Chapter 056: Autumn Sorrow kills more people than it can kill

Yu Di Long was born in Northern Liang, even if he has not heard of any rumors and tales of the Jianghu, but even if he is not well-informed, he has also heard mention of the Wudang Mountain, where many immortals and real people live, all of them immortal and Taoist, can call the wind and rain. So he followed his master to climb the mountain this time, especially pious, every time he met a mountain Taoist, regardless of the old and young, have to stop and salute in style, which in turn, let those who recognized the identity of Xu Fengyen Wudang Taoist was very terrified. Xu Fengyen did not stop the child’s solemnity, this heart of the child, may be Yu Di Long later in the martial arts path of the cornerstone of the courageous and refined, a newborn calf, what the tiger is not afraid of, fluke once can live, will never be a tiger’s mouth again and again. Xu Fengyen climbed the mountain, and Yu Di Long whispered: “A person walking the rivers and lakes, if you can do without fear, divided into two kinds, one is not know the depth of the rivers and lakes, no one, or some background backing, have something to rely on, underestimating others. This kind of person is as many as hair, also die more. The other is regardless of their own realization or predecessor advice, already know the evils of the jianghu, but have to stick to, ask the heart. This kind of person is relatively less, but the same death may not be less. Jianghu is such a place, do not recognize what you are good people bad people, bad water and bad luck, as long as the dip in the same, will be very easy to drown. In just a few years, the masters who died in the hands of the master, the latter mostly.”

“Your senior sister Wang Sheng learned the sword, and she will never change it in her life. Practicing the sword since ancient times, there is the battle of intention and the battle of art and path, the one who said the most thorough, the one who saw the most understanding, that person used to cultivate on this mountain, the reason why I didn’t let Wang Sheng come to the mountain to practice the sword is because I’m afraid that she is under the lamplight, being in the mountain, instead of not being able to see the mountain landscape, I simply let her walk away from the landscape to look at the scenery. She is starting high after all, if she keeps plucking up the seedlings, in the future she might be an embroidered pillow like the Patriarch of the Spring Paste Herb Hall.”

“Your senior brother Lu Yun Chang is extremely rich in sharpness, but hostility is also heavy, just rely on going to the border to join the army to kill people, the knife skill is skillful, but the knife will only kill more and more inferior, martial arts road son more and more narrow, and finally cocoon, even if there is a Gu Jiantang’s talent, but as long as there is no Gu Jiantang’s broad-minded vision, it is absolutely impossible to practise the superb knife skills. This is to let him go to the fish and dragon gang first training to sharpen a few years, the world is a mirror, with the heart to see more people, is the same as rubbing the mirror surface more than once. The heart should be self, the heart is not his heart. First do an understanding of people, in order to understand the knife, the knife is single-edged, than the sword to be more focused on the killing intent, to just easy to fold, if anything is not clear, sooner or later die on their own knife.”

“As for you, the age is still small, may as well learn the mountain that called Hong wash the elephant guy, don’t need to rush, there is no need to have to force themselves to go to which step. I just you three disciples, can make a splash thing, Lu Yun Chang scramble to do, temporarily not your turn this big brother. He is happy to take your burden over to carry. Under the sky, in addition to the future destined to sit in the dragon chair prince, there is no one must be how to have success, in the premise of being able to self-preservation, how the days are over, their own happiness is good. Among the three, Wang Sheng is a bit different, because she practiced sword, I, out of selfishness, posed the genealogy of a master and added a burden to her. This point, I also need to make it clear to you, you must not harbor any resentment towards Wang Sheng because of this.”

Yu Di Long who was walking on the steps after Xu Feng Nian hurriedly waved his hand and said, “Master, apprentice won’t, I hate the fact that my senior sister has practiced the most powerful sword skills, it doesn’t matter if she is more powerful than me.”

Xu Fenian stopped and looked back at Yu Di Long, the little kid was staring at him a little slightly blushing, Xu Fenian snickered and laughed, “You have a good eye, other than that, this has been deeply passed on by master.”

