Zhao Huan thinks that it is actually normal for Xixing, first of all, when Zhao Ji left, he didn't go alone, not to mention the concubine or anything, the prince Zhao Kai was still taken by him, and there were many officials, to put it simply, Zhao Huan was killed today, and tomorrow Zhao Ji will be able to re-establish the brand of the Great Song Dynasty.

There are many cheating fathers in later generations, but Zhao Ji is a good hand at pit his son.

As soon as Zhao Huan spoke, Li Gang immediately stepped out and said, "At the beginning of Your Majesty's assumption of the throne, you should be the heart of heaven, obey the desires of people, and eliminate troubles, so that China's power will be respected, and the traitors will be punished, and the way of the gentleman will be long, and the deputy emperor will entrust him!" How dare you speak lightly? ”

Zhao Huan lowered his head and muttered, "The situation is like fire, what can I do." ”

Li Gang said confidently, "Although the Jin soldiers are powerful, but now that our dynasty has sent someone to report, they must know that our dynasty has a Zen concession, their hearts will be suspicious, things will be delayed, and the Jin country will have something to invite to the imperial court."

Weichen thought about it, and what he asked for was no more than five.

One wants to be honored, the second wants to return to the court, the third wants to increase the coins, the fourth wants to ask for the things of the master, and the fifth wants to cut the territory.

If you want to be honored, such as the Khitan story, it is not a pity to use the meaning of big things and small things;

If you want to return to the court, you should do everything you can to show great faith, and it is not a pity;

If you want to increase the year's coin, in the past, because the Jin country returned my Yan and Yun with the old covenant, so the year's currency was doubled by Liao, and now it is a renegade to take it, then the year's currency should be reduced, but it is a friend of the two countries, even if it is still the number of Liao, it is not a pity;

If you want to ask for something for the master, you should measure your strength with it, and if you want to increase the coins in the future, you will not ask for too much, even if it is more, it is not a pity;

As for the territory, the land of the ancestors, the descendants should defend to the death, not by size and people, this is my bottom line!

If today's soldiers and horses converge in Kaifeng, and the heavenly scholars look forward to Kaifeng, there is a stronger city in the world than Kaifeng? Your Majesty, don't be swayed by the floating discussion, but there is no difficulty. ”

Li Gang's words are actually very skillful, he told Zhao Huan that we can agree to the four of the five requirements of the Jin people, Zhao Huan naturally felt that he had agreed to all four, so he had no opinion on what happened to the Jin Kingdom, so he settled down.

At this time, the privy envoy was Zhao Huan's teacher Geng Nanzhong, and he also hoped to hold Kaifeng, so he also followed the queue to persuade a few words, and Zhao Huan dispelled the idea of fleeing west when he saw this.

Since he didn't run, he had to prepare to defend the city, and Geng Nanzhong, as a privy envoy, was naturally responsible for the deployment of troops.

The danger of Kaifeng is in the Yellow River, the guard of the Yellow River is the most important, Geng Nanzhong sent He Guan 20,000 soldiers and Liang Fangping to Junzhou to guard the Yellow River, to ensure that Kaifeng will not be attacked from both sides, the location of Junzhou is probably the former White Horse City, that is, the ancient battlefield of the Battle of Guandu.

This He Guan is a veteran of the dynasty, at this time has gray hair, nearly sixty years old, this person is a martial arts background, once guarded in the frontier, when the Liao soldiers often cross the border to find trouble, he in front of the battle to the Liao army archery threat, every arrow will enter the stone, frightened the Liao army stunned, since then got the nickname of the arrow general.

He Guan was later summoned by Zhao Ji to Kaifeng to inquire about the Liao and Song Dynasty military, and He Guan used the patterns on his clothes as the situation of the enemy and himself, which made Zhao Ji admire.

Now that the country is in danger, He Guan once again put on armor and went into battle, but this time he led not his former border army, but 20,000 Kaifeng forbidden troops.

Liang Fangping is the chamberlain in the palace, supervising the army according to the rules.

Outside the gate of Kaifeng, 20,000 sergeants have been assembled, but not only did these sergeants not line up in a neat queue, but laughed and played, and some even picked fruits and sugar water to sell, making it like a spring outing.

When He Guan saw this scene, he was startled, pointed to the chaotic army in front of him and asked, "Liang Neishi, is this the army for me?" ”

Liang Fangping said proudly, "General He, this is what I cheekily asked for from Captain Gao, twenty thousand people is not a lot, all of them are young and strong." ”

He Guan almost wanted to scold, there are 20,000 people here? You and I He Guan have never led soldiers, it's good to have 15,000 people, and they are all young and strong, am I the head of the people? Can these people fight?

The people of Kaifeng are very fond of watching the excitement, and they haven't seen much of the scene of such a large army gathering, so they are all around the two sides to rely on the excitement, and they can't help but sigh when they see the forbidden army like this.

There was a group of people wearing robes among the people, these were all students of Taixue, and one of them saw the forbidden army and said angrily, "The world has come to this point, it is all the mistakes of those traitorous ministers, and now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, do you still want to keep those traitorous ministers?" ”

The people on the side couldn't help but feel justified when they heard it.

