Chapter 203: suona, trigon, stinky chess player.

Sha Pa is a must-have.

A few days later, in the evening, he walked twice along the banks of the Cangjiang River, listening to the reports of his spies in the wetness of the pounding waves.

The scout said, "There is news that the Central Plains people started building ships as early as March, paying high prices to recruit carpenters and blacksmiths who know how to build ships, and I heard that they are all building strong ships and big ships ......"

Sha Pa kindly laughed and kicked a small stone into the rolling river.

After the scouts retreated, a deputy general came up, also looked like he knew it all.

Sha Pa : "Got it?"

Adjutant General: "I understand. Beifu Army this is done for us."

Sha Pa laughed: "If you really want to cross the river to fight head-on, and why such a big fanfare, everywhere, as if we do not know that they will concentrate their main forces on the river, to come to a sensational river war similar."

Adjutant General: "What about ......?"

"Once the stage is set, even if the play is fake, it should be sung properly." Sha Pa said, "I think the Beifu Army will choose a windy day to cross the river at night. If I were Tingyun Shi, I would have made as much noise as possible, even inducing Changling City and Inagaki to send troops to help."

The adjutant general said, "That's right. Central Plains dogs are such mind games."

"It's good to play with the mind, but I'm afraid they won't play it right, but they'll suffer from it." Sha Pa said, "The surprise attack tactics, the use of internal spies to interfere with the audio and visual, so as to lay a cloud of suspicion; and then complemented by the side attack tactics, but want us to divide the troops and fight. If you look at it carefully, this dog is very clever. But he forgot that the art of war is most concerned with avoiding the real and avoiding the imaginary, he played such a set of real and imaginary, but become self-killing. ...... How is the land defense going?"

Vice General: "Please rest assured about the land defense. I have calculated clearly that the Beifu Army can only mobilize 30,000 men at most. Guining is located in the middle of the river and has 30,000 troops; Changling City is in the upper part of the river and has 15,000 troops; Inagaki is in the lower part of the river and has 20,000 troops, even if the Beifu Army is mobilized, we are not afraid. Our main forces are already moving secretly toward Guining, and all our spies are out, watching day and night and reporting back at all times."

Sha Pa nodded once.

The adjutant general added: "I came here this time to ask the general how to arrange the river defense?"

"River defense should never be abandoned."

Sha Pa is contemptuous of the people of Central Plains, but he is not arrogant.

He said categorically: "Since they have come to take advantage of their joy, how can I let them go home without joy? Choose twenty empty straw-lined boats, pour kerosene on them, choose three hundred soldiers who know how to sail to meet them, shout and shout, and when they come close, when they can't avoid it, they will light up the fire, dive into the water and swim back to the shore. The shore is well stocked with kerosene for the rockets."

He leaned down to pick up a stone and threw it into the river with force.

The waves splashed by the stones were quickly swallowed by the river.

Sha Pa said, "...... At that time, I want the whole Cangjiang River to become a river of fire. I want the fire to be so bright that it can be seen in the palace of Nan Southern."

Meanwhile, on the other side of the river.

Tingyun Shi, sitting on a cliff, strained out the sour plum kernels from his mouth and threw them into the river.

The river is wide, the waves are strong and windy, despite his superior strength, the small plum kernel fell into the river, still can not even see a splash.

The raging waves of the river flowed without pause under the feet of Tingyun Shi and Yuanheng Yan.

The two were dressed in the clothes of ordinary people, and behind them there were two cows eating grass with their heads down, looking from afar like two young cattle ranchers, sitting idly at the top of a hill and blowing the wind.

And they were actually watching the front line.

Tingyun Shi took another sour plum into his mouth: "Bishop 5 into 3."

Yuanheng Yan : "Knight 6 to 7."

Tingyun Shi stopped talking and looked at him with a smile.

Yuanheng Yan pondered for a moment, then sighed helplessly, "...... I'll concede this game."

Tingyun Shi smiled, "Six to six. It's finally a tie."

They have been playing blind chess back and forth for an afternoon facing the river.

Tingyun Shi offered him a small porcelain jar with sour plums, and Yuanheng Yan refused with a wave of his hand.

During a battle with Nan Southern's small army three days ago, Yuanheng Yan's left hand was cut by a sword on the back of his hand, the wound was not deep, but it still caused quite a stir.

Tingyun Shi had nothing else to do, so he took his left hand and scribbled.

This is an old habit of Tingyun Shi.

He felt that if his body was wounded and wrapped in white cloth, he always felt monotonous and uninteresting, and looked disturbed, so he loved to paint in the place where others and himself were bandaged.

Many of the wounded soldiers in the battalion have ink on them that he left behind.

