Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

However, in this contribution, Si Chao contributed the most. It was Si Chao who first predicted that the coach of the Southern Tang Dynasty would run in the direction of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and it was Si Chao who led them to take the path and set up an ambush to intercept them at the necessary place.

After this battle, Shi Congyun also looked at Si Chao differently. This is a rare general with a brain. He thought that if he had the opportunity, he must be recruited, and it would be best to get him into the army. There is a shortage of such people.

After fighting for a day and chasing and fighting all night, when the sun rose, the matter finally came to an end!

For Shi Congyun, this incident was perfect. He won the battle of Zhengyang, the Southern Tang leader Liu Yanzhen died in his hands, and many senior generals were captured.

It may be a pity for the officials, because it is still the same old problem. It was difficult to fight a war of annihilation in the era of cold weapons. Although many soldiers from the Southern Tang Dynasty were defeated, they all fled to the south and returned to the country.

After a year and a half, these people will become the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty again, and they can compete with the Great Zhou again.

But he couldn't control those things, Shi Congyun only knew that his contribution this time was great enough, and Li Chongjin's threat to him was much smaller.

Shi Congyun, who didn't close his eyes all day and night, worked hard all day, and ran all night, closed his eyes and fell to the ground. He fell asleep in the woods beside the road.

.......

In the rear, news of the success of the armies from all walks of life continued to come back to Zhengyang, and the emperor had completely crossed the Huaihe River by car and settled down in Zhengyang, waiting for Shi Congyun's news.

Chapter 128: Prelude to Siege

In Huainan in March, it is the time when spring is full of greenery.

The rippling water of the Huaihe River is at its greenest.

Around the houses in Zhengyang village and town, there are many tents. These tents are made of cloth curtains coated with tung oil, which can prevent wind and rain. Many well-armored soldiers shuttle in rows. There is a deer village to reject horses, and there are layers of guards.

On the hillside to the east of Zhengyang village, the banner of the Son of Heaven stands tall and flutters gently in the wind, and many soldiers in armor and bronze animal face armor are guarding them.

In addition, there is a deer village to reject horses, dug a horse pit, and the big tent on the mountain is also very different. The main material is cowhide, and the auxiliary decoration is beautiful silk cloth. Many places are inlaid with gold and copper decorations. It is the big tent of the emperor.

The big tent has a very large space, with a radius of two or three feet, and there are screens to separate the inner and outer rooms.

The official family is not that particular, and has never had so many demands on female relatives, and they don't mind whether the queen can see other men or not.

However, there are good and bad things about this matter. She herself has gained a lot of freedom, but it shows that the officials don't value the female family members very much.

At the time when the immortal king Guo Wei raised his troops, a large number of wives, concubines, and children of the official family were all killed. The official family never mentioned anything about it, maybe it was too sad to mention it, or maybe it didn't care that much.

Empress Fu thinks that the position of the official family probably doesn't care much about the reasons...  

However, he still consciously retreated behind the screen, only listening to them from behind.

There are many men in the big tent. In addition to the officials, the two prime ministers, Li Gu and Wang Pu, are there, as well as Li Jixun, the commander of the infantry guards, Han Lingkun, the commander of the horse army, and Han Lingkun, the commander of the cavalry. Qi, Marquis of Yu, Zhao Kuangyin, etc. in front of the palace.

The conversation in the tent was intense, and most of the words were about yesterday's gold and iron horses. Even when she thought of yesterday's vicissitudes, the iron horses and iron horses seemed to be vividly in front of her eyes.

Outside the big tent, the greenery of spring and March almost filled her eyes, she thought that she might not be able to forget it for a long time.

It's not just her who can't forget, everyone outside has already talked fiercely for a long time.

Discussions about "how did Shi Congyun win the war", "what did Shi Congyun think", "the shortcomings and weaknesses of the Southern Tang Army" have not stopped since yesterday's battle.

Maybe when the business is busy and no one mentions it, but when you know that you are free, someone will start to discuss it. As long as you talk about related topics, there will be endless things to say, no matter whether you praise or criticize.

Empress Fu doesn't know how to fight, but she knows that Shi Congyun's battle must be unexpectedly exciting, otherwise no one would want to spend so much talk on it, and there are endless topics to talk about.

