On Dongmu Mountain, Zhao Timur was in a dilemma.

Two days ago, he crossed the Yalu River, traveled all the way west, and arrived at Dongmu Mountain last night; I was supposed to leave early in the morning and go south to Liaoyang. At dawn, the two Yuan army rangers met on the narrow road, caught and asked, only to learn that on the night they crossed the Yalu River, Mao Jujing and Xu Ren used the tunnel and fire attack to burn the back camp of Naha clean.

That night, the flames went straight to the sky.

Guan Duo in Liaoyang City took the opportunity to send out the army, attacked inside and outside, and the chaos was unbearable, and the two sides fought fiercely until the evening of the next day, with countless casualties and blood flowing; On one side, the cauldron was wrecked, and on the other hand, there was a two-front battle, and Naha's troops were defeated. Tens of thousands of forcibly entangled nomadic tribesmen scattered in a hurry; 200,000 troops fled and died, and less than half remained.

Naha made a quick decision, accepted defeat, accepted his fate, abandoned Liaoyang, and withdrew to Shenyang.

In this battle, first of all, Guan Duo and Naha deceived each other, and the enemy and the enemy fought with each other. In terms of wit, Naha has come out on top. Either Deng She's Pyongyang military horse was born, or Hong Jixun sat firmly in Diaoyutai and ensured that the twin cities were not lost, took advantage of the situation to capture Gaizhou, defeated Gao Jianu, relieved the siege of Mao Jujing, and freed his hands to rescue Liaoyang, the outcome can be imagined.

Fight wisely, face a turnaround, and then fight bravely. Guan Duo was in person, Mao Jujing charged ahead, and the whole army fought a decisive battle of fate with the heart of death. Everyone knows that once Liaoyang is lost, there is no place to stand, and only the red scarves in Liaodong are waiting for them to be annihilated. In this way, on the word "brave", the red scarf in turn won over the 200,000 army that Naha had put together.

After the battle, on the battlefield, Guan Duo looked at the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, and shouted luckily.

In this battle, Liaoyang and Shenyang were both defeated. Needless to say, Shenyang, 780,000 remnants of the army were defeated. Although Guan Duo won, the same losses as the descendants of the headquarters were heavy, and less than 30,000 people were alive. To say that the loss is the smallest, it should be the miscellaneous cards of Liu Daqing, Hu Zhong and others.

The experience of being cannon fodder dozens of times has trained their ability to slip their heads. If you don't work hard, the war drums beat happily, but it's not really a gun. Mao Jujing had the upper hand, and they fought with the wind; When the Yuan army gained the upper hand, they retreated and conceded.

They retreated, and the Yuan army didn't care who was a descendant or a miscellaneous brand, where it was good to break through, they would run wherever they wanted, and they would pick soft persimmons and pinch them. According to post-war statistics, forty percent of the Yuan army broke through from the 20,000-30,000-mile-long front of Liu Daqing and Hu Zhong.

Guan Duo was very angry.

According to his temper in the past, he was strict in governing the army, and he had to cut off a few heads. Li Dunru persuaded him: "Lord Pingzhang, this time is not as good as before. The adult's descendants suffered heavy losses, and the Liu and Hu departments were small and unbearable, and they were chaotic. The Tartars retreated, and rest and recuperation were the best. ”

The implication is to let them go first, so as not to regenerate internal chaos. Liu Daqing and Hu Zhong have always complained, and they were inferior to others in the past, so they had to admit it; Now the situation is different, and it is not impossible for them to make a mutiny and defect to the enemy.

Guan Duo snorted, suppressed his anger, and said, "Tell them to call me." ”

Outside Liaoyang City, black clouds are overwhelming, and blood flows like a river. Flocks of black birds covered the sky and the sun, croaking, flying out of thin air, resting on the battlefield. Many wild dogs form herds and haunt them. There was a great chaos in the world, and there were many battles, and many people died, and they ate a lot of human flesh, and their eyes were red, and they were not afraid of people, and they carried stumps and broken arms in their mouths, or flew into the sky, or drilled into the groves far away.

The soldiers who sweep the battlefield and the strong men are numb and godless. This scene is like a tragic situation in Shura's hell, they have long been used to it, and when they see it, they don't see it.

