The outside audience is still watching the performance of the academy. At this time, the story reaches the point where the Emperor Guo Ning of the Great Zhou Dynasty enters the battle. All kinds of dramas of the academy are performed with great care, including his own legendary emperor. The person who plays Guo Ning at the moment is this one.
The well-known artists in the team looked majestic, and their every move was free and beautiful. The audience cheered continuously and had forgotten the little episode just now.
Meng Gong stood behind Zhao Fang, looking at Li Yun's thoughtful expression, and then at Yin Chang's livid face, feeling a little proud.
Zaoyang has been managed by the Meng family for generations. Meng Gong's grandfather Meng Lin settled here after leaving the army. He used the military skills taught by King Yue'e to strengthen the courage of the local people so that they could protect themselves in troubled times.
In the past ten years, tens of thousands of people have attached themselves to the Meng family.
Meng Gong's father, Meng Zongzheng, was heroic and courageous since he was a child. He appeared on the battlefield during the Kaixi period and became famous for more than ten years. Meng Zongzheng's ten sons also had their own strengths and jointly built Zaoyang into a powerful city.
A powerful military town stood on the path that the Northern Army must pass through.
The Zhou and Song dynasties are both uncle and nephew countries, and they are also enemies. This "enemy" does not refer to hostility, but to the fact that the country's power is comparable. Since the power of the country is comparable, the two families must weigh each other, and the Meng family of Zaoyang
The Loyal and Shun Army was the vanguard of the Southern Dynasties every time, and was also a large shield that prevented the northern forces from penetrating southward.
With the completion of Pinglu Weir outside Zaoyang City, it is not an exaggeration to say that the strength of Meng's loyal and shun army has quadrupled. However, the northern Zhou army was completely kept in the dark about this huge change.
Meng Gong could already imagine that after today's meeting, all the Zhou armies who learned the news would have to rearrange their plans, and they would be busy one after another. The New Year would definitely be unsettled, and he would feel aggrieved. In the next year and a half,
Because of the convenience of the Song army in dispatching, the Zhou army would definitely be overwhelmed when dealing with it.
"I see……"
It was Yin Chang who spoke first: "In fact, there have always been clues about your manpower planning. However, Ambassador Zhao, you have been bragging everywhere before, saying that you would rebuild the upper, middle and lower seas built by the Jingnan Gao family in the fifth generation in Jiangling, and set up
The eight weirs gathered water as a way to contain the enemy... We all thought that those people, money and resources were invested in Jiangling Mansion."
"Jiangling Mansion blocks the river on one side and is flat on three sides. The Northern Army's cavalry can't resist it when it goes south. Therefore, it is necessary to use water to replace troops. The water force is four-dimensional. If it is high, it can be poured down, and if it is low, it can limit the troops. This is the rule of Jiangling Mansion for several generations.
It is natural for people to think that Ambassador Zhao is determined to realize it. But in the final analysis, these arrangements are all imitating your country's old routine of using water to replace troops in Hebei. Iron cavalry traveled freely and horizontally, and there were thousands of ways to circumvent it.
.These waters are completely useless in our eyes."
Having said this, Yin Chang shook his head: "Therefore, our spies and us generals only regarded this as a joke and completely neglected to hide the content behind it."
"Where is the direction of Zaoyang?" Li Yun asked.
"As for the direction of Zaoyang, the Zhongshun Army has been facing off against our Caizhou Zhennan Army in recent years. Meng Zongzheng of the Zhongshun Army and Yan Ning of the Zhennan Army have each used their own skills, and it is quite interesting to make a scene in Tongbai Mountain.
.The irrelevant generals only watched it for fun, while the relevant generals also focused their attention on the mountainous areas, only to block news around Zaoyang in order to cover up the Zhongshun Army's arrangements for the confrontation in the mountains. Many generals
Therefore, they laughed at the Song people for making a fuss out of a molehill and being so nervous about minor conflicts. Some people also said that Yan Ning and Meng Zongzheng were indeed a rich man and a rich man who could eye each other..."
Speaking of this, Yin Chang couldn't help but sigh.
A small farming area with a few military fortresses is not a big problem. If the two countries really want to go to war, the Zhou Dynasty will march south with ten thousand horses, even ten or a hundred Pinglu weirs can be leveled. In this regard
Yin Chang has absolute confidence. The key is that the people of Song Dynasty actually retain the ability to accomplish confidential matters.
The Zhou and Song families had close trade exchanges, and it was difficult for them to keep secrets from each other in terms of military and political matters. Yin Chang always felt that he could see the movements of the Song army in the south as if he were looking at the pattern from the palm of his hand, and he would not miss anything.
