Red Mansion: Seizing Jiangdong, starting with pirates

Chapter 210, The Artistic Concept of Water

Those soldiers who stayed behind to cover the retreat were very brave.

Neither the grassland people nor the Han people chose to surrender at the first opportunity.

Kah Khan did possess a certain personal charm. At least on the surface, he treated the grassland people and Han people under his command relatively equally.

Therefore, many surrendered Han people were willing to work for them.

However, the trend is irreversible.

Although these remaining soldiers were very brave, they were still unable to stop the Huaiyin Army's advance.

The difference in numbers is too great.

Fang Yong actually has some grassland soldiers under his command.

But compared to the Han people, the grassland people are more wild and difficult to tame.

Because the Han people's gratitude is engraved in their bones, it is easy to conquer them as long as they are given generous treatment and a certain degree of respect. This is the influence of China's thousands of years of inheritance and stable life.

However, the living environment on the grassland is too harsh. Rather than believing in any etiquette, the grassland people prefer to believe in the rule of the jungle.

Therefore, Fang Yong used more sticks and relatively fewer sweet treats in his management of the grassland people.

In this subsequent battle, the grassland people who surrendered to Fang Yong's side brazenly raised their knives against their former compatriots.

Kill five people, as long as you kill five people, you can get rid of the status of a surrendered soldier and become an official Huaiyin Army!
This is the reward policy that Jiang Ji formulated in response to the surrendered soldiers from the grassland.

Don't think five people are too few.

People are not that easy to kill.

In a real battlefield, where life and death are at stake, killing an enemy is already a great achievement.

In the end, the soldiers sent by Kah Khan resisted for about half a day before collapsing due to heavy casualties.

The Huaiyin army chased and killed the enemy for more than ten miles, and countless people died or surrendered. In the end, only a few hundred people escaped from the army of seven or eight thousand people.

Zhai Xun led his troops steadily approaching the capital.

Now that the battle situation has been decided, all we need to do is maintain stability.

On the other side, Li Sheng led his navy from Jinhai to Tongzhou.

Li Sheng was Zhai Xun's backup plan.

When Fang Yong conquered Jinhai in the past, Mao Jie, the general of Jinhai, led his troops to surrender and expanded Fang Yong's naval force by nearly 20,000.

Zhai Xun handed over the 20,000 troops to Li Sheng for management.

Previously, Li Sheng was in charge of the artillery battalion of the Huaiyin Army.

Before the battle began, in order to balance the firepower, Zhai Xun split up Li Sheng's artillery battalion and transferred them to other troops.

As compensation, this group of navy was assigned to Li Sheng's command.

Li Sheng is not very capable, but he is loyal.

Zhai Xun ordered Li Sheng to train this group of navy well. If Fangshan’s plan went wrong, he would let Li Sheng attack the capital directly from Jinhai through Tongzhou.

Strictly speaking, this route is the fastest route to attack the capital and is more suitable than Fangshan.

However, the grassland people had long been prepared for Fang Yong's navy and blocked the port, so it was very difficult to enter the capital from this route.

Zhai Xun did not expect Li Sheng to be able to enter the capital via this route.

He just wanted to use Li Sheng as a backup to break the deadlock when the Fangshan plan reached a stalemate.

However, Fangshan's plan is now going very smoothly. Ma Laohei has already reached the capital, so there is no need for Li Sheng to hide his backup plan.

At that moment, the three armies arrived together and marched straight towards the capital.

At such an important moment, Fang Yong finally reunited and rushed to the front line from the rear.

It was the Little New Year in the north, and the army made dumplings for the soldiers to eat.

People in the south eat Yuanxiao during the Little New Year, while people in the north eat dumplings.

This is because the north is cold, and the dumplings contain more oil and water, which can help soldiers resist the cold.

Fang Yong held a banquet in his tent to reward his generals.

