Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 286 The Mountain People
In mid-April, the weather gradually became hotter, and the sun, which was originally mild and warm during the day, became more and more aggressive day by day.

The rising sun sheds dazzling lights in the west, across the sky, obliquely splitting the sky and the earth.

The shadow of the mountain and the brilliance of the light divide the land under our feet into two worlds, light and dark.

The large forests in the east, the gentle mountains and hills are submerged in pitch black shadows, the winding avenues and mid-mountain villages in the west are bathed in the sun, shining brightly, and the armor of the soldiers reflects the morning light. Youlong.

Shi Congyun stood on the side of the road. Behind him was a stone wall at the foot of the mountain, covered with green moss. The water droplets on the tip of the grass at the corner of the wall had not completely dissipated. In the distance was a river valley with a large drop. I think that the army of the Zhou Kingdom should rise up slowly like the morning sun in the sky.

But soon I laughed myself, it was too wishful thinking.

Perhaps for the Kingdom of Shu, he is a devil, not to mention the rising sun, but the cold wind that makes them shiver, at least for the royal family of the Kingdom of Shu.

That's right, there's no other way, anyway, the battle has reached this point, and there is already a scene of turning the clouds to see the sun.

Shi Congyun's poems are popular, but this time he doesn't know what to copy to suit the situation. After all, his talents and learning are limited, and although it is not easy to conquer Shu, compared with the war with Liao, the casualties are tens of thousands, and the road to conquer Shu is just a drizzle .

The total casualties of the Northern Route Army along the way were less than a thousand, and the number of dead in the battle was less than three hundred. Although it was still cruel, it was nothing compared to last year's war.

The Eastern Route Army may have been even more brutal, because Gao Yanchou's defense and resistance encountered many obstacles, but it must have been considered a low-intensity war.

If you look at the history books, you will find that the massacre of cities in ancient times was almost very common, but it was only a matter of scale. The previous Shi Congyun didn't understand it. Did those people have no brains?How to fight a city old butcher, how to win the hearts of the people?
But after he really experienced the tragic war, he understood the reason. Every soldier is not a machine that can only obey orders, they are living people.

In many cases, after a tragic siege battle, the generals did not allow the massacre to calm the anger and hatred of the soldiers.

The siege battle is very tragic, and the death is also extremely miserable. Once the red eye is killed, the comrades who have been with him day and night will die. The hatred and anger of the soldiers have been accumulated to the extreme. It is difficult for the soldiers to let go of their hatred and anger Difficulty, after all, is human nature.

At this time, there are very few generals who can restrain them, or the generals themselves are jealous.

Just like last year when he killed tens of thousands of Khitans in the north, it was a difficult decision for him, but for the soldiers of the Zhou army, everyone was happy, and they were very happy when they killed, because the Khitans also killed them on the battlefield For many soldiers, once the anger and hatred accumulated too much, they can only be washed away with the blood of the enemy.

It is very difficult to restrain the soldiers under such circumstances. It will test the commander's sanity and prestige in the army too much, and prestige will be exhausted.

This is what makes Congyun the happiest for a war history like the Shu Dynasty. The casualties are small, the enemy’s resistance is not fierce, the conflict is not fierce, and the cost of restraint is low. He can better restrain the soldiers and clean up military discipline.

Shi Congyun looked at the energetic soldiers passing by, and said loudly: "Sing a song early in the morning."

The soldiers on the side of the road approached him and yelled loudly after hearing his words, but they were scattered and irregular. The conductor who led the team stopped them, and then led them to sing. Once they sang here, everyone began to sing along.

Instead of rapping, it's better to say roar.

Ancient military songs are complicated and there is no unified regulation, but the same thing is that they care more about rhyme and the momentum of words and sentences, but not so much about rhythm.

The Shu Army who had just been reorganized into the Jiannan Army by Shi Congyun in the rear was not to be outdone, and sang along loudly, but they just adapted it. It was not Zhou Jun's Qin Shijun Song, but a continuation of Tang Shijun Song.

The two sides competed, each with a louder voice. For a while, ghosts cried and wolves howled, and the loud military songs echoed in the mountains, and the mountains and hills seemed to be trembling.

"The emperor's style of the four seas is quilt, and the thousand years of virtue and water are clear;

I don't even wear military uniforms, today I'm done,
Looking back at Qinsai as low as a horse, I gradually saw the Yellow River flowing straight north.

Tianwei rolls straight to the Yumen Fortress, thousands of miles of barbarian people sing Han songs! "

"The emperor's style of the four seas is quilt, and the thousand years of virtue and water are clear;

Not to mention the military uniform, today's success.

The lord opened the Changli calendar, and the ministers loyally worshiped Dayou;

After you see Yan Ge, it will be a peaceful autumn."

Listening to the distant military song of the Tang Dynasty, Shi Congyun was fascinated for a while.

The military songs of the Qin Dynasty are more like the simplicity of fighting side by side among comrades in arms, while the military songs of the Tang Dynasty are the magnificent echo of an era.

