Chapter 53: The Cold Forest is Coming

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Yun Zheng frowned and said: "Naturally, but I suddenly remembered a joke, it was said in the book that there was a king of England who personally designed a battleship, this battleship has unparalleled fierce firepower, extremely luxurious internal structure, the result is not good, the ship just after it was launched, it sank by itself......

I think it's good for you to hand over this kind of thing to specialized people to do, the craftsmanship of the super craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty is not comparable to you as a boy with rough knowledge of physics, in fact, people also know some physical knowledge, but because of insufficient knowledge, there is no way to fully discuss it.

Do you remember what you learned in your textbook when you were a child? Now Shen Kuo is writing, but I don't recommend you to contact this guy, Zhang Fangping's evaluation of Shen Kuo is that the book is readable, and the quality is flawless! Once stained with repentance, three lives.

You also know how poisonous Zhang Fangping's eyes are to see people, he said back then that Zhou Tong was unbearable to be friends for a long time, and now it has come true, he said that Cui Da was born to do business, and now it has been fulfilled, when others suspected that I would become another powerful minister, this old guy had already found out that I was not interested in the court at all, and volunteered to come to Shuzhong to serve as a county guard to catch a great tiger to take care of the great tiger, is a real old thief. ”

Yun Er laughed and said: "I met a lot of strange people when I was studying in Guozijian, they have different temperaments, but in general, the way of Confucius and Mencius is still leading people to goodness, as long as they are not too unconventional, it is easy to become friends with everyone."

When I entered the Guozijian, Shen Kuo had his last year left, and I didn't like his flattering appearance, so I didn't have much contact. Su Shi has a good relationship with him, this guy does have something outstanding in Gewu, but I don't understand why this person didn't enter the general as a prison, but I instead entered the general as a prison. ”

Yun Zheng smiled but did not speak.

Yun Er smiled bitterly and said, "This is still your arrangement?" I originally wanted to go out and become a prefectural magistrate. I have been addicted to the county lord's official addiction. ”

"I didn't arrange it, it was your sister-in-law who arranged it. She doesn't want you to go out and endure hardships, can the fourteen-year-old county order serve the public, or will she be in prison as insurance. ”

As long as Lu Qingqing was mentioned, Yun Er was completely speechless, and Lu Qingqing, who didn't know the details, was really treating him as a child, and raised his hand to beat him when he was unhappy. When he was happy, he pinched his face and praised, Yun Zheng was worried about arousing Yun Er's rebellious psychology in the early years, but he didn't expect that the relationship between him and his sister-in-law was gradually established through a discipline and a pretending to be disciplined.

Yun Er picked another basket of mulberries, and then went down the mulberry tree with Yun Da. Taking the children back to the village, it is very comfortable to step barefoot on the bluestone slabs that are warmed by the sun.

On the opposite side of the hillside were four fast horses galloping, and the knights had flags behind their backs, a method used only by the army for 800 miles.

Yun Er looked at the knight halfway up the mountain and said with a smile: "Cao Rong can't bear it, he has used it for eight hundred miles, I don't know whose banner it is this time." ”

Yun Zheng stood barefoot on the small bridge and shook his head and said: "The Yongxing Army has been corrupted all these years, and some Dali troops and some bandits have left him helpless, and I don't know how he got mixed up over the years." It was a very bad mistake for the emperor to hand over the new land to this guy. ”

Yun Er saw that the eldest brother was standing on the small bridge, and he didn't seem to have any intention of letting the messenger into the village, so he laughed and took the children back to the village with Ge Qiuyan.

The oxen and monkeys, who were giving grass to the war horses, also saw the messenger halfway up the mountain. Han Niu came to Yun Zheng's back with a guillotine, and the three of them were all wearing coarse cloth clothes, just like three rough men in the mountains.

The war horse soon came to the side of the small bridge, and Cao Xing, the younger brother of the Cao Rong clan, was about to yell to give way, but saw Yun Zheng standing on the small bridge with a gloomy face, and hurriedly strangled the war horse and knelt down on one knee and said, "Qi Yunhou." Jianchang Mansion Urgent Report, Jianchang Mansion Bacui Department. Luolan Department, Kill Ma Department. Gathering the crowd to rebel, Cao Rong of the Ministry of Government is now clinging to Mukui City and is in danger, please Yunhou rush to the rescue! ”

Yun Zheng took the eight hundred miles in his hand without making a sound, asked Han Niu to cut the fire paint on the outside with a guillotine, and after opening it, he glanced at it and said, "Where is the seal of the Privy Council?" How could it be the Queen's Seal? Since it is an 800-mile expedited service, why don't you hand it over to Zhang Fangping, the prefect of Chengdu, and give it to me? Sending troops without permission is a big crime for the nine clans, could it be that the queen doesn't know? ”

Cao Xingda hurriedly said: "The letterhead is a distress letter to Jingshi, but the Privy Council believes that the 18,000 people of the Yongxing Army are enough to hold Jianchang Mansion, and only ordered Cao Rong to quickly quell the rebellion, so there is no military order."

The queen couldn't bear to see Cao Rong's defeat, so she had to write this letter with her own hands, begging Yunhou to be kind and save my cousin. ”

Yun Zheng scolded angrily: "Is it impossible for 18,000 people to all shrink into Mukui City? A city the size of three miles, aren't they too crowded?

