Chapter 42: Martial Arts
In the afternoon, the capital of Linyi rushed outside the city, looking at the familiar city, Feng Delang coughed a few times, led his entourage to the east gate, the road into the city was winding, and there was a stone tablet erected on the side of the road not far away, which wrote the glorious deeds of the former king Van Huda in Sanskrit. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Most of the ordinary people in Linyi are illiterate, and the merchants who travel between Dianchong and the port area, even if they know Sanskrit, will not stop to look at what is written on the stone tablet, Feng Delang did not slow down and walked past the stone tablet.
He had already read the content on the stele, and it was nothing more than singing praises of virtue, which was not interesting.
It has been hundreds of years since the establishment of the Linyi Kingdom, during which the history of the country has not been repaired, and how many kings have been in the first hundred years are also confused, but the Linyi Kingdom has to erect a monument specifically for the late King Van Huda, which is naturally for a reason.
Because from the point of view of Lin Yiguo, Van Huda's exploits deserve special mention.
At the beginning of the founding of the Linyi State, the king's surname was District, and later the royal family became extinct, and the nephew surnamed Fan of the king at that time ascended the throne, so since then, the royal family of the Linyi Kingdom has been surnamed Fan.
Probably when the Central Plains crossed to the south, there were some problems with the succession of the throne of Linyi Kingdom, and a slave-born minister surnamed Fan killed all the princes and finally inherited the throne.
In the later period of the Jin Kingdom, the king of Linyi named Fan Huda began to use troops on a large scale to the north, and the Jin's Rinan County and Jiude County were repeatedly plundered, and the two county Taishou were captured by him.
At that time, the power minister Huan Xuan was in turmoil, and the Jin State was in turmoil, and he was unable to do anything about the Koubian of the Linyi State south of Jiaozhou.
Fan Huda has no fear, every year to the north to use troops, many times to break through the south of the country, Jiuzhen county city, can be described as "great martial arts", and at this time the Jin State was caught in the rebellion of Sun En and Lu Xun, and he was too busy to take care of himself, and he had no time to increase troops to Jiaozhou to crusade against the daring Linyi State.
Lu Xun's troops fled westward in defeat, in a vain attempt to occupy the nest that Jiaozhou thought was resurrected, but was defeated in Nanjin outside Longbian City, and committed suicide by throwing himself into the water at the end of the road, and the king of Linyi, Fan Huda, thought that the heaven-given opportunity to capture Jiaozhou had arrived, so he personally led his troops north.
As a result, he was defeated by the local Jin army in Jiaozhou, a son and a general were killed, and another son was captured alive.
Although it was only a nominal submission, the Jin State had no intention or ability to ask for guilt, so he got off the donkey, condemned a few words without pain, and accepted the so-called surrender of Lin Yiguo.
Van Huda died of illness soon after, but his "great martial arts" for the opening of the border of Linyi State, as well as the achievements of building the new capital Dianchong and the important town of Ousu in the north, became a generation of heroes that later kings wanted to emulate, so on the side of the official road outside the east gate (main gate) of Linyi State, a stone tablet was built to commemorate Van Huda's glorious deeds.
From the perspective of the people of Linyi, looking at the Van Huda stele will make you feel enthusiastic, but Feng Delang, as a "foreigner", after seeing Van Huda's great martial arts, he doesn't feel a good feeling.
Because he is a descendant of the Gao Liang Feng family, the Feng family has always been proud of being a Han and Miao descendant in the Central Plains, and the great achievements of Fan Huda, the king of Linyi, and other kings of Linyi are all based on the accumulated bones of the people of Jiaozhou, especially Rinan and Jiuzhen County, which is the history of blood and tears of the Han people.
The country of Linyi continued to be in the south of the country and Jiuzhen, the local officials and the people were miserable, and the Jiaozhou Assassin sent troops to repel the Linyi army, and when the main force returned to Longbian, the Linyi army came again, and after the city was broken, there was another round of massacre.
After tossing and turning for dozens or hundreds of years, the Han immigrants in Rinan and Jiuzhen counties since the Qin and Han dynasties were killed and wounded, and the composition of the local people gradually became dominated by slang, bureaucrats and even occupants, and their feelings for the Central Plains gradually weakened until they disappeared.
Even Jiaozhou was dragged to the point of great injury, causing the local heroes to continue to make trouble, and there was no time to look south, Lin Yiguo used the method of continuous encroachment for dozens of hundreds of years, and finally succeeded.
Rinan County is no longer under the jurisdiction of the Central Plains Imperial Court.
Feng Delang has read books and can read, so he knows some history, but as a maritime merchant, it is impossible for him not to do business because of this kind of thing.
Every time he came to Linyi Port, he had to take a boat upstream, land at the confluence of the two rivers east of Dianchong, and go overland to Dianchong City to visit the magnates of Linyi State, so that the other party could take care of it more conveniently, so he couldn't be more familiar with Dianchong City.
was about to come to the city gate, but saw several horsemen landing in the direction of the estuary behind him, galloping towards the city, it seemed that it was a messenger from the downstream port area, Feng Delang's heart moved, and led his entourage to run quickly to the city gate.
