Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2008 Inside and Outside the Palace
Four days later, the capital had already entered the atmosphere of the Spring Festival, but a group of people in Zhangde Mansion, the northernmost tip of Henan, lurked in the wind and snow not far from the Linhe Ferry in Tangyin County.

Tangyin has a long history here, and ancestors lived there as early as the Yangshao Culture and Longshan Culture of the Neolithic Age in the primitive society.In summer, Xia Emperor Jin (Yinjia) and Kong Jia set the Xia capital as Xihe Village, 31 miles east of Tangyin County in later generations.Kong Jia also wrote "The Song of the Broken Ax" here, which became the pioneering work of "Dongyin" (Oriental music).

Since then, Tangyin has been in the center of Chinese civilization. Until the Ming Dynasty, it belonged to Zhangde Prefecture in Henan Province. It was one of the three prefectures in Henan north of the Yellow River. It was basically at the same latitude as Daming Mansion in North Zhili.

In terms of terrain, Tangyin County is dominated by plains, slender from east to west and narrow from north to south.To the west is the hills at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, and to the east is about [-] miles away from the county seat. The Huolonggang of Shikuajun and Tang counties runs through it.

Generally speaking, the plains are not a good place to lay an ambush, but the reason why Tangyin County is called Tangyin is because Tangshui traverses, and there is a ferry that travelers from north to south must pass through first after passing through Anyang.The reason why these people ambushed here has a lot to do with this element.

Why is the first ferry south of Anyang arranged?Because the person who came was Gao Wushi's concubine brother Gao Wuruo, no matter how anxious he was when he passed through Anyang, he had to go to pay homage to a place on his brother's behalf: Gao Yushi's benefactor and Xianzhong Jidian University scholar Guo Wenzhen.

Guo Pu passed away six years ago. At that time, the first stalemate was reached in the War to Aid North Korea and Anti-Japanese War. Some tacit compromises were reached with the Heart School.It can be seen from this that Gao Yu insisted on respecting teachers and emphasizing morality—at least in face, he must have done enough.

In this way, if Gao Wuruo went south this time, because Anyang was the only way to go, he had to go to worship on behalf of his elder brother.

Of course, because of the urgency of time this time, if it is impossible for Gao Wu to make a big deal, he just needs to be polite.But even that will lead to some changes.

For example, the Jinghua cavalry led by him would never go there in a big way, but separated most of them to detour and wait for the rendezvous in front. Gao Wuruo could only take a small number of entourages to Guo Pu's tomb, and then head south after paying homage. Go find the main cavalry.

In this era, crossing the river is a very troublesome thing, especially when there are a large number of cavalry who need to cross the river, it is even more troublesome. It is often necessary to arrange in advance, or collect boats to cross the river, or temporarily clear the pontoon bridge to avoid being caught. Occupy the road.

The capital sent someone to notify the group of people who set up an ambush, and knew that the cavalry was as high as [-] cavalry.In fact, this number far exceeded the half-day transportation capacity of ordinary ferries, so they judged that Gao Wuruo would probably let the main force of the cavalry be the vanguard to arrange the ships.

Here is another detail, that is, there is Qishui south of Tangshui, and the Yellow River is south of Qishui.Therefore, after arranging the transportation of Tangshui, these vanguard troops will continue to travel southward to arrange the transportation of Qishui and the Yellow River.

Fortunately, Qishui said that the arrangement of the Yellow River ferry is obviously the most critical, and it must be handled as a major event, so as not to waste too much time.And in this way, it means that after Gao Wuruo went to pay homage to Guo Pu's tomb, he would only have a small number of guards around him during the journey of about two hundred miles to the south, until he arrived at the Yellow River Ferry. Gather eight hundred riders again.

From this, the best place to set up an ambush was selected, which was Tanghe Ferry.

There are not many people who set up an ambush, and there are not many people who say they are few. It seems that there may be about 200 people.More importantly, this group of people still had horses, and judging from the condition of the horses, they had been well taken care of at ordinary times.

At this time, these horses were already picking up their bells and biting their bells. Occasionally snorting in the snow-covered forest would not let the sound be heard at the ferry several miles away.

Even though the river water at this time is logically frozen, but because the frozen ice is not enough to run horses, boats have already been arranged at the ferry, and the ice has been cut by hand, so the place is still noisy—the reason why Gao Wuruo had to send someone to deal with it in advance These things are also caused by waiting for the weather.

