Chapter 297: The Road to the North

Jinling

Swallow Rock

Yanziji is an important ferry port located in the suburbs of Jinling, because the stone peak is abrupt on the river, three sides are empty, and the momentum is like a swallow spreading its wings and wanting to fly.

This rock south is connected to the river bank, and the other three sides are surrounded by the river, and the terrain is very dangerous. The rocks under the rocks are surging and surging, it is an important Yangtze River ferry and military important place that connects the north and south in Daxia, and the so-called "the first rock of the Yangtze River in ten thousand miles" is here.

Since the founding of the Great Xia, the Cao Yun, the salt gang, the merchants, and even the tax and silver of the imperial court, and the military defense mobilization, all of them have crossed the river from this big port to the north, and it can be said that this is one of the lifeblood ferries of the entire Great Xia Dynasty.

And for this ferry, which can even be related to the national fortune of Great Xia, the kings of the past generations have never despised it.

During the Ruizong period, he ordered to open up a lot of small ferries around Yanziji to relieve the shipping pressure of Yanziji, that is, from that time, Yanziji was no longer open to the civilian boat Cao Gang, but specialized in the transportation of the imperial court.

Then to the Wuzong period, this Yanziji completely became the only non-border military town in Daxia, the shore is the guard of Nanzhili, the water is the dock of the Yangtze River Naval Division, you can see the Zhidu Mountain at all times the soldiers come and go, the huge artillery and heavy ships on the river are also endless,

So much so that not to mention what kind of water thieves are rogues, they came to the surrounding villagers to go out to fish, all of which were far away from this swallow rock.

Where such an important ferry port is, King Wu is not exempt from vulgarity,

As early as half a month ago, King Wu had already received a letter from his current queen's mother.

Although the family letter is full of short words from parents who ask for warmth, it does not delay King Wu to feel the desire and ambition revealed from the words of his niece.

Only two days later, Gao Youlang, a pillar of the Southern Heaven of Great Xia, quickly withdrew from the entanglement with the bandits and water thieves in Wuyue Mountain, and took the invincible Tiger Ben battalion and the officers and soldiers of Chaozhou and Qingyuan with no less than 90,000 horses, and gathered overnight to look north and march.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, as soon as the strings on the side of King Wu Gao Youlang tightened, the land of Wu Yue had to make trouble three or two times a year, and the kings of the mountain who spent a lot of money on the imperial court every year had to choose silence.

No one can know whether the reason for the Central Plains is that they can't see the emptiness of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fuguang's troops, or if they have another agreement with King Wu.

In short, the entire half of the south of the Yangtze River had never been so peaceful when King Wu was there.

But

In any case, these 90,000 southern soldiers are still like a sharp sword, glowing with a cold glow, heading towards Wang Jing, the heart of the empire.

But

In the land of thousands of miles, the road is always difficult, in addition to the winding mountains and rivers, there will always be some unexpected people blocking the road,

The first one waiting for him was the salt road transfer envoy who was singing day and night with the "thin horse" in Yangzhou on the shore of Slender West Lake.

What kind of official is the envoy of the Yangzhou Salt Road in the Great Xia Dynasty?

If you talk about official positions, you are just a four-grade magistrate, and you are on an equal footing with the garrison generals of a prefecture, and even the prefects of many places may have to bow first.

But if you talk about power and the money that flows in your hand every year, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the God of Wealth of the Great Xia Dynasty!

Yangzhou, which began to become a salt transshipment and sales distribution center in the southeast region, can be traced back to the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the salt tax in the Lianghuai region has always been one of the main revenues of the unified Central Plains Dynasty.

The Central Plains Dynasty is inseparable from the salt tax in the Lianghuai region, and the salt tax is the thickest pillar that supports the entire Great Xia Dynasty treasury, and the salt road transfer envoy is the only maintainer and operator of this pillar.

And today's "God of Wealth" is none other than the grandfather of King Yong, Gao Cixun, Ji Changan.

Ji Chang'an, a half-old man who is only fifty years old, has been in the officialdom of this Great Xia for half his life, and he knows very well what his grandson Gao Cixiang is facing at this moment, and he also understands what is the reason for this Wu Wang Gao Youlang, who hurried to Wangjing,

Therefore, it also led to the fact that the Yangzhou Salt Road Transit Envoy did not send gold to women like many local officials who wanted to climb the flames, but seriously built a mansion for King Wu on the shore of the Slender West Lake.

