Chapter 091 The Cockatoo

North and south of the Yangtze River, the twilight of autumn has arrived, a hanging tree cicada, doing the last hissing, croaking really upset people.

Spring on the branch, autumn under the branch, a sad word, so on and off more on the heart.

This xiangfu year of late fall, the central plains of the land, once again smoke, let many experienced the war in the spring and autumn of the old man feel fearful. Especially in Guangling Road, which is second only to the southern border in terms of territory, the fire of war continues, with no sign of being extinguished at all.

In the official history of Liyang, Da Chu became West Chu, Divine Phoenix City was renamed Ding Ding City, and now those historians have even thought of a new wording, West Chu was replaced with Hou Chu. Even if the Liyang court, which is already the orthodox court of the world, is not doing well, they still don’t think that this group of dead souls that should have followed the Spring and Autumn and died with the wind can really achieve great things. In fact, as long as Gu Jiantang, the second Grand Pillar State after Xu Snapdragon, did not move his position and retreat from the northern border, that meant the situation was still in the hands of the court.

The woman whose real name is Jiang Si did not follow the chess wait for the imperial uncle to leave the city, she is sitting quietly in this huge “home”, across the stone table is to report to her on the war situation on the eastern front of the old master Sun Xi Ji, she did not like the first time to walk into the White Deer Cave as distracted, but carefully listen to every word, but she did not make a sound, and did not want to use their own transcendent status to dictate military and state affairs. Cao Changqing was personally present on the banks of the Guangling River, sitting on top of the flagship of the naval division, and with the young general Kou Jianghuai a water and a land, the spearhead of which was directed at the Spring Snow Building of Zhao Yi, the King of Guangling. Jiang Nai has been accustomed to hearing the shortcuts, first of all, the fledgling Pei Sui teamed up with Xie Xijian, not only to defend the town of Polaris, but also to invite the king into the urn, in one fell swoop will be careless and reckless Spring and Autumn general Yang Shenxeng leading the army of 40,000 old pawns of the Jixi South, nailed to death in the middle of the Qing Yang Basin, which is only the first round of the strategy to lure the enemy, Xie Xijian soon played a bone knocking the bone of the big battle, Yan Zhenchun’s 30,000 Yan family cavalry, and the whole team is destroyed. The entire army was wiped out. At the same time, Kou Jianghuai take advantage of the situation to the east of the strategy, the battle is only slightly inferior to Xie Xijian, holding Zhao Yi’s nose of a number of full-fledged army to walk the street in general, a movement and a static, static and dynamic conversion, combination of odd and positive, completely out of Li Yang’s expectations. According to the old master’s just said, kou jianghuai’s method of dividing the army as arm’s length, has hit Zhao Yi’s western defense line as a sieve, the three armies can fight a total of 60,000 soldiers, respectively, hunkered down in the county of combing, right side of the city and the fire jujube mountain in three places, coupled with a great deterrent of the great chu water division of the rear of Zhao Yi’s army main force, do not dare to easily put into the west to fill the hole, the initiative has been held in the hand of the kou jianghuai, the next to see this young General is the first place to fight, in the eyes of outsiders, Kou Jianghuai quite a suspicion of self importance, never to the imperial city this side of the report submitted to the intention of the war, and even rarely with the near at hand Cao Changqing consultation.

The rough scale of the three provinces and six departments of Chu is not without criticism, has been advised to let the more stable Xie Xijian transferred to the eastern front, and then the unruly and untamed Kou Jianghuai transferred to the western front, in the Chu temple, Huainan King Zhao Ying and Jing’an King Zhao Xun, including the departure of several major feudal kings of the army, together, regardless of the number or the strength of the war, not more than the North Rang for the world’s most powerful army Zhao Yi an arm so thick, the Kou family masters. The Kou family, the old man of this two days ago also trembling initiative to the palace to ask for forgiveness, Jiang Nai could not help but kind words to appease, she clearly remembered the old master Sun clearly with the Kou family is a friend of the old friends, but still in the sidelines of the nearly eighty-year-old Kou old man, Jiang Nai looked at the kneeling old man stood up and turned around after the back of the sweat soaked through, and then associated with the dynastic hall, even she can see that some of the officials of the three provinces and six ministries have begun to fight for power! Tipping the seedling, no chess to be imperial uncle in the side as the backbone of her, suddenly flooded with a heavy sense of powerlessness.

