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Volume 1: Yanyun Rebellion Volume 3: Bianliang Mistake Chapter 207: Banquet at Hongmen (Forty-Four)

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    Baode Army City is shaped like a lying cow, slightly longer in the north and south and shorter in the east and west. It rests on the side of the river leaning on the remaining veins of Luliang.  ¡Ó¡ÓThis is an out-and-out military city, with rammed earth walls up to two feet high and stone foundation protection.  There is a sheep and horse wall outside, and a three-foot moat is used to introduce the Yellow River water to surround the city for protection.  Since it is a military city, it is not very big in shape. It is no more than four miles long from north to south, and only three miles long from east to west.  The buildings in the city were originally designed for military use.  A martial arts temple is like a military camp, like a residence for military personnel and their families, like an arsenal, or like a residence for craftsmen who rush to make or repair weapons.  At the beginning, everything was very orderly, with everyone in their place, and they had a sense of neatness and beauty that only the army can have.  However, with the passage of time, the Baode Army, which was the key link connecting the heart of Hewai and Hedong, gradually turned into an ordinary town.  The buildings next to the three roads gradually became denser, with many chaotic dwellings and even wine shops and tiled buildings.  Outside the city, there are many additional residences, even occupying the location of the Sheep and Horse Wall. Along the Shagujin ferry to the west gate of the Baode Army, and then from the east gate to Langu County, there are also large buildings on both sides of the road.  There are car shops and private households that specialize in dealing with merchants.  In the past years of peace, the Baode Army had as many as 40,000 to 50,000 residents. This place outside the river can be said to be densely populated.  Shagujindu, which is only seven or eight miles away from Ximen, is a prosperous place with tens of thousands of people.  Some people with shallow eyelids and open mouths even called it Little Tokyo outside the river.  This name is naturally not worth mentioning in the eyes of those who know it.  But for the people outside the river, and even the mixed tribes in the west and north, it is a place worth yearning for.  The weather is very good every year, which is convenient for doing business.  There are many cars and horses on the road.  All of them passed through Baode Army City.  And the fur market inside and outside the Baode Army City.  The medicinal materials market and the mule and horse market are also very famous in places beyond the river.  Every time there is a large gathering that lasts for more than a month, there will be more than 10,000 people in and around Baode Army City.  The Orijia's income is a considerable amount of money just from the sales tax.  The prosperity of such a peaceful world has almost disappeared at this moment.  The road that used to be filled with caravans and horses was now empty of pedestrians.  But there is no trace.  Just a ranger traveling to and from patrol posts to deliver messages.  They were all in a hurry and their faces were covered with dust.  The triangular cyan flaming edge-tooth flags carried on the backs of these rangers could not help but tremble in the strong wind blowing from the Yellow River.  Along both sides of the road, beacons were set up every few miles.  These beacons were built hastily.  The Sui soldiers were sitting under the mat tent, staring blankly at the patrols passing by from time to time.  The famous city outside the river is only in a state of tension and depression.  The famous Hewai Zhejia soldiers all over the world, for a time, seemed to no longer have the mentality and spirit that had been passed down for hundreds of years.  There is no other reason than to follow the battle of Yan Yan's eastward march, along with the various changes that followed.  In one fell swoop, the spirit of Zhejia soldiers was almost wiped out!  It¡¯s not that the Zhe family has never been defeated, some of them were defeated very miserably.  Generations of children in the family.  I don¡¯t know if half of each generation can die peacefully on the bed of old age.  This defeat was completely different from the past.  First of all, the losses were extremely heavy.  The Zhejia Three Prefectures are the foundation of the heart. Because it is a semi-private army, the Song Dynasty court will naturally not fully support it even if it is not on guard.  The wealth of the land outside the river is far less than that of the land in the heart of the Central Plains.  Even if the Zhe family has always been very simple, the Hu people have made great efforts in returning to Yi or even plundering the grassland.  Even if they try their best, they can only raise an army of 20,000.  Among them, the most elite and capable part is only about half.  The six thousand people marching eastward led by Zhe Keqiu were already the elite of the Zhe family army.  After the First World War, less than half were brought back.  Not to mention that Zhe Jiajun's spine was broken, at least the root was injured!  The combat strength of the Zhejia army suddenly fell to the bottom.  