"Journey to the West"

Author: Scarlet Polyp

Chapter 1: Princess Wusun's Song

The desert is lonely, and on the ancient road of the Western Regions, the dust is flying, and a heavy army that can barely see the end is slowly marching in the direction of sunset.

"My family marries my side,

Far from the king of the exotic Xiwusun.

The dome is the room and the wall is the wall,

Meat is used as food, and cheese is used as pulp.

I often think about the inner wounds of my heart,

I am willing to return to my hometown for Huang Huxi. ”

Hundreds of people hummed Zhao Guang's childhood mother to lull him to sleep every day, urged the horse, and slowly ran along the team.

"Okay, you're far away, how can you sing such a sad and sad girl's rhyme, what's unpleasant, tell me about it?" Behind Zhao Guang, a big man with an extremely majestic black face asked loudly with a playful smile.

"The army marches, and those who raise their voices will be flogged." Zhao Guang didn't look back, "Captain Pang Du, as the commander of the first army, please respect yourself." ”

"Self-respecting fart, whipping a bird, Lao Tzu has been eating military meals for more than four years, do you still need to mention such a small thing as a new thing? Tell me, what the hell are you singing? Otherwise, you will be punished for the crime of despising the officials and disrespecting the peak, and you will be dragged to the ear camp (the criminal law in the army, piercing arrows in the ears and escorting the camp). ”

Zhao Guang smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Pang, Lingtang is the great Confucian of this dynasty, didn't Princess Wusun of this dynasty mention it to you?" ”

"Didn't you say yes? Men's fame should be taken immediately, what do you do by learning those false texts? My Pang family has been a rough person since their ancestors, and they don't have as many rules as your Zhao family! I think you're stupid to learn from your big brother beetle! The black face turned a rare red, and raised the volume again.

Zhao Guang was about to ridicule each other, dozens of horses rushed in front, and a white-armored knight led to the horse, and said with a smile: "I think it's true that you Pang Heizi can't learn, and you pretend to be rough if you don't learn?" Don't be motivated! ”

"Lao Tzu is a rough man, how can I get it? Less nonsense, white-faced, how's the road ahead? ”

"Ten miles ahead, there are chariot scouts haunting," the knight took off his helmet, revealing a handsome face, took the map handed over by the knight beside him, and pointed it to Pang, Zhao and the two watched, "The grain and straw of the Western Expedition army cannot be lost, for the sake of safety, I think I will stay on the dirt slope in front of me today, and I will first find out the enemy's movements, how about it?" ”

"A few Cheshi bandits, Lao Tzu still doesn't pay attention to them, just according to what you said, the whole army is camped, and everything here is left to you to arrange. Ziyuan, go and order two hundred brothers, and Lao Tzu will take a few brothers to meet them. The big black man put on his helmet and carried a long knife, and urged the horse to leave without dust.

The knight saw that he was leaving regardless of it, and shook his head, "Ziyuan, with such a Shangguan, life is not easy, right?" ”

Zhao Guang nodded: "But it's not, Brother Li, if it weren't for you mentioning Brother Dang from time to time, he wouldn't know how big a problem he would have caused." ”

"Hehe, what you said is bad, don't look at him on weekdays, he is a good hand in battle, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is both wise and brave, for the way of the general, Bertong is better than me Li Xin" Li Xin smiled, "Even among the tens of thousands of troops in this western expedition, there are very few young generals who can compete with him Pang Hui Pang Botong, didn't General Ling Zun Zhao say it?" Among our juniors, only Bertone has the deepest father's style. ”

"White-faced, what are you still talking about, don't delay Lao Tzu's business!" Li Xin's "wise and brave" and "deeply fatherly" military generals were dissatisfied with the boss in the distance, and they played in circles.

"This bastard! When you encounter a fight, you can't wait for a moment! Li Xin stepped forward to straighten Zhao Guang's helmet and patted his breastplate, "Go ahead, my dozens of horsemen here are all from the Changshui Battalion, you take them all, and Pang Heizi's own soldiers are also all brought." Don't panic when you encounter an enemy fight, remember to follow behind Kuroko! ”

Zhao Guangnuo continued to speak and took the order, but his heart was occupied by the excitement of the first battle. Since joining the army last year, the whole training in March, the martial arts in March, starting from Chang'an City, escorting the baggage to here is more than two months, even did not even encounter a war, thinking of the legend of the father's generation across the northern Xinjiang and the Central Plains and the combat experience told by the brothers who spit on the flying since childhood, the heart yearns, holding the horse lance can hardly be controlled. The man's fame is taken immediately, I am a man of the Zhao family, how can I lose? Fame starts now!

