Territory...does it still make sense?”

"General, that's a stupid thing to say." Wu Shu sneered. "The two rivers used to be the territory of the Song Dynasty, and today they are the territory of the Jin Kingdom. You used to call yourself China, but if you lose the two rivers, what is China? It can only be counted as half.

China, on the contrary, is the Great Jin Kingdom. Now it occupies two rivers, establishes institutions, conducts imperial examinations, respects Confucius and values ​​Confucianism. Isn't it also a country of China?"

"How can people like Di Yi, who wear monkeys but wear crowns, still be called China?" Yue Fei looked disdainful.

"This is even more confusing." In the dusk, behind the shield, Wu Shu was still not angry. "The Khitans can only claim to be a big country in China if they occupy the land of Yanyun and inherit the rule of China. Even you can't

We all agree, but Dajin now controls the two rivers, why can't it be called China? We must know that the source of this orthodoxy lies in Tong, not in Zheng... The so-called Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Northern Wei Dynasty took over Han soil and Hanized it, which was Zhengshuo

, the Sui and Tang Dynasties inherited it and unified the world, and the Song, Qi, Liang and Chen Dynasties in turn became a separatist state that went against the times. How similar is it to today? Regardless of these, you said that we invaded from outside, but you, the great ancestor of the Song Dynasty, did dirty things

, to seize the foundation of the Chai family, is it worthy to say that it is not right for Da Jin to win the country?"

"What the Fourth Prince said seems to make some sense." Unexpectedly, Yue Fei was frank. "But when it comes to this, Fei has to make it clear to the Fourth Prince... You said that the source of orthodoxy lies in the orthodoxy and not in the righteousness, then

Dare I ask, is it true that the Jurchens seized control of the two rivers, treated the people as slaves, and enforced cruel laws, so that the people did not hesitate to abandon their businesses, go south to survive, or go to Taihang, and the number of people was not less than a million? Is it false? Not to mention,

You once made massacres a common practice here, making the countryside smell fishy...is this considered a rule?"

"It was the first time. When a country is prosperous, it is inevitable to use weapons and weapons. Great gold is only built day by day." Wu Shu blurted out his sophistry, but he regretted it as soon as he said it.

"So, the fourth prince thinks that the Jin Kingdom's massacre is inevitable, but the Song Dynasty was not upright when he obtained the Zen position more than a hundred years ago?" Yue Fei sneered.

"My original intention is that the eldest brother should not talk about the second brother. Everyone is just laughing at it." Wu Shu responded with a smile.

"That's right." Yue Fei continued to sneer. "The fourth prince thought that the country's orthodoxy lies in the unification but not in the unification. As a result, the Song Dynasty had been unified for more than a hundred years. The culture was prosperous and the country had hundreds of millions of people. But he actually wanted to rule the two rivers.

Ten years, three to five years of killing, and three to five years of tyranny, the Jin Kingdom is so ridiculous...but I don’t know who is being ridiculous?!"

Wu Shu avoids speaking and remains silent.

"Besides." Yue Fei's voice became clearer and clearer. "So what if I admit today that the Song Dynasty was not right? Is the orthodoxy of the Song Dynasty still in the same position a hundred years ago? Is it not that our officials lead hundreds of millions of people?

, expel the Tartars, restore China, and unite the four seas? After White Horse Shaoxing, our officials made it clear that the country gradually became divided into old and new. Your so-called Jin Kingdom is ridiculous compared with the old Song Dynasty. How dare you

Comparing it with today's New Song Dynasty? Why don't you compare insects with bears and tigers, saying that they are the same?"

"Marshal Yue." Wu Shu finally responded with solemnity. "I thought that as a marshal of a country, you must have high opinions. Who would have expected that you would say such vulgar words?"

"It's the fourth prince who wants to talk to me!" Yue Fei said rudely across the river embankment. "Besides, if you have so much money and you don't even have the slightest say, why would you bring shame on yourself?"

Wu Shu was furious for a moment, and both parties were silent for a moment across the embankment.

After a while, Wu Shu calmed down, but he changed his words: "These fancy things are the words of scholars. We all hang out in the army and shouldn't say much. As for talking about Daikin

Does the state rely on it? Marshal Yue, of course we, the Jin Dynasty, have something to rely on. In front of you and behind me, don’t these hundreds of thousands of Jin’s elites rely on us and the foundation? The current situation is that the military strength of the two countries is actually equivalent, across the river

The confrontation has become a fact, but we have tried to negotiate peace with you many times, but you have ignored it. Instead, you have to use all your national strength to cross the river to attack... I read your newspaper and I also know one thing, that is, you are fighting for this.

We have almost exhausted all the means of plundering, wasted people and money, and fished in the lake. Moreover, the imperial camp in the front and the scholar-bureaucrats in the rear are completely incompatible, and the country is almost divided. Is this worth it? Even if it is done in the future, how much effort will you have to make the country stable and unified?"

