In Lin'an in August, the weather began to cool, but the warm and tense atmosphere in the city has never cooled. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The cries for the Yasukuni disaster, the rejuvenation of the Great Martial Arts, and the Northern Expedition have never been lowered, and the students have gone to the streets several times a month to preach, and the storytellers in the restaurants and tea shops in the city are telling bloody and tragic stories, and most of the women in the green buildings are patriotic poems. Because of this propaganda, the North-South dispute, which had once become fierce, gradually softened and was replaced by people's hostility. Writing has become a trend among scholars, and there are also famous wealthy businessmen and gentry who donate their family property to contribute to the resistance to the enemy and the humiliation, which is a good story for a while.

After July, the warm atmosphere is still heating up, and time has been pressed by the air of terror minute by minute. In the past month, in the appeal of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, several armies of the Wu Dynasty have arrived at the front line one after another, ready to fight to the death with the Jurchens, and the news of the opening of the army of Zongfu and Zongbi came later, followed by the war in the southwest and on the banks of the Yellow River, which finally started.

For the final arrival of these things, Qin Hui didn't have any excitement, and what was pressing on his back was just an incomparably heavy pressure. Compared to his active activities half a year ago and in recent months, everything is now out of control.

As the current Privy Council, Qin Hui nominally has the highest military authority in Nanwu, but under the suppression of the Zhou imperial power and the "righteousness" of the anti-Jin Dynasty, Qin Hui can do limited. A few months ago, riding on the anger and fear caused by the Black Flag Army capturing Liu Yu and throwing the black cauldron at the Wu Dynasty, Qin Hui did his best to implement the plan he had been planning for years: to smash the Black Flag with all his might, and then use the sword sharpened by the Black Flag Imperial Jurchen. If the situation is good, it may be able to fight a bloody way.

Frightened by the Black Flag's actions, Emperor Zhou Yong agreed to the plan, and the eldest princess Zhou Pei was also on his side for a while, but soon after, the entire plan was hindered in the implementation process. The lobbying of some of the armies who had been privately taught by the Black Flag was not a big deal, and it was the sudden hesitation of Zhou Yong's will that made Qin Hui feel powerful. In the end, Qin Hui was stunned by the fact that 100,000 Wuxiang troops were ordered to storm the southwest, during which he mobilized almost the entire power of the court, and in the end, Zhou Yong's attitude still made him fall short.

The Black Flag Army resisted the repeated attacks of more than a million troops in the northwest, and even defeated the millions of Qi troops. What is the use of 100,000 people? If you can't do your best, you might as well not do it!

He was puzzled by the change in Zhou Yong's attitude - although Zhou Yong was originally a tolerant and indecisive person - at first he thought that the crown prince Junwu had secretly lobbied, but later found out that the key came from the eldest princess's mansion. Zhou Pei, who was once angry with the black flag, finally made an extremely indifferent statement to his father.

“…… Ning Yi once killed the first emperor Zhou Zhe in Bianliang, and then arrested Liu Yu in the palace. If he really ignored the threat of the Jin Kingdom and went all out to crusade, when Ning Yi was desperate, what would be the safety of his father? ”

The tripartite competition, the Wu Dynasty wants to destroy the black flag first, and then the Jurchen, it was originally a very controversial strategy, no matter what other statements, what the eldest princess really moved Zhou Yong is probably like this. You forced Ning Yi in a hurry, is it really safe in the palace in Lin'an? And with Zhou Yong's timid and fearful character, he thought it was true. On the one hand, he did not dare to force the black flag to the extreme, and on the other hand, he wanted to separate the various armies that had been privately taught and received from the black flag, and in the end, the whole strategy fell on the body of Lu Qiaoshan of the Wuxiang army.

The plan for the relationship with the Black Flag has indeed turned into a beating on many armies, and it has been implemented, and Qin Hui has also promoted the order to rectify the discipline of various armies, but this is only a rectification that is better than nothing. In the past few months, Qin Hui has always wanted to contribute to the war in the southwest, such as transferring two more armies and adding at least more than 300,000 people, in an attempt to suppress the black flag. However, the crown prince Junwu brought the anti-Jin righteousness, strongly promoted the defense of the north, and refused excessive internal friction in the southwest, and at the end of July, the news of the official war in the southwest came, and Qin Hui knew that the opportunity had been missed.

