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Chapter 846 The bleak autumn wind surges up ([-])

In Lin'an in August, the weather began to turn cold, but the warm and tense atmosphere in the city never came down.

The voices for the disaster of the Yasukuni, the promotion of martial arts, and the death of the Northern Expedition have never been lowered. The students of Taizu took to the streets to preach several times a month, and the storytellers in the restaurants and teahouses in the city were all telling bloody and tragic stories. Playing and singing are mostly patriotic poems.Because of this kind of propaganda, the dispute between the North and the South, which once became fierce, gradually softened and was replaced by people's hostility.Writing to Congjun became a trend among scholars for a while, and there were also famous wealthy businessmen and gentry who donated their family property to contribute to the fight against the enemy and defenders, and it became a legend for a while.

After July, the warm atmosphere is still heating up, and time has been pressing down minute by minute with a terrifying aura.In the past month, in the appeal of His Royal Highness the Prince, several armies of the Wu Dynasty have arrived on the front line one after another, and are ready to fight the Jurchen to the death. It came, and what followed was the war between the southwest and the banks of the Yellow River, which finally started.

Qin Hui didn't have any excitement about the fact that these things had finally arrived. What was pressing on his back was just an incomparable pressure.Compared to his aggressive activities half a year ago and in recent months, everything is out of control these days.

As a member of the Privy Council today, Qin Hui nominally has the highest military authority in Nanwu. However, under the suppression of the Zhou Dynasty's imperial power and the "righteousness" of anti-Jin, Qin Hui is limited in what he can do.A few months ago, riding the anger and fear caused by the black flag army capturing Liu Yu and throwing the black pot at the Wu Dynasty, Qin Hui did his best to implement the plan he had been planning for years: try his best to smash the black flag, Use a sword sharpened with a black flag, Mizuma.If the situation is good, it may be able to kill a bloody way.

The Jianshuo Emperor Zhou Yong, who was frightened by the actions of the black flag, agreed to the plan for a time, and the eldest princess Zhou Pei also stood by his side for a time. However, the whole plan was hindered in the implementation process soon after.The lobbying of some of the troops who had privately exchanged with the black flag was not a big deal, but the sudden hesitation of Zhou Yong's will made Qin Hui feel powerful.In the end, Qin Hui was stunned by the result that the [-] Wuxiang army was ordered to storm the southwest. During this period, he almost mobilized the power of the entire court. In the end, Zhou Yong's hesitant attitude made him fall short.

The Black Banner Army has resisted the repeated attacks of millions of troops in the northwest, and even defeated the millions of Qi troops. What is the use of 10 people?If you can't do your best, you might as well not do it!
He was puzzled by the change in Zhou Yong's attitude - although Zhou Yong was originally an indecisive person - at first he thought it was Prince Jun Wu who secretly lobbied, but later found out that the key point came from the palace of the eldest princess. .Zhou Pei, who was once furious with the black flag, finally gave his father a very indifferent speech.

"...Ning Yi once killed the late emperor Zhou Zhe in Bianliang, and then captured Liu Yu in the palace. If he really ignores the threat of the Jin Kingdom and goes all out to crusade, when Ning Yi is desperate, how will his father's safety be in danger?"

The three parties contended that the Wu Dynasty wanted to destroy the black flag first, and then control the Jurchen. This was originally a very controversial strategy. Regardless of other arguments, what the eldest princess really moved Zhou Yong was probably such a remark.You are making Ning Yi anxious, is the palace in Lin'an really safe?And with Zhou Yong's timid and fearful personality, he actually took it for granted.On the one hand, he did not dare to push the black flag to the extreme. On the other hand, he wanted to separate the troops that were originally privately granted and received from the black flag. In the end, the entire strategy fell on Lu Qiaoshan of the Wuxiang army.

The plan related to the black flag has indeed turned into a beating on many armies. After it was implemented, Qin Hui also advanced the order to clean up the discipline of each army. However, this is just a rectification that is better than nothing.For several months, Qin Hui has been trying to contribute to the war in the southwest, such as deploying two more armies, adding at least 30 more people, in order to firmly suppress the black flag.However, Prince Junwu led the anti-golden righteousness, strongly promoted the northern defense, and refused to excessive internal friction in the southwest. At the end of July, when the news of the official war in the southwest came, Qin Hui knew that the opportunity had been missed.

