Qin Official

What is the most helpless thing sometimes?

It was the truth you said when you were excited, but it was regarded as a polite remark.

Although Heifu said to the people of Anlu, "It was not me who came to save the people of Anlu, but the people of Anlu. It was your courage and fearlessness that saved yourself."

But no one took this sentence seriously. After Heifu returned like a timely rain, everyone only thought, "He is the great savior of the people."

And like a repeater, he emphasized this point over and over again.

"It was Marquis Wu Zhong who saved the Anlu people!"

The elders in the county were full of praise for Heifu's humility. The eight hundred returning disciples proudly told the crowd about the thrilling events that took place in Yunmengze and Wuchang Camp: the Yunmeng incident, the secret edicts on clothes and belts, Sha Xian's place of residence, and the night attack on Wuchang. , returned to Anlu in the north... This series of events formed several new chapters in the legend of Wu Zhonghou.

Young people who had not had the opportunity to participate in these legends, such as Yuan Yong, looked at Wuzhonghou, Dongmen Bao, Ji Ying and other uncles and elders with enthusiastic eyes. They also put on the captured Qin army armor, and in the same pattern, they pulled off the white cloth and tied it on their arms, which became the symbol of the rebel army.

To put it bluntly, if Heifu and His Majesty Qin Shi Huang had a personal cult match in Anlu, Heifu would definitely win now.

Heifu was a little helpless, but under this extreme admiration, his words became golden rules, and many things became much easier to handle.

For example, the young people in Anlu wanted to carry out an indiscriminate retaliatory massacre of the five thousand captured Qin soldiers in Guanzhong! But Heifu stopped them, and based on the casualties of the Anlu people, decided to select one of the five remaining people and execute them as punishment for killing and wounding the Anlu people.

"The people of Anlu are also the common people of Qin. Those who kill will die. It is natural and right."

There was a trial, records, and love documents for this execution. The magistrates and jailers of Anlu County continued to play their original roles and pronounced sentences in accordance with the law.

The one thousand unlucky ones who were drawn were executed among the ruins, by Yuan Yong and others themselves.

The remaining 4,000 people were stripped of their armor, stripped naked, and temporarily imprisoned in Xicheng. They still sent people to preach that "the First Emperor has died, the treacherous son and traitorous ministers have killed the emperor and usurped the throne, and it is difficult for Wu Zhonghou to resist rebellion with his clothes and secret edicts." The routine words made these Guanzhong soldiers startled and suspicious.

Heifu had Heifu's plan: "I don't expect these people to surrender. Even if they can't be taken away and put back, I can spread the word through their mouths. It's best if the whole world knows about it!"

After calming down the resentment of the Anlu people and dealing with the prisoners, the next thing to do is to gather everyone in the county, open the warehouses, let everyone eat, and then allocate hundreds, tuns, tuns, etc. according to the lilu. Wu, carry out militarized management.

The Dongmen Leopard armed all the men of suitable age in Anlu and distributed the captured 10,000 sets of armor and weapons to form the main soldiers.

As for the 10,000 young men and elders who were older or younger, they formed the Xianzu, that is, the militia, and gave it to Ji Ying to manage.

The remaining 30,000 women, children, old and weak people were left to Zhong, Yuanbai, Wen Yichi, Zhao and others to take charge.

At this time, all the people in Anlu County were in arms.

After finishing these tasks, Hei Fu had time to meet his old acquaintance who was captured, Captain Feng Jing.

"Do you know why you lost?"

They just met, Heifu personally untied Feng Jing and then asked him this question.

Feng Jing touched his wrist that was too tight and numb: "This is your hometown, your hometown party. If we fight here, I will not lose unjustly."

"Yes, those who have gained the right will get more help, while those who have lost the right will get less help. This is one of them, but there is another reason."

Heifu handed Feng Jing a glass of wine: "Feng Jing, you are still the same as before. You behave too upright and have the demeanor of a noble gentleman. At the last moment, you never did anything to my family members. I believe that forcing the people to death, even me, will Master Yan Weng, this is not your original intention."

The two have known each other for more than ten years and worked together as officials under Li You. Feng Jing accompanied Hei Fu to the Shangsi Festival in Jiangling City and played "Wine Glass Follows the Waves" by the pavilion. That was the first time Hei Fu and his wife met. place……

It is not an exaggeration to say that Feng Jing was the informant between the two.

But today, each has its own success or failure. One is sitting on the throne, the other is a prisoner...

Feng Jing also felt a little ashamed, put down his cup and said: "I am already the defeated general, Marquis Wu Zhong, the Marquis Wu Zhong who is deeply trusted by Your Majesty..."

He bit the accent of these three words with a hint of sarcasm in his tone: "What will the Lord do to me? Behead me at the broken wall like the soldiers who were drawn?"

"No."

Hei Fu was not angered, but sighed: "I won't kill you because of the old friendship between you and me."

In fact, it’s not because of old friendship, but because it’s such a waste!

Heifu is different from Feng Jing. He is an aristocratic gentleman, but Heifu? He preferred Shang Jun's approach. Shang Yang and Gongzi Mao were close friends, but Shang Yang took advantage of Gongzi Mao's simplicity and hijacked him during the meeting and banquet.

