PS: The enemy who talks about the rules is stronger than the own people who are infighting

Chapter 37 of the second volume

The city of Chang'an was shrouded in panic.

The Xia army's occupation of Xianyang did not make the Chang'an Jin army despair at first. Liu Yizhen relied on his elite soldiers in his hands, believing that as long as Chang'an Jiancheng did not fall and survived until spring and summer, he would be able to defeat the Huns in one fell swoop and recapture Xianyang with the cooperation of Jiangdong reinforcements. Even if there were no reinforcements, the Jin army relied on the fortified city to slowly deplete and survive until summer, and the Huns could no longer stay in the steamer-like pass.

But before King Helian came, the Wind King woke him up first.

In November, the weather was cold and frozen, and the peeing turned into ice, and Chang'an lacked nothing but firewood.

The dense trees in the Xianyang area provide scenery in spring, summer and autumn, and firewood in winter. In the years when the beacon was not lifted, every day there were Xianyang woodcutters who rushed to Chang'an to sell firewood. The best firewood is burned into charcoal, and the inferior firewood is directly used as firewood. The rich people of Chang'an Gongqing go to Zhongnan Mountain in summer to escape the heat, and rely on Xianyang firewood to keep out the cold in winter, so there is a saying that "cool is in Zhongnan, hot is in Xianyang".

Now, this heat source has been cut off.

Helian sent firewood as a gift, and Fu Hongzhi was the first to be surprised. He immediately ordered to count the amount of firewood stored in Chang'an City, and found that it was only enough to maintain the entire city for half a month. The people of Chang'an are not immortals, they want to eat fireworks in the world, and they have to burn an incredible amount of firewood every day. But compared with the military, civilian use is actually just a small head. In addition to the three armies having to bury pots to cook and make fires for warmth, the defense of the city actually requires a lot of firewood. When the battle was urgent, the defenders would pour boiling oil down the city, and the cauldrons of boiling oil were like bigmouths devouring firewood. Another major consumer of firewood is the weapons workshop, and the largest consumption in wartime is arrowheads. The workshop has to be built around the clock, and the stove must not be cold for a moment. That's it. The statement that it can support the half moon is obviously too optimistic. Today's plan. Only the common people are wronged first. The Assassin's Mansion immediately sent people to collect firewood, which was rationed to each family like grain. It is not allowed to burn wood for heating until night. The young and middle-aged are easy to do, but the common people have old people and babies at home, so they desperately refuse to take out firewood. When a soldier only cares about carrying out orders, when encountering a strong one, it is indispensable to first scold and scold, then move his hands and feet, and finally draw a knife and threaten. Needless to say, this has set off a new round of outpouring public resentment.

Rao is so. The shortage of firewood is still a big problem, and when everyone is at a loss, one of Liu Yizhen's personal soldiers came up with an idea, saying that there are many temples in Chang'an City, and they should be demolished, and some of them are wood! The masonry can also be used as a weapon to defend the city.

Liu Yizhen was a little hesitant. His mother, who believed in Buddhism and had been in awe of monks since childhood, now wants to demolish the temple for fear of bad luck. Mao Xiuzhi looked at him stunned. Say that Lord Thorn Shi doesn't have to be afraid. Now the most important thing is to keep Chang'an, and to keep Chang'an is to hold Li Shu in the city, and the Buddha understands this intention. We can talk to the temple and say if they help us through this. Afterwards, wouldn't it be over if we paid for them to help them rebuild the temple?

At the sound of an order, the temples collapsed one after another. The beams and pillars purlin sills of the Buddha are broken, and the fireworks of the world. Some of the soldiers were temperate. The monks will be left behind, so that the monks will have a place to shelter from the wind; met the kind of stunned green who didn't know the severity. I didn't even let go of the wood in the monk's house. The monks could bear it, but the believers were so angry that they flocked to the door of the Assassin's Mansion to protest, and Liu Yizhen closed the door and disappeared. But one day, he couldn't stop because the man he was asking to see outside the door was too big.

Epiphany.

Since the fall of the Qin State, Tan Yun has never left the temple gate. He was highly respected in both Fu Qin and Yao Qin, and when he traveled south to Jiangdong, he was also a guest of the royal family of the Jin Dynasty, and there were millions of believers in the north and south. After Liu Yu entered Chang'an, he once visited the door, but Tan Yun was saddened that he killed the Yao Qin royal family and disappeared from his illness. Before Liu Yu left, he asked Liu Yizhen to visit again, but since Tan Yun didn't see his father, he didn't bother to see this unorthodox child. Although Liu Yizhen and Liu Bei's own family, they did not have the patience to visit the thatched house, and after eating a closed door, they refused to go again. Today, I suddenly heard that Tan Yun came to the door in person, and I was overjoyed, and hurriedly took Fu Hongzhi and Mao Xiuzhi out to greet him.

