Volume 3: The Land of Jingchu Chapter 317 Elderly
In June of the fifth year of Jian'an, the rice harvest in Jiangdong had been completed, and Chen Gong returned to Zhangling County with 10,000 Shanyue warriors.
The Zhangling Shanyue, who had been in chaos because of the loss of power of their three major tribes, suddenly calmed down when they saw that these 10,000 Shanyue warriors could actually come back.
During the past six months, the Ming Snake and Hook Snake tribes were temporarily avoided being divided up by other tribes thanks to the General's Office's partiality.
However, his status plummeted. He was only protected by the General's Mansion and was not kicked when he was down, but he no longer had the influence he had before. In fact...if the General's Mansion had not claimed that many of the main young and strong men of the two divisions were still alive, they would have been forced to hand over Yamakoshi Ji even with the protection of the General's Mansion.
Fortunately, before the Xiushe tribe migrated, they actually abandoned Shanyueji... or it could be said that Shanyueji was unwilling to migrate long distances with them, so she stayed.
In this way, other tribes can compete for Shanyueji left behind by Xiushe, and temporarily ignore the Mingshe and Hookshe under the protection of the General's Mansion.
It was not until Chen Gong returned with two remaining young men that Zhangling County began to be rectified...
Although nearly half of the young and strong men of the two tribes were killed or injured, but... as two of the original three major tribes, just the remaining half was enough to attract the attention of other tribes.
What's more, after the previous running-in and the experience of being the same fallen people, the warriors of the two groups seemed to be from the same group.
Under the promotion of the General's Office, integration was easily achieved...
The two tribes that remained in Zhangling County selected a new commander with the assistance and supervision of the General's Office. Chen Gong also appointed a chief headhunter from among the 10,000 Shanyue warriors.
After the two tribes were reunited, the General's Office officially appointed the commander from the Hook Snake Tribe as the "Zhangling Pacification Envoy" and the headhunter from the Ming Snake Tribe as the "Zhangling Suppression Envoy."
The former was responsible for guiding the various Shanyue tribes down the mountain and coordinating the relationship between the Shanyue who were temporarily unwilling to go down the mountain and the Zhangling Prefecture Governor's Office. The latter was responsible for suppressing the tribes in Zhangling County that endangered the interests of the Shanyue and the General's Office...
Unlike Shamoke's "Nanzhong Pacifier", who was directly under the jurisdiction of the General's Office and the Privy Council, the Zhangling Pacifier and the Zhangling Suppression Envoy were merely subordinate officials of the Zhangling Prefectural Government!
For this purpose, Chen Gong was specially appointed as the prefect of Zhangling, and served as the pacification envoy and suppression envoy to pacify the Shanyue.
However, Chen Gong did not stay too long, and did not even return to Nanjing and Bai Tu to report on his work. He set off again in August, traveled through the Five Ridges again, and returned to the front line in southern Jing.
When Shamoke saw him, he was somewhat unhappy... To be precise, it was when he saw "her" who came back with Chen Gong.
"Why are you back again?" Shamoke said to the Shanyue female warrior who came back with Chen Gong.
"I am the commander of the Shanyue Guard, who is responsible for leading the way for our benefactor. Is that not okay?" the female warrior said stubbornly.
That’s right, this is the female warrior that Shamoke selected from among the captives.
In order to make it look more realistic, Shamoke specially chose someone who looked pleasing to the eye. At that time, the female warrior thought that this guy who looked like a humanoid beast was going to do something terrible to her, but in fact, Shamoke just asked her to deliver a letter.
In the end, it was proved that Shamoke did not lie to her. The captured compatriots were rescued by Shamoke and Chen Gong at the ceremony. She also played a significant role by going to Zhang Liao and Gao Shun to report the news.
Of course, in the process of persuasion, there are also some plots of a domineering man and a proud female warrior. In short, now this female warrior is a bit persistent with Shamoke...
