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He straightened his chest as soon as he was fully dressed, and his whole body radiated a powerful momentum. With indignation and a fierce look on his face, he pointed at Li Cheng and shouted with all his strength: "Li Cheng, a certain is Wang Shen, who is a member of the Privy Council of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhang Deyuan and Zhang Xianggong, who is engaged in official affairs, and sent an envoy to Lin'an Privy Council to be recruited by the imperial court to serve the official family...... A certain official family ordered an angel, personally carried out the holy decree, and there was a message from Zhang Xiang, who came to contact the Ministry of Er to discuss the resettlement...... Li Cheng, you actually led the army to plunder Sizhou and slaughter my Great Song army and civilians, what do you want...... Is this the sincerity of your desire to be recruited? ”

"Ahh Not only the group of cavalry under Li Cheng, but even the soldiers of the baggage battalion made a slight commotion.

Lu Can, Gu Lie and the others looked at Wang Shen with incredible eyes. Although Wang Shen's words just now were half-literate, everyone understood them.

It probably means that he, Wang Shen, was an envoy sent by the imperial court, holding the holy decree written by the official Zhao Gou, and he was advised by Zhang Deyuan's secret envoy to come over to issue the decree and recruit Li Cheng.

The so-called Zhang Deyuan is Zhang Jun, the actual political and military host of the Song Dynasty, and the great butler and backbone of Zhao Gou. His opinion can directly affect the emperor's decision, and his power is unmatched for a while.

Unexpectedly, this strange-looking Wang Shen, who was also a prisoner of the Pingyuan Town Baggage Camp, had such a big background, and for a moment, everyone couldn't believe their eyes.

After a while, the whole scene quieted down, and all eyes fell on Wang Shen.

Only far away, there were still earth-shattering shouts of killing, the Jinan army had collapsed on all fronts, and Li Cheng's heavy cavalry was frantically pursuing the rout.

After a while, Li Chengcai smiled and muttered: "Sincerity, sincerity, before you are recruited, you are officers and soldiers, I am a rogue, you kill me, I will kill you, no one is welcome." Let's not talk about Zhao'an, let me ask you, what about Zhang Cong? It doesn't matter if you recruit or not, I have to use my arm to help, and I have to find it to rest assured? ”

"Don't know?" Wang Shen spread his hands.

"What, I don't know?" Li Cheng shouted angrily.

"I was separated, and he and I received the holy decree from Jiangnan and crossed the river to find the king. But I didn't want to run into Li Yu's army on the road, and as soon as I fought all the way, not only my entourage had already run away, but even Mr. Zhang Cong didn't know where to go. In desperation, Wang Shen could only shave his hair, pretend to be a businessman, and temporarily came to Pingyuan Town, and was about to send someone to visit Mr. Zhang, but he didn't want the Jinan army to attack. Fortunately, I ran into General Li Cheng, so I didn't have to go to Sizhou again. ”

Wang Shen wanted to casually say that Zhang Cong had been killed by the Liukou, but looking at Li Cheng's appearance, he seemed to value that Zhang Cong very much, if he said that he was dead, he would really anger the other party, so he said it casually.

In fact, what he said just now was all made up, and he didn't know if he could fool Li Cheng.

Just now, at the moment when Li Cheng's horse lance was about to stab An Niang, Wang Shen's mind flashed with lightning and the words he had read in the history books before: "In the leap August of the third year of Jianyan, Li Cheng sent people to act there, and he was recruited, but he did not return, and he returned. ”

Li Cheng was in Sizhou and declared that he was willing to return to the imperial court...... He wanted to send people to accompany him, but the army was afraid and did not dare to do it. There is Zhang Cong, an Ansu soldier, the language is a little clear, a little knowledgeable, and can praise small words. …… So all the generals of the army marched. Cheng Sui fate Cong. Cong is also willing to go to the line, with the state of being recruited, and follow the people to the line. …… Cong Sui Cheng wrote back and forth, but did not arrive in Sizhou, and Cheng has been reinstated ......"