Last night, she only took a nap for two or three hours. At dawn, she asked eunuch Wei Min, and the official just squinted his eyes a few times, and did not sleep soundly. During the period, he asked several times, "When will Shi Congyun come back?"

In the middle of the night, Zhao Kuangyin, the Marquis of Yu in front of the palace who led the inner palace straight out, came back happily. After hearing his loud report to the officials, he chased southward and captured more than two hundred people and captured hundreds of them.

After dawn, more and more people came back.

Li Chongjin, the commander of the guards and Ma Bujun chasing in the direction of Shouzhou, also came back, but Li Chongjin had little success. The Hu Jie army with ten thousand people only resurrected more than a thousand people, and there was no further progress after that.

When she heard the official praise a few words, she didn't say any more, and let Li Chongjin go down to rest.

Empress Fu was very smart. He knew that the officials were not as polite to Li Chongjin as they were on the surface. When Xianjun was in power, he forced Li Chongjin to kneel down to the officials and made him swear that he would not covet the position of emperor.

However, if the oaths made by people are effective, there will be no chaotic and chaotic world for decades. It is impossible for the officials to have no grudges in their hearts. In matters, they have to be treated kindly and preferentially.

She had a vague feeling that the officials were wary of Li Chongjin, but they only showed trust on the surface. After all, they were a family.

Sure enough, after Li Chong entered and left, she heard the official say with a bad face: "At the moment of the war, he still doesn't distinguish between public and private, and stays idle. If it weren't for Shi Congyun's wisdom and good command and dispatch, I would return to Huaibei." Cutting wood to build ships, rebuilding bridges!"

This is a matter within the royal family, and it is not easy for everyone to intervene.

Finally, the official said: "Forget it, let's talk about other things, thanks to Shi Congyun this time..."

Speaking of Shi Congyun, it is another round of new discussions.

She looked out from the address left by the big tent. In the fields south of Zhengyang, a large number of armor and weapons were stacked together, forming many high hills.

Many prisoners of the Southern Tang Dynasty lined up and were escorted towards Zhengyang. Those who were slightly injured would be pulled out of the queue on the spot, killed on the side of the road without any resistance, and dragged and discarded to dig at both ends of the field. A good deep pit has already been filled with dead bodies.

Some of the people who were killed were insensitive, some cried out in despair, some tried to escape and were killed easily, no matter what kind, killing a chicken or sheep was similar.

In Fuhou's eyes, fear is only a part, she is not an ordinary woman......

Instead, he thought more and more that in such a world, only a man who can fight well can be relied on, otherwise he would not even be able to protect his own family.

In Hezhong Mansion, she went through a hellish gate during the military turmoil. Even if the official family can't protect her own wife, daughter and family, let alone others?

The last emperor of the Jing Dynasty was originally the son of heaven, what a beauty, but he was taken captive by the Khitan people to the north, and even his concubine was forcibly taken away, what face and dignity is there?

Martial strategy, strength is the most important thing at the moment. In the past few decades, the emperors of the Central Plains have taken turns to sit, ranging from a dozen years to a few years, which has long been commonplace.

If you want to protect yourself, the only way to protect yourself in today's world is to win over those soldiers who can fight and know how to fight.

Thinking of this, she thought to herself, no matter what, she must find a way to marry the sixth child to Shi Congyun as soon as possible.

Before, she still insisted on her own identity, and asked Zhang Yongde to help spread the word, thinking that the Shi family would come to talk about marriage, so that she could be worthy of their identity as the Fu family.

Thinking about it now, it's really stupid, the emperor still does it in turn, how can their Fu family guarantee a long time, how much is their face worth?

Although the historian started in vain, but now the two father and son of the historian, one is the number one fighter of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the other is outstanding in performance, outstanding in martial arts, and has a bright future.

Maybe there will be more ways for the Fu family in the future.

She decided in her heart that she would marry the sixth son as soon as possible when she went back this time, and stop worrying about face matters.

There have been rumors in Daliang that Shi Congyun is right to be able to fight, but he is also a pervert.

She doesn't quite believe these rumors, but she always feels that gossip won't come out out of thin air. Besides, she knows that Shi Congyun used the official post office to deliver letters to his concubine, so it must be true.

