Chapter 790: The Beacon Fire and the Golden Flow, the Great River (2)
In Zizhou, the autumn wind swept up the fallen leaves, walked in a hurry, the residual sewage on the market was stinking, the small half of the shops were closed, and the knights anxiously crossed the streets, on the way, the shops that were discounted and cleared reflected the pale faces of the merchants, making the city feverish in the chaos. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The merchant ships were withdrawn overnight, and the people who were packing up their belongings and preparing to leave here had already set off one after another, and Zizhou, which originally belonged to one of the largest cities in the southwest, became more and more chaotic.
The scholars who had gone forward had already begun to withdraw, and some of them remained in Chengdu, vowing to live and die with them, while in Zizhou, the indignation of the Confucian scholars continued.
"How dare the shaft be so ......"
"He's really not afraid of the world's long mouths-"
"The imperial court must send another army......
"Wolf ambition, wolf ambition—"
In August of the ninth year of Wu Jianshuo, the progress of world affairs changed suddenly, like a white-hot chess game, and several parties who could compete on this chess game each had fierce moves. The undercurrent of the past surfaced and turned into angry waves, and it also woke up the good dreams of some of the people who had made the tide on the water.
In the southern corner of this day, the Wuxiang army that entered the Liangshan area after careful preparation was hit head-on, and the hot-blooded Confucian students who came to the southwest to promote the war against bandits were immersed in the thrill of promoting the historical process and did not enjoy enough, and the sharp turn of the war situation together with a paper paper knocked on the back of everyone's heads, breaking the illusion created by the attitude of the Black Flag Army for several years of preferential treatment of scholars, in early August, the Black Flag Army defeated the Wuxiang Army, Luqiaoshan disappeared, and the black flag on the western Sichuan Plain came out mightily, and the Wu Dynasty bluntly said that he would take over most of the Sichuan Fourth Road.
Huaxia Junwen's attitude, in addition to being impassioned in the direction of denouncing the Wu Dynasty, was almost taken for granted about the decision to take over the Sichuan Fourth Road. However, under the premise that the entire Wuxiang army was defeated and absorbed, this attitude was really not a joke.
The wolf's ambition and the poor dagger see ...... No matter how people define the large-scale actions that followed by the Huaxia Army, or even the verbal and written criticism, the series of actions that followed by the Huaxia Army showed full seriousness. That is to say, no matter how scholars talk about the general trend, how they talk about reputation and prestige, or all the things that the superior should be afraid of, the monarch killer who is called the demon in his heart must hit Zizhou.
Even, the other party behaved as if he was being persecuted by everyone here.
In the time when the scholars were abused, the Huaxia Army had meticulously swept away the garrisons of six counties and towns near Liangshan, and was still taking over the original garrison camp of the Wuxiang Army in an orderly manner. This is the beginning of the sweep of the western Sichuan Plain, and it seems that ...... The results of the follow-up have also been foreshadowed.
For the true wise, victory or defeat often exists before the battle begins, and the sound of the trumpet of the charge is often just an act of reaping the fruits of victory.
In the places where Confucian scholars gathered, such as Songju and Xingutang, the scholars gathered anxiously denounced and discussed countermeasures, and Long Qifei mediated in them to balance the situation, and unconsciously remembered what Li Pin had said in the capital and his evaluation of Ning Yi. He never expected that the 100,000 Wuxiang army would be so vulnerable in front of the black flag, and he was too optimistic about Ning Yi's ambition and domineering means at first.
But it's too late to say anything.
The Black Flag sent troops, compared with the luck psychology that the people still have, the more Confucian scholars know the inside story like Long Qifei, the more frightened they are. The defeat of the 100,000-strong Wuxiang Army was the first appearance of the Black Flag Army in several years, announcing and confirming that the combat power it had displayed in Xiaocanghe a few years earlier had not fallen--the Black Flag Army had been defeated by the Jurchens a few years ago, and since then it has been in a state of collapse and can only wait for one of the previous fantasies of the people--the Black Flag Army with this kind of combat power, saying that if it wants to fight Zizhou, it will not stop at Chengdu.
Forced by the chaotic situation, Long Qifei frankly analyzed the situation in the DPRK and China in front of a group of Confucian scholars: today, the Jurchen is the strongest, the black flag is inferior to the Jurchen, the Wu Dynasty is safe, and the Jurchen must be unlucky, but against the black flag, there is still a chance to win. Now the heart demon Ning Yi pushed the boat down the river, wanting to swallow Chuansi, and the situation was already critical.
"Our Wu Dynasty has been located south of the Yellow River, the Central Plains have been lost, and now, the Jurchens have invaded the south again, and they are menacing. The money and grain of the four roads of Sichuan are important to our Wu Dynasty and must not be lost. It's a pity that there are many big people in the court, and the corpse is ignorant and short-sighted, and even now, they still don't dare to give it a go! On this day, in the middle of the companion pine provided by the wealthy businessman Jia Shi in Zizhou, Long Qifei talked to everyone about these things and sighed in a low voice.
"When I came west, I visited Lord Qin in Beijing, and Lord Qin entrusted me with a heavy task, saying that I must promote this expedition to the west. Pity...... The Wuxiang army was incompetent, and 100,000 people were defeated with one blow. I didn't expect this, and I didn't want to shirk it, when the black flag came, Long was willing to face the black flag in Zizhou and live and die with the soldiers of this city! But the situation in the southwest is critical, no one can wake up everyone in the capital, Long has no shame to enter the capital again, but he has written a blood letter, asking Liu Zhengming and Liu Xiandi to enter Beijing and hand it over to Lord Qin......"
