"It may not take too much time to return to the teacher's pass." Chen Chongru said with relief, "It may also allow the army to be dragged down." ”

Chen Chongru's relieved worry made Wu Jie a little disapproving: "The battle of Kwantung, is it really so important?" ”

"Even if the Jingkang incident repeats itself, Ye Da Lu Shi will not be able to stand in the Southern Dynasty," Wu Jiedao said, "We will solve the problem of Guanzhong and then return to the division, just drive him back."

Although Wu Jie didn't say it, he had long wanted to wave his troops in Guanzhong and meet the old enemy Qu Duan, this damn strategy, so that a general like him couldn't do it, and several generals in the camp went to Luoyang Qinglou for recreation, and fought with a few local scoundrels, and was warned by the Military Intelligence Department. Just when it was time to employ people, Wu Jie easily smoothed out this. He thought to himself that if he had sent troops to fight in the morning, this kind of would not have happened. He has never been able to understand why Chen Zhong is so concerned about the battle situation in the Kanto region, isn't it a repetition of Jing Kangnian?

"The situation in the Kanto region can't be delayed any longer," Chen Zhong looked at Wu Jie, and said meaningfully, "The key is not in the Khitan, but in the Song people." ”

"Song people?"

"Exactly, Song people." "The sky outside was dark, and the earth was still sleeping, but Chen Chong's eyes were shining like nothing.

"The Liao people were tired from the southern expedition, and they should have retreated to the north of the desert and recuperated, but Yelu Dashi did not shrink and made a profit, and once again devoted all his strength to the southern expedition, which was the way to self-destruction. The Khitan is in a hurry at the moment, as long as the Song people survive the current pass, the Liao State will be defeated, which can be imagined. However, the Song people are different. The population of Kwantung is tens of millions, and the vitality of the Liao army still exists under the two southern expeditions. The last time the Liao army went south, most of the Song counties along the way surrendered without a fight, and this time the Liao army marched south, the Song country went up to the state and county, down to the village, and it was able to fight for itself. The Liao army seems to be gaining momentum, but in fact it is stuck in the quagmire, the more south it goes, the deeper it sinks, and it is impossible to retreat with its whole body. ”

"Wu Shuai," Wu Jie nodded, his expression relaxed, Chen Chong's words changed, and he said in a deep voice: "I think, if you and the Liao army change places, can you easily destroy the city and pull out the village, and even kill the two tigers in one blow?" ”

"This" Wu Jie's face froze, and he thought for a moment, although he was unwilling, he still shook his head.

As the commander of the Kwantung camp, Wu Jie always paid attention to the progress of the battle of the Liao and Song dynasties. This time the Liao army invaded south, and the resistance of the Song people was resolute, and the defenders of Henan, and even many newly recovered counties in Hebei, resisted desperately to the end, even a single soldier. At the same time, in the rear of the battle line, the imperial court and counties of the Song State were desperately recruiting regimental training, and the total number was probably no less than one million. And the most terrible thing is that whether it is the front defender or the rear recruitment, the Song army is mainly based on firecrackers, which means that only simple training is needed to go into battle, and on the battlefield, the horns of these firecrackers are no longer useless to sign the army like two-legged sheep, but can make the Liao army the real opponent, the blood shed by the Song people in countless battles in Henan and Hebei has long proved this.

"So," he wondered.

"So," Chen Zhong said in a low voice, but firmly, "the Khitan is undoubtedly defeated, how to win the second tiger with one blow is the only chance now, and it can't be delayed any longer." ”

Wu Jie's eyes showed surprise, Chen Zhong has always been calm, planning in his 'chest', and rarely talking to others, even after Kang Guo's 'chaos', he is rarely so frank, it seems that the current situation is really urgent.

