Chapter 203: Oboe, Three Kingdoms, and Stinky Chess.

Pa Sha is a must have.

A few days later, in the evening, he walked twice along the Cangjiang River, listening to the scouts' reports between the humidity of the pounding waves.

The scout said, "There is news that the Central Plains people as early as March began to build ships, spend a high price to recruit know shipbuilding carpenters and blacksmiths, I heard that all built is a solid ship, large ships ......"

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

When the scout retired, the deputy general came up, also with a look of understanding.

Pa Sha: "Got it?"

Vice General: "My subordinate understands. The Northern Household Army is doing this to us."

Pa Sha laughed, "If they really want to cross the river to fight head-on, why do they have to make such a big fanfare and publicize it all over the place, as if they are afraid that we don't know that they will concentrate their main forces on the river and have a sensational river battle."

Vice Admiral: "What about ......?"

"The stage is set, even if the play is fake, it should be properly sung." Pa Sha said, "I think, the northern army will choose a windy day, crossing the river at night. If I were that Shi Tingyun, I would make as much noise as possible, and even induce Changling and Inagaki to send troops to help."

The deputy general said, "That's right. That's how the dogs of the Middle Kingdom love to play with their minds."

"It's good to play with the mind, but I'm afraid that if they don't play well, they'll be victimized." Pa Sha said, "Raiding tactics use internal spies to disturb the audience, so as to create suspicion. Pa Sha said, "Raiding tactics, the use of inside spies to interfere with the hearing, so that the clouds of suspicion; supplemented by flanking tactics, but want us to split the army and fight. In detail, this family's little dog is quite clever. But he forgot that the military is most emphasized on avoiding the real and avoiding the false, he played such a set of real and false, but became self-murder. ...... How is the land defense done?"

Vice General: "Please don't worry about the land defense, I have calculated clearly that the maximum number of men that the Northern government army can mobilize this time is only 30,000 men. We have 30,000 elite troops in Guining, 15,000 in Changling, and 20,000 in Inaccessible, so even if the Beifu army mobilizes, we will not be afraid. Our main force has secretly advanced toward Guining, and all scouts have been put out to watch day and night, and to report at all times."

Pa Sha nodded once.

The adjutant general added, "My subordinate has come this time to ask the general how the river defense should be arranged?"

"River defense must never be abandoned."

Though Pa Sha despises the people of the Middle Kingdom, he is by no means arrogant and forgetful.

He said firmly: "Since they came here while they were enjoying themselves, how can I ask them to go back in defeat? Choose twenty empty boats lined with straw, splash them with kerosene, choose three hundred soldiers who know how to use the water to drive the boats to meet them, drumming and shouting, and when they come close, when they can't avoid them, the people on the boats will light a fire, dive under the water, and swim back to the shore. The shore is well stocked with kerosene for the rockets."

He leaned down and picked up a rock and threw it with force into the river.

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

Pa Sha said, "...... At that time, I want the entire Cang River, to become a river of fire. I want that fire to burn so brightly that it can be seen in the Southern Border King's Palace."

Meanwhile, across the river.

Shi Tingyun, sitting on a cliff, strained out the kernels of the sour plums that he had eaten in his mouth and threw them into the river with a raised hand.

The river is wide, the waves are fast and the wind is strong, despite his brawn, a small plum kernel fell into the river water, still can not even see a splash.

Without pause, the raging waves of the river flowed past the feet of Shi Tingyun and Yan Yuanheng.

The two were dressed in ordinary people's clothes, and behind them there were two cows grazing with their heads down, looking from afar like two young cowherds, sitting idly on the top of a mountain and blowing in the wind.

And they were actually watching the front lines.

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

Yan Yuanheng: "Horse 6 retreats 7."

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

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

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

They've been playing blind chess, back and forth, facing the river all afternoon.

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

During a battle with a small group of Southern Border troops three days ago, Yan Yuanheng's left hand was cut by a sword on the back of the hand, the wound was not deep, but it still caused a storm, and his left hand was wrapped up by a hemp cloth and wrapped directly to his fingertips.

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

This is an old habit of Shi Tingyun.

He felt that, if there is a wound on the body, wrapped in white cloth, always feel monotonous and boring, look also disturbing, so cool in other people and their own bandaged place to paint.