Except for Fu Hongzhi, everyone had to look up to this tall and thin monk. Liu Yizhen clasped his hands together and said in a loud voice that the great monk came to the cold house, and the kid was offended and offended.

Tan Yun recited a Buddha name:

"Lord Thorn Shi wants to spend the winter, the monks don't know what's going on, they don't contribute firewood, the three armies of labor come to demolish the house, and the poor monks are offended!"

Liu Yizhen immediately understood Tan Yun's intention. Hurriedly invited people to the house and explained according to Mao Xiuzhi's previous statement. As he spoke, Tan Yun counted the rosary with his eyes closed. When he finished speaking, Tan Yun opened his eyes and looked at him with a smile:

"Thorn Shiguang thought about starting a fire, why didn't he think about putting out a fire?"

Liu Yizhen was confused.

Tan Yun pointed to his heart with a finger:

"If there is no lust in your heart, you don't need to find any firewood!"

Liu Yizhen clasped his hands together and asked carefully:

"The kid's qualifications are dull, and he is shallow in learning, and he doesn't know the wit of the great monk for a while, so he asks the monk to dial it."

Tan Yun took a sip of tea:

"Poor monks are not soldiers, but it is not uncommon to fight and kill over the years. If the assassin had done the strategy earlier, Chang'an would not have fallen into today's desperate situation; Now that he has fallen into a desperate situation, there is no benefit to fighting the trapped beast again except to kill in vain. ”

Liu Yizhen frowned:

"What does the great monk mean to let our army give up Chang'an?"

Tan Yun stared at him like a torch:

"Do you have to follow in Yao Hong's footsteps?"

Liu Yizhen was hit by the chill in Tan Yun's eyes, and couldn't help but shudder, and was about to reply, Mao Xiuzhi's eyes widened:

"Monks should have no worldly affairs and be free from disputes, why should they be lobbyists for Great Xia?"

Tan Yun didn't even look at him:

"Thanks to this general's false reward, the poor monk can actually be a lobbyist in Great Xia. In this way, the poor monk was a lobbyist of Dajin a year ago. The monks have a common life in their hearts and are determined to eliminate the military disaster. If this is Litong Great Xia, the poor monk will not shirk this crime, and the general will just draw his sword. ”

Fu Hongzhi gave Mao Xiuzhi a look, and folded his hands in greetings to Tan Yun:

"The great monk has good intentions, we understand. It's just that the younger generation is clumsy. I don't see how the Huns could take Chang'an? ”

Tan Yun smiled:

"The general can't see how the Huns took Chang'an, because your eyes are only on the enemy. Didn't see yourself clearly. Let me ask the general: Are the Beifu soldiers still the same Beifu soldiers in the past? Are the people of Chang'an still the same group of people in Chang'an as they used to be? The soul has been dispersed, how to subdue the demon? Hearts are broken. How to fight a tiger? ”

This sentence stabbed the nail on the head, and immediately made everyone's tongues stick to the roof of the mouth. The room was quiet for a long time, and Liu Yizhen slowly spoke:

"The meaning of the great monk is nothing more than that our army withdraws from Chang'an, does not engage with Daxia, and saves the people of Chang'an from being burned. It's just that this assassin follows the orders of the Duke of Song, and without his explicit, he must not abandon it without authorization. Since the great monk has a lotus flower, why not persuade Helian Bobo and tell him not to covet territory. Withdraw the troops straight back to Great Xia. ”

Tan Yun didn't expect this kid to actually defeat him like this. Looking at the faint smugness on Liu Yizhen's face, he couldn't help but sigh secretly. Liu Yu's son is not a big deal after all!

"If Assassin Sken gives up Chang'an for the common people, and says that the poor monk will persuade Bo Bo, that is, he will use the poor monk as firewood for you and use them as an arrow target, and the poor monk will not hesitate!"

The room fell silent again.

After a while, Tan Yun stood up and slowly walked to the door of the house. looked back at Liu Yizhen:

"The poor monk has said everything he should have said, and he still needs to be stabbed and considered. Chang'an Temple, there is not much left, the poor monk. Please also be merciful to the assassins. It's not that the poor monks are more valuable than the poor monks, but that if you tear down their temples, you have to leave them a place to go to the Buddha's home. The end of the war has not begun. It is also an ominous thing to freeze a group of monks to death first. “

didn't wait for Liu Yizhen to reply. He went out of the door.

