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Chapter 227 Burning Garden
A raging fire was burning on the girder wood, and it finally fell down with a loud crash.

The screams sounded and gradually subsided.

The Jiuqu Garden by the Qixian Lake is already a sea of ​​flames...

Li Xia and Zhu Cheng stood on the Baiyang slope to the west and watched the fire.

Zhu Cheng used the trick that Li Xia wanted to use but didn't dare to use to pretend to be defeated to lure the enemy, and then directly withdrew from Jiuqu Garden. When the Mongolian army caught up, he set off another big fire.

"By the way, who owns this garden?" Zhu Cheng suddenly said: "Such a big garden, let alone someone with a big background, I, a little general, can't afford to offend."

"General Zhu just remembered to ask now?"

"Yeah, I didn't think about it at the beginning, I just thought about an ambush...Look, Li County Lieutenant, although this fire may not kill many Mongolian troops, it can seriously damage their morale."

At this point, Zhu Cheng seemed to have forgotten about the owner of the garden again, pointing to the terrain in the distance and talking.

"If the Mongolian army is determined to capture Qingfu County, it will not be difficult. It will take some time to dig the Fujiang River and the city wall will collapse. But their intention is not here, but for looting. I guess it will take another three days In two days, Wulianghetai will go down the river.

Therefore, a small group of Mongolian troops was first delayed for a day by my fire attack today, and then they dare not march at full speed, and sooner or later they will return without success..."

Li Xia nodded and said, "General Zhu is right."

Zhu Cheng let out a "hey" and said, "Shunan has too few troops. What you and I can do is to hold back the Mongolian army with a small amount of troops. What I am worried about is Hezhou. If the Mongolian army takes Hezhou, the whole Sichuan and Shu have to be lost. Alas..."

The two chatted and chatted, and the topic of the battle became farther and farther away.

Zhu Cheng also fought against the Mongolian army in the Chengdu area in his early years, he has a lot of experience, and he has been under Yi Shiying's command for a long time, so he knows the art of war.

Li Xia only felt that he had benefited a lot.

It wasn't until the sky completely darkened and the fire in the distance dimmed that Zhu Cheng remembered the previous topic.

"Ah, it's so far away again. I always forgot to think about these things when I was fighting. Whose garden was burned? Don't be someone I can't afford to offend."

Li Xia said: "General Zhu, don't worry about it. You are blocking the enemy in Qingfu County. I will take care of this trivial matter."

"That's good, that's good. I just thought that I was too excited to burn the Mongolian army for a while. If I get into trouble, tsk tsk. But it's a pity that I burned the Mongolian army, but the corpse was burnt. I didn't get much. It's easy to command and I can't get it later." Give money for military rewards..."

Zhu Cheng talked quite a lot, and he said a lot on his own, such as the soldiers of the Changning Army who had to farm the fields by themselves after training.

Li Xia said: "I have the heads here, I wish the general to bring two hundred."

"Huh? That's not good?"

"If General Zhu hadn't held back the Mongolian army in the east, Qingfu County would not have been able to capture these heads."

"But it violates military discipline, doesn't it?"

"Is there? Does the Changning Army have military discipline that forbids accepting heads?"

"Ah, it seems that there is no..."

As far as Li Xia is concerned, most of the soldiers under his command are private soldiers who have not been incorporated into the military. The salaries, rewards, and pensions are all money raised by himself, so it doesn't hurt to share some of the heads.

Zhu Cheng felt embarrassed, pushed it down several times, and finally accepted it.

He accepted Li Xia's favor, and although he didn't say any more words of gratitude, his attitude was friendly and inspired a lot.

In the next two days, the Changning army retreated while fighting, and retreated to the camp at Diaokouyan.

The Mongolian army saw that there were many artillery vehicles and trenches everywhere on the surrounding mountains, so they stopped attacking by force. They also sent scouts to find out that the so-called Qingfu Navy had only two large ships and eight small boats. They were too lazy to continue the attack and simply retreated.

Li Xia and Zhu Cheng judged that Wu Liang had no intention of attacking Syria again, and planned to go eastward.

This battle seemed easy, but in fact, because the Changning army fought quite well, the Mongolian army had no intention of entanglement.

When the Changning Army returned to the division, Li Xia sent another thousand shi of grain.

Zhu Cheng was very pleasantly surprised, and for a moment he didn't know whether to accept it or not, so he stuttered a little.

"This...Li Xianwei...this...isn't that good?" Zhu Cheng scratched his face and said, "I came here and didn't kill a few enemies, it's too..."

"General I wish you don't have to refuse. The Changning Army is a soldier who can really kill the enemy and serve the country. You can't fight on an empty stomach. Don't worry, just tell Commander Yi clearly."

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Standing beside Li Xia, Han Qi'an watched the Changning army go away, and finally said, "Alang doesn't have much food, why send it to the Changning army?"

"Don't we have much food?" Li Xia said, "Didn't Mr. Yining calculate that our food plus Zhang Yuanming's food is a lot, enough to give the Changning army the thousand stones."

Han Qi'an smiled, and said: "There is no need to 'add', anyway, they are all Zhang Yuanming's. It's just... A Lang decided to do something to Zhang Yuanming?"

