Chapter 994: Threat
"General, I heard that some people in our rear have begun to expel the people and ask them to forcibly cross the river." The person who came was Fu Xuan, Yue Fei's general, and he also stayed by Yue Fei's side this time.
"If we don't force it, will these people leave with us?" Yue Fei sighed and said: "The hearts of the people of Jianghuai are in Li Jing, how long has it been, these ordinary people have forgotten the imperial court and have thrown themselves into Li Jing's arms. Yue Fei sighed for a while, the Jianghuai people's hearts were lost so quickly, which Yue Fei did not expect, so Zhao Song had been in the world for more than 100 years. In Yue Fei's view, the people should be loyal to Zhao Song, but along the way, everything they have seen is undoubtedly different, the Tang Dynasty's Tuntian and Fentian have made the people at the lower levels support Li Jing, and it seems that they have long forgotten Zhao Song, which makes Yue Fei very uncomfortable.
"Li Jing divided the land in Jianghuai, weakened the land in the hands of local tyrants, or bought it with money, or directly confiscated the family and exterminated the clan, and distributed these lands to the common people, which made the common people support Li Jing, and this kind of thing was impossible to implement in the imperial court." Fu Xuan shook his head and said.
In whose hands is the land in the south, and in the hands of the bureaucracy, how can the imperial court do anything to these bureaucrats? Yue Fei shook his head, don't say it's those officials, even if it's Yue Fei himself, Zhao Gou has also rewarded a lot of land, otherwise, how can he support the huge Yue family army, relying on his personal charm to attract an army of more than 100,000, Yue Fei thinks that he is not strong enough to that extent.
"How far away is Lin Chong's soldiers and horses?" Yue Fei shook his head, put this idea of not being alive behind him, and said to Fu Xuan. Lin Chong poured out of the nest and chased and intercepted Yue Fei's army, although it did not bring much loss to Yue Fei's army, but with these tens of thousands of troops closely following behind, Yue Fei could not sleep well, and the effect of this army made Yue Fei a little worried.
"It's only twenty miles away." Fu Xuan said indignantly: "This Lin Chong, he won't fight, and he won't retreat." It's really hateful. "Twenty miles is a very embarrassing number, although Yue Fei's men are all cavalry, but Lin Chong also has some cavalry in his hands, which does not pose too much of a threat, on the contrary, if he is not careful, Yue Fei himself will be injured by Lin Chong.
"He's slowing us down, we're all enemies, it's no surprise, and if I'm in his position, I'm afraid it will be the same." Yue Fei shook his head.
"Wait a minute, let the Storm Pavilion check Li Jing's location, the last general is worried that Li Jing will appear behind us." Fu Xuan's face was solemn.
"It's not worrying, it's for sure, Li Jing must be behind us, it's just when he appears." Yue Fei smiled bitterly.
"Report, General, General Wang Gui has news." At this time, a cavalry galloped in the distance and said loudly: "General, General Wang Gui has led 10,000 people to the west, and there are 20,000 people with him. ”
"Westward? Who let him go west? How can there be a people? What does he want to do? Yue Fei's face changed greatly, he stood up suddenly, and said loudly: "Without my military order, why did Wang Gui go west?" "What kind of place is it when you go west, that is the direction of Li Jing's march, Wang Gui leads 10,000 troops to resist Li Jing, it is almost a certain death.
"It's an order brought by Lord Wan Qi." The cavalry took out a letter from his bosom and handed it to Yue Fei.
Yue Fei opened it and saw that this letter was written by Wang Gui, and it said that under the order of Wan Qiao, he led the army westward and carried 20,000 people for emergencies, and asked Yue Fei to forgive Yunyun.
Yue Fei thought of something, his face was pale, he sat on the stone, his eyes were blank, he couldn't speak, and he didn't even notice that the letter in his hand fell to the side. Fu Xuan picked up the letter and read it again, his face frightened.
"General, is this needed?" Fu Xuan also found a problem, if there was no problem, Wang Gui would not write anything from time to time in the letter, and once it was written, the problem would be a big problem.
"Fu Xuan, I moved the people, on the one hand, I thought that Li Jing was cruel and unkind, and these people would not end well if they followed Li Jing; The second is also to weaken Jianghuai, if Li Jing fills the gap in Jianghuai, he will move more people to Jianghuai, causing Li Jing's strength to be weak, if he does not fill it, the blank Jianghuai will become a buffer belt between the Great Song Dynasty and Li Tang, but he never thought that he would use these people to threaten Li Jing, so that Li Jing would not dare to attack us, this is a manifestation of the weak, we are the imperial court, how can we use this method? ”
Fu Xuan was silent, he was also against this method, but he knew that this was not only the decision of Wang Gui and others, but also the order of the imperial court, otherwise, Wan Qiyu would not have the courage to make such a decision, and forced Li Jing to withdraw from the army on the condition of millions of people, what a big deal, once it spread, I am afraid that the reputation of the imperial court will stink on the street, but, according to the current situation, there is no way to do it.
"I'm afraid that the imperial court will find trouble with General Wang Gui afterwards." Fu Xuan sighed, this black cauldron court will definitely not carry it, and in the end, it can only be Wang Gui and these people who are unlucky, and kill these people to calm the anger of the people in the world. Even Wang Gui wrote this letter because of this.
"If something happens to Wang Gui, how can I, Yue Fei, leave it out of the way?" Yue Fei sighed, he was extremely aggrieved in his heart, although the court would punish Wang Gui afterwards, but in the eyes of the world, the leader of this matter could only be him Yue Fei, not Wang Gui, let alone Wan Qi.
"General, things have happened, it's better not to care, there is no other way to get rid of this method at the moment, Li Jing is our henchman, if we can't delay Li Jing's actions, we can't even go back to Jiangnan." Fu Xuan said with relief: "When you get to Jiangnan, you can just let people treat these people well." ”
"That's all it can be." Yue Fei said to Fu Xuan: "Let people tell Lin Chong about this matter, and let Lin Chong stop attacking." In the face of the facts, Yue Fei had no choice but to tell Lin Chong to warn him so that he and the Yue family's army could retreat safely.
"Yes." A smile appeared on Fu Xuan's face, Lin Chong's tens of thousands of troops followed, putting great pressure on Fu Xuan and the others, and they couldn't even sleep peacefully at night, for fear that Lin Chong would lead the army to attack, now it's okay, at least, Lin Chong didn't dare to do it easily. Thinking of this, Fu Xuan even had some support for Wan Qixuan and Wang Gui in his heart. Compared with reputation and life, Fu Xuan still thinks that life is not there, and all reputation is useless. As for what will happen afterwards, there is no need for the generals to think about this, save their lives first.