The Great Wall Ridge was successfully taken by the Song army, and less than three miles away from the Great Wall Ridge is where Hongzhou City is located.

Di Qing, who had just experienced the war, led people to rest, and Yang Huaiyu was the former army under the personal leadership of Peng Qi to go to Hongzhou to reconnoitre.

As night fell, the blood stains on the ground had been washed away, it was the custom of the garrison, blood stains would attract flies to spread diseases, any general with common sense knew this, just in case, Li Jiu personally led people to transport the corpses of the party members and buried them at the foot of the mountain.

In fact, burning is the best way to deal with it, but unfortunately this time they are a surprise attack, and they can't expose the target, and the fire is burning in the Great Wall Ridge, and the party defenders in Hongzhou can see it even if they are blind.

The soldiers in the barracks had planned to seize the time to rest in order to face the bitter battle of tomorrow, but the battle in the evening really affected the hearts of many people, and even the generals at the level of Yuhou were a little excited to discuss, not to mention the soldiers who participated in the operation.

They gathered together in twos and threes, excitedly recounting their feelings and experiences during the battle, and the squad leader, who was originally urging the soldiers to sleep, was also attracted to them, and whispered that they talk about their combat experience.

Li Jiu had just come after burying the corpse, and he was a little annoyed when he saw that the soldiers were not sleeping and gathered to discuss.

"What did the thief say without sleeping? Tomorrow, the fourth watch will make rice, the fifth watch will be assembled, and the sixth watch will attack the city! Whoever violates the order is engaged in military law! ”

The excited soldiers quieted down a little under the threat of military law, lying in their sleeping bags, trying to make themselves asleep, but Li Jiu's next words mobilized everyone's enthusiasm.

"It's all for Lao Tzu! Today, anyone who participates in the killing of the enemy, since he went to the prison of the army to ascend the throne and make a book, how many ears are how many enemies are killed, if that killing person dares to make more military merits, Lao Tzu plucked his skin alive! ”

The whole barracks began to be agitated, this is the first time that the forbidden army of Tokyo City has benefited through military exploits, who can not be excited?

The others can only look at those robes who go to the civilian officials with a string of ears in their hands to exchange for military merits, and tomorrow they can also exchange military merits through the enemy, as long as they kill enough enemies, it is not difficult to seal their wives and sons!

Zhou Zhan looked at the large string of ears in front of him depressedly, although the ears had been wiped, the smell of blood still smoked and vomited him, he was originally a bachelor of Hanlin, the royal secretary of the official family, and now he actually gave a group of five big and three rough soldiers here to enthrone the military merits.

A large string of ears was still in front of him, and Zhou Zhan fiddled with it twice in disgust and said: "Three in the right ear, five in the left ear, a total of five!" ”

This is the rule of the Great Song Dynasty to calculate military merits by ear, no one will rob the results of the robe, and at this time, it is quite the same as looking for death to rob others.

The soldier's face changed: "It's obviously six left ears!" How can you give birth to one less?! ”

Zhou Zhan frowned in disgust and said, "The official said as much as he wanted!" ”

With a bang, the sergeant smashed the wooden table and shouted angrily: "How can this be reasonable, open your eyes and tell nonsense, if it weren't for us fighting bravely to kill the enemy, you would still be able to sit here and write and draw comfortably?" ”

"Presumptuous! This official is a bachelor of Hanlin from the fourth grade, and the deputy supervisor of the Western Expeditionary Army! A pawn in your army dares to commit a crime, and someone will fork it out and beat twenty military staffs! ”

"Slow!"

Li Jiu walked in from the door and said, "What made Master Zhou so angry?" Let's just let me give you a breath! ”

Zhou Zhan snorted and didn't speak, this was because he didn't count it carefully, and it was not good to force the sergeant to say that it was not.

But the man didn't agree, and aggrievedly told Li Jiu all the causes and consequences of the incident.

Li Jiu's face changed: "You go to Deputy Command Zhao's embassy to get twenty military canes yourself!" ”

Zhou Zhanlan smiled slightly when he heard this, even if he Li Jiu was a person who used to be a pro-health secretary, a celebrity in front of the official family, he couldn't get him as a small prisoner!

