The six banners of the Jiedushi of the four towns finally appeared on the Gobi Desert in front of the city. The soldiers of the Yu Hous rode in uniform cavalry to clear the way in front. The five-party flags and team flags were fluttering in the wind. Bai Xiaode stood upright with a ceremonial knife in his hand to prepare for the victory.
Silver Sword Officer.
Since it was an expedition, there was no horizontal blowing team. Six escorts rode forward on horses of the same color. Two held the banner and two held the banner. The Yuhou officials accompanied them with six flags, and the leopard's tail was coiled on the top of the flag.
The crimson flag was held up by horizontal poles and held up properly.
Fumeng Lingcha rode alone in front, followed by the deputy envoy of Jiedu, Gao Xianzhi, the military commander of the four towns, Cheng Qianli, the deputy governor of the capital, Bian Lingcheng, the military supervisor of Jiedu, Chuulu, the ten-surnamed Khan, and Jiedu joined the army.
, secretary in charge.
Li Siye stood aside, never getting tired of this kind of arrogance. He especially remembered that when Gai Jiayun Tian Renwan was the governor, Fumeng was a little displeased and disdainful of the extravagance of the two big men. Now that he is sitting in this position, he is more...
The first two are even worse. It seems that almost no one is immune to such things as style.
Jia Chonghuan, wearing a white singlet, knelt beside the marching team and pulled a strand of long hair from his bun in front of his face, indicating that he had removed his official robe and wore it as a sign of guilt.
Jiedushi's team moved forward with their heads high, and no one looked at the guilty man kneeling beside the horse's hooves until Fu Meng Zhongcheng's horse passed by him, grabbed the reins with one hand and shouted: "Hurry!"
His horse stopped, and the whole team stopped. Although the flag was waving, there was only the sound of wind all around.
Fumeng Lingzha stretched out his hand and tugged at his beard, lowered his head to look at Jia Chonghuan: "You..."
General Jia prostrated himself on the ground with both hands, kowtowed and said: "The last general failed to guard the food and grass in Dunduo City, and his crime deserves death. Please punish me."
Fumeng bared his teeth like an old leopard, swung his riding crop and struck Jia Chonghuan on the head and face: "Mean slave! You are worse than a thin dog! You really deserve to die! Just give me the 20,000 stones of food and grass that I use to defeat the enemy."
What a waste, you slave! You deserve to die! You deserve to die!"
Jia Chonghuan did not dodge, he puffed up his chest and took the hard blow. Fumeng was angry and every whip was delivered with the force of gritting his teeth! Bang! Bang! Bang! There were more than a dozen blood stains on his white mid laner, and one of the whips broke off and was carried along with him.
Fumeng's horse screamed in pain, but Jia Chonghuan gritted his teeth and remained silent.
Li Siye secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Jia Chonghuan's life was saved.
Fumeng Lingzha was whipped a few times and coughed from exhaustion, then he pointed the riding whip at him and shouted: "I will summon the generals later and punish you on the spot!"
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"Open the way into the city!"
The Jiedu envoy team directly entered the city of Dianduan, set up a temporary tent in the city envoy's house, and immediately summoned the generals above the custody officer to discuss matters in the tent.
This is Jia Chonghuan's mansion, and his Persian wife is hiding somewhere.
The residence is a Persian-style building, a tall, thick, simple and translucent dome house, five feet deep and three feet wide, just enough to accommodate all the officers who can sit inside for meetings.
According to the order of official positions, Li Siye was ranked below Gao Xianzhi and Cheng Qianli. He was in the second position on the right and knelt down with everyone else.
Fumeng Lingcha abandoned the bed and knelt down in front of the table. On such an important occasion, he needed a sense of ceremony, and this old Han ritual was the best rule.
"Take Jia Chonghuan with you!"
General Jia was helped staggeringly into the tent and knelt on the ground.
Fumeng Lingzha pressed the crooked case with his hand and asked in a cold voice: "General Jia, twenty thousand shi of grain were burned under your eyes. What crime should you be punished for?"
"You will have to die to apologize."
"Hmph! What you say is beautiful! If you are so guilty that you are willing to die to apologize, do you still need to trouble me here today? You should have died and stink in the wilderness!" Fumeng immediately took out his saber from his waist.
, threw it in front of Jia Chonghuan: "Give you the knife, go out and die!"
Jia Chonghuan's shoulders trembled, and he hesitantly picked up the horizontal knife. His eyes were lowered to the ground. Although he did not dare to look up high, judging from this performance alone, he did not have the determination to die.
Li Siye felt that he should open his mouth. At least he could get a favor from Jia Chonghuan first, so he raised his hands and crossed his chest: "In..."
Unexpectedly, Gao Xianzhi was half a step ahead, and quickly crossed his hands and said: "Zhongcheng, Jia Chonghuan was attacked and burned when he was guarding the grain and grass. He deserves to die. But now is the time to employ people, so it is useless to let him die in vain. Why not let him die in vain?"
He will make up for it by serving on the battlefield."
Even though he was beaten ahead, Li Siye felt he had to hurry up to catch up, so he crossed his arms and added: "Zhongcheng, Jia Chonghuan has a good attitude towards pleading guilty. Besides, he has learned a painful lesson, and he will learn a lesson if he is spared his life."
If you are brave, Shi Shi will definitely be able to defeat the enemy in the next expedition."
Immediately after Wang Zheng saw him, Ma Fu and others also came forward to plead for mercy, and there were several Yamen and prison guards whom he didn't know. They all knelt on the ground and begged: "I hope Zhongcheng can spare his life.
