Chapter 371: Banmen Gets an Axe
Have the people of the Lower Tang Dynasty started to do good deeds? Do a good deed!
These rumors spread quietly in Huazhou City, and Yang Zhong had heard them several times after he returned, and finally he planned to explore the truth in person. After boarding the city, he found that the so-called truth was that the sailors of the Tang Dynasty would send ships to shout outside Huazhou every day, scolding with the most unbearable rhetoric, not to mention these hot-blooded young soldiers, even Yang Zhong couldn't help but want to pick up the guy and go up to cut people.
However, outside of these surfaces, Yang Zhong still found something unusual, that is, Xia Tang actually began to clean up the river. Saying that it was "cleaning up" was just Yang Zhong's own temporary definition of their behavior, and those boats of Xia Tang soldiers were busy back and forth on the Huangshui river, digging out all the silt in the original river and burying it in the narrow place where the river bends. These actions were not visible at first, but after a month of progress, the project finally began to take shape.
"What exactly are these people trying to do? Was it because the corpse had polluted the river? Although the people of Bingzhou also drink the water of Huangshui, they don't need to fight so much. Could it be that he is planning to bring sea water to the city? ”
Yang Zhong carefully checked the geographical location of this section of Huangshui again, and the terrain of Huangshui has gradually lowered since the Jingshi came out, which means that the capital is the most source location, while the other cities are distributed on both sides of the lower reaches of Huangshui. If you want to let the sea water back, you really need to raise the terrain downstream, but this is a very huge project, and it can't be completed by these small soldiers in a few days.
The silt at the bends in the landfill did raise the terrain, but it didn't do much for the wide expanse of the water. Yang Zhong expected that he could guess something that Tang would not know, and the only thing that was certain was that they must not have a good intention to do so.
You can't let them do this, you still have to give them a little bit of a taste! Yang Zhong then ordered Gu Hongxuan to lead his troops out of the city to make a small blow, of course, the feather arrow attack at the head of the city was also indispensable. This time, Yang Zhong came back from Beijing, but he brought a lot of ordnance and materials, enough for them to fight a good war, but the sailors of the Liang Dynasty were trapped in Duzhou City, and there were no extra ships in the capital for the Guangyuan army.
After all, even if I had a ship, I might not be able to use it! Yang Zhong sighed, he had to admit that his army was an army, not a water division.
Gu Hongxuan also muttered like this in his heart, Yang Zhong himself knew this, but he still had to come out to war, start a war? It's really a joke. Gu Hongxuan stood outside the city and looked at the Lower Tang Naval Division on the water, which was also helpless, what he could do was to organize the army to shoot arrows at the ships on the shore, of course, the Lower Tang Naval Division would not sit still, they immediately attacked with more dense feather arrows.
The two armies have been tossing back and forth for more than a month, and they are staging such a scene of scratching their boots every day, not to mention the soldiers, even the court of Daliang is tired of watching it. So some people began to write to impeach Yang Zhong for wasting military power and working in vain; Some of them are even more excessive, they even think that Yang Zhong is simply a foreign country that has reached some kind of agreement with the Lower Tang Dynasty, otherwise how could they allow the Lower Tang Naval Division to be stationed in the state.
Seeing these books, Emperor Liang chose to turn a blind eye at first, or believed that Yang Zhong believed in Guangyuanjun. But things are always unbearable repeatedly, the three of them become tigers, Emperor Liang's approach not only did not turn the matter over, but aroused the opposition of the ministers in the court, and more and more ministers wrote to Emperor Liang to remove Yang Zhong's military post and replace it with a god to kill the horseman and go out to meet the enemy.
Emperor Liang glanced at these books hastily, a disdainful smile appeared on his face, and then instructed the chamberlain beside him: "Go and invite General Yutai into the palace." ”
Before he could do so, Wengu appeared in front of Emperor Liang in a military uniform, and in order to facilitate the salute, he deliberately removed those bulky armors.
"The last general, Wengu, knock to see the emperor!"
"Get up, come, and play a game of chess with me."
Tangtai Wengu sat opposite Emperor Liang, facing the chessboard, he couldn't figure out what Emperor Liang was planning to do. Playing chess is difficult to defeat Tai Wengu, although his chess skills are not as good as the third brother, but there is no problem in dealing with ordinary chess games.
Tai Wengu picked up a white piece, his hand stopped in the air for a long time and did not fall, the chess surface is now completely the world of sunspots, whether it is defending or attacking, it is difficult for white to start, once it falls, it will cause danger in another place.
