Late Tang

The beautiful sound of pipa like pearls falling on a jade plate came out through the door curtain, mixed with the melodious sound of small drums.The melodious voice of the kabuki was somewhat affected through the door, but Li Jing could still hear the words sung by the kabuki clearly.

The geisha sang the poem of Wen Tingyun, the most famous poet of the Huajian school in the late Tang Dynasty, who had a romantic affair with the famous poetess Yu Xuanji in the late Tang Dynasty: , The temple clouds want to spend the snow on their cheeks.Lazy to draw eyebrows, make up and wash late.Looking at the front and rear mirrors of the flower, the flower surface complements each other.Newly embroidered Luo Ru, both golden partridges.

This is a bodhisattva song that Li Jing likes very much. There are many hills, the morning sun is shining or fading, and the hair on the sideburns is like snow on the white cheeks.I'm too lazy to get up and draw the eyebrows, straighten the clothes, wash and dress up, and feel slow.Take a picture of the newly inserted flowers facing the front mirror and the back mirror, the red flowers and the face complement each other, and the silk skirts just put on are embroidered with pairs of golden partridges.The first part of the poem describes the scenery of the screen in front of the bed and the delicate posture when washing and grooming; the second part describes the mood after makeup, suggesting the character's lonely state of mind.This poem describes the women's appearance very beautifully, their costumes are very luxurious, and their body is also very delicate, as if depicting a picture of a lady in the Tang Dynasty.

This is not a poem, but a word. In the late Tang Dynasty, it was also called a song word, which means to fill in the lyrics with the sound. The words are the lyrics of the song.Wen Tingyun has been dead for almost ten years, but his lyrics are the most famous in Tang Dynasty tonight, and almost all kabuki can sing his songs.

Tonight's Jianwu Pavilion on Changjie Street in Shamen Town is completely booked by the allies of Qingnipu. At the gate of the second floor of Jianwu Pavilion, there is a row of eight burly men who can stand on their fists and run a horse on their arms. , each of them is a strong man with a strong back, a height of more than seven feet, and a size of more than two hundred catties.

Li Jing's sudden appearance made them a little surprised, they quickly saluted Li Jing, and were about to report to Li Lingfu.Li Jing smiled, stretched out her hand to stop their announcement, pushed open the door of the private room at the back, and the music inside also stopped abruptly, the beautiful kabuki opened her throat, but suddenly stopped the beautiful note .In the hall, a pair of beautiful twin dancers who were only [-] years old also stopped dancing and looked at Li Jing.

Several charcoal pots were burning in several corners of the room, making the room even warmer in the already late spring season.

Li Lingfu was barefooted, bare hands, with loose hair, only wearing a pair of long breeches, leaning on a soft couch, two beautiful women were half leaning on him, holding a basin Feed him sliced ​​pears.He raised his head, his long and narrow phoenix eyes looked a little blurred under the eyebrows of Lying Silkworm. It was obvious that Li Lingfu was a little drunk.

"Ah, my brother is here. How about it? Are you done with your affairs? Can we call up soldiers and horses now, go directly to Duli Town, and destroy Duli Town?" Li Lingfu immediately laughed loudly.

"Ah, Brother Cuimou, it seems that I am happy here, but I still can't keep you." Li Jing smiled lightly, "Well, this Sword Dance Pavilion really deserves its reputation, it is simply heaven and earth." He turned his head, Facing the singing kabuki, he praised: "Your singing voice is as beautiful as the singing of the sharks in the sea, and the beautiful singing voice is even more beautiful. Why haven't I seen you before, are you new here?"

Hearing the compliment, the kabuki smiled, her lips were sleepy, her white teeth were slightly exposed, and she bowed to Li Jing and bowed: "I am the younger sister of Aunt Gongsun, the head of Jianwu Pavilion, the general can call my slave Gongsun Thirteen mother."

Li Jing immediately understood that this kabuki must be from the Plum Blossom Sect. He was so familiar with Gongsun Lan, but he knew that Gongsun Lan didn't have any younger sisters, let alone a younger sister who was ranked thirteenth.

"Oh, it turned out to be Aunt Gongsun's younger sister. No wonder she is so beautiful and her singing voice is so moving. I will definitely come here to listen to the little lady's singing and enjoy it quietly. But now I have something to discuss with Brother Zhongmou. I would also trouble you to avoid it for the time being."

Li Lingfu sat up all of a sudden, and said with a flushed face, "You are really ready, are we going to flatten Duli Town?"

"Duli Town has been oppressing me, Qingnipu, for a hundred years, yet it is trying to annex my Qingnipu again and again." He said, "Is it tolerable or unbearable? Right now, the law of heaven is clear, and the retribution is not good. Finally, God has come to repay them." It's time, Brother Ji Yu, this time we will work together to flatten Duli Town. I promise you again that as long as Duli Town is leveled, all the population, money, food and wealth will belong to you. I only want the territory and city of Duli Town. "

"I didn't come here for this. In fact, I came to tell you the latest news."

Li Jing sighed in his heart, Li Lingfu's hatred for Duli Town was too great, he had just defeated Duli Town's fleet, and the hatred and anger that he had been deliberately suppressing for many years finally couldn't be suppressed and surged up.Right now, he is afraid that his mind is full of revenge on Duli Town, and he doesn't know if he still has the rationality to make a correct judgment when the new news comes out.

"Oh, is there any good news? Could it be that Wang Pu Neng, a son of a bitch, has just suffered a big defeat, and now he is panicking and sending people to surrender?" Li Lingfu laughed. It is still clear that he was born in the direct line of the head of the Hedong Wang family. He first served in the Shence Army for many years, and then after he arrived in Duli Town, he served successively as the commander of the infantry battalion and cavalry battalion in Duli Town. It's an old adversary.Wang Pu is a hardliner, even if he loses this round, he will not easily admit defeat.

