"Although the losses are huge, fortunately, we have negotiated peace with the imperial court and Yanzhou, and avoided fighting on two fronts." Although the monarch of the Song State was a little helpless, he was still a little relieved.

The rich east is much better than the west where there is only Dingtao, and there are many strong neighbors in the west who are eyeing Dingtao. As the saying goes, if you lose your horse, you won't know if you are blessed, and this loss of Dingtao may have a lot of benefits for the Song Kingdom.

On the one hand, Ji Qingquan sent people to recruit the scattered troops, and on the other hand, he recruited a group of mercenaries who made a living from fighting. After all, there are still too few soldiers who can fight at the moment, and these mercenaries are all temporary to stop the patriotic soldiers.

"What do you say? This General Ji Qingquan of the Song Kingdom actually invited a group of mercenaries who only recognized money, and it seems that this Song Kingdom is indeed in decline. Kong Xiangyu sat next to the stove and said to the deputy general beside him.

The spring rains in the east a few days ago were particularly heavy, and the dense spring rains heralded a good harvest of the year, but with the spread of the war, many peasants were forced to go to the front line to serve as soldiers, and the fields could only be handed over to the elderly, weak, women and children to cultivate.

Kong Xiangyu is a typical Confucian general, and the wet and cold weather brought by the spring rain makes Kong Xiangyu very uncomfortable.

"Huh, General Kong, although the mercenaries in the hands of Ji Qingquan of the Song Kingdom are fighting for money, these more than 3,000 mercenaries are all outlaws." The adjutant general still asked General Kong, who was shivering with cold beside him, uneasily.

Kong Xiangyu picked up the charcoal and threw it into the stove as he said: "The Song army is some defeated generals, and neither morale nor experience can be compared with before. Besides, we have captured enough land now, and all we need to do now is to stabilize it. ”

"So now we should defend with all our might, right?"

"No, we should defend instead of attack, and the best defense is offense. We only need to be able to inflict heavy losses on the Song army to force the Song state to negotiate peace, and we only need to give up some more land during the peace talks. ”

"The general is really far-sighted."

Kong Xiangyu didn't continue, he didn't like praise, and he didn't want to fight. If it weren't for the fact that when I was a child, my family would have come together and said a few words when I was doing a war situation, and my military talent would not have been discovered.

Then you can be a calligrapher or a painter, not a bloody executioner.

While Kong Xiangyu was still reminiscing about the past around the stove, Ji Qingquan was learning from the pain and preparing to win back a game on the battlefield in the east.

While the defenders of Banjin were reinforcing the fortifications, a group of cavalry dressed in Song armor approached the city gate.

After showing their identification, the soldiers guarding the gate saluted and let everyone in. The general at the head took off his hat and took a deep breath as he looked at the drizzly sky.

"It's a lot worse than I thought." Ji Qingquan looked at the tired soldier and said worriedly to the adjutant general beside him.

"The general is angry, the eastern army has been sent to the west to meet the enemy, and these remaining ones are naturally the ones left. These soldiers who have been scooped down can already live and stick to their posts. ”

The adjutant general sighed deeply after explaining the reason for the burnout of these soldiers, after all, all soldiers cannot be expected to be elite.

"Fortunately, neither Lu Zhan nor Su Xin pursued the defeated troops, and the previous defeated troops slowly began to reunite, and it won't be long before they can come to reinforcements."

Ji Qingquan didn't know Lu Zhan and Su Xin's plans, and it was estimated that these two people didn't want Wei Guo to win too easily, or they didn't want to weaken Song Guo too much.

It seems that he can only rely on these mercenaries to maintain the battle line until reinforcements arrive.

Although those people are undisciplined, these people are people who can fight for their lives, and these people have a lot of lives in their hands.

"Has the scouts heard anything about the Patriotic side lately?"

"General Hui, according to the news from the scouts, it is said that Wei Guo, under the leadership of Kong Xiangyu, is slowly approaching the Banjin where we are."

It seems that trouble has taken the initiative to find him, and since he is already on the battlefield, he is ready to fight with a knife and gun in hand.

However, due to the previous fighting in the west, a lot of supplies from the east were transferred to the western front, and it would take a lot of time for these supplies to be transported back.

But fortunately, there are not many soldiers and there is not so much consumption, so now they are in the city and waiting for the enemy to send them to the door.

"Master, it seems that this Lu Zhan is also prepared for us. The Song soldiers who had returned from the west were constantly rejoining the army, and now what should General Kong do? Tang Liyi was a little angry when she saw the news coming back from the front.

According to his own plan, the two sides should divide the east and west sides of the Song Kingdom, but this Lu Zhan does not play cards according to the routine. He allowed the defeated soldiers to regroup, and these people put a lot of pressure on the defense of the country on the battlefield in the east.

Defending the country was originally based on small and large, and it was originally for quick victory, but once it fell into a protracted war, the gap in national strength between the two sides became more and more obvious.

"Master Hou, this front line can't tell the winner for a while, and the mysterious weapons of Yanzhou should be the top priority, has Miss Lin sent back any news?" The master felt that the affairs of the front line should be handed over to the general to solve, and he could only give a general suggestion if he was far away from the front line.

And if there is an artifact that helps ghosts and gods, it is really worrying, Tang Liyi also nodded after hearing this, "Lin Jie said that he already had some eyebrows from Duan Xiaohan, but now that Duan Xiaohan is following Lu Zhanzheng outside, he can't get further information from his mouth." ”

"The news that the inquiry came back said that the iron pipe held by the Yanzhou army would spew flames or white smoke, and then the brother who rushed in front was knocked down, and the most disturbing thing was that the Yanzhou army also had a mysterious weapon that no one had seen in detail, and it looked like a particularly long iron pipe from a distance, and as soon as the thing fired, it was like a thunder god descending to earth."

These messages were all sent by the master to ask from the mouths of the Song soldiers who had fled, and these soldiers who had fled back were overheard when they were talking about these things in the wine shop outside.

"Master, you said that if we succeed in the capital, then this Lu Exhibition will not be the minister of Benhou."

"Master Hou, a tiger is a tiger, and it will not be domesticated into a cat. Even if you temporarily subjugate to others, you will eventually turn against your master. ”

At this moment, Lu Zhan suddenly felt so cold, and after sneezing, he ordered someone to bring a pot of charcoal fire to the tent.

"It's strange, I shouldn't have caught a cold recently."

It's just that there is no woman around to take care of it, and it seems that men and women must be matched in the future.