Chapter 358: Edict

Chen Liu's war fell into a stalemate in the short term, and Zhao Gou didn't care about Xue Guangjun's life or death, so he stopped his troops in Yongqiu, just waiting for the arrival of follow-up military supplies and food. There is also the arrival of the Zongze army of Xingren Mansion.

The generals in the army were also speechless.

Long before breaking into Chenliu, Zhao Gou had already made it clear to the generals of Ying Tianfu that who dared to lead troops directly into Chenliu in order to contain the army. After the war, it will be regarded as a first-class meritorious service.

It was they who didn't dare to take risks, and it was Xue Guang who was willing to fill in the dangerous land of Chenliu.

Now that Chen Liu is in danger, no one can blame Zhao Gou.

The latter is not a meat tan that attracts hatred, it is purely that the city of Chenliu is an extremely important strategic location, and the reason why people are sent to kill it is only because they are afraid of being occupied by the Jin. In this way, the Jin soldiers have a city to rely on, and it is the Song army that is unfavorable to the confrontation.

Now Jin Bing is surrounding Chen Liu, but he may not be able to eat it in one bite. Zhao Gou prepared his strength in Yongqiu with peace of mind, and when all the soldiers and horses gathered, he killed Chen Liucheng in one fell swoop.

And so it has been another six days.

Wanyan Lou Room did not get angry and anxious, but waited patiently for the arrival of the Song army, and saw a forward soldier and horse under the banner of the word 'Zong' coming straight towards Chen Liu, and directly asked Jin Bing to get out of the way.

It's still leap November, and it's almost December, and the weather is still very cold. What's the hurry? Jin Bing just can't take Bianjing, and if he wants to negotiate peace with Zhao Song and withdraw from the army, he will have to wait until the beginning of spring next year.

Therefore, there is time on both sides, and Wanyan Lou Room, a Jurchen general who has experienced a hundred battles, is not in a hurry at all.

It just made people go all out to find out the news, and figured out the whole process of Zhao Gou going south to Yingtian and seizing the military power in the hands of Fan and Zhao. On the contrary, the news was passed on to Zhao Huan through Salumu.

Now that Wanyan Lou is waiting for Zhao Huan's reaction, will he be indifferent? Zhao Gou has a heavy army in his hands, and he is his own brother, which is a mortal threat to Zhao Huan's throne.

If before the war between the two armies, the envoys of the Emperor of the Zhao family came to announce the edict, telling King Kang to withdraw his troops, saying that Song and Jin were already in peace talks, it would be a big blow to the morale of the Song army, and it would be a victory to add 100,000 reinforcements to him.

Therefore, Wanyan Lou was not in a hurry to start a war than Zhao Gou, and he flashed a imaginary scene in his heart more than once. When the edict announced that the Song army was in turmoil, he urged the iron cavalry to strike a thunderbolt, not to mention capturing Zhao Gou, which could also annihilate the hundreds of thousands of Song troops in front of him.

Of course, this is all just speculation, and it is the most optimistic scene.

But it's not so optimistic, and this move can finally hit the morale of the Song army. Moreover, in the field battle on the flat ground, he has forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses in his hands, will he still be afraid of the cowardly Song army on the other side?

The Jurchen man can be one as ten as a hundred, and the Song army on the opposite side is only more than others, so why be afraid?

But until the start of the war, the edict that Yan Lou was looking forward to was not sent, and Zhao Huan's ears were a little soft, but he was not stupid. The courtiers and warriors in the capital are not all stupid.

He Li, Chen Guoting, Sun Fu, Liu Tao and others tried their best to block it, how could Zhao Huan's edict be issued?

"Why should my father worry, that is, without the edict of the Emperor of the Zhao family, we just have to forge one and read it out on the spot, so what's the difficulty?" Wanyan said.

In these days, they have captured so many Song army messengers and Song army envoys who were detained in Jinying, and it is really not difficult to forge a letter from the emperor.

"Fake is fake after all, Zhao Jiu'er is not stupid." Not to mention reading it out on the fly.

