Chapter 144 Bypassing the Filature

The battle that took place on the banks of the Fen River in mid-October was undoubtedly a rout, and a rout between cavalry, and also a chance encounter, a cavalry rout where the few defeated the many.

To expand the results of this kind of battle, one could only pursue swiftly after the battle or take advantage of the situation to inflict casualties or seize some strategic locations.

Otherwise, this battle could only be said to have foiled the Jin army's attempt to raid Hezhong.

Of course, this was already remarkable, but Han Shizhong's temperament was such that he would never let it go... Therefore, as soon as he succeeded in the initial charge, he simply turned back to explain a sentence to Xie Yuan, and immediately urged the Beiwei Army to pursue eastward along the Fen River without stopping.

But it was really difficult to cause a major rout of the Jin army.

Both sides were cavalry, both arrived at the battlefield in hasty marches, and then both were able to let their horses rest slightly during the battle. At this time, chasing each other, it was impossible to catch up. Moreover, the Jin army cavalry was too numerous. Many had dismounted to fight before, whether voluntarily or passively, all of which bought time for the rear Jin army to prepare for retreat.

In a sense, Salihe was actually quite decisive.

And on this evening, when Han Shizhong ordered the pursuit to stop due to the darkness, they had indeed entered the territory of Ji County, which was the hometown of his brother Xie Yuan, completely living up to his word.

However, possibly because he needed to clear the road and gather stray soldiers, Xie Yuan arrived at the village where Han Shizhong was stationed almost an hour later than Han Shizhong.

Entering the village and seeing it empty, with only a few elderly people, Xie Yuan, who was used to such things, was rarely disturbed and restless.

When the two brothers met, Han Shizhong, who was wiping his spear by the bonfire, spoke first, "Shanliang, is this place your home?"

"No." Xie Yuan shook his head in response. "My home is already past this on the road, it's a mountain depression. I dismounted and took a look, it's long been deserted."

Han Shizhong nodded and asked again, "How is it?"

"Not good." As brothers for decades, Xie Yuan naturally knew what he meant, so he shook his head again. "The Fen River is now shallower... and the sun at noon wasn't too cool. Many scattered Jin cavalry, those with horses just hugged their horses' necks, those without horses just took off their armor and swam across. It's only slightly better than the south side of Tieling Pass that time... I estimate the harvest is barely over a thousand."

"Not bad." Han Shizhong didn't care at all. "Across the river for ten days, three battles in a row, a harvest of three or four thousand... A great victory in my life, what else can I expect?!"

Xie Yuan nodded in agreement, "The key is still Hedong City. After this battle, the Jin army can't save Hezhong... then Wendun Sizhong and his *wanhu* (ten thousand households) are doomed."

"That's one and a half *wanhu*." Han Shizhong, sitting cross-legged on the ground, put a套索 on his spear, and faced him proudly. "Shouldn't everyone in the world know why I, Han Shizhong, am unparalleled in the world?"

"Fifth Brother." Xie Yuan didn't sit down, but continued to advise seriously across the bonfire. "This battle is a national war. We have more than 300,000 troops, and the Jin Kingdom also has twenty *wanhu* plus what, the Yanjing New Army. A few thousand kills and one *wanhu* are just a setback to the initial vigor of the war. You must not be arrogant and lose your composure. Moreover, Bali Su is still in front and has no intention of retreating. Even the outcome of Hezhong Prefecture is still uncertain."

"I know." Han Shizhong smiled in response. "However, since he has been frustrated this time, there's no point in keeping him. We should take the opportunity to drive him away!"

"I have already sent people to find Xu Shi'an and Chen Jue." Xie Yuan responded immediately. "They should arrive tomorrow. We will then gather our troops, cross the Fen River in a large scale, and capture Ji County Town on the Hebei side, and then press on the prefecture city of Jiangzhou, making a posture of cutting off the Jin army's retreat to the north along the Fen River. Bali Su will either divide his troops to cross the river to resist us, or just roll away."

