Chapter Eighty-Four
"Text?" Chen Shujian was a little surprised when he heard this, the Zhou army went south to invade Chen Guoyingzhou in April this year, and he didn't send any text at that time, and then he provoked a war again, and there was no text, and now Yuwenwen attacked Xisai Mountain, and there was a text for him inexplicably.
If it weren't for his attack on Xiyang City in Bazhou, Jiangbei Zhou State on the night of the New Year, the Zhou army would not have used this as an excuse to retaliate against Chen Guo.
Anyway, since the Zhou army captured Jiangbei and Huainan three years ago, the two countries were in a state of war, and the issue of undeclared war was not a problem at all.
"What did you say?" Chen Shujian asked, he didn't have to guess to know that the content of this article would not be good, and he wanted to know what the general idea was.
The herald took out a roll of brocade from his bosom and was about to present it, but Chen Shujian was stunned when he heard this, and after looking at the other two soldiers for a moment, he whispered, "I can't read or write." ”
Almost all the soldiers in these years were illiterate, and there were not many who could write their own names, and sometimes in order to avoid leakage in the process of transmitting military information, even the delivery of military information was enabled by illiterate soldiers, so it was impossible for them to understand such things as scripts.
An entourage Mao then recommended himself to take the scroll of brocade (檄文), unfolded it and looked at it, and then his face changed greatly, Chen Shujian saw this and asked what was written on it, and the entourage said that the content was unsightly, and Zhou Jun was rude and asked the king not to take it seriously.
"Read." Chen Shujian didn't care, Yuwen Wen's text definitely didn't have anything good to say, but if he didn't even dare to know the content, it would make people laugh and be generous.
"Your Majesty, this text is very rude"
"Read!"
Hearing this, the entourage coughed a few times, and read the text with a sutch: "Sue Chen Guosha, King Chen Shujian"
"At present, Chen Guo has retreated to Jiangnan because of the unfavorable situation of the war and has become a lost dog, if there is the slightest self-knowledge, the soldiers and horses of the Chen army should defend the city and fortress according to reason, but you disregard the intention of the majority of soldiers to stop the war, purely out of the anti-Zhou usurpation conspiracy to provoke the purpose of war, brazenly sent assassins into Xiyang to assassinate, and staged a farce of serious humiliation, threat and intimidation of the soldiers and people of Bazhou."
"Your every move to Bazhou this time is like a scoundrel who found two Laipi dogs to drown in front of other people's doors, and like a human scum who has lost his conscience by kicking the widow's door and digging up the grave of the desperate household."
"Repaying kindness with kindness and repaying reason with reason is the minimum virtue of a party's members, but Chen Shujian, the scum clan king who is inferior to a dog, has no lower limit and has committed the shameless act of buying murderous assassinations."
"Although you covet the throne and the ambition of the wolf, but when the first emperor and Chen Shuling, the king of Shixing, were alive, you did not dare to make waves and observe words and feelings, yin and yang, and when the new emperor ascended the throne soon after the critical period, you thought that the time had finally come and began to expose your original form."
The entourage stopped and glanced at Chen Shujian when he read this, and when he saw him looking at him expressionlessly, he couldn't help but shudder in his heart, and when he saw the other party signaling him to read it, he swallowed his saliva and continued to read:
"It is reported that you take advantage of the opportunity to often enter the palace to meet the king, trying to show that you are on a par with the Son of Heaven, so as to imagine that you are the lord of the Chen Kingdom."
"This time you led the army westward, you skillfully installed cronies into the army to control military power, gathered all kinds of outlaws and people who were dissatisfied with the court in the army, and used the excuse to remove the military power of disobedient generals, or forced them to lead the old, weak, sick and disabled to fight against our army, so as to kill people with a knife."
"With ill intentions, he tried in vain to control the military power at the front by constantly provoking wars between Zhou and Chen, and did not hesitate to take obscene and shameless bad deeds in order to control the military and political power."