During this period of time, the actions of the imperial court have not been without achievements. By cutting off from the southwest and beating various armies, the authority of the center was increased, and the crown prince and the eldest princess took advantage of the imminent pressure of the Jurchens to try to alleviate the once increasingly tense north-south contradictions, at least they also played a huge role in the south of the Yangtze River. The eldest princess Zhou Pei and the crown prince Jun Wu are doing their best to strengthen the Wu Dynasty itself, and for this matter, Qin Hui has also negotiated with Zhou Pei several times, but the progress is not great.

This is also the collision of ideological trends that occurred in the war, humiliation, and introspection between the Wu Dynasty and the Jurchens for more than ten years. After more than ten years of beatings, more and more people realized that only their own strength is everything, and these people are more looking forward to the miracle created by the indomitable strength.

Prince Junwu is young and vigorous, such an idea is the most obvious, compared to the excessive use of external strategy, he attaches more importance to internal unity, and more to the strength of the southerners and northerners gathered together under the banner of the Wu Dynasty, so he is also the most disgusted by the strategy of first playing the black flag and then fighting the Jurchens. The eldest princess Zhou Pei was initially able to understand reality, she was not a firm north-south fusion faction, more often she was cleaning up a mess for her younger brother, and many times she was better coordinated with people who understood reality better, but after Liu Yu's incident, she seemed to have changed in this direction.

Although the black flag is taken first, and then the imperial Jurchen can be regarded as a kind of cauldron and shipwreck, but when his own strength is not enough, Zhou Pei has begun to subconsciously reject. In several discussions, Qin Hui realized that she also hated the black flag in the southwest, but what she hated even more was the weakness and disunity within the Wu Dynasty, so the strategy of the southwest was reduced by her to the beating and purging of the army, and the pressure of the Jurchens was fully directed by her to the internal contradictions between the north and the south. If it was in the past, Qin Hui would have nodded for her.

However, time is running out.

In a few months, Qin Hui had half a head of gray hair on his head, and his whole person also lost weight suddenly. On the one hand, he is worried in his heart, and on the other hand, the political dispute in the court is by no means calm. After the southwest strategy was dragged into four different ways, the impeachment of the Qin Hui family by the DPRK and China also appeared one after another, and there were people who thought about Qin Hui's southwest strategy from various perspectives. At this time, Qin Hui, although he had a lot of status in Zhou Yong's heart, was not as good as Cai Jing and Tong Guan back then. When the news of the Southwest Wuxiang Army entering Liangshan came, he wrote an excerpt, confessed his sins, and asked for his resignation.

Regarding his resignation, Zhou Yong did not accept it and immediately rejected it. As a father, he certainly believes in and supports his hard-working son in various affairs, but at the same time, as the son of heaven, Zhou Yong also trusts Qin Hui's stable character very much, and if his son wants to fight the enemy on the front line, there must be a trusted minister in the rear to suppress the formation. Therefore, Qin Hui's excerpt was handed over, and it was rejected by Zhou Yong.

Qin Hui resigned twice, although the southwest strategy has changed so far, after all, it was originally proposed by him, and now it seems that Luqiaoshan will be defeated, and the situation in the southwest is about to deteriorate, and he must take responsibility. Zhou Yong was furious at his frustrating words in the court, and comforted Qin Hui in private for a while, because at the same time as this resignation excerpt went up, the news from the southwest came again. On the 26th, the army of Luqiaoshan was attacked by tens of thousands of black flags in the area of Xiufeng Pass in Liangshan, and more than 30,000 people under Chen Yuguang were defeated by a blow, and the rout scattered into Liangshan. Later, the 70,000 people of the Luqiao Mountain main formation were attacked and divided by the Black Flag Army, and the Luqiao Mountain was defended by each mountain, dragging the war into a stalemate.

