Chapter 956: Borrowing the Way
Li Sanniang and Wang Yu listened to the reason, their faces were solemn, and they realized that this was a great hidden danger, even if they hid their identities with this small jade pendant, they could walk all over the Great Song Dynasty alone with empty hands, and they could live extremely nourishingly.
"Give it back to me......" Zhao Yu was proudly showing off, and suddenly felt empty in his hand, the jade pendant had been taken away by Wang Yu, and he hurriedly went to grab it.
"It can't be left to the official family, otherwise it will leave the palace without permission!" Wang Yu took the jade pendant and immediately turned around and pressed it under him.
"Official, Concubine Chen's body is feint, don't be rough!" Li Sanniang saw that the emperor refused to give up, and stretched out her hand to grab it, but she hurriedly stopped her.
"This ...... This is really money that cannot be leaked! Zhao Yu let go of his hand when he heard this, and sat down with a look of annoyance.
"The official family, why bother with these trivial things, the concubines are also for the good of the official family!" Wang Yu saw that the emperor let go of his hand, and secretly turned his face, seeing that he was angry and timid.
"Are you afraid that I will leave the palace without permission if I have this jade pendant, aren't I afraid that you will sneak out of the palace if you take it?" Zhao Hao looked at his pitiful appearance, but his heart was soft, but he still said with a stiff face.
"How can a concubine have such a thought, then...... Then let's return it to the official family! Seeing that the emperor was still safe, he hesitated and handed the jade pendant back.
"That's right, that's good!" Zhao Hao smiled and reached out to pick it up, but as soon as his fingers touched it, there was a flower in front of him, and the jade pendant was gone.
"Concubine Chen, don't be deceived by the officials!" Li Sanniang took the jade pendant in her hand first, shook it and put it in her arms.
"It seems that Sanniang has always had the heart to betray me!" Zhao Yu grabbed the air, looked at Li Sanniang's smug appearance, and pointed his finger at him and snorted coldly.
"If Sister Shufei has the heart to deviate, how can she follow the official family all the way to Jiangnan, and the official family must not be careful!" Wang Yu saw that the emperor had transferred his 'resentment' to Li Sanniang, and hurriedly defended him.
"Concubine Chen, don't worry, the official family is cheating, I won't fall for his agitation!" Li Sanniang glanced at the emperor and said.
"Alas, Concubine Shu didn't go to lead the troops, it's a pity, I have no future with you!" Zhao Yu retracted his hand and looked at Li Sanniang with a grudge.
"Don't be cowardly, the concubines won't be fooled!" Li Sanniang took a step back and guarded her chest vigilantly.
"Sister Shufei, are the officials deceiving people again?" Wang Yu looked at Li Sanniang as if she was facing a great enemy, and didn't pay attention to the helpless emperor at all, and asked curiously.
"The way of using soldiers, show them softly, and welcome them with rigidity; Show it to be weak, and multiply it to be strong; For it, it should be done; He will want to the west, and show it to the east; First resentment and then merge, before and then clearly. The official family is familiar with military books, and he is the best at using strange soldiers, and he is the best at deceiving people, he first shows weakness, pretends to be pitiful, and then robs by surprise, and must not be confused by the surface of the official family! Li Sanniang said with a sneer.
"Hehe, it seems that I will have to take a good look at Sanniang in the future, you know my mind so well, if you really betray, I won't be able to take you even if I am a pro-conquest!" Zhao Yu is really helpless at this time, it seems that he has already pondered his thoughts, and it is not easy to deceive him again, so he said with a wry smile.
"I also ask the official family to atone for their sins, and the concubine knows that this alone can only limit the official family for a while, and after returning to Beijing, a new one can be replaced. But this time out of Beijing, the concubine was ordered by the queen mother, bearing the trust of the queen mother and the sisters, and the concubine could only temporarily keep it for the official family, and she would return it after returning to Beijing. Li Sanniang said with a straight face.
"In this case, this thing will be given to the concubine!" Zhao Hao was dotted with a heart, and said with a red face.
"The concubine thanked the official family for the reward!" Li Sanniang saluted again, but she also put her mind at ease, the emperor would not think about this time at least before returning to Beijing, and she still believed that the emperor believed in his words.
"Aren't you afraid that I will sneak away tonight and leave you two in this inn?" Zhao Yu knew that the reason why Wang Yu was unwell was that fatigue was secondary, the main thing was that he was nervous, depressed, and his spirit improved greatly after a while. And now it was getting late, and he asked with a smile on his face.
"Official, this is a post house, if it is not in the palace, you can't come to ......" Wang Yu said with a crimson face when she heard it. A few days ago, in order to prevent the emperor from going out of the palace to lead the army to march in person, everyone crowded into the Zhiyuan Hall to guard, but they didn't expect the emperor to do something ridiculous.
