"Brother Zeping, at this point, is there a way to solve the dilemma?"

A mouthful of blood spit out, Song Jiong's heart was unblocked, he refused the support of the guards, and insisted on waiting for the inner servants to wipe the dirty blood of the city bricks clean, then slowly walked down the city, and sat with a straight back after boarding the chariot.

Returning to Xingyuan, he dismissed the imperial doctor, ordered him to bathe and change his clothes, and under the careful care of the four palace maids, he washed all the dirt on his body, changed into loose clothes, and held the tea bowl for a while.

Zhao Pu saw that the official's face was a little pale, but his spirit had recovered somewhat, and the big stone in his heart fell, and when he heard the words, he said: "The Southern Tang Dynasty is treacherous, despicable and sneak attacked, and people and gods ......are angry."

"What I'm asking is, what will happen to the plan?"

"Huainan is the second granary of my Great Song Dynasty, you must not lose, the will of the courtesy, when the general is sent to send troops, if Yangzhou cannot be recaptured for a while, it is also necessary to hold other cities without loss."

Zhao Pu saw that the official family was sitting still, and he had no choice but to continue: "The minister has the courage to recommend the privy deputy envoy Pan Mei to lead the troops to the battle, and he will guard Luzhou for a long ......time."

"Yes, I was stunned, not only Zhongxun, but also Guohua." Song Jiongqian got up, interrupted Zhao Pu's words, and waved his hand vigorously: "If the two of them go, they should be worry-free." ”

Zhao Pu glanced coldly at Liu Zhixin from the corner of his eyes, Liu Zhixin suddenly had a thorn in his back, and he had to get up and say with difficulty: "...... The official family, Cao Bin is missing. ”

Song Jiong looked confused: "Missing? When was this? ”

"It's been more than a month, and at that time, our army was withdrawing eastward from Dasanguan......"

"No, he's a big man, dragging his family with him, how can he disappear?"

"On the ninth day of September, Dou Mu Yuanjun Christmas, his wife Gao and his son went to Jiaxing to pray for blessings, stayed overnight in the view, and the next morning, his servants found that the master mother and the two young Langjun were gone, and Ying Tianfu Yin launched all the officials to arrest and solve the case quickly, and Xing Guogong who stayed behind mobilized thousands of officers and soldiers to assist in the search, but to no avail.

After the news returned to Beijing, Cao Bin led twenty-four families to rush to Yingtianfu, tossing for several days, tired and fruitless, and then the people said that there had been a suspicious behavior of the southbound clipper, Cao Bin then asked Xing Guogong to borrow a hundred soldiers, along the Bianshui south to Suzhou, looking around, and then ...... Then ......"

"And then Cao Bin is gone, isn't he?"

Song Jiong slammed the table and roared loudly: "Such a big event, I only know now, what do you want!" ”

Liu Zhixin can't speak, he is a cautious person, how could he not report such a big event, but at that time, Song Jiong was defeated, and the military aircraft couldn't handle the major events, and this kind of third-class dense sparseness didn't know where to accumulate dust.

Zhao Pu coughed lightly and said: "In an eventful autumn, some negligence is inevitable, Cao Bin is missing, the truth is still difficult to conclude, Huainan is urgent, but it needs to be decided early." ”

"Order Pan Mei to deploy for Huainan Province, Cui Han as the vanguard of the camp, lead the forbidden army of 10,000, and then send soldiers and horses from the four prefectures of Bo, Su, Chen, and Ying, and go south together to defeat Buchen...... Wang Jien. ”

"The servant is here."

"You go to the prison army."

"No."

With the retreat of Wang Jien, the head of the inner chamberlain, the room fell into a short silence, Wei Nanan has stayed for a long time, and the anti-Qin army will chase after it in a day at most, in this series of defeats, when morale is at the lowest, you can only go up, but no one wants to speak first with such a suggestion.

Song Jiong looked at the civil and military ministers who were sitting precariously, and smiled astringently: "It is my fault to use troops in a hurry, I have lost land one after another, and I am even more ashamed of the first emperor, and I have no shame to see the people in the world." ”

"Official ......"

Song Jiong raised his hand, motioned for Zhao Pu to sit down, exhaled a breath of turbid breath and continued: "I can't wait to take revenge immediately, but I also know that the time has been lost, and the three armies have already used their lives, so I can't ...... I can't let the soldiers make innocent sacrifices anymore, let's retire, I will return to Beijing. ”

"Official Shengming!"

"Shengming, heh, when I try my courage, follow the will of Gou Jian, and when I am ashamed, I will come to receive the kindness of the minister, for now, let's discuss how to withdraw from the army, General Wang, talk about your opinion."

"No."

