A glass of wine

That night, at the banquet at the Nuanchun Pavilion in the palace, many people were drunk. In the hazy, everyone seemed to have returned to twenty years ago. Facing the Mongol cavalry, singing songs, holding simple weapons, and rushed forward fearlessly. "Holding a 99-strong steel knife, killing Hu'er before stopping. I am a man, why are Tartars making horses and cows..." The generals whispered the war songs of the rebel army back then. The civil officials were as passionate as the ones. Song Lian, who had always been very self-control, was helped up from his table, muttering that it was, "Go straight to Huanglong, directly to Huanglong, I will drink with you again." "It has been a long time since this has been like this, and drove the Mongols out of the Central Plains, and everyone's hearts have also dispersed. Perhaps, we do need a new goal." Looking at the drunken ministers on the seat, Zhu Yuanzhang thought silently.

During the day, Wu Anguo guided the country and did not finish the talk until the lantern 10th. Wu Anguo was not very clear about the world of the Ming Dynasty, but in the past two years, in order to conceal his identity, he spent a lot of effort to inquire about the world from past merchants. Therefore, the places close to each other correspond to the world map in his hand. As for the far place, he explained the places he could understand in detail. If he didn't understand, he would just say one sentence. Anyway, no one in the Ming Dynasty understood the world better than him, so he was not afraid of being missed.

Many Western allusions that have been heard of, sometimes make the ministers laugh, sometimes make Zhu Yuanzhang regretful. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, everyone has never had such a happy time together, and they have forgotten the time of happiness. The festival must be drunk. When Zhu Yuanzhang announced the banquet, there were low cheers coming. In addition to the necessary etiquette, wishing the emperor great blessings, Zhu Di, Wu Anguo and others became the focus of everyone. During the day, until the scattered courtesy, Zhu Yuanzhang never spoke about how to reward the two, but everyone knew that Wu Anguo was just around the corner.

In the next few days, the morning court continued to reward those who had made meritorious people and dispersed the court. Zhu Yuanzhang left Zhu Di, Wu Anguo and others and carefully asked about the war in the imperial study. "The previous plan to burn Shimen Valley was well used, and the Mongols liked to loot. General Xu Da used this plan to lure the enemy many times, and it was tried and done many times. After so many years, these Tartars still did not make progress." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said to Wu Anguo, "But the plan to flood water is too dangerous. There are two things I really don't understand. One is how to accumulate so much water in the upper reaches of the Hei Shui River in winter. The other is that the journey of two days was originally a long battle formation. Naha would not have no idea that the reason why the soldiers were more powerful and the speed was so fast. How did it arrive in five days? Wang'er said that you made a dam in one day, and he didn't say it very clearly. I don't know how to make it in one day."

"After all, it's the emperor who is a war expert, no wonder he can get the world in troubled times." Wu Anguo secretly praised in his heart. After a few days, Wu Anguo felt that Zhu Yuanzhang looked rough and generous, but in fact he was a person with extremely close thoughts, and he was not as cruel as the history books said. For new things, the emperor accepted them even faster than some ministers, provided that these new things did not threaten his rule. Now, on the wall of the imperial study room, there was a map presented by Zhu Di that day, and on the desk, he also made a sand table according to the appearance of Wu Anguo showing Zhu Di at that time. When he was present, Zhu Yuanzhang deduced the battle at that time as if he was present. When he encountered something he didn't understand, he asked directly. He knew every detail clearly before he could stop.

"This strategy is really dangerous. If everyone was not united, they might not be able to win. Even so, it would have lost many people. It was really a shameless minister." Wu Anguo did not like to exaggerate and answered in a singular manner. Before he could finish his modesty, Zhu Di had already taken over the conversation and said loudly, "Your Majesty, my son really saw the cleverness of General Wu that day." He picked up a brush and said with a romance. Through drawing on the sand table, the battle at that time was vividly presented to everyone.

