Chapter 18: The Mystery of the Third Sister (I)
Chibazi said "oh" and walked over to open the door, but he was stunned, and Wu Zhi stood outside the threshold with a smile on his face.
"Brother!" Qianyezi greeted happily, there seemed to be signs of throwing herself into Wu Zhi's arms, and suddenly saw Xiao Qianqian behind Wu Zhi, cheered, and threw herself into Xiao Qianqian's arms, Xiao Qianqian smiled and hugged her, the two of them often had some awkwardness before, how could they be so affectionate?
Qiqiao saw Wu Zhi at the door, but he was in a hurry to clean up the plates on the table, Wu Zhi smiled: "Come out, you, Qianqian is back!" ”
As she spoke, Xiao Qianqian had already taken Qianyezi's hand and entered the dormitory, Qiqiao looked Xiao Qianqian up and down, seeing that Xiao Qianqian was uneasy for a while, she lowered her head and said, "Aunt ......"
Qiqiao Fang wanted to taunt her a few words, but saw Wu Zhi wink at herself, and pointed at Xiao Qianqian's eyes, Qiqiao looked over, Xiao Qianqian's eyes were red and swollen, and it was obvious that she had just cried bitterly, Qiqiao sighed, and said softly: "Qianqian, it's good to come back, come, aunt hurts you!" ”
Qiqiao walked over and took Xiao Qianqianlou in his arms, and did not forget to take the opportunity to twist Qianyezi's little face, Qianyezi broke free from Qiqiao's arms and rolled his eyes.
Wu Zhi smiled, turned around and walked out......
In March of the second year of Xuanhe, the Liao State went to Beijing and the Imperial Palace.
In the imperial study, Emperor Liao Yelu Yanxi sat silently behind the desk, his face was extremely ugly, and on the soft chair in front of the desk, Xiao Fengxian was also silent.
After a long time, Yelu Yanxi sighed: "After the Southern Dynasty destroyed the Jin, won't it let go of my dynasty after all?" ”
Xiao Fengxian nodded, "Holy Lord." The southerners will definitely destroy Jin Zhiwei and declare war on our dynasty! ”
Yelu Yan bowed slightly: "Then go according to your wishes!" ”
Xiao Fengxian nodded, "The elites of the Southern Dynasty are all fighting fiercely in Huanglong Mansion, and they are all soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River, and most of them are tired. If you can destroy the Zongze Department in Huanglong, then within a few years, I will have no worries, and then the saint will work hard, and I will not be able to keep my dynasty safe! ”
After Xiao Feng returned to Liao, he immediately sent a secret envoy. A month ago, Zong Ze led 80,000 forbidden troops into the Huanglong Mansion of the Jin State, and now it has been a fierce battle for several days. Xiao Fengxian put forward a plan to raid Zhongjing, if he could conquer Zhongjing, he would cut off Zongze's back road, and the hundreds of thousands of Song troops in Liaoyang Mansion were isolated and their morale was low.
Yelu Yanxu listened to Xiao Fengxian's words and sighed, it can only be like this, this. Is it a trapped beast fighting? Although even if he temporarily conquered Zhongjing and wiped out Zongze's troops with Huanglong, he would not be able to conquer the Yuntian Trench Pass, and when the Southern Dynasty breathed a sigh of relief, it must have been a hundred times more tragic in retaliation, but if not. Could it be that after seeing the Southern Dynasty destroy the Jurchens, they are freeing up their hands to deal with themselves?
"Go and set it up!" Yelu Yanxi waved his hand, Xiao Fengxian got up and retreated, looking at Xiao Fengxian's back. Yelu Yanxu sighed again, remembering that when he had just ascended the throne, Da Liao was still singing and dancing. Hundreds of countries bowed, but for more than ten years, but the country was weakened, and there was a faint danger of destroying the country, Ye Yanxu was a little disheartened, frustrated picked up the teacup on the table, and drank tea with a sullen head.
At the same time, the study of the prince's mansion, Wu Zhi held a letter in his hand, slightly distracted, the letter was written by Zong Ze, expounding the various drawbacks of the Northern Expedition, especially mentioning that the defense of Zhongjing is very problematic, Zhongjing is now mostly the soldiers of the south of the Yangtze River, and the battle array has been sparse for a long time, if the Liao State betrays the alliance and raids Zhongjing, I am afraid that Zhongjing will not be able to hold for half a month.