It's better to have a little weakness, and it's easy to attract. The sixth child is so handsome, even if she sees her, she thinks she is a first-class good girl, and she will definitely win Shi Congyun's heart.

........

Inside and outside the tent, many people came and went, the weeds and short trees on the hill had been leveled, and the newly turned soil had been trampled out of a path.

There was an endless stream of messengers coming in and out, as well as many officials.

After Shengjia arrived in Zhengyang, this place replaced Li Guzhong's tent and became the command center of the entire Zhengyang battlefield.

In the big tent, various news came from time to time, and more than [-]% of them were good news, which made Guo Rong very happy.

However, he knew in his heart that these were all follow-ups to the big victory last night. If Shi Congyun's big victory in the south of Zhengyang hadn't happened, there wouldn't be all the things that followed.

Guo Rong has always had great ambitions, and finally sat on the position of the emperor, thinking in his heart that he would do something great to those wise monarchs.

He also made a bold statement that he wanted to "open up the world in ten years, support the people in ten years, and bring peace in ten years." He didn't just talk about it, he really wanted to do it in his heart.

Wang Pu's words, Gao Ping's victory, and the victory of defeating Shu made him feel more and more feasible!

Wang Jing and Shi Congyun won the battle against Shu for him. Since then, Guo Rong has remembered this young man, but his age made him hesitate.

During yesterday's battle, he was extremely disappointed for a while, thinking that things like Zhao Wang's misreading Zhao Kuo would happen again.

However, the subsequent changes made him unexpected, and the Southern Tang army on the battlefield was quickly strangled and defeated by the Zhou army.Looking at the overall situation, it seems that Da Zhou and Nan Tang are two men fighting to the death.

Zhou Jun was thin and small, and Southern Tang was strong and strong, but the strong man wanted to fight steadily, but the thin man punched with all his strength from an unexpected angle, hit the vital point, and knocked down the opponent in an instant.

The sense of precision, the insight into the overall situation, the prediction of the battle situation and the precise command are all a bit like a stroke of magic.

If he hadn't met Shi Congyun, he still couldn't believe it was written by a young man of sixteen or seventeen.

His use of troops is very strange, and it is not found in ancient military books, which made Guo Rong even more curious.

When he heard that the queen wanted to marry his sixth sister to Shi Congyun, he was very dissatisfied with Shi Congyun.

This young man is too restless, not at all like his father, should he even climb the Fu family's boat?

Looking at it now, I immediately feel that Shi Congyun is much more pleasing to the eye.

Naturally, the more generals who can win battles, the better. He likes people who can do things, not talkative, just like Wei Renpu. Some people think this is the reason why the Tang Dynasty was so powerful.

However, Guo Rong didn't take it seriously, he had his own criteria for judging whether a person could use it or not, and whether he had the ability, he had his own judgment, and he didn't need others to intervene.

At noon, the accompanying officials brought another great news.

"Reporting to the official, Deputy Marshal Shi led Long Jie's army to pursue for tens of miles in the direction of Luzhou, beheaded the enemy generals Wu Yanhui and Zhang Yanhan, killed more than 800 soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and captured more than [-] people!"

Guo Rong was overjoyed when he heard this, and Wang Pu and others next to him also congratulated repeatedly.

But later in the afternoon, someone came to report again, a dusty messenger with four red command flags and a cloth-wrapped head.

"Reporting to the official family, Shi Congyun, the owner of our chamber, set up an ambush in the south of Zhengyang, intercepted the fleeing general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, stabbed the enemy's commander-in-chief Liu Yanzhen single-handedly, captured the enemy general Cheng Shilang and other 120 generals, and captured more than [-] people from the Southern Tang Army !

This is Liu Yanzhen's head, the owner of the chamber asked someone to send it first to announce the good news to the officials! "

After the soldier finished speaking, he pushed forward the head wrapped in cloth.

Immediately, the big tent became quiet, and Wang Shenqi, Wang Pu, Li Jixun and others who were talking next to them fell silent, and looked at this side in unison.

After a brief moment of tranquility, Wang Pu was the first to react, stepped forward excitedly, and said hastily: "Go, find the captured soldiers from Southern Tang to recognize him!"

