Chapter 10: The North is on the edge of the Jingwei
Wu Jie is not an idiot. He is thirty-seven years old this year and has been in the army for seventeen years. He read books when he was young and has been in the army for more than ten years. Some things can be seen through at a glance. He knows that this is
I bumped into it, and then I was trapped by these people.
But I know, I know, I know, I know, the problem now is that the man in the prison is a real censor, Zhongcheng, and a real messenger of the emperor. The so-called serious official who represents the central government, and the seriousness of the matter has also been determined.
In front of his eyes, his old boss Qu Duan indeed did something incredible.
Therefore, no matter how hot and smelly things were in this stall, since he got involved and was forced into a corner, he could only bite the bullet and do it.
As for how to do it, Wu Dujian looked ignorant, but after spending seventeen years in the Western Army, how could he not know the process of certain things?
Even if he actually did it, Wu Dujian was good at the art of war and his own thunderous attack methods, and he had the momentum to capture thieves and kings with great force and resoluteness.
This day is the first day of May.
Wu Jie left the prison without stopping at all. He first imprisoned the commander surnamed Xue, and stuffed him opposite Hu Zhongcheng and others, and then immediately presided over the annexation of Xue's troops.
At the same time, he wrote a confidential private letter and asked his younger brother and son Wu Gong to take it with him personally to meet his brother Wu Lin on the other side of the river.
After two days, and two days of waiting for the elders in the prison, Wu Jie just calculated the time and wrote more than a dozen letters to the generals who were familiar with him on Jingyuan Road to send them to each...
Moreover, the military system in the Song Dynasty was complicated. As a frontier route, the various roads in Guanxi had a special military system from the beginning, just like a military region. Therefore, it was not as common as in the Central Plains to have commanders and commanders' titles. They were more based on the word "road".
Regional units are used to divide generals.
For example, before Wu Jie became the governor, he successively served as the tenth general and second deputy general of Jingyuan Road. Qu Duan's step in annexing the military power of Guanxi was to first obtain the military power of Jingyuan Road for his own use, and then use the Jingyuan Road soldiers
Use horses as capital, and then use war to try to annex soldiers and horses from other places.
Therefore, these letters are naturally addressed to the core members of Quduan, who are also Wu Jie's old acquaintances. They are currently concentrated on the Jingyuan Road generals on the border between Yan'an Prefecture and Yanzhou. However, the contents are not that big a deal.
It was just some hints of comfort and reminder, not what he really expected... In other words, a soldier naturally has a soldier's way of doing things, so how could he rely on letters to connect them?
In fact, as soon as these letters were sent out, Governor Wu got the message that General Qu Duanqu had already arrived on the other side of the river under the escort of his younger brother.
This day was the fourth day of the fifth lunar month. Wu Jie did not dare to neglect, and immediately led his bodyguard and horsemen out of the city to the north of the city to meet him on the pontoon bridge over Huachi.
Qu Duan, who is about forty this year, is the golden age of a general. He is tall and tall, with a reddish complexion. He is wearing dazzling armor and has an extraordinarily tall mount on his crotch. It is none other than the famous Kansai horse, Iron Horse.
"Xiang', a hundred cavalry guards were divided into left and right wings to follow from the rear, and Wu Lin led more than a hundred cavalry from the rear to follow and escort... Nearly two hundred cavalry came from the north at gallop, which has a certain momentum of its own, not to mention there are more
The flag of the capital fluttered in the summer wind, and it looked majestic and majestic in line with General Qu's recent complacency.
However, no matter how spectacular it is, there must be basic principles. When Qu Duan came to the pontoon, he saw Wu Jieyin dismounting his horse and respecting the Prime Minister on the other side. He also smiled proudly, got off his horse, and led the iron elephant away.
The other knights of the guard also dismounted and cautiously climbed onto the bridge one after another.
After Qu Duan passed the pontoon first, he came directly to the roadside and got on his horse, ready to continue moving forward. However, Wu Jie behaved extremely respectfully today. He actually considered himself the second-largest general in Jingyuan Road after Qu Duan. He stepped forward and took the initiative to lead the horse for Qu Duan, and stopped the others from following him. He only stopped under the shade of a tree dozens of steps away so that the two of them could face each other privately.
However, Qu Duan behaved grandly throughout the whole process, calmly and calmly without mentioning anything. He did not dismount when he came under the shade of a tree, but he still asked condescendingly on the iron elephant:
"Da Wu, you said that Mr. Yuwen sent an envoy again, and he was beaten by Xue Feng? And he was also thrown into prison?"
