Chapter 66 Slaughter all the Chu soldiers and horses "Take it out."
In the small house in Luoyang, Wei State, Jiang He said warmly while washing his father's feet.
Jiang Ben, who was struggling to squat next to him, pretended to be confused and handed over a hand towel to wipe his feet.
Jiang He lifted his father's skinny feet from the water, took the towel, wiped them clean, and placed them on his knees.
She was sitting on a small bed, with her knees at just the right height for her father to rest his legs comfortably.
"I asked you to bring the marriage certificate." Jiang He massaged the soles of his father's feet and said sternly to Jiang Ben.
Jiang Anqing pulled her feet back, seeming a little He pulled his feet back again, raised his head and smiled at his father, revealing a slight dimple.
Her voice carried the coquettishness of a child getting close to her elders: "Father, my daughter is going out for a trip. Before leaving, I want to wash your feet and trim her nails. It's time for my daughter to come back when her father's nails grow longer."
It's coquettish and comforting.
I don't know if Jiang Anqing understood it. His empty eyes were dull and dull. There was only a thin and bulging blood vessel in his temple, which seemed to be beating.
The little girl immediately handed Jiang He a pair of scissors.
The scissors were big and sharp. Jiang He lowered his head and carefully cut his father's nails.
Jiang Ben squatted beside her and babbled: "Sister, do you really want to marry Mr. Wei? My marriage certificate is lost."
"If you lose it, you have to find it for me." Jiang He glanced at him and said, "Do you think the Wei royal family is easy to fool? Without that, would they let me join the army to fight against Chu?"
"Okay," Jiang Ben stood up after hearing this, scratching his head in frustration and curiosity, "In this case, I have to go. Sister, remember to give me Wei's soldiers and horses so that I can practice my skills."
He tilted his head and looked at Jiang He. Jiang He did not agree or refute.
She was concentrating on applying ointment to Jiang Anqing's sores caused by frostbite in previous years, cutting his nails short, and rounding the corners with a file, as carefully as if she was embroidering in front of a candle.
The evening sunlight slanted into the house, illuminating her beautiful face softly and movingly.
Before leaving for the expedition, this woman who was already famous all over the world did not choose armor or prepare luggage. She cut Jiang Anqing's armor and combed her hair, and told the little girl who was waiting for him to be obedient.
Everything is explained one by one, no matter how big or small.
It seemed that Jiang Anqing, a man in his destiny, was not her father, but a child who needed all kinds of care from her.
Jiang Anqing sat on the bed, holding the hem of her clothes lightly with her fingers. She seemed to have listened to Jiang He's words, but she seemed not to understand anything.
"Father," Jiang He hugged him before leaving and said softly, "You have taught me so much, and you also said, 'It is easy to get something on paper, but it is not difficult to do it in practice.' Now my daughter will try it and see. You sharpen this knife quickly. If my daughter loses, Zongjun will take you to the place where it is easiest to unify China. You will see that day, my daughter believes it."
Seeing that the broken mountains and rivers finally welcomed the Ming Lord, that man stirred up the dragon veins of the Nine Provinces with his sickly body.
The marriage certificate was sent to the palace, and Wei Ji finally got the tiger talisman.
Urgent official documents were sent out from the capital of Wei, asking all states, counties, and counties to mobilize troops and horses to gather eastward and obey the order to fight against Chu.
Wei Ji and Jiang He set off together.
To speed things up, they didn't ride in a carriage.
Several tall and powerful horses, as fast as lightning, carried three young men to the battlefield.
Wei Ji was in front, and Jiang He followed closely. Jiang Ben, who was behind because he was not good at equestrian skills, was dropped dozens of feet away.
"Sister, I've never heard that you are so good at riding a horse!"
After finally catching up with Jiang He who was resting for a drink of water, Jiang Ben couldn't help but said lying on the horse's back like mud.
"You have to ask your biological sister." Jiang He smiled at him and got on his horse again. "Every time Your Majesty asks her to learn equestrian skills, she sends me to pretend to be one."
I didn't expect that the skills I was forced to learn would be useful.
Jiang He's figure had gone away. Jiang Ben weakly raised his hand, looked at her and said, "You are my biological sister——"
At first, in order to return to Qi State as soon as possible, he recognized her as his sister; later, he was afraid of Zhao Zheng and had to treat her as his sister; but after spending so much time together in Wei State, Jiang Ben felt that she was his sister.
She is beautiful, capable, and protective of him.
Look, he even taught himself how to fight.
When the horses are galloping, if the two horses happen to be abreast of each other, Wei Ji can't help but talk to Jiang He.
"Perhaps the war can be avoided." He said, "If Wei starts a full-scale war with Chu now, it will not be able to win."
Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win a hundred battles without danger. Not to mention the Wei State, even if the Yong State goes to war with the Chu State now, they will definitely lose.
Originally, the two countries of Chu and Yong were evenly matched, but due to the construction of canals, Yong State no longer had many soldiers, horses, and food available.
The Chu State was so unscrupulous just because it knew he could dominate.
"It's not about starting a war with the Chu State." Jiang He tightened his grip on the reins and shouted loudly, "It's about wiping out all the 30 soldiers and horses he brought this time! Only in this way can we scare off the Chu State and buy 15 years of peace for the Wei State."
15 years is enough for the Wei State to be strong and prosperous, and also enough for the Wei State to train a group of new soldiers.