Three days

No one knows what happened during this period, what Ji Changan said to King Wu,

But everyone knows that Gao Youlang, the king of Wu, who had marched all the way day and night, stayed in this extremely luxurious mansion for three days!

Ji Changan, like An Zhiyuan, an easy, was born as a businessman.

He may not be the best official in the Great Xia Dynasty, but he is definitely the biggest official in the world.

Ji Changan, who has been dealing with silver all his life, never thinks that there is anything that silver can't buy, if there is, it's not that you can't buy it, but you can't afford it for the time being.

When Gao Youlang came out three days later, he was already clearly seen by every pair of eyes outside the mansion that this prince of the imperial court who shook China was hooking up with the magistrates of the fourth grade, calling him a brother and a brother.

That's right

It is in this public view that there is no shredging.

Perhaps at this moment, the officials of the entire Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces seemed to smell a different meaning on the tip of their noses.

Although they all stood respectfully with their hands down, they all understood where to go down.

During his trip to Yangzhou, King Wu gained a lot and was very pleasant.

But after all, heaven is good for reincarnation, and the heavens forgive whom, this second one is waiting for him on the road, but he is not so kind.

Oh no, by the river, to be exact.

King Wu stepped into Nanzhili with an army of 90,000, and when he passed Jinling City and was about to cross the Nanzhili Guard Station and go straight to Yanziji to cross the river, he found that things seemed to be wrong.

Originally, most of the Nanzhili Guards stationed on Zhidu Mountain had all been withdrawn to the bottom of the mountain, and when they passed outside the camp, they could still feel the mourning in the camp, and the wounded soldiers who supported each other could be seen everywhere.

What's going on? Could it be that there are still foreign enemies in the hinterland of the Great Xia Dynasty?

Soon, the Wei commander, who came to greet him with a bandage in one hand and a gray face, told King Wu a thunderbolt on a sunny day.

Yanziji, I can't get by.

King Wu frowned when he was on the road, he pulled out an army of 90,000 from thousands of miles away, and they all walked to the river, can you tell me not to go? Not to mention that there are foreign enemies, even if the Liao people are now killed under Jinling City, King Wu dares to tear them up.

After all, his tiger camp is in his hands, and he has confidence!

But when he climbed the Zhidu Mountain, which was heavily bombarded by the new Yangtze River Commander Sun Zhiyuan and the Yangtze River Commander brought by the Deputy Admiral Liu Can from Wuchang, which was more flat than the farmland outside the city, he instantly lost his temper.

Looking up at the river in the distance, I saw five or six huge ships as high as the Jinling city wall on the Yangtze River, facing his side with rows of black holes.

King Wu naturally recognized this Yangtze River sailor, but he didn't quite understand what kind of wind Zheng Yuan was pumping, and why did he bombard Nanzhiliwei?

"Zhao Guang, tell them, I am Gao Youlang, King of Wu, and I am ordered by King Yong and the Empress to lead the army across the river! Let them get out of the way of the king of Swallow Rock! ”

King Wu was a little displeased and instructed the deputy general next to him to borrow the two order flags in the hands of Nanzhi Liwei, stand high in front of the mountain, and began to give orders to the warships on the river, wanting Zheng Yuan on the river to quickly make way for his uncle and grandfather.

It's just that he doesn't know that the master of the Yangtze River Water Division may have changed a long time ago.

On the nearest lucky boat, Sun Zhiyuan and Liu Can stood at the bow of the boat one after the other, holding a telescope and looking at Zhao Guang who kept waving flags at them on Zhidu Mountain.

Sun Zhiyuan was the general of Long Xiangwei before, the general of the Imperial Forest Guard, a bit of the meaning of Great Xia Guomur.

But Guo Muer is different from him, first of all, the dragon horse in Guo Muer's hand is equivalent to the status of the Southern Army in the Forbidden City of Great Xia in the Liao Dynasty, and Sun Zhiyuan's Long Xiang Guard is at most just a Chongzheng travel escort.

Moreover, although Guo Muer has always been known for his personal bravery, he also has a lot of experience in the combat command of cavalry.

But when it comes to Sun Zhiyuan, he is much inferior, and the infantry battle formation can only be said to be rough and clear, and the naval division tactics cannot be mentioned, which is ignorant.