Two hundred cavalrymen, stepping down and riding a high-headed horse from the two states of Liang and Liang, carrying a round shield, wearing leather armor, holding a jujube lance, and hanging a ring sword from their waists, roared to the chariot division to ride into the small forest. After marching to a distance of 100 paces, Pang Hui waved one arm, and the team slowed down, and spread out into a crane wing array on both sides, facing the Yellow Ocean grove to encircle it. After a while, I saw dozens of cross-dressed chariot division cavalry rushing out of the small forest, and when I saw that there were many Han soldiers, I had some intention of retreating.

Pang Hui sneered: "The chariot master and dog thief must be eyeing our baggage, and we can't let go of it today, I will take half of the brothers to rush and kill from the front, Ziyuan will outflank from behind, remember to leave a living!" After speaking, he raised the long knife, "Han Tianwei, there is no Yi with me, kill!" ”

"Dahan Tianwei, there is no Yi with me, kill!" The cavalrymen held their horses flat, lowered their bodies, and their formation became a sharp formation, and they began to charge, and between the movements, the hundred horsemen were like one person, and there was no hindrance. Since the beginning of the great Sima and Li Hong, the Marquis of Jinyang, who raised troops in Hebei, he has been known for the sharpness of the iron cavalry; The Marquis of Jinyang fought for more than ten years, pacified the Quartet, and tempered a strong cavalry; After Zhongxing, it is more excellence, from the horse breed of war horses, breeding, knight selection, training, equipment and weapons casting, configuration, have made a lot of effort, to this day, the iron horse of the Han Dynasty is worthy of His Majesty the Emperor's sentence "I am a strong man, and there is more than one of the iron horses of Emperor Xiaowu". And Pang Hui came from a prominent general, he was brave and good at fighting, and he was responsible for escorting grain and grass to the west, and the cavalry under his command was naturally the elite of the elite. In Pang Hui's words: "The soldiers under my Pang Heizi, a group of young master soldiers of the Ding Yulin Army are ten!" ”

The other party saw that the Han cavalry was menacing, and hurriedly shot a few arrows, but he missed the crosshairs, and occasionally hit, but he could not penetrate the armor lined with iron sheets of cooked cowhide, and a wave of arrows was spared, and the Han cavalry had already come to the front. Pang Hui took the lead and shouted, "Take your black grandfather's knife!" With a swing of the knife, he cut the fan rider in front of him from his shoulder to his waist, and shouted, "Get up!" With a strong mention, he lifted the corpse from his horse, knocked it down with another rider beside him, turned his head and stabbed it, and killed him. The other cavalry divisions were frightened by the fierce gods of the Han general, and they were immediately tied into meat skewers by the dozens of horse lances that followed. The battle became a one-sided slaughter from the beginning, dozens of cavalry divisions fell off their horses one after another, only a few people had the idea of escaping at the beginning, and when they shot arrows with their comrades, they fled in a hurry, and finally saved their lives, and they never wanted to run not far away, and these lucky people bumped into another group of men and horses led by Zhao Guang.

"It's not fun!" Zhao Guang pierced the thigh of the opposite general with a shot, and picked him off the horse. Although he successfully completed Pang Hui's task of "leaving a living mouth", Zhao Guang did not have any satisfaction in his heart: he finally waited for the first battle, but he didn't even get a single enemy head. I often hear my uncles say that my father followed Da Sima Pingding Hebei Zhang Niujiao at the age of seventeen, and when he first went into battle, he didn't know how many Yellow Turban soldiers were killed with a silver gun, and he was really shabby in comparison!

