Chapter 43: Departure II

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In fact, this is not to blame Zhao Gou, Song Huizong can be described as a merry emperor with many concubines. Of course, a concubine like Zhao Gou's mother, who is not outstanding, will not be favored by Song Huizong. Therefore, Zhao Gou developed a character that was very dissatisfied with Song Huizong.

At the same time, Song Huizong's children are also extremely numerous. Zhao Shu alone knew in later generations, and there were nearly thirty princes alone. Zhao Shu even suspected that if his mother was not the queen, then it was estimated that his father Song Huizong would not even know what his name was.

Zhao Shu also glanced at the other woman behind him at the same time, this was Zhao Gou's mother, Song Huizong's concubine Wei.

I didn't stay here too much at the moment, and when I walked in front of the crown prince Zhao Huan, there was a man over fifty years old beside him. Zhao Huan's mother, the first empress of Song Huizong, died early, so the man who accompanied him day and night was the man who was over fifty years old next to him - Zhou Huai, the crown prince of the dynasty.

"Fifth brother, pay more attention to safety along the way, and the eldest brother has practiced it for you here." Zhao Huan bowed to Zhao Shu and said.

"Thank you, big brother!" Zhao Shu returned the salute. After speaking, he led the horse to the last person, his mother Empress Xiansu.

"Your Highness, I'm afraid that the heart of the King of Jian'an County has been revealed, and I have to guard against it!" After Zhao Shu left Zhao Huan, Zhou Huai leaned into Zhao Huan's ear and whispered.

Zhao Huan was stunned for a moment, and muttered to himself: "Defense? ”

Zhou Huai nodded and said: "Since the opening of the Taizu Dynasty, there has never been a precedent for a prince to interfere in political affairs or even military affairs except for the crown prince. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Huan's face twitched for a while. But he was still a little lucky and said to Zhou Huai: "Since ancient times, the throne has been inherited by sons. The fifth brother is only ranked fifth, even if the Holy Admiral deposes me, the position of the prince will not be his turn, the teacher is too worried. ”

Zhou Huai shook his head solemnly and said: "Otherwise, the matter of the prince is related to the affairs of the country, if the prestige of the county king in the Great Song Dynasty exceeds that of His Royal Highness, and the county king is very close to Cai Jing and his party, and the other three princes have no interest in the affairs of the Great Song Dynasty at all。。。。。。 Your Highness, it's better to be careful! ”

But Zhao Huan's question came again, and said: "Now that the fifth brother is favored by the saint, once he succeeds in recruiting An Liangshan, he will become famous, is there anything the teacher can do?" ”

I saw Zhou Huai frowning, shook his head, and after a while, said: "In today's situation, Your Highness must not say in front of the saint that the king of the county is not, if the king of the county wants to do something, you can push the boat with the water." As for the solution, maybe he will. ”

"Who?" Zhou Huai's words made Zhao Huan misty.

Zhou Huai shook his head and no longer replied to Zhao Huan's words.

Zhao Shu led the horse to the front of Queen Xiansu, the two looked at each other, looked at each other without saying a word, and finally, Queen Xiansu sighed and said seriously: "Be careful on the road, you can do your own things in the future!" ”

Zhao Shu was helpless, almost everyone thought that he wanted to seize the reserve, even if he said that he would not take the reserve at the dinner the day before yesterday, but even his mother would not believe it, and it is estimated that Song Huizong would not believe it.

Zhao Shu didn't bother to care what others thought, put down Ma Jiang, knelt down on the spot to Queen Xiansu, kowtowed, and said: "In the future, Shu'er will not be able to serve her mother often, I hope my mother will take care of her body!" ”

The queen's face was particularly kind at this moment, and after helping Zhao Shu up, she took out a white-green quadrangular thing from the belt around her waist and tied it with a red thread, rubbed her thumb lightly on the jade pendant, and said: "Shu'er, you take this jade pendant, this is given to me by the first emperor and the queen mother when she entered the palace." You should wear it on your body at all times, and if you miss your mother, take it out and look at it. ”

Looking at this jade pendant, Zhao Shu's hand that he was about to stretch out hesitated, because this Zhao Shu was no longer Zhao Shu, and he didn't know whether to accept this thing or not.

But this is something that Empress Xiansu gave herself as a souvenir, and it is estimated that it is the most valuable thing that Empress Xiansu thinks, although there is no shortage of precious jewelry and utensils in the palace. If you don't accept it, won't it chill the queen's heart?

Who made himself called Zhao Shu, who called himself so similar to her son, who called himself her son by mistake. Forget it, let's do filial piety to the palace for that Zhao Shu.

As he spoke, Zhao Shu took the jade pendant from Empress Xiansu, but was stopped by Empress Xiansu.

Just when Zhao Shu was stunned, Empress Xiansu untied the red rope, then tied it around Zhao Shu's neck, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "You grew up with the queen mother herself." In the future, if you want to think of the queen mother, look at this jade pendant in the moonlight, in this deep palace forbidden garden, the queen mother is only happy with the moon in the sky. ”

When she said this, Empress Xiansu's eyes were already crystal clear, and tears filled her eyes.

