Zhao Chen was still standing there, and after a while, Li Gang came to Zhao Chen, and he pulled Zhao Chen to a remote corner and talked about the situation in Xiangzhou City.

"There are many soldiers and horses in Xiangzhou City, there are more than 20 thousand defeated soldiers from all walks of life, and more than 50 thousand righteous troops from all walks of life! Those routs still have some combat effectiveness, those rebels are actually refugees fleeing, most of them don't even have weapons, and the so-called 'rebels' are just self-proclaimed! In addition, a few days ago, Liu Guangshi came with 70,000 Liu family troops, and these 70,000 Liu family troops are currently the most elite army in Xiangzhou City! Li Gang said.

Zhao Chen nodded.

"Now there are many brave generals in Xiangzhou City, in addition to Liu Guangshi, Han Shizhong, the number one master of the Western Army, is also here, and Zhang Jun, another rising star of the Western Army, is also here! In addition, there are many masters in the rebel army, the most famous of which is called Wang Yan! Li Gang said again.

In a short period of time, Li Gang actually found out so much news, which is really not simple.

"Liu Guangshi, Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, Wang Yan......" Zhao Chen silently read the names of these people.

The first three of these four people, Liu Guangshi, Han Shizhong, and Zhang Jun are all the four generals of Zhongxing, except for Yue Fei, they all came here! As for Wang Yan, he is also famous in history, his eight-character army is the most famous rebel army in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, and he also made a lot of military exploits in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty! In the earliest days, Yue Fei was even Wang Yan's subordinate!

King Kang had so many fierce generals under him, Zhao Chen was secretly shocked in his heart!

"Your Highness, these generals are loyal to His Royal Highness King Kang...... In terms of winning people's hearts, King Kang has some skills! Li Gang was silent for a moment, and then said suddenly.

He was able to find out the number of soldiers and horses in Xiangzhou City, and the names of the brave generals were already quite extraordinary, but he didn't expect that he would find out that these generals were loyal to King Kang!

"They are all loyal to Uncle Nine? Win people's hearts? How does Uncle Nine win people's hearts? Zhao Chen said with some surprise.

"Then Han Shizhong fell in love with a military prostitute, but although Han Shizhong's martial arts are high, his position is low! He wanted to leave with the prostitute, but the steward of the prostitute camp ignored him! When His Royal Highness King Kang learned about it, he immediately ordered someone to reward the military prostitute to Han Shizhong! The military prostitute is called Liang Hongyu, and it is said that she is also quite skilled in martial arts, and now she is leading the troops with Han Shizhong...... Liu Guangshi wanted to be an official, so he named Liu Guangshi the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses...... Zhang Jun came from a humble background, so he gave Zhang Jun the title...... Wang Yan did not seek to be an official or a title, but only to be able to recover the Central Plains and resist the Jin soldiers, so he gave Wang Yan all the weapons in Xiangzhou City...... His Royal Highness King Kang is good at grasping people's hearts, and once these generals have needs, he will try his best to meet them, so these generals are loyal to him! Li Gang said.

"King Kang...... My ninth uncle really has some talent! Zhao Chen said secretly.

Although Song Gaozong is a famous emperor in history, Song Gaozong discovered countless virtuous ministers and good generals during his reign! The four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, and Zhang Jun were discovered and promoted by him, and Li Gang, Zong Ze, Zhao Ding, Hu Quan and other famous ministers were also promoted by him, of course, he also promoted peerless traitors like Qin Hui, and let Qin Hui be responsible for peace! Song Gaozong has the ability to recognize people, which is far better than Song Huizong and Song Qinzong! If this person is bent on recovering the Central Plains, he really has the potential to achieve some feats! It's a pity that this person is greedy for the throne and is afraid that the second emperor will return and his throne will not be guaranteed, so he has always resisted the Northern Expedition!

"I originally decided to enter Xiangzhou City this afternoon, but after thinking about it now, let's wait a while." Li Gang said again.

"Oh?" Zhao Chen was a little surprised in his heart, and he didn't understand why Li Gang suddenly changed his mind.

"His Royal Highness King Kang is so good at winning people's hearts, I don't know if it's good or bad...... We have to wait a little longer, take a look, and see what kind of person His Royal Highness King Kang really is! He has so many troops under him, why does he always stay in Xiangzhou City, unwilling to go to Kaifeng to rescue the two Majesies! Li Gang said.

