Volume 5 Chapter 50: Dark and Bright
This battle that took place on the banks of the Fen River in mid-October was undoubtedly a rout, and it was a rout between cavalrymen, and it was also a rout between cavalrymen in which the two sides met on the road and won with fewer troops.
In this kind of battle, the only way to expand the results is to pursue the enemy quickly after the battle, or take advantage of the situation to cause casualties, or take advantage of the situation to seize some strategic locations.
Otherwise, this battle can only be said to have thwarted the Jin army's plan to launch a surprise attack on Hezhong.
Of course, this was already very remarkable, but Han Shizhong's temperament was there, and he would never give up... Therefore, after he succeeded in his charge, he just turned around and said something to Jie Yuan, and then immediately urged the Beiwei Army to pursue eastward against the Fen River.
But it is really difficult to cause a major rout of the Jin army.
Both sides were cavalry, and they arrived at the battlefield in a hurry, and then they took advantage of the battle to let their horses rest. At this time, it was impossible to catch up. In addition, there were too many Jin cavalry, and many of them had dismounted to fight before. Whether actively or passively, it also bought time for the Jin army in the rear to prepare for retreat.
In a sense, Salihe was actually decisive.
That evening, when Han Shizhong ordered to stop the pursuit because of the weather, he had actually entered Ji County, the hometown of his brother Jie Yuan. He could be said to have done what he said.
However, perhaps because of the need to clear the road and gather up the stragglers, Jie Yuan arrived at the village where Han Shizhong was stationed nearly an hour later than Han Shizhong.
When they entered the village, they saw that it was empty except for a few elderly people. This made Jie Shanliang, who was used to seeing similar things, feel a little irritated and uneasy.
When the two brothers met, Han Shizhong, who was wiping his spear by the campfire, spoke first: "Shanshan, is this your home?"
"No." Jie Yuan shook his head. "It's already past my home, it's a mountain valley. I dismounted and took a look, and it was already deserted."
Han Shizhong nodded and asked again: "How?"
"Not good." After decades of friendship, Jie Yuan certainly knew what the other party meant, and shook his head again. "The Fen River has become shallower now... and the sun is not too cold at noon. Many scattered Jin cavalrymen, those with horses, just hugged their horses' necks, and those without horses just took off their armor and ducked across the water. It was only slightly better than the one south of Tieling Pass... I guess they barely captured more than a thousand people."
"Not bad." Han Shizhong was not impressed. "We have crossed the river for ten days, fought three battles in a row, and captured three to four thousand people... This is the biggest victory of my life, what else do I expect?!"
Jie Yuan nodded and said, "The key is still Hedong City. If the Jin army cannot save Hezhong after this battle...then Wen Dunsizhong and his Wan Hu will be stuck."
"That's one and a half million households." Han Shizhong, sitting cross-legged on the ground, lassoed his spear and faced it proudly. "The people of the world should know why I, Han Shizhong, am unrivaled in the world."
"Fifth brother." Jie Yuan did not sit down, still sternly persuading across the campfire. "This war is a national war. We have more than 300,000 soldiers, and the Jin Kingdom also has 20,000 soldiers plus the Yanjing New Army. A few thousand soldiers and a thousand soldiers are just a prelude to the war. We must not be arrogant. Moreover, Balisu is still in the front and has no intention of retreating. Even the Hezhong Prefecture has not yet reached a conclusion."
"I know." Han Shizhong replied with a smile. "But since he has been frustrated this time, there is no point in keeping him. We should take advantage of the situation and drive him away!"
"I have sent people to look for Xu Shi'an, Chen Jue and the others." Jie Yuan responded immediately. "They should arrive tomorrow. We will then join forces, cross the Fen River in large numbers, capture Jixian County on the north side of the river, and then advance to Jiangzhou City. We will pretend to follow the Fen River to the north to cut off the Jin army's retreat. Balisu will either split his troops to cross the river to resist us, or just get out of here."
"Too slow!" Han Shizhong shook his head.
"Fifth brother, do you have any other ideas?" Jie Yuan understood what the other party meant after a little thought.
"What do you think of that mountain?" Han Shizhong pointed to the south.
Jie Yuan looked back in surprise, and saw a row of mountains with clear outlines in the twilight that was still filled with residual light and moonlight. They were squatting there in darkness. One of the mountains was relatively close, and was obviously taller and wider than the other mountains. It should be the place that Han Shizhong indicated... But Jie Yuan was still puzzled.
