Water Margin farming to become powerful

Neither Wanyan Zongbi nor his father Wanyan Aguda was too surprised when his fourth brother Wanyan Zongjie's negotiation failed in Shandong.

Wanyan Zongjie's ability is not outstanding among the talents of Aguda's descendants. Because of the rapid rise of the Jurchen clan, the Jurchen nobles still attach great importance to such descendants who do not have much ability. There are too many positions for them to fill. , it is much more comfortable to give these positions to the Jurchen royal family than to outsiders.

Even the most humble servant army among the Jurchen tribe who rose up with Aguda has now been assigned to him big responsibilities in a state and a government. It is really because there are too many vacancies in personnel. I am not afraid that there will be no positions, but I am afraid that there will be no positions. People to fill.

Otherwise, given Wanyan Zongjie's abilities, how could he be entrusted with such an important matter as his mission to Shandong?

It’s no surprise that this guy didn’t get any good results after his mission to Shandong. According to Wanyan Zongbi’s father’s inquiry, it was probably a Han Chinese person next to Wanyan Zongjie who made a mistake in translating that caused the negotiation to break down. Wanyan Aguda had already killed the Han Chinese. The entire family was killed, and even the translator was beheaded after returning to the Kingdom of Jin.

As for the North China Supervisory Council's failure to negotiate, just let Wanyan Zongbi lead the troops to fight. This is not a big deal among the Jurchen nobles.

Wanyan Zongbi and others arrived at the border of Youzhou yesterday evening. Without any delay, they just asked the local Khitan officials about the situation in Youzhou and then directly marched into the Youzhou area.

Before entering Youzhou, Wanyan Zongbi didn't take the Supervisory Committee's armed forces in the North China base at all. He started fighting against the Liao people when he was ten years old, and he had always scorned the fighting power of the Khitans.

According to those Khitan people, their army's combat capabilities were actually able to crush the Han army. Even this time when Wanyan Zongbi wanted to lead people to annihilate the North China base area, the Khitan's servant army heard that several generals took the initiative to follow them. It looks like he wants to go to the North China base area to make contributions.

This also proves that other people are really armed with a mentality of looking down on the Han people.

Such a performance inevitably made Wanyan Zongbi feel even less threatened by the supervisory committee's armed forces in the North China base.

When entering the North China base area, Wanyan Zongbi also had the idea in his mind that he could easily capture this place.

At first, when they arrived at the border of Youzhou and met the first village, things went exactly as Wanyan Zongbi imagined.

The village did not offer any resistance at all. Wanyan Zongbi's troops approached the village for more than 100 steps. After finding that there was no sound in the village, they were able to confirm that there were no hostile people in the village. For safety, he sent Khitan servants to the village. When he went to the village to check the situation, Wanyan Zongbi was waiting outside the village for the news from the Khitan people.

But then something strange happened. After the Khitan people entered the village, there was no movement for a long time. It was not until Wanyan Zongbi became impatient with waiting that a Khitan nobleman ran out and said to Wanyan Zongbi with a face full of shame. There was no one in the village at all.

Wanyan Zongbi was a little confused, thinking that the Khitan nobleman had lied to him, and he asked one of his subordinates Puli to go into the village to inspect, but soon after that Puli came out and said the same thing.

Wanyan Zongbi was a little confused, how could there be no one in such a big village?
The village was eerily quiet, the crops on the fields were just missing, and there were ruts left by the hasty evacuation on the ground in the village.

Another point is that nothing was left for them in the village. All the food was moved away, and even the chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep were all driven away.

Wanyan Zongbi quickly sent his men to the living room to track him down, and the news he got was that the tracks and the footprints of people and horses were heading towards the nearest county town. "This is called strengthening the wall and clearing the field. It is a common method used by the Han people to defend the city."

Hearing the words of the Liao nobles relayed by the translator, Wanyan Zongbi didn't believe it, because he had also encountered such a strong and clear country when he followed his father to attack Zhongjing of the Liao Kingdom, but where could he see such a clean one?
There are still some people in those so-called strong and clear villages who have not been able to evacuate, and since they are trying to gather supplies together to escape, the people must be panicked and will be easily overtaken. I have never seen such a large number of soldiers arrive. Just silently.

The Liao generals who came with Wanyan Zongbi were not surprised by this. According to them, the Han people were highly obedient and listened to the government. If the Han army was determined to strengthen the walls and clear the country, they could often do things very cleanly.

Wanyan Zongbi was doubtful and asked one of his men, Puli, to follow the people's evacuation team for a while. Puli came back to report that he had not seen any dropped goods or households along the way. Wanyan Zongbi asked Puli again. Did the rut marks on the cars inside change from deep to shallow?

Pu Li told Wanyan Zongbi that the sparseness of the ruts and horse hoof prints were almost the same along the way, and the direction of the people and horses had never changed, and they had always been approaching Wanping County.

Wanyan Zongbi immediately felt that something was wrong.

"This group of people evacuated in an orderly manner, and there was no quarrel along the way..."

Wanyan Zongbi immediately ordered one of his men from Puli to send out a detective horse to investigate from a distance. No matter how powerful the supervisory committee was, it would be impossible to calculate that they had arrived near Zhuangzi by fortune telling. There must have been unscrupulous people along the way to report the news to them, otherwise they would have arrived in advance. The evacuation would not have been done so well.

After a dozen or so cavalrymen from Puli went out for a long time, they said that they had not detected any trouble, so Wanyan Zongbi asked them to go out to a range of five miles, and this time they finally made some gains.

Just a quarter of an hour ago, Puli shot and killed an enemy of the Supervisory Committee. The man was actually wearing grass-green clothes and a white hat. He was wrapped in a pile of dead grass. The place where he was shot was It was on the edge of a snow-covered cliff. From a distance, it looked like a clump of dead grass in the snow. If you hadn't looked carefully, you wouldn't have been able to spot that person.

According to Puli, who killed him, there was a close sound of footsteps on the mountain after the Supervisory Committee soldier was shot to death, which must have meant that his companions were evacuating from the mountain.

Wanyan Zongbi personally checked the equipment of the supervisory committee soldier and found that this guy was only equipped with a musket and bayonet, and he was also holding a standard telescope.

Wanyan Zongbi picked up the exquisite telescope and tried it out, nodded and said, "With such equipment, no wonder he can spy on our whereabouts from a distance."

The Khitan generals under Wanyan Zongbi also came to see them, and then expressed their intention to rush to Wanping County as soon as possible.

"Although this Supervisory Committee can make some small plans, what can we do if we encounter a large number of soldiers attacking the border? We have a lot of people. As long as we capture Wanping County, the North Pass of Youzhou, it will be a big opening."

Wanyan Zongbi nodded, but looking at the soldier of the protection army who was shot to death by an arrow but still remained lying in the snow to conduct reconnaissance, he still had a strange feeling in his heart.

(End of this chapter)