The man raised his hand violently and shouted, "I heard that Lord Li Gang and others will come, why don't I wait and ask the traitor to be punished?" ”

"Good! Well said! ”

"The husband should be like this!"

These people are bookish, dare to think and dare to do, and they are all applauded by drummers.

He Guan here was also waiting for Li Gang and Geng Nanzhong to see him off, and after a while, he saw Li Gang and Geng Nanzhong coming together, and the two saw He Guan greet each other first, and Li Gang first asked, "The old general is going, may he keep the Yellow River safe?" ”

He Guan sighed, shook his head and said, "If there are 5,000 Western troops, I dare to say this, if there are 10,000 border troops, I dare to say this, but now it is the forbidden army of Kaifeng, the Kaifeng forbidden army has not been trained for a long time, riding horses is not allowed, and archery is not opened, and it is no different from the people, but I dare not speak." ”

Li Gang thought for a while and said, "Now there is still an elite army near Kaifeng, which is the Liangshan Army under the command of the Marquis of Pingyin, the Liangshan Army is brave and good at fighting, and the southern and northern expeditions have quite a lot of military achievements, the Marquis of Pingyin and I have a personal relationship, I have written a letter to him, and I think that I will send troops to help in the near future, and the old general will be worry-free." ”

Geng Nanzhong was taken aback when he heard this, grabbed Li Gang and asked, "This matter is so important, why don't I know?" ”

Li Gang said helplessly, "The court doesn't like the Marquis of Pingyin, as clearly said, the matter is dangerous!" ”

Geng Nanzhong was furious in his heart, and said, "What is the difference between this matter and Yuan Benchu in the past? ”

Li Gang was about to speak, when he saw a group of people rushing towards him, and the guards on the side hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and those people bowed to the first person, "But Lord Li Gang in person?" ”

Li Gang put aside the guards, nodded and said, "I am Li Gang, who are you waiting for?" ”

The man bowed again and said, "We are all students of Taixue, in Xia Chendong, I have long heard that Lord Li is loyal and courageous, but now the court is chaotic and the state affairs are collapsing, all because of treachery, why don't you punish you?" ”

Li Gang said angrily, "Since you are a student, why don't you study with peace of mind, but you are talking about state affairs?" ”

The man replied, "The kingdom is dying, how can you still read the book?" ”

Li Gang sighed and said, "You say treacherous, but who is it?" ”

Chen Dong replied, "Today's incident, Cai Jing is in trouble, Liang Shicheng is in the back, Li Yan is resentful in the northwest, Zhu Mian is in the southeast, Wang Huang and Tong Guan are resentful in Liao and Jin, creating a border provocation. It is advisable to punish the six thieves and pass on the first Quartet to thank the world! ”

Li Gang gasped and said hurriedly, "Vertical son is dare!" Waving his sleeves away, Geng Nanzhong also shook his head and chased after him.

Chen Dong looked at Li Gang's back and said angrily, "On weekdays, it is said that Li Gang is upright, and I saw him today, but that's it." ”

He Guan snorted, "You and other students, what do you know?" Now the top priority is to resist gold, Cai Taishi and other protégés and former officials are all over the world, how can they be easily killed? The stay of the Daimyo Mansion is the son-in-law of Taishi Cai, if you kill Taishi Cai today, aren't you afraid that the Daimyo's Mansion will fall tomorrow?

How can the book business be a big thing? You should go back to Taixue and study hard. ”

Chen Dong gasped unconvinced, and saw He Guan begin to lead the army away, only to see that under the shouts of the officers, the so-called 20,000 troops set off one after another, but many cavalry even need to press the saddle with two hands on the horse, and then let the other sergeants support it from below, it is ridiculous to see, Chen Dong couldn't help but say, "Now the general, how can you stop the Jin Kingdom?" I want to get into a book? Who is willing to follow? ”

When the other students heard this, they shouted their wishes, but it was very lively.

A scribe suddenly shouted loudly, "Aren't you waiting for this, aren't you roasting Master Li Gang on the fire?" ”

When the people looked around, they saw that it was a young scribe, and one of them recognized this man, so they shouted, "Xuezheng, you dare not open your eyes to the world, we will go by ourselves, but you must not stop us." ”

When He Guan heard this, he saluted the man and said, "It turned out to be Qin Xuezheng, and the end will be polite." ”

Qin Hui hurriedly dodged, and then helped He Guan and said, "I have long known the prestige of the old general, and I want to come to see him off, but I am worried that I will be inferior and collide with other adults, so I hide behind." ”

He Guan laughed and said, "What did Lord Qin say, you are too learned and righteous, and it is not an exaggeration to say that you are the most noble person in the world, please rest assured that Lord Qin, our martial artists will definitely repay the country with death!" ”

Qin Hui stomped his feet and said, "Why do you want to die? ”

He Guan smiled bitterly, he knew his own affairs, such an army, if he didn't have the determination to fight to the death, where would there be a trace of possibility to win the wolf-like golden soldiers?

Qin Hui said to Chen Dong and the others, "Wait, hurry back to Taixue to study, don't mess around!" ”

Chen Dong snorted and turned to leave, Qin Hui looked at the sky and sighed.

