Since the attack in Anyuan County, they have won three big victories in a row in less than a month, this kind of record is very rare in the Great Song Army today, and when they look back, they are even more excited, victory means rewards and merits, three big victories, how much reward and merit? It's exciting to think about.

After eating a hot meal, the atmosphere and spirit of the whole army suddenly changed, all of them were full of energy and high spirits, even if they fought another battle immediately, they could swing their swords.

After resting, the whole army retreated south, returned to Tongmian two days later, leaving a team of people to garrison, the others withdrew all the way to the mountain, the valley of the east to occupy the east, is the only way to go east, the position is very important, the advance can be attacked, the retreat can be defended, this place can not be defended, so two hundred people were left to garrison, and the remaining Xuanwei army withdrew to Dongxing Town through Natong.

A sneak attack behind enemy lines that lasted for thirteen days was officially over.

As soon as he returned to Dongxing, Yang Congyi wrote a good battle report and quickly reported the results of the battle to Mao Qi, the governor of Qinzhou, from the sea.

Moltke received the battle report of the Xuanwei Army that night, and when he saw the results of the Xuanwei Army, he immediately laughed and was extremely happy, and immediately rewarded the officer who delivered the battle report with one hundred taels of silver. Then let the detainee take the words, he will definitely ask for merit for the Xuanwei Army, and Tongzhong and Tongmian must also be firmly controlled in their hands, and they will not be robbed by Li Yueren again.

As soon as the Xuanwei military escort left, Mao Qi said "pen and ink waiting", and then began to write a report, he wanted to report this major result to the Yongzhou Governor's Office as soon as possible.

After writing the seal, he called the messenger and ordered: "Emergency military information, urgently send it to the Yongzhou Governor's Mansion, and deliver it before noon tomorrow, there must be no mistake!" ”

The messenger took the letter and departed.

Moltke couldn't sleep with excitement, so he put on his clothes and walked to the backyard.

Turning left and right, he walked outside a room, raised his hand and knocked on the door, and there was a loud bang.

A lazy voice immediately came from inside the room: "Who? ”

Moltke said, "It's me." ”

"Sir?" A cry of surprise rang out from inside the room.

After a few breaths, a young woman dressed in a single coat opened the door, flashed out, grabbed Moltke's arm, and complained: "Master, you haven't been here in the slave family for a few days, and you think that the master has forgotten the fourth aunt of the slave family too much." ”

"How could the master forget you, a little goblin, I was busy a few days ago and didn't go anywhere, and as soon as I was free today, I was the first to come to you." Moltke smiled and followed the woman into the house.

"The slave family is wrong to blame the master, and the slave family must serve the master well tonight, so that the master can relax and relax." The woman smiled coquettishly, and after entering the door, she reflexively closed the door.

As soon as the door closed, there was an unusual movement in the room.

"Master, be careful not to get hurt, the slave family will not run away again, the slave family will come by itself." The woman's coquettish voice came out, and it was heard from a long distance.

There was no Moltke in the house.

A moment later, a woman's * and gasps came from the room.

It didn't take long for a woman's almost inaudible voice to be heard inside: "Master, the slave family is here to help you." ”

This night, Mao Zhizhou, who was in a good mood, once again bloomed with youth.

Until sunrise the next day, my eyelids were heavy, my whole body was weak, and I couldn't get out of bed. I slept until three strokes in the morning, and suddenly remembered something, so I hurriedly got up.

"Go and order, hurry up and prepare the car, I'm going to Yongzhou."

"Yes, sir." The woman had already packed up and handed over Moltke's shirt, and then went out to find someone.

Half an hour later, Moltke's carriage, escorted by hundreds of state soldiers, hurried out of the city and headed north.

Except for a night's rest at the post station, Moltke went all the way without stopping, and finally arrived at the Yongzhou Governor's Mansion the next afternoon.

After the briefing, he was immediately ushered into the chamber.

As soon as he entered the council hall, he saw that the council hall was full of people, except for a few officials of the Yongzhou Governor's Mansion and a few generals, who he knew, no one else knew or seen before, so he sat down quietly at the end.

As soon as he sat down, he heard Lord Xu, the governor of the eight prefectures of Guangnan and the governor of Yongzhou, say to a purple-robed official: "Lord Li, this is Mao Qi, the governor of Qinzhou just now, we might as well listen to him and talk about the details." ”

Master Li said, "Okay." After a clean word, he said no other words.

Lord Xu said: "Mao Zhizhou has been fortunate all the way, this is Lord Li of Guangnan West Road Jingluo and Zhijingjiang Mansion, and he has come to Yongzhou to supervise the war. Yesterday, Zhizhou sent an emergency war report, and Master Li has already read it, but some details are not clear, and I asked Mao Zhizhou to explain it to Lord Li in detail. ”

Mao Qi was nervous for a while, Lord Li was an important minister of the imperial court, and he had heard of his reputation for a long time, but he had never seen him, so he immediately got up and bowed down and said: "Mao Qi, the governor of Qinzhou, has seen Lord Li and Lord Xu. ”

Master Li said: "Don't be polite, sit down and tell me the details." ”

"Yes." Moltke sat down slowly, sorted out his thoughts, and recounted: "Li Yue people have been invading Qinzhou for a long time, nearly three months ago, they suddenly sent 7,000 troops to cross the border, all the way to the east along the coast, captured four walled towns, and then occupied Dongxing Town, approaching Anyuan County, all the way from the north to the east, successively occupied eight walled towns, and arrived at Huashi Town, 20 miles west of Anyuan County, Qinzhou has very little wealth, and the state soldiers raised are only 2,000 people, it is difficult to resist Li Yue's invasion. Fortunately, in mid-September, the imperial court transferred the Xuanwei army to Qinzhou, and when they came, the lower officials immediately transferred them to Anyuan County, and sent half of the troops to take the initiative to attack, set up an ambush in Huashi Town, and annihilated the enemy who arrived first, totaling more than 1,800 people, and captured more than a dozen prisoners, including the commanders and generals.