Wang Quanbin got up, took the baton in the hand of the chamberlain, clicked on the map on the wall, and said in a deep voice: "If you have Jingzhao against Qin, you will definitely do your best to attack Tongguan, if you don't take this pass, there is no danger to defend in the pass, so Qin Jiu can't sleep well."

It's a pity that although Tongguan is the first Xiongguan in the world, but the danger is not in the west, because in the east of Tongguan, there are five miles of secret doors, and because of these five miles of secret doors, Hangu Pass is the west gate that my Great Song Dynasty really wants to refuse. ”

"What does General Wang mean to abandon Tongguan?"

"Nope."

Wang Quanbin's face was twisted and hideous, "Although Tongguan is not as dangerous as the east city, it is also a dangerous place with mountains in the south and a big river in the north.

Although you can't hope for the enemy, but now the Tibetan coalition army is besieging Qinzhou City, and it is not necessary to be overwhelmed by the anti-Qin, so this pass must be defended, and it may be able to defend a cloud to see the moon. ”

"Good. Which general would be willing to take on this task? ”

Since the official family asked so, it obviously put Wang Quanbin aside, Cao Han looked at Liu Tingrang, looked at Han Chongyun, one of the imperial camps was deployed, and the other was the camp supervisor, thinking that this matter would have to come to his head, he rolled his eyes, and simply picked out the words: "This is a stubborn defense, a day is also a guard, a month is also a guard, dare to ask the official family, how long is the limit?" ”

"If General Cao comes to defend the city, how long can you defend it?"

"If the grain, grass, military salaries, equipment, gunpowder, and all kinds of logistics can be guaranteed, the minister is estimated to be able to guard it for about a month."

"Okay, just take a month, and then retreat for a full time, which is a great achievement."

"That being the case, the affairs of the inner hall of this Tongguan are also responsible for the ministers, please return to Beijing as soon as possible, don't think about the road ahead."

Song Jiong walked over, took Cao Han's arm, and said with red eyes: "Cao Qing is really a model of loyal ministers. ”

Cao Han laughed: "It is the duty of the minister, but the minister was hungry and scared when he was a child, so he only asked the official family to give him more silver." ”

“……”

……

When Song Jiong convened the important ministers' meeting, Qin Yue had just passed through the Xianyang City Gate, it would not have been so late, but it was a long time to stay in Xingping County, although the Song army had enough food and grass, but there were two deficiencies, one was winter clothing, the other was meat, in this cold winter season, because of the lack of these two important materials, the people suffered, pigs, dogs, chickens and ducks, basically heard the cry and came to the end of their lives.

The worst thing is that many ploughing cattle have also suffered.

As soon as Qin Yue entered the city, he immediately ushered in the cry of Shishu, and he felt the helplessness of the people for the first time.

You are the emperor, that's the truth.

Hearing such a rebuttal, Qin Yue was speechless.

Fortunately, Zeng Wu and Ding Yuzhou, who are familiar with handling this kind of civil affairs, are here, and there is no chaos, but the trip is delayed.

"Chenwang Mountain, welcome the holy driver."

Qin Yue waved away the whip angrily, and struck it firmly on Wang Shan's back, Wang Shan's top helmet pierced the armor, this whip was worse than tickling, but it made this guy more aggressive.

"Uncle, I'm here to lead the horse."

"Out of breath, they are all generals in command, leading the way."

"No."

Qin Yue entered Xianyang City, and the first thing he did after bathing and changing clothes was to summon the general Yang Xin, who was not familiar with Yang Xin, but he could quickly become the Marquis of Yu, the former commander of the palace, and he must have two brushes.

"Yang Xin, the criminal minister, has seen His Majesty the Great Qin Emperor."

Qin Yue saw that he was only forty years old, his facial features were delicate, his body was long, and he looked more like a scholar when he changed into a robe, so he smiled and said: "General Yang, sit, I am not formal, please feel free." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"I heard that General Yang is a native of Yingzhou, and if you want to come to the Khitan, you should have a deep understanding, if our army meets it, how to break it?"

Break, break!

The light in Yang Xin's eyes flashed, he didn't expect that the anti-Qin emperor in front of him, who was about the same age as the official family, would talk about the Khitan as soon as he opened his mouth, and what he didn't expect was that he was asking how to break it, not the imperial one.

Is the newborn calf not afraid of the arrogance of the tiger, or the ambition of the high?

"Don't hide it from Your Majesty, the minister suffered a Khitan military disaster in his hometown, and had to interrupt his studies, and put pen to paper, hoping that one day he could defeat the Khitan and avenge his father and fellow villagers, but as he grew older, his courage was getting smaller, because the Khitan was strong, easy to win, and difficult to lose."

"Oh? It's easy to win, it's hard to lose, what is the saying? ”

"Khitan horses, good cavalry and shooting, I have more infantry in the Central Plains, how strong crossbows, good at forming formations to resist the enemy, as long as the formation is not chaotic, the enemy has no chance of victory, but if you want to destroy the enemy, it is difficult."