"It's not time yet, it's too urgent." Qin Hui shook his head.

Qin Hui thought in his heart, if he was allowed to stand in Chen Dong's position, it would definitely not be at this time, Chen Dong was too young.

- Jiaocheng

An army of 40,000 men stretched out in a line about two or three miles long, and most of these people looked tired, and even the banners hung listlessly.

This is the western army led by Zhe Keqiu, and the extra 20,000 people are collected along the way and the army of other state capitals to rescue Taiyuan.

Hu Yanqing pointed to the north and said, "The first twenty miles is Jiaocheng, and the further north eighty miles can reach Qingyuan, and then you can reach Taiyuan." ”

Zhi Keqiu looked at the people fleeing south who kept appearing on the road, nodded and smiled, "Although these people are in a hurry, their faces are not frightened, it can be seen that the Jin army has not broken through Taiyuan City, and we still have time." Is there a reward for exploring the horse? ”

Fold can be reported with "haven't seen back yet." ”

Zhe Keqiu thought for a moment and asked, "How long has it been since the horse was returned?" ”

Zhe Kehe said, "There are about two sticks of incense, this time is a bit long." ”

Zhe Keqiu's face changed greatly, and he took a closer look at the surrounding terrain, and found that the west was full of lofty mountains, but the east was a plain, and he had no cavalry advantage.

Zhi Keqiu immediately ordered: "Order: The whole army is on alert!" Quickly pass through this place, and send thirty scouts to explore the east, and within thirty miles I will know if there is any trace of the enemy! ”

The herald immediately went to give the order, and dozens of fast horses rushed out of the military formation, and Zhi Keqiu, who looked at the wrong face, asked, "Brother, is the Jin soldier nearby?" ”

Zhi Keqiu shook his head and said, "I don't know, but I have some ominous premonitions, go, when I get to Jiaocheng, there is a city to guard, and it will be safe." ”

The army continued to move forward for about two or three miles, and suddenly three probe horses rushed towards the army like flying, and Zhi Keqiu saw that these three probe horses were actually inserted with arrows, and with a sigh, he shouted, "All the troops are fighting, the enemy is in the east!" ”

The march of 40,000 people is several miles long, where can you set up the formation so quickly, you can ask for a fold and say "can be the same, can be caused, can be long in other places, I am afraid it is too late, you immediately take the Chinese army 2,000 cavalry forward for three miles, if there are golden soldiers coming, you must adhere to the time of two incense sticks!" ”

Hu Yanqing arched his hand and said, "General, I led this road, please let me follow." ”

Zhe Keqiu shook his head and said, "Jin Bing is cunning, this must be a detour, it has nothing to do with you, but you can, don't go quickly!" ”

Zhe Ke sighed, and led the army out of the formation.

At this time, the three probe horses also arrived in front of Zhe Keqiu, and as soon as they saw Zhe Keqiu, one of the three probe horses was slightly injured, and the sergeant reported "Report! There are Jin troops in the west, the number is unknown, and we can't touch the front of the Jin army at all. ”

"The Jin Army is skilled in bows and horses, you don't have to blame yourself, go down quickly to recuperate and prepare for war." I don't blame these prospectors, after all, there is a gap between the cavalry of the Western Army and the Jin Army.

In ancient China, the cavalry was actually divided into three major regions: northeast, northwest, and Mongolia.

Because most of the war horses in the northwest are tall, most of the cavalry in the northwest are armored cavalry, such as the iron harrier in the Western Xia is a standard heavy cavalry, relying on armored horses to win.

Mongolia is a steppe, and the war horses here are Mongolian horses, which are more durable, but relatively short, so they are mainly developed into archers.

There are many mountains and forests in the northeast, in fact, whether it is the Jurchen at this time or the later Manchu Qing Dynasty, in fact, they began to rely on heavy infantry, and later a large number of cavalry also took the heavy cavalry route, but because the northeast mountains and forests need fishing and hunting, so the archers are also very good at it, which makes the Jurchen cavalry can charge the formation and shoot with a bow.

In other words, the Jurchen cavalry type is more neutral, and as for the extreme development of Tiefutu by Wanyan Zongbi later, it is another matter.

While letting the army set up a formation, he said to Hu Yanqing, "Now the Jin soldiers are waiting for work, although our army has 40,000, I am afraid that it is not the opponent of the Jin soldiers, and the Jin soldiers have the advantage of cavalry.

Brother Huyan came from Taiyuan, and when he knew that he was trapped in the lonely city, he was most afraid that there was no grain and grass inside, and there were no reinforcements outside.

Please Brother Huyan take twenty horsemen back to Taiyuan, inform Zhang and Wang of the movements of our army, I am ready to gather other reinforcements in Fenzhou, at most one month, I will be able to kill Taiyuan, and please put the two adults on national affairs and defend Taiyuan! Don't spoil me! ”

Hu Yanqing heard it and knew that this was a big deal, so he arched his hand and said, "Don't worry, the general is gone." ”

After Hu Yanqing left with twenty elite cavalry, the cavalry of Zhe Ke also saw the golden soldiers from afar, only to see a layer of black between heaven and earth as if drilled out of the ground, people are like tigers, horses are like dragons, and the army of 30,000 has 50,000 war horses, so that the 2,000 people who can be with Zhe Ke are like sand castles facing the sea.

