In Los Angeles, it was four thousand miles away, and Hu Qi drove for five or six years.
The vegetation decayed, and the soldiers blocked the old riverside.
Nostalgia walks in the moonlight and stands at night, remembering my brother watching Yunbai sleep.
Situ anxiously turned into Po Youyan after hearing that Heyang was close to victory.
"Hate Farewell"
Tang Dynasty: Du Fu
—I am the dividing line —
The news that Tongguan changed hands and the two states of Shaanxi and Guo on the south bank were successively captured by the Taiping Army, and it soon rolled down the river channel, and the wind spread to the two banks in the lower reaches of the Yellow River.
And in Huaizhou, more than a hundred miles away from Tongguan, in Wangwu County. A splendid cloak, but it is difficult to cover his head with white hair. Under the blue sky, he describes that the increasingly thin and dry Heyang Jiedu makes Zhuge cool; but it is the tireless and careful inquiries, responsible for leading the soldiers to fight in order to pretend to attack and cope with the situation. Subordinates, every detail about what you have seen and heard:
"You mean, Tongguan, guarded by tens of thousands of people, was beaten down after just using it overnight?"
"It's nothing more than Guozhou, which is the first to bear the brunt. Shanxian County is empty with Jiancheng and Chuji. Under the leadership of Wang Qian, it has not been able to hold on for a day?"
"That said, the Taiping Army has been able to ship firearms and bombard the shore along the river? Even if it's not the big river, it will be rampant..."
"Then how did they get through safely, the mainstay of the Sanmen Waterway? Can they walk without wind without being dragged by the transporter?"
"Then the current Taiping army has advanced to Mianchi, and has formally formed a line with the soldiers and horses of the Zhu family in the eastern capital?"
"This is an explanation from the great commander. How dare the villain have the slightest slack and negligence, but there is the slightest falsehood, and he must know that there is no place to bury him."
The officer who was asked, sweating and bubbling in his tongue, also swore and swore on the spot:
"The subordinates have seen it with their own eyes. The sound of the firearms before the violent formation is like thunder, the mountains are shaking and the earth is cracking, the sky is falling like rain, and the city is completely unstoppable, and the dead and wounded, the corpse is lying on the bed..."
"And Sergeant Taiping seems to have a bodyguard with a different technique. He repeatedly rushed between the fireworks and artillery stones, but calmly and unscathed to get down the city; before a while, he climbed the city one after another and broke into the door..."
"The other generation has a spell to make the flying boat blow up, hanging in the middle of the sky, and all the fields are in a glance; wherever the banner is caused, no matter the horse, the grass, the city and the fortress, it is not like a powder!!"
"The warships of the Taiping Army are said to have obtained the secret method of'trojan horses and cattle' in the posthumous writings of Zhuge Wuhou. It has no wind and no fibers, no humans and animals, and can swallow smoke and clouds, and see the waves of the river as if it enters Pinghu! "
"If this is the case, no one in this world can stop it, and everyone is still fighting a bird's-eye fight? Wouldn't we all take the opportunity to go home and farm the fields?..."
However, Zhuge Zhongfang, who used all the soldiers and horses in the yamen nearby, became uncomfortable the more he listened, and he couldn't help but interrupted:
"Marshal Mingjian, this is what the villain has personally experienced, I dare not hide the slightest..."
The army general hugged and said:
"I'm only worried that those people used bluffing bluffs, even you would hide it..."
However, Zhuge Zhongfang was a bit disobedient and rebellious:
"Don’t hide the little commander, I was so small that I saw that Wang (Chongying) Lianshuai held it face-to-face, and even inspected the broken Shanxian city gate. Later, I experienced Dayang Bridge Head and The Hezhong army came to the rescue..."
The general was full of panic and lingering fear and explained in a hurry:
"If it hadn't been for the firearms of the Taiping Army's warship that burst into chaos with the pioneers of the Hezhong Army, I'm afraid I'm too small to have the opportunity to stand in front of you and say these things..."
Seeing that Zhuge Zhongfang was a little unwilling to say something, he saw Zhuge Shuang speak again:
"Okay, you've worked hard, go down and get fifty silks, and have a good rest..."
After the officer paid his respects, Zhuge Shuang recruited several other officers and officers who participated in the war and were present, and they made mixed speeches in front of Zhugezhong from their respective perspectives and positions. After that; he also had to become silent and turned into a rhetorical question:
"My lord, what do you mean?"
"What I mean? I mean I hope you can listen to it at the same time, instead of just relying on the temporary favors of those around you, you think that people in the world are nothing but this!"
Zhuge Shuang looked at himself a little helplessly, the only grown-up son who showed limited aptitude and said:
"Then it's not like an adult, so the foundation that has been in business for many years is about to give in to others like this? There is no other workaround..."
Zhuge Zhongfang was still a little reluctant to say:
"Do you think the old man still has a choice? There may have been room for both ends of the first mouse before, but now that he is on the side of the couch, do you have to make a difference?"
However, seeing the disappointment flashing in Zhuge Shuang's eyes, he sighed again and again:
"The rest of the old man is running out of time. The only thing I worry about is how my son can be self-sufficient in the future!"
"My lord! It's too much to underestimate my son!"
