In the palace in the south of the city, the red candles in Guan Duo's dormitory are quietly burning, and the curtain is low. In the dim light, Guan Duo was pacing in his clothes, and there were two half-naked concubines lying on the bed, with jade bodies lying horizontally. He didn't care about the women's spring light, but the stammering Lao Li and Xu Ren, who were kneeling in front of him, didn't even dare to raise their heads, and they didn't dare to make a sound.

"Except for the six words Liaoyang near and Gaoliyuan, Pan Mei didn't say anything else?"

"Back to my lord, no." Xu Ren paused, glanced at Guan Duo's expression, and said, "My lord, according to the general, Deng Shuai does have two hearts. ”

"Oh?" Guan Duo stopped, his face expressionless joyless and angry. Xu Da was bold and said: "General Pan invited Deng Shuai to the banquet tonight, although there are last generals waiting for the list, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is just a disguise." General Pan's intention is really Deng Shuai, and Deng Shuai will not attend if he has no intention. The last general thinks that he is half-pushing. ”

Guan Duo laughed, Deng She's half-push and half-acceptance, how could he not know? Pan Mei gave a gift for the first time, although Deng She confiscated it, but he had a letter and a generous gift in return, he thought it was ingenious, but he didn't know that someone had already reciprocated it. Although I don't know what is written in the letter, I can guess a thing or two when I see Pan Mei inviting him to a banquet tonight.

It's just that in front of Li Jing and Xu Ren, this Pan Mei bluntly said what Li Dunru meant by slander? He thought for a moment, suddenly smiled, and said, "Xiao Pan's trick is a good one." ”

"What do you mean?"

Guan Duo glanced at Xu Ren and Li Jing, did not explain, and said warmly: "You have worked hard, it's not early, go back and rest." The two bowed and retreated, and Guan Duo called them back again, groaned, and asked, "In the camp outside the city, have there been any changes in the Goryeo military horses?" ”

"Everything is fine."

Guan Duo stopped talking, and his gaze passed through the temple door and cast into the night sky. Layers of buildings, silent at night. Pan Cheng is a reckless man, and he can't think of such a strategy, it is very likely that Pan Mei made his own initiative. Pan Mei and Deng She, young people should not be underestimated.

The crescent moon is like a string, and the stars are dotted.

In the Pan Mansion in the north of the city, three people sat and talked to each other. The first one, tall and long, heroic, is Pan Cheng, who is known as the first beautiful man in the army; The one next to him, vaguely similar to him, much younger, is his third brother Pan Ren; The young man in the first place, his cheeks are red, and the wine has not stopped, who is it not Pan Mei?

"You said that Xiao Deng didn't say anything after listening to it?" Pan Ren frowned and asked.

Pan Mei said: "He was quick, laughed loudly, and turned the topic to the Shenyang war. Hehe, although he is young, he can be called an old treacherous and cunning. ”

Pan Cheng snorted and said, "What about the old treacherous and cunning? The banquet has been over for a long time, and maybe Lao Guan has already learned the news by this time. is just a child, and he also wants to make a storm and make a share of Liaoyang? Bite off more than one can chew! It's like he's got a treasure all the time, are you still afraid that we'll grab it? ”

Pan Ren said: "My brother is right, even if you go to grab it, if you want to talk about the kung fu of winning people, I'm afraid we can't compare to Lao Guan." If you can't win over, you simply don't pull back; If we can't get it, he can't think about it. Regardless of whether Li Dunru's news is true or not, within three days, it will be spread throughout the army through the mouths of Zhu Lianxiu and others, and by that time, I don't believe that there is no rift between the two. Speaking of pride, he clicked on this Pan Mei and said with a smile: "If you want to say that it is still our Ami, this plan is wonderful." ”

Pan Mei was humble and said, "Uncle has won the award." The so-called three people become tigers, even if it is fake, it is spread too much, and the fake will come true. Lao Guan thinks about Xiao Deng's dead heart again, and I'm afraid it will be difficult. ”

Pan Cheng laughed, remembering that Guan Duo had a secret conversation with him yesterday, talking about Goryeo and other things, and he actually used it as a bargaining chip to force himself to make concessions in southern Liaoning, so he took a sip and said, "What something!" Asked Pan Mei, "Lao Guan has been sneaky recently, and there have been many messengers out of the city to the east, how did you check?" ”