"Hmph, the official family doesn't have to say anything, so what's the matter!" Li Sanniang understood that the emperor knew the seriousness of the matter, and he was just making fun of it, if he showed weakness, he would become even worse, and said generously at the moment.
"This ......" Sure enough, Zhao Yu saw that Li Sanniang had made the bed, so he untied his clothes, but he panicked......
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Just after the ugly hour of the next day, the team had already assembled, and Yi Cheng also urged his subordinates to prepare breakfast and feed the war horses as early as the third watch. After a full meal, Zhao Hao led the army to leave Zhenwu Town, and at this time, the sky had just dawned, and the morning travelers had not yet gotten up. Looking at the procession leaving, the post man who saw him off was full of emotion while holding the money bag left by the emperor, he had long heard that His Majesty acted very well, and he would never take it by force. Speaking of post houses, it is also a royal property, which seems to be just a left-handed hand-to-right-handed, but it also shows the emperor's virtue.
Zhenwu Town is only less than eighty miles from Jiankang, and Zhao Yu urges the army to move forward quickly. Zhao Yu along the way, not only a little emotional, in order to facilitate the rule of the huge country, the Mongols quickly transmitted news, and established a perfect post system, but also improved the road traffic conditions, built a post road to the four directions, so that the speed of travel is much faster. In order to arrive at the destination as soon as possible, Zhao Yu hit the tip on the way, took a little rest, drank the horse and fed the food, and rushed to Jiankang in time. He did not enter the city, but directly led the army to the Yanziji Water Village outside the city.
Yanziji is located on the Zhidu Mountain on the outskirts of Jiankang City, because the stone peak is abrupt on the river, and it is named after the sky on three sides, and it is like a swallow spreading its wings and wanting to fly. Zhidu Mountain is more than ten zhang high, connects the river bank in the south, and the other three sides are surrounded by the river, and the terrain is very dangerous. The rocky waves hit the stones, surging, it is an important Yangtze River crossing and a military important place, it is a place where soldiers must fight, and all dynasties have set up water villages to garrison here.
The naval army stationed here belongs to the Yangtze River Naval Division, equipped with more than 40 warships of various kinds and more than 2,000 soldiers. Knowing that the emperor was in person, the commander Liu Quan hurriedly led the generals out of the camp to greet him, he was one of the officers who formed the inland water army from the imperial front water army, and saw the emperor's dusty appearance and knew that he did not enter the city, but went straight to the water village, and quickly sent people to Jiankang City to report to Chen Fenglin, the envoy of the town.
After Zhao Yu entered the village, he did not rest, but climbed to the top of Zhidu Mountain to watch the enemy. He had been here in his previous life, and remembered that tens of thousands of Chinese were massacred in the river beach that invaded China, making it one of the main killing sites of the Nanjing Massacre, and a monument to the compatriots killed in the Yanziji River Beach was erected to commemorate the martyrs. In the Opium War, the British invaders burned all the way along the river, and when they attacked Nanjing, they also landed at Yanziji, entered Guanyin Gate, went to Maigao Bridge, and occupied Tianbao City. The Qing government was forced to sign the Treaty of Nanjing, which humiliated the country.
On the top of the mountain, Zhao Yu looked at the river with a telescope, but saw that the river at this time was much wider than in the previous life, and the water flow was more turbulent, there were no high-rise buildings on both sides of the river, and the field of vision was broader, and the scene on the opposite side was unobstructed under the telescope, and the trapped soldiers were in Guabu Town on the opposite bank. After examining it for a while, Zhao Yu put down the binoculars and frowned even tighter.
He knew that the types of landforms and their characteristics along both sides of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River were different, but the north bank was a large expanse of low plains, mostly alluvial and partly lactocratic. The plains have numerous tributaries and lakes, while terraces and mountains are far from the river. The number of terraces is small, there are few rocks protruding from the river bank, and only a small number of hilly terraces are scattered near the river bank, resulting in poor impact resistance of the embankment, easy to collapse, and is not conducive to the formation of natural ports. At the same time, it also caused great difficulties to cross the Yangtze River to the north.
On the contrary, on the south bank, the floodplain plain is relatively narrow, and the areas along the river are mostly mountainous hills and terraces, which are not only widely distributed, but also have many stages, up to three or four levels. The mountainous hills on the south bank are composed of bedrock, and some of the terraces are pedestal terraces, and some are stacked terraces composed of reticulated laterite and lower Shu soil, which have strong impact resistance. It is close to the Yangtze River, and some rocks and terraces are close to the riverside; Many of the stony mountains are directly adjacent to the river or stretch out of the river to become the rockhead, which can be used as a natural harbor.
According to historical records, the Yangtze River counts down from the upper reaches, there are a total of 72 famous rocks along the way, most of which are on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and there are few on the north bank, and the swallow rock is also known as the first rock of the Yangtze River in the world. This also leads to the unevenness of the plane shape of the river along the way, showing obvious characteristics of wide and narrow, the widest part of the river valley can reach more than 40 li, and the narrowest point is here, only about 15 li.
