Han Xiaoxuan, the envoy of the Zhaoyi Army of the Great Song Dynasty, was captured together with Wu Song, the most courageous general under his command.

To be honest, the two of them are really worthy of the kindness of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although when Wu Yi bravely crossed the Flying Fox Pass, they falsely reported a battle exploit and fooled the court. But when they then fought against the Hedong Army, the Taihang Army and the Hebei West Road Army, they still performed quite well.

If you want to talk about the merits of the war, I am afraid that it is second only to Du Chong, who dug the dam of the Yellow River......

Of course, Du Chong has merit! Although he didn't fight any serious battles, the Yellow River breach was more difficult to deal with than the 500,000 Song army.

If there was no breach of the Yellow River, Wu Yiyong would probably have hit Tongguan at this time.

But now, he is still in Kaifeng Mansion, busy dealing with the rotten matter of hungry people going north to eat!

And Zhao Kai (Wu Meiniang) was also disrupted, and he couldn't take care of supporting Zhao Ji to reset for the time being, and he was also in a hurry for a while, and he had to govern the Huai River when he turned back.

In short, the New Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty, without ten or eight years, it is impossible to have the spare strength to attack Zhao Huan's Western Song Dynasty.

For Zhao Huan, the past ten years and eight years are a very rare window of time!

From this point of view, Du Chong is the number one hero of Zhongxing in the Western Song Dynasty.

And Han Xiaoxuan and Zong Ze, who are still trapped in Handan, are the other two heroes of Zhongxing in the Western Song Dynasty.

Because the Great Zhou Republican Army has put a lot of effort into them!

The territory guarded by the Zhaoyi army is relatively dangerous, and it is a feudal town, so it will naturally be arranged with all its heart. Therefore, the fortresses, cities, and wall docks in the jurisdiction of the Zhaoyi Army are stronger than other places.

In addition, the Zhaoyi Army's control over the people was also much stronger than that of the Great Song Dynasty.

Although the Zhaoyi Army did not implement a military citizenship system like the Zhou State. However, under the huge defensive pressure, the Han regime also had to adopt the land military service system - the Han regime did not have much money to recruit soldiers. If the military service was not pressed on the land, the Han clan Zhaoyi Town would not be able to sustain it at all.

The land military service system in Zhaoyi Town is integrated with the regimental training system.

That is, first clear the land population, find out how many fields, how many people and the ownership of the land. Then, according to the amount of land, the military service is apportioned according to the amount of land, and the "Military Service Account" is drawn up.

All clans, including the Xiangzhou Han clan, were obliged to provide strong men according to the records of the Military Service Account.

During the period of service, the clan is obliged to provide for his family members, and if a strong man dies in battle, he needs to support his children until he reaches adulthood.

At the same time, the distribution of official positions in the Zhaoyi Army will also be arranged according to the situation of military service in the "Military Service Account". All clans that undertake more military service will have more officials, and vice versa, fewer officials.

Of course, Zhaoyi Town will also set aside a certain number of posts for foreign generals to serve in official positions - external talents are still needed! Otherwise, a group of Hebei turtle landlords would not be able to fight.

In short, under Han Xiaoxuan's tossing, Zhaoyi Town finally became a military group with the strong clan as the core.

This kind of warlord group with the clan as the core can't be compared with the citizen soldiers of the Great Zhou, but it is particularly tenacious when guarding the house - these people are insects when they leave Zhaoyi Town, and they are big tigers when they stay from house to house!

Therefore, the battle against the Zhaoyi Army became the battle of the Central Plains of the Zhou and Song Dynasties (known in history), which lasted the longest, invested the most troops, and suffered the largest losses of the Zhou army.

By the beginning of July of the 10th year of the Republic, Handan, the last stronghold of the Zhaoyi Army, was still resisting stubbornly.

In order to besiege the city of Handan, which was firmly held by Zongze, the Taihang army of the Great Zhou concentrated 10 divisions, more than 130,000 troops, and more than 200 cannons!

In the previous Fuyang offensive and defensive battles, the Great Zhou Republican Army also concentrated the same number of troops.

can make the invincible Zhou army concentrate more than 100,000 troops to storm a city, which has fully demonstrated that Han Xiaoxuan's festival over the years has not been in vain!

"Husband, it's really hard for you! Come on, come on, come in, come in. ”

Han Xiaoxuan, who was captured, was dressed in cloth, with a gray beard and a gray face, and when he came out of the carriage dejectedly, he saw a middle-aged man of medium stature, beard, full of energy, and a smile on his face, who stepped forward quickly, and smiled and hugged his fist at himself.

"Salute!"

shouted, escort, oh, it should be the republican generals who escorted Han Xiaoxuan over, and they all raised their hands at the middle-aged man.

This is obviously a great big shot.

Han Xiaoxuan looked at the person a little familiar, but he didn't think about it for a while, and then he thought about it, and then a thunderous name appeared in his mind - Wu Haogu!

This person is Wu Haogu! The former head of the Great Zhou Republic!

"It turned out to be the head of Wu!" Han Xiaoxuan also arched his hand and said with a wry smile, "The old man is now a prisoner of the order, and he is at his disposal!" ”

"How can you be a prisoner? Sit down as a guest! Wu Haogu stepped forward and took Han Xiaoxuan's hand, and the two of them walked into the martial arts mansion on the north bank of the Jiehe River.

Above the atrium of the samurai mansion, the banquet for the guests has been set up. Bai Feifei also arranged for a beautiful woman to accompany the wine, and when he saw Han Xiaoxuan coming in, the two beauties, one on the left and one on the right, went up to help.

