But even if he has a good impression of Zhao Gou, when Yan Wangjun marched south, Yao Gu, Yao Youzhong and his son, Liu Yanqing, Liu Guangshi and his son, as well as Liu Tao, Liu Ziyu and his son, and Zhang Shuye and his son, it was impossible to sit still and watch Yan Wang's army go straight to Bianliang City.

However, they tried their best to really stop the southward movement of the Yan Wang army.

Obviously, there is an absolute advantage in troops, but once the earth-shaking thunder sounds, it will be defeated immediately.

These Song soldiers were very weak, and they were as unmotivated as dead girls.

Yao Gu didn't blame them, because even their father and son, after listening to the treatment of the soldiers of the Yan Wang Army, did not have any intention of serving the official family in Bianliang City.

From the five-year tax exemption to the military meritorious field, from the military meritorious field to the rent and tax reduction policy of the military martyrs' families.

With the treatment of Yan Wangjun as a comparison, the Song army in the south did not defect, so it can be regarded as worthy of the Zhao official family.

The night is dark, and the dark night sky is even deeper under the background of the complex feelings of Yao Gu and Zhang Shuye, the two military and political officials of the Song Dynasty, especially Zhang Shuye, who is a literati, and his mood is even more lonely and desolate at this moment. A few stars danced in the distance, and the sky was as black as ink.

An extremely sharp question is in front of the two of them, how will the battle be fought tomorrow?

The Yan Wangjun has crossed the Yellow River and entered Huazhou City, and it looks like they are about to enter the territory of Kaifeng Mansion, and they still hold a small 100,000 people in their hands, but how should this battle be fought? I can't fight at all.

"The morale of the army is very bad, and there is no fighting spirit from top to bottom. If King Yan attacks with all his might, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on to even a day's effort. ”

The army has no fighting spirit, and the general has no fighting spirit, and the gods will not be able to win this battle when they come.

Yao Gu's words are very straightforward, because he knows that Zhang Shuye is not the kind of self-deceiving person who likes to cover his ears and steal the bell.

Uncle Zhang really didn't have the slightest anger, and after hearing Yao Gu's words, he only shook his head gloomily.

"Among the ten people in the whole army, there are probably seven or eight of them who are looking forward to being able to defect to King Yan and get a military merit."

King Yan took the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, and swept Hedong, Hebei, with more than 10 million acres of fertile land in his hands, and shouted and killed Liaodong and the party, and the results will only be greater in the future. With such a one-person and ten acres of military merit land, there is no pressure on him at all. But the temptation of the Song soldiers is beyond words!

Zhao Song was not stingy with the soldiers, although there were not many coppers, even if it was the Fourth Army, it would cost eight hundred yuan a month. However, in addition to "Luge", it also includes one stone and seven buckets to two stones of monthly grain (ranging from the upper, middle and lower armies), and the number of silk, cotton, and cloth in spring and winter clothes is also different. For example, the Sixth Route Army in Hebei and Hedong had two pieces of silk and half a piece of cloth per person, and the money was 1,000 Wen; Winter clothes are two pieces of silk, half a piece of cloth, a thousand dollars and twelve taels of cotton.

plus rewards from time to time, such as the emperor's birthday, or the prince's marriage, and so on.

According to statistics, the annual cost of a forbidden soldier can be roughly counted as about fifty yuan.

That's not a small number.

If the cost of this figure could really fall into the hands of the soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the Song army would not be so poor.

What's more, even if this is the case, this treatment is far from being comparable to the military merit field.

The latter began with ten acres of land, and with the long service time and meritorious deeds, under the publicity of the newspapers, it seems that many people feel that they can easily get together thirty or twenty acres, and this is still the kind of person who can get by.

This has a great temptation for the Song people.

You must know that in the Zhao and Song dynasties, the government comprehensively divided the households into five classes according to the amount of taxes, acres of land, and wealth accumulated by families.

The first class here are local tyrants like Zhujiazhuang and Hujiazhuang, the second class is small landlords, and the third class is homesteaders with 30 or 50 acres of land, which can be regarded as rich peasants.

