Qin Dali had been appointed by Zong Shu as the head of the Renqiu base and stayed in Caojiazhuang.

Everyone else acted with Zong Shu, plus Wu Jue, who happened to be "intercepted", there were just thirty-two people.

Cao Zongshen led everyone into a village that had been abandoned for many years.

This place is only twenty miles away from Xiongzhou City.

Obviously, the people in the village have either fled or have already moved to the city of Xiongzhou.

The village is a stone and brick structure, all the houses have been stripped of their roofs, and the wood is gone.

The old jujube tree at the head of the village is weakly crooked, and the stones of the courtyard wall are scattered everywhere, and the grass is barren and ruined everywhere.

Zong Shu asked Niu Gao to look around the village, and set up a secret post in a suitable place at night, plus two mobile posts.

There will be no fighting tonight, but you have to be careful.

There is also a threshing field in the village, and the surface of the wheat straw has rotted due to the long period of wind and rain.

Zong Shu took the lead and worked with everyone to remove the wheat straw stacks, some of which were spread to the place where the horses were tied in the village, and some of which were quietly transported to an official road outside the village.

The village is covered with a layer of wheat straw to ensure that the horses move without a sound.

In order to prevent a few energetic horses from suddenly neighing at night, Zong Shu equipped each horse with a mouth cage.

Even if the horse wants to bark, it can't open its mouth.

Not far in front of the village will be the main battlefield of tomorrow, where the Liao people, the Zhuang army, and the Song army of Heshuo will fight in this area.

After everything was arranged, Zong Shu called everyone together for a meeting.

"Brothers! Tomorrow, you will witness a brutal and bloody battle, or rather a massacre. It is to be expected that tomorrow it will be the family army that will be slaughtered. ”

Zong Shu first threw a blockbuster**.

Although everyone has heard Zong Shu say many times that the family army will definitely fail, they still don't want to believe it when they hear the news.

"The Seed Army is the most kind, the most backbone, and the most powerful army in my Great Song Army! I have a deep admiration for the family army. ”

"However, everyone has seen today's events, Yang Keshi attacked rashly, and almost all of them were killed. Having lost most of the cavalry, even if the Seed Master Dao is an immortal, it may be difficult to resist the heavy cavalry of the Liao army. ”

Wu Jue sounded very uncomfortable, although Zong Shu was a person he had always admired, he couldn't help but say: "Grandmaster, before tomorrow comes, how will the family army deal with it, I still don't know, why is it so self-defeating?" ”

"Dealing with cavalry in an open field, there is no other way than the great array invented by Taizu. The seed army has been victorious in the Western Xia battlefield, and I am afraid that the method of the 'big array' has long been forgotten. Even if the farmer army drills overnight, I think it's too late, and tomorrow, the farmer's army will be in danger. ”

Wu Jue was silent. I have to admit that Zong Shu's analysis is extremely objective, and he has no disrespect for the family army.

Zong Shu, how do you know so much about the Seed Army?

"So, I want to ask everyone, what will happen to us if the Plantation Army loses miserably in front of us tomorrow?"

"Get out of here, fuck it!" Li Shaoyan took the lead and shouted: "Great Song good man, you have to be on the front line!" ”

"Da Song is a good man, you have to be on the front line!" The sergeants shouted along.

It's this sentence again, the slogan that makes people hurt eggs, it's all Li Shaoyan's guy! Connecting the front line and the front line!

Zong Shu slapped Li Shaoyan's head: "Don't you want to die?" Shouting so loudly? ”

Only then did the sergeants realize that they had just been excited. It's close to the battlefield, so don't dare to make a noise.

Originally, Niu Gao proposed that it was better to sneak into Xiongzhou City in advance, in case the family army failed, he could open the city gate and put the seed master Dao in.

Zong Shu vetoed the proposal.

Now that Zhao Gou is in Xiongzhou City, he also knows that the purpose of Zong Shu taking people to the North Land is to save the seed army.