"Commander Liu, what is the situation of our army's assault detachment trapped on the other side?" Zhao Yu asked Liu Quandao, who was with him.
"Your Majesty, Chen Dutong has also sent troops across the river many times these days to try to rescue, but due to the large strength of the enemy army and the strengthening of the river defense, it is difficult to cross the river." Liu Quan Shili replied, "However, according to the reports of the soldiers who had smuggled across the river, Meng Yuan did not withdraw from the siege, and it is obvious that he has not yet been able to succeed." In the dead of night, there are reports from lookout posts, and the sound of gunfire and the flash of muskets can be faintly heard, and they should still be on the lookout for help. ”
"Where's the ferry port in Guabu Town?" Zhao Hao asked again.
"Your Majesty, please see, there is a stone rock on the opposite bank, because it resembles a sail, so it is called Luofan Mountain, and the ferry is there!" Liu Quan pointed to the other side and said.
"I saw it!" Zhao Yu picked up the telescope and looked in the direction he was pointing, and saw a small stone mountain standing on the bank of the river, which was estimated to be eight or nine zhang high and no more than half a mile in circumference.
"Your Majesty, according to rumors, the Shifan Rock on the north bank and the Swallow Rock on the other side of the river are closely connected to the roots, and the Swallow Rock is the male Rock, and the Shifan Rock is "the mother Rock, which is a couple, and when the water rises in the rainy season, the water surface will be lower, and it is called the last Rock of the Seventy-two Rocks of the Yangtze River." Liu Quan replied.
"Then this Luofan Mountain, won't it be Guabu Mountain!" In Zhao Yuji's previous life, Guabu Mountain was not like this, and he was a little puzzled.
In Zhao Hao's memory, the town of Guabu in the previous life was classified as Nanjing, and the reason why he went there was because there was a geopark, and the main body was Guabu Mountain. It is an ancient volcano that erupted, and due to the isothermal difference when the lava cooled during the eruption, it formed a unique wonder of pentagonal hexagonal stone columns. The diffusion and contraction caused by the flow of the lava give the arrangement of the stone pillars in the Kuabu Mountains a unique style. These stone pillars are pressed together to form mountains.
But Zhao Yu felt that the mountain was much bigger than Zhishifan Mountain, and it was still a few miles away from the riverbank, and it was obviously not like what was in front of him. Although there is a saying that the vicissitudes of the sea will not change so much in a few hundred years. He even wondered if it was because the river bank retreated under the impact of the river, and most of the mountain was exposed to the ground.
"Your Majesty, that hill is Guabu Mountain, and when the Yangtze River rises, it will reach the foot of the mountain!" Liu Quan also pointed to a small mountain road on the bank of the river.
"Oh, it turned out to be there, I Zhang Guan Li Dai it!" Zhao Yu said with a smile. But the mountain is bigger than I remembered before, and there are no bare rocks. But I suddenly remembered that a local person had said that there was a rock rock at a quarry pit at the ferry on the shore, and then the quarrying was blown up, leaving only a large pit. The reason why Guabu Mountain was found to have a unique geological phenomenon is also because of quarrying, which was peeled off layer by layer, but it was also cut off by nearly half.
"Your Majesty, the assault detachment of our army is trapped on it, and it is precisely because of the cliffs on the side of the river that it is difficult for the ships to rescue them. But it is precisely because of the precipitous situation in Guabu Mountain that they have been able to hold on to the danger and persist until now. Liu Quan said with a wry smile, lamenting that blessings and misfortunes are born together, and the world is unpredictable.
"Are you sure you can lean the boat against the foot of the mountain?" Zhao Hao asked again.
"Your Majesty, there are many rockfalls on the riverbank, forming dangerous shoals, and the current is turbulent, if you are not careful, the ship will be destroyed and people will die, and the general will not dare to guarantee success." Liu Quan shook his head and said.
"If you force the ferry to seize the ferry, how sure are you?" Zhao Hao asked again.
"Your Majesty, the last general thinks that although the river here is relatively narrow, it is also more than ten miles, and it is not a moment away, and to seize the ferry, you have to cross the river with heavy troops, so there is no way to hide your tracks. Therefore, it is necessary to cross the ferry with a large army, occupy the ferry in one fell swoop, and defeat the enemy army. If a small force is used to smuggle in, the enemy army is mostly cavalry, and it can quickly increase troops to support, and it is difficult for small troops to gain a foothold and hold the ferry. Liu Quan said.
"Well, this is indeed a bit difficult, if you erect a pontoon bridge, the river is so wide, it will not be overnight!" Zhao Hao frowned, and suddenly pointed to a sandbar in the river, "Can the sandbar in that river allow people to land?" ”
"Your Majesty, the sandbar is called Qingzhou, and it is not inhabited, so it can land at this time!" Liu Quan replied......