Chapter VI The Northern Expedition to Zhao

"We are the generals of the defeated army, and it is a little painful to call the ministers the imperial brothers. Zhao Congjun lowered his head.

"Brother Huang, I guess you misunderstood me, you and I are a family, a few days ago I was misunderstood by rumors about the Song Kingdom, Uncle Huang sent a letter to explain clearly, in order to block those mouths, Uncle Huang sacrificed all eighteen cities, this time let Brother Huang come to discuss something. The emperor sat back on the dragon chair and let Zhao Congjun, Zong Zheng and Lu Hua sit on the chairs prepared earlier.

"You all stand down!" the emperor told everyone in the Golden Luan Hall to withdraw.

"Brother Huang, these two ......" The emperor looked at Zhao Congjun, then at Zong Zheng and Lu Hua.

"Oh, these two are their own people, but it doesn't hurt to say it. Zhao Congjun looked at Lu Hua.

"Brother Huang, that's the case, I just ascended the throne, it's hard to convince the public, and there are rumors that let me start a war against the emperor's uncle, and now my first heart is the head of the four generalissimos, Wanyan Thunderbolt, he has an army of 150,000, and he is the illegitimate son of the emperor of Liao, although the emperor of Liao does not know his existence, but once the Liao country has a war with our country, this is a big hidden danger, his 150,000 army is all his sworn friend, it is not easy to replace. Now there is a locust plague in the Tang Kingdom in the east and a plague in the Liao country in the west, if the Liao country is attacked, the plague infects the soldiers, and then infects the whole country, it is not good. The emperor frowned, looking particularly helpless.

"Brother Zongzheng, how do you think this problem can be solved?" Zhao Congjun looked at Zongzheng.

"Dare to ask the emperor's brother, who is this Zongzheng brother......" The emperor looked at Zongzheng as if he was holding a life-saving straw.

"This is my sworn brother, and also my military advisor, I speak more straightforwardly, I hope that in the future, there is something offensive in my words, please forgive me. Zhao Congjun introduced Zongzheng.

"What is the good plan of the Zongzheng military division?" the emperor left the dragon chair, walked in front of Zongzheng, and took his hands.

"At first, I thought that His Majesty was testing us, just now I listened to the conversation between His Majesty and my brother-in-law, it should be a sick and disorderly doctor, as the so-called once a son of heaven and a courtier, His Majesty has concerns, it is normal, to say a good policy, there are many ways, the simplest is that the East and West are currently stable, we can send him to attack the northern Zhao State, if the Zhao State is taken, the Jin State will expand its territory, and on the way back, you can find someone to assassinate you, if you can't take the Zhao State, you can be convicted. Zong Zheng broke away from the emperor's hand.

"He is excellent in martial arts, Jin Guo can be said to be difficult to find an opponent who can match him, who to send to assassinate him?" the emperor turned his back to Zong Zheng.

"I should be able to. Zong Zheng clenched his hands into fists.

"Don't be upset when you say you, it's not an exaggeration to say that you are white-skinned and beautiful, and your skin and bones are full of bones, how can you fight a good battle, and you can fight a perfect thunderbolt with a tiger's back and a bear's waist? If you say that brother with a tiger's back and a bear's waist and dark skin, I still believe that you are a military advisor, not a general. The emperor turned and pointed at Lu Hua.

"Your Majesty might as well find a master to try. Zong Zheng walked to Zhao Congjun's side.

"Let Gonggong Li and You Li come in. The Emperor returned to the dragon chair and sat down.

After a while, Gonggong Li and You Li walked into the Jinluan Hall and bowed to the emperor, knowing that it was to compete with Zongzheng.

"Zong Zheng Junshi, do you think you are competing with Gonggong Li with his bare hands, or with the first master of You Li Ouchi who holds a knife?"

"Let's go together!" Zong Zheng finished and rushed towards Gonggong Li.

You Li pulled out the knife, threw the scabbard, and slashed at Zongzheng's head, and Gonggong Li jumped into the air and kicked at Zongzheng's head.

Zong Zheng leaned back, his back to the ground, supported the ground with his right hand, and kicked hard with his right foot to his left wrist, which was holding the knife in his right hand.

