"... The Xiaocang River flows out of the valley. The Gukou Dam was built at the beginning of the year, and its height is more than 20 feet high. The southeast facing the Gukou was originally the easiest for people to walk. There is nothing to be afraid of... As for the other sides of the valley, the roads are rough and difficult to navigate... It is not that there is no way to get in and out, but only experienced hunters can go around. At key points, watchtowers have also been built, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack, not to mention , a lot of times there are 'hot air balloons' tied to the observation deck as a guard..."
"… The army in the valley has had an adaptation since it entered the mountain. It was last October that the flag of stars on a black background was set as the military flag. According to the traitor, the black background symbolizes firmness, determination, and unshakability, and the stars mean the fire of a single star. You can start a prairie fire... After the reorganization, the Wu Rui Camp consists of about ten people in a team, about 30 people in a row, with a company above the platoon, about a hundred people, and a battalion above the company, with about three to five hundred people. Three battalions plus A special battalion is a regiment. At present, the rebels form a total of five regiments, and some people call themselves the Black Flag Army or the Huaxia Army…”
"... The rebels train every three days, but they have things to do the rest of the time, and the rules are strict. After every six days, there is a day off. However, since the Bianliang collapse, the morale of the rebels has been high, and half of the soldiers are even unwilling to take a rest... That The rebels set up many courses in the army, and they took advantage of the winter refugees to infiltrate the valley.
In the dimly lit cave, a man dressed in shabby clothes from the mountain people stood there, explaining in detail what he had inquired about in a clear and organized manner. Sitting in front was Li Pin. He coughed occasionally and wrote down what the other party said in detail with pen and paper. There was sunshine at the entrance of the cave, and Tie Tianying was sitting. He put the giant sword on his knees, closed his eyes and rested, but when Li Pin occasionally asked some trivial things in the cave, he could vaguely see that Tie Tian. Eagle's mood is not good.
"That traitor didn't stop him from talking about the lack of food in the valley?"
"Why did no one mutiny?"
"How many refugees enter the mountains in winter?"
"How do they screen?"
Li Pin asked trivial questions. After I get an answer, I often ask in more detail: "Why do you think this way? What are the signs that make you think this way?" Sharp, clear thinking. But often such inquiries can not help, sometimes hesitantly, and even Li Pin asked about some mistakes.
But most of the problems were consistent with what Tie Tianying had already told Li Pin.
Since the winter, Xiaocanghe's defense has been relatively tight. The masters on Ning Yi's side had already carefully surveyed the terrain around the river valley. Most of the time, the catchers under Tie Tianying didn't dare to approach there, for fear of spooking the grass. Of course, there was more than one undercover agent who infiltrated the Xiaocang River during the winter, but calling it out when it was not necessary, just to ask for some trivial details in detail, for him, it was almost finding fault.
There is not much to say about the things in the Xiaocang River Valley, and there is not much to say. The undercover agent was questioned back and forth by Li Pin while coughing for most of the day, and many of them were still talking back and forth in Che Gulu's words. After the inquiry was over, he said a few good words, and then said, "If there is anything left out, I will need this brother's help for the next two days." The things recorded, and the map he drew about the Xiaocang River.
"Mr. Li finished asking?"
"Cough, there may be things I haven't thought of." Li Pin frowned and read the descriptions.
"Then Mr. Li, please teach me. Is there any discrepancy with the information recorded by Tie?"
"… not much."
"That's it! Come on, Mr. Tie really wants to be right with Mr. Li today, let's take a look at the information. There are some that Mr. Tie remembered wrongly, so that Mr. Li can remember the omissions in the next work. crime!"
Li Pin, who was originally reading the information, raised his head to look at him at this time, then put out his hand to cover his mouth, coughed a few words with difficulty, and said, "Li only wants to be safe, but Tie Caotou misunderstood."
"It's foolproof? Mr. Li. You know the eyes I put so much effort into the Xiaocang River! Before the critical moment, Mr. Li, you called him out like this and asked some trivial things. !"
Li Pin was silent for a moment, and his eyes became serious: "I'm blunt, Mr. Tie, your information is indeed too omissions, and the general direction is naturally correct. But the language is sloppy, and many places are just guessing... Cough Cough Cough…”
"Someone Tie has been in the punishment department for many years, and he knows more useful information than you, Master Li!"
"Cough cough... But are you his opponent!?" Li Pin grabbed the stack of things in his hand and threw it on the ground in front of Tie Tianying. He, a sick scholar, suddenly made such a thing, but it surprised Tie Tianying.