"It's... This is the Golden Army? Zhe Ke He gasped, he finally understood why Zhi Ke was so nervous.

The momentum of the Jin army was much stronger than that of Western Xia.

"Whew!!" As soon as the trumpets sounded, the 30,000 Jin army seemed to have a big hand holding them back, and they stopped suddenly, and they swallowed their saliva, such an army situation really made him feel frightened.

Wanyan Lou Room walked out with a group of generals riding war horses, and shouted with a mace in his hand, "The Song army is only two thousand, and the soldiers are divided into three routes, one way to meet the enemy with me, and the other two roads continue to advance from the left and right, and the Song army cannot be allowed to form a formation!" ”

Zhi Kehe watched the Jin soldiers start to divide their troops, knowing that the chief general of the Jin Army already knew that he was delaying time, and he didn't dare to delay any longer, he bit the tip of his tongue, waved the steel gun in his hand, and shouted, "Rush!! ”

The first frontal charge of the Western and Jin armies began.

When the two armies still have more than 100 meters, the cavalry of the Western Army first sent a round of crossbow arrows, the Western Army has always been the focus of building the army, these cavalry actually everyone has a crossbow, the penetration of the crossbow is much stronger than the bow and arrow, two thousand crossbow arrows smashed into the Jin Army, only to see these Jin soldiers turn out a small shield to protect their faces, other parts of the crossbow arrows to shoot through, many Jin soldiers fell off the horse, but there are also many Jin soldiers even if they are in the body of several arrows still gritting their teeth in the charge, see the fold can be secretly frightened.

Seventy meters, the Jin army also began to shoot arrows, the Jin army is armor-piercing heavy arrows, an arrow shot, not dead is also seriously injured, but such an arrow must be a strong bow, which is difficult to promote in the Song army.

Forty meters, the arrows of the Jin army arrived, and in the sound of crackling, at least 100 horses were shot under the horses.

Twenty meters, both armies howled angrily, Zhe Ke and the first one aimed at the Wan Yan Lou room, both of them were cavalry generals, the two soldiers raised each other, the sound of the bell, Zhe Ke and the tiger's mouth shook with only Jue, his spear almost came out of his hand, and he couldn't help screaming.

But the cavalry charge is not the same as the classics, you can also turn to fight, you can only pass by with one move, the two sides continue to rush forward after fighting, you can stab left and right to kill, Wan Yan Lou Room even waved sticks, the sergeants on both sides are all fighting to the death, and so on a round to rush through, the corpses and wounded soldiers in one place are the results of this round.

Zhe Kehe looked back, the two thousand cavalry had already lost three or four hundred people at this time, and this was because the Jin soldiers were divided, otherwise they would be killed layer by layer, where would the two thousand people be able to kill through so quickly.

"Come again!" This is still the first battle since Yan Lou's room went south, and the fight just now made him feel more excited, and he counted the time and shouted, "Fight again!" ”

Another round of fighting, the Song army and the Jin army fought together again, two thousand against ten thousand, this is a fight that is destined to end, Zhe Ke desperately assassinated all the enemies in front of him, and so on through the formation again, Zhe Ke and the back There are less than 1,500 people, Zhe Ke does not dare to fight again, otherwise once the main force of the cavalry is lost, this battle will be difficult to fight.

Wanyan Lou Room saw that the fold could be fled, and snorted secretly, so that the army chased after it, and the other two roads were also outflanked when they saw this, and the fold could only order the whole army to abandon the several copper coins they brought with them to the road, this is the experience of the Western Army and the Western Xia Army in weekday combat, when being pursued, as long as these things are thrown to the side of the road, the poor and crazy Western Xia Army will naturally stop and pick up the money.

Sure enough, the Jin army is no exception, when the first person to slow down the war horse to make money appeared, such behavior could not be prohibited, and even some of the Jin army fought in order to rob each other, you must know that the system of the Jin country is similar to the Tang Dynasty government soldiers, and the sergeants in the army are all equipped with their own war horse ordnance, and they earn back their capital by plundering.

In the end, it was Wan Yan Lou who ordered to kill a few sergeants who snatched copper coins to stop the chaos, looking at the Song cavalry that ran away, Wan Yan Lou angrily scolded several generals for a while, and then continued to march.

With such a battle, Zhekeqiu finally gathered the 40,000 people on the march together and successfully set up a defensive military formation.

Although there is no genius, but he is also proficient in warfare, Wan Yan Lou looked at the five army formations in front of him as horns, and he didn't see any loopholes, and couldn't help sighing, "Zuo Shuai told me that the Western Army should not be underestimated, and when I look at it today, I know that there are good generals in the Song Army." ”

said that, Wan Yan Lou quickly ordered the Jin army cavalry to start harassing the Song army's military formation.

There is such a record in the history books of later generations, saying that the Jin soldiers thought that if they could not fight more than 100 rounds, how could they be called horse troops, which shows the resistance of their cavalry.

The biggest disadvantage of the infantry to the cavalry is that it cannot move, and once the army formation is moved, it is easy to be broken through by the cavalry.