After learning that Shamoke wanted to marry a Han Chinese wife, she gave herself a Han Chinese name. In fact, many Shanyue people and Wuxi people had already given themselves Han Chinese names.
Moreover, out of admiration for the General's Mansion, most of them had the surname "Bai".
The female warrior remembered that night when Shamoke carried her back to the tent, she saw a peach forest, so she named herself Baiyipan.
"What do I have to say? Anything is fine..." Shamoke said with a sneer.
"Ahem, General Sha, how is the recent war situation in Jingnan?" Chen Gong interrupted the "dispute" between Shamoke and Bai Yipian as he and Shamoke walked towards Yinshan City.
This "Yinshan" is not the Yinshan mountain range in the north where "the Hu horse is not allowed to cross the Yinshan mountain", but the Yinshan County in the north of Guiyang County, adjacent to Rongling County.
Even Rongling, as a hill, is itself a remnant of the Yinshan Mountains in Guiyang.
As for “General Sha”… Shamoke also decided to change his Chinese name, and used “Shamoke” as his Chinese name, and his surname would be “Sha” for generations to come.
"It wasn't very smooth. That old Dong...that old man is a very good archer. It feels like he's even stronger than before. He can even provide a boost to his archers. Before, General Zhang Liao led troops to Rongling, but was shot and wounded by the old man." Shamoke said awkwardly.
In Shamoke's impression, Han people all respect the elderly. As a Han among Han people, Shamoke was particularly polite when mentioning Huang Zhong.
Chen Gong also knew who the "old man" he was talking about was. After all, he had fought with Huang Zhong before in Guiyang.
Huang Zhong, who is already over 50 years old, is indeed a rare "old man" among generals...
However, Chen Gong also recognized his strength. When he was in Guiyang before, he was deeply impressed by his archery skills and military tactics.
In fact, there was no need to ask. Chen Gong also knew that the war was not going well, otherwise... When Chen Gong set out to leave Zhangling in August, Jingnan had already started to use troops. If it was going well, how come two months had passed and the battle line had not advanced at all?
However, Chen Gong did not expect that Zhang Liao was injured - in order not to shake the morale of the army, the commander-in-chief's injury was kept secret before!
"General Zhang is injured? What does the military doctor say?" Chen Gong asked hurriedly.
" Fortunately you came early..." Shamoke said seriously.
When Chen Gong heard this, his eyes suddenly turned red and his look became fierce - they were all Lu Bu's old subordinates, and Chen Gong and Zhang Liao were very familiar with each other.
"The military doctor said that he will be cured in a few days...hahahaha...ga." Shamoke said with a silly laugh, until Chen Gong glared at him, and then his laughter stopped abruptly.
Shamoke also felt a little aggrieved. It was only after people told him several times, "How come you people from Wuxi don't understand humor at all ," that he wanted to change.
"How did Wenyuan get injured?" Chen Gong asked helplessly.
Having just heard that Zhang Liao was injured and having been frightened by Shamoke, Chen Gong did not bother to call him "General Zhang" for a moment, but instinctively used the private title.
"Fighting General..." Shamoke said a little embarrassedly.
"What? Wenyuan lost to that old general in a duel?" Chen Gong asked in surprise.
He had a very good impression of Huang Zhong, but... in his impression, Huang Zhong should not be so powerful!
Hearing this, Shamoko felt even more ashamed and said, "I was fighting with that... old man. When Wenyuan was defending my formation, he slashed my shoulder with his sword."
Perhaps it was because of this that Shamoke and Zhang Liao became more familiar with each other than before, and they also followed Chen Gong's example and called each other by their courtesy names.
At this time, Chen Gong did not pay attention to the details, but became more suspicious - that is to say... Shamoke was at a disadvantage in the fight, and even forced Wen Yuan, who was raiding the battlefield, to rush forward to help, but was injured by Huang Zhong at this time?
"Is that old guy so strong?" Chen Gong frowned.
Upon hearing this, Shamoko moved his lips, as if he wanted to correct Chen Gong's civilized language, but he gave up in the end...
