Chapter XVII: Before the Great War

King Ming broke the pseudo Shu Zhennan general Li Quan, Xuanwu Gong broke the right guard general Li Fu, and continued to refer to Chengdu. Zhendong General Li Weidu welcomed the temperature drop. Zan Jian to Qianwei, is to know and Wen different ways, also, from Shatou Jinji, than to, Wen has been in Chengdu ten miles of Mo, and the Ming King turned to the army to refuse, Jian Zhong heard the wind and collapsed.

------- excerpt from the introduction

"The sun comes out and the sun is happy,

After picking up the flat Dan Lang Lang and shouting on the hill,

With a Luo'er axe in his hand, he roared,

Don't be afraid of tigers, leopards and jackals.

The cliff of the hanging rock is not uncommon,

Singing the song, the one who was busy chopping wood and shouting was busy chopping wood.

Walked mountain after mountain hey,

This mountain went to that mountain and roared,

As long as we are diligent and hey,

Don't worry about eating, Lang Lang is bright, don't worry about wearing! ”

The one who was singing the mountain song at the top of his voice was Captain Jin Changshui, and Comrade Zeng Hua, who led the Western Expeditionary Army to protect the former army.

Today the sun is shining and the sky is cloudless, and the birds are squeaking and singing in the trees. It's almost March, the grass in the fields is becoming more and more green, and some small flowers are beginning to pull out their buds early to prepare for the upcoming spring (a bit like a primary school essay, who called our Zeng Hua After years of education, there are only these words in his heart to describe spring).

This is a small hill in the south of Chengdu Shiyang Farm, Zeng Hua led Che Yin, Feng Yue, Liu Jin, Zhang Qu, Xu Dang and others to go out, seeing such a refreshing scenery, Zeng Hua couldn't help but feel good, couldn't help but want to sing a song.

Now that he has arrived in Chengdu, Zeng Hua's mind naturally comes up with the eastern Sichuan folk song "The Sun Comes Out and Beams" taught in music class when he was studying, and he can't help but stand there and start singing to this land of abundance.

The crowd next to them listened to this unique slang folk song, and they felt more and more good. Because they were the generals and guards of the surrounding hunters, mountain people, farmers, and soldiers, listening to this simple but beautiful melody, listening to the catchy lyrics, and listening to the plain description of their familiar life, I couldn't help but be stupid.

"Xuping is really good Yaxing! What a wonderful talent, a slang folk song can be so fascinating, I really admire! When Zeng Hua finished singing, everyone was obsessed there, and it took a long time to come back to their senses. Che Yin was the first to come back to his senses, so he was also the first to speak.

"Fortunately, even ah, the song is a song!" Zeng Hua suddenly quoted Cao Cao's favorite sentence to add at the end of his poem to express his feelings.

After finishing speaking, Zeng Hua stood there stunned and looked at the land of Bashu in the distance, flew over Chengdu, passed through Daba Mountain, Qinling, and went north.

"Wuzi, what do you say we won?" After a while, Zeng Hua turned to Che Yin and asked. Che Yin was stopped by Zeng Hua's sudden question, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

"Won? Military master, are you defeating the pseudo-Shu and recovering Yizhou? Che Yin asked hesitantly, trying to figure out what he meant as a military master.

"Even if you win the battle to recover Yizhou? What about the twelve states of the Northland, will they fall into the hands of the Qianghu forever? Even if we recover the twelve states of the Northland in this lifetime, what about those Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Rouran Huns who are still looking around us? Are we still waiting for them to continue to wait for the opportunity to destroy our kingdom and destroy our dynasty again? ”

Che Yin and the others couldn't catch up with Zeng Hua's train of thought, standing there with their mouths open, unable to answer a word.

"Our people work hard here, which is why the Central Plains Flower World has been created. Those who are in the cold and bitter land, the way they covet and admire is to plunder and kill. Only we fed them with blood and wealth, and finally civilized these robbers, so that our Central Plains began a new prosperity, or rather, prepared for the next plunder and killing. ”

Che Yin and the others had already recovered from the shock, the deep meaning of Zeng Hua's words made them suddenly feel an unprecedented heaviness and sullenness, the invasion of the Central Plains by the Xiongnu and the end of the Han Dynasty, and the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty, made them deeply worried.

"What our people are looking for is very simple, just have food and clothing. But when will they be able to sing a song in their hearts without worry, like the one they just sang? In fact, our people don't need to be afraid of jackals and tigers and leopards at all, but they have been controlled by some people as sheep for many years, and their blood has long been cooled by some people. They have almost forgotten what it means to resist, what it means to be bloody, what it means to be dignified and free! ”

Zeng Hua turned around and said meaningfully to Che Yin and the others: "We can no longer get lucky by dedicating our companions, we have knives and guns in our hands, bows and arrows, as long as we have courage, we will not be afraid of any jackals, tigers and leopards." Guts! How do you gain courage? ”

At this time, Zeng Hua seemed to be saying to himself: "Hatred, the hatred left by decades of melee killings is enough to swallow everything, as long as we can ignite this flame." But hatred alone is not enough in this world, we can't just remember hatred, and we can't remember hatred forever, how can we make the people have courage? In the end, Zeng Hua turned to Che Yin and the others and asked.