Fu Hongyi saw that Liu Yizhen was only in a daze, and he didn't even care about the number of gifts for sending guests. hurriedly chased out the door and sent Tan Yun out of the mansion all the way. He helped Tan Yun into the car, and the horses were about to stride, Tan Yun lifted the curtain and said to him:

"Although the general is a military general, he has a Buddha fate based on his face, and the poor monk will give you a word."

Fu Hongzhi hurriedly stepped forward and bowed down to listen.

Tan Yun was silent for a moment, and his voice was low:

"The lonely city is intolerable, the wild geese are afraid of the cold winter, and when they go south, they should be like electricity, so be careful not to fall into the mud."

After Fu Hongzhi listened, he just wanted to say that he wanted to ask the great monk to explain to the juniors, but Tan Yun had already retracted into the car, and the coachman raised his whip, and the car squeaked away. Fu Hongzhi stood in place and silently recited Tanyun's four sentences several times, the first three sentences could be understood, but the last sentence was not the point, so he could only read it on foot.

Back in the house, Liu Yizhen and Mao Xiuzhi were still in a daze, and when they saw him come in, Liu Yizhen sighed:

"Let's talk about it, whether what this monk said makes sense."

Fu Hongzhi walked to the front of the case, removed the scroll on the map, carefully looked at the current situation around Chang'an for a long time, looked up and said to Liu Yizhen:

"There is only a silver lining at the moment."

Liu Yizhen's eyes lit up, and he immediately walked to the map, and Mao Xiuzhi also followed. Fu Hongzhi pressed his thumb against Chang'an, pointed his middle finger at Xianyang, and used his index finger to run back and forth between the two cities:

"If we can now confirm that there is only Helian Bi and his army outside Chang'an City, Yao Zhanbao is still in Xianyang, and the vigorous Chinese army is still on the border of Great Xia, then we can organize the elite to attack Helian Bi at night and defeat him in one fell swoop. After breaking this road, two groups were immediately organized, and the group defending the city was commanded by General Mao, which stuck to Chang'an and never sent troops to fight. I led a guerrilla group to retreat southwest to Nanshan, using Yao Qin's hometown to flank the passage from Xianyang to Chang'an. If there are few soldiers in Great Xia, I will fight with them; If there are many soldiers, I will shut up and disturb his grain routes. In this way, our situation of being trapped in a lonely city has been broken. ”

Mao Xiuzhi looked at the map carefully, closed his eyes and thought about the terrain in the Nanshan area, and felt that Fu Hongzhi's move did have the potential of an ape arm, and he could seize the Xia army between Xianyang and Chang'an at any time, so he nodded in agreement.

Liu Yizhen shook his head again and again. He is now like an old and decrepit miser, as long as he enters the warehouse, do not go out of the warehouse, as soon as he hears that the army is going to be divided, he feels that the sword of the Huns has been put on his neck.

"At this time, Chang'an is even weaker, how can it last?"

Fu Hongzhi patiently explained:

"The cavalry of flying horses and hussars is a waste to defend the city, so it is better to let them out and deal with the Huns. Chen Song, Guo Xu, and Hu Luzheng are these generals, who are wise and brave in field battles, and defending the city is not their forte. In addition, they divided the men and horses and stole the grain and grass of the Huns outside. It can also reduce the burden of grain, grass and firewood in Chang'an City. ”

Mao Xiuzhi was also on the side to help:

"It is true that the use of troops must be outnumbered by the outnumbered, but it also depends on the situation. If the division of troops can be more mobile, it is natural to divide the troops first. There are more than 20,000 people riding in Chang'an City. Although there are only more than 5,000 cavalry, if you use the Nanshan stronghold, you can use it as 10,000 people. The more than 10,000 veterans who remained in the city, plus a few thousand homeless recruits, were still enough. ”

Liu Yizhen saw that it was two to one, and he was afraid that he would not be able to withstand it, so he suddenly brought out the supreme officer's shelf:

"Don't say anything about it, let Ben Thorn think about it. No one is allowed to leave the city with a single soldier without my orders. Violators will be beheaded immediately! ”

Lest the two veteran generals disobey the Yin, they immediately summoned the subordinate governors and asked him to pass on an order to the guards of Chang'an: If there is no warrant from the assassination history and leads the troops out of the city, they will be killed on the spot, and they will be rewarded for not committing a crime!

After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and went to the back hall.

Fu and Mao were cut off from retreating, and sat down for a while, their hearts were like ashes, and they dispersed.