Wei Renpu was beside him, seeing that he was fascinated, he said on the sidelines: "Now Shu and Hanzhong are considered flat, Liao is newly defeated, Southern Tang, Southern Han, Northern Han, Wuyue is not the enemy of King Qin, as long as you concentrate on managing , it is only a matter of time before we want to restore our homeland.”

Shi Congyun regained his composure and nodded: "What Wei Gong said makes sense, but he was a little emotional after hearing it.

Those words seem to contain the precipitation of several generations and hundreds of years of foundation.

We are just getting started, the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty is less than ten years old, and I have only fought wars for six or seven years. When I think about this, I feel that the road under my feet is too far and too long. . "

Wei Renpu stroked his beard and laughed, "It is because of the long-term, so difficult, that it will be remembered by the world, and it will last through the ages. There are so many achievements in the world, and King Qin actually has plans in his heart to think of these."

Shi Congyun looked at the sunset in the distance, the rugged road between the valleys and mountains, and the large black and invisible darkness under the sky in the east, which was about to move on the other side of the mountain, and he was standing in the morning sun, so he thought of a famous saying, For the first time, I had a deeper understanding.

"The glory lies in the plainness, and the difficulty lies in the length; it may not be difficult to have great ambitions, but the most difficult thing is to take revenge and not be worn down by suffering and time."

Wei Renpu was stunned for a moment, then cupped his hands: "Good advice, Commander."

The arduousness he mentioned may be even more arduous than Wei Renpu thought. The homeland Wei Renpu mentioned was the territory of the middle and late Tang Dynasty. Now there are Southern Han, Northern Han, Southern Tang, Wuyue, Sixteen Prefectures, and Western Liaoning.

But what Shi Congyun thinks about is the Hexi Corridor, and the Western Regions that have been lost for nearly 200 years since the Han Dynasty began to control them. If they can’t control the Western Regions now, the next time it will be the Qing Dynasty 1000 years later, when the sea will be full of vicissitudes .

After feeling for a while, Shi Congyun quickly put those troubles behind him. The road is very long, so long that he can't see the end, so just keep your head down and don't look away.

There is a small courtyard in the middle of the mountain next to the road, where more than 20 wounded soldiers of the Zhou army were placed. Shi Congyun went to see it halfway, and found that the doctors accompanying the army had called some local people to help take care of them.

It is close to the mountains in the north, not far from Chengdu but not close.

This section is full of mountains, rivers and valleys, lush and green, and relatively isolated from the outside world. Many people in the villages in the mountains wear animal skins and coarse linen as their clothes, and they are not as particular about it in the Central Plains.

These villages are also almost independent. Shi Congyun talked with the local elders. They send people to pay tribute to the government dozens of miles away on time every year. embarrass them.

On the surface, the Sichuan Basin looks flat in the middle, but in fact, most of them are large and small hills, river valleys, and hills, and the transportation is difficult. The real plain is only the one near Chengdu.

After going south from Jianmen Pass, there are many large and small independent villages in these mountains. Because of the geographical environment, the government is not easy to manage, and they dare not send people deep into the villages to occupy the complex areas of the mountains and valleys.

As long as the mountain people in these villages pay tribute on time every year, the government doesn't care. They are not closely connected with the outside world, they are more independent, more wild, less red tape of the Central Plains, and have no loyalty to the so-called court of Shu.

It is also because of this that these mountain people don't care whether they help Zhou Jun or not, and they don't reject them.

Zhou Jun did not kill people or rob things, so the people in these villages were willing to guide them, bring them water, and do paid work, such as helping the army to collect firewood, build roads, lead the way, and borrow the courtyard of their homes for the wounded soldiers of the army. Wait.

This brought a lot of convenience to Zhou Jun, and Shi Congyun also emphasized military discipline more and more.

After visiting the wounded and leaving the small courtyard, Shi Congyun saw a few young people coming from a distance, and his soldiers brought them over, saying that they were invited by the elders of the local village to have a banquet in a big village in the middle of the mountain.

At first Shi Congyun didn't plan to go, because the invitation was very suspicious. How could the other party know his identity and came to him directly. The team of tens of thousands of people stretched for several miles, and it was not that simple to find someone.

Fu Zhaoyuan, who was beside him, just slapped his head and told him that this incident was done by the governor of Mianzhou who surrendered. He told him a few days ago that the governor of Mianzhou told the people in these mountains to find him, because Normally, the government doesn't care too much. When Zhou Jun comes, the sky will change, and the new order can only be discussed by the mountain people themselves and Zhou Jun.

It's just that my brother-in-law Fu Zhaoyuan didn't take it seriously at the time, thinking it was just a matter for the villagers in the mountains, so why bother him, he didn't say anything.

After hearing this, Shi Congyun scolded his brother-in-law, and told him to report to him as soon as possible in the future, no matter how young he was, his brother-in-law was wronged, and nodded repeatedly, expressing that he would resolutely correct it.

Shi Congyun agreed and proposed to take more than 80 soldiers to have dinner.