This child’s body enlightenment early as well as the enlightenment of the perfect, able to throw out his master Xu Fengnian hundred thousand eighty thousand miles, at this time was revealed that a little bit of ignorance, scratching his head to play dumb. Xu Fengyen looked into the distance, softly said: “In case all three of you have great achievements in the future, remember two things, there should be a life and death sword fight between Wang Sheng and Lu Yunzhang, you don’t have to stop them from competing at that time, but I hope that you don’t kill Lu Yunzhang in a fit of rage. There is also that you do not only learn the master of the womanizer, but did not learn the master of the thin love, smart people moved true love, once the unfortunate encounter is not good, did not die that is also worse than death. Flirt regardless of the size of the true or false, almost no one is comfortable and comfortable. You look at Cao Changqing Xuanyuan Jingcheng, and then look back at the unattached Deng Tai’a ……”

Xu Fenian stopped talking after half of his words, Yu Di Long heard half of it and waited for half a day without waiting for the following, looking up at this self-proclaimed thin-skinned master. After Xu Fenian slowly returned to his senses, he rubbed Yu Di Long’s head and asked with a smile, “Do you think it will be your master’s wife?”

Yu Di Long froze for a moment and quickly said decisively, “Pei Nanwei!”

Xu Fengnian curled his finger and tapped the child’s forehead, “It’s good to help your relatives, but those who achieve great things are more likely to have a neutral and peaceful nature. Master has suffered many losses in the past, you should learn from this.”

Yu Di Long sighed, his whole face wrinkled together, complaining, “Master, you said so many great truths today, I can’t eat them all at once.”

Xu Fengnian smiled and said that being able to eat is a blessing, but then he did stop talking to his disciple, and the two of them picked up the steps together to climb the mountain in silence. The local government in Qingliang Mountain secretly authorized, to the Wudang Mountain donated several huge amounts of silver, but also out of many manpower, to help the mountain new Xuanwu Hall, Stargazer Pavilion and the Law Bureau and a series of magnificent or exquisite buildings, but also in the mountainside a place of clear water and clean water, the construction of a school, Taoist immortal music misty, and the sound of the book intertwined with the sound of a piece of, complement each other. Some of the Wudang Mountain originally unable to repair the dilapidated old buildings are also new, the mountain incense is more and more prosperous, coupled with the new Liang Wang undisguised support, so that the guests of the naked eye, Wudang Mountain’s immortal gas up did not rise can not be seen, but the taste of the people and the fireworks are indeed too much more than ever before. Every first day of the 15th, visitors like weaving, incense flourish, almost can be compared with Longhu Mountain.

Xu Fengyen met the old real Chen Careless who was in charge of the precepts, and then stayed by the side of the Elephant Wash Pond where he practiced sword training, without deliberately restraining Yu Di Long, letting the child wander around the mountain, Xu Fengyen mostly sat in meditation on the boulders in the pond and exhaled, and finally stopped the signs of the body’s qi collapsing into thousands of miles and the “surface of the pond”, which was slowly rising back up. During this period of time there are constantly stagecoach will be relatively important Wutong courtyard batch red facsimile sent to the mountain, Xu Fengyen solid body of leisure, will be every letter of the official documents are carefully browsed, in addition to the stagecoach to pass the important political affairs, the border military secrets are handed over to whisk the water room veteran spies from the border to the Wudang Mountain, spies mixed with a number of new jianghu masters, have been through the Chu Lushan this spy big head of the screen, to be these people to go to the sands! On the fight to death is not realistic, but to say do some of this kind of easy and leisurely work, or will let people rush, pick jianghu people to do the elite postmen, this is from Li Xifeng hand took over the golden strand weaving bureau of Wang Luting one of the proposals, in addition, located in the territory of the lingzhou golden strand weaving bureau in the rest of the three states set up weaving division, and can not personally participate in the local officials, anti-theft and impeachment, but to help Qingliangshan secret report supervisor Various affairs, at the same time it is in the Wang Luting this person’s proposal, Liangling You three states a total of more than twenty academies, led by three literary leaders, monthly evaluation of three unlimited genre of the “Kui Wen”, the winner, directly in the North Liang Road to obtain the official body, here there is something interesting, Liangzhou is responsible for the review of the text of the literary hero, is not someone else, it is Wang Chudong who wrote “The First Snow”. However, the real hand over to Xu Fengnian’s hand of the article, more of those harsh words acupuncture current politics “abandoned article”, although many lines of the intention of bias, and even treason, but these scholars but quietly in the wutong courtyard archives, they do not know, many of them thrown into the wastepaper basket of the indignation of the work of those crumpled manuscript, will appear a few days later in the Qingliang Road. would appear on the desk of Wutong Academy in Qingliang Mountain a few days later.