Poor Che Yin and the others don't even know how to answer the previous question yet, and now this question is even more brain-consuming, how can they be able to answer it for a while?

Seeing that Che Yin and the others were like wood, Zeng Hua couldn't help but shake his head and laughed himself: "What do the people need?" They need catharsis! A catharsis of feelings! When they are most miserable and breathless, give them an excuse and a chance to vent, that is, ask them to kill people and set fires, they can definitely do it very neatly. What's more, there's satisfying their quest for wealth. If others have robbed it, why can't we take wealth from others? Even wolves know that they are united and help each other internally, but they are extremely cruel externally, and we can't even compare to wolves? ”

Speaking to himself here, Zeng Hua suddenly fell silent, standing there as if thinking about a very profound question, while the people next to him did not dare to come out, and they were all sincerely recalling everything they had just heard.

After a long time, Zeng Hua seemed to suddenly understand, laughed, and his expression changed from solemn just now to relaxed.

Seeing such a look, Che Yin and Liu Jin couldn't help but look at each other, and they both raised their sleeves to wipe the sweat on their foreheads. Fortunately, the military master has regained his "sanity" and is no longer "talking nonsense". Fortunately, they are surrounded by their own people, and they don't worry about spreading these words, otherwise I don't know how many old masters and celebrities will be angry to death by these words.

"Lord, I didn't expect you to be so emotional today!" Che Yin said with a sigh of relief.

"I came out for a walk today, and I feel a lot better. In the past two months, I have been running around to fight in the land of Bashu, which not only has made the soldiers suffer, but even I feel nervous and tired. It's rare to steal half a day of leisure today, and suddenly I remembered a lot of things. Let you bear it. Zeng Hua said with a smile.

"Where, I was worried just now that the military lord would be depressed and unhappy for my department to be transferred to the rear army, but I didn't expect that the military lord didn't take this matter to heart at all, but could still have leisure to sing a song. Che admires! Che Yin also said with a smile.

"Wuzi, don't be sour anymore, you don't understand yet. Are you complimenting me or am you hurting my singing badly? Ha ha! Zeng Hua couldn't help laughing again. Che Yin, Liu Jin, Zhang Qu, Xu Dang, Feng Yue and others couldn't help laughing together.

Zeng Hua and others can have time to come out, it's not that Chengdu has already been defeated. In the Baijiachang in front, Huan Wen was reorganizing 6,000 men and horses, preparing to conquer Chengdu in one fell swoop. However, Zeng Hua and the others had time because they had already turned into a rear army, supporting and covering for the army attacking Chengdu.

The Changshui Army became the rear army, and the 6,000 Chinese army led by Huan Wen directly became the front army, this is because everyone agreed that if they continued to fight like this, the Changshui Army could directly fight to Chengdu, and there would be nothing to do with everyone.

Everyone said depressedly, if they knew this, it would have been better to send the Changshui Army to the west, and everyone drank a little wine in Jiangling, and just received the good news in the conversation. But now that everyone has come out, why should they take some credit and go back, otherwise I'm really sorry for the reward from the court in the future.

In addition, after everyone defeated Li Fujun like a Longquan sword cutting tofu the night before, they felt that the pseudo-Shu army was nothing more than that, at most, everyone would cut tofu a few more times, so they all said to the coach Huan Wen, the Changshui Army always let us drink some soup when they eat meat, and we will beat it in Chengdu.

Huan Wen is a good commander who is considerate of his subordinates, and when he heard everyone say this, he let the Changshui Army take a break and led the Chinese army to rush forward.

Zeng Hua knew what Che Yin meant, he stopped laughing, shook his head and said, "We must always give others some chances, otherwise our Changshui Army will be hated by others." Zeng Hua knew in his heart that always taking credit in front of him and not giving others a chance was simply preventing others from being promoted and making a fortune, which was worse than digging up people's ancestral graves. Such a wicked person cannot be done.

"What's more, we have earned enough credit this time, which is enough for Lord Huan to honor his bet with me." Zeng Hua continued.

"Your bet with Lord Huan?" Feng Yue asked strangely, for him, Huan Wen was simply like a heavenly official.

"Yes, Lord Huan had a secret conversation with me before the departure of the Western Expedition, in which I proposed to make a bet with him, if I won the first merit of the Western Expedition, he would keep the covenant and ask for the reward I had agreed before." Zeng Hua said flatly.