Wanyan Lou said this, but his subordinates were not slow at all, but in one day, they got a few gates from Sticky Han, and also brought an edict with a seal. The choice of words and sentences, as well as the traces of the imprint, are really not bad at all.

The Jin army has been very peaceful in the past few days, but Zhao Gou and Song Jun have not been idle at all. The army marched along the Bianhe River, land and water, and went straight to Chenliu.

As one of the four canals of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Bianhe River is the top priority, connecting the Jianghuai River in the south of the Yangtze River and supplying 6 million stones every year. Ten times that of Guangji and Huimin.

After Zhao Gouren arrived in Yingtianfu, he immediately sent a letter to the first-line towns of the Bianhe River to detain boats and buy large livestock such as mules and horses, thinking that they were for military use.

Don't look at the fact that it's winter, the water surface of the Bianhe River has long been frozen. As long as two planks are added to the bottom of the boat, how difficult is it for the boat to become a king-size ice sled?

How many ships can't be renovated these days?

Therefore, this time Zhao Gou marched into Chenliu, it was still a land and water attack.

I don't know how much manpower is saved.

The weight of the cao boat is dozens of times that of the chariot and horse, and after the switch to the ice sled version of the cao boat to transfer military supplies and grain, the transportation capacity it carries will be enough to meet the needs of the army for a month. It can really be said that it has reduced the big trouble.

Now both sides of the Bianhe River, and even the thick ice surface of the Bianhe River, are very lively. The infantry soldiers strode forward and looked at the different customs on the Bianhe River.

The soles of the feet of those mules, horses, cattle and other livestock are all grasping. (The grabbing palm is a winter horse's shoe, with three iron tips under the flat palm, triangular.) It allows horses to walk safely on the ice. Walking smoothly on the ice, with multiple grooms cooking, pulling the boat behind him, this strange scenery that has never appeared before, does it attract the curiosity of the soldiers of the Song army?

The plains on both sides of the bank are now shrouded in a layer of snow white. There are some trees, as far as the eye can see, they are all dry branches and bare poles, and the scenery is extremely bleak.

However, in such a season, for the Jurchen dialect, it is a good time for the soldiers to conquer.

From the road where Chen Liu went down the Bianhe River, more than ten knights of the Song army were galloping along the canal regardless of their horsepower, and after seeing the generalissimo banner erected high in the mighty army in the distance, they whipped a few times, driving the tired and panting war horses under their crotch to accelerate forward again.

Zhao Gou marched on horseback, not in a modified boat.

"Report ......"

Before the men and horses arrived, the sound of shouting was already heard in the distance. They were the Song army's horse exploration and rangers, and they had been ordered by Zong Ze to report the situation in Chenliu's area to Zhao Gouyu.

Jin Jun has been really honest these days, and it seems that he is deliberately waiting for the arrival of Song Jun. Moreover, the Jin army outside the city seems to have arrived with reinforcements in the past two days.

There was no siege, and even the horse rangers sent out by Zong Ze were not so covered.

The men and horses sent out have been able to see Bianliang City recently.

Jin Ren is obviously waiting for Zhao Gou.

The team led by the general reined in the war horse under the generalissimo of Zhao Gou, turned over and reported loudly in front of Zhao Gou's horse: "Tell the king, the army of gold thieves has not attacked the city for many days, but reinforcements began to arrive two days ago. There are probably tens of thousands of horse troops before and after! ”

Hearing that there were tens of thousands of Jurchen cavalry opposite Chen Liu, the generals and military senators around Zhao Gou all secretly took a breath of cool air, only Zhao Gou himself was still calm and calm, and waved his hand lightly: "Got it, go down and receive the reward." ”

Then his eyes swept around, and he didn't see the subtle changes in the faces of the generals, and only smiled, "The Jin soldiers mobilized the army before and after to fight, how can you not know in Bianliang City?" This battle is like fighting in front of the official family. Just let the officials and the civil and military people in the main hall see with their own eyes how we broke the enemy and killed the thieves, and your merits are still worried that they can't fall into the eyes of the officials. That's great! ”