Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 127 The Prelude to the Siege of the City (4000 words)
In Huainan in March, it is the time when spring is full of greenery.

The rippling water of the Huaihe River is at its greenest.

Around the houses in Zhengyang village and town, there are many tents. These tents are made of cloth curtains coated with tung oil, which can prevent wind and rain. Many well-armored soldiers shuttle in rows. There is a deer village to reject horses, and there are layers of guards.

On the hillside to the east of Zhengyang village, the banner of the Son of Heaven stood tall and swayed gently in the wind. Many soldiers in armor and bronze animal masks stood guard.

In addition, there is a deer village to reject horses, dug a horse pit, and the big tent on the mountain is also very different. The main material is cowhide, and the auxiliary decoration is beautiful silk cloth. Many places are inlaid with gold and copper decorations. It is the big tent of the emperor.

The big tent has a very large space, with a radius of two or three feet, and there are screens to separate the inner and outer rooms.

The official family is not that particular, and has never had so many demands on female relatives, and they don't mind whether the queen can see other men or not.

However, there are good and bad things about this matter. The queen herself has a lot of freedom, but it shows that the officials don't value the female family members very much.

Back then when the immortal king Guo Wei raised his troops, all the wives, concubines, and children of the official family in Daliang were killed. The official family never mentioned anything about it, maybe it was too sad to mention it, or maybe it didn't care that much.

Empress Fu felt that she was in an official position because she didn't care much about the reason.
However, he still consciously retreated behind the screen, only listening to them from behind.

There are many men in the big tent. In addition to the officials, the two prime ministers Li Gu and Wang Pu are there, as well as Li Jixun, the commander of the guard infantry, Han Lingkun, the commander of the guard horse army, Wu Ding Jiedu, and Wang Shenqi, the Marquis of Iron Cavalry. , Zhao Kuangyin, the Marquis of Yu in front of the palace, and so on.

The conversation in the tent was intense, and most of the words were about yesterday's gold and iron horses. Even she, thinking of yesterday's vicissitudes, iron horses and iron horses, seemed to be vividly in front of her eyes.

Outside the big tent, the greenery of spring and March almost filled her eyes, she thought that she might not be able to forget it for a long time.

It's not just her who can't forget, everyone outside has already talked fiercely for a long time.

Discussions about "how did Shi Congyun win the war", "what did Shi Congyun think", "the shortcomings and weaknesses of the Southern Tang Army" have not stopped since yesterday's battle.

Maybe when things are busy and no one mentions it, as soon as someone has free time, someone will talk about it. As long as relevant topics are mentioned, there will be endless things to say, no matter whether they praise or criticize.

Empress Fu doesn't know how to fight, but she knows that Shi Congyun's battle must be unexpectedly exciting, otherwise no one would want to spend so much talk on it, and there are endless topics to talk about.

Last night, she only took a nap for two or three hours. At dawn, she asked eunuch Wei Min, and the official just squinted his eyes a few times, and did not sleep soundly. During the period, he asked several times, "When will Shi Congyun come back?"

In the middle of the night, Zhao Kuangyin, the Marquis of Yu in front of the palace who led the inner palace straight out, came back happily. After hearing his loud report to the officials, he chased southward and captured more than two hundred people and captured hundreds of them.

After dawn, more and more people came back.

Li Chongjin, the commander of the guards and Ma Bujun chasing in the direction of Shouzhou, also came back, but Li Chongjin's success was not great. The Hujie army of [-] people only captured more than [-] people, and there was no further progress after that.

When she heard the official praise a few words, she didn't say any more, and let Li Chongjin go down to rest.

Empress Fu was very smart. He knew that the officials were not as polite to Li Chongjin as they were on the surface. When Xianjun was in power, he forced Li Chongjin to kneel down to the officials and made him swear that he would not covet the position of emperor.

However, if the oaths made by people are effective, there will be no chaotic and chaotic world for decades. It is impossible for the officials to have no grudges in their hearts. In matters, they have to be treated kindly and preferentially.

She had a vague feeling that the officials were wary of Li Chongjin, but they had to show trust on the surface, after all, they were a family.

Sure enough, after Li Chong entered and left, she heard the official say with a bad face: "At the moment of the war, he still doesn't distinguish between public and private, and stays idle. If it weren't for Shi Congyun's wisdom and good command and dispatch, I would return to Huaibei." Cutting wood to build ships, rebuilding bridges!"

This is a matter within the royal family, and it is not easy for everyone to intervene.

Finally, the official said: "Forget it, let's talk about other things, thanks to Shi Congyun this time."

Speaking of Shi Congyun, it is another round of new discussions.

She looked out from the window of the big tent, and in the fields south of Zhengyang, a large number of armor and weapons were stacked together, forming many high hills.

