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"Those who can come out at this time are the real soldiers, and they are the pride of the entire Great Song Dynasty!"

"Lord Zhao took the last team without a battle robe in Chizhou and entered Lingzhi Mountain for a decisive battle, right?"

"Hey, it should be, but I can't know the specifics, in short, as long as there is a way to win, with Lord Zhao's wit and wisdom, he will try his best."

The city of Chizhou is concerned about the current situation.

No one knows where Zhao Chengbu went, but when he won the South Gate and didn't go back to the city to repair, the simplest thing to think is that a decisive battle is about to be made.

There will be a lot of frozen bones on the road this year, and many people will die of cold every winter, especially this year with a blizzard.

"It's a blessing that people don't freeze to death in such ghost weather, how can they fight a decisive battle?"

Even if the siege of Chizhou has been lifted for the time being, there are still many people who are worried about Zhao Cheng's rash advance, if the decisive battle is really imminent, once he loses, it means that after the snowstorm stops, Wang Xiu will enter the siege again.

Cai You is also one of the groups worried. The embarrassment is that the snowstorm does not stop, and many people can't escape even if they want to.

Zhang Ji? I don't know how to deduce the military formation, and I don't know the final outcome of Zhao Cheng's troops marching into Lingzhi Mountain.

It is very concerned to care, but it is useless to be anxious, because now there is a more serious situation in Chizhou City than the siege of the rebels.

The matter of people taking tea and cooling is being staged in the city. After Wang Xiubu evacuated and Zhao Cheng left, contradictions about hunger were erupting.

Under normal circumstances, people like Cai You can solve a lot of problems. But now that it is no longer easy to suppress, the Guichi government has drastically reduced supplies to refugee camps and slums, including food and charcoal.

This is because the part that Zhao Cheng bought with white strips has been used up, and after Zhao Cheng left, the future of Chizhou is now uncertain, and the powerful and local tyrants have refused to sell it again.

Now that the roads are closed by heavy snowfall, the price of the black market has tripled.

From parity to tripling, it will not even take a day, and if one of the people who waits and sees refuses to put grain, they will follow one after another, and not a single grain will come out.

When Zhao Cheng was there, he could barely share the joys and sorrows, but now he can't share the dawn.

There have been two distinct camps in Chizhou, and the big families have gathered their private guards and guarded the doors, guarding the door with knives, and watching those who are badly dressed pass by with extremely vigilant isolation eyes and cautious eyes.

Although the refugee camp is not a hell on earth, it looks miserable, and now it is without food, warmth, and medicine when it is already as thin as a skeleton.

People were already freezing to death, and there was a lot of coughing in the camp.

Before this, there were people running naked, but it was just a few bare-chested children who were idle. Now, Zhang Ji patrolling the refugee camp? Seeing that many women are naked, there is no sense of shame, except that they themselves do not blush, Zhang Ji? I don't feel blushing either.

The reason why there are bare-chested women is because it is the most critical time, and their clothes are taken off and wrapped around the coughing dolls.

"Ahem, sir...... My brother followed the adults out of Lingzhi Mountain, will he win...... Ahem......"

Passing by a little girl who is usually familiar, she asked Zhang Ji like this? Target.

This scene made Zhang Ji? Feel great fear!

I can't answer it now, Zhang Ji? Without saying a word, he left quickly, hurriedly entered the state office to find Cai You, and said with red eyes, "If you don't do something, something more serious than the rebel siege will happen in Chizhou." ”

Took a deep breath, Zhang Ji? Still unable to calm down, he said with a rare demeanor, "At that time, Zhao Cheng gave them promise and hope, they believed, and now Zhao Cheng and their sons and relatives have gone out of Lingzhi Mountain under such harsh conditions. Is Lord Zhizhou really indifferent to this? ”

Whether the public is unfair or unreasonable or not cannot be said.

Cai You could only turn around in a hurry, "I understand, I understand, I know what you say." But now they don't listen to me, and I can't hold it back. Now they don't believe me, and they don't believe that Zhao Chengbu can come back. So after Zhao Cheng took away the last strength of Chizhou, they were not only not afraid of me, but also fought back. Now it's the other way around, they only have knives, the government doesn't have them, you don't have knives and the other party has knives, can we still bluff them? ”

Zhang Ji? His expression became strange, "Your so-called last strength in Chizhou was not original. But in Zhao Cheng's hands, he has it. So the power has always been there, just to see if it will be used? ”

I didn't expect this woman to be able to say this one day, and this Nima was even more frightened Cai You's heart.

