Moth

Liu Changzhou's timing was too coincidental.

The people sent to the front line got the news that Fei Ruzi was marching eastward with [-] elite troops, and was almost approaching the city of Yuanhe, when Zhenxi General Gu Yao panicked and ordered his troops to kill. over here.

The old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers of Yuanhe County were completely vulnerable, so they could only guard the city gate in isolation and hopelessly, waiting for reinforcements to arrive.What was very disappointing was that almost all of Gu Yao's subordinates who arrived looked like they were running away in a hurry.

Gu Yao never expected that Xi Nian would suddenly attack, and this was also the first formal confrontation between him and Xi Nian since he defended the border. Wan Huhou, it's not bad if he doesn't lose his head, and it is possible to bring down the party of the third prince who has just gained a firm foothold in the court.

On the one hand, he pushed out the scouts who were in charge of investigating the enemy's situation, and on the other hand, he hurriedly sent a letter to the third prince to shirk his responsibility during the march. Unexpectedly, at a line of sky between two mountains on the westernmost side of Yuanhe County, the Western Nian Army who had been ambushing for a long time turned his back on his back and almost lost his life.

Marching eastward in a hurry, dragging the remnants of less than [-] defeated generals to the foot of Yuanhe County, the city had already been besieged like an iron barrel.Ten thousand infantry fought against [-] cavalry, and in less than an hour, they were defeated in a swift and swift manner.

Gu Yao himself was poked into a hornet's nest by the Western Nian Army, and before he died, he found a letter from his arms that had not yet been mailed—the letter still boasted of his shameless frontier defense How to turn the tide.

Fei Ruzi climbed up to the Yuanhe tower amidst cheers, picked up a bowl of wine in front of him, slammed it to the ground, and paid homage to the souls of those dead Xiyan warriors.

Su Yu didn't write a letter for a long time, and even the messenger he sent to deliver the letter didn't come back. The king of the Western Regions already expected what happened—they might have been discovered.But there is another thing that he doesn't understand. Now that the military situation has been leaked, why did the generals guarding the border in Daqing still fail to arrive as soon as possible?Is it an internal dispute or something else?

But right now, he doesn't have time to think too much about other people's affairs. Next, although the ships heading eastward have already been prepared, without Su Yu, even if the water gate at the mouth of the Xuanhe River is repaired, no one can cooperate with the inside and outside.He had seen the picture of the water gate, and knew that the water gate could help them directly cross the drop at the mouth of the Xuanhe River.Su Yu treacherous and collaborating with the enemy, I am afraid that he will not end well, so who will be in charge of opening and closing the water gate?

If the road of Shuimenguan is really not feasible, how will he lead 3 people across the mountains and into the Central Plains?

The young Wang Qi was successful, but frowned in the flower hall of the old Yuanhe county government office.

Then a strange phenomenon caught his attention: the four streets and eight thoroughfares in Yuanhe County are full of old, weak, sick and disabled people!No women, no children!

He was slightly startled—what happened?

He fell into the scheme of ambush halfway, the belated border generals, and most of the people who were obviously transferred away in advance.

Is it to lure you into the urn?Is he using him to kill people?

At this time, the scouts came to report: "My king, [-] soldiers have been assembled, please take a look at it!"

He walked out of the yamen, stepped up to the high platform of the colonel's racecourse step by step, and looked at the [-] soldiers neatly lined up below, his blood boiled for a while, and then he suddenly clenched his fists—no matter what the situation was, there was almost no way out for him to go this far, and he started. Does the bow have an arrow that turns back?

As for Daqing, as early as when the West Nian soldiers were under the city of Linyuanhe, 1 troops from Liu Changzhou's Jiangnan General Army had already been stationed in the basin he had selected earlier, and tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass had arrived one after another via the mountain road. , with Fang Bingbi in charge of the Chinese army.

Most of the people in Yuanhe had indeed been transferred in advance by Liu Changzhou.

The basin is called "Cone Valley" by the locals. As the name suggests, it is like an awl inserted upside down between the surrounding mountains.Only in the direction facing south, there is a tributary of the Xuan River obliquely inserting/entering, forming a crescent-shaped lake at the bottom of the Cone Valley, called Crescent Bay.