During this period of time, the actions of the imperial court have not been without results.Due to the separation from the southwest and the beating of various armies, the authority of the center has increased, and the prince and the eldest princess have tried to ease the tension between the north and the south, at least in the Jiangnan area, due to the pressure of the coming of the Jurchen. huge effect.The eldest princess Zhou Pei and the prince Junwu are doing their best to strengthen the Wu Dynasty itself. For this matter, Qin Hui has also negotiated with Zhou Pei several times, but the progress is not great.

This is also the collision of ideas between the Wu Dynasty and the Jurchen during the more than ten years of war, humiliation, and reflection.The literary style of the Wu Dynasty was prosperous. At one time, it was too much about strategy and change. After more than ten years of beatings, more and more people realized that only their own strength is everything. These people are even more looking forward to the miracles created by unyielding strength. , It is not until the last minute that you should borrow as little foreign objects as possible.

Prince Junwu is young and vigorous. This idea is the most obvious. Compared with the excessive use of external strategies, he values ​​internal unity and the strength of the people from the south and the north gathered together under the banner of the Wu Dynasty. The strategy of hitting the black flag and then hitting the Jurchen is also the most disgusting.The eldest princess Zhou Pei was able to understand reality at first. She was not a staunch North-South fusion faction. She was cleaning up a mess for her younger brother most of the time. Many times, she could coordinate better with people who understood reality better. After the incident, she seems to have changed in this direction too.

Although the black flag is taken first, and the Queen of the Queen is also considered a kind of breaking the boat, Zhou Pei has already begun to subconsciously reject the breaking of the boat when his own strength is not enough.During several discussions, Qin Hui realized that she also hated the black flag in the southwest, but what she hated even more was the weakness and disunity within the Wu Dynasty, so the strategy of the southwest was reduced by her to beating and purging the army. , Jurchen's pressure was directed by her to the north-south contradiction within Mi Ping.If it was in the past, Qin Hui would have nodded for her.

But time is running out.

In a few months, Qin Hui had half a head of white hair on his head, and his whole body suddenly lost weight.On the one hand, there is worry in his heart, and on the other hand, the political disputes in the court are never calm.After the southwest strategy was dragged into four dissimilarities, the impeachment of Qin Hui's family from the DPRK and the central government also appeared one after another, and there were people who came to Qin Hui's southwest strategy with various ideas.At this time, Qin Hui, although he had quite a position in Zhou Yong's heart, was still inferior to Cai Jing and Tong Guan of the past.When the news came that the Wuxiang army in the southwest had entered Liangshan, he wrote a book, confessed his sins, and resigned from office.

Zhou Yong refused to accept his resignation and immediately dismissed it.As a father, he certainly believes and supports his dedicated son in various matters, but at the same time, as the emperor, Zhou Yong also trusts Qin Hui's stable character. If his son is to fight the enemy on the front line, he must have someone at the back who can be trusted. The minister stands up.Therefore, Qin Hui's document was handed in, but Zhou Yong scolded him and dismissed it.

Qin Hui resigned for the second time. Although the Southwest strategy has changed, it was proposed by him at first. Now it seems that Luqiao Mountain will be defeated, and the situation in the Southwest will deteriorate soon. He must take responsibility.Zhou Yong was furious at his frustrating words in the court hall, and privately comforted Qin Hui for a while, because at the same time the resignation note was uploaded, news from the Southwest came again. On 26, Lu Qiaoshan's army was attacked head-on by tens of thousands of black flags in the area of ​​Xiufeng pass in Liangshan. More than 7 people under Chen Yuguang were defeated by one blow, and the defeated troops scattered into Liangshan.Then the [-] people in Luqiaoshan's main formation were attacked and divided by the Black Banner Army, and Luqiaoshan was defended by the mountains, dragging the war to a stalemate.

