Spring and Autumn I Am King

In the evening, when he was resting, Qi Wan, a native of Mengcheng, finally had time to untie the circle after circle of Gebu leggings, took off his severely worn linen shoes, and with the help of Paoze, used thorns to pick out the blisters on his feet. The soles of the feet are full of hard calluses.

This kind of leggings that the brigade commander makes everyone play is indeed a useful thing when they are on the road. It can effectively relieve the soreness of the legs. According to the brigade commander, this is something Shennong used when he traveled all over Kyushu. Just re-read it from the history.

Qi Wan looked at the hemp shoes with his big toes showing with some distress. His feet were big, and he had worn out a pair from Daicheng to Taoqiu in the state of Cao, and now the second pair is about to be scrapped.

According to Qi Wan's careful calculation, he has followed the brigade commander for more than 200 miles, which is more than ten times the scope of his activities in the past twenty years. He never thought that he would be so far away from home, and he also left Songjing, went abroad, and saw countless cities and mountains.

When they were stationed in the bustling and prosperous Taoqiu, they were arranged by the brigade commander to build several sites, and then they were driven back to the barracks. Zhao Wuxi was afraid that they would be corrupted by Taoqiu's extravagant life before they experienced the battle... It is idiotic to expect these new soldiers of Song Guo who have never seen the world to be sentinels under the neon lights.

"When the time stipulated in the book is completed in three years, I must come here to have a good time!"

Some people looked at the extravagant and luxurious place in the distance and swallowed, but Qi Wan was worried about the bodies of his grandparents who were far away in Song.

That night, someone wept faintly, and before the cry spread, they were pulled out by the two chiefs and the corps chief and ordered to reprimand them.

"Silence! If it caused a scream, you can't blame it!"

The next day, after learning that there are people in Song who are homesick. Zhao Wuxi immediately improved their meals, each of them ate two pieces of fat in Shangqiu-flavored soup, and asked the **** leaders to play with their soldiers in the camp. The louder the noise, the better.

After two days of relaxation, the new pawn's mood rose again. On the third night. Everyone was ordered to pack their bags, and the carriages also let their horses hold their bags. The entire brigade of more than 700 people quietly left Taoyi and went north along the painted road.

It took only a day and a half to go from Taoyi to Cao Guobian at first. Because of the customs clearance symbols given by Cao Bo, the cities and towns on the road can be unimpeded. After the final repairs and additions in the territory of Cao Kingdom, everyone continued on the road. Enter the territory of Weiguo from the east foot of Lishan Mountain and west of Lei Ze.

"Shun farming in Lishan, pottery in the riverside, fishing in Leize, that's what I'm talking about." The captain told Qi Wan and the others, and Mu Xia's words were also from the conversation between Zhao Wuxi and Zhang Zi. heard.

After entering the territory of Wei Kingdom, the whole brigade began to hide and walk slowly, taking the road that Feng Rin had explored a month ago. Of course, Dangtu Avenue could not be walked, but only a secondary path that could accommodate a car, and bypassed the small towns of Weiguo that were surrounded by low walls and fences. Witnesses encountered along the way are bound and handed over to the guards to be taken away.

Fortunately, this area belongs to the gap between the state of Cao and the state of Wei. In addition, there are robbers raging in the area of ​​Lei Ze and Onozawa, so there are few people. It was the morning of the fourth day after leaving Taoyi. They arrived at the bank of the babbling Pushui, and took a sheltered rest on the back of a small hill on the south side of the river, resting for a whole day in one breath.

The trees here are lush and growing extremely vigorously. Under the shade of the trees and the mound in the back sun, the heat of midsummer has faded, and the water in the Pu River will taste good after it is boiled.

The only creepy thing is that when the soldiers were digging the stove under the mound to cook, they would dig out a white corpse from time to time. startled. The dark skull and eye sockets caused cold sweat on Qi Wan's back, besides. Broken and rusted heads and arrow clusters with rotten wooden poles can be found everywhere.

Just as everyone looked at the skeletons in the pit and guessed endlessly, the **** of the carriage, Chang Cheng Tuan, just happened to bring someone over to distribute new shoes to the pawns.

