More than 10,000 golden thieves are coming to the castle!

This kind of thing has happened many times since Kaifeng was besieged, and the four branch forts outside Kaifeng City, such as Ruisheng, Qingcheng, Qionglin, and Yichun, have been attacked and disturbed by Jin soldiers from time to time.

Although the attacks of the Jin soldiers were all tentative, the number of troops dispatched was only a few hundred. However, in order to earn more credit for themselves and to obtain more rewards for their subordinates, the generals of the Song army and the Wenchen of the prison army who were guarding the four forts deliberately overreported the number of enemies. At the beginning, I reported two or three thousand, but later I reported more and more, and even reported twenty or thirty thousand at the beginning of February!

As a result, this kind of false reporting of the enemy's situation provoked Li Gang, the envoy of the pro-conquest camp, and called the four fort guards to the prison army for a severe criticism. So the people below had to be more restrained, but the false report still had to be falsely reported, but they didn't dare to report tens of thousands, and the upper limit was 10,000.

Therefore, in the past two days, all gold thieves have come to harass them, all of them are more than 10,000. And when they heard the "more than 10,000 gold thieves", the fathers, sons, and ministers in the Chongzheng Palace were not panicked, not only did not panic, but also were eager to try.

Don't look at the fact that Kaifeng Mansion is surrounded by gold thieves now, but the victory rate of Song Jun and gold thieves is as high as 100%!

Therefore, when the four branch forts such as Ruisheng, Qingcheng, Qionglin, and Yichun were attacked by more than 10,000 gold thieves, he led troops out of the city to support this matter, which was an opportunity in the eyes of everyone in the Chongzheng Palace.

Since it is an opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune and become famous, of course everyone has to fight.

"Your Majesty, the minister Cai You, as a privy councillor, is responsible for military affairs, military equipment, border defense, and the politics of horses. Please allow your Majesty to allow 5,000 elite soldiers to come to the aid of Ruisheng City. ”

The first person to stand up and ask for war was actually Cai You, a member of the Privy Council! More than 10,000 gold thieves came, but he was willing to oversee 5,000 troops out of the city to fight. If Zhao Kai of the Daimyo Mansion learned about this, he would definitely be shocked - it turned out that the most powerful person in the Great Song Dynasty was not him Zhao Kai, but this Cai You Cai Ju'an!

He dared to use 5,000 Kaifeng forbidden troops to go out of the city to fight 10,000 gold thieves, Zhao Kai didn't dare to think about this!

"Your Majesty, Yu Wenxuzhong, the deputy envoy of the minister's camp, is also willing to supervise five thousand people who dare to fight and go out of the city to support Ruisheng Fort." Someone immediately stood up and "grabbed business" with Cai You, "The minister is the deputy envoy of the camp, and it is his duty to supervise the army to fight." ”

Zhao Ji glanced at the man, who was a graceful white fat civil official, named Yuwen Xuzhong, who was originally a scholar of the Zhongshu Society, and was regarded as the "old party" figure in the court (although the Huizong Dynasty was basically ruled by the new party, but the imperial art of the Song Dynasty paid attention to dissenting opinions, so it would not completely eliminate the old party). Because he was relatively close to the prince's teacher Yu Wenxuzhong, when he established the pro-conquest camp, he was promoted to a scholar of the senior government hall and served as the deputy envoy of the camp.

Now Zhao Ji has to choose one of the two great Song Dynasty men, Cai You and Yu Wenxu, to fight against the "more than 10,000 golden soldiers", he looked left and right, and weighed it repeatedly in his heart.

Although Cai You is "his own person", his reputation among the Kaifeng people is very stinky, and he cannot rely on him to appease the three soldiers and the people of Kaifeng.

Although Yuwen Xuzhong was close to the prince, he did not participate in the "persuasion to retreat" in Layue last year, and he was responsible for pacifying the people's righteous army in his own camp, and his reputation among the Kaifeng people was very high, and he was considered a loyal minister of the Great Song Dynasty......

After weighing it up, Zhao Ji smiled and said to Cai You: "The duty of the privy is to oversee the overall situation, and the matter of supervising the war should be handled by the deputy envoy of the camp." ”

Then he asked Yuwen Xuzhong, "You are a civil official in the void, you can only supervise the formation, you can't go into battle to kill thieves, I don't know who you want to use?" ”

After all, the Great Song Dynasty was based on literature and martial arts, even if the soldiers came to the city, this route could not be changed!

If anyone changes to the imperial martial arts, it will be the life of the Great Song Dynasty. Because this is not only a question of the high status of civil officials or military generals, but also the wealth distribution mechanism of the entire country...... It's not how to divide the taxes of the imperial court, but how to divide the wealth of the whole country!