The situation in the Southwest took a turn for the worse on the fourth day after entering the mountain. Qin Hui's foresight saved him a lot of face. On this day, many colleagues came to comfort and save him.Some people also said that Lu Qiaoshan was a smart man and a powerful soldier. He was caught off guard after being attacked by the black flag, but he finally stabilized his position. As long as the strategy was adjusted in time, the situation in Liangshan would not be turned around.Qin Hui just shook his head and sighed.

After sending his colleagues away from the court, his old wife, Mrs. Wang, came to comfort him, and Qin Hui sighed: "More than ten years ago, the mood of the first right minister, Prince Siyuan, may be similar to that of the husband now. Unhappy things in the world, Nine times out of ten, even if you have the heart of boxing, how can you defeat the repetition of the above?"

The Wang family was silent for a while: "The brothers and children in the clan are all outside. If the master retires, he should tell them."

"Retirement, easier said than done? In 81, there was no home for three thousand miles away, and I was alone in the world, looking at Shenzhou and crying..." Qin Hui shook his head with a smile, and what he read in his mouth was Cai Jing's desperate poem, "Golden Palace has paid homage to the Prime Minister for five times, and Yutang has celebrated hemp for ten times. Reminiscing about the prosperity of the past, it has been turned into a dream here... Now it has been turned into a dream, Madam. Cai Yuanchang has been in power for decades, and one person is under ten thousand people. In the end, I was starved to death alive."

When the Jurchen went south for the second time, Cai Jing was demoted to the south. He was No. 1 in the imperial court for decades. The Wu Dynasty collapsed, and most of the crimes were placed on him. The 80-year-old Cai Jing traveled all the way south, but couldn't buy rice with money, and eventually starved to death at Chongjiao Temple in Tanzhou.For more than ten years, the outside world has said that he has done a lot of evil, which has aroused the disgust of the common people, so he can't buy food even if he has money, highlighting the loyalty of the world. In fact, how can the common people have such perceptive eyes?

Back then, when Cai Jingtong was in the front, most of the party disputes in the court were attended by two people. Even though Qin Hui was stable all the way, he was not a standout after all.Now, he is the leader of a faction. His clansmen, disciples, and officials in the DPRK and China have to rely on food.

"However, ma'am, don't worry." After a moment of silence, Qin Hui waved his hand, "At least this time, don't worry, Your Majesty is ashamed of me. This time in the southwest, I have drawn my husband's bottom line, and finally stabilized the situation and won't follow Cai Jing's footsteps. But the responsibility still has to be shouldered. This responsibility is for the sake of Your Majesty. To suffer a loss is to take advantage of it. Those people outside don’t need to pay attention. The old man admits the punishment and makes them beaten. The world is a matter of…”

He paused: "...It was all broken by some ignorant children!"

That night, the lights in the capital city of Lin'an were brightly lit, and the surging undercurrent was hidden in the bustling scene, still appearing ambiguous and vague.

In Liangshan, southwest of China, on the sixth day after the war, explosions sounded in the ravine after nightfall. In the foothills in the distance, there were layer by layer camps built by the Wuxiang army. Outside the camp, the torches were not dense, and the garrison The sharpshooter hid behind the wooden wall, quietly daring not to make a sound.

The woodland opposite the camp was dark, and at some point, a subtle voice came out in the darkness: "Cripple, how is it?"

"Don't worry, see the big one..." The young man in the tree, with a long musket that was almost taller than a person, was cruising the distant camp through the telescope. This is Yuwen Feidu, who is following Ning Yi, with a lame leg.Since he was injured in the leg, he has been practicing archery hard. Later, he made a breakthrough in musket technology. With the advancement of Ning Yi, a group of people in the Huaxia Army were selected to practice musket, and Yuwen Feidu was also one of them.

In the R&D department of the three counties in the southwest, although the musket has been manufactured, the requirements for the steel are still very high. On the other hand, the machine tools and rifling have only just started.At this time, Ning Yi gathered the research and development capabilities of the entire Huaxia Army and came up with a small number of long-range muskets and telescopes. Although these muskets can reach far, the performance of each one is still uneven, and it is even affected by each special projectile. The effect of the difference, the shooting effect is slightly different.But even if the accuracy at long distances is not high, relying on a rather spiritual shooter like Yuwen Feidu is still a strategic advantage that can be relied on in many cases.

