Human dimension reduction

Many times, the truth of the matter is not very pleasant.

After Zhao Wuque finished talking about this incident, he had nothing to talk about, and he walked back with Xie Zhuo on his head. The camp of the Dingzhou Army was very large, and after walking for a long time, they could see the banners waving. The soldiers guarding the gate saw Zhao Wuque come back, Unhesitatingly opened the door.

After stepping into the gate of the camp, Zhao Wuque seemed to be a different person. He distanced himself from Xie Zhuo indistinctly, and the expression on his face changed to a more serious and dignified expression. To express dissatisfaction with the person following behind him.

Stepping on the creaking snow, the two walked outside the tent where Xie Zhuo lived. There was no one around. Zhao Wuque stood still, looked at Xie Zhuo for a moment, and suddenly opened his mouth to reveal a mouthful of white teeth: "I hope you As smart as those people in the capital said, the pursuit of the Dingzhou army is not a child's play, if you really die, our deal will be void."

Xie Zhuo suddenly heard the word "chasing and killing", which had never appeared within the range they had agreed on before, but he was not surprised by Zhao Wuque's sudden announcement, on the contrary, he had expected it. Nodding peacefully: "Of course. But you can come here freely. Although I am not a martial arts practitioner, but...the mind of a scholar is much more than you can imagine."

Zhao Wuque rubbed his chin, and sighed, "You're so brave! My aunt likes people like you the most."

"Thanks for your great love." Xie Zhuo nodded without blushing or panting, admitting his own charm without humility.

Zhao Wuque let out a chuckle, he seemed to be happy again, turned around and walked towards his big tent, raised his hand and waved his head as he walked, like a big ape with long arms and long feet, walking I have to be distracted to kick the snowdrift next to me while walking.

When he was about to disappear around the corner, Xie Zhuo took two steps forward, and his voice was neither high nor low: "The last question, at the beginning of the fifth year of the Six Years' War, Dingzhou was besieged for more than a year, and then Kaesong surrendered. This led to the fall of Qingmang and Mang prefectures. Although Dingzhou blocked the retreat and defeated the army when the Northern Man retreated, and the imperial court also said that surrender was a way to confuse the enemy, the imperial court still held them accountable for the Qingmang prefectures. Dingzhou, is there more secrets in this matter?"

In fact, it is more than just accountability. In the few words in the history books, there is only one sentence left for Dingzhou: "After years of hardship, surrender, and the army that is timid to fight."

Just this one sentence nailed hundreds of thousands of Dingzhou troops to the eternal pillar of shame.

Zhao Wuque's back suddenly froze.

This question seems more difficult to answer than the previous one.

In so many stories he told Xie Zhuo, the time was blurred. Judging from the plot, most of the stories happened in the first few years of the battle. Hundreds of thousands of troops marched southward to invade Xia in several groups. King Youxian led the right army to turn from the mountain pass, Zuo Shanyu led the left army to go straight to the southwest along the Great Wall, and Dingzhou faced the grassland Wang Ting led the largest number of people , The elite and the most abundant king's tent cavalry in the middle.

In the first few years, Dingzhou could still rely on the support from the rear to fight against the northern barbarians. However, as the left and right armies went south to invade, the rear gradually became overwhelmed. Dingzhou gradually fell into a situation of fighting alone. After sticking to the city, and then being besieged and closed, finally after being besieged for more than a year, Kaesong surrendered at the beginning of the fifth year.

At that time, the person who went to Xiancheng to surrender was not Zhao Wuque, the general of the Dingzhou Army, but Zhao Hushi, the old lady of the Zhao family.

This move aroused ridicule from the northern barbarians. They didn't think there was anything wrong with a woman surrendering. After several years of fighting, everyone knew that the general of this generation was a cowardly and incompetent waste who would only hide in the guards. In the tents of the Li and Zhongjun, he was a well-behaved and lovely waste. Most of the time, the old lady who raised many Zhao family children was the one who supervised the battle in front of the battle.

Beiman hated the Zhao family, but he also admired such a powerful woman. It was like seeing a fierce she-wolf protecting her cubs on the grassland. Everyone who lived on the grassland knew that a she-wolf with cubs was the scariest animal.

The northern barbarians laughed loudly at General Zhao who was hiding behind his grandmother as a coward. They didn't even bother to kill him, but arrogantly placed him in the Dingzhou Army as a symbol of victory. As for the old man who left the city to surrender Wife—they cautiously and happily locked up this old woman who had defeated them many times in the cattle and horse stables, and insulted her like a sheep slave, from which they gained the victor's savage sense of conquest.

Half a year later, the northern barbarians were defeated and fled to the north. Dingzhou cut off the back road and closed the door to beat dogs. The old Mrs. Zhao who was rescued by the north deteriorated and died after being hanged by the decoction for several years.

Originally, all the female family members of the Zhao family should be granted a grand burial, but because of this act of dedicating the city by themselves, the court deliberately ignored this matter. In their view, it is already magnanimous for them not to hold Zhao Hu's accountable. Only the bureaucrats in Dingzhou came to condolence hastily out of sympathy, and it ended this woman's magnificent life.

These are some fragments of Dingzhou's well-known surrender. Xie Zhuo asked those veterans about it, and only got their silence and shaking their heads. They seemed to be keeping the same secret together. This secret made them Become an indestructible whole, even when faced with the opportunity to uncover the truth and justify their names, they don't bother to expose it.