He is a generation of famous ministers, through the Song Huizong, Song Qinzong, Song Gaozong three dynasties, the late Northern Song Dynasty, the early Southern Song Dynasty he suffered countless oppression, but he has always been able to stand tall, repeatedly made a comeback, this person's political struggle experience is unusually rich! Now although he only understands a small part of the information, he already feels that Dao Zhao Gou is unreliable and has a big problem!

He vaguely felt that Zhao Gou had great political ambitions, and a vassal king with such great political ambitions was not a blessing for the community!

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It was getting dark, and the two of them headed towards the west of Xiangzhou City, and after walking for more than ten miles, they saw a ruined temple here.

"Your Highness, we will rest in this temple today." Li Gang said.

Zhao Chen nodded, he was really tired and ruthless after days of trekking! Now as long as there is a place to block the wind, even if it is a ruined temple, it doesn't matter!

The cold wind was howling, and Li Gang and Zhao Chen strode towards the broken temple! Li Gang pushed the temple door open, only to find that there was a fire in the temple!

In the ruined temple sat three people, gathered around a fire, where they were making a fire.

Through the firelight, Li Gang saw the appearance of these three people clearly, one of them was in his thirties and looked quite calm, and another was in his twenties, with a very honest and wooden appearance, and one was seventeen or eighteen years old, feeling unusually lively! These three people are all wearing ordinary peasant clothes, but two of them have short knives next to them, and one of them has a spear next to them, it seems that these three people should belong to the "righteous army" of Xiangzhou City!

"The three strong men are polite! Our grandfather and grandson are passing by here and want to spend the night here, I don't know if we can? Li Gang walked in with Zhao Chen, bent down and saluted, and said.

"This temple is not ours, and we are just staying here temporarily! Sit down, two! The middle-aged man in his thirties laughed.

"Thank you!" Li Gang nodded, and immediately took Zhao Chen to a corner of the ruined temple.

The two of them sat there, and the three people opposite them ignored them, but continued to talk over the fire! After a while, the seventeen or eighteen-year-old man took out a roe deer, peeled off the skin of the roe deer with a knife, skewered the meat with a branch, and roasted it on the fire! Gradually, the smell of meat came out!

After smelling the smell of meat, Zhao Chen's stomach began to rumble! He was so hungry during this time, not to mention meat, even moldy steamed buns he hadn't eaten a few times! Many times, he and Li Gang have to live on the bark of trees! Next to him, Li Gang's stomach was also rumbling! In this month's time, Li Gang has already been skinny! At that moment, Li Gang shrank his body, closed his eyes, and forced himself not to look at the poop and not smell the smell of meat there.

The three people on the opposite side were talking while barbecuing, and their voices continued to reach the ears of Li Gang and Zhao Chen!

"It has been more than a month since the Jin soldiers entered Kaifeng, and the second emperor was captured, which is the greatest shame in the world! How could our emperor of the Central Plains ever be captured by a foreigner? Big brother, second brother, when are we going to rescue Your Majesty? The seventeen or eighteen-year-old said.

"It seems that His Royal Highness King Kang has no plans to go south!" That middle-aged man in his thirties is humane.

"He doesn't want to go south, we, the hundreds of thousands of righteous soldiers, can go south to rescue Your Majesty by ourselves!" Young man.

"Hundreds of thousands of rebels? Many of our rebels don't even have weapons, and the only one with the most strength is Wang Yan, but it's a pity that Wang Yan obeys His Royal Highness King Kang! Without the order of His Royal Highness King Kang, it would be impossible for Wang Yan to go south! "Middle-aged humane.

"Big brother, third brother, there is no need to argue about this issue...... In fact, even if His Royal Highness King Kang goes south, he is definitely not an opponent of the Jurchens! Don't look at the fact that there are so many defeated soldiers and rebels in Xiangzhou City now, but they are all just a rabble! Hundreds of thousands of people together can't defeat 100,000 Jurchen Iron Horsemen! "That young man is humane.

He looked like an honest peasant on the surface, but his voice was unusually sonorous.

After hearing him speak, the other two didn't say anything more, as if they were very convinced by his words.

"Hey, the Tartars invaded, the Second Emperor was captured, and countless compatriots were killed by the Tartars! It is really unbearable that my dignified China has fallen into such a situation! After a long time, the middle-aged man sighed.

