Zhao Junsheng saw that Liu Yuanjing was silent, and asked, "Are you willing to surrender?" ”

Liu Yuanjing was furious: "Your Majesty, is this insulting Liu's morality?" ”

Zhao Junsheng looked at Liu Yuanjing for a long time, raised his hand and waved: "In this case, I have no choice but to use the head of the general to deter the surrender of the army and the prisoners!" Someone, push General Liu out and behead him, and hang his head on the flagpole of the camp gate of the captive army! ”

"No!" The soldiers agreed with a bang, escorted Liu Yuanjing out of the tent, and soon a bloody breath floated in from outside the tent, from beginning to end, Liu Yuanjing did not say a word.

"Now it seems that although the court of the Southern Dynasty is corrupt, there are still a few loyal ministers and good generals, Liu Yuanjing is a pity!" Zhao Junsheng sighed after speaking, picked up the wine cup and drank it all.

General Guan Jinzhi clenched his fists and asked, "Your Majesty, what should Liu Yuanjing's younger brother Liu Shuren, and Song generals Lu Shangqi, Zong Wei and others do?" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while, "It doesn't seem to be a good thing for our dynasty that there are too many loyal ministers in the Southern Dynasty, so send someone to escort these people back to Chang'an, temporarily put them in prison, and then deal with them after I return to the dynasty!" ”

"Yes!"

Early the next morning, the messenger sent out brought back the news of Sima Chuzhi and Li Bao's army.

Zhao Junsheng was having breakfast, and Hua Xiong walked in to report: "Your Majesty, the messenger met Sima Chuzhi and Li Bao's army in Yunmeng, and these two troops are currently speeding up their march to arrive!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought for a moment and said to Hua Xiong: "There are still two days away from Jiangxia City, I plan to take a thousand cavalry first, and leave the rest of the soldiers and horses to you, you stay here while reorganizing these surrendered prisoners, while waiting for Sima Chuzhi and Li Bao's two armies, and the baggage team will also stay here for the time being!" ”

Hua Xiong hurriedly said: "Even if Your Majesty wants to lead the army to Jiangxia alone, it is too few to bring only a thousand cavalry, and I don't know the situation in Jiangxia at this time, if there are a large number of Song troops in Jiangxia City, Your Majesty will have too few men and horses, not only will it not play a deterrent role, but I am afraid that it will be counterattacked by the Song army, please think twice!" ”

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand: "The black-clothed guard has already found out the situation in Jiangxia City, at this time Jiangxia City is in a panic, the defenders are only three thousand, even if I only bring a thousand men and horses over, forgive them and dare not go out of the city to fight, even if they dare to go out of the city to fight, I can win in one battle, just take advantage of the situation to kill into the city!" ”

Hua Xiong couldn't persuade Zhao Junsheng, so he had to find Niu Dali privately and ask him to ensure Zhao Junsheng's safety, even if he died in battle, Zhao Junsheng's safety could not be problematic.

Soon after breakfast, Zhao Junsheng set off with a thousand cavalry, among which there were six hundred dragon guards, and Niu Dali led the troops to accompany him.

Before leaving, each person brought ten days of dry food, which was made by grinding wheat into fine flour and roasting it, and adding pickles and other dried vegetables to the noodles before roasting, which lasted longer than steamed cakes and steamed buns.

After the departure, Zhao Junsheng and the soldiers did not rest all morning, and it was not until noon that Zhao Junsheng ordered to rest for an hour in a passing village, so that the soldiers could feed the war horses with water for food.

"Your Majesty, the minister looked at the map, we have walked seventy miles this morning, if we march at this speed and march overnight, we can reach the outside of Jiangxia City in the middle of the night!" Niu Dali came over with a water bag and said while nibbling on the pot helmet.

Zhao Junsheng took a bite of the pot helmet and shook his head: "This is still the Song Realm, we haven't occupied and controlled the surrounding towns yet, we are also unfamiliar with life in this area, for the sake of insurance, it is better not to march overnight, it is better to travel more during the day than to march at night!" ”

"No!"

In the afternoon, the army continued on its march and did not camp until sunset.

Previously, the news of the capture of Jingling by the cadres had already spread, otherwise Xiao Bin, the general of the Southern Dynasty, would not have moved the administrative office from Jiangxia City to Xiakou on the other side of the river, and in just a few days, countless soldiers and civilians fled from Jiangxia City to Xiakou.

Until now, there are still a large number of people gathered on the riverside and want to take a boat to Xiakou to escape the war, who knows when the cadres will come, and it will be too late to leave when the cadres will come.

Therefore, these days, the boats at the riverside pier ferry are particularly busy, and before dawn, the boatmen will start to collect money and sail, and they will be busy until dark, and they will not dare to sail again after dark.

Those who had not yet made up their minds to escape the war in Xiakou found that there were fewer and fewer people in the city, and they all began to be afraid, and their firm confidence began to waver.

At noon the next day, the weather was still a little hot, and both the defenders in the city, the people who stayed in the city, and the people waiting for the ferry by the river were sweating and drowsy.

A cavalry suddenly appeared a few miles outside the city, and the sound of horses' hooves woke up the dozing sentry on the city wall, and the sentry opened his eyes and hit the pergola with his hand, and a black line appeared in the distance, followed by the shaking of the flag, and the vibration of the soles of his feet.

The sentinel was so frightened that whether it was a friend or foe, he immediately raised his gavel and sounded the alarm.

