Shen Youzhi knelt on the ground with a puff and shouted: "Thank you, Lord Longen!" ”

Anyone is eager to be affirmed and valued by others, especially Shen Yuzhi, a person who has been unfairly treated by his boss for a long time because of his ugly appearance, he is brave in battle, good at using his brain, and his mind is very flexible, so he has meritorious service in every big battle, but because of his appearance, even if he has military merits, he will not be promoted and reused, not to mention how depressed and aggrieved he is.

Zhao Junsheng's affirmation of him can't be compared to anything, this is the emperor!

"Do a good job, I'm optimistic about you!" Zhao Junsheng patted him on the shoulder as he spoke, turned to Niu Dali and ordered: "Arrange for Shen Yuzhi to study our army's military regulations and regulations, and then arrange positions according to his learning situation!" ”

"No!"

Next, Zhao Junsheng looked at the camp tents of more than a dozen officers and colonels who had been demoted, and almost all of them were lying in the camp tents and slept soundly, or they were irritable and sat on pins and needles in the camp tents.

Zhao Junsheng was not very interested in these people, Niu Dali took him outside a camp tent and said: "There are two people in this camp tent, both of them are from Jingling, one of their official positions is to join the army, called Zhang Xingshi, and the other is the team leader, called Huang Hui, judging from their family backgrounds, both of them are from poor backgrounds!" ”

Zhao Junsheng walked to the tent and lifted the curtain to see that the two of them were using mud and sand as a sand table in the camp tent to arrange troops.

The two saw Zhao Junsheng and others coming in, and quickly stood up.

Zhao Junsheng walked to the sand table made of mud and sand and looked at it, and said to the two: "You go on!" ”

The two looked at each other, squatted on the ground and began to "dispatch troops".

Zhao Junsheng took a look at the sand table and found that the sand table showed the terrain around Jiangxia and Xiakou, a large river separated Jiangxia City from Xiakou City, Zhang Xingshi commanded the cadres on the sand table, and Huang Hui commanded the Song army on the sand table.

Zhao Junsheng became interested at this time, and also squatted next to the sand table to watch carefully how these two people commanded, only to see that these two people transferred troops and sent generals, you come and go, the sound of the east and the west, the virtual and the real, the virtual and the real are difficult to distinguish.

After all, the sand table is a dead thing, and it cannot be regarded as a real battlefield, so it can only be used for deduction, once the battle really starts, the battle situation will definitely be different from the deduction, but the people who have really led soldiers and fought have a number in their hearts when they use the sand table to deduce.

After watching it for a while, Zhao Junsheng got up and walked out of the tent.

"Niu Dali, what do you think of this Huang Hui and Zhang Xingshi?" Zhao Junsheng asked.

Niu Dali said: "Your Majesty, I think that as long as these two boys are not too bad, they will definitely be successful in the future. Either they can't sit still, can't sleep, stand restless, and are irritable, but these two people still have the heart to do battlefield combat deduction, just rush at them who are willing to study tactics, and their achievements in the future will not be small! ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "Being an official in the Southern Dynasty pays attention to being born in a family, and it is even more difficult for a child of a poor family to be in a high position even if he is talented, but in recent years, the war between the Southern Dynasty and my Northern Wei Dynasty and my dynasty has killed a lot of generals, and there is a lack of talent in the army of the Southern Dynasty, so I have to promote some people from poor families in the army to promote some people with military merits, so if the children of the poor family in the Southern Dynasty want to go further in their careers, joining the army is a good way out!" For example, the former Liu Zhong, Kuaien, and Yan Zhi, these Liu Song generals, were all born in poverty! ”

"Moreover, these people from poor backgrounds are more loyal to the dynasty and the emperor than those who are born in wealthy families, and the most loyal objects of the children of wealthy families are the family rather than the emperor and the dynasty, but the people in the poor family are different, they have no family support and fetters!"

The accompanying officials echoed one after another: "Your Majesty has broken the true meaning of the system of the Southern Dynasties and the shortcomings of the official career!" ”

Zhao Junsheng instructed Niu Dali: "Arrange a position for each of these two people, and first examine his heart and ability!" ”

"No!"

Everyone sighed in their hearts the good luck of Huang Hui and Zhang Xingshi, which happened to meet Zhao Junsheng to inspect, if Zhao Junsheng didn't come, the two didn't know what year and month they would be able to get out of the way, maybe they would be included in the death squad and die on the battlefield.

When Zhao Junsheng returned to Jiangxia City, there was already a movement in the city, a large number of people were recruited to go to the river to build river defense fortifications, the people of the surrounding villages and villages outside the city were constantly brought by the soldiers from afar, all the wheelbarrows and carts in the city were requisitioned, and the glutinous rice of many grain stores, landlords and large families and some other materials were collected.

In less than half a day's work, the riverside has become a huge construction site, where thousands of people work and do their best.

"It's all for Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu let you all eat when you eat, but you also have to work hard for Lao Tzu, if you don't work hard, don't blame Lao Tzu for deducting his rations!"

The overseers shouted with whips.

These recruited people did have a lot of grievances at the beginning, after all, they were not willing, and they inevitably looked weak and procrastinated when they worked.

However, at noon, the man gave each of them a large amount of food, and even in his own home, he never let go of his belly to eat, so there was the shouting of the overseers.

With the support of a large number of manpower and material resources, the progress of the Jiangfang siege was very fast, and it took only one day for the foundation of the Jiangfang fortifications to be solid.

