The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

Ge Huaimin stood quietly on the wall of the stronghold, thoughts fluctuated in his mind. He remembered that when he led the troops, Su Jinzhun told him that he could retreat only by defeating the enemy's spirit, and never fight the enemy to the death. Fight to the death with the enemy.

However, Ge Huaimin came here with the intention of dying. The case of Li Zhihe had already made him lose face. Last time when Enshuai Han Qi came to Weizhou, he scolded Ge Huaimin in front of everyone, which made Ge Huaimin even more depressed. He has never been able to fall asleep; Han Qi single-handedly promoted him to the top position, and in three years he has grown from an ordinary soldier to a commander of the fourth rank. Han Qi revered and loved him.

After Li Zhihe pulled himself into the water, although Su Jin pointed out Ge Huaimin's mistake, Ge Huaimin actually felt that it was no big deal. There was indeed a mistake, but it was not so wrong that it could not be cured. Forget it, with this thought in mind, Ge Huaimin actually didn't take his mistake as a big deal.

But when Han Qi came to Weizhou that day, he not only scolded him face to face, but also refused to see him in private afterwards. Han Qi ordered someone to bring him a message. When the two met each other, he, Han Qi, went blind.

Of course there is no resentment towards Han Qi and Ge Huaimin, but Han Qi's words hit him too hard. The handsome man who originally appreciated and promoted him despised and alienated him because of this matter, which made Ge Huaimin sleepless at night, and gradually Ge Huaimin wanted to understand a truth. The mistakes he made with Li Zhi, Xu Wei and others cannot be made up for by winning a few battles and killing a few enemy generals. There is only one way for him to wash away this shame, and that is to fight to the death on the battlefield to show his will.

Now is the best time, once the Xia army under the hillside completes its charge and begins to charge, the village will be destroyed sooner or later; Ge Huaimin is determined to live and die with Dingchuan village, but he doesn't want these brothers under him to accompany him die.

"Brothers." Ge Huaimin faced all the Song soldiers, and his hoarse voice sounded: "The final charge of the western thieves is about to begin, this wall will not last long, and we are afraid that we will all die here." All the Song soldiers climbed slowly He got up and looked at Ge Huaimin expressionlessly.

"But I don't want you to die here. Mr. Su said that you must save your strength and save it until you return to Weizhou to fight the western thieves to the death. So now I ordered you to evacuate from the wall of the South Gate Village immediately and go south. Ten miles away is Liu Xunbao, where General Zhang Jiong is stationed, and you can reach it in a quarter of an hour. I have a request. When you return to Weizhou City, send a message for me to Mr. Su, saying that I, Ge Huaimin, did not embarrass him. With [-] casualties, we wiped out more than [-] cavalry of the Western bandits, severely defeated the Western bandits' vanguard, and fulfilled our mission."

All the soldiers looked at each other when they heard something in his words, and the guards who had been with him for many years asked hurriedly, "Where is Commander Ge? Aren't you going to evacuate with us?"

Ge Huaimin laughed and said: "This time, the commander will not leave with you. I will leave it to you. After you leave, you have to walk along the thorny path, or you will be chased and killed by the cavalry. Go, if you don't leave, it will be too late." gone."

"Commander Ge, let's go together, we won't leave unless you leave." Someone shouted loudly.

Ge Huaimin said: "What are you talking about? This is the last order of the commander. Are you going to disobey it? Now we have won a big victory, and when everyone dies here, it will be a big defeat. You see, the enemy has already The two wings are outflanking and cutting off my back, if I don't leave, I will all die here."

Everyone asked: "But... Commander Ge, why did you stay alone to die? Wouldn't it be better for us to go together?"

Ge Huaimin showed pain on his face, and said softly: "You take care of yourself, you are all old subordinates who have followed me for several years, some of you will be officials and generals in the future, just remember the last advice of this commander, there are things in the world For, there are some things you can’t do; those who can’t do it will pay a heavy price, and I, Lao Ge, is like this. I have done things that I can’t do, and I am ashamed of my own conscience if I don’t tell others, so I can only Pay for your mistakes with death."

"Commander Ge, everyone forgives you. The emperor said that he allowed you to treat crimes and make meritorious service for Lord Su's sake. Why do you have to make things difficult for yourself? Come with us, or we will die here with you."

Ge Huaimin was furious, stretched out his hand and drew his sword across his neck, cursing: "Are you still my old Ge's soldiers? If you still respect me, Lao Ge, you will all get out of here immediately, or I will commit suicide immediately, then But you forced it."

All the troops shouted in alarm: "No! General, don't be impulsive."

Ge Huaimin held his sword horizontally across his neck, looked around everyone deeply, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Come on, I promise you, I will be brothers in the next life."

All the soldiers of the Song Dynasty knelt down and kowtowed to Ge Huaimin with tears streaming down their cheeks, shouting: "Commander Ge, I will be a brother in the next life, don't break my promise."

Tears welled up in Ge Huaimin's eyes. He forced himself to bear his emotions, and pretended to ignore frowning and waved his hands. All the soldiers cried bitterly and stood up, throwing dozens of long ropes and falling down from the wall of the South Village, and then quickly dispersed into the wilderness. Among them, there was no trace in a moment.