Tingyun Shi was holding a half charcoal pencil, and Yuanheng Yan was looking down at the top of his hair.

Tingyun Shi drew a goose, looked up and asked, "How did I do?"

Yuanheng Yan looked up at the trail of nesting birds on the side of the mountain: "Well. Not bad."

Tingyun Shi let go of his hand.

Yuanheng Yan's upturned mouth dropped a little.

He asked, "Why don't you paint?"

Tingyun Shi : "It's dark, I can't see."

Yuanheng Yan fished out a candle from his arms.

Tingyun Shi : "...... you come to spend the night ah."

Yuanheng Yan a little blush, can not say she wants to observe with him in the mountains for a night such misunderstanding of the faint words, so pretend to bow their heads and nod wax, calmly said: "I ...... just in case."

With the slightest light, Tingyun Shi took the pen out again.

Yuanheng Yan asked, "Draw another one."

Tingyun Shi smiled and said, "Good, the last general obeys the order."

Soon, Yuanheng Yan drew back his hand and looked at the two geese on the back of his hand, his heart was happy and the corners of his mouth involuntarily curled up slightly.

Soojung is really different from the others, the letter brush scribbles are so beautiful.

In summer, it is hot during the day and cold at night, and the only time when the temperature is comfortable is when it is going into the night.

With the cool mountain breeze blowing on his face, Yuanheng Yan looked at the river water that was gradually turning deep black and asked, "How is the observation going?"

Tingyun Shi was lying on his back with a yellow scarf for neck protection in his hand.

The yellow scarf was blown straight to the southwest.

Tingyun Shi rolled up his yellow scarf: "Not until then."

Yuanheng Yan took a breath.

Tingyun Shi seemed to anticipate what he would say, turned sideways, padded one ear with his arm and plugged the other with a yellow scarf.

Yuanheng Yan said resolutely, "Although Uncle Shi agrees with your war strategy, I still think it is too risky to let the whole main force cross the river to fight."

He said, "The news of our shipbuilding is hard to conceal, and now even the people in the nearby towns are asking if there is really a big battle to be fought. If the Sha Pa ministry has prepared for it, would we not be throwing ourselves into the net if we go here ......"

He said a lot of his concerns, who thought no response for a long time, and then his eyes turned, Tingyun Shi has plugged his ears to fall asleep.

Yuanheng Yan : "......"

He looked down at Tingyun Shi's sleeping face.

Tingyun Shi sleeping, not as wanton as he was during the day, his brow gently wrinkled, as if there is something on his mind. The eyelashes are long, small fan-like, and soft to the touch ......

By the time Yuanheng Yan came back to his senses, he had flicked Tingyun Shi's eyelashes back and forth several times.

...... He was scared off by his own weird behavior.

After taking two small breaths away from Tingyun Shi, Yuanheng Yan turned back, picked up the sleeping youth, gently put them on the backs of the cows, then led the two well-fed cows and slowly walked towards the camp.

He went back and forth, wondering what was wrong with me.

The bull's body bump woke up Tingyun Shi for a while.

He looked at the man in front of him who was burying his head in his thoughts while holding a cow and called sleepily, "...... Heng Yuan ."

Yuanheng Yan turned around, "Hmm?"

Tingyun Shi : "Nothing, call you."

Yuanheng Yan : "...... hmm."

Tingyun Shi wanted to get up, but Yuanheng Yan said, "You don't have to come down. Sleep a little longer. I'll hold this one."

It's night.

Yuanheng Yan returned to the tent, the army doctor changed his medicine, and the slightly blood-stained linen was removed and piled up beside him.

The military doctor said eagerly: "Thirteenth prince, your wound is already shallow, and your own foundation is good, as long as you put on two more days of medicine, even the scar will not remain."

Yuanheng Yan nodded once and didn't care much about that.

The medic looked down, ready to take the old linen removed, but searched everywhere.

Where did ...... go?

Could it be that the party failed to take care of it and was taken care of by the 13th prince's personal people?

After the military doctor left in confusion, Yuanheng Yan lay in the quilt, by candlelight, with the candle wick cutter, the painting of the two geese linen cut off, close to store, and quietly in the night, the cut linen buried in the tent root.

Back in the tent, Yuanheng Yan lay flat again, still wondering why Tingyun Shi and Shi Jianhong were so sure that Sha Pa's main force was no longer in Guining.

Three days later, the wind finally turned due south.

Sha Pa sat in the main tent of the Guining Army, lit the candles in all directions, looking at the banners flying towards the north outside the tent, drank a few sips of tea, but it was not enough to be elegant, so he ordered someone to get the "Khar Nai", a 72-string lute, playing the majestic sound, waiting for the Beifu Army to throw themselves into the net.

