136. The Battle of Xiangyang

"Yue Lin!"

"Come and see!"

"Is this the word 'Liang Shu'?"

Xu Xian looked at the already vague logo in front of him, and asked Yue Zhen.

"It's Liang Shu!"

"This is the manuscript of the Book of Liang compiled by Yao Cha's father and son back then!"

"It looks like it's really real!"

"Sure enough, it's the true handiwork of Yao's father and son!"

But unexpectedly, there was a sound from behind, and then a man took out a book from the wall cage engraved with "Book of Liang" and recognized it in surprise.

In the third year of Emperor Yuan, Emperor Wei was introduced into the city, Emperor Yuan disappeared, Wei plundered the imperial city, burned the palace room, the old site of Jing, and re-camped Liang.

Xu Xian also saw a piece of content in the book.

"Didn't Emperor Liang Yuan rumored to have self-immolated back then?"

"How is it recorded in this manuscript that it is missing?"

"And it is recorded here that it was the Wei army who entered the city to loot the Liang palace room, and later Xiao Jing built the palace on the original site, it seems that after the Wei army entered Jiangling, nothing was left for Xiao Jing who led the wolf into the room?"

"It seems that it is rumored in the world that Emperor Liang Yuan has become a monk, it is really possible!"

"There is no record on it that Emperor Liang Yuan burned the countless books and ancient books!"

"I just don't know if Emperor Liang Yuan's collection of books was burned by the Wei army?"

"After all, this manuscript is from the Sui and Tang dynasties, and it happens to be buried in the mausoleum of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, so it is impossible to forge it!"

"Lu Qing!"

"You help me find it, I want to know the records of Emperor Liang Yuan's books!"

Of course, Xu Xian was most interested in ancient books.

After all, it was once recorded that Emperor Liang Yuan burned 100,000 volumes of books that year, causing countless regrets in later generations, which was naturally extremely regrettable for Xu Xian and other readers.

"Good!"

"In fact, after seeing this manuscript of the Book of Liang, the minister also hopes to have the opportunity to witness the rare books that were rumored to have been burned by Emperor Liang Yuan back then!"

Lu You couldn't help but say.

So, the two of them kept flipping through other manuscripts in the wall cage of the "Book of Liang".

'General Yuwen ordered, soldiers into the room, capture Emperor Liang, take the nationality to return to Chang'an, and then Wei soldiers into the palace, did not hear the emperor, and there was no Liang's ink code, Wei soldiers were angry, so they burned the palace, and burned themselves with Emperor Liang's collection, but Emperor Liang cherished the book as his life, how to burn it! ’

Finally, in a worn-out manuscript, Lu You found a few words.

"This means, does it mean that after the Western Wei general Yu Wentai ordered the army to enter the Liang Palace in Jiangling, he wanted to capture Emperor Liang Yuan, and then obtain the books and classics collected by Emperor Liang Yuan, and transport all these back to Chang'an!"

"As a result, after these Wei troops entered the palace, they didn't see Emperor Liang Yuan, nor did they see any classics!"

"In the end, in a fit of rage, these Wei soldiers burned the palace of Emperor Liang Yuan, and then recorded this incident in the name of Emperor Liang Yuan's own burning of the classics in his possession, and finally self-immolation?"

Xu Xian only understood clearly at this time.

"yes!"

"In this way, Emperor Liang Yuan's book burning is a fraud by the Western Wei army, and we have a chance to recover those ancient books that are rumored to have been burned by Emperor Liang Yuan!"

After Lu You learned about this eternal mystery all of a sudden, he was also excited.

"Since Emperor Liang Yuan's collection of books has not been destroyed, maybe we can find it in this library!"

"Lu Qing, let's look and find together!"

Xu Xian said that he searched everywhere.

Xu Xian and Lu You were obsessed with ancient books all of a sudden, and they didn't know that one day in the cave was a thousand years old in the world.

At this time, on the bank of the Han River, Xiangyang City.

My Fahai was originally upright, slaying demons and demons, and supporting justice, but why is it that now I have run into walls everywhere, have nothing, and finally end up infamy?

Didn't I do all this for fame and fortune, to gain the respect of the people of the world, and to achieve positive results?

But what did I do wrong?

What am I doing wrong again?

What happened to us now?

All this is to blame on that Xu Xian!

It's all to blame for Xu Xian, Bai Suzhen and Xiaoqing!

They forced me to become what I am today!

Why should I accept Heaven's arrangement for everything?

Why do I want to attain positive results, and what is the use of me achieving positive results?

Since God is unkind, then don't blame me for being unjust!

From today onwards, my Fahai is no longer the Fahai I once was, I want to change back to myself, and I want to take revenge from now on!

I want everyone in the world to know that I, Fahai, are the one who rules everything!

Xu Xian, Bai Suzhen, Xiaoqing, including the Dragon Girl, I want to let none of you think about it, don't think about it!

While resting, Fahai suddenly remembered that because he was unwilling to accept Yan Gou's assignment, he went to Yanjing, and after suffering all the humiliation of the Jin people, he left categorically, and he figured out everything during this time.

After all, it was because Fahai figured out these things that he would return to the so-called Wanyan Gou again, return to the position of the national teacher, and invite himself to Xiangyang, a strategic place, to supervise the war.

When Fahai first came to the Yamen, he saw a group of people who were already waiting for him.

"National Teacher!"

"The thief army on the north bank has made frequent moves today, and has also built a large number of river-crossing boats, it seems that they want to attack our Xiangyang City!"

