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Chapter 34: All the way to the west

"We have been on the road all night, and we have walked at least 300 miles. Now it is safe. You can take a break!" Li Gang got off the horse and said with a smile.

Li Gang was a civil official and was the weakest. The journey that night made him extremely tired, but he was in a great mood to escape from Xiangzhou City!

"Your Highness, let's find something to eat first!" The middle-aged man also jumped off the horse. He looked around and said.

There is almost nothing to eat in this abandoned village, but it is different from the modern times. There are woods everywhere and there are many wild animals. It is still very simple to use the skills of middle-aged people to fight some wild animals!

The lively young people left with the middle-aged people, and the dull young people have also jumped off the horse!

At this moment, the young man in his hand was a bow, which was the famous "Shentian Bow"! Looking at the Shining Bow, a hint of excitement appeared in his eyes! In addition to his extraordinary fist and foot skills, his archery skills were also extremely high, but ordinary bows and arrows could not bear his divine power at all. Only after possessing this Shining Bow, his divine power could be fully utilized!

Zhao Chen has already dismounted at this moment. He looked at the dull young man with his eyes full of curiosity!

During the Northern and Southern Song dynasties, many of them were born, and most of them were of high-quality martial arts skills, but it was extremely rare to be so powerful!

"Thank you for your help, I still don't know the name of the hero Gao?" Zhao Chen said with a smile.

"Yue Fei, the grass-roots, see His Highness the Crown Prince!" The dull young man suddenly knelt down to the ground and said.

Zhao Chen's face changed drastically and he stayed there all of a sudden!

Yue Fei... The person in front of him who looks dull and looks like an honest migrant worker is actually Yue Fei! If he hadn't seen the martial arts of a dull young man, he would never believe this sentence!

"Oh my God, Yue Fei, this person is actually Yue Fei!" At this moment, Zhao Chen had only such thoughts in his mind!

If he was the most famous figure in the transition period of the Northern and Southern Song dynasties, he would definitely be Yue Fei! This person is the war god and national hero of this era! In Zhao Chen's opinion, Yue Fei should be tall and handsome, with a stunning appearance. He never thought that Yue Fei was such a character!

"Your Highness the Crown Prince? Your Highness the Crown Prince?" Seeing Zhao Chen stunned for a long time, and Yue Fei was still kneeling there, Li Gang couldn't help but remind him.

"Ah! Mr. Yue quickly invite him! That's great, it's great! It turns out that you are Yue Fei! Hahahaha!" Zhao Chen couldn't help but laugh to the sky!

He was so happy now that he often felt uneasy in his heart after coming to this era, and often felt that danger was right beside him. But now he knew that this person was Yue Fei, he seemed to have suddenly found a backer, and all the uneasiness and danger seemed to be far away from him!

He laughed to the sky, but it didn't stop for a long time. Li Gang next to him was both curious and surprised. He didn't know what happened to Zhao Chen! He and Zhao Chen had been there for more than a month, and had never seen Zhao Chen have such a time!

"Your Highness? Your Highness?" Li Gang couldn't help but remind again.

"I'm so happy! Mr. Yue, are you a name Pengju?" Zhao Chen forced himself to suppress the excitement in his heart and said.

"Yes, the name of the sage is Pengju. How do you know about Your Highness?" The dull young man was Yue Fei and Yue Pengju, the famous Yue Fei and Yue Pengju in this era. He was also extremely surprised at this moment!

"That's right, it's you, it's you... It's right, you are from Tangyin County, Xiangzhou. We are now in Xiangzhou... We are so skilled in martial arts, who are you?" Zhao Chen was ecstatic for a moment, and his words became a little confused!

Yue Fei was even more surprised at this moment. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince actually knew his name and his hometown. It seems that His Royal Highness had indeed heard of his name a long time ago! However, although his martial arts skills were very good, he was only a little famous in Xiangzhou. He didn't understand how His Royal Highness knew his name!

"Your eldest brother, third brother, who are they?" Zhao Chen said again after being excited for a long time.

"The eldest brother of Caomin, Wang Gui, and the third brother of Zhang Xian, are all from the Xiaotili in Yonghe Township, just like Caomin. In the past, our three brothers were farming in the village. Now the Jurchen barbarians invaded and their hometown was destroyed. We wanted to surrender to the army and fight against the Jurchens!" Yue Fei said.