"If we want to drive Balisu away, we'd better strike while the iron is hot." Han Shizhong explained calmly. "While he is still confused about how many casualties we suffered in the daytime battle and how many troops we have, we should take a short break tonight and immediately rush over again, following Salihe's defeated army to knock on his camp and force him to withdraw his troops back to Linfen... But we have few soldiers, and if we rush forward hastily, we will also be short of logistics. If we are frustrated, it will be dawn, and something serious will happen..."
Jie Yuan nodded continuously. Not to mention that since ancient times, even the two of them had experienced countless cases of excessive joy leading to sorrow.
"However, fortunately, there is only a small river between the enemy camp and Tieling Pass. If Li Yanxian can know our intention in advance and join forces with us, even if it fails, we can still advance and retreat calmly." Han Shizhong continued, but he expressed his own thoughts. "So, I want to imitate Ma Kuo's behavior that day and set fire to the mountain to intimidate and also to communicate."
Jie Yuan was stunned for a moment, then shook his head instinctively: "Manager Ma did not burn the mountain that day."
"Same idea." Han Shizhong sneered. "We have rushed sixty miles in the afternoon. It is time to rest. Do you want us to make torches and go up the mountain again?"
Jie Yuan nodded, turned around and left without saying a word.
"Where are you going?" Han Shizhong asked in surprise.
"Let's burn the mountain." Jie Yuan didn't stop.
"Don't you want to take a break?" Han Shizhong was even more puzzled. "Besides, for something like burning a mountain, why would you, a deputy governor, be needed? A captain is enough!"
"Fifth brother." Jie Yuan finally stopped a few dozen steps away and turned back to face him. "Your idea is very good. It is the most appropriate strategy at the moment. There is no way I won't 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 have no intention of hindering the military operations," Jie Yuan continued. "But I am the deputy governor and a local. I only need to tell the soldiers below about this matter and personally go down the mountain. They will naturally try to drive the people out of the mountain first and then burn the mountain... Otherwise, given their current exhaustion, they will probably just burn the mountain and end the matter. What will happen then?"
Han Shizhong said nothing, just nodded and went back to work.
Jie Yuan said no more and just turned around and left.
Just like that, in the middle of the night, a fire started to spread on the hilltop covered with fallen leaves from early winter, and then it became uncontrollable. The fire was so blazing that it illuminated both sides of the Fen River like day.
Just as the Song army, which had hurriedly followed Han Shizhong to this place, was staring at the huge torch on the plain, at the same time, they had already come into contact part of the defeated army. At this time, they were camping on the south bank of Fenshui River, sandwiched between the Fenshui tributary, with Balisu and his main force of the Jin army; confronting Balisu, who were camping at Tieling Pass with Li Yanxian and his main force of the Song army; including Xu Shi'an, Chen Ju and other generals of the left army of the imperial camp, who had been notified and were stationed in several gaps to the south of Han Shizhong, were all stunned at the same time and noticed the movement here.
Among them, Xu Shi'an and Chen Ju acted the fastest. The two had already received orders from Jie Yuan, so they had no hesitation and immediately sent troops to the north to provide support overnight.
At the same time, Li Yanxian at Tieling Pass was the first to realize Han Shizhong's intention. It was he who discovered the possible flaw in the gap in the west and prompted Han Shizhong to send troops to rescue. At the expected time, this kind of movement occurred on the east side of the designated battlefield. One could guess what was going on.
Han Shizhong must have successfully blocked the Jin army, defeated the enemy head-on, and then pursued them here.
As for setting fire to the mountain, there was a precedent before Ma Kuo, so what it meant was of course self-evident.
This is the tacit understanding after a few days of scolding each other.
Sure enough, Li Yanxian did not hesitate at all. On the one hand, he urgently sent people to Jiangxian to inform Ma Kuo to guard the flanks well to prevent the Jin people from making desperate moves. On the other hand, he immediately mobilized overnight and sent the seven armies of Guannan and the Huyan Tong troops left behind by Han Shizhong out of the pass to the north to attack Balisu who was camped at Jiahui River again.
Of course, while issuing these orders, Li Jiedu did not forget one thing, which was to pull down Han Shizhong's annoying banner from Tieling Pass first!
Even if it was just for half a day, he felt comfortable.
By the same token, Balisu, who was 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 coming into contact with Salihe's retreating troops and scattered defeated troops since the first half of the night. Even Salihe himself had run for an entire afternoon and the night before and only came back directly. He had already known that the west had been defeated.
