In December of the second year of Yongyuan, King Ming was the captain of Jin Changshui, and the former army went west to Jiangzhou. Ding Chou, dived across the river, attacked Jiangzhou at night, and pulled it out. Ding Mao, Xuanwu Gongjiang Prefecture set up a banquet to celebrate, happy until late at night. From time to time, there is a bright moon reflecting the river, and the waves are lingering. King Ming touched the scene and felt a song, playing the huqin, and his voice was earnest. At the end of the song, everyone was full of tears and sighed.

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"What a moon! It's just a pity that there is no erhu of Zeng Xuping. Yuan Qiao, who was standing on the tower of Jiangzhou City, looked at the bright silver moon on the river not far away, and couldn't help but sigh secretly.

It is also the day of the full moon and the sky, and it is also the same color of the river and the moon, and it is also the south of the city looking at the river upstairs, Huan Gong set up a banquet to celebrate the victory of Jiangzhou, and everyone drank and talked happily until late at night. Later, Zeng Xuping, who was always surprised, suddenly took out a two-stringed piano that he had never seen before, and began to pull out a piece that no one had ever heard before.

Yuan Qiao still felt that the song was still circling in his ears.

First, there was a long sigh, like the cry of a newborn baby, and then like the sigh of an elderly man, through time and space, through the two extremes of life and death, echoing back and forth in people's hearts. The next song is like a spring rushing through a dark, winding, deep, rugged valley, and like the footsteps of the slender man on the edge of the river, although full of suffering and hardship, he is unwavering and continues to move forward.

Yuan Qiao sometimes felt the breeze and the moon, sometimes felt the falling flowers and flowing water, sometimes felt the lightning and thunder, sometimes felt the wind and rain, he always thought that he had read the scriptures, knew history, and saw through the history of life, but on that night, Yuan Qiao realized that his previous knowledge was so shallow, he couldn't use any words to describe this song that he had never heard before, and he also realized that he was so sentimental, and he was easily shocked by a song from the soul and bones.

When Yuan Qiao saw that all the listeners, including Huan Wen, were in tears and couldn't help it, and when he saw Zeng Hua tearfully but laughing passionately to finish the last paragraph, he understood that what he heard was not only an unheard of tune, but also a song that penetrated people's hearts.

That kind of grace, that kind of pestering, that kind of depression, that kind of unrelenting pursuit, and that kind of weeping and complaining, made people see the suffering of the world, and made all the people present suddenly think of the hatred of losing the country and the suffering of partial peace.

"It's a heavenly sound." Yuan Qiao said to Sun Sheng, who was in the army behind him.

Sun Sheng, who was left to assist Yuan Qiao, had the honor to attend the celebration on the 15th of last month, and also heard Zeng Hua's erhu solo concert. , so he replied with great sympathy: "Yes, Lord Yuan." I didn't expect that I would still hear such music in my life, Zeng Qianjun's song Jiang Yingyue, but he exhausted the difficulties in this world. ”

Zeng Hua played the modern erhu song "Erquan Reflecting the Moon".

Zeng Hua's grandfather couldn't read a single big character, but since he returned from Beijing after participating in the 7,000-person conference, he has become the most loyal "Beijing Silk", and he is very fond of Peking Opera. In order to make it easier for him to come to the previous paragraph at any time, Zeng Hua's grandfather made full use of his own resources to let his "smart and clever" children learn erhu and jinghu one by one. In the end, this glorious tradition was accidentally inherited by the more "smart and clever" Zeng Hua. So for a long time, Zeng Hua has been his grandfather's special luthier. Later, his grandfather's Beijing accent was still full of Hunan flavor, but Zeng Hua's erhu level improved by leaps and bounds, which is also the reason why Zeng Hua was able to get a "family heirloom jade pendant" and enter and leave the office of a farmer in Xinjiang at will.

