Fenghou

Chapter 48 Jiang Gan
Tao Shuang was in his early fifties. During the Jianyan period, he served as Sima of Pingliang Mansion. After the Jin soldiers captured Pingliang Mansion, Tao Shuang surrendered to the Jin soldiers and was appointed as the governor of Pingliang Mansion, in charge of government affairs.
He happened to escort thousands of sheep to the Jinbing camp today, Wanyan Wulu simply let him go into the city to persuade the enemy general to surrender.

Of course, if Wanyan Wulu knew that the chief general of the Song army was Chen Qing who beheaded Wanyan Loushi, he would never have sent someone to persuade him to surrender.

Although Tao Shuang was extremely reluctant, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and come to Jiandao Pass.

A Song soldier blindfolded him with a black cloth and led him towards the barracks.

Not long after, Tao Shuang was brought into a room, and the black cloth was taken off for him. The soldier said to him, "Please wait a moment, the commander will deal with some matters, and he will be here soon."

Tao Shuang was really uneasy, but it was a little better than before, at least the general was willing to see him, and did not directly order him to be pushed out and beheaded.

At this time, a soldier who looked like a teenager came in with a plate containing a glass of water.

Tao Shuang glanced at the glass in surprise, there was only half a glass of water in the glass.

He asked inexplicably: "Why is there only one in this cup?"

"It's good to have this water to drink." The young soldier put the cup in front of him dissatisfied.

Tao Shuang didn't dare to drink it. If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. How can anyone entertain guests with only a little water? What if there is poison in it?
The soldier licked his lips and said timidly, "If my husband doesn't drink, can you reward me?"

"If you want to drink, take it!"

The soldier grabbed the cup, gulped it down in two gulps, with an intoxicated expression on his face.

"Why, you don't have enough water to drink like this?"

"It's hard to say, each of us only has this little water every day."

"why?"

The soldier was silent, Tao Shuang asked again: "How old are you, and where are you from?"

"The villain is fifteen years old, from Chencang County, Fengxiang Prefecture."

"You and my wife are from the same town! She is from Huangxi Township, Chencang County."

"It's next door to my house! I'm from Fengwei Township."

"I've been there. There is a Fengwei Mountain there. The scenery is pretty good, especially the river, which is crystal clear."

"My house is at the foot of Fengwei Mountain. The river that my husband mentioned is called Cangshui, and it flows past my house."

"Who else is in your family?"

"My parents are here!"

"Your parents are here, you are still so young, why do you want to join the army?"

Xiao Bing said in a low voice for a long time: "Dad fell ill last year and owed a huge debt. In order to pay off the debt, he fought with General Chen and gave three taels of silver."

Tao Shuang suddenly found an opportunity, he took out ten taels of silver and handed it to Xiao Bing, "Here is this for you, take it back to pay off the debt!"

"No! No! No! I can't have it."

"You can take it if you want. My wife is from the same town as you, and you might even know your parents."

"Thank you, Mr. Xiang!"

Xiaobing held the silver tightly, the excitement in his heart could not be concealed, he turned around and quietly stuffed it into his arms.

Tao Shuang could see these details clearly. He was well versed in the world and knew very well in his heart that this little soldier had been bought by him.

"Little brother, can you tell me why there is only this little water?"

The little soldier sighed and said: "A few days ago, the Jin soldiers attacked and burned the city, and the warehouse was set on fire. Everyone fetched water to fight the fire, and finally put out the fire. The next day, they found that the spring water had been cut off, and there was only half a pool of water left. We drank for seven or eight days. General Chen has been digging wells everywhere these days, but he couldn’t find a drop of water, even in the pine forest to the south. , but more than a thousand people came today, the water was already tight, and everyone complained."

"What is your general doing? Why didn't you see me?"

"Just now Jin Bing put in a lot of orders, the general led people to search, all the orders must be turned in, anyone who dares to hide it will be killed!"

Tao Shuang understood. It turned out that he had gone to search for the letter of surrender.

At this moment, there was a commotion outside, and a general angrily said: "I ordered all the forms to be handed over, and those who disobeyed the order will be beheaded. As a dignified leader, you don't lead by example and hide the letter of surrender. What do you want to do?" ?”

Tao Shuang hurried to the door, and saw dozens of soldiers holding torches in the distance, and a general of the Song Army was kneeling on the ground, his hands were tied behind his back, and his helmet had been knocked off. "

"Commander, I can't read, I want to know what is written on it? That's why I hid one."

"fart!"

General Song Jun said angrily: "You think I will believe you? Bring it up!"

A scribe was brought up and stood aside tremblingly.

General Song Jun asked: "Did he ask you to read to him the content on the list?"

"Have!"

"Hmph! What else do you have to say now?"

Those who were tied back were all desperate, and he said loudly: "All brothers know that Jiandao Pass will be captured sooner or later. Now that there is no water, everyone persuades the commander to retreat, but the commander refuses to agree, thinking that everyone Don't know what's on your mind?"

The chief general of the Song army said gloomyly: "What do you want to say?"

"Everyone knows that you want to use this to get promoted, but you can't climb up by stepping on the corpses of your brothers!"

The general of the Song army slapped the face hard, and ordered: "Drag it down, cut it off!"

