Chapter 666: The ancient sound of the piano, The House of Flying Daggers (2)
"... Xiaocang River comes out of the valley. The Gukou Dam was built at the beginning of the year and is more than two feet high. The southeast side opposite the valley mouth was originally the easiest to walk. If an army came to kill, it would be in this direction. After the dam was built, the valley
Everyone is confident... As for the other sides of the valley, the roads are rugged and difficult to navigate... There is no way to get in and out, but only experienced hunters can go around it. Lookouts have been built at key points, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
, not to mention, many times there is a 'hot air balloon' tied to the observation deck as a warning..."
"...The army in the valley has been reorganized once after entering the mountain. In October last year, the flag with a black background of stars was adopted as the military flag. According to the rebel, the black background symbolizes firmness, determination, and unshakability, and the flag of stars with a black background means star.
Fire can start a prairie fire... After the adaptation, the Wu Rui camp is divided into groups of about ten people, and a row of about thirty people. Above the rows is a company of about a hundred people, and above the company is a battalion with about three to five hundred people. Three
A battalion plus a special battalion form a regiment. At present, the rebels form a total of five regiments, and some people call themselves the Black Flag Army or the Chinese Army..."
"...The rebels train once every three days, but they have something to do the rest of the time. The rules are strict and they have one day off after every six days. However, after the defeat of Bianliang, the morale of the rebels has been high, and half of the soldiers are not even willing to take turns...
...The traitor set up many courses in the army. I took advantage of the winter to sneak refugees into the valley. I was not qualified to attend the lectures, but when I heard about the rebellion in the valley, most of them were treasonous and unethical..."
In the slightly dim cave, a man dressed as a mountain man in shabby clothes stood here, explaining in detail what he had found out in a clear and organized manner. Sitting in front was Li Pin. He coughed occasionally and detailed it with a pen and paper.
Write down what the other party said. Sitting in a sunny place at the entrance of the cave is Tie Tianying. He puts the giant sword across his knees and closes his eyes to rest. However, when Li Pin occasionally asked some trivial things in the cave,
It can be vaguely seen that Tie Tianying is not in a good mood.
"Then the rebels didn't stop their remarks about the lack of food in the valley?"
"Why didn't anyone mutiny?"
"How many refugees are there in the mountains in winter?"
“How do they screen?”
The questions Li Pin asked were trivial. After asking one question and getting an answer, he would often ask in more detail: "Why do you think so?" "What are the signs that make you think so." That person was sent into the valley by Tie Tianying.
The undercover agents in the police were elite among the police and had clear thinking. But they often couldn't help asking such questions. Sometimes they faltered, and even Li Pin asked about some mistakes.
But most of the questions are consistent with the information Tie Tianying has already told Li Pin.
Since the winter, Xiaocanghe's defenses have been relatively tight. Ning Yi's experts have made a detailed survey of the terrain around the river valley, and most of the time, Tie Tianying's police officers have no courage to send out their whistles openly or secretly.
He was afraid of alerting the enemy by approaching there. Of course, he had more than one undercover agent who infiltrated the Xiaocang River during the winter. However, calling them out when unnecessary, just to ask for trivial details in detail, was almost looking for trouble for him.
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The things in the Xiaocang River Valley were either too much or too little. The undercover agent was questioned back and forth by Li Pin for most of the day while coughing, and many of the things in the Xiaocang River Valley were said back and forth. After the questioning was completed, he said a few good words.
, and said: "If there is anything missing, I will need this brother's help in the next two days." Tie Tianying stood up with his sword and asked the man to go down. He walked closer and looked at what Li Pin had recorded and what he had drawn about it.
Map of Xiaocang River.
"Mr. Li, have you finished asking questions?"
"Ahem, there may be something I haven't thought of." Li Pin frowned and looked at the records.
"Then Mr. Li, please teach me. Is there any discrepancy with the information recorded by Mr. Tie?"
"……not much."