"Cough cough... Ning Yi and I haven't had many opportunities to work together, but I still have some understanding of his actions in the Prime Minister's Mansion. Under his control, Zhuji and the Secret Investigation Division have a lot of requests for information and intelligence. Everything is clear, and those who can use numbers will never be ambiguous! It has reached the point of nitpicking! Cough... His methods are imaginative, but most of them are built on such nitpicking! I have repeatedly deduced the situation that day. He has at least a few backup plans. The most obvious one is that his first choice must be the Lu Hongti Miansheng from Qingmu Village. If the late emperor summoned him in advance, cough. cough cough..."
He babbled, talking about these things, and then lowered his head to pick up the pile of information: "Now that the North has fallen, I am weak here, and it is difficult for the government to help. If it is careless, it will only be death. Li. A certain heart knows that Lord Tie has his own way of handling cases, but if that system doesn't work, maybe the opportunity lies in these little things that are nitpicking..."
Tie Tianying was silent for a moment. He couldn't say that he was a scholar, but he would not be fooled by the other party's words. He sneered: "Hmph, where Tie cannot work, what did Mr. Li see?"
"There are many doubts, and I can't figure it out." Li Pin said softly, "It's just this little Canghe that is the biggest doubt. Why did he choose to stop here? The two ends of the village echoed each other. In fact, both ends were mountainous, and the roads were not smooth. He led the Wu Rui camp to rise up with 7,000 people and defeated tens of thousands of troops twice. There are both land and people. With the strength of this group of people, the Western Xia army will attack, and they will defend the city. There is also the strength of a battle, which is far better than being trapped in the mountains at this time..."
Tie Tianying retorted: "It's just like that, the imperial army and the western army are taking turns to fight, and he is risking the world, and it is difficult to have allies. How long can he last?"
"It's not necessarily that he can't hold it. Take a step back and say that he can't hold it anymore. Naturally, he can enter the mountains again. With the supplies of one city and one place, it will be better than the current situation." Li Pin tapped those in his hands. Intelligence, "And it seems that he never regarded the current situation as a predicament at all. Taking in refugees during the winter will cost him food first, and secondly, don't he know. Now the imperial court will send people to watch him? He even has spies. Not afraid, and directly drove away the envoy of Xixia, not afraid to offend the king of Xixia, how can there be such a person..."
"He is not afraid of spies." Tie Tianying repeated, "That may mean that some of the information I know now is some false information he deliberately revealed. Maybe he pretended to be calm, or maybe he had secretly talked to Xixia. People have contacts... No, if he wants to pretend to be calm, he should choose a city outside the mountains to guard it from the beginning. It is more likely that he has contacts with Xixia people in private. Such people who have no king and no father are such traitors. It's not surprising at all."
"If he really has voted for Xixia, what I do here will be useless. But I always think it's impossible..." Li Pin glanced at Tie Tianying. "But in the middle of this, why didn't he forbid people to discuss the matter of storing grain in the valley, why did he always make people discuss political affairs inside and outside the valley, it was necessary to know that the more people think about it, the more difficult it is to control, and the people can let it go. It is impossible to let them know. With such self-confidence, are you really not afraid of the mutiny of the people in the valley? Become rebellious, find a dead end, reject Western Xia, and accept refugees in winter... These things... cough... "
The two were still quarreling, but Li Pin did not mess up. Many of what he said were also the doubts in Tie Tianying's heart. At this time, it was pointed out, and I felt more and more that in this valley named Xiaocanghe, many things were in a mess.
"Ha, adding these things together can only mean that Ning Liheng is already crazy!"
"It's fine if he's really crazy." Li Pin sighed slightly, "However, this person makes a plan and then moves, and he can never handle it with common sense. Hey, killing the king in court! I really planned to rebel, leave the capital first, and arrange slowly. Now that Jurchen is messing up the world, he has no chance. But he did it... You say he is crazy, but he is clear about the current situation, you and I are better, According to the news he released, within a year, all the north of the Yellow River will be handed over to the Jurchens. It seems that within three years, it is not impossible for the Wu Dynasty to lose the front line of the Yangtze River..."
"...I can't figure out what he's up to."
With a murmur, Li Pin sat down on the stone behind him. Tie Tianying frowned and looked aside. After a while, he said, "I can't figure it out either, but one thing is clear."
"If he really took refuge in Xixia, and now he is backed by the mountains, no one in the entire northwest can do anything to him." Tie Tianying said, "But if not, he will never be able to fake the lack of grain in his valley. Before the grain runs out, He must have action! No matter what action it is, that is the best chance I am waiting for!"
After he finished saying this, he waved his hand suddenly, took two steps and stopped, looking back at Li Pin: "It's just that I'm worried, even this opportunity is in his calculations. Mr. Li, you are familiar with him, Your brain is easy to use, if there is any danger, you can figure it out for yourself!"
"Cough... cough..."
Tie Tianying left the hole. Li Pin sat there and coughed a few times. He took the information in his hand, opened it, looked at it, looked confused, frowned slightly, then leaned against the wall and closed it for a long time. Eye.