Xiangyang garrison Xu Zheng reported to Fahai.

"You people are so inefficient!"

"Your own division asked you to recruit soldiers, but after you have been recruiting for so long, you have recruited less than 10,000 people!"

"Now we don't have enough troops to take the initiative, but instead make the enemy more powerful and want to attack us!"

"You people are really disappointing and disappointing to your national division!"

Fahai looked furious.

"National Teacher!"

"It's not time to blame anyone!"

"Our top priority is how to resist the attack of the thief army!"

Zhou Ding suggested on the side.

"Yes!"

"It's useless to pursue those!"

"Let's discuss how to deal with this attack of the thief army!"

Fahai's mind is still very clear.

"Since the thief army has built so many ships in a short period of time, they want to attack us!"

"It seems that the thief army has already planned for a long time!"

"In that case, the most important thing we should do is to find a way to destroy the ships of the thieves so that they can't cross the river!"

Xu Zheng suggested first.

"yes!"

"You have to find a way to destroy their ships, they don't have enough strength to cross the river!"

Zhou Ding also followed the suggestion.

"Since you have all agreed to destroy the enemy's ships, do you have a plan, how to destroy them?"

Fahai asked for advice.

"Returning to the country!"

"After all, this ship is made of wood, and in terms of the Five Elements, fire burns wood, so we should find a way to burn the enemy ship with fire!"

Zhou Ding first suggested.

"How can it be so easy to set fire to a ship?"

"After all, the thief army is very cunning, but it won't be like Cao Mengde's iron cable and boat, which was crisscrossed for miles and sent to the door to be burned by Zhuge Liang!"

Xu Zheng first raised doubts.

"yes!"

"In the Battle of Zhuge Liang's Chibi back then, the Cao army ships were burned, but it was the east wind!"

"Jiangling is a plain along the river, there is nothing wrong with borrowing the east wind, we are all mountains in the east and southwest of Xiangyang, how can there be an east wind to borrow?"

"So now that there is no east wind to borrow, and there is no iron cable to use as a target for us, what should we use to burn the enemy ship?"

Zhang Dun also raised doubts.

"Although we don't have an east wind in Xiangyang, there are northwest winds and southwest winds blowing from the Jingxiang Ancient Road in the northwest and south!"

"Now that it is the height of summer, when the southwest wind is coming, we are in the limelight, why can't we take advantage of the southwest wind?"

Zhou Ding continued.

"What Governor Zhou said seems to be right!"

"Now we are on the cusp of the southwest wind, although the wind from us is not big, but it can just blow to Fancheng!"

"It's good for us, and we have to make good use of it!"

Fahai seems to be justified as well.

"It's still the national teacher who has insight!"

"Since the thieves are attacking us, crossing the river must be against the wind!"

"So we don't need to take the initiative to attack the thief ships, we just need to wait until they come, and take advantage of the wind to attack and block them with fire!"

Zhou Ding seemed to be very sure.

"Governor Zhou, don't think it's so simple!"

"Although Xiangyang is in the southwest wind now, it is not every day when the wind comes!"

"The thieves are not fools, won't they choose a windless day to attack us?"

"So I Xu Zheng felt that if I was bent on taking advantage of the wind, it was better to find a way to mobilize enough ships from Ezhou, Jingzhou and other directions as soon as possible!"

"When the time comes, we will have a battle with the thief army, with our experience in water warfare for so many years, why are we afraid of the thief army?"

Xu Zheng seems to disagree with Zhou's countermeasures.

"General Xu, what you think is too simple!"

"If there were enough warships in Jingzhou and Ezhou, they would have been transferred and used by us in Xiangyang a long time ago!"

"Don't you know that in order to resist Yan Liang's southern invasion, the warships in Jingzhou, Ezhou and other places have already been transferred to Jiankang?"

"And Jiankang is also in an emergency now, there is a shortage of warships, compared to Xiangyang, Jiankang is close to Gyeonggi, much more important than us, so there are ships that can be transferred to Xiangyang?"

Zhou Ding refuted Xu Zheng.

"Since you know that there is a shortage of warships, then why didn't you order someone to supervise the construction of warships and strengthen your defenses during this time when you were withdrawing from Xiangyang City!"

"Instead, sit here all day long, fantasizing that the enemy army can withdraw on its own?"

"As an official of the imperial court, you protect the safety of one party, but you don't do practical things and don't prepare, how can you be worthy of a great responsibility?"

Zhang Dun was already resentful of the recent conscription, but he didn't dare to offend the national teacher Fahai, so he could only vent his anger on his body.

"What's wrong?"

"If General Zhang, you really recruited troops effectively and captured enough strong men for the national division, we would have launched a counterattack long ago and recovered Fancheng!"

"Why are you still talking about how to defend Xiangyang?"

Although Zhou Ding reconciled with Xu Zheng and Zhang Dun before, it was also out of Fahai's face, and now he is accused again, where can he stand it.

"Yes!"

"It's really all my fault that Zhang Dun's recruitment is unfavorable!"

"But I, Zhang Dun, want to ask, since the invasion of Yan Liangnan and now, in less than two years, our Great Song Dynasty has been conscripted more than four times!"

"Now that even children who have just turned ten years old have been conscripted into the army, so there are still so many strong men who can go to the front!"

"Do you want me Zhang Dun to arrest those women and children and force them to go to the front to fight?"

Zhang Dun couldn't help it.