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Chapter 541 Confessions (addition 411 for the silver lord "niema")

"what!"

Hu Sansheng screamed and turned over suddenly, his forehead was completely soaked with sweat.

He dreamed of Meng Zu with fierce eyes.

Chasing him down until the dream...

"Brother Jing Shen is awake?" Zan Wanshou turned over and asked with concern, "Are you alright?"

"I... am I still alive?"

"Brother Jing Shen, what are you talking about?" Zan Wanshou said, "Brother Xin dragged you back. It happened last night. You sat all day and only fell asleep two hours ago."

Hu Sansheng panted and asked, "Where is this?"

"Da Sanguan, I really don't remember?"

Someone handed Hu Sansheng a water bag.

He looked up and saw that it was Lu Xiufu.

"Junshi, you are still alive..."

Yang Qixin lit a candle, this is a military room, and there are still four of them in the same tent.

Hu Sanxing drank his saliva, and finally remembered.

A Mongolian army charged in front of him, he was dragged by Yang Qixin, and pulled into the line, and then everything was strange.

……

"Actually, at that time, if someone hadn't messed up, they would have had time to enter the city." Zan Wanshou said: "The Mongolian soldiers who rushed in were all brave men. When more than 100 people killed Li Shuai, there were only three left."

"Three people?"

Hu Sansheng didn't believe it, he clearly remembered that at least tens of thousands of Mongolian troops were killed in front of him.

It felt very strange, but he was sure of it.

"Only three people." Zan Wanshou was more sure, and said: "One of them couldn't kill Li Shuai, so he continued to rush in and kill randomly. As a result, you... we were in chaos, and he killed eight officials in a row."

"Just one person?"

"Yes." Zan Wanshou said: "That's how it is when you're defeated, you lose your mind. Brother Jing Can... you're considered calm."

Hu Sanxing bowed his head and remained silent.

Zan Wanshou said: "Even some battle-tested veterans will rush indiscriminately when they are defeated, and some even kill their own people. Brother Jing Shen is really calm."

Hearing his sincerity, Hu Sanxing just breathed a sigh of relief, feeling a little relieved.

"The Mongols are too fierce."

"The ones we met were not Mongols." Zan Wanshou said, "Most of them are from the Batu Lu army. In order to be Mongols, they are not afraid of death."

Now that the four of them were awake, they didn't sleep anymore, talking in low voices about this thrilling battle for them.As everyone knows, in the eyes of the enemy general, this battle is just for fun.

When the sky was slightly bright, the drums in the camp sounded, and there was a faint noise...

~~
"Please Li Jieshuai give me an explanation, and give an explanation to the colleagues who died in battle!"

"Even if Li Jieshuai has the right to restrain us, he has absolutely no reason to let us die on purpose..."

"..."

Li Xia had just left the camp in armor when he was greeted by a group of officials.

But only three or five people dared to shout at him.

After all, no matter how dissatisfied he is in his heart, Li Xia's official position is here, and if he offends him, he may not be able to get along in the officialdom in Sichuan and Shu.

Perhaps, they did not intend to continue to be officials in Hanzhong, and they wanted Li Xia not to come to Taiwan.

It would be nice if it could damage the prestige of Ding Qingpi's henchmen a little.

"At dawn, the Mongolian army is going to attack again. Are you going to talk to me now?"

"Li Jieshuai wants to avoid it but can't talk about it? Eight court officials died, and a single explanation..."

"Want to explain?" Li Xia said, "Okay, I'm very disappointed in you."

Lu Xiufu came out of the camp, and when he heard this sentence, he paused, thinking of many words that Zan Wanshou had said.

"Li Shuai is attracting troops from the Mongolian army... Some troops are sent to protect us... Only one person disrupts us..."

He looked at Li Xia, and suddenly felt that this disappointment was natural.

……

"This is Hanzhong and Sichuan."

Li Xia didn't speak to the three or five officials. When he spoke, he looked around at the officials who had just come out of the camp.

"This is not your picturesque misty Jiangnan, here is where people will die. Otherwise, why is Hanzhong so withered?"

"Since Mongolia's southern strategy, tens of millions of people have died in Sichuan and Shu, from Hanzhong to Chengdu to Chongqing. Why don't you go and ask for an explanation?"

"This is not false, but the real thing... Tens of millions of people were slaughtered. We came here to give an account."

"I am unable to describe to you what it was like. Comforter Zhu told me once that he walked out of 140 million corpses in Chengdu when he was a child, and he was the only one who survived."