Spirit gas is still quite good old eunuch drank a mouthful of tea to quench his thirst, put down the cup, laughed: “The old minister is a little bit of military affairs, do not dare to presume to speculate on kou jianghuai’s next move, but the old minister thought ah, as long as you can knock out the combing county of three places in any one of them, zhao yi’s member of the blessing of generals Song Kasa certainly have to take office at the beginning will have to be burnt to a crisp.”

Sun Xiji thought about it, dipped his finger in the tea, on the stone table point three points, “into the summer, Kou Lao’er brought Kou Jianghuai to pay a visit to the door, listened to this young man some insights, are the ancients of the ancient books have never said not written things, he said that the future of the war, will gradually tend to the battle of the wilderness, attacking the city and pulling out the share of the walled city to be gradually less, in short, the war, it is a moment of one place Slowly pushed to a country’s overall situation, is nothing more than the essence of the three words, Kou Jianghuai said he is more important than anyone else that ‘line’, his troops will be the most know how to quickly transfer and long-distance raids, so as to ensure that even if the overall strength of their own party is not as good as the enemy, but in some important moments to do to bully the less, do not fight needless victories, only to eat each other individually a large number of elite, but also the most important thing is that the other side of the enemy’s military. Eat the other side alone a large number of elite soldiers and horses.”

The old man was in a relaxed mood, said: “At first, the old minister also thought that this is just this yellow mouth child who became famous in Shangyin Academy Palace, bullying the old minister’s old eyes, showing off his knowledge on paper there, and now when I think about it, Kou Jianghuai is indeed a good idea.”

Sun Xiji smiled and said, “I heard that Chunxue Lou has given e guard the key pass fire jujube mountain Liu Louya’s dead order, once lost fire jujube, all the military generals above the lieutenant, even if alive to escape back, but also one by one to obediently carry the head to see Zhao Yi.”

The old man said here, seemed to remember something, lamented: “And remembered Xie Xijian said a sentence, the enemy and I attack and defense is actually an attack on the heart, depending on who grasps the mind and the general situation. This makes the old minister have to mention that Chen Zhi Bao, this person is known as the White Sage of Soldiers, lies in the fact that in addition to being good at soldiering to the extreme, especially like to think about other people’s minds, in this way, Xie Xijian and Kou Jianghuai is like his Chen Zhi Bao’s senior apprentice, each has its own strengths. Of course, as the war advances, the potential of the two of them will also be tapped more, as to what heights they can actually go to, a large part of it will depend on whether or not the civilian ministers who participate in the court meetings every day are dragging their feet ……”

A big eunuch walked quickly into the courtyard, stooped to submit a six hundred mile expedited military intelligence spy report, and then bowed and retreated, from beginning to end without a word, there is no red tape, this is accustomed to Sun Xiji turned over a look, it is Cao Changqing sent, the old man smiled, looked at Her Highness the Princess of the Princess of the Princess of the Princess of the Princess of the Princess of the Princess of the Princess, full of joy and celebration said: “This Kou Jianghuai is determined to give the ear of the messy chewing This Kou Jianghuai is determined to give the gossiping old minister a horse’s head ah, coupled with the words of Changqing, it is estimated that no one will dare to speak in a short period of time in the future court meeting. Your Highness, you see, Song Rasa obviously want to come a hand of danger, a desperate attempt to fire date mountain in front of the red water ditch as a bait, to fish up Kou Jianghuai this God out of the big fish, and at the same time use their own direct line of troops to bypass the red date mountain, think of how the general would not think that Kou Jianghuai did bite the hook, but he Song Rasa is still no chance to lift the rod, one and a half hours, Kou Jianghuai only used one and a half hours to completely wipe out the red water, the red water, the red water and the red water, the red water and the red water. One and a half hours, Kou Jianghuai only used one and a half hours to wipe out the four thousand people in the red water ditch, and ate the bait with the speed of thunder and lightning, and then quickly withdrew eighty miles, and so on, until the marching speed has been swift enough Song Rasa rushed to the red water ditch, and then the yellow flowers and vegetables are cooled.”

