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Even though it was the dry season in winter, the Yellow River was still very wide. The high embankment towered like a small mountain on this side, making people look very small.
Ever since the Wu Rui Battalion was defeated, they had been living nearby for some time. This was not the first time that Ning Yi had come to this Yellow River embankment. After giving some general instructions, he went down the slope. It was already past noon, and the wind was cold. Tian Donghan came over to help him, but Ning Yi waved his hand and refused.
Tian Donghan was nearly forty years old, while Ning Yi was only in his early twenties. From this, it could be seen that Ning Yi was not at the age where he needed help. But after the crushing defeat that night, he had gathered the routed soldiers in this area, carried out all kinds of propaganda, and guided the hearts of the people. In the end, the morale of the army had been boosted in a small area. At the same time, Takeshi was still continuing to strengthen the walls and clear the fields. All of this was presided over by the young man in front of him.
In the early morning of the 25th of September, after the Jurchens broke through the Qi County camp, they also occupied the grain depot. At that time, the remaining troops of the Wu Rui Battalion had long been scared out of their wits. The Jurchens killed here and there, so they more or less let down their guard. Ning Yi led several dozen people in and burned the provisions before escaping. The Jurchens chased after them. Although they were lucky enough to escape in the end, most of the survivors among them had light or severe injuries.
After this incident, they immediately turned to searching for Qin Shaoqian, gathering the routed soldiers, and carrying out the task of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields. Ning Yi's recovery was extremely slow. Although as the leader, he only had to take charge of the overall situation, in reality, Ning Yi often had no time to sleep at night. After the Female Zhenren took over Qi County, the Ministry of Revenue's various intelligence reports could not be transferred in time and could only be burned. Much of it was lost. In addition, communication methods were limited in this era. The small teams sent out by Takeshi had to receive orders and communicate with each other through Qi County. Once this matter came out, the entire framework was broken. It was easier said than done to reorganize it.
Moreover, since the armies in the surrounding areas had all been defeated, Takeshi's means of supervising the evacuation of the people who had taken refuge in the wilderness was even more limited.
In the first few days after the battle, Ning Yi spent most of his time on a stretcher and on a bed. Fortunately, his mind was still clear. Generally speaking, after experiencing such a crushing defeat, most people would sink into depression for a period of time, but only Ning Yi, who was still heavily injured, actively responded. He looked for places around him that could accommodate the defeated soldiers, looked for officials who still had main functions, looked for Qin Shaoqian, prepared an excuse to gather the scattered soldiers, got in touch with Takeshi members who might be scattered everywhere, reorganized the information from the Ministry of Revenue, checked for any omissions, and so on.
There were not enough people, most of them were heavily injured, mentally exhausted, and under heavy psychological pressure … These troubles initially weighed on almost everyone. And at that time, in such a chaotic situation, no matter how clear the instructions were, it would be difficult to get results in the end. However, Tian Donghan and the others, including the hundreds of soldiers who followed Takeshi that night, were almost all urged and incited by this stubborn, powerful, and almost crazy attitude.
When everyone was exhausted, the young man in front of them chose not to comfort and rest, but to make them fight for their lives.
"If complaining is useful, I will start scolding now for three days and three nights …
"When you fall into the snow without any clothes, the first thing you have to do is make yourself move. Hesitation will lead to death …
"Not everything can be abandoned. At this point, I don't care how difficult it is for you, whether you are pitiful or not. If you want to cry, no one will care about you! This is life. In front of you is a mountain crack, you can only squeeze forward! Even if your bones are broken, you have to squeeze out. You only have two paths. Either you squeeze out, and everything you do now will be your capital in the future, or you die here. No matter how pitiful you are now, no one will sympathize with you! So, no matter how powerful the Female Zhenren is, how useless you are, if you have such thoughts in your mind, go out and hang yourself! You can only remember, now! No matter how difficult it is, you can only do what you can do! Don't think about not being able to do it, because if you can't do it, you will die! "
At that time, the young man on the stretcher was like this. He gave all kinds of accurate orders while encouraging everyone. Those who were seriously injured were powerless. The first to move were naturally the lightly injured among Takeshi. At this time, the situation outside was still chaotic. Even though the orders were given clearly, the people who were sent out could achieve their goals, contact Takeshi's companions, or find an authorized government office, but there were still not many. Everyone had lost a lot of information from the Ministry of Revenue in the process of escaping and moving. If they wanted to fill in the gaps, they could only rely on the memories of the people involved. As a result, it was even more of a headache.