Zhao Shu also wants to cry, the greatest thing in the world may be mother's love. This made Zhao Shu even more determined to prevent the occurrence of the shame of Jingkang that was well known to future generations. He didn't want to care about Song Huizong's life or death, at least he couldn't let his mother be exiled to the north.

Secretly made up his mind, Zhao Shu rode on his horse after saying goodbye to Empress Xiansu and walked to Ling Feng: "Let's go!" ”

"The Great Army Pulls Out !!" With Ling Feng's order, the horns and war drums sounded in unison in the school field. Like a thousand thunderbolts, it pierces people's eardrums hot, and it is not magnificent.

Flags were waved in the school field, and nearly 1,000 Song Army "armies" dressed in red armor and holding red flags drove towards the east. The materials carried for Zhao'an followed.

A good Zhao'an was made like a general leading his troops into battle. It's just that what Zhao Shu didn't know was that in order to prevent Zhao'an from being interfered with by the southern Fangla. Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty has issued an edict to transfer more than 10,000 people from Liu Yanqing's elite Western Army from the extremely tense northwest border of the Great Song Dynasty to pass through Wuguan and go to Ezhou on Jinghu Road to contain Fang La.

Bianjing is now an empty alley, and they all heard that the emperor's prince went to Zhao'an in person. The people looked at each other one after another, and what made them even more dumbfounded was that this prince did not sit on a frame, but rode on a horse, as if he was not a pampered aristocratic prince, but like a general who fought in a distant country.

Ling Feng had been in battle for a long time and had excellent martial arts, so he was not very worried that Zhou Yang would follow Zhao Shu's side, so Ling Feng personally accompanied Zhao Shu's side. In the center of this team, not far behind Zhao Shu was Mingyue's car, and he promised Mingyue that he would take her out of the palace and give her a complete title.

Now that this first step has been taken, I don't know what the road will look like in the future, and I don't know if this step out will be retracted. But as the saying goes: the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, and there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain.

After coming to the Song Dynasty for more than a few months, this is the first time that Zhao Shu has left Bianjing in such a grand way. Even in the previous few times out of the palace, Zhao Shu had not seen what the city walls of Bianjing were like.

Today, the road is mighty. Soon came to the end of the royal street, and a majestic city tower in front of him came into Zhao Shu's eyes. The towers, which stand just over ten meters from the surface of the ground to the end of the wall above, are made of blue bricks. It has to compete with the Great Wall built in the Ming Dynasty to amaze foreigners.

The team walked into the city wall, and Zhao Shu walked for a few minutes at the city gate hole, which was an urn city. The urn city is a wall that surrounds the tower. The width of the walls is at least twenty meters.

In ancient times, such cities were quite fortified. There is also a watchtower on the city tower, and Zhao Shu can't understand why such a perfect city defense was later added with hundreds of thousands of reinforcements from King Qin from all over the city, and why Song Qinzong didn't even have the courage to defend it.

Zhao Shu thought in his heart, it is estimated that Zhao Huan's kid has never been out of Bianjing for so long, so he doesn't know how strong Bianjing's city defense is, so he doesn't have the confidence to stick to it. Of course, this is just Zhao Shu alone here to be obscene.

After all, in the historical materials of later generations, the Jurchen cavalry went south, from the sixteen states of Youyun in the north to the north bank of the Yellow River, and only 20,000 people went south, as if they were in a no-man's land. There are not a few fortified cities, who still has the confidence to continue to hold on to Bianjing?

It is said that the battle of Dajin's destruction of the Northern Song Dynasty began with the surrender of Guo Yaoshi, the defender of Youzhou, to the Jurchen. The combat strength of the Song army is not as good as that of the Khitan, and the Khitan is no match for the Jurchens. Therefore, who would be willing to find death to stop the Jurchen Iron Horse.

The lack of horses in the two Song dynasties was a major factor in the Song Dynasty's lack of dominance in foreign wars. But Zhao Shu, who traveled to the Northern Song Dynasty from later generations, actually knew that there were countless cases of infantry defeating cavalry in the cold weapon era in history.

For example, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong created the "Iron Armor Army" - holding a spear in his hand, carrying a sword at his waist, wearing heavy armor, a giant helmet on his head, and his face covered with a mask. With spears in long-distance battles and swords in close combat, they effectively blocked the attack of the Qing Dynasty iron cavalry on the south during the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Dense ironclad infantry formations are often a nightmare for cavalry troops, just like the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty. Zhao Kui under the command of Song Lizong made a northern expedition to the Central Plains and recovered Bianjing, Luoyang and other places from the Mongol army in one fell swoop, but was attacked by the Mongol army in Luoyang. The Song army hastily formed an infantry formation, and the Mongol cavalry could not break through the continuous attacks, and finally broke itself without the situation of this army running out of food and grass.

Thinking of this, Zhao Shu seemed to have a point in his heart. It is true that a well-equipped infantry unit is needed, but as far as the current situation is concerned, there are nearly a thousand soldiers and horses under his command. If Liangshan Zhao'an can't succeed, then these horses will have to be returned to his father, thinking of this, Zhao Shu wants to cry.

I can only pray silently in my heart: Liangshan is a good man, be kind, and let yourself succeed. I prepared the thirty-six gold medals and seventy-two silver medals used in Zhao'an in "Water Margin", as well as the necessary gold and silver utensils, armor and talismans.