"Your Majesty is wise." Zhang Heng is almost fifty years old this year. He was obviously a little flustered and timid in front of Han Shizhong. He might not even be able to react to the sudden arrival of the message from the other party.
"The Jin army is coming soon?"
"Your Majesty is wise."
"How many people?"
"The two Wanhu originally in Shizhou and Xianzhou gathered together. They were all cavalry, but the two Wanhu did not dare to come together. It was about 10,000 or so."
"Who's leading?"
"Crying man, shouting..."
"Not surprising." Han Shizhong nodded, and suddenly asked again, "How did you know the Jin army was coming?"
"My family has many acquaintances in Taiyuan."
"I remember now, there is such a saying, the government mentioned it... By the way, has Wu Da sent anyone to Longmen?"
"Let the king know that Wu Jiedu sent the commander Guo Zhen across Longmen, and I am the commander Guo who joined him there." Zhang Heng nodded, obviously shrinking back. "When I saw him the day before yesterday, I told him the news from Taiyuan, that Salihe was leading 10,000 cavalrymen to go south of Fenshui to rescue Hedong... After he heard it, he asked me to guard Longmen and crossed the river directly back."
“…”
“…”
It took the Prince of Yan'an a long time to digest the news. Just a moment ago, there was only one sentence buzzing in his ears - are that Wu Da and his subordinates all human beings?
After a while, Han Shizhong adjusted his mood, but did not ask the other party why he did not follow General Guo to escape back to northern Shaanxi, and why he brought two thousand volunteers across the river. Instead, he shook his head and smiled:
"You're a good man!"
Zhang Heng hesitated to speak.
"What do you want to say?" Han Shizhong asked immediately after seeing it. "Just say it if you want to say it."
"Your Majesty, now that I follow you this time, can I be considered a full-fledged commander of the imperial camp?" Zhang Heng bowed and asked seriously.
"Forget it." Han Liangchen glanced at the other person for a moment, not knowing what he was thinking, but finally nodded heavily. "I personally recommended you!"
Zhang Heng was overjoyed.
Just as the Shaanxi and Shanxi people were discussing the speculation, Cheng Min from Hebei came hurriedly from the front and reported in a distracting Hebei accent: "Prince! Salihe is almost here."
Without Cheng Min's report, Han Shizhong, who had already felt the ground shaking, nodded slightly, and then continued to ask Zhang Heng seriously, but for some reason, his accent became like official language: "Commander Zhang, you don't have a tent here, but you should have food, right?"
"Yes... there is mutton soup in the pot, and there are also ready-made pancakes." Zhang Heng introduced excitedly. "The pancakes were brought from Taiyuan half a month ago, and they are a bit hard... and we only have 2,000 people, so there are not enough pots."
"It's okay." Han Shizhong took a deep breath of the early winter air and looked at the fifty-year-old Shanxi man seriously. "I have three orders for you!"
"That's great!" Zhang Heng quickly stood up with his hands folded.
"My Beiwei Army and Cuipian Army came here early in the morning and haven't eaten yet. Let them drink soup and eat bread quickly, and get some for me as well. But remember, let the Cuipian Army eat first, and then the Beiwei Army..." Han Shizhong gave these instructions to Cheng Min in shock.
"That's great!" Zhang Heng still looked at him seriously with his arms folded.
"Then, you must take your people to prepare for defense immediately. If the Jurchens attack, you must hold them off for a quarter of an hour or two for me. Don't delay us from eating before we can go into battle."
“That’s right!” Zhang Heng’s voice seemed to tremble, but it was hard to tell whether it was out of fear or excitement.
"Finally, when Sali is ready to drink, I'll find someone brave enough to serve him a bowl of mutton soup and two hot pancakes, and bring them to Sali for me, and say that Han Shizhong, the Prince of Yan'an, invited him to drink the soup... That's all!"
Zhang Heng nodded hurriedly and left quickly.
Just like that, about two quarters of an hour later, in front of the Song army camp, Wanyan Salihe, a Wanhu of the Jin army, stared blankly at the steaming mutton soup and hard pancakes placed on a tray on the ground in front of him. It took him a while to react. He picked up the hammer from his waist and smashed it hard at the bowl of mutton soup.
With just one hit, the ceramic bowl shattered and the mutton soup splashed everywhere.
Then, the Wan Hu, holding the hammer that was still covered with oil and white steam, turned around to look at the many Meng'ans and Moukes behind him and said angrily:
"The commander-in-chief has been receiving military intelligence, saying that Han Shizhong was sitting on Tieling Pass yesterday, and his banner could be seen from more than ten miles away. But today he came here and prepared soup for us? It's more than a hundred miles away, and we are all cavalry, fast people and fast horses, and we can just come straight along the river. He had to take a detour in the middle... Could he have flown here?! Do you think I'm an idiot? Can't you see that this is the empty city plan in the Song Dynasty storytelling?!"
Having said this, Sali threw the hammer in his hand to the ground in front of him and waved his hand: "Send out the troops! Quickly capture this fortress! We will go to Hedong City for dinner tonight!"
The generals of the Jin army responded with a loud voice, and they showed off their might and might with their weapons and horses.
At this time, behind the dense fence, under the mist, under the eager gaze of the Beiwei Army, the Cui Pian Army and Prince Han had just begun to drink the soup... But to be honest, the pancake was indeed a bit hard, and the soup was too hot, so Han Shizhong simply broke the pancake into pieces and put them into the mutton soup, soaking the pancake while effectively cooling down the mutton soup.
Seeing this, the surrounding soldiers followed suit.
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