"What if you ride a broken horse?"

"My Central Plains horsemen are weaker than the Khitan, and they are wearing heavy armor, and the horses are overloaded, so it is difficult to chase and kill."

Qin Yue smiled: "If that's the case, you can only watch it ride its horses?" ”

"If you can raise the troops of the whole country, advance the front together, and compress the space for its tossing and turning step by step, then no matter how brave the Khitan is, there is nothing to be done, but there is also a dilemma."

"What dilemma?"

"First, soldiers must have a brave heart and a will to move forward, so that they can be fearless and fierce. Second, there must be the support of a solid treasury and the preparation for a long-term war, so that Yanyun can recover. ”

Qin Yue laughed and got up, paced outside the court, looking up at the sky, but seeing that the moon was bright and the stars were scarce, he reached out to pick up the cold light, and said loudly: "General Yang's ambition, how small, Fu Yanyun, it is not your responsibility and mine, and it is the historical mission that my generation must shoulder to fight to the Huanglong Mansion."

General Yang, Qin and Song are originally a family, you and I are both Han Chinese, and we used to be Zhou ministers, so since we have this opportunity to work together, let us put down our ideological baggage, let us work together to end this world of disputes, and return the people of the world to a bright future.

Ah, don't be in a hurry to reply, the banquet should have been prepared, let's go, let's talk while eating, Wang Shan knows my taste, and there is a pot to eat. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

Maybe it's because of his youth, or because of the influence of some values in his previous life, Qin Yue has a sense of resistance to formal meetings and long-term conversations, and he habitually considers the other party's mood and feelings, so he diverts the topic without waiting for Yang Xin to reply.

He prefers informal, friend-style communication, so inviting someone to eat pot has become his usual method, chatting while eating, and many words can be released.

But I don't know that his attitude, coupled with his identity, in the society at that time, the most touching thing for others is the gentleman and people, like ice released in water.

Yang Xin was half a step behind Qin Yue, bowed slightly, and there were waves in his heart, the one in front of him was very different from the official family, although he was the same young, the same corporal Lixian, but that one, more pretentious, learned from his brother's set, and the former emperor who once looked at the world as strong as a tiger clearly lived in the shadow of the ancestor Shizong, speaking and doing things, national policies and policies, all of which were Xiao Gui Cao followed.

Of course, the most domineering is the ancestor Shizong, as for the one in front of him, he seems to be ambitious, but his temperament is really easy-going, and he is faintly a little out of the way, how did such a person sit on the throne of the Ninety-Five with his bare hands?

The soldiers of the Qin army are all like wolves and tigers, so gentle and gentle, without the spirit of a king, how can they drive the crowd?

It is reported that this war, its name is pro-Zheng, but he has never pointed fingers at military affairs, but he has been arbitrary in the cadre gang to Xun that old thief, such an emperor should be, isn't he aggrieved?

Yang Xin was thinking about it, but he saw a young man hurrying in, only to hear Qin Yue ask, "What do you say?" ”

"I've been to see the two wounded barracks, and the hygiene is fine, only the quilt in the seriously ill area of the prisoner barracks is not enough, but I'm about to go to Chang'an to transfer."

"Why is there not enough quilts in the seriously ill area?"

"There are many major surgeries such as amputation, and the prisoners do not believe in the medical skills of our military doctors, and they are extremely uncooperative, and the blood is all over the ground, so a good quilt is also ......."

"I know, let Yang Deng draw a art troupe to come over and cooperate, these wounded soldiers, although they are their own masters, but they are all bleeding for this land, and they can't be allowed to shed blood and tears, so not only the external injuries must be treated, but the psychological wounds must be healed. In addition, in order to show the spirit of solidarity and friendship among the wounded soldiers of our army, it is necessary to take the initiative to help the prisoners, well, this refers to the lightly wounded. ”

"No."

"Where's the Gao Gan ward?"

"The wards of the senior cadres are all set up in the city, everything is fine, only a general surnamed Tian is noisy, and he has to drink."

Qin Yue was stunned: "But Tian Chongjin?" ”

"Yes."

"How's he hurt?"

"I was hit by an arrow in the cheeks, a half-foot-long knife wound from my left chest to my right ribs, a bloody hole in my thigh, and a wound on my left arm, all of which were traumatic."

Yang Xin said with a smile: "General Tian is a native of Youzhou, and his temperament is the most arrogant, and he can't stay up without wine for a day." ”

Qin Yue smiled and said to Cai Zhi: "It's late at night now, it's not appropriate to visit the wounded again, you arrange a soft sedan chair, and then go and see, if he sleeps, if he doesn't fall asleep and still wants to drink, carry him over." ”

"No."