At the celebration banquet, Zeng Hua saw the bright moon rising in the river, and couldn't help but think of his "bizarre life experience", thinking of his relatives who were destined to never see him again, and couldn't help but feel sad from the bottom of his heart. After drinking a few more glasses of water and wine, I saw this picturesque country, but I couldn't help but think of the Chinese nation that has been full of disasters and difficulties, and the dark Central Plains and the struggling remnants there.

Zeng Hua took out the erhu that was successfully produced after many experiments, and then pulled up "Erquan Reflecting the Moon". Hearing the sound of the piano like a cry, Zeng Hua's heart moved with the sound. Maybe there can be glory only after suffering, maybe this is just the darkest dawn of the Chinese nation. Zeng Hua poured deep thoughts and feelings into this song, which he renamed "Jiang Yingyue", the seated figure, the poignant sound of the piano, the bright full moon, and the endless eastward flowing river seemed to be frozen together at that moment. Zeng Hua not only moved himself, but also moved others.

All of them have experienced Zeng Hua's reminiscence of "himself", the nation, and the country's sufferings expressed with the sound of the piano, and their unswerving pursuit of a better tomorrow.

Yuan Qiao and Sun Sheng were still there to see Jing Siqin, but one of them stepped forward and interrupted their thoughts.

"Lord Yuan! According to the spies, a large number of Shu troops entered Deyang (present-day Suiningnan, Sichuan) from Guanghan (present-day Shehongnan, Sichuan). "The report is Qu Hong, the leading captain under Xu Hu, the former pseudo-Shu Jingzhou Thorn Shi. Since Yuan Qiao sent the leaders of Fuling and the Brazilian clans led by Xu Hu to Jiangling to "listen to the imperial court's reward", many local scholars who were previously attached to them have recognized the situation and expressed their loyalty to the imperial court and Yuan Qiao, and Qu Hong was one of the more capable and reused by Yuan Qiao.

With the help of Qu Hong and others, Yuan Qiao quickly mastered Jiangzhou and Brazil County. Because Zeng Hua attacked Gaojiazhuang at night, he was wrong, it was the night attack on Jiangzhou that was like a heavenly soldier descending, and tens of thousands of Jiangzhou Shu soldiers descended with their bosses before they had time to fight. And the grain and grass that Xu Hu had painstakingly hoarded fell into the hands of the Jin army intact.

Therefore, Yuan Qiao can not only select 5,000 more elite Shu troops and his own rear army to form an army of nearly 10,000 people, but also support grain and grass for the westward expeditionary army, and at the same time calmly launch a covering attack in the direction of Chengdu.

The resourceful Yuan Qiao not only brazenly branded the banners of Huan Wen, Zhou Fu, Sima Wuji, Zeng Hua and other heroes on the Jiangzhou City Tower, but also spread the word of surrender in the name of Huan Wen. He first spread the word that he had surrendered to Fuling County (now Pengshui, Chongqing), which was already a lonely city, and then sent people and horses to take the important town of Sanjiang - Dianjiang, and the birthplace of the puppet Shu Li family, Danqu County, soon fell after being cut off.

Yuan Qiao divided the nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses in his hand into several groups, and went out of the heavily guarded north gate of Jiangzhou to Dianjiang during the day, and quietly returned from the river at night, and often changed to different banners, so that the spies of pseudo-Shu did not know how many Jin troops went out of Jiangzhou and entered Dianjiang. As a result, the news reached Chengdu, and it became that the Jin army gathered more than 100,000 troops, intending to besiege Deyang, and then directly entered Chengdu.

Yuan Qiao made such a fuss in Jiangzhou, and Li Shi in Chengdu naturally did not dare to slack off. He transferred the troops at hand from all over the place, gathered more than 50,000 people, and sent them to the front line of Guanghan and Deyang, strictly guarded to the death, and resolutely did not allow the Jin army to go further west, and swore to defend the thousands of miles of the Li family.