Liu Daqing, Hu Zhong and more than a dozen miscellaneous commanders, through the armor and soldiers, stepped on the bloody and muddy ground, and walked over with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Guan Duo looked at them with his eyes, and saw that all of them were covered with blood, and several of them were scattered; The arrows had no eyes, and almost all of them were wounded.

Hu Zhong's scabbard was lost, and the short sword in his hand was bloody, still dripping blood. He thrust his short sword into the ground, and the first one knelt down and bowed: "I've seen Lord Pingzhang." ”

The ground was full of blood and mud, and when he kowtowed, he splashed a lot of filth. Guan Duo laughed, stopped the other people who were bowing down, caught up two steps, helped Hu Zhong up, and said, "The generals are in armor, no courtesy!" …… General Hu hurry up, today's battle, thanks to the gentlemen, when the old man boarded the car and looked into the distance, he saw clearly. General Hu ,......"

He gave a thumbs up and admired and praised: "Brave! Turning his gaze, he looked at Liu Daqing and the others, and praised them one by one, "General Liu, fierce!" General Huang, plagiarism! General Lee, Fierce! Holding the hilt of the sword at his waist with his hand, he said with emotion, "The siege of Liaoyang, I am not afraid of the jokes of the kings, the old man thought that an old life would be explained here." Fortunately, there are all of you, breaking Haizhou and saving Liaoyang, oops, do you know what the old man remembered? ”

Everyone looked at each other and said in unison: "The last general doesn't know." ”

The old man remembered Guan Yunchang's five passes and six generals! The courage of the kings is comparable to the wings; The loyalty of all kings is longer than the clouds! Guan Duo pressed his sword with one hand and brushed his beard with the other, and the praise he gave was too high. Since the Song Dynasty, saying three points has always been the highlight of storytellers, from the secretary to the women and children, who have never heard of it, and who knows who Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are.

When the generals heard this, many people were very happy. Where Guan Duo Jiwei is, stomping his feet, Liaodong trembling figures; If you don't get along with him again, it's really a rare honor to get such a compliment from him.

Hu Zhong thanked him again and again, and he was ashamed to be ashamed. Liu Daqing smiled happily, and accepted Guan Duo's praise unceremoniously, he turned his face proudly, and said heroically: "My lord also knows my old Liu's origin, and the enmity with the Tartar is deep!" Tell me the truth, the brothers will not do anything else, and they will kill the Tartars, and they will be brave and loyal, which is well deserved! ”

What is Liu Daqing's origin?

He was originally a bandit in the green forest, and he was a good hand at killing people and setting fires; I haven't read a book, I don't know how to be a minister, and I'm used to being arrogant. At the height of his reign, he had nearly 10,000 people; If you have a little heart, you will not get to the point where you are now, and when it comes to prestige, even in the miscellaneous cards, it is not as good as Hu Zhong.

Guan Duo listened to Liu Daqing's arrogant words, and looked at Hu Zhong, who was respectful and restrained. He gently shook the hilt of his sword, his expression unchanged, and laughed: "True warrior too! Let's go, everyone, in order to congratulate the great victory, the old man wants to set up wine in the city and feast for three days! ”

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On Dongmu Mountain, after listening to the battle, Zhao Timur hesitated.

Dunshe's secret letter to him, asking to be handed over to Nahachu in person. Since Nahachu has withdrawn to Shenyang, it stands to reason that it is not enough to change the route and go directly to Shenyang? But there is a dilemma, Naha has only withdrawn his troops for two days, has he arrived in Shenyang? Or are you still on your way?

Without accurate information, it is difficult to determine where to go. You must know that after the war, scattered soldiers everywhere, defeated soldiers without structure and restraint, Zhao Timur saw a lot, and he was simply a bandit. There are only a dozen of them, what if there is an accident?

He lame up to the officer leading the team, and stammered and said, "General Zhou, look? ”

The general surnamed Zhou did not have as many fancy intestines as him, and the military order given by Deng She sent Zhao Timur to see Naha. He will be honest and be a messenger; If he's not honest, he'll cut off his head. At this time, when he heard Zhao Timur's question, the officer didn't look at him, commanded his subordinates, and said, "Divide two people, hurry back, and report this to the general." Others inspect ordnance and remain on alert. Get on the horse and go to Shenyang. ”

With that, he turned and walked towards his mount. Zhao Timur was unwilling, followed closely, and whispered: "General Zhou, General Zhou,......"

"How?" The officer stopped, turned around, and looked at him coldly.

