Chapter 31 Breaking the city!

The county seat of Chu County is Chuzhou City.

A funeral team was preparing to leave the city.

Who would have known that the stakes carrying the coffin broke when they were about to pass the city gate, injuring two coffin boys and killing one coffin boy.

The funeral procession was stuck at the city gate.

The crown prince of Prince Fu, who was also the filial son who was about to succeed Prince Fu, knelt beside the coffin, crying and shouting loudly, while the princess and her family members also cried to death.

They were not crying about the coffin boy who was smashed to death, but they were crying because Old King Fu was so uneasy when he left.

Outside the city gate, the group of people who left the city first could only wait nearby.

Lao Xiaotou, who played the suona, sat in the open space on one side of the official road, while his apprentice Xiao Mazi actively helped him tinker with the hookah.

In this world, opium has not yet been born, but things like tobacco have long been spread among the people.

The cigarettes made by Zheng Fan from the Blind Bei Gang are only innovations in technology and production methods. In fact, the tobacco is also readily available.

Of course, the upper-class people in Qian Country do not smoke tobacco. Compared with Wushisan, the strength of tobacco is really just a drizzle.

Carefully lighting his master's cigarette with a fire stick, Lao Xiaotou took two puffs, exhaled two puffs of smoke, then retched and spit out a large mouthful of thick phlegm.

Apprentice Xiao Mazi immediately patted his master's back gently.

Lao Xiaotou turned his head and glanced at the situation at the city gate, but he was not impatient at all, but said to his apprentice:

"Call Uncle Kang here. ."

"Okay, Master."

Soon, an old man with a big gong on his waist came over and approached Lao Xiaotou.

Old Xiaotou whispered:

"The problem at the city gate won't be fixed for a while."

"That's not true. On the way to a funeral, the most taboo thing is that things go wrong. This time it was a mistake. It was just a break-up, but a person was killed and blood was seen.

Well, the gentleman said that the Ministry of Etiquette of the imperial court was sent to take charge. The funeral director, looking at his anxious look, probably doesn’t know what to do.”

“I said, Old Kangtou, don’t just watch the fun, tell everyone. Time, we will definitely have to delay it, and we will definitely not be able to get on the road for a while.

After we get it ready and get back on the road, tell everyone to calm down and save some energy. The boss will ask, Just say that we have been delayed for a long time, and we are hungry and have no strength.

Either let the steward of the palace give us a meal, or give us a reward of two yuan. ”

"Yes, I will listen to you, I will give the order right now."

"Tell them to be smart and say they are hungry."

"I know. , I know.”

Perhaps, in the eyes of outsiders, these white peopleMr. Shi'er actually dared to knock the prince's head with the hammer, which was really too bold. But they grew up eating nothing, and they had seen a lot of dead people, so their courage was developed.

What about the palace?

Can the Royal Palace make people not hungry?

Lao Xiaotou picked up the hookah again and took two puffs.

At this time, the apprentice Xiao Mazi approached his master and whispered:

"Master, I heard that the prince in the coffin has no head."

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Lao Xiaotou frowned and immediately grabbed his apprentice and asked:

"Who sued you?"

"Hua Cui'er and I'm talking about her mother being the nun of the palace. She said that after the prince's coffin was brought back to the palace from the north, her mother went to help contain it. Her mother didn't tell her at first, but she slept with her mother in the same room that night. Her mother had a nightmare at night, shouting that the prince's head is gone, the prince's head is gone..."

"Pa!"

Lao Xiao slapped him on the head. On Xiao Mazi's head, he lowered his voice and cursed:

"Don't tell anyone else about this, it will cost you your head!"

Little Mazi was startled by the master's sharp gaze, and immediately said obediently:

"Master, I only told you, not anyone else, not anyone else."

"I understand Master, I understand Master."

Old Xiao lowered his head Head, smoked two more hookahs.