As he spoke, he had already walked to the dining room, Zeng Wu was already waiting at the door, his neck was shrunk very unimaged, his gloves were in his sleeves, and he was an old farmer.

"A certain and heavy sparseness, eat separately, otherwise, sooner or later, this stomach will be hungry one day."

Qin Yue laughed: "General Yang, this is my right minister, Zeng Wu and Zeng Fengqi, speaking of which, your hometowns are all adjacent to each other, and you are really fellow villagers." ”

Yang Xin hurriedly stepped forward to salute, Zeng Wu smiled and said: "I am both a fellow countryman and a colleague, so I should drink a few more cups tonight." ”

Qin Yue eats, he has always had a round table, and even the army has brought a round table with a large, medium and small No. 3 table, and it is very convenient to go to the Eight Immortals table, but Yang Xin is the first time to eat like this, and he is quite surprised.

At the moment, Qin Yue sat in the center, Zeng Wu was on the left, Yang Xin was on the right, occupying a corner, and there were five or six vacant positions below, the three of them started to eat first, but they drank the soup first, Qin Yue gave Yang Xin a bowl, Yang Xin was really shocked, and hurriedly got up and apologized.

Zeng Wu said with a smile: "Once born, second cooked, eat with our majesty, you will treat him as Jiulang, just eat." ”

"How does this work?"

"If there is anything you can't do, first drink a bowl of soup to warm your stomach, then eat a few mouthfuls of food to fill your stomach, and then drink alcohol, which is good for your health."

Yang Xin had no choice but to thank him, and began to drink the soup, only to drink two spoonfuls, and another scribe came in, seeing Qin Yue, he didn't give a salute, just smiled and bowed to Yang Xin, then sat down with Zeng Wu and began to hold the spoon and serve the soup.

Zeng Wu introduced: "Cheng Shen, Cheng Shixing, I am brave in the Chinese, his junior brother is even more incredible, it is the martial courage in our army, don't get up, just sit, enter the countryside to follow the customs, I Daqin does not have so many false courtesies." ”

Yang Xin had no choice but to sit on his head and ask, "I don't know who Senior Brother Ling is?" ”

Cheng Shen said with a smile: "Jiayin, the cousin Yuan Jing, is the most tired, General Yang will ask for more guidance in the future." ”

“……”

When Yang Xin was speechless, another person opened the curtain and came in, still a civil official, rubbing his hands and about to sit down, when he saw Yang Xin, he smiled and arched his hand.

This time, Qin Yue drank the soup in the bowl and said with a smile: "Ding Yuzhou, the servant of the ministry, has a lot of power, and the bag is also very large, and I don't know how many handsome people there are." ”

Ding Yuzhou said with a bitter face: "Your Majesty, how can there be such a burying person, this is General Yang, long admiration." ”

"It turned out to be Ding Shilang, who has been admired for a long time."

Qin Yue stood up with his wine glass and said with a smile: "Zhongwen is late, I won't wait for you, come, let's raise a glass together and welcome General Yang." ”

Yang Xin hurriedly stood up, waved his hand and said, "How dare you be such a big gift." ”

"Just one cup, and then each one will drink his own, please!"

"Your Majesty, please."

A glass of wine in his stomach, Yang Xin felt the warm wine syrup sliding down his throat, only to feel that this glass of wine was drunk, this head was a little dizzy, because of this kind of eating banquet, he had never heard of, never seen, there were nine plates on the table, there were cooked food, there were peanuts, but most of the people stretched their necks to go to the wind stove pot in the center of the table to eat, there was no etiquette, and there was not even a maid on the side, and the wine, after a glass of toast, it was really casual, Zeng Wu and Ding Yuzhou toasted each other, but they ignored Qin Yue, Eating and drinking so casually, what kind of monarch is this?

However, seeing that Qin Yue Junchen was eating happily, he had no choice but to laugh and learn to stretch out his chopsticks, but he was a cautious person, biting the tip of his tongue to make himself sober, and he must not lose his temper.

He didn't lose his temper, some people lost his temper, because Tian Chongjin really came in a soft sedan chair, on crutches, and came in with a high spirit, sat down with a golden knife, and then slapped the table heavily, "Wine." ”

It's just that there is a wound on his cheeks, and the swelling has not subsided, and this time the movement is big, pulling the sore spot, and it is obvious that the horizontal flesh on his face has jumped a few times.

Yang Xin couldn't help frowning: "Re-enter ......"

Qin Yue didn't have the slightest displeasure, and said with a smile: "General Tian's appearance is wonderful, at first glance, he is the true color of the general, I invite you to come, I invite you to drink, but you are seriously injured, and you can only be limited to three bowls." ”

Tian Chongjin looked at Qin Yue with crooked eyes, the corners of his mouth twitched, and finally responded with the word "good".