140 Heroes Take the Time of Separation (13)
What happens if the army collapses? It’s not that you can’t see your own soldiers around you, but that you are full of pits and valleys around you, but these people don’t obey your command.
In the era without TV and photos, there were not many soldiers who had actually seen Sun Chuanting in the camp. Even if someone recognized this as Supervisor Sun, who would pay attention to this old man at the critical moment of rushing to escape?
Anyone with a little brain knows that the soldiers that the supervisor needs most now are the pawns who go behind to intercept Li Chuang's army, and are unlucky people who are thrown to the bandits to kill and slow down their servitude! The best way is to escape by yourself. The fortune teller who can escape is also fate.
Naturally, Sun Chuanting would not foolishly call on the fleeing Ming soldiers around him to turn back and fight, and would not use personal soldiers to suppress them. If everyone is resentful, they may be tied up by the bold rioters to see Li Zicheng.
Although the rebels did not attack the city, they were hard to see a group of Ming troops on the road from Jiaxian to Ruzhou, as well as all the key points guarded by high walls and gates. As the rebels brought news of defeat, the Ming troops here also began to flee. Only the second boy who was very skilled and brave and not afraid of death still robbed wealthy families in the city, and prepared to unarm the armor and get rid of the armor after this battle.
Sun Chuanting passed Baofeng and dispersed more than a dozen rioters besieged a family. The family only thought that new robbers had come, and they dared not open the door. Supervisor Sun did not stop, and even though he did good deeds, he did not leave his name. He urged his subordinates to pass through the city and ran straight towards Ruzhou. He could not imagine how much blame he would face after seeing the prince, but based on the last glimmer of hope, he hoped that this defeat would not affect the safety of the prince.
"Supervisor!" Niu Chenghu rode on the horse and drove the defeated soldiers who were blocking the road to the side.
"What's the matter!" Sun Chuanting almost became a frightened bird and asked nervously: "Is Ruzhou in chaos?"
"There is a soldier in front of him who is gathering up the straitors under the banner of the Eastern Palace Guard Camp. I'm afraid the prince has already gone south from Ruzhou!" Niu Chenghu was full of energy. But a hint of fear flowed out of his face.
Sun Chuanting only felt the back of his teeth itchy, and he complained in his heart: Your Highness, the Crown Prince, really doesn't know how to write the word "death"! His more than a thousand people wanted to gather tens of thousands of defeated soldiers! Just wanted to compete with Li Zicheng, who had 100,000 soldiers? This... this... this is seeking death!
"Supervisor?" Niu Chenghu shouted: "My subordinates have sent someone to inquire. Should the Supervisor prepare?"
"What else can I prepare?" Sun Chuanting said depressedly: "Send someone to inform the East Palace, and the back can't be defended anymore. Please withdraw back to Xi'an as soon as possible."
"Supervisor, this is to withdraw to Xi'an. I'm afraid the Eastern Palace is angry, so it's better to just withdraw to Luoyang." Niu Chenghu said.
Sun Chuanting took a step back and said helplessly: "Then let's retreat to Tongguan first. Luoyang may not be able to hold on for a few days."
As the two were talking, they rushed over again with a fast horse. The knight on the horse was wearing a big red fat jacket made by the Ming army, but it was obviously much brighter. He saw Niu Chenghu wearing armor and rode his horse over. After three or five steps, he stopped at the interception of Niu Chenghu's servant and whispered loudly: "There is an order! Is the Commander Sun in front?"
Sun Chuanting loosened the reins and stepped forward and said, "It's me! Where is Your Highness now?"
"Your Highness is turning three times in front!" The soldier shouted: "The order is to be sent to Shaanxi Governor Sun Chuanting to see you immediately!"
Just as Sun Chuanting was about to get the order, another horse in Donggongtang in a distinctly armored East Gongtang was racing and said, "There is an order! Let the general officer and the ox become a tiger and see him!"
Niu Chenghu was stunned and then realized: the person he sent must have already spoken to the East Palace.
Sun Chuanting looked at Niu Chenghu and said, "It's just right along the way." This is said lightly, but it is the last opportunity for communication for two defeated generals. Sun Chuanting's four words are clearly an admonition to Niu Chenghu, allowing him to take the overall situation into consideration. Don't betray his boss or comrades in exchange for the opportunity to be exempted from crime.