Wu Zhi looked at the letterhead and sighed, when the letter arrived in Tokyo, the Shengyu who urged Zong Ze to enter the north was afraid that he had already arrived in Liaoyang Mansion, and now Zong Ze's army thought that it had arrived at the foot of Huanglong City.
These days, the monarchs and ministers of the Southern Dynasty were immersed in the joy of successive victories, and the ministers all hoped that the Zongze Department would destroy the Jurchens in one fell swoop, expand the territory, and achieve unprecedented glory in the Southern Dynasty. Even the most conservative An Gongtao also hopes that the Queen Mother will urge Zong Ze to go north, as for Wu Zhi, he has already ordered to stop the supply of fairy tea to the Jurchens and Liao nobles, and if these nobles go crazy, they will definitely mess up the Jin and Liao countries, right?
Wu Zhi is a radical, naturally hope that Zong Ze will destroy Jin in one fell swoop, and then take advantage of the situation to take the best of Liao State to Beijing, originally full of confidence, but after reading Zong Ze's letter, a trace of uneasiness came to Wu Zhi's heart, Zong Ze analyzed the current situation of Dading Mansion and Liaoyang Mansion very thoroughly, now there are more than 100,000 Jiangnan forbidden troops stationed in Zhongjing Road of Dading Mansion, and there are more than 100,000 Youyun soldiers in Tokyo Road of Liaoyang Mansion, and the two sides are horns of each other, but if Jin, Liaoyang Mansion divides most of the troops to attack Huanglong Mansion, if Zhongjing is attacked, Liaoyang Mansion is unable to send reinforcements, Only rely on Youyun to send troops to rescue, and most of the places left by Youyun are infantry, so I am afraid that the journey will not be able to catch up.
What's more, Zhongjing and Tokyo have just been pacified, and there are not a few Khitans, if Song Liao rises into war, I am afraid that these Khitans will take the opportunity to make waves, which is a big trouble.
Wu Zhi looked at Zong Ze's letter, sighed, got up and pushed open the window, looking at the dark clouds in the northern sky, speechless for a long time......
Under the Yellow Dragon City, the continuous camps will surround the Yellow Dragon City, the banners in the camp cover the sun, most of the soldiers who come and go have solemn faces, and look up at the Jurchens on the Yellow Dragon City from time to time, no one can imagine that the Huanglong Mansion is so difficult, the Jurchens are so fierce, the fierce battle for half a month, the loss of thousands of soldiers, the Yellow Dragon City is immovable.
In the camp of the Chinese army, Zong Ze sat on the handsome chair, silently looking at the urgent official document sent by the small colonel, the official document was from Liaoyang Mansion, the Liao people raided Zhongjing, when the official document was issued, the fierce battle in Zhongjing Dading Mansion was in full swing.
Zong Ze looked at the official document, his heart was heavy, the last thing he wanted was that the situation really appeared, if Zhongjing was lost, the blow to the morale of the Youyun soldiers could be said to be fatal, although the grain and grass in Liaoyang Mansion were quite abundant, and Liaoyang Mansion had a seaport in Laizhou, which could be supplied by sea, but in any case, the psychology of the soldiers would inevitably be overshadowed by fighting alone. For the Youyun soldiers in the Hundred Battles and Victories, the Youyun soldiers who have never experienced the baptism of defeat, I don't know what kind of blow it will cause.
Zong Ze also knew that Dading Mansion was the weakness of the Northern Expedition, but the letter to Guiwangdi had just been sent, and the edict urging the Northern Expedition had arrived, so he had no choice but to raise the Northern Expedition, which was also deeply worried about him, and disobedience was naturally the next step. Zong Ze calculated, if the army lightningly conquered Huanglong Mansion, even if the Liao State had any dangerous thoughts, it could only be quietly withdrawn, what Zong Ze didn't expect was that there was a bone to meditate. The 30,000 Jurchens in Huanglongfu were desperate like madmen, and the Hebei army's devastating offensive was not there, and after more than ten days, the Hebei army did not have the slightest upper hand, and failed to take the first step in the city, which gave the Liao people an opportunity.
Sigh. Zong Ze got up and said loudly: "Summoning the generals to discuss the matter!" ”
The drums burst into bursts, Wen Da, Li Cheng, Hu Sanmei, Lu Junyi and others entered the account when they heard the sound, Zong Zeping retired from the primary school and passed the official document to the generals, Li Cheng exclaimed: "The Liao people attacked Zhongjing? I'm afraid it's hard to hold Zhongjing, right? ”
Zong Ze glanced at him with disgust, and sighed in his heart, even if these generals. Haven't you never experienced adversity?
