Chapter 479: The Wind Rises and the Tiger Roars
To the west of Chengdu, the east of Bayan Kala Mountain belongs to Ganzi, the terrain is vast, there are mountains and rivers and ravines, the road is steep, undulating, meandering, unless it is a person who has lived here since childhood, it is difficult for even a million elites to succeed in this place.
Therefore, even the Jin Kingdom, which was majestic in the northwest back then, never sent troops to set foot in this area during the occupation of Sichuan and Shu.
The reason is two words - lazy.
Ganzi is short of materials and resources, and it is a rare barren area in China.
However, a month ago, the Mandarin Duck Army, which had been secretly training in Yuzhou, suddenly started from Diaoyu City, crossed Shu all the way, and met with the 2,300 thieves who had been subdued half a year ago in Chengdu Mansion, with Zou Buyi as the military advisor and Yu Jieyi as the main commander, and brazenly entered Ganzi.
There are more than 10,000 soldiers, of which more than 2,000 are thieves who are proficient in wandering and looting, and the rest are also mandarin duck swordsmen trained according to the tactics of horse thieves.
Ganzi is barren and bitter cold, but also makes the local people fierce, not to mention the dozen or so tribes under the control of the real boiled bones, all of them are wearing armor and swords, that is, some seven or eight year-old children in the marginal area, they will also carry a dagger made of stone on their waists, and three or four little babies dare to join forces to hunt mountain wolves, and the fierceness of the folk customs can be seen.
In the north of Ganzi, there is a city called Shiqu, which was originally the territory of Tibet, but unfortunately later Tubo was destroyed by the Jin State, and forcibly requisitioned the local young and strong, only a few old and young survived.
After the Jin soldiers withdrew, this place was also invaded by the surrounding tribes, and a few years ago, he was really promoted to the Seven Realms to unify Ganzi, and this place was completely separated from the rule of the Jin State.
In terms of geography, Shiqu City is close to Xining, and it has been harassed by the Jin State Iron Cavalry all the year round.
In terms of folk customs, it has been repeatedly looted and suppressed by the Jin people over the years, and it has long broken the backbone.
In terms of economy, although it barely has an advantage in the cities of Ganzi by relying on trade with neighboring Xining and Lizhou, it will be extorted by Lizhou every year, and it is even more depressed.
In just one month, under Zou Buyi's plan, the Mandarin Duck Army broke through more than a dozen tribes in a row, and almost killed the central part of Ganzi. Although Shiqu City is located in the west, the people also felt the breath of the beacon fire in advance, and in the streets and alleys of the inn, everyone talked about the war that swept most of the east.
At the east gate of Shiqu City, several listless old soldiers sat on the edge of the city gate with spears, and they didn't have the heart to exploit the people who entered the city, after all, there have been several times over the years when someone had bad luck and met the Jin people who had been trained in disguise, and they lost their heads, not to mention, and even Shiqu City was trampled three feet thin by the iron hooves of the Jin Kingdom, and after a long time, no one dared to come out again.
These old soldiers were chatting about the war in the east, two days ago a group of merchants came over, and when they entered the city, they talked about the situation there, and the army in charge of the girls really did not look like an orthodox army, but more like a group of wolf-like thieves, who came and went like the wind, and never fought a frontal battle, so that everyone mistakenly thought that this army was not good at head-to-head confrontation.
Several large tribes in the central part were forced to gather all the warriors of several families, and then sent nearly 500 scouts to lock the location of this group of outsiders, and then nearly 30,000 fierce warriors swarmed up, wanting to completely wipe out this group of troops who had caused trouble in Ganzi for more than a month.
In addition to the more than 2,000 guerrillas on the edge, the nine thousand swordsmen wearing green armor and long swords in the center were even more fierce and abnormal.
While they were chatting there, four horsemen suddenly came from outside the city gate, led by a young man of about twenty-seven or eighteen years of age, ordinary in appearance but with a bit of majesty, long hair tied up with leather bands, wearing a black coat, and a long sword tied around his waist.
The three riders behind him are also different, a sturdy man with a short figure and a black unicorn pattern long knife across his waist, a man with a thin body and a hippie smile like a, and the last man is the face of the four, with thick eyebrows, starry eyes like the sea, plump and handsome appearance, with a beautiful hair, and a long crown brocade robe, like a high-ranking official in the Song Dynasty in the east.
"There's finally a place for peace. Seeing Shiqu City, the thin man breathed a sigh of relief.
The short man also nodded again and again, and complained: "Brother Yao, you said that you can't let the royal sister do it later?" You have to rush before we go to Kunlun, good guy, there is no road to this battle, and we have been detouring for more than half a month, right?"