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

Shi Tingyun held half a charcoal pencil and sketched, while Yan Yuanheng looked down at the top of his hair.

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

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

Shi Tingyun let go of his hand.

The corners of Yan Yuanheng's upturned mouth fell a little.

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

Shi Tingyun: "It's too dark to see."

Yan Yuanheng fished out a candle from his bosom.

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

Yan Yuanheng blushed a little, not good to say that he wanted to observe with him in the mountains for a night and such a faint words that would cause misunderstanding, so he pretended to bow his head and nodded his wax, and calmly said, "I ...... just in case."

With the subtle glow of light, Shi Tingyun brought out his stowed pen again.

Yan Yuanheng asks, "Draw another one."

Shi Tingyun smiled and said, "Good, my lord will follow your orders."

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

Su Chang is really different from the others, and she looks so good even when she writes with a brush.

In summer, the days are hot and the nights are cold, and the only time the temperature is comfortable is when it's almost nightfall.

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

Shi Tingyun is lying on his back, holding a yellow scarf for neck protection.

The yellow scarf was blown straight to the southwest.

Shi Tingyun rolled his yellow scarf up, "Not yet."

Yan Yuanheng took a breath.

Shi Tingyun seemed to anticipate what he would say and sidestepped, padding one ear with his arm and plugging the other with a yellow scarf.

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

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

He said a lot of his own concerns, who thought a long time no response, eyes turn again, Shi Tingyun has plugged his ears and fell asleep.

Yan Yuanheng: "......"

He looked down at Shi Tingyun's sleeping form.

When Shi Tingyun sleeps, he is not as wanton as he is in the daytime, and his brow is gently furrowed, as if he has something on his mind. The eyelashes are long, small fan like, and soft to the touch ......

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

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

After taking two small breaths away from Shi Tingyun, Yan Yuanheng returned, lifted up the sleeping youth, gently put him on the back of a cow, and then led the two well-fed cows slowly toward the camping ground.

He went back and forth, "What's wrong with me?

A bump in the cow's body woke Shi Tingyun up for a while.

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

Yan Yuanheng turned around, "Huh?"

Shi Tingyun : "It's okay to call you."

Yan Yuanheng : "...... hmmm."

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

It's night.

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

The military doctor earnestly said, "Thirteenth Prince, your wound is originally shallow, and your own foundation is good, as long as you apply medicine for two more days, you won't even leave a scar."

Yan Yuanheng nodded once, not really caring about that.

The medic looked down, and when he was ready to take away the old linen that had been removed, he could not find it anywhere.

Where did ...... go?

Could it be that Fang Cai didn't take care of it, and was taken care of by the Thirteenth Prince's personal person?

After the doctor left in a daze, Yan Yuanheng lying in the quilt, by candlelight, with a hinged wick of the scissors, the painting of the two geese linen cut down, close to store, and in the night, quietly cut the linen in the root of the tent buried.

Back in his tent, Yan Yuanheng lay down again and still could not figure out why Shi Tingyun and Shi Jinghong were so sure that the main force of Pa Sha's army was no longer in Guining.

Three days later, the wind finally turned due south.

Pa Sha sitting in the main tent of the return to the Ning army tent, the candlelight in all directions lit a bright, looking at the tent towards the north of the flags flying, drink a few mouths of tea, especially suspected of insufficient remote elegance, simply instructed to fetch the "kalnai" to a seventy-two-stringed lute, played a clanging sound, waiting for the Northern Household Army to throw themselves into the net.

Indeed, just after the stroke of midnight, there were faint shouts of killing coming from the Cangjiang River.

...... is here.

Pa Sha's lips smiled, calmly stroked the zither, and the sound of the zither refracted, just like a phoenix clear song.

His adjutant general, who was responsible for supporting the incoming army on land, was not at his side, and a curtain-raiser added tea for him, saying, "The general plays the zither well."

Pa Sha said, "This is my family's learning, my father is good at the qin Dao and has taught me since I was young. Since I was a child, I have mastered the five tones and six arts, and playing a war song at this time can be considered to inspire the soldiers in the front line."

Shubin laughed: "The wind of the southern border will be able to convey the general's thoughts to all armies ......"

Unexpectedly, just after the words fell, there was a loud and clear music from the riverside, miles apart, still majestic and magnificent, straight dry clouds.

Curtain Call: "Who's playing the oboe?"