Several soldiers dragged the general on the ground and left. The general struggled and shouted: "The surname is Chen. We are all raised by our parents. We have parents, wives and children in our family. Brothers don't want to die. You can't do this. Ah!" Then there was a scream.

After a while, a soldier came forward with a plate. On the plate was a human head, which seemed to be the general just now.

"General, Hong Du's head has been beheaded!"

"Hang it on the top of the wall, whoever dares to surrender will be executed together!"

Tao Shuang was horrified by the sight, walked back to the room and asked, "Is this your chief general?"

Xiao Bing nodded, "You are here to persuade him to surrender! I advise you not to think about it."

"why?"

"Wanyan Loushi died at the hands of my general, do you think he will surrender?"

"Ah! Is he Chen Qing?"

"Exactly!"

Tao Shuang hated it very much. After fighting for so long, Wanyan Wulu actually didn't even know who his opponent was, and even sent himself to persuade him to surrender. It's really funny!
At this time, a soldier outside shouted, "The commander is here!"

The little soldier turned pale with fright, and sneaked out quickly.

Chen Qing strode into the room, Tao Shuang hurriedly saluted, "See General?"

"You surrendered to the Kingdom of Jin?"

Tao Shuang sighed and said, "No one wants to surrender to the Kingdom of Jin, but if we don't surrender, the Jin soldiers will massacre the city. For the common people, we can only endure the humiliation!"

"Hmph! All the officials who surrendered use this as an excuse. I've heard it a lot, but whether you surrender or not has nothing to do with me, and I can't care so much. You go tell Wanyan Ulu that you can attack the city if you have the ability, don't It's useless to do these small tricks!"

"The next official must convey it."

"Also, I want to ask, is there any movement from Liu Qi in Jingzhou?"

Tao Shuang shook his head, "There is no movement?"

Chen Qing sneered, "I don't think so!"

Before Tao Shuang could speak, Chen Qing waved his hand, "Go back! Tell Wanyan Wulu that he has the ability to go to Guanzhong on Jingyuan Road, and it is wishful thinking to pass by me!"

In the Jinbing tent, after listening to Tao Shuang's detailed narration, the water in the Guancheng will be cut off, the hearts of the soldiers are unstable, and internal strife has already appeared.

Wanyan Wulu was very proud, he stroked his beard and said to the generals: "Now you understand why I know that the opponent's city is full of stone buildings, but I still use fire to attack the opponent's city, just to consume the opponent's water. I just realized that the water source was cut off by us, I can imagine their dumbfounded looks on the spot, haha!"

All the generals bowed together and praised: "Marshal is wise!"

Wanyan Wulu was very useful, and he said again: "But we really didn't expect that our opponent would be Chen Qing, everyone, his head is worth [-] yuan! He can also seal ten thousand households. This is done by the wolf lord himself. Offering a reward, this opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune depends on whether everyone can seize it."

All the generals in the big tent screamed excitedly, Wanyan Wulu glanced at Han Chang and saw that Han Chang was silent and thoughtful, so he snorted and said, "General Han is thinking about something different?"

What he meant was that he was blaming Han Chang for not keeping up with his own train of thought?

Han Chang hurriedly bowed and said, "I was wondering why Chen Qing mentioned Liu Kai. Did Liu Kai take the opportunity to attack Pingliang Mansion? The commander-in-chief had better remind General Chizhanhui to prevent being attacked by Liu Kai's army!"

"It makes sense. I did want to mention Chi Zhanhui, but when Chen Qing mentioned Liu Kai, he was actually testing whether we had the intention of taking the Jingyuan Road. Later, he simply made it clear that he wanted us to take the Jingyuan Road. , that way, he can really walk upwards stepping on the bones of his soldiers."

"Then what is the commander-in-chief going to do next?"

Wanyan Wulu really hoped that his strategy of cutting off water would be successful in the end. Since he had made a good start, he should stick to it so that the Song army would collapse without fighting because of the complete water cut off.

Of course, this is also the essence of Chen Qing's "Jiang Gan's strategy", which successfully convinced Wanyan Wulu that the Song army was trapped in a water shortage and would be completely cut off in a few days.

It was Chen Qing's real intention to hold back the golden soldiers on the West Road and buy time for Wu Jie.

Wanyan Wulu stroked his beard happily and said: "Since his water storage can't last for a few days, we might as well wait for him for another ten days, until his army retreats without fighting and the water is exhausted. Of course, continue to attack with fire. Give me ten days of continuous attack, and let them have no peace for a moment."

"Ah!" Han Chang was taken aback, and quickly reminded: "I'm afraid that the battle with Monk Yuan won't last so long."

Wanyan Wulu said coldly: "Isn't Wanyan Meili going to confront the Song army? It's normal to have a confrontation for several months, not to mention that it's only ten days, and he can't wait?"

"But Wu Jie may not be willing to confront. Besides, Chen Qing can go to Wujia Town to fetch water. A cavalryman can fetch more than a dozen bags of water, and even use a donkey cart to pull water. How can the water source be cut off?"

Wanyan Wulu's face suddenly became extremely ugly. After a long while, he glanced at Han Chang coldly and said, "I just hope you understand that I am the coach, and I have the final say in this big tent!"

After speaking, he snorted heavily, turned and left.

(End of this chapter)