Zhao Wuque turned his face away, with no abnormal expression on his face, and wrote lightly: "Not everything has so-called hidden secrets. The surrender of Dingzhou is just that it can't last, and the enticing of the enemy in the future is just due to the right time. There is nothing wrong with saying that it is an army of cowards."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Xie Zhuo to ask more, he stepped on the snow and walked forward.

Xie Zhuo watched his back finally disappear around the corner, didn't ask any more questions, instead opened the curtain and went inside, began to change clothes and organize things, preparing to be a person who found a big secret and fled to Beijing to file a complaint.

This is an obvious thing. Xie Zhuo will never discover the secret of the military money for no reason. The best explanation is that he secretly investigated after he noticed the abnormality, and followed the vines to catch the coach of the Dingzhou Army. He found such a big one. Secret, with Xie Zhuo's personality, of course it is impossible to pretend that nothing happened and stay in the Dingzhou Army. He will definitely wait for the opportunity to run back to the capital and report Zhao Wuque.

And Zhao Wuque...he is not a fool, he suddenly ran away with a prisoner who was exiled in Dingzhou, he wanted to investigate whether it was reasonable or not, this investigation would reveal Xie Zhuo's strangeness and know why he escaped cause.

For his own future and life, Zhao Wuque will definitely go all out to chase and kill Xie Zhuo, and kill him on the way back to Beijing.

This is a hunt that everyone knows well. In order to make this scene realistic enough, Zhao Wuque will only send people related to the counterfeit military money to chase and kill them. These people will definitely do everything they can to save their lives. Let's see who can come out on top.

The only bargaining chip Xie Zhuo can hold is to decide when to start "escape".

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The end of the new year is approaching, and the capital city is filled with a lively and joyous atmosphere unique to the end of the year. The New Year's Day is the most solemn festival in the summer. Neither the court nor the people will neglect it. After suing, the court also started a vacation that lasted for more than half a month. During this period, no matter whether it is true or not, the whole empire will be prosperous and peaceful.

The procedures for the festivities of the aristocratic family are even more cumbersome. The purchases and preparations for related matters have started two months in advance. Even if the old rules have long been established, they are exhausted and busy. From the housekeeper to the servants, no one can finish it comfortably. This year's festival, even the gentlemen and ladies who don't have to work are exhausted.

Xie Shoufu came back from the palace, took off his cloak and sat by the Boshan stove, the quiet fragrance calmed his agitated heart quickly, for some reason, he always felt a little uneasy recently.

Holding the chess piece made of warm jade in his hand and deliberating for a while, Xie Shoufu sighed and threw the chess piece on the chessboard. The clear jade chess piece made a crisp and pleasant sound on the finely carved chessboard.

"Go ask Wang Shangshu to go to the mansion for a while—no, let me go and prepare the car."

The loyal servant guarding the door bowed and retreated silently to convey the Patriarch's order.

On the official road from Dingzhou to Qingzhou, two horses were galloping. Both of them were tired from the wind and dust, their lips were blue and white, and their hair and clothes were covered with dust. They all tied themselves up with ropes. On horseback it didn't fall off.

Suddenly, the horse under the seat behind the man neighed a long time, staggered on the spot twice, and fell headfirst on the road, and the man on the horse was thrown down hard because of the rope binding. One leg was crushed under the horse's back, and he screamed in pain immediately.

The rider in front quickly reined in his horse and turned around: "Ahgou!"

These two were exactly Xie Zhuo and A-Gou who had "run away" from the Dingzhou military camp overnight. When Lang Jun said that he wanted to leave immediately, A-Gou didn't ask any questions, and just turned around and packed up his things and followed.

Xie Zhuo pulled the rope from his legs and jumped off the horse. The moment he got off the horse, his legs that had been numb for a long time almost knelt on the ground. He stumbled and rushed to Ah Gou's side, checked his legs, and his face sank.

The fallen horse was dying, with bloody white foam coming out of its mouth and nose, its chest was trying to expand and heaving, like a dilapidated bellows being pulled, hot breath hit the back of Xie Zhuo's hand, a pair of bright big eyes looked at This human being in front of him.

After galloping day and night non-stop, no matter how strong the stamina is, a military horse can't handle it, and it will be a matter of time before it dies on the road.

A-Gou touched his leg tremblingly, felt a hard object protruding from the protruding edge, knew something wrong, and turned his head with difficulty: "Mr. Lang, leave me alone, let's go, I can't go..."

Xie Zhuo ignored him, quickly untied the rope, dragged Agou out from under the horse, broke a branch to fix it, and forcibly tied up the bloody broken leg. He raised his head and looked around the surrounding terrain. In the secluded mountain forest, he thought for a moment, made some arrangements, and immediately put A-Gou on his shoulder: "Go into the mountain."

When he passed the horse standing there panting like a cow, he patted the horse's neck and gently led it to the other side: "Go, you are free."

The horse subdued its head to his palm, as if it could understand what he said, it turned around and walked back slowly.

A few hours after their figures disappeared in the forest, a dozen soldiers in military uniforms came here. They were still holding the army horse that was released just now. They saw the horse that had been dead for a long time in the middle of the road. , stopped immediately: "Where did you go?"

Immediately, someone jumped off the horse and began to carefully observe the surrounding traces. After a while, they all raised their fingers and pointed to one side: "This way! Someone was injured, and there was blood on the ground. They went to the woods!"

Without hesitation, the group abandoned their horses and walked into the jungle.