"Zhongjing is afraid that it will not last long, for today's plan, I have thought about it carefully, and the only way to retreat quickly is to retreat the army, as long as Zhongjing can hold on for half a month, you can send troops from Liaoyang Mansion to save it! What do you think? ”
The thoughts that the people will have. Some nodded, some sighed, and Zong Ze looked at the third sister who was sitting on the ground indifferently. He asked, "General Hu, what do you think?" ”
Hu Sanmei nodded. Indication is feasible.
Zong Ze smiled bitterly in his heart, he vaguely knew that the king and the third sister Hu had a close relationship, and began to see that the third sister Hu was unusually cold to himself and thought that she had strong support, so she pretended to be arrogant, and after a long time, she knew that the little girl was so natural, I was afraid that in the face of the emperor, she wouldn't say a word, right?
Zong Zefang wanted to pass the order, but overheard the "report...... outside! Hurriedly walked into the big tent with a long report, kneeling down on one knee, "Report to the general, there is an urgent official document from Liaoyang Mansion outside the camp!" ”
Zong Ze was stunned, the official document on the seal was only tea time, how could the official document be delivered? Hurried to: "Hurry up!" ”
After a while, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the tent, a messenger hurriedly ran in, took out a fire-sealed paperwork, the colonel took the pass, Zong Ze opened the briefcase, took out the paper and glanced at it, his face changed suddenly, all the generals had never seen the calm marshal gaffe, they all looked at each other, knowing that this time they were afraid of a big mistake.
Zong Ze slowly sat back in his chair and said with a smile: "Xiliao Yelu Chun's soldiers are cloudy!" "The capital of Western Liao Yelu Chunding is Datong Mansion, bordering Youyun Prefecture.
"The drunkard's intention is not to drink, no matter how ambitious Yeluchun is, he also knows that he can't conquer Youyun!" Wenda sighed.
Zong Ze nodded approvingly: "It's just to contain Youyun, in this way, Youyun won't be able to send reinforcements to support Dading Mansion!" ”
"Isn't the Dading Mansion destined to fall?" Li Cheng's face was very ugly.
"Not only will I definitely fall, but I will be isolated and helpless, and my morale will be low, but I am afraid that I will not be able to hold out for a few days!" Zong Ze shook his head.
"Now there is only a quick retreat, if Zhongjing is overcome, the Liao army will definitely be out of the dragon, Yikun will attack our army, and then our army will inevitably suffer from the enemy!" Lu Junyi rarely said a word, but it was to the point.
Zong Ze sighed and was silent, the situation was much worse than they imagined, Huanglong Mansion was far away from Liaoyang Mansion, and the closest state capital to here under the jurisdiction of the Southern Dynasty was Tongzhou, which belonged to Huanglong Mansion in Tokyo Province.
Since the Liao people can join forces with the Western Liao, they regard the Southern Dynasty as a great enemy of life and death, only afraid of dragonization, the Liao army in Yikun Erzhou has already attacked, and I don't know if the defenders of Tongzhou can hold out until the time when the Northern Expedition is turned, if Tongzhou is lost, their 80,000 forbidden troops cannot return to Liaoyang Mansion, but there is really no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the ground.
Seeing Zong Ze pondering, Li Cheng hurriedly said: "My lord, if you don't retreat to Liaoyang quickly, I'm afraid it will be too late!" ”
Zong Ze was silent.
"Is it too late to retreat?" Hu Sanmei's voice sounded, she rarely spoke, and suddenly a sentence came out, and the discussion in the big tent stopped immediately, and all the generals looked at Hu Sanmei.
Hu Sanmei said indifferently: "Tongzhou! ”
Most of the generals were silent, only Suo Chao shook his head and said, "Tongzhou? What happened to Tongzhou? But no one paid any attention to him.
Zong Ze sighed, since he commanded the army, he had never encountered such a dilemma.
"My lord, I thought that the only way to do this is to storm the Yellow Dragon Mansion!" Third Sister Hu said suddenly.
"Storming the Huanglong Mansion? General Hu isn't joking, right? If you can't capture Huanglong Mansion within a few days. The Khitans are killing from behind, how can our army deal with itself? A general sneered and said, this general was originally a military attache in Shandong, and he called Zhu Mingming. Most of the generals in the Hebei army know that the relationship between the king and the third sister is not shallow, and the third sister is famous, and everyone is polite to the third sister, but Qin Ming doesn't know the depth, and he is not used to the appearance of the third sister on weekdays. At this time, I couldn't help but ridicule each other.