The aroma of the meat became more and more intense, and at this moment, the middle-aged man looked in the direction of Li Gang and Zhao Chen, and said, "Two, the meat is already cooked, you can also come and eat something." ”

Li Gang and Zhao Chen were already listening to them, but when Li Gang opened his eyes, he hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Okay!" Thank you very much! ”

Li Gang felt that it didn't matter if he was hungry, but Zhao Chen hadn't eaten a full meal for several days, and for Zhao Chen's sake, he had to be cheeky and beg for something to eat.

At that moment, Li Gang and Zhao Chen came to the fire, and when they came here, they first felt a burst of warmth and heat, and Li Gang and Zhao Chen's faces couldn't help but show a trace of joy.

The middle-aged man cut the roe deer meat with a knife, and then gave Li Gang and Zhao Chen a large piece each! This roe deer meat is hot, but Li Gang has already eaten it! It's not that he's so hungry, but he wants to taste it himself, it's true that there is no problem with this roe deer meat, and then let Zhao Chen eat it! After a long while, the roe deer meat almost became cold, Li Gang looked at Zhao Chen, nodded at Zhao Chen, and Zhao Chen ate it!

The two of them haven't eaten meat for more than a month, and they both feel that the roe deer meat is very beautiful at the moment! Especially Zhao Chen, he has never suffered like this since he was a child, and he eats extremely fast at the moment! It's just that although he eats very fast, he still gives people a sense of elegance! He has been in the palace for more than half a year, and has been educated in royal etiquette for more than half a year, whether it is sleeping, eating, etc., he has a set of etiquette norms! As a result, his every move is elegant and generous, and although he has fled for a month, his body is covered with dust and his clothes are shabby, but his body still inevitably shows nobility!

The three of them originally treated Li Gang and Zhao Chen as ordinary grandchildren, but at this moment they realized that this was not the case.

"This old man, did your grandfather and grandson flee?" Middle-aged humane.

"Not bad!" Li Gang nodded.

"Where did you flee from? Listen to your accents, like Kaifeng people! The middle-aged man said again.

"We escaped from Kaifeng!" Li Gang said.

Hearing this, the faces of the three of them showed expressions of surprise! Now there are a lot of people fleeing in Xiangzhou City, but most of them are from Hebei and Hedong, and almost none are from Kaifeng Mansion!

"I heard that Kaifeng City is surrounded by 100,000 Jurchen Tatars, and few people can escape, how did you escape?" Middle-aged humane.

"We originally lived outside Kaifeng City, and when the Jurchen Tartars arrived, we hid in the hill next to us, so we were able to escape!" Li Gang said.

"It turned out to be outside Kaifeng...... I don't know what is the current situation in Kaifeng City? The middle-aged man said with some disappointment.

He originally thought that these two people escaped from Kaifeng City, and through these two people, he could understand the situation in Kaifeng City, and even know the whereabouts of the second emperor, but unfortunately these two people lived outside Kaifeng City! Thinking about it this way, it's not surprising that they were able to escape!

"The situation in Kaifeng City is not very good! On the night of November 25, the Jurchens attacked the city, and the momentum shook the sky! We hadn't fled that night, and we could hear the screams in Kaifeng City far away! Since the beginning of the night, Kaifeng City has been bleeding like a river, and the bloody gas has led out the wolves in the mountains! We knew that something was wrong, so we left Kaifeng City immediately! Li Gang said.

"Kaifeng City must have become a hell on earth!" The middle-aged man sighed softly and said.

"There are so many defeated soldiers and rebels in this Xiangzhou City, as well as 70,000 Liu family troops, can't Kaifeng City really be rescued?" Li Gang couldn't help but say at this moment.

"First, His Royal Highness King Kang doesn't seem to have the intention of rescuing Kaifeng City, and second, my brother just said that the soldiers and horses of Xiangzhou City are a rabble, and even if they go to Kaifeng, they are not the opponents of the Jurchens." Middle-aged humane.

"So what? Could it be that King Kang and the armies of all walks of life watched the Second Emperor being killed or taken away by the Jurchens and suffered humiliation? Li Gang said.

"This ......" the middle-aged man smiled bitterly and stopped talking.

"If you want to rescue the Second Emperor, I'm afraid it's really difficult! Now not only the second emperor has been captured, but the crown prince has also been captured, and all the clans in Kaifeng City have been captured! At present, only His Royal Highness King Kang has escaped, and the hope of Zhongxing Dasong in the future can only be placed on King Kang! Wait until we rebuild the army in the future, and then seek revenge on the Jurchens! The seventeen or eighteen-year-old said.