"When, when, when······"

All the defenders on duty on the city wall were alarmed by the sound of the bell, and they got up and walked to the battlements to look into the distance, and the gate guards shouted: "Raise the drawbridge and close the gates!" ”

As a dozen soldiers turned the winch, the drawbridge was raised and the city gates were quickly closed.

The people in the city also heard the bell, and the people walking on the street ran to their homes, and there was a burst of chickens and dogs jumping, and the cry of children falling to the ground was heard, and some people shouted while running: "The cadres are coming, flee for your life!" ”

After the bell rang, the four gates were quickly closed, and those who wanted to enter the city could not enter, and those who wanted to go out could not get out.

The guard of the north gate looked into the distance at this time, and a cavalry appeared in sight, with a clear banner, which was the banner of the cadre army, and a large number of cavalry were galloping over, and the place where they passed was dusty.

"General, it's the cavalry of the cadre army, about a thousand horsemen, each with two horses!"

The guard of the north gate saw it clearly, and he said with a solemn face: "It's coming so fast, General Shen's men and horses haven't withdrawn from Xiangyang yet, and the cavalry of the cadre army has arrived first!" sent a report to Pang Taishou, and said that the vanguard of the cadre army and a thousand cavalry had arrived! ”

At this time, a deep voice came from behind him: "No need to report, the official is already here!" ”

The city gate guard and the surrounding soldiers turned their heads to look, only to see a middle-aged civil official walking over with square steps, this person was Jiang Xia Taishou Pang Faqi.

The surrounding generals and soldiers bowed down and clenched their fists: "I've seen Taishou!" ”

Pang Fa waved his hand: "In extraordinary times, there is no need to be formal!" ”

He walked to the women's wall and held the wall battlements to build a pergola to look north, a black-armored cavalry was approaching rapidly, and the light reflected by the armor of the black-armored cavalry could be seen from afar.

A thousand cavalry ran out of the momentum of tens of thousands of troops, as the cavalry of the dry army got closer and closer to the city wall, the defenders on the city wall could clearly feel the increasing pressure, this pressure was conveyed through the sound of horses' hooves, the violent shaking under the soles of the feet, and the strong visual impact of the front.

Pang Faqi is calm as usual, he used to be the Taishou of Luoyang, and led his troops to fight many battles with the Northern Wei army and the cadre army in Henan, and he can be regarded as a battle-hardened official, as a civilian official, it is obviously not something that ordinary people can do to lead troops to fight and confront the enemy.

The surrounding soldiers did not have such an experience as Pang Faqi, some of them had not even seen the cadres, and more than half of the defenders in this city had never experienced a war, and it was the first time that Jiangxia City had a cadre army killed here.

Pang Faqi found the abnormality of the soldiers around him, but he did not scold him, and he also encouraged, it is normal for these soldiers to have such a reaction, but as long as he, the principal, does not show panic, the soldiers will not have problems, they will calm down after the initial panic, Pang Faqi knows that these soldiers need a process of adaptation.

The Qianjun stopped a stone's throw from the city gates, and the momentum made the defenders on the city walls tremble.

Zhao Junsheng looked up and observed the city tower, and saw that the city tower was already like a great enemy, he didn't care, and ordered Niu Dali: "Send a hundred cavalry teams to go around from the east and west sides, reconnoitre, our army suddenly arrives, I estimate that there will definitely be many people who want to enter the city to avoid trouble, or want to cross the river, and order the generals at all levels to restrain the soldiers and not kill the people indiscriminately!" ”

"Yes!"

Niu vigorously agreed, and immediately called the first general, and asked him to send two hundred-man teams to run around the city wall to reconnoiter the surrounding situation.

The two hundred cavalry commanders led the troops away, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Zhao Junsheng summoned Lin Jinghui and asked, "Who is the guard of Jiangxia City?" ”

Lin Jinghui replied: "It should be Jiangxia Taishou Pang Fa, although this person is a civilian official, but he has been leading troops in Henan to fight against the Wei army and our army many times, he is completely a military general who leads the troops, and he has participated in several northern expeditions in the Southern Dynasties, and his talent should not be underestimated!" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded, and instructed Niu Dali: "Send someone to persuade him to surrender and see what kind of attitude this Pang Faqi has!" ”

"No!"

A small colonel led two cavalrymen to the city wall with a horse and raised his head and shouted: "The guard on the city tower is Jiang Xia's too guarded Pang Faqi, please show up!" ”

Pang Faqi was not afraid, and said loudly: "This official is Pang Faqi, I don't know who the general is, and what position does he hold in the Qianguo official?" ”

The little colonel said: "I am an unknown person in the next generation, the one who led the troops this time is my general, my general Niu Dali, the current general Longwei!" ”

"It turned out to be General Niu, but if General Niu is sincere, why did he only send you a small colonel to speak, didn't Niu Dali even have the courage to do this?"

The junior colonel of the Qianjun said: "Pang Taishou is wrong with this, the commander of the first army is in danger of the safety of the whole army, how can he easily make a risk?" My general let me tell Pang Taishou that Shen Qingzhi's army of 10,000 horses has been annihilated by our army, and he himself was killed in battle, and his general Liu Yuanjing was captured and did not surrender, and was ordered to be beheaded by my general, Pang Taishou is only afraid that he can't wait for reinforcements, this Jiangxia City has become a lonely city, and within two days, our army Sima Chuzhi's army will come to converge, Pang Taishou wants to rely on the three thousand people in the city can not hold it at all, my general also asked Pang Taishou to recognize the situation, and lead his troops to surrender as soon as possible, my general will definitely treat Taishou and his subordinates to His Majesty the Emperor! ”

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