"Too slow!" Han Shizhong shook his head in response.

"Fifth Brother has another idea?" Xie Yuan understood what he meant after a little thought.

"What do you think of that mountain?" Han Shizhong pointed his mouth to the south.

Xie Yuan turned his head in surprise, and saw a clear outline of a row of mountains in the twilight with remaining light and moonlight, squatting there darkly. One of them was closer, and its height and width obviously exceeded the other peaks, which should be where Han Shizhong indicated... but Xie Yuan still didn't understand.

"If you want to drive away Bali Su, it's best to strike while the iron is hot." Han Shizhong explained calmly when he saw this. "Taking advantage of the fact that he doesn't know how many casualties there were in the daytime battle, how many troops we have, we will rest a little tonight and immediately raid again, following Salihe's defeated army to knock on his camp, forcing him to withdraw his troops and return to Linfen... But we have few soldiers, not to mention that if we rush forward again, the logistics will be insufficient. Once we suffer a setback, and it's dawn, there will be big trouble..."

Xie Yuan nodded constantly. Not to mention since ancient times, they had personally experienced countless things of rejoicing in sorrow.

"However, fortunately, the enemy camp is only separated from Tieling Pass by a small Hui River. If Li Yanxian can know our thoughts in advance and send troops with us, even if it doesn't work, we can retreat calmly." Han Shizhong continued, revealing his thoughts. "Therefore, I want to imitate Ma Kuo's actions that day, setting fire to the mountain as a deterrent, and also as a liaison."

Xie Yuan was stunned for a moment and shook his head instinctively: "Commander Ma didn't set fire to the mountain that day."

"It's the same idea." Han Shizhong sneered in response. "Everyone rushed sixty *li* (Chinese mile) in the afternoon, they should rest. Do you want everyone to make torches temporarily and go up the mountain again?"

Xie Yuan nodded, said nothing, and turned to leave.

"Where are you going?" Han Shizhong asked in surprise.

"To set fire to the mountain." Xie Yuan didn't even stop.

"Don't you want to take a break?" Han Shizhong was even more puzzled. "Moreover, why do you, a Vice Commander, need to go for such a thing as setting fire to the mountain? A *dutou* (squad leader) is enough!"

"Fifth Brother." Xie Yuan finally stopped at a distance of dozens of steps and turned back to face him. "Your idea is excellent, it is the most appropriate strategy right now, it is impossible not to do it... But look at the villages along the way, they are all empty, where have all the people gone?"

Han Shizhong was slightly stunned.

"I don't mean to hinder military affairs." Xie Yuan continued. "But I am the Vice Commander, and I am also a local. As long as I tell the soldiers below about this and personally stand at the foot of the mountain, they will naturally try to drive away the people in the mountain first, and then burn it... Otherwise, with their current exhaustion, I'm afraid they will just set a fire and be done with it. What will happen then?"

Han Shizhong didn't speak, just nodded and went back to his business.

Xie Yuan didn't say any more, and turned away directly.

In this way, by midnight, the fire gradually rose on the mountain covered with fallen leaves in early winter, and then it got out of control. The fire was dazzling and overwhelming, and both sides of the Fen River were illuminated like daytime.

While the Song army, which had hurriedly followed Han Shizhong to this place, stared blankly at this huge torch on the plain, at the same time, Bali Su and his main Jin army force, which had already made contact with some defeated soldiers, were now stationed on the south bank of the Fen River,夹着支流浍水; Li Yanxian and his main Song army force, who were confronting Bali Su, were stationed in Tieling Pass; including Xu Shi'an, Chen Jue and other generals of the Imperial Camp Left Army, who had been notified at this time and were on several gaps in the south of Han Shizhong, were also stunned and noticed the movement here at the same time.

Among them, Xu Shi'an and Chen Jue acted the fastest. These two had already received Xie Yuan's order, and now they had no doubts and immediately sent troops north to support them overnight.

