Volume 2: The Eighth Route Army's Envoys - Chapter 11: New Concept of War (8)
Baguang Yan was depressed.
In his situation, it is difficult for any normal person not to be depressed. When he was sleeping with his head covered, the alarm bell rang in the city, and all the orders given after getting up were like mud cattle entering the sea, and there was no response. Finally dressed neatly, Lu E, who was close to the guard, reported that his enemy brigade had entered the city, and asked about the number of enemy troops, troops, weapons and equipment, but no one could answer. I don't even know where this enemy army is coming from. At that time, the Yinzhou defense envoy even thought that Yang Xin of Linzhou, the chameleon fox, had rebelled again, and the coalition forces of the two Yang families had defeated Li Yiyin and had already come to Yinzhou.
In the end, the shouts of killing from the south finally made Tuoba Guangyan realize that this enemy army should be the Zhijia army from the Yanzhou side. However, before he could react, the guards pushed him onto his horse, and then surrounded him and escaped through the north gate.
From the point of view of his heart, he would never want to go, his wife and concubines and children are all in the city, and the enemy army will not be slaughtered when he comes? Besides, he was stationed in Yinzhou to be responsible for supporting the logistics for the army on the front line, and he abandoned Yinzhou, how could he explain to his uncle?
Before he could think through these headaches, he had already met the enemy infantry who were seizing the ferry.
To be sure, these enemy soldiers were strong enough to fight each other in a short and easy manner, and in the blink of an eye they killed twelve of their own guards, shot themselves in the thigh, and were captured after falling off their horses.
Tuoba Guangyan is also regarded as the No. 1 giant-level figure among the Pingxia tribes, and his status is still above the general tribal leader. He also has the official title and position awarded by the Bianliang court, and his ability is also quite recognized by the high-level officials of the Pingxia tribe. Today's heel is too wronged, and Tuoba Guangyan still feels that this battle is really confused and inexplicable.
It wasn't until the night of his capture that he judged from the accents of the guards that this might be a Yanzhou soldier.
The Yanzhou soldiers actually appeared in Yinzhou and broke the city in one fell swoop, which is really a rare thing.
Tuoba Guangyan is an important minister who is qualified to participate in the core confidential affairs of the Tuoba family. He naturally thought of who the owner of this army was. The guy who once let Tuoba Guangyuan return in front of Luzi Pass, the new star who suddenly jumped up in Yanzhou in the past year, the person who was described as the most inscrutable character by Tuoba Guangxiu, the brain of the family.
In the afternoon of the next day, a distinguished guest came to the cell, the Zhongshu Order of the Great Zhou Imperial Court, and the envoy of the three towns of the Duke of Pi from Ruan.
Lao Zhe was very polite to him, and greeted him like an old friend.
But on the topic of substance, Zhi Congruan didn't say a word.
Tuoba Guangyan still did not know what Li Wenge and the Yanzhou military were going to do with him. As a tribal retainer. Tuoba Guangyan was not very old, but he already had a few women, which used to make the cousin who was not a good man quite jealous. Tuoba Guangyan sometimes feels that his uncle is too weird in giving birth to a son, he is also a son, Tuoba Guangrui is a master, and Guangxing is rubbish.
After being imprisoned for three days, Tuoba Guangyan never met the legendary Li Wenge, nor did he see the woman and a son and daughter he had been thinking about.
He was more worried about his son Tuoba Jiba, who was two years old but very squeamish. We have not been weaned yet. Now that he is in prison, I don't know if there is anyone to take care of him, if these Yanzhou soldiers are ruthless, I am afraid that this kid will starve to death.
Sometimes he gritted his teeth and thought that it would be okay if his son died, anyway, he would fall into the hands of the Zhijia and Yanzhou soldiers who had a feud with the Pingxia tribe. I don't know what kind of inhuman torture I have to suffer, and I will die early and be born sooner. The loss of Yinzhou caused the army to retreat and cut off, and the food and salary were not enough, even if the clan uncle came back safely, he was afraid that he would not be able to spare himself.
He is not afraid of death, and as a member of the Tuoba family, he will not be so embarrassed. For several days in prison, his attitude was quite calm. If you give food, you will eat and drink, and if you don't give it, you don't want it. Fortunately, although the soldiers guarding him did not speak in a good tone, they never humiliated him. These enemy soldiers dressed in green cloth costumes did not look like the Diyanzhou soldiers they had seen at all, fierce, steady, silent, and did not hesitate to accept and obey orders.