Bacui Ministry, there are few people in the Luolan Department who have been killed by Di Shuai in the early years, why did they suddenly rebel? A group of bandits actually forced Cao Rong to use 800 li to expedite, which was a shame for the Great Song army, no wonder the Privy Council refused to send reinforcements. ”

Cao Xing's face was like the color of earth, and he only knew that he kowtowed again and again and begged Yun Zheng to send troops quickly, otherwise Cao Rong's life would be lost.

Yun Zheng pounded his temples and said slowly: "I have always been good friends with Cao Rong, if I can save it, I will naturally send troops."

Monkey, you come and tell Cao Xing how many soldiers and horses we have in our hands now. ”

The monkey coughed and said, "The army is all on the grassland, and we now only have seventy-two generals, sixty-one scribes, and one hundred and eighty-three guards. ”

When Cao Xing heard the monkey say this, he immediately howled and cried, he understood that Yun Zheng was telling the truth, and when he passed by Chengdu Mansion, Zhang Fangping told him that the imperial court had exhausted the troops of Chengdu Mansion, and now most of the Xiang troops in Chengdu Mansion are now Xiang troops who can only participate in labor service, and those people cannot be taken out to fight at all.

As for Yun Zheng, I am afraid that there are no extra troops in his hands to participate in the rescue, and the western Yunnan grassland has just been pacified, and a large number of people are needed to participate in the defense. Now that he heard the truth from the monkey's mouth, he couldn't help but feel sad when he thought of Cao Rong hiding in Mukui City in horror and hoping for reinforcements day and night.

"Eighteen thousand soldiers, such a configuration is not not high, the Yongxing Army is also a crack army that the Great Song Dynasty can get, not to mention that they are also equipped with a large number of firearms in their hands, why can they only hide in Mukui City and wait for reinforcements?"

Cao Xuan said in a snort: "The rebels are roaring all over the mountains, the bandits are attacking Mukui City, and some bandits even have siege equipment, so the general has to order the whole army to shrink and defend Mukui City." ”

Yun Zheng snorted coldly: "I don't have an army, if Cao Rong wants to live, hurry up and fight back, if he waits until the army's heart is broken, he will wait to die!" ”

"Yunhou doesn't know, the army of Mukui City is not 18,000 people, only less than 8,000 people, the rest of the soldiers have gone to the copper mine to mine, and a large part of the gunpowder shells have also been used to blow up the mine, this is indeed the truth of Mukui City."

Cao Xing saw that the matter had reached the point of no return, so he gritted his teeth and told the actual situation, drooping his head and never talking again.

Yun Zheng is not surprised by this situation, Cao Rong has earned a lot of income over the years, if he just uses the local people to mine and smelt copper, he will definitely not be able to produce so many copper ingots, if he wants to make a fortune quickly, using soldiers is a fast method.

Six thousand Song soldiers were enough to defeat those stragglers, and the only reason why they cowered in the city and did not move was that the soldiers below were dissatisfied with the main general.

For the situation of Jianchang Mansion, Yun Zheng knows even more than the current Cao Xing, the Yun family's caravan in and out of Dali, as far as the Tangbo Ancient Road to the Tubo Plateau, and then from the Tubo Plateau through Nepal and finally to Tianzhu, how could he not know the situation of the opposite Jianchang Mansion.

Cao Rong co-opted the lieutenant generals and conspired to use the soldiers to make money, treating the soldiers as cattle and horses, and heard that because of the collapse of the mine, there were countless dead and wounded soldiers, so the lowest soldiers would turn a blind eye to the crisis in Mukui City.

In recent years, Cao Rong has implemented military control in Jianchang Mansion, but anyone who can move has been arrested by his subordinates and sent to the mines, where they have been mining day and night.

And the income he gets every year is enough to support the flowers of the entire Cao family, and the reason why the queen can get the support of most people in the court is inseparable from the wealthy and powerful family behind her, so the queen will take the risk of giving an order directly to Yun Zheng, hoping that he can send troops to rescue Cao Rong.

"Yunhou, the queen mother said that if Yunhou can save my cousin's life, the Cao family will have a retribution." Cao Xing stood up and opened his biggest hole card.

He believed that with Yun Zheng's foresight, he would not leave himself an army that could be mobilized at any time, and this army might even be the Yun family's private army.

"The Cao Rong I know is not such a vicious person, he still knows how to advance and retreat, and knows how to encircle his subordinates, he did a good job in Shuzhong in his early years, even if he is not good at commanding the army, but the extremely subordinate subordinates of the Yongxing Army are still good, at least they can fight, Cao Xing, you come to tell me why Cao Rong has changed so much?

I think the person who speaks effectively in Jianchang Mansion is probably not Cao Rong, right? ”

Cao Xuan closed his mouth and said nothing, Yun Zheng sat cross-legged on the small bridge, looked coldly behind the mulberry tree and said, "You've listened to it for so long, it's time to come out, right?" ”

Han Lin, who was full of white hair and sharp-beaked monkey cheeks, slowly paced out from behind the mulberry tree with his hands in his sleeves and said with a smile: "Yunhou, you and I haven't seen you for a long time!" Let your brother put down the strong crossbow in his hand, his little ability is not enough, but he can sense my arrival, it seems that Xiaolin has taught him with great care. (To be continued)

ps: Chapter 3, make up for yesterday's arrears

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