"What do you want to do..."
hoarse voice. The sun was pouring outside the cave, Tie Tianying walked up the hill, looked in the direction of Xiaocang River, and looked back to the southeast for a long time.
When he just took the mission to come here, he had a strong desire to prove himself. When the truth comes, the sex is fading, and the manpower is sometimes poor. He is not the opponent of this lunatic who wants to be the enemy of the world. Now, he knows that the reasons for everyone to stay here are slowly disappearing. In the news from Li Bandian, he knew that just in the southeast direction, dignitaries and dignitaries were leaving Bianliang. This was the weakening of an era, and the people who used to be in various fields were losing their color.
Wang Tongguan, the most prolific military man in the past few decades, died on the day Ningyi rebelled, and the emperor died on the same day. More than a month ago, Tang Ke, the left minister in charge of the court, was hanged in his home after fulfilling all the requirements of the Jurchen and hollowing out the beams. But before he died, it was not without any movement. The old man, who had always been the leader of the Lord and Sect, seized Cai Jing's house as soon as he took the position. Cai Jing, who used to be all over the world and manipulated the court for decades, is on the way to exile. starved to death.
… In the past 81 years, I was homeless three thousand miles away, and I was alone in the world, looking at Shenzhou in tears. The Golden Hall has worshipped the prime minister five times, and the Yutang has declared Ma for ten times. Reminiscing about the prosperity of the past, here is translated into a dream...
This is Cai Jing's last poem. It is said that he was disgusted by the people all over the world because of his evil deeds. During his exile, he couldn't buy anything with gold and silver, but in fact, how could there be such a thing. This 81-year-old powerful official will starve to death, which may also prove that the rest of the power figures may not have no complaints about him at this point in the country.
What's the use
All the royal families in Bianliang City were taken away. Now that they are rushing back to the Jin Kingdom like pigs and dogs, the officials are going south, and they really want to give up this place to the north. If the Yangtze River is the boundary in the future, this half of the world will collapse on his head at this time.
He looked back at Xiao Canghe and thought: This lunatic!
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In May, the world is crumbling.
After the Jurchen went, a large number of officials in Bianliang City began to move south.
The emperor is no longer there, and the royal family is swept away, and the next one will succeed. It must be the clan to the south. Although the situation is not yet finalized, there are also officials in the south: If you support the establishment and follow the dragon's work, do you have to hand over and let the idle people in the south wait
Tong Guan, Cai Jing, and Qin Siyuan are all dead now, and the rest of the treacherous officials who were denounced by the people of Beijing as the "seven tigers". Now it's all about strikes, relegations, and relegations. The court finally returned to the hands of many people of justice. The people headed by Qin Hui began to cross the Yellow River mightily, preparing to support the new emperor. Zhang Bangchang, who had to accept the throne of the Great Chu Emperor, also promoted the southward transfer of various materials during this May. Then prepare to go to the south to plead guilty. From Yanmenguan to the Yellow River, from the Yellow River to the Yangtze River, there are a lot of questions about whether people are going or staying, and for a while, even more chaos is brewing.
In the south, a solemn and festive atmosphere is gathering. In Jiangning, where Ning Yi once lived, Zhou Yong, the king of Kang who has nothing to do, will soon become the new emperor of the Wu Dynasty under the impetus of Princess Chengguo, Kang Xian and others. Some people have already seen this clue. In the city and the palace, Zhou Pei, the county owner, knelt on the temple, watching the kind old grandmother hand her the ring pendant, which symbolizes the Princess Palace of Chengguo, thinking about being driven to the north by the barbarians at this time. Earth, those Zhou family members who don't know their life or death, they all have tears.
The young prince was sitting on a high stone pier, looking towards the north, where the setting sun cast magnificent colors. He also sighed.
"...Forty years of home and country, three thousand miles of mountains and rivers. Fengge, Longlou, and Xiaohan, and Yushu Qiongzhi as smoke and radish. How many times have you known war?"
This song "Break a Time" is Empress Li's words for the subjugation of the country. He looked at the flowing clouds in the sky and recited it in a low voice for a while, then he sighed.
"Master..."
He jumped off the stone pier and stood there, looking at the sunset for a long time, until the evening wind came and stroked his jacket, he waved his hand.
"I will carry forward the way of judging things, and I will help the Zhou family to defend the Wu Dynasty. Look at it."
He spoke in a low voice and made the decision.
He should be a prince.
So you can build a bigger workshop!
It was a scorching summer, as if he had never felt the shattering of the outside world, and in the Xiaocang River, the days were passing by day by day.
By the end of May, a lot of news had already leaked out. The Xixia people blocked the southwest passage. Jurchen also began to rectify the smuggling of wealthy households in the Luliang area. Qingmu Village, the last few business routes, were being cut off. Not long after, Li Pin, Tie Tianying and others also learned of such news. (.)
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