A rare strong army.
This is his conclusion.
It's a pity. So far, he has not figured out how many troops this enemy army has and what its overall quality is. If the entire Zhangwu army in Yanzhou was all of this quality, Tuoba Guangyan thought that the Pingxia Tuoba family was afraid that it would be impossible to enter Yanzhou in a short period of time.
On the fourth day, he was escorted by a group of soldiers, took a carriage to the ferry, and boarded a ship with a top cabin.
When he boarded the boat, he found that he was surrounded by soldiers in blue-gray uniforms, who were constantly carrying food and silk cloth from the shore to the ship, and the surface of the river was full of large and small ships full of supplies or soldiers.
These people were obviously landlubbers, and they could not even stand on the boat, and from time to time some soldiers stumbled and fell into the water, but the strange thing is that no one spoke or shouted loudly, and those who did not fall into the water tried their best to use their weapons or bamboo poles to reach out to their comrades who were struggling in the water to save them.
It was evening, and the soldiers who were escorting him were not allowed to stay, so Tuoba Guang was escorted onto the boat, and according to his rough estimates, there were at least seven or eight hundred soldiers on the shore.
Yanzhou is no longer the Yanzhou of the past.
Tuoba Guangyan sighed.
I stayed on board for the night, and early the next morning, the boat sailed with the sound of the surrounding boatmen's shouts and the sound of shaking the oars. Tuoba Guangyan, who didn't have much experience in boating, was not used to the relative movement on the water, and vomited a lot, until the third day, when he was a little used to it. Tuoba Guang, who had lost a whole weight, smiled bitterly and thought, maybe it would be good for him to die like this.
Judging from the speed of the boat, Tuoba Guangyan was very sure that the enemy was riding the boat down the Wuding River.
The enemy wants to replace him with a ship
Suizhou went straight to Wei Pingguan.
It takes almost no effort to figure this out. Going down the Wuding River, the enemy army in the water can completely ignore the Pingxia army stationed in Suizhou City. Tuoba Guangyan knew very well that Tuoba Renyu in Suizhou City would not have many more soldiers in his hands than himself, and there were not many ships, so it was impossible to help the enemy's fleet.
In order to stop this large-scale expedition, Tuoba Yiyin concentrated almost all the large and small ships in the upper and lower reaches of the Wuding River. In order to ensure the smooth flow of logistics and transportation, all these enemy troops were cheapened this time.
However, what made Tuoba Guangyan wonder how many troops the enemy had. With less than 200 ships, they still have to carry grain and silk cloth, and at best they can carry a thousand soldiers. The lower reaches of the Wuding River are different from the middle and upper reaches, and the current is turbulent, which is extremely difficult for boats to control, if it is overweight. It's easy to get knocked over by the rapids.
On the fifth day of the ship, just as Tuoba Guangyan was about to fall asleep in a daze, the curtain was lifted, and a bright light pierced Tuoba Guangyan, who had been smothered in the cabin for several days, narrowed his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, there was already one more person in front of him, thin and pale, with a pair of hanging eyebrows, a pair of triangular eyes, and a faint smile at the corner of his mouth. Unlike the other soldiers, this man wears a crimson battle robe. The finish is quite neat and clean. Wearing a pair of high-waisted boots of cowhide on his feet, he knew at a glance that he was a figure of no low status in the enemy army.
"Li Defense has been lost for a long time, in the Lower Li Cultural Revolution, Yanzhou Defense Envoy!"
The thin young man sat down across from him and said with a smile.
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Li Wenge? Is that the person?
After a while, Tuoba Guang Yan reacted, in fact, the color of the opponent's robe already explained the identity of the other party. Crimson is the color of land that is only allowed for officials above the sixth grade. The military attache above the sixth rank in Yanzhou, except for Gao Yunquan, seems to be the only one Li Wenge, who has just been appointed as the defense envoy of Yanzhou.
Finally met this man......
There was no angry look on his face, and he looked at Li Wenge quietly, as if he wanted to imprint this person's appearance deeply in his mind.
After a long time, he sighed softly.
"When are you going to kill me?"
The corners of Li Wenge's mouth twitched slightly, and he said strangely: "Why did I want to kill you?" β
Tuoba Guangyan frowned: "We are enemies......"
"Yes, so what?"