The banquet was filled with joy. Fang Yong was inspired to write a poem with great vigor and vigor. He chanted to the bright moon outside the tent: "Let the bright moon be a new bow, pierce the heavy clouds and make it light.

Today, the water of the Heavenly River is rolling back, and the raging waves of the sea are washing the capital."

After hearing this, all the generals praised him vigorously, saying:

"Good poetry, good poetry."

"The artistic conception is magnificent and the emotions are heroic."

"If the general had been born in the Sui and Tang dynasties, he would probably not have been known as Li Bai and Du Fu."

Only one person said, "This poem is inappropriate."

This person, sitting at the end of the table, was named Shi Kuang and was a court musician of Daxi.

In the past, when Fang Yong and Tanchun got married, Shi Kuang played music for them. Later, Fang Yong captured the southward migration team, and Shi Kuang was among them. Today, the banquet lacked music to liven up the atmosphere, so Fang Yong asked Shi Kuang to bring his disciples to the banquet to play music for the generals.

At this time, Shi Kuang stood up and said seriously:

"The general's poem contains the image of "water". However, it is the middle of winter now, and there is only ice and snow in the capital, and it is difficult to find water, so it is not appropriate."

When the disciples around Shi Kuang heard this, their faces froze instantly, and they involuntarily moved back three feet to distance themselves from Shi Kuang.

All the generals on the field were also stunned.

No one could have imagined that a mere musician would be so arrogant and embarrass Fang Yong in such an occasion.

Compared with Fang Yong’s current status, what’s the point of being good at poetry?
Even if what he wrote was a piece of shit, it still smelled like shit.

Not to mention that Fang Yong's poems are pretty good.

How dare this guy find fault with this matter?

Shi Kuang just realized that something was wrong and cold sweat broke out on his back.

Fang Yong treated him with great courtesy, which made him mistakenly believe that he was still the court musician of Daxi, and he completely forgot that he had fallen into the hands of the world's largest warlord.

Shi Kuang bent his legs, knelt down hurriedly, and begged for mercy:

"I am drunk and talking nonsense. Please forgive me, General."

Fang Yong glanced at him indifferently.

Considering that it was a banquet today, it would be a bad idea to spoil everyone's mood by talking about killing someone. In addition, the man had already knelt down and begged for mercy, so Fang Yong did not pursue the matter further. He just ordered his men to beat him out with sticks.

However, after Master Kuang made such a fuss, Fang Yong still felt a little unhappy.

After the banquet, Fang Yong returned to the temporary tent.

He held Xiao Xiangyun in his arms and talked about the poem he had just written.

Fang Yong didn't expect Xiangyun to say anything, he just chatted with her casually.

Unexpectedly, Xiangyun said after hearing this:

"This musician is only rigid and conservative, but he doesn't know that poetry is based on meaning. If there is meaning, the rhythm can be different. Why should we be bound by the four seasons?"

Fang Yong felt quite pleased after hearing this.

He raised Xiao Xiangyun's nose and said:
"You are a person who can comfort people, but you are wrong about one thing. My poem does not disrespect the order of the four seasons, but it has another secret."

As he spoke, a stream of water appeared out of thin air in Fang Yong's hand, leaving Xiangyun stunned.

“Feel the artistic conception of water.”

Fang Yong said this, holding Xiangyun and controlling the water to flow over her...

Soon, Xiangyun was completely powerless, convulsing in Fang Yong's arms, her small hands tightly holding Fang Yong's waist and back, her tongue flicking, "Great, so amazing."

Outside the capital, military tents were lined up, lights were bright, and morale was high.

Inside the capital, however, there was a gloomy and gloomy atmosphere.

Kah Khan was defeated and forced back to the capital. Everyone realized that the people of the grassland were like grasshoppers in autumn and could not survive.

After all, grassland soldiers are known for their field battles. Now that they haven’t even fought a field battle, how can they expect to win a city defense battle?
The major families in the city couldn't help but become concerned.

But they had no way to deal with the Huaiyin Army.

(End of this chapter)