Chapter 990: Hold the people hostage

On the official road, Li Jing and Fang Baihua led the army to rush on the official road to Huai'an, not far behind the two, Yu Yunwen's face was pale, his eyebrows were furrowed, and he looked like he was gritting his teeth. If it weren't for Li Jing's forcible request, I'm afraid that Yu Yunwen would be killed, and he would not appear in the army.

"Yu Yunwen, how long are we still away from Huai'an?" Li Jing's voice sounded in Yu Yunwen's ears.

"Your Majesty, there are still two days to go." Yu Yunwen held back the discomfort and hurriedly said. In his heart, he was secretly complaining, which meant that he had to stay on the war horse for two days, and now the skin on his inner thighs had been worn out, since he was a child, where had Yu Yunwen suffered like this.

"Your Majesty, he is only a teenager now, and he can't bear the long march!" Fang Baihua said with some worry.

"Sixteen years old is considered an adult, if you want to achieve a career, how can you do it without a little hardship? This kind of long-distance march is not used to now, and when you get used to it, you will get used to it. Li Jing said indifferently. It's just that after saying that, he still let the army stop and rest temporarily, he still attaches more importance to Yu Yunwen, under his own hands, Li Fu, Zhao Ding, Zhang Xiaochun and even Li Qiao, or civil officials, or military generals, regulating yin and yang, governing places, or marching to war, these people have no problems, but the combination of the two, these people are much worse, and it is still rare to think that people like Yu Yunwen are still rare, Li Jing decided to take them with him and cultivate them personally.

"Report, Your Majesty, the secret guard has an urgent military situation." As soon as the army here rested, he saw several horsemen galloping in the distance, looking flustered, and the voice reached Li Jing's ears, and Li Jing's face changed slightly.

"Your Majesty, there is urgent news from the secret guard, three days ago, Hu Cai's commander Xiao Heda harassed Yue Fei, and was defeated by Yue Fei's subordinate Beiwei army, the 30,000 army lost nearly 20,000 people, and Xiao Heda was killed by the enemy general Wang Gui." The Dark Guard hurried to report.

Li Jing's whole face changed, the arrival of this news undoubtedly brought a lot of changes to the plan to hunt Yue Fei, once the news of his own march into Huai'an came, Yue Fei would definitely have to escape, and whether Lin Chong's army, which had lost its cavalry, could drag Yue Fei became a question.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that he should not go to Huai'an at this time, Yue Fei is afraid that he has already left Huai'an at this time." Yu Yunwen held back the discomfort in his legs, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty went to Huai'an at this time, what you saw must be an empty city, and General Lin Chong is also afraid that he is attacking Yue Fei in an attempt to slow down Yue Fei's pace." ”

"You mean to say that Yue Fei already knows that I am going to hunt him?" There was no emotion in Li Jing's voice.

"The minister once asked the descendant, and after Han Shizhong found out that His Majesty was personally driving, he immediately sent someone to inform Yue Fei, so the minister thought that Yue Fei already knew the fact that His Majesty appeared in Jiangdu." Yu Yunwen analyzed: "Since His Majesty appeared in Jiangdu, it means that Han Shizhong has been defeated, once Han Shizhong is defeated, His Majesty's next target will definitely be Yue Fei, it just so happens that Xiao Heda was defeated and lost most of the cavalry, if Yue Fei does not withdraw at this time, it will not be Yue Fei." ”

"In which direction do you think he will withdraw his troops?" Li Jing asked people to open the map, beckoned Yu Yunwen and asked, "There are a lot of roads to the south!" ”

"He will never go through the canal, he can only come from and where he goes, Yin Sha." Yu Yunwen pointed to the corner of the map and said: "If the minister is Yue Fei, even if he retreats, he will not make His Majesty feel better, he will definitely take the people along the way and move them to Jiangnan." ”

"He's not afraid that these people will slow down the march?" Fang Baihua couldn't help but say, "Yue Fei is a little unwise to do this, I'm afraid it's a little unwise!" ”

"These people are His Majesty's people!" Yu Yunwen glanced at Fang Baihua, quickly lowered his head, and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, can you kill your own people?" ”

"Damn." Li Jing quickly understood the meaning of Yu Yunwen's words, Yue Fei not only wanted to relocate the people between the Jianghuai and Huai, causing the emptiness between the Jianghuai and the Jianghuai, but also used these people as a threat at a critical time to force Li Jing not to dare to pursue Yue Fei on a large scale, you must know that these people are different from other people, not the people under the rule of the enemy, but Li Jing's people, once they kill their own people because of the war, it will definitely cause public opinion in the world, and the people of the world will not accuse Yue Fei of how to do it, but can only say that Li Jing is cruel and unkind.