Li Jing smiled: "Although he missed, it was not far away. Wang Pu sent an envoy to ask for a truce between our three families. His envoy said that he brought generous conditions for the truce."

Li Lingfu jumped up violently, and said loudly: "What, Wang Pu of the donkey ball was really beaten to the point of surrendering. This is not his style. This must be a tactic to delay the attack. Where is his envoy, I will immediately Go and arrest the man, chop off his head and return it to Wang Pu. At this time, he wants peace and dreams. And this also shows a problem, Du Lizhen is afraid, afraid, they are now weak, and people are flustered Panic, let’s kill the generals in one go, no, I have to gather my subordinates immediately, return to Qingnipu immediately, and prepare to gather troops and horses to attack Duli Town"

"Stop, stop, brother Zhongmou, you're drinking too much!" Li Jing hurriedly pulled Li Lingfu who was almost insane.

It took a lot of effort before Li Jing calmed him down. He gasped and said, "Brother Zhongmou, calm down. I don't think it's an appropriate time to counterattack Duli Town."

"Why? The strongest thing in Duli Town is his combined fleet. Now that his fleet is finished, what can he use to stop us? Brother Ji Yu's fleet and Shenhuo, plus my Crane Controlling Cavalry Army, let's be strong Together, how could Duli Town be our opponent? What are you worried about, maybe you are worried about those people behind Duli Town?" Li Lingfu asked puzzled.

"That's not the case!" Li Jing said solemnly: "Actually, if you think about it calmly, you can understand that the strongest thing in Duli Town is not their fleet, but their huge seaside fortress. Although Duli Town is built by the sea, it can In fact, it is located at the tip of the southernmost tip of southern Liaoning. The town of Duli is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and only a narrow passage leads to the mainland of the Liaodong Peninsula in the north. Such a town of Duli occupies a great geographical advantage, and it is easy to It is difficult to defend. What's more, the town of Duli has been in operation for a hundred years. The town has two walls inside and outside, and there are urns outside each gate. The walls are five feet high, and those crossbow models and cannons arranged on the walls , strong bows and crossbows, and the many arrow towers. Do you think that such a city still has a garrison of [-], and when the soldiers and horses outside the city are withdrawn into the city at the time of Guan Jian, there can be as many as [-] garrisons, or even A fortress-level fortress city that can mobilize [-] to [-] young and strong at any time, how many thousands of people will it take to capture it?"

"[-], [-], or [-]? There is a saying in the art of war, that one should be surrounded by seven. They have [-] soldiers, and we need at least [-] troops to break through such a fortified city."

Li Lingfu said unwillingly: "The town of Duli is full of soldiers, how can they compare with ours. Let's mobilize all the soldiers. If the two families add up, your family will have 4, my family will have [-], and we will have more than [-]." People are twice as big as them, let's fight harder and pay more, can't we take him down?"

Li Jing smiled wryly, a hero like Li Lingfu is sometimes blinded by hatred.

"So what if we take Duli Town like that? It's just a lose-lose situation. Will others tolerate us occupying Duli Town with scars all over our bodies? Not to mention Duli Town, it's your Qingnipu, my Daxie Village, and How many people are jealous? Brother Zhongmou, if you are willing to trust me, then you should listen to me on this matter, let's not rush, take your time."

"What do you want?"

"It's very simple, don't rush for a while, let's cut the flesh with blunt knives, little by little, until Duli Town is completely unable to resist us, and then we will make a decision." Li Jing said softly, "Didn't Wang Pu send someone Come to ask for peace. I think you are right. This is not Wang Pu's original intention, but the intention of the families behind the scenes. They are afraid and afraid. Let's seize this point and cut Dulizhen first. "

Li Jing's idea is very simple, they have just won a big victory, and the fruit of that victory has not yet come to swallow.It would be unwise to storm Duli Town again at this time, it is best to sit down and slowly digest the fruits of victory that have just been obtained.If Duli Town can still be forced to take the initiative to seek peace and come up with many conditions to compromise and seek peace, that would be even better.

"Do you think Duli Town really wants to seek peace at any cost this time?"

"That's right, that's not right." Li Jing said, "Behind the scenes in Duli Town is half of the rich family of the Tang Dynasty. How can they let go after such a big loss. But right now they are indeed hurt by us, so in Before they regained their strength, all the conditions they put forward were just to win a buffer time, just a way to delay the attack. But so what, they don't want to fight now, and we still need to digest the fruits of the previous victory. When everyone is ready , let’s fight again. I believe that if we don’t fight him then, they will come again. At that time, we will join forces again and beat them down again.”

Li Lingfu's drunkenness also gradually woke up, and he slowly recovered his original shrewdness.He patted his forehead and said to Li Jing: "Okay, brother will listen to your arrangements for this matter. Whenever you say we can fight, I will do it. However, even so, we can't take them too cheap right now. "

"Don't worry, I won't easily agree to their request for a truce if I don't peel off the skin of Duli Town!"

Taking advantage of a person's illness is killing someone.Even if he didn't intend to take revenge on Du Lizhen right now, how could Li Jing let go of such an obvious opportunity to blackmail him.Duli Town is never short of money, but Li Jing always feels that he is short of money.As soon as these two meet, the good show is just beginning.Just now he took out more than 100 million worth of money to distribute the spoils, and now, he just happened to be able to get it back from Duli Town.

He believes that Duli Town has no choice, unless they are willing to bear the consequences of immediately joining forces with Li Jing and Li Lingfu to attack.

(To be continued)