I saw that the Jin army was a team of 1,000 people, constantly harassing the Song army with bows and arrows in front of the Western Army's formation, and once they found a flaw, they changed their guns and charged, so that they had to constantly shrink the formation to prevent the Jin army from breaking through.

After confronting each other like this for about half an hour, I found that something was wrong.

The Western Army has been running all the way and has long been tired, while the Jin Army is waiting for work, and once it has been fighting for a long time, the Western Army will not be able to hold on first.

I had no choice but to shrink the five formations into a three-rank formation, but in this way, I completely gave up the ability to attack.

Wanyan Lou Room was also the first time to see such a difficult military formation, no matter how he harassed him, the military formation in front of him was like a monolith, he also tried to let the cavalry assault a few times, but in the face of strong bows and crossbows and spear formations, he could not afford such losses without heavy cavalry.

Wanyan Lou Room and Fold can be like an iron ball and a hacksaw, the hacksaw can cut off a lot of iron filings on the iron ball, but it is not enough to cut the iron ball.

After Yan Lou thought about it, he shouted, 30,000 gold soldiers are easy to withdraw like a tide, at this time the two armies have been testing each other for an hour, the three products of the formation can be folded, folded can be long divided into two wings, fold can be the same is to come to the main formation, he asked Zhi Kehe, "General, the Jin soldiers have retreated, do we continue to go north or withdraw?" ”

Zhe Keqiu frowned and said, "The Jin army was not killed and retreated by us, but it lost hundreds of horses, and even the fur of the Jin army was not injured. ”

"Herald! The whole army is south, the cavalry is placed to five miles, and retreat carefully! ”

But where is it so easy for the infantry-based army to retreat, along the way, Zhi Keqiu was constantly charged and killed by the cavalry of Wanyan Lou's room, and was even cut into two sections once, if it weren't for the fact that all the armies were all commanders of the brothers of the Zhi family, and they did not give up each other, they would have collapsed for a long time.

When he returned to Fenzhou and counted the men and horses, he actually lost nearly 7,000 people along the way, while the Jin soldiers lost less than 2,000.

- Liang Shan

Jiang De looked at the letter in his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, he wanted to get Li Gang out of this war, but he didn't expect that Li Gang would become the core of the main battle of the imperial court.

"Bo Ji wrote to me, hoping that I can lead the army to Hebei to fight against Jin, what do you think?" Jiang De handed the letter to everyone, and after everyone took turns to read it, they all thought about it.

Xu Guanzhong was the first to say, "Lord, I think this is an opportunity, we need a name to send troops, and now Bo Ji is calling, why not ask him to let the new official write the holy decree, let me wait in Henan and Hebei to act cheaply, so that our army can be famous." ”

Li Zhu had already returned to Huaixi at this time to prepare for the war, but according to Li Zhu's proposal, Lou Minzhong was added as a member of the Military Commission, which was also Li Zhu's hope that there would be a permanent person in the Military Commission who could say a word for them, the original four major generals.

Lou Minzhong got up and said, "Hou Ye, according to intelligence, the Jin army has arrived outside the Daimyo's Mansion, the Daimyo's Mansion Liang Zhongshu was defeated in the field battle, and he no longer dares to go out of the city, the Jin Army can bypass the Daimyo's Mansion at any time and continue to go south, everyone knows the forbidden army in Kaifeng, it may be okay to defend the city, and the field battle is definitely not the opponent of the Jin soldiers, in this way, the outside of Kaifeng City will become the hippodrome of the Jin soldiers."

The rest is just that, but there is a horse farm outside Kaifeng City, where there are more than 20,000 carefully selected war horses, which should be used by the Kaifeng forbidden army. ”

"Twenty thousand war horses?" Jiang De's eyes were red, he didn't know that oil and rice were expensive, for the sake of war horses, Jiang De tried everything he could, otherwise Li Jun and others in Nanyang would not have heard that there were war horses and were so friendly to Arab merchants.

"The Daimyo's Mansion... War horse..."Jiang De thinks about it, how does he feel that this battle must be fought.

But this time it's not a shame for Jing Kang, Jiang De hesitated to think, according to history, this time the Jin army did not defeat the Song Dynasty, but withdrew under the condition of the Song Dynasty's land cession, if he is too prominent in his own combat strength, I am afraid that when the Jin soldiers retreat, the first thing the court will do is to discuss the extermination of the Pingyin army instead of dealing with the Jin State.

There is no way, the idea that the outside must be the first to be inside has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow in the Song Dynasty.

"We will send troops, but we must not let the imperial court feel threatened by us." Jiang De touched his chin and said, "What do you guys think?" ”

Gongsun Sheng smiled and said, "The lord wants to take real profits and not try to be famous, in this case, I have a plan to hide from the world."

Poor Dao predicted that after the Jin soldiers arrived at the Yellow River, the defenders would burn the bridge to protect themselves, and the Jin soldiers would have to cross the Yellow River for a few days.

The lord can take the opportunity to cut off the Yellow River with the water army, and the Jin soldiers will be frightened, and the lord will send another 2,000 cavalry to disguise themselves as the Jin army to occupy the horse farm and other places, collect the imperial court ordnance, money and grain, and finally the lord will lead 10,000 foot cavalry Chen soldiers at Chen Bridge.