It is only natural for people who do idle things to take advantage of troubles in the master's family to get more meals or ask for more rewards.

But there are some things that ordinary people like me cannot touch.

What a bastard,

Prince Fu came back without his head!

This King of Fortune actually doesn’t have a very good reputation. In Chuzhou City, when talking about King of Fortune, everyone will say “heh” and then make gestures to figure out how fat the pigs raised next door are. It's like killing a New Year pig.

But if you insist on saying how bad this King Fu is, you really can’t tell.

Anyway, having a fat head and big ears is not a good thing in the eyes of ordinary people.

The year before last, a scholar cursed Prince Fu at the gate of Prince Fu's mansion. He said, "All the flesh on your body is for the people's fat and the people's anointing!"

Little Mazi once asked himself what the name of Minzhi and the people's anointing was. What does it mean?

Old Xiaotou actually doesn’t understand.

But as a master, how can you reveal the truth in front of your apprentice?

Just tell him it’s pig skin jelly.

Later, when there was a private school teacher whose mother died, and when he was helping him with some errands, Lao Xiaotou went to ask the teacher what the phrase "people fat and people anointed" meant.

The gentleman nodded and replied:

It does look like a frozen head of pig skin.

Lao Xiao has the first clueHe handed the tobacco pouch to his apprentice, stretched out his hand, took out a dry stem from the belt around his waist, and bit it in his mouth one by one.

A few days ago, King Fu went out as an imperial envoy. Maybe it was because he was fat that he didn’t go out much on weekdays. But that time, when King Fu went out, he made quite a splash. of.

Because that time, a group of wolf soldiers came outside Chuzhou City.

Lao Xiaotou even took his apprentice to see the wolf soldiers, they are so rare. In the early years, these soldiers were very powerful in the southwest where we work!

However, the soldiers are the soldiers. They are dressed in strange clothes and look like a group of uncivilized monkeys.

And none of them have ever seen the world. When they buy the same thing, it is always 40 to 50% more expensive, but they themselves can't help but enjoy it.

Oh, they are just a bunch of bumpkins.

On that day, Lao Xiao first saw King Fu heading north with the wolf soldiers, because King Fu was so easy to recognize and so obvious.

What are you going north for?

Those who work for free will do things when they have something to do, and gather together to chat when they have nothing to do. They also have contact with dignitaries from all three religions and nine circles. After all, no matter whether you are rich or not, you will always die.

For this reason, Lao Xiaotou heard some rumors, saying that Captain Yang on the other side was a little afraid of swallows and dogs, and King Fu was ordered to reprimand him as the vassal king this time.

Isn’t that right? That Captain Yang is a eunuch and there is no Luan Zi under him. Can he be tough?

As for the Yan people, Lao Xiaotou has seen many Yan people's caravans. In the early years, he also saw many Yan people's scholars coming.

The Yan people look no different from their own Ganren.

Old Xiaotou didn’t know what would happen if he fought with the Yan people. It was said that he had fought with the Yan people a hundred years ago, but after all, a hundred years had passed, and those who had seen the war were long gone.

But it is said that the Yan people are quite good at fighting.

Old Xiaotou recognized this.

The Yan people are poor,

He is not afraid of those who are barefoot and those who wear shoes, even those who are poor!

Whether they are in the city or in the countryside, these poor and impoverished guys are masters that even rogues do not dare to offend.

However, it is best not to fight.

This was Lao Xiaotou’s simplest thought. He had never thought that people would die in the war. He might die, and many people would die, but because people from all over the country had already died. Suffering the hardships of war.

Fortunately, Lao Xiaotou has a craft. As the saying goes, a craftsman will never starve to death in a famine year. No matter what, he can still survive this day.

But the life of the farmers was not easy.

In the past few months, the wolf soldiers and the Western Army came one after another. The wolf soldiers were okay, but the bumpkin There is a group of thieves in the army, but those thieves with Western accents often do things like buying and selling by force. They beat people and destroy stalls at every turn. They don't pay for meals and just give away things.