Even if we gather all the remaining strength and grasp it in our hands, in this troubled time, when the Jurchens are galloping across the river, how can we make people feel confident with only this newly defeated army whose vitality is severely damaged?  Secondly, this defeat was not simply a defeat in battle.  And there are so many amazing inside stories!  Now the news has spread among the Zhejia army, which is gradually gathering near the Baode army, and every piece of it is shocking.  The head of the family could ask for six thousand troops of Huben and Yanyan troops to march eastward. When the Jurchen army suddenly raided the retreat, he resolutely abandoned the fifty thousand Western troops and crossed the Kelan River north.  He also beheaded Zhe Yansi who was unwilling to leave.  At the Kelan River, he was chased by Jurchen Qingqi.  When the brothers were still fighting to the death, Zhe Keqiu was the first to abandon the army and leave.  As a result, out of the 6,000 people in the family, the Kelan River was stained with blood, and less than half of them managed to escape across the river.  Zhe Yanzhi, the deputy envoy of Hedong's pacification, came with his troops and wanted to seize the power that Zhe could seek.  But Zhe Keqiu brazenly imprisoned the imperial court's Hedong pacification deputy envoy, gathered his troops and horses, and immediately retreated to the Baode Army!  After joining the Baode Army, he sent his confidants to lead the army into Fugu to monitor other military figures in the Zhe family, even if they were related to him.  He also transferred as many troops as possible from the prefecture garrison to the Baode Army, keeping them in his own hands.  Although the Zhe family is from a different race, they have been in the Song Dynasty for more than a hundred years. They have always been loyal and loyal. They never abandon their allies when facing battle, and they pride themselves on being united as one.  Only then did he gain a firm foothold on the edge, and the cigarettes of the past generations were not replaced by blood and food.  But what Zhe Keqiu did broke all these foundations!  Is this kind of Zhejia still the familiar Zhejia??And in this troubled world, what is the future for the Zhejia family that has lost its foundation?  Under the high pressure of Zhe Keqiu, the number of troops and horses gathered in Baode Army City at one time could be called rough, but even these children of the Zhe family still obeyed Zhe Keqiu's arrangements tamely.  Even when military generals were dispatched around or monitored around Zhe Kiqiu, or when they left their old camp, no one complained.  It is the depressive atmosphere in the Baode Army City, but it seems to be real.  You don't even need to invite a fortune teller, as long as you have eyes, you can see it.  All around the quiet military city and on the surging river to the west, this kind of depression has spread among the tens of thousands of children of the Zhe family. I don't know when or why.  It will suddenly burst out!  Zhe Keqiu suddenly woke up from his dream.  Within the hall.  There was an unpleasant smell of alcohol.  For a moment, Zhe Keqiu wrinkled his gray brows.  He wanted to get angry and call people to come up and capture those who dared to indulge in drunkenness in the army.  But in the blink of an eye, Zhe Keqiu's eyes fell on the wine bottle tilted over the wooden diagram and the dishes with leftover food on them.  Only then did he realize that he was the one drinking heavily in the White Tiger Festival Hall.  Although he is a famous general in the northwest, Zhe Keqiu has always been very self-disciplined.  Even if you drink alcohol in your spare time, it only represents the meaning of a dime.  Not to mention feeding this yellow soup in the army.  Wine is a good thing for warriors, it relaxes the muscles and activates blood circulation.  But drinking too much is like a bone-scraping steel knife.  In his life, Zhe Keqiu has seen countless men from the northwest fall in love with this drunkenness.  It turns out that a good man who rides a bad horse and shoots a three-stone bow becomes drunk and can't even hold a sword steadily.  So in this regard, Zhe Keqiu never indulges himself.  Not only that, but when the army is marching, fighting or even camping at key passes, alcohol is strictly prohibited.  Some reserves will only be used when healing and celebrating victory.  When he followed Fu Yan's army to advance eastward, he saw Liu Guangshi's army preparing a banquet every night.  It is scornful to ask for anything.  It is precisely because of this kind of self-discipline that Zhe Keqiu stands out among this generation.  Finally, he became the head of the Zhe family, commanded 20,000 children of the Zhe family, and settled in the northwest corner of the Song Dynasty as a vassal town.  And now he is over 40 years old, weathered, but still strong and strong. He has to go out to fight and go out, stay up for three to five days without sleeping and other trivial matters.  Now, he got himself drunk in the White Tiger Festival Hall.  And this kind of thing has happened more than once or twice.  Zheke's voice calling for help was stuck in his throat.  He staggered to his feet, and he didn't care that the brocade robe on his body was wrinkled and stained with a lot of vomit.  Subconsciously, he walked to the wooden figure and reached out to grab the wine bottle again.  