In the past, Song Taizu mutinied in Chenqiao, and today the lord Chen Bing is in Chenqiao, Kaifeng will not dare to accept the lord, so that the lord can take the opportunity to seek the will of the imperial court, and act cheaply in Henan and Hebei, and then send troops to the Daimyo Mansion to relieve the siege, and release the golden soldiers in Kaifeng, so that our army occupies the Daimyo Mansion, and can occupy the Yellow River by the naval army at any time, and can attack and retreat, and get real benefits such as war horses and ordnance, and take the false name of the imperial court, what does the lord think? ”

Gongsun Sheng's strategy still retains the atmosphere of the rivers and lakes, dressing up in disguise, imposting, and doing everything.

Xu Guanzhong praised: "Gongsun Daochang's strategy is indeed good, but the two thousand gold army has to choose a suitable person to lead." ”

Lou Minzhong's eyes rolled, and he thought of someone and said, "That section of the bureau chief doesn't look like a native of the Central Plains, and outsiders have never seen him, so he can be the chief general of the Jin Army, as for the cavalry, you can ask the Ordnance Department to urgently build the Jin Army helmet, and the battle armor can be worn with a leather jacket, and it can be prepared in three or five days." ”

Although Li Gang wrote a letter, Li Gang's status was still too low at this time, and he did not transfer military authority, so Jiang De replied with a letter, saying that although he was willing to send troops to Qin Wang, but if there was no will of the imperial court, he was worried that he would be criticized by the imperial court, and hoped that Li Gang could move the Privy Council to mobilize his Qin Wang.

Jiang De thought that the Jin army had arrived at the Daimyo's Mansion, so it would not be far from Neihuang, although whether it was Tianxiang Academy or other core forces had moved from Neihuang to Liangshan and other places, Neihuang was still the foundation of Jiang De and others, and it was easy to lose.

Jiang De left the conference room of the Military Commission and came to the General Staff.

After several years of development, a group of young people gradually grew up from Tianxiang Academy and the army.

Most of these young people came from simple backgrounds, almost all of them were farmers or orphans, and after years of tempering, they grew into the most reliable talents in Jiang De's hands.

All of these people have studied mathematics, physics, chemistry, geography, and other natural sciences, and although not all of them are proficient in bowing and horses, they are not weak people, and they perform their duties according to different subjects, which also greatly reduces the work pressure of the people in the Central Military Commission.

Jiang De looked at the young people who were hurrying back and forth in the staff headquarters, and suddenly felt that even at this time, there was nothing to fear against the Jin Kingdom.

"Lord!" Yu Peng, the rotating officer of the General Staff, bowed his hand and saluted.

The other staff officers also hurriedly saluted, Jiang De waved everyone to continue to do things, and asked Peng, "Neihuang can be rewarded?" Have they all been arranged? ”

Yu Peng nodded and said, "Please move, use the sand table to understand the situation more clearly." ”

Jiang De came to a huge sand table, on the sand table countless mountains and trees, cities and rivers, whether it was the Daimyo Mansion or the Neihuang Mansion, they all appeared clearly in front of Jiang De.

"Lord, Neihuang is very close to the Daimyo's Mansion, and there is a canal, the Jin army is very likely to pass through here when it goes south, at this time, the commander of the Hucheng Division has already arrived at Neihuang with the 112th Division, and with the cooperation of the prefect Li Chun, the all-round wall clearing.

The students of our engineering college also dispatched 70 people, built seven large and small fortresses in Neihuang, and built a large number of ordnance, plus 10,000 sergeants of the 112th Division, unless the Jin army dispatched more than 30,000 people to besiege with all their might, Neihuang will not lose. ”

After listening to Yu Peng's introduction, Jiang De nodded, but he was still very worried, after all, Neihuang is not as good as Liangshan, while the Huaxing Chamber of Commerce continues to develop, the world also has the impression that there is gold in Neihuang, after all, too many big businessmen are born in Neihuang.

If Jin Jun was squinted by this money and insisted on hitting Neihuang, it would be really difficult to do.

A shadow appeared behind Jiang De, looked at the place where Jiang De's eyes were looking, and asked, "Is the husband worried about Neihuang?" ”

Jiang De turned around, saw that it was a flower carving, nodded and said, "Yes, the two masters said that they were unwilling to leave Neihuang, probably because they were worried that I would give up Neihuang if they left." ”

Hua Diao shook his head and said, "Husband, why should you worry, the commander of the Jin Army is the one who has a reputation for wisdom, will he still cling to a corner of the place?" ”

Jiang De smiled, "That's right, by the way, this is the General Staff, why are you here?" ”

According to the regulations, in such an important place as the General Staff, even a lady like Huadiao is not allowed to enter at will, since she came to Jiang De in a hurry, there must be something.

Since Huadiao and Jiang De got married, the heroic spirit has gone a little, but he still dares to think and dare to do, as soon as Jiang De said this, the hot personality came out again, turned around, and then the hem of the clothes blocked Jiang De's waist and pinched.

"Ahh Jiang De couldn't help but scream, and the staff officers on the side looked at him curiously, and hurriedly lowered their heads.

