Archery of Gongshou Rivers and Mountains

Huang Rong was anxious for a few days, but seeing that she really couldn't escape, she stopped running.According to her own words, she also wanted to understand that Brother Jing would never let her down.If he really failed...then he wouldn't be Brother Jing anymore.

Seeing that Huang Rong stopped running away, Huang Yaoshi thought she had figured it out, and immediately began to torture her daughter with both soft and hard methods, asking her to go back to Peach Blossom Island with him.During those two days, Wanyan Honglie, Wanyan Kang, and Ouyang Ke watched the good show for two days. Sure enough, this time, Huang Laoxie also stood behind Huang Rong with a soft face and said: " Rong'er, let's go back to Peach Blossom Island with Dad."

Huang Rong often pouted and snorted coldly: "If Daddy lets me go, then when I find Brother Jing, I will definitely go back to Peach Blossom Island with Daddy. If Daddy won't let me go, but if Daddy can rescue Brother Jing for me , I will go back to Peach Blossom Island with my father."

"Rong'er, why do you have to fall in love with that idiot Guo Jing?"

"What's wrong with Brother Jing?"

"Then what's so good about him? His appearance is mediocre, he lacks literary talents and martial arts skills, and his martial arts are not top-notch. According to Rong'er, he has six bad masters. He will be a teacher for a day and a father for life. He got married, so you still have to serve his six masters! If you have to pick out the benefits from him, then you have to be honest and honest. But aren’t the old farmers on the roadside all honest and honest?”

"Who said that brother Jing is just honest and honest? Besides, brother Jing is not stupid, he just has a bad memory and a little slow reaction. He is just a little clumsy in small things, but he is never stupid in big things. Unlike Daddy..."

"What's wrong with me?"

"Daddy is known as Dongxie. I originally thought that Daddy was unrestrained and unrestrained. He shouldn't use common theories and was not in harmony with the world. But now it seems... Daddy and Brother Jing are just the opposite. You seem to be free and easy, but in fact Stupid!"

"you!"

In short, the content of the dialogue and debate may be somewhat different, but most of them end with Huang Laoxie trembling with anger, and it is the same this time.Then it was time for Wanyan Honglie to appear on the stage: "Brother Huang, don't go, how about going down for a drink or two?"

The first time, Wanyan Kang was really surprised that his old man was already so familiar with Huang Yaoshi.It was only later that I found out that at the beginning, the two of them were just talking about their own difficulties in raising children-the two people's experiences in raising children were quite similar.

Huang Yaoshi lost his wife in his early years. Although Huang Rong was brought up by him alone, it doesn't mean that he stopped hiring a nanny, but the nanny only feeds milk, changes diapers, and bathes the child. Other things are all done by Huang Laoxie. Arranged.

Wanyankang was also like this when she was a child. Bao Xiruo experienced the pain of losing her husband first, and then traveled long distances from south to north, and then went to Zhongdu. Afterwards, she was unaccompanied in a foreign country. Immediately after giving birth to Yan Kang, she was seriously ill in bed.So Wanyan Kang was brought up by Wanyan Honglie, and even during that time, except for going to court, he even hugged Wanyan Kang when he was handling official documents at home.

And the experience of the children growing up is similar. The two children were originally well-behaved, sensible and smart children, but suddenly they made mistakes.Huang Rong helped Zhou Botong, an old urchin imprisoned on Peach Blossom Island, and Wanyan Kang almost beat to death the child of a prominent figure in the court.The two children are also far away. Although one is running away from home and the other is avoiding disaster, in the eyes of the two fathers, the meaning is similar.

Therefore, the two naturally have a lot of common language in being a father, especially in the aspect of being a father who is not easy, and they can always find a resonance.Apart from this aspect, Wanyan Honglie is also a talented person. His father, Zhang Zong, the former emperor of the Jin Kingdom, was also known as the emperor who was most proficient in Confucian culture in the history of the Jin Kingdom. Wanyan Honglie is not weaker than Naifu in this aspect.

He is also in charge of the household department, and he is extremely proficient in money and food.

He doesn't know much about Qimen Dunjia, but when it comes to poetry and songs, poetry and songs, arithmetic and businessmen, and even metaphysics, he can talk about it with Huang Yaoshi.

Besides, now Wanyan Honglie is no longer the young prince who was sent to the Song Dynasty as an envoy, he has been in the court for 18 years, among other things, his ability to read words and demeanor is also considered top-notch.Knowing Huang Yaoshi's Dongxie identity, he naturally wanted to win him over.During the conversation, he never talked about the Song and Jin affairs, but only talked about things that the two were interested in, and when he expounded his views, he also followed Huang Yaoshi's meaning.

