Moutuo Hill.
The Jin army commander Wuliebu and the deputy commander Jiemu looked at everything in front of them with dark faces. The Tiansijian was charred black, and the legendary mountain of grass had turned into ashes. As for the war horses, not even the horse hair could be seen.
Jie Mu turned her head and said sternly, "Pharmacist Guo, come here."
A burly general approached from behind, bowed, and was about to speak when Jiemu slapped him in the face and angrily demanded, "Master Guo, where's the fodder you mentioned? Where's the warhorse you mentioned?"
Pharmacist Guo covered his face and said, "The Song people must have burned the fodder, and the war horses must have been driven into Tokyo City."
Jammu raised her fist to hit him.
Wulibu stopped them and said, "Uncle, stop fighting. Although the Song people are cowardly, they are not fools. If the Jin Kingdom attacks Song, they will definitely not be willing to leave their horses and food to us."
Although Jamu was of a different generation than Oli, she was somewhat afraid of her nephew. She held back her fists and said bitterly, "This fellow keeps saying the Song people are cowards. If we attack quickly, they won't have time to withdraw their horses. As a result, no matter how hard we try, this place is still burned to the ground."
Wulibu looked at Pharmacist Guo and said gently, "Pharmacist, it's winter now. People can be easy to deal with, but war horses cannot do without fodder. You are familiar with the Song Dynasty, so the fodder problem falls on you."
Pharmacist Guo bowed and said, "I will take people to collect fodder right away."
"Um!"
After Guo Yaoshi left, Wulibu looked up at the sky and said to Jiemu with a smile, "Look at the sky, it's going to snow soon."
Jie Mu laughed and said, "People in the south cannot stand the cold. Standing on the city wall in the wind and snow is really hard for them."
Wulibu nodded and pointed to Moutuogang. "The terrain here is open and surrounded by water on three sides. It's very suitable for setting up camp... Uncle, let's set up camp here."
"good!"
Guo Yaoshi was a native of Bohai and was born in Liaodong. After the war between the Liao Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty broke out, many hungry people appeared in Liaodong. The Liao Dynasty recruited these hungry people to form the "Resentment Army" with Guo Yaoshi as the commander.
"Yuan Jun" means resentment towards the Jurchens.
The reason you are starving and being bullied is all because of the Jurchens. If you want to blame someone, blame the Jurchens.
After all, Guo Yaoshi was a Han Chinese from Bohai, and was suspected by the Liao people. In the fourth year of Xuanhe, he led his troops to surrender to the Song Dynasty and was highly valued by the Song Dynasty.
After this guy surrendered to the Song Dynasty, Guo Yaoshi submitted a heartfelt surrender letter, expressing his strong sense of national identity with the Song Dynasty. He also said that he was originally loyal to the Liao Dynasty, but Empress Xiao repaid him with resentment, and he had no choice but to surrender to the Song Dynasty.
Because Guo Yaoshi was familiar with the situation in the Liao Kingdom and possessed an important armed force such as the Ever-Victorious Army, the Song Dynasty appointed him as the Inspector of Enzhou and subsequently joined the war against the Liao Kingdom.
Although he did not perform well in the war against the Liao Dynasty, Emperor Zhao Ji favored him and summoned him to the capital, gave him a house and concubines, and personally summoned him to the Yanchun Palace in the back garden.
However, Guo Yaoshi was fickle and capricious. As soon as the Song-Jin War began, he surrendered to Wuliebu.
Since Guo Yaoshi was very familiar with the situation of the Song army, Wuliebu went south to attack Song and ordered Guo Yaoshi to be the vanguard.
The Emperor of the Song Dynasty abdicated, and Olib, fearing the Song Dynasty might be prepared, considered withdrawing his forces. However, Guo Yaoshi offered a warning: "The Southern Dynasty may not be prepared. As long as we march swiftly and rush to the Yellow River, we will surely win."