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Tuoba Qingshou just picked up a big bargain for no reason, as the saying goes, the predecessors planted trees and the descendants enjoy the shade, Yuan Dezhong worked desperately for a long time, but he himself picked up a bargain for nothing, even if he is usually good at concealing it, he couldn't help but smirk His eyes lit up with a smile.

Happy to be happy, Tuoba Qingshou is a delicate person, even a half-dead mangy dog ​​will be bitten by it accidentally, so the necessary arrangements must not be neglected, he ordered his cavalry to attack with shields, Normally, he wouldn't bother to look at shields, but here they can prevent arrows and put them on the head to prevent fire. It can be called a magic weapon for attacking this village.

Of course, Tuoba Qingshou is also bound to win. If the results are to be brilliant, then all the Song troops in Dingchuan village must be wiped out. He doesn't want to let the Song army slip through the net under the absolute advantage, so he specially ordered two thousand soldiers. Detour from left to right and cut off the road to the south of Dingchuan Village.

After everything was ready, Tuoba Qingshou gave an order, 5000 cavalry slowly attacked from the front with their shields on their backs, another [-] cavalry circled and outflanked the back road, and [-] men and horses slowly marched towards Dingchuan Village close.

There was not a single person on the wall of Dingchuan Village. The soldiers of the Song Army liked to hide behind the shield wall and suddenly shoot a rain of arrows. Tuoba Qingshou had already witnessed this with his own eyes, so he was not in a hurry. He only ordered the soldiers to maintain their formation and approach slowly.

When approaching the bottom of the wall, Song Jun didn't respond at all, not to mention bows and arrows, not even a small stone was thrown out, the calmness was a bit scary.

But the lesson from the past is still in front of us. The smelly charred corpses all over the ground remind everyone not to be careless. The shields of the soldiers gradually moved up to the top of their heads to prevent the sudden fire of the Song soldiers. At that time, Tuobaqing's lifeguards sent up more than 300 simple ladders, and walked half a circle along the wall of the village; at this time, the Song army should make a move, but in fact there was still no movement.

Tuoba Qingshou felt that something was wrong, and he could still hold his breath at this moment. Are these Song soldiers fools?

"Throw the hook and pull it." Tuoba Qingshou ordered.

Thousands of scratching hooks jumped from the bottom of the city wall to the top of the wall like jumping fish. The soldiers yanked it, and suddenly a pile of broken shields, bows, mud and stones fell down, but not even a Song soldier Did not catch.

"Not good, it seems that the Song army has run away." Tuoba Qingshou's heart was agitated, and at this moment, he came riding Juechen from the left. Lao Yuan shouted: "General Tuoba, a long rope has fallen from the wall of the Southern Village of the Song Army. It must be that the Song Army has escaped. Our people have already chased them down. There is probably no one in the village."

Tuoba Qingshou almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, but he taught someone to run away under his eyelids. This was a big embarrassment, and he was busy preparing for this and that, but in the end, he patted his butt and disappeared like this.

"Chasing, chase me quickly, they don't have horses, they can't escape far, hurry up and kill them, none of them are allowed to escape." Tuoba Qingshou stomped his feet and shouted, his voice became thinner angrily.

The head of the capital hurriedly agreed, turned the horse's head and galloped away, thousands of soldiers below the city wall were dumbfounded, all of them blinked and looked at Tuoba Qingshou, which meant to ask what should we do now?

Tuoba Qingshou scolded: "What are you still doing? Climb up quickly, in case there are still people inside."

As if waking up from a dream, all the soldiers quickly grabbed the ropes and climbed up on the ladder. After a while, they all climbed up the wall of the village; Tuoba Qingshou also quickly climbed up the wall of the village. There are soil clods and blood stains on the wall, and dozens of corpses in disorder. Looking into the village, there are only a few houses in the village, and the rest are all tents. Looks like someone.

"Leave 500 guards on the wall of the village, and the others will go down with me to have a look." Tuoba Qingshou took the lead and entered the village along the earthen steps inside the wall, and the soldiers quickly followed up and down to the ground in the village, and started Checking and searching the tent, the tent is naturally empty, but there are quite a few mice that are scared to crawl around.

Tuoba Qingshou frowned, and one soldier after another came to report: "Report to the general, the Song army has not been seen."

"Report to the general, there is no trace of the enemy."

"Report..."

"That's enough, that's enough..." Tuoba Qingshou waved his hands and cursed: "What are you crying for? , these cunning Song soldiers are really worrying, can't they just stay here and wait obediently for me to strangle you?

Depressed, Tuoba Qingshou sat down on a stone pier, looked up at the city that brought him unpleasantness, and thought about how to return to Yeli Wangrong. His eyes narrowed.

All of a sudden, his horrified pupils opened in violation of physiological laws. In the reflection of the pupils, a figure rapidly enlarged. Amidst the horrified screams of the surrounding soldiers, a burly figure jumped from the roof like a goshawk with a cold and dazzling sword in his hand. He rushed straight down, and the cold sword edge cut across the air, as if to freeze the scorching air around him.