- Press the tiger water

Despair, a strong sense of despair shrouded in the big tent, 700,000 Liao troops, this is not the last time those were mostly farmers and herdsmen composed of miscellaneous troops, but the army led by the emperor of Liao himself, you don't have to think about it to know that most of them are the elite of Liao.

"Is there really 700,000?" Ah Gu swallowed his saliva and asked in disbelief.

"There are really 700,000, the emperor of Liao has created a lot of momentum, and everyone in Liao knows it." The spy hurriedly patted his chest to assure that the news was absolutely true.

Ah Guda looked around and found that everyone had their heads down, and many people were still trembling, the battle of Huanglongfu made all the Jurchens realize that there were also many warriors in the Liao Kingdom, and they were definitely not lambs to be slaughtered, 700,000 against 20,000, and there was no chance of winning at all.

Ah Guda slowly stood up, didn't say a word, and walked straight out of the big tent, everyone looked at Ah Guta's back, panicked in their hearts, the god of grains hurriedly chased out, and after a while, he came back and said, "Pass the wolf lord's order, gather all the Jurchens who can be summoned!" ”

In the cold winter, tens of thousands of Jurchens gathered together, Ah Guda stood on the high platform and looked below, the black crowd did not bring him much sense of security, 700,000, his mind has been pressed by this number.

Ah Guda slowly pulled out his sharp knife and said loudly, "Everyone! ”

Everyone looked at him, and the whole scene was silent.

"In the past, I raised troops with everyone because the Khitans were too cruel to us Jurchens, we fought for a year, and finally established our own country, we can finally stop being bullied by the Khitan and live our own lives, but the Khitans are unwilling!

The Great Liao Emperor Yelu Yanxi personally drove the expedition and led an army of 700,000 to conquer us, but what about us? Only 20,000 people! What do you say? ”

Seven hundred thousand, twenty thousand, this question can be counted by everyone, and fear immediately enveloped this flat land.

"What to do? What to do?? Ah Guda roared loudly, he kept walking back and forth, and his hands danced with him, everyone could feel the despair of Ah Guta, and Ah Guda could also feel the fear of everyone below.

Ah Guda stopped, he slowly cut his face with a sharp knife and said, "To win this battle, only everyone fights to the death, otherwise, it will be defeated, it is better to kill my Wanyan family, you wait to sacrifice your wife and daughter, kneel and surrender, so that you can turn the crisis into safety!" ”

"I'd rather die than surrender!" A Jurchen man shouted violently: "The Khitans bullied us so badly back then, will we have a good life if we surrender now?" ”

Yes, will there be a good life if you surrender?

"I'd rather die than surrender!" Another person shouted, slowly, more and more slogans were shouted, Ah Guta looked at the morale that was finally stimulated, and breathed a sigh of relief, but this was not enough, such morale could not make up for the thirty-five times gap.

Aguta looked at the sky, thinking about the previous battles, and secretly prayed that the miracle would appear again.

The gods of Akuta don't know if they exist or not, but his strongest teammates are shining for him.

Yelu Yanxi arrived at his destination in November.

This is the first time that Yelu Yanxi has led such a huge army to battle, and he is still a little excited in his heart, constantly talking and laughing with his cronies in the big tent.

"Report! The Jurchen savages sent a letter. "A pawn came in and reported to Yelu Yanxi.

Yelu Yanxi gestured, "Go, see what these savages say." ”

A minister walked over and opened it and looked at it, and a minister next to him smiled and said, "Your Majesty, you must surrender, any reasonable person knows that there are 700,000 troops coming to conquer, and they will choose to surrender, Your Majesty, what do you say if they want to surrender?" ”

"This...."Yelu Yanxi touched his beard and thought seriously.

"Your Majesty, these savages are not going to surrender," said the minister who read the letter, bowing his head.

"Huh? Read! "Yelu Yanxi sits on the right path.

"Emperor Khitan, seeing the words as faces, hearing that you brought the soldiers of the country, 700,000 people came to conquer my Jurchen, I was terrified, and I wanted to surrender early.

Why do you think about it again, in several wars, your country has carried cattle and horses to send supplies, and the Khitan soldiers are as powerful as seventy old women..."

"Enough!" Yelu Yanxi glared and scolded, "These savages, they are so bold, this time they must slaughter their clan to relieve the hatred in my heart!" ”

Yelu Yanxi stood up and came to the map and said, "You say, how to march?" ”

He really asked the right person, and these ministers under him looked at the map seriously, and one of them asked weakly, "That.. Where are we on the map? ”

"Probably that's it?" "No, that's it!" "You are referring to the location of the left battalion, we are the middle army, this is here!"

