This Northern Song Dynasty is a bit weird

Chapter 133 Illumination
After agreeing to Di Qing's division plan and taking all the responsibilities on himself, Lu Sen returned to his tent and prepared to rest for a while.

He hadn't slept for nearly fifteen hours because there were fourteen wells to be erected, and he had to build and oversee most of the things himself.

Although the fruits produced by the system do have the effect of replenishing physical strength, if you have not slept for a long time, even if there are fruits to replenish physical strength, the state of 'depression' will still appear in the system status bar.

It will lead to a temporary decline in 'cognitive power', as well as a decrease in 'logical thinking', 'instinctive reaction' and other brain-related abilities.

And the longer you don't sleep, the more 'lower' the state value will be.

Not long after he squinted his eyes, he heard someone outside say: "Lu Jianjun, my subordinate Zhang Zai, please see me."

Lu Sen yawned, got up and said, "Please come in."

The tent was opened, Zhang Zai walked in, and after an official ceremony, he sat cross-legged on the felt blanket opposite Lu Sen.

"Zihou, is there something important?" Lu Sen asked.

Although there is not much rest time, the negative values ​​in the status bar have been reduced a lot.

Zhang Zai nodded, he paused, seemed to be considering his words, and then spoke after a few breaths: "I don't understand something, why do you help Marshal Di and others take all the responsibility? If you fail, you will be blamed all by yourself in the future." .”

Lu Sen smiled and asked back: "Wang Jiefu commanded blindly and killed tens of thousands of soldiers. Can you see how many people criticized him?"

This... Zhang Zai was stunned.

This is indeed not the case, rather, this matter is actually being held by the civil servants group.Even Bao Zheng's faction, led by Taishi Pang, who was against Taishi Pang, helped to suppress public opinion.

Even if there were criticisms from the public, they were quickly suppressed.

"So, if this fails, at most I will be removed from the post of direct bachelor of Tianzhang Pavilion, or stripped of my official status." Lu Sen smiled and continued: "At worst, I will be silent for a few years, so why bother."

Zhang Zai was silent for a while, it was true.

He can already guess the "punishment" of Wang Anshi after returning to Beijing, the official status will be demoted, the real power of Ping Zhangshi, the assistant prime minister, will be removed, and then he will be sent to a local place to "experience" for several years, and then he can return to Beijing to report on his work.

Wang Anshi was able to do the same, he was well-connected, and Master Lu, who held a rare item from the fairy family, received even less punishment.

Zhang Zai was silent for a while, and then said: "I just want to say that Lu Zhen doesn't need to get too close to Jiangmen. Although your wife is from the Yang family, she is from the Lu family when she marries you." people."

Zhang Zai didn't particularly dislike military generals, but he didn't like them either. Rather, he took a more neutral attitude.

This is determined by the position, he is a literati... His natural position is on the side of the literati.

This is the limitation of the times, and there is no way to do it.

But Lu Sen was different. He knew very well that if there was no one to protect the gate, and this situation continued, after a few decades, tragedy would happen.

"I didn't get close to generals!" Lu Sen's tone was light, his smile was as clean as a spring: "I also didn't get close to literati, because in my eyes, literati and generals are all the same."

"They're all the same?" Zhang Zai had a strange expression on his face.

"Yes, it's all the same." Lu Sen confirmed, "The reason why I help the Yang family and the Zhe family more is because they are my relatives. Besides, what do literati and generals have to do with me? "

Zhang Zai was stunned for a long time, and then said with a sneer: "Yes, under cultivation, all living beings are ants."

He got up, clasped his fists at Lu Sen, and said, "Wang Jiefu asked me to come here, and I want to ask Master Lu to go over and talk about it."

Lu Sen waved his hand: "I don't have much affection for Wang Jiefu now, and I feel a little annoyed when I see him. It's better not to see him for the time being."

"Actually, Wang Jiefu was just out of kindness. Master Lu knew how to help General Di avoid disasters, and he did the same."

"I don't care if he is kind or not." Lu Sen waved his hand and said, "I don't care what the officials and the officials think, the killing of 10,000+ soldiers is, in my eyes, a dirty thing that Wang Jiefu can't clean up all his life. .”

Hearing Lu Sen's decisive answer, Zhang Zai sighed, and then walked away disappointed.

Lu Sen yawned and continued to sleep with his eyes closed.

It is not that simple to deploy the army. Now at least two or three hours are needed to make various arrangements, and the troops will be divided after they are done.

During this time, he can take a break.

In fact, he really wanted to find Yang Jinhua, but thinking about violating military discipline, he just let it go.

