The devil is coming

Chapter 780 Crisis, leverage
"Crazy, crazy, crazy!"
Gou Moli roared in a low voice in the military tent.
The commander's military order has been issued, leaving aside the soldiers and horses taken away by Gongsun Zhi and Gong Wang who ran to catch the "tortoise", the other ministries are already preparing quickly.
Different from the previous preparation, this one meant to start marching immediately.
As a real "high-level" figure, Gou Moli naturally received the notice, and then he immediately lost his composure, but even in his own military tent, he did not dare to raise his voice and shout.
After venting,
The former Savage King washed his face,
Then he carefully arranged his clothes, walked out of the tent, faced the direction of the handsome tent, and sighed heavily.
OK, OK, OK,
Your family wealth, your family property, you can waste it as much as you like.
Doggy,
The worst case scenario would be to open an inn and sleep in a stable after being so dissipated that you could count the stars with your head raised every night!
Praise the damn stars!
this moment,
Gou Moli had a different understanding of the so-called "opening an inn".
He even wondered if the Lord and those gentlemen had long wanted to open an inn, so they deliberately didn't take their family's wealth seriously, wishing they could do it as soon as possible so that they could fulfill their dream.
that night,
Following the order of the Marquis of Pingxi, Gou Moli led five thousand cavalry as the vanguard, left the town of Nanguan and entered Shanggu County.
……
"Light the lamp, return to camp, return to camp."
The Chu people shouldered their burdens one after another, left the river, and began to return to camp.
Qian Miao, the local county government secretary, felt helpless and angry when he saw the people returning from work.
The common people have a deep-rooted resistance to the corvee work of "breaking ice", and in recent days, this resistance has become more and more obvious, and eventually turned into "passive sabotage".
He originally wanted to urge the county officials to punish him, but the county magistrate named Jing did not allow him to do so.
"grown ups."
"grown ups."
The two clerks saluted Qian Miao, who nodded, opened the curtain, and walked into this simply built house.
In the camp, other places were either shacks or caves. It was very cold and freezing. This house was already considered to be the best place in the camp.
Of course, it's still not as comfortable as the warm ondol in a real county home.
Jing Minren, the magistrate of Xiawei County, was sitting inside making tea.
He added firewood himself, and the tea he burned was not very good. The county magistrate, who was born in the Jing family, although the details of his life were better than the ordinary Chu people who were recruited from the camp, he was really blameless.
After seeing this, Qian Miao was filled with complaints and had nowhere to vent her frustrations, so she could only sit down.
"Come on, have some tea."
Jing Minren brought the cup to Qian Miao.
Qian Miao picked up the tea cup, blew on it, and took two sips. He felt warm immediately.
After the Yan people attacked Chu last time, the foundation of the Chu nobles was severely affected. Next, the regent began to accept the people from Shanyue, and at the same time suppressed the nobles as much as possible to prevent these nobles from making a comeback in local power.
The Jing family was one of the four great nobles of Chu, but the Jing family had always only focused on matters of cultural background, and the family power was not great, so they were able to survive this change and even develop to a certain extent.
It was against this background that Jing Minren took up his post in Xiawei County.
"Sir, the effect of smashing the ice today is only [-]% of what it was at the beginning, and it's even less effective."
"I know." Jing Minren nodded, "I saw it too."
"Sir, the General's Office has issued a strict order that must..."
"The General's Mansion is the General's Mansion, and this county is our own. Xiawei County was also considered a wealthy county in those days, but it was only a few years ago that Qu Zhuguo sent troops to the Jin Dynasty. In the past few years, there have been successive wars. Our county is adjacent to the Wei River, and people have Providing food and labor is the most important thing, and people's livelihood has long been exhausted.
After finally looking forward to a truce between the two countries, who would have thought that last year, the garrisons along the Wei River began to build forts and build banks. The relief from the court was pitiful, but the labor was so heavy that everyone could not breathe.
Now, spring is just around the corner, and my office should have been preparing for spring plowing, but it has been wasted here. On the one hand, the people's power has not been sympathized with, and the spring plowing has been delayed. How should we survive the new year?
