The deputy envoy of Xuzhou defense was still very interesting, seeing that Wang Kui only had a few people coming, and knowing that his brigade was far away, he sent his own people to carry the basket and send Wang Kui a ride.

The military rations of Xuzhou are not quite the same as those of the Song Dynasty official army, what they eat is not freshly cooked hot rice, but a round, perforated pot helmet cake in the middle, the cake is a naan cake baked after the rice is ground into flour, it can be opened when eating, and the salt and pickles are added in the middle, and the taste is very poor, and some of them are roasted and old, and they will gnaw off people's teeth.

But according to Xuzhou Bing, this kind of pot helmet cake tastes very mouthful, but it is expensive to keep it for a long time, and it will not deteriorate for half a month when it is placed around, and it is very filling. When the people of Shimen in Xuzhou go out, they all bring this kind of cake as dry food.

The hole in the middle of the cake also made Wang Kui feel strange, and he didn't understand why a good cake had to make a hole. Xuzhou Bing smiled easily, took a string of ropes to demonstrate, and hung more than a dozen cakes on his body, which did not affect walking and was easy to carry, which opened Wang Kui's eyes: it turned out that dry food could also be brought like this.

"Our lord said that the Mongols in the vicinity are infested, and there will be smoke and fire when they make a fire for cooking, and it is easy to expose their whereabouts, so they will eat bread during this time, and when they have beaten away the Mongols, everyone will have a good meal." The soldier who carried the burden to send Wang Kui said happily, not feeling that his lord was bragging at all, but took it for granted.

Wang Kui only smiled bitterly, this eldest grandson Hong is not bold, and his ability to fool people to boost morale is also excellent, not to mention anything else, just fooling his subordinates into believing that the Mongols are as weak as the barbarians in their mountains.

That's it, he doesn't listen to people's persuasion, and he has nothing to do, he can't put a knife on his neck and force him to go, just now the voice was a little louder, and the Jiulong Lang next to Changsun Hong showed a fierce look in his eyes, and he had the intention of pulling out his knife and facing each other. There are a few people around Wang Kui, and he is the only one who suffers.

Returning to the place where the Hanzhou soldiers stayed, the two sides handed over the cakes, the Xuzhou soldiers said goodbye and left, Wang Kui was not busy walking, it was safe here to the left and right, let his people eat a meal first.

Nibbling on the cake, Wang Kui sat under a tree, and involuntarily recalled the scene just now, those disciplined Xuzhou soldiers who sat silently in the camp tent always made him greedy.

Looking at the subordinates around him who are devouring and gnawing on the cakes, Wang Kui is full of feelings, the ancients said that a thousand armies are easy to get and hard to find, but it is not the case here.

The thousand armies that can be easily obtained are the thousands of armies that eat dry food, not the armies that can fight, and to train a strong army that can compete with the Mongol iron cavalry, I am afraid that a hundred people from the thousands of armies can be tempered again.

After eating a few pieces of shriveled and salty cakes, most of the hunger in his stomach was gone, and the deputy general leaned over and asked in a low voice: "My lord, the soldiers are full, and the remaining dry food is enough to support us to rush to Gongzhou. ”

Wang Kui felt reasonable: "What I said is that Sun Hong, the deputy envoy of the defense of Xuzhou, doesn't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, and sooner or later he will harm the people under him, and I don't know why their defense envoy doesn't care?" ”

He looked at the bushes and lowered his voice and asked, "What about the dark demon?" Is it still there? ”

"It's dark ghosts, they call themselves dark ghosts." The adjutant general said: "I have already left, I went to the front, I don't know where to hide." ”

Wang Kui looked around, and always felt that there were people hiding on the top of a certain grass pile and tree, and the feeling of being secretly snooped on made him get goosebumps all over his body, so he stood up, frowned, and said: "The gods and gods are weird, I don't know what to say, probably in response to the old saying that the ignorant are fearless, let them go, while it is getting late, we will hurry up and go on the road!" ”

Thousands of people were quickly mobilized, and everyone strung the leftover cakes with ropes and hung them on their shoulders in the same way as the Xuzhou army, followed Wang Kui, and moved through the mountains again.

The topography of Sichuan is a stepped basin, high in the west and low in the east, and the majestic mountain ranges such as Micang Mountain and Daba Mountain in the northwest divide it from Guanzhong, like the gateway to Sichuan from Gansu, Shaanxi and Qindi; In the middle is a vast basin plain, and the reputation of the land of abundance often refers to this fertile and irrigated grain producing land.