Zhao Timur smiled awkwardly, glanced at his hand that pressed the knife, swallowed what he wanted to say, and said, "It's okay, it's okay." He looked up at the sky, "If you want to go to Shenyang, we have to hurry." The villain knows a little about astronomy, looking at the sky, within a day or two, there will be heavy snowfall. Once the snow is on the road, it is not easy to walk. ”

He is not talking nonsense.

The Mongols believe in immortality and have shamans. The shaman is the witch, the witch is a profession, the son is silent, the strange power is chaotic, but since it exists, it lasts for thousands of years, and it has its practical side. The great shaman has an understanding of astronomy, geography, and herbal medicine.

Zhao Timur's father-in-law, Zhao Xiaosheng, was a completely Mongolianized Han Chinese, and all the people he interacted with were Mongols, including shamans. When Zhao Timur was young, he was very interested in this, and he studied it for a while and was not proficient, but it was no problem to look at the weather and measure the rain.

The officer surnamed Zhou was suspicious, looked at him twice, did not answer, and led his horse by himself. A soldier came running up to him and asked, "What about the two Tartars?" ”

"The old rules."

The four soldiers dragged the Yuan army rangers and pulled them up the recess of the mountain, and there was a heart-rending cry for mercy, which stopped briefly. After a while, the four soldiers came back with their knives in their hands and laughing. Everyone turned over and got on their horses, and the horses' hooves came down the mountain, and their figures gradually faded away.

Zhao Timur looked back, and under the floating soil at the top of the mountain, there was a mutilated arm gnawed by wild beasts, revealing white bones, pointing to the cloudy sky.

He heard from the soldiers last night that there had been a fierce battle here more than half a month ago. Suddenly, the cannon fire was still roaring, and the broken arrows and swords still remained on the ground; And people's eyes only made a short stay here, and they turned to Liaoyang without even a blink of an eye.

The souls of the dead, wandering and weeping, seem to have been forgotten.

The road was overgrown with weeds, and the small forests that flashed from time to time were bare of leaves. Except for the defeated soldiers of two or three Yuan armies, on the road for more than two hours, Zhao Timur and others did not see a living civilian. The defeated soldiers of the Yuan army, more than 100 people, less 7 or 8 people, most of them were herdsmen, they crossed Shenyang without entering, and went north, presumably to return to the original tribe.

"In this battle, Shenyang's vitality has been greatly damaged."

Witnessing the withering after the war, it seems that in a few years, Shenyang will not recover. From Shenyang to Liaoyang, who is the biggest winner in this battle? Twins. Sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight was successful, but unfortunately the war ended too early, and if it could have been a little later, maybe you could have gained more benefits from it.

Zhao Timur secretly rejoiced that it was timely to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. Thinking of this, a little guilt flashed through his heart, after all, Zhao Xiaosheng raised him since he was a child, taught him to read, taught him to practice martial arts, and treated him like a parent. He comforted himself softly: "Righteousness destroys relatives, righteousness destroys relatives." ”

There is a saying that three people become tigers, and if you say a lie three times, it will become true. After self-hypnotizing for many days, Zhao Timur no longer woke up in the middle of the night, and he seemed to be real, and he regarded himself as a model of righteous annihilation.

Dongmu Mountain is only a few dozen miles away from Shenyang, because they are hiding from the rout on the road, they walk slowly, and it is almost noon, and the city tower of Shenyang appears on the horizon. In order to prevent the sentinels of the red turban from taking advantage of the chaos to infiltrate the city, and in order to prevent the red scarf from taking advantage of the surprise attack, the vigilance and patrol along the way are extremely strict.

The group dismounted and crouched in a grove of trees, watching from afar for a moment.

A few hundred meters ahead, there were many foot soldiers of the Yuan army, setting up roadblocks and erecting large flags. While summoning the returning rout, he was alert to the movements around him. Behind the foot soldiers, there were a dozen or so cavalrymen, about a team of ten, leaning on their mounts, sitting loosely on the ground, chatting.

"Infantry defense, cavalry maneuver."

