Chapter 596 Ning Dong Xuehai Great Wheel of Life and Death (5)
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The heavy snow has temporarily stopped and the wind is not strong. In the Jurchen camp surrounded by water on three sides, piles of bonfires are burning vigorously in the tents. In the central tent, six iron basins are burning with charcoal fires.
The decorations, furs, swords, guns, and even the people here all made everything look solemn and majestic. Zong Wang sat behind the long desk and looked at the torn letter in his hand.
Wanyan Yan's mother, Han army commander Liu Yanzong, general Sai La and others were sitting nearby, occasionally communicating with expressions or whispering a few words. When they came over, several people were already aware of the situation, and the letter was torn
The half-written letter was given to Zong Wang by Wanyan Yan's mother. The scout captain was still standing below, waiting for questioning. Zong Wang looked at the letter for a while, and the expression on his face changed. Finally, he photographed the letter on the case.
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"Humph, the southerners want to deceive me!" He said immediately. After looking at the expressions of the people below, he frowned and looked at the scout.
"Tell me about the situation at that time. When, where and under what circumstances did you meet that person and get this letter!"
"yes……"
∏The scout captain saluted and nodded, and talked about what happened.
As the winter deepened and heavy snow began to close the mountains, the Jurchens went out for patrols and sweeps less often than before. Their scout team met on a road in the mountains ten miles away from Moutuogang Camp.
There were three people on the other side. Among them was the messenger, who seemed to be an official of the Wu Dynasty. The two beside him were guards. A little further on, the road leads to the outskirts of Bianliang City.
'There are really five patrols in total. They are specifically responsible for this area, trying to cut off Bianliang's connection with the outside world. Of course, such an attempt cannot be successful because Bianliang is too big. Even if all the Jurchens have tens of thousands of people,
Even if they were dispatched, it would be impossible to surround the entire city. But even if the blockade could not be cut off, they could always intercept some messengers coming in and out. When they saw the three of them, the five scouts immediately launched a pursuit.
Both sides were riding horses. The other side was also highly alert. Seeing the Jurchens approaching, they turned around and ran away, firing back arrows. Our scouts immediately fired back with arrows. Then they shot the official in the back.
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The other party's three cavalry rushed into the rugged mountains nearby, while our own scouts kept pursuing them. Finally, due to serious injuries, the Wu Dynasty official fell from his horse. It happened that there was a dry river below. He fell, and the two warriors
The guards came to the rescue, but it was too late to save him.
'While the real scout divided his troops to pursue the pursuit, he took a slight detour into the river valley to search for the bodies of Wu Dynasty officials, and then found the letter. After the Wu Dynasty official fell into the river, he seemed to want to tear up the letter and throw it out, but
He had no energy left, so he tore the letter in half and threw it aside. The wind blew away the smaller half. The remaining half was picked up by them.
The scouts didn't want to read the letter and handed it to their immediate superior. After reading it, the immediate superior felt that it was a serious matter and handed it to the mother who was in charge of the matter. After reading it, her mother immediately summoned Zong Wang.
come over.
≮Wang looked at the scout: "From the time I saw the Wu Dynasty official fall from his horse and into the river until you took a detour, the Wu Dynasty official's body was never out of your sight."
∏The scout said: "Because of the detour, it will take a while, but it will not last more than ten breaths."
"Hmph." Zong Wang pondered for a moment, "Can you bring the body back?"
"They brought it back." Wanyan's mother said to the side, "I have already gone to check on the body."
Wanyan's mother is Aguda's half-brother, ranked eleventh. Zongwang's expression softened slightly and he said: "Eleventh uncle, what's the result?"
"Looking at his body, he was indeed a pampered person in the past, and there are no traces of being tied between his hands and feet. This is not a small matter. I have checked it repeatedly and it seems that he was not forced to come here."…
After Yan's mother said this, Zong Wang fell silent for a moment. He was rough-tempered, but thoughtful. After thinking for a moment, he reached out and patted the long case: "But how can a person from the Southern Dynasty, a clown, have such courage?"
"In more than a month, our army defeated the Wu Dynasty's army of more than 300,000 people in this area. There is no way they can do anything. They are desperate and will jump over the wall."
"Yes." Zong Wang nodded, "Commander Liu, please select a few people in the army who are most knowledgeable in sinology and planning to come to this tent. Also, here are the people! Please invite General Guo, the pharmacist, and his subordinate Zhang Linghui.
, Liu Shunren, come to the big tent quickly to discuss military affairs."
After receiving the order from below, Zong Wang returned to the back of the long desk, read through the several-page letter again, picked two of them and put them aside. He waited until Guo Yaoshi, Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren and others came over.
, several craftsmen and masters also came over, and just handed a few pages of letters to Pharmacist Guo: "General Guo, please read this first, and then... circulate it."