If it were him, he would definitely take advantage of the situation and attack!
And when there was a movement at Tieling Pass, the news could not be concealed, and the commander-in-chief of the Jin army had a clearer understanding of the situation.
However, there is a problem here. In the dark, the Grand Commander-in-Chief Balisu, who is able to see through things as clearly as a fire, has no idea how many troops Salihe lost on the south bank of the Fen River this morning, nor does he know how many troops Han Shizhong used to defeat Salihe's ten thousand cavalry.
Ask Salihe, but he doesn’t know either!
Are there only the Beiwei Army and the Cuipian Army, or are there tens of thousands of Imperial Camp Cavalry following behind them?
This is very possible. You can know with your eyes closed that in the past half month, the Song army must have been constantly transporting soldiers, food, and supplies to the Hezhong Basin (Yuncheng Basin). It is possible that the tens of thousands of imperial cavalry have already arrived at Hezhong Prefecture, while the Jin army, whose information was blocked by the corridor, had no idea about it, so they suffered this defeat.
Even if we consider that the Song army stuffed all the newly sent troops behind Tieling Pass, or that the Song army did not transport too many troops at all, we also have to consider that Hedong City has fallen, and Black Dragon Wang Sheng has appeared on the battlefield with the main force of the Left Army of the Imperial Camp, right?
In a word, they were caught off guard, and the situation was chaotic at night, so it was impossible for Balisu to conduct accurate reconnaissance and intelligence gathering.
In this situation, he could only be aware of the tactical actions of the Song army and give the enemy some leniency!
And if we assume that Han Shizhong has enough main forces of the Song army following him, the worst result is that if he does not take action, he may be surrounded and defeated by the Song army, and his entire army may be wiped out, and the entire Hedong region will be handed over to him... or, more seriously, he will directly surrender for the Jin Kingdom .
Because here in the Tieling Pass battlefield, the Jin army has as many as five or six Wanhu, which is nearly a quarter of the Jin army's main field force.
Of course, the actual situation could not be so bad. The more likely possibility was that Wanyan Tuhesu's Wanhu, who was stationed on the south bank of the Huishui River, and a considerable number of elite cavalrymen including Wanyan Salihe and Yelu Mawu who had not yet had time to escape, were trapped by the Song army on the south bank of the Huishui River and suffered heavy losses.
"Let Tuhesu retreat back to the Huishui area first and join forces with me."
After sitting there for a while, in the brightly lit Jin army camp, Balisu finally made a decision.
“Send another message to Quwo, telling Zhehe not to rest any longer, but to march westwards overnight, cross the Fen River, and enter the city of Jiangzhou. They must clamp both sides of the Fen River and leave no room for the Song army to encircle them…”
"Send out more troops, light torches, build a temporary floating bridge along the Huishui River, and support the defeated army..."
"Oh, and tell Tuhesu that no matter how difficult it is, he must try to send someone to pass through the Song army's tunnel position at night to notify Olubu at Xiling Pass and ask him to withdraw... Once Tuhesu leaves, he will be in the most danger."
This meant that in order to preserve the manpower as much as possible, the Hezhong Basin (Yuncheng Basin) was completely abandoned and the area was retreated to the Linfen Basin.
The generals below of course understood, but no one objected. They just shouted and then left.
"Sa Li He!"
At this moment, Balisu suddenly called one of them. "Where are you going?"
The other generals turned back one after another.
Having just returned to the military camp, the dishevelled Salihe was stunned for a moment, then quickly became cautious and sternly bowed his hands: "General, I will go to supervise the construction of the floating bridge and support our headquarters..."
"Ma Wu, go!" Balisu turned his head and looked at a silent general, who was none other than Yelu Ma Wu, a Khitan commander. "That's also your headquarters."
Yelu Ma Wu, who had been standing silently by the side, bowed slightly and immediately turned around to leave the camp. After the surrounding generals looked at Salihe who was obviously a little flustered, no one dared to openly wait to see Wan Hu's joke, so they all followed Ma Wu out of the camp and got busy.
It was Salihe who was at a loss for a moment. He stood there, not daring to move, especially when the others left. Suddenly, only Balisu and his personal guards were left in the tent.
"Salalhe." Balisu took a deep breath. "You were defeated by Han Shizhong, and everyone said that the Cuipian Army and Beiwei Army were in front of you, so I think it can't be fake... Then I don't blame you for your defeat. On the contrary, if I hadn't been careless and thought that Han Shizhong was still guarding the pass, you wouldn't have been defeated like this..."