"That's it! Come on, Mr. Tie really wants to confront Mr. Li today and take a look at the information. Are there any things that Mr. Tie has remembered wrongly, so that Mr. Li can remember the things he makes mistakes in the next time?
crime!"
Li Pin, who was originally looking at the information, raised his head to look at him. Then he covered his mouth with his hand and coughed a few words with difficulty. He said, "Li just wants to be foolproof. The iron catcher has misunderstood."
"Foolproof? Mr. Li. Do you know that I have put so much effort into planting the eyes in Xiaocang River! Before the critical moment, Mr. Li, you call him out like this and ask trivial things. You are showing off your official power at the right time.
!”
Li Pin was silent for a moment, and his eyes became serious: "With all due respect, Mr. Tie, your information is indeed too omitted. It is certainly correct in the general direction. But the wording is sloppy, and many places are just guesses... cough
Ahem..."
"Tie Mou has been in the Ministry of Justice for many years, and he knows what useful information is better than you, Mr. Li!"
"Ahem... But are you his opponent!?" Li Pin grabbed a bunch of things in his hand and threw them on the ground in front of Tie Tianying. He, a sickly scholar, suddenly made such a thing,
It actually startled Tie Tianying.
"Ahem... I haven't had many opportunities to work with Ning Yi, but I still have some understanding of his actions in the Prime Minister's Mansion. Zhu Ji, under his control, the Secret Investigation Department has requirements for information.
Everything is clearly understood, and those who can use numbers will never be vague! It has reached the point of being picky! Ahem... His methods are wild and unconstrained, but most of them are based on this kind of picky! Kill him in his golden palace
We have repeatedly deduced Jun's situation that day. He had at least several backup plans. The most obvious one was that his first choice strategy must be to use Lu Hongti, the face saint of Qingmuzhai, to attack him. If the late emperor hadn't summoned him in advance,
,cough cough cough cough..."
He rambled on, talking about these things, and then lowered his head to pick up the stack of information: "Now that the Northland has fallen, we are already weak here, and the government can't help. If we continue to be careless, it will only lead to death. Li
I know that Mr. Tie has his own way of handling cases, but if that way doesn’t work, maybe the opportunity lies in these little nit-picking things..."
Tie Tianying was silent for a moment. He could not compete with a scholar, but he would not be intimidated by the other person's few words. He sneered: "Humph, what did Mr. Li see when Tie couldn't work?"
"There are many doubts, and I can't figure it out." Li Pin said softly, "It's just Xiaocang River, which is the biggest doubt. Why did he choose to stop here? On the surface, it can be said that it is the same as Qingmu.
The stronghold can be echoed at both ends. In fact, both ends are mountainous and the roads are not smooth at all. He led 7,000 people from Wurui Camp to rise up and defeated tens of thousands of troops twice. If he really wanted to expand, he would choose a city in the northwest to defend it.
.There is land and people, and with the fighting power of this group of people, the Xixia army will attack, and they will defend the city. They also have the strength to fight, which is much better than being trapped in the mountains at this time..."
Tie Tianying retorted: "It's just that if the imperial army and the Western army come to fight in turns, he will risk the disapproval of the world and find it difficult to have allies. How long can he last?"
"It's not necessarily that he can't hold on. To say the least, if he really can't hold on anymore, he can naturally enter the mountains again. With the supplies in the city and the place, the situation will be better than the current situation." Li Pin knocked on the things in his hand.
Intelligence, "and it seems that he has never considered the situation before him as a dilemma. Taking in refugees during the winter will cost food for one thing, and secondly, doesn't he know that the imperial court will send people to keep an eye on him? He doesn't even have spies.
Not afraid, he directly drove away the Xixia envoy, not afraid of offending the Xixia king, how can there be such a person..."