Many prisoners of the Southern Tang Dynasty lined up and were escorted towards Zhengyang. Those who were slightly injured would be pulled out of the queue on the spot, killed on the side of the road without any resistance, and dragged and discarded to dig at both ends of the field. A good deep pit has already been filled with dead bodies.

Some of the people who were killed were insensitive, some cried out in despair, some tried to escape and were killed easily, no matter what kind, killing a chicken or sheep was similar.

In Fuhou's eyes, fear is only a part, she is not an ordinary woman
Instead, I feel more and more that in such a world, only a man who can fight well can be relied on, otherwise he can't even protect his own family.

In Hezhong Mansion, she went through a hellish gate during the military turmoil. Even if the official family can't protect her own wife, daughter and family, let alone others?

The last emperor of the Jin Dynasty was originally the son of heaven, what a beauty, but he was taken captive by the Khitan people to the north, and even his concubine was forcibly taken away, what face and dignity is there?

Martial strategy, strength is the most important thing at the moment. In the past few decades, the emperors of the Central Plains have taken turns to sit, ranging from a dozen years to a few years, which has long been commonplace.

If you want to protect yourself, the only way to protect yourself in today's world is to win over those soldiers who can fight and know how to fight.

She thought to herself, this time, she must find a way to marry the sixth son to Shi Congyun no matter what.

Before, she still insisted on her own identity, and asked Zhang Yongde to help spread the word, and wanted the Shi family to come and talk about marriage, so that she could be worthy of their Fu family's identity.

Thinking about it now, it's really stupid, the emperor still does it in turn, how can their Fu family guarantee a long time, how much is their face worth?

Although the historian started in vain, but now the two father and son of the historian, one is the number one fierce general of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the other is a young man who is outstanding in performance, outstanding in martial arts, and has a bright future.

Maybe there will be more ways for the Fu family in the future.

She decided in her heart that she would marry the sixth son as soon as possible when she went back this time, and stop worrying about face matters.

There have been rumors in Daliang for a long time that Shi Congyun is right to be able to fight wars, but he is also a pervert.

She doesn't quite believe these rumors, but she always feels that gossip won't come out out of thin air. Besides, she knows that Shi Congyun used the official post office to deliver letters to his concubine, so it shouldn't be false.

It's better to have a little weakness, and it's easy to attract. The sixth child is so handsome, even if she sees her, she thinks she is a first-class good girl, and she will definitely win Shi Congyun's heart.

Inside and outside the tent, many people came and went, the weeds and short trees on the hill had been leveled, and the newly turned soil had been trampled out of a path.

There was an endless stream of messengers coming in and out, as well as many officials.

After Shengjia arrived in Zhengyang, this place replaced Li Guzhong's tent and became the command center of the entire Zhengyang battlefield.

In the big tent, various news came from time to time, and more than [-]% of them were good news, which made Guo Rong very happy.

However, he knew in his heart that these were all follow-ups to the big victory last night. If Shi Congyun's big victory in the south of Zhengyang hadn't happened, there wouldn't be all the things that followed.

Guo Rong has always had great ambitions, and finally sat on the position of the emperor, thinking in his heart to learn from those wise kings and heroes, and wanted to do something great.

He also made a bold statement that he wanted to "open up the world in ten years, support the people in ten years, and bring peace in ten years." He didn't just talk about it, he really wanted to do it in his heart.

Wang Pu's words, Gao Ping's victory, and the victory of defeating Shu made him feel more and more feasible!
Wang Jing and Shi Congyun won the battle against Shu for him. Since then, Guo Rong has remembered this young man, but his age made him hesitate.

During yesterday's battle, he was extremely disappointed for a while, thinking that things like Zhao Wang's misreading Zhao Kuo would happen again.

However, the subsequent changes made him unexpected, and the Southern Tang army on the battlefield was quickly strangled and defeated by the Zhou army.Looking at the overall situation, it seems that Da Zhou and Nan Tang are two men fighting to the death.

Zhou Jun was thin and small, and Southern Tang was strong and strong, but the strong man wanted to fight steadily, but the thin man punched with all his strength from an unexpected angle, hit the vital point, and knocked down the opponent in an instant.

The sense of precision, the insight into the overall situation, the prediction of the battle situation and the precise command are all a bit like a stroke of magic.

If he hadn't met Shi Congyun, he still couldn't believe it was written by a young man of sixteen or seventeen.

His use of troops is very strange, and it is not found in ancient military books, which made Guo Rong even more curious.

When he heard that the queen wanted to marry his sixth sister to Shi Congyun, he was very dissatisfied with Shi Congyun.

I feel that this young man is too restless, not at all like his father, so he will even climb the Fu family's boat?
Looking at it now, I immediately feel that Shi Congyun is much more pleasing to the eye.

Naturally, the more generals who can win battles, the better. He likes people who can do things, not just talk.

Just like Wei Renpu, everyone said that he was not born in the imperial examination and should not pay homage to the prime minister. This is a rule that existed in the Tang Dynasty, and some people think that this is the reason why the Tang Dynasty is so powerful.