"Yes." Pharmacist Guo nodded in agreement. The circulated letter was divided into five pages. Four of the pages contained some complicated calculations and drawings. Each page had a small part missing. Pharmacist Guo started to just read the words.
However, not long after he started browsing, the color in his eyes changed, and his expression became serious. He did not say anything until he finished reading, and passed it to Zhang Linghui, who read it, and then to Liu Shunren, and then passed it on to the masters and craftsmen.
Some people looked confused, while others changed their expressions. A master saluted Zong Wang and asked, "I hope the commander will give me a pen and paper."
There was a look of appreciation in Zong Wang's eyes, and he waved his hand: "Pen, ink, paper and inkstone. Also, bring me a table and chairs for him to sit on."
Soon after, everyone had read it once, and the letter was circulated among several masters and craftsmen for repeated inspection and discussion. Zong Wang looked at everyone's expressions.
"This is a letter intercepted from the Wu Dynasty today. The matter is so big that it is difficult for me to tell whether it is true or false. Therefore, we must all come together to identify and discuss it." He raised his hand, "Do you have any questions?
If you have any opinion, please speak up."
Among the members of the Resentment Army, Zhang Linghui was somewhat uneducated, while Liu Shunren had some ideas. At this time, he first handed over his hands and said: "Commander Qi, I feel that this fact is a bluff by the people of the Wu Dynasty. The warriors are timid and timid, but they always
He likes to play all kinds of tricks, and there are countless smart-aleck people among them. The letter in front of me is probably someone's self-righteous plan. After all, it is too difficult to imagine that he would do this..."
"Oh? General Liu thinks it's a lie?" Zong Wang looked at Pharmacist Guo, "General Guo, what do you think?"
"What Brother Zhang said makes sense." Yaoshi Guo said, "The Confucianism and Taoism of the Wu Dynasty respected Heaven and Dharma ancestors. Within the Wu Dynasty, the importance of the Yellow River was unimaginable. If it is true as what is said in this letter... If you want to conquer the Yellow River, retreat from me.
The army, let’s not talk about us, there are millions of people in Bianliang City. Only a few can escape. Moreover, the Yellow River bursts its banks, and the thousands of miles of land around Bianliang City will be flooded within a few years. For the Wu Dynasty, this is
This act is truly a sign of the anger of God and the resentment of people. Anyone who does this will be slandered by the whole country, and will be infamy for eternity after his death..."
The letter he circulated to everyone contained a plan to dig up the embankments of the Yellow River and divert the flood to drive back the Jurchen army. The plan began with an impassioned speech, saying: The battle can be defeated, the city can be powerful, but the country cannot be destroyed. The integrity must not be compromised. After some generosity, a formal plan was introduced. There were even drawings, detailed plans, extensive calculations, etc., etc., which were so meticulous and detailed that it was really difficult to tell the truth from the false.
After Pharmacist Guo finished speaking, Zong Wang frowned: "General Guo also thinks it's fake..."
"However... it's not." Yaoshi Guo hesitated for a moment and said, "The Confucian scholars of the Wu Dynasty really liked to talk a lot, and it was difficult to make any achievements in practical matters. However, there were also many of them who had strong and decisive personalities and believed that it would be better to be a piece of jade than to do anything. Wa Quan, our army is marching south, and it is overwhelming. However... a small group of resistance is very decisive. The war outside Bianliang City has developed so far. If there are officials in the Wu Dynasty who are so desperate, they want to do this to the world. The army was retreated by floods, and millions of people were buried with it. The pharmacist felt that... it was not surprising. Therefore, it is difficult to judge."...
Most of the masters who were called into the tent at this time were from the Jin and Liao Dynasties, but there were still some who understood Confucianism. After finishing speaking, Medical Master Guo also bowed and agreed. It was said that the scholars of the Wu Dynasty, although they did not have the power to tie a chicken, but Counting this kind of decisive thing, there is indeed no shortage of people, and some people even particularly like this kind of thing for the sake of posthumous fame.
But then someone said that this kind of thing can only be done by a few people. If the plan is sent to Bianliang, it will be stopped. Maybe it is still a fraud.
However, after this statement, someone reminded me that there was a paragraph at the end of the letter that seemed to say that before the war, ships around Bianliang had already entered the city. Once the Yellow River burst its banks and flooded the city, it would still be okay to let the emperor, senior officials and others in the city board the ships. It was too late. Although the Wu Dynasty also suffered heavy losses, the center was still there, but only one city was lost. Although the Jurchens were powerful, half of the country's soldiers had already come here. When the flood hit this time, it seemed as if they had gone to Jin. Half of the country. The Wu Dynasty did make many mistakes before, but it learned from this and worked hard to govern. It was not too late, and so on.