Seeing this, You Li had no time to withdraw his knife, so he could only hold the handle tightly, and was kicked in the wrist by Zong Zheng, the pain was unbearable, he withdrew the big knife, and held the handle of the knife with his left hand, Zong Zheng stepped forward, stood up, and held the ankles of Gonggong Li with both hands, Gonggong Li had all his strength on his feet, and his ankles were grabbed in the air, and it was inconvenient to use force.

Zong Zheng smashed Li Gonggong hard at You Li, You Li grabbed Li Gonggong's shoulder, Li Gonggong took advantage of a front flip, and his feet landed on the ground behind You Li.

You Li rushed to Zong Zheng with a knife in his left hand, Zong Zheng jumped into the air, jumped over You Li, separated his feet, and kicked at Li Gonggong horizontally, Li Gonggong did not move, and also planned to grab Zong Zheng's ankles, but Zong Zheng's momentum was too great, Li Gonggong did not catch it, and was kicked by Zong Zheng in Li Gonggong's chest, was kicked far away, and smashed to the ground.

After Zong Zheng landed, he rushed to You Li again, You Li raised the knife again, slashing at Zong Zheng, Zong Zheng's body flashed, dodged You Li's big knife, grabbed You Li's left wrist with both hands, and quickly stepped on You Li's feet twice with his right foot, and then bent his left knee to hit You Li's chest, at this moment You Li's attention was no longer concentrated, Zong Zheng took the opportunity to twist You Li's left wrist with both hands, and the blade was on You Li's neck.

"Offended!" Zong Zheng took a step back after letting go of his hands, clenching his hands into fists, and Gonggong Li also stood up with his chest covered at this time.

"Brother moves quickly, and his strength is big enough, admire and admire!" You Li pointed down with a big knife and clenched his fists with both hands.

"Gonggong Li and You Li should go down. "The emperor did not move in the dragon chair.

After You Li and Gonggong Li bowed to the emperor, You Li picked up the scabbard that he had thrown on the ground before, put the knife in the scabbard, and walked out of the Jinluan Palace.

"Brother Huang's military advisor is really both civil and military, I think there is still hope for Yan Thunderbolt after the assassination. The Emperor patted the handle of the dragon chair.

"Your Majesty, if you think I am credible, please wait for me to lead an army of 150,000 to attack Zhao with Wanyan Thunderbolt as a military advisor. On the way back, I will also find an opportunity to avoid a mutiny, and secretly kill him, so as to get rid of His Majesty's troubles. Zong Zheng clasped his hands into fists and rushed at the emperor.

"Okay, good, then do it, your brother Lu Hua and my imperial brother are waiting for your good news in Shangjing. The Emperor stood up excitedly.

Zong Zheng knew that this was taking Zhao Congjun and Lu Hua as hostages, first, to prevent the Song State from recovering the country, and secondly, to prevent him from colluding with Wanyan Thunderbolt.

"Your Majesty, my uncle and aunt, that is, Lu Hua's brother's biological parents are still in Qicheng, don't worry, I will definitely bring the head of Wanyan Thunderbolt to see Your Majesty, but Brother Lu Hua has some things by my side, I hope Your Majesty will let Lu Hua go with me." ”

The Emperor lowered his head and hesitated for a moment.

"Okay! Just according to what the military advisor said! I will write the holy decree, and you will take Gonggong Li to give Yan Thunderbolt rice paper and set off tomorrow. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister has one more thing to ask for!" Zong Zheng looked at Zhao Congjun.

"Military advisor, I met the imperial brother for the first time, and I still have a lot to say, so the imperial brother will not follow you to attack the Zhao State. The emperor's expression was a little displeased.

"Your Majesty misunderstood, I have a note here, I hope Your Majesty will send someone to make 10,000 copies according to the operation method on the note, pay attention to isolation when packing, avoid damage in transportation, tomorrow I will take these things to attack Zhao State." Zong Zheng dragged a piece of paper in both hands.

"No problem! The holy decree is finished, you and Lu Hua, and Gonggong Li should go. After speaking, the emperor walked up to Zongzheng, picked up the piece of paper, and put the holy decree in Zongzheng's hand.

Zong Zheng and Lu Hua withdrew from the Jinluan Palace, and left the palace with Gonggong Li at the gate and went to the Marshal's Mansion in Wanyan Perak.

"When Zong Zheng's military division competed with you, why did you think your figure seemed familiar?" When he arrived at the Marshal's Mansion, Gonggong Li frowned and looked at Zong Zheng.

"That must be a delusion. Zong Zheng smiled.