But this kind of desperate attitude made everyone's work silent and orderly — at least, there were a lot of things waiting for them to do. The soldiers who had escaped with Takeshi had followed them. When some of the seriously injured among Takeshi began to recover, the tentacles that had been sent out found a few nearby Takeshi teams, and they began to come over to ask what was arranged for them to do.
More people were sent out, found people that could be gathered, and then came back. Like gears being buckled one by one, it produced a chain reaction. They lived in a small mountain village by the Yellow River where the people had already been moved. Every day, the people there gritted their teeth as they worked, went out to find people, dug trenches in front of the valley, fixed barricades, and searched for information in the surroundings. Everything seemed to be controlled by an invisible hand. Ning Yi, who was lying on the bed, personally asked about almost every matter. And in those few days, every new batch of members could make people feel excited, and every time they found the necessary medicine, it could make people feel at ease, and everyone's recovery could almost make people feel stronger.
In hindsight, even if they did not do this, after a period of time, most of the scattered soldiers could find where they belonged, and some of the Takeshi members could still be contacted, but there was almost no way to achieve this effect that was almost like "quenching", making everyone fall into a sense of urgency and fanaticism. And all this was done by the young man in front of them, and the price he paid was that his injuries were difficult to heal for many days.
Then, he contacted the scattered soldiers led by Qin Shaoqian. In the battle that night, Qin Shaoqian led the elites of the Wu Rui Battalion to the front line, but he was also seriously injured and fainted several times during the escape. But these people's bravery in fighting finally gave him a chance of survival. He led thousands of people all the way, and later dealt with two battles. When they found him, this unit was also gathering the scattered soldiers, and there were about four thousand people gathered. Only then did the two sides begin to merge.
Among these four thousand people, about a thousand were the elites under Qin Shaoqian's command, and about three hundred had received training in Lone Dragon Hill. Although their loyalty might not be to Ning Yi, as long as they came over, they would be the people that could be used.
When the two troops began to merge, problems began to appear. Ning Yi did not have the right to command the army. What he was responsible for was not commanding the army. Before Qin Shaoqian came, because Takeshi took the lead, everyone was influenced and obeyed Ning Yi's deployment. When more than four thousand people were mixed in, some of the generals of the Wu Rui Battalion, and even the generals of the other troops that were gathered along the way, saw the orderly work and began to question this matter.
At that time, Qin Shaoqian was also recovering from his serious injuries. Ning Yi went over to Qin Shaoqian's side and chatted for about ten minutes. Then, Qin Shaoqian took his broadsword, and the two of them went out to smash the generals and their personal guards. In fact, in this camp in the valley, at this time, Takeshi's public opinion infiltrated the soldiers very quickly. After such a major defeat, everyone felt aggrieved and frightened. In the previous work, everyone would always talk about these things. In the eyes of the soldiers below, these things naturally had to be attributed to the cowardice of the upper echelons, the infighting for power, the lack of trust in each other, and so on.
At this time, the corruption of the Wu dynasty's army was obvious. Everyone knew that they were taking bribes without pay, and even participated in it. However, this fiasco and Takeshi's pragmatism and incitement separated the nature of the matter.
"Everyone is going to die. The Woman Zhenren is coming, and Bianliang City is going to be gone. Even the Wu dynasty is going to die. If we don't do something practical, our whole families will really die …" This was Takeshi's subtle propaganda during the operation. And Ning Yi's attitude and methods were spread by word of mouth, and many people nodded in agreement. At this time, the private discussion of several officers undoubtedly became a model of infighting. When Qin Shaoqian, as the commanding officer, threw this out, he immediately received everyone's support.
In the Wu dynasty's army, the soldiers didn't know the general, and the general didn't know the soldiers. Qin Shaoqian was a mere military officer, and he might not be able to control the Wu Rui Battalion even if he tried his best. But at this time, the fiasco caused these officers' control over the soldiers at the bottom level to begin to fracture. As the commanding officer of the Wu Rui Battalion, Qin Shaoqian's name was useful. This declaration forcibly tore apart the connection between the bottom and middle ranks among the more than four thousand people. Except for the personal guards of a few generals, almost no soldiers stood on their side. So much so that everyone looked at these personal guards as "traitors" and "traitors".
