Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 361 Earth-shattering!

The loess cracked into fine lines under the scorching sun, like countless withered yellow palms open towards the sky.

The wind whimpered as it blew sand and gravel across the ravine, crashed into the steep earth cliff and turned back, pressing down a few foxtail grasses on the top of the slope so that they could not stand up straight.

Ping Zicheng squatted on the edge of the cliff, crushing the soil with his rough fingers. Gray-brown powder fell from between his fingers and mixed into the bottom of the ditch which was hundreds of feet deep below.

Ping Zicheng stood up and pointed to the hill not far away.

Everyone looked in the direction where his finger pointed and saw that the hills were stacked like the intertwined spines of a giant beast.

And in each fold there are scattered cave dwellings, with the crooked wooden doors at the entrance bleached by the sun.

The cliff section reveals layers of sedimentary belts, with blocks of ochre red and burnt brown interlaced, as if the earth had been repeatedly torn and healed from old wounds.

The jujube trees huddled in the shade, with last year's shriveled fruits hanging on their thorny branches. The wind blew them into the bottom of the ditch and they were crushed into powder among the rugged rocks.

A wisp of green smoke rose from the chimney on top of the earthen kiln, but was torn into pieces before it climbed over the hill.

There are cracks on the mountain ridge opposite the cave, as if they were cut by a knife or an axe. A landslide buried half an acre of thin farmland. Now only a few broken wheat stalks are left sticking out of the loess, like withered hands asking for help.

Suddenly, a whirlwind arose from the bottom of the ditch, carrying broken grass and sand into the sky.

The soil on the cliff edge collapsed, plowing several fresh cracks on the steep slope, revealing the pale clay layer deeper inside.

Everyone immediately understood what Ping Zicheng meant.

Mizhi is such a poor place that the people here can hardly survive, but the imperial court has no intention of changing it. Instead, it has spared no effort to suppress advanced groups such as the Jingsai Army and the Su Society.

This damn court has no need to exist anymore!

At this time, Su Yun strode over and said to everyone, "Let's go to the camp and settle down, and then think carefully about how to develop next."

Upon hearing this, Zheng Chaozong immediately mounted his horse and gave orders to five or six hundred cavalrymen, some of whom served as scouts, some as rearguard, and some as accompanying protection. The military discipline was very strict.

Su Yun nodded with satisfaction: It seems that Zheng Chaozong has already been tempered!

Not only was he familiar with the military deployment, but more importantly, he had already convinced the entire Jingsai Army, five or six hundred people, including the original battalion commander, to obey Zheng Chaozong's command!
This kid is really determined!

The camp of the Jingsai Army was not far from here and it only took a while to get there.

This camp was a fortress in the past, but it was breached by the Western Xia army and the people were massacred. When it was rebuilt later, no one was willing to live here, so it was abandoned.

Su Yun and his wife were arranged to live in the best house in the camp, which was also the commanding height of the entire camp.

Zhang Ruo was inside trying to comfort Su Yi. The long journey had made Su Yi exhausted, but because he was in a strange place, he was extremely sleepy and still cried and refused to sleep.

Su Yun walked to the balcony and looked down. From here he could see the entire camp.

I saw the wooden fence of the camp stuck crookedly in the frozen soil. The north wind blew up a few pieces of dry grass, which swirled out from the gap.

The military tents of five or six hundred men were all made of reed mats. The thatched roofs were blackened by the smoke from the cooking, but there was not even a blade of grass sticking out of them.

The rammed earth ground was swept white, and even the horse hoof prints were smoothed out with a wooden shovel, revealing the original color of the bluestone slab.

There were three iron pots in front of the kitchen. The brown rice porridge was grayish green and there were bits of oil floating in the wild vegetable soup.

Several young soldiers were squatting beside an earthen stove, sharpening their knives. The chipped blades rubbed against the bluestone and produced sparks, making the light in their eyes brighter.

The patched cloth was starched and washed stiff, the clothesline was stretched straight, and each piece of clothing was as neatly arranged as soldiers in formation.

On the wooden spear rack at the east end of the parade ground, the red tassels had faded to a dark brown, but the spear shafts were polished to a shiny sheen.