Later, the ancestors' army came. The ancestors' army was quite good. Qiu did nothing wrong. He walked and looked orderly.

But after that, the Imperial Guards who came over were really a bunch of beasts!

Old Xiaotou was puzzled. Logically speaking, the imperial army came from Shangjing, where the officials lived. According to legend, gold foil would float on the Bianhe River in front of Shangjing from time to time.

But this group of forbidden troops had done a lot of things, including robbing civilian girls and even killing people and selling goods. The Chuzhou magistrate took the initiative to go to the military leader, but he was actually kicked by the military leader. go back.

Who can be an official in the Forbidden Army without some background?

After causing trouble for a while, the Forbidden Army finally moved north. Big guys, they can take a breather, but every time soldiers and horses come, the place has to collect food.

Usually, the most difficult time for farmers is spring, but this year is good. The winter has not even passed yet, and it is already impossible to open the pot.

But people will still die. After death, they will all belong to the villagers. You still have to help with things. If they kowtow to you, there will be nothing left in the house, and you will not. What to force?

Lao Xiaotou spit out the grass clippings in his mouth,

sighed in his heart,

This year has been difficult for

Here.

As soon as the funeral procession stopped, it stopped for most of the day. Many people came to persuade, and several groups of monks and Taoists came.

Finally, the coffin where Prince Fu lay was lifted up again.

Lao Xiaotou stood up,

No matter whether they were blowing, knocking or shouting, everyone was weak. This is really not an act, this is fucking real. I'm hungry. The sun is going to go down the mountain right now!

The people in the palace are poorer and more sophisticated than ordinary people, so they have been struggling for so long.

In fact, an accident in the coffin during the funeral is a very serious matter. At the same time, as the person who will inherit the king's title, the prince is just like the prince before he inherits the throne. Even if he is very happy in his heart, We must express this grief and let everyone see our filial piety.

At the same time, the court's methods of dealing with the vassal king are really diverse. They will find trouble for you every now and then. If there is an accident in the coffin, and the court learns about it, they will inevitably use it to make some fuss, such as the prince's filial piety. etc.

The most important thing is that the crown prince and the princess actually knew that when Prince Fu came back, he had no head. However, they were unable to know the reason. They were only warned by the commander of the Silver Armor Guards stationed in Chuzhou City not to go too far. ask.

Various reasons and various emotions were intertwined, and they exploded directly through this incident, which is why it was delayed for so long.

Old Xiaotou suddenly felt his calves trembling,

hurriedly stretched out his hand and said:

"Disciple."

" Master?"

"Help me, I'm so hungry, my legs are starting to tremble."

"Master, I'm very hungry too, and my calves are trembling too."

"You bastard, how dare you..."

"No, Master, I'm not hungry, it's the ground that's shaking!"

Old Xiao was stunned for a moment and felt it carefully. It seemed that the ground was really shaking.

Then,

Old Xiao raised his head,

in front of his sight,

there was a dark area !

"Dong Dong Dong! Dong Dong Dong! Dong Dong Dong!"

"Disciple, get out of the way!"

Old Xiaotou's reaction at this time It was quite fast, and he directly stretched out his arms to hug his disciple and rolled to one side.

Behind him, the sound of the cavalry roared like thunder, and the dust raised almost buried the master and the apprentice under a layer of dust.

Immediately afterwards, screams and screams came from around.

Old Xiaotou didn't hear anything else clearly, he only heard one sentence:

Yangou is coming!

Little Mazi seemed to want to get up, but Lao Xiaotou held his head tightly.

Mom,

The Yan people are here?

How could the Yan people be here?

Are the troops on three sides finished?

The Western Army is over?

The Forbidden Army is finished too?

The Ancestor Army is also finished?

Old Xiaotou was very puzzled. He had heard someone calculate that we were going to do something big, but there were millions of troops at the border!