"The minister has finished Yan Thunderbolt to receive the order!" Wan Yan Thunderbolt knelt in front of them.

Zong Zheng looked at Wanyan who knelt down, with a big square face, a full beard, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and the temperament exuded from his body made people a little afraid.

"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said. Today, Zhao wants to unite with North Korea to invade the territory of our Jin State, and specially let Wanyan Thunderbolt be the generalissimo of the Northern Expedition, Zong Zheng is the military advisor, and Lu Hua is the supervisor of the army, leading the 150,000 army to set off tomorrow. Marshal Wanyan will accept the decree!" Gonggong Li handed the holy decree to Wanyan Thunderbolt, who borrowed the holy decree and stood up.

"Gonggong Li, who is this Zongzheng and Lu Hua, haven't you heard of it?" Wanyan looked at Gonggong Li with the holy decree.

"These two are Zongzheng Junshi and Lu Jianjun, let's talk, I'm back to the palace. After Gonggong Li finished speaking, he walked out of the marshal's mansion.

"You two, please take a seat!" Wan Yan thunderbolted and asked Zong Zheng and Lu Hua to sit down.

"General, I want to bow to you, and when we first met, I felt that it was too late to meet you. Zong Zheng looked at Yan Yan with a thunderbolt.

"The two of you are supervised by Your Majesty, everyone knows that my mother died early, I joined the army early, it is a blessing to live to this day, Your Majesty doubts my loyalty, and forces me to obey, you can tell Your Majesty these words, go and ask for credit." After Yan Yan finished speaking, he got up and wanted to leave.

"Brother Wanyan is slow, I have a big matter, it belongs to the Jiu Clan, but it is a good thing for you, do you dare to do it with me?" Zong Zheng hurriedly stopped Wanyan Thunderbolt.

"My family is full, even the dogs are fed, what am I afraid of, you just say. Wanyan thunderbolt glanced at Zongzheng.

"Build our own country!" blurted out Zong Zheng.

Frightened, Lu Hua stood up, "Are you crazy! Brother, this is Jin Guo! This is Shangjing, this is the Marshal's Mansion!"

"Yo! I'm not a little timid! I like your character! Come on, I don't think you're a mouthful. Wanyan sat back in his chair.

"Brother, don't talk nonsense, this is a taboo for the Nine Clans. Lu Hua grabbed Zong Zheng's shoulder.

"This time I will attack Zhao State, take Zhao State as my territory, and then go north to take South Korea, during this period I will establish diplomacy with Tang State in the East and Liao State in the West, so that Jin State will not dare to go north. Zong Zheng's serious expression made Wanyan Thunderbolt feel awe.

"Do you mean to let me go to Liao to establish diplomacy? Even if I build a country, I am not the emperor's material, and it's okay to fight and kill. Wanyan took a sip of water.

"Then I will be the emperor, you will be the founding marshal, for the Tang and Liao countries, I have my own good policy to establish diplomacy, and your soldiers' families are all in the Jin country, we will take Zhao and Han as soon as possible, and on the grounds that the class teacher will return to the dynasty, we will rob the city wherever we go, what do you think?" Zong Zheng became more and more excited the more he spoke.

"Charge me for rebellion and kill me, you are so clever. Wan Yan Thunderbolt was a little alert.

"Let's take Zhao Kingdom first. After Zong Zheng finished speaking, he left with Lu Hua.

"It turns out that you are planning to kill Yan Thunderbolt, I thought you really wanted to rebel. Lu Hua said to Zong Zheng in the inn where the emperor arranged accommodation.

"I'm telling the truth, but it's okay to reach the emperor's ears, the emperor will think like you that I am planning to kill him, tomorrow when I leave the city, you will go back to Qicheng to take your uncle and aunt and sister Lu Yue to our military camp in Zhao State, and I can't give up the matter of establishing an empire." After saying that, Zong Zheng fell asleep in bed.

The next day, the emperor and Zhao Congjun gave Wanyan a thunderbolt outside the city, and Zongzheng saw them off with an army of 150,000.

By the time the thunderbolt and Zongzheng and their army arrived at the border of Zhao and set up camp, Lu Hua had already gone to Qicheng to borrow Lu Yuqi and them and go to the border of Zhao.

In the camp of Wanyan Thunderbolt, 200,000 troops had been hoarded on the border of Zhao and envoys had been sent.