At the same time, Li Yanxian on Tieling Pass also realized Han Shizhong's intention for the first time - it was he who saw the possible flaw in the western gap, it was he who prompted Han Shizhong to send troops to rescue, and at the expected time, such a movement appeared in the east of the established battlefield. Anyone could guess what was going on.

Han Shizhong must have successfully blocked the Jin army and defeated the other side head-on, and then pursued it to this point.

As for setting fire to the mountain, with Ma Kuo's previous precedent, what did it mean was self-evident.

This was the tacit understanding after spraying each other on the pass for a few days.

Sure enough, Li Yanxian did not hesitate at all. On one hand, he urgently sent people to Jiang County to notify Ma Kuo, asking them to guard the flanks to prevent the Jin people from jumping over the wall in desperation. On the other hand, he immediately mobilized overnight, sending the seven armies of the Tieling Pass and the Huyan Tong's troops left by Han Shizhong out of the pass to the north to attack Bali Su, who was stationed in the Hui River again.

Of course, while issuing these orders, Li Jiedu (military commissioner) did not forget one thing, that was to pull down Han Shizhong's obstructive big flag from Tieling Pass first!

Even if it was only for half a day, he felt comfortable.

For the same reason, Bali Su, as the target of public criticism, had actually guessed what Han Shizhong was going to do as soon as he saw the fire, because he had been in contact with Salihe's retreating troops and scattered defeated soldiers since the first half of the night. Even Salihe himself had run wildly for an afternoon and a previous night and came back directly. He had already known that the west had been defeated.

If he were him, he would definitely take the opportunity to attack!

And when the Tieling Pass moved up and down, and the movement could not be concealed, this Jin army commander was even more insightful about the situation.

However, there was a problem here, that was, under the dark lights, the insightful commander Bali Su didn't know how many troops Salihe had lost on the south bank of the Fen River this morning, and how many troops Han Shizhong used to defeat Salihe's ten thousand cavalry?

If he asked Salihe, Salihe didn't know either!

Were there only the Beiwei Army and the Cuipian Army, or were there tens of thousands of Imperial Camp cavalry following behind?

This was very possible. Closing his eyes, he knew that in the past half a month, the Song army must have been constantly transporting troops, food, and supplies to the Hezhong Basin (Yuncheng Basin). Maybe the tens of thousands of Imperial Camp cavalry had already arrived in Hezhong Prefecture. The Jin army, which was blocked by the甬道 (yongdao) and blocked from opposite information, didn't know, so there was this defeat.

Even considering that the Song army had stuffed the newly sent soldiers behind the Tieling Pass, or the Song army had not transported too many troops, it had to be considered that Hedong City had fallen and the Black Dragon King Sheng had appeared on the battlefield with the main force of the Imperial Camp Left Army, right?

In a word, even under the unprepared situation, plus the chaotic situation at night, Bali Su couldn't make accurate reconnaissance and information summarization at all.

In this case, he could only anticipate the enemy with leniency while being insightful about the Song army's tactical movements!

And anticipating the enemy with leniency, that was, assuming that Han Shizhong had enough main Song army following behind, the worst result was that if he didn't act again, he might be surrounded by the Song army here, and he might be wiped out here, and then hand over the entire Hedong... Or, to put it more seriously, directly give up and admit defeat for the Great Jin Kingdom.

Because there were five or six *wanhu* of the Jin army on the Tieling Pass battlefield, which was nearly a quarter of the Jin army's main field force.

Of course, the actual situation couldn't be so bad. The greater possibility was that Wanyan Tuhesu's *wanhu*, which was placed on the south bank of the Hui River, and a considerable number of elite cavalry of Wanyan Salihe and Yelu Ma Wu, who had not had time to escape, were caught by the Song army on the south bank of the Hui River, resulting in heavy losses.

"Let Tuhesu withdraw back to the Hui River and join my camp."

After sitting withered for an incense stick time, Bali Su finally made a decision in the brightly lit Jin army camp.