"If you want to attack the Song Kingdom, then General Zhao?" Wu Jie said suspiciously, in his mind, the best partner to lead the troops to attack the Song Dynasty was none other than Zhao Xingde. Chen Zhong attached great importance to Zhao Xingde, and Zhao Xingde was reluctant to lead troops to attack the Song Dynasty. Not only that, Zhao Xingde's relatives and friends are all Song people, and he has been in charge of the army for a long time, if he can't figure it out, maybe he will have to support the army and fight back. Before the 'chaos' of Kangguo, the General's Mansion had not taken the army composed of all firecrackers in its eyes, and after the 'chaos' of Kangguo, no one despised these hastily trained firearms regimental training. Now there are millions of people in the Kanto group training.

"General Zhao put down the rebellion," Chen Chong said in a low voice, "We need to keep him in the river for a while, and then let him come back when the situation in the Kwantung region is stable." ”

"It's fine." Wu Jie nodded, "I have already contacted the Yang family in Hedong, and there should be news soon." ”

He sighed, from the bottom of his heart, Wu Jie still recognized Zhao Xingde the most. However, Chen Zhong has the same concerns as him.

The horn sounded, and the East Camp was like a giant waking up from its slumber, and the sound of horses' hooves, the shouts of soldiers, and the sound of neat steps sounded one after another. The morning 'drills' of the Kwantung battalion began, and the officers and non-commissioned officers of the fire battalion had to complete fourteen 'drills' every day, which lasted until the sun went down. The sergeants were much freer, and the lieutenants and captains gathered and practiced the two-level battle formation of the battalion and the team one after another, and then they practiced their martial arts. Tens of thousands of soldiers are encircled in the small place of the camp, like a tiger in a cage, if they do not vigorously grind and scratch their teeth, and consume their "essence" strength, they will make a "chaos", but, on the contrary, the longer the time drags on, the more urgent the soldiers' desire to fight.

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The blazing sun hung in the sky, and a hot 'wave' and the stench of rotting corpses rose from the ground.

Huazhou City, the city of Hebei Prefecture, has resisted the Liao army for a month. Huazhou is located in the north of the Yellow River Bridge, when the Liao army just appeared, the Song army took the initiative to burn the bridge, which also means that in the past month, the defenders of Huazhou have been trapped in the lonely city, there is no way to retreat, and there are no reinforcements. The Liao army dispatched troops and horses to attack for a few days, and seeing that the defenders were tenacious, they left a group of men and horses to monitor, and the brigade crossed the river. The defenders didn't have time to catch their breath, and the follow-up Liao army came again, because Huazhou was about to rush, this time, the Liao army was unwilling to leave hidden dangers, and after the persuasion failed, they sent more men and horses to attack day and night. In the last Jingkang 'rebellion', the city wall of Huazhou had been demolished once, and the new state city was repaired for only a year, and it was crumbling under the bombardment of the Liao army's artillery.

The resistance for more than a month has already 'provoked' the Liao soldiers, fortunately, Huang Yinghua of Zhizhou sent the old and weak 'women' and children in the city across the river in advance, otherwise, the day the city was broken, it would be the time to slaughter the city

The moat outside the city of Huazhou has long been filled with corpses, and every time the Liao army attacks the city, they carry bags of sand and soil and throw them under the city. The Song army had to temporarily build a walled wall in these places, erect heavy artillery from elsewhere, rely on the flesh and blood and the will to die, barely held for three days, three days down, the Song army's casualties exceeded the sum of the past month, fight to this day, the remaining soldiers have less than 1,000 people, all concentrated in the weak place of the city wall, Zhizhou Huang Yinghua has been martyred a few days ago, Xuezheng Lu Bingyi with the officials left behind, also personally went to the south city tower. Outside the city, the Liao artillery bombarded dozens of projectiles as usual, and then thousands of foot soldiers surrounded hundreds of cavalry and charged according to the city.

