Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 287 Lie Zhai Chengdu
The elder of the mountain people did send some local products, but he asked the young granddaughter in the village to go with Shi Congyun no matter what.

Shi Congyun refused with righteous words at that time, and told them impassionedly that he was not a bad person and did not come to rob them, so he did not need to give him his granddaughter.

Unexpectedly, the elder asked again and again to let his granddaughter follow him no matter what.

This time he also brought a city resident who could understand the local dialect and speak Mandarin to communicate with Shi Congyun.

After repeated exchanges, the elder even uttered harsh words, if Shi Congyun didn't take her in, they wouldn't want this granddaughter either.

Shi Congyun looked puzzled: "Hey, why are you folks like this? My king has always been an upright and clear person with no personal morals. You insist on forcing me!"

The mountain people over there stopped talking.

Fu Zhaoyuan next to him whispered, "Marshal, they dare to force you! Do you want someone to drive them out?"

At this time Wei Renpu came up, coughed twice and pushed away the stunned Qingfu Zhaoyuan.

Then he cupped his hands and said solemnly: "Commander, this is also the wishes of the common people, and it is a symbol of the friendship between Master Wang and the local people. Besides, the elders have said that if the commander-in-chief does not accept her, he will not let her go back. This is trapping her. Righteousness!"

Shi Congyun was gearing up: "Duke Wei, you also know that XX has established a rule that we can't rob people's things when we go south, and we can't rob other people's children. I, as the commander-in-chief, will take the lead in destroying it, which is not good."

Wei Renpu spoke uprightly, with a solemn expression: "Marshal, this is not a robbery. Everyone listens. The fathers and villagers have said that the marshal will not take him in. They will let the poor girl fend for herself. The marshal is saving her. It is really helpless." , not a bad rule."

The surrounding soldiers nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, what Duke Wei said is very reasonable."

"Marshal, just save this poor girl."

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Everyone said something to each other, Shi Congyun was very helpless in the end, and it was hard to go against everyone's wishes, so he had to agree to the request of his father and fellow villagers.

Don't blame him for not being a man, it's because the girl is so beautiful.

The skin is fair and delicate, the beautiful and unobtrusive oval face is white and tender, the petite figure is exquisite and cute, the nose is small and regular, a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes are very charming, the black hair on the forehead is thick, and the subconscious is several steps away from the crowd , standing there with his head bowed restlessly, secretly looking at him from time to time.

Which cadre can stand such a test?

Fortunately, he is more skilled.

Immediately, the fathers and villagers were not in a hurry to leave, and the leader of the army was asked to make meals, and the brothers who came with them were invited to eat before leaving. Rich as hell.

It was only during this period that I realized that the person who came to act as the middleman this time was the director of the nearby county town, and he was the one who usually dealt with the people in these villages.

From his narration, Shi Congyun learned that among the rugged mountains from the south of Jianmen Pass all the way to Chengdu, especially the large lush mountains next to the Hengduan Mountains in the north, there are more than 200 known to the public. Large and small villages, the large ones may have thousands of people, and the small ones have only a dozen people.
And in the mountains closer to the northwest, there may be something the government doesn't know about.

Villages that are isolated from the world will be more xenophobic, and the roads are difficult, and the government dare not go deep.

Shi Congyun has a lot of knowledge, and he is not surprised. The world today is not a world with a large population and a high degree of development like later generations. In addition, in the 200 years since the middle and late Tang Dynasty, wars have continued, the population has dropped sharply, and the cultivated land has been abandoned. People either died or moved away.

He has been to the north and south of the river to fight, not to mention the deep mountains in Sichuan and Shu near the Hengduan Mountains, even Hebei now has large tracts of woods and inaccessible places.

And the master book also told him that in order to let the more than 200 villages pay taxes to the government, they actually fought a war. Two or thirty years ago, after the Later Tang invaded Shu, they found that there were barbarians who were not under their jurisdiction.

Later Tang sent troops to venture into the mountains, fought against the barbarians in the mountains, and killed hundreds of people before the villages began to pay taxes to the government.

Even so, they do not submit to the jurisdiction of the government. Accidents in the village will not be reported to officials, and there is no need for official rulings. Their elders decide to punish them on their own. People in the mountains rarely intermarry with outsiders.

Later, although Tang Dajun suppressed these barbarians, he also suffered a lot of losses due to the high mountains and dense forests, so the government did not dare to take more care, as long as these villages paid some taxes on time every year.

After hearing this, Shi Congyun understood the situation in this area, and he also had a general understanding of these local people who were called barbarians by the army of the later Tang Dynasty.

Their population may be around [-] to [-]. They are not a small force, but they are too many and scattered, closed to the outside world, and difficult to organize. The geographical environment determines a special ecology.

Closure is a very dangerous thing for civilization, not only in the world, but also in this part of China.

The more closed the geographical unit is, the easier it is to be left behind. If you don’t maintain communication, learn from each other’s strengths, and keep pushing forward under the pressure of competition, you will be stuck in the closedness and do not try to make progress. Once you encounter a strong foreign enemy, you will be unable to stop it.