At this point, Wu Shu stopped and waited for a moment. After hearing no response for a while, he paused briefly and continued:

"Moreover, if they really cross the river to attack, can the Song army be invincible? Let's not talk about other places, just here, it is cold in winter, and both the army and the people should be at home, burning the kang to celebrate the New Year.

As a result, you dragged more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians into the wilderness, and asked them to work hard in the middle of the night to make ice along the river against the wind... And making ice was just a perfunctory method. The key is that your troops have been trapped in internal and external difficulties.

On the 35th, the river will be frozen as usual, and my army will press forward. We will not say the outcome, but we will only say that countless innocent people from both armies will die. How can you feel at ease?"

Wu Shu waited again, but the other party was still silent. This gave the fourth prince some encouragement and he continued to talk: "I also know that Marshal Yue is from Hebei and Xiangzhou... Ten years ago, the army went south to conquer Xiangzhou.

It's me...so I know that Marshal Yue wants to regain his hometown, but for his own selfishness, making the world bleed and drift, is this considered the virtue of a general?!"

Wu Shu waited three times, but when he heard that the other party was still silent, he became even more excited and continued to speak: "Marshal Yue, please listen to me..."

"Wu Shu!"

At this moment, Yue Fei on the opposite side suddenly spoke. His voice was so loud that it even shocked Wanyan Wushu across a dike.

After being startled, Wu Shu also laughed: "Listen, Marshal Yue, please speak! I'm waiting!"

"Some of what you said this time are indeed irrefutable." After an angry shout, Yue Fei became calm. "For example, you said that once a war breaks out, regardless of victory or defeat, countless innocent lives will be lost in both armies... Who can refute that?

"

"yes……"

"But I can't refute it, which doesn't mean I have nothing to say to you." Yue Fei continued to speak solemnly. "The only thing I can do is to tell you that when the soldiers, soldiers and civilians risk their lives for the country, I, Yue Fei, will definitely be among them since I am a member of the army.

, Be the first! If you win, you will win together, and if you lose, you will lose together. If you die on the battlefield, your soul will return to the mountain together, and your body will merge with the green mountains! And if you survive by chance, you will also be reunited with the rest of the living, and care for each other in death.

Then work together to build peace! These words can be said to the sky, to the rivers and mountains, to the more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians behind you, and to you tonight!"

Wu Shu remained silent.

"As for what you said about war and peace...you should know this truth after reading the Di newspaper. It lasted for three days and three nights, which is enough to refute you dozens of times." Yue Fei remained calm, but his words gradually faded.

Sonorous. "But today I don't want to talk about big things. I just want to ask you a few words... The two countries have been at war for ten years. Didn't you kill and plunder first? Didn't Nianhan and your second brother negotiate with each other to go south?

?Why did you massacre cities and plunder territory when you were strong, and plunder wealth and kill people? Now when we come to attack, why do you say that peace is the most important thing?! The shame of Jingkang was only ten years away; the fall of Lianghe was just 10 years ago.

Nine years have passed; only eight years have passed since the massacre in the Central Plains, and we are actually asked to pretend that nothing happened and just forget about it?! Now that things have happened, what is the use of talking about this? You should know that if you dare to do something fishy, ​​it will be easy for you.

Have the understanding of being a swordsman!"

Wu Shu remained silent, but the Grand Master's slave, who was holding a shield next to him, could clearly see through the firelight in the distance that the corners of the Fourth Prince's mouth were twitching slightly.

After twitching, the fourth prince of the Jin Kingdom finally suppressed all his turbulent intentions and gritted his teeth: "So, do we still have to fight to see the outcome?"

"That's what I meant, but it was the Fourth Prince who made some unreasonable lies and forced me to talk to you across the embankment." Yue Fei's voice returned to calmness. "As for this battle... Fourth Prince, I have one more thing to say,

Where did you get the belief that you can break my fortress before I break Yuancheng? Although our army is small, it is like a dragon and a tiger. Unlike your Jurchens, all of them are like short-legged toads on horses.

!Fifty to sixty thousand toads expect to jump over this river?!"

Wu Shu was stunned and didn't know how to reply.

But soon, without waiting for his reply, I heard a noise on the other side of the river embankment, and then clearly heard the sound of boats starting up and the friction of armor. A moment later, when the fourth prince was about to speak again, he heard a different voice from before.

sound:

"His Royal Highness King Wei of the Kingdom of Jin, my marshal has already left. He said that although we had a quick trip at night, we couldn't lose etiquette even though we broke up unhappy... so I left the sword here as a gift..."

Wu Shu was confused, and he didn't know whether to thank him or give him something as a gift, but he heard the person on the other side continue to say: "He also said that all the people in the Song Dynasty, from King Han down, wanted to live.