Fang Bingbi acted accordingly, divided the barracks into two parts and planted them on the mountainsides of Nanshan and Beishan, using the luxuriant trees in the cone valley to cover the camp seamlessly.

In the middle of the night, Liu Changzhou, who had been waiting in the general's tent for a whole day, changed into all black, and left the general's tent like a black crow reporting a funeral.The moonlight was extraordinarily bright, and the feathers on the buttocks of the pheasants far away could be clearly seen, forcing Liu Changzhou to hide and hide in the jungle like a flea, jumping all the way to the city of Yuanhe.

He was horrified by the scene he saw before him.

Looking at the past, there are endless corpses, night owls cover the corpses in groups, pecking at the carrion, the disgusting smell of blood rises to the sky, and there are countless broken limbs and arms in the field of vision , the nearby land can no longer see its original color, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the blood is flowing.

Liu Changzhou pulled off the mask that covered half of his face, and in vain wrapped the Daqing army flag that had fallen in front of him, rubbed it under his night clothes, and sighed——what's wrong with these low-level soldiers?

The young master stood solemnly under the icy moonlight, with an unspeakable sadness in his heart, and he lamented that this Wanhaoerlang had somehow become Gu Yao's funeral object.

He straightened his body, crossed his hands in front of his chest, clasped his fingers, and bowed up and down three times in an upright manner.

There are always some passing words in the history books. Those words express a historical process with very simple words such as "birth, death, and death", but those seemingly innocuous words are converted into reality. Appearances—killing and maiming, death and sacrifice.

These Daqing warriors who fell in a pool of blood before them will also become a sentence in the history books that people will not care about at all - beheading [-] people.

But they exist in the world, not for these four words.Maybe it was for making meritorious deeds, maybe it was for the sake of the family and the world, but it was definitely not a stepping stone for him and the emperor's "killing with a borrowed knife" trick.

The bloodiness of a soldier is not to fear death, not to die unjustly.

Nearby, a Xiyan cavalry man and horse fell at his feet. The soldier held a strangely shaped weapon in his hand. The weapon was about ten feet long, and on top of it was a big knife about three feet long and three inches wide. The rest are wooden handles.The weapon reflected the intoxicating moonlight, shining sparkling light.

And then...Liu Changzhou suddenly realized one of his negligence, even if he could transport ten thousand elite soldiers into the Cone Valley silently, how could he ensure that those Daqing soldiers who are still holding spears and those who are accustomed to riding on horseback? Will the fighting Xiyan people win in a duel?This disadvantage can be made up for by the fact that the Yuanhe River stretches thousands of miles and is inconvenient for horse battles. Can Daqing's spear really match Xi Nian's broadsword?

Although the drill mode of the Jiangnan General Soldier has been added and changed a lot according to local conditions, the 1 troops in Zhuigu are recruits who have never rolled on the battlefield.

This belated discovery made his heart beat a little faster, and he felt extremely guilty when he was stimulated by the scene in front of him. He thought about it, and after a few jumps, he disappeared in the boundless moonlight in the distance.

It was late at night, and Lu Hanzhang, who had been running back and forth for a day at Xuanhe Estuary, enjoyed soaking in the wooden barrel, reading the letter from Xie Qingyun by the light of the lampstand.

The letter explained why he hadn’t returned for months, and when he extracted it, the dry product was—the Longmen Mountain collapsed, and the tomb of the master and wife collapsed beyond recognition. I invited the monks to do it and repair it again. After a while, the return date is uncertain.

Lu Hanzhang shook the letter paper, and threw it on the table beside him without expression.

He just stood up from the barrel, stretched his arms to take off the single clothes on the screen, before he could put them on, the window of the bamboo house was suddenly pushed open.

A black figure jumped in nimbly, pulled off the mask, took this place as his own home, sat down at the table, took a big sip of water, and said very quickly: "The water gate can be closed as quickly as possible." What do you want...?" Then his words suddenly stopped——

He saw Lu Hanzhang holding his hair with one hand, standing wet in the barrel, looking at him as if he was about to eat it, and said word by word: "Guangjitang is not here, Master is afraid It’s a terminal illness and it’s the wrong way.”