Salihe was slightly relieved, but he knew that he couldn't offend the other party at this time, so he quickly blamed himself: "After all, I lost. Han Shizhong is so cunning, how can it be the fault of the commander-in-chief?"
"We met on the battlefield, and he is one step ahead. There is nothing to say, especially since he is the best general in the south." Bali nodded quickly, but continued to face each other solemnly. "But Salihe, why did your 10,000 cavalrymen flee and you were the first to arrive here? As a result, we had no idea about the strength and details of the Song army, forcing us to retreat and abandon Hezhong Prefecture?"
Salihe pursed his lips and explained seriously: "To let the commander know that the front army had been defeated, and Han Shizhong's two elite troops were still there, and there were at least some other troops. It would be useless to force another battle. Instead of continuing to face the enemy, it is better to cut off one's arm and try to save the entire army... Therefore, I directly ordered the army to retreat."
Balisu nodded and asked again, "But what about that Taishi Nu? Why did several officers say that the Khitan Mouke Taishi Nu noticed something was wrong and repeatedly gave you advice, but you just didn't believe it, thus delaying the battle?"
Salihe finally fell silent, and after a long while he said helplessly: "General, I really couldn't believe that Han Shizhong was across from me at that time."
"It's human nature." Balisu nodded again. "But everyone knows that Grand Master Nu came to you several times to give you advice. Why didn't you take any action after you came back? Did you kill him to eliminate future troubles, or promote him to show that he has changed his ways? Instead, you ignored it and let this incident and this person shake the morale of the army for nothing?"
Salihe was finally stunned, but he suddenly realized something. He hurriedly bowed and said goodbye, and went to look for the master's slave.
But when the person left, Balisu sighed for a while in the tent, and after a while he turned his gaze towards the tent behind.
In the back tent, there was a man who had been waiting there for a long time. When he saw Balisu looking over, he immediately came out... It was none other than the Khitan Mouke Tai Shi Nu.
"The governor."
The master slave was obviously cautious.
"Since he was beaten to tears by Wu Jie in the battle at Yaoshan, Salihe has become more and more of a jerk." Balisu sighed and said this in the audience. "But Taishi Nu, you also roamed in the Liao Kingdom back then, you should know my helplessness... After all, his surname is Wanyan, and he grew up in Taizu's tent like Wanyan Bendu. Three... two princes are in power, how can I deal with them?"
"I understand the commander-in-chief's difficulties." Tai Shi Nu bowed in response.
"So, if you want to prevent what happened today from happening again and avenge Yelu Yizhen, you have only one way." Balisu cheered up and said sternly. "That is to bypass people like Salihe and me, and go to the person who can really make the decision... I will give you a marching silver medal, and you will immediately go north to Jingxing to welcome King Wushu of Wei, and tell him everything about the situation of this battle. Don't hide anything, just tell him everything! Then tell King Wei that Salihe wants to kill you, and you are loyal to the Great Jin and don't want to betray it, so you took the risk to ask me directly. I see that you are sincere, so I gave you this silver medal and asked you to find him, hoping to stay in front of him as an advisor, and ask him to take the opportunity to seriously consider my overall strategy! Our cavalry must be concentrated and fight on the plains to be effective!"
"I know. I will definitely persuade the Fourth Prince to follow the commander-in-chief's strategy to fight against the Song army." Tai Shi Nu took the silver medal from the personal guard Balisu beside him and immediately bowed his head to show his loyalty.
"Go!" Balisu gestured with his lips.
After a while, as the master's slave left, the tent finally became quiet, but Balisu remained silent for a long time.
At dawn.
The melee was over... Han Shizhong had achieved his goal before he even reached the south of Tieling Pass.
The only two Wanhu of the Jin army who managed to spy out the enemy, one in the south and the other in the north, one was Elubu at Chenguanxing, and the other was Tuhesu on the south bank of the Huishui River facing the Jiangxian Pass, they retreated at the same time overnight.
Soon, with the northward advance and the urgent increase of military forces by the Jin army in the city of Jiangzhou on the other side of the Fen River, there was no doubt that the confrontation was pushed out of the Hezhong Basin (Yuncheng Basin).
It's just a thin line between them. Once this line is given up, the fall of Hedong City is basically a matter of time.