But even so, the elders in the village are considered smart, seasoned and cunning.

They must have been scared when they saw so many foreign troops. Judging by their age, the Tang army entered Shu around 30 to [-] years ago, and then fought with them. These old people must have experienced when they were forced to pay tribute, and they knew how powerful foreigners are.

So even if blood was an alliance, Shi Congyun assured them that they were not at ease. They were all human beings, and they knew that the so-called alliance was unreliable, so they just sent their granddaughter to him to be at ease.

Shi Congyun thought to himself, in order to make his fathers and villagers feel at ease, he had to sacrifice himself.

So it was delayed for another half a day, and when Shi Congyun's army marched on the road, the forward Pan Mei probably led the troops to Chengdu.

During this section of the road, Shi Congyun didn't ride a horse anymore, but went to ride with the little girl in the carriage. His coach's shaft carriage was very spacious, but the road was a little bumpy.

Shi Congyun couldn't wait to ask the little girl's name, but the little girl sat nervously next to him and couldn't answer for a while, maybe she didn't understand well.

In order to make her not nervous, Shi Congyun tried, picked up the light and petite little girl easily, put it on his lap, and continued to communicate patiently.

If those soldiers or generals outside dared not even remember his orders clearly, Shi Congyun would have yelled at him a long time ago.

But it was different when facing a beautiful and cute little girl. Dashuai Shi's patience doubled in an instant, and he even patiently taught her to speak Daliang Mandarin.

After all, as long as it is for the benefit of the lower body, a man's patience is beyond imagination, and he is impulsive regardless of the cost.

Anyway, nothing happened on the way to Chengdu, so Shi Congyun simply started teaching her how to speak and communicate with her seriously.

The little girl was very nervous and obedient, she didn't get rid of his embrace, she gently pulled his sleeves, and slowly raised her beautiful peach eyes, daring to look directly at him.

Those beautiful eyes are like a pool of spring water, rippling with charming light in simplicity, if not for Grand Marshal Shi, who galloped across the north and south, he would be considered a veteran in the battlefield, almost couldn't control it, and ruined a lifetime of wisdom.

He always thought that he was the most handsome man in Daliang City, probably because of his beauty and affinity, and gradually the little girl became less nervous.

After teaching him all the way, he gradually became able to communicate smoothly after two days.

The little girl said that everyone in the village called her "Hua Wazi" because everyone said she was the most beautiful flower in all the villages.

Shi Congyun thought it was too vulgar, so he asked her surname, and she said her surname was Huang, but she was only 14 years old, and her grandfather hadn't given her a name yet.

Shi Congyun was overjoyed, and immediately felt a shudder down his spine like a conditioned reflex, but soon realized that there were no policemen here, and became ecstatic again.

"Then I'll call you Huang Hua? It doesn't sound good. Let's call you Little Huang Hua first. When you're 16, I'll give you a nice name."

The little girl nodded, and Shi Congyun felt that she was rubbing forward, and when he lowered his head, he found that she was gently supporting the seat of the carriage with her hands.

"Why, I'm afraid I think you are too important." Shi Congyun teased her.

The little girl shook her head honestly: "No, I'm afraid that Alang's legs will hurt from sitting. I've been sitting for a long time."

Shi Congyun and Xiao Huanghua looked at each other for a while with beautiful and innocent peach blossom eyes, and suddenly felt that Mrs. Huarui's affairs were not important anymore, just looking at them was enough, although he originally wanted to conquer Shu for the sake of world affairs, and never thought about Mrs. Huarui.

On April [-]th, the army was less than forty miles away from Chengdu. Shi Congyun ordered to stop and reorganize, restore organization, and at the same time emphasize the discipline after arriving in Chengdu.

He also sent people to contact the East Route Army, and sent envoys to Chengdu to persuade him to surrender.

Chengdu is different from all the cities he has been to before. It is definitely a place of dreams for many people when the world is peaceful, because geography determines the entire Sichuan, and it is all for the sake of holding a bright pearl, and that is Chengdu.

In the whole of Shu, there are high mountains on the outside, large hills and a few high mountains on the inside, and Chengdu and its vicinity are the only real plains.

At the same time there are three rivers that flow into the Yangtze near Chengdu.

God doesn't seem to care much about fairness. All the favorable conditions of time and place in the entire Shu area converge in Chengdu, and its periphery is mostly hills and mountains.

The construction of water conservancy in the Qin Dynasty created the Chengdu Plain. It is destined that as long as it develops, Chengdu will be nourished by the entire Shu land and become a prosperous and large city.

From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, and Ming Dynasty, Chengdu has been a large and prosperous city in the world.

Until the end of the Ming Dynasty, the entire Sichuan region was almost completely wiped out. Later, the Qing Dynasty encouraged people to emigrate, and a large number of people from all over the world flocked to Sichuan.

A large number of new Sichuanese from all over the world have no roots in Sichuan, and it takes a long time to get used to it. After that, Sichuan fell into decline, and it took hundreds of years to start to recover.

Shi Congyun paid special attention to Chengdu, because the essence of Shu was in Chengdu.