Let the common people take a breath, take a breath. "
Qian Miao sighed helplessly after hearing these self-reflective words.
Jing Minren smiled and said, "Brother Qian, do you think I'm being kind to women? Or do you think I'm trying to gain fame?"
"The subordinate dare not."
"There's nothing you dare to do. Since the beginning of winter, just around my Xiawei County and several surrounding counties, there have been incidents of hungry people attacking the county government and gathering in crowds to riot. The people are already overwhelmed.
It’s not that I don’t know about important matters, but it’s about smashing the ice. Brother Qian, I just ask you, do you really think that if all the ice on the Wei River is smashed clean, then the Yan people will really be unable to go south. ?
Is it possible that other Yan people only fight in winter? "
"How much can it cause some trouble for the Yan people?"
"The front port is guarded, and the Yan people are in a stalemate there. The general's office has orders, no, even the general's office has not issued any orders. I, Jing Minren, will definitely mobilize the people in the county to come to help the king. Master Wang resisted the Yan people."
"grown ups……"
"The imperial court is right, and the General's Mansion is right, but are these people wrong? Is this officer wrong? The people's anger has been building up in their hearts for a long time. They can no longer push. If they continue to push, there is no need for the Yan people to call them. Now, we have to fight first."
Qian Miao was speechless.
"Brother Qian, let's have tea."
……
"Putong...Putong...Putong..."
One by one, the barbarian soldiers, almost naked, holding knives in their mouths, holding the bloated sheepskins, began to swim to the other side of the river.
It's very cold in the north of Chu Land at the moment, but everything is actually relative. Just like the Qian people think that the three sides are bitter cold places, but in fact the Yinlang County further north on the three sides is called their "home" by the Yan people. "Little Jiangnan".
In the same way, Chu people think that the current season is bitingly cold, but for the savages who grew up in the snowy fields across Jin, this climate is really not a problem.
General Nian can take advantage of the footpath of a certain mountain tribe to launch a large-scale attack around the back, and Pingxi Hou Mansion can also use the cold-resistant ability of his savages to help the Chu Kingdom perform a winter swim.
The blind man stood on the shore and looked at this scene, feeling really emotional. Human beings have the strongest ability to adapt.
For those winter swimming enthusiasts of later generations, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is already a big deal to put on underpants and jump into the water with icy debris, but it must be understood that the emotions that burst out due to survival in the harsh natural environment Patience is truly terrifying.
"Don't you have anything else to do?"
Gou Moli stood beside the blind man helplessly.
"There's a war, what else can I do? There's no need for logistics in this war. Don't worry, you do your thing. I'll just watch from the side and learn a little bit from you."
"Where are the ship's planks?" Gou Moli asked.
"It has been prepared for a long time." The blind man replied.
Gou Moli twisted his neck and said: "It's not difficult to cross the river, and it's not difficult to kill them, but the most difficult part is that when we crossed the Wei River to the west, we encountered a blockade.
Once the army is delayed, we will be stranded in Chu State on the basis of self-isolation of logistics, just like me when the Lord captured Xue Customs. "
"This is the worst-case scenario after all, isn't it?"
"Go, go, go."
Gou Moli didn't want to talk anymore.
At this moment, the first batch of savages who lurked and swam past had already landed.
The Wei River is too long, covering most of Shanggu County. Unless the Chu people are really determined to build the Great Wall here at all costs, they will not be able to defend it in all directions.
The value of the defense line is that you can either stay and grind out the nails and fight a war of attrition, or you can make a surprise attack and after passing through, I will cut off your retreat and become a lone army.
Therefore, it is not difficult to simply want to get over it, but it is always easier to do it without paying attention to other things.
The checkpoint on the other side was cleared, and the savages who came ashore later began to raise their guard. At the same time, the small boats that had been hidden were pulled out of their hiding places.
The Hou Mansion has never established its own navy, because it is too luxurious. In terms of money, it is easier to negotiate, but building a navy requires a lot of manpower. The Hou Mansion does not have that much energy, so it can only put it aside first.