Pang was overjoyed when he saw Zhao Guang catch him alive. He knows very well that his soldiers are like his generals, and it goes without saying that he is brave and resolute in fighting on weekdays, but he often can't stop when he can afford to kill - keeping a mouth alive often depends on whether the enemy is strong or not. So he praised Zhao Guang a few words, which greatly improved the young man's self-pity mood. Pang Hui looked at the Che Shi soldiers who were tied up like zongzi, trembling and talking to everyone, and kept talking to everyone, spat disdainfully, pouted and ordered a tooth general beside him: "Lao Huang, we don't have to bother with this waste, take it to see Li Sima, he will definitely be able to ask something useful." "Turn your head and wave;" Well done brethren! Tonight, add dinner, clean up the mess, and return to the camp. ”

The men simply buried the dead bodies, packed up the booty and horses, and hurried back. At this time, a simple camp had been set up under a leeward slope, and I saw that the wagons were neatly arranged in a circle to form a deer bar, and the grain and grass piles, cattle groups, and simple camp tents were arranged in an orderly manner. Li Xin, the military commander, has a family history and is extremely familiar with all matters of army management, Pang Hui waited for only an hour, he had already arranged for the assembly of the baggage team, stationing, unloading, setting up camps, arranging posts, etc., and the men had already buried the pot to cook, and the camp was full of the smell of food.

After dinner, Pang Hui wiped his body with boiling water, took off his armor, changed into a cloth cedar, lay down comfortably in the tent, drank milk tea, and Zhao Guang and several tooth generals and hundreds of people chatted together, competed in some swordsmanship and marksmanship, and bragged about some strange anecdotes. ”

"Hehe, how do you say this, those who can work more, those who can work more!" Pang Hui got up with a smile and poured a bowl of milk tea for Li Xin, "Come on, come on, drink it hot, the tea soup boiled from the tea leaves of Wujun in your hometown, mixed with the goat's milk outside the plug, has a different flavor." I said Lao Li, as soon as you made a move, presumably that driver even explained the secrets of the eighteenth generation of his ancestors to you, right? ”

Li Xin drank the milk tea in a few sips and wiped his mouth: "Good tea, you sunspot actually hides such private goods." After speaking, he sighed, "I said Berton, this time we have a lot of trouble in front of us." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the tent who was originally laughing immediately quieted down, and everyone stared at Li Xin's next words, and they didn't dare to make a sound. Pang Hui knew that his brother had never joked on major matters, so he immediately sat up straight and said solemnly: "What trouble? Could it be that the chariot master has already learned of the movements of our baggage team? Ready to intercept us with an army? ”

"No, according to the captive, the Cheshi don't know about our troops. What we encountered today was nothing more than a routine sentry arranged by them, so when you went to seek the enemy, they did not move. "Everyone in the tent unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, the land of the Western Regions, since ancient times has produced very little grain, these years in order to operate the Western Regions, although the imperial court has been in Gaochang City (now Turpan, Xinjiang) near the restoration of the military camp of the captain, but it is still not enough to support the consumption of tens of thousands of troops in the Western Regions today, this time the team escorted 50,000 stone grain out of the plug, the stakes are very high, if it is really ridden by the rear of the division, it will almost bury the overall situation of the entire Western Regions. When Li Xin said this, he flicked his finger on the ground, and the words changed, "But the trouble in front of us is not necessarily small, the Cheshi people do have a large army of 8,000 stationed near Yiwu (now Hami, Xinjiang) in front, and nearly 10,000 slaves, and at this time, the Cheshi King is there to ally with the Wusun Kingdom, and it is said that several nobles in the Wusun Kingdom have arrived!" ”

"Ah, Wusun country, Hanshu has clouds, Wusun country has 120,000 households, 630,000 mouths, 180,000 victorious soldiers, does not plant trees in the field, chases water and grass with animals, and has the same customs as the Huns. There are many horses in the country, and the rich are up to four or five thousand. The people are just evil, greedy and untrustworthy, many thieves, and the most powerful country. Before Zhao Guang set off, he did a lot of homework on the countries of the Western Regions, and he blurted out in shock.

Pang Hui nodded approvingly at Zhao Guang's erudition, thought for a moment, and asked Li Xindao; "Such a major national event should be kept secret, how can that chauffeur know so clearly?"

"Coincidentally, this pawn has an affair with the head maid, and often secretly goes in and out of the big tent, although the Wusun nobles came secretly that day, they were also seen by him!" Li Xin spread out a sheepskin map, "Berton, although this Yiwu is not on the way of our army, but there is a large army on the side, there must be sentry posts and countless scouts going forward, we must be more careful, this is one of them; Second, although the momentum of the Wusun Kingdom is not as good as before in this dynasty, there are still tens of thousands of horsemen, if the rear of the chariot division really joins forces with Wusun and attacks the two countries, the pressure on our army's Gaochang battalion will inevitably increase greatly, and the war situation in the Western Regions will change greatly in the near future! You are the main general, you have the idea, how should our baggage team deal with it now? ”