The geographical environment here is not like those places in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River. Those places have their own advantages, and there are many livable flat lands. Almost every city has its own competitiveness.

In Sichuan, except for Yuzhou (Chongqing) at the confluence of various rivers in the east, it can compete with Chengdu a little bit. Other places are completely unable to compete with Chengdu in terms of geographical location, terrain, livability, transportation, etc., resulting in Chengdu will inevitably gather the wealth, resources, and population of the entire Shu region.

If Chengdu is destroyed, then half of the Shu Kingdom will be gone. If half of the Shu Kingdom is gone, he will lose half of the attack on Shu, and he will not have enough food and pay to fight against the Northern Han and Khitan.

So Shi Congyun didn't care about educating his little yellow flower, put her in his own clean clothes, and put her in his big tent.

Then he personally led his own soldiers to patrol the battalions on horseback. The North Route Army now has 82 battalions with the expanded Shu Army. It was very tiring, but he was still tireless.

Repeatedly emphasizing the military discipline after approaching Chengdu, this also made the soldiers of the Shu army who had just surrendered and reorganized support him more.

In fact, whether soldiers have combat effectiveness is mostly determined by the overall environment. The performance of Shu soldiers in Shu is very hip, which can be described as vulnerable. But in history, after Zhao Kuangyin took Shu, he transferred many Shu soldiers to the border. The consideration of preventing rebellion in the Shu region can still be fought after the border is tempered.

Therefore, Shi Congyun is not afraid of the dishes of the Shu soldiers. The dishes can be practiced. The key is to win the hearts of the people. As long as the soldiers are willing to fight for him like Dang Jin, no one has two arms and one head. Just give him a knife and go crazy. Ordinary people like him can scare a general like Dad.

And along the way, Shi Congyun discovered that because of the different military songs, there are unexpected benefits.

Because Zhou Jun and the newly adapted Shu Jun had a louder voice than anyone else because of fighting songs all the way, they unexpectedly expressed some feelings inexplicably, and the gap was eliminated a lot.

Thinking about it, everyone comes from all over the world, with different dialects, can't write, can't communicate, and naturally nervous, when nervous, they instinctively want to hug each other for warmth, and reject people with different accents, so the gap will come out.

If everyone sings together and compares their voices together, it is an alternative communication that eliminates the barriers of dialects.

So Shi Congyun specially summoned the commanders and the civil servants of the Privy Council for a special meeting, and asked the civil servants of the Privy Council to teach the soldiers to recite more songs, and to organize the soldiers to fight more songs when the command mission usually does not fight.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not quite understanding, but Shi Congyun demanded to be tough, and said directly: "You guys know nothing, just let me execute it."

Everyone agreed.

Chengdu is not only a city, but also a huge settlement centered on Chengdu City, with many towns and villages on the periphery. In terms of the scale of the city and its surrounding villages and towns, Jinling and Daliang City are not rivals at this time.

After the army marched towards Chengdu, Shi Congyun asked the Jiannan Army, which was adapted from the Shu army, to lead the main force behind him, so as to appease the people in the periphery and tell them not to panic.

Also because of this trick, the Kingdom of Shu originally deployed some stubborn resistance troops in post stations and bridges outside the city of Chengdu, but when they saw their own people coming, they all surrendered and made way.

So by April 3th, more than [-] troops from Zhou Junbei Road had pushed to three miles of the main city wall of Chengdu without any hindrance.

Some villages and towns on the outskirts close to the city wall also became the logistics camps and field hospitals of the Zhou army. The craftsmen of the Shenhuo Army started traditional arts, cutting wood to make siege equipment.

Let alone whether it is necessary or not, it will cause huge psychological pressure on the defenders of the city and the emperor of the Shu Kingdom in the city, and at the same time be prepared.

On that day, the main force of Li Chuyun's army on the East Road also went north from Suizhou (Suining), and people have been sent to meet and contact him. The forward Xiaoxiang Army (Changsha Garrison) and Jingnan Army (Jiangling Garrison) will soon arrive at the foot of Chengdu City and join the North Army Army .

Shi Congyun was so excited that Dama led hundreds of soldiers to gallop close to Chengdu City to have a look. Looking at the high Chengdu City Wall in the distance, the flags could be seen clearly, and the panicked figures on the top of the city had already won the victory.

Compared with Wang Quanbin in history, Shi Congyun is slower.

The main reason is that he has great power and can decide the policy and strategy of this battle.

So he didn't want to beat up Chengdu to pieces, and beat Shu to the ground. This time the troops were sent out differently from the past. He didn't spend much time fighting, but he spent a lot of time appeasing the local people and recruiting the Shu army, so that progress was made. Not so fast.

As for Chengdu City, Shi Congyun also had a plan in mind.

He didn't want to fight. It would be best for Meng Chang to take into account the overall situation and leave Chengdu intact to him. If he was really forced to attack and destroy the city, Shi Congyun would definitely chop off Meng Chang's head.

On the contrary, if he is sensible, I don't care if he goes to Daliang to be an An Le Gong.

(End of this chapter)