Devil’s Advent

"Crazy, crazy, crazy!"

Gou Moli yelled in a low voice in the military tent.

The military order of the Commander-in-Chief has been issued, apart from Gongsun Zhi who ran to catch the "turtle" and the soldiers and horses taken away by Gong Wang, the rest of the ministries are already making preparations quickly.

Different from the previous preparations, this meant to march immediately.

As a real "high-level" person, Gou Moli naturally also received the notice, and then he immediately lost his composure, but even in his own military tent, he still didn't dare to raise his voice to shout.

After venting,

The old savage king washed his face,

Then he carefully arranged his clothes, walked out of the tent, faced the handsome tent, and sighed heavily.

OK, OK, OK,

Your family property, your family business, if you love waves, make waves.

poultry,

The big deal is that when you have nothing, you will open an inn and sleep in a stable, and you can count the stars every night with your head up!

Praise the damn stars!

this moment,

Gou Moli has a different understanding of the so-called "opening an inn".

He even wondered if the lord and those gentlemen had long wanted to open an inn in their hearts, so they deliberately didn't take the family property seriously, hoping to fake it early to fulfill that dream.

that night,

According to the order of the Marquis of Pingxi, Gou Moli led 5,000 cavalry as a vanguard army, left the town of Nanguan, and entered Shanggu County.

...

"Lighting up, back to camp, back to camp."

The people of Chu people took up their affairs one after another, left the river, and began to return to the camp.

Qian Miao, the head of the local county government, looked at the scene of the people returning from work, feeling a little helpless and a little angry.

The people's resistance to the corvee labor of "smashing ice" is from the bottom of their hearts, and in recent days, this resistance has become more and more obvious, and eventually evolved into "passive sabotage".

He intended to mobilize the officials in the county government office to punish him, but the county magistrate surnamed Jing did not allow it.

"grown ups."

"grown ups."

The two officials saluted Qian Miao, Qian Miao nodded, opened the curtain, and walked into the simple house.

In the camp, other places are either shacks or caves. It is very cold and miserable. This house is considered the best in the camp.

Of course, it is still not as comfortable as the warm kang in a real county home.

Jing Minren, the county magistrate of Xiawei County, was sitting inside making tea.

He added firewood himself, and the tea he cooked was not good tea. Although the county magistrate who came from the Jing family was better than the ordinary people from the Chu region conscripted in the camp in terms of life details, he was really beyond reproach.

After Qian Miao saw this scene, she had nowhere to vent her complaints, so she could only sit down.

"Come, drink tea."

Jing Minren handed the cup to Qian Miao.

Qian Miao picked up the teacup, blew on it, and drank a couple of sips, her body immediately felt warm.

After the Yan people attacked Chu last time, the foundation of the nobles of Great Chu was severely impacted. Next, the regent began to accept the people of Shanyue, and at the same time suppressed the nobles as much as possible to curb the comeback of these nobles in terms of local power.

The Jing family is one of the four great nobles of Chu, but the Jing family has always only paid attention to the cultural context, and the family's general situation is not great, so it can be preserved in this changing situation, and even developed to a certain extent.

It was against this background that Jing Minren came to work in Xiawei County.

"My lord, the effect of smashing ice today is only 30% of what it was at the beginning, and it's even not enough."

"I know." Jing Minren nodded, "I saw it too."

"My lord, the General's Mansion once issued a strict order that..."

"The General's Mansion is the General's Mansion, and this county is this county. Xiawei County was considered a rich county back then. It was just that a few years ago, when Quzhu State sent troops to Jindi, after several years, there were repeated wars. Our county is adjacent to the Weihe River. The most important thing is to pay food and labor, and the people's livelihood has long been exhausted.

Finally looking forward to the truce between the two countries, who would have imagined that last year, the garrisons along the Weihe River began to build villages, forts and shores.

Now, spring is just around the corner, and my office should have been preparing for spring plowing, but it has been wasted here abruptly. The lack of compassion for the people is one aspect, which has delayed spring plowing. How can we survive the new year?