"Diao'er, what are you doing!" Jiang De asked a little shy and a little inexplicable.

"Yes, I'm just a wild girl with no identity, an unfamiliar eagle, where can I compare to other people's golden branches and jade leaves." Hua Diao snorted, which made Jiang De even more confused, what kind of golden branches and jade leaves are these.

"It's not. Ah, come here, what's going on? Jiang De saw that there were many people here, so he dragged the flower sculpture to a room and asked.

"Those two emperors have come to look for you together, they are all crying, you can go and take a look." Hua Diao said with a mouthful of vinegar.

Jiang De immediately understood what was going on, it must be that the two emperors knew the news that the Jin soldiers were going south and were about to hit Kaifeng, hoping that Jiang De could send troops to rescue Kaifeng.

Although Zhao Fujin and others, who had been in Liangshan for a long time, did not know Jiang De's true strength, they also understood that the combat power of the Liangshan Army was far superior to that of the Kaifeng Forbidden Army.

Jiang De was already preparing to send troops, but when he thought of this, he felt that it would be okay to see Zhao Fujin and the others.

"Madame, don't be jealous, then Zhao Fujin is just worried about his father, and he has nothing to do with me." Jiang De waved his hand and denied.

Hua Diao glanced at him and said, "I naturally know if there is one, okay, those two are emperors, and it will be rude for them to wait for a long time." ”

Jiang De felt as he walked, why was it so wrong with the carving just now.

Jiang De and Hua Diao came to the residence, and as soon as they entered the door, they heard Yuzao comforting Zhao Fujin and the others in Chinese, which was already proficient.

"What's going on?" Jiang De squinted his eyes and stepped forward, looking at Zhao Fujin and the others who were already crying, he didn't expect the three emperors to be there, he looked at Zhao Yupan, Zhao Yupan understood what Jiang De meant, lowered his head and said, "Xu Jun doesn't know about this." ”

Jiang De sighed and said, "I understand the meaning of the three emperors coming here, but I am a courtier, if I don't have the king's order, how can I raise troops without permission, haven't the three highnesses heard the story of Dong Zhuo in the past?" ”

Zhao Jinluo is the longest, and she didn't cry among the three, but she thought about it, her husband was poisoned by Zhao Ji, and she was a ghost if she could cry for Zhao Ji.

Zhao Jinluo asked: "The Marquis of Pingyin wants to bully me and others as women, although the concubine is ignorant, she also understands the truth that the foreign monarch's life will not be affected, not to mention when the Hou Ye respected the court law from the heart?" ”

This sentence can be said very seriously, Li Zhong, who was guarding Jiang De, couldn't help glaring at Zhao Jinluo, but Zhao Jinluo didn't seem to see it.

Jiang De scratched his face, he was really right.

"There is still a Western Army in the imperial court, and there is no worry about the loss of the country this time, Your Highness is more worried." Jiang De shirked again, he did decide to send troops, and he did need a name, but this position can't be forced by the three emperors, this... It feels weird.

"The western army is far away in the northwest, and the east of the river cannot be saved, let alone the Central Plains?" Zhao Jinluo shook his head and said.

Jiang De hasn't found out yet, this Zhao Jinluo is quite good at speaking.

"If there is no king's order, it is really difficult to send troops!" Jiang De was simply ready to run away, these three emperors couldn't fight and couldn't beat them, they couldn't say anything, what else could they do.

Jiang De was turning around and wanted to leave, when he suddenly felt a sinking in his back, and felt a fragrance rush into his nose.

"I don't care, if you don't send troops to save my sister, I won't come down!"

It was actually Zhao Fujin who jumped on Jiang De's back, holding Jiang De's neck with both hands, and holding Jiang De's waist with his two feet, like a monkey.

"Humph!" Hua Diao turned around angrily, and Jiang De was dumbfounded, this is also to blame me?

"Come down! Come down!! Oh! As long as the imperial court gives me an edict, I will send troops immediately, and I will prepare first, okay?

I said the three emperors, it's your brother who is in Kaifeng City now, can't you think of a way? Your teachers should all be Geng Nanzhong. ”

Not to mention, Jiang De rolled his eyes and came up with such a ghost idea.

The three emperors glanced at each other and felt reasonable, this Zhao Huan They all knew that they had been a little weak since they were not favored, and they had always heard the words of Geng Nanzhong, the emperor.

Speaking of Zhao Huan's most powerful competitor, Zhao Kai's teacher is also Geng Nanzhong, but Geng Nanzhong has always supported Zhao Huan, which is why Zhao Huan trusted him so much and appointed him as a privy envoy.