Li Cheng glanced at Zuo Ming, shook his head, and said in his heart, "Count your kid's luck, if your king is here, won't he skin you alive?" Speaking of which, Wu Zhi usually behaves fairly and strictly, but Li Cheng somehow. I just think that your king loves to protect the short.
The third sister ignored Qin Ming, looked at Zong Ze and said, "I am willing to take five thousand light horsemen and make a surprise attack on Beijing!" ”
Everyone was in an uproar, and the meaning of Hu Sanmei was naturally to encircle Wei to save Zhao, but thousands of light horsemen made a surprise attack on Beijing? What are you kidding, is the Khitan camp in Beijing a vegetarian land? Thousands of people were just sent to their deaths in vain.
Zong Ze also shook his head again and again. I can't even say. When the Jurchens invaded Liao, why didn't they directly attack Shangjing in the west? It is not because the capital of a country was the most tightly defended at that time, but in the Southern Dynasties, the number of forbidden troops in Bianjing was about the same as the total number of local forbidden troops, and even if a few thousand cavalry successfully attacked the capital, they would be killed by the forbidden army in the forbidden army camp outside the capital in the blink of an eye.
"Do you think there's a better way?" Hu Sanmei asked Zong Zedao.
Zong Ze sighed: "Not for the time being. But the way is to come up with a place, everyone go back today to think about it, and then discuss it tomorrow morning! ”
The generals stood up one after another, and each of them withdrew with his own thoughts.
Zong Ze sat on the handsome chair, thought hard about countermeasures, and came up with a few solutions. They all shook their heads and vetoed, and they really felt helpless for a while, this time the three kingdoms of Liao, Jin, West and Liao joined forces, and your king did not have any information coming, it seems that the three kingdoms are alert.
It is said that the proud army will be defeated. Are you dazed by the recent victory? Zong Ze sighed, perhaps, because the information from your king is always so accurate, he has gradually become inert, and he has not thought about the reaction of the three kingdoms very seriously recently, although he also thought that the three kingdoms might join forces, but he didn't expect that as soon as the other party made a move, it was as if he had forced himself to the precipice."
Zong Ze was thinking wildly, when he suddenly heard the neighing of horses outside the camp, and then the sound of hooves was like thunder, and gradually went away, Zong Ze was stunned, and was about to go out to see what was going on, when a small colonel stumbled in and shouted loudly: "My lord...... My lord...... General Hu led the light cavalry out of the camp......"
"What?" Zong Zeteng stood up and strode out of the tent, in the west, the dust was rolling, and a team of people and horses rushed away.
The little colonel ran out, holding a letterhead in his hand, and said cautiously: "My lord, General Hu sent you a letter......
Zong Ze snorted, although the third sister and the king had a deep relationship, she did not obey the military order, which really made Zong Ze angry.
Stretched out his hand to take the letterhead and unfolded it, there were not many words on the silk paper, "Hebei Army, his hard work cannot be abandoned"
Zong Ze looked at this line of words and was stunned for a while, Tie Qing's face gradually relaxed, looked up at the west, sighed, but his eyes were a little moist, Hu Sanmei's thoughts he naturally understood, in order to solve the danger of the Hebei army, she was willing to take the risk to attack Shangjing, so that the Khitan people temporarily had no time to divide troops to rescue Huanglong, the Hebei army can take the opportunity to conquer Huanglong, then even if Tongzhou falls, the Hebei army can also return to the south to recover Tongzhou after Huanglong rests, so as to avoid the embarrassing situation of Khitan in front and Jurchen in the back.
Zong Ze turned his head and shouted loudly: "Gather all the generals!" Onslaught on the Yellow Dragon! ”
Hu Sanmei slowed down the horse, let Yu'er and the light cavalry around her keep the same rhythm to run, look at the soldiers around her, Hu Sanmei sighed in her heart, I don't know how this trip is auspicious, can I see him again in the future?
Looking back at the clouds floating in the southern sky, Hu Sanmei sighed softly.
"Will ...... Checkmate...... You...... Do you have something on your mind? A cavalryman who was following Hu Sanmei stammered, and when Hu Sanmei looked back, his face turned red.
If Wu Zhi is here, he may still be able to recognize that this is the soldier who was indomitable in order to be selected for the cavalry team, repeatedly fell off his horse, and repeatedly got up, but Hu Sanmei has no impression for a long time, and now looking at his outfit, he is already a capital head (centurion),
"What's your name?" Hu Sanmei said lightly.
