There is no doubt that the cadres are on their way back to Chang'an.

It is generally believed that once the army is divided, if the border is stormy again, it is impossible to return to the division to fight.

There are two reasons: first, the momentum of the army is no longer there, as the so-called one drum, then decline, and three exhausted! Second, the soldiers are waiting for the class to return to the court to receive the reward, if this problem is not solved, the soldiers will definitely not turn around and go back to fight.

It was precisely on the basis of the above two points that Xiao Bin, the commander of the Song army, dared to quickly cross the river to counterattack, and he was not afraid that the cadres would turn around and come over to fight him again, because once the cadres had no offensive momentum and morale, even if they reluctantly turned around and fought him, they would definitely be defeated.

But Xiao Bin just thought wrong, he made the mistake of empiricism, and the reason why Zhao Junsheng ordered the class teacher at this time was to let Xiao Bin rest assured and boldly cross the river to counterattack.

In other words, Xiao Bin has been tricked!

The reason why Zhao Junsheng dared to do this, of course, was to rely on it, and on the way to the class teacher, he issued an order to send the rewards of the meritorious soldiers of each army one by one along the way, where did the money for the rewards to the soldiers come from? Naturally, it came from the captured cities, government treasury, and landlords Haoqiang.

Xiao Bin, the commander of the Song army, believed that even if Zhao Junsheng soon got the news that he led his army to cross the river and counterattack, it would be impossible for the cadres to boost their morale, and there would be no way to boost the morale of the cadres, because if Zhao Junsheng did not solve the problem of rewarding meritorious soldiers, it would be absolutely impossible to raise morale.

This battle has been fought for nearly half a year, and the cadres and troops have been sent out in a hurry, and the preparations in all aspects are insufficient, and until the battle has been fought so far, Zhao Junsheng certainly has no cash in his hand to reward the soldiers.

But the war is not only payment but no input, the cadre army really has a large amount of input, the cadre army has seized a large area of the Song State, hundreds of large and small cities, how can there be no money?

Zhao Junsheng had enough money to reward the soldiers, and for those soldiers who had made enough military exploits to be promoted, Zhao Junsheng asked each army to draw up a list of promotions early in the morning, and issued appointment documents all the way back to the north.

Therefore, although the officers and men of the cadres and soldiers are in the squad division, their morale is always very high.

When the news came that the Song army crossed the river under the command of Xiao Bin to counterattack, Zhao Junsheng knew that Xiao Bin was in the trap.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhao Junsheng ordered all the troops to stop and camp on the spot to rest, make a fire to make food, this dinner was eaten very early, and the soldiers were ordered to return to the camp to rest after dinner.

When the time came, the sound of the assembly horn was remembered, and the armies quickly assembled urgently.

The camp was brightly lit, and Zhao Junsheng rode to the high platform and announced loudly: "I have received news that the Song army has crossed the river to counterattack while our army has returned to the DPRK, and now they have broken through the defense line on the river bank and besieged Jiangxia City!" ”

"If the soldiers of my army are still in Jiangxia, how dare the Song army do this? They will only play this kind of trick, it seems that the Song army has not been beaten and disabled by us, we must wave our division and turn around, quickly rush back to relieve the siege of Jiangxia, and leave these tens of thousands of Song troops forever before fleeing back to Jiangdong, the generals do not have the strength and courage to fight? ”

The officers and men of the cadre army, who had already rested and were in high spirits, stood up with their weapons and shouted: "Yes, yes, yes!" ”

"Kill back, kill back······"

Zhao Junsheng said loudly: "Okay, I order, one hour to prepare for the camp, and after one hour, all the armies will assemble and set off in turn!" ”

The soldiers agreed with a bang, and each of them dispersed to prepare for the departure of the camp.

After two moments, suddenly a carrier pigeon flew out of the camp, which had just risen into the air and was flying south, when the sound of a bowstring popping out, followed by a whoosh, a sharp arrow shot into the night sky, and the pigeon was shot and fell.

"Up!" With Lin Jinghui's order, a group of cadres and soldiers quickly surrounded a camp tent.

Lin Jinghui rushed into the camp tent first, and in the camp Pang Faqi happened to be standing on the side and looked at him and the soldiers who came in later.

"General Lin, I don't know why you brought troops to the old man's tent?"

Lin Jinghui said as he walked over: "Just now I found that someone released pigeons in the camp tent to report to the outside world, but our army has no news to pass through the pigeons at this time, and the pigeons released have been shot down by our army's marksmen, and the sentry on the lookout tower said that the pigeons were released from near the Pang Gong tent!" ”

Pang Faqi was apprehensive in his heart, but his face sank, "The general is suspected of Pang Mou's collaboration with the enemy?" Is there any evidence? ”

At this moment a soldier came up and took the pigeon, which had been pierced by an arrow, and was already dead, with some blood on its feathers, and a bamboo pipe tied to one foot.

Lin Jinghui took out a small paper roll from the bamboo tube, unfolded it and looked at the contents of the note, looked up at Pang Faqi and said: "Pang Gong, this note says that our army is preparing to turn around and return, and plans to set off overnight, how do you explain it?" ”

Pang Faqi said: "This is someone reporting the news to Song Jun, but this does not prove that the pigeon is old and rotten!" ”

"The pigeon took off near Pang Gong's tent, and Pang Gong and his family are much more suspicious than others!"