At noon, Han Shizhong returned to Tieling Pass. After raising his own banner again, he summarized the military situation with great enthusiasm. On the one hand, he wrote a military report to Emperor Zhao in person, reporting the military situation from all directions, and taking the opportunity to show off his achievements and make complaints. On the other hand, he did not delay in announcing the victory report directly. At the same time, he communicated with Wu Jie and sternly questioned Guo Zhen about the relevant matters.
Putting aside the fact that Wu Jie was in a passive position and Li Yanxian was suffering again, let's just say that when the documents and victory reports were passed to the south, the situation in Henan was not so easy.
The reason was simple. After three years of peace, the sudden imposition of large-scale labor and mobilization for the Northern Expedition would have caused many problems. Moreover, with the fermentation and spread of the problems over the past half month, the full mobilization in the Central Plains and Kansai regions was finally launched, which triggered unprecedented chaos.
This was of course expected, because the hasty mobilization along the Yellow River 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 who came from the southeast.
This autumn, this fellow collected grain from Jingshan Temple and, as previously agreed, personally brought a few monks from the temple to deliver the grain. However, when he arrived at Kaifeng Prefecture, he encountered a war in the north. He delivered the grain to the warehouse outside Tokyo City as agreed, but unexpectedly, the officials of the Ministry of Works here refused to accept the grain. Instead, they used the words on the document to force the monk to deliver the grain to the imperial cavalry originally stationed outside Tokyo City.
That is Luoyang.
Moreover, there is a one-month deadline, and anyone who disobeys the order will be beheaded.
That being said, anyone can wake up and realize that they have encountered lazy and evil governance, and have been oppressed by evil officials, assigned the task of transporting military rations, and been forced to conscript able-bodied men.
However, the monk was really wealthy. Although he realized his mistake immediately, he saw that many monks and merchants from the southeast who came to deliver grain were oppressed like this. He did not say that he recognized Zhang Jiuchen, the Right Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works, nor did he say that he was an old acquaintance of your Zhang Shuxiang's mother.
This is not to say that these evil officials should be indulged, nor is it that the monk is thin-skinned and embarrassed to ask for help, but that Monk Dahui knows very well that such things are simply unavoidable. Zhang Jiuchen and Zhang Jun's face can save him and several monks from Jingshan Temple from suffering, but it cannot prevent this large-scale disguised labor assignment.
Rather than letting the common people bear this sin, it is better for the monks of Jingshan Temple who have no worries about food and clothing to do it... Didn't the abbot say so? After all, the temple has sesame oil for enema and three dou and three liters of rice grains for exchanging scriptures.
So, he said nothing and took a few monks with him to escort the temple's food to Luoyang.
But this journey is ten times more tiring than the previous boat ride along the canal.
Because at this time, the entire Central Plains was mobilized. The supplies in Luoyang were piled up like mountains, but it was difficult to transport them through the river to the front line. So the roads were full of soldiers and laborers. Not only were the roads blocked, but food was hard to find and prices were soaring. There were no vegetarian dishes in the stores, and even if there were, the prices were outrageous... And if they just wanted to work harder and eat the new rice they brought from home, they were afraid that there would not be enough food when they got to the destination and they would not be able to complete the mission.
If he was really killed by some rude military school, it would be impossible for Zhang Shuxiang's mother and Zhang Jiuchen to fly over to rescue him, right?
Fortunately, Monk Dahui was a man of insight. When he saw the seriousness of the blockage at Sishui Pass, he immediately called some people who had come from the southeast, formed a team, and turned south together, going from Shaolin Temple via Gaoshi to Luoyang... In this way, although the journey was much longer, at least they could still buy some pancakes and steamed buns with sauce and carry them with them as dry food.
However, even so, Monk Dahui encountered many things that are worth recording and some that are not worth mentioning.
The arrogance of grassroots evil officials who take advantage of their power to bully others, the fear of the common people about the future of war, and the cunning of merchants, monks and Taoists are not as bad as in "Three Officials" and "Three Farewells", but the atmosphere is indeed bad.
The depressed atmosphere among the people caused by the hasty outbreak of war, coupled with the confusing information right after the war broke out and the empty official announcements in the court newspapers, further fueled some rumors among the people... Today it said Yue Fei was defeated, tomorrow it said Han Shizhong won but was injured, the day after tomorrow it said a certain assistant minister took the opportunity to embezzle a lot of money and grain, a certain commander robbed a beautiful young lady from an official family in Hedong, and the day after tomorrow it said that the temperature in Hedong suddenly dropped and winter clothes could not be delivered, and many civilians froze to death on the other side of the river.