"And send a letter to Quwo, telling Zhehe not to rest anymore, and immediately advance westward overnight, cross the Fen River, and station in Jiangzhou Prefecture City, be sure to clamp the two sides of the Fen River, and not give the Song army room to outflank..."

"And send out troops, light torches, and build temporary pontoon bridges along the Hui River to meet the defeated army..."

"By the way, tell Tuhesu again, no matter how difficult it is, try to send people through the Song army's甬道 (yongdao) positions overnight to notify Elubu of Xileng Pass, let him withdraw... Once Tuhesu leaves, he is the most dangerous."

This meant that in order to preserve the living forces as much as possible, he completely gave up the Hezhong Basin (Yuncheng Basin) and shrank back to the Linfen Basin.

And the generals below naturally understood, but no one objected. There was only a loud roar, and then they left.

"Salihe!"

Just then, Bali Su suddenly stopped one of them. "Where are you going?"

The other generals turned their heads one after another.

Salihe, who had just returned to the military camp and was in a mess, was stunned for a moment, and quickly became cautious, and bowed in awe: "Commander, I'm going to supervise the construction of the pontoon bridge to meet my main force..."

"Ma Wu go!" Bali Su turned his head to look at a silent officer, who was Yelu Ma Wu, a *wanhu* of Khitan origin. "That is also your main force."

Yelu Ma Wu, who had been standing silently by the side, bowed slightly and immediately turned and left the camp. The surrounding generals looked at Salihe, who was obviously a little flustered, but no one dared to openly wait to see the joke of a *wanhu*. They also left the camp with Ma Wu and got busy.

But Salihe was at a loss for a while, standing there, not daring to move, especially after everyone else left, only Bali Su and his personal guards were left in the tent.

"Salihe." Bali Su took a deep breath. "You were defeated by Han Shizhong, and everyone says that the Cuipian Army and the Beiwei Army were all in front of you, and it seems to be true... Then I don't blame you for your defeat. On the contrary, I have to say that if it weren't for my negligence, I would have always thought that Han Shizhong was still on the pass, you wouldn't have suffered this defeat..."

Salihe was slightly relieved, but he knew that he couldn't offend the other party at this time, so he quickly blamed himself: "In the end, I was defeated. How could Han Shizhong be so cunning that it was the commander's fault?"

"On the battlefield, people have a higher level of chess, and there is nothing to say, especially the first general of the Southern people?" Bali Su nodded, but continued to face him solemnly. "But Salihe, why did your ten thousand cavalry collapse, but you were the first to arrive here? As a result, I don't know anything about the Song army's strength and details, forcing us to shrink back and abandon Hezhong Prefecture?"

Salihe pursed his lips and explained seriously: "To let the commander know, at that time, the former army had collapsed, and Han Shizhong's two elite troops were there, as well as at least one other troop. It would be useless to fight again. Instead of continuing to face the enemy, it is better for a brave man to break his wrist and try to preserve all the troops... Therefore, the last general directly ordered the army to retreat."

Bali Su nodded and asked again: "But what about that Taishi Nu? Why did several officers say that the Khitan Mouke (a kind of military officer in Liao Dynasty) Taishi Nu noticed something was wrong and repeatedly advised you, but you just didn't believe it, so that it delayed the battle opportunity?"

Salihe was finally speechless and said helplessly after a long while: "Commander, at that time, I really didn't dare to believe that Han Shizhong was on the opposite side."

"It's also human nature." Bali Su nodded again. "But the fact that Taishi Nu sought you several times to advise you is already well known. After you came back, why didn't you deal with it? Either kill him to eliminate future troubles, or promote him to show repentance? Instead, you ignored it, making this matter and this person shake the morale of the army in vain?"

Salihe was finally stunned, but he suddenly realized, hurriedly bowed and said goodbye, and went to find that Taishi Nu.

And as soon as the person left, Bali Su sighed in the tent for a while, and then turned his eyes to the direction of the back tent.

In the back tent, there was a person waiting here for a long time. When he saw Bali Su looking over, he immediately turned out... It was no one else, but the Khitan Mouke (a kind of military officer in Liao Dynasty) Taishi Nu.