"Okay! OK! It's great that you have such a mind! I ask you, are you willing to follow me, drive out the Tartars and restore the Central Plains with me?" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Highness is the crown prince. Now the two emperors are captured. Prince, you are the crown prince of the country. We will naturally follow you!" Yue Fei said without hesitation.

"Mr. Yue, you have also seen that King Kang is ruthless and tries to murder His Highness the Crown Prince! Now King Kang has many soldiers and horses, and His Highness the Crown Prince is only an old minister like me. Even so, are you willing to follow His Highness the Crown Prince?" Li Gang next to him suddenly spoke.

"Even so, I should follow His Highness the Crown Prince! People should pay attention to loyalty and righteousness, otherwise would they still be human?" Yue Fei said again without hesitation.

This person is a model of foolish loyalty in history. In history, it was because the two emperors and the crown prince was captured at the same time, and Zhao Gou was the only one left in the royal family. He was naturally loyal to Zhao Gou! But now, Zhao Chen is still living in the world, so he is naturally loyal to Zhao Chen! Zhao Chen doesn’t have to seek painstakingly. As long as this person knows Zhao Chen’s identity, he will naturally be loyal to Zhao Chen and will not have any other thoughts!

"That's great! Yue Fei is the war god. Wang Gui and Zhang Xian seem to be the main general of the Yue family army in later generations! I went to Xiangzhou. Although it was dangerous, it was worth recruiting Yue Fei, Wang Gui and Zhang Xian!" At this moment, Zhao Chen was happy and said secretly.

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About half an hour later, Wang Gui and Zhang Xian arrived. The two caught a deer and several squatted there to make a fire and barbecue!

When the meat was roasted, the few of them were extremely hungry and they all started to feast on them!

"Your Highness, it's all old ministers. I'll take you to Xiangzhou City and almost let Your Highness be harmed by King Kang!" After a while, Li Gang said.

"You can't blame the teacher for this matter. The teacher is also for the good of this palace! Alas, no one expected that Uncle Ninth, I, was so ambition! In fact, Uncle Ninth is very talented, otherwise he would not have recruited many powerful generals such as Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, and Liu Guangshi, as well as hundreds of thousands of defeated soldiers and rebels in a short time! If Uncle Ninth is determined to resist the Jin Dynasty, what's the harm that I give up the throne to him?" Zhao Chen ate a large piece of meat and said.

"How can Your Highness have such thoughts? King Kang is so ruthless, how can he give up the throne to him?" Li Gang said in a daze.

"I just said that if he was wholeheartedly fighting against the Jin Dynasty, I could give up the throne to him! Unfortunately, I know that he would definitely not be wholeheartedly fighting against the Jin Dynasty! He would not be able to fight against the Jin Dynasty in the north, would not save his father, the Supreme Emperor, and would not let the people of the world live a peaceful life!" Zhao Chen said lightly.

"King Kang is so ruthless. I will definitely kill this guy when I am alive!" Yue Fei said suddenly.

"He wants to kill me, and I won't let him go!" Zhao Chen smiled and said.

If anyone violates me, I will not offend others. If someone violates me, I will offend others! King Kang wants to kill him. He has now regarded King Kang as his enemy and will find a way to kill King Kang in the future!

Of course, King Kang is much stronger now than him. He can only avoid the edge for the time being and let himself be safe first!

"Your Highness, where will we go next?" Wang Gui said.

"I'm going to ask the teacher for advice!" Zhao Chen smiled, and he looked at Li Gang.

Li Gang thought for a while and said, "Your Highness, I think we'd better go to the northwest!"

"Northwest?" Zhao Chen was stunned and said, "Why go there?"

According to Zhao Chen's idea, it is best to go to Jiangnan now, which is the safest there! In history, Zhao Gou went to Jiangnan and then settled in Jiangnan. Now he wants to occupy Jiangnan before Zhao Gou! He did not expect that Li Gang actually suggested going to the northwest!

"Your Highness should know that the world's army is divided into imperial guards. The Western army is far stronger than the imperial guards. The northwest is the birthplace of the Western army, so I suggest that your highness go to the northwest! After arriving there, we can first control the Western army so that we can compete with King Kang and the Jurchens!" Li Gang said.