"He is not afraid of spies." Tie Tianying repeated, "That may mean that some of the information we know now is false information that he deliberately revealed. Maybe he is pretending to be calm, or maybe he has communicated with Xixia in private
People have contacts... No, if he wants to pretend to be calm, he should choose a city outside the mountain to defend from the beginning. On the contrary, it is more likely that he will have contacts with the Xixia people in private. Such people who have no king and no father, as such traitors
What happened is not surprising at all.”
"If he has really surrendered to Xixia, everything we do here will be useless. But I always feel that it is unlikely..." Li Pin glanced at Tie Tianying. "But in the meantime, why is he not in the valley?
It is forbidden for everyone to discuss the matter of grain storage. Why do you always let people discuss the political affairs inside and outside the valley? You must know that the more people think about it, the harder it is to control it. The people can let it go but cannot make it known. He is so confident that he is really not afraid of rebellion by everyone in the valley?
Becoming rebellious, looking for a dead end, rejecting Xixia, and accepting refugees in winter... these things... ahem..."
The two had some quarrels at first, but Li Pin did not mess around. Many of what he said were also the doubts in Tie Tianying's heart. Now that they were pointed out, he felt more and more that this valley called Xiaocang River
, many things are completely contradictory.
"Ha, these things together can only show that Ning Liheng has already gone crazy!"
"It would be okay if he is really crazy." Li Pin let out a breath, "However, this person makes plans and then acts, and can never be judged by common sense. Hey, he will kill the king in front of him! He said that after all, it will be difficult to reconcile, if he
He really planned to rebel. He left the capital first and slowly arranged the arrangements. Now that the Jurchens are disrupting the world, when will he have a chance? But he just did it... You say he is crazy, but his understanding of the current situation is not as clear as you or me.
, according to the news he released, within one year, everything north of the Yellow River will be in the hands of the Jurchens. It seems that it is not impossible for the Wu Dynasty to lose the Yangtze River line within three years..."
"...I can't figure out what he wants to do."
With a murmur, Li Pin sat down on the stone behind him. Tie Tianying frowned and looked aside. After a moment, he spoke: "I can't figure it out, but one thing is very clear.
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"If he really took refuge in Xixia, and now he has this support, no one in the entire northwest can do anything to him." Tie Tianying said, "But if not, there will always be a food shortage in his valley. Before the food is exhausted,
He must make a move! No matter what move it is, that is the best opportunity we are waiting for!"
After saying this, he waved his hand suddenly, took two steps and then stopped, looking back at Li Pin: "It's just that I'm worried that even this opportunity is in his calculation. Mr. Li, you are familiar with him.
You have a good brain, so you can figure out what dangers there are!"
"Cough cough... cough cough..."
Tie Tianying left from the entrance of the cave. Li Pin sat there and coughed a few times. He took the information in his hand, opened it and read it again, his eyes were confused, his brows were slightly frowned, and then he leaned against the wall and closed it slightly for a long time.
Eye.
"What...what do you want to do..."
His voice was hoarse. The sun was pouring outside the cave. Tie Tianying walked up the hill, looked in the direction of Xiaocang River, and then looked back to the southeast for a long time.
When he first accepted the mission and came here, he had a strong desire to prove his passion. By the time he arrived, his passion was fading, and manpower was sometimes scarce. He was not the one who wanted to fight with
The opponent of a madman who is the enemy of the whole world. But now, he knows that everyone's reasons for staying here are slowly disappearing. From the news brought by Li Pin, he knows that in the southeast direction, dignitaries and dignitaries are coming
Leaving Bianliang, this is the decline of an era, and people who once held various positions are losing their color.
Wang Tongguan, the man with the most distinguished military exploits for decades, died on the day of Ning Yi's rebellion, and the emperor also died on the same day. More than a month ago, Tang Ke, the left prime minister in charge of the court, fulfilled all the Jurchens' demands and emptied Bianliang.
Later, he was hanged in his own home. But before his death, he did not make any moves. The old man, who had always been the leader of the peace faction, ransacked Cai Jing's home as soon as he took office. There were once many party members all over the world.