"Commander."

Taishi Nu was obviously cautious.

"Since being cried by Wu Jie in the Battle of Yaoshan, Salihe has become more and more bastard." Bali Su sighed and said this in the seat. "But Taishi Nu, you were also mixing in the Liao Kingdom in those days, you should know my helplessness... He is still surnamed Wanyan, and like Wanyan Ben Du, he grew up in the Taizu's camp. How can I deal with them when the three... two princes are in power?"

"The last general knows the commander's difficulties." Taishi Nu bowed in response.

"Therefore, if you want to prevent today's events from happening again, if you want to avenge Yelu Yizhen, you only have one way." Bali Su cheered up and faced him seriously. "That is to bypass people like Salihe, and also bypass me, and go to the person who can really make the decision to work for them... I will give you a marching silver medal, you will immediately go north to Jingxing to meet the Wei Prince Wushu, and tell him the situation of this battle from beginning to end, without any concealment! And then tell the Wei Prince that Salihe wants to kill you, but you are loyal to the Great Jin, and you don't want to abandon it, so you risked asking me. I saw your sincerity, so I gave you this silver medal, so that you can go to find him, hoping to stay by his side as a counselor, and also ask him to seriously consider my overall strategy! Our cavalry, after all, must be concentrated and fight in the plains to be effective!"

"The last general knows, the last general will definitely persuade the Fourth Prince to follow the commander's strategy to fight the Song army." Taishi Nu took the silver medal from Bali Su's personal guard next to him, and immediately bowed his head to show his loyalty.

"Go!" Bali Su nodded to indicate.

A moment later, as Taishi Nu turned away, the tent finally gradually quieted down, but Bali Su was silent for a long time.

At dawn.

The melee ended... Han Shizhong had not even arrived south of Tieling Pass, but had already achieved his established goal.

The only two *wanhu* that the Jin army had probed out, one in the south and one in the north, Elubu of Zhiguanxing and Tuhesu on the south bank of the Hui River facing the Jiang County passage, withdrew overnight at the same time.

And soon, with the northward movement of the Song army's various forces, and the Jin army's emergency increase in the strength of Jiangzhou Prefecture City on the other side of the Fen River, there was no doubt that the confrontation situation was pushed out of the Hezhong Basin (Yuncheng Basin).

The so-called gap of a mere line, giving up this line, the fall of Hedong City was basically a matter of time.

At noon, Han Shizhong returned to Tieling Pass, re-erected his big flag in the first time, summarized the military situation, and was also full of pride... On the one hand, he personally wrote a military report to Zhao Guanjia (Emperor), reporting the military situation of various roads, and by the way, he showed off his merits and complained; on the other hand, he did not delay him directly making a露布捷报 (official report of victory), and at the same time, he sent documents to Wu Jie, severely questioning the relevant matters of Guo Zhen.

Let's not talk about how passive Wu Jie was there, and Li Yanxian suffered again, just say that when these documents and triumphant reports were passed to the south, the land of Henan was not so easy to live in.

The reason was simple. Three years of peace, suddenly launching a large-scale corvée and mobilizing for the Northern Expedition would cause problems one after another. As the half-month time fermented and spread, the full-scale mobilization in the Central Plains and Guanzhong areas finally fully unfolded, but it triggered unprecedented chaos.

This was of course expected, because the hasty mobilization on the Yellow River line had caused so many problems before, let alone the current situation of national mobilization?

To give a simple example, let's talk about the monk Dahui from the southeast.

This guy collected grain from Jingshan Temple after autumn this year, and according to the previous agreement, he personally brought a few monks from the temple to deliver it. As a result, when he arrived in Kaifeng Prefecture, he happened to encounter the war in the north. He sent the grain to the warehouse outside Tokyo City according to the agreement, but he didn't expect the officials of the Ministry of Industry here to not accept it at all. They only seized on the words on the document and forced the great monk to send the grain to the Imperial Camp cavalry originally stationed outside Tokyo City.