And then to the east, is the gradually undulating Yangtze River basin in eastern Sichuan, from the hilly terrain gradually transitioned to the mountain area, Huaying Mountain, Tiefeng Mountain, Mingyue Mountain and other folded mountain systems like a circle of stone ridges, along the tactful Yangtze River and tributaries, the eastern Sichuan and Huguang and other places are separated.

Hezhou and Gongzhou are just between these folds, guarding the waterway, and if you want to go east out of Kuimen and force Huxiang, you must pass through these two places.

The reason why Wang Kui did not defect to other places after Hanzhou broke through and went directly to the direction of Gongzhou was because he understood that the next target of the Mongol soldiers must be to follow the line of Hezhou--- Gongzhou--- Zhongzhou --- Kuizhou, and kill them all the way.

Not only him, but the Song soldiers who fled from all over Sichuan were all heading in the direction of Gongzhou Mansion, and behind their buttocks, the Mongol army that burned and plundered along the way was closely following.

The focus of the entire Sichuan war situation, like a spotlight, was cast on Gongzhou Mansion, which is located at the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River.

Under such circumstances, if there is a group of soldiers and horses quietly going upstream, from the remote Xuzhou to the north of the Jianzhou boundary west of Hezhou, no one will naturally notice.

Even the Sichuan Envoy didn't know.

Because the eldest grandson Hong also had no intention of informing them.

If it weren't for Wang Kui's accidental encounter between the mountains, maybe no one would have known that there was such a thing.

After all, those who dare to go to Tiger Mountain and take their lives seriously are probably the only ones who run out of the mountains.

Wang Kui hurriedly walked for a day and a night, and finally at dawn the next day, he saw the Hezhou city wall built on the riverside.

After the Zhizhou Grandmaster Dao verified his identity, he welcomed them ecstatically.

At a time when the Mongol army was overwhelmed, it was exciting and happy to have reinforcements arrive.

At noon that day, after the rest, Wang Kui had a decent lunch, with wine, meat, meat and vegetarian food, looking at the table full of dazzling dishes, Wang Kui had mixed feelings as if he was reborn.

"Lord Wang guards Hanzhou with Lord Chen, and I am a gentleman, come, and I will pay tribute to Lord Chen, and I will wash the dust and suppress the shock for my lord!" Grandmaster Dao said enthusiastically and raised his glass.

"Master Zong has won the prize." These words seem to be somewhat familiar, as if the eldest grandson Hong who met in the mountain also praised him like this, Wang Kui knew it in his heart, and shook his head with a wry smile: "Wang Kui can't afford it, lose the land and lose the city, and the court will not cure my crimes, it will be very good." ”

The grandmaster hurriedly said: "Where is Lord Wang, now that Hezhou is north, there is no more Great Song Dynasty soldier, Lord Wang can return the army as a whole, it is a great achievement, not to mention others, the court must have a great reward, how can it be punished?" ”

Wang Kui was stunned: "There is not a single soldier? No, on the way back, I came across an army of officers heading north, at least a few thousand. ”

"Huh?" Grandmaster Dao was also stunned, in disbelief: "How come? Yesterday, Lord Peng Daya Peng personally sent someone over and instructed the lower officials to stick to the city, saying that the envoy had gathered all his troops and gathered in Gongzhou Mansion, how could there be a team of thousands of people in the north? ”

Wang Kui's brows furrowed, and he faintly felt that something was not quite right.

When he told the matter of the Xuzhou Army, Grandmaster Dao was even more surprised.

"Deputy Envoy for the Defense of Xuzhou? Who is that? The grandmaster glared at the balls and said: "I know that the defense envoy of Xuzhou was originally a general in the Sichuan Xiang Army, and Zhao Yanna went to be the defense envoy when he was in power, and this person is in Xuzhou City, and I have not heard of the news of transferring him over." ”

The two looked at each other speechlessly, and both felt inexplicable.

In fact, both of them have unspoken words in their hearts.

Grandmaster Dao remembered the name of Changsun Hong, but he instinctively didn't want to believe that the child who was wiped out more than ten years ago would now be a general with troops.

What happened in Dali, although he heard about it here, he would rather believe that the king of Dali was a person with the same name and surname.

And this person is the kid who was raided by the government back then, and it is the only news confirmed by the high-level of the system envoy, and there is no rumor

However, Wang Kui thinks that the deputy defense envoy of a small state, who is willing to disrespect the general's orders and ignore the Shangguan defense envoy who is secretly alive, and takes the initiative to lead the troops to the death, is very appetizing to him.

This is a soldier who was printed in the same mold as himself!

(End of chapter)