The thatched cottage where Xu Fengnian temporarily lived was almost always lit up at night.

On a stormy night with thunder and lightning, Xu Fengyen read all the spies’ reports from Beiliang and Liyang, and then singled out three of them and spread them on the table. A copy from the border guardianship where the Huaiyang Pass, is Chu Lushan’s handwriting, it is said that the word is like a person, but Chu Lushan’s word is extremely beautiful and gentle, simply a woman’s handwriting, really can not be linked to his bloated body type. The secret letter reported the general process of the flow of state refugees to fill the army, in the northern Liang Road after the relaxation of the border ban, the flow of people into the country appeared a wave of peaks, the number of people crossing the border in January to reach four thousand people, but chose to enter the northern Liang army of a few, almost negligible, just wait until he Xu Fengyen, the king of the northern Liang to take out the king Xianzhi after the news, in the new governor of flow of the state of the assassins of the Yang Guangdou under the push, finally ushered in a large influx, the new governor of the flow of the state of Yang Guangdou. Within a short period of ten days six thousand people volunteered to join the army at the border.

Although the spring and autumn twenty years of continuous smoke, has long proved that there is no long-lived enemy generals, but an army, with or without the enemy as the backbone, very different. Xu Fengyen and Chu Lushan Yuan Zuozong and others do not think that the brawny stragglers in the flow of the state can be an army of their own, not to mention that they do not believe that they can hold the impact of the North Mang iron horsemen, more than 100,000 stragglers, indeed, everyone on the horse to fight, just mature military, do get one or two percent of the battle losses after the military heart is still there, these stragglers seem to be a huge number, really fight, meet the enemy unbearable not to mention that, may also be dispersed Beiliang’s original formation. Therefore, the best situation is, these stragglers scattered into the border army, and then part of the elite of Beiliang blood conveyed to the flow of state, as the future flow of state to resist the North Mang iron cavalry south of the mainstay. Just this kind of thing can’t be forced, although the stragglers from the army can after the food and clothing, but after all is the head chained to the waistband of the pants on the job, who are not stupid, better to die than to live.

Xu Fengnian laughed to himself, “The name of the first in the world is still very useful.”

The secret letter also mentioned the various frictions between the stragglers and the old pawns after joining the army, and even some people were so overwhelmed by the insults that they were outraged and killed, almost causing a mutiny. On the letter, Chu Lushan said that those stragglers had been executed whenever they were involved.

Xu Fengyen sighed, those who survived the deaths of the stragglers although swarthy and brave, but where dare to take the initiative to cause trouble in the Northern Liang army, naturally, is in the bones of the old soldiers of the border army despise the stragglers have overly aggressive in the first, it can be said that the deaths of these stragglers, extremely stifling and wronged. But Xu Fengyen does not want to change Chu Lushan’s decision, there are no rules, in the barracks, the old pawns bully the new pawns, is any one of the generals can not be eradicated of bad habits, the border guards old pawns oppressing the new pawns of the stragglers, to be punished. However, if a new soldier violates the rules and prohibitions, he will be killed. The only chance for a newcomer to make a name for himself is to fight in the battlefield in the future, and win the respect of the old soldiers as his brothers and sisters.