Monk Dahui could of course see that a lot of this was nonsense, but everyone was working so hard and had grievances, and he was completely clueless about the situation on the other side of the river. Even if he wanted to explain and comfort them, he really didn't know how...and this personal helplessness made the monk himself gradually depressed.
However, no matter what, after more than 20 days of torture, on October 17, Monk Dahui and his Jingshan Temple support transport team finally arrived at Mangshan, where they met the Imperial Cavalry troops, entered the civilian camp of the Imperial Cavalry, successfully handed over the military rations, and put an end to the matter .
On that day, the great monk, who was about to return to the southeast, saw Han Shizhong's courier rushing in to the Mangshan camp to announce the victory, as well as the related documents that were subsequently posted.
"Master, what does this mean?"
Many conscripted laborers gathered under the wooden board beside the camp gate. Although a scholar who had accompanied the army took the opportunity to publicize the notice when it was posted there, the laborers only knew that Prince Han had won another victory. They still didn't understand what happened in detail, and they didn't dare to ask the scholars. So they naturally waited for the military officials to leave and let Monk Dahui explain it.
In early winter, Monk Dahui, wearing a tattered hat, stood with a few strong monks at the side of the door with their sleeves rolled up. After reading it about twice, he was completely overjoyed... Others might not know, but a person of his cultural level must know that Han Shizhong's victory was not a big deal, but the key was that he directly forced the Jin army to retreat to both sides of the Fen River, and the Jin army at Chenguanxing also retreated directly, and the Song army took advantage of the situation to press forward... It was obvious that Hezhong Prefecture had become a possession of the Song Dynasty.
In other words, this should be one of the strategic victories of language in the court reports.
All in all, Emperor Zhao's hastily launched Northern Expedition had paid off.
However, looking back, when Monk Dahui wanted to explain to these civilians, he was speechless for a moment, because he really didn't know how to talk about geography and strategy to these people.
You said that Han Shizhong won the battle and gained a lot, they may understand that, but how could they understand that taking advantage of the situation to burn the mountain and force the Jin army to retreat was the most crucial result?
So, after thinking for a long time, the monk finally gritted his teeth, waved his hand, and used his best jingle to explain to the people under the list:
"The divine arm bow shoots through heavy armor. When the monks see it, they think it's just stinky leather socks!"
The surrounding civilians still didn't understand what it meant, but they knew what the divine arm bow, heavy armor, and stinky leather socks were, and they couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Everyone said that the great monk explained it most clearly, that it was Prince Han who defeated the Jin army with the Divine Arm Bow.
Just when the civilians were laughing happily, suddenly, there were drum sounds in the camp, horns blew under the dragon flag outside the central army camp in the distance, and a hot air balloon rose over the ferry.
The people in the civilian camp were also shocked and at a loss.
But soon, the leader of the civilians who came hastily from the central army camp shouted from afar:
"Crossing the river! The emperor is going to cross the river to the east! The ministers and the generals have said that the emperor is going to cross the river!"
Before he finished speaking, he saw countless officials and soldiers pouring out from under the dragon banners and dispersing from the central army camp in the distance. Then, in just a moment, like thunder, people from all directions were shouting - Emperor Zhao is going to cross the river!
It seems that the official really wants to cross the river.
"You guys go back!"
In the chaos, Dahui monk first stared at the mess, then shook his body a few times, put his hands together, turned his head and faced several strong monks from Jingshan Temple. "I'm not going back."
The monks of Jingshan Temple were puzzled for a moment, and they were all instinctively frightened... They had lost the only purple-robed monk in the temple during this trip, so wouldn't they be sent to pound rice when they returned?
"Don't think too much, I know this is my chance." Monk Dahui swayed as if he was drunk, but he clasped his hands together without moving. "No matter what the result is, the Buddha wants me to cross the river and be a witness for the world... This is my chance! I can't avoid it! And I shouldn't avoid it!"
The monks looked at each other and could only put their hands together to salute Master Dahui, then went back to pack up and prepare to return to Jingshan Temple.
However, perhaps because these monks were exceptionally strong, they bumped into Xiahou Yuan, an officer of the Imperial Cavalry who was also hurried back to pack his things and prepare to set off. Xiahou Yuan then casually pointed at them and conscripted them into the army.
It can be seen that once the Buddha's opportunity comes, it cannot be stopped.