Indeed, just after midnight, there was a faint sound of shouting and killing coming from the Cangjiang River.

...... is here.

Sha Pa smiles at the corners of his lips, calmly strokes the zither, and the sound of the zither refrains, just like the phoenix singing.

His lieutenant, who was responsible for supporting the incoming army on land, was not at his side. A curtain-keeper refilled his tea and said, "The general plays the zither well."

Sha Pa said, "This is a family lesson, my father is good at the zither and has taught me since I was young. Since I was a child, I have been familiar with the five and six arts, so I am playing a war song to inspire the soldiers in the front."

Shubin laughed: " Nan Southern wind, will be able to convey the general's thoughts to the army places ......"

Who would have thought, just after the words, there is a loud and clear music from the river, a few miles apart, is still majestic and magnificent, straight dry clouds.

Shubin: "Who is playing the suona?"

Sha Pa : "......"

It's a suona, and it's still playing "Hundred Birds of Prey".

Even Sha Pa, who has seen a lot of things, can't quite imagine what it would be like for an army to come across the river with suona blowing.

He couldn't help but snicker: a child's trick.

The more it is, the more bluffing it is, right?

A land-based messenger soon arrived on a fast horse and shouted, "General, there is a Beifu Army sighting! They are approaching Changling City!"

Sha Pa put down the piano without moving: "How many people are here?"

The commander said, "The other side is a night march, no torches. After nightfall, it was very dark, and could not see how many people, but the deputy general looked far away, the dust and smoke rolled, before and after connected, the team stretched at least a hundred miles!

Sha Pa stroked his palm: "Go down and rest."

Makuhari wasted no time in coming forward to clap his horse: "The general is as good as his prediction! The army that stretches for a hundred miles, at least 20,000 people have come."

Sha Pa is not Yichun Wu, and does not have the vice of making people around him hold his feet, but everyone loves to hear good things.

He leisurely sip a sip of tea, see the riverside sky was dyed red a large area, then know that the river is also ready to go.

About a quarter of an hour later, a second messenger, full of joy, ran into the camp: "General! The Central Plains dogs have launched their boats into the water, and with the wind at their backs, they are already halfway down the 100-mile river.

Now, even Sha Pa is inevitably overjoyed.

Shubin even exclaimed: "Great goodness! Great goodness! God is helping the general! The son of the family is familiar with military books, but he does not know that in the past, Zhou Lang defeated Cao Cao at Red Cliff, because Cao Cao used the iron lock with the ship, so that the fire attack plan was greatly successful!"

Sha Pa sat back on the fur-covered chair, with a smile in his eyes, and said three "good" words in a row, showing that his mood is happy and hard to restrain.

Ziling Chu is no longer useful, so what?

He, Sha Pa, on his own, has made this wasteful move work wonders!

Riverside fires boil back, there are faint howling sounds from the river, it is pleasant to hear.

However, within half a moment, there was the sound of horses' hooves answering again.

Shubin laughed, "I wonder where the good news is again."

At the end of the conversation, a Nan Southern soldier, covered in black stains, came running from outside, rolled down from his horse, cried and fell on his knees in front of Sha Pa: "General! General - the Beifu Army ...... has come across the river!

Sha Pa turned pale and picked up the man from the ground: "What? Where is the fireboat team?"

The black-faced messenger cried, "The fireboat fleet was light, and when it came close, it burst into flames! They also know how to swim and have blades in their hands. Everyone who jumped off the boat was killed in the water ......"

"Where are the rockets?!"

"Sent ...... we sent at least 10,000 arrows more, yet their ships are not even on fire ......"

"...... How is it possible?! How can a wooden boat not catch fire when it encounters fire?!"

"I also waited until the ship was close before I noticed! ...... They used black mud to coat the hull, and painted the ship into a black ship ...... Black mud is thick and tough, the rocket fell on it, can not hurt it a bit ...... They also put a huge wood across the ship All the fireboats that came close were stopped by the huge logs a few feet away from the ship ......"

The messenger sobbed, "They have the wind to help them, and they are near the shore in a flash. They were heavily armed and covered with hoods, not only with rockets, but also with water hoses and stone throwers on the back boats. ...... Before they got close to the shore, the leader of the Beifu Army, that Tingyun Shi, ordered the water hoses to be opened and sprayed towards the shore, and the water hoses were filled with kerosene. - Tingyun Shi ordered to throw stones and hit only the copper furnace used to store fire and light rockets on the shore, and now the river bank has become a sea of fire â€"

Shubin got a little flustered: "General ......"

