Spring and Autumn I Am King

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One twilight in early October, about ten miles east of Juye Township in Punan, Wei, and a small mile away from Dayozawa, there were women and children scattered on the fields.

Winter has come, and the autumn grain has long been collected. Most of it has gone into the government treasury in the city, and only a small amount is hidden in the earthen pots of the common people. In September, the war broke out again. The men were recruited to serve as guards in the city, and even transferred to the capital. Only the women were left unclothed and the children were unkempt, talking about when the recruits would return home.

As the folk song of Yishouweidi sings: "There is a fox, Sui Sui, in Piqiliang. My heart is worried, my son has no clothes..."

But the first thing they must guarantee is that after their father or husband and brother return, they will not see themselves and their children dying in the cottage. No matter how hard it is, they must grit their teeth to survive this cold winter. So at this moment, I bent over the fields, on the ridges, and in the hills that undulated in the fields, searching for all kinds of wild vegetables such as mallows, or small living things such as voles.

On the edge of Onozawa is mostly salt and brine fields, there are many grasses and shrubs, where jackals and foxes live, and there are not many people and fields. In order to prevent encountering beasts, the women each brought weapons, all of which were commonly used in peasant households. While they took their children to carefully search for wild vegetables, they sometimes got up and looked up and looked around alertly.

This area is already close to the scope of activities of pirates. They only came to **** a wave in the spring of this year. The terrible scene and the pain it brought are still in my memory. Many women were robbed and insulted. Life or death is unknown.

However, since the arrival of a "Zhao Xiaosikou" from the west of Lu State in the north, pavilions and beacon towers have been built along the lake shore. Coupled with occasional counterattacks, the robbery seems to have eased. The people of Juye Town of Wei State Also soaked in the light, had a more stable autumn.

Just when the women saw that they had nothing to gain, and were about to go home with a sigh, there was dust and smoke on the Tu Dao in the distance. A troop came from the east. There were about a hundred people in total, and the leading ones rode on horses alone, and the rest were mostly men who were not uniformly dressed and carried miscellaneous weapons. And without a flag, at first glance it does not look like a soldier, but a thief!

Of course, they didn't realize that there were more than a dozen soldiers in neat ranks behind the team. Right in the middle of the thieves.

The women were shocked. Although Robber Zhi did not encourage killing and brutality, how could it be avoided without supervision? Usually when pirates attacked, they were often violated. At this time, they were shocked when they saw a large group of people approaching on the road. The children hid behind the women one after another, and the women were also frightened. Some were eager to protect their children, picked up their children and ran inside, while others leaned on their children and slumped into the wild. Hope no one finds out.

However, the "robber" was pointing at the roadside, and then someone wanted to come here, but the rider on horseback raised his whip and gave him a few slaps, and stopped after a few reprimands. .

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"Those guards are afraid of us." Qi Wan, a man of Song who had been promoted to the top, turned his head and said to Jia Ji, the cavalry officer who was in charge of the hundred people, with the sword and shield that had become part of his body on his back.

"I'm afraid of our dress, and the real thieves who follow behind."

Jiaji rode on the brown mare and spoke out to correct Chiwan's words.

He was frowning at the map of Weiguo Punan in his hand, which marked their destination with red paint, and marked the predetermined road with black pen. These are all the meticulous actions that Zhao Wuxi had placed in Punan over the past year. Some of them are merchants, some are wanderers, and they gradually completed the map and road details, and now there are also people leading the way in the team.

last month. Jia Ji and Yu Xilai also explored it, so he was very familiar with the terrain.

At this moment, he turned his head and whipped a few whips at the robbers who were swallowing their saliva and wanted to harass the woman. The whip tip was brittle, leaving a bloodstain on their worn clothes. Ting **** who dressed up as a thief also waved his spear to stop it, and those people shrank their heads and stood back in the team.

Qi Wan saw that the women were avoiding him. He couldn't help thinking of his family who were still in Song country, he leaned over and whispered to Jia Ji: "The two chiefs, there are quite a few wolves and foxes on the edge of Dazhe, now is not the busy season for farming, it is too late, and many villagers return to their homes. A woman with a child and a farm tool is looking for food in the vast field. The man in the house must be absent, and there is no food left in the kettle. If we carry some food, can we give them some?"

Jia Ji glanced at him impatiently, and said, "Did you like someone among them? Look at the clothes on your body, we are now robbers! Even if the robbers don't loot, they still provide food and clothing to the commoners? It has become the biggest anecdote, we still need to hurry up, we must complete the control of the bridge before dark, this is a military order!"

Qi Wan is honest, but his personality is a bit stubborn. After a year and a half of recruiting, he has a sense of honor as a soldier, and he is already dissatisfied with this matter.

So he muttered: "When the military soldier became an army, Si Kou said something on the stage, although I didn't understand it at the time, but after consulting the brigade commander, I found out that Si Kou said 'Fu Wu, prohibit violence, and sect soldiers. , to protect the big, to determine the merit, and to bring peace to the people and wealth. This is the benchmark for the survival of military soldiers. I have been recruited for a year and a half, and I have followed Si Kou to defeat the greedy Yang Hu and Dr. Yuncheng, and repelled the robbers for the people. The invasion has been done to protect the country and the people. But why do we want to be in the company of bandits now? These people have you and I under surveillance, so we dare not do things that harm the people. If we let them go, these women will definitely be violated. "

In Jia Ji's heart, completing this task is the most important thing. As for the life and death of the defenders in front of him, and even the life and death of the former pirates behind him, it has nothing to do with him.