"What, you and Lord Huan bet on the reward of the imperial court?" Feng Yue was more and more surprised, in his opinion, the reward of the imperial court was simply a gift from heaven, only if he accepted it with joy, how could he still make a gambling contract to bargain?

But Che Yin didn't think it was strange, with his understanding of Zeng Hua, if he, the military master, did not negotiate the "price" with the commander Huan Wen before the Western Expedition, he would never be so violent, killing from Jiangzhou to Chengdu, invincible. The reaction of those officials and generals who came with him was a few days later, and the great achievement of the Western Expedition was basically covered by the Changshui Army. It's just that it's not very good.

But our protagonist Zeng Hua is "shameless", and he is still there and proudly said: "Our current merits are enough for Lord Huan to go to the court with the confidence to ask for the reward I agreed before, otherwise he would be embarrassed to ask us to transfer from the front army to the rear army." ”

Hearing this, Feng Yue shook twice on the spot and almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, Che Yin next to him helped him. Feng Yue could only sigh in his heart, he really didn't know people, he didn't know people, he didn't know people, he was not ladylike, this was all fate!

Just as Zeng Hua wondered why Feng Yue's face suddenly turned pale, he only heard a shout coming from a distance. Zeng Hua and the others turned their heads to take a look, and found that Tian Feng, the head of the tun on duty, was rushing from a distance, and shouted loudly as he ran: "Report!" Urgent! ”

As soon as he arrived at the foot of the mountain bag, just as Tian Feng was about to climb up, he suddenly accidentally tripped over a lump of dirt under his feet and threw himself forward. But his hands and feet were nimble, and before he could pounce on the ground, he supported his hands and stopped the front fall, hunched over and continued to run forward, adjusting his body shape and posture as he ran, and returning to normal.

Judging from Zeng Hua and the others standing on a high place, they felt that the most promising tun commander of the Changshui Army rushed up the mountain bag with rolling belts.

"What makes the always calm and comfortable Liangcai so flustered? Is there any critical military situation? Zeng Hua and the others are thinking about the same now, and they are all a little uneasy by Tian Feng's performance.

"Report! Report to the military master! Tian Feng ran to Zeng Hua, took two breaths, and then gasped and said: "According to the report of the spies, a pseudo-Shu army of about 10,000 people was found in our southwest more than 20 miles, and it is estimated that it will meet us in the evening. ”

"Is it really a pseudo-Shu army?" Xu Dang and Feng Yue didn't believe their ears, and hurriedly asked almost in unison.

"Yes, you can't be wrong. Under the banner of the former general of pseudo-Shu. ”

After listening to Tian Feng's words, Xu Dang's face showed joy, while Feng Yue's face showed a worried look, but they all turned their eyes to the military master Zeng Hua like everyone else.

I saw Zeng Hua slap his thigh and shouted loudly: "Your uncle, if this person is lucky, he can't stop it." God knew that we had turned to the rear army, and threw 10,000 Shu troops at us from behind. Really ****** take care of us. ”

"Okay, Tian Feng, you quickly send someone to report back to Lord Zhongjun Huan. Let's sum it up and see how we can eat these 10,000 people. It's all at the foot of Chengdu City, but you can't let people blast it out again. A sneak attack is impossible, you have to have some other tricks. Everyone totals, Zhang Qu, you say it first. ”

So, Zeng Hua and others began to discuss countermeasures and prepare to face the more than 10,000 pseudo-Shu troops. In less than a pillar of incense, a detailed plan had been worked out, and everyone immediately rushed to various departments and their respective posts to begin to dispatch troops and horses. Suddenly, the camp of the Changshui Army, which had become the rear army, was full of sound again, and the various departments moved when they heard the wind and quickly assembled, and the commanders of each tun immediately returned to the tuns after receiving the orders from their respective building owners, and immediately led their headquarters to the designated position.

As a result, the stone sheep farm, which was extremely peaceful just now, suddenly became murderous, and frightened the surrounding birds, birds, cats and dogs all walked around.

This Changshui army collided with the 10,000 "Imperial Forest Army" led by Zan Jian, the former general of the puppet Shu. On that day, Zan Jian almost crossed the river west with negative energy, went straight to the south of the Yangtze River, and waited for three days in the western part of Jianwei County.

When the heralds of Wuyang City found this unit, Zan Jian realized how stupid he was, and his intestines immediately turned blue. Although he is arrogant and rude, his loyalty to Li Shi is beyond doubt, and his military talent is still a little stronger, at least much stronger than Li Fu and Li Quan.

By the time Zan Jian led his troops to cross the river from Shatoujin (now south of Xinjin, on the north of the Min River in Pengshan County) to return to the army, Zeng Hua and Huan Wen had already packed up Li Fu and Li Quanye and were marching towards Chengdu.