"Lu Daguan," Dutou Yantian wiped the blade and said in a low voice, "It seems that this hurdle cannot be passed today!" ”

"Yan San, Saturday" Lu Bingyi looked at the gloom in the distance and said, "I have tired you." ”

"Where did the big officials come from," Zhou Wen Shitian patted his 'chest' and smiled proudly, "If there is no big official to carry me, we will not be allowed to enter the Martyrs' Shrine." ”

"Good man! Lu really didn't see the wrong person! Lu Bingyi was shocked when he heard this, stretched out his hand and picked up a gun, pointed at the dense Liao soldiers under the city, and said, "Today, I will ask the Liao thieves to see the loyalty of my northern man." "Hundreds of Song soldiers at the head of the city agreed in unison, these remnants of the soldiers have been holding on to the city for several days, and the gunpowder has long been exhausted, almost everyone is injured, and everyone knows that today will not be spared. However, as Yan San and Zhou Wenshi said, on the day of everyone's expedition, their names have been listed in the Martyrs' Shrine. Rather than fall into the hands of the thieves and suffer humiliation, it is better to be generous to righteousness.

Not far from the city, the Liao general had already seen that the city's head ammunition 'medicine' had been exhausted, and sneered and ordered the ants to attack the city, and a large group of Liao soldiers rushed up.

The sound of fighting, shouting, resounded through the city wall again, the battle lasted for an hour, and the Great Song banner at the head of the city was finally cut down by the Liao soldiers.

Lu Bingyi, Qingliu of Hebei, contacted thousands of people from Nandu Township to return to the north, and was elected as Huazhou Xuezheng, on the third day of August, Huazhou fell, and Lu Bingyi and Huazhou guards Zhou Wenshi, Yantian and other thousands of Song soldiers did not survive. When the news came back, the elders of Huazhou who were living in Bianliang, Daming and other places mourned and moved, and the imperial court also solemnly moved the spirits of Lu Bingyi and others into the Martyrs' Shrine. Since the battle of Xiongzhou and the southern invasion of the Liao army, Lu Bingyi is not the first and not the last local shepherd to be martyred with the city.

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"Lu Xuezheng has been martyred."

At the head of the Daimyo's Mansion, Cao Liangshi looked at the Liao cavalry showing off his might, and his eyes were almost 'desired'.

Yue Fei's 'gloomy' face was calm, looking at the sun and moon flag carrying the heads in a row of wooden cages.

Every time the Liao army fell into a city, it would pass the head of the guard to the Daimyo's Mansion that was still holding on, and Huazhou was an important town in Hebei, echoing the Daimyo's Mansion from afar.

After the fall of Huazhou, the Liao army not only sent Lu Bingyi's head to the city of Daimyo, but also threatened to pass him to Hebei to defeat the morale of the Song army.

"Who wants to go out of the city and snatch Lu Xuezheng's head back?!" Yue Fei said in a deep voice.

Outside the city, the Liao rode like a cloud, and the net of heaven and earth had already been opened. However, even though he knew that the Liao army was deliberately provoking, this tone was tolerable and unbearable.

"The last will go!" Zhang Xian looked left and right, and was the first to stand up, and several other horsemen also hugged their fists and asked for their lives, and everyone's faces were sad and angry.

"Wait!" Cao Liangshi stopped, he looked at the Liao army under the city, and gritted his teeth and said, "The Liao thief's 'treacherous' plan is to 'agitate' the general', our army has few soldiers, only the deep ditch barrier can be relied upon, if you go out of the city in a hurry, it will be long or short." At present, as long as the wall is firmly defended, all the reinforcements in Henan are on the way, as long as they hold each other for a while, they will look good! "Although he is a civil official, he has been in Henan for a long time on behalf of the imperial court, and he is also very prestigious in the army. He saw through the trap of the Liao army, so he ordered Zhang Xian to lead the cavalry to kill from the other side of the city 'gate', specifically to find the weak place of the Liao army's camp to rush and kill, and cut down hundreds of Liao army heads, venting the anger of Lu Bingyi and others.