Not long after, the teacher who was doing calculations at his desk also praised him and reported to Zong Wang: "The study of planning and civil engineering in the Wu Dynasty is really exquisite. The calculations in this letter are actually the pinnacle of them. It's a pity that half of it was torn off, but it also has the effect of other people's stones in our study of dynasty planning..." Then he regretted and praised, wishing he could see the torn half.
Everyone had their own ideas, but it was difficult to decide whether the letter was true or false—the most important thing was whether the other party was really determined to do this. Soon after, the mother said: "Even if the other party really wants to take this dangerous move, it will have to wait until next year. It will only be effective during the spring flood period. Our army has already made preparations to attack the city in heavy snow. We only need to break the city this winter, so there is really no need to think too much about it."
Zong Wang nodded. In fact, many people in the big tent had this kind of thinking, but Zong Wang was actually not a reckless person: "What the emperor said makes sense, but the worst consequences must be considered in everything. Today, the Wu Dynasty The army has been dispersed by me, and the remnants are scattered around. Next, I will speed up the preparations for the siege. Within five days, I will complete all the equipment and launch a general attack. In this regard... I will let the scouts find out. Look at the surrounding situation and figure out which party is trying to do this, and then... General Guo, you are responsible for this and crush them for me!"
Everyone took orders.
"yes!"
The big tent shook.
Zong Wang tapped his fingers on the table. After everyone left, he walked around the tent a few more times, returned to the case, picked up the last two pages that had not been shown to Guo Yaoshi and others, and browsed them.
The last two pages contain mostly persuasive content. The upper part is a continuation of the vision after Zongwang's army was swallowed up by the flood. The letter talks about many internal problems in the Jin Kingdom. It says, "A Gu defeated a generation of geniuses and started to fight."
After the incident, the Jin people were full of vitality and people came out in large numbers, but there were also hidden dangers.
After Aguda abdicated, the successor was not Aguda's own son, but his fourth brother Wu Qimai. Wu Qimai was a stable man and well-established. This was actually Aguda's painstaking choice. However, it also illustrates a problem. Among the golden people, he is an outstanding person.
The emergence of large numbers is a situation of strong cadres and strong support. Now that Aguda is dead, it is difficult to say what will happen when the third generation takes over.
Among the Jurchens, the commander-in-chief Nianhan was equally talented and strategic. With Wu Qimai in power, Zongwang and others could still compete with him. However, what would have happened without Wu Qimai? The Wu Dynasty's policy of allying with Jin to fight against the Liao Dynasty was hard to change.
, but if Zong Wang, the second most powerful among the princes of the Jin Kingdom, and his tens of thousands of troops are destroyed here, the only person in the Jin Kingdom who has the military power to determine the world is Commander Nianhan.
The eastern and western armies of the Jin Kingdom went south to invade our Wu Dynasty. However, Zongwang arrived at Bianliang first, but Nianhan was blocked by the fortified city of Taiyuan. It is said that Zongwang issued military orders several times, ordering the Nianhan army to quickly go south. However, it was obvious that they could go around it.
In the past, Taiyuan, Nianhan was still reluctant to move. Is there any discord between the two of them? At this time, fighting the Yellow River would only mean the loss of one territory, but within a few years, the Jin Kingdom would be in chaos. The Jurchens suddenly rose up and conquered the world.
, has no foundation. If one cannot recuperate and work hard to govern, he will surely die within a few generations, which will no longer be a problem for the Wu Dynasty...
The words in the last two pages show the writer's understanding of the inside of the Jin Kingdom. Every word is full of heart-breaking remarks.
In fact, Nianhan stayed still in Taiyuan out of caution. This was their first invasion of the country of Wu Dynasty. If the whole army really went south and Taiyuan was left on the way, if the Western Army really came to block the way,
It is hard to say what will happen if more than 100,000 troops are trapped in the hinterland of the Wu Dynasty. Zong Wang naturally understands this worry, but this letter is not polite. The above sentence makes him feel that it is both a provocation and a real possibility. In the end,
At least, after reading this, he first felt that it might be true that the other party wanted to use the method of crossing the Yellow River.
As for those seemingly provocative remarks, he has tried his best to normalize them, but after seeing things and saying them so clearly, it is impossible not to think about them.
In this sense, whether this letter is true or false, it has at least played a certain role.
Thinking of this, Zong Wang slapped the table.
The Confucian scholars of the Wu Dynasty were a lot of clowns, but this one not only showed his understanding of the internal affairs of the Jin Kingdom, but his tricks also made people feel particularly angry.
If there is a chance to catch this person in the future, I must kill him alive with my own hands!
Zong Wang thought about this Wu Dynasty villain whose identity was unknown, and this thought flashed through his mind. (To be continued. (.))
ps: Sorry, I’ve been in a mood lately, so the interrupted updates may be a little unusual...