He was a familiar face, so after paying the entrance tax, he omitted to search his body and went directly into the city, and as soon as everyone entered the city, the messengers rushed to the city gate, shouting: "Close the city gate, close the city gate!" The pirates have attacked the port area, close the city gates, lest the pirates get in!! ”
There was chaos at the city gate, and the guards at the gate forcibly closed the city gate despite the pleas of passers-by, and Feng Delang, who entered the city in time, secretly breathed a sigh of relief and continued to walk forward.
An attendant followed closely behind and asked in a low voice, "Lord Lang, what's next?" ”
"Go to the old place and stay and don't do superfluous things."
"So..."
"Don't panic, wait for the signal of the official army!"
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Linyi Palace, the city in the city of Dianchong, the circumference is more than 300 steps, the hall is the hall, the south wall has no windows, the east end of the longhouse is the north-south direction, the south side is the back of the sun, the west side of the hall is the residence of the king and the harem, the palace is on the mountain, facing the east.
The eaves of the gull tail, the blue pattern door decoration, the red brick steps, the green tile eaves, although not as strong as the Central Plains Dahuwu Fort, but also some of the majesty of the king.
Fan Fanzhi, the king of Linyi, was leaning on the window in the attic of the second floor of the palace at this time to ask questions, and the civil and military officials were on the flat ground outside the building, looking up at him and answering various questions.
The way the king and his courtiers talked so special was because of the ancestral custom, the attic where the king was located, civil and military officials, princes, and attendants were strictly forbidden to ascend, and it was the assassins and those careerists who had bad intentions to usurp the throne.
The young Fan Fanzhi, who had not been on the throne for a short time, but was much shorter than his father, learned that there were Haikou raiders attacking the port today, and hurriedly convened civil and military discussions, and the focus of his attention was: whether this large-scale fleet was really Haikou or the Zhou army that came to attack.
"King, the other party is menacing, the mast is like a forest, it is not an ordinary small fleet, and the people who returned to the city to warn did not see the flag clearly..."
"However, if the Wolf Tooth Whisker or the Haikou of Heluoshan gathered, it would probably be of this size, they came from the south, and the minister thought it should be the Haikou."
Someone questioned: "However, if you go from the big island where Yazhou is located to occupy the port, there is also a possibility of yaw, so it is also possible to approach the port in the southern sea..."
"You mean that the Zhou army crossed the sea from Yazhou in a fleet and directly attacked our national capital? How is this possible, isn't the main force of the Zhou army in Jiaozhou Longbian? Where did they get so many soldiers! ”
"Who knows, isn't there still a garrison over there in Guangzhou?"
"They're crazy? Bring all the troops here, won't the locals rebel? A few months ago, it was still Chen Guo's territory! ”
Seeing the ministers fighting, Fan Fanzhi had a headache, patted the windowsill, and when it was quiet below, he asked, "Is the city gate closed?" ”
"King, the four city gates have been closed, and the ministers have sent troops to the mouth of the river to garrison, no matter whether the enemy is Haikou or the Zhou army, don't try to approach the capital!"
"Very good, immediately send people to transfer troops, let the troops from all over the country Qin Wang, and also, the army that set off for Ousu today, let them return to the city immediately!"
Fan Fanzhi saw that various matters to resist the enemy had been implemented, so he was a little determined that the attacks of the Haikou had occurred from time to time, but the scale was generally not large, and what worried him the most was that the Zhou army crossed the sea.
It's not impossible, but generally speaking, the Central Plains army or the Jiaozhou garrison in the past dynasties traveled along the coastal route by sea, and as of today, he has not received an urgent report from the Ousu garrison, saying that there is a Zhou army fleet moving south along the coast.
But the other party can also come directly across the sea from Yazhou, but the risk is very high, and the three or five large-scale maritime trade fleets often go this way, but the number of hundreds of fleets to take this route has never been heard of.
In the summer and autumn season, there are many hurricanes along the coast, when the storm comes, the coastal ships can also rush to the beach, the people on board go ashore to avoid the hurricane, and the fleet that can sail in the sea can only watch the huge waves crash, the ships smash, and everyone dies in the belly of the fish.
If the commander of the Zhou army really dares to use troops like this, then he is a madman, an out-and-out madman!
"Don't worry, the king, our warships are also cruising in the sea outside the Zhan Prison Mountain, if there is really a large fleet from the northeast, they should always find it in advance and send a ship back to report the news, there is no relevant news now, the minister thinks that it is the wolf tooth beard Haikou in the south or even the single Haikou in the south."
"Our army has been deployed at the mouth of the river, and the other party will definitely not be able to break through in a hurry, let alone outside the capital, and when the army of King Qin arrives, they will definitely know the difficulty and retreat!"
It makes sense, Fan Fanzhi feels that no matter who is attacking, it doesn't matter now, as long as his own army holds the estuary in the eastern suburbs of the capital, and when the surrounding troops come, the other party will definitely return in vain.
Hekou, even when the Song army attacked more than 100 years ago, my country held it for more than ten days, and now there is no reason why it can't hold it for even a few days!
The meeting was about to be dismissed, but the sound of "rumbling" was faintly heard in the distance to the east, which sounded one after another like thunder for a while, and it seemed that thunder was falling frequently.
Looking up at the cloudy sky, there was no sign of rain at all, Fan Fanzhi couldn't help but wonder: If the sky hasn't changed, how can it be sunset and thunder?