It turned out that after the Shimen Valley was burning that day, Huairou County was in a carnival atmosphere. First, the good news came, and the militia group wiped out 3,000 elite cavalry of the Tatars without losing one person. Huairou County immediately firecrackers rang out, and there was a lot of joy. While they were excited, dozens of servants rushed out of the county government. In a moment, two notices were posted in various parts of the county town. One was naturally a victory, while the other was quite strange. It said that the county wanted to build a dam on the Heishui River, which must be completed in three days and collect all the construction materials. Also, they saw that each li was sifting gongs in the streets and alleys, and the mouth said that the magistrate of Guo collected strong labor and took shovels and picks and other items to build a dam at the ferry at the 8-li ferry up the Heishui River. Each person was five cents a day, and it was only a day to arrive, and it was paid as soon as possible. It was time to be eliminated.

The circumcision circulated among the crowd: Master Wu Da received guidance from the gods on the battlefield. If treasures appear in the Hei Shui River, they will be destroyed immediately. The world is peaceful. Some people say that the magistrate of Guo County dreamed of being aware of the demons in the Hei Shui River. They must be removed as soon as possible. Some people raised doubts and were scolded by others, saying that Master Wu Da was a clever plan, which is not something ordinary people can know. Not to mention anything else, who knows what Master Wu Da did before? What's more, five cents of silver a day are also a fortune. Everyone is immersed in the joy of victory, and they also heard that real money can be easily earned. There are few things in the fields in winter, and soon there are rolling crowds from the county town and nearby villages to the ferry.

Wu'anguo, Zhu Di and others, as well as militia and imperial guards who received the severe closure, were already here. As soon as the migrant workers arrived, they were immediately organized to collect soil and build embankments in the valley. The valley suddenly became a busy scene.

Two or three hours later, the county magistrate Guo Pu led hundreds of large trucks to arrive with several merchants and nearly 10,000 workers from various factories and mines. In the past two years, Huairou people have become increasingly prosperous. The first thing the people with money is to build houses and repair houses, so the construction industry is extremely popular. All merchants hoarded some construction materials, and in less than an hour they had collected sacks, tens of thousands of straw bags, other rice bags, wooden boxes, shelves, countless, and even more than a dozen coffins were donated by the coffin shop owner. Under the guidance of Wu'anguo, in the past two years, some new construction tools, such as pulley sets and simple roulette cranes, have also been widely used. This time they were sent by builders, rumbled at the ferry with the sound of horns, and placed some bulky materials in designated locations.

It was too late at this time, and countless torches and lanterns were lit, illuminating the river surface, like a dragon lying on the waves. Two hours later, the dam without water in the riverbed had been formed. Wu'anguo immediately dispatched people to throw bags of earth and stone into the river water. Two earth dragons gradually extended from both sides to the center of the river with the sound of 20,000 people. Seeing that the gap became narrower and narrower, less than two feet left later, the river water became more and more urgent, and a bag of earth and stones of more than a hundred kilograms were thrown away.

After entering the river, he only turned around and disappeared without a trace. In the end, even the coffin filled with stones was hit by water. Guo Pu was a little anxious, and impatient officers such as Li Yao even shouted at the soldiers under his command. Wu Anguo only smiled slightly and ordered the interception to stop interception and start to strengthen the dam. Everyone was puzzled: "How can a dike be formed without interception?" But seeing Wu Anguo's confident look, he had to swallow the question marks and bury his head to widen and raise the dike.

Soon it was dawn, and another carriage drove up the official road, filled with huge iron cages. It turned out that Wu'anguo remembered the situation when the Yangtze River was intercepted, and the day before, he ordered the blacksmith shop to weld dozens of large iron cages overnight. Everyone hung the iron cages on pulleys to the gap of the dam and filled them with big stones. Dozens of people shouted, pushing the iron cage into the water, and the splashes of water made the people opposite the gap wet. The water flow was even more turbulent, and the iron cage remained motionless in the water. Everyone was overjoyed, and they didn't care that their lips were bruised by the cold river water, and they shouted to throw the soil and stones into it. More than a dozen iron cages were in the water. In a blink of an eye, the gap was less than one zhang.