The situation in the southwest took a sharp turn for the worse on the fourth day of entering the mountain, and Qin Hui's prophetic foresight saved him a lot of face, and many colleagues came over on this day to comfort and retain him. Some people also said that Lu Qiaoshan was a smart person and used troops well, and was caught off guard after being attacked by the black flag, but finally stabilized his position, as long as the strategy was adjusted in time, the situation in Liangshan did not take a turn for the better. Qin Hui just shook his head and sighed.

After sending his colleagues away, his old wife Wang came over to comfort him, and Qin Hui sighed: "More than ten years ago, the mood of Yuan Gong, the heir of the first right minister, may be similar to that of a husband now. If things are unsatisfactory in the world, nine times out of ten, even if you have the heart of your fist, how can you defeat the repetition of your intentions? ”

Wang was silent for a while: "The brothers and children in the clan are outside, if the master retreats, he should tell them." ”

"How easy is it to retreat? Eighty-one years ago, three thousand miles away without a home, alone in the world, looking at Shenzhou tears......" Qin Hui shook his head with a smile, but what he read in his mouth was the desperate poem of Cai Jing, a powerful minister of the original generation, "The fifth time in the Golden Palace was to worship the prime minister, and the Yutang was ten degrees of Xuanma, reminiscing about the prosperity of the past, and it has become a dream story here...... It's a dream, ma'am. Cai Yuanchang has been in power for decades, and he has been above 10,000 people under one person, and finally starved to death. ”

When the Jurchens went south for the second time, Cai Jing was demoted to the south, he was the first person in the court for decades, and the Wu Dynasty collapsed, and most of the charges were pressed on him. Eighty-year-old Cai Jing went all the way south, spending money to buy rice, but could not buy it, and finally starved to death in Tanzhou Chongjiao Temple. For more than ten years, the outside world said that he did a lot of evil, which led to the disgust of the people, so he couldn't buy food even if he had money, highlighting the loyalty of the world, but in fact, where did the people have such discerning eyes?

At that time, Cai Jingtong was in front, and most of the many party battles in the court were participated by two people, even though Qin Hui was stable all the way, he was not a bird after all. Now, he is the leader of a faction, and his clansmen, protégés, and officials in the DPRK and China have to rely on food, and he really wants to retreat, and I don't know how many people want to retake Cai Jing's old path.

"But don't worry, Madame." After a moment of silence, Qin Hui waved his hand, "At least don't worry about it this time, Your Majesty is ashamed of me." This incident in the southwest, for the husband to draw a salary from the bottom of the kettle, finally stabilized the situation, and will not cause Cai Jing to follow. But the responsibility still has to be borne, and this responsibility is taken up for the sake of His Majesty, and to suffer a loss is to take advantage. The people outside didn't have to pay attention, and the old man accepted the punishment and let them be beaten a little. What the world is doing......"

He paused: "...... It's all broken by some children who don't know the height of the sky! ”

On this night, the lights of Lin'an, the capital, were bright, and the surging undercurrent was hidden in the prosperous scene, which still seemed ambiguous and vague.

Liangshan in the southwest, on the sixth day after the start of the war, the explosion sounded in the ravine after nightfall, and among the foothills in the distance, there were layers of camps set up by the Wuxiang army, and the periphery of the camp, the torches were not dense, and the sharpshooters of the garrison hid behind the wooden wall, quietly not daring to make a sound.

It was pitch black in the woodland opposite the camp, and at some point, a small voice came out in the darkness: "Cripple, how is it?" ”

"Don't worry, see a big ......" The young man in the tree, with a long, almost taller musket in front of him, patrolled through the telescope in the camp in the distance, this is Yuwen Feidu, who was following Ning Yi and lame on one leg. Since he was injured in the leg, he has been practicing archery hard, and later the musket technology was able to break through, under the advancement of Ning Yi, a group of people in the Huaxia Army were selected to practice musket, and Yuwen Feidu was also one of them.

In the R&D department of the three southwestern counties, although the musket has been able to be manufactured, the requirements for steel are still very high, on the other hand, machine tools and rifling have only just started. At this time, Ning Yi gathered the research and development capabilities of the entire Huaxia Army and made a small number of muskets that could shoot from a distance and binoculars. But even if the accuracy at long range is not high, relying on a rather spiritual archer like Yuwen Feidu is still a strategic advantage that can be relied on in many cases.