Therefore, although Huang Yaoshi was feeling depressed at first, looking for someone to talk to, later on, he felt that it was a pity that Wanyan Honglie was a native of the Jin Kingdom.

The two old men left, but the three young men were still sitting in the yard drinking tea and chatting.

Huang Rong was talking about the customs of the sea, especially the merchants of various countries along the coast.People of later generations always think that Chinese people in ancient times have never seen Europeans with colorful hair and eyes. In fact, at least the Southern Song Dynasty that Wan Yankang saw was not the case.On the streets of Lin’an, there are many feudal merchants with beards and blue eyes wearing Han costumes, and some of them are even Han Chinese—or at least they think so—and have moved to the Central Plains since the Tang Dynasty.

In addition, the navy of the Southern Song Dynasty was strong, and it also had the credit from the West. The Southern Song Dynasty lost half of its country, but it was still as prosperous as it was, relying on sea transportation.Therefore, the navy in the Southern Song Dynasty even had the duty to fight against pirates and protect maritime merchants.Today, the maritime trade in Central Asia is under the control of the Southern Song Navy.

Wanyankang just found out about this situation when he was 12 years old, but he was stunned for a long time, because this is simply the age of great exploration in the East.

Now Huang Rong is talking about the merchant ships and even pirate ships she saw on Peach Blossom Island.She had also seen from a distance that the navy was fighting with foreign pirates.

After Huang Rong finished speaking, it was Ouyang Ke. He talked about the Western Regions. The Western Regions were originally a place where the kingdoms fought in chaos. Since the Jin Kingdom destroyed the Liao Kingdom and Yelu Dashi established the Western Liao Dynasty in the Western Regions, the chaos has become even more chaotic.And there are not only territorial and ethnic wars in that place, but also wars caused by religion, and even for some inexplicable reasons.

In the war in that place, the two countries were still allies when the war started, and became enemies halfway through the war, but when the war ended, the enemies became life and death brothers.

Especially the names of those countries are all messed up, Wanyan Kang and Huang Rong are dizzy after hearing it.

"I really have nothing to say." The three of them had said it, and it was supposed to be Wan Yankang's turn, but he waved his hand to show that he had nothing to say.

Ouyang Ke and Huang Rong naturally refused to agree, Huang Rong even stood up and shook Wanyan Kang's arm, causing Wanyan Kang to have no choice but to say: "I really don't know what to say, otherwise, if you ask, I can tell you what to say." Say it all."

"What do you mean you can say everything you can?" Ouyang Ke raised his eyebrows.

"Of course I can trust you two. If you ask me how old I am without wetting the bed, I can tell you." Huang Rong and Ouyang Ke couldn't help laughing, Huang Rong even pinched Wanyan Kang lightly, and said to the girl What bedwetting, her big brother is too... "But there are some things that cannot be said, just cannot be said."

Seeing Wanyan Kang's first half of the sentence was playful, but the second half was serious.If someone else said that, Ouyang Ke and Huang Rong would most likely feel that this person is deliberately pretentious.What is emphasized in the arena is freedom, loyalty, and everything that can be said to others.Even though they are in awe of some heroes like Yue Wumu, they still can't understand the way of the officialdom, which doesn't just refer to such unhealthy tendencies as corruption.Also includes any other rules, disciplines, constraints.

But this was said by Wan Yankang, although the two of them were somewhat awkward, they could only understand.

"Then I want to ask Guangli, what is it like to fight?" Ouyang Ke waved his fan - I don't know where he found it - asked Jiang, who was a little cold for a while.

"It's cold in winter and hot in summer." Wan Yankang replied straightforwardly, but received unanimous stares from Ouyang Ke and Huang Rong.

"Don't fool around!" In fact, the two of them just wanted Wanyan Kang to talk about his heroic deeds on the Shaanxi battlefield. This should be a common thing. Who in the Jianghu would not want to tell others about their heroic deeds?It's just that some people are more reserved and only tell people close to them, while some people have a big mouth and thick skin, and like to add oil and vinegar to talk everywhere.

Unexpectedly, Wanyan Kang let out a long sigh, with a sad expression on his face: "War is very tiring, dirty, bitter, and painful." This time, there are five words more than last time.

Huang Rong was a little unhappy: "Didn't elder brother look down on Rong'er?" Ouyang Ke was similar, they were all like this, but Wan Yankang only said eighteen words in total, which was really too perfunctory for them.

Wanyan Kang's brows became tighter: "Rong'er, is it mine? I..." Wanyan Kang closed his eyes, "Today, when I think back to how I fought in the past, all I can remember are dead people. Those in the same robe, those of the enemy, those of the common people..."

