Chapter 10: You Are a Spy
"Twenty of you, you don't have to do anything else these days. If you copy this piece of paper for me, I will start copying it in the morning and continue to copy it until I go to bed at night......
You can read and write, right? Are there any questions? ”
"No, Lord." Twenty literate soldiers selected from the box soldiers and the guard battalion replied in unison, and Tang Ning nodded with satisfaction and left with his hands behind his back.
Leaving these twenty people to sit in the big tent, you look at me, I look at you, and finally set my eyes on the paper full of handwriting in front of me.
"Yikes! Is this true or false? ”
"If that's the case, then it's too preferential for the people of Cochin, maybe we'll be dragged down, what the hell is the Lord thinking......"
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Guangyuan Prefecture has been surrounded by Song troops for two days. Li Deqian, who got the news, immediately sent a general under his command to order 30,000 soldiers and horses to come to the rescue.
At the same time, 10,000 guards in Thang Long Mansion were sent out to support Li Changjie.
In Li Deqian's heart, Li Changjie can never die.
In case he dies in this war, Annan will be like a leaf on a dead branch, and when the wind comes, it will be the day when the leaf falls.
At this time, Li Changjie, who was in Guangyuan Prefecture, had fallen into a state of anxiety, for three reasons, one of which was that the Song army had surrounded Guangyuan City, and according to the deployment of troops found out by the scouts, in addition to the number of Song troops at the south gate was less than 10,000, the number of Song troops in the other three places was more than 10,000.
The second is that the Song army besieged but did not attack, and the Song army at the four gates was ready to move. Li Changjie sent three groups of men and horses out to deliver a letter, asking reinforcements to gather at least 50,000 troops and rush over.
Otherwise, with this posture, the Song people have made up their minds to eat all the reinforcements from Guangyuan Prefecture here.
Moreover, the ignorant people also fell into panic because the Song army did not attack it, although they repeatedly explained that the current situation was beneficial to the country of Annan, but they just did not listen.
There are even a few people who sneak out of the city through the West Gate that seems to be empty at night, and I don't know what their current situation is, not only Li Changjie, but also the residents in the city are very worried about them.
The third thing that made Li Changjie anxious happened in the early morning of this day, when the Song army at the east gate suddenly assembled in large numbers. Just when the Jiaozhi people were terrified and thought that the Song army was going to start attacking the city, they only formed a formation one hundred and fifty steps away from Guangyuan City.
Then came a wave of arrows that didn't seem lethal.
Because the Song army moved a lot before the attack, the people of Jiaozhi in the city also hid in their homes for refuge when they heard the sound. The streets and alleys are empty, only a pair of eyes peeking out of the windows, proving that this city is not empty.
When the arrows flew high over the city walls and finally fell to the ground in the middle of the city, everyone suddenly noticed that the arrows were thick
Part of the appearance of the indiscriminate is completely similar to a tree branch that has been cut into a streamlined shape.
Using sticks and branches as arrows? The Jiaozhi defenders were a little angry, who did the Song army look down on?
But when they picked up the arrows on the ground, they found something wrapped around them.
Some are wrapped in strips of cloth, some are wrapped in sheepskin, and some are wrapped in a piece of paper, but there are still a few wrapped in paper, after all, this thing is still a little valuable.
After three rounds of throwing, Song Jun turned his head and ran. The Jiaozhi defenders on the city wall scratched their heads when they looked at it, what was going on?
But when they began to distinguish the Chinese characters on the strips of cloth, it dawned on them.
"Hello to the people of Jiaozhi in Guangyuan City, we are the heavenly army that came to crusade against the puppet emperor Li Qiande on behalf of the Son of Heaven of the Great Song Dynasty.
Less than three years after Li Qiande took office, he launched a war without warning. The killing of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in our Great Song Dynasty can be called the extermination of humanity.
After my Great Song Tianzi learned about this, he fainted several times, and after waking up slowly, he only said one sentence, that is, what is the crime of the people?
After that, Li Gande attacked Champa several times, intervening in the internal affairs of the Khmer, dividing the Khmer into two opposing states. Eyes jeopardize the peace of the region.