Sun Xiji laughed loudly, “It is not that this battle is how big, just let Song Kasa as soon as he took office will be defeated, it is really gratifying, this is the same as adding insult to injury for Chunxue House. For Kou Jianghuai, it’s a triple whammy, suppressing Song Kasa’s anger, eating up Red Water Gully’s strength, and at the same time, it’s even more important to let our side of the gang of guys who stand around talking without a pain in the ass also have nothing to say. No wonder Changqing added a sentence on the spy report, ‘the Eastern Front to the Kou Northern Front to Xie, two people with the deployment of troops, you can go your own way’. Good one to act on one’s own!”

Jiang Nai asked softly, “Isn’t Lu Shengxiang, the commander-in-chief of the Liyang Southern Expedition, a famous general of the Spring and Autumn Period with outstanding war achievements? There’s also Longchamp General Xu Gong, also a general that Uncle Chess Waiting Zhao has praised for his wisdom and bravery, so why don’t we use them on Liyang’s side? Moreover, we have Xie Xijian and Kou Jianghuai on our side, but there are no such young generals in the enemy camp?”

The old man restrained his smile and patiently said, “This is like the chess game pioneered by Huang Sanjia, where the generals and soldiers of our side are clearly spaced out, each with their own duties, those who should be fighting in the battlefield and those who should be leading the army. But the border on that side of the Liyang court, the Zhao family urn claimed to include the world’s talents, Zhao’s son of heaven under the hands of the available people can move the chess is too much, dense, but congested together, let’s say, Lu Shengxiang soldiers at the border, but crowded in front of him, first there is a Yang Shen apricot Yan Zhenchun, after the next Spring and Autumn veterans, the turn of his shallow foundation of the Ministry of War to play the vanguard, as for the Xu arch, in the Liyang dynasty As for that Xu Gong, in the Liyang dynasty than Lu Shengxiang but also position back, neither Beijing officials, more not a veteran general, want to lead the army alone, first need to kill a bloody road in their own camp before.”

Jiang Nai sighed, listening to a burst of cicadas, some hard to hide distraction.

The old man laughed, looked up at the evergreen trees that are still green and gloomy in the fall, and then got up and casually said, “The sound of the cicadas does not add to the trouble, since it is the sadness of the people in the broken heart.”

Jiang Nai was stunned and murmured.

She does not want to admit, compared to being in this home, this world’s only can be comparable to the palace of Tai’an City of the son of heaven home, she will always often think of that hill, that not big but belongs only to her small house, summer heat and winter cold, hard board small bed, sewing window, always with the difficult to old worn quilt silently look at each other. In those years there, there is no half a sentence of flattery, only the cold words of the maids of the handyman, but that malice, who are on the face, she can see and recognize, hate to hate, but never feel the heart is not bottomed out. Don’t have to think like now to think that a respectful and solemn face behind the hook, don’t need their own shoulders to pick up the burden.

She would occasionally return to her hut on Wudang Mountain in her dreams, and would dream that she was tending to the small vegetable garden that was always full of greenery, and would dream that she was squatting in the vegetable garden, stretching out her fingers to carefully count the harvest.

After she was able to fly with her sword, she had seen too many spectacular scenes in the world, but these scenes, after seeing them, she had forgotten them.

Many years ago, also at this time, a hangdog teenager with a branch slapped a big tree with cold cicadas, turned his head to a young girl playfully said: “know know know, know a fart! Little Mudman, do you know?”

At this point, Jiang Nai subconsciously blurted out, as he did back then.

“Know your ass!”

At that time, the teenager laughed with one hand, pointed at her with a branch with one hand, and said with a cheeky smile, “Little Mudman, you know me! If I should fail to find a daughter-in-law in the future, you’ll just make up the numbers!”