Frankly speaking, even if Chizhou's casualties are greater, and Cai You is defeated and runs away again, the responsibility is not as great as heaven, but if you let go at this time, according to Zhang Ji? 's thinking is Zhao Cheng's, and the political responsibility is much greater than Chizhou's death.

It's very simple, the Great Song Dynasty and the scholars and squires share the world, and the world belongs to this group of people. If Cai You, as an old elite family, betrayed this class at this time, it would be a monstrous incident.

If it is not extreme, on the contrary, Zhao Cheng can do it to a certain extent, Zhao Cheng has no foundation, he was originally hidden opposition to this group of people, and the official is relatively small, he came out to bite a few times, as long as the other party is not seriously injured, it is easy for Cai You to be a good person afterwards.

To a certain extent, Zhang Ji? still understood Cai You, and found that he was too aggressive, so he calmed down and said, "Maybe...... Is there another way to buffer? ”

Cai You couldn't help but pout, looking at her with great interest.

Zhang Ji? said, "It's really not good to take the things of local tyrants, but ...... What if it's an official? As an official of the imperial court, at this critical moment of life and death, is it really no obligation at all? ”

"This ......"

Cai You twisted his beard and hesitated for a moment, squinted his eyes and said, "You mean Zhu Xiao, right?" ”

Zhang Ji? Nodding slightly.

"It's not impossible in theory......"

Cai You hesitated for a while, "The question is how much food can his family have?" ”

Zhang Ji? "It doesn't take a lot, just five days." All you need to do is put five days' rations in more than 30,000 people in refugee camps and slums, and hold out until Zhao Cheng returns. If he can come back, it means that the Battle of Chizhou has been won, and then everything is easy to say. ”

"With his numbers, with the current cold, you really think he can come back."

In this regard, Cai You is not, but really not optimistic.

Zhang Ji? I am not optimistic, but I can only fool him first, "I know he can win, the worse the weather, the greater his chance of winning." ”

Cai You walked around suffering from gains and losses, "You don't want to Kuang me, you say that these are a bit of a basis and origin?" ”

Q: Anything else is not good, but Zhang Ji in terms of quoting scriptures? It happened to be a strong point, so he said, "Li Jing, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, broke Yin Mountain, and it was a similar situation. Zhao Cheng's military talent and ability to control morale have been proven time and again, so I think it can produce similar results. ”

That sounds technically reasonable.

But Nima scared Cai You even more, there are no details in the history of the slot, but once it will be successful, everyone only knows the glory of the battle of Dingding, but in fact, it is at the cost of almost death!

Assuming that Zhao Cheng can really win, and his grassroots is basically dead and pays the price, and when he comes back, he sees that the parents and relatives of the people who followed him to fight are all starving to death, then Chizhou is called a real accident, and at that time, he Xiao Zhao is afraid that he will be worse than Wang Xiu.

"Well, although the Zhu family is not easy to mess with, it is really them who are more cowardly. Then you can only find a soft pinch of persimmons. ”

After a long sigh, Cai You made the most important political decision of his life: to secretly arrest Zhu Xiao.

Cai Jiu, a henchman beside him, was also puzzled, and it was hard to believe that the master would make such a decision one day.

In order to be safe, Cai Jiu asked in a low voice, "What about the other main members of the Zhu family?" ”

Cai You didn't speak again, and made a slight gesture to wipe his neck.

Cai Jiu nodded and left the room.

Instead, Zhang Ji? Startled, he lost his voice and said, "This ...... Adults are overreacting......"

"Shut up!"

Cai You is now completely changed, and he is no longer in harmony with the mud, "In short, the dog is in a hurry to jump off the wall, and Benzhou has also been forced to this position, people, they are all forced out." ”

Zhang Ji? Again, "It's not that strict......"

"Shut up!"

Cai You interrupted coldly, "You are older in terms of knowledge, but you are far behind in terms of these." Either you don't do it, you have to do it to the end. A hundred-year-old dynasty and a thousand-year-old family, you think it's fake, do you know how long the Zhu family has been operating in this place, and how intertwined it is? When my Zhao and Song Dynasty didn't know where they were, they were the overlords here! Remember, to divide food you have to kill. Otherwise, Benzhou put the words here, that is, Zhu Xiao promised to open a warehouse, as long as he and his children of the branch are still there, believe it or not, Benzhou drove them to get food with a whip, and few people dared to go in to get it! ”

After a pause, Cai You pointed at Zhang Ji again? 's nose said, "There are too many reasons, as long as you are serious, the Zhu family can sentence you to death a hundred times without running." In short, you can't run away from this, you forced, you participated, you gave this book to Benzhou, that's all. ”

Zhang Ji? Half-open mouth.