But the Song people actually achieved such a large-scale construction close to the border quietly?
This is not the infiltration of thirty or fifty people in Tongbai Mountain! This requires at least thousands or even tens of thousands of people, and it requires the full cooperation of the local people! The actions of so many people, such a long-term project, the Great Zhou Dynasty did not know anything in advance
have no idea!
If these skills are used for defense, the army will encounter passes, fortresses, and walled cities without any warning on its way south. Even if Yin Chang does not take them seriously, what if the Song people use this skill for offense?
What if Zhao Fang did not gather tens of thousands of people to build walls and build earth along the border, but instead gathered tens of thousands of troops?
Of course, if tens of thousands of troops are assembled, and if the spies of the Zhou Dynasty fail to discover it, then the relevant people can commit suicide. But what if the Song people don't need to hide it for years and months, but only need to hide it for a few days?
The Pinglu Weir outside Zaoyang City has proven that the Song people have this ability. No matter what Zhou intends, at least the Song army on the Jinghu Three Routes can launch a covert and powerful counterattack!
Zhao Fang also said just now that due to the support of the Tuntian District, the size of the Zhongshun Army has tripled, and the army also has a large number of horses purchased from the north. If they attack suddenly, Dengzhou Wusheng Army and Caizhou Zhennan Army should
How to deal with it? If they have another direction of attack, does the Kaifeng Mansion have to quickly transfer troops and horses south to check for leaks?
If the two families fight, you still need to gather troops, but the Song people can stand in your face, and the boss will slap you to death... No matter what the final result is, the Zhou army will definitely suffer this immediate loss.
The most ridiculous thing is that the people of Song Dynasty could not improve their military equipment to this level without the support of huge amounts of money. And this money was earned from Dazhou!
Yin Chang was so angry that he couldn't help but curse: "Thinking about making money all day, making money, and finally raising a bunch of wolf cubs!"
Meng Gong snorted coldly from the side: "You old man, what are you talking nonsense? Who are you calling a wolf cub? Aren't you afraid of being punched by me?"
Yin Chang had previously called the Jing'e capital ruler of the Southern Dynasty and the Zhennan Army Jiedushi of the Northern Kingdom all local tyrants, with a bit of a joke in his tone. Meng Gong felt that this was a deliberate provocation and was already unhappy. He looked at Yin Chang's clothes again.
He was in regular clothes, but his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. He only thought he was a local official who had just been beaten by Li Yun.
Good guy, this guy was beaten until his eyes were almost yellow, his nose was crooked, and his mouth was still stiff. Are all the officials of the Great Zhou Kingdom so good?
Seeing Meng Gong open his mouth to speak again, Zhao Fang quickly shouted: "Don't be rude! The person in front of you knows the situation between the two families very well, he is not an ordinary person!"
As he said that, he looked at Yin Chang and then saluted: "If I guess correctly, it's Nanjing Yin Liushou who is in front of you."
"It's someone Yin!" Yin Chang glanced at Meng Gong and gestured to Zhao Fang: "Brother Zhao, your subordinates are very aggressive, which is interesting!"
Meng Gong was in the city of Kaifeng, sometimes shooting arrows, sometimes making provocations, and he was extremely courageous. The young generals under his command were so arrogant, which at least shows that the Song Dynasty's ambassador to Jinghu was by no means weak. Not only was he not
Weak, but also very confident. Yin Chang's previous judgment of the Song people was probably a bit wrong.
Li Yun had been staring at the map unfolded by Zhao Fang, and now he straightened up: "It is a good thing for the Song Dynasty to create such a scene in Zaoyang. Ambassador Zhao was able to hide it from us throughout the whole process, which shows his skill. After success,
Notifying us in a timely manner also shows your sincerity. Fortunately, the two families have never fought each other, so this is a trivial matter and not worth making a fuss about. There is only one thing I don't understand, and I would like to ask for advice."
"Li Langzhong, please speak."
"This entire set of farmland water systems is called Pinglu Weir..." Li Yun poked the three words "Pinglu Weir" on the map with his finger: "But I don't know what kind of weir you want to pacify?"
"Of course it's the Northern captives who are our neighbors in the Song Dynasty and are always sharpening their claws and claws!" Meng Gong shouted.
"Hey!" Yin Chang laughed angrily.
Li Yun's eyes flashed: "You are talking about us, right? Ambassador Zhao, this is wrong. We are Han people, not Beibei."