What to do if you don¡¯t drink?  After returning to the Baode Army, he took control of Fuzhou vigorously and resolutely, capturing all the capable troops of the Zhe family in his hands, and once again took control of the power of the Zhe family.  Zhe Keqiu found that whenever he closed his eyes, it was a nightmare!  Zhe Yansi's head flying into the sky, the disbelieving eyes of six thousand sons, the heavy rain at the Kelan River, the fierce impact of the Jurchen cavalry, the collapse of thousands of disciples, countless blood splashing by the river, and heads in the river  Sink and then sink into the turbid current.  And I swam through the Kelan River holding the horse's neck. The cold river water hit my face and chilled me to my bones.  These feelings are clearly visible, always entangled, and unable to escape.  He wanted to bring the Zhe family to a position they had never had before A little-known Nan Laizi pulled up more than 10,000 troops and horses and achieved great success in conquering Yan. Then he returned to Bianliang and jumped to the throne within two or three years.  He occupies the position of King of Yan and controls the power of the court.  How can he be compared to Nan Laizi?  This Song Dynasty was already extremely weak.  The world is about to change.  He Zhe Keqiu wanted to preserve the strength of the Zhe family and take a step further in this troubled world, but where did he go wrong?  The Zhe family had worked hard for the Song Dynasty for hundreds of years and could only live in a barren land outside the river. Over the past hundred years, many of the Zhe family's children had been killed or injured.  Wanting to get more things for the Zhe family What's wrong with that?  Why doesn¡¯t everyone understand what someone is thinking?  All the children of the Zhe family have to go against someone?  By the Kelan River, there was actually no fighting spirit.  These are thousands of elites brought out by a certain hand!  In the battle formation, when you kill generals and seize the flag, as long as you give an order, they will not turn around!  Where did X go wrong?  Zhe Kezhi grabbed the jug with such force that the tin jug had fingerprints on it.  Lift it up and pour it into your mouth.  But only a few drops fell into the mouth.  This made Zhe Keqiu even more furious, and he slapped the wine bottle on the wooden figure.  There was a loud bang, wood chips flying, plates and dishes jumping up, and grease flying.  Bring the wine!  The Tibetan soldiers waiting outside the hall hurriedly entered, holding four jugs of wine.  Recently, Zhe Keqiu has been getting drunk every day, and he will beat the guards and soldiers hard when he can't drink. Now everyone has learned well.  All the diligence and diligence are fake, the wine must be prepared for the general!  Two Tibetan soldiers entered, but they heard Zhe Keqiu yelling angrily: "Throw the wine out! You guys also get out of here! The roar echoed in the festival hall, and the two Tibetan soldiers who were confused by the two monks hurriedly retreated.  Go down and look at each other outside the festival hall. Could it be that the general was drunk? He just saw that the wooden map was marked with oil.  Not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the topographic map of Hewai and Shaanxi provinces was handed down from Zifangsi. At that time, the ancestors of the family spent a whole night around the map as if it were a treasure, and then the map was passed down for generations.  The generals of the family used this wooden plan to plan and participate in one battle after another.??.  Tens of thousands of men who have lost their families have been lying dead in the desert for hundreds of years, and generations of soldiers and generals who have lost their families have either died in battle or grown old.  now.  Zhe Keqiu is horrified and frightened.  What are you doing?  Will he always be drunk into a puddle of mud and eventually bury his family in this troubled world?  The souls of the ancestors were left homeless, and the bloodline of the Zhe family was cut off from now on.  Are you going to let your ambitions turn into ashes?  cheer up!  Is it possible that the Zhe family cannot afford to lose the battle?  In such troubled times and such a complicated situation, there are still opportunities, there are still opportunities!  As long as you firmly grasp the strength in your hands, you can even continuously expand the strength in your hands.  One day I will leap out of the abyss!  No matter who stands in front of him, he can only crush him!  Just when Zhe Kezhi was gnashing his teeth secretly and trying to cheer himself up, he suddenly heard the sound of fast footsteps outside the festival hall.  A Tibetan general hurried into the festival hall and prostrated himself on the ground.  General, there is military news coming from the east.  The remnants of the Yan Yan Army have escaped from the Jurchen snare and are heading towards the Baode Army under the leadership of Yang Keshi!  Please also deal with it!  Zhe Keqiu turned around suddenly.  The original depressed and decadent state had disappeared in the blink of an eye.  The eyes are filled with light!  Yang Keshi actually escaped from the trap of the Jurchen army!  He also fled towards the Baode Army!  What should we do with them?  What to do with them!  (To be continued)
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