At this time, there was a few feet drop in front of the dam. The river water rushed through the gap, like a roar of a cow, and the momentum was terrifying. Three iron cages were washed away by the torrents, and one of them was dispersed, causing a burst of exclamation. Everyone's eyes were gathered on Wu Anguo, and he was calm and issued an order. The messenger immediately blew the horn. With the sound of the horn, more than a dozen large and small ships parked upstream stood up anchor one after another, with large ships in the middle and small boats outside, rowing in a row in a row, neatly. When we got closer, everyone saw clearly that the ships had been connected by iron chains, filled with earth and rocks, and the river water was almost flush with the side of the ship. Although the water flowed very rapidly at the gap,

The ships were pulled each other and were dragged by people on both sides of the shore with cables, as if they were walking in a leisurely manner. While speaking, the three largest ships were approaching the gap. Another horn sounded. Each ship threw down the anchor. With a shout, dozens of cables pulled the three large ships across the gap. Then the third horn sounded. The soldiers on the ship opened the water outlet that had been prepared at the bottom of the ship. The ships slowly sank, barely blocking the gap. The two sides were jubilant and everyone was brave. More than 20 iron cages burst into the water in the cheers. The downstream of the dam suddenly turned into a trickle, and soon the bottom of the river was exposed. When the north wind was blown, it became ice in a short while, as if it had dried up.

Guo Pu and others climbed to a high place with Wu'anguo, watching the Heishui River in the distance winding from the horizon, lying across the earth, but was cut in half by a long earth dragon. The sun rose high, shining the busy crowd of ants attached to the dam, making the dam look like a miracle. The imperial guards and others looked at Wu'anguo with their eyes full of worship. One day, the dam was truly unprecedented. Even though everyone was well-informed, they couldn't help but wonder whether they were in a dream. On the mountains on both sides, the scout Wang Feiyu took a group of scouts to closely control all the passages of all sizes and large, and even a goat was unwilling to let go, let alone Mongolian spies.

The scouts sent by Naha that day went but never returned, and sent additional people to search but couldn't find anything. Most of the villages I encountered on the way were not seen. The villagers ran in a hurry, and some people had rice bowls on their tables, but nothing could be seen. Even the wheat thatched grass and even the weeds in the wasteland were burned out, and manure was spilled in the well, which made Yuan soldiers run for more than ten miles to get water in the river, and the marching speed was greatly slowed down.

In the middle of the night, the Mongolian soldiers were sleeping soundly, and suddenly the sound of killing sounds rose in the camp. Naha rushed out of the tent, and saw more than ten fires ignited in the camp, and countless people were running around. Seeing that a bombing of the camp was inevitable. Naha came through a long battle formation, and now the order was issued. The soldiers guarded the tents of each soldier should not move, and those who ran around were killed. The Mongolian soldiers were seriously disciplined, and soon the entire camp had calmed down. Nahaha then sent people to lead the guards to four places.

The search was that the sneak attacker had already gone far away, and there was no one left behind. Until dawn, the losses were counted, and Nahacha was angry and half dead. Although only dozens of casualties were casualties, the target of the thieves was the fodder carried with the army. Most of the baggage trucks were ignited, and the generals followed the generals to guard the camp tent. Not many people put out the fire, and the fodder was burned. He was so angry that he tied the commander who was in charge of the food and grass and dragged it to death, but he had to send someone to urge the transport back.

This expedition prepared a lot of food and grass, but the supplies trucks and cattle and sheep used as military rations were slow. Naha was eager to attack Huairou, and only brought three days of supplies and rushed out. The fodder was burned out by fire. The baggage team was still a day away. This was not a big deal. The Mongolian soldiers always brought only a few food and grass when they went on the expedition. The insufficient part plundered on the spot, but the villages ahead were firm and cleared, so they could not count on the spot. The people still had some dry food, but the mouths of 50,000 or 60,000 war horses really made Naha a headache. It was cold and the ground was frozen, so there was not so much hay on the ground. In order to wait for the fodder, they had to stop for a day.