Therefore, the current Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty specially ordered us to come to crusade against Li Qiande.
The fault of a gentleman should be borne on one shoulder.
The biggest difference between humans and beasts is that humans have feelings, while beasts do not.
We will not be like Li Qiande, who is angry with the people. Therefore, before attacking Guangyuan Prefecture, we stayed east of the Fuliang River for three months, just to make you make a decision earlier.
And now you don't seem to realize the seriousness of the problem, but the Great Song Emperor is kind and virtuous, and is willing to give you another chance.
As long as the people of Jiaozhi withdraw from Guangyuan City, I promise that they will never hurt a single hair of the people of Jiaozhi. And we are also willing to give dry food and wraps for use on the road.
The people are innocent, and we promise not to do anything that destroys humanity. But you are not my great Song people, so the support we can give is very limited.
But if Guangyuan City comes to surrender the city, we will not only reward us greatly, but at the same time, we will guarantee with the credibility of the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty that we will not burn, kill, plunder, rape ~ adulterous women in the city.
No matter what sins you have committed in the past, as long as you surrender, you can write it off. I hope that you can see the road ahead clearly and don't resist stubbornly.
If the sword is added, don't say it unexpectedly. ”
The people of Jiaozhi went out and saw that the streets were full of this kind of thing. So they picked it up curiously and unfolded it, but they couldn't understand it, so they ran to ask people who knew Chinese characters.
The reader himself read it first, and then frowned. For a moment, he was not sure whether he wanted to tell the contents of the letter to the rest of the people.
But inside the letter
Rong is soft and rigid, and the front is like a kind old man's bitter persuasion, and in the last sentence, the words are full of murder.
After much hesitation, he repeated the contents of the letter. It's just that what he said is easier to understand, otherwise these people can't read a single big word, and it is still a little difficult for them to understand the meaning of the idiom on their own.
"Oh, that sounds good!"
"Yes, they said that they would not embarrass the people, which means that if we leave, they will not do anything to us?"
"More than that, didn't you listen? They will also give us some dry food and plates! ”
The short-sighted people gathered together to discuss, and on the other side, there was also a group of scholars who formed a circle and had a profound conversation.
Although the words are a little ugly, the Song people are right. Since his majesty succeeded to the throne, he has been fighting constant foreign wars, raising various tax rates internally, and the people are tired and the industry and commerce are miserable.
It would be a good thing if you could take this opportunity to descend the Song Dynasty. ”
"Yes, timing is important. The Song army must not want to have too many casualties here, so it will choose to besiege but not attack, and play this kind of attack tactic. If we let them get what they want at this time, at least they will be grateful to us.
At that time, relying on the relationship between the commander of the army, it will not be difficult to get an official in the Song Kingdom. ”
"How can you do that?! We were born and raised in Sri Lanka, and we are pure Annan people, how can we surrender and behave in despicable ways?! ”
"That's right! I don't believe Song Gou's nonsense! They themselves said that during the Xining period, we killed 100,000 Song people in Yongzhou. Will they write off this account easily? No way!
It sounds good, and after entering the city, Qiu didn't commit any crimes. But if they enter the city and start to change their faces, what room do we have to fight back?
Surrendering the city is tantamount to luring the wolf into the house, and if anyone dares to do this, I will ...... first Let's ...... first Let's kill him first! ”
"I'm for it!"
"I agree!"
"I'm against it!"
"Call me!"
"Oops! Ah! Don't slap your face! ”
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All the people are thinking about whether they can survive or not, and some of them have begun to pack their bags. And the nobles who are high up on weekdays always think about something that has nothing to do with life.
"I'm going out of town!"
"Why do you want to go out of town? Are you a spy of the Song people? ”
"I'm not! I just thought, if the Song people really don't kill me, I can go home to see my mother! ”
"Just by listening to your accent, you know that you are a turtle from the Nine Virtues...... No, how do you know that the Song people don't kill you? You are the spy sent by the Song people to disturb the morale of the army! Call me! Hit hard! ”
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