, Cai Jing, who had controlled the court for decades, starved to death in exile.
...Eighty-one years ago, I had no home three thousand miles away, and I was alone with my flesh and blood at the end of the world. Looking at China in the distance, I shed tears. I paid homage to the Prime Minister for five times in the Golden Palace, and was honored in the Jade Hall for ten times. Looking back on the prosperity of the past, I turned it into a dream...
This is Cai Jing's last poem. It is said that he was disgusted by the people of the world because of his many evil deeds. In exile, he could not buy anything even with gold and silver. But in fact, there is no such thing. This eighty-one-year-old powerful minister will
Being starved to death may also prove that the other powerful people in the country may not have any complaints against him.
What's the use?
All the royal family in Bianliang City were kidnapped. Now they are rushing back to the Kingdom of Jin like pigs and dogs. Hundreds of officials are going south. They really want to give up this area to the north. If the Yangtze River is the boundary in the future, this half of the sky will
Down, it collapsed on his head.
He looked back at Xiaocang River and thought: This madman!
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In May, the world is collapsing.
After the Jurchens left, a large number of officials in Bianliang City began to move south.
The emperor is no longer here, and the royal family has been wiped out. The next person to succeed must be the clan in the south. Although the situation is not yet settled, there are also officials in the south: this support and the contribution of Conglong must be given up.
Are those idle people waiting in the south?
Tong Guan, Cai Jing, and Qin Siyuan are all dead now, and the remaining traitorous officials who were denounced as the "Seven Tigers" by the people in the capital are now dismissed and demoted, and the court finally returned to the place where many righteous people
In the hands of the soldiers, the people headed by Qin Hui began to cross the Yellow River in a mighty way, preparing to support the new emperor. Zhang Bangchang, who had no choice but to accept the throne of Chu, also promoted the transfer of various supplies southward during this May. Then prepared
Go to the south to plead guilty. In the areas from Yanmen Pass to the Yellow River, and from the Yellow River to the Yangtze River, a lot of problems have arisen as to whether people should go or stay. For a time, even greater chaos is brewing.
To the south, a solemn and festive atmosphere is gathering. In Jiangning, where Ning Yi once lived, the idle Kang Wang Zhou Yong, driven by Princess Chengguo, Kang Xian and others, will soon become the new emperor of the Wu Dynasty. Some
People have already seen this clue. In the city and palace, Princess Zhou Pei knelt in the palace, watching the kind old lady hand her the ring that symbolized the Princess Chengguo Palace, thinking about being driven to the North by the barbarians at this time.
, those Zhou family members who didn’t know whether they were alive or dead, all had tears in their eyes.
The young prince sat on a high stone pier and looked towards the north, where the setting sun cast magnificent colors. He also sighed a little.
"...In the past forty years, our country has spanned three thousand miles of mountains and rivers. Phoenix pavilions and dragon towers have reached the sky, and jade trees and lofty branches have been used as tobacco. How many times have we ever seen war?"
This song "Broken Formation" is the poem of empress Li's subjugation. He looked at the flowing clouds in the sky and recited it in a low voice for half a while, and then he sighed.
"Master..."
He jumped down from the stone pier and stood there, looking at the sunset for a long time, until the evening wind blew over and touched his clothes, and he waved.
"I will carry forward the art of investigating things, and I will help the Zhou family defend the Wu Dynasty. You see."
He spoke in a low voice and made his decision.
He should be a prince.
——So you can build a bigger workshop!
In the scorching summer, it seems as if the outside world is not shattering. In the Xiaocang River, the days are passing by day by day.
By the end of May, a lot of news had leaked out. The Xixia people blocked the southwest route, and the Jurchens also began to rectify the smuggling of wealthy households in the Luliang area. The last few trade routes in Qingmuzhai were being cut off. Soon after, like this
Li Pin, Tie Tianying and others also knew the news. (To be continued.)
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