"He said...the road was very slippery. Because the entire city of Chengdu was killed, the corpses were piled up in mountains and set on fire. The oil from the corpses flowed like a river, covering the entire street. Every step he took, he slipped and fell to the ground."

"If you describe it like this, you still don't think it's miserable, or it's not miserable enough. The words 'millions of people' are always just simple numbers."

"That's right, I deliberately brought you here to die. But if you came to Hanzhong to serve as officials, if you didn't have the determination to die, why would you come here?!"

……

Lu Xiufu closed his eyes.

After experiencing this battle personally, and listening to these, he only felt a severe pain in his heart.

He saw the soldier hit by the Mongolian fireball again.

Thinking back to the battle of 1000 people, it is still impossible to imagine what it must have been like if 140 million or tens of millions of people were massacred.

……

"There is no need for officials who are afraid of death, or officials who will only push others to escape when the captives kill them, and the people here will not offer blood to officials who cannot protect them."

"You don't need to ask me to explain, you ask yourself if you can give an explanation to the people under your rule, and then think about whether you should be an official in Hanzhong."

"Don't forget, Mengren will come again, soon."

Li Xia was always calm. After speaking, he ignored the few officials who wanted to explain and walked away.

This is Dashan Pass, Shu Dao, and Hanzhong. He is Shu Shuai, and no one can do anything to him.

He is willing to say this, just to those who are willing to listen...

~~
Soon, the shouts of killing came faintly from Guancheng in the north.

Hu Sansheng sat in the barracks for a long time, then suddenly said: "Li... Li Jieshuai said it beautifully, it's not like he hasn't stepped through the pass at all."

He didn't know why he said that.

Maybe it's because he knows he's not as courageous as a human being, but he's still a bit unconvinced.

But Zan Wanshou said: "Of course we can't go to Guanzhong. The infantry and cavalry fought in the field. How can we say... Does Jing Shen know about Fuping's defeat?"

Here are all educated people, of course they all know.

It was still in the fourth year of Jianyan, when Emperor Gaozong of Song Dynasty fled to the south, floating on the sea.Zhang Jun rushed to Hanzhong and led an army of 18 to take the initiative to attack, intending to recover the whole of Shaanxi, but was defeated.

This stupid question has no answer.

Zan Wanshou had no choice but to think to himself: "If you want to enter the Guanzhong by fighting on foot, you should wait for the danger, defend first, and attack by opportunities, and then counterattack when the time is right. Fuping's defeat is a lesson from the past..."

"If you say Li Jieshuai, just say Li Jieshuai, don't keep citing the Battle of Fuping!"

Hu Sansheng interrupted Zan Wanshou suddenly.

He shook his head and sighed, "The Battle of Fuping...there is a reason to fight."

Zan Wanshou was puzzled, and asked, "But no matter how I see it, I shouldn't hit him?"

Hu Sansheng didn't answer.

He is familiar with history books, but he knows best that if Zhang Jun hadn't taken the initiative to attack at that time, restrained the Jin army's strength, and forced the Jin army not to gather troops to go south, wouldn't it be possible for Emperor Gaozong to float on the sea all the time?

This is also the reason why Hu Sansheng doesn't like to talk to Zan Wanshou, Zan Wanshou's vision is too narrow.

In other words, now that Li Xia is in Hanzhong, he dare not go to Guanzhong to fight the cavalry.

But if one day the Mongolian army broke through the two Huaihe Rivers and headed straight for Lin'an, even if Li Xia took the Hanzhong soldiers to Guanzhong to die, he would have to fight.

What about timing and tactics?
Therefore, in the past two years, Shushuai candidates are based on whether they can stabilize the situation in Hanzhong. In the future, they must also depend on whether they have enough loyalty and whether they put the king and society first.

Hu Sansheng thought clearly, so he suddenly understood why he was not convinced by Li Xia's instinct...

Because of a 19-year-old Shu Shuai, the officials simply don't have enough time to understand his loyalty.

Li Xia is indeed able to fight and has courage, but his official career is unstable, so why should he be convinced?
But Hu Sansheng still wanted to be an official in Hanzhong, because he had promised his mother that he would be loyal to the country...

~~
Lu Xiufu has already left the barracks.

The soldiers didn't let him get close to the north wall, so he just walked around in Dashan Pass, observing and asking.

When he walked to the granary, he met Dong Kai.

"Junshi is here too."

"Uncle Zheng."

"Can you find arable land?"

"I only know that Qishan Road can be farmed on the spot, but the terrain of Chencang Road is too dangerous."

"Can only transport food from Hanzhong?"