"War is like this, the more chaotic it is, the more there are no rules."

Cai You waved his hand and said, "Either you die or I die, and he can do the same if you change your father in extreme times." The truth never matters, about Zhu Xiao, no matter what you hear afterwards, just shut up. If you still have a little conscience, don't let your father and uncle trouble me about this. You don't need to see me as a good person, tacitly, just cast a mouse bogey, isn't it simple? ”

Since then, Zhang Ji? was forcibly invited out of the state office, and when he left, he was still in a circle, was it really forced out, or was Lao Cai Zhen taken by Zhao Cheng......

The blizzard has finally stopped.

Since Zhao Cheng's troops came out, it has been the third day, and there is still no news.

The entire city of Chizhou was trembling, and since the snowstorm had stopped, Cai You tried to send a team in the direction of Lingzhi Mountain to find out the news, but there was no one available, and they were all more frightened.

Anyway, Lao Cai had already gone berserk, so he arrested Liu Qishan's family and invited him to Cai's mansion to be placed under house arrest. Cai Jiu went to invite Liu Qishan to drink tea with a cruel smile and said, "You won't object to going out of the city now and getting your Lord Zhao back, right?"

How can Liu Qishan refuse, Nima has a grapevine that Zhu Xiao, the fish sitting in the pond, has been killed by them with a black knife, otherwise Liu Qishan will not believe it, if Zhu Xiao is still there, someone dares to go to their Zhu family to get food?

As a last resort, Lao Liu took seven or eight brothers and went out of the city with a feeling of walking on thin ice and searched in the direction of Lingzhi Mountain.

It was very harsh along the way, and corpses could be seen along the way, but it was not on a scale, but fortunately, most of the costumes were not Zhao Cheng's militia.

In this case, Liu Qishan's hanging heart fell half, Boss Zhao has always been obscene, only fighting prepared battles, before he went out of the battle, he pulled a big hatred, concentrated cold-resistant resources, and thought that at that time he had already considered the back road.

Now that he has prepared for this, he may really win with his obscene and witty urine.

The deeper you go into the corpses, the more people are shocked to see, and most of them freeze to death.

There are more corpses in the mouth of the Yangtze Ridge, but there is basically no red anymore, and they are all frozen and covered with heavy snow.

The more rebels die, the greater the possibility of Zhao Boss winning, and Lao Liu's courage became bigger again, "Brothers, don't be afraid, follow me to Lingzhi Mountain, so as to make a reputation for helping the war, basically no matter whether Chizhou wins or loses, Lord Zhao has become a spirit, if you die to see people and live to see corpses, the order of the state government is not to find him, we don't go back." ”

……

The temperature is starting to warm up, and Bianjing Sleepless City is more active at night, drunk and drunk.

In the dark, three people and six horsemen rushed towards the capital, shouting from afar, "Eight hundred miles urgent!" Chizhou Lingzhi Mountain victory! ”

Basically, no matter what kind of people in the imperial court are waiting for this news, the soldiers defending the city opened the city gate with a lot of pee, and also made a quite responsible performance, escorting them all the way from a distance, and seeing what they hit.

There are chengguan in Bianjing, but now they are all drinking in the kiln, so the night market is especially lively in Bianjing, as soon as it arrives at night, there are all kinds of stalls all over the streets, and now the people who have been hit are turning over on their backs, shouting everywhere, and chicken feathers all over the place.

Liu Qishan has been awesome this time in his life, not only has he entered Beijing, but he has not been said to be a countryman. And there is a Japanese soldier who helps to open the way with a whip, and he doesn't have to pay if he breaks the stall.

didn't even need to be censored, and rushed into the imperial city in one go, and entered the center of the Great Song Dynasty - the political hall.

"The lowly Liu Qishan has seen Xianggong!"

Old Cai Jing and Zhang Kangguo are not there, they must be sleeping at night, only the night owl Uncle Zhang is "on duty" in the middle hall at night.

"Quickly, how is Chizhou?"

Uncle Zhang walked down excitedly, and he didn't even bother to check his identity. Anyway, this is not very important, if there is a problem with the later inspection, this guy will be dragged into Kaifeng Mansion and beaten to death.

