Rui Hegui

In the winter of Jianning's 55th year, Chi Tingyu, the governor of Jiangnan at that time, received a secret letter from the hand of the king of Kyoto.

At that time, Chi Tingyu had only been in office for half a year, and the purpose of his transfer to Jiangnan was to control the floods, and to cultivate a strong navy as big as himself to prevent the disaster of Dongyi.So when he received the urgent letter from Kyoto, he was a little surprised, but when he thought of the gentry in Kyoto who had always eaten vegetarian meals with corpses, he felt that it was reasonable, so he couldn't help scolding the generals of the Manchu Dynasty in front of the postmen, and then gave Emperor Jianning After making a note, he set off to return to Beijing with a stomach full of anger.

When Chi Tingyu hurried back to Kyoto, he realized that Fan Qiguang had not recovered from his injury, and he had already requested an order to take command to meet Tu Yuan.

Chi Tingyu was furious immediately, and after the court meeting, he questioned more than a dozen generals in public, and all he got was the usual official rhetoric in Beijing.Chi Tingyu had long been disgusted with it, and when he was angry, he kicked him down the stone steps in front of Changtai Hall. In the end, Wang Taboo arrived and stopped two groups of people to make a fuss.

Afterwards, Wang Yu and Xue Ran led the six ministries to make emergency preparations for money, food and grass, and to mobilize troops. Wang Yu even asked for an order to accompany them to the expedition.

Three days later, with Fan Qiguang in command, Chi Tingyu as deputy commander, and Wang Yu as military adviser, they set off with a patchwork of 10 troops.

"Ji Yu, do you think I'm getting old?"

On the way to the expedition, Fan Qiguang once asked Chi Tingyu with a smile like this, but Chi Tingyu felt resentful and did not answer.

"Ji Yu, I know what you are complaining about, but our expedition this time is not for the sake of protecting the glory of those people in Kyoto, but for the common people of the world."

In this way, since Fan Qiguang inherited the title when he was young, he has said it countless times, and Chi Tingyu's ears are full of calluses-but he understands that this is exactly the promise they made since childhood, and they will cultivate themselves in this life. To rule the country by family, to set up a lofty ambition, and to create great achievements for thousands of years, you don't need to be high and powerful, and you don't want to be famous in history.

At that time, they were all thinking about how to win this battle, so as to keep Daxu's territory and the thousands of people behind them.

In the following month, like the chilling autumn wind, they swept back the fire that Tu Yuan had burned to Daxu. When Tu Yuan was fully prepared, and Tu originally thought that Daxu would fight a protracted war, they continued to fight against each other. The fight was done in one go, and it was unexpected to cover up his unpreparedness. Not only did he move surprisingly, he was able to repel Tu Yuan, but he also asked the order to go west to Qiangqianguan to take advantage of the victory and pursue it, which would definitely make it impossible for Tu Yuan to attack again.

At the same time, Wang Taboo continued to recruit soldiers in the rear and border areas. In just one month, the Fan family's army expanded from the original 20 to [-], which fully doubled.

This is the best rebuttal for Fan Jiajun's existence in name only!This is another fulfillment of the promise of the young family and the country!This is the great achievement of Fuze Sheji common people!

All the victories seem to be close at hand, within reach!

But Chi Tingyu never thought that they would lose in the end.

He was not defeated by Tu Yuan, but by the sharp knife sent from behind by his own people.

It was a moonlit night after repelling Tu Yuan and going west out of Qiangguan to take advantage of the victory. Tu Yuan, who was supposed to resist to the death, suddenly threw away his armor and fled, which was in stark contrast to the previous stubborn resistance.

Fan Qiguang noticed that something was wrong, and immediately ordered to stop the march. Sure enough, Xiangyuan City sent a distress letter, saying that the Tuyuan people had already circled back, and they would attack Xiangyuan City and slaughter the city in a few days.

Fan Qiguang and Chi Tingyu suddenly felt strange, because Wang Yu personally led the troops to stay in Qianqian Pass, and it was impossible for Xiangyuan City to be isolated and helpless.

But the distress letter also contained a secret letter from Wang Taboo, which was an urgent delivery requesting them to withdraw their troops and return to defense.

Could it be that there is something they missed?

The two veterans, who have been on the battlefield for many years, have doubts in their hearts, but the secret letter written by Wang Yu is indeed his own handwriting. life and death, had to be cautious.

So after the two discussed, they still chose to give up this excellent opportunity to pursue and quickly withdraw their troops in the direction of Xiangyuan City.

When approaching Xiangyuan City, the southwestern frontier has lost five cities in a row, and only Xiangyuan City is still defending—but there was no urgent delivery to Fan's army before.

The guard Han Zhou came with his men and horses, already in a panic.

After they inquired, they found out that Tu Yuan's eldest prince Ke Liqiu personally led people to escape here, and took the opportunity to kidnap Wang Yu's wife, Zhao Shi. After being arrested, Kerry used these two men to coerce Wang Taboo to give up Qiangqian Pass.