Wu Haogu also has a girl by his side, that is, the outer room Ci Okuno who is always inseparable from him.

The guests and hosts sat down separately, and Han Xiaoxuan's old face also regained a little bit of brilliance - since he could see Wu Haogu as soon as he arrived in Tianjin, it showed that he still had use value.

It's good to have value! I'm afraid it's worthless, so it's better to live than to die.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, it is almost time for the guests and hosts to enjoy themselves and talk about some serious things.

"Husband," Wu Haogu turned his glass slightly, "Do you know that the current Great Song Dynasty is already divided into two things?" ”

"Got it......" Han Xiaoxuan sighed, touched his gray beard, and sighed with some emotion, "It's all unexpected, it's reasonable!"

In fact, since the time of the Taishang reform, the Great Song Dynasty has buried the bane of division. The Great Song Dynasty has always been weak and peaceful, and if you want to rise up and be strong, there will definitely be problems. ”

Han Xiaoxuan sighed: "And the Great Song Dynasty took three doses of fierce medicine at the same time. One is empirical rationality; Second, it is said that industry and commerce are prosperous; Third, it is called the new army of martial arts. Empirical rationality confuses people's hearts! The great prosperity of industry and commerce caused the southeast and the Central Plains to be separated from Germany. And the new army of martial arts has made the vulgar martial artists no longer controllable by the scholars.

How can the world not be chaotic like this? How can Da Song not be divided into three? ”

Looking at Han Xiaoxuan's distressed appearance, Wu Haogu wanted to tell him that the current Great Song Dynasty is very good!

What's wrong with splitting into three? is the Western Song Dynasty, who is a martial artist, and it is not a real barbarian who gave birth to a girl who can be defeated.

What was in power in the Western Song Dynasty was a group of "Xuanhe staff", and fighting a barbarian was not the same as playing?

As for the Eastern Song Dynasty, it is even more powerful!

Wu Haogu has just received news that 13 prefectures, including Jiangning, Runzhou, Yangzhou, Changzhou, Suzhou, Xiuzhou, Huzhou, Hangzhou, Yuezhou, Mingzhou, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, and Fuzhou, have sent representatives to Jiangning Prefecture to convene a meeting to discuss the establishment of a united government.

O United States of the Thirteen States of Nima! It's scary to listen to!

Don't talk about giving birth to a girl, let Genghis Khan come and kneel!

As for the price of being divided into three (Han Xiaoxuan counted the Great Zhou Republic as a share), it is nothing at all.

Originally, it was a matter of long-term cooperation, but didn't the Great Song Dynasty also become a Southern Song Dynasty in history?

"The momentum of the world is fixed," Wu Haogu smiled, "for the time being, it is powerless to break."

Don't hide it from my husband, Du Chong dug the dam of the Yellow River, which really gave me a big problem for Da Zhou! Millions of people have been displaced, and the Yellow River's water transport has been completely cut off. Hundreds of thousands of people in the city of Kaifeng Prefecture were cut off, and they had to go north to get food......"

Han Xiaoxuan sighed: "What Du Guangmei did harm the people of the Central Plains!" ”

Wu Haogu shook his head, noncommittal, and analyzed: "As for the Eastern Song Dynasty, although there are 13 states united to establish the country, the south bank of the Huai River has been broken, and millions of people are homeless. The next headache is no less than ours.

And Zhao Huan's Western Song Dynasty, the situation will not be too good. Now that they have lost the prosperous land in the southeast, they have no conditions to recruit soldiers, and they must set up a military government in the land of Guanlong...... I'm afraid it's not easy to succeed in this matter, right? ”

"It's not easy." Han Xiaoxuan paused, shook his head again, and said, "But they even killed Ji Yizhi, I'm afraid there is nothing they can't do." ”

Now the one who really rules Chang'an is probably not Zhao Huan, but a group of Xuanhe staff officers! Give them a few years, will the Juntian Mansion Bing not be able to carry it out?

Whoever doesn't buy it, kills it!

The warlords in Shaanxi, the famous families in Guanzhong, whoever dares to get in the way can just kill a group.

Wu Haogu couldn't help but sigh when he heard Han Xiaoxuan mention Ji Yi. Ji Yi and himself also knew each other in Weimo, and there was a high-ranking man at that time, and everyone was soaring in officialdom together. But now, Gao Yu and Ji Yi are no longer alive.

It's unpredictable!

"Like a husband," Wu Haogu looked at Han Xiaoxuan, "Where are you going?" Eastern Song Dynasty? Western Song Dynasty? Or stay in Tianjin? ”

"Tianjin can't stay," Han Xiaoxuan said with a long sigh, "In the battle of Fuyang, so many people died...... How can I surrender to the state of Zhou? If Brother Wangdao is willing to let me go, I will go to Xiangyang to vote for the emperor. ”

"It's fine." Wu Haogu nodded, "The Emperor Taishang also needs people around him...... Zong Ze in Handan City also let him go. It's okay to leave with your troops...... There is nothing to fight in the battle of Hebei, so why bother to cost many lives for no reason? ”

"Are you really willing to let us go?"

Wu Haogu smiled: "I am willing...... It's just that I'm not the Führer now, and I can't do a lot of things. If I want to let you go, there must be an excuse. ”

"Excuses?"

"I ask you and Zong Rulin to mediate between the nations and try to reach a peace agreement." Wu Hao Gu said, "This way you can also concentrate on settling the interior, okay?"

If the three families are in peace, there will always be one or two decades of peace in the world, and it will also let the people take a breath, right? ”