However, Guo Rong didn't take it seriously, he had his own criteria for judging whether a person could use it or not, and whether he had the ability, he had his own judgment, and he didn't need others to intervene.

At noon, the accompanying officials brought another great news.

"Reporting to the official, Deputy Marshal Shi led Long Jie's army to pursue for tens of miles in the direction of Luzhou, beheaded the enemy generals Wu Yanhui and Zhang Yanhan, killed more than 800 soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and captured more than [-] people!"

Guo Rong was overjoyed when he heard this, and Wang Pu and others next to him also congratulated repeatedly.

But later in the afternoon, someone came to report again, a dusty messenger with four red command flags and a cloth-wrapped head.

"Reporting to the official family, Shi Congyun, the owner of our chamber, set up an ambush in the south of Zhengyang, intercepted the fleeing general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, stabbed the enemy's commander-in-chief Liu Yanzhen single-handedly, captured the enemy general Cheng Shilang and other 120 generals, and captured more than [-] people from the Southern Tang Army !
This is Liu Yanzhen's head, the owner of the chamber asked someone to send it first to announce the good news to the officials! "

After the soldier finished speaking, he pushed forward the head wrapped in cloth.

Immediately, the big tent became quiet, and Wang Shenqi, Wang Pu, Li Jixun and others who were talking next to them fell silent, and looked at this side in unison.

After a short period of tranquility, Wang Pu was the first to react. He took two steps forward excitedly, then reacted again, and hurriedly said, "Go and find the captured soldiers from the Southern Tang Dynasty to recognize him!"

Various complex emotions circulated in the big tent, and everyone stared intently at their heads on the ground, as if they hadn't gotten over what the messenger said just now, or hadn't fully digested it in a short time.

After a while, several captured Southern Tang officers were escorted in, two of them knelt on the ground the moment they saw the head, and the rest showed fear and turned pale.

In fact, there is no need to ask for such a reaction, the people present already knew it.

However, Li Jixun still said viciously, "Who is the head on this ground, do you know it! Come on quickly, don't talk nonsense!"

Someone with a pale face and trembling lips agreed: "It's the deployment of the camps in the north of the country, Commander Liu Yanzhen."

The moment the news was confirmed, the atmosphere in the big tent suddenly changed again.

Guo Rong didn't speak, but just waved his hands to let some prisoners from the Southern Tang Dynasty be taken down, but his happiness was all written on his face.

Li Jixun didn't say a word, but Wang Pu was very curious, and excitedly asked the soldier who reported the letter: "How did Shi Congyun know where the Southern Tang commander fled?"

"I don't know. The owner of the room said that the bandits would go to the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He took us on a journey at night, and set up an ambush in a forest south of Zhengyang. The bandits really left there when the sky was about to dawn!"

"Liu Yanzhen was stabbed to death by Shi Congyun?"

Speaking of this, the soldier who reported the letter had a look on his brows: "It is absolutely true to report back to the official. At that time, there were hundreds of people around him. The owner of the chamber saw a man rushing over on horseback and stabbed Liu Yanzhen to death. The rest People were too frightened to move, they got off their horses and surrendered one after another! A certain person watched it with his own eyes.

Later, the owner of the chamber ordered Liu Yanzhen's head to be cut off to announce the good news, so a certain one dismounted first to cut off his head. "

The soldier spoke excitedly, with pride written all over his face. He was the first to get off his horse and cut off his head to explain how close he was to Shi Congyun at that time. It seemed that being so close was something to be proud of.

Both Wang Shenqi and Zhao Kuangyin listened intently, with expressions of admiration on their faces. They are both generals, and they understand how difficult it is to stab one out of hundreds of people.It's just that they didn't know that these hundreds of people were actually surrounded by thousands of people, and they didn't dare to move. The soldiers didn't say that.

The official got up from the top and said happily: "Sure enough, I saw the right person. Shi Congyun is my champion! After he returns to the Chinese army, let him come to see me immediately. If I have something to ask, I have to personally discuss it." Give him a reward."

Then he turned around and looked at Li Jixun and the others, "After the First Battle of Zhengyang, the reinforcements from the Southern Tang Dynasty collapsed and Shouzhou was isolated, which is a great time.

Li Jixun, you lead Hujie to garrison Shouzhou on the right side to guard against the enemy in the east and besiege Shouzhou City. As for Li Chongjin
Let him go back to Zhengyang and guard the pontoon bridge.

Shi Yanchao led the Long Jie army to follow my sage, as for Shi Congyun."

When it came to Shi Congyun, the officials paused for a moment and didn't say how to arrange it.

All the generals took orders one after another, and then began to execute them.

In the battle of Zhengyang, the first major counterattack of the Southern Tang Dynasty was defeated, and the Zhou army could rest assured to attack the city and seize territory in Huaibei.
(End of this chapter)