That was Luoyang.

Moreover, there was a deadline of one month, and those who disobeyed the order would be beheaded.

In other words, everyone could realize that this was encountering lazy and evil politics, being forcibly oppressed by evil officials, and being passively drafted for military grain transportation work.

However, the great monk was really rich. Although he realized it at the first time, seeing that many monks and merchants from the southeast who came to transport grain were being oppressed in this way, he didn't say that he knew Zhang Jiucheng, the Right Vice Minister of your Ministry of Industry, and he didn't say that he was an old acquaintance with your Zhang Chancellor's mother.

This was not to say that he wanted to indulge these evil officials, nor was it that the great monk was thin-skinned and embarrassed to ask for help, but that Dahui was well aware that this kind of thing was unavoidable. Zhang Jiucheng and Zhang Jun's face could save him and a few monks from Jingshan Temple from suffering, but they could not stop this large-scale disguised corvée.

Instead of letting the common people suffer, it would be better for his monks from Jingshan Temple, who had no worries about food and clothing, to do it... Didn't the abbot say that? The temple still had sesame oil for灌肠 (enema) and rice grains for exchanging scriptures with三斗三升 (three dou and three sheng) of gold.

So, he said nothing, and then took a few monks to **** the grain from his temple to Luoyang.

But this road was ten times harder than taking a boat along the canal before.

Because at this time, the entire Central Plains had been mobilized. The materials here in Luoyang were piled up like mountains, but the river transportation to the front line was difficult. Therefore, there were soldiers and civilians everywhere on the road. Not to mention the road was blocked, the key was that it was difficult to find food, and prices soared. Vegetarian food could not be found in the store at all, and even if there was, the price was staggering... And if it was purely hard work and eating the new rice they brought with them, they were afraid that the grain would be less when they arrived, and they would not be able to complete the task.

If he was really beheaded by some rude military officer, Zhang Chancellor's mother and Zhang Jiucheng would not be able to fly over to save him, right?

Fortunately, Dahui was a knowledgeable monk. When he saw the severity of the blockage at汜水关 (汜水 Pass), he immediately greeted some people who had come from the southeast together to form a team and turned south together, going to Luoyang from Songshan Shaolin Temple side... In this way, although the journey was more than a level longer, at least they could still buy炊饼 (baked wheaten cake) and酱包子 (steamed buns with savory stuffing) to carry with them as dry food.

However, even so, Dahui also encountered many things that were worth recording and not worth mentioning.

The arrogance of the evil officials at the grassroots level who used their power to bully others, the panic of the common people about the future of the war, and the cunning of merchants, monks, and Taoists, it was not as bad as "The Three Officers" and "The Three Separations", but the atmosphere was really bad.

And this low folk atmosphere caused by the hasty start of the war, coupled with the chaotic information after the start of the war, and the empty official announcements that didn't know what to write in the reports, further fueled some folk rumors... Today, it was said that Yue Fei had been defeated, tomorrow, it was said that Han Shizhong had won but was injured, the day after tomorrow, it was said that a certain Vice Minister had taken the opportunity to embezzle a lot of money and grain, and a certain commander had robbed a beautiful official lady like a flower and jade in Hedong, and the day after that, it was said that the temperature in Hedong suddenly dropped, and winter clothes could not be sent over, and many civilians were frozen to death on the other side of the river.

Of course, Dahui could see that many of them were nonsense, but everyone was so tired and resentful, and the situation on the other side of the river was completely dark. Even if he wanted to explain and appease them, he really didn't know how to appease them... And this personal inability made this monk himself somewhat emotionally depressed.

However, no matter what, after experiencing twenty days of torture, on October 17, Dahui and his Jingshan Temple support transportation team finally arrived at Mangshan, and met the troops of the Imperial Camp cavalry here, entered the civilian camp of the Imperial Camp cavalry, successfully handed over the military grain, and made a break with this matter.

