It was the truth you said when you were excited, but it was regarded as a polite remark.
Although Heifu said to the people of Anlu, "It was not me who came to save the people of Anlu, but the people of Anlu. It was your courage and fearlessness that saved yourself."
But no one took these words seriously. After Heifu returned like a timely rain, everyone just thought, "He is the great savior of the people."
And like a repeater, he emphasized this point over and over again.
"It was Marquis Wu Zhong who saved the Anlu people!"
The elders in the county were full of praise for Heifu's humility. The eight hundred returning disciples proudly told the crowd about the thrilling events that took place in Yunmengze and Wuchang Camp: the Yunmeng incident, the secret edict on clothes and belts, Sha Xian's place of residence, and the night attack on Wuchang.
, returned to Anlu in the north... This series of events formed several new chapters in the legend of Wu Zhonghou.
Young people who had not had the opportunity to participate in these legends, such as Yuan Yong and others, looked at Wu Zhonghou, Dongmen Bao, Ji Ying and other uncles and elders with enthusiastic eyes. They also put on the captured Qin army armor, and some
In the same way, he pulled off the white cloth and tied it on his arm, which became the symbol of the rebel army.
To put it bluntly, if Heifu and His Majesty Qin Shi Huang had a personal cult match in Anlu, Heifu would definitely win now.
Heifu was a little helpless, but under this extreme admiration, his words became golden rules, and many things became much easier to handle.
For example, the young people in Anlu wanted to carry out an indiscriminate retaliatory massacre of the five thousand captured Qin soldiers in Guanzhong! But Heifu stopped them. Based on the casualties of the Anlu people, he decided to draw five of the remaining people.
One, execution as punishment for killing and wounding Anlu people.
"The people of Anlu are also the common people of Qin. Those who kill people must die as a matter of course."
This execution had a trial, records, love documents, and the history of Anlu County. The jailers continued to play their original roles and pronounced sentences in accordance with the law.
The one thousand unlucky ones who were drawn were executed among the ruins by Yuan Yong and others.
The remaining 4,000 people were stripped of their armor, naked, and temporarily imprisoned in Xicheng. They still sent people to preach that "the First Emperor has died, the treacherous son and traitorous ministers have killed the emperor and usurped the throne, and it is difficult for Wu Zhonghou to resist the rebellion with his clothes and secret edicts."
The routine words made these Guanzhong soldiers startled and suspicious.
Heifu had Heifu's plan: "I don't expect these people to surrender. Even if they can't be taken away and put back, I can spread the word through their mouths. It's best if the whole world knows about it!"
After calming down the resentment of the Anlu people and dealing with the prisoners, the next thing to do is to gather everyone in the county, open the warehouses, feed everyone, and then allocate hundreds, tuns, etc. according to the lilu.
Wu, carry out militarized management.
The Dongmen Leopard armed all the men of suitable age in Anlu and distributed the captured 10,000 sets of armor and weapons to form the main soldiers.
As for the ten thousand young men who are older or younger, the elders form the Xianzu, that is, the militia, and give it to Ji Ying to manage.
For the remaining 30,000 women, children, old and weak, Zhong, Yuanbai, Wen Yichi, Zhao and others were left in charge.
At this time, all the people in Anlu County were in arms.
After finishing these tasks, Hei Fu had time to meet his old acquaintance who was captured, Captain Feng Jing.
"Do you know why you lost?"
They had just met, Heifu personally untied Feng Jing and then asked him this question.
Feng Jing touched his wrist that was too tight and numb: "This is your hometown, your hometown party. If we fight here, I will not lose unjustly."
"Yes, those who have gained the right will get more help, while those who have lost the right will get less help. This is one of them, but there is another reason."
Heifu handed Feng Jing a glass of wine: "Feng Jing, you are still the same as before. You are too upright and have the demeanor of a noble gentleman. At the last moment, you never did anything to my family members. I believe that forcing the people to death, even me, is
It’s not your original intention to learn from Yan Weng.”
The two have known each other for more than ten years and worked together as officials under Li You. Feng Jing accompanied Hei Fu to participate in the Shangsi Festival in Jiangling City and played "Wine Glass Follows the Waves" by the pavilion. This was the first time Hei Fu and his wife met.
place……
It is not an exaggeration to say that Feng Jing was the informant between the two.
But today, everyone has their own successes and failures. One is sitting on the throne, and the other is a prisoner...
Feng Jing also felt a little ashamed, put down his cup and said: "I am already the defeated general, Marquis Wu Zhong, the Marquis Wu Zhong who is deeply trusted by Your Majesty..."
He bit the accent on these three words with a hint of sarcasm in his tone: "What will the Lord do to me? Behead me at the broken wall like the soldiers who were drawn?"
"No."
Hei Fu was not angered, but sighed: "I won't kill you because of the old friendship between you and me."
In fact, it’s not because of old friendship, but because it’s such a waste!
Heifu is different from Feng Jing. He is an aristocratic gentleman, but Heifu prefers Shangjun's style. Shang Yang and Gongzi Mao are close friends, but Shang Yang took advantage of Gongzi Mao's innocence and hijacked him during the meeting and banquet.
he.