"Although the child has been in Liaoyang for a long time, the handover is also broad, but Lao Guan is cunning and tight, and he has not been able to reach out in some places. I only got some rumors, it seems to be ,......" Pan Mei paused, and Pan Cheng asked, "What does it seem?" ”

Pan Mei said in a solemn tone: "It seems that he is dealing with Shenyang. ”

Pan Ren was taken aback and said, "Shenyang? Although they reached a consensus with Guan Duo and had the intention of being self-reliant, they never thought of associating with the Tartars. Guan Duo's song in Shenyang, what is the intention? A thought came to his mind, he was shocked, and said, "Lao Guan has to be lowered?" ”

Pan Cheng Huo Ran got up, took two steps, denied Pan Ren's guess, and sneered: "If he really descends, then it would be good." ”

Pan Mei said: "Yes, Lao Guan is scheming and will never kill himself." Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if he really has the intention of surrendering, Liu Pingzhang is the first to object, only 200,000 brothers in the whole army, how many will agree? ”

Sha Liu Er has a stubborn temper and an old-fashioned personality, and he has never given a good face to people like Pan Mei who do not have strong belief in the White Lotus, but his loyalty to King Xiao Ming can be seen from the sun and the moon, and he can be said to be consistent in words and deeds; He has always been clean and self-conscious, not good for money, but fair and compassionate. Although Pan Mei is different from him, he also admires it very much, so unlike Guan Duo, he is called "Liu Pingzhang".

Pan Ren's mind turned slowly, and after listening to Pan Mei's words, he reacted, nodded again and again, and said, "Not bad, not bad." Since the Northern Expedition, our army and the Tartars have fought hard again and again, and the number of brothers killed in the battle is unknown; In addition to the White Lotus cultists, most of the people who joined the army were homeless people who could not survive, and the sea of blood with the Tartars could be said to be deep, and it was extremely difficult to do it in a hurry. That old Guan ,...... move"

Pan Cheng gritted his teeth and said, "Do you still need to say?" He turned back and sat down, patted the case hard, and said, "No wonder he insisted on fighting southern Liaoning and Shenyang, just to protect the back road." ”

Pan Mei was worried and said, "If this is really the case, my father-in-law, is Naha out of the trust?" Pan Cheng didn't speak for a long time, he hadn't dealt with Nahachu, so he couldn't judge. What is his identity as a plain chapter, he has some talents, and when he encounters major events, he can be calm, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Liaoyang is in danger, the dark tide is surging under the stalemate, our army and the Tartars, who will make the first move, who will take the initiative, Lao Guan can't wait, he has to take this step." ”

"How should I respond?"

Pan Mei said: "Fight southern Liaoning, the main force of Laoguan; You and I don't change everything, just look on the sidelines. It's just that you and I need to be cautious, in case he sells us back, hum, Shenyang? Ben Shuai wants to see if there will be people who are smart but are mistaken by cleverness. He cast his gaze out the door, through the night sky, to the south of the city.

The blue night sky is full of stars and the moon is like a string.

Deng She held his hands in the courtyard and looked up at the moon. Pan Mei's strategy, he already knows it in his chest, and the typical one shot and two scatters are harmful to others and not to himself. As Pan Mei said, Li Dunru did not slander behind his back, to be honest, Deng She didn't care. Guan Duo is determined, has his own opinions, and is not a mediocre person who follows the crowd. He wants to kill Dunshe, and he can't wait for today. Deng She is confident that the crisis in Liaoyang is still unsolved, and the status of Goryeo is still there, and it is far from the time when the bird is exhausted.

In fact, as far as Deng She speculated, whether Li Dunru said those six words or not is still between the two. Behind the scenes, what a secret? Shall it be heard? Pan Meiyan said that it was the Gaizhou messenger who heard it. When the Gaizhou messenger met with Guan Duo, how could there be no messenger? How can there be a chance to listen to the corner? Nine times out of ten, Pan Mei spread rumors out of thin air.