"Isn't that enough reason for you to kill me?" Tuoba Guangyan looked at Li Wenge in front of him with disdain. This big brother didn't come out on the first day to mess around, and he actually asked such an idiotic question.
"What you just said is not true!" Li Wenge said, "Maybe you were my enemy before, but not now." You are now my captive! β
Tuoba Guangyan snorted and said, "Our Tuoba family has no habit of keeping prisoners, so we will never be prisoners of the enemy!" β
"Oh?" Li Wenge chuckled, "Then why didn't you commit suicide these days?" β
In order to prevent this person from committing suicide, Li Wenge sent three soldiers to monitor this special prisoner in shifts day and night, but at present it seems that this is a redundant move, and this person clearly has no intention of committing suicide.
"Suicide is a cowardly act!" Tuoba Guangyan sneered, "There is no reason for failure, if you fail, you must take responsibility, suicide cannot wash away the shame and sin in the slightest, in our tribe, the children of the suicide will always become slaves of others, because they do not deserve to have freedom!" β
Li Wenge nodded lightly and commented: "What a barbaric habit!" β
Tuoba Guangyan stared at him with some curiosity for a moment, seeing that his heart was a little hairy, he asked softly, "You don't want to kill me?" β
Li Wenge smiled: "It's still the same sentence, why should I kill you?" Or rather, what good will it do me if I kill you? β
Tuoba Guangyan closed his eyes and said with a little self-deprecation: "I understand, you want to hand me over to Bianliang!" β
Li Wenge laughed: "...... No kidding, how is that possible! You must know that you are still the defense envoy of Yinzhou who has been sealed by the imperial court. I am the defense envoy of Yanzhou, and you are the defense envoy of Yinzhou. The Yanzhou defense envoy captured the Yinzhou defense envoy, do you think the imperial court will reward me with this? It's so funny......"
Tuoba Guangyan was even more strange: "What do you want to do?" β
Li Wenge said: "Among your tribes, if you capture the enemy, you may not take them as prisoners, but you won't be slaughtered all, right?" β
Tuoba Guangyan's eyes narrowed: "You want to turn me into a slave?" β
Li Wenge looked into his eyes. He asked lightly, "Isn't it possible?" β
Tuoba Guang laughed so loudly that the hull of the ship shook from side to side. Li Wenge looked at him quietly, but did not squeak, until Tuoba Guangyan's laughter stopped, and then asked with a smile: "Do you think it is impossible?" β
Tuoba Guangyan smiled and said, "A strong man is always a strong man." The strong will always be a warrior, and only a coward will become a slave! Do you understand what that means? β
Li Wenge nodded: "Of course I understand, but as far as I know, among the slaves of the party members, there are also great strong people!" Among the fighters of the party members, there are also cowards who are not badly - for example, one of your cousins......"
Tuoba Guangyan's momentum suddenly stagnated, and he said in a muffled voice: "Tuoba Guangxing has been driven out of the clan by the head of the family, and he is no longer a warrior of the Tuoba family!" β
Li Wenge smiled and said, "Don't worry." Soon, he'll banish you from the clan too! β
"You don't want me to work with you!" Tuoba Guangyan shouted.
Li Wenge plucked out his ears, his posture was extremely indecent, and he said as if he had a good time: "Don't worry, you will become a very preferential slave, you, your family and children will live in Yanzhou forever, you will have your own residence, you will have enough food, you will not be abused in any way, and you will not have to do any labor ......"
The more generous he said. Tuoba Guang felt that it was inappropriate, but he really couldn't figure out what was in this person's heart
What, he frowned, "What exactly do you want to do?" It's still painful, our party doesn't like to go around ***! β
"So you are barbarians who don't know etiquetteβ" Li Wenge sighed and shook his head, ignoring Tuoba Guangyan's anger.
ββ¦β¦ Not convinced? Well, I'll ask you. You speak Chinese so well, you must have read some books and know how to read, right? Li Wenge asked slowly.
"So what?" Tuoba Guangyan asked coldly.
"How many of the Sixteen Histories have you read?"
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"How much do you know about the Spring and Autumn Righteousness?"
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"Nine classics and six arts, how many do you know?"
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"Shang Shu Liji, Chu Ci Han Fu, Tang Dynasty poems, how many can you say?"
"Those pedantic learnings of you Han Confucian students. What's the use of learning? You can't kill the enemy on the horse, you can't cure the problem when you get off the horse, you can only sit and talk about it, if these things really work. How can you make a mess of yourself? Tuoba Guang sneered disdainfully.
