Chapter 20 Outside the City of Chanzhou
Hou Dayong clearly identified the five cavalry running towards the post station.
After a while, the Black Eagle Army soldier Li Sheng, who was on duty outside the post station, asked: "Who is it?"
"We are from the Guards Division, who are you?"
"We just came from Zhengzhou." The Black Eagle Army soldier was interrupted before he finished speaking.
"You don't stay in Zhengzhou, why do you run here to eat shit?"
"Fuck, you just eat shit."
Immediately afterwards, there was a sound of weapons colliding, the Yicheng persuaded him, and then a whip sounded, and the Yicheng made a "ah" cry.
Hou Dayong stood up and came to the yard. He Wulang and his men were surrounding the guards' men.
Seeing Hou Dayong coming out, the Black Diao Army soldiers gave up a way. Seeing that the people coming were calm and knew that they were generals of the Black Diao Army, they didn't care and said, "We are from the Frontiers and Officers. We have urgent official duties. Your people should quickly buy a house."
Hou Dayong didn't want to be as knowledgeable as them, so he said to the Black Eagle Army soldiers: "Put away all the knives and make a house for them."
The guards said one by one: "Are you General Hou Dayong?"
“It’s right down.”
The five guards quickly bowed and said, "I'm rude, I've seen the defensive envoy."
"You know me."
"In the battle between Bagongyuan, our team was behind His Majesty. When the general rushed into the enemy formation, we were all following."
Hou Dayong said: "At that time, there was a team of people guarding His Majesty behind him. It turned out that you were all there."
"It is our honor to be able to fight with the general." The guards and the others were usually above the top, and the position of the post chief was higher than theirs, but they fought as soon as they said they could fight, without any scruples. However, the soldiers valued the heroes the most, and Hou Dayong was the ones they saw with their own eyes, and they were very despised to Hou Dayong, so they were very polite to Hou Dayong.
"What's the urgent matter for you to come from the east?"
"Onozawa, refugees caused trouble, gathered thousands of people, and the official army could not capture it for a long time."
"Onozawa, there is the Tianping Jiedushi in the east, the Zhangxin Jiedushi in the south, and the Zhenning Jiedushi in the north, why bother with your guards and officers?"
"Oh, during this period, the Guards Department has been struggling and training every day, but it has not been easy for a day. When I heard that the refugees in Onozawa caused trouble, Commander Li brought three thousand people to Onozawa to train troops. I didn't expect that there were too many refugees, so the Commander asked us to move reinforcements and could not defeat the refugees. The Guards Department was too shameless."
"So that's it. Thank you for your hard work, go and rest early."
At this time, the Guards Office had nearly 80,000 people, with excellent weapons and well-trained. They were the most important unit of the Great Zhou Dynasty. After the expansion of the army, the Palace Front Office had only 30,000 people. These 110,000 people were the direct line among the direct line of the Great Zhou Dynasty. In history, Zhao Kuangyin finally seized power by mastering the imperial guards.
The next day, Hou Dayong led his men to leave Daliang. When he approached Chanzhou, there were more officials. There were Tianxiong's troops, and more of them were from the Guards. Ten miles away from Chanzhou, there were corpses everywhere on the roadside. Except for the corpses of a small number of officers and soldiers, most of them were ragged, with wooden sticks, kitchen knives, knives, guns and other items scattered beside him. After walking three or four miles, there were more and more corpses on the side of the roadside, and many refugees were hung on the trees.
When Hou Dayong went to ancient times, he experienced a lot of killing and was used to bloody scenes. When he saw such a tragic phenomenon, he was still very upset.
"Who are you? Stop." Seven or eight cavalrymen stood in front of Hou Dayong and his party.
He Wulang said: "We are the Black Eagle Army, passing by here."
At this time, Du Gang recognized the soldier blocking the road and said, "Zheng Laosi, what are you doing? Why are you killing so many people? Don't you know me? I am Du Gang, our defense envoy is here."
The Black Eagle Army was originally composed of 600 Chanzhou Army and 600 Cangzhou Army. Du Gang came from the Chanzhou Army, so he knew the soldiers in front of him.
The soldiers blocking the road heard that they were the defensive envoys and immediately bowed: "It turns out that the defensive envoys are here."
After the Battle of Cangzhou, the story of Hou Dayong killing Liu Hai, beheading Liu Cunxiao, and shooting Xiao Baozhen was widely circulated in the army in Chanzhou, Dezhou and Cangzhou. So when he heard Hou Dayong's name, the soldiers of Chanzhou immediately saluted the horse according to the wartime rules.
"How do you stay here?" Hou Dayong stepped forward and asked.
"The guards were killing bandits in front, and our Chanzhou army served as the periphery guard. General Cao was in front."