"There's better to be another way..."

The two chatted for a few words, each with admiration in their eyes, and said goodbye again, and each continued to visit Dasanguan.

Until the day's offensive ended, Lu Xiufu guessed that Li Xia had come down from the city, and went to ask to see him.

"I know about Lu Xiufu in Nanzheng County, please see Li Jieshuai."

"Come in."

"I've seen Li Jieshuai."

There is a huge map in the room, and Li Xia is marking it according to several information.

Lu Xiufu had seen Li Xia kill people the night before, and he knew that he usually resembled Zhou Gongjin, but he fought like Lu Fengxian in battle, with both civil and military skills, and he was by no means the "handsome with a jade face" as others said.

It can be seen from this that today's sages are really sages. Although there are treacherous and incompetent people like Ding Daquan, Yu Hui, and Yuan Jie, but Meng Gong, Du Gao, Yu Jie, Li Zengbo, Wang Jian, Lu Wende... Da Song can be called a famous general Like a cloud.

Did the emperor bestow the word "Fei Yu" on Li Xia, or did he have high hopes that he would not die young like Zhou Yu?
With this thought in his mind, Lu Xiufu looked at the map again, and saw that the terrain in Guanzhong and Longxi was marked.

Liupan Mountain, Gongchang, Fengxiang...

"Li Jieshuai came out to Chencang Dao this time to find out about the war between the Mongolians?"

"It was you who clamored to come." Li Xia said.

Lu Xiufu said earnestly: "Li Jieshuai said that when you are an official in Hanzhong, you should not insinuate."

"Okay." Li Xia said, "There are three purposes here. One is to attract the attention of the Mongolian army, so that our army can gain a foothold in Dashan Pass and share the pressure of Baima, Xiegu, Luogu, Ziwu and other passes; First, to inquire about the battle of the Mongolian Khan dispute; third, let you civil officials see the blood."

Lu Xiufu looked at the map, but couldn't understand it.

It's not that he doesn't know how to read it, but that he doesn't know who the Hunduhai, Alan Da'er, Wang Liangchen, and Liu Heima are marked above.

"May I ask Li Jieshuai, who is this Mongolian army west of Longshan?"

"You can't chew too much, so you don't have to worry about it for now." Li Xia asked, "Why are you here?"

"I implore Li Jieshuai to make appointments, Xiufu will do his best. In addition, I also ask Li Jieshuai not to be disappointed with his colleagues. After all, it is the first time to enter Shu, so it is inevitable that there will be some..."

Lu Xiufu is just too serious.

But the young civil servants who came out of Anle Township in the south of the Yangtze River were able to calm down quickly when they first entered the battlefield... It's really easy to say, but few people can do it.

Li Xia then waved his hand, and said: "I know that Hanzhong is full of waste, and you are needed to contribute. After this hard work, I only hope that you can always be vigilant against the Mongolian army and hold on to the idea of ​​​​the land... Born of adversity , died in peace."

"Yes." Lu Xiufu saluted, solemnly responded, and said, "This time I can walk through Chen Cang's way, and I have benefited a lot."

Li Xia said again: "You are the magistrate of Nanzheng County, and you are in charge of the inner city of Hanzhong. You must have a good idea of ​​how to dispatch grain, grass, and materials to support the various passes in the future. Tell me, it will take a few days to transport grain from Hanzhong City to Dasan Pass. The situation? How much is the consumption on the road? How much grain should be transported every year?"

Lu Xiufu was astonished, and felt a sense of awe in his heart.

The two talked about these matters for a while, and heard another announcement.

"Dong Kai, the governor of Chengzhou, asked to see Li Jieshuai...

~~
The next day.

This group of people began to return to Hanzhong City, and the officials will soon go to the place.

After this trip, some people harbored grievances, some people benefited a lot, and their attitudes towards Li Xia also changed.

More importantly, they all knew that the Mongols were very close to them.

For a long time to come, they will never forget this fear...

~~
"When you are young, you know that the world is difficult."

Yang Qixin suddenly chanted a poem loudly.

He didn't faint again on the return trip.

But now when he reads the poem again, he truly understands the sadness in the poem, and feels that every word hits his heart.

"When I was young, I knew that the world was difficult, and the Central Plains looked north like a mountain."

"The building boat is crossing the snow in the night, and the iron horse is dispersing in the autumn wind."

"Crossing the Great Wall is empty and promises to be empty, and the temples are already stained in the mirror."

"If you become a teacher, you will be famous in the world, and who will be the best in a thousand years..."

(End of this chapter)