"This kid from the Gao family is so dawdling, if you don't come over soon, the brothers will be frozen into popsicles!" A big bearded man shouted angrily.

"Second Qiu, keep your fucking voice down!" A middle-aged scribe with a goatee gave the bearded man a dissatisfied look, and lowered his voice angrily, "We are not playing tricks here from Dongping. This battle is a major event that will determine the lives and deaths of nearly a thousand people in the whole village, if you fail because of you, even if you screw your head off and become the master of the night pot, you will not be able to pay the crime!"

As soon as this matter was mentioned, the bearded man "Second Qiu" was obviously indignant, but he still lowered his voice and replied: "Zhi Niang, since the surname Gao came up with the Jinghua security team, the brothers on the road are getting worse and worse." alive.

Thinking about how majestic our Dongping Shuizhai was back then, Anshanshuiyi, Dongyuan Mayi, and even Xinqiao Mayi, when did we not honor our tens of thousands of taels of silver?The days at that time were so prosperous!
Who knew that since we had that shit security team, these water post-horse stations have found a backer, and they actually raised money to ask the security team to wipe us out!After a few years, the water village can't stand its banner, not only can't receive money from the surrounding area, but also have to hide in the goddamn place... I really want to chop up all these shit balls one by one! "

"Ax all the Jinghua Security Team? You have to have that ability." The goatee scribe sneered, "I have sent people to visit and investigate everywhere, just in Shandong and Henan provinces. I'm afraid there are at least [-] security teams, and almost all of them are equipped with firecrackers—the same kind as the official army.

Not to mention that these people rely on the name of Gaoge Lao, and there are even some general cannons in the team-the stuff that blasted our water village back then.You're talking about it, even if you, Qiu's second son, practice kung fu all over, how many shots can you take from that thing? "

Qiu Laoer snorted coldly and ignored it at all.What kind of problem is this, but whoever is a flesh and blood can take a shot from a general?It’s not like you haven’t seen the scene where that thing directly hits a person, and a person is blown into blood foam on the spot, not to mention leaving a whole body is purely extravagant hope, in fact, you can’t even make out a human figure afterwards , It's just a puddle of meat sauce.

Seeing that he stopped talking, the goatee scribe continued: "But you don't have to be too angry, if you can kill this kid named Gao Wuruo today, it will be regarded as our revenge - he is also Gao Ge's old man no matter what. Brother, gold is precious."

"Is there an egg? It's not very pragmatic."

"Huh?" Goat Hu Scholar sneered: "That's the imperial court's 'Tianxia Literary Bravery', a real hero who killed Mongolia profusely! Even if he stands in front of you, why do you dare to disrespect him? Kill him, You deserve it too!"

Qiu Lao Er was furious when he heard the words, and stared at the copper bell: "Why don't I dare!"

"Shut up for me!" The head of the family who had been silent all this time finally couldn't help but glared at the two of them, and scolded angrily: "Mother, what time are you still arguing! Can we get enough of him? Why don't we dare to kill him... If you have time to talk nonsense, you might as well save your energy and let me take down that Gao Wuruo later, it's a bargain chips, you know!"

The head of this big boss can only be regarded as average among Shandong men, but his face looks quite fierce, and he is actually only wearing a thin jacket in winter, which shows that he is extremely strong.Although he was half a head shorter than that Qiu's second son, he had more evil spirit.As soon as he opened his mouth, neither of them dared to talk back, and each looked away.

However, Qiu Laoer seemed to be a little tongue-tied, and after a while he couldn't help but said: "Master, did my Lao Qiu remember something wrong? Didn't you say that the big man in Beijing wanted us to do Gao Wuruo directly?" Now, why does the head of the family say to take him down as a bargaining chip? This is not...not..."

The head of the family glanced at him, and asked back: "Kill him? After killing him, will the person in Jingli be willing to fulfill his promise? Can you guarantee this matter?"

"Oh, so that's how it is." Qiu Laoer suddenly realized, and nodded again and again: "Not bad, not bad, these scholars have nothing good to say, and everything they say is like farting. We really can't trust them too much."