Yao Ruoyu, who was riding a horse at the front, turned his head angrily and said indifferently: "The Mandarin Duck Army and the Trapping Army have been exposed, the latter is in charge of Geng Rui, don't worry about not being elite, but Yu Jieyi is inexperienced, looking around, it is also suitable for training in Ganzi, and if you do it later, it is estimated that the Great Song Dynasty, which feels that our garrison in Yuzhou is plotting against you, is about to attack." ”
Cai Xudong and Fu Feng both smacked their lips silently, Song Kai remained silent, and only then did he say lightly at this moment: "In the past half a year, Bai Lao and I have almost divided the official nine products, and when we come back from this treasure hunt, it will be time to announce it." ”
Yao Ruoyu bowed his head lightly when he heard this, although the hundred pulpits half a year ago were not too smooth, but it was a successful end, and afterwards, in addition to the dozens of handsome men they deliberately recruited, there were nearly two hundred scholars who took the initiative to stay and apply for jobs in various state governments.
Of course, these people have bad intentions to act as spies, but more of them still admire the Wenbang system, hoping to be able to achieve fame, and after being filtered three times in a row in the shadows, the 157 surviving people also joined from all over the country, which finally alleviated the situation of more wolves in Dawen.
It has been a year since Song Kai was demoted to the dean of the Institute of Mobile Communication for the massacre of Chengdu Mansion.
During this period, Song Kai was at ease in the School of Management, and communicated with Bai Junru day and night, and would rush to Chengdu Mansion once a month, and Xu Xuanrong, Bai Qiuyu and others continued to dig into the loopholes of the civil bureaucracy.
In one year, they not only perfected the civil and official system a lot, but also set up a nine-grade official rank system imitated from the Great Song Dynasty, with no distinction between positive and secondary, only one to nine grades.
After gilding in the mobile college for a year, Song Kai also sent away a group of scholars who had finished their studies and joined the officialdom of Wenbang, relying on this batch of Songmen Taoli to disperse into the Dawen officialdom, and he was naturally able to return to the Dawen court.
However, at present, there are ministers in the five ministries, and there is no big mistake with the five people, according to Yao Ruoyu's temperament, he will naturally not remove one person at will to replace Song Kai, so these days, what position Song Kai will hold after returning to Chengdu Mansion has also aroused heated discussions among countless people in the civil officialdom.
In fact, only Yao Ruoyu, Song Kai, and Bai Junru knew that in the nine-grade official system formulated by Song and Bai, the Military Aircraft Department, which was originally subordinate to the Wenwang Palace, would be independent and renamed the Military Department and the Five Ministries, forming the six-part system that has been customary since the Tang Dynasty.
In this way, it is also obvious where Song Kai will sit at that time.
Seeing that the old guards at the gate of the city didn't pay attention to them, Yao Ruoyu and the four of them also let go of the idea of taking the initiative to pay the money, slowed down their horses and slowly entered the city.
Tsk, Cai Xudong smiled: "It's so close to Lizhou here, how do you feel like this?"
Seeing Yao Ruoyu look over, Song Kai, who had already read the local intelligence, said lightly: "Although Shiqu City was separated from the Jin Kingdom after being taken by Zhen Zhugu, it was too far away from Zhenzhuogu's jurisdiction and too close to Xining Lizhou, so it was oppressed by Lizhou all year round. ”
Pointing to the shops with closed doors on the street around him, Song Kai said with a smile: "It is said that when the generals and politicians of Lizhou have nothing to do, they will call friends to come here to frolic here, and a few mean people will deliberately pretend to be ordinary people, pretending to collide with the garrisons in the city, there were several cases in the early years, and those garrisons were also unlucky, not only did they lose their heads, but Shiqu City was also looted several times by the people sent by the family of the gentlemen. ”
Cai Xudong slapped his palms and said suddenly: "No wonder the group of people just now didn't ask us for the entrance fee to the city." ”
"Once bitten by a snake, I was afraid of the well rope for ten years," Yao Ruoyu shrugged his shoulders slightly, suddenly looked up in front of him, and said with a smile, "Kai Kai, you are definitely a crow's mouth." ”
Song Kai was silent, Cai Xudong and Fu Feng were smiling, looking at the group of gentlemen who turned over from the corner of the street and saw them behind them.
Yao Ruoyu was secretly helpless, rubbed his eyebrows, and said indifferently: "Which of you wants to do it?" Forget it, Caicai, you are too quiet to move, let's let the mad dog come." ”
Cai Xudong, who was eager to try, immediately glared, Fu Feng smiled and shouted Long live Brother Yao, then turned over and dismounted, pressed the knife with his right hand, and walked to a few people in a figure-eight step, beckoning to the gang on the corner of the street, with a very arrogant expression.
Dare to come to Shiqu City here rampant and domineering, family background in Lizhou is definitely a first-class, at this moment seeing Fu Feng rampant, directly exploded the pot, led by the three young men scolded angrily and raised the horsewhip, shouting to crack the dwarf winter melon, a violent woman directly pulled out the saber and pounced on the horse.