The second comes from the Wutong Academy. Liyang large-scale extermination of Buddhism, displaced entry monks like crucian carp, the mud is inevitable, naturally, not everyone is a heart to the Buddha does not mess with the dust of the high priests, the reason why the cultivation of Buddhism, this is not yet become a Buddha. Among them, there are many famous monks who are accustomed to pampering themselves, through various ways to ask the government for the tax exemption of the “temple grant field”, nominally for Xu Fengnian, the king of Beiliang, to build a temple to pray for blessings. In Wutong courtyard, there is a disagreement, Xu Weixiong’s opinion is that not only can’t open this mouth, but also order the local government to severely reprimand and expel these monks, while Lu Chenyan’s meaning is to pacify in the open and keep an eye on it in the dark, do not agree to it, drag it out, so there is no need to break the face.

Xu Fengyen rubbed his temples and smiled bitterly, ”A thunderous approach, a Bodhisattva’s heart, both seem to be right. Just pretend I didn’t see this one.”

The third copy was very interesting, coming from Liyang, with a lot of storms tossed around in the middle, and finally being able to enter Beiliang, in addition to silver being able to make ghosts drag their feet, there was also no small amount of luck. Between the Guangling Road and the South Jinggi there is a loathsome jiao lake, is away from the sun after the unification of the world’s artificial lake, is said to be used to suppress the legacy of the West Chu dragon gas, there is an island in the lake, the island is built with a treasury, surrounded by heavy guards, special library of the dynasty of states every five years, a made of the yellow book, recorded away from the yang all over the household, arable land and the endowment situation. But the world does not know that in addition to the yellow book in charge of the Ministry of the capital, there is a more obscure file, in addition to the head of the dynasty, not to mention the ministries and offices, and even the two chief officials of the Ministry of the Central Book of the Province of the two provinces can not be referred to, that is, the army’s registers around the world. This stems from the late emperor when he ordered the preparation of “the departments of the Department of the Palm”, both to put forward the exact number of cultivated land in the world, but also to preserve military secrets, so it took a compromise, the yellow book of the cantonment of the fields were hung to the many departments and counties under the state, Guangling Road is the world’s breadbasket, is still hidden, but the two Liao’s number of fields are surprisingly large, undoubtedly the reason for the hang of the book, the last Ministry of the Army, the right minister of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Army, Liu Mou, because of to the management of the The last right minister of war Liu Mao because to the charge of the aversion to jiao lake Gongliang marquis Zhao Siqi ask for the roster, the royal clan will be impeached a book according to the rules, after the knowledge of Liu Mao successive folding plead guilty, still failed to keep the right minister’s hat, was relegated to the Yan Edicts Road that the miasma of the barbarians, and ultimately died of old age in the post.

This time by the West Chu restoration wave, aversion Jiao Lake began to large-scale relocation to the north, the middle of the book is not less than a book, but for no reason more than a lot of program facsimile, most of the inflow into the territory of the Guangling Road, a small portion of the scattered folk, inserted in the territory of the Northern Liang spies from the hands of a set of half-buy and half-robbery of the people from the rivers and lakes, and got his hands on a piece of the pie.

The number on the yellow book is dead, but those who are interested can see many living things.