The goat Hu literati before knew that this guy was pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, so he couldn't help but sneered and said, "It's just that soldiers never tire of cheating. In the eyes of those in the court, we are nothing but thieves. Since we are thieves, then they can do whatever they can... This reason is inherently unreasonable." , but it has been done this way since ancient times, so what is there to say?"

The head of the family glared at them again, waved his hand and said: "There is no need to discuss this matter, in short, multiple minds can't be wrong. If this Gao Wu is Gao Wushi's younger brother, even if he is a concubine, he is not an ordinary person. Someone will take care of it.

If we slapped him straight away, if the surname Shen broke his promise and became fat, not only did he not clear the case for us, but also pushed the whole matter on us, then it would be yellow mud sticking to the crotch, and it would be shit or shit.

So we have to save this guy's life. At that time, whether it's talking with the surname Shen or Gao, there will be some talks... What we want is the back road, and what we want is money, not money. Get involved in the bullshit between these people. "

Everyone felt the same, but before anyone responded, one person suddenly reminded: "The master, here comes an idea!"

The head of the family hurriedly turned his head and stretched out his hand towards the man.It turned out that the man was holding a telescope in his hand. Judging from the degree of wear and tear, it should be an early product of Jinghua, but somehow it fell into the hands of these Jianghu people.

After receiving the binoculars, the head of the family quickly looked up the official road, and sure enough, he saw thirty or forty riders riding on snow in the snow ahead. Although this group of people was marching in the cold winter, they were not slow. The horses in the house even look better than the family property they have accumulated for many years-after the Dongping Water Village was broken, they should almost become horse bandits, and they are quite confident in the horses in their hands.

"Pay attention later. These guys seem to be riding the Ujumqin horses that the Mongolians are most proud of. Try not to kill them. We need them."

"Okay!" Qiu Er Er became excited and asked, "How many people did the Gao family bring?"

"Including himself, there are a total of 37 riders." The big master did not put down the binoculars, and said while observing: "They are still four or five miles away from the ferry. When they arrive at the ferry, let's not rush to start it. Everyone drinks first." A few bites to warm up, but not too much…

When they start to get to the ferry to feed the horses to eat grass and drink water, let's touch them quietly, the closer the better, and then do it immediately.Wang Shusheng, you don’t have much skill in your hands, so you lead people to rob horses; Qiu Laoer, you accompany me to arrest people; the rest can just kill people... Remember, we only want Gao Wuruo, but everyone else wants to kill them all of. "

Everyone agreed in a low voice, and began to take out the skin bags on their waists to pour themselves wine.Drinking at this time is to warm up the body, and it is also to strengthen the courage-of course, the second reason is not mentioned by everyone.

As for warming up the body, it is different from the usual wine tasting. You have to drink in large gulps and give a greater stimulus in a short time.However, this matter can't be overdone, otherwise if you get drunk, you will be in big trouble.From this point of view, the group of people in Dongping Shuizhai are relatively experienced.

At this time, the head of the family spoke again, and ordered: "Pass it on, tell the brothers, if Gao Wu is the one wearing the fox cloak, you can tell it at a glance, so don't greet him indiscriminately."

The subordinates immediately spread the word, and now they only need to wait for Gao Wuruo and his party to arrive at the ferry, and start feeding and watering the horses as the master thought.

However, at this moment, another person suddenly hurriedly said: "Master, there is a boat coming from the south bank!"

The head of the family was taken aback immediately, and quickly turned his binoculars to look towards the south bank. Sure enough, he found a boat on the south bank heading for the ferry on the north bank.What's worse is that there are not many ships coming here. Even under the whiteness of the sky and the earth, it can be seen that at least a dozen ships are carefully approaching along the dug ice cracks.

Tanghe River is not a big river, it is just a tributary of Weishui River, so the river surface is not wide, even if the boats approaching do not dare to go too fast because of the limited ice-cracked area, but it takes a long time for a stick of incense to land. .

At this time, the head of the family took a deep breath and ordered decisively: "The situation has changed, it is not too late, let's do it immediately!" After saying that, he immediately wrapped up the "cloak" made of white cloth and used for snow camouflage, and got on his horse. , the rest of the people did not hesitate, and made the same action one after another.

More than two hundred riders were wearing white cloaks like this, and approached Gao Wuruo's party of thirty or forty riders at a fast pace.
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