The wonderful thing is that he knows that he is spreading rumors, and he can't tell it. Even if it is broken, it will inevitably leave a thorn in the road between Guan Duo and Deng She, and if it is not solved, the problem will be solved sooner or later.

On the stage of deceit, who can tell the truth about the masquerade that is smeared and outlined? Who gets the leave? What about two parties who don't trust each other, what about fake? What about rumors? If you don't solve it, will the other party be suspicious? Will he be true when you default? When the news spreads throughout the army, do you expect the rumors to stop at the wise? As the saying goes: when the fake is true, the truth is also false.

The night was dark, the wind gradually rose, and the heat on the bluestone slab slowly faded; If there is no coolness, it is refreshing and pleasant on the body.

Deng She paced back and forth, and Guan Duo's actions in the morning gave him a lot of inspiration: acting, which is also divided into two types: invested and uninvested. In the face of Pan Mei's face-to-face provocation, there was no response. He thought about it again and again, thinking: "If you have to act, how can you react, so that you can be natural and real, and not angry?" ”

He had an idea, can he go further and take this opportunity to get some benefits?

He was fascinated by his thoughts. Out of nowhere, there was a faint singing voice, about the neighbor's house, someone was tactfully singing a song of the Song Dynasty. In the moonlight, Deng She listened carefully and listened to her singing: "The moon bends to Kyushu, and a few families are happy and a few are sad." Several couples were in the same tent, and several were left in other states. ”

On this night, the moonlight was like water.

What Deng She is worried about is also what Guan Duo is worried about. It must be admitted that Pan Mei's outstanding strategy did disrupt the delicate balance between Guan Duo and Deng She, neither of them would believe in each other, but at this time, they had to show their trust in each other, this scene was not only for the other party, but also for the whole army.

The war in southern Liaoning is related to Guan Duo's long-term plans. He couldn't sit back and watch the fire in the backyard, so he reacted first, but he didn't go to Deng She to explain, but found a small excuse, in front of outsiders, he severely reprimanded Li Dunru, and deliberately let the news reach Deng She's ears.

His posture was sufficient, and Deng She held the tactical map of defending Shenyang that afternoon and came to the door to ask for a meeting. I asked Guan Duo to summon all the generals who went to the banquet last night, including Pan Mei, to come and hold a short military meeting in the provincial hall to discuss the feasibility of this tactical plan.

Deng She has been in the army for a long time, and in the past few months, he has successfully commanded several large-scale battles and campaigns of more than 10,000 people, and the level of marching and arranging formations has been greatly improved. The plan he made was always bold and careful, and it was quite meritorious. However, he is relatively unfamiliar with the surrounding terrain, barely knows himself, and does not know the other side, and there are many omissions in the whole plan.

Guan Duo, as the main general, knew how to defend Shenyang, and he didn't plan to ask Deng She to participate in the advance, but at this time, he simply took it out and put it together for everyone to discuss. Take its wonderful and outstanding places, and supplement and improve the original plan one by one.

His move surprised Deng She, Pan Mei and others. Deng She's original intention of coming to the door and asking Guan Duo to summon the generals, but to show that he was not troubled by Li Dunru, Guan Duo was willing to adopt part of his plan, which actually gave him some real power in disguise.

However, this is not what Dunsher wants. The Eastern Route Army is all Guan and Pan Yan, and Guan Duo can give him power, and he can also deprive him of power at any time. In the final analysis, the flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water look good, but they are useless.

He said: "I knew that the adults were confident, and the last general didn't have to make an axe. Guan Duo smiled and said, "Why should Deng Shuai be humble? There is a good comparison, the old man ,...... "clicked on Deng She's tactical sketch," but Deng Shuai was sharp. ”

In front of Pan Mei and the others, the two ministers were harmonious and smiled at each other. Li Dunru's matter has been revealed.

Guan Duo held his legs, stood up, looked around the hall, and said, "The armies of Guangning and Liaoxi will be transferred back soon; The main force of Gaizhou can be assembled within half a month. The meticulous work in Shenyang and Gaizhou continues all day long, and the changes in our Liaoyang army may not take four or five days before Nahachu and Gao Jianu will know. Gao Jianu is fine, only this Naha is out, and he needs to be guarded against coming to provoke.