Their light knights have always been the legs and eyes of military pawns, but they didn't play a role in the ambush on the west bank of the lake and Jersey last time. Yu Lvshuai took a sigh of relief, and before leaving, he specifically told him that even if he was just leading the way this time, he would not be able to achieve the prestige of the old man.

So he endured his irritability and said: "You don't know the situation in the army. Many of my colleagues have been transferred to the north to defend the people of Qi, and the remaining main force has also been used intensively. As for the use, it is not up to you and me to ask. In short, the military soldiers are very scarce, so Si Kou had no choice but to take advantage of these robbers."

"Not to mention the security of the people and the wealth, which family's people and whose wealth is the peace? The secrets that Si Kou discussed with the advisors and brigade commanders are not the ones you and I have the honor to hear, but I do know one thing. It is the people under the rule of Si Kou. These guards are the people of the enemy country, the husbands of women and children, and the fathers of children may be waiting to meet our soldiers and help them at this time. Good, don’t worry, we just need to restrain our subordinates and be worthy of our true heart. When this Juye town becomes a city under the rule of the Si Kou, there will naturally be village officials to help them. Instead of asking, it is better to think about it. How would you order these robbers to consume the guards guarding the bridge?"

Qi Wan pondered, but he was finally persuaded. Because of what Zhao Wuxi had promised, he never broke his promise. The livelihood of Zhen, Linqiu, and Yuncheng in Sanyi is booming with the subsidies from porcelain and paper. Although he is from Song Dynasty, he is happy to see these.

"The desperate robbers will be responsible for attacking the guards' strongholds along the Great Lake, but I only allow him to stay within ten miles of the shore, not to loot the people, and not to kill innocent people indiscriminately. .And the main force of the military pawns will also pretend to be robbers, focus on capturing important passes, and completely cut off the connection between Juye and the three towns in the west!"

This was the will that Zhao Wuxi conveyed to the mid-level military officials such as Mu Xia and Yu Xi when he issued the mission, and they handed it over to the lower-level military officials. So Jia Ji and Qi Wan are the same. He was assigned to bring these half-fed Da Yeze pirates to Juye "to carry out a mission", the purpose of which was to destroy the communication bridge between Juye and the western cities of Wei.

Zhao Wuxi also emphasized one point: "The key is to create an illusion of robbery and trouble in Punan, and to lead the guards to come in and suppress it, this is a trick to lead snakes out of their holes!"

So Jiaji didn't mean to hide his whereabouts, so he came and walked away, for fear that others would not know that he had been there.

The women who were lying in the fields tremblingly saw this strange scene. Those "gang thieves" had already seen them, and they wanted to escape today. Just trying to save the child's life, but they went west.

These women are so grateful to God that they dare to get up and go home after the thieves are gone. Back in Liluzhong, it was inevitable to share with the familiar people what I had seen and heard just now. In the short term, even if I am hungry, I will not dare to go out.

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In the Punan area of ​​Wei State, there are four towns, Juye, Chuiqiu, Shengdou, and Chengpu, with a total of 6,000 or 7,000 households and a population of more than 40,000. Because of its proximity to Dayeze, there have been many mutilations by robbers in previous years. But Weihou may feel that the tax paid in this area is really not much, so he ignores it. No troops have been sent to strengthen the defense, and it is already the limit to maintain a brigade of 500 conscripted soldiers per city.

It was not until last summer that the commander Zhao Wuxi followed the Cao State all night, bypassing the towns in Punan, smuggling across the ferry port outside the city of Pu, and after conquering Zhenyi, did the Marquis of Wei send a division to Punan, as if to mend the prison. the crowd. The 2,500 people, led by the doctor Gongsun Qu, were stationed at Lishan, the commanding height of Punan, which is said to have been a sacred mountain where Emperor Yao once lived and Emperor Shun once cultivated.

Gongsun Qu was the grandson of Duke Xiang of Wei and the nephew of Hou Yuan of Wei. This time, Punan was entrusted with the important task of defense, and he was under great pressure, especially the words that Wang Sun Jia told him in the silk.

"Zhao Wuxi of Zhen, Linqiu, and Yuncheng has thousands of soldiers, but now he is half held by the Qi people in the north, and half of them are guarding against pirates, so the troops that can be dispatched may not be as large as yours. You All you need to do is defend in Lishan, don't need to be aggressive, you can drag it out until the end of the Qi Kingdom's Yiyi war, I guess it won't be more than the end of October!"

Now it's only half a month away from the deadline predicted by Wang Sun Jia. Because Wei Guo is still waiting for the opportunity, he has not declared war on Jin, so there is no change in Lu Guo Zhao Wuxi~www.wuxiahere.com~ Just when Gongsun Qu just breathed a sigh of relief, bad news came one after another. After the winter, the pirates of Onoze were looting again!

Chuiqiu, Shengdou, and Chengpu are adjacent to each other anyway, and they can be horns of each other. Few thieves dare to venture here, but Juye is located in a lonely place facing the lake in the east. At the end of September, news was communicated to each other every other day, but after entering October, the news was so completely cut off.

Gongsun Qu sent over a hundred soldiers to investigate, but even they were lost.

"Could it be that it was trapped!" Gongsun Qu complained so much that he could only report to Wei Guo for instructions. However, at this moment, a messenger and several soldiers finally escaped from Juye, covered in blood, holding a slip of paper for help.

"There are many thieves, and more than half of the soldiers have been damaged. Please send troops to relieve Juye!" (To be continued.)

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