"Western Army? Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, and Zhang Jun are all from the Western Army. Haven't they already defected to King Kang?" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Highness, there are many factions in the Western Army. Although Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and others are skilled in martial arts, they are only partial generals in the Western Army. They only have thousands of soldiers and horses. They just took these thousands of soldiers to surrender to His Highness Kang! Liu Guangshi's Liu family army is the main faction of the Western Army. Now tens of thousands of people from the Liu family army have all surrendered to King Kang. However, in addition to the Liu family army, there are other factions in the Western Army, other troops! For example, Zhe Keqiu and Zhe Yanzhi's Zhe family army, they still stay in the northwest, and the Zhe family army has 150,000! In addition to the Zhe family army, there are also Jingyuan army in Quduan, Yao Gu's Yao family army, etc.... There are still hundreds of thousands of troops in the northwest, and these people can be used by Your Highness!" Li Gang said.

"So that's it!" Zhao Chen nodded.

He thought about it carefully and found that it is indeed the most important thing to master the army now! In the chaotic times, the army is much more important than the territory! With the army, there is everything! A great man from later generations said, "The power comes from the barrel of a gun", which is the truth of China from ancient times to the present! He really urgently needs his own army now!

"In addition, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack in the northwest! There is the Yellow River in Guanzhong, and Tongguan is in danger, and it is extremely difficult for the Jurchens to fight! Even if Guanzhong is lost, we can retreat to Sichuan, which is even easier to defend and difficult to attack. This is the second reason why I suggest that Your Highness go to the northwest!" Li Gang said.

"So, there is a third reason?" Zhao Chen said curiously.

"Of course there is a third reason! Qin Shihuang and Emperor Gaozu of Han occupied Guanzhong and Sichuan, and then achieved hegemony in the world! Guanzhong, Sichuan and other places were prosperous and prosperous places in the Qin and Han dynasties, so I suggest that Your Highness go to the northwest!" Li Gang said.

"Okay, I'll listen to the teacher and go to the northwest! Originally, I planned to go to Jiangnan, where there are many waterways. After arriving in Jiangnan, the Jurchen cavalry will lose its function and we will be very safe!" Zhao Chen said.

Li Gang shook his head and said, "When you arrive in Jiangnan, the Jurchen cavalry will certainly lose its effect, but what about the soldiers under King Kang's army? Your Highness is still very dangerous when you arrive in Jiangnan. King Kang still may still kill Your Highness, so we can only go west and master the Western army is the most important thing at the moment! Moreover, even if your Highness can gain a foothold in Jiangnan, it will be very difficult to return to the Central Plains in the future... Since ancient times, there has been no reason to attack the north from the south. If you occupy Jiangnan, you can only settle down in the end!"

While listening to Li Gang's words, Zhao Chen secretly admired him, thinking that Li Gang's vision was not comparable to that he could! During the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Gou did not restore the Central Plains. On the one hand, he was determined to seek peace, and on the other hand, it was also related to him in Jiangnan! Jiangnan was a place of peace, not a place of Zhongxing, so he almost made a big mistake!

"Very good. Everything will do as the teacher said. Let's go west now! Only when we reach the northwest will we be truly safe!" Zhao Chen stood up and said.

"When we cross the Yellow River and arrive at Tongguan, it will be safe." Li Gang also stood up and said with a smile.

Yue Fei, Wang Gui and Zhang Xian also stood up, and the three of them had already gone to lead the horse.

"Teacher, who is the guardian of Tongguan now?" Zhao Chen said.

"The guard of Tongguan? It seems that Zhe Keqiu, Zhe Yanzhi and his son!" Li Gang thought for a while and said.

"So it was them! When the father asked them to guard the Yellow River, they fled in a hurry when they heard the drums of the Jin soldiers. I wonder if these two people are reliable?" Zhao Chen said.

"We have nowhere to go now, we can only go there! After we get there, let's take action again!" Li Gang said.

"That's all!" Zhao Chen sighed softly and said.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the court was terrible, the army was terrible, and everything was terrible! The generals of the Northern Song Dynasty were not reliable at all, but now he had no other way except relying on those people! He only had Li Gang, Yue Fei and others, and a few big cats and kittens. He was really weak and could not compete with King Kang and Jurchens. Now he had to rely on others!

"Zhe Keqiu, Zhe Yanzhi, I hope these two people can deal with it! Let's go west! Yue Fei, you have to teach me how to ride a horse. It's not okay to not ride a horse in troubled times!" Yue Fei and the other two were already leading the horse, and Zhao Chen smiled.
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