"Marshal Wanyan, I, Zhao State, did not unite with South Korea to attack your Jin State, I don't know where I heard the gossip, make it like this, please Marshal Wanyan report to the Emperor of Jin State and withdraw the army." The messenger said to Wanyan Thunderbolt.

"There is no wind and no waves, please go back, envoy!" Zongzheng asked the envoy to go back.

"I see, you're just making excuses. The messenger finished speaking and left the camp.

"Strategist, what can you do to deal with the enemy?" Wan Yan looked at Zong Zheng with a thunderbolt.

"I hope Marshal Wanyan will talk about the situation of Zhao State, and I will get along with the enemy. "Zong Zheng walked back and forth in the Shuai camp.

"The national army of Zhao is about 300,000, and the land area is half the size of our Jin country, and in the north of Zhao is about 250,000 Korean troops, and the land area is about the same as that of Zhao. Wanyan Thunderbolt was eating roast lamb shank with his right hand and drinking wine with his left hand.

"I have a map of the world, I know the area of the country, now I know the strength of the army, it's okay, this time Zhao Guo took out 200,000 soldiers and horses, if they are all killed, there is no problem in capturing all the cities......" Before he finished speaking, a soldier in the Shuai camp ran in, saying that Zhao sent 30,000 soldiers and horses in front of the military camp, and there were ten generals calling for battle.

"World map? No one in this world will have a world map, by the way, I will send 50,000 troops to kill the 30,000 Zhao troops in front of the military camp. Wan Yan got up and wanted to walk out of the camp.

"Wait, I'll kill all the enemy generals, and then you lead the army to kill, this is the first battle, and the battle will be won!" Zong Zheng finished and tied the cloth wrapped in the Red Flame Heaven Killing Sword on his body.

"Military advisor, you scrawny scholar, let me do the war!" Wan Yan thunderbolted his hand and grabbed Zongzheng's shoulder.

"It's okay to have only ten people, don't worry, marshal. Zong Zheng broke free from Yan Thunderbolt's hand.

"Someone, give the military advisor a pair of armor. Wanyan saw that Zongzheng was difficult to convince, and asked people to give him a pair of armor to wear.

He has seen a lot of people who are not very capable, conceited and arrogant, and they can't persuade them, and there are people who have to go to the battlefield, so it's no wonder.

Zong Zheng put on his armor and walked outside the barracks alone, looking at the ten generals of Zhao State and the 30,000 troops behind him, the flag fluttering in the wind.

"Marshal, can our military division beat General Zhao?" several soldiers asked Yan Thunderbolt at the gate of the handsome camp.

"Definitely not, look at the military division is a scholar like that, I have seen a lot of this kind of person, it is difficult to persuade the damned ghost with good words, let him go, you listen, when the military division kills all the ten generals of Zhao State, I will give an order, kill with me, and annihilate the Zhao army." Of course, as soon as the military advisor died, we rushed out. Wanyan touched his beard, looked at the ten generals of the Zhao army all riding horses, the armor and weapons were all of the highest quality, and then looked at Zong Zheng wearing soldier armor and a rag tied to his back, I don't know what the cloth is wrapping.

"Haha, Wanyan Thunderbolt hid at the gate of the barracks, let you know that the soldiers came to challenge our top ten generals of Zhao State, it's really crazy, find an excuse to attack our Zhao State, just this little brain, laugh at me to death. The general closest to Somasa laughed.

Zong Zheng shouted: "Do the ten generals dare to deal with this little soldier of mine together?

"Hahaha! brothers!" the general closest to Zongzheng finished speaking, and the other nine generals rode towards Zongzheng.

Zong Zheng untied the cloth, pulled out the Red Flame Heaven Killing Sword, threw down the scabbard, grasped the hilt of the sword with both hands, and leaped into the air, slashing towards the general closest to him.

The general's spear was horizontally trying to block Zongzheng's sword, but his spear was cut off by the Red Flame Heaven Killing Sword, and the sword slashed into his head, Zongzheng pulled it out and fell to the ground, and the general who was chopped to death fell off his horse.

This scene was seen by Wanyan Thunderbolt, and he was surprised, he didn't expect a military advisor to have such martial arts, even if he fought against the top ten generals of Zhao State, he didn't dare to say that he killed them all, especially one fatal move.

The other nine generals saw that one of the generals had been killed and surrounded Zongzheng.