Therefore, for reading the flag on the mountain, you still have to turn your head and ask Liu Can.

"They said that they were the soldiers and horses under the King of Wu, and they went north in the name of King Yong and the Empress, and ordered us to get out of the way of the river and let them cross the river."

Of course, Liu Can was familiar with it, and after a glance, he answered.

"Hahaha, good!"

After listening to Liu Can's words, Sun Zhiyuan was excited, he pulled out the Longquan sword on his waist with a "bang", pointed to the shore, and shouted loudly: "But wait for them, tell all the warships, face the shore, and fight me to death!" Fire! ”

"General!"

Liu Can, who was originally standing behind with an expressionless face, saw Sun Zhiyuan's posture, and before he could say anything, he grabbed his right arm holding his sword high, frowned and persuaded: "General, then King Wu's soldiers and horses are directly reading the mountain, with our current position, we can't reach them at all, and the cannon is also blowing up stones on the mountain, wasting cannonballs, it's meaningless!" ”

Sun Zhiyuan was interrupted by Liu Can's disappointment, and turned his head very unhappily and asked, "What?" You've just hit a few shots, but I can't do it? ”

After hearing this, Liu Can's heart was on fire,

But after thinking about the current situation, and the current situation of having to look at Sun Zhiyuan's face in the future, he decided to swallow it in his stomach and extinguish the fire, and explained in a gentle voice: "General, that's the case, just now I read where is the camp of the Nanzhili Guard Station on the mountain, if we don't drive them down with artillery fire, when they find out and then counterattack us with a bow and crossbow, they will be very passive." But now it's different, we just need to block the Yangtze River and not let the five go across the river, so why waste it......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Sun Zhiyuan's very unceremonious opening: "What is waste? I'm going to be the king of Germany! Let King Wu also see our awesomeness! You don't give me nonsense, if you don't talk about that comfort, can you mess with me on this ship? It would have been nice to have taken you in, but you were here to give me a face? Less nonsense, fire! ”

Sun Zhiyuan is also a person who can't listen to people's persuasion, since he was a child, he was the eldest son of the metropolitan governor's family and was used to being the biggest, and then he was directly promoted to become the person in front of the emperor, so he is naturally also a person with a higher eye than the top.

Liu Can had no other way than to obey, and he was so good that he persuaded him a little, but he didn't expect to stick Sun Zhiyuan's cold buttocks, and the two sentences of scolding in his heart stopped talking, and turned around and walked towards the artillery command position in the lower cabin,

Obviously, Sun Zhiyuan didn't understand this bullshit, and he was riding on his head to command blindly, and the depression in Liu Can's heart was no less than the people who had been comfortably planted in advance in Xiakou Port that day put a steel knife on his neck.

"General Liu."

As soon as Liu Can turned the staircase, he heard someone calling him from behind,

"Which one called me?" Liu Can, who was like a big stone slab blocked in his heart, looked back angrily,

"It's me, General Liu."

In response, a thin man with an extremely obscene description, wearing a night suit, walked out of the darkness at the corner of the stairs with a flattering face, and a bunch of keys were still dangling in his hand, and made a silent gesture to Liu Can as he walked over, and said: "General, don't be loud, give, I have made a copy of the keys to this ammunition depot and the large and small cabins, and they are all here." ”

As he spoke, he handed over the set of keys in his hand to Liu Can's hand,

If Liu Can turned out to be checked, some of them asked suspiciously: "Have you tried everything?" Can it be opened? ”

"I said General Liu, you can go to Jinzhu Village to inquire, and there is a lock that my Liu Er made that can't be opened?"

The man who spoke was Liu Er, the "thief" of Jinzhu Village!

"Did your uncle say when to do it?" Liu Can carefully hid the key in his arms, raised his eyebrows and asked,

"Hey, I don't know about this, I guess when Hu Yuhua comes over, it's almost over."

Liu Er smiled shyly as he stretched out two fingers towards Liu Can and rubbed them in front of him, "That...... Hehe, General Liu, do you have to give me some hard-earned money here? ”

If Liu Can was in a good mood, he might have really taken out two pieces of silver and handed them to Liu Er, but today this situation seems unlikely.

He pouted at Liu Er impatiently, "Go, go, get out of Lao Tzu!" The business that your uncle promised me is not over yet, when is the matter finished, and then ask Lao Tzu for the reward, get out! ”