At dusk, a messenger came from across the Han River.

"Your Majesty, General Sima has led the army to break through the Song army's water village by the Han River, and has also captured two special prisoners, who are currently on their way to Jiangxia City!"

Zhao Junsheng's heart fell back into his stomach when he heard this, and now that he has taken this water village, the cadres can block the waterway, so the Song army naval division that withdrew from Hanjin Pass is equivalent to being locked in a cage.

Zhao Junsheng immediately shouted: "Come on, go and call Huaxiong!" ”

"No!"

Zhao Junsheng asked the messenger again: "Who are those two special captives?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the villain doesn't know that it was Sima Yue, the son of General Sima, who led the troops to escort it!"

Zhao Junsheng was quite surprised: "Oh? Let General Sima send his own son to escort him, it seems that the identities of these two captives are really unusual! ”

Soon Huaxiong arrived, Zhao Junsheng instructed: "Sima Chuzhi has led the army to capture the Song army water village on the other side of the Han River, you take a thousand people, write that trebuchets, stone carts, bed crossbows and other large siege equipment are deployed on the east bank of the Han River and the water village is far away, Sima Chuzhi will send people to block the channel, and when the Song army sailor arrives nearby, you and Sima Chuzhi cooperate to force this Song army sailor to surrender!" ”

"Command!" Hua Xiong turned around and left that night with a large number of trebuchets, catapults, bed crossbows and other large siege equipment, as well as a large number of bows and arrows, to set a trap on the east bank of the Han River, waiting for the Song army sailors returning from the Hanjin Pass to get into their pockets.

The next morning, Zhao Junsheng inspected the river defense, and was quite satisfied with the progress of the river defense project. ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded, and he saw Sima Yue in the lobby of the Taishou Mansion.

"The young general Sima Yue greets Your Majesty, Your Majesty is blessed!"

Zhao Junsheng walked to the main seat and sat down, raised his hand and said, "No courtesy!" Sima Yue, what is the situation on your father's side, and is there a big loss in capturing the Song Army's Water Village? ”

Sima Yue hugged his fists and said: "Back to Your Majesty, our army is a surprise attack, the Song army's Shuizhai defenders only have 300 people, they are all defenseless, they easily captured Shuizhai, killed more than 120 enemies, the rest surrendered, and our army only lost more than 20 people!" When the minister set off, the minister's father had ordered someone to block the waterway! ”

"After the ministers captured the water village, they found that two of the captives were different from the others, and after inquiry, they found out that these two were the princess of Song Guonan County and her concubine Chu Yuan!"

Zhao Junsheng was suddenly surprised: "Princess Nanjun and her concubine Chu Yuan? How could they be in the Song Army Water Village on the other side of the Han River? ”

Sima Yue said with a smile: "This thing is also a coincidence, a few months ago, the princess of Nanjun and Chu Yuan returned to Nanjun to inspect the fiefdom, it was the summer heat, and they lived in Jiangling, and then our army captured Bashu, waved the army to the west to fight to Yiling, and sent troops to the south on the north road, the princess of Nanjun and Chu Yuan were worried that it was not safe in Jiangling, so they decided to return to Jiankang, and felt that it was too slow to take the waterway, so they took the land route, but they did not expect that they had just arrived near the water village and learned that the cadres had been in Jiangxia City, and they were so frightened that they hid in the water village, I planned to take a boat from Shuizhai to Xiakou, but before they could set off, our army attacked Shuizhai and became prisoners, and that's the way it is! ”

Zhao Junsheng also smiled after hearing this: "This thing is indeed quite a coincidence, and the princess of Nanjun and the concubine Chu Yuan are really unlucky!" By the way, I heard that this Chu Yuan is a beautiful man from the Song Kingdom, do you think he is handsome? ”

Sima Yue replied: "This Chu Yuan is much younger than Xiao Chen, only seventeen or eighteen years old, but he is worthy of being of noble birth, he looks like a young man at a young age, and he is really handsome. ”

Zhao Junsheng asked, "Where are the people?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, there is an inn in the city, does Your Majesty want to see them?"

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "Bring them here!" ”

Soon, Sima Yue took some soldiers to escort a carriage to Taishou Mansion.

Princess Nanjun and Chu Yuan stepped down from the carriage, both of them were in a nervous mood, Chu Yuan was better, he was young and old, even if he was in the enemy camp, he was not in danger.

"General Sima, I don't know why the general brought my husband and wife here?" Chu Yuan asked.

Sima Yue said: "I am here for His Majesty the Emperor, Your Majesty heard that the princess and his wife came to Jiangxia City, so I want to meet the two, the two please, you can't let Your Majesty wait for a long time, otherwise you will not be able to afford to suffer!" ”

Sima Yue was hostile to these two people from the heart, of course, there was a reason for this, thinking that his Sima family was also a royal family of the Jin Dynasty, and Sima Yue's grandfather Sima Yao was Emperor Xiaowu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Chu Yuan and Princess Nanjun trembled and followed Sima Yue to the lobby of the Taishou Mansion, and saw a handsome and majestic man sitting under the screen in the lobby, thinking that this is Zhao Junsheng, the emperor of the Qianguo Kingdom, right?

The two hurriedly saluted: "The princess of Song Guonanjun and the concubine Chu Yuan have seen His Majesty the Great Qiandi Emperor!" ”

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