In the hunting wind, her voice was calm and composed, yet full of the shock of killing and Ji took a breath of air.
Judging from the gathering of soldiers and horses from all walks of life, Wei Guo could barely collect 40 soldiers and horses, it is not difficult to repel 30, but if they are completely wiped out, there is almost no chance of victory.
If we fight head-on, even if Wei wins, it will be severely am afraid that neighboring countries will be ready to take action by like when the three families divided the Jin Dynasty, they cannibalized and divided the Wei State.
What's more, Chu State has suffered such a big loss. What if it fights back? 40 is all that Wei has, but 30 is nothing more than the Chu State's escort troops who came to Wei's border to greet military secretaries.
"I wonder what you have in mind, Xiaohe?" Wei Ji thought for a while, then reined in his horse and asked solemnly.
Jiang He's war horse stopped, raised its hooves on the spot, and then slowly turned in a circle.
She looked at Wei Ji, his red clothes fluttering in the wind, and his eyebrows were thick and cold, and she said without thinking: "First use our vanguard to catch him off guard. Leave them outside to burn, kill, and loot the small group." All the troops fought back outside Daliang City. Mi's army went deep alone. They surrounded Daliang, and we surrounded them. We surrounded them until they were trapped, had no horses, food, and grass, and then killed them in one fell swoop! If they dare to invade Wei, we will let them have no way of coming. Come back!"
Wei Ji was shocked and silent for a long time.
Kill him in one fell swoop, and the outside of Daliang City will be soaked in blood.
Jiang He said again: "The Mi family will use any means to bully the weak and fear the strong. Only by beating them up will they become worried and fearful and give Wei a chance to recuperate."
That's right.
But in the Art of War, things that seem to come naturally, but if you actually do it, there can be no mistakes at all.
If there is, it is an irreversible defeat.
Wei Ji looked at the confident and confident Jiang He in front of him, and felt as if there was a stone weighing on his heart, a stone that he couldn't move or put down, and he didn't know where to put it.
After a long time, he sighed slowly, looked at Jiang He and said, "I'll just listen to you."
Jiang He nodded and rode away, while Wei Ji looked at her back with deep eyes.
Facing the wind, she looked like a red bird spreading its wings.
——"The flying red bird is the forerunner, riding on the xiangyu of Taiyi."
The Suzaku is the totem that the people of Chu State fear and worship.
Perhaps only Jiang He could act so resolutely, like a divine weapon descending from heaven, to slaughter all 30 Chu soldiers and horses.
The [-] soldiers and horses who were the first to break camp and gather were handed over to Wei Ji. As Jiang He said, the Chu soldiers and horses wandering out were caught off guard.
Those soldiers and horses were sent out by Mi Fuchu to collect food and grass in the village.
They killed people frequently and committed numerous crimes in Wei.
The Wei army wanted to establish prestige and revenge. Even if the Chu people knelt down and surrendered, they all were killed.
Three days later, all the Chu soldiers and horses who were wandering around finally returned to the camp and did not dare to come out.
Wei Ji left [-] troops and horses for Jiang He and asked her to camp at Bu Village, a hundred miles north of Daliang, to take charge of himself led the rest of the troops and slowly pressed on the Chu army outside Daliang City in an encircling force.
Up to this point, everything was in accordance with Jiang He's plan, with almost no mistakes.
"Awesome!" Two miles outside the temporary city wall of Bu Village, Jiang Ben looked up at the beacon tower several feet high and exclaimed.
Jiang He nodded, looked in the direction of Daliang City, and said slowly: "When Daliang City was in crisis, it was here that we first saw Daliang was trapped. The soldiers climbed up the ladder and lit the beacon fire here, and spread the news westward until it reached Luoyang. city."
Jiang Ben narrowed his eyes and smiled and said: "I know! Didn't King You use this beacon fire to tease the princes? I heard that when the king of Qi State came there, he scolded us that he would use the eight-wheeled windlass next time. That is how we in Qi State beat people. Bao Si couldn't understand what he said, but he still laughed."
Yes, the Zhou Dynasty laughed so much that it broke its trust in the world, and all the vassal states became independent one after another, and the chaos has persisted until now.
"Jiang Ben," Jiang He suddenly looked at her younger brother and said seriously, "go back to Qi."
In the house in Luoyang, Wei State, the pear tree had lost all its branches and leaves.
Zongjun went out to deliver a letter. In the small courtyard there were only Jiang Anqing, who was basking in the sun, and the obedient little girl who was serving him.
The little girl is rubbing Jiang Anqing's legs.
Jiang Anqing suffered from severe rheumatism in his legs. Now that winter had just begun, Jiang He sewed bearskin and wrapped him tightly.
Taking advantage of the good weather today, the little girl helped Jiang Anqing out, unhooked the bear skin, and let his legs bask in the sun.
The sun was warm, and the guards slowly left. The maid brought snacks, asked if she didn't need to serve, and left slowly.
Jiang Anqing sat on the recliner Jiang He bought specially for him, listening to the movements from all sides.
The little girl obediently didn't say anything, and after she had finished kneading her, she wrapped Jiang Anqing's legs again.
Suddenly, an elegant and gentle voice sounded from above.
As if he was afraid of scaring her, he said in a warm voice: "Girl, what's your name?"
(End of this chapter)