"Growing up. What is this place?"

In the eyes of the soldiers, Cheng Tuan, who can speak the Song dialect in just two months, and can read and hyphenate words, is also an omniscient figure, so Qi Wan leaned over and asked curiously under the instigation of his fellow Wu Paoze. .

Cheng Tuan, who was black, short and thin, also grew a beard after he came to the Song Kingdom. He looked a little more dignified. He looked up at the tall Qi Wan, and said lightly: "This place is called Chengpu, it is said that There was a big battle over a hundred years ago..."

It turned out to be the case, this was the reason why there were so many corpses and damaged weapons here, and Qi Wan felt a little faint in his heart. Although the life in the lacquer garden was more difficult, it was stable. If he was recruited as a soldier, would he also die in a foreign land and be abandoned in a gully like these people?

Before Qi Wan could think about it, Cheng Tuan solemnly handed him the larger size hemp shoes, and instructed: "This is the last pair distributed on the road this time, don't break it any more, please hurry up. Put it on and be familiar with it, so as not to rub your feet on the road for a while."

...

The soldiers were recuperating, while Zhao Wuxi led Zhang Mengtan and the others on their horses on the ancient battlefield of Chengpu.

A group of people came to a bare hill, either on horseback or by car. From here, across the Pushui River, it was the densely populated Pubei area of ​​Wei; from the south, it was a vast field of Pingchuan.

Zhang Meng talked about being familiar with the history of the ancients. He recalled the descriptions in the history books of Jin and compared the mountain topography here.

Sitting on a horse without a shirt and looking at it, he could even feel the scene of the killing sound that year.

"Zhang Zi, tell me, why did Jin win and Chu lose in the battle of Chengpu?"

Zhang Mengtan said: "In those days, the state of Chu ordered Yin Ziyu to be angry and begged for war, and led his army to attack Taoyi. However, Duke Wen of Jin was tired of the Chu army, so he induced Ziyu to underestimate the enemy and go deeper, so as to fight against Chu decisively on the predetermined battlefield, so he retreated three houses and went to the city. Pu and stop."

"The State of Jin had previously used Hu Yan's strategy to win over Qi and Qin to help, Jin more and Chu less, and the Jin army had won 10%; the king of Chu and Ziyu had a dispute, the people of Chu were divided, and the people of Jin were united. He won another 10%; he deliberately created a situation where the monarch was forced by his ministers, so that Jin soldiers and soldiers humiliated the anger of the ministers and vowed to die. They won another 10%; finally, they led the enemy into their predetermined battlefield. The battle has already been won by 40%.”

"The first day of April. The Chu army entered Chengpu, the second day of the first year. The two sides faced each other. The tired division of the Chu army faced off against the people waiting to work in Jin, and the Jin army won another 10%."

Zhang Mengtan wore a white robe with a cloth crown, held a saber in his hand, pointed to the mountains and rivers here, and tried his best to restore the battle that took place more than a hundred years ago for Zhao Wuxi and the pawns behind him.

"The Jin army is configured as the upper, middle and lower armies; the Chu army has Chen and Cai army as the right army, and the soldiers from Shen and Xi counties as the left army. The main elite of the Dou clan is the middle army. The commander of Jin Xianzhen ordered the first to defeat the other army. The weak Chu You army; and let the Jin Shang army feign retreat, drag firewood and dust behind the battle, and create the illusion that the rear army has retreated, in order to induce the Chu Zuo army to attack, expose the flank, and then return to the army to carry out a joint attack with the central army, They defeated the Chu Zuo army again. So the Jin army won the battle at Chengpu, and Duke Wen of Jin took over the world!"

Zhao Wuxi nodded and said: "Yes, this battle is the most beautiful battle of the Jin army. It used the concentrated superior force to attack its flank. Tactics such as feigning retreat to lure the enemy and attacking together are worth learning."

He also secretly regretted. The **** chiefs under his command are only military officials, and there is no general who can take charge of his own side like Xianzhen.