Yelu Yanxi listened to the words of these ministers, and only felt that his head was going to be dizzy, and finally everyone determined the location on the map, so he began to talk about what to do next.

"I have a lot of soldiers, so we should send troops to attack!"

Yelu Yanxi nodded, feeling reasonable.

"Our army is coming from afar, we should first trim the half moon to prevent the savages from waiting for work!"

Yelu Yanxi snorted, which also made sense.

"I think we should send an army to test one or two first, and then decide on the next step after seeing the combat strength of the savages."

Okay, Yelu Yanxi was completely dizzy.

It is not only the Song State that has been peaceful for a hundred years, but also the Liao State, most of the ministers and generals under Yelu Yanxi have never fought in their lives, and they don't know how to march and fight, and Yelu Yanxi is even more novice, and he is a veteran in hunting.

"Your Majesty, according to the minister, the top priority should be to move the camp to prevent the savages from sneaking attack, Your Majesty's Dazhai is too close to the savages." A white-haired old minister said with a loyal face, "Those savages like night attacks the most, if they learn that Your Majesty is here, they will definitely come, and then it will be dangerous!" ”

This is absolutely politically correct, no one dared to persuade Yelu Yanxi to stay, Yelu Yanxi saw that everyone said so, so he ordered Dazhai to retreat thirty miles.

With an army of 700,000, he retreated 30 miles before he fought a battle, and you can imagine how the army's heart was shaken.

"I'm about to retreat just after camping, what's going on?"

"I don't know, could it be that the striker is defeated?"

"Don't talk about it, dismantle it quickly, we have to finish retreating before tonight!"

Yelu Yanxi's village retreated thirty miles and then re-encamped, Xiao Feng, who was in front, arrived at the news first, hurriedly ran to see Yelu Yanxi and asked, "Why did Your Majesty withdraw the army?" ”

Yelu Yanxi was confused and asked rhetorically, "Who said that the army would be withdrawn?" ”

Xiao Fengxian stomped his feet and said, "If you don't withdraw the army, why does Your Majesty's Dazhai have to move backwards?" ”

Yelu Yanxi explained, "Some people say that savages are good at sneak attacks, so they move back a little. ”

Xiao Fengxian sighed and said, "Your Majesty, after the imperial camp is settled, it should not move like a mountain, our army is thirty times the enemy, why retreat?" As for the sneak attack, there are tens of thousands of guards in front of and behind the imperial camp, so why be afraid? As soon as you retreat at this time, all the soldiers and horses will lose because of the front line, and Your Majesty will be timid. ”

Yelu Yanxi stomped his feet and said, "Philistines misunderstand me!" Immediately give the order, pull out the camp and advance thirty miles! By the way, kill the person who spoke last time! ”

Again, the heralds went around, conveying the order to move the camp.

"What's going on? Why do you want to move again? ”

"Oh my God, it's going to kill people like this."

"There must be a major military situation, and I don't know what happened to the front line."

"I don't think this battle is good, it's not a good thing to toss like this."

In any case, the Liao army began to move again, after all, the emperor's order was supreme.

Yelu Yanxi's unfamiliarity with the battle array made one person see it in his eyes and smile in his heart, and he began to secretly contact his close friend, preparing to seek a great fortune.

- Liang Shan

Jiang De, who finally returned to Liangshan, lay on his Simmons bed and moaned comfortably, and then took out a can of Coke and a packet of potato chips and ate them.

"This is the time to live." Jiang De yawned, and was ready to sleep for a while, he was indeed tired after months of traveling overseas.

"Is the owner of the village inside?" Jiang De heard the sound of people talking, and knew that it was Xu Guanzhong.

"Yes, the owner of the village is resting, Mr. should come back later." Li Zhong, who was guarding outside the door, persuaded.

"It's Mr. Xu, come in, it's cold outside." Jiang De put away the cola and potato chips and shouted to the outside world.

The door opened gently, Xu Guanzhong walked in, shook the snow on his body and said, "It disturbed the rest of the village owner." ”

Jiang De sighed and said, "You must have something, otherwise you wouldn't have come in such a hurry, let's say, what's wrong?" ”

Xu Guanzhong said, "Two things, one is more relaxed, and the other is focused, which one will the lord listen to first?" ”

"Easy."

Xu Guanzhong pointed to Dongfang and said, "Sun Li has a letter, something happened in Dengzhou." ”

"Zong Ze?" Jiang Deke has never forgotten this stubborn old man.

