The use of troops against Jiang Han is imminent, and this battle advantage is a rapid attack, which cannot be delayed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

From this westward journey, the water network is dense along the way, and the large and small lakes are dotted. Anlu has always been a military location, and the city defense facilities are