Wuli did not follow his advice and led his troops south.
Since Guo Yaoshi had played ball at Moutuogang before, he knew that the Song Dynasty's Tiansijian had 20,000 horses and mountains of fodder, so he guided Wuliebuxian to capture Moutuogang first.
However, man proposes, God disposes. No matter how hard they tried, they were still beaten to the punch by someone else. Their horses were gone, and their feed was burned in a fire.
Pharmacist Guo gritted his teeth in hatred.
No matter how much you hate it, you still have to do what the Jin Marshal tells you to do.
But it’s freezing cold, where can we find feed?
Just when I was sitting in the tent worrying, my servant came to report that there was a man named Liu San outside, who said he was an old friend of yours.
When Pharmacist Guo heard this, he was overjoyed and said, "Hurry and ask him to come in."
This Liu San was his spy left in the capital.
After Liu San came in, Pharmacist Guo asked anxiously, "Who did this Moutuogang incident?"
"Master Zhang."
When Pharmacist Guo heard that it was him, he was startled.
"At noon the day before yesterday, Zhang Tianshi drove a large number of war horses to the city of Kaifeng and handed them over to Prime Minister Li Gang."
Pharmacist Guo was not concerned about the warhorse, but the feed. He asked Liu San, "Do you have any bean feed?"
"No, that day, people in Kaifeng City could see smoke all over the sky from Moutuogang. It must have been burned out."
Pharmacist Guo frowned and pondered for a while, then opened the tent and walked out.
He wandered around the charred ashes of Moutuogang for a while, bending down from time to time to dig away the ashes and examine them carefully.
Not long after, he went to see Wuliebu excitedly.
"Marshal, although the hay at Moutuogang was burned, the bean fodder was taken away?"
"How do you know the beans were transported away and not burned?"
"Bean feed is not like grass feed. Even if you set it on fire, it is not easy to burn it all. I just checked and found no signs of burning the bean feed."
"Oh!" Wulibu looked up at him, "What do you want to say?"
"According to the information I received, everything that happened at Moutuogang was the work of Zhang Tianshi. He drove thousands of war horses to Kaifeng, but did not send any bean fodder."
"You mean...?"
Pharmacist Guo smiled triumphantly, "I've determined that the bean fodder was secretly hidden by Tianshi Zhang. As long as we find Tianshi Zhang, we can find the grass fodder."
After hearing what Guo Yaoshi said, Wulibu hesitated for a moment and asked him, "I've heard of Zhang Tianshi more than once in the Great Jin Kingdom. It's said that he's a deity who has descended to earth and possesses immense magical powers."
The Jurchens were not yet civilized and believed in ghosts and gods.
Pharmacist Guo shook his head and said, "It's just a rumor. Don't take it seriously."
"I heard that he can summon heavenly thunder and once demonstrated it in front of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty and Cai Jing. This should be true, right?"
"This... should be true."
"Bullshit about summoning heavenly thunder." Jiemu, who was sitting nearby, said harshly, "I never believe in such nonsense... Pharmacist Guo, where is this Heavenly Master Zhang you mentioned? I want to go meet him."
"Uncle, please don't worry." Wulibu quickly stopped Jiemu and said to Guo Yaoshi, "Go and find out what happened to Zhang Tianshi and report back to me."
Pharmacist Guo bowed and accepted the order, then turned and left.
After he left, Jiemu said, "Nianhan, if this Zhang Tianshi is really a deity who has descended to earth, I really want to meet him."
Wulibu shook his head and said, "It's best not to provoke him before we know his true strengths and weaknesses."
"Are you afraid of him?"
"Ning Shuge has been an envoy to the Song Dynasty for many years and holds Zhang Tianshi in high esteem. He once heard Cai Jing say that Zhang Tianshi could kill a mule with a single strike of his finger... Uncle, if you think you're tougher than a mule, you can go and see Zhang Tianshi for a try."
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