Liu Changzhou: "..." Doesn't this imply that he is sick?He touched his nose embarrassingly, closed his eyes very consciously, turned around obediently, and said with some embarrassment: "When will the work be finished? Well, I'm so sorry just now, I see that you still have lights in your room... hey I didn't see anything." Then he whispered: "So what if I see..."

Then there was a sound of falling into the water, followed by the sound of wet feet stepping on the bamboo floor from far to near. The man beat him on the forehead mercilessly, and then walked away.At the tip of the nose is a stronger smell of Huishan ink than the one I smelled on the day of Buguitang, and there is also a pleasant scent of sandalwood.

Liu Changzhou's tense thinking after returning from the slaughterhouse can still be divided a little bit, and he still has time to think, oh, sure enough, literati are just talking about it, and they always take aromatherapy in their baths.

Lu Hanzhang took off the quilt, wrapped it roughly around himself and walked back, sat down on the stool next to him, and said angrily: "Master broke into the house in the middle of the night, I'm afraid there is something urgent?" He planned to beat him to the ground if what he heard was not a major event such as murder and arson, but given the huge difference in force between the two sides, that was unlikely, so he would drown him with saliva.

Liu Changzhou heaved a sigh of relief, carefully opened his eyes a crack, and opened them fully after making sure that there was nothing unsuitable for watching, and then looked elsewhere with a guilty conscience: "I remember Boss Lu once said that the water gate is a nine-linked ring. Class structure?"

Lu Hanzhang's eyes widened, he kicked him under the table, gritted his teeth and said, "You came here in night clothes just because of this shit?"

Liu Changzhou nodded innocently, and said with an apologetic smile: "If, I mean if, how long will it take to destroy all the water gates?"

Lu Hanzhang felt a "thump" in his heart—ninety percent of the water gate has been completed, but this person came to talk to him about destroying the water gate.Yuanhe fell into the enemy's hands, and the people of Qinghe are packing up their belongings and leaving. There are refugees fleeing from the upper reaches of the market almost every day. There are rumors that Xilian soldiers are about to enter Qinghe, so destroying Shuimenguan may cut off Xiyan's invasion of the Central Plains. The only way, but he had not heard any news about the fight between Jiangnan General Soldier and Xi Nian.

There was a faint smell of blood in the air, as well as a smell of rotten meat. Lu Hanzhang frowned slightly, and then thought - this is clearly the smell of the battlefield.

With great difficulty, he stretched out his arms from under the quilt like a cloak, picked up a plain white cup on the table, twirled it in his hand, and asked an irrelevant question: "Why? Is the general strength of Jiangnan not enough?"

Liu Changzhou didn't know his keenness for a day or two, and he didn't show any surprise that he could think of this step, but said solemnly: "No. It's August now, then see, if we speed up the construction period, can we Hurry up and close the water gate before September?"

He had a clear idea of ​​the strength of the general army in the south of the Yangtze River, and when fighting in the mountainous places around the Yuanhe River, the cavalry could not take much of it.But everything is unpredictable. After seeing the corpses under the gate of Yuanhe City, he had another idea——Jiangnan General Soldier is the first line of defense against Xilian's invasion of Daqing, and the second line of defense is Xuanhekou. But the current construction of Shuimenguan has obviously weakened the power of Xuanhe Estuary.

If the water gate can be destroyed, it seems more foolproof.

Lu Hanzhang was silent for a while when he heard the words, looked over with a smile that was not a smile, and asked abruptly: "Master Liu, who are you?"

Liu Changzhou's heart was shocked, he carefully observed the expression of the person in front of him, and then calmly and carefully said: "Liu Changzhou, whose name is Maoshan, comes from the imperial city, and is a little master under Zhimaguan in Qinghe County."

It seemed that the question just now came from outside the sky, as if it was suddenly drawn by Lu Hanzhang.

He smiled abruptly, brought the topic back in a simple and rough manner, and said unhurriedly: "The salary of Fang Zhifu's yamen was paid in time, and more than 500 people joined the labor force one after another. I haven't seen the master recently. It just so happens that today I tell Master a good news, the Water Gate Gate is now finishing, and I would like to ask Master to give it a name and give it a name."

