Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

"Crossing the river!" Defang didn't want to believe it at all, and urged the horse to cross the Juma River again. The group of horses continued northward at Qigou Pass, and Defang suddenly stopped the horse. He also quickly stopped his horse, and the scene in front of him shocked everyone. Not far from a pile of soldiers, there were several mounds of earth that were as high as broken walls, but there seemed to be something in the mounds, densely packed, German Fang jumped off her horse and approached, only to see human heads and limbs protruding from the mound. Defang dragged her way through several mountains of corpses and stopped at the front one. After a few days, his hand has been twisted, but he tightly held a flagpole. On the flagpole was a somewhat broken Song Dynasty flag. Defang stretched out his hand tremblingly to touch it, but Jia Junyi, who came running from behind, grabbed his wrist "My lord, they have been dead for many days, there is a fear of disease, so don't touch them."

"Jiajun..." Defang said with tears in his eyes, "It's all... the officers and soldiers of my Song Dynasty..."

"Yes, my lord, all of them." Jia Jun looked at it and said, "It should be that the Liao people built them into the capital after they won the battle."

[Jingguan: In ancient times, to show off martial arts, the corpses of the enemy's war dead were gathered and sealed with soil to form a high mound. 】

"The Liao thieves..." Defang was furious, "Invaded my Song land, killed my people, even the soldiers who died in battle... This hatred, this hatred, I have to pay for it!"

"My lord, I don't know when the Liao people will come again, so let's turn back as soon as possible."

Defang shook his head, "I can't let the soldiers leave their corpses outside like this, Jia Jun, let everyone get off their horses, seal the exposed limbs of the soldiers with soil, level the stone and erect a monument."

"My lord, it will take a few days. If the Liao army arrives, we will all die here."

Defang looked at Jiajun, "Didn't you hear what I said clearly? If you are afraid of death, go away!"

Jia Jun heard this and knelt down, "The last general is not afraid of death, I am afraid that the last general will not be able to protect the prince, but the prince orders, how dare the last general not obey, and obey the prince's order!" Then he got up and ordered the royal guards to seal the earth and carve stones .

The crowd filled up the soil and sealed the tomb again. After four full days of work, there was only the last tomb and stone tablet left, but everyone was already very tired. At this time, the people sent by Jia Jun to investigate the situation ran away Back to "My lord! The Liao army is coming!"

Jia Jun quickly asked, "How many people are here?"

"Back to the general, about 200 people, all cavalry, less than ten miles away from here."

"Prince" Jia Jun said, "The cavalry of the Liao army are advancing very fast, we don't have time to seal the soil and carve stones, so we should turn back and take shelter for now."

Defang looked at the hand holding the banner, "Jia Jun, did you see that this is still my Song soil, and the soldiers lying in the grave will not get up again. If we retreat, how can we be worthy of them? Every inch of land here They are all soaked with the blood of the soldiers, we cannot allow them to be trampled and humiliated by Liao thieves after they die."

Jia Jun looked at Defang and cupped his hands and said, "My lord, no matter what decision you make, you will swear allegiance to the end!"

Defang pointed to the north, "Meet the enemy, and sacrifice the lives of the Liao bandits to the soldiers."

"Yes!" Jia Jun immediately asked the guards to take off all the weapons brought by the guards. After some arrangements, everyone changed into armor and lined up between the two rows of graves. After putting them on, Defang looked at them and nodded, and left. When I went to the big flag, I wanted to take it down, but it may be that the deceased held the flagpole too tightly before he died, so he couldn't pull it out. Defang said, "The king knows that there is an order in the military law, and those who abandon the flag will be executed. Now you have fulfilled your mission." , this flag will be waved by this king on your behalf, and the Liao bandits will be killed by us on behalf of all the soldiers."