"Don't shoot indiscriminately." Laying mines in a hidden place under the tree, Xiao Hei, who was his partner, raised a telescope and whispered, "Actually, according to me, cripple your gun, it's a bit wasteful to take it out now, and every time you hit a few small minions, it's not very accurate, which makes people wary." You said that if this is taken to the north and killed Yan Zonghan with one shot, it will be so exciting. ”

"The scenery should be long-term...... The teacher said that fighting a war will promote technological progress, and now this thing, only one shot is fired three times away, and each shot can't be used for too long. Hehe, in the future, whoever I beat within 300 zhang will have to call me Dad. Grab one. ”

Yuwen Feidu's voice fell, pulled the trigger, and suddenly the fire burst in the night, and the trunk of the tree moved, Yuwen Feidu carried the long gun and went down the tree like a monkey, and there was a commotion in the camp opposite. Xiao Hei scolded in a low voice under the tree: "your mother, go to your mother, tell you to be cautious, are you sure it's the big head?" ”

"Looks like ah, I've been waiting for the night."

"Did you hit?"

"I don't know, I didn't see it clearly, and I'm gone."

"Go over there, go over there, you cripple wants to be blown up."

"You are black-hearted, you have nothing to do with mines, sooner or later there will be retribution."

The two of them messed with each other, and hurriedly left along the dark foothills, and before they had run far, there was a sudden boom from the place where they were hiding, and the light bloomed in the woods, probably the scout who touched it on the opposite side touched the tripping thunder left by Xiao Hei. The two looked at each other and smiled, and walked towards the camp of the Huaxia Army on the other side of the mountain.

On the second day of the first month of August, the sixth day of the battle in Xiaoliangshan, the battle was still continuing, and it was said that it was a stalemate, but it was more like a restraint of the Huaxia army that was afraid of battle losses. Except for July 26 and 27, when the entire Wuxiang Army was divided and devoured to the extreme, and when Luqiaoshan contracted the army and began a comprehensive defense, the offensive of the Huaxia Army became restrained and organized.

The so-called restraint refers to the fact that the Huaxia Army has not launched a large-scale assault and advance every day with superior forces pulling out camps one hill after another, harassing them at night, and planting mines on mountain roads.

In the past ten years or even more than 20 years, the Wu Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom have gone to a state of sunset and will be in a nest. Starting from Chuhedian, Wanyan Agu led 3,700 people to defeat 100,000 Liao soldiers, and then to Hubu Dagang, 20,000 people chased and killed 700,000 people, and the myth of winning more with less has never stopped. The first southern expedition of the Jurchens, with tens of thousands of troops under the city of Bianliang, successively defeated the army of one million Qinwang, the second southern expedition broke through Bianliang, and the third time went all the way to the south of the Yangtze River. And the black flag has also overturned the millions of people in Daqi in Xiaocanghe, and it seems that it is easy to use the superior forces to win more with less, which seems to have become a routine.

However, we have to admit that when the quality of the soldiers reaches a certain level or more, the rout on the battlefield can be adjusted in time, and the inverted bead curtain cannot be formed, the situation of war will not be as simple as solving the problem in one go. In the past few years, the Wuxiang army has been strictly rectified, the military law is extremely strict, after the defeat on the first day, Luqiaoshan quickly changed the strategy, so that the army continued to build fortifications, and the attack and defense between the various departments of the army echoed each other, and finally slowed down the offensive intensity of the Huaxia army, at this time, Chen Yuguang and others led 30,000 people were defeated and scattered, and the entire Luqiaoshan main formation, only 60,000 remained.

After a few days, the Huaxia army peeked into the weakness of the defense of the Wuxiang army, and every day it would pull out a camp of several thousand people. But Lu Qiaoshan also understood that the reason why the Huaxia army did not attack did not mean that they did not have the ability to attack, but that the Huaxia army was constantly destroying the will of the Wuxiang army and minimizing the resistance. After several years of governing the army in the southwest, Lu Qiaoshan thought that he had done his best, and today's Wuxiang army, and the original batch of soldiers, have undergone a complete change, and it is because of this that he can have some confidence and wave his army into Liangshan.