Everyone in the world criticizes Shang Yang's character, but on the battlefield, victory is all about victory and defeat. Morality? The one who allows one's own side to die less is a benevolent and virtuous person!
Feng Jing was a little moved, but while Hei Fu was reminiscing with him and laughing away his grudges over the wine, he was thinking in his heart: "I wonder if your father would have hesitated at all when he ordered the attack on the city when he knew that his beloved son was captured? Win for me.
time!"
"I don't even know that the new owners of Xianyang Palace, Hu Hai, Li Si, and Zhao Gao, will know that you handed over the people of Anlu to me, and your father let me leave safely with tens of thousands of people, and I in turn spared your life.
What do you think? Do you suspect that the Feng family has reached some kind of deal with me? "
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When he met Feng Jingbu who was captured with Heifu's letter tied to his body, Wu Xinhou Feng Wuze had just left Xiling County, Hengshan County and entered Anlu County. He was still two days away from the county seat...
After learning about the Wuchang Camp Incident, he immediately marched westward, moving at a speed of fifty miles to make a profit. However, because he was taking the land route, he was still a step late. Hearing that Heifu was indeed "resurrected", he rushed back first.
Anlu couldn't help but feel resentful after taking over the county seat.
Wuchang and Anlu, this was already the second defeat that happened under Feng Wuze's nose after he took over the military affairs of the Huaihan counties on the orders of the First Emperor of Qin.
Fortunately, he didn't know that Li You was beaten up by Han Xin in Changsha County, otherwise he would have suffered even more headaches.
Feng Wuze opened Heifu's letter and saw some rhetoric:
"Young men, I dare to pay my respects again. I have heard about the name of Marquis Wu Xin for a long time, and I am honored to meet you today! The Feng family has been in the Qin Dynasty for several generations, and their brothers have all been Jiuqing generals. Now they are rebellious and treacherous, and they have regicide and usurped the throne. They have established tyranny and treated the head of Guizhou harshly. The world is in trouble."
swing."
"Since the Duke knows the destiny and knows the current affairs, why should he be rebellious? Why not raise the banner of Jingnan together and join forces to march north, then Wuguan can be captured, the pass can be entered, and Xianyang can be secured. At that time, the traitors and traitors will be punished, and the virtuous monarch will be succeeded to the throne together, and the country will be safe
Folk music, isn’t it beautiful?”
"The traitor Hei Fu is full of nonsense."
Feng Wuze knew that Qin Shihuang's true will was to make Hu Hai the crown prince and to assist the three families of Feng, Li and Wang. He even more believed that Hei Fu was a rebellious official and a traitor.
In addition to these "persuading surrender" words, the letter also included a lock of Feng Jing's hair and a personal jade pendant. At the end of the letter, he advised Feng Wuze not to be impulsive, otherwise something might happen to his eldest son, "Marquis Wu Xin"
The heir is gone."
All of this is enough to make a father worried.
But unlike his friendly eldest brother, Right Prime Minister Feng Quji, Feng Wuze's temper was notoriously strong!
He tore up Heifu's letter, put Feng Jing's jade pendant into his arms, gritted his teeth and said: "In the past, Leyang was a Wei general and attacked Zhongshan. His son was in Zhongshan, and the king of Zhongshan cooked his son's soup and left it behind.
Leyang sat under the curtain and sipped from it, finishing the cup!"
"If his black husband is brave, he will also cook my son and bring the soup. I will drink the meat soup and order to go to Ping'an Lu!"
Feng Wuze has enough confidence in the upcoming battle.
He roughly knew who Heifu had under his command: 5,000 soldiers and veterans brought from the Wuchang camp. In addition, there was no army. He could only rely on the 50,000 people in Anlu, of which 30,000 were old, weak, women and children who could fight.
No more than 20,000...
As for Feng Wuze, in addition to the 20,000 elite Guanzhong Lieutenant Army, there were also 4,000 troops brought by Yang Xi from Xiakou and 6,000 newly transferred soldiers from Jiujiang County.
In addition, at Feng Wuze's request, Nanyang County in the north also sent 5,000 troops southward to join with 5,000 Nanjun soldiers and will rush to Anlu!
If you raise an army of forty thousand and attack a ragtag army with mixed composition and scarce armor and soldiers, you have a great chance of winning.
The only thing I'm worried about is that Heifu, the shameless man, simply abandons the city and flees. This is the situation Feng Wuze least wants to happen. In that case, it will be difficult for him to explain to the court...
Feng Wuze's worries were not unnecessary. When Wang Yi, the commander of another department, arrived in Anlu with three thousand chariots and cavalry, he found that the only people left in Anlu City were chained together, frozen and hungry for several days, hugging each other.
Four thousand naked Qin soldiers trembled.
As for the people in the county, the city has long been deserted!
…
As early as the day when he sent someone to deliver a letter to Feng Wuze, Heifu ran away with the people in the county.
The boatman who came all the way from Ling Canal could not carry many people, only five thousand. This was why Heifu only brought five thousand people to Anlu for adventure. The same was true for the return trip now. He asked Zhong to take his mother with him.