"Why don't you go quickly, didn't you hear Commander Li?"

Li Jiu turned his head to the disobedient sergeant and said: "You go, the justice here will naturally get you back, and I beat you because you collided with the official, this is not what we should do in the Fourth Army!" ”

After listening to Li Jiu's words, the sergeant suddenly stood up and saluted.

"Yes!"

After Li Jiu returned the salute, he walked to Zhou Zhan's table, gently picked up a string of ears on the table, counted them one by one, and said: "Zhou Jianjun, please see, this is a full six left ears, and six enemies should be killed!" ”

The ears close at hand in front of him made Zhou Zhan want to vomit, looking at Li Jiu's fierce wolf-like eyes, his hands trembled slightly and said, "Yes...... It's six! ”

"Haha, I'll just say that Zhou Jianjun is discerning! How can you make it so difficult for a little soldier! A certain family didn't bother Deputy Supervisor Zhou. ”

After Li Jiu finished speaking, he left, he believed that after this incident, Zhou Zhan would no longer have the courage to bully the sergeant.

Mu Xiu walked over from the back of the military tent, looked at a string of ears on the table and sneered and said to Zhou Zhan: "If you want to find death, I won't stop you, but now the Great Song Dynasty can play tricks in everything, but not in the army, the soldiers sacrifice their lives to kill the enemy just by relying on loyalty to the official family and the encouragement of military merits, if you discount the military merits, it will affect the image of the official family in the hearts of the soldiers, just by this point, Your Majesty can cut off your head, and even let your clan be buried with you!" ”

Zhou Zhan's body trembled slightly, in retrospect, it was really like this, with the character of the official family and his love for the new army, if he knew that he had deducted the military exploits of the soldiers, he would not be able to die well......

"Thank you Mu Jianjun for mentioning it, the lower officer understands!"

Mu Xiu smiled slightly and saluted: "I can't mention it, it's just a clarification, we are nominally the supervising army, but in fact we are just a secret official sent by the official family, just record the battle situation, summarize the battle report, don't put yourself in the position of supervising the army." ”

With the help of the cover of night, the Song army quietly came to the outside of Hongzhou City, but at this time, the rear army who came to investigate was dumbfounded, from the capital commander Peng Qi to the fire head army of the cooking class all opened their mouths and couldn't speak, no one expected that Hongzhou City actually opened the city gate, and there were few guards at the gate.

In fact, this is also reasonable, the army of the party has already gone to the city of Yanzhou, the whole Yanzhou is impassable, even the nearest security army does not dare to make a slight move, they want to clamp down on Li Deming's 100,000 army with the Suide army, how can anyone now fight the idea of Hongzhou City?

As the rear of Hongzhou City, in the eyes of the party people, it is the safest place, and the Song people have already agreed to the title of King Xiping, and also named the party as a difficult army!

In the eyes of the party members, this is the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty showing goodwill!

Since the failure of Taizong's three northern expeditions, the Song Dynasty's heart to expand its territory has been completely dead, and even tribal countries like Dangxiang can expand their territory to the northwest, but behemoths like the Great Song Dynasty have stopped.

All kinds of habits and cognitions made the party members not pay attention to the defense of Hongzhou.

Peng Qi almost couldn't help but make a move when he saw such a good opportunity, but in the end, he still endured it and said to Yang Huaiyu, who was about to move: "You take two scouts back to the Great Wall Ridge now, and be sure to let Li Jiu attack the third watch in advance!" ”

Yang Huaiyu was a little anxious and said: "Commander Peng, what a good time this is, although we only have eight hundred people, it is more than enough to deal with these stragglers, right?" ”

"Do you know how many party troops there are in the city? Hongzhou is the rear of Li Deming's 100,000 army, and the military supplies, grain and grass should be assembled here, it is impossible to be as simple as it seems, and he Li Deming is not a fool, otherwise he would not sit in the position of the king of the party! ”

Yang Huaiyu smashed his fist on the ground with hatred and turned his head and left, such an opportunity was really rare, but he also knew that this was not the time to act rashly, the biggest feature of the forbidden army was to obey orders, this was the first and last piece of advice he got when he entered the Western Expedition team.