"Tut-tut......" Li Wenge smacked his tongue again and again, "Look at it, it's terrible to be uneducated, I don't know etiquette, I don't know how to be honest, and I despise the expositions and doctrines of my predecessors, what does Yelang mean by being arrogant?" It's about a small country like you, a closed and ignorant realm, who can ride horses and herd sheep, thinking that they can compete with China, and who can hold a sword and shoot arrows, and who think they can be invincible in the world......"
Li Wenge forcibly held back a smile and looked at the terrifying look on Tuoba Guangyan's face, and taught him with a straight face: "It doesn't matter if you don't have any knowledge, and you don't even teach your children to read and write, do you want them to be as useless as you?" β
Speaking of this, he leaned down, put his face close to Tuoba Guangyan, and said word by word: "Don't worry...... When you arrive in Yanzhou, everything will be different, your sons and daughters will never suffer under the poison of your father, who despises learning, despises Taoism and blasphemes the saints, I will let them receive the best education and teaching, and they will never be discriminated against as barbaric alien ...... again."
"You...... What are you going to do? "Tuoba Guangyan finally began to panic a little, when it comes to sons and daughters, any father has a long heart.
"You can rest assured...... No one will hurt them......" Li Wenge said slowly.
ββ¦β¦ I will ask the most famous scholar in Yanzhou to be your son and daughter's teacher, teach them to read and write, teach them the subset of scriptures and history, teach them the Analects, teach them the Spring and Autumn Period, explain to them what is etiquette, righteousness and shame, what is the outline of reasoning, teach them how to respect saints, and teach them to know right and wrong. Not only your current pair of children, but also if you and your wives and concubines have children in the future, they will also accept such the most orthodox and purest education, I dare to assure you that within twenty years, there will be at least a few characters such as the Jinshi Ming Sutra among your sons, maybe the three Dingjia will have a share......"
Li Wenge finally couldn't hold back anymore and laughed on his back.
Thinking of the future Western Xia Taizu Li Jiqian's solemn face, wearing a Confucian robe, sitting on the seat, politely quoting scriptures and exporting chapters, Li Wenge couldn't restrain his heartfelt smile.
If Li Jiqian can go to the top exam, do you still have to worry about Li Yuanhao?
Comrade Jingzong of the Western Xia, the great Qingtianzi, Mr. Wushu, you will never have the opportunity to shave off your hair and braids to form your iron harrier that has changed the color of the world.
Of course, the same as basic education, related to mathematics and natural science courses, students of different races should not study for the time being, too many courses can easily lead to excessive learning burden, primary school students to reduce the burden from the enlightenment, for ethnic minority students, in this regard, it is necessary to give preferential treatment, greatly preferential treatment......
After laughing for a long time, facing Tuoba Guangyan, who still couldn't figure out his exact intentions, Li Wenge leaned down again and said softly: "Your children will not have the opportunity to touch the back of horses, will not have the opportunity to touch bows and arrows and any weapons, they will not know how to graze, let alone how to farm, except for the Confucian classics and poetry and songs, they will not be able to learn anything, and they will not be able to touch anything...... Decades from now, when you close your eyes and go to the groundβoh, you are accustomed to cremationβand when you are about to leave this world, I promise you, you will be pleased to see that your children are well-read and well-read, and the most learned men in the world......"
Tuoba Guangyan was trembling all over, although he didn't understand it very well, but there was one thing he could hear, Li Wenge definitely didn't have any good intentions, he would never be so kind to cultivate his own children, he must have wanted to destroy these two children.
Li Wenge slowly stood up, breathed a sigh of relief, walked to the door of the cabin, and said coldly: "Do you think that fighting a war is as simple as riding a horse and shooting arrows?" Do you think war is just a few teams of soldiers and a few books? Before you became enemies of the clan, did you ever think that you were fighting against a clan that had fought for thousands of years? War is not only a sword, a sword, a sword, and an arrow, nor is it as simple as a few schemes and several plans, books and papers, light and fluttering, but they can also be used to conduct war-this is not the kind of war you think, shouting and fighting is a pleasure, but unfortunately for a group of yours, it is not the most suitable war......"
He sneered a few times again and said softly: "Soon you will have the opportunity to see another kind of war, a war that suits you best, a war of a new concept......"