"Gaizhou has not moved, and Shenyang has gone first. If you want to do a good job in Gaizhou, Shenyang can't let it go out of the city, and your responsibility is far greater than the main force in Gaizhou. On the day of the military meeting, the relationship between China and China was clearly explained. Deng Shuai ,......"

Deng She came out and said, "The last will be." ”

"The military order to dispatch the Goryeo military horses was issued yesterday, and the stakes are very high, how about you issue another one today?"

"Yes." Deng She knew that Guan Duo's move was for Pan Mei to see; Readily agreed, and said, "Please don't worry, up and down the twin cities, only with the orders of the adults, you will not miss the major events of the adults, and within half a month, the military horses will arrive on the banks of the Yalu River." ”

"Very good. General Pan, how are your men mobilized? ”

"Your Excellency, the last general's 12,000 people ordered yesterday to start gathering and preparing for war today, and within three or two days, they can enter a state of imminent war."

Pan Mei asked casually, knowing that what happened last night had upset Guan Duo, so she replied respectfully and in as much detail as possible, and watched the two guards come up and spread out the map on the ground. He looked up blankly, Guan Duo pressed his injured leg, walked down with a skimming step, and said: "Under the command of General Pan, all of them are fierce soldiers, and they fought Liaoyang a year ago, and they have made a good start, right?" ”

Pan Mei's heart sank, secretly screamed badly, stubbornly replied: "Hit Liaoyang, the south gate that the last general will attack, at that time, I was lucky, and I was the first to climb the city." It's a shame to say that he couldn't stop the Tartars from counterattacking; The first to break the city was not the last general, but the two marshals Tang Tong and Zhou Cheng under Liu Pingzhang. ”

"Lao Tang and Lao Zhou, those are old men in the army, they have rich experience, and they are well versed in the way of using soldiers. What is the way to use soldiers? One by one, that's all. Guan Duo changed his name and said, "Xiao Pan, you are still young, you are too sharp in your soldiers, and if you are too strong, you will inevitably lack succession." ”

"Yes, my lord taught me a lesson."

"Hehe, what a lesson. Anyway, you were the first to climb the city. Why can't the old man log in? Young people, they should be a little energetic. Guan Duo dragged his legs, circled around the map a few times, took the thin whip, pointed up casually, and said, "Look, what's going on here?" ”

When everyone in Deng She looked at it, their hearts jumped, Pan Mei swallowed her saliva and said, "Prince River? "The Taizi River originates in the east, flows through Liaoyang, and flows into the Liao River. It is also known as the East Liang River, the Great Liang River, during the Three Kingdoms, Sima Yi beheaded the Liaodong warlord Gongsun Yuan father and son in Liangshui, that is.

Guan Duo nodded and said, "Well, it's the Prince River." In the history books, this water can be very famous. He looked at everyone with a smile and asked, "Do you know why it's called the Prince River?" ”

Deng She and Pan Mei have read books, neither of them knows anything, and the other is pregnant with a ghost fetus, and they both shake their heads. Guan Duo didn't think about it, and said, "Have you heard of the story of Jing Ke's assassination of King Qin? …… Don't Yan Dan here, and the strong man will rush to the crown. Yes, you won't have heard of it. He whispered, "The wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and the strong man will never return once he is gone." The courage of the horseman, alone in the glorious Qin; The picture is poor and dagger, and dares to stab the king of the world, what kind of arrogance, what kind of courage? ”

He sighed and said, "It's a pity, Yi Shui is goodbye, there are no people, and the water is still cold." He seemed to mean something, and said, "People, no matter how ambitious they are, if they want to achieve great things, they must also be able to distinguish the situation." Hehe, it's a pity for Jing Ke. This Taizi River gets its name from Yan Taizi Dan, who once hid under this water. Hence the name. ”

He clearly knocked Pan Mei, Pan Mei calmed down, and said: "The adult is well-read and knowledgeable, and the general will be taught." ”

Guan Duo smiled, got back to business, slid the whip up along the Taizi River, and said: "To prevent Shenyang, Liaoyang should be the pillar; On the west side, Quang Ninh is not only guarding against the Guard, but also as a surprise soldier all the way. And these two ways are not enough. The Goryeo army and horses are far away on the banks of the Yalu River, and there is no place to meet them in the middle, so the old man discussed with Pan and Liu Erpingzhang and decided: General Pan ,......"