Everyone criticizes Shang Yang's character, but on the battlefield, it's all about victory and defeat, morality? It is the most benevolent and virtuous person who can save his own people from death!

Feng Jing was a little moved, but while Hei Fu was reminiscing with him and laughing away his grudges over the wine, he was thinking in his heart: "I wonder if your father would have hesitated at all when he ordered the attack on the city when he knew that his beloved son was captured? Win for me. time!"

"I don't even know that the new owners of Xianyang Palace, Hu Hai, Li Si, and Zhao Gao, learned that you handed over the people of Anlu to me, and your father released me and left tens of thousands of people safely, and I in turn spared your life. What do you think? Do you suspect that the Feng family has reached some kind of deal with me? "

…

When he met Feng Jingbu, who was captured by Heifu's letter tied to his body, Wu Xinhou Feng Wuze had just left Xiling County, Hengshan County and entered Anlu County. He was still two days away from the county seat...

After he learned about the Wuchang Camp Incident, he immediately marched westward, moving at a speed of fifty miles to gain profits. But because he was traveling by land, he was still a step late. Hearing that Heifu was indeed "resurrected" and rushed back to Anlu and seized the county seat, he couldn't help but feel resentful.

Wuchang and Anlu, this was already the second defeat that happened under Feng Wuze's nose after he took over the military affairs of the Huaihan counties on the orders of Qin Shihuang.

Fortunately, he didn't know that Li You was beaten up by Han Xin in Changsha County, otherwise he would have even more headaches.

Feng Wuze opened Heifu's letter and saw some rhetoric:

"Young man Hei Fu dares to pay my respects again. I have heard about the name of Marquis Wu Xin for a long time, and I have the honor to meet you today! The Feng family has been in the Qin Dynasty for several generations, and their brothers have all been Jiuqing generals. Now they are rebellious and treacherous, and they have regicide and usurped the throne. They have established tyranny and treated the head of Guizhou harshly. The world is in trouble." swing."

"Since you know the destiny and the current affairs, why should you be rebellious? Why don't we raise the banner of Jingnan together and march north together? Then Wuguan can be captured, the pass can be entered, and Xianyang can be conquered. At that time, the rebels and traitors will be punished, and the virtuous king will be succeeded to the throne together, and the country will be safe. Folk music, isn’t it beautiful?”

"The traitor Hei Fu is full of nonsense."

Feng Wuze knew that Qin Shihuang's true will was to make Hu Hai the crown prince and the three families of Feng, Li, and Wang to assist the government. He even more believed that Hei Fu was a traitor and traitor.

In addition to these words of "persuading surrender", the letter also included a lock of Feng Jing's hair and a personal jade pendant. At the end of the letter, he advised Feng Wuze not to be impulsive, otherwise his eldest son might be in trouble. The heir is gone."

All this is enough to make a father worried.

But unlike his friendly eldest brother, Right Prime Minister Feng Quji, Feng Wuze's temper was notoriously strong!

He tore up Heifu's letter, put Feng Jing's jade pendant into his arms, gritted his teeth and said: "In the past, Leyang was a Wei general and attacked Zhongshan. His son was in Zhongshan, and the king of Zhongshan cooked his son's soup and left it behind. Leyang sat under the curtain and sipped from it, finishing the cup!"

"If his black husband is brave, he will also cook my son and bring the soup. I will drink the meat soup and order to go to Ping'an Lu!"

Feng Wuze has enough confidence in the upcoming battle.

He roughly knew who Heifu had under his command: 5,000 soldiers and veterans brought from the Wuchang camp. In addition, there was no army. He could only rely on the 50,000 people in Anlu, of which 30,000 were old, weak, women and children, capable of fighting. No more than 20,000...

As for Feng Wuze, in addition to the 20,000 elite Guanzhong Lieutenant Army, there were also 4,000 troops brought by Yang Xi from Xiakou and 6,000 newly transferred soldiers from Jiujiang County.

In addition, at Feng Wuze's request, Nanyang County in the north also sent 5,000 troops southward, and joined with 5,000 Nanjun soldiers to rush to Anlu!

With an army of 40,000, and attacking a ragtag army with mixed composition and scarce armor and soldiers, the chances of victory are very high.

The only thing I'm worried about is that Heifu, the shameless man, just abandons the city and flees. This is the situation Feng Wuze least wants to happen. In that case, it will be difficult for him to explain to the court...

Feng Wuze's worries were not unnecessary. When Wang Yi, the commander of another department, arrived in Anlu with three thousand chariots and cavalry, he found that the only people left in Anlu City were chained together, frozen and hungry for several days, hugging each other. Four thousand naked Qin soldiers trembled.

As for the people in the county? The city has already been empty of people!

…

As early as the day he sent someone to deliver a letter to Feng Wuze, Heifu ran away with the people in the county.