Various complex emotions circulated in the big tent, and everyone stared intently at their heads on the ground, as if they hadn't gotten over what the messenger said just now, or hadn't fully digested it in a short time.

After a while, several captured Southern Tang officers were escorted in, two of them knelt on the ground the moment they saw the head, and the rest showed fear and turned pale.

In fact, there is no need to ask for such a reaction, the people present already knew it.

However, Li Jixun still said viciously, "Who is the head on this ground, do you know it! Come on quickly, don't talk nonsense!"

Someone with a pale face and trembling lips agreed: "It's the deployment of the camps in the north of the country, Commander Liu Yanzhen..."

The moment the news was confirmed, the atmosphere in the big tent suddenly changed again.

Guo Rong didn't speak, but just waved his hands to let some prisoners from the Southern Tang Dynasty be taken down, but the excitement was all written on his face.

Li Jixun didn't say a word, but Wang Pu was very curious, and excitedly asked the soldier who reported the letter: "How did Shi Congyun know where the Southern Tang commander fled?"

"I don't know. The owner of the room said that the bandits would go to the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He took us on a journey at night, and set up an ambush in a forest south of Zhengyang. The bandits really left there when the sky was about to dawn!"

"Liu Yanzhen was stabbed to death by Shi Congyun?"

Speaking of this, the soldier who reported the letter had a look on his brows: "It is absolutely true to report back to the official. At that time, there were hundreds of people around him. The owner of the chamber saw a man rushing over on horseback and stabbed Liu Yanzhen to death. The rest People were too frightened to move, they got off their horses and surrendered one after another! A certain person watched it with his own eyes.

Later, the owner of the chamber ordered Liu Yanzhen's head to be cut off to announce the good news, so a certain one dismounted first to cut off his head. "

The soldier spoke excitedly, with pride written all over his face. He was the first to get off his horse and cut off his head to explain how close he was to Shi Congyun at that time. It seemed that being so close was something to be proud of.

Both Wang Shenqi and Zhao Kuangyin listened intently, with expressions of admiration on their faces. They are both generals, and they understand how difficult it is to stab one out of hundreds of people.It's just that they didn't know that these hundreds of people were actually surrounded by thousands of people, and they didn't dare to move. The soldiers didn't say that.

The official got up from the top and said happily: "Sure enough, I saw the right person. Shi Congyun is really my champion! After he returns to the Chinese army, let him come to see me immediately. If I have something to ask, I want Give him a reward yourself."

Then he turned around and looked at Li Jixun and the others, "After the First Battle of Zhengyang, the reinforcements from the Southern Tang Dynasty collapsed and Shouzhou was isolated, which is a great time.

Li Jixun, you lead Hujie to garrison Shouzhou on the right side, guard against the enemy in the east, and besiege Shouzhou City. As for Li Chongjin...

Let him go back to Zhengyang to guard the pontoon bridge.

Shi Yanchao led the Long Jiejun to accompany me, as for Shi Congyun..."

When it came to Shi Congyun, the officials paused for a moment and didn't say how to arrange it.

All the generals took orders one after another, and then began to execute them.

In the battle of Zhengyang, the first big counterattack of the Southern Tang Dynasty was defeated, and the Zhou army can rest assured to attack the city and seize territory in Huaibei...  

Chapter 129, Great Zhou Loyal Minister Shi Congyun

Shi Congyun was overjoyed at the front line when he learned that the official family had arrived in Zhengyang as early as yesterday.

Don't be happy, the closer the officials are to him, the more his efforts and achievements will be seen by the officials, and there will be no more situations where he is working hard in Guanzhong, and he is not as good as Zhao Kuangyin's beautiful words.

He began to regret in his heart, why he didn't shout such beautiful words as "for the officials!"

Next time we need to improve, no matter what time it is, we must always shout slogans. If you shout slogans before a war, you may not know which time it will reach the ears of the officials. This is called being prepared.

After beheading Liu Yanzhen and capturing Cheng Shilang, Shi Congyun didn't delay, and immediately rushed north to Zhengyang after a short rest, eager to meet him.

On the way, he met his old friend Zhao Kuangyin.