Let the people take a breath, take a breath. "

Qian Miao sighed helplessly when she heard these self-confessed words.

Jing Minren smiled, and said: "Brother Qian, do you think I'm doing a woman's benevolence? Or do you think I'm trying to gain fame?"

"The lower officials dare not."

"It's nothing to be afraid of. Since the beginning of winter, in the vicinity of Wei County and several counties around me, there have been incidents of hungry people attacking the county government and gathering crowds to riot. The people have been overwhelmed.

It's not that I don't know about great things, but about smashing ice. Brother Qian, I just want to ask you, do you really think that if all the ice on the Weihe River is smashed, then the people of Yan will really be unable to go south with their horseshoes? ?

Could it be that he is a Yanren who only fights in winter? "

"How much, it can cause some trouble for the Yan people."

"The front port is guarded, the Yan people are deadlocked there, the general's mansion has an order, no, even the general's mansion has not given any order, I, Jing Minren, will definitely mobilize the people under the county's rule to go to help the king's husband and the people. Wang Shi resisted the Yan people."

"grown ups……"

"The imperial court is right, and the general's mansion is right, but are these people wrong? Is this official wrong? The people have been angry for a long time, and they can't be forced anymore. Now, our own people have to fight first."

Qian Miao was speechless.

"Brother Qian, let's have some tea."

...

"Putong...Putong...Putong..."

One by one, the wild soldiers, with knives in their mouths, were almost naked, holding the blown sheepskins, and began to swim to the other side of the river.

It's very cold in the north of Chu, but everything is relative, just like the Qian people think that the three sides are a place of bitter cold, but in fact, Yinlang County, which is further north on the three sides, is called their "home" by the Yan people. Little Jiangnan".

In the same way, Chu people think that the season is bitingly cold now, but for the savages who grew up in the snowy field across the land of Jin, this climate is really not a problem.

General Nian can take advantage of the footsteps of a certain Shanyue tribe to run around and attack, and the Pingxihou Mansion can also use the ability of the savages under his command to resist the cold to give Chu a winter swim.

The blind man stood on the shore, watching this scene, and felt a little emotional in his heart. People's ability to adapt is indeed the strongest.

Those winter swimming enthusiasts of later generations, in the eyes of ordinary people, jumping into the water with icy slag in pants is already a great thing, but it must be clear that the burst out of survival in the harsh natural environment Patience is the real fear.

"Don't you have anything else to do?"

Gou Moli stood beside the blind man helplessly.

"It's a war, what else can I do, this battle doesn't need logistics, don't worry, you do your own thing, I'll watch from the side, and learn a little bit from you."

"Where's the plank of the ship?" Gou Moli asked.

"I've already prepared it." The blind man replied.

Gou Moli twisted his neck and said: "It's not difficult to cross the river, and it's not difficult to kill it, but the most difficult part is that when crossing the Weihe River and going west, we encountered resistance.

Once the army is delayed, we will be stranded in Chu State on the basis of self-isolation of logistics, just like me when the Lord captured Xueguan. "

"It's the worst-case scenario after all, isn't it?"

"Okay, okay."

Gou Moli didn't want to talk anymore.

At this moment, the first batch of savages who lurked and swam over had landed.

The Weihe River is too long, and it covers most of Shanggu County. Unless the Chu people really spare no effort to build the Great Wall here, they will not be able to defend in all directions.

The value of the line of defense lies in that you either stay and grind your nails and fight a war of attrition, or you go ahead with a surprise attack. After passing, I will block your back and become a lone army.

Therefore, it is not difficult to want to pass in a pure sense, and it is always easy to do it without caring about your head.

The checkpoint on the opposite bank was cleared, and the savages who came ashore later began to raise their guard. At the same time, the boat that had been hiding was pulled out of its hiding place.

The Hou Mansion has never formed its own navy, because it is too extravagant, and money is easy to talk about, but building a navy requires a lot of manpower, and the Hou Mansion doesn't have that much energy, so it can only let it go.

But in the early years when Chu was conquered, there were actually a lot of gains and confiscations. The blind man knew how to live, so he opened up a place to store them early.