It just so happens that Xu Fengyen and whisk water room to come to a large stack of spies over the years about the military towns of the Guangling Road, Xu Fengyen originally knew that Zhao’s son of heaven appointed the old master of the Western Chu Sun Xiji as a strategic envoy, looks like a tiger to return to the mountain, in fact, the invitation to enter the urn, in order to catch the light of the size of the turtle in the urn, but looking at the truth of that one carefully scrutinized, Xu Fengyen can be sure of one thing, those who talk to the Ministry of the pawns yells about the lack of pay of the court’s garrison generals, one by one, one by one, one by one. Justified, said the court is too biased in favor of the two Liao defense line, in fact, but it is their private pockets, the court in Zhang Julu and extremely good at “turning stones into gold” under the joint auspices of the Ministry of the household Wang Xionggui, and has not been half a bit of shortchanging the territory of the garrison. To say that the local garrison to make a blind yell, will shout the child has milk to eat, this is not strange, but in Xu Fengyen’s view, Guangling Road, these will be the old man of the food is really poor to a shocking realm. But this is also Zhang Julu eat their own fruit, when it is he single-handedly created “the south north for the minister, the north south for the generals” situation, although this move to the Jiangnan and the north of the two groups of valves are cut off from their respective local, but that group of northern generals to the Guangling Road, itself has a neighboring family close to the Zhao family Longxing place to do the backing of the mountains, these martial artists who are proud of the fact that their fathers fought for the kingdom, can they eat well? Guangling Dao is also the anointed land for pending offenses that the imperial court has led the way in squeezing, so would they be half as scrupulous? More than ten years down, almost every position of real power, less than two terms more than four terms, the guys take turns to sit down and take turns to scavenge, who cares about the territory of the people’s livelihood and public opinion how?

Xu Fengyen softly said, “Too much is too little.”

Xu Fengyen got up and walked to a wall, on the wall hung a map of the geographic situation encompassing the old Chu territory and the entire southern part of the capital city.

If the name is not correct, then the words will not be recognized, and if the words are not recognized, then the things will not be accomplished.

Now Liyang and Western Chu are considered to be the right name, the former is sitting on a mountain, is to pacify the rebellion, the latter played the flag of the Central Plains orthodoxy, this is not the death of the country after two hundred years, but only twenty years later, the Western Chu that year the destruction of the country, and even the historians believe that “not in the emperor’s subjects and the people,” the destruction of the Western Chu, but also by countless scholars as the heartache of the “sinking of the land of the gods. “The land of China is sinking”.

Xu Fengyen looked at the map, different from the general shoddy map of the territory, the map of the mountains and rivers, geography and passes, military towns, extremely detailed, as long as there is the possibility of becoming a military place, no omission, and the number of armors and households, are clearly labeled, and often have temporary changes.

Above this map, presents a very hidden one movement and one static, the static is the troops and horses of the Jingdan Clan King, and temporarily appointed general of the Ministry of the army Lu Shengxiang tent, led by Yang Shenxing foot soldiers mainly 40,000 elite, Yan Zhenchun leading the cavalry most of the 30,000 people.

It was said that it was difficult for Lu Shengxiang to get out of Yulu Pass, where he was located.

Yang Shenxing has troops in the West Henan area, watching intently, this spring and autumn veteran general’s buttocks, but with a large group of waiting to feed the sons of the princes and dukes of the family. West Henan is mountainous, interspersed with many rivers, many east-west holes and cross valleys, neither a military dead land, nor a lonely land, the same gas and branches.

And Yan Zhenchun where the East Yu plains. The terrain is broad, although there is no danger can be based on, but since ancient times that is convenient for the cavalry to drive through the road of the rise of soldiers. If not Yan Zhenchun and the capital of the royal family rarely interact, in fact, more people want to join Yan under the banner of the old general, in order to earlier and more to get military success. Anyway, the remnants of Western Chu can be crushed to death with the snap of a finger, and when the time comes, how can a two-legged foot soldier run as fast as a cavalryman sitting on the back of a horse?

The three armies have remained inactive for the time being, but according to the latest spy reports, the Western Chu’s war power has been surging in the dark, except for the south side which is relatively quiet, the old capital’s troops have been spread out in all directions, especially along the northern line, which is even more undefined, and at a cursory glance, it is just like a headless fly scurrying around, full of obvious flaws and loopholes.