"The general also said that the pigeon took off near the old tent, but there is not only one old tent nearby, so why can't it be someone else?"

"Because only Pang Gong's family in the vicinity surrendered from the Southern Dynasty, they naturally became the primary object of suspicion, is it right to be so suspicious? Is it possible that the cost will have to doubt your own people first? ”

Pang said angrily: "Who can guarantee that there will be no problems within you? Lao Yu did surrender from the Southern Dynasty, and now that there is a detailed work in the military camp, you will suspect Lao Yu's head, Lao Yu even has a mouth that he can't understand, even if he jumps into the Yellow River, he can't wash it away! I knew that I would be so insulted and suspicious, and the old man would not surrender even if he committed suicide to thank the world! ”

The meaning of these words was a little sharp, and Lin Jinghui was silent for a while before saying, "If Pang Gong has anything to say, let's go and tell Your Majesty!" Come on, take Pang Gong to see Your Majesty! ”

Several armor soldiers came forward and searched for Pang Faqi's saber, and Pang Faqi broke free from them and walked in the direction of the tent himself.

After Lin Jinghui waited for Pang Faqi to be escorted away, he looked at Pang Faqi's two wives, one was young and the other was old, the old one must be Pang Faqi's main family partner, and the younger one must be a concubine.

He walked to the side of the low table and looked at it, and found that there was a stack of paper on it, there was ink in the inkstone, and there was a very thin wolf pen on the pen holder.

Then pick up the inkstone and tilt it, and the ink flows to the low part of the inkstone.

"Huh?" Lin Jinghui picked up the top piece of a stack of papers, which was shorter than the paper below, and he immediately spread out the paper roll taken from the bamboo pipe on the pigeon's feet and compared it with the missing section of the paper.

After attaching the strip, the entire sheet of paper is complete, the same length as the other sheets, and the texture of the strip is exactly the same as that of the paper.

Lin Jinghui swept his gaze again, raised his head and asked the two women, "Where are the manuscripts written by Pang Pingping Day and the letters exchanged with friends?" ”

Although the two women were afraid, they kept their mouths shut and leaned together without saying a word.

"Don't think I won't find it if you don't say it! Come on, take it for me! ”

Under Lin Jinghui's order, the soldiers rummaged through the boxes and cabinets in the camp tent.

Soon a soldier came with a stack of papers and a few letters: "General, these have been found!" ”

Lin Jinghui read the manuscript again, found nothing suspicious, he opened a few letters and read them again, these letters were written to Pang Faqi by friends many years ago, several letters are some years, the reason why Pang Faqi still keeps these letters, Lin Jinghui guessed that these letters are probably written at a high level, sincere, and touching, and there is nothing else to doubt.

Lin Jinghui seemed to remember something, took out the note and letters and manuscripts to handwriting, there are only a few common fonts in this era, a person after forming a writing habit, it is difficult to fake the handwriting, even if he deliberately does not write according to the habit, he will definitely leave clues on the strokes, and people who have studied handwriting can see it.

Lin Jinghui brought these manuscripts, letters, carrier pigeons, and notes to the handsome tent soon.

In the tent, the generals and officials of the various armies seemed to be present, and Pang Faqi was standing in the middle with his hands down at this time.

"Your Majesty, Commander Lin has arrived, just outside the tent!" The off-the-books school came in to report.

"Let him in!"

Lin Jinghui walked into the tent with a soldier and saluted: "Weichen see Your Majesty!" ”

Zhao Junsheng asked: "The people below said that someone released carrier pigeons in the camp to report the news to Song Jun, do you suspect that it is Pang Gong?" ”

Lin Jinghui replied: "Yes! ”

"Is there any tangible evidence?"

"Yes!"

Zhao Junsheng beckoned: "Submit it!" ”

Lin Jinghui turned around and took the tray from the hand of the armorer and presented it, and the eunuch Kang Yide stepped forward to take the tray and walked to the imperial case to put it down, and then retreated to the side.

Zhao Junsheng looked at Pang Faqi, retracted his gaze and fell on the tray of the imperial case, only to see that there were several things in the tray, including a pigeon that had been shot dead, a note, a stack of blank papers, a stack of manuscripts and a few letters.

Zhao Junsheng picked up the note and looked at the contents on it, then looked up at Lin Jinghui and asked, "Commander Lin, how can these things prove that Pang Gong collaborated with the enemy?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, according to the lookout post in the camp, the carrier pigeon was released from near the camp tent initiated by Pang Faqi, where in addition to the camp tent of Pang Faqi there were also the tents of several other accompanying officials, but Pang Faqi was a new person, and the other officials had been officials in our Daqian for many years, and these officials had not been suspected of collaborating with the enemy by the relevant yamen before. Therefore, the carrier pigeon is the most suspicious of Pang Faqi! ”

Zhao Junsheng frowned and said: "You can't suspect Pang Gong because he is a new person who has joined our dynasty, this is unfair, if we all have this mentality, how chilling is it for those people with lofty ideals who yearn for my great work in their hearts?" ”