But Wang Zhaoshi and Wang Xian refused to die, and when Wang Taboo was in trouble, they both committed suicide, which made Kerry completely lose his bargaining chip and fled.

In grief, Wang Yu sent a secret letter to Han Zhou, explaining that if the Tuyuan people still have a plan, they must take Xiangyuan City. If the incident happens, the secret letter will be sent to the west quickly, and the Fan family army will withdraw. help each other.

Afterwards, Wang Taboo led people to chase Kerry Qiu away.

As Wang Taboo expected, when he left, Tu Yuan's men who had been lurking in the dark appeared and launched a fierce attack on the cities in the southwest. Han Zhou hurriedly sent the secret letter.

Fan Qiguang and Chi Tingyu were startled when they heard the words.

Everything happened too suddenly.

Although Wang Zhao is a woman, she has military membership, is good at medicine, and is courageous. She follows Fan Jiajun as a medical officer all the year round.She sacrificed her life for righteousness in the chaos, which is also an expected move, which is admirable and regrettable.

As for Wang Xian, even though he is Wang Yu's cousin, Wang Yu felt that his aptitude was mediocre, so he refuted him. The Minister of the Ministry crossed out his name.But everyone didn't expect that even such an ordinary official who was not liked by his cousin could resolutely choose righteousness when faced with the choice of life and death, which is really admirable.

Everyone sighed for a moment, and then sorted out the situation around Xiangyuan City. Fan Qiguang asked Han Zhou about the massacre of the city, and Han Zhou hurriedly took out a letter on parchment.

Fan Qiguang took a look and found that it was full of Tuyuan characters. Han Zhou was about to cry, saying that there was no one around him who knew Tuyuan characters well, so he could only vaguely recognize the information about the massacre of the city three days later.

But Fan Qiguang is different. He is a rare handsome talent in a hundred years. He is erudite and miscellaneous.

On a thin piece of parchment, it is indeed written that the city was massacred, and the method of massacring the city was to blow up the two embankments on the Lumian River and flood Xiangyuan City!

The reason why Tuyuan dared to speak out about the way of massacring the city was because he played a game of Tuyuan characters, which was similar to Tibetan acrostics in the Central Plains.

Such an arrogant and vicious provocative way is so inhuman and inhumane!

Moreover, the three days later mentioned in the letter refers to the same day.

After Fan Qiguang explained the contents of the parchment, everyone turned pale. Their eyes followed the Lumian River upstream, looking at the snow-covered Kunshan Mountain, which is the source of the Lumian River and where the river floods in winter and spring. , there are two river embankments, once someone blows them up, the consequences will be disastrous.

Lu Mian Jiang is still calm in front of him, but it may cause a catastrophe at any time.

Han Zhou said tremblingly, the guards on the river embankment lost contact yesterday, and Tu Yuan had cut off the connection between Xiangyuan City and Kunshan at that time.

It seems that the parchment is by no means wild words.

There is no time to delay.

Fan Qiguang and Chi Tingyu immediately decided to lead their people there in person - Fan's army had been guarding Mobei before, and most of the soldiers in the army were from the north. Only Fan Qiguang was knowledgeable in civil and military affairs and had an understanding of fighting in the south.That's why Chi Tingyu, who has been stationed in the south for a long time and is proficient in water conservancy, was invited to the army when he set off for the expedition.Later, in the battle against Tu Yuan, it was indeed thanks to Chi Tingyu's understanding of the terrain and climate in the south that he was able to get twice the result with half the effort.Now, facing the unknown situation of the embankment, only the two of them led people to go there in person.

Therefore, each led 1 troops to the two embankments, and the remaining soldiers and horses were at the foot of Kunshan Mountain, cooperating with Han Zhou to quickly detect the military situation and wait for the time to move.

After arriving in Kunshan, it was the place where Chi Tingyu and Fan Qiguang forked their troops.

Chi Tingyu still clearly remembered that Fan Qiguang looked back at him at that time, with a rare look of confusion in his eyes, and frowned and said:

"Ji Yu, I always feel that something is wrong, but I can't wait to think about it now, but there is one thing, no matter what happens, the two river embankments must be protected!"

"The end will be ordered!"

The two quickly led their troops forward.

The north wind howled suddenly, and the leaves in the lush forest were blown loudly, and then Kunshan began to be foggy.

Chi Tingyu was led by a young general next to Han Zhou. When he approached a hillside, he suddenly started to walk in a hurry. Coupled with his familiarity with the pass of the mountain road, he slowly let Chi Tingyu and others fall behind.

Chi Tingyu felt uneasy when he saw the fog barrier gradually rising, and called the young general to slow down, but the young general not only did not slow down, but sped up his pace.

Chi Tingyu yelled again, the young general was about to disappear into the dense forest, Chi Tingyu immediately drew his bow and shot an arrow in the young general's leg, and then ran towards him quickly, but he still didn't have time - the young general had already dropped a The fireworks signal goes off.

"careful!"