The officer, surnamed Zhou, made a judgment, and he pointed to the sides with his horsewhip, about a kilometer apart, and two similar camps; It can be seen that the Yuan army obviously surrounded Shenyang, and he said: "I can't get involved." Dragged Zhao Timur to his side, and the dust he drove hit him in the face, he wiped it off casually, and asked, "Do you know the Tartar in front?" ”

The leader of the Yuan army, a centurion, how could Zhao Timur know? Nahachu and Zhao Xiaosheng have been in contact with Zhao Xiaosheng several times, and the messengers are more than 1,000 households, he shook his head and said: "General Zhou, don't worry, although the villain doesn't know it, just report my name, and ensure that nothing goes wrong." ”

The officer surnamed Zhou stared at him for a while, and ordered left and right: "I'll take him out first, you wait." If the situation is not right, leave immediately! Pulled Zhao Timur to go out, don't worry, come back, and whisper to an archer, "Look at the surname Zhao, if it doesn't work, shoot it!" If things can't be done, he must not be kept alive. ”

The two men walked out of the woods, one after the other.

The Yuan army soon spotted them, and the cavalry mounted and the foot soldiers raised their guns. The hundred households who led the team pulled out their sabers and shouted nervously, "Who is coming?" Don't go any further! ......," he raised, his saber, "the cavalry prepares; Archers, take a bow! Trumpeter? The trumpeter raised his horn and prepared to blow.

Deng She considered the Mongolian language spoken by these hundred households, and among the people sent, some people understood it, but the officer surnamed Zhou did not understand it very well. Zhao Timur raised his hands and replied a few words in a croaking voice. The hundred households brandished their knives and responded fiercely.

"What did he say?"

"Tell the general to throw away his weapon."

The officer, surnamed Zhou, hesitated, unsheathed his saber, and threw it aside. Seeing that he was so cooperative, the Yuan army on the opposite side relaxed a lot, lowered their voices, and talked to Zhao Timur. In order to avoid suspicion on the part of the officer surnamed Zhou, Zhao Timur was clever, and he translated as he spoke.

He reported to himself, and the Yuan army had never heard of it. Zhao Timur mentioned a few more names of thousands of households he knew, as well as the name of his father-in-law, Zhao Xiaosheng. Deng She's secret letter to Naha didn't want others to know, so he never said what he meant. It is only said that Zhao Xiaosheng and Tong Doulan failed in attacking Shuangcheng and the whole army was destroyed, and there is an important military situation that needs to be face-to-face.

After negotiating for a long time, the hundred households did not believe it at first, and after reading the seal letter of the head of the Mengyuan Shuangcheng Governor's Mansion taken out by Zhao Timur, they were half skeptical. This seal letter was naturally obtained by him from Zhao Xiaosheng.

The hundred households were uncertain, and Zhao Timur took out the letter written by Naha to Zhao Xiaosheng again, and showed them the seal at the end of the letter. The hundred households have never seen it, but they have seen it upside down in their hands, and looking at Zhao Timur's earnest and frank eyes, it doesn't seem to be a fake. When he hesitated for a long time, he sent someone back to the camp and asked a thousand households mentioned by Zhao Timur, named Bazar, to come and watch in person.

Until it was getting late, Bazar Belatedly came.

Zhao Xiaosheng gave him a lot of gifts, and when he saw Zhao Timur, Bazar was very enthusiastic. The two of them had a Mongolian-style hug, and Zhao Timur introduced the officer surnamed Zhou, saying that he was a member of the rebel army, and then recounted the preface.

When Ba Sa'er heard about the important military situation, he didn't dare to make an assertion, and said: "Xiangye just returned to the city yesterday, and he was injured a little, and I can't see you, and I can't be the master." In this way, you will go into the city with me first, report to Lord Zuo Cheng Liu, and then let him decide, how about it? ”

Zuo Cheng Liu is Liu Tan Ma Chi.

Zhao Timur and others had no objections. Since he was his own person, the officer surnamed Zhou put on the saber and beckoned the brothers to come out, accompanied by Ba Sa'er, the clouds were dense, the wind was biting, and he stepped into Shenyang at night.

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1. Look at the weather and measure the rain.

This is not a particularly advanced knowledge, as long as you are good at observing and summarizing, you can see the general weather changes.

Here are a few agricultural proverbs:

"The sunrise is carmine, and there is no rain and wind." "The sunset is red in the northwest, and it's either rain or wind." "When the sun rises in the east, there must be wind." "The moon is clothed, and it will rain." "There are no stars in the middle of the night, and heavy rain is coming." "Dark clouds follow the sun, and the rain is thick in the middle of the night." "Sunset Dark Cloud Cave, Ming Dynasty sunburned back skin pain."