"Yes!" Wu Jie glanced at the other side, raised his head, and calmly faced each other seriously.
"How did you deal with it?" Qu Duan frowned at him.
"The last general was in Luojiao City at that time. After receiving a letter from Huang Zhixian in the city, he came here to capture Xue Feng and prepared to rescue the envoy of Mr. Yu Wen. But for some reason, the envoy only said that it was done by you. He deliberately asked Xue Feng to hit him with a killing stick, and then asked me to be a good person, but he stayed in prison and could not come out..."
Hearing this, Qu Duan frowned more and more, but he was not angry. Instead, he chuckled: "If I want to beat him with a killing stick, why don't we use an old man from Jingyuan Road instead of one of Wang Xie's old men?"
Wu Jie also sighed: "This is the truth. Others don't know. How could I not know that this must be Xue Feng's offense and has nothing to do with Dutong. But for some reason, the envoy believed that it was your arrangement by Dutong. It's not just that. After Huang Zhixian had a private chat with the envoy, he was also imprisoned... and told me bluntly that unless you come in person, you will never come out. And I will finally think that where is Mr. Yuwen? …”
"No need to say more." Qu Duan finally became impatient and waved his hand immediately. "It is these court officials who are self-righteous and have repeatedly ruined the overall situation on the front line. They thought that Xianggong Yuwen was a decent person who only sat in Chang'an and could delegate power to others. Who would have thought that I would make such a fuss...Besides, your summons was sent in such a hurry, didn't I come here quickly?"
Wu Jie looked at the knights who were dismounting from their horses to cross the river from the pontoon, and then remounting their horses. He nodded in agreement and continued to speak calmly: "This is exactly the truth. No matter what, Wang Jinglue should explain it clearly to the angels. Otherwise, wouldn’t the more than twenty generals up and down the Jingyuan Road have all been implicated by the commander-in-chief and then regarded as rebels by the imperial court? Wu came from a good family and worked hard for seventeen years, but he never thought of rebelling."
Qu Duan, who was riding on the iron elephant, was slightly startled, and then his expression suddenly changed. Just as he was about to speak, he followed the other person's gaze and suddenly looked towards the bridge entrance.
Only then did Qu Duan notice that Wu Lin, who was supposed to turn back directly on the other side of the river, had also followed him at some point. Not only that, when he was talking to Wu Jie just now, Wu Lin's guards were talking to him. The guards were basically mixed together to cross the river. At this time, about a hundred people had just crossed half, but they were half Wu Lin's troops and half his own guards.
In other words, there were only a few dozen of his personal guards on the other side of the river, but they were still surrounded by a mixture of more than three times the Wu brothers' guards.
"Don't cross the other side again!"
At this moment, Wu Lin, who was at the entrance of the bridge, also got on his horse and raised his voice to the bridge: "The general is a general from outside the town. At this time, he is going to the city to meet the envoy from the official family. According to the rules, he cannot bring too many guards... There are enough people, the rest are waiting on the other side of the river, and meals will be delivered to you later."
Complaints arose on the other side of the river, and some people even questioned, Wu Jie clearly had troops stationed in this city, so why did he still write these false claims?
However, soon there were several guards officers who were familiar with Wu Lin on the south bank. They spoke at the right time to relieve the siege. They were nothing more than words such as: If the official envoys have rewards, will they be divided equally? Will there be wine and meat later?
But as soon as these words were spoken, the other side burst into laughter, and no one cared about the previous complaints.
Qu Duan turned around and looked at each other coldly: "Da Wu, what are you brothers doing?"
"It's not that we want to do anything, it's because the angels are clever. Why did you suggest that Wang Jinglue should be killed? That makes you want to rebel, so you have to rely on me." Wu Jie answered frankly. "I was forced into a corner, but I didn't want to be wronged. , so we can only use this method to invite the governor to meet the angel in person!"
"Shit angel!" Qu Duan came back to his senses and sneered at him. "It's most likely that Yu Wenxu got a few eunuchs from Tokyo and came to fill them. You are also a veteran who has been in the army for 17 or 18 years. Okay, I have all the troops and horses under my command. How can I, the first general under my command, get you to be like this?"