After seizing power, Qin Shaoqian's control over these soldiers at the bottom level finally returned to his hands. And the biggest consequence was that Qin Shaoqian had to stay in bed for several days because of his serious injuries.
He divided the responsibility and told others, "You did nothing wrong." Telling others that it was time for them to start anew, to forget the past, to rope in the majority of people, to attack a minority of people, and to turn guilt and frustration into fanaticism … In a sense, these were all methods to incite and deceive people. They were methods of political warfare. But at this moment, Ning Yi did not feel any guilt in his heart because there was no other path he could take.
Under the premise that Bianliang City might be lost, everything had reached the most dangerous time. If he could control the power in front of him, he should control it more.
From Tian Donghan's point of view, after everything was broken up, he reconstructed the framework of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields. He still firmly pushed the operation of the entire thing forward. He propagated and controlled the defeated soldiers in front of him, allowing everything to begin in an orderly manner. It produced an atmosphere that was different from before. Everything that the young man in front of him did, although sometimes it seemed cold, made him feel respect. Respect was not enough to describe this feeling. In the past, when the Bamboo Shop carried out disaster relief and fought with heroes from all walks of life, he admired the methods of this boss. But in front of him, even though his body was a little weak, it showed a willpower so strong that it could crush everything. Even a Jianghu person like him, who was used to seeing ruthless people, felt a little scared.
Going all the way down the embankment, the village in the valley below was originally called Xia Village. At this time, there were about 14,000 soldiers gathered in this valley. Around the valley, layers of trenches and barricades stretched out. Because the defeated soldiers gathered in a hurry, and there were many people, the living conditions were extremely bad. When Ning Yi approached the row of shacks where he lived, he saw a girl brewing medicine outside the shack — it was Juan'er.
The Su family was originally a cloth merchant in Jiangning, which was neither big nor small. Occasionally, they had to deal with some side affairs in politics. Among the three maids of his wife, Su Tan'er, Juan'er was relatively quiet. In the past, she was the one who handled such things. Later, when he managed a part of the Office of Secret Investigations, Tan'er also intervened, and Juan'er also came into contact with these things. This time, when the Jin people went south, Ning Yi moved Tan'er and the others away, but Su Tan'er did not want things in the north to completely get out of control, so she transferred Juan'er to the edge of the battlefield to support. After the defeat of Wu Ruiying, when Ning Yi met the maid he found after going through many twists and turns, he could no longer complain. After all, during this period of time, Juan'er took care of him and helped him deal with many things. She had also helped him a lot.
When the girl who was brewing medicine saw him, she ran to help him. Ning Yi waved his hand again and pointed to a nearby room. It was where Qin Shaoqian, who was still recovering from his injuries, lived.
Entering through the door, Qin Shaoqian, who was sitting on the bed, was reading an old military book that he carried with him. As the second young master of the Qin family, although he was a general who led troops in the past, his personality was more or less flamboyant. At this time, he was blind in one eye, but his temperament looked more stable and solid.
Most real men are tempered from hardships.
"You haven't recovered from your injuries, and you went out again." Qin Shaoqian put away the military book. "Sit."
"It looks like I'm reluctant, but it's actually not bad." Ning Yi sat down on the chair beside the bed. "I have an idea recently."
"Tell me about it."
Ning Yi said what he was thinking about. As Qin Shaoqian listened, he frowned slightly. In the end, his gaze became extremely serious. After pondering for a while, he asked, "Is it possible to work?"
"I don't know. The details can be discussed. I can only do my best. In the past, when I talk about other people, all kinds of conspiracies and tricks, I laugh at them for being clowns. But without enough bargaining chips, anyone can only be a clown, "Ning Yi said." I'm the same now. "
Qin Shaoqian thought for a while and raised his head. "I have always believed in your plans. You make the decision on this matter. I will support you."
"Mm." Ning Yi nodded and stood up.
After he left the room, he walked to Juan'er, who was pouring medicine. Halfway, he stretched out his hand and raised his head.
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