They didn't do any maintenance, and no one used them for training. Now it's a good time to take them out and use them as materials for building pontoon bridges.

The simple pontoon bridge was built quickly. Before dawn, Gou Moli and the blind man had already reached the opposite bank. The follow-up construction work was still in progress. Gou Moli ordered a few soldiers to swim upstream and downstream, swallowing the nearby Those checkpoints, try to slow down the Chu people from learning the movement here.

When the sun just rose, the follow-up soldiers and horses marched, and the commander-in-chief of Pingxi Marquis was also there, and the pontoon bridge began to be expanded and consolidated to provide more soldiers and horses to cross the river at a faster speed.

Gou Moli looked at the savage soldiers who had already built a pontoon bridge all night and hurried across the river,

shouted:

"Do you want your mother-in-law and aunt to worship Buddha next time without having to be at the end of the queue?"

The savages all looked at Gou Moli.

"Do you want yourself and your family to be a real person in Fengxin City!"

The savages stood up one after another.

The savages in this town were not the servants temporarily transferred from outside Xuehai Customs, but trained and trained by Gou Moli himself.

Gou Moli raised his whip and slapped it in the air,

shouted;

"I know you are thirsty, tired, and sleepy;

But since you want to be a human, you must first learn how to be an animal!

Heed my orders,

put on your horses,

follow me forward

Make way for the army! "

The significance of the vanguard lies in the fact that the bridge is built when the mountain opens the road and the water meets the water. The bridge has been built, and it is time to open the road below.

...

The Yan people have come,

Yes,

The Yan people are here.

Because the purpose of the Yan people this time was to cross the Weihe River and go westward, Xiawei County was the first to bear the brunt.

Not to mention those who guard the city but not the city. Civil servants, yamen servants, and village soldiers are actually in camps outside the county seat.

When the Yan army and Yan people rushed in, the entire camp could hardly make any effective resistance, and it collapsed at the first touch.

When Jing Minren walked out of his house in the camp and saw the wild cavalry in the armor of the Yan army criss-crossing the camp, there was no expression of regret on his face.

He doesn't think he's done anything wrong;

In fact, he did nothing wrong. The effect of conquering the people and smashing the ice in winter was to make the savages suffer from a bit of freezing, experience a winter swim, and spend a whole night building the pontoon bridge, that's all.

Jing Minren drew out his own sword. Chu people love swords, and Chu people's scribes also have their own swords.

Then,

A savage knight galloped past him, swung his saber, and knocked him to the ground. Blood flowed out. Immediately, the horse's hooves from behind stepped on his body.

The master of Xiawei County urged the peasants to get up and work on the river early in the morning, so he got up early and people were outside the camp. When he saw wild men and soldiers rushing over, he ran away immediately.

Instead of running away, he ran to the county seat.

As he ran, he yelled to close the gate of the county seat.

Then,

An arrow shot into his back from behind. The arrow was very powerful. Mr. Qian had no armor on his body. After being hit by the arrow, he fell to the ground. He raised his head and looked forward;

Before the city gate had time to close, the wildling knights rushed into the city.

The city of Xiawei County was destroyed, and the wildling vanguard did not delay. Under Gou Moli's control, they didn't even have time to burn, kill and loot. Instead, they reorganized their troops and continued to advance.

The sudden attack of the Yan army caused the smoke of beacons to rise in the major military villages along the Weihe River.

The first reaction of the major army villages was to gather their troops and horses, hold on to the army villages, and at the same time send a message to the rear, so as to prevent the Yan people from going straight to the direction of Yingdu like last time.

But on the other side, after crossing the river, the main force of the Yan people didn't care about going south at all, but went west to west and then west with all their heart.

The horseshoes were like thunder, and the wind and clouds were moving, but Chu people and Yan people seemed to have reached a strange tacit understanding at this time.

It's not a fair fight because it's not organized.

In fact, it is more like a vindictiveness.

One picks the head, the other catches the pole, and they are on the bar.

...