There are countless people who have beheaded the King of Wei. If the King of Wei is defeated, you might as well commit suicide with this sword at the intersection of Dipo today. In the future, when the body is scrambled for, recognizing this sword can be regarded as a contribution to my marshal.

"

Wu Shu was stunned again and had a seizure. He also knew that Yue Fei had left and it would be unreasonable to lose points with a personal guard. However, he actually sat on the horse and listened to a noise, letting the second ship leave.

After a while, Wu Shu took a long breath and smiled at the master's slave: "Yue Fei is a vulgar person, but I can't lose face. Take that sword. I will use it to kill the Song people in this battle!"

"

The master's slave had no choice but to go up the embankment to look for it. Sure enough, he found a sword under the river embankment. He took it back and gave it to Wu Shu.

The fourth prince took the sword and returned directly to the camp as if nothing happened... As for what happened to Dipo that night, he didn't tell anyone.

Not to mention how extraordinary Wu Shu was, but in the next two days, the Jin army cut off the lower reaches of the Yongji Canal, but found nothing wrong with the Song army. In the end, two more hot air balloons were carefully raised on the Jin side.

...One was burned, and one survived. After making a report, the Jin Army found out... It turned out that the Song Army's position was close to the west, and earth mountains had already begun to rise, and there were huge pits behind several earth mountains.

Along the course of the Yellow River, it is used to store water...perhaps it will also serve as a shipyard in the future.

Therefore, when the Jin army cut off the Yongji Canal, the Song army directly dug through the Yongji Canal and these huge pits, but there was no chaos at all.

In other words, the Song army was well prepared for the Yongji Canal method, so that the Jin army returned without success.

However, it didn't matter, because in the past few days, first there was a gust of northwest wind, and the Yongji Canal was the first to be completely frozen. The slow-flowing Yellow River gradually became unable to support, and many large ships began to sail into the docks prepared in the camp.

Then, after a light snowfall, the temperature dropped again, and the small boat could no longer stand and disappeared on the river.

At this time, the Jin army was already gearing up, but they were worried that if the river was not frozen tightly and they attacked without permission, they would be attacked by the Song army's artillery vehicles lined up on the opposite bank of the river.

However, even so, the Jin army began to send troops to seize the position on the south side of the Song army's camp.

And soon, on the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, another gust of northwest wind blew, and the soldiers came to report that the Yellow River had been frozen to more than a foot thick, and even the stone bullets from the artillery car could not break much ice at once. Meet.

The long-awaited fighter plane finally arrived.

On the same day, the Jin army held a military meeting again in Ligu town, and this time, except for the necessary frontline officers to prepare for the Song army's surprise attack, almost all the marching men gathered together, and more than a hundred people came together, waiting for military orders.

But on this day, a messenger suddenly came to the camp from the southwest, saying that he was delivering documents to the fourth prince Wushu on behalf of the Zhao and Song officials, and then left the suicide note outside the camp... The sergeant of Jinying did not dare to neglect, so he quickly submitted it Come.

Wu Shu took the letter in confusion in front of everyone, but he didn't dare to open it. He just went to see Bali Su.

Of course Ba Lisu knew what the other party meant... The Zhao and Song officials would not send him off sooner or later. The river was frozen. The Jin army decided to send him off at a time when they planned to allocate combat tasks. He must have done it intentionally.

Maybe it had been written a long time ago and placed in the military camp opposite, waiting for it to be delivered today.

In this case, the words are most likely to be sarcastic and joking, used to destroy morale... Otherwise? Could it be that he is encouraging the Fourth Prince?

However, after thinking about it for a moment, Ba Lisu still smiled and said to him on the spot: "Although Zhao Song's official family has also made progress in Hedong, the messages behind him are endless. Everyone knows that at this time, he only looks like he has just got through Queshu Valley. If he had left this letter early, there would have been nothing to rely on... If we didn't read it, it would have seemed like we were afraid of him, Guan Zhao! And if he had boasted about untruths or said some vulgar words, he would have been the one to laugh. !”

As soon as this statement came out, many households, including Meng Anduo, nodded in agreement, saying that it was okay. They all said that the more sarcastic the official family of Zhao and Song Dynasty was, the more it appeared that the fourth prince was capable.

It was Wu Shu. After thinking about the night with Yue Feidipo, he even put the sword away without hesitation. He asked himself that he would not be offended by any remarks, so he nodded directly and prepared to open it.

"Let me serve the King of Wei!" At this moment, Wanyan Benjian, the golden prince, suddenly stepped forward and responded respectfully. "Although he is the king of a country, he would not be too mean, but just in case, it is still I'll do it instead..."

Wushu was perfect, and he was happy to see Wanyan Benjian put down his unruly attitude and blend in with everyone, so he directly handed over the document.
To be continued...