The newly formed 100,000 border troops on the side of Hejian Mansion still remained intact and did not break up and defect, not because they were loyal to the Great Song Dynasty and did not want to escape, but because they had nowhere to escape.

Whether it is the nearly 30,000 soldiers in the original border pass who are the foundation of the new army, or the more than 70,000 "adventurers" who came to Cangzhou City to commit crimes and take advantage of the fire to rob the border army after being deceived by Zheng Juzhong, they knew that the pirates would not want them;

If you want to defect to Liao,

At this time, the Liao State was not as arrogant and confident in the Great Song Dynasty as before, although it would still warmly welcome the Song army, so as to break the hearts of the Han people and weaken the power of the Great Song Dynasty, but it would never dare to incorporate the Song army or even reuse it as before. The Liao State has long lost the confidence to attract the loyalty of the surrendered army and control everything.

Although the Liao army in Youzhou has not yet been as loud as the soldiers of the Devil Jin Army on the northern front, and it is not a bird with a frightened bow, but it will never dare to use tens of thousands of such a large-scale Song army to prevent hidden dangers from changing.

The Hejian Fu army that was captured and surrendered would only be disarmed and turned into slaves and quickly dispersed to various places, so that these Song soldiers would no longer have the slightest freedom and dignity, and would only plough the fields like mules, horses, pigs and dogs, grazing and building cities, build fortifications, and work tirelessly until they died, or when needed, they were temporarily armed to the northern front line and used as cannon fodder to resist the Jin army's offensive.

Objectively, a large number of Liaodong refugees poured into Youzhou, resulting in a serious shortage of living materials, and the summer robbery of the Song State did not achieve the expected harvest, but the loss of troops was heavy and the losses were heavy, and the losses of war horses and weapons were huge, and Mozhou, Bazhou and the areas adjacent to Cangbei were robbed by pirates and Cangbei Army and suffered heavy losses, which can be called worse, at this time food is in short supply, even if you want to use and treat kindly to bring down the Song army, you don't have the ability, and you can't afford to supply tens of thousands of mouths that increase your troops.

Even if the border army of Hejian Mansion doesn't understand any big truths, they can understand the dilemma of Youzhou, and they also know that if they take refuge, they will be starved to death and tortured if they are not killed like thieves, so how dare they dare to defect to Liao.

Besides, the Liao State is now an old lady in the New Year, and a year is not as good as a year, a fool will stoop to a foreign race as a dog, and it is very likely that he will be forced to face the devil-like Jin Army.

If you can't flee outside, you can still flee inside, and you can flee south to the interior to avoid the Liao army. But they won't run away either.

The old border army was in the summer disaster, and at that time, he also wanted to follow the trend and join the pirates who had been killed.

But the pirate said: The subjects of the pirate empire are all good, united, hardworking and honest internally, at least law-abiding and do not oppress the good, it doesn't matter if they are vicious by nature, but they are all used externally against the enemy. You people are vicious, but you are vain, you have no good inside, and you are meek when you should be ruthless outside, and you will only harm your fellow people. What are you? It's garbage, it's scum, it's a pest, it's a shame for the Han people. What do you do? When the social hidden dangers of the beautiful empire that have been built with great difficulty are corrupted, is it a cancer? Want to take your family to the empire to seek new roads, and live a life that you can't even dream of? Then show your achievements to prove the results and value of your reform.

In fact, those rotten soldiers, especially the border generals, were ruthlessly killed by pirates after breaking the city and breaking the wall, and the rest of the people who didn't want to kill them didn't kill, although they were all corrupt and unscrupulous, but they also knew that they were loyal and brave to serve the country, and they dared to bravely resist the Liaokou.

These people were scolded, ashamed, and at the same time felt a little aggrieved and angry: we are also heroes who bravely defend our families and country, and we are not as unbearable as the pirates say.

The key is that after seeing the advanced terrorist combat power of the pirates, they have already instinctively foreseen the prospect of the destruction of the Great Song Dynasty, hoping to perform better in the future, so that they and their families can have the opportunity to obtain the qualification to join the pirate empire, at least in despair, they can have a way out.

Therefore, they want to stick to the Great Song Border Pass to prove themselves, and they will not run easily.

The new army of forcibly compiled 'adventurers' are all kinds of social gangsters, real social scum, who have neither loyalty nor heroism to the Great Song Dynasty and their own nation, and are all selfish, unscrupulous and shameless people who are mercenary, but no matter how bad their quality is, they dare not easily flee at this time.

All of them were covered with specially marked gold seals of the border gates, which were too eye-catching and easy to recognize, difficult to hide, and dared to flee without permission, and were immediately executed wherever they were caught.

Fleeing south can't fill the good people to find land to live, and they will have the most desired way to live comfortably.