Seeing this, Fu Feng smiled fiercely, his body did not move, but he slowly unsheathed the long knife at his waist, and when the woman was about to jump up two feet away from him, the natal weapon black unicorn knife was suddenly thrown up, and the woman who jumped above his head from the horse and the war horse were split in half, and the horse corpse and the human corpse were slowly separated in mid-air, and fell to the ground behind him together with the internal organs and flesh, splashing in all directions.
Seeing that their companions were killed, those gentlemen became more and more arrogant, and they all scolded angrily, and a few of them directly took out a whistle arrow in their arms, and they were about to call Hu Cong to come.
These angry and corrupt disciples didn't realize that not a single drop of blood splashed after the woman's corpse fell to the ground did not fall to the three people behind the knife-out man, and the bright red like a waterfall was blocked by an invisible qi machine at the moment when it just rushed up, dyeing an extremely round half-arc on the ground.
As the sentry arrows rushed up, bursts of thunderous roars suddenly sounded all over the city, and as soon as Yao Ruoyu and the others, who had been in battle for a long time, heard it, they knew that at least five hundred elite iron horsemen would only have a movement if they marched forward in formation.
Sure enough, the four of them didn't wait for a while, and several cavalry teams poured out of various alleys, forming an array behind those gentlemen, Cai Xudong poked his head and counted, suddenly clapped his hands, and sighed that it was really five hundred.
Seeing that this group of strangers dared to be so arrogant, a young man with a fat and swollen body like a pig panted and took off his mink hat and threw it to the ground, howling in Jurchen language, and several generals who led the team immediately looked at him fiercely, and with a wave of his hand, he rushed here with five hundred cavalry behind him.
The people of the Jin Kingdom crisscross China with their equestrian skills, and the five hundred Lizhou Iron Cavalry are certainly not the top cavalry, but in terms of selfishness, they can boast that they can deal with twice the enemy army of all non-Jin countries, and at this moment there are only four people on the opposite side, and they are only twenty-five or sixteen years old, could it be that they can be the generals of the Five Realms like a few big men in Lizhou?
At the same time, seeing the five hundred iron horsemen galloping towards him, Fu Feng suddenly grinned, and the true qi turned around for several weeks, and suddenly he didn't enter his right foot all the way, and he raised his leg and fell down with a heavy foot.
Suddenly, layers of air waves rose from the ground, spreading all the way forward along the street from the foot of Fu Feng, but where the air waves reached, the dust surged up and condensed into bricks, carved tiger stripes, and the tiger stripes dust bricks were illusory but condensed, and the blocks were attached to the ground, and the blocks were arrayed, just like Fu Feng shook out the five hundred floor tiles hidden in the ground with one foot.
"Rock Tiger Jue" - [Tiger Stripes Pumice Stone]!
This was originally a move created by the soldiers who practiced the "Rock Tiger Jue" in the past in order to deal with the cavalry, condensing the dust as a roadblock, if it was a few against a few, these floor tiles were enough to deal a huge blow to the cavalry who were running at full strength.
However, when Fu Feng deduced the "Rock Tiger Jue" to the level of a fifth-class general, this [Tiger Striped Pumice Stone], which was originally just a single one, also became a group battle secret technique, and with his current strength of the Five Realms and Eight Realms, he summoned a full thousand tiger striped pumice stones with one foot.
The first few horsemen frowned when they saw this, and they couldn't see that the tiger striped dust brick had any mystery, but it was too late to slow down at this moment, so they simply lowered their hearts, increased the speed of the horse by a few points, and each of them carried knives and guns, just waiting to break through these blockades and bricks and slash the stranger to death.
Seeing that the five hundred Lizhou iron horsemen all stepped on the tiger stripe bricks, the corners of Fu Feng's lips hooked a smile, and the meaning of martial arts suddenly rushed up, as far as his mind could see, the tiger stripe bricks all supported the cavalry with people and horses weighing hundreds of pounds above and floated into the air, and when the last row of pumice stones was suspended, all the pumice stones exploded, and for a time the cavalry on the street was not only turned over on their backs, but also flesh and blood.
The first few horsemen who were lucky enough to speed up their horses and not be affected didn't have time to rejoice, and the man in front of him, who had caused the annihilation of five hundred iron cavalry, had already swung his long knife and slashed it down.
This knife is for Fu Feng's [Tiger Roar] that has been pregnant with Yao Ruoyu's method of cultivating the sword for more than a year since he entered the Five Realms!
The tiger roared! The tiger roared!
As the so-called clouds from the dragon and the wind from the tiger, Fu Feng swung out with a knife, and the three hundred zhang wind in front of him suddenly rose, and in an instant it was like a tiger roaring in the mountains and forests, not only making the surrounding houses tremble violently and shaking down countless dust and smoke, but also made several rushing riders and horses were shocked to pieces, and they had already fallen to the ground before they got close.
The gentlemen who did not participate in the charge and escaped the catastrophe saw the scene in front of them, they were all shocked and colorless, turned around and ran, only a few were so frightened that they forgot to move, only to see that behind the billowing smoke caused by the repeated explosions, there was a spiritual light that rolled up four people and four horses, and went straight into the air.