Mu Huogang.

The heavy snow stopped for a while, the wind was not strong, and in the Jurchen camp, which was surrounded by water on three sides, piles of bonfires burned vigorously in the tent. In the central tent, in the six iron basins, charcoal fires were burning, and the surrounding decorations, furs, knives and guns, and even the people who were here were all set off with a solemn majesty, Zong Wang sat behind the long case, looking at the broken letter in his hand.

Wanyan Yan's mother, Liu Yanzong, the commander of the Han army, General Sai Ra and others sat nearby, occasionally communicating with their looks, or whispering a few words, when they came, several people already knew more or less about the situation, and the letter that was torn up in half was handed over to Zongwang by Wanyan Yan's mother, and the scout captain was still standing below waiting for inquiry. Zong Wang looked at the letter for a while, his face changed, and finally, he slapped the letter on the case.

"Hmph, the southerners want to cheat me!" He said this for the first time, and after looking at the expressions of the people below, he frowned again and looked at the scout.

"Tell me about the situation. When, where, and under what circumstances did you meet that man and get this letter? ”

"Yes......"

The scout captain nodded and told him what had happened.

As the winter deepened and the heavy snow began to close the mountains, the Jurchens went out to patrol and sweep less often than before. Their scouts met each other on a road ten miles away from the camp of Mutuogang, where there were three people, the messenger was in the middle, apparently a Wu Dynasty official, and the two next to him were guards. A little further on, the road leads to the outskirts of Bianliang.

The Jurchen patrol, a total of five people, was specifically responsible for this part, trying to cut off Bianliang's connection with the outside world - of course, such an attempt could not succeed, because Bianliang was too big, even if tens of thousands of Jurchen people were dispatched. I'm afraid it's impossible to surround the entire city. But even if they couldn't cut off the blockade, they could always intercept some of the messengers entering and leaving, and when they saw the three of them, the five scouts immediately launched a pursuit.

Both sides were on horseback, and the other was also alert, seeing the Jurchens coming. Turned around and ran, and fired back with arrows. The scout fired back with an arrow, and then shot the officer in the back.

The three of the opponent's horses rushed into the rugged area of the nearby mountains, while their own scouts kept pursuing, and finally, due to serious injuries, the official of the Nawu Dynasty fell from his horse, and it happened that there was a dry river below, and he fell. The two Wu Dynasty guards were too late to save them.

The Jurchen scouts divided their forces in pursuit, and made a slight detour into the river valley to search for the bodies of Wu Dynasty officials, and then found the letter. After falling into the river, the Nawu Dynasty official seemed to want to tear up the letter and throw it out, but he had no strength to do so, and tore the letter in half. Thrown aside, the wind blew away the small half. Most of the rest was picked up by them.

The scouts did not read the letter and handed it to their immediate superiors, who after reading it, felt that it was a big matter and handed it over to the mother in charge of the matter. After seeing it, Yan Mu immediately asked people to call Zong Wang.

Zong Wang looked at the scout: "From seeing the Wu Dynasty official fall off his horse and fall into the river, until you detour, the corpse of the Wu Dynasty official. There can be a departure from your sight. ”

The scout said, "Because of the detour, there is a moment, but no more than ten breaths." ”

"Hmph." Zong Wang pondered for a moment, "Can you bring back the corpse?" ”

"They brought it back." Wan Yan Yan's mother on the side said, "I've gone to check on the corpse. ”

Wanyan Yan's mother is the half-brother of Ah Guta, ranked eleventh, Zong Wang's expression eased slightly, and said, "Eleventh Emperor Uncle, what is the result?" ”

"Looking at his body, he was indeed a pampered person in the past, and there was no trace of being bound between his hands and feet. This is not a small matter, I have checked it repeatedly, and it should not be forced to come. ”

After saying this, Zong Wang fell silent slightly. He has a rough temperament, but he is thoughtful, thinks for a moment, and then stretches out his hand to pat the long case: "However, the people of the Southern Dynasty, the clown who jumped off the beam, how could he have such courage." ”

"In the rest of the month, our army broke more than 300,000 troops of the Wu Dynasty in this area, and they were no longer able to do anything, and the dogs jumped over the wall in a hurry, and it is not known."