"The end will be."

"Five days later, you will take your headquarters, go east along the Taizi River, travel day and night, seize Dongmu Mountain, meet Goryeo, and serve as a military horse besieging Shenyang on the third road." Dongmu Mountain is located in the east of Shenyang 20 miles, the mountain is steep, south of the Taizi River, west of Guangning Mansion. With Liaoyang and Guangning, it just forms an equidistant triangle, surrounding Shenyang in the middle.

Yesterday, looking at the documents of Shenyang, there are 2,000 military horses of Mengyuan stationed on Dongmu Mountain, which is also close to Shenyang, and it is not easy to fight down. It is to be expected that this is not Panmei's task; At this time, the sudden temporary appointment is a thunderous means.

Deng She was slightly surprised, and then looked at Guan Duo, behind the low-eyed Bodhisattva face, there was a statue of King Kong with angry eyes. Pan Mei suddenly lost color, and secretly shouted: "Careless, careless." The old thief's counterattack came so fast! ”

How can it not be happy?

Gao Li is in hand, Deng She is loyal, and the retreat of the whole army is in Guan Duo's hands, Pan Cheng has some scruples and does not dare to turn his face, one of them. Fighting Dongmu Mountain is not a task of nine deaths and a lifetime, as long as the stealth is done properly, the strange soldiers will be able to win, and it is a small punishment, which is within the acceptable range of Pan Cheng, and this is the second. Pan Mei actually wiped Guan Duo's face in front of the whole army, and did not give punishment, how could she establish her authority? Thirdly.

These three reasons are not enough, Deng She and Pan Mei can guess it after thinking about it a little; The most important one, but no one knows. It turned out that Pan Cheng's news was correct, and Guan Duo's messengers came out one after another, and they were indeed in Shenyang.

Pan Cheng also guessed correctly, Guan Duo would not surrender, but what about a fake surrender in private?

can't surrender in vain, Guan Duo's condition: to Liaonan. There are two reasons, one is public: the name of the Gao family slave belongs to the minister, which is like a separation, which is really a big rebellion; One is selfish: Jin covered the states were already in the hands of the red scarves, and the Gao family slaves took advantage of the siege of Liaoyang to steal blatantly, if they were not killed, the army would not be convinced, and it would be difficult to persuade them to surrender.

Naturally, everyone has the benefits, and it is really good. In exchange, Guan Duo also had a big gift to Nahachu: Pan Cheng's head, and Pan Cheng's Quang Ninh Mansion. As long as Naha agrees, Liaonan will join forces to destroy Pan Cheng.

Nahachu did not object.

Destroy Pan Cheng and win his army. promised that the interests of Goryeo would belong to Deng She, and ordered him to cross the Yalu River with his army and horses, and take advantage of the emptiness of Shenyang to capture the city in a battle. At the same time, he rebelled against Quang Ninh, killed Naha, and removed the thorn behind him in one fell swoop.

Most of this strategy was proposed by Yao Haogu, who had a peach to kill three soldiers in ancient times, and now has a bait to eliminate two enemies. Open and close vertically and horizontally, and really turn your hands into clouds, and cover your hands for rain.

During this period, what should I do if there is chaos in Liaoxi? Sha Liu Er has no intention of Liaodong, he just wants to save the driver, and he can use the excuse that Shenyang is uncertain and difficult to be distracted, driving him to stick to it, which is enough to ensure the stability of Liaoxi.

As for the frontal Wai Si Jian, the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers is unbearable, no matter how many people and horses there are, there are rabble; And since Naha is lowered, in order to paralyze it, there is a lot of room for maneuver in the middle, if it goes well, maybe he can kill Naha out, and he can also take it by the way. Don't forget, on the flanks of the Wai Si Jian army, there are still more than 10,000 people in the upper capital.

Shenyang Mangshorn is gone, and then on the one hand, he will carry the power of hundreds of thousands of troops, envelop Deng She, and slowly collect Goryeo; On the one hand, he continued to drive the wolf and devour the tiger, set the west of Liaoning, and took Sha Liu Er as the pioneer to cross the sea to intervene in Shandong. Lian Heng Wang Shicheng, continued to follow his ancestors, killed Tian Feng, and set foot in the Central Plains.