"This, isn't this Yue Fei too shameless." Fang Baihua also understood the meaning of Yu Yunwen's words at this time, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Didn't Your Majesty say that this person loves the people like a son and won't do anything to ordinary people?" ”

"That's a situation where your life is not in danger, if Your Majesty doesn't force it, these people will be safe and sound, if Your Majesty persecutes, even if it is a killing, then it is the enemy who is killed, the minister heard that the people between Jianghuai, because of His Majesty's edict, formed a righteous army, and often attacked Yue Fei's grain transportation team, which is enough to show that these people are not ordinary people, but mobs, to deal with the thugs, does Niang Niang think Yue Fei still needs to be polite?" Yu Yunwen smiled bitterly.

"Yue Fei?" Li Jing's face was gloomy, and he couldn't help but clench his fists, and said loudly: "Let's go, I want to see if Yue Fei will do this, if this is the case, I will definitely not spare Yue Fei." ”

"Now I have to go and see, maybe Yue Fei won't do this." Fang Baihua said with relief. In fact, Fang Baihua knew that her words were just comfort at most, people were really going to the last moment, where did they care about other things.

And at this moment, on the land of Jianghuai and around the canal, hundreds of people dragged their families and mouths, and under the threat of Wang Gui and others, they went south one after another. Of course, Wang Gui and others also promised all kinds of benefits to these people, whether they wanted to or not, under the effect of swords and guns, hundreds of people went south one after another, and the entire official road was crowded tightly.

Fortunately, it is between the Jianghuai River, and the weather is not very cold at this time, otherwise, such a large-scale migration of people will definitely cause countless casualties along the way.

In the face of Han Shizhong's defeat and Yue Fei's retreat, the entire Southern Song Dynasty court was in an uproar, and the Northern Expedition army, which had high hopes, was defeated by Li Jing in less than half a year, and nearly 100,000 troops were defeated, and the general Han Shizhong was captured alive, and there is no news yet.

"Yue Fei is preparing to move the people of Jianghuai into the south of the Yangtze River and let the imperial court prepare, what do you think?" Zhao Gou's face was gloomy, and he barely squeezed out a smile on his face, this may be the only good news brought by the Northern Expedition army, nearly a million people are about to enter Jiangnan, which can fill the population of Jiangnan.

"There is a lot of land that can be cultivated between Xiangfan, and Guangnan West Road and Guangnan East Road can accommodate these people, but what the minister is worried about is that Yue Fei can really bring back all these millions of people? Li Jing is not a vegetarian, he will definitely send troops to pursue. Zhu Shengfei couldn't help but say.

"Taking the people of Jianghuai as hostages and threatening Li Jing, if Li Jing pursues, let Yue Fei kill these hostages, and put all the charges on Li Jing, Li Jing will not dare to do it in order to take care of his reputation." Wan Qian said in the ranks.

Qin Hui's complexion changed, his mouth opened, and finally he sighed: "Afterwards, the imperial court will punish Yue Fei again." "In the end, it is Qin Hui, once Yue Fei kills someone, it will also affect the prestige of the court in the hearts of the people, and punishing Yue Fei will show that the court is benevolent and righteous.

"Well, Han Shizhong is a famous general of the country, and if he falls into the hands of Li Jing, I'm afraid it won't end well, send someone to contact Li Jing to see what kind of price we can pay and redeem Han Shizhong. If not, then take care of his offspring! Zhao Gou thought of Han Shizhong and sighed slightly, this was a chess piece for him to balance Yue Fei, if he lost this chess piece, Yue Fei would be in great danger.

"Your Majesty." The crowd hurriedly shouted long live.