A one-armed old soldier was wiping his shield with sackcloth; the sunken copper nails reflected the tense lines at the corners of his mouth.

Suddenly someone struck the gong hanging on the flagpole. The shouts from the entire camp startled the crows. The troops returning from training stepped on the broken snow, and the soles of their boots made a rustling sound as they scraped the ground.

As dusk fell, the two lanterns at the camp gate flickered violently. The sentinels on duty wrapped themselves tightly in their single clothes, their guns always pointed at the northern mountain pass.

Intermittent sounds of bamboo flutes came from the most broken tent, gradually merging into a military song of hundreds of people, shaking the reed mats so that they fell into dust.

In the halo of torchlight, someone was dipping a whetstone into a copper basin, and the surface of the water reflected the cold stars in the sky.

Su Yun suddenly laughed.

Well, the living conditions are extremely difficult, but the soldiers’ spirit is still there. Although this place is shabby, it still retains the spirit of the Jingsai Army!
Very good. Don’t be afraid of difficult conditions or weak strength. The key lies in spirit.

Su Yun watched for a while, and as dusk fell, he turned and went inside, saying to Zhang Ruo, "I'm going to go downstairs to have a meeting with Shouzhen and the others. I don't think it will be that early tonight, so you can go to bed first."

Although Zhang Ruo looked tired, she still smiled at Su Yun and said, "Go ahead. I'm at home!"

Su Yun smiled, turned around and left the room, walking down the stairs.

The meeting place was a meeting hall converted from a private house. The lights were already on. When Su Yun entered, the six sons of the Su family and several generals of the Jingsai Army were already present.

Seeing Su Yun striding in, everyone stood up.

Su Yun walked to the chair at the top and sat down without any hesitation, then nodded to everyone: "Everyone sit down."

After these words were spoken, everyone sat down.

As soon as Su Yun sat down, he immediately said: "I want to listen to your opinions in this meeting tonight. Everyone can express their opinions, but they must follow the following method.

First, you must recognize our current situation. We are now rebels. What we want to do is to overthrow the imperial court and seize the world. Everything you will explain next will be based on this premise. ..."

After these words were spoken, the expressions of the six sons of Sumen were all calm, but the expressions of several generals of Jingsai Army were a little subtle. They were shocked at first, but then they showed an expression of "as expected".

Su Yun looked at everyone and then continued: "

...Secondly, based on the above premise, please explain the difficulties our Jingsai Army has encountered.

The third is how we should seek development.

Who wants to speak first? "

As soon as these words came out, Zheng Chaozong immediately stood up and said loudly: "Sir, can I go first?"

Su Yun nodded and said, "Of course."

In fact, Su Yun asked this question with the purpose of asking Zheng Chaozong and Ping Zicheng.

Among the six disciples of Su Men, the other four only arrived in Mizhi today and have not experienced any military battles, so their opinions can basically be ignored.

After all, the generals of the Jingsai Army are only military generals. They are good at military affairs, but their strategic vision is probably far inferior to that of Zheng Chaozong and Ping Zicheng.

Zheng Chaozong was not modest either, and pointed directly at the map and said: "My disciples, if you want to pacify the world, you must first assess the situation;

If you want to defeat a strong enemy, you should learn from history.

The current stalemate between Song, Xia and Liao is just like the situation of Chu-Han contention in the early Han Dynasty.

Although the Jingsai Army has only a few hundred people, if they follow Han Xin's "people's hearts are for war", Fan Zeng's "power checks and balances", and Xiao He's "storing grain in Guanzhong", they can turn crisis into opportunity and form a four-way confrontation!

Now the Song dynasty values ​​culture over military power, the border troops are full of resentment, and the western troops are alienated;
There was a rift between the Tanguts of Western Xia and the Han people, and the Liao tribes were constantly fighting among themselves.

If we can use this to our advantage, we can take advantage of the Mizhi Mountains and imitate Xiang Yu's method of leaving Cao Ju to guard Chenggao, build beacons and underground tunnels to defend, and finally achieve the goal of splitting the land and building a new country!"

Zheng Chaozong's words were earth-shattering as soon as he opened his mouth.

(End of this chapter)