"Hmm." Zong Wang nodded, "Commander Liu, you select a few people in the army who are most proficient in Chinese studies and calculations, and come to this account." In addition, someone is coming! Ask General Guo, the pharmacist Guo, and his subordinates Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren to come to the big tent to discuss military affairs. ”

After receiving the order, Zong Wang returned to the back of the long case, flipped through the letters that were divided into several pages, picked two of them and put them aside, and waited until Guo Yaoshi, Zhang Linghui, Liu Shunren and others came over, and several craftsmen and masters also came, before handing over a few pages of the letter to Guo Yaoshi: "General Guo, you can read this thing first, and then ...... Circulate it. ”

"Yes." Pharmacist Guo nodded in response, this letter that was circulated was divided into five pages, four of which were on some complicated calculations and patterns, each page had a small half-mutilated, Pharmacist Guo began to only read the words, but not long after he began to browse, the color in his eyes changed, and his expression became stern. After reading it, he didn't speak, and passed it to Zhang Linghui, and after Zhang Linghui finished reading it, he gave it to Liu Shunren, and then continued to pass it on, to those masters and craftsmen. Some people looked confused, while others changed their faces, and a master saluted Zong Wang and asked, "I hope the marshal will give me a pen and paper." ”

Zong Wang's eyes showed an appreciative look, and he waved his hand: "Pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and in addition, bring me a table and chair for him to sit on." ”

Soon after, everyone had read it, and the letter was circulated in the hands of several masters and craftsmen, and it was repeatedly examined and discussed. Zong Wang looked at everyone's expressions.

"This is a letter intercepted by the Wu Dynasty today, the matter is too big, whether it is true or false, and it is difficult for the commander to distinguish it. Therefore, it is necessary for all of them to come together to discern and discern and discuss. He raised his hand, "What do you think, please be outspoken." ”

Among the few people who complained about the army, Zhang Linghui was a little unlearned, and Liu Shunren had some ideas, so he first arched his hand at this time: "Qiyu Dashuai, I feel that this fact is a bluff by the people of the Wu Dynasty, and the martial artists are timid and cowardly, but they always like to play all kinds of tricks, among which they are smart, and there are too many to mention. I am afraid that this letter in front of me is another person's self-righteous plan, after all, it is too difficult to imagine that he wants to do this......"

"Oh? General Liu thought it was fake? Zong Wang looked at Pharmacist Guo, "General Guo, what do you think?" ”

"Brother Zhang has a point." Guo Yaoshi said. "Confucianism and Taoism in the Wu Dynasty, respect for the heavens and ancestors, in the territory of the Wu Dynasty, the importance of the respect of the Yellow River, it is unimaginable, if it is really as said in this letter...... I want to break the Yellow River and retreat my army. Let's not talk about how we wait, there are millions of people in Bianliang City, and there are only a few people who can escape, and the Yellow River bursts its banks, and the thousands of miles around Bianliang City will be flooded within a few years. Whoever does this will be slandered by the whole nation. Behind me, I'm afraid it's also infamous through the ages......"

The letter sent to the public was written about the plan to dig the embankment of the Yellow River and divert the water to retreat the Jurchen army. Thou shalt not fall. After some generosity, a formal plan was introduced. Even drawings, specific plans, a large number of calculations, etc., etc., are meticulous and detailed, and it is difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake.

After Pharmacist Guo finished speaking, Zong Wang frowned: "General Guo also thinks it's a fake ......"

"And yet...... But no. Pharmacist Guo hesitated for a moment and said. The Confucian scholars of the Wu Dynasty are indeed good at rhetoric, and it is difficult to make achievements in pragmatic matters. However, there are also many of them, who are strong and resolute. Believing that it is better to be broken than to be complete, I went south towards the army, and the army swept away, but ...... There is a small resistance, but there is a very decisive one. Since the development of the war outside Bianliang City, if it is said that there are officials in the Wu Dynasty who are desperate and want to do this thing that is not popular in the world, they will retire with a lot of water and be buried with millions of people. The pharmacist thinks...... It's not surprising. Therefore, it is difficult to discern. ”

At this time, most of the masters who were called into the tent were Jin and Liao, but there were still those who knew Confucianism. The scholars of the Dao Wu Dynasty, although they are powerless, but when it comes to calculating this kind of decisive thing, there are indeed many people, and some people even like this kind of thing for the sake of the name behind them.

But then there is humanity, this kind of thing, some people just do it, if the plan is sent to Bianliang, it will be stopped, maybe, there is still fraud.

However, after such a statement, some people reminded that there is a paragraph after the letter, which seems to say that before the war, the ships around Bianliang had already entered the city, and once the Yellow River broke its embankment and flooded, it was still too late for the emperor, high-ranking officials and others in the city to get on the boats. At that time, although the Wu Dynasty also suffered heavy losses, the center was still there, but it was only a loss of a city. Although the Jurchens are strong, half of the soldiers of the whole country have come here, and this time the flood is flooded, but it seems to have gone to half of the Jin country. The Wu Dynasty did a lot of things wrong before, but it was not too late to learn from this and work hard.