The Zhiniang thief is just a million pigs. The Yan people have been trying to catch them for a long time. Why did they suddenly kill them in Chuzhou City?

Old Xiaotou had countless doubts in his heart, but he could only continue to press his disciple to lie on the ground, not daring to raise his head to look around or get up.

He only felt that the sound of horse hooves on the road behind him seemed to be endless, and large groups of cavalry kept passing behind him.

Lao Xiaotou felt a sense of despair. He didn’t know where his despair came from. It might just be his own instinct. He even found it a bit funny.

This despair is:

Mom, King Fu’s coffin is still blocked at the city gate!

At this time, I am still worried about this. Is this something you should be concerned about!

I don’t know how long I lay on the ground eating sand. It was so long that Lao Xiaotou felt a little dazed and dizzy.

He was not even aware that the sound of horse hooves behind him had become sparse for a long time.

Until,

a pair of boots appeared in front of him,

and the boot stepped on his shoulder.

Old Xiaotou wanted to continue pretending to be dead, but he didn't dare...

He raised his head and saw a young general wearing black armor standing in front of him, and behind him, Standing was a giant man who looked like an iron man, and at the same time there was a man with his eyes closed.A person wearing armor.

"Hey, get up."

Zheng Fan urged.

Lao Xiaotou immediately got up, and Xiao Mazi also got up.

The master and the apprentice were just about to stand up,

at the same time, their feet went soft and thudded again He fell to the ground with a cry.

This scene looks very funny and funny.

Zheng Fan smiled,

But what Zheng Fan smiled was not the two in front of him,

but the one in front of him was much bigger than Mianzhou City. Chuzhou City, the capital of Chu County in the Qian Kingdom, actually rushed in just like when he first attacked Mianzhou City!

The only difference is that last time I was in Mianzhou City because there were too few soldiers and horses, I only had time to cut off part of the head and left immediately.

This time, although half of the soldiers and horses in Li Fusheng's town were left in Beifeng County, plus the cavalry from Cuiliu Fort, there were nearly 30,000 cavalry in total!

Thirty thousand cavalry pressed forward and entered the city directly. This city could no longer make any waves.

Yes,

Zheng Fan appeared at the gate of Chuzhou City.

The Yan cavalry ignored the important towns on three sides of the Qian Kingdom and ignored the plan built by the Western Army. The terrifying military stronghold defense line ignored the third line of defense of Qian Country,

All the way south, south, and south again,

Now, it has skipped Qian Country's Nayuqi The three defense lines deployed by a hundred thousand troops have passed through the three northern counties of Qian Kingdom and reached the hinterland of Chu County adjacent to the three counties.

It actually took a lot of time. Although there was basically no fighting along the way, it was just a rush.

Perhaps people of later generations cannot empathize with the speed and distance of cavalry. They always feel that cavalry can gallop very quickly.

In fact, the cavalry marched one hundred kilometers a day and night, which was already considered a very intense march. If it were not for the fact that most of the Yan cavalry were equipped with two horses, it would have been difficult to even achieve this speed.

The kind of speed that can be obtained by changing horses from one station to another. If the cavalry troops run like that and rush, most of the horses will be destroyed before the war begins. Dayan The iron cavalry will transform into Dayan infantry.

As for the kind of general that often appears in dramas, leading his army to march eight hundred miles a day, it is not impossible. Of course, the prerequisite is that all the cavalry are not riding horses, but It is a high-blooded brave beast under the crotch of Zhenbei Marquis Jingnan Marquis.

As they approached the border of Chujun, the Yan army began to divide its troops, forming a fan shape, and pounced on various parts of Chujun like a hungry tiger pouncing on food.

Li Fusheng's troops marched directly into the hinterland of Chu County and took advantage of this.

"Blind man, do you think the soldiers and horses on the border of Qian Country will return to help?" Zheng Fan asked.