When Zhuge Zhongfang heard this, he was faintly unconvinced:
"This is not to underestimate my son! Hezhong has always been at the forefront of the four wars, and the neighbors are all peeping at the moment. The old man is also trying his best to deal with and weighing in the four directions. To be multiplied by others..."
Zhuge Shuang shook his head heavily and said:
"But the old man's power will eventually be exhausted, and he is even more worried about the survival of the family, young and old, and the tribe behind him; whether it is Wei Bo, Chengde, or the Wang family in the river, that person who simply responds to things?"
"My lord is too pessimistic! I still have tens of thousands of people in the river, and I have more than hundreds of thousands of household registrations, can't it be..."
Zhuge Zhongfang could not help but feel relieved
"No! Now that Guannei is connected with Heluo, this town has no more room to deal with..."
Zhuge Shuang said as if he had made up his mind:
"Rather than becoming a thorn in the way of others' great cause, it is better to find an opportunity to dedicate it to one of the strongmen before it can't hold it completely and cause the disaster. At least it may be exchanged for the wealth of a lifetime and the inheritance of the descendants. !"
"Isn't it better than being wiped out by those proud soldiers and heroes who are trying to get to the top, or the old enemies from the outer towns? At least now, the Taiping army has become a general trend and has a vast territory, and the people who are attached to the head can still have a wealth of money. The amount of bone tolerance..."
"But if you miss this best opportunity to make a fortune, whether it falls into the hands of Wei Bo, Chengde or Hezhong, I am afraid that my Zhuge clan wants to live in the world with humility, it is a rare extravagant hope. ."
"I ordered you to lead the party, but it is only for the sake of the future world situation, and there will be more people who can be used to contribute to others, and to seek a good end for our family. !"
"It must be known that the Zhu family in the eastern capital has not yet heard the news of the change of flag. Zhuge and the Heyang army can still have a first righteous achievement, but if someone else takes a step ahead, it will be inferior and more passive. Up..."
Seeing Zhuge Zhongfang under the shock, he was obviously a little desperate and walked out; Zhuge Shuang, who said that he was sweating Linlin, let out a sigh of relief; in a sense, he was not worried about this. What changes will happen to the relatively mediocre son.
But he was even more worried that behind him, Zhuge Zhongfang couldn't suppress the generals under his command, and thus colluded with the outer town and found another way out, or chose another person to support him among his other heirs; Mutual damage, the serious one, is the difficulty of overthrowing the big family.
Therefore, he needs to take advantage of his last little time and energy to be able to normally see things before and cause certain fait accommodating facts; in this way, even if there are any repetitions and variables in the future, the Zhuge clan can escape the bloody circle of successive generations. Get the possibility of continuation of the family in the new dynasty.
After all, he can stand on Heyang and deal with all parties for many years, and he can still make every effort to ensure one party. Doesn't he rely on accurate standing and knowing how to advance and retreat? For this reason, Zhuge Shuang did not hesitate to cut out some potential instability factors by taking advantage of the opportunity to play again.
Although the world inevitably compares him with the "multi-surname domestic slaves" of Qin Zongquan and Liu Hanhong, he is quite stigmatized; however, compared with the cruelty to the outside and the strict control methods, he still treats his relatives and family members as care and Thoughtful.
So not long afterwards, Wang Chongrong suddenly felt sad and stressful in some days when he was in the middle of the river at the turning point of the east bank of the big river.
Because the Heyang army from the east gave up the follow-up fight on the Shangdang side, and the army moved out because of the Zhiguanxing (now Jiyuan-Houma) between Wangwu Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain, threatening his deeds. Jie County and Anyi, the fundamental land, are here.
Therefore, Wang Chongrong, known as an army of fifty thousand, had to allocate another ten thousand horses in addition to leaving 15,000 troops in Jinzhou (now Linfen, Shanxi)-Qinzhou (now Qinyuan, Shanxi) to defend against the hedong side. Go back and make sure that the Yanchi between Jie County and Anyi is comprehensive.
However, his remaining troops, while trying to forcibly cross Pujindu (about 13 kilometers west of Yongji City, Shanxi Province) in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, were once again caught by the Taiping Army’s modified gunboat. Attack and declare defeat;
As a result, only more than 3,000 pioneers passed the pontoon bridge at Pujin Ferry, and then the approaching Pacific gunboats broke the queue and bridge deck that followed, and lost contact with the east bank; just like that. Into the pocket positions preset by the Taiping Army in the West Bank.
Therefore, in the west, watching the fighting on the east bank and the billowing fireworks, it lasted for an afternoon before it disappeared in the middle of the night; when the sky reappeared, only the temporary battlefield near the bridgehead was left with corpses all over the field;
The river army prepared materials overnight and tried to take advantage of the fire attack tactics of using small boats loaded with firewood from the upper flow. After being sunk and shattered by warships anchored in the river with guns, they had to give up continuing to repair the bridge. intend.
However, at the same time, the Hezhong Army, which did not completely give up, took advantage of the main force to attract the attention of the river, secretly from the lower reaches of Dayudu in Shenbaiyu (now 12 kilometers southeast of Ruicheng County), and the upper reaches Wu Wangdu (the east bank of the West Yellow River in Linyi County, Shanxi) spent more than a thousand people in boats and boats. (End of this chapter)