After that, he sent this road Xuanwei army west to Nasuo Town, forty miles away, and found out that more than 5,000 enemy troops were rushing from Dongxing Town to Nasuo, so they blocked the dam and stored water in the upper reaches of the river west of Nasuo Town, and at the same time sent some troops to harass the enemy along the way, delaying their marching process, and when the enemy army marched to the outside of Nasuo Town and waited to cross the river, the upstream dam was destroyed and flooded, and overnight, more than 5,000 enemy troops were annihilated. The banks of the river and the fields near it were full of dead bodies, and it took six days to clean up.

After the Xuanwei army destroyed the enemy in Nasuo, Xiaguan quickly sent them south to recapture Dongxing Town, and the whole army rested in Dongxing Town for two days, and after Xiaguan replenished them with a large amount of military resources by sea, he sent them north to recapture the eight walled towns of Fulong, Natong, and Dongzhong that were still occupied by the enemy, and let them wait for an opportunity to enter the Yulin area occupied by the enemy to spy on the enemy.

After they didn't want them to go north, they took Tongmian, Zhilang, Zhai'an and other places, all the way to Ningming, where they found that the enemy army was preparing to use the Zuojiang River to transport military rations to the enemy army in front, and after sending people to investigate, they found that this batch of military rations was transported by the enemy army from Li Yue through Yulin, and after loading the ship in Ningming, they wanted to transport it directly to Fusui by waterway, so they attacked the enemy camp at night, killed more than 1,500 enemy troops in Ningming, burned more than 300 boats and hundreds of thousands of quintals of rice, and dumped them in the rolling river. This incident happened ten days ago, and because the military situation was very important, the subordinate was afraid that he would miss the opportunity to retreat from the enemy, so he personally rushed to report the details to the lords. ”

"They really destroyed 100,000 loads of grain for Li Yueren?" Lord Li's face remained unchanged, but looking at his expression, he obviously didn't believe it.

Mao Qi said: "Yes, although the lower officials did not send people to Ningming to verify and inspect, they brought back some of the military rations that were ready to be transported to Fusui. Moreover, all the ships near Ningming have been destroyed and sunk into the river, and the forty or fifty zhang wide river to the east of Ningming is difficult to pass, if the ships cannot be found, the road to Fusui will be cut off, and the enemy will not be able to transport a single grain to Fusui. ”

"How many people are there in this army that has been fighting repeatedly?" Master Li still didn't believe that the rice produced by Li Yue did not prove anything.

"Lord Hui, when this Xuanwei army was transferred to Qinzhou, there were a total of 4,000 people, divided into two in Anyuan County, 2,000 people guarded Anyuan County, and 2,000 people went out to fight. Moltke faintly felt that Master Li didn't seem to believe that they had destroyed 100,000 loads of grain for the enemy, and he couldn't help but be a little worried.

"Just 2,000 people can win three battles in a row and destroy Li Yue's seven or eight thousand people? How much damage do they have? Master Li asked again.

"As far as Xia Guan knows, except for the loss of nearly 100 people in Ningming this time, the Xuanwei Army has not suffered any other major losses, and the total loss will not exceed 150 people since the expedition. All the results, except for the battle of Ningming, which is difficult to verify beyond the territory of Qinzhou, have been verified, and they are basically true, and there are also prisoners' confessions as evidence. "Moltke is sweating behind his back, if Master Li doesn't believe it, thinking that he lied about the military situation, then it will offend people, now he only hopes that Yang Congyi is not coaxing him, otherwise he will lose face.

"He Jianjun, you have served in the Privy Council for many years, do you know the origin of this army?" Master Li turned to an official sitting next to him and asked.

The official was about forty years old, wearing a scarlet robe, and only heard him reply: "Although the lower officials served in the Privy Council, they knew very little about this Xuanwei army, which was originally specially formed to protect the Hui Yi, and had been to the South and Western Oceans, and only returned to the Great Song Dynasty in June and July this year, and was stationed on the island to which Mingzhou belonged. If it weren't for the fact that when they escorted them back to Yi, they sent Li Yue to envoy Li Yue with the household servant and fought against Li Yuejun, and the Privy Council would not have sent them to Qinzhou. ”

"What about the overseers of this army? It shouldn't be sent out casually, where did he come from? Master Li continued to ask, whether the military information reported by Qinzhou is useful, we must first see whether it is true, otherwise we will lose the battle, and if we lose Yongzhou, we will be in great trouble.

He Jianjun said: "This supervisor knows a little, the treasury was empty, the emperor was anxious, I heard that the ocean return to Yi can enrich the treasury, so let the Ministry of Internal Service handle it, where can the Ministry of Inner Service find people from the ocean to return to Yi?" In desperation, they found Wuxue, this overseer was still studying in Wuxue, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs asked him to supervise the Huiyi with another person, and he proposed to form a new army at this time.