Of course, they are lawless gangsters, and they can escape and become robbers, which is in line with their essence.

Relying on the strength of the people, and receiving the harsh military training at the border for a short time, through some of the most basic military and military battle skills, the group uprising, and the fleeing with weapons in a hurry, how can they find land to build a cottage and live a free life as a mountain king, or simply defect to the anti-kings like Tian Hu and Wang Qing to seek a future.

But they don't really do that.

The reason is also very simple.

As a robber, he always faces the encirclement and suppression of the government, and he has no peaceful life.

Tou Tianhu and other anti-kings had to be ready to go to the battlefield from time to time to capture the Great Song Prefecture or resist encirclement and suppression.

The most important thing is that I heard that in the summer disaster, Tianhu Wang Qing's forcibly recruited soldiers and people in the jurisdiction took the opportunity to flee too much, from manpower to material and financial resources have suffered heavy losses, and the power has been greatly damaged, although the subordinate generals are still loyal to follow, no one has defected, it can be said that there are many talents, but not only failed to take advantage of the Great Song Dynasty to fall into the disaster and unable to maintain the opportunity to expand the territory and results, but the troops are not good, the money and food are difficult to follow, can not hold the state capital, can not support the forced to give up several occupied areas, shrink the troops and retreat to stick to Wuwei and other nests.

This shows that unpopular is unpopular, and it is rare to be arrogant for a while, and it is rare to be in the world for a while, and it is afraid that it will perish after all, and it is just one day sooner or later.

In contrast, it is better to be an officer and soldier who is in charge of orthodoxy and righteousness.

Anyway, when a robber wants to fight, he must fight as a soldier if he follows the anti-king, and when he is a border army, he also fights, and they are all the lives of wars, so why run away?

It's better to be the border army of the imperial court and fight for the country.

At the very least, the Liao Kou will only come to loot after the summer and autumn harvest, and they may not necessarily come in these two seasons, and they will generally not directly attack the city camps where the Song army is stationed. It was the people who slaughtered and plundered the Liaokou. When the border army is not in use, they are always facing wars, and there is no danger to their lives like robbers and thieves, and they can always sleep peacefully.

Besides, the border generals and the veterans of the same battalion also restrained and guarded them tightly, confiscated all their weapons, strictly controlled them in the barracks, and did not allow them to defect in one go.

There is a clear distinction between the old and the new. It was not as easy for the new army to defect as the Cangbei army.

The new army of gangsters was trained in the hands of the old army, and even if they were twice as large as the old army, they did not have the confidence to deal with these old border troops when they rebelled.

They are 'adventurers' who come to Cangzhou from all over the country to dig gold, but they have the courage to bully good people and kill their lives in private, and they dare not take risks when they compete with the fierce Qiu Ba of the border army.

In fact, these 100,000 Gaoyangguan roadside troops, both old and new, are tacitly aware that they are in a very delicate state.

The psychology is subtle, and the situation is also delicate, that is, waiting and watching the situation for the time being.

Both the old army and the new army are waiting to see how the imperial court will respond to the crisis of Gaoyang Guanlu, to be precise, they are only watching how the imperial court will treat Zhao Gonglian.

If the imperial court repents and re-favors and reuses this marquis, then these 100,000 troops will continue to guard the border and be honest and be a soldier of the Great Song Dynasty.

Because they know:

As long as Zhao Gonglian returns to the military power in Hebei, at least the people of Gaoyangguan Road have hope again, and the turbulent people's will return to general stability; The scattered military morale in Cangbei will be restored in an instant, and following Zhao Gonglian will be tighter, more confident, more proud, and more loyal, and the frustrated morale will not only not fall, but will skyrocket.

These Cangbei soldiers refused to follow the trend and defected because they still had confidence in their commander, and they believed that the commander would come back to lead them, and they were patiently waiting for this day. The commander really didn't come back, and the soldier's heart died, so I was afraid that he would immediately defect in a big way. But I really look forward to the return of the commander, how can the soldiers not rejoice and boost their morale?

In this case, if they dared to rebel, they would definitely be quickly defeated and hunted down and annihilated by Zhao Gonglian's army. To clean them up, Zhao Gonglian is afraid that he does not need the imperial court to mobilize other troops to participate in the war, the imperial court only needs to cooperate with the encirclement, and Zhao Gonglian can do it by only transferring 10,000 troops or even less of the remaining troops in Cangbei.

The reputation of the Cangbei Army for its courage and good fighting has now surpassed that of the Western Army, which has been famous for a long time.

The Liao army was afraid and did not dare to commit lightly, not to mention the rotten Hebei army of the Great Song Dynasty.

Fierce, powerful, arrogant and arrogant, the pirates are like a bamboo in this summer raid, the momentum is like a rainbow, there is no opponent, but they don't dare to run to loot Cangbei and confront the border army there?