That is, the question of whether this wealth of the world is used to support scribes or warriors!

Hearing Zhao Kai's question, the ten Sanyaguan troops in the Chongzheng Hall all puffed up their chests. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there were not three, but eleven positions that could be called the three ya's commanders, namely the chief and deputy commanders of the three ya's capitals and Du Yuhou, and the two four-compartment commanders of the upper four armies. Now the front of the palace is commanding Gao Yu to be sick at home, and the remaining ten management troops are headed by Liu Yanqing, who is the commander of the guards and the pro-army horse army, and they are all obeying orders in the Chongzheng Palace!

Yuwen Xuzhong had already made an opinion, and said to Zhao Ji confidently: "Your Majesty, the minister wants to ask the guards to command the pro-army and the horse army to make Liu Yanqing go out of the city and retreat the enemy together." ”

Liu Yanqing is the head of the security Liu family, one of the three major generals of the Western Army (Liu, Yao, and Chong), who had joined Tong Guan earlier, and was also entrusted with important tasks during the Xuanhe Northern Expedition. But after a series of changes such as the repeated defeats of the Xuanhe Northern Expedition and the subsequent demotion of officials, as well as the subsequent resurgence, he and Tong Guan are no longer a group.

And Liu Yanqing did not come to Kaifeng Mansion empty-handed, he still had more than 10,000 Western troops on hand. Although these Western armies were repeatedly defeated during the Xuanhe Northern Expedition, they were still much stronger than the Sanya soldiers in Kaifeng. At least the cavalry can ride horses, the archers can shoot arrows, and the spearmen can really put on foot armor and go hand-to-hand for a few hand-to-hand fights.

In today's Kaifeng Mansion City, only the thousands of victorious troops under Tong Guan can compare with them.

Out of prudence, and also to keep a certain distance from the crown prince Zhao Huan, Yuwen Xuzhong picked Liu Yanqing very cleverly - now there are many people in Kaifeng Mansion who praise the prince, but there are few who can be called hardcore friends. After all, Zhao Ji is only 45 years old, and the crown prince was greatly damaged by Zhao Kai before, so it's hard to say whether he can ascend the throne in the future!

Of course, Zhao Ji was satisfied with Yuwenxuzhong's choice, nodded and said to Liu Yanqing: "Liu Yanqing, you will transfer 5,000 Qin soldiers and fight with Yuwenxuzhong!" ”

Liu Yanqing was not cowardly at this time, a black face full of wrinkles was full of expressions of loyalty, righteousness and bravery, he saluted Zhao Ji, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, rest assured, although there are more than 10,000 thieves, as long as the ministers have 5,000 soldiers, it is enough to retreat from the enemy!" ”

Zhao Ji smiled and said, "I am waiting for the good news in the Chongzheng Palace!" ”

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"Report ......"

A deliberately elongated voice reached the ears of Wanyan Zongbi, who was frowning at the rain of arrows coming from the sky.

Zongbi's Jurchen name is "Wushu", and he is the fourth son of Wanyan Aguta, two or three years younger than Wanyan Zongwang, and he looks much more powerful, with a thick beard, a high nose bridge, and bright eyes, which is quite fierce when he looks at it. In fact, this guy is indeed very fierce, in the war with Liao, he has a record of killing eight people alone and capturing five people in a battle, which can be described as a famous murderer.

And now he is the marching Wanhu of the East Route Army under Zong Wang, and he is the third person after Wanyan Yanmu and Wanyan Zongwang. So this time, after Yan Zongwang ordered him to lead more than 10,000 elite soldiers to approach Ruisheng City outside Kaifeng Mansion, demonstrate to the Song people, and send the envoy Cai Songnian into the city to carry out a plan of "deceitful peace".

However, the Wushu encountered an unexpected trouble under the Ruisheng City, and the Song army defending the city did not wait for the Wushu people to approach, so they did not stop the arrows! Although these arrows are not enough to reach the army of the vultures—too far away, where can they be shot. But from time to time, the Song people would shoot a few crossbows with the Eight Bull Crossbows, how could Pan Songnian get close?

Just when the Wushu was in trouble, the cavalry he sent out to guard suddenly came to report.

"Fourth prince, the Jingyang Gate of Kaifeng Mansion suddenly opened, and about five or six thousand people came out, and they were coming to Ruisheng City!"

Jin Wushu was stunned for a moment, and looked back at the cavalryman, "Can you see clearly?" Are there really only five or six thousand? ”

"Back to the fourth prince, the little one can see clearly, there are indeed only five or six thousand people!"

Jin Wushu touched his beard and nodded lightly: "With five or six thousand people, we want to fight our 10,000 golden soldiers, it's really kind!" Someone must go and meet them for a while! ”