"They are not eunuchs. They are the censor Zhongcheng as the chief envoy and the Privy Council member of the army as the deputy envoy." Wu Jie continued speaking calmly. "Both of them escaped from Nanyang City with the official family at the beginning of the year. The confidants who drove to Yanling to fight the battle...these two are the official officials!"
"They said I wanted to rebel just because I was beaten by Xue Feng?" Qu Duan was startled when he heard the introduction of his identity, but then he became angry.
"Du Tong, it is useless to talk about the matter now. Why can't you go to the city to meet the censor Zhongcheng and explain it face to face?" Wu Jie also became impatient.
Qu Duan was stunned and speechless.
"You don't think that I, Wu Jie, want to harm you, do you?" Wu Jie became more and more impatient. "If so, you would have ordered the war before going to the pontoon... But if so, I'm afraid everyone in the world will know that you are going to kill you. It’s a rebellion.”
"I must not be a match for you brothers who are so mean-spirited!" Qu Duan finally sneered, but then he rode off towards Zhiluo City.
Wu Jie looked grim and turned around to mount his horse, then galloped to catch up with the knight from the north of the approach bridge.
After walking two or three miles, I came to the city, but I saw that Qu Duan's horse was very fast. He arrived at the city gate early, but then did not enter the city. He seemed to be wary and wanted to wait for the dozens of mounted guards who were following him before proceeding. enter.
However, when they arrived in front of the city, before Qu Duan could speak, Wu Jie simply turned around and shouted: "Half of the people who came with the capital will stay, and only half can enter!"
Qu Duan was furious. He turned around on his horse and scolded him with his riding crop: "Wu Jie, do you really want to rebel against me?"
But now, Wu Jie didn't bother to pretend to the other party anymore. He simply raised his head and raised his riding whip to face each other: "Qu Dutong, there is Yushi Zhongcheng who came to the city with the official's decree. The Lord of the Banxiang, don't you? Following the order, do you really want to rebel against the Song Dynasty?!"
The surrounding guards had already been dumbfounded, but they were all members of the same family, and they were all panic-stricken when they looked at each other.
Qu Duan was furious, but had no choice but to sneer, and then urged the iron elephant on his crotch to gallop into the city. The remaining guards looked at each other, but as expected, half of them were left behind under Wu Lin's gaze, and only about twenty riders followed.
Enter the city.
However, that's not all. When they entered the city, they could not make it more than a hundred steps, and were intercepted by an armed force at the first street intersection.
Qu Duan turned around and saw Wu Jie leading Baiqi to follow him. He was completely angry: "Da Wu! You are not going to rebel against me today, are you going to kill me? It's pitiful that I, Qu Duan, will be killed by the army after saying "Zongheng".
Killed by a subordinate?"
"Does the capital know that subordinates should not intimidate their superiors?!" Wu Jie reined in his horse and came to the other party, still not afraid. "Qu Da! Think about it carefully, what I did to you today, what I did to you that day at Diaoyin Mountain Camp
What's wrong with Wang Jinglue? Didn't he just come to see you, a subordinate, like this that day, but ended up passing through the first level to get rid of half of the guards... If you, Qu Daru, didn't have the intention to kill your boss and rebel, how could I, Da Wu, save this?
What are you thinking? What I, Da Wu, did today was just to make you sober up!"
Qu Duan was stunned, speechless, and then walked through the intersection in silence.
And then, just as Wu Jie said, Qu Duan encountered the same experience as the concubines in his camp that day... Every time they passed a street corner, half of the guards were left behind to wait until they arrived at the county jail.
At the door, there was only one horse left.
Seeing that the only guard on horseback was forcibly stopped by Wu Jie's soldiers, Qu Da turned over and dismounted and continued to move forward. But when he stepped into the prison, he suddenly felt cold all over. He could no longer suppress it, and then he stopped and looked around for a moment.
God, I raised my head and sighed.
"We're all here, what do you mean?" Wu Jie followed behind him and looked at him coldly.
"I feel sorry for the Iron Elephant. This horse can travel four hundred miles a day. It is the first-class horse in Kansai." Qu Duan looked up to the sky. "I will give it to you in the future. It will not be an insult to him."
This time it was Wu Jie's turn to be furious: "Qu Da! No one wants to kill you! I just let you defend yourself! If the censor Zhongcheng wants to kill you without any basis, I will risk my life to let you go."
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Qu Duan shook his head slightly and did not defend himself, but finally stepped into the prison with dignity.