The new army of Gaoyang Guanlu did not dare to defect easily and become robbers, and they were also afraid that Zhao Gonglian would be able to recover and lead the army to pursue and suppress their cottages.

Conversely

If the imperial court insists on killing Zhao Gonglian, then the Song Dynasty has no hope, and with the support of the Western Army, I am afraid that there will be no more drama and singing. These border soldiers, pirates are not rare, and there is no future for being robbers and thieves such as Tian Hu, so taking the opportunity to bravely rescue Zhao Gonglian and supporting the rebellion of Marquis Wencheng is also a bright way out.

Anyway, although the pirates are strong, they only care about robbing people, money, and materials, but they are not interested in mainland territory, and they are afraid that they are only willing to establish a country overseas and live happily, and will not occupy the Great Song Dynasty. Without this strong enemy vying for territory, then with the ability and prestige of Marquis Wencheng, as soon as he erects an anti-flag, he wants to establish himself as the king, I am afraid that it will be immediately prosperous, and it will not be difficult to replace the Song family.

That's good.

Is there a way out? With the merit of the dragon, can't you expect to be rich? Doesn't that solve everything?

Pirates despise and dislike us, don't want us?

Hmph, Lao Tzu has a better master and future, and it is not rare to go to unknown overseas to seek an unpredictable life.

You don't care whether these ignorant and politically unwise border army leaders are reasonable in their rough analysis of the situation and pondering things, and no matter how superficial and naïve they are, in short, it is currently in such a delicate state.

This subtlety can be easily broken and can be broken at any time.

Once it is broken, it will be a catastrophe that cannot be cleaned up.

Su Yuanjing was terrified when he noticed this subtlety, for fear that the imperial court would not be able to see the situation clearly, and the black-hearted willfulness would clean up the Cangzhao family, which would lead to the outbreak of the catastrophe and the end of the Great Song Dynasty.

He is also used to enjoying the comfort of high-ranking officials in the capital,

Suddenly transferred to Hejian Mansion, in the face of the unprecedented crisis and danger of the border pass, it can be said that he is frightened all the time, and he is worried day and night, in order to quickly reverse this situation, he also risked his life to work hard, and he threw himself on the army all day long, so as to report to Jun's grace, and he can also save his life and glory and wealth.

Just for the hard work he has paid, he is not willing to let the people in the court make rash decisions and easily ruin his efforts.

It's just that as an old fritter in feudal officialdom, although he is more upright, and he is more honest and honest as an official, he is a gentleman and a good official with a conscience and ability, but he does not have the ambition and courage to give everything for the well-being of the people of the country.

In the final analysis, he is a good man who is the most common official in officialdom, and he is a master, otherwise he would not be able to mix with the high rank of captain in the dark officialdom, nor would he have no great reputation in history, and he would not have made any achievements in the great cause of resisting gold.

To say that he is a wall-grass with no political conscience and principles, that would not be enough.

He still has his own bottom line and insistence, but that's all. Everything he did was first and foremost for the prosperity and stability of his family.

At the beginning, he helped Zhao Gonglian to protect his younger brother in the Golden Palace and dared to scold the deputy prime minister Wang Huang and other officials, partly out of integrity, and he couldn't get used to the arrogance of Wang Huang, a blonde alien villain, but the most important thing is that Zhao Gonglian is a favorite minister, and he is the most popular spicy chicken, and the emperor pampered Zhao Gonglian more than his own son at that time. In this case, even if Cai Jing is as powerful as Cai Jing, he will never be able to defeat Zhao Gonglian, and he will not even provoke him easily. Liang Shicheng is only worthy of being Zhao Gonglian's follower. The fact is that Zhao Lao Er is reasonable, so helping Zhao Gonglian will not be a disaster, but also a blow to the powerful villain in the court, and it can make the emperor happy, and by the way, he can get help from Zhao Gonglian, and the benefits are too many, so he stepped forward.

Now at this juncture, he wants to help Zhao Gonglian again, but he can't force it.

If you don't help, I'm afraid that he will die in the rebellion first.

If you don't die in the chaotic army, I am afraid that you will be held accountable by the imperial court to fill the army, and the official will not be able to do it.

And helped, Zhao Gonglian is less dangerous, and will not be supported by the army and the people who are forced by the situation to be willing or unwilling to rebel, if he can change his mind and regain the reuse of the imperial court, and continue to sit in Cangbei, the turbulent Hebei will settle down, and he, the commander-in-chief of Gaoyang Guanlu, will be fine, and he can also protect the Jiangshan Sheji to make great contributions, so that the imperial court can survive the crisis, so that the emperor will also breathe a sigh of surprise after understanding the details of Hebei and thank him for his promising deeds in fear, which is greatly conducive to the future of his career, why not?