Liu Changzhou looked at him suspiciously for a long while, but he couldn't extract any information from his normal smile, but the more he looked at that expression, the more he felt terrified.There was no trace of anger in the man's words, but it already made him feel that the person in front of him was as imposing as a mountain, which made him feel inexplicably depressed.

What kind of battle has I never seen before, but under the eyes of a man who is close to being disabled and still wrapped in a quilt, he suffers from the oppressive feeling of the visitor, so fucking... Damn it.

He rubbed his face, and the old problem broke out. He raised one leg and pressed it under his buttocks, put his elbow on the table, twisted his face with one hand, and said, "Well, if this is the case, then it's called 'five' Dingguan'."

Lu Hanzhang wrapped the quilt tighter, and inexplicably began to pay the bill: "From August last year to September this year, Wuding Pass was used for thirteen months, and the total cost of money was 900 million taels, and the total amount of labor was 500 taels." [-] people. Master, do you know how long it will take to destroy it?

He paused, poured a glass of water to his lips, and said, "Half a cup of tea."

Liu Changzhou lowered his eyelids, and silently dismissed the idea of ​​using the destruction of Wuding Pass as a second line of defense—manpower and material resources are too expensive, and I'm afraid there will be no chance in the future, and will anyone have the energy and ingenuity to start anew? Build another one.

And Lu Hanzhang in front of him made him feel very strange.

In his impression, Lu Hanzhang is a purely desireless person, a person who cannot be wooed by any material.Although he usually chatted and laughed with the people around him, Liu Changzhou knew very well that even if he was thrown alone on the Kunlun Mountains where there were few people, he probably wouldn't feel lonely.His emotions are basically blank, almost without emotions.

But now, he was very sensitive to hear a bit of anger from those words.Wudingguan was built by Lu Hanzhang, and everyone can see how much effort he put into it. Now that he suddenly mentions the matter of destroying it, everyone will be angry.No, Liu Changzhou still thinks it's not because of this, because Lu Hanzhang must know how to put the overall situation first. Since he can guess the Jiangnan General Soldier, he must be able to understand his intention of asking this question.

Compared with the family, the country and the world, what is the mere Wuding Pass?

that……

Before he could figure it out, he heard Lu Hanzhang return to his original calm and irrelevant tone: "In the organization similar to Jiulianhuan in Wudingguan, I added another organization to maintain the whole relationship. It is somewhat similar to the formation eye of a formation. If you really want to destroy it, you only need to destroy the 'formation eye', so it only takes half a cup of tea. If necessary..."

Liu Changzhou waved his hand, wanting to get rid of the weird atmosphere around him, and said with an exaggerated expression: "What are you ruining! You don't want me to. You think that 900 million taels can grow if I plant it in the ground." It came out? Almost [-]% of the taxes and fees paid by the people of Qinghe County are paid in it, am I not guilty of destroying it?"

Those words were almost a kind of promise to someone, and then the lingering sense of oppression suddenly disappeared without a trace——

But when he looked at Lu Hanzhang, that person still had the same expression as before, and he didn't see a smile on his face. His handsome face was still as long as a donkey's, and he said calmly: "I made an appointment with the master that day, take care of yourself." If you took it out and put it on the Wuding Pass for a sacrifice, did Master Liu not forget it?"

Liu Changzhou, who has always been good at playing rascals, made an ignorant look: "...Hey, how do you get to Guangji Hall? I seem to be a little forgetful recently."

Lu Hanzhang snorted, pulled up the quilt and got up to see off the guests, but the corner of the quilt that was dragged on the ground because it was too long was accidentally stepped on by Liu Changzhou, who had just changed his sitting position. It just fell off, there is not even a fucking foreshadowing.

Lu Hanzhang and Liu Changzhou looked at each other in dismay: "..." What's going on!

Liu Changzhou quickly extinguished the lamp with a wave of his hand, squatted down silently under the thin moonlight, picked up the quilt and put it on him very kindly, and said with a sneer: "Haha... I didn't see anything."

Lu Hanzhang kicked hard with all his strength, the veins on his forehead twitched violently, and he said murderously, "No!" Why would he go crazy every time he was with this rascal!Can you still be a quiet and handsome man?