But in the evening, there was no sign of the forage. Nahachu knew that it was not good, and he was afraid that the messenger was also ambushed, so he had to send a team of thousands to search. Soon he received a report. More than a dozen messengers were cut into two sections with a knife, just thirty miles outside the camp.

As the night was dark and the wind was high, and shouts suddenly sounded outside the military camp. Naha was ready. Two teams of thousands of people lit torches outside the camp lit torches and fought bravely. Arrows shot in the darkness, and more than a dozen Mongolian soldiers holding torches were shot down. Mongolian soldiers were very brave. They abandoned the torches one after another, and shot arrows forward while chasing for a while, but they couldn't find the enemy, so they had to return. Unexpectedly, the soldiers took off their armor and lay down, and there were another sound of killing outside the camp. This time, Nahaha learned his lesson, knowing that the enemy soldiers were just harassing, so he only ordered the archers to guard the camp and shoot arrows to the place where the shouting loudly. The shouting sounds were loud and small, sometimes east and west, and later even the archers ignored them. The people shouting for killing outside the camp might have become tired and the sound gradually disappeared.

Unconsciously, it was the darkest time before dawn. The Yuan soldiers in the camp had been in trouble for half a night, and they were trapped in the crowd. Suddenly, countless rockets flew over the wind. More than a dozen camp tents on their heads suddenly burst into flames. The wind helped the fire and spread to more than forty camp tents. The Yuan soldiers inside were burned to tears. When the archers pulled up their longbows, they fell into darkness again outside, and had to shoot randomly, hoping to hit a few to relieve their anger. Tianming Naha's subordinates reported the casualties. Overnight, more than a hundred Yuan soldiers were burned, more than a thousand injured, and more than twenty people were trampled to death by their own people. Several war horses outside the camp were shot down, but no bodies of the enemy soldiers were found.

Naha was a veteran on the battlefield. He robbed the camp for two consecutive days. He was furious and did not lose his calmness. Instead, he felt that the opponent's generals used troops in secret and had to be cautious. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty's defense near Peking was empty, so no matter where he sent troops, there was no time to rescue him. There was no need to fall into the enemy's plan for the cooked lamb. At noon, the large group of people transported back food and grass before they advanced. He refused his subordinates' request to chase the enemy's troops and walked slowly. He was simply a matter of

He was a camp step by step. He read the military books of the Han people, and copied them according to the rules. He dug trenches around the camp and placed them on horseback. The trap mechanism was also in a normal way. The Yuan soldiers did not have the habit of camping like this, but they learned from their mistakes and had no knowledge of the camp. They were energetic at night patrols. They were in great spirits for several days in a row, but they had been walking for four or five days in two days, which was faster than the infantry, but compared with the usual speed, they were simply crawling by turtles.

Those who harassed were not others, but the cavalry brothers led by Shisanlang. Although everyone could not bring their commonly used three-eyed muskets, they knew that if they delayed the Mongols for one more day, their hometown would be less dangerous, and they would all put life and death aside. Those who were injured during the harassment in the middle of the night gritted their teeth and followed their own troops. The first day, the few who were seriously injured jumped into the fire and turned into ashes with the secret they knew.

The main content of this section is a supplementary text provided by Brother Feng to Chapter 9. Thank you for your good writing. Drunkards have traveled a lot this year, and the updates will not be too timely, so everyone will feel bad. That is, the song of cakes written by Liu Bowen at that time has been lost. Later literati forged some prophetic words and regarded them as Liu Ji's works, which is a pity. Drunkards do not have the talent of Liu Ji, and only use this passage to commemorate the unyielding spirit of the rebel army eating mooncakes and killing the Tartars at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. That's it.
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