"It's Zong Ze!" Xu Guanzhong nodded and said, "Zong Ze is the same as the lord guessed, as soon as he arrives in Dengzhou, he will clean up the fields and supervise the official system, which has offended a large number of people, and the prefect Li Hao has a lot of fun fighting with him, but unfortunately he has offended too much, and even some powerful people in Tokyo have been offended by him, and now the lawsuit has reached the official's house." ”

Jiang De closed his eyes and thought about it, and finally said, "Don't meddle in this matter, if I'm not mistaken, Zong Ze will either be transferred or dismissed this time, he is not young anymore, I'm afraid this blow will be very big..."

Xu Guanzhong sighed and said, "The court is mediocre, and heroes are useless, I think Zong Ze is a capable official." ”

Jiang De smiled and said, "In the officialdom, isn't the most feared thing to be a capable official?" You are a capable officer, what is someone else? Those officials can't do anything else, this golden mean is crooked. ”

Speaking of Confucianism, Xu Guanzhong said with a serious face, "Then it's another thing, Tianxiang Academy is under siege." ”

"What? Who is besieging them? ”

For Jiang De, Tianxiang Academy is more important than the foundation of Liangshan, and with Tianxiang Academy, he can abandon those corrupt old officials in the future and create his own field.

Xu Guanzhong shook his head and said, "It's no one else, it's a group of literati, these literati are holding the sign of the Holy Wenxuan King, saying that Tianxiang Academy does not teach Confucianism, but teaches the skills of merchants and craftsmen, which is a big rebellion, and requires the academy to be closed." ”

Jiang De felt that this matter was definitely not simple, the existence of Tianxiang Academy was not a day or two, no one had come to make trouble for such a long time, why did someone suddenly come to make trouble now, and it was also pulled up the banner of Confucianism, if this matter is not handled well, it will really be a big incident.

Since the beginning of Dong Zhongshu in the Han Dynasty, Confucianism is a dominant family in the land of China, in the past, the hundred schools of the pre-Qin Dynasty were almost annexed and eliminated except for Taoism, and after the Song Dynasty, Chongwen suppressed the martial arts, but also raised Confucianism high, during the Song Dynasty Shenzong, Wen Yanbo said that he ruled the world with scholars, and he could see that Confucianism in this period had gradually sat on an equal footing with the imperial power, and even had some transcendence.

If everyone in the world thinks that Tianxiang Academy is the enemy of Confucianism, then Tianxiang Academy will also become the enemy of the entire scholar class, then it is also the enemy of the entire Great Song Dynasty.

"What the hell is going on, I don't believe that these people will come to Tianxiang Academy to make trouble for no reason, have they found anything?"

"Maybe it's because many people from Tianxiang Academy have become small officials." Xu Guanzhong said with some uncertainty: "This hurts the interests of many people." ”

"Can't take the imperial examination, can't these people tolerate it?" Jiang De clenched his fists and said.

The road to the imperial examination has been completely monopolized by Confucianism, which is the foundation of Confucianism's prosperity, do you want to be an official? Want to turn over and become a powerful person? Go and learn Confucianism, as long as you learn these well, even if you can't even count the money and food, you can become a county magistrate.

Jiang De is very clear about these interests of Confucianism, so at the beginning of Tianxiang Academy, the people who came out were arranged into their own business, which naturally did not make people have anything to say, and later, Tianxiang College expanded its enrollment, and the most people who came out were to be a small official, the imperial examination was absolutely impossible, and it stands to reason that the interests of Confucianism did not conflict...

"No, let's go to Tianxiang Academy, I'm afraid something will really happen." The more Jiang De thought about it, the more uneasy he felt in his heart, the battle of Taoism was like a religious war, and everything was done.

"My lord, although there is no evidence, I think it may be related to a place." Xu Guanzhong said with some hesitation.

"Where?"

Xu Guanzhong stared at Jiang De and replied, "Xianyuan! ”

Hiss....

Xianyuan, that is, Qufu in later generations, is famous here only for one person, the ancestor of Confucianism - Kong Qiu, Kong Zhongni.

"Check immediately, if any of our students have come to Xianyuan as officials."

"Yes!"

Jiang De took a breath and said, "If it's really them, what do you think we should do?" ”

A trace of hesitation flashed in Xu Guanzhong's eyes, and finally he said firmly, "Tianxiang Academy must not afford to lose!" ”

Jiang De was actually not satisfied with this answer, but he also felt that it was okay, after all, Xu Guanzhong was also from Confucianism, and it was really difficult to point the knife at the Kong family.

Jiang De slowly squeezed his hands, Kong family, I hope you didn't participate this time, otherwise, I, Jiang De, don't care about removing a big harm for the people of Xianyuan first!