Niu Chenghu nodded and said, "The subordinates just escorted the supervisor." Although the generals of military towns in various places were subject to the supervision of the army when they went to war, they were not subordinates in the true sense. Many supervisors could not transfer their generals at all, and some had to trade with each other and each took their needs. Strong supervisors such as Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting were rare in the world.
After Sun Chuanting got the words of Niu Chenghu, he felt a little relieved. He followed the horses in Donggongtang to run towards Sandao.
Sandaoguai is less than three miles away from this place.
When Sun Chuanting walked not far, he saw that torches had been lit in front of him, like three fire dragons, stretching for a mile. When he got closer, he found that this was not the guards of the East Palace. Instead, he temporarily built a wooden rack, which was placed on the left, center and right of the official road, and divided the official road into two roads.
The wooden frame was roughly built, and some of them had been dispersed by the defeated soldiers, but they were only more reliable at the back. From time to time, soldiers could be seen standing in the middle with guns, shouting loudly that the soldiers should not be crowded and pushed.
"Those who obey orders will be rewarded! Those who disobey orders will be killed!" The soldiers did not take action, but just took turns to shout loudly, completely ignoring whether the soldiers had heard it. Their voices could barely spread a few steps in the chaos of people. If Sun Chuanting had not walked in front of him, he would not have heard it at all.
——This is to gather the storm? What's the use?
Sun Chuanting disagreed, but just frowned slightly and rode by.
After passing through this section of roads isolated into two, more guards from the East Palace appeared in front. This time, they were not just shouting, but all of them were warriors with persistent savages. These warriors stood in front, with civilians and auxiliary soldiers behind them. They swung sled hammers to smash wooden stakes into the ground, and they actually wanted to divide the not-open official road into three passages.
"It seems that there is our people." Niu Chenghu approached Sun Chuanting and asked in confusion.
Before Sun Chuanting could speak, he heard a soldier with a Qin accent sing as if he was singing Qin Opera, shouting loudly in Shaanxi dialect: "Brothers! Our Crown Prince is right in front, everyone is lined up in line! There is food and drink! There is food and drink, regardless of guilt!" In his tune, there are people following him and shouting, and they are also Qin accents, which are obviously the Qin soldiers' collapse.
Sun Chuanting rushed forward, grabbed Qin Bing and asked, "Which movie are you from?"
The Qin Bing suddenly saw a general in armor coming, and was startled, used to kneeling down, and said, "The villain is under General Bai's tent."
"Where is Bai Guangen?" Sun Chuanting asked.
"I don't know," said the little soldier, "the villain followed the big guy all the way, and when he ran here, he was harvested, collected and incorporated by the guards of the East Palace."
Sun Chuanting no longer asked about it and walked forward from the narrowed passage.
The wooden stake-killing team continued to drive for a full mile. Sun Chuanting finally saw the camp flag flying not far away. All the defeated soldiers who rushed here were no longer able to do so and were numbly assigned to various camps by the guards of the Eastern Palace Guards. Some people there arranged them into teams, distributed dry food and soup, and took them to the camp to rest.
Sun Chuanting smelled the faint salty smell in the air. It was the Eastern Palace that was using food to comfort the defeated soldiers. He thought that the Sanqin children he brought out had survived at least, and the stones in his heart were half lost.
When he walked to the gate, Sun Chuanting turned over and dismounted, and said to the guards: "Please inform Your Highness, the criminal Sun Chuanting asked for a visit."
At a moment, a message came from the camp: "Come on Sun Chuanting, Niu Chenghu will come in and see you immediately!"
Sun Chuanting simply put aside his concerns, performed rituals and walked towards the camp. Niu Chenghu and he walked straight behind him, making his iron armor sound, but he was trembling, afraid of being held responsible for defeat. The two of them went straight to the big tent, after guarding the gate, bowed through the door, and did not dare to look up, and bowed to the end: "The criminal Sun Chuanting (Niu Chenghu), pay homage to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
Zhu Cilang stood up and walked up to help Sun Chuanting up. Only then did he realize that Sun Chuanting was indeed eight feet tall and full of righteousness. Moreover, the supervisor had a beautiful beard, neither long nor dense, just right, it was the Hu Shadow that Zhu Cilang liked.
If he hadn't been a tragic person, he would have been a central official with equal dignity and attitude.
"Mr. Bai Gu, the thief now is not Amon in the past, right?" Zhu Cilang laughed softly.
Chapter completed!