When Hou Dayong saw Cao Han, Cao Han looked solemn. Now Hou Dayong’s official position is higher than Cao Han, but the army emphasizes qualifications. Hou Dayong understands this thoroughly and quickly dismounts and meets Cao Han.
Cao Han also got off the horse. The two saluted each other and held their hands tightly together, but no one spoke. After a long time, Cao Han said, "The killing was too heavy." Hou Dayong nodded and said, "Give them a bite of food, and they won't go to this point."
After a detailed discussion, Hou Dayong learned about the incident. All the refugees came from Yunzhou, Yanzhou and other places, and were honest peasant men. Because the Yellow River broke its dam and destroyed several states, thousands of farmers flocked to unaffected places. They were hungry and could not help but have a few refugees doing some stealing and robbing. The Yunzhou government handled the matter improperly and beheaded all the thieves, which aroused civil unrest. The governor of Tianping sent troops to suppress them, but more and more refugees gathered to cause trouble. In the end, the situation was uncontrollable. The governor of Tianping and Li Chongjin were cousins. Li Chongjin intervened in the matter. He handled the matter very simply, one word: kill.
Commander Wang of the Guards was ordered to bring a thousand people to fight against the refugees in the east of Onoze, but the number of refugees was large. He surrounded the Wang command post in a small town on the east of Onoze, Li Chongjin only brought three thousand men and was surrounded by a thousand people, so he sent two other troops to rescue the siege. After all, the refugees could not compete with the long-term training army. As soon as the reinforcements of the Guards arrived, they immediately became disorganized and were chased by the people of the Guards. The refugees were panicked and came toward Chanzhou. They were bitten by the Guards and suffered heavy losses. Li Chongjin issued an order that all refugees who caused trouble would be killed without mercy.
"Hey, these imperial guards are like wolves and tigers. Now they are red in their eyes. I don't know how many more people they have to kill. The people of Chanzhou dare not go out to avoid being killed by accident."
"Can you suggest to Li Chongjin to take the method of recruitment?"
"Houlang, I've tried it. Li Chongjin is above his gaze, arrogant, and he is most rebellious. He can't listen to our words at all." "Are you going to Daming Mansion now? We have all heard of your happy events. I have prepared a gift and sent someone to Zhengzhou. If it weren't for this matter, I would still think of Zhengzhou."
Hou Dayong was unable to dissuade Li Chongjin, but he didn't want to see him killing people. He said goodbye to Cao Han, and took his men and horses around Chanzhou, rushed to Daming Mansion.
While Hou Dayong was rushing to the road, the Fu family's dowry was also on the way to Zhengzhou.
Fu Ying's dowry consists of seven large boxes and five small boxes, which are transported by more than twenty people. In addition to precious jewelry and Fu Ying's daily necessities, the dowry also has military books collected by Fu Ying for Hou Dayong.
Although Fu Ying's mother was stubborn, she still loved her daughter from the bottom of her heart and carefully prepared some things that symbolize good omens, including scissors, symbolizing the pair of butterflies; with rulers, symbolizing the ten thousand hectares of good fields; with candy blocks, symbolizing the sweetness; with silver cloaks, symbolizing the wealth of flowers; with vases, symbolizing the prosperity of flowers; with copper basins and shoes, symbolizing the togetherness until old age, with a pair of dragon and phoenix quilts, sheets and pillows, and two pairs of chopsticks and bowls tied with red ropes, symbolizing food and clothing; with seventy-two sets of clothes, cypresses, lotus seeds, and longans, symbolizing food and clothing.
The King of Wei Fu Yanqing was in a happy and sad mood. The happy thing was that he found another good son-in-law. The five daughters Fu Ying was about to get married. Fu Ying married Hou Dayong because of the idea of His Majesty. Fu Yanqing knew that Hou Dayong was a powerful general. He was admired by Chai Rong in the Battle of Gaoping and had quickly become a newcomer in the Zhou Dynasty with a bright future. Fu Yanqing originally thought that Hou Dayong came from the northern part of the country and had no family support in the Central Plains, so he had no money. When he received the gift list from Hou Dayong, he was shocked. The gifts given by Hou Dayong were extremely generous, which was no different from the aristocratic families. Fu Yanqing didn't care about how many gifts there were, but his son-in-law's family was rich and his daughter always had a better life, so he was still very happy.
What I worry about is that the eldest daughter is in poor health. Queen Fu has always been healthy. Recently, she has always lacked strength. I don’t know why, many imperial doctors in the palace were punished by Chai Rong, but they have no effect. "God bless the eldest daughter to live a hundred years old." Fu Yanqing prayed secretly at a stick of incense.
Chapter completed!