This text is recorded in the "History of Jin", which probably means that in August of the third year of Jianyan in the Southern Song Dynasty, Li Cheng's army was short of food, captured Sizhou, and after being supplemented, he was afraid of the retaliation of the Southern Song Dynasty, and planned to send people to the emperor's line to accept Zhao'an there.

He had already been recruited once before, and there was no psychological barrier to this descent.

It's just that after his rebellion, he plundered all the way and killed extremely heavily, which made the heavens angry and resentful, and no one knew what the attitude of the court was. No one dares to be this envoy, for fear that the court will turn its face, and his own envoy's life will not be guaranteed.

There was an official named Zhang Cong in Li Chengjun, who was an Sujun, that is, a native of Xushui County, Hebei Province in later generations, who was born as a literati and served as a county magistrate. After Hebei was captured by the Jurchens, he retreated with Li Cheng to the south of the Yellow River.

This person is eloquent, writes well, and is a typical elegant person. So the whole army recommended him to this envoy, and it turned out that this person was quite capable, and after arriving in Xingdu, he moved up and down, which contributed to Li Cheng's recruitment.

However, Zhang Cong had just crossed the Yangtze River with the imperial envoy and the holy decree, and before he arrived in Sizhou, Li Chengcheng had already rebelled again.

What happened next is not recorded in the history books.

It is estimated that Zhang Cong saw that the situation was not right, and he was a traditional scholar himself, so he felt that it was too embarrassing to go to Li Chengjun to be a thief, so he simply stayed in Jiangnan.

According to Wang Shen's calculation according to time, Zhang Cong should be in Yangzhou at the moment, and he has not yet met Li Cheng. For the sake of himself, for the life of An Niang and more than 200 soldiers, it is better to pretend to be a court envoy and deceive Li Cheng.

"Zhang Cong and you are separated, hey, I hope Mr. Zhang is okay." Li Cheng showed a trace of worry on his face: "Then, take a look at the holy decree." ”

Seeing that Wang Shen said it to the point, he also believed it.

Today's war in the Central Plains is chaotic, first of all, after Zong Ze's illness on the Tokyo Left-behind Division, the new left-behind Du Chong was brutal and incompetent, which caused the army to resent. As a result, Hebei tycoons such as Wang Shan, Zhang Yong, Cao Cheng and others who had previously joined the left-behind division raised troops to attack and open the seal. Du Chong was defeated and led the army to retreat south.

This was followed by Li Yu's attack on Chuzhou and a long confrontation with Liu Guangshi's Huaixi army.

That's it, the Jurchens in Hebei have a tendency to go south.

Although Li Chengjun was fierce, there were too few men and horses, and there was a shortage of money and food in the army. However, Sizhou is a north-south rush, and if it is not good, it will be caught in the flames of war.

In the army of the left-behind division in Tokyo, although Du Chong was incapable of killing the three armies, several of his troops were elite and strong, and they were not so easy to deal with. Sizhou blocked their footsteps to the south, and it would inevitably become the target of the desperate attack of the soldiers and horses of Kaifeng.

Sizhou has fertile land and a large population, and it is a place to raise soldiers, and Li Cheng will never give it to others.

But when the Song army went south, even if he Li Tianwang had the confidence to defeat the invading enemy, he would be greatly damaged if he said that it was not good.

As long as they are recruited, they are each other's family, and Sizhou does not need to hand it over. Wouldn't it be beautiful if you take your Yangguan Road, and I will sit on my Diaoyu Tai, the army will be safe and the people will be happy?

Wang Shen: "General Li, wait a minute, I'll go into the treasury to get the holy decree." ”

With that, he ran to the storeroom.

A cavalryman wanted to step forward to stop him, Li Chengyi waved his hand, his eyes were full of arrogance: "No, I can't run." ”