"Don't shoot indiscriminately." After laying mines in the hidden place under the tree, Xiao Hei, his partner, raised a telescope and said in a low voice, "Actually, as I see it, you lame gun is a waste to take out now. It's not very accurate to fight a few scumbags at a time, so people are on guard. You said that if you take this to the north and kill Wanyan Zonghan with one shot, it will be very exciting."

"The scenery should be long-term... The teacher said that fighting will promote technological progress. Now this thing, only one shot after three shots from a hundred meters away, and each shot can't be used for too long. It's just a place like this to get familiar with it. , I can think more about how to improve it when I go back. Hehe, in the future, if I hit someone within [-] feet, everyone will have to call me Dad. Catch one."

Yuwen Feidu's voice finally fell, and he pulled the trigger. In the night, the fire suddenly burst into flames, and the tree trunk moved. Yuwen Feidu descended the tree with the long gun barrel like a monkey. There was a commotion in the opposite camp. .Xiao Hei scolded under the tree in a low voice: "Fuck your mother, my mother, I told you to be more careful, are you sure it's a big head?"

"Looks like I've been waiting all night."

"Did that hit?"

"I don't know, I didn't see clearly, I left."

"Go over there, go over there, you cripple want to be bombed to death."

"You are a black heart and a black heart. If you don't have anything to do, you will have retribution sooner or later."

The two of them messed around with each other, and hurriedly left along the dark foothills. They didn't run far, and there was a sudden bang in the place where they were hiding, and the light bloomed in the woods. It was probably the scout who touched the opposite side. Touched the trip thunder left by Xiao Hei.The two smiled at each other and walked towards the camp of the Huaxia Army on the other side of the mountain.

On the second day of August, the sixth day of the battle in Xiaoliangshan, the battle was still going on. It was said to be a stalemate, but it was more like a restraint of the Huaxia Army's scruples about war damage.Except for July 26th and 27th, when the entire Wuxiang army was divided and devoured to the extreme, when Lu Qiaoshan shrank the army and started a comprehensive defense, the Huaxia army's offensive became restrained and methodical.

The so-called restraint means that the Huaxia Army uses its superior troops to pull camps one by one every day, harass them at night, lay mines on the mountain roads, and never launch a large-scale storm.

In the past ten or even twenty years, the Wu Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom have all entered the sunset state, and will be raging.Starting from Chuhedian, Wanyan Aguda led 700 men to defeat 2 Liao soldiers, and then to Dagang, where 70 people chased and killed [-] people. The myth of winning more with less has never stopped.Jurchen's first southern expedition, tens of thousands of troops under the city of Bianliang defeated the army of millions of kings, the second southern expedition broke Bianliang, and the third went all the way to the south of the Yangtze River. All the armies of the Wu Dynasty were defeated like mountains.And Black Flag also overthrew Daqi's millions of people successively in Xiaocanghe.

But it has to be admitted that when the quality of the soldiers reaches a certain level, the defeat on the battlefield can be adjusted in time, and the situation of the war cannot be turned into a bead curtain, and the situation of the war is not as simple as solving the problem in one go.In the past few years, the Wuxiang Army has strictly rectified and the military law is extremely strict. After the defeat on the first day, Lu Qiaoshan quickly changed his strategy and ordered the army to continuously build fortifications. The intensity of the attack slowed down. At this time, the 3 people led by Chen Yuguang and others were defeated and dispersed, and only [-] people remained in the entire Luqiaoshan formation.

After a few days, the Huaxia Army saw the weakness of the defense of the Zhunwuxiang Army. Every day, a camp of several thousand people was set up. Lu Qiaoshan worked hard to manage the defense, and constantly gathered the defeated soldiers. Only then did the situation stabilize a little. .But Lu Qiaoshan also understood that the reason why the Huaxia Army did not make a strong attack did not mean that they did not have the ability to make a strong attack. It was just that the Huaxia Army was constantly destroying the will of the Wuxiang Army and minimizing the resistance.For several years in the southwest of the army, Lu Qiaoshan thought he had done his best. The current Wuxiang army has completely changed from the original group of soldiers. It is also because of this that he was able to have some confidence and marched into Liangshan.