But obviously this is not simply eating and drinking. The mountain people's stockade is located in the middle of the mountain, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

There is a plank road in the middle of the mountain. The door through it is a natural big tree hole, which can only be passed by one person. Shi Congyun is tall and bowed, and behind him are some hunters with hunting bows and long knives.

He let the soldiers go first.

When we arrived at the village, there was a wooden city wall on the outside, which was not very high. There were many people gathered inside, at least hundreds of people, and there were also some helping women who cooked and cooked. Most of them were not young.

Seeing the eyes coming together, it may be because of the simplicity of the mountain people, the fear, anxiety and other emotions in the eyes of these people are fully revealed.

Afterwards, Shi Congyun was invited to sit at the main table in the main hall of the village. There were some very old people inside. How to move chopsticks.

The rest of the guards stood proficiently at the entrance of the lobby, the gate, the entrance of the plank road, etc. The locals did not object, but just glanced at them from time to time.

Shi Congyun immediately understood what they meant.

The number of the army was seen by the local people. These high-ranking elders had more knowledge, but they were not usually under the jurisdiction of the government. When the foreign army came, they must be very scared and uneasy.

So under the uneasy eyes of everyone, he got up and walked out of the lobby. Several old people also got up and followed him.

Shi Congyun went outside the lobby, raised his glass to the many representatives from various villages and villages who were seated outside, and said, "Fathers and folks sitting here, we came from the north to attack the emperor over there in Chengdu. Don’t worry, I’m not here to be your enemy.”

After he spoke impassionedly, everyone sitting there fell silent and looked at each other again, the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.

probably don't understand
At this time, the dialect of Shudi was still different from the later Sichuan dialect. Chengdu was one of Shi Congyun’s favorite cities to live in later generations. If he hadn’t had no money, he had thought of moving to Chengdu, so he could understand Sichuan dialect.

But it is still very different from now.

Those who know the history of Sichuan should understand, because these current Shu people were almost exterminated during the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which is another history of blood and tears.

More than [-]% of the later Sichuanese came from all corners of the country to relocate and reintegrate.

Shi Congyun patiently explained to everyone word by word, but in the end he still had a little understanding.

Shi Congyun suddenly remembered and asked if there were any literate people. Although they were relatively independent, since they still had contact with the governor, there should be literate people.

The older man understood what he meant, so he got a pen, ink and board for him to write.

Now even if they don't understand the dialect, relying on the similar characters, they can quickly understand each other's meaning.

Shi Congyun lamented Qin Shihuang's great contribution to the unified writing.

Although Qin Shihuang actually failed to do it, because he chose the beautiful but difficult to write and complex Xiaozhuan to unify the characters, and the Qin Dynasty was subjugated in 15 years, which was not realized at the time, but the idea is good.

By the time of the Han Dynasty, the writing was truly unified and unified with the official script. From then on, even if there are different dialects in different places, everyone can communicate as long as they write.

Shi Congyun and several elders wrote while communicating with each other, and finally conveyed his meaning.

Do not harm each other, help each other, and at the same time hope that they will go back and inform the villages not to block their army from passing, so as not to cause misunderstandings and conflicts.

After understanding what he meant, everyone present, whether young or old, breathed a sigh of relief. The oldest elder thanked him again and again, but he didn't know much about etiquette. , On the contrary, it seems to mean worshiping ancestors.

Shi Congyun quickly helped the old man up.

After that, the communication between the two sides became more and more smooth. The mountain people killed the chicken, and the two sides drank chicken blood wine to make an oath, expressing that they would not harm each other, just like brothers.

In fact, they were planning to kill in the first place.
The mountain people believed that the oath of human blood is the most reliable oath, and even selected a lucky young man to kill and let blood, but Shi Congyun sternly stopped him, and then changed to killing chickens.

After drinking the chicken blood wine, someone from outside rushed in to report something in panic, but the situation was soon cleared up. It turned out that it was Fu Zhaoyuan's idiot brother-in-law who saw that he had not gone down the mountain for several hours, and in a hurry led troops to surround the foot of the mountain. up.

Shi Congyun had no choice but to ask him to withdraw.

On the same day, several elders in the cottage plucked up their courage and personally sent him to the barracks to show their trust.

Shi Congyun didn't do anything to them, but suggested to them that in the future, instead of killing people in worshiping ancestors or making vows, chickens or sheep can be used instead.

Several elders nodded repeatedly.

The two sides made an agreement so happily, and by the next day, people from all the villages were sent to lead the army.

That day, Shi Congyun was about to leave for Chengdu at full speed. The mountain elders who presided over the event that day actually brought three or forty people and picked some things with shoulder poles to meet him in the roadside tent.

After Shi Congyun let his soldiers go, he got up and went out to greet him, thinking that the mountain people would send him souvenirs when they saw that he was leaving.

As a result, after the surrounding crowd gradually dispersed, the one surrounded by them turned out to be a nervous and delicate little girl.

Shi Congyun immediately understood.
(End of this chapter)