"General Yu, junior general Yue Fei!" The soldier's face was full of excitement with a hint of childishness.
"Yes!" Third Sister Hu nodded, her eyes looking forward.
"Yue Fei, are you afraid of death?" Hu Sanmei looked at the cavalry beside her and felt something.
"Don't be afraid!" Yue Fei said loudly.
Hu Sanmei nodded and stopped talking.
"General! Those who came with the general today are not afraid of death! They all know what the road ahead is! Yue Fei added loudly.
Hu Sanmei clamped the horse's belly between her legs, ran forward, and said, "Yue Fei!" Come and lead the way with me! "There is already a fork in the road ahead, and the third sister of Hu studies the topographic map sent by Wu Zhi every day, and naturally knows where to go in order to kill Shangjing as quickly as possible and avoid the eyes and ears of the Liao people.
Yue Fei was overjoyed, answered, hit the horse and chased after him, looking at the third sister of the white-clothed Fengfeng, Yue Fei's eyes were full of admiration.
At the end of March of the second year of Xuanhe, the champion general of the Southern Dynasty Hu Sanmei led five thousand light cavalry to suddenly appear in the upper capital, when the door of the capital was opened, the officers and soldiers defending the city were not prepared, the light cavalry team had already entered the city like the wind, the white helmet and white armor of Hu Sanmei was in front, and the light cavalry team of black soft armor was behind, roaring into Shangjing, going to the capital, and immediately bloody wind and rain.
Hu Sanmei, like an indestructible sword, where the Khitan people screamed again and again, and fell down the horse in the blood rain, a young general next to Hu Sanmei, the spear in his hand was like a dragon out of the sea, flying up and down, the spear was everywhere, the Khitan people were poked to the ground, Hu Sanmei occasionally had leisure, and looked back and praised: "What a handsome marksmanship!" ”
Yue Fei immediately seemed to have eaten stimulants, and his marksmanship made him more and more anxious, and the light cavalry was invincible and killed the Liao Imperial Palace.
The gate of the palace was closed, and the crossbowmen on the city released arrows one after another, Yue Fei's heart sank, and he turned his head and said, "General, do you want to retreat!" "I didn't think I could enter the palace, but I didn't expect the Khitan people to react quickly, although the imperial city is not as tall as the outer city wall, but the cavalry has no way, if you don't retreat, the Khitan army outside the capital will arrive in a blink of an eye, and thousands of light horsemen may not be able to stir up any waves and will be annihilated in the sea of people. The light cavalry was originally here to harass, retreat and hide as soon as he misses a blow, and come back another day, this is the strategy in Yue Fei's heart.
Hu Sanmei worked hard to talk to Yue Fei, but she didn't stop at all, the spear fired the arrows, and ran straight towards the gate of the imperial city, Yue Fei exclaimed, although he knew that he would die, but he also instigated the war horse, followed closely, and was bound to advance and retreat with the general.
Yue Fei's imaginary collision with the city gate did not happen, the black light flashed in the hands of the third sister Hu, and somehow, a big hole had been broken in the palace gate, and Yu'er rushed in with a "poof".
Yue Fei pulled the reins and followed, and the rest of the light chairs were not afraid of death in the rain of arrows, and rushed up one after another.
In the palace, he immediately screamed again and again, but Hu Sanmei was familiar with the road, and went straight to the harem, in the flash of black light, the guards in heavy armor all screamed and fell to the ground, Yue Fei was shocked in his heart, and he was even more energetic, although the spear could not pierce the heavy armor of the guards, every shot went down, but it also knocked the heavy armor guards away.
After galloping a few steps, Yue Fei suddenly said loudly: "General Hu has an order, not as good as the eunuchs of Gong'e, men, women and children!" Kill them all! "Now that you have entered the palace, it is really a pity not to kill Emperor Liao! But if you look for it like this, it's not a way, who knows if Emperor Liao will pretend to be a eunuch or something, killing all of them is the best way, as for the old and young, it is best to kill the prince as well.
Hu Sanmei listened to Yue Fei's shout, was slightly stunned, and immediately understood what Yue Fei meant, and did not speak, and went straight to the imperial garden to kill, Yue Fei looked around, at this time, there was no one to guard the palace gate, the palace guards were not invited, and they could only kill people when they saw them, if they were lucky enough to kill Emperor Liao, it would be their luck to kill him.
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