But Zhang Zai returned to Wang Anshi's tent and sat cross-legged.

Wang Anshi looked away from the paper, looked up at the friend opposite him, then snorted, and said, "Guan Zihou looks frustrated, I think Master Lu is unwilling to condescend to come and sit with me."

Zhang Zai smiled bitterly: "Jiefu is really smart."

"He probably criticized me." Wang Anshi's eyes returned to the book paper, but there were a lot of blue veins in his hand holding the book paper.

Sighing leisurely, Zhang Zai said: "I thought that Lu Zhenren was also a member of our literati, but I didn't expect that he was actually separated from us, and he didn't regard us as his own."

Wang Anshi snorted softly: "Really Lu is a self-proclaimed practitioner, so how can he care about the thoughts of ordinary people?"

"That's not true." Zhang Zai said: "At least Master Lu did not harm the world, nor did he do evil things to bully the people. He even treated the people very well. He is not a heartless person."

"He is indeed not ruthless, but he is not righteous." Wang Anshi snorted with the book in his hand, and said, "A practitioner goes against the sky and fights against the sky. In his eyes, ordinary people are all equal. But this equality However, it is completely senseless to regard me, who have studied hard for more than ten years, as the same as those peasants and treacherous merchants."

Zhang Zai thought for a while, then sighed, "What Jiefu said is indeed true."

Many people think that the word 'ruthless and ungrateful' refers to lack of emotion and lack of loyalty.

There is some truth to such an explanation, but it is due to the "small" structure that has evolved over the millennium, so this idiom is subtly misinterpreted.

The meaning of ruthlessness and ignorance at the beginning of the essence is explained. Qing refers to great love, and righteousness refers to great benevolence.

What is Daren?
Monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons, scholars, farmers, businessmen.Each is in his position, each performs his own duties;

After this set, in the eyes of Confucian scholars, it is great benevolence and righteousness.

And Lu Sen is not a person of this era at all. In his eyes, people's status is indeed high or low, but the human soul, or in terms of the biological essence of human beings, all people are equal.

Lu Sen sympathizes with the people and is willing to do something for the people. In the eyes of many officials, this is an expression of 'love'.

But righteousness...they can't see it.

In fact, Wang Anshi was not the first person to comment on Lu Sen in this way. In private, both Bao Zheng and Grand Master Pang had similar comments.

But this does not prevent them from thinking that Lu Sen is a good person.

"Love" and "righteousness", if it is not the relationship between positions, love is greater than righteousness, which is agreed by everyone.

Besides, Lu Sen is indeed a practitioner, not a Confucianist. It is not a big deal that he does not agree with the righteousness of Confucianism.

However, unlike the broad-mindedness of Bao Zheng, Pang Taishi and others, Wang Anshi at this time is still relatively stubborn, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a little extreme.

So he actually couldn't understand Lu Sen's appearance.

Having said that, the two of them had no intention of continuing the conversation, and for a while, the tent was as silent as an empty room.

Zhang Zai thought about Lu Sen's responsibility, and thought about the sages' ideas he had learned. His mind was spinning, and morality was colliding. Gradually, he seemed to be touching something, but he seemed to be touching nothing. .

Not to mention that Zhang Zai seemed to have something in his mind, Wang Anshi was really angry at this time.

It's just that he still needs to save face, and he didn't fully express his emotions, but he will eventually become more and more displeased with Lu Sen. He always feels that Lu Sen's attitude towards life and his way of life are all artificial .

Such emotions made him extremely uncomfortable, and he couldn't even read the book in his hand.

Speaking of Xixia, Wuzang Su'er stayed in the marshal's tent with a group of staff, and after discussing for more than two hours, he became more and more unhappy.

Although it was said that the previous big victory caused the Song army to retreat to the Shaguan, it was said that they could not get out of the pass, which is considered a beautiful victory.

But that's about it.

The Song Army's ability to defend the city is extremely strong. If you want to capture a city guarded by the Song Army, even if the supply line of the city is cut off, the Song Army can generally last for more than a month.

At this time, there are famous generals like Di Qing and Mu Guiying guarding Shaguan, and there are logistics supplies. Even if the morale of the army is not high, it is extremely difficult to capture.

"You don't have a reliable plan to take Shaguan down?" Wuzang Su'er slapped the table heavily.

No one speaks.

After a while of silence, a general from the Song Dynasty suddenly said, "Marshal, we really have no other way this time. We can take Shaguan. But we can wait, wait for more time, maybe there will be a turning point."

"What's the turning point?"

The Song general laughed and said, "Wait for the Song thief to be stupid."