"The assassin you sent to Xiyang City to assassinate has been captured alive by the soldiers and people in our city, and the two of them have confessed to your many evil intentions one by one under the inspiration of righteousness."
"This official Dazhou Bazhou assassin Shi Yu Wenwen, hereby solemnly declare to you that your conspiracy and tricks will end in failure, this time this official personally led the army of water and land to arrive at Xisai Mountain, is to drink the head to let you know your way back"
"If you continue to be obsessed with it, and continue to do the evil act of instigating war in order to monopolize military power and waiting for an opportunity to launch a mutiny and usurp the throne, this official will definitely use the monstrous anger of tens of millions of soldiers and civilians in Bazhou to defeat you into a land of no return."
The entourage was sweating profusely and finished reading the text, and there was silence all around, and everyone only hated why they didn't leave the scene before reading the text, the one-legged bronze man, no, the text sent by Zhou Guobazhou Thorn Shi Yuwen Wen did not know who made it, and the content was unbearable and scolded Chen Shujian bloody.
The key is that the writing is weird, and the sentences are incomprehensible, it is said that if this Yuwen envoy is illiterate, it is not difficult to find someone to catch the pen and write it, but the content of the text is full of a strange atmosphere, but where the weirdness can not be described in words.
It is sharp to scold people, but everyone does not dare to get involved in this kind of thing, seeing Chen Shujian's pale face, he hurriedly scolded Yu Wenwen, "This fang is rude, rude to the extreme." ”
Chen Shujian was silent for a moment and suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, with a chill in the laughter, everyone else was silent and did not dare to speak, Chen Shujian laughed enough and then gave an order: "Beat the drum!" Convene the generals! ”……
On the side of Weiyuankou, the broken Chen Ziqi leaned against a carriage, surrounded by the remains of the dead, most of them were soldiers of the Chen army, and a few lonely war horses were walking around on the battlefield, the saddles on their backs were empty, and the original owners had long since lost their lives and deaths.
Several horsemen dressed in black uniforms rode their horses slowly, some of them threw whips and dismounted, slowly walked towards these ownerless horses, pulled the reins and gently rubbed the horses' necks, and the panicked horses quickly quieted down and left with their new owners.
By the river, Yuwen fifteen squatted beside a war horse lying on the ground, with a few arrows stuck in his armor, wet and looking like a chicken from a distance, and the lying war horse was also hit by several arrows, its front legs had both been broken, and the flesh and blood on his chest were blurred with large blood stains, lying on the ground panting in pain.
"Old man, it's been more than a year in the blink of an eye" Yuwen Fifteen sighed, one hand gently stroked the horse's head, and the eyes of the war horse looked at him overflowing with tears.
Lang lord Yuwen Wen formed a new army at the beginning of last year, Yuwen fifteen served as the cavalry owner, since then this war horse is his mount, to this day together has experienced more than ten battles, he is an old partner.
A few days ago, the Zhou army attacked Xisai Mountain, and after succeeding, they rolled away with the captives, but some of the soldiers and horses went to the mountains on the south side of Luzhai to lurk, and Yuwen 15 and his cavalry were one of them.
The Chen army, who rushed to the rescue of Xisai Mountain, pounced on the empty air, and they camped on Xisai Mountain, which was almost turned into white land, waiting for the arrival of follow-up soldiers and horses to rebuild the camp, while the Zhou army upstream went out again, using the power of boats to attack Weiyuankou, twenty miles downstream of Xisai Mountain.
The Chen army of Xisaishan returned to Weiyuankoushu to attack the landed Zhou army inside and outside with the defenders, but was followed by the strange soldier Yuwen Fifteen, and the prey became the hunter, and the hunter became the prey.
The Chen army, which was originally attacked inside and outside, was unable to hold on to the Zhou army, but was caught off guard by the cavalry of the Zhou army in the back, and the main general Yuwen 15 took his life with an arrow in the chaotic army, and the Chen soldiers were in chaos without a leader.