"Back to Xianggong...... Chizhou was victorious, Lord Zhao led a thousand militiamen in the severe cold, and joined the two remaining battalions of the Wuwei Army, a total of 1,500 people went out to Lingzhi Mountain, basically annihilating Wang Xiu's department! ”

Liu Qishan said breathlessly.

Uncle Zhang slapped his thigh at night, and was not in a hurry to receive the military report, and walked around to stabilize his spirit, and Lao Zhang asked again, "Say it again, what's wrong with Chizhou?" ”

Liu Qishan was a little stunned, and he didn't know what this minister meant, so he hesitated to say, "Eh...... Chizhou won a miserable victory, but it was also a win. ”

"You!"

Uncle Zhang couldn't help but be annoyed, and raised his foot but didn't start kicking yet, "What the hell?" ”

“？”

Lao Liu's eyes rolled, and this time he said smartly, "Humble duty...... Well, it's not only a big victory, but also a pyrrhic victory. ”

"Drag this guy out and whip him five times!"

In the end, he was hoisted up, and after a while, he heard Liu Qishan's screams outside.

Uncle Zhang took the details of the military report of the Chizhou Prefecture and the private message of his baby daughter, and was reading it carefully under the lamp.

This small-scale war has actually affected the entire imperial court. No one knew how it would evolve before this, even if Cai Jing was reluctantly determined to cut off his arm and solve the southeast problem.

But in fact, the imperial court has almost no confidence to solve the problem.

Now, with your own eyes, Cai You's recital, as well as Zhang Ji? After comparing and reading the report several times, it was finally confirmed: Chizhou did win.

This is not a glorious battle for the ages, but since this war, it can be regarded as solving the big problems of many dynasties, and it can be regarded as a great victory in the first war in the southeast, which to a certain extent also reflects the determination of the current imperial court to solve some poison problems.

Of course, I was also shocked to see the details of the military report, in general, the hillbilly named Liu Qishan didn't talk nonsense, it was really a miserable victory, and the so-called one will be a success. Cai You, the traitor, did not write specific data, only said that the casualties were relatively large. This should be to show Chizhou's exploits and show that he commanded and won beautifully.

But Zhang Ji, a daughter who can write splendid articles? It is written:

"Seventy percent of the battle losses and most of the Chizhou army are disabled."

"Zhao Cheng's spirit and ghost march, with the help of the blizzard, bite the rebels who scattered and went home, and carried out a surprise attack at the moment of Chen Li's opening of Lingzhi Mountain, and broke into the cottage in one go, taking advantage of their internal chaos, stampede, and unpreparedness to carry out the final decisive battle!"

"The real decisive battle of the Chizhou army casualties is not large. But after basically annihilating Lingzhi Mountain, it was still in a blizzard, and the Chizhou army was no longer even able to send the good news back to the state city. Many lay on the ground, losing their will. ”

"The rest of the people were unable to take care of the others, so they had to reluctantly enter the sheltered area of the cottage and never wake up. If it weren't for the fact that Cai You really couldn't wait after the snow stopped, and sent Liu Qishan to find them, and ordered to see the corpses to death, no one would even know that the Chizhou army annihilated Wang Xiubu, but they all lay down in Lingzhi Cottage and waited for death. ”

Liu Qishan discovered them, and Houchizhou organized a large number of people to enter Lingzhi Mountain but could not save them. Many of them fell asleep after the decisive battle and never woke up again. A few woke up, but the organization went to Langzhong could not be treated, many of them had crippled feet, showing black pus and toes adhered together, and the soles of their feet could only be removed. ”

This is probably the details of the Battle of Chizhou, Zhang Shuye felt tightness in his chest, and he didn't dare to look too carefully for the time being, so he could only watch the end: the bandit leader Wang Xiu was nowhere to be found.

I don't know for what reason, Zhang Ji? didn't say what happened to Zhao Cheng, and since it was like this overall, Zhang Shuye didn't care too much about someone's life or death, he just thought about how to use this hard-won victory in order to get greater fruits from the southeast region.

If we do not take this opportunity to expand and deepen the problem and investigate the southeast issue to the end, this battle will be fought in vain, and these people will really die in vain.

"These people are the heroes of the Great Song Dynasty, they died well, you played a beautiful start, and then the old man will send another person to fight another battle, and he will not disappoint you. You have completed your mission and retired with honor! ”

Uncle Zhang muttered to himself......