That night, Fu Hongzhi and Mao Xiuzhi had a secret talk. Early the next morning, the two of them took all the officers above the lord level under their command to the Assassin's Mansion to ask for their lives. This time, Liu Yizhen could no longer be stubborn, but he still refused to divide his troops immediately, but sent someone to investigate first. According to his meaning, if there is really still an army of Helian Bi outside Chang'an City, then agree to attack the current enemy at night. Then take advantage of the victory and divide the troops; If the enemy outside the city is strong, not a single soldier is allowed.

Six or seven waves of spies were sent out before and after. I came back one after another a day.

The 20,000 men under the command of Yao Zhanbao arrived in the northeast area outside Chang'an City in the middle of the day today. It is three miles away from the camp of Helian Pyro. Helian Bo's army had already set up camp from Xianyang at sunrise and was heading for Chang'an.

The enemy is half a step faster!

Fu Hongzhi beat his chest. If it weren't for Liu Yizhen's stubbornness, the Jin army could have attacked Helian Peng last night and gave the newly arrived Yao Anbao a dismount. Once Yao Zhanbao learned that Helian had retreated, he would never hang alone under the fortified city of Chang'an, and would definitely retreat back to Xianyang. In this way, the Jin guerrilla group could move more calmly to the enemy's right flank and occupy the Nanshan stronghold. Helian is old and cunning, and when he sees this situation, he will not stay here.

Liu Yizhen disagreed. Of course, he was also shocked by the rapid movement of the Xia army, which had already gathered more than 40,000 people outside Chang'an City, and was about to increase to 50,000. But he was also happy in his heart that Fu Hongzhi's plan had been frustrated, and he couldn't mention the division of troops anymore. As a child, it is inevitable to win, he reminded Fu Hongzhi: What if you can't succeed in the sneak attack last night?

Fu Hongzhi was choked by this little child. Yes, who can tell what is happening on the battlefield! In the event of a stalemate and the troops out of the city are bitten by Helian Bi, it is a question of whether they can return to the city, let alone break the enemy.

Liu Yizhen saw that he no longer spoke, knowing that he had won this battle, but this obviously did not help to resolve the crisis, but advised him not to rush to attack, and to make a thorough deployment of the city defense first.

Fu Hongzhi had no choice but to plug the loopholes in the city's defense first. Take the generals to patrol the city, reward this and punish that all the way, set up this thing to dispatch the other army, and when they walked near the east gate, they vaguely heard a noise in the distance. Looking to the east, you can see smoke and dust rising.

Guo Xu said that it was Jiangdong reinforcements coming.

Fu Hongzhi said that it was not like it, the smoke and dust were very fine, and it should be a small army.

After looking at it for a while, a small group of centaurs appeared in view, about a hundred and ten people, all cavalry, and behind them were about twice as many cavalry. Even from this distance, it can be seen that this is a group of people chasing another group of people.

Guo Xu suddenly became excited, and said that this is the person who the Huns are chasing us again, let's go out to answer it quickly.

Fu Hongzhi and Chen Song said almost at the same time, wait. Guo Xu immediately realized that they were worried that the Huns were making a show, in case they went out of the city to meet them, and they were afraid that they would not even have time to close the city gate.

Fu Hong called Guo Xu to go down to the city, and led people to stand by at the city gate, while keeping a close eye on the movement under the city. The crossbow on the city wall has been opened, and if there is any abnormal movement, it will immediately start to kill.

Soon, the cavalry in front had already run to the city, and at this time it was clear that the people who came were wearing Jin army armor. The leader of the group shouted as he galloped towards the east gate:

"Open the door quickly, my own person, I'm Zhu Lingshi!"

Fu Hongzhi held on to the battlement to look carefully, and at this time, the city general shouted again in Jingkou, and at the same time took off his helmet, Fu Hongzhi immediately recognized that this was Zhu Lingshi, and immediately issued a series of orders:

Open the gates!

Guo Xu went out of the city to answer!

The city's crossbowmen prepare to snipe their pursuers!

Quickly report the history of righteous assassination!

The moment the city gate opened, Guo Xu had already rushed out with more than 100 hussars, just crossing the suspension bridge. bumped into Zhu Lingshi, who smiled and raised his hand. Without saying anything, he galloped into the city. After Zhu Lingshi's subordinates all passed, Guo Xu's men immediately lined up in two rows to block the suspension bridge.