The fourth- and fifth-class households, which make up the vast majority of the population, are semi-yeoman farmers and tenants, and the division of the highlands is also based on how many acres of land the households still have in their hands.

Each person can get dozens of acres of land, as well as tax reductions and exemptions, and even when soldiers settle in Yandi and other new territories, they can also get official land, which is a third-class portal. It's strange that the attraction to the soldiers will be smaller!

What's more, Zhao Gou is not an outsider either.

is not only the prince of Zhao Song, but also a prince who has made great contributions, in this context, the Song army has the heart to resist before there are ghosts!

When the Yan Wangjun went south, it was completely a devastating parade.

Zhao Gou is on the throne as the emperor, and the soldiers return to their hearts, which is already a kind of 'public expectation'.

As the commanders of the Song army, Yao Gu and Zhang Shuye are both so depressed, so it is conceivable how the fighting spirit of the entire Song army should be.

In the middle of the night, Zhao Gou was suddenly woken up by Kang Xu, but it was the Song army camp.

"King, the two generals Yue and Han have already led their troops to chase and kill."

Zhao Gou's hazy drowsiness disappeared in an instant, "Bombing the camp again?" ”

He was not surprised at all by Yue Fei and Han Shizhong for leading the horse army to attack, but felt crying and laughing at the bombing camp of the Song army, "How many times has this been?" "It's a shame.

When it was dawn, Yao Gu stopped his horse and looked behind him, only a few five or seven hundred guards followed, and they were all panting heavily, all of them were too tired to work.

"Father!"

Yao Youzhong's face was wooden. He had heard that Liu Yanqing had built a 100,000 soldiers and horses bombing camp in Yandi at one time, and was chased by some remnants of the Liao people who fled back from the Jurchens, and they were chased after their buttocks until they reached Jiehe. I also heard that Zhi Yanzhi and Li Hui exploded 120,000 soldiers and horses on the south bank of the Yellow River, so that the Jin people crossed the Yellow River effortlessly and went straight to the foot of Bianjing.

But he didn't expect that the legendary unfortunate thing of bombing the camp would one day fall on his head.

How can he, who thinks so highly of himself, be willing? The blow was also too great. Even though he had convinced himself to retreat in the face of the earth-shattering thunder, Yao Youzhong still couldn't accept the bombing of the camp.

This is the greatest insult to a soldier and a general.

"Don't be a little daughter. The morale of the Southern army is low, and the fighting spirit has dissipated, you must not know. There are today's mistakes, seven points of sin in the overall situation, three points of sin in the father and Zhang Xianggong's inaction, what does it have to do with you? ”

The ancient Yao people are old and refined, and they can't see Yao Youzhong's posture like this. But he knew that his son had always been arrogant, and he had always been racing with Ping Zhong earlier. Because Yao Pingzhong (the son of Yao Gu's brother Yao Xiong) is a few years older, debuted earlier, and has extraordinary qualifications, he has been recognized by the veterans of the Western Army one step earlier, and he is recommended by the heroes of Guanzhong, called "Little Captain". It's almost like he's (Yao Youzhong) gone.

But in the last battle to defend the city of Tokyo, Yao Pingzhong lost his adulthood, and even threw the reputation of the Yao family into the mud heap for others to trample on. (Yao Pingzhong advocated going out of the city to sneak attack the Jin people, but the sneak attack failed, and he had no shame to return to Bianliang, so he ran away) In the second Bianliang battle, Yao Youzhong was always at the forefront, daring to fight, repeatedly frustrating the Jin people, and performing positively and outstandingly, which can be described as the humerus of the Song army defending the city.

It was not easy to restore the Yao family's prestige in the army. The bombing of the camp must be another big stain in his eyes.

But Yao Gu scoffed at this, "The situation is like this, how can it be reversed by manpower?" Moreover, now it is only internal friction, not external. In the future, when King Yan is in power, the soldiers of the world are afraid that they will immediately change to another appearance. At that time, you will be the leader of the army, and you will only serve the country. ”