Xu Fengyen narrowed his eyes and stared at the map, to speculate on Cao Changqing, the Confucian general who failed to shine in the Spring and Autumn period. Xu Fengyen’s own Beilang, although he is only a father’s generation to fight down the existing rivers and mountains of the people, but as well know the importance of ambush, Qingcheng Mountain, the thousands of lurking for many years of armor and the border of the two groups of horse thieves is so, and later inserted in the western region for the long drive north of the cavalry army is the same reason. Put aside in a battle, the same requirement for follow-up forces of the precise input, the reason why the heavy cavalry on the battlefield can be a hammer, lies in this. In these years, around the old western Chu territory, there have been many strands of roving thieves roaming across the border, Guangling King Zhao Yi’s soldiers are able to maintain a relatively high combat effectiveness, without the contribution of these practice objects. This is the reason why Zhao Yi did not put King Zhao Bing of Yanzhi in his eyes, and clamored that he could fight against the Northern Liang Iron Cavalry. Among the several feudal kings who had sealed their borders, Jiaodong King Zhao Suo had the geographical advantage of being on the border, but under the dual suppression of the imperial court and Gu Jiantang, he was unable to go head-to-head with Northern Mang, and his combat power had been declining over the years.

Xu Fengyen was searching for the location of Cao Changqing’s elite troops, and he believed that the bigwigs of the Ministry of Military Affairs in Tai’an City were also staring in disbelief.

Back then, the Chu that aspired to the world, in addition to the Sage of Soldiers, Jiang Baikui, who was a divine needle in the sea, more importantly, he had countless good generals, 120,000 halberdiers who were at the peak of their strength, and a huge cavalry army that was fed by countless amounts of gold and silver, and the light and heavy cavalry were all invincible.

Now, western chu’s halberdiers have gone up in smoke, the new heavy cavalry has not yet surfaced, at this time in this map presents the troops, mainly responsible for guarding western chu’s old capital city of 20,000 “rebels”, as well as various military towns and passes of the cumulative eighty thousand people, those buried in the various parts of the stragglers bandits, a conservative estimate of no less than 30,000, the combat power Will be far more than 80,000 people, and 20,000 troops are equal to the drums and drums. But two countries at war, supported by popularity and national strength and the bottom line, is crucial, there will be a source of soldiers, the people are willing to fight for, have financial resources, in order not to lose in the configuration, roughly equivalent to the two troops, weapons, armor, superiority, are enough to decide the victory or defeat, unless one side of the generals appeared to be fatal stupefaction order. But the problem is that now almost no one can be sure, whether there are thousands or tens of thousands of Western Chu remnants, will go to their deaths for that Jiang character.

Xu Fengyen’s line of sight strayed further north, where Gu Jiantang’s 300,000-strong border army, the true elite division of the Liyang Dynasty, was located.

Xu Fengyen slowly withdrew his line of sight, turning his head to cast on the map of Western Sichuan and Southern Zhao.

Two of today’s Liyang Dynasty’s most skillful soldiers, one has nothing to do, north dare not, south can not. The other has nothing to do, on the pretext of the case of Huangmu chaos to bring troops to the south, I heard that only brought eight hundred armor.

Xu Fengnian sat back at the table and closed his eyes.

The house did not hang the Liang-Mang confrontation situation map, because there is no need to see, it is engraved in his head, and there is no need for him, the king of Northern Liang, how to bow and scrape on the border military affairs, the reason is very simple.

Nearly twenty years of hard work, Beiliang border defense has been done to the extreme.

North Mang if only the south dynasty four hundred thousand soldiers and horses south.

Bei Liang will nonchalantly eat.

If North Mang lifts the country to invade south.

It is nothing more than a deadly battle.

Of course, it can also be understood as waiting for death with folded hands, and to put it nicely, it is a jade and stone burning.

Xu Fengyen walked out of the house, came to wash the elephant pool, the path is paved by the pool in the cobblestones, tightly ordered, after the rain and the pool water year after year impact scrubbing, this is not much angular cobblestones more and more polished and rounded, Xu Fengyen took off his boots and carried them in his hand, slowly walking on the stone road, a refreshingly cool, but not cold, comfortable feeling seeped into the soles of the feet.

Xu Fengyen jumped onto the huge green stone, lying down and looking at the starry sky, closing his eyes.

I wonder how many thousands of people on the Guangling Road will not survive this fall?

And how many thousands of Northern Liang people, will not live to see the next fall?