Sha Pa gritted his teeth: "Don't panic, they've also divided their troops, only a few thousand left, 10,000 at most! Guining still has 12,000 men left behind!"

...... actually had 2,000 wounded soldiers, and after shaving off 10,000, there were still 10,000 left.

It's always possible to resist for a while.

However, Sha Pa had a bad feeling in his heart.

Why did Tingyun Shi use the most taboo tactic in naval warfare, the iron locking of the Lianjiang River?

Without waiting for Sha Pa to think further, a fifth messenger stumbled into the tent: "General! The Beifu Army is coming! It's coming this way. ......"

"Called?! How many have come?"

The messenger's two strands warred: "It's all people ...... it's all people. At least 50,000, no, 100,000 ......"

"Bullshit!" Sha Pa finally stormed out, "Where did you get the 100,000?"

"They are all shouting ......" the messenger shivered, "100,000 Yan Luo crossing the Cangjiang River ...... put to death, put to death Sha Pa , send Ba Wang ......"

Sha Pa tipped the man over with one foot and cursed violently: "Bluff! This is a bluff! Order the soldiers to stay behind and prepare for battle!"

Just now, the lightning, he finally figured out why the other side to use the iron locks even river formation.

...... He allowed Tingyun Shi to build a long bridge to carry troops from one shore to the other right under his nose!

He rushed out of the camp and saw the sky on the edge of the Cangjiang River in the distance, flaming red.

Hundreds of miles of river, firm ships lock the river.

What burned up were his soldiers and horses, and what burned down were the fighting spirit of Nan Southern's soldiers.

There was an endless stream of terrified shouts:

"One hundred thousand horses and soldiers! The Beifu Army has come with 100,000 horses and soldiers!"

"A hundred thousand people have fought their way across the river!"

The fifth messenger said that the two thousand vanguard troops on the river, in the fear of fire, had been eliminated in full.

The news that 100,000 people had arrived from the Beifu Army was like a river breeze with the smell of charcoal, which instantly spread throughout Guining.

How can the Beifu Army have 100,000 people when Sha Pa is so clear in his calculations?

But how was he going to convince the panicked soldiers of his judgment?!

Sha Pa took out the letter sent to him by Ziling Chu from his pocket, unfolded it for a moment, crumpled it, and shouted with a fierce and twisted face: " Ziling Chu!

Sha Pa finally knows what Ziling Chu is up to.

He is afraid that he really has a different intention!

Seeing the decline of Nan Southern, he was an illegitimate son, even if he became a royal son, he might not really be able to live happily, so he wanted to establish the military success of Central Plains and become the general of Central Plains!

After all, the throne of the emperor is illusory, only military service, is firmly in hand.

He was afraid that Tingyun Shi had really found out about it, so he was able to put the blame on them, saying that he was working for Nan Southern in the open and planning for Central Plains in the dark, and with his clever words, it would not be difficult to convince Tingyun Shi that he only needed to use the trust of his people in him, so that he could operate on behalf of Central Plains step by step and eliminate them one by one. One by one, taking their lives as a form of betrayal...

What a poisonous scorpion!

Maybe, maybe, from the beginning is wrong, even the illegitimate child matter is he deliberately faked ......

The Beifu Army's suona team, playing the increasingly loud "Hundred Birds of Prey", is getting closer and closer.

Sha Pa came back to his senses and, without thinking any further, gave a stern order: "Pass the order! Retreat!!! Retreat! Retreat quickly to Changling City! Join our troops!"

Meanwhile, a hundred miles away, the deputy general who led 10,000 troops to lurk quietly, waited for a strange message.

"...... What did you say?"

"Back to the vice admiral, what stirred up a hundred miles of dust and fog in the distance seems to be a herd of ...... horses." The commander is also full of doubts, "the horse's tail is tied to the grass target, dragging on the ground, so the dust and smoke stirred up. That herd of horses seems to be directed by someone to drive the horses, so that the horse back and forth, but at most but a few dozen people."

The deputy general looked back at Guining several times, only to see that the soldiers were on fire, so he could not help but worry: "I wonder how the battle in Guining is going?"

The adjutant general was confident: "With General Sha Pa here, what is there to fear? I want to see what this Beifu Army is up to."

In the midst of the dust and smoke, directing the horses that had been assembled for months, Ziling Chu choked on his head and face, and felt the stench of horse manure all over him.

And he had to worry more than many about the war in Guining.

"What are they doing, these fools?" Ziling Chu scorched his head, licked his mouth full of mouth sores, wiped the gray foam from the corner of his mouth, and looked in the direction of Guining again, "...... I clearly told them to run, why didn't they run?"