The boat master who came all the way from Ling Canal could not carry many people, only 5,000. This was why Heifu only brought 5,000 people to Anlu for adventure. The same was true for the return trip now. He asked Zhong to take his mother, As well as five thousand wounded, elderly, children, and disabled people who could not walk, they walked through the waterway to Shaxian, Jiangnan...

The remaining more than 40,000 people followed him by land and entered Yunmeng Daze from the south of the county.

Yunmengze, which is known as nine hundred miles away, is not a continuous body of water. During the dry season, it will turn into two large lakes separated from the north to the south, namely "Yunze" to the north of the Han River and "Mengze" to the south of the Han River. ".

Heifu and his party were walking through the dry area between Yun and Meng. It was full of white grass and reeds. It was a good place for Anlu people to fish, hunt and even escape.

When they entered here, it was like entering their own backyard. The dangerous path in the eyes of outsiders seemed to be a smooth path for the locals. Their resistance to moving here was far less than that of moving to Guanzhong, but Hei Fu still came forward to persuade them in person. Only then did I convince the folks.

But the hot-blooded Lieutenant General was a little puzzled. He was transferred to Heifu's side again as a personal guard, along with Yuan Yong and a group of young people who performed outstandingly in the Battle of Anlu.

At this moment, Lieutenant Gong asked with some confusion: "Your Majesty, we finally recaptured Anlu, why did you abandon it without fighting?"

This was also the question raised by Yuan Yong and others. They immediately pricked up their ears, wanting to hear what Junhou was thinking.

"Have you read Wu Sun Tzu's Art of War?" Hei Fu asked Gongwei.

Li Cang, Wu Chen, and Gong Wei, the younger generation of the old men, were mostly well-educated, and Heifu even printed military books as gifts to them.

Lieutenant Gong nodded: "I've read it."

"In the chapter "Strategic Strategy", how many times do you know how to win?"

After thinking for a while, Lieutenant Gong said: "There are five! He who knows what can be fought and what cannot be fought wins, he who knows how to use the many and the weak wins, he who has the same desire from above and below wins, he wins when he waits for surprises when there are no surprises, he wins when the general is able but the king does not control him. Victory. These five people know the way to victory."

"How about we and the enemy being outnumbered?" Hei Fu asked again.

Gong Ao raised both hands and said in comparison: "Feng Wuze has thirty or forty thousand people, all of whom are serious troops, while I only have five thousand elite troops, and the remaining twenty thousand are temporary formations that lack training. There are 30,000 old, weak, women and children who must be protected...well, we are indeed outnumbered and outnumbered."

He somewhat understood what Hei Fu meant, but he still smiled slyly: "But as a lord, the one who has the same desires will win, and the general will be able but the king will not control him. The villain thinks that we have the advantage on these two points."

"As for the one who waits for the unexpected, he will win. However, we have been extremely exhausted from the two recent battles. The enemy troops came from afar, and they are not much better. It is roughly the same. Maybe we can fight..."

Heifu was happy. Today's young people should not be underestimated. Lieutenant Gong can use his brain, which is better than his reckless father.

But Jiang was still too old. He shook his head and said: "Otherwise, the enemy is strong and we are weak, and the enemy is numerous and we are few. These rigid conditions cannot be solved by command and the unity of superiors and subordinates. If we lose, the whole county will be destroyed. Even if we win, we will still suffer heavy losses, is it worth it?”

He put on a serious face and said in the tone of a leader lecturing a kid: "You guys remember, when I march and fight, my emphasis is on preserving myself and destroying the enemy!"

"Preserve yourself and destroy the enemy?" Everyone repeated this sentence, Gong Wei and Yuan Yongruo realized something.

"Yes, only by destroying enemies in large numbers can we effectively preserve ourselves; conversely, only by effectively preserving ourselves can we destroy enemies in large numbers."

"So you don't have to fight unfavorable battles, and you don't have to defend cities that are too costly. This is called knowing who can fight and who can't win. If you want to win the entire war, you can't care about the gains and losses of one city or one pool. In Before the main force of the Southern Expeditionary Army seizes Changsha County and goes north, the enemy is strong and we are weak. In this case, we can only temporarily evade the attack and give way to Anlu."

"I see!"

Both Wei Gong and Yuan Yong were convinced, but an unread soldier was still a little disappointed because he didn't understand: "Junhou, after you said so much, are you still forced to evacuate because you can't defeat him?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was severely stepped on by Yuan Yong, who blindly worshiped Hei Fu.

"A king has his own principles. Do you know how to use soldiers? What nonsense are you talking about!"

Hei Fu did not feel dissatisfied and said with a smile: "You can go and tell everyone that this is not a retreat, nor is it abandoning the city and fleeing, but a 'strategic shift'!"

The passion and blood have passed, and Hei Fu is still the Hei Fu who only fights the battles that must be won. If he can't help but take risks, he will not take risks.

He pointed to the lake ahead and said:

"Look, now, we have entered the vast Yunmengze, and here we are, the mother lake that raised us."

Hei Fu waved his hand, full of pride:

"Get out of the box, open up a vast world, and achieve great things!"

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ps: Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone. I’m going back to my hometown to celebrate the New Year. There’s only one chapter today. Watch the Spring Festival Gala tonight.