It's a dead end! Tangtai Wengu immediately made a judgment, and couldn't help but feel anxious in his heart, if there was a Tangtai sickle by his side at this time, he might have a square inch. It was the first time to play chess with Emperor Liang, but my father once mentioned that in the face of this situation, admitting defeat is also a way, saving the royal face and pleasing the emperor is the most important thing, as for the victory or defeat of the chess game, it is irrelevant.
As soon as he fell, Emperor Liang was happy, and immediately stretched out his arm and landed a black spot at a key node, so that the entire white seed was trapped to death. Tai Wengu made up his mind to admit defeat, but he just felt that admitting defeat without a single chess piece falling could not help but be a little deliberate, but he didn't expect that he would directly fulfill Emperor Liang with such a fall.
"Hahaha, Wengu, when it comes to playing chess, you are far inferior to your father." Emperor Liang's eyebrows were full of smiles, so that the original hanging heart of Wengu was also a lot more relaxed. Speaking of this, Emperor Liang's words changed: "When it comes to using soldiers, you are not as good as your father." ”
"The last general is indeed inferior to his father, if it weren't for his father being killed by the rebels, he would still be the commander of the God Killing Cavalry, so that the Tang people would not dare to make such a mistake."
"Oh? What do you think of the behavior of the Tang people? ”
"Their goal is to seize Huazhou City and re-block the southern exit of the capital. The ambition of the wolf, who in the court does not know? ”
"So what do you think Yang Zhong is doing?"
"The last general agreed with General Yang's approach, after all, he was behind the gate, and he stuck to the city and did not let Huazhou fall into the hands of the enemy again, but it was his approach that made Xia Tang dare to be so arrogant and provocative."
"So what would you do if it were you?"
"All the sailors of my dynasty are trapped in Duzhou, and at the moment we have no sailors who can compete with the Tang Dynasty, but this does not mean that we can only watch them act recklessly at the doorstep. The last general thought that he could select a group of soldiers who were good enough to dive into the water of the Lower Tang ships at night, and carve out some gaps at the bottom of each ship, and the gaps must be as large as possible, so that all these ships would sink overnight. ”
Emperor Liang raised his eyebrows and looked at Wengu, and after a long time, he muttered: "At first glance, I heard that your plan is somewhat feasible. Do you think Xia Tang would not have expected us to do this? ”
"Naturally! However, relying on the performance of the Guangyuan Army, Xia Tang has begun to relax his vigilance. Isn't this our chance to act? ”
"Wengu, Huazhou is the gateway to the capital, and its importance does not need to be emphasized. Defending Huazhou is a crucial step, Yang Zhong did nothing wrong, I don't think he did anything wrong, and you yourself said that it is because of the performance of the Guangyuan Army that you will have the opportunity to sneak attack. I'm giving you this opportunity today! ”
As soon as Emperor Liang said a word, Wengu immediately got up and knelt down and said, "The last general must live up to his mission!" ”
Returning to the mansion, Wengu was very excited, and he immediately summoned all the middle-level generals of the Divine Killing Turquoise Cavalry to attend the meeting, including Ou Luyang and Yang Jing of the original Golden Armor Guard. Tangtai Wengu told everyone about his plan and asked them to give a corresponding implementation plan.
The people talked in secret all night in the house, and did not disperse until it was dawn. Wengu was quite satisfied with his arrangement, and even began to imagine Emperor Liang's reward after he was done. Thinking of this, he suddenly thought of his two younger brothers, yes, he couldn't let them be idle.
Facing the eldest brother to reactivate himself, Tangtai Qiu'an was naturally very happy, he wanted to set off immediately, if it wasn't for Tangtai Wengu holding him, he really ran to the barracks in one go. After getting the second brother, Tangtai Wengu finally came to the backyard to see the third brother, and the Tangtai sickle was still so faint, not happy or angry. Naturally, he didn't tell everything about everything, he just asked for some details again in case he came.
"Big brother, Shen Qianji doesn't believe it."
Tai Wengu didn't expect that he didn't hear what he wanted at all, but he heard such a sentence. It is true that Shen Qianji proposed such a move to clamor for the imperial court to crusade against Yang Zhong to find a reasonable excuse for himself to go out of the mountain, but no one told anyone about this matter, and he was directly debunked by the third brother, and his cheeks couldn't help but be hot.
"I'm here to ask you about this operation, where did you go?"
"If there is a problem at the source of a thing, then how can the eldest brother succeed in this matter?"
"Nonsense! I think you've been bored here for too long, and your mind is already a little unclear! ”
Tantai Wengu doesn't plan to reason with the third brother anymore, he has always felt that he has no secrets in front of the Yutai Weasel, and this feeling is really bad. At the same time as slamming the door out, the scythe looked at the direction of his eldest brother's departure with infinite regret, and finally lowered his head.