The Rise of the Marquis

Chapter 57

The fog in the morning has not completely dissipated, and the vision of the Red Mountain in the distance has gradually dissipated, and some reddish mist still pervades the mountains.

Nearby, the fields at the foot of the mountain and the river are withered and yellow, and many birds are up and down. Curious children are picking up ears of wheat in the fields with baskets on their backs, and they are looking here curiously.

Across a knee-deep creek is the avenue outside the post station. The main road is very spacious to the east, leading to Maling City, and to the south is a trail that winds and turns along the southern hillside.

The soldiers lined up neatly along the avenue outside the post station. The sound of armor rubbing together with the sound of footsteps sounded like rhythmic and neat slapping, and the rustling sound was endless.

In the distance, the banner of the vanguard on the hillside was swaying in the wind. From time to time, someone shouted loudly into the valley, which caused a burst of laughter. I didn’t know that they were not going to fight but to go sightseeing.

The long line did not advance along the avenue, but went southward along the winding mountain road.

This marching route was not only for the common people, but even the soldiers were a little surprised, because at first the Marquis sent troops to attack the border post in Maling, and he heard that many Maling people were killed, and many people were a little flustered. At the same time, he also felt that the Marquis might continue Attack Maling.

Unexpectedly, most of the people nowadays are going to the Heyin boundary.

Wang Jian rode a tall horse and stood at the fork in the east of the post station, watching the soldiers go away.

The news is complete, and Lord Wu An has sent troops to the north to assist him.

Wang Jian made up his mind to send troops. If you look at human history, you will find a very naked problem, that is, if you can’t win in the military, any intrigues are just castles in the air, and tricks and calculations are just icing on the cake of military strength, so everything depends on winning. The purpose, whether Marquis Wu'an really sent troops is of great significance to him.

Even if he did not launch an attack, he would have to restrain Malingcheng's manpower and war resources in order to make his attack in Heyin smoother.

Wang Jian talked with Shi Zuoqiu Fufeng, the commander of the highest-ranking prisoner-of-war mansion in Maling yesterday. After the orderly arrangement and very professional construction of the granary, Wang Jian became very interested in his people.

Knowing these facts is not easy at all.

Later, he heard his army commander, Shi Sun Difang, say that Zuoqiu Fufeng was also a student of Jixia Academy. Since then, he has been very curious, always wanted to meet him, and at the same time wanted to poach him to his side. Nowadays, there are not many people who are knowledgeable and can write well.

At the beginning, he wanted to say something homely, let the other party relax first, and then gradually made demands, mixing one or two important words among the ten gossips. At the same time, he also arranged to meet after he was full. The distribution of blood and oxygen to the digestive system will lead to brain ischemia and hypoxia, causing drowsiness and lack of concentration, so that he will be more likely to gain the upper hand in a tense game.

In the end, none of these methods were used, because this person was actually an apprentice of the younger generation of Xunzi, the sage of the Spring and Autumn Period, and a master he respected and recognized most.Wang Jian also knew for the first time that Xunzi was the sage master of Jixia Academy, and the theory of Xunzi in this world is the same as that of later generations. , From Xunzi's theory to the world.

In the end, Wang Jian just gave him a step, and everything came to fruition. Zuoqiu Fufeng agreed to stay and help him.

In addition, during the conversation with Zuoqiu Fufeng, Wang Jian also got some other information. Regarding the clichéd question, Zuoqiu Fufeng had a different version of the tragic war between Zhao State and Zhongshan State seven years ago. At that time, he served as the commander-in-chief of the Maling Army, responsible for coordinating the logistics and deployment of the army camp.

In his mouth, Zhao's army was in full swing at first, and Ma Ling's army used small warships to carry tiger guards on the defense line he was in charge of to cross the river at night and snatch the beach. Continuously crossing Linshui, the Zhongshan people gradually retreated. They had advanced more than 30 miles to the east bank and burned many enemy outposts and two large camps.

But after that, the Ma Ling army did not attack violently again, because Ma Linggong did not want to weaken his own strength by paying too many casualties, which would make other Zhengqing and princes threaten him; The most profitable ones are the princes of Zhao State in the north and west of Linshui, so there is no need to fight for their interests desperately.

So in the following time, the Ma Ling army built camps and stood firm.

The Zhongshan people are short in stature, with slender arms, and are good at climbing and archery, but they have nothing to do with the high wall outside their camp and a terrifying dragon crossbow controlled by a warlock. Multiple corpses did nothing.

But what happened afterwards became elusive, even Zuoqiu Fufeng frowned when he said it.

He wondered if the Zhongshan people sacrificed some evil spirits, or summoned the gods or something like that.
Anyway, in the last 30 days or so of the war, first the news of successive defeats on the fronts in charge of other Zhengqing came, and then Zuoqiu Fufeng dictated that he actually saw the wings of the eldest son of the Zhongshan native, with a ferocious and terrifying appearance. Clouds hovered high above the camp and over the mountain peaks looking down on them.

He suspected that his eyes were dazzled, and the terrifying bird was too high and was often blocked by mountains. He also suspected that he had seen it wrong.

But what happened afterwards was real. On a dark night with a moonlight, the sky was cold and light raining, the road was muddy, the torches in the camp were sparse, and the soldiers rested early, but those Zhongshan people came in. After the sentinel issued a panic warning Everyone was stunned instantly. The walls outside their camp had been operated for more than a hundred days, and the shortest part was more than two feet. It was raining outside and the walls were slippery. How did they come in!
In a panic, by the light of the fire, Zuoqiu Fufeng described the most horrifying scene in his life. Those Zhongshan people had hollow faces, climbing walls and sentry towers like apes, and the strange postures they showed could hardly be called human beings. They climbed over the sentry tower in large numbers, the outer wooden wall, their necks clenched like wild beasts and apes, their limbs stuck to the wall or hung on the wood, and they quickly climbed over the high wall several feet high, and they were in waves of killing camps.

He also saw the soldiers of Zhongshan Kingdom directly biting their people like wild beasts. The camp was in a panic, and then they fled overnight in the panic. In the evening, they were driven out of the camp by the terrifying Zhongshan people, until early the next morning, when they crossed the pontoon bridge, they looked back and saw thick smoke billowing on the opposite side, and the fire was soaring into the sky, knowing that the Zhongshan people had burned down their camp, and one night, they died More than 100 people and nearly 200 people are still missing.

Then Ma Linggong immediately ordered the pontoon bridge to be burned to block the Zhongshan people, and he did not provoke the Zhongshan army on the other side who did not know if they were human until the end of the war, because Ma Linggong did not have much determination to fight.

After hearing what Zuoqiu Fufeng said, Wang Jian fell into deep thought. This was already the description he had heard from other people. It seemed that the war seven years ago had become confusing. It's been established that the world has his deja vu, but also seems to be full of secrets.
(End of this chapter)