Wu Xie turned around and said to everyone, "We were expelled from Jin because of the Fan family, which is very similar to Duke Wen of Jin's exile, but I am not like him and waited more than ten years to return to the country. ."

Everyone was awe-inspiring, quietly listening to the commander's words.

"Xianzhen, the commander of the Jin army, once said that he wanted to rescue the troubled and gain power and hegemony, so why does it matter?"

Wu Xie glanced at the faces of Zhang Mengtan, Mu Xia, Su Shouyu, Sang Sheng and others, pointed to Pu Shui in the distance, and raised his voice: "I want to say something today. If you have a place to live, you will be able to return to the country. So here it is!? This campaign is related to our future development, and there must be no mistakes!"

Everyone promised: "Only!"

at this time. The sharp-eyed Xing Ao also pointed at Pu Shui and said, "Gentleman, the boat is here!"

Wu Xie turned his head and saw that on the slowly flowing Pushui, dozens of long and narrow wooden boats without sails were slowly approaching.

He smiled and instructed Xing Ao: "Second and third sons have enough rest, go to the carriage on horseback, let Cheng Tuan lead the artificial boat as the beam, and try to cross the river in the evening!"

...

Pushui is the so-called "Pu Shang in the Mulberry". This river divides into two branches in the ancient city of Huaguo: one passes through Leize on the border of Caowei, and then flows into Dayeze; the other is blocked by Lishan hills. Turning to the northeast, it flows through Weijingchengpu, which is where Zhao Wuxi and others are.

It was almost evening, and there were some lotus flowers blooming in the wetlands by the water. The soldiers slowly came to the riverside, and suddenly they were startled by the sound of frogs.

After they helped the courier and pawns, piece after piece of wooden board was passed to the water's edge through more than 100 hands.

Unlike when he was in the state of Cao, he could blatantly walk the right way and slowly cross the river by boat, but now he is in the territory of the enemy, so how to cross the Pu River is also a problem.

They had tested it before. The river was not deep or shallow, so it might be difficult for the soldiers to flow through it directly.

However, when Feng Rin went north to Lu and Wei a month ago, he had already inquired about the road along the way. He dressed up as a passing merchant, carefully observed the number of boats at several ferry crossings in Pushui and the number of guards guarding them, and recorded them one by one on the brief.

At dawn today, after the branch approached Chengpu, Yu Xi and others scattered ten miles away to be on guard, while Wu Jing and his soldiers raided a ferry with many canoes and few guards, and captured the boatmen and all the ships. come over.

On a relatively narrow river, the canoes slowly drove to the water's edge and stopped one by one, forming a row. The courier soldiers skillfully tied the boats together with hemp ropes, and then put them on wooden boards.

When King Wen of Zhou married Tairen, he once "welcomed to Wei in person and built a boat as a beam", that is, a pontoon bridge. When he was in Shangqiu, Cheng Tuan did not participate in military training, but practiced how to maintain a constant speed of the carriage, how to deal with various roads, and how to change wheels quickly~www.wuxiahere.com~How to build pontoon bridges and simple fortifications , so the action is fairly quick.

After the boat beams were set up, the carriage soldiers and one or two military soldiers escorted the guards along the way, as well as the boatmen captured this time at the rear of the palace. After crossing the river, they will walk slowly, and they will not participate in tomorrow's battle.

Killing the dozens of "burdens" that are entrapped is naturally the easiest, but there are also many troubles. This time Zhao Wuxi was not here to loot the locusts, but wanted to lay a piece of territory control, so he had to pay attention to the image of the army. If he could play the role of "the teacher of benevolence and righteousness", it would be beneficial and harmless for his long-term rule in the future.

After the 600 soldiers crossed the boat bridge, they gathered in two on the opposite bank. They had already put on their leggings and put on new shoes. After that, they would run for thirty or forty miles overnight to reach the destination of this expedition.

Looking at the coming night, looking at the soldiers who could barely maintain their formation while walking at night, Zhao Wuxi thought to himself, "I think Feng Rin, Yu Xi, Tian Ben and the others have already sneaked into Zhenyi at this time. ..." (to be continued)

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