Soon after, the master who calculated at the desk also praised in his mouth, and reported to Zongwang: "The study of the Wu Dynasty's calculations, the study of civil engineering, is practical and exquisite, and the calculations on this letter are really its pinnacle work, but it is a pity that it was torn up a small half, but in my dynasty's calculations, it also has the effect of the stones of other mountains...... and then regretted it, praised it, and hated to see the small half that was torn up.

Everyone had their own opinions, but it was difficult to determine whether the letter was true or not—the most important thing was whether the other party was really determined to do this—and soon after, Jamu said: "Even if the other party really wants to do this dangerous trick, it will only have to wait for the spring flood season next year to have an effect, and our army has long been prepared for a heavy snow siege, as long as the city is broken this winter, there is really no need to think much about this matter." ”

Zong Wang nodded, in fact, many people in the big tent have this kind of thought, but Zong Wang is actually not a reckless person: "Uncle Huang is right, but everything also needs to consider the worst consequences, now the Wu Dynasty army has been scattered by me, and the remnants are scattered everywhere around." Next, let the army speed up the preparations for the siege, and within five days, I will complete all the equipment and launch a general attack. And this aspect ...... The scouts figured out the situation around them, figured out which side of the people wanted to do it, and then ...... General Guo, you are responsible for this matter, and you crushed them for me! ”

The people took the command.

"Yes!"

The Great Tent was shaken.

Zong Wang's finger tapped on the table, and after everyone left, he walked around the tent a few more times, returned to the desk, and picked up the last two pages that had not been shown to Guo Yaoshi and the others before.

The last two pages are mostly persuasive, and the top is a continuation of the vision of Zongwang's army after it was swallowed up by the flood. The letter talks about many problems within the Jin country, and it says that after the incident, the Jin people are full of vigor and vigor, but there are also hidden dangers.

After Aguta's abdication, the successor was not Aguta's son, but his fourth brother Wu Qimai. Wu Qimai is a stable person and has more than enough to keep it, which is really a painstaking and lonely choice, but it also illustrates a problem. Among the Jin people, there are many outstanding people, it is a situation of strong cadres and strong supports, and now that Ah Guda is dead, to the third generation to succeed to the throne, what will be the situation, but it is difficult to say.

Among the Jurchens, the handsome and sticky Han are also eloquent, Wu Qimai is in power, Zong Wang and others can still compete with him, but if there is no Wu Qimai, what will the situation be? The Wu Dynasty's strategy of uniting Jin to resist Liao is difficult to change, but if Zong Wang, the second most powerful prince among the princes of the Jin Kingdom, and tens of thousands of troops under his command are destroyed here, the only one in the Jin Kingdom who has the military power that can determine the world is the only one who is the commander of the world.

The east and west armies of the Jin State went south to invade our Wu Dynasty, but Zong Wang first arrived in Bianliang, but Sticky Han was blocked by the fortified city of Taiyuan, it is reported that Zong Wang issued a military order several times, and ordered the Sticky Han army to go south quickly, but it was clear that Taiyuan could bypass the past, but Sticky Han was slow to move. Between the two, do you have no suspicion? At this time, the Yellow River will be broken, but it will be lost, but within a few years, the Jin country will be chaotic. If the Jurchens suddenly rose up and won the world, they had no background, and if they could not recuperate and work hard, they would definitely die within a few generations, and it would not be a disaster of the Wu Dynasty......

The last two pages show the writer's understanding of the inner Jin Kingdom.

In fact, sticking to Taiyuan is also out of prudence, they are the first time to invade the country of the Wu Dynasty, if the whole army really goes south, and there is a Taiyuan left on the road, if the Western army really comes to intercept the way, more than 100,000 troops are trapped in the hinterland of the Wu Dynasty, what will happen is really difficult to say. Zong Wang could naturally understand this concern, but this letter was not polite, and the above sentence made him feel that it was both provocative and really possible. At the very least, after reading this, he first felt that it might be true that the other party wanted to use the method of breaking the Yellow River.

As for those seemingly provocative remarks, he has tried to normalize them, but what he has already seen, what he has said so clearly, whether he wants it or not, is impossible.

In this sense, whether the letter is true or not, it has at least served a certain purpose.

Thinking of this, Zong Wang slapped the table.

Wu Dynasty Confucianism, a bunch of clowns who jumped beams, but this one not only showed his understanding of the inside of the Jin Kingdom, but these tricks of jumping beams also made people feel angry.

If you have the opportunity to catch this person one day, you will kill him with your own hands!

Zong Wang thought about this Wu Dynasty villain whose identity was still unclear, and such a thought flashed in his heart. (To be continued......)

PS: I'm sorry, I've been connected recently, and the situation may be a little abnormal......