In his past and present lives, Wanyan Kang is definitely a veteran.The enemies he personally sent on the road were not one thousand, but eight hundred.He watched the dead comrades, let alone how long it had been.Even though he was using the soldiers of the Kingdom of Jin to stop Mongolia's horseshoes, they were indeed his soldiers, his comrades-in-arms, and even his brothers!

Moreover, Wanyan Kang also has a bad habit brought over from his previous life-he least likes to tell people about his wars, even if he really won, even if he really killed the person who deserved to be killed, even if he really protected countless people. People, but his soldiers, his comrades-in-arms, and his brothers are dead!

In the previous life, few people died, but in this life...

"Three brothers, all enlisted in the army, the eldest was already dead, and when the second was dying, he asked me to take care of his younger brother and leave them the only seedling for their family. As a result, after the battle was over, when I returned to the city, I found out that the third The younger brother also died in battle while defending the city, so it was one day earlier than his second brother."

"The Mongols would soak their arrowhead weapons in the excrement and urine of people and horses. Such weapons are poisonous. Even if they are slightly injured, they have to cut off all the carrion around them. But sometimes they fight, It's too late to cut, and when the beating is over, it's not just a piece of meat that needs to be cut..."

"At the beginning when I was leading the team, what worried me most was that the recruits would not be able to kill people. But then I was worried that they were too desperate, because most of the enlisted Han Chinese had family feuds. Even if there were no family feuds, I heard that the Mongols attacked another village and town, and pulled the team over there—when I went there, I was still a simple and honest farmer, and when I came back, I was a red-eyed butcher.”

"What I dislike most are night battles and sneak attacks. Soldiers can't be seen at night. If 2000 people are pulled out, only [-] people can reach the place. The rest are lost, sprained, and fell into the ditch. , Some people are even so inexplicable that they don't see people alive or dead. The sneak attack is not sure too big, if it succeeds, it is naturally good. If it doesn't work, at least [-]% of the sneak attack team will be included."

"The most embarrassing time for me was when the Mongols broke up the team and hid in the meadow with only a few people. Just a dozen steps away from us, the Mongols scraped off the captured brothers one by one. .”

Wanyan Kang didn't use any fancy rhetoric, he just spoke very straight, even dull.After not talking for a while, Huang Rong ran away crying.Because she understood that Wanyan Kang's seventeen words were not perfunctory for her.

It was cold in winter, so cold that his whole body was covered with chilblains, and the blade stuck to his hands, but in order to fight, he had to tear the blade down with the flesh.

Summer is hot, the sweat is so hot that the flesh is rotten, and the rice is cooked on the armor, but you still have to rush when you see the enemy. After a few hours of fighting, whether you died from the enemy's weapon or from heatstroke No one can tell who is dehydrated.

Fighting is tiring, dirty, bitter, and painful.

When you fight, you don’t sleep and rest, you have to eat, drink, and scatter on horseback. Taking a bath is a dream. Wanyan Kang’s command like this is fine. When it’s convenient, you can find a place, but it can’t be too far away, in case the enemy’s situation changes suddenly. , or encounter small groups of enemies.Can you not be tired, dirty, or bitter?

As for the pain, it was all the more real.In war, you will be injured and bleed. In this world, there are generals who go to the front line but are not injured, but they are all geniuses, absolute famous generals.But Wanyan Kang is definitely not that kind of famous general. If he wants to survive every battle, he has to work hard.

"Guangli."

"Ok?"

"You...how can you be so dangerous as a Dutong?"

"I'm a governor. If I go to the battlefield, I may die at any time. Ouyang... If I really die in battle, please take care of my father and tie him to the country of Song."

"Don't tell me you thought so long ago." Ouyang Ke's expression changed suddenly.

"When I arrived in Shaanxi at the age of 14, I thought I would die. But asking you to save my father, this is really what I just thought of."

"That's why you have never married a wife, and you have been..." Ouyang Ke's expression was complicated, men have hero complexes, and he knew something about Wanyan Kang's thoughts at first, but now he really understands , "Guangli..."

"Ok?"

"Don't think I'll let you go." He grabbed Wanyan Kang's hand, but Wanyan Kang just smiled lightly and didn't answer him.

Two days later, the team finally returned to Lin'an.However, there was news from the court of the Southern Song Dynasty that they wanted to give the mission an extra gift—the Mongolia mission①!

The author has something to say: ①In this year in history, that is, AD 1213, the Mongolian army did send envoys to the Southern Song Dynasty to request the Southern Song Dynasty to send troops, but when the envoys arrived in Haozhou, they were driven away by the Southern Song border guards and later captured by the Jin people.That is to say, the mission did not enter the Southern Song Dynasty at all, and was driven away orz.