Li Xia didn't answer, but said something else.

"Don't think that the Changning Army killed as many enemies as us this time. It's actually because the Mongolian Army paid more attention to them and didn't dare to take risks. For the time being, the Changning Army's combat strength is far superior to ours."

"I understand that Ah Lang wants to win them over."

"Not really... I recently discovered that the Mongolian army is not as strong as I thought, and the Song army is not as weak as I thought. But this time the battle of the Mahu River, the imperial court has a great influence on the overall strategy. mistakes, or lags.

The Song Dynasty ruled the world with scholar-bureaucrats. I still can’t see too many ways in it, but I can feel that the court gave preferential treatment to scholar-bureaucrats... this is too much.Mongolia's national strength is stronger, and it is still going all out to fight the war.On Song's side, it was full of expediency and checks and balances.

Kill famous generals, suppress martial arts with literature, and have a weak heart in battle.In such a war, they are still undefeated, and they can resist Mongolia for more than [-] years. It can only be said that the Huai people, Jing people, and Shu people have lived up to the Song Dynasty..."

Han Qi'an said: "If Alang looks at the past again, he should know that not only the Huai people, the Jing people, and the Shu people, but also the northerners did not fail the Song Dynasty, it was the Song Dynasty who failed the northerners."

"Well." Li Xia said: "It's far away, let's talk about Zhang Yuanming's grain... Although Qingfu has three county magistrates, Zhang Yuanming is more like a scholar-bureaucrat than us. You see, his grain is more than the county granary. I must be To grab.

I want to rob not only his food, but also his land, so I have to kill him.This matter... In terms of good and evil, I can't say how evil Zhang Yuanming is, I am more evil.

From Zhang Yuanming's point of view, why should he hand over his food and land?He didn't have any damning evidence against me, but I knew I should kill him.

The soldiers and civilians in Sichuan and Shu went forward one after another, throwing their heads and blood, and they were still working hard even when they couldn't eat enough.The Mongolian army has already reached the front, and the subjugation of the country and the world is just around the corner, but the scholar-bureaucrats still occupy the fertile fields and beautiful houses, which is taken for granted... I have more reasons to kill Zhang Yuanming, but I don't know how to say it. "

At this point, Li Xia pondered.

He can see some things, but the rebirth time is too short to sum it up.

Han Qi'an understood what he meant, pondered for a moment, and then spoke.

"The Great Song Dynasty gave too much preferential treatment to the gentry, and the accumulated disadvantages have already appeared. Therefore, Wang Anshi wanted to change the law as early as the Chengping period.

At that time, Wen Yanbo said, "Rule the world with scholars and bureaucrats, not with the common people." Wang Anshi said, "If the legal system is in place, then the money will be sufficient, and China should be strong."

Who are the 'people' in these words, Alang? "

Li Xia said: "A person like Zhang Yuanming?"

"Yes, but it's not limited. A county is as big as three or four officials and three or four hundred yamen servants. If there are no gentry and prefects, how can the imperial court manage it? Let alone talk about the size of the world?
Therefore, it is not bad to say "governing the world with literati and bureaucrats", but the Song Dynasty did not suppress mergers, and was too generous to the gentry...Wen Yanbo, like Wang Anshi, was moved from the county magistrates and transfer envoys all the way to the center, rich in practical talents .How can you fail to understand the accumulated disadvantages?
The key lies in this sentence, "It is important for people to promote you." It can be seen that even though Wen Yanbo opposed the reform, he still gritted his teeth at the scholar-bureaucrats.He opposed the reform because he believed that the path of reform would not work. "

At this point, Han Qi'an sighed, and said: "With the talents of Wang Anshi and Wen Yanbo, we can't change it. Fan Zhongyan, Han Qi, and Fu Bi can't do it either, and I'm afraid Alang can't do it either."

"Yes, I am definitely not as good as Wang Anshi and Wen Yanbo." Li Xia said: "There is also Jia Sidao, he can't do it, and I am not as good as Jia Sidao."

At this point, Li Xia's tone became more serious, and he said: "So, what I want to do is to rebel. And if I want to rebel, how can I not kill the local tyrants and evil gentry?"

Han Qi'an had already guessed his thoughts, but when he heard it with his own ears, he still trembled slightly.

"I'm not afraid of Mr. Yining's jokes." Li Xia said again: "I want to try to build a strong Han dynasty that is not subject to foreign insults. Then we should not hesitate to kick some stumbling blocks away."

After a long time, Han Qi'an finally said: "But Ah Lang is still a minister of the Song Dynasty, and the time is not yet ripe, so it is not appropriate to kill people and rob money in the open."

"Yes."

"It's easy to kill Zhang Yuanming, but the hard part is how to cover up people's eyes and ears. What's even more difficult is how to get his property."

"I know." Li Xia said: "This time, I wanted to use the Changning Army as a cover. But seeing that they are upright and bold men, forget it, we should do this kind of thing ourselves."

"The Nine Twist Garden?"

"It was I who burned it, not Zhu Cheng. He is dedicated to resisting Mongolia, so don't let him get involved in these..."

(End of this chapter)