As soon as his words came out, everyone was in an uproar, and Long Qifei waved his hand vigorously: "Don't persuade you again!" Long has made up his mind! In fact, Sai Weng lost his horse and knew that it was not a blessing, at the beginning, the princes in Beijing were reluctant to send troops, but they still had illusions about Ning Yi's ambitions, and now Ning Yi is trying to see the dagger, and it is difficult for the sages in Beijing to tolerate him again, as long as he can learn from the pain and send heavy troops into Sichuan, this matter is still possible! The gentlemen are useful, Long also wants to invite you to enter Beijing, lobby the sages in Beijing, and the princes in the court, if this matter can be done, Long will thank you under the spring......"
He is generous and tragic, and he is both dead and bloody, and everyone is also talking. After Long Qifei finished speaking, he ignored everyone's persuasion, said goodbye and left, everyone admired his resolute heroism, and went to persuade him on the second day and go again on the third day. Liu Zhengming, who took the blood book, was unwilling to do this on his behalf, and persuaded him with everyone that the snake could not be without a head, he had an old relationship with Lord Qin, and the matter of lobbying in Beijing was naturally headed by him, and it was easiest to succeed. During this period, some people also scolded Long Qifei for selling his reputation and reputation, and the whole thing was laid out behind his back, and he wanted to escape naturally at this time. Long Qifei refused more resolutely, and the two groups of Confucian students went back and forth every day, and on the fifth day, Long Qifei's confidante in the "Yannan Building", the red card Lu Guoer gave him sweat medicine, and everyone dragged him into the carriage.
Long Qifei and others left Zizhou, and Li Xiannong, another person who originally stirred up the situation in the southwest, is now in an embarrassing situation. Since the layout of Xiaoliang Mountain failed, Ning Yi pushed the boat to resolve the situation in the rear, and Li Xiannong, who came back from the exchange of prisoners with Luqiaoshan, has always looked decadent, and it was not until the text of the Huaxia Army came out that he thanked him that he reacted to the malicious intent afterwards. In the first few days, there were frequent visits to the door - now most of the scholars in Zizhou can still see clearly the black flag's means of punishing the heart, but after a few days, some people were really bewitched, and they took stones and threw them in from outside the courtyard in the middle of the night.
Long Qifei met twice to defend Li Xiannong, and public opinion was suppressed for a while, and it was not until Long Qifei left that Li Xiannong noticed that there were more and more hostile eyes around him. He was sad if he died, this day he left Zizhou, ready to go to Chengdu to die, out of the city not long after, he was intercepted, among these people there are scholars and catchers, some people reprimanded him for being bound to escape, some people said that he was going to report to the black flag, Li Xiannong was okay to argue, argued with reason, and the catchers said that although you are reasonable, but after all, the suspicion is undecided, how can you leave at will at this time. The crowd gathered around, beat him, and put him back in Zizhou Prison, waiting for the water to come out and be fair.
Li Xiannong's subsequent experience is difficult to describe one by one, on the other hand, the generosity of Long Qifei and others after entering Beijing is another warm story that makes people enthusiastic and there is no shortage of talented and beautiful people. The overall situation began to be obvious, the personal running and bumps, just a small ripple in the huge waves, in the southwest, as a chess player, the Huaxia Army cut the four roads of Sichuan, and in the east, more than 8,000 black flag elites are still crossing to Xuzhou. After learning of the ambition of the Black Flag, the DPRK and China set off a wave of encirclement and suppression of the southwest, but Junwu resisted such a proposal and pushed Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and many other troops to the Yangtze River defense line.
Troubled times are like ovens, melting gold and iron, boiling everyone into a pot.
On the north bank of the Yellow River, Li Xizhi faced the first blow after the dark tide turned into a huge wave.
After the defeat of Lin He'ao, the frenzied strategic intentions of the Black Flag Army were displayed in front of the great warlord who had ruled the east of the Central Plains for several years. Under the city of the Daimyo's Mansion, Li Xizhi postponed preparations for the siege of the city, ordered the army under his command to set up a position and prepare for contingencies, and at the same time asked the Jurchen general Wuda to lead the army to respond to the surprise attack of the Black Flag.
However, Uda refused.
Zongfu and Zongwang's 300,000 troops are heading south, and the main force will arrive in a few days. What really mattered was the docks and boats where the Jurchen army crossed the Yellow River. As for Li Xizhi, if he is still afraid of leading an army of 170,000 on his own territory, then what is the significance of him to the Jurchens?
Li Xizhi actually didn't believe that the other side would fight like this until the outbreak of war - it was like he built a solid embankment, and then stood in front of the embankment, watching the sudden rise of the huge waves get higher and higher......
In the early morning of 11 August, the war broke out in the wilderness north of the Daimyo's Mansion, and with the final arrival of the Black Flag Army, the drums of war sounded in the Daimyo's Mansion, and nearly 40,000 people of the "Guangwu Army" headed by Wang Shanyue, Hu Sanniang, Xue Changgong, and others chose to take the initiative to attack.
With 10,000 on one side and 40,000 on the other, Li Xizhi's 170,000 army was flanked, if you take into account the combat strength, even if you underestimate the quality of your own soldiers, it would have been a close match, and Li Xizhi calmly faced this arrogant battle.
Then just as the battle began to heat up, the trickiest situation finally broke out.