Pa Sha: "......"

It's a shawm, and it's still playing "The Hundred Birds".

Even the well-informed Pa Sha can't quite visualize what it must have been like for an army to fight across a river playing the oboe.

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

The more you do, the more you bluff.

The land-based messenger quickly arrived on a fast horse and loudly called out, "General, there is a Northern Household Army on the move! They are approaching Changling!"

Pa Sha puts down his violin without moving, "How many are coming?"

The messenger said, "The other side is marching at night, and has not lit any torches. It's so dark after nightfall that I can't see how many people there are, but as Vice General sees it from afar, the dust and smoke are rolling in, connected back and forth, and the line stretches for at least a hundred miles!"

Pa Sha strokes her palm, "Go down and rest."

Shoubin wasted no time in going up and patting his horse: "General's anticipation is as good as God's! The army that stretches for a hundred miles, at least more than 20,000 people have come."

Pa Sha is not Wu Yichun and doesn't have the vice of making those around him hold their feet to the fire, but good words are loved by anyone.

He took a sip of his tea in a leisurely manner, and when he saw that a large portion of the sky by the river was dyed red, he knew that the river was also poised for action.

About a quarter of an hour later, the second messenger full of joy, ran into the camp: "General! That the Central Plains when the dog put the boat into the water, downwind, a hundred miles of the river has traveled half, but there is a water knowledge of the senator to see, the Central Plains people's boat, in order to ensure the smoothness of the boat, even with iron locks and sampan connected!"

Now, even Pa Sha was inevitably overjoyed.

Makubin even exclaimed, "Great goodness! Great good! God's help to you, General! I'm so familiar with the military books that I didn't realize that when Zhou Lang defeated Cao Cao at Red Cliff in the past, it was because Cao Cao used the iron locks to connect the ships that the fire attack plan came to fruition!"

Pa Sha sat back on the fur-covered chair with a smile on his face and said "yes" three times in a row, which showed that he was in a happy mood and could not be suppressed.

Chu Ziling is no longer useful, so what?

He, Pa Sha, on his own, has made a miraculous out of this wasteful move!

The riverside fire boiled against, hidden howling sound from the river, listen to it will feel pleasant to the ear.

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

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

After the words, from outside ran a black stained southern frontier soldier, rolled down from the horse, cried and knelt in front of Pa Sha: "General! General--The northern government army ...... has come across the river!!!"

Pa Sha burst out, picking the man up off the ground, "What? Where's the flotilla?"

The black stained messenger soldier cried: "The fire fleet are all light boats, sailed to the near side, then lit a fire, our people have jumped into the water, but who would have thought ...... that underneath the water are the ambush soldiers of the Northern Household Army! They also know water, hand and took the blade, all the people who jumped from the boat, one by one were killed in the water ......"

"Where are the rockets?!"

"Sent ...... We sent at least more than 10,000 arrows, yet their ship is not even on fire ......"

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

"The little ones also waited for the ship to sail close before they realized it! ...... They used black mud to coat the hull of the ship, and painted the ship into a black ship ...... The black mud was thick and tough, and the rockets fell on it, but could not hurt it ...... They also put out huge logs across the hull, and all approaching fireboats were stopped by the huge logs several feet away from the ship ...... The fireboats that approached were stopped by the giant logs a few feet away from the ship ......."

The messenger sobbed, "They were aided by the wind, and in the twinkling of an eye they were already close to the shore. They were heavily armed and masked, and had not only rockets, but also water hoses and stone throwers on the back boat....... Before they got close to the shore, the leader of the Beifu army, that Shi Tingyun, ordered the water hoses to open and spray towards the shore, and the water hoses were full of kerosene - Shi Tingyun ordered the stone throwers to hit only the copper furnace used for storing fire and lighting the fire. - Shi Tingyun ordered the stone throwers to hit only the copper furnaces on the bank used for storing kindling and lighting rockets, and now the river bank has become a sea of fire-"

Makabin panicked a bit, "General ......"

Pa Sha gritted his teeth, "Don't panic, they've also split their troops, only a few thousand left, ten thousand at most! There are still twelve thousand men left in Guining!"

...... There are actually 2,000 wounded soldiers left, and after shaving them off, there are 10,000 left.

It can always be resisted for a while.

But Pa Sha had a bad feeling in his heart.