In his original imagination, even if Wu Xiangjun was defeated by Black Flag, at least he could let the other party see the will of the Wu Dynasty to make great efforts and learn from the pain, and it could cause enough trouble to the other party. But he did not expect that on July 26, the first blow of the Huaxia Army would be so fierce, and Chen Yuguang's 30,000 troops maintained the most resolute defensive position, but they were brutally crushed and defeated by the troops of the 15,000 Huaxia Army in front of the landing bridge mountain. The all-out counterattack of the 70,000-strong army at this end, under the resistance of less than 10,000 people on the other side, could not exceed the Xiufeng Pass for a whole afternoon, until the opposite forest was filled with gunsmoke and rivers of blood.

This is the real slap in the face, and the restraint of the Huaxia Army after that is nothing more than Ning Liheng's coldness and stinginess. The entry of an army of 100,000 into the mountain was like throwing itself directly into the mouth of a giant beast, and it was swallowed step by step, and now it is difficult to turn around and return.

It was already early in the morning, the fire in the tent of the Chinese army was still burning, and Lu Qiaoshan, who had a bandage on his forehead, was writing hard under the lights, recording the things found in the war about the Chinese army:

…… The black flag iron cannon is fierce, which shows that in the past transactions, it was not the best to sell the iron cannon to our side. In this battle, the cannon used by the Black Banner had a range of about ten to twenty paces better than ours......

…… Its soldiers are tacit and high-spirited, far superior to ours and difficult to resist. Or the people he faced this time are all veterans of the Northwest War of the other side. Now that the iron cannon has been born, many of the tactics of the past are no longer safe, and it is difficult for the infantry to form a formation in the front, and the soldiers who cannot cooperate tacitly may withdraw from the future battle......

…… There are also assault muskets used by Black Flag soldiers on the battlefield, which are elusive and difficult to resist. According to the reports of some sergeants, it is suspected that there are several assault muskets, which can reach as far as 100 feet on the battlefield, so it is necessary to take a closer look......

…… Now we see, the method of Gewu is used in the battle array, and it really has the effect of ghosts and gods, and after the battlefield confrontation, I am afraid that there will be more novel things, and those who are exhausted can take the lead. We should exhaust our reasoning and catch up......

There are mosquitoes screaming in the night, the fire is blazing, and there is a continuous subtle sound, Lu Qiaoshan has not stopped for several days, his face is pale, but his eyes have never been the slightest rash in writing, trying to preserve and send out the experience of the disastrous defeat of the Wuxiang army, and be wary of others. Soon, a soldier came to report that Brother Lang, the leader of the Mangshan Tribe, was wounded and brought back: this leader of the Mangshan Tribe, who was strong in martial arts, led the scouts to snipe the Black Flag Scouts outside, and unfortunately hit a mine and was blown up, and now his injuries are not light. After Lu Qiaoshan listened, he continued to write and ignored it again.

The camps where tens of thousands of people are stationed are in the Xiaoliang Mountains, one by one, stretching campfires. The campfire was so great that it looked like the light of the sunset from a distance, and it was about to be extinguished in the mountains.

After dawn, on the side of the Huaxia army, an envoy came to the front of the camp of the Wuxiang army and asked to meet with Luqiaoshan. Hearing that a black flag messenger had arrived, Brother Lang, who was covered with injuries, also arrived at the camp with a bandage, gritting his teeth.

The envoy was in his thirties, and he gritted his teeth even more than Brother Lang: "I am Su Wenyu, Su Wenfang's cousin, and I came here this time to represent Mr. Ning and point you to a way out." Of course, you can arrest me, torture me a lot, and then put me back, so that when you die...... I have a relatively good conscience. ”

As a messenger, his words were not good, his face was full of unhappiness, and he had an expression that you better not talk to me, which was clearly a clumsy blackmail technique in the negotiations. Lu Qiaoshan's face was also gloomy for a long time. Brother Lang was the most fierce, held his breath, and said over there: "You...... Ahem, go back and tell Ning Yi...... Ahem......"

Su Wenyu glanced at him: "Who are you, tuberculosis ghost to death, fuck your mother!" "Treat death as home, full of swearing.

Angry Banana said

Well, Happy Dragon Boat Festival.