Everyone in the tent was taken aback for a moment, then all laughed.

The laughter is so happy and proud.

Wuzang Su'er stroked the stubble on his chin, and felt that these words seemed quite reasonable.

Like before, the Song army's three armies had already surrounded Xingqing Mansion. Even if they didn't attack, as long as the army besieged the city for another month or two, Xingqing Mansion would naturally surrender without a fight.

Because there is no food to eat.

But without knowing what happened, Song Bing suddenly formed a complex formation of small circles, and the three armies separated into more than 20 small circles, like a chess piece, surrounding the "Tianyuan" in the middle. 'Xingqing Mansion.

This kind of formation opened the eyes of the entire Xixia military, and then a wave of cavalry and coordinated attacks directly attacked the species inexplicably. On the surface, it looks very powerful, but in fact there is no formation connection at all, and there is no monster with simultaneous offense and defense. The array is broken.

When the Song army was defeated, the Xixia army chased and hacked, and the swords were so sharp that people couldn't run anymore, so they wanted to take a break.

And that road was full of blood and corpses.

It's just... Song Jun was making silly mistakes from time to time, and there was no rule at all.

Sometimes it will appear soon, but sometimes, it may not be possible to encounter it in a year or two.

But I don't have much time, and the Prime Minister said that it must be resolved before winter, otherwise when the cold winter comes, the army will have to retreat first.

Is it to send troops to lure the Song army to fight, or to use a strange plan to attack and break the door?
Or wait and see?
Just when Wuzang Su'er was hesitating, a soldier came in outside the door, knelt down on one knee and hurriedly said: "Marshal, the Song army camp has made some moves, it seems that the troops are going to be divided?"

"What?" Wuzang Su'er was stunned for a moment, and then she was overjoyed: "Is the army really divided?"

Could it be that Song Bing is really as stupid as the Song general said just now?

There is no reason, the current supervising army is Master Lu... But when you think about it carefully, Master Lu is just a practitioner, and he doesn't seem to know anything about war.

If Master Lu really had 'itchy hands' and wanted to command the army and enjoy the comfort of arranging troops, it seemed to make sense.

"Let's go, follow me out to have a look." After saying that, Wuzang Su'er led the generals and staff out to the hill outside the tent.

Sure enough, I saw the Song army's camp moving and divided into three groups.

Except that the middle road is still guarding the checkpoint in the middle, the other two roads have moved to the left and right sides.

Judging from the "size" of the left and right wings of the Song army and the smoke and dust generated when they moved, the number of people on the two wings is estimated to be around [-].

This number is not very accurate, but it is not too bad.

"Divide the troops!" Wuzang Su'er snorted, "That's not to blame for me eating you all in one bite."

After all, he asked his subordinates to bring the map, looked at it carefully for a while, and said: "The front army and the center army go directly to encircle the left wing, the rear army cavalry army surrounds the enemy army on the right side, and the iron kite guards the middle road. If the army dares to jump out to save people, you rush to kill the enemy."

Then Wuzang Su'er swung the map heavily, and said excitedly, "I have the advantage in this battle, and we can defeat the enemy just around the corner."

Following the order of Wuzang Su'er, soon, the main force of the Xixia army surrounded the left flank of the Song army.

But Song Bing's left wing seemed to react quickly and stopped in place. First, a lot of repelling horses were deployed in the front, back, left, and right, and there were also archers pressing the formation.

Although the measures were sufficient, the Xixia army was overwhelming, with twice as many troops as them.

And the morale of the Xixia army is higher.

It stands to reason... This wave of leftists should be eaten.

But unexpectedly, when the Xixia army encountered the left wing of the Song soldiers, they fought quite hard.

It was obvious that the army was pressing down, and it took two hours to barely retreat to the left wing of the Song army retreating halfway.

The Xixia Army has a higher battle loss ratio.

It's just that the number of Song troops was still a little less after all.

"It's really tenacious, but that's about it."

Wuzang Su'er was very happy. He seemed to have seen the collapse of the left wing of the Song army, which then caused a chain reaction, leading to rescue people in the middle, but was attacked by the iron kite heavy cavalry.

However... his smile froze quickly.

The Xixia army was indeed about to overwhelm the left, but at this time, in the left wing of the Song army, there were four well rails, suddenly shining brightly.

It really shined brightly, the intense and dazzling light shone on the front line of the Xixia army.

At the same time, the middle road of the Song Army was not far from the left wing, and there were also six well fences emitting intense light, which shone on the front line of the Xixia army from a distance, and the well fence on the left wing also illuminated the corresponding area.

(End of this chapter)