"Wang Zichun, how long have they been gone?"

"Thirty-two days."

"I can't imagine it's more than a month...... Alas...... In a few days it will be May, and the fields will be full of sickles. ”

"The field is still a small matter, someone takes care of it, and it will not be left alone. It's Lintao Fort, and Han Yukun hasn't been able to attack the fort so far. If Wang Jingluo and they can't come back, I don't know if Hezhou and Xizhou can still be saved......"

Shen Kuo and Wang Zhongzheng chatted without a word, and their faces were full of worry. The wind blowing in outside the window has a little more warmth, and there is no longer the smell of spring flowers and plants.

The two of them are in the same city of Didao, and they can be regarded as having some friendship after a few months. Although Shen Kuo's attitude towards eunuchs is the same as that of all scholars, the sentence 'respect and distance' only takes the last two words. But now there is only Wang Zhongzheng who can speak in Didao City, and when he is idle or panicked, he can only be solved by chatting.

Of course, the scope of their chat cannot get rid of the current situation, but it is impossible to go deeper or diverge.

Wang Shao and Gao Zunyu pursued Mu Zheng, but there has been no news so far. Jing Sili was lured into sending troops, so that the whole army was annihilated. Han Gang led his troops to rescue Lintao Fort, but he was blocked five miles away from the target, and he could not advance an inch.

The direction of Hezhou is going well, and Miao Zhi and Yao Lin also have some skills, so they didn't add another firewood to the fire that is now burning on Xihe Road. It's just that their ability to ask for money, food, and ordnance is also not small, Di Dao is the hub of transshipment, and Shen Kuo's job has always kept him busy, and there are not many times to rest.

Wang Zhongzheng has nothing to do, and the Xihe Jingluo Division has long been built like an iron bucket by Wang Shao. And after Han Gang took over, even if he was far away from Lintao Fort, he still couldn't let outsiders intervene. Seeing that Shen Kuo only had an hour of leisure every day, and he could sit down and talk, Wang Zhongzheng was a little envious. If you are too busy to eat every day, at least you don't have to listen to the sound of horses' hooves outside the yamen compound because you have time to think nonsense. It's only been a month's work, and his sideburns are half white.

Wang Zhongzheng thinks about it now, what did he fight with Li Xian at the beginning...... Isn't it enough to have the credit of Luo Wucheng? Why bother with lack of greed, you have to come to this river! It's too late to regret it now.

If Wang Shao has an accident, the Son of Heaven has put the hard work in the land of Hehuang in the past few years, and he will follow the Hengshan Raiders. The Xihe Jinglu Division is definitely finished, and he will definitely be kicked to the place south of Jinghu Lake. It is different from the foreign ministers who will be reactivated at a certain time or on the occasion of amnesty. If these eunuchs can't often let their names reach the ears of the Son of Heaven, they will soon be forgotten. And the other chamberlains who followed the Son of Heaven would not mention the name of the degraded back goods in front of the Son of Heaven at all.

"If there is no news from Wang Jingluo and Manager Gao, there will be news in the capital."

Wang Zhongzheng sighed. He was thinking about whether to send something to Li Shunju as soon as possible, and fortunately, when he was unlucky, someone could help pull him - such as the close servant next to him today, only Li Shunju, an honest person, can be believed. Li Xian and Shi Deyi's generation, they are all the masters who laugh at the top and stab the knife below.

"The news of Jing Sili's defeat should have arrived in Beijing a long time ago, and Wang Jingluo and Mr. Gao should have submitted the news earlier. If Han Yukun doesn't advance, someone will definitely report it, Shen Qinshuai and Cai Yunenvoy will all be cleared of their responsibilities, and there are several of them below. After receiving so much unfavorable military information, it is only a few days before the court makes a decision. Shen Kuo has also been in the capital intermittently for a few years, and he also understands the process and time of the court's decision on the side affairs handling plan, "I don't know what the Son of Heaven will do......

Wang Zhongzheng licked his lips, hesitated slightly, and said to Shen Kuo, "...... The matter of Luo Wucheng, the Son of Heaven regretted it for a long time. If it weren't for Zhao Zhan's forced retreat, he would still be able to keep it. The situation is similar this time. For a day, I can't hear the bad news that I have been confirmed, and the Son of Heaven will not make up his mind to give up Hezhou for a day. ”

"As long as there's no worse news......?" Shen Kuo asked.

"As long as there is no worse news!" Wang Zhongzheng nodded.

“…… Report ............"

A long-pitched emergency report came into his ears, and a hurried foot wearing a gold medal came to Wang and Shen under the leadership of the guards.

"Qinzhou urgently reported that 100,000 western thieves gathered in Rouwolf Mountain and prepared to attack the Deshun army. The leader has already inquired and understood—it's Renduo Lingding! ”

The moment he heard the news, Shen Kuo's Wang Zhongzheng's face lost its blood color at the same time.

"Oops!"

"It's over!"

Just as Wang Zhongzheng and Shen Kuo were shocked, when the urgent military information of the 100,000 western thief Kou Deshun reached Tokyo City, the two classes of deacons were recruited into the Chongzheng Palace, and the gate of Zhu Qi was closed. But the bad news has spread unstoppably in the city of Tokyo.