At the same time, General Nian finally led his army onto the ship.

The Fan family has a big heart, coupled with their familiarity with the smuggling business in the past, they actually want to build their own "naval master".

Of course, the "naval division" is definitely not qualified, but it has greatly expanded the size of the fleet under his hands.

Then, when the Great Chu navy officially came in, facing this kind of coercion, combined with the nails planted by Fengchao's inner guards in Fan's house, two water villages of Fan's family turned against the water and turned into Chu. People's internal response.

There is no doubt that Fan Zhengwen is a hero, and the Fan family has a profound background, which is also beyond doubt.

But it is unrealistic to transform from a family of merchants into a warlord town in just a few years, and to be leak-proof.

The result of wantonly recruiting troops and buying horses to expand the power is that it is inevitable that a lot of sand will be mixed in. In addition, the Fan family is rooted in Chu. , so that many people under the Fan family still think that they are still Chu people, not Yan people.

The boat went down the waterway, and after a few days, it docked.

General Nian took the Shanyue tribe trained by himself as the central army, gathered the 'water bandits' who had turned against the Fan family as servants, entered Mengshan, and launched an offensive towards the rear of the Fan family.

The original Mengshan, facing north, is the focus of defense, and it is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Back then, when Lord Zheng Hou entered Chu for the first time, he walked through it himself. Thanks to the internal support of the Fan family, he opened the door for convenience.

Now, because Mengshan is backed by the forces of the Yan people, the so-called defense has long been useless, and the real energy of the Fan family has long been placed in the south.

Even some people who lost in family struggles and power struggles were placed here to make marginal arrangements.

Therefore,

When the General Nian in the fire phoenix armor stood in front of the formation and carried the flag of the General behind him, most of the defenders at the "easy to defend but difficult to attack" checkpoints either opened the door and surrendered or fled.

The few who were loyal to the Fan family wanted to choose to defend to the death, but they were quickly defeated by the Shanyue soldiers relying on their ability to climb the cliff.

Many cottage bandits in the Mengshan area also descended one after another and gathered under the banner of General Nian.

Nian Yao led this army of high morale despite being a "crowd" all the way south.

Fan Zhengwen in Fancheng had just received the news from Qu Peiluo. The head of the Dugu family personally led the army and pressed forward.

Afterwards, new news came. The north of Fancheng is adjacent to Mengshan Mountain. In fact, it is equivalent to the old county town at the foot of Mengshan Mountain, where the Fan family made a fortune in the past.

There, the food, grass and military equipment of the Fan family were stored as a backup when Fan Cheng stood firm, and all of them disappeared in an instant.

the next day,

The news came that Qu Peiluo was defeated and retreated from the Dugu family's army;

In the rear, General Nian's flag was also displayed, and the old Fan family who had been deliberately released from there escaped into Fan City and were admitted in, spreading the news.

for a while,

Originally, even if it was not impregnable, Fan City was still a solid city with solid walls, and suddenly fell into a panic.

In the past two years, with the great victory of the Yan people against Chu and the arrival of the princess last year, the Fan family, which had been in full swing, seemed to have been poured down by a basin of ice water in an instant, and it became completely cold.

...

But at a time when everyone in the Fan family was panicking,

The ancestor of the Fan family sent someone to call for Fan Zhengwen, the Patriarch of the Fan family.

In the courtyard of the greenhouse, there are still fragrant grasses and fresh flowers blooming in winter.

The old ancestor was older than what Zheng Houye saw back then.

Still holding the small shovel, she squatted in front of the flower garden, looked at her own junior who walked in, and snorted coldly,

road;

"Okay, now you are satisfied, this time it really pushed my Fan family to the point of extermination, you are capable."

Fan Zhengwen wasn't overwhelmed, didn't panic, and didn't cry with regret,

Instead, he took the initiative to come over, lifted the flower pot, and helped the ancestor water the freshly planted flowers,

laughed:

"Look at what you said, my ancestor, my wife and children have already been sent to Yanjing. What does the destruction of the Fan family have to do with me, Fan Zhengwen?"