes in TV movies, they would have lost their heads at that time. . This ban lasted until the end of the Western Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the court relaxed it and allowed ordinary people to wear some green clothes. However, after all, dyed fabrics were more expensive, and ordinary people were not willing to purchase them, so they could only wear them during festivals and the like. Only when they are young will they wear some blue clothes. On weekdays, most people still wear natural kudzu clothes.
Unlike the children of the gentry, people in the Han Dynasty most likely only wore one robe, with the collar turned and the hem short to around the knees, and then tied around the waist with a linen rope. Some of them were like the short bathrobes in many hotels in later generations. Of course, the fabric The material is rough and dirty, and many people don''t even take a bath once a year, let alone wash their clothes.
The reason is very simple. Under the conditions of the weaving technology of clothing in the Han Dynasty, clothes were easily damaged if they were washed too much...
Therefore, when the vast majority of people stand together, it is difficult to tell who is who, because they are basically dressed in the same way. Zhang Ren asked Yuan Yue to send some people to pretend to be ordinary people in an attempt to sneak in. In the city, create riots and rob the city!
On the Hanchang City, soldiers from the Western Expedition held weapons in their hands. A non-commissioned officer who looked like a station commander slowly walked up the city wall from the gallop and turned around the gate tower...
??Several soldiers led people to the city gate, chatting happily, waiting for the city to give the order to open the door.
Liao Hua stood on the city gate tower as usual, glanced left and right, raised his arms habitually, and was about to order the city gate to be opened when he suddenly felt that something was not right, so he stopped and turned his head to look...
Liao Hua walked all the way from Yuzhou to Heluo, and later to Guanzhong. Originally, Liao Hua was not prepared to surrender to the army. If he had wanted to surrender to the army, Liao Hua would have done so long ago. However, after arriving in Guanzhong, Liao Hua discovered that apart from joining the army, he still had no better way to make a living, or to be a fool. Make a name for yourself.
?Of course what prompted Liao Hua to make this decision was actually a small thing.
??When Liao Hua was in Guanzhong, he saw several patrol inspectors under Zhengxi quarreling. The reason for the quarrel made Liao Hua, who happened to be standing by, dumbfounded...
From a certain perspective, Liao Hua has a stubborn character. If he thinks it is not good, he will not accept it. Just like he thinks that Cao Cao''s army did not do anything good in Yanzhou, Yuzhou, so he let Cao Cao and others When recruiting soldiers, he blew the sky, but he was not moved.
?In Guanzhong, Liao Hua was tempted to join the army because of the inspection in the city.
As we all know, under the Zhengxi territory, many city inspections are carried out by veterans who are injured or mildly disabled. In addition to maintaining the normal order of the city and maintaining public security, these veterans also do a certain amount of work. To a certain extent, it takes on some teaching and recruitment work.
Liao Hua saw these inspections under Zhengxi. In his free time, he did not go out for fun or drink and get drunk. Instead, he practiced and studied with bamboo slips and writing brushes. He even saw these inspections. They argue with each other over different understandings of chapters and sentences in the scriptures, not over who drank a few more glasses of wine and took away more property...
This is simply unbelievable!
Liao Hua has never seen anywhere else that people other than gentry children are so eager for knowledge!
So Liao Hua decided to go to the Zhengxi Army to have a look...
?Then I didn’t expect it, and I followed the army to Sichuan and Shu as soon as I saw it.
Liao Hua looked at the crowd outside the city. It seemed that nothing was out of the ordinary. However, Liao Hua still felt something was wrong. Suddenly, his mind moved and he asked, "Is there a market in the city today?"
The soldiers on the side laughed twice and replied: "Captain Liao, do you need some utensils? There are large gatherings in the city on the second and sixteenth day of the year. Today is only the eleventh day, and it will take three or four days..."
“Then why are there so many people outside the city today?” Liao Hua said, lying on the battlements and looking at the crowd waiting to enter the city.
"Huh? There are more people? Ah, it does seem like there are more people..." The soldiers on the side also scratched their heads, and even tilted their heads a little. Although there is shade from trees in Sichuan, it is still relatively muggy. Even though many soldiers were issued leather pouches, they were too hot and stuffy, so they still wore them more often in normal times.
"No!" Liao Hua looked at the soldiers on the side who were dissatisfied with the hot weather and even had their leather armor open. His heart suddenly moved and he knew why he had sensed something was wrong. He immediately shouted to the city, "Slowly open the city gate! Be careful. It’s a scam!”
??Now that the weather is getting hotter, even the soldiers in the most disciplined army no longer wear leather armor, let alone ordinary people, and there are still twenty or thirty people outside the city wearing robes that cover them more tightly! If these people were dispersed, it might not arouse Liao Hua''s idea. However, since the people did not know any specific military tactics, they naturally gathered around Yuan Yue subconsciously...
In order for people not to see the weapons they carry, it is impossible for these people to wear short robes and jackets that expose their arms and legs. Naturally, they need to use robes to cover up. And such attire is not suitable for Sichuan and Sichuan in the summer. , of course it looks very weird.
?Although Liao Hua is not completely sure whether there is a problem, it does not prevent Liao Hua from directly cheating!
The people who came with Yuan Yue to rob the city gate were not meant to do such delicate work. They were all uneasy. Standing outside the city, their palms and soles were sweating, and they were leaving footprints one after another. They were a little anxious. While waiting, I suddenly heard a shout from the top of the city, and immediately became panicked...
“@&#@!”