"Good!" Yuan Qiao heard Qu Hong's proclamation and immediately recovered from the memories of Huanliang March. He stroked his beard and nodded slightly, and then said to Qu Hong: "Chang Sheng, do you want to make a great contribution?" ”

Qu Hong laughed, hurriedly knelt down on one leg, hugged his fists and said: "It's all up to the adult, the villain goes to the fire, the water comes, and everything follows." ”

"Okay, I'll send you 2,000 men and horses, and immediately go up the Han River (Jialing River) to Anhan (now Nanchong, Sichuan). Now that the puppet Shu forces are all concentrated on the front line of Deyang and Guanghan, they have turned a blind eye to Anhan east of Fushui, and this credit is really a gift from heaven to you. ”

Qu Hong immediately made a bold statement, and An Han had ten Chengdu city heights and would try his best to take it down.

After Qu Hong left, Sun Sheng asked Yuan Qiao: "Lord Yuan, why don't you feint to attack Deyang but divide your troops to take Anhan?" ”

"Pseudo-Shu now thinks that I have tens of thousands of elite soldiers stationed in Jiangzhou and Dianjiang, intending to take Deyang and Guanghan into Chengdu. He has already moved his troops to guard the front line of Fushui, and our purpose of covering the attack on Huangong South Road has also been achieved. But at this critical moment, we must play the show to the end and continue to put pressure on the puppet Shu on the Eastern Front. We only have less than 10,000 soldiers and horses, if we take Deyang directly, even if we feint, we may expose ourselves in front of tens of thousands of Shu troops, so it is better to take the empty Anhan. In this way, first, we can continue to cover up our purpose and strength, and second, we can give the puppet Shu monarchs and ministers a false impression, that is, we have strong troops, and we are ready to calmly clean up the periphery of the eastern front before storming the Fushui line. Yuan Qiao explained with a smile.

"Lord Yuan has a high opinion, so the pressure on Chengdu will be even greater." Sun Sheng stroked his palms and praised.

Yuan Qiao smiled slightly, but turned his head to look to the west, and secretly thought in his heart: "I don't know where Duke Huan has been?" And Zeng Qianjun, what kind of surprise will he bring us this time? ”

At the end of the third year of Yonghe, Li Shi, who was in Chengdu, received the news of the fall of Anhan. Although Li Shi knew that An Han, who only had hundreds of veteran soldiers, basically belonged to the abandoned ones, and if he fell, he would fall, and it was no big deal. But the news revealed by this news made Li Shi and his courtiers realize that the Jin army's onslaught from the east was about to begin.

Since the sudden fall of Jiangzhou, the attention of the military and civilians of Shu has been attracted to the east. Shu State, which has been relatively peaceful for decades, finally ushered in the biggest war, although many people think that the army from the east is the "king division", but the war is ruthless, which the people of Shu have long known from the mouths of the displaced people who poured in from the north. Therefore, the people of Shu were waiting for the coming storm with extremely complicated feelings, and the various families of Shu who had been tightly tied to the Li family responded to the "Emperor" to call troops to prepare for war, while secretly making some other preparations. As the saying goes, a red heart prepares with both hands.

Li Shi didn't know why the Jin army was so high-profile to the west, and it was estimated that he might not dare to fight the big tiger in the north, so he ran to pinch his little rabbit in the west. Lao Tzu is not easy to mess with, Lao Tzu also has 70,000 or 80,000 horses in his hands, and they are not watching cattle and herding pigs! But he knew that the Jin army was menacing this time, first attacking Jiangzhou and Dianjiang, and then gathering large troops, and then sweeping away the lands east of Fushui, and finally storming Fushui and taking Chengdu. Looking at the changes in the situation over the past month or so, the entire strategic deployment of the Jin army is now very clear. After Li Shi figured these things out, his heart became more steady. From Deyang to Chengdu in the east, there are not only Fushui, Niujiashui (Tuojiang) natural hazards, but also countless mountains and mountains, many dangers and passes, plus they have already laid heavy troops, not afraid of how much your Jin army comes, I am afraid that your Jin army will not come.