But when he attacked Chu in the early years, he actually gained a lot. The blind man knew how to make a living, so he opened up a place to store it early.
No maintenance has been done, and no one uses them for training. Now is the time to take them out and use them as materials for building pontoon bridges.
The simple pontoon bridge was quickly built. Before dawn, Gou Moli and the blind man had reached the other side. The subsequent construction work was still in progress. Gou Moli ordered a few soldiers and horses to swim upstream and downstream, swallowing up nearby Those checkpoints, try to delay the Chu people to learn what's going on here.
When the sun just rose, the follow-up troops and horses set off, and the flag of Marquis Pingxi was also there. The pontoon bridge began to be expanded and consolidated to provide more troops and horses to cross the river at a faster speed.
Gou Moli looked around at the savage soldiers who had built a pontoon bridge overnight and hurriedly crossed the river.
shouted:
“Don’t you want your mother-in-law to have to wait at the end of the line to worship Buddha next time?”
The savages all around looked at Gou Moli.
"Do you want yourself and your family to truly be a human being in Fengxin City?"
The savages stood up one after another.
These barbarians were not temporarily transferred from outside Xueguan Pass, but were trained and cultivated by Gou Moli himself.
Gou Moli raised his whip and struck it in the air.
shouted;
“I know you are thirsty, tired, and sleepy;
But since you want to be a human being, you must first learn to be an animal!
Heed my orders,
Put on your armor and mount your horse,
Follow me forward,
Open the way for the army! "
The significance of the vanguard army is to build roads across mountains and build bridges over water. The bridge has been built, and it is time to open the road below.
……
The Yan people are coming,
Yes,
The Yan people are coming.
Because the purpose of the Yan people this time was to cross the Wei River and head west, Xiawei County was the first to bear the brunt.
There is no talk of those who defend the city or not. The civilians, government officials, and rural soldiers are actually in camps outside the county town.
When the Yan army and Yan people rushed in, the entire camp was almost unable to put up any effective resistance and collapsed at the first touch.
When Jing Minren walked out of his house in the camp and saw the wild cavalry wearing Yan Army armor walking across the camp, he didn't show any regret on his face.
He didn’t feel like he had done anything wrong;
In fact, he did nothing wrong. The effect of conquering the people to smash ice in winter was that the savages were a little bit cold and experienced a winter swim. At the same time, it took a whole night to build a pontoon bridge, that's all.
Jing Minren drew his own sword. Chu people like to wear swords, and the scribes of Chu people also have their own swords.
then,
A wildling knight rode past him, swung his saber, and chopped him to the ground. Blood flowed out, and then the horse's hoofs from behind trampled his body.
The chief secretary of Xiawei County got up early in the morning because he urged the peasants to get up and go to work on the river. He was also outside the camp. When he saw the wild soldiers and horses rushing towards him, he ran away immediately.
Instead of running away, he ran towards the county seat.
As he ran, he shouted to close the county gate.
then,
An arrow shot into his back from behind. The arrow was very powerful. Master Qian had no armor. He fell to the ground after being hit by the arrow. He held his head high and looked forward;
Before the city gate could close, the wild knights rushed into the city.
Xiawei County was defeated, and the Savage Vanguard Army did not delay. Under Gou Moli's control, they did not even have time to burn, kill, and loot. Instead, they regrouped their troops and continued to advance.
The Yan army's sudden attack caused beacon smoke to rise from all the military strongholds along the Wei River.
The first reaction of the major military strongholds was to gather their troops and horses, stick to the stronghold, and at the same time send messages to the rear to prevent the Yan people from trying to attack Yingdu like last time.
But on the other side, after crossing the river, the main force of the Yan people did not miss the south at all. Instead, they focused on heading west, west, and then west.
The horses' hooves were like thunder, and the wind and clouds were moving, but the Chu people and the Yan people seemed to have reached a strange tacit understanding at this time.
This is not a fight that should be taken for granted because it is not methodical.
In fact, it is more like a grudge match.
One took the lead, the other took the pole, and the bar was up.
……
At the same time, General Nian finally led his troops onto the ship.