"That capital prisoner was originally the Zhijun of the Deshun Army, if he hadn't been transferred to Xihe, something happened to Wang Shao in a daze. The party did not dare to approach Deshun! Last year, they suffered a lot by the Wuding River. ”

"Yes, what about taking Hezhou, my hometown has been copied by the party members."

"River State is definitely going to withdraw its troops."

"If it weren't for Wang Xianggong's hard support, Xihe would have withdrawn a long time ago. Fiasco...... The life and death of the manager and the chief are unknown, and a capital prisoner has died, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses have been broken. I really don't know why it's been delayed for so long! ”

"It's not that Wang Xianggong is unwilling, two days ago, he quarreled with Feng Dangshi [Feng Jing], Wang Yuyu [Wang Jue] and Wu Chongqing [Wu Chong] in the palace, and he insisted that there would be nothing wrong with Xihe. The Son of Heaven was about to make an order after listening to the advice of several rulers, but he insisted on blocking back the prince. But now......"

"It's all a great success! Poor Kou Mo didn't understand the reason for chasing, so he chased him into the snowy mountains and let a twenty-year-old fortunate disciple take charge of the military all the way. But what can the weak-crowned yellow-mouthed son do, the fame is blown out......"

"Isn't it a tiger's mouth...... No, that one is a dragon son and a dragon grandson. It's the dragon's mouth! ”

"It's just a mouthpiece and the ability to go down three ways. Well, now that something happens, it's all the same. ”

"It's all made by the prince Wang, and it's all about appointing new recruits. Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu, and now Lu Jia asked, which one didn't make the world jump. If you change to a little older, there will be no defeat at all. ”

The outside world has rejected, but there has been no news from the palace. Until the glazed tiles on the roof of the hall began to reflect the glow of the silver moon, the closed door of the Chongzheng Hall finally opened.

Whether it is the East Mansion or the West Mansion, the expressions of the deacons who come out of the temple are gloomy. Even if he is the most calm, Wang Anshi, who has been defending Wang Shao and Han Gang these days, has locked his eyebrows.

Two chamberlains hurried out. Striding in front was Li Xian, who was famous as a soldier in the palace, and the little yellow door in the back was only seventeen or eighteen years old, and a package was carried behind him, and inside was a long strip-shaped thing. As long as you are a little familiar with the things in the palace, and when you see their appearance, you can immediately know that this is an envoy who went out to issue an edict.

At the gate of the palace, Li Xian and the others jumped on their horses, took a team of straight guards, and went west with the sound of hooves.

"It seems that the withdrawal is decided!"

In Tokyo City this night, I don't know how many people are celebrating with a crown, and I don't know how many people are looking at the northwest worriedly.

It has been several days since he heard the news that Deshun was attacked by Western thieves, and Cai Yanqing led the team back to Qinzhou. Longxi City relied on Wang Hou's distribution to ensure that the grain and grass supplied to the front line would not be scarce.

But Shen Kuo and Wang Zhongzheng both knew that there would be no grain and grass from Qinzhou soon. In the scheduled plan, the next two or three months should also be supported by the summer grain in the land of the river this year.

Gongzhou's Tuntian Point is about to start harvesting, but the Xihe Economic Strategy Division and the main officials of Gongzhou are not in office, and Wang Zhongzheng and Shen Kuo don't know if they can be busy relying on Wang Hou alone.

When the two were worried, they saw a person striding into the official hall.

As soon as he saw someone coming, Shen Kuo jumped up in shock: "Yukun, why are you back?!" ”

"What's going on in Lintao Castle?" Wang Zhongzheng also asked anxiously.

"Don't worry, the western thieves are about to run out of food, and Lintao Fort is as stable as Mount Tai."

"So let Wang Sunchen guard under the Lintao Fort...... Yukun, you can really rest assured! ”

Of course, Han Gang can rest assured that the situation in Lintao Fort has stabilized, and neither the Western Xia people nor the Song army have the ability to change the current battle situation under the premise of not being able to get a large number of reinforcements. With Liu Yuan's assistance, Wang Sunchen, who was instructed by thousands of instructions, will not make any trouble.

And Xihe Road itself, like a volcano in the making, is in danger of erupting at any time, and Han Gang has to come back.

"The thief Kou Deshun. This is Xiang Zhuang dancing sword, intended for Pei Gong. The western thief has not recovered his vitality so far, and now he only has to hold the mind that he can't let my Great Song control Hehuang, so he sent troops to attack Deshun. ”

"Before attacking Hezhou, the Economic Strategy Division had already considered the situation that the Western Thieves would attack Qinfeng and Jingyuan, and also reported it to the Son of Heaven in advance to take precautions. The 20,000 troops mobilized to Xihe were all mobilized on the basis of confirming that it would not affect the strength of the defense forces on both sides. ”

"Now that Qin Feng and Jingyuan are on the two roads, they have long been prepared for defense, and the western thieves can't break the Deshun army at all, just like they can't attack Lintao Fort."

After hearing that Renduo Lingding led the army to attack Deshun, Han Gang had already determined that the edict of retreating troops would come soon. Now he must convince Wang Zhongzheng and Shen Kuo that only if they are in the same boat as him can the situation left by Wang Shao be maintained.

Even if he offended the Son of Heaven because of this, he would not hesitate to do it.