Just when Li Shi was full of ambition and was ready to deploy a great defense battle of Chengdu to completely crush the Jin army's eastward invasion, a fast horse rushed in from the south gate of Chengdu until the "palace gate".

The ragged herald turned over and dismounted, crawled to the "Zhenghua Gate" with a rolling belt, held a war report in his right hand that could be "comparable" to his clothes, and hissed and shouted: "Emergency military report!" Jiangyang County has fallen! Nan'an has fallen! The Jin army has arrived at the Tsing Yi River! ”

"On the sixteenth night of the first lunar month, the former army of the Jin army beat the banner of the Jiangzhou army and deceived into the county seat of Jiangyang (now Luzhou, Sichuan). Suddenly, the whole city shouted that Captain Jin Changshui had led the former army to recover Jiangyang, the defenders were not in time, they scattered and fled, the county guard Shan Bo was captured, and the county Cheng Gu Hu was martyred, and only escaped to the merit of Cao Shi Zhang. Before dawn, the former army of the Jin army left Jiangyang County, rushed for 500 miles for three days and three nights, and entered Nan'an City before Zhang. Zhang Ping went around the city and didn't go, took the road to Wuyang, and was exhausted after reporting the military situation between the two places. Now the army of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has crossed the Tsing Yi River and settled in Heshui south of Wuyang (now Shuangjiang Town, Pengshan, Sichuan), intending to peep north. Chen Jian reported for the county guard Li Pu! ”

After Li Shi listened to the dirty battle report read by the inner servant, he almost fell to the ground. Is there something wrong with the Jin army? If you don't take the good Fushui Road, why do you want to go up the river and follow the most difficult south road to Chengdu. Wuyang County, Jianwei County, is only more than 200 miles away from Chengdu, and it has already hit under his nose, and Li Shi realized that he was beaten by the Jin army.

Attacking Jiangzhou at night, seizing the Dianjiang River, and attacking the Hanshui (Jialing River) are all in order to make their monarchs and ministers believe that the Jin army will attack Chengdu from the eastern front Fushui, who knows that the Jin army is a group of madmen, especially the former army vanguard, Captain Zeng Hua, who first sneaked across the river, attacked Jiangzhou at night, and then defrauded Jiangyang, rushed to 500 miles to take the Nan'an Qingyi River, and went straight to the hinterland of Chengdu, ****** is really more crazy than a madman! Didn't this Changshui Captain Zeng Hua be a general in charge of Tuntian before? What a peasant, he certainly hasn't read a book of soldiers! There is no common sense of the art of war! How can there be such a war?

Li Shi felt aggrieved for a while, and the 50,000 heavy soldiers he had placed on the front line of Fushui could only give him spiritual support now. Li Shi felt like a fighter ready to attack, everything was ready, just waiting to give his opponent a precise and ruthless black tiger naughty heart. Who knew that the opponent did not follow the routine, and came to a shape-shifting and shadow-changing method, floating to his defenseless back.

Li Shi hated it so much that he couldn't wait to drag the culprit, Shouhuan Wen, the commander of the Jin Army, and Zeng Hua, the pioneer of the Jin Army and the gold medal beater, to the front of the palace, beat him violently, so that he didn't even know his own mother, and then chopped it up and fed it to the dog. But hate to hate, soldiers still have to be sent, you can't watch the Jin army enter Chengdu, and you still run to the gate of the city to shake the small flag and shout "Welcome!" Welcome! Put out the welcome mat! ”

Li Shi immediately "passed the decree" and urgently looted all the troops near Chengdu, totaling more than 25,000 people, and handed them over to his uncle Li Fu, the general of the right guard, his cousin Li Quan, the general of Zhennan, and the former general Zan Jian. In addition, a special envoy was sent to Guanghan to urgently mobilize troops from the Eastern Front into Chengdu, and as many as they could in a short period of time. But Li Shi didn't dare to transfer all the defenders of Fushui back, because he had been "fooled" by the Jin army, who knew that the Jin army in Jianwei County was not a false move? It's better to be careful when you come out to mix!