At this point, the one who draws the bow and shoots the deer, there is one more Guan Duo in the world.

And put the eyes back on the present, all in all, the forces of Liaodong are staggered, if you want to calm down, the first enemy is not an outsider, why? The enemies of the four roads of Weisijian, Liaoxi, Liaonan, and Shenyang are separated and cannot be gathered in one place; Misaligned thoughts, trying to protect themselves, it seems to be critical, but it is an opportunity.

On the other hand, his own army: Pan Cheng is ambitious, stationed in Guangning, the development is extremely fast, in October, more than 10,000 troops, although they are allies, everything is restricted, and if they stay for a long time, it will become a big disaster, and they must be killed first. Pan Chengyi is in Liaodong, and Sha Liu is a political enemy, and his ambition is not here, but he can use it to grasp his weaknesses. Deng She Xiaoer, give him some sweetness, he is alone in the tiger's den, and he dare not disobey the order.

Perhaps, everything will not go as planned, and there may be changes in it. But wouldn't it be a pity to want something big? Winning the world, who has a complete grasp?

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1. Most of them are homeless people who can't survive.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in addition to *, class contradictions were also very prominent.

The big bureaucrats, the big monasteries, the big landlords, etc., controlled the vast majority of the land. Here are three examples: First, in the fourth year of Zhengzheng, the Songjiang field was given, which was the rice field of Lisongjiang and other places, which shows the large scale of the gift. Second, the Great Chengtian Protector Temple, only more than ten years, Yuan Wenzong and Yuan Shun Emperor gave land three times, accumulating more than 324,490 hectares. Third, in the past ten years, the wealthy families in Suzhou have collected millions of rice every year.

On the surface, these fields are "idle fields", but in fact most of them are forcibly occupied private fields. In Dongyang, Zhejiang, for example, the peasants handed over one-half of their income from the fields to the landlords, and the landlords had to levy silk according to the mu, "the people were quite miserable."

Among the tenants, there are those who rent official land, and at the time of Taiding Wenzong, the rent of vocational land in Fujian is as high as three stones per mu. At that time, the yield per mu in the north was "one stone in summer and autumn", one stone of wheat was harvested in summer, and one stone of millet was harvested in autumn, that is, two stones; The yield in the south is slightly higher, "one acre of land, two stones of rice can be obtained in the year", this "two stones" is the ,—— Nandou of the Song Dynasty, and the amount of the combined yuan is nearly three stones. In other words, after a hard year, the harvest of one acre of land is not enough to pay the rent. The phenomenon of selling children and daughters has emerged one after another, and many tenants have gone bankrupt.

However, although many people have gone bankrupt, lost their land, and "entered other households", they still need to pay taxes, and they have no choice but to "flee to the Quartet".

The yeoman peasants, who were fortunate enough not to become tenants or vagrants, but the landlords and wealthy landlords passed it on to the yeoman peasants in order to escape their own burdens, which made their already heavy burden of forced labor even heavier, resulting in "the people of the left and the left" and "bankruptcy".

Even some small and medium-sized landlords have gone bankrupt and are in decline. Under the heavy class oppression, the people could not survive, and they all rose up. Liu Futong was the first to advocate and spread it all over the world, with eight words in the middle: "Poor in the south of the Yangtze River, rich in the north", it is precisely this as a call for rebellion.

2, the confinement bends and shines on Kyushu.

The first two sentences of popular folk songs in the Southern Song Dynasty and Wuzhong are in a common format. "The song of Wu Zhongzhoushi, even more moonlit night, maneuvering the boat and rowing oars, suppressing its voice and singing, the voice is very sad."

3, Dongmu Mountain.

"Tang Gaozong Ping Goryeo, Bohai Da clan to protect Lou's East Mu Mountain." "'History of the Tang Dynasty': Shandong Zhiying Prefecture is 2,000 miles, and when the Empress Wu was born, he built a city to live here. Its borders extend to Silla in the south, bounded by the Mud River, and the Khitan in the east and the Khitan in the west. 'Cover is this mountain. ”