The Fan family is very ambitious, and coupled with their familiarity with the smuggling trade routes in the past, they actually want to create their own "Navy Master".
Of course, the "Navy Division" is definitely not qualified, but it has greatly expanded the size of his fleet.
Then, when the Great Chu Navy officially came in, facing this pressure and cooperating with the nails planted by the Fengchao inner guards in the Fan family, two of the Fan family's water strongholds turned against the water and turned into Chu. Human internal response.
There is no doubt that Fan Zhengwen is a hero, and there is no doubt that the Fan family has a profound heritage.
But it is unrealistic to transform a merchant family into a warlord vassal town in just a few years without leaking anything.
The result of the aggressive recruitment of troops and expansion of power was inevitably mixed with a lot of sand. In addition, the Fan family was originally rooted in the Chu region. Although the Heping Xihou Mansion and Jindong were only separated by the Mengshan Mountains, this was the only separation. , many people under the Fan family still think that they are still Chu people, not Yan people.
The ship went down the waterway and docked a few days later.
General Nian used the Shanyue tribe he had personally trained as the central army and gathered the "water bandits" who rebelled against the Fan family as servants. He entered Mengshan and launched an offensive towards the Fan family's rear.
The original Mengshan Mountain, facing north, was the focus of defense and was easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Back then, when Lord Zheng entered Chu for the first time, he walked through it in person. Fortunately, the Fan family acted as internal agents and opened the door for convenience.
Nowadays, because Mengshan is backed by the power of the Yan people, the so-called defense has long been in vain. The Fan family's real energy has long been placed on the south.
Even some people who lost in family struggles and power struggles were placed here to make marginal arrangements.
Therefore,
When General Nian, wearing fire phoenix armor, stood in front of the formation and carried the general's flag behind him, most of the defenders who guarded the "easy to defend but difficult to attack" level either opened the door and surrendered or fled.
The few who were loyal to the Fan family wanted to defend, but the Shanyue soldiers relied on their ability to climb mountains and cliffs and quickly overcame them.
Many copycat bandits in the Mengshan area also came down from the mountain and gathered under the banner of General Nian.
Nian Yao led this "rabble" but high morale troops all the way south.
Fan Zhengwen in Fan City had just received news from Qu Peiluo. The head of the Dugu family personally led the army and pressed forward. Qu Peiluo knew he was outmatched and began to lead his troops to retreat, asking the Fan family for support and assistance.
On the back foot, new news came. The north of Fan City adjacent to Mengshan Mountain was actually equivalent to the old county seat of the Fan family at the foot of Mengshan Mountain. It was attacked by a Chu army of unknown origin.
There, the Fan family's grain, grass, and weapons were stored as a backup when Fan Cheng defended the city. All of a sudden, they were all gone.
The next day,
The news came that Qu Peiluo was defeated and the Dugu family's army was approaching;
In the rear, General Nian's flag was also raised. The old Fan family, who had been deliberately released from there, fled into Fan City and were admitted, spreading the news.
For a time,
Fancheng, which was originally a fortified city but still a fortified city, fell into a state of panic.
In the past two years, with the victory of the Yan people against Chu and the arrival of the princess last year, the Fan family created a lively atmosphere. It was like being poured down with a basin of ice water, and it was completely cold.
……
At a time when everyone in the Fan family was in panic,
The ancestors of the Fan family sent someone to call Fan Zhengwen, the head of the Fan family.
In the greenhouse yard, the grass and flowers are still blooming in winter.
The ancestor was older than when Mr. Zheng met him.
She was still holding the small shovel, squatting in front of the flower garden, looking at her direct descendant who walked in, and snorted coldly,
road;
"Okay, now you're satisfied. This has really pushed my Fan family to the point of annihilation. How can you do it?"
Fan Zhengwen was not overwhelmed, nor panicked, nor was he crying with regret.
Instead, he took the initiative to come over, picked up the flower pot, and helped the ancestor water the flowers he had just planted.
laughed:
"Look at what you said, ancestor, my wife and children have been sent to Yanjing a long time ago. What does the entire Fan family being wiped out have to do with me, Fan Zhengwen?"
(End of this chapter)