And on this day, the monk, who was ready to return to the southeast, saw Han Shizhong's triumphant report信使 (messenger) gallop into the Mangshan camp, and the relevant documents posted afterwards.

"Master, what does this mean?"

Many civilians who had been conscripted gathered under the wooden list next to the辕门 (camp gate). Although the accompanying *jinshi* (a graduate who passed the imperial examinations) had taken the opportunity to promote it when posting it, the civilians only knew that King Han had won another battle, but they still didn't understand what was going on. They didn't dare to ask those *jinshi* masters, so they naturally waited for the military officials to leave and asked Dahui to explain.

In early winter, Dahui wore a broken hat, led a few strong monks, and stood with their sleeves wrapped under the list on the side of the door. After reading it about two times, he was completely ecstatic... Others didn't know, but he, a person with such a level of culture, knew that Han Shizhong's victory was nothing, the key was to directly force the Jin army back to both sides of the Fen River, and the Jin army in Zhiguanxing also directly retreated, and the Song army took advantage of the situation and pressed on... It was clear that Hedong Prefecture had become the bag of the Great Song.

In other words, this should be one of the strategic victories that has always been mentioned in the邸报 (official gazette).

To break the sky, Zhao Guanjia's Northern Expedition launched in a hurry had enough returns.

However, turning around, Dahui wanted to explain to these civilians, but he was speechless for a while, because he really didn't know how to tell these people about geography and strategy.

You said that Han Shizhong had won the battle and gained a lot of kills, they might understand, but how could they understand that taking the opportunity to set fire to the mountain and forcing the Jin army to retreat was the most critical result?

So, after thinking for a long time, this monk finally gritted his teeth, waved his big hand, and used a rhyme that he was best at to give an 'explanation' to a group of civilians under the list:

"神臂弓一发 (One shot from the divine crossbow), 透过于重甲 (pierces through heavy armor), 衲僧门下看 (viewed from the monks), 当甚臭皮袜 (worth nothing but smelly socks)!"

The surrounding civilians still didn't understand the meaning, but they knew what a divine crossbow was, what heavy armor was, and what smelly socks were, and then they couldn't help laughing.

Everyone said that the great monk explained it the most clearly. King Han used the divine crossbow to defeat the Jin people.

And just when the civilians were rarely relieved and laughing, suddenly, the drums in the camp were stacked, and the bugles sounded in unison under the dragon flag outside the distant central army camp, and a hot air balloon rose in the ferry.

This also surprised the civilian camp.

But soon, a civilian head rushed over from the central army camp from afar:

"Crossing the river! The official family (emperor) is going to cross the river to Hedong! The Chancellors and the Grand Commandant have spoken, and the official family is going to cross the river!"

Before the words stopped, seeing countless officials and soldiers pouring out from under the dragon flag in the distant central army camp and dispersing, and then in a moment, it was like thunder, shouting in all directions - Zhao Guanjia is going to cross the river!

It seemed that this official family was really going to cross the river.

"You go back!"

In the mess, Dahui first stared blankly at the mess, then shook his body a few times, put his hands together, and turned to face a few strong monks from Jingshan Temple. "I'm not going back."

The monks of Jingshan Temple didn't understand for a while, and they were also instinctively frightened... If they lost the only purple-robed master of the temple on this trip, wouldn't they be sent back to pound rice?

"Don't think too much, I know that this is my opportunity." Dahui was swaying, as if he was drunk, but he put his hands together and didn't move. "No matter what the result, the Buddha is going to have me cross the river to witness the north and south of this world... This is my opportunity! I can't avoid it! And I shouldn't avoid it!"

The monks looked at each other, and could only put their hands together and salute Master Dahui, and then went back to pack their things, preparing to return to Jingshan Temple.

However, probably because these monks were particularly strong, they directly ran into Xiahou Yuan, an officer of the Imperial Camp cavalry, who was also hurrying back to pack his things and prepare to set off, and then was pointed by the latter and drafted.

It can be seen that when the Buddha's opportunity comes, it can't be stopped.