Why did Shi Tingyun use the most taboo strategy in water warfare, the iron locking of the river?

Without waiting for Pa Sha to think further, a fifth messenger stumbled into the tent, ''General! The Northern Household Army is calling! They're, they're coming this way ......"

"Called? How many came?"

The herald warred in both strands, "It's all people ...... It's all people. At least 50,000, no, 100,000 ......"

"Fuck him!" Pa Sha finally raged, "Where did you get a hundred thousand dollars?"

"They're all shouting ......" the messenger shivered, "100,000 Yanluo crossing the Cangjiang River ...... Punish, Punish Pa Sha, Send Wang Ba ......"

Pa Sha kicked the man over and cursed, "Bluff! This is a bluff! Order the remaining soldiers to prepare for battle!"

Just now, in a flash of lightning, he finally figured out why the other party had to use the formation of the Iron Locked River.

...... He went so far as to allow Shi Tingyun to build a long bridge for carrying troops from the other side to this side under his own nose!

He rushed out of the camp and saw in the distance that the sky was flaming red along the Cangjiang River.

Hundreds of miles of river, hardened ships locking up the river.

What burned up was his soldiers and horses, and what burned down was the fighting spirit of the soldiers and men of the southern border.

There was an endless stream of terrified cries:

"One hundred thousand army horses! The Northern Household Army has come with 100,000 troops!"

"A hundred thousand men have come across the river!"

The fifth messenger said that the two thousand vanguards on the river had been exterminated to the fullest extent in the fear of fire.

And the news that the Northern Household Army had come with 100,000 people was like a river wind wrapped in the smell of burnt paste, which instantly scoured the entire Guining.

Pa Sha has done the math. How can there be 100,000 men in the North's army?

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

Pa Sha pulled the letter Chu Ziling had sent him out of his bosom, unfolded it and read it for a moment, crumpled it up, and shouted in a grim, twisted rage, "Chu Ziling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Pa Sha finally realized Chu Ziling's plan.

He was afraid that he was really up to no good!

Seeing the decline of the southern border, he is an illegitimate son, even if he becomes a prince, he may not be able to really get away with it, so he wants to establish the military achievements of the Central Plains, and be a general of the Central Plains!

After all, the throne of the Emperor is illusory, and the only thing that can be firmly clutched in the hands is military service.

He was afraid that Shi Tingyun had really found out, so he shifted the blame, saying that he was working for the Southern Border in the open and planning for the Central Plains in the dark. With his skillful words, it must not be difficult to persuade Shi Tingyun, who only needed to take advantage of the trust that he had placed in his own people to operate on behalf of the Central Plains step by step to remove them one by one and use their lives as a token of appreciation --- -

What a poisonous scorpion!

Maybe, maybe, it was a mistake from the beginning, even the illegitimate child was a deliberate fake ......

The suona team of the Northern Household Army, playing the louder and louder "Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix," pressed closer and closer.

Pa Sha came back to his senses and, not being able to think any more, sternly ordered, "Pass the order! Retreat! Retreat! Retreat quickly to Changling! Join up with our army!"

Meanwhile, a hundred miles away, the vice-general, who led ten thousand troops to lurk quietly, waited for a strange news.

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

"Back to the vice general, in the distance stirred up a hundred miles of earth and dust fog, seems to be ...... a herd of horses." The messenger is also full of doubts, "the horse's tail on the bundle of grass target, dragged on the ground, so the dust and smoke strewn. That herd of horses seems to be someone commanded to drive the horses, let the horse back and forth, but at most dozens of people."

The vice general's side of the senator looked back at the return to the Ning several times, only to see that side of the military fire filled the sky, can not help but worry: "I do not know how the war in the return to the Ning?"

The vice general was confident: "With General Pa Sha here, what is there to fear? Send someone to scout again, I'd like to see what this Northern Household Army is up to."

Mixed in the dust and smoke, commanding the horses that have been assembled for months, Chu Ziling choked his head and face full of dust, only to feel that his body reeks of horse manure and stinks to high heaven.

And he was to be more worried than many about the return to war.

"What are they, this group of fools, doing?" Chu Ziling was anxious and licked his mouth full of mouth sores, wiped away the gray foam at the corners of his mouth, and looked in the direction of Guining again, "...... I clearly told them to run, why don't they run?"