The rout soldiers who fled for their lives on the banks of the Weiyuankou River suffered numerous casualties, some died from trampling on each other, some were killed by random arrows when they swam across the east bank by throwing themselves into the water, and some were lucky enough to escape to the east bank but were still waiting for the Zhou soldiers who landed.
Yuwen 15 led his subordinates to chase and kill the rout, but he stumbled and fell out in front of the horse on the riverside, and he fell on the softer wetland by the river and fell into the mud, if he fell on the hard ground, he was afraid that he would have to recuperate for more than half a month to recover.
However, the crotch mount was not so lucky, a pair of front legs were broken and the front chest was widely bruised, and even if the horse was healed, it was crippled, and he could not even stand up.
When it was time to part, Yuwen Fifteen decided to accompany the old man to talk, the northwest wind blew, rolling up the smell of blood, Yuwen Fifteen was silent for a moment and reached out to block the eyes of the war horse.
The cold light swept by, and Yuwen 15 slashed the horse's neck with a dagger, giving it a good time.
"People have misses, horses have stumbled, don't think too much." A familiar voice came from behind, and Yuwen Fifteen turned his head to see that it was Yuwen Wen, the lord of Lang, of course, on the battlefield, he had to call the position of "envoy".
"Envoy" Yuwen Fifteen is a little embarrassed, and it is inevitable that there will be casualties when he goes into battle, and he is quite 'girly' for the war horse, so he lacks momentum in front of Lord Lang.
"Just keep it in mind, don't make people laugh." Yuwen Wen patted him on the shoulder and said, when the cavalry fights, the war horse is a 'consumable', especially when the cavalry fights, it is the norm to have one person, two horses or even three horses, one is to rotate the horse to maintain the speed, and the other is to die one for another.
Yuwen Fifteen nodded, suddenly turned his head and seemed to be wiping his tears, and after a while, he returned to normal and rushed to command his cavalry, Yuwen Wen sighed helplessly when he saw this: This guy is really a 'sentimental' battlefield recruit like himself.
It is normal for cavalry to have feelings for their own horses, and Yuwenwen also has feelings for his soldiers, since he fought with the new army, many familiar faces have disappeared, and that melancholy feeling cannot be described in words, the only thing he can do is to reward his merits and deeds, and distribute a lot of pensions to his families.
The Mingguang armor on Yuwenwen's body was stained with blood, but these were the blood of the enemy, this time as the chief general of the 'Marine Corps' who landed and attacked Wei Yuankou, he did not hesitate to use others as bait to put himself in danger, of course, he did not want to make meritorious contributions, the main purpose was to boost morale.
Attacking and harassing the state of Chen, fighting bloody battles to attack the city and retreat again, many soldiers were a little puzzled, of course, Yu Wenwen could not explain what "avoid falling into the swamp of war", the targets he selected for the attack were all oily and water, this is not a bad fun battle game to let the soldiers die in vain.
Not to mention how many fine captives were captured in Xisai Mountain, the grain and grass they hoarded alone allowed Bazhou to add several months of rations, which is still the amount after distribution, and today's Weiyuan Koushu is a transit place for reinforcements of Xisai Mountain, and there will be no less grain and grass that can be taken away this time.
As long as there is a war, there will be casualties, and this kind of raiding and harassing warfare that is not aimed at expanding the territory can only continue if it is in a state of 'profit', and the grain stolen from Xisaishan and Weiyuankou is already worth more than half of the harvest of the fields in the Xiyang territory.
Sure enough, it is better to grab the seeds, and it is no wonder that some people are unwilling to farm. Yu Wenwen thought so, but he agreed with the strategy of 'building a high wall and accumulating grain'.
"Grain must be grabbed, fields must be planted, and more grain will be more soldiers." He looked at the battlefield and turned to leave, "The so-called Son of Heaven is not the work of the strong and strong. (To be continued.) )