"
Fumeng Lingcha had been waiting for them to beg for mercy and came down the steps. With an angry face, he pointed at Jia Chonghuan who was kneeling on the ground and said: "For the sake of so many colleagues interceding for you, I will record your head and leave it to Ren Bozhuan for the time being."
City Envoy, I’m giving you a warning today. If you don’t realize your shame and bravely commit crimes, I will reduce you to a pawn even if I don’t take your head.”
Jia Chonghuan was relieved and kowtowed gratefully to his husband Meng Lingcha: "Thank you Zhongcheng for not killing me." He then bowed to the generals on the left and right: "Thank you for interceding for me. I will definitely live up to your expectations."
After he bowed, he bowed out while holding on to the whiplash on his back.
Fumeng Lingcha sat upright, his blushing face became more serious, and he said to the generals: "The food and grass in Dunduo City were burned, and the expedition against the sudden cavalry Shi Huang can only be postponed. Where can Cang Cao join the army?"
Among the many staff and generals, the bloated Wu Sangao stood out from the crowd, came to the center of the hall, crossed his hands and said: "My subordinates are here."
"This time the food transportation was unexpected, how much food did the Kucha, Yanqi and Qi armies carry in total? How much food is left at the moment?"
"Reporting to Zhongcheng, the two armies transported a total of more than 8,000 dan of grain. After deducting the losses along the way, there are still 7,000 dan left."
“Why is there so much missing?”
"This," Wu Sangao looked embarrassed, thinking that it would be better not to rush to answer such a silly question.
Fu Meng, a clever observer, could figure it out after a little thought. Well, soldiers need to eat and drink every day on the road. He skipped this section and asked again: "How much food is there in the city?"
Wu Sangao couldn't answer. He had just arrived today and hadn't had time to check the warehouse yet. Jia Chonghuan went down to heal his injuries again. When he was anxiously raising his sleeves to wipe his sweat, Li Siye intervened from the side: "Diaocheng City has two thousand shi of grain in stock.
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"There are only nine thousand stones in total, which is far from enough." Fumeng Lingcha pondered in his heart. He must have enough food to cover more than 20,000 people for two months before he dared to attack Shi Mohe's tribe with confidence.
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"Zhongcheng," Li Siye said again: "I have more than 8,000 stones of grain stored in the warehouse in Shule City. I need my subordinates to send people back to reschedule the transportation and ensure that it arrives within twenty days."
Cheng Qianli also said: "There are still more than 20,000 stones of grain in the warehouse in Qiuci. We can mobilize manpower to go back and work with General Li Siye to the east and west to speed up the transportation of grain to Diaochuan City."
Gao Xianzhi, who was sitting above him, did not speak, only stroking his long beard and nodding slightly.
Fumeng Lingcha was obviously not satisfied. He held his forehead and said: "My Anxi Protectorate started preparations in February. From the mobilization of food and grass to the dispatch of the army, a total of 12,000 warriors were gathered for the war, and the Tibetan auxiliary people also had five or six people.
Thousands of people, it's already May in the blink of an eye. Now it will take more than a month to raise food and grass again, not to mention the consumption of food and grass. This gives He Mo a chance to breathe and make him well prepared. It will become more and more difficult to capture and kill him."
"I want to head to Suiye River within ten days to kill Mr. Mohe. Do you have any good ideas?"
The generals looked at each other, or whispered to each other, or bowed their heads in thought and shook their heads slightly. How could they leave within ten days without sufficient food and grass?
Only Gao Xianzhi sat motionless, raising his head and looking ahead, seemingly confident. Li Siye also had some ideas in mind, but he was not as experienced as Gao Xianzhi in leading troops, so he did not want to talk easily.
He turned to look at Gao Xianzhi, thinking that you should speak quickly so I can see if I have a chance to refute. Unexpectedly, Gao just stroked his beard without moving, looked sideways at Li Siye, and first showed an encouraging smile to signal Li Siye to speak, but when it didn't work, he actually spoke.
Asked: "General Li seems to have a good plan."
But Fumeng Lingcha had already lowered his head and looked at him. Although Li Siye didn't offer many suggestions in the past, he was always a creative thinker who jumped out of barriers and was known for being good at cooking without rice.
When he heard Gao Xianzhi's question, he extended his hand to invite him: "Since Si Ye has a good strategy, why don't you tell me?"
Li Siye had no choice but to say: "It's just an immature idea and it's not yet a plan."
Gao Xianzhi encouraged him from the side: "Even if it is an idea, we must put it forward and discuss it with everyone. Then we can make a plan, right?"
"That's fine." He stood up from his seat, crossed his hands and said to his husband, Meng Lingcha: "For this expedition, Shi Huang's surname is Mohe. The strategy of Zhongcheng is to attack step by step, seize Suiyechuan and kill Mohe in one fell swoop.
He Dagan still ran long distances, fought quickly, attacked directly on his tent, and captured the thief and the king."
"This," Fumeng Lingcha said hesitantly, stroking his beard: "I originally wanted to win steadily, but now it seems that a long-distance attack is not a bad idea. However, the cavalry only accounts for 30% of our army. How can we make a long-distance attack?"
"Siye's advice is to carry no baggage, no auxiliary troops, no camping at night, sleep in the open air, no cooking utensils, one person and a camel and horse, only a piece of sheep felt, a bag of water and fifty days of dry food, relying on two
He marched quickly with his legs and marched long distances to Sui Yechuan, directly taking the sudden cavalry Shi Yazhang."
After he finished speaking, he turned around and looked around at everyone present, meaning that I had finished expressing my opinions and everyone was welcome to find fault.