"Who said that the hope of Zhongxing Dasong can only be placed on King Kang? When we were running all the way, we heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had escaped from Kaifeng City! Li Gang said.

"What?" Hearing this, the three of them were all taken aback and stayed there all of a sudden!

"The people around Kaifeng City have spread all over it, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has escaped from Kaifeng City! It was only one day that the Jurchen army surrounded Kaifeng, and in the afternoon of the same day, the Jurchen army began to gather in large numbers to pursue His Royal Highness the Prince! Li Gang said.

According to Li Gang's thoughts, the Jurchens gathered in a big way to pursue Zhao Chen that day, and the news had already spread! But in this Xiangzhou City, the ordinary defeated soldiers and rebels didn't know the news of the prince's escape, and they didn't even know the news that the Jurchens gathered that day, which was weird! He guessed that King Kang might be blocking the news, and he felt more and more that King Kang's purpose was not pure, so he wanted to spread the news at this moment!

"Why didn't we know about it?" The young man who looked honest said.

"I don't understand this!" Li Gang shook his head.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the Prince of the Great Song Dynasty, and now that the Second Emperor has been captured, if the Prince escapes, we will naturally take him as the main and rejuvenate the Great Song Dynasty!" Middle-aged humane.

"It's nature!" Li Gang nodded.

"I don't know if this news is true or not...... Moreover, even if it is true, even if the crown prince really escapes, but the prince is only ten years old, how can he take on the great task of reviving the Central Plains? The seventeen or eighteen-year-old said.

"Third brother, Hugh is talking nonsense! Although His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is young, he is the eldest grandson of the Emperor Taishang and the eldest son of the Emperor, and he will inherit the throne in the future. "Middle-aged humane.

"Big brother, I still think King Kang is more suitable! King Kang is old, and he has the support of countless generals, and now it should be King Kang who leads everyone to revive the Central Plains...... It's just that King Kang is a vassal king, and he can't inherit the throne, so he leads everyone in the name of nothing...... But now it's a troubled time, and we can't take care of many laws and regulations, eldest brother, second brother, you say, can you serve King Kang as the lord of the world? The young man hesitated for a moment and said.

"Nonsense!" At this moment, the young man suddenly let out an angry roar, this sound actually rumbled in people's ears, and the dust on the walls of the broken temple was shaken and fell down one after another, obviously he was extremely angry! His face turned red at the moment, and he pointed at the young man, his fingers trembling!

"Second brother, I'm ......" The young man sat aside with a look of fear, not daring to say more.

"Humph! Although King Kang is old, although he has the support of countless generals, he is only a vassal king! The second emperor was captured, and it is natural and natural for the crown prince to inherit the throne, so what qualifications does King Kang have to inherit the throne? Third brother, what you just said is extremely rebellious, don't let me hear such words again in the future! The young man said coldly.

"Second brother, I understand, I was confused just now...... young man said.

"Loyalist, Lourdes is right! You must always keep this word in mind! The voice of the young man gradually calmed down, and he said.

The ancients paid attention to a word of loyalty, and this loyalty is not the same as the loyalty of later generations, but loyalty to the emperor and the monarch! Loyalty is the foundation of the ancients, and it is also the minimum moral requirement of being a man, and there is nothing worse than disloyalty in this era! The second emperor was captured, the prince fled, and the people of the world must be loyal to the prince! The second emperor was captured, not loyal to the crown prince but loyal to a vassal king, and even supported the vassal king as the lord of the world, which is not in line with the moral standards and patriarchal concepts of the ancients at all, but is an extremely rebellious and very immoral behavior, which can be called "great rebellion", so the young man of Namu Ne was extremely angry!

Li Gang listened to these people and nodded secretly! He thought to himself that although the north was occupied by the Jurchens, the people in the north still did not forget "loyalty", and with the support of so many people, it was not impossible for the Great Song Dynasty to flourish!

He looked down and thought about things, but he didn't see that the young man over there suddenly raised his head and looked outside the temple! After a while, the middle-aged and young people also looked up at the outside of the temple! After a while, Zhao Chen also raised his head and looked outside the temple! At this time, Li Gang was finally alert!

"What happened?" Li Gang said.