Zan Jian panicked when he heard the report, and hurriedly urged his subordinates to follow him and rush north desperately. As soon as the order was given, the more than 10,000 "Royal Forest Army" began to panic. These "Imperial Forest Army" are either the children of the official eunuchs in Chengdu, or the children of the big clans, as well as the children of Pingliang recruited in Chengdu, in the final analysis, their roots are in Chengdu. The military order to Bencheng and the rumor of the capture of Chengdu were transmitted to the various departments of the "Imperial Forest Army". While marching, everyone talked a lot, worried about the safety of their families in Chengdu.

As a result, all the way north, the Jin army has not yet caught up, but these pseudo-Shu "royal forest army" are becoming more and more panicked. After chasing for two days, why didn't I see a shadow of the Jin army, did they burn and loot in Chengdu. Although the Li family's court is a rebel minister for the Jin Dynasty, my family is not old, and I can't give the Li family a funeral! As a result, Zan Jian felt that the farther north his subordinates went, the more discouraged the army became. The combat effectiveness of this "Royal Forest Army" was originally inferior to the regular army that was transferred to Fushui, but now the morale of the army is gone, and it is still a fart!

Soon, soon! Zan Jian looked at Chengdu, which he couldn't see in the distance, and muttered in his heart, when he got to the edge of Chengdu, he would know all the results.

In front is Shiyangchang, less than fifteen miles away from Chengdu, but it has not yet met the Jin army. The hearts of the soldiers of the "Royal Forest Army" are getting colder and colder, there is no hope, there is no hope, it seems that the Shu army has captured Chengdu, and their own children have fallen into the hands of others, and many people have begun to secretly calculate.

As soon as the trumpet sounded, the marching "Imperial Foresters" suddenly heard a horn, and then found a huge infantry formation in front of them. This infantry formation is based on a small phalanx of about 30 people, and then the small square array forms a large phalanx, and then several rows of large phalanx are connected into a long infantry line.

The Jin army on the opposite side has bright armor, swords and guns, bows and arrows, and flags fluttering. The entire infantry line was solemn, and there were dense shields in front of them, and the first row of sergeants of the Long Water Army only showed a black helmet and a pair of vigilant eyes behind the shields, as well as the tip of a spear that flashed cold light at the front.

The black armor, the black shield, the silent but like the momentum before the storm, and the most eye-catching five-pointed star flag in the middle, blue and yellow, whirring in the wind. Not to mention those pseudo-Shu soldiers who had already panicked, even their commander Zan Jian was almost desperate.

At this time, an officer came out of the Jin army formation, wearing black armor, riding a southern horse, and slowly came to the middle of the two armies. The contemptuous gaze under the black helmet glanced at the opponent in front of him, and shouted loudly: "I am the second building of the Changshui Army, Chengdu has been captured by our army, you lost dogs, to surrender or not to surrender?" ”

Damn, is it that straightforward? As soon as I came up, I asked people whether to descend or not? Is there such a bull X? But hearing him claim to be the Changshui Army, no wonder he is so rampant. For the current pseudo-Shu soldiers, including Zan Jian and his subordinates, the Changshui Army is simply thunderous for them, and they don't even have a hoard to kill from Jiangzhou to Chengdu. Now if Chengdu was not defeated, how could the Jin army of the Western Expedition be willing to let such a gold medal fighter turn his head to greet him?

At this time, Zhang Qu, who was riding a horse, raised his hand, and the Changshui Army suddenly slammed the ground with a gun, slapped the shield with a knife, and made a rhythmic sound. To drop or not to fall? ”

The earth-shattering sound of thousands of Changshui Army roaring in unison suddenly made the liver and gall of the pseudo-Shu "Royal Forest Army" soldiers cracked, and they began to talk to each other, passing on their fears and opinions to each other.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of trumpets and drums behind the "Royal Forest Army", as well as the earth-shattering shouts of killing. It didn't take long for panic to spread from behind, and someone shouted as they ran: "Chengdu is broken, we are surrounded!" Panic spread like a contagion, and all the "Guards" made their choice at that moment. The front army laid down their weapons and surrendered to the Changshui army, but the rear army began to bomb the camp, and thousands of Shu troops ran around, panicking, and finally slowly quieted down under the front and rear drive of the Changshui army.

And the coach Zan Jian saw that he couldn't do anything, so he had to hide his face and flee north under the escort of dozens of personal soldiers, and ran to Chengdu.

On the one hand, Zhang Qu commanded the second and third buildings in front and cooperated with the first building in the ambush behind to bring together nearly 10,000 Shu army prisoners, but on the other hand, he shook his head suddenly: "This battle is fought." ”

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