Chi Tingyu had just finished shouting, when the explosion sounded, the whole ground trembled, the woods collapsed, mud and rocks splashed, and all the soldiers fell to the ground, their ears buzzing, followed by sharp tearing feel.

Could it be that the embankment exploded? !

Chi Tingyu had a bad heart, and quickly organized his army to rush towards the direction of the explosion.

The closer he was to the embankment, the more Chi Tingyu could feel the ground shaking. He was familiar with this feeling. He had controlled water in the south of the Yangtze River. During peach blossom floods, floods occurred in the section of the river without embankments, or the embankments were broken. When the town is submerged, the mountains near the river bank will sink towards the river, and earthquakes will occur frequently.

It was too late, this embankment had already been bombed, so we had to save another embankment.

Chi Tingyu only thought for a moment, and based on the terrain of the nearby mountains, he judged the approximate direction of another embankment, and climbed to the south on behalf of the army.

But within half a mile, a sudden rain of arrows came from the mountainside, and they were still poisoned arrowheads.

Chi Tingyu quickly ordered people to set up the shield, looked up, and the one standing there was the already dead Wang Xian, surrounded by not only the guards of Xiangyuan City, but also the soldiers of Tuyuan, all pointing their arrows at Fan Jiajun.

Wang Xian is no longer the submissive cousin in front of Wang Taboo, no longer the little lieutenant who nods and bows to everyone in the hall, his eyes are full of desire and ambition.

Chi Tingyu was quite shocked and surprised by what he saw with his own eyes. Before he could question him, the ground they were standing on shook even more violently, and many people fell down immediately and were hit by poisoned arrows.

At the same time, the shouts of Fan Jiajun's killing came faintly from the south, which was exactly where Fan Qiguang was.

Can't go any further.

Chi Tingyu only thought for a moment in the panic, and then acted quickly. Instead of climbing to the south where Fan Qiguang was, he began to direct everyone to retreat down the mountain.

The incident happened suddenly and very strangely, and the other party knew nothing about the situation. It was the first time Chi Tingyu encountered such a situation, but based on his years of experience in marching and fighting, the other party was trying to trap them on Kunshan—— As for what to do to trap them, it was obviously to disadvantage the Fan family army who stayed under Kunshan without knowing about Han Zhou and others collaborating with the enemy.

Behind him, Tu Yuan's soldiers and horses emerged from the surrounding mountains and forests. There were more and more of them, and they all came prepared. Chi Tingyu led 1 horses while fighting and retreating.

Until a man-made river channel appeared in front of them, and the turbulent current flowed away, completely blocking the way of retreat.

This river channel was obviously excavated in the past month, and both sides of the river bank have not had time to be reinforced in the future, and the turbulence in the middle should be caused by the breach of the river bank just now, and the ground on both sides is sinking inward this time.

Chi Tingyu hurriedly ordered the people in front to retreat, but some people still had no time to retreat, and were brought into the turbulent flow by the sunken ground.

The horses neighed, and Chi Tingyu looked up. There were Tuyuan soldiers and horses on three sides, about five or six thousand. If it was on a normal day, even twice as many Tuyuan soldiers and horses came. But when Chi Tingyu saw the hundreds of firecrackers in the opponent's hand, he frowned tightly and felt a chill in his heart.

Firecrackers were only designed and manufactured by the Ministry of War a hundred years ago. They are extremely powerful and lethal. So far, the imperial court has only produced more than a thousand firecrackers. The management is extremely strict. Only a hundred of them are distributed to the military camps. Only the Fan family army has them. Three hundred firecrackers, so Fan Shuai set up a special Shenji battalion—the Shenji battalion stayed in Qianguan with Wang Yu at that time, and it was impossible for Tu Yuan and Han Zhou to produce so many firecrackers in a short time, so they had to be From the Divine Machine Camp.

Not only did something happen to Wang Yu's side, but the entire army was likely to be wiped out.

But Chi Tingyu didn't have time to think about it, Tu Yuanren had already rushed towards them, and hundreds of firecrackers were shooting at them.

In the end, Chi Tingyu's 1000 soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and it took a desperate struggle to bring [-] people out of the encirclement.

Tu Yuanren was still chasing after him, so Chi Tingyu immediately divided the 1000 people into five teams and moved separately, making sure to spread the news about the situation in Kunshan.

Chi Tingyu's men and horses walked around Kunshan with Tu Yuanren for half a day, and in the end he was the only one left, and he was seriously injured. One arm was blown off by a firecracker, so he had to jump off the cliff.

Fortunately, a woodcutter who went up the mountain to cut firewood rescued the dying Chi Tingyu.

But it was already a month later when Chi Tingyu woke up.

Fan Qiguang is dead, and no one knows what happened on Kunshan that year, which can make a generation of war gods fall.

The Fan family army is gone, no one believes that they were tricked out of Qianqian Pass by their own people, and were wiped out by their former comrades-in-arms and Tu Yuanren.

The case of rebellion and injustice has been completed. Tens of thousands of people in the DPRK and China have been labeled as party members.

Everything is too late.