Not to mention how the three emperors wrote to Geng Nanzhong, and then after talking about Yan Zongwang's side, he led the army under the city of the Daimyo Mansion for a few days, and saw that the guards in the city were lawful, and knew that he could not attack it urgently, so he wanted to bypass the Daimyo's Mansion and continue to go down, looking at the map on this day, he suddenly found a place called Neihuang, and felt familiar, so he invited Guo Yaoshi to ask, "What kind of famous general can this Neihuang have?" ”

Pharmacist Guo thought for a while and said, "I haven't heard of this Neihuang famous general, but it is said that the Qiong wine is from Neihuang, which is extremely famous. ”

Wanyan Zongwang shouted, "It turned out to be here, I heard my master say in the past, although Neihuang is small, there are several heroes, and Jiang Xinzhi, the Marquis of Pingyin, is a person here, and I don't know if he is still here." ”

Hearing Qiong wine, Wan Yan Zongbi couldn't help but think of the time in Qionglou in the past, a few days ago, he saw from a distance that a young general who led the army out of the city to rescue was similar to the person who fought with him in Qionglou that day, but it was too far away to confirm, thinking of this, Wan Yan Zongbi got up and said, "Right handsome, I heard that Neihuang has a lot of savings, and it is known as gold inside, the last general, please bring all the soldiers and horses, go to get it!" ”

Wanyan Zongwang pondered for a while, nodded and said, "Our army has gone all the way around the city to the south, and the morale of the army is probably low, but Neihuang is said to be the homeland of Song Pingyin, which occupies Goryeo, and looks down on me for a long time, which also makes my uncle lazy and has to lead Xi people to guard the border. ”

Wanyan Zongbi nodded yes, and led five thousand soldiers and horses to Neihuang.

It stands to reason that it is not a small number of five thousand gold soldiers to take a state capital, but when Yan Zongbi arrived in Neihuang, he found that something was wrong.

First of all, the territory of Neihuang is actually completely fortified and clear, all the villages are empty, and after going south to the Song Kingdom for so long, Wanyan Zongbi also found that as long as the strong wall and clear the field are strong, it will definitely be difficult to fight, because this first means that the local officials are not ready to surrender, but are ready to defend to the death.

In addition, the Jin army went all the way south, and the logistics line has become longer and longer, and the supply of the Jin soldiers has relied on a lot of grass valleys, and everyone who followed Yan Zongbi to send troops knew that Neihuang was rich, but when he arrived at the place, he found that there was nothing to grab, and the disappointment here was self-evident.

Finally, the Jin army reached the first fortress... Wait, fortress?

Wanyan Zongbi looked at the five-zhang small city in front of him, his eyes were about to pop out, but he clearly saw that this small city was written on Sankou Town, and this was actually a town! The height of the walls of the Daimyo's Mansion is probably no more than that.

Wanyan Zongbi still wondered if this town was bluffing, and ordered five hundred people to carry a simple ladder to try to attack the city, but it was only one hundred and thirty steps away, and nearly a hundred flying stones flew down from this strange town, each of which was the size of a child's head.

Wanyan Zongbi gasped and asked Hami Chi on the side, "Military advisor, is this Song Kingdom rich to this extent?" But a small town, how to have so many stone cannons. ”

Hami couldn't help but swallow his saliva, don't these hundreds of trebuchets mean that there are at least 2,000 soldiers and horses in this fortress, after all, the operation of these trebuchets is at least five or six hundred, no matter how big the generals are, they will not let half of the sergeants fiddle with the equipment to defend the city.

While Yan Zongbi was shocked, in Sankou Town, several people dressed as officials took a long breath, and then thanked a few strangely dressed people on the side, "Thank you for coming to help, if it weren't for this whirlwind cannon you brought, this city would be difficult to defend." ”

The strangely dressed people smiled and waved their hands, "Senior brother is polite, they are all Tianxiang students, how can they distinguish each other, this whirlwind cannon is still the first in Western Xia, and our engineering college has only improved it." ”

Next to these people, a device about half a person tall was erected there, which was the new cyclone cannon improved by Tianxiang Institute of Technology according to the Western Xia Whirlwind Cannon.

The whirlwind cannon can be said to be the most mobile ordnance of the Western Xia Army, it is installed on a camel in the Western Xia Army, its principle is to use torque to launch stones, the specific appearance is the lever on the left to launch stones, this lever has a mechanism locked, for flat placement, one end of the lever can put stones, the other end is locked by neat cow tendons, through the same button rod as some pencil sharpeners in later generations to rotate the cow tendons, and then open the mechanism of the lever, the lever will be quickly set up, giving the stone huge kinetic energy.

Of course, such a whirlwind cannon, since it is a single weapon, is manually buttoned, and the firing range is only fifty steps, but it is enough to be used in field battles.

The whirlwind cannon of Sankou Town is installed at the head of the city, three people are operated in a group, two people are buttoned, and the stone of the general size of a child's head can be fired to a hundred steps, and there is a bonus of the city wall, which can be one hundred and thirty steps, the key is through a more scientific design, this whirlwind cannon can be used with hemp rope, the price is low, the personnel are temporarily used less, the use is simple and light, and three people can carry it to run all over the city wall.

And there are several fortresses like Sankou Town in Neihuang, among which the largest and strongest is not Neihuang City, but the place where Sanjia Village was originally located, where there is already a Lingbao with 3,000 people stationed at this time, and there are nearly 10,000 people in the fortress, and the grain, grass and ordnance are enough to defend for half a year, Hu Cheng personally guarded there, but Zhou Tong went to Neihuang to help his father-in-law Li Chun defend the city.

As for why Li Chun is Zhou Tong's father-in-law, don't forget that Yue Fei's wife is Li Chun's daughter.