With the experience of the Daimyo's Mansion, Zhao Gou will definitely send additional troops and strengthen identification around the city gate, and it is not easy for more than thirty people to blend in.

Even if you sneak in, you may not be able to open the city gate at that time.

The most likely result is that the city gate is not opened, the Seed Master Dao is still fighting hard outside, and Zong Shu's thirty or so are caught by Zhao Gou.

And the most important point is that Zong Shu will not be ruthless to his own people unless he has to.

In the Daimyo's Mansion, when Zhao Gou forced Zong Shu, Zong Shu did not shoot any of the soldiers in the eyes with a blow needle.

After discussing with Li Shaoyan and the people of Caojiazhuang, he chose this uninhabited village.

"Rush out? Before he could kill a few enemies, he was trampled to death by the Liao! Just our thirty or so people are not enough for the Liao army to stuff their teeth! ”

Zong Shu said: "You must not learn from Yang Keshi's inevitability!" Don't think that Lao Tzu is the best in the world. Special operations, none of us are afraid. Frontal battlefields, large group operations, are not our strong point. ”

"Remember, the order is forbidden. Whoever doesn't listen to the greetings, don't blame me for being ruthless! ”

After Zong Shu finished speaking, he instructed everyone to ration food according to the amount from now on.

The village is abandoned, but the well is still usable. But everyone can only drink raw water and eat bacon, not fire.

The fire of life will be seen by Xiongzhou City, and before seeing the Liao people, it was first beaten by the Song army, and it was a big loss.

Everyone was sorting out their equipment, and Wu Jue found a sergeant taking out a bottle of iodophor and asked, "Is this iodophor?" ”

The sergeant replied, "Exactly." We are given two bottles per person to replenish at any time. ”

Wu Jue was envious when he heard this, this small part of more than 30 people is simply too entrenched!

"General Wu, didn't you dispense iodine?"

Wu Jue replied: "I saw iodophor from the Guangxin Army in Heshuo, the Seed Army, and it has not been allocated. ”

Zong Shu explained to Lin Lingsu that iodophor should first meet the needs of the "Niu Family Army", followed by the Privy Council.

The people of the Privy Council found themselves through the East Palace and wanted to purchase a large amount of iodine to treat the wounded during the Northern Expedition to Liao.

As the personal entourage and second deputy general of the Seed Master Dao, Wu Jue has never seen iodine!

The Privy Council procures iodophor and only gives it to Tong Guan, and as for how Tong Guan distributes it, they can't control it.

The contradiction between Tong Guan and the seed master is really irreconcilable, on the one hand, Tong Guan wants the seed army to charge into battle, but on the other hand, he restricts military supplies.

I really don't understand what Huizong thinks, let two contradictory people combine to attack Liao!

Listening to Zong Shu's explanation of the matter of iodine, Wu Jue's heart was half cold, and he dared to be affectionate, Tong Guan was so unkind to the family army.

So, what Zong Shu said, tomorrow after Tong Guan let the seed family army be cut off, the other troops will withdraw first, nine times out of ten, it will happen.

That night, the drums in the camp of the Chongjia army beat non-stop, making the Liao people think that the Song army had already prepared to prevent a sneak attack at night, so they did not dare to cross the river.

Early the next morning, the Liao army crossed the river in three ways, first defeating Xin Shizong in the east, and a large number of routs rushed towards Xiongzhou City.

Tong Guan saw that the Liao army was menacing, and it would be too late if he didn't withdraw. Immediately ordered all troops to withdraw into Xiongzhou, so that the Chongjia army was cut off for the whole army.

Wu Jue looked through the cracks in the stone wall of the village and found that many troops had begun to withdraw into the city, but none of them were from the family army.

"Could it be that I planted a family army, and it was broken?" Wu Jue still doesn't seem to believe it.

In the situation of a great rout, the losses of the broken army are probably the heaviest.

"After it is broken, it is going to be exterminated." Zong Shu sighed. It seems that the family army is really coming to an end.