Yuan Yue cursed in a local dialect, and with a relatively small brain capacity, he didn''t think anything about it. He directly ordered his men to rush up, but he didn''t even think about whether his small number of people could cause any harm to the city gate, let alone I thought about the consequences of what he did...
At the city gate, there was a huge chaos!
Zhang Ren''s soldiers who had lurked into the city the day before heard the sound at the city gate and thought that Zhang Ren had led his men to attack outside the city. Although most of these men only had small axes, short daggers and other weapons in their hands, and There was no armor to protect them, but they rushed out one after another and went straight to the city gate!
?Zhang Ren, who was waiting eagerly in the distance, was overjoyed when he heard the shouts of killing at the city gate. This road was full of food and sleep, bitten by insects and snakes, and finally arrived at Hanchang City. Now we only need to take down the city gate and attack the city. No matter what, we can win back the city! Finally, he lived up to Liu Zhang and Liu Yizhou’s trust!
Zhang Ren waved his hand fiercely and ordered: "Advance, assault, seize the door, enter the city!"
??Zhang Ren''s Sichuan and Shu soldiers who were already hungry and thirsty, well, they were really thirsty, so they rushed out of their hiding places and rushed towards the Hanchang city gate.
In order to seize the city, it is naturally impossible for the soldiers to line up in a long snake formation. After the two dragons emerged from the water formation, they came to seize the city. Naturally, whoever ran faster would rush in front. There was a chaos. Although the momentum was strong, there was no There is no formation at all, and naturally there can be no mutual cover, support or cooperation...
??Just like a man with light or even no armor, he can naturally run faster than the Sichuan and Shu soldiers with armor and weapons.
Halfway through the rush, the original joy on Zhang Ren''s face involuntarily faded away. The still dark city gate seemed to have extinguished Zhang Ren''s light of hope, making Zhang Ren''s heart feel as if it had sunk to a bone-chilling coldness. In the deep pool.
Why is the city gate not open?
How could the city gate not be opened?
How could the city gate not be opened?
?At this moment, Zhang Ren really wanted to go crazy and yell. He didn''t even open the city gate, but he started shouting to kill! What the **** did Yuan Yue do!
?However, it is impossible for the soldiers of Sichuan and Shu who rushed out to retreat like this, nor can they just return without success. Not to mention anything else, the consumption of food and grass along the way has already reached the limit. If they retreat like this, what will they eat? Isn''t it possible to plunder the poorer people''s cottages?
Zhang Ren''s eyes turned cold...
"Kill! Kill!" At this point, Zhang Ren could only hope that the soldiers in the city would fight bravely to open the city gate, so he shouted loudly in an attempt to boost morale and rely on his meager hope, "Grab the city gate." I can’t help but go down to the city for three days!”
??The people who followed Yuan Yue roared excitedly, as if they had captured the city of Hanchang. However, the rain of arrows splashed from the top of Hanchang City made these fanatical people suffer a heavy loss.
Even though things happened in a hurry, Liao Hua still quickly issued a defense order. He asked the soldiers on the top of the city to warn people to pull up the suspension bridge, and at the same time distributed the soldiers, some to block the lurking soldiers rushing out of the city, and some to stand on the battlements. , began to throw arrows at the city.
Soon, soldiers from all over the city received the alarm and rushed over. They killed the soldiers sent by Zhang Ren who were trying to seize the door one by one. Then they began to climb the city wall and began to coordinate the defense.
As Zhang Ren''s soldiers in the city were eliminated one by one, Zhang Ren outside the city also heard the shouts of killing at the city gate gradually weakening. The only remaining glimmer of hope was shattered, and the angry people were shot away. After staying for a moment, he turned around and left, leaving Xu Shu confused...
What is this for?
?Xu Shu was confused, frowning, and had several possibilities swirling in his mind.
Could it be that Wei Yan was at fault?
Or what changes have occurred in Sichuan and Shu?
Or is it a temptation from the opponent?
Or are you deliberately using this crude method to paralyze me?
"Is there anyone alive among the rebels in the city?" Xu Shu turned around and asked.
The guard on the side quickly went to check, and after a while he ran back, "Envoy, there are two more..."
“It’s a good time to watch, and I’ll wait until someone goes to ask…”
Xu Shu felt that he had to find out what happened, otherwise he would probably not be able to sleep well according to Xu Shu''s character. However, before leaving, he still praised Liao Hua emphatically and commended Liao Hua on the spot for protecting the city from chaos. , defended well, and even specially summoned Liao Hua to ask about some of Liao Hua''s personal circumstances...
"Oh? Yuan Jian is actually from Mienan?" Xu Shu said with some surprise. If Liao Hua had not performed so well this time, Xu Shu would not have paid special attention to the birthplace of a military commander.
Liao Hua cupped his hands and said, "Exactly." Liao Hua is usually relatively taciturn. In addition, his family was brutally destroyed in the war. For anyone, it is not something worth remembering and talking about every day, so he rarely talks about it. Mentioning it to others, if Xu Shu hadn''t asked, probably no one would have known about it.
"Good." Xu Shu nodded, looked Liao Hua up and down, and said, "It''s a good guard. Your achievements today will be inscribed in the merit book!"
"Thank you, envoy." Liao Hua bowed his hands in thanks and then withdrew.
? Xu Shu secretly nodded, feeling that Liao Hua was a talent that could be developed, and he might as well mention him if there was an opportunity in the future. However, Xu Shu was more concerned about the situation at Wei Yan now. What happened in Sichuan and Shu?
(End of this chapter)