In his original imagination, even if Wu Xiang's army lost to the black flag, at least it would let the opponent see Wu Chao's will to work hard and learn from the pain, and it would be able to cause enough trouble for the opponent.Unexpectedly, on July 26, the Huaxia Army's head-on blow would be so fierce. Chen Yuguang's [-] troops maintained the most steadfast defense, but they were struck by the [-] Huaxia Army's troops in front of Luqiao Mountain. collapse, defeat.The [-] troops counterattacked with all their strength, and under the resistance of less than [-] people, the entire afternoon, until the opposite forest was full of smoke and blood flowed into rivers, they could not cross the Xiufeng pass.

This was a real blow to the head. After that, the restraint of the Huaxia Army was nothing but the ruthlessness and stinginess of Ning Liheng.The entry of the [-] army into the mountain is like throwing directly into the mouth of the giant beast and being swallowed step by step. Now it is difficult to turn around and go back.

It was early in the morning, and the fire in the central army tent was still alive. Lu Qiaoshan, who had a bandage on his forehead, was writing a book under the light, recording the things about the Huaxia military discovered in this war:

... the black flag iron cannon is fierce, it can be seen that in the past transaction, the iron cannon sold to our side was not the best.The guns used by the black flag in this battle have a range of about ten to twenty steps better than ours. I attacked with my elite troops and captured two of the opponent's useless guns. I hope everyone in the rear can restore them...

... its soldiers cooperated tacitly and fought with high spirits, far superior to ours and difficult to resist.Or the people he faced this time were all veterans of the opponent's Northwest War.Now that the iron cannon is born, the many tactics of the past are no longer safe. It is difficult for the infantry to form a front, and the soldiers who cannot cooperate with each other tacitly may withdraw from the future battle...

...and the stun guns used by the Black Flag soldiers on the battlefield are elusive and hard to resist.According to reports by some sergeants, it is suspected that he has several burst guns, and the battlefield can be as far as a hundred feet, so we must pay close attention...

... Now I see that the method of checking things is used in battle formations, and it really has the effect of ghosts and gods. After that, there will be more novel things in the battle field, and those who are exhausted will be able to take the lead.We should be exhausted by the truth, and strive to catch up...

Mosquitoes were chirping in the night, the flames were blazing brightly, and there were continuous and subtle noises. Lu Qiaoshan had not rested for several days, and his face was pale, but his eyes were in the writing, and there was never any rashness, trying to preserve the experience of the fiasco of the Wuxiang army. Send it out, be wary of others.Soon, a soldier came to report that the leader of the Mangshan Department, Lang Ge, was brought back injured.After Lu Qiaoshan heard it, he continued to write and ignored it.

The camps where tens of thousands of people are stationed, in Xiaoliang Mountain, stretch one by one with campfires.The campfire was mighty, from a distance, but it looked like the fire of the setting sun, and it was about to go out in this big mountain.

After dawn, on the Huaxia Army's side, an envoy came to the front of the Wuxiang Army's camp and asked to meet Lu Qiaoshan.Hearing that the black flag messenger was coming, Brother Lang, who was covered in injuries, also brought a bandage all over to the camp, gnashing his teeth.

The envoy was more than [-] years old and gritted his teeth even more than Brother Lang: "I am Su Wenfang's cousin Su Wenyu, and I came here this time to represent Mr. Ning and show you a way out. Of course, you can arrest me and torture me. Put it back again, like this, when you die... I have a better conscience."

As a messenger, his words are bad, his face is full of dissatisfaction, and he looks like you better not talk to me, which is clearly a clumsy blackmail method in the negotiation.It made Lu Qiaoshan's face gloomy for a while.Brother Lang was the most agile. He held his breath and said over there: "You...cough, go back and tell Ning Yi...cough..."

Su Wenyu glanced at him: "Who are you, go to hell, fuck your mother!" He treated death like a home, full of swear words.

　Well, happy Dragon Boat Festival.

　
(End of this chapter)