As well as the 5,000 injured, elderly, children, sick and disabled who could not walk, they walked through the waterway to Shaxian, Jiangnan...
The remaining more than 40,000 people followed him by land and entered Yunmeng Daze from the south of the county.
Yunmengze, which is known as nine hundred miles away, is not a continuous body of water. During the dry season, it will turn into two large lakes separated from the north to the south, namely "Yunze" to the north of the Han River and "Mengze" to the south of the Han River.
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Heifu and his party were walking through the dry area between Yunmeng and Yunmeng. It was covered with white grass and reeds. It was a good place for Anlu people to fish, hunt and even escape.
When they entered this place, it was like entering their own backyard. What looked like a dangerous path to outsiders looked like a path to the locals. Their resistance to moving here was far less than that of moving to Guanzhong, but Hei Fu still came forward to persuade them in person.
Only then did I convince the folks.
But the hot-blooded captain was a little puzzled. He was transferred to Heifu's side again as a personal guard, along with Yuan Yong and a group of young people who performed outstandingly in the Battle of Anlu.
At this moment, Lieutenant Gong asked with some doubts: "Your Majesty, you finally recaptured Anlu, why did you abandon it without fighting?"
This was also the question raised by Yuan Yong and others. They immediately pricked up their ears, wanting to hear what the Lord was thinking.
"Have you ever read Sun Tzu Wu's Art of War?" Hei Fu asked Lieutenant Gong.
Li Cang, Wu Chen, and Gong Wei, the younger generation of the old tribe's disciples, were mostly well-educated, and Heifu even printed military books as gifts to them.
Lieutenant Gong nodded: "I've read it."
"In the chapter "Strategy", how many times do you know how to win?"
After thinking for a while, Lieutenant Gong said: "There are five! He who knows what can be fought and what cannot be fought wins; he who knows how to use the many and the weak wins; he who has the same desire from above and below wins; he who treats the unexpected with surprise wins; he wins with the general but the king cannot control him.
Victory. These five people know the way to victory."
"How about we and the enemy being outnumbered?" Heifu asked again.
Gong Ao raised both hands and said in comparison: "Feng Wuze has thirty or forty thousand people, all of whom are serious troops. I only have five thousand elite troops, and the remaining twenty thousand are temporary formations that lack training.
There are 30,000 old, weak, women and children who must be protected...well, we are indeed outnumbered and outnumbered."
He somewhat understood what Hei Fu meant, but he still smiled slyly: "However, as a prince, the one who shares the same desires will win. The general will be able but the king will not control him. The villain thinks that we have the advantage on these two points."
"As for waiting for the unexpected, the one who wins is victorious. However, we have been extremely exhausted from the last two battles. The enemy troops came from afar, but they are not much better. It is roughly the same. Maybe we can fight..."
Heifu was delighted. Today's young people should not be underestimated. Lieutenant Gong was able to use his brain, which was better than his reckless father.
But Jiang was still too old. He shook his head and said: "Otherwise, the enemy is strong and we are weak, the enemy is numerous and we are few. These rigid conditions cannot be solved by command and the unity of superiors and subordinates. If we lose, the whole county will be destroyed.
Even if we win, we will still suffer heavy losses, is it worth it?”
He put on a serious face and said in the tone of a leader lecturing a kid: "You guys remember, when I march and fight, what I pay attention to is preserving myself and destroying the enemy!"
"Save yourself and destroy the enemy?" Everyone repeated this sentence, and Yuan Yongruo realized something.
"Yes, only by destroying enemies in large numbers can we effectively preserve ourselves; conversely, only by effectively preserving ourselves can we destroy enemies in large numbers."
"So you don't have to fight unfavorable battles, and you don't have to defend cities that are too costly. This is called knowing who can fight and who can't win. If you want to win the entire war, you can't care about the gains and losses of one city or one pool. In
Before the main force of the Southern Expeditionary Army seizes Changsha County and goes north, the enemy is strong and we are weak. In this case, we can only temporarily avoid the enemy and give way to Anlu."
"I see!"
Lieutenant Gong and Yuan Yong were both convinced, but an unread soldier was still a little disappointed because he didn't understand: "Junhou, after you said so much, are you still forced to evacuate because you can't defeat me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he was severely stepped on by Yuan Yong, who blindly worshiped Hei Fu.
"A king has his own principles. Do you know how to use soldiers? What nonsense are you talking about!"
Hei Fu did not feel dissatisfied and said with a smile: "You can go and tell everyone that this is not a retreat, nor is it abandoning the city and fleeing, but a 'strategic shift'!"
The passion and blood have passed, and Heifu is still the same Heifu who only fights the battles that must be won. He will not take risks if he can't help it.
He pointed to the lake ahead and said:
"Look, now, we have entered the vast Yunmengze, and here we are, the mother lake that raised us."
Hei Fu waved his hand, full of pride:
"Get out of the box, the world is vast, and you can accomplish a lot!"
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ps: Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone. I’m going back to my hometown to celebrate the New Year. There’s only one chapter today. Have a good time watching the Spring Festival Gala tonight.