The Huns saw the gates open from afar. Knowing that it was no longer possible to capture this small group of cavalry from the east of the Jin army. Their camp was in the north of Chang'an, and if they hadn't been ordered to reconnoiter eastward, they wouldn't have encountered this group of uninvited guests. Originally, he wanted to catch the officers of the Jin army and go back to ask for credit, but he expected that the other party was all veterans, skilled in bows and horses, and sharp knives and lances, and let the Huns fall from their horses more than ten times in one round, but they did not have any casualties. When the Huns aroused their fighting spirit to fight their opponents to the end, these cunning southern barbarians fled. Now there is no army to keep up. They did not dare to follow them to the bottom of the city, because the crossbows in the city were held high and could be seen from afar.

The Hun centurion who led the team saw a young Han officer immediately with a team of majestic soldiers lined up behind him. He hesitated, feeling that his task was to be a scout, not to come to a decisive battle with the Jin army, so he beat his horse and left. At the same time, Guo Xu also heard the shouts of Chen Song at the head of the city, who asked him to hurry back to the city. The city bow and crossbow will cover him. Guo Xu asked his subordinates to retreat first, and he stood there staring at the enemy. The Huns slowly retreated and looked back at him. When the hussars and brothers had entered the city gate, Guo Xu was about to return to his horse. Suddenly, I heard a Hun shouting in Chinese:

"General of the Han people, do you dare to fight me?"

The Hun officer gestured with a scimitar and told his men to stay where they were. He rode his own horse:

"We said okay, my people won't help me. If your people don't help you, just the two of us! ”

Guo Xu said that today is not the day when the two armies clash. You and I should go back, if you want to fight, there is a chance.

The Huns said that the southern barbarian who ran into the city just now owes us more than a dozen lives, and I can't explain when I go back, since you saved him, then you will pay this account.

Guo Xu was a little ridiculous, he wanted to fight with this serious enemy, but after thinking that soldiers should use weapons instead of mouths to negotiate, he subconsciously clenched the lance in his hand.

Chen Song, who was at the head of the city, saw this situation and already knew that Guo Xu was going to fight the other party alone. At this time, the city has been densely lined with bows and crossbows, and there is no Hun army approaching from a distance, a duel, without damage to the city defense, then let him go. But he was worried that the Huns would bully the widows with more, so he called Hu Lvzheng and asked him to keep an eye on it, and once someone wanted to plot against Guo Xu, he immediately asked him to try the bow and arrow kung fu of the Xianbei people.

Guo Xu suddenly rode forward, and the long lance pointed directly at the chest of the Huns. He knew very well in his heart that the other party was a veteran, using a scimitar, as long as a lance was not stabbed, in the two horses head-on charge, he could be killed in a blink of an eye, and then the lance was a waste, and the scimitar was close at hand, if he was a little sluggish, he would inevitably be stabbed.

The Huns suddenly rode forward, the scimitar pointed directly at Guo Xu's chest, he knew very well in his heart that the opponent had a lot of strength, the stab of the long lance, coupled with the power of the two horses hedged, was enough to pierce his body, and his chances of winning were to swing the scimitar immediately at the moment of dodging this lance, and then whether he hit it or not, he immediately stuck to the horse's back and ran away, in case the opponent swept backwards.

He is a shrewd soldier, but he doesn't know that Guo Xu has an iron mallet on his back.

When the long lance was still a person's length from the opponent's horse's head, it suddenly flew out of Guo Xu's hand. The Huns leaned back, dodging the unexpected blow, and almost at the same time, Guo Xu had already changed the hammer from his left hand to his right hand, and smashed it down with a gust of wind in the moment when the two horses were saddled. The Hun knight only had time to raise the knife to fight, but he was lying on the saddle, it was difficult to use his strength, and as a result, the knife was pressed down fiercely, and the back of the knife hit his chest, and at the moment when he screamed, Guo Xu's horse had already run over. The Huns rolled over and sat up, but immediately their eyes turned black and they hit their heads under their horses. Guo Xu leaned over and picked up the lance on the ground, returned to the Huns, pointed at his neck, but refused to stab it:

"Okay, you've lost, go back!"

After saying that, he turned his horse and galloped towards the suspension bridge. Almost at the same time, he heard a scream behind him, and when he looked back, one of the Huns was lying on his horse.

He wanted to put a cold arrow from his back, but he was taught a lesson by Hu Luzheng on the city.

Guo Xu smiled and rode into the city gate.

The Huns pounced and lifted their officers up from the ground. The latter staggered to the front of the group, dragged the soldier who had fired the cold arrow from his horse, dragged him into the open field, and ordered him to be whipped twenty lashes.

The Jin army in the city looked at it and couldn't help but be in awe.

What a decent enemy! (To be continued......)