Back then, the first generation Zhenbei Hou was able to defeat 500,000 cavalry with 30,000, but that was a special case. Whether Xu Pangpang was better than the first generation Zhenbei Hou or the tens of thousands of miscellaneous troops who were better than those a hundred years ago.The 30,000 Yan troops are truly elite, and none of them are comparable.

So, once the gangsters get angry, don’t mobilize the troops and horses from the three lines of defense at the same time. Instead, just dispatch the troops from Wei Zhen, Liang Town and Chen Town or the Western Army to push Xu Pangpang away. It is not difficult for these miscellaneous troops to march directly into the Yan Kingdom, or even to attack Yan Jing directly.

The blind man said:

"My lord, it's not a question of whether it will happen, it's a question of definitely happening." The blind man smiled, "Honestly, this kind of family change The subordinates really didn't expect this strategy before, but now that they have taken it seriously, Zhuge Liang thinks it is very reasonable.

The emperors on both sides are different, and the generals on both sides are also different. The two princes dared to leave His Majesty Yanjing alone. Emperor Yan must have known the strategic arrangements in advance, but he also dared to put his own capital in such a situation.

Zheng Fan closed his eyes and began to recall the journey south. Most of them were plains, and most of them were actually extremely open plains.

Qianguo’s border defense army will leave their fortified city, leave their stable military stronghold, and rush back for reinforcements. Then, what is waiting for them will be...

"Blind man, I found out that the way to break the situation that we have been thinking about day and night is actually that simple."

Blind Man Bei sighed: "My lord, our current height is not enough."

"Yes, the height is not high enough."

Zheng Fan shook his head and looked in the direction of the city. The sound of fighting inside had gradually faded away.

Actually, after the iron cavalry successfully stormed the door, the remaining resistance in the city was really just a formality;

Moreover, this formality seemed to go well, but not too far. The look of the heart.

At this moment, Lao Xiaotou and Xiao Mazi had stood firm, looking at Zheng Fan and others with trepidation, looking at these... Yangou.

Zheng Fan pointed to the suona in the hands of master and apprentice,

said:

"Play a tune and listen."

"Hey, okay, okay! Being able to play suona for noble people is a blessing earned by the villain and his apprentice for eight lifetimes."

As he said this, Lao Xiao slapped his head on the head. The little pockmarked head was still in a dazed state.

The master and apprentice puffed up their cheeks and started to blow.

At first it was a cheerful and lively tune,

but after playing it for a while, both the master and the apprentice had tears on their faces. It was not that they were worried about the future of the country, but purely because they were afraid of the consequences. of true feelings.

The music of the suona naturally began to become desolate.

Zheng Fan was not angry at all. Instead, he said to the blind man beside him:

"This song is a bit interesting. It combines the two functions of the suona."It was all blown out. ”

Blind Bei nodded.

Fan Li didn’t understand and continued to stand there.

Zheng Fan took a deep breath and let it out slowly. .

"Plop! Plop! ”

Old Xiaotou didn’t dare to brag anymore, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed:

“My dear, please forgive me, my dear, please spare your life, old man, I didn’t do it on purpose, I didn’t do it on purpose.” . ”

When Xiao Mazi saw his master kneeling, he immediately knelt down and began to cry.

Of course a noble man wants to hear something festive, but as a result, the master and the apprentice actually called it a funeral at the same time.

It’s over, it’s over, I’m going to die, I’m going to die...

“Get up, you played really well, I’m very satisfied. "

Zheng Fan said,

looked at the sun that was almost dusk,

said with emotion:

"I heard this for the first time. If you don’t understand the meaning of suona, if you listen to it again, you will be a person in a coffin. ”

Zheng Fan was very satisfied with this artistic conception and tone.

However,

Liang Cheng, who was riding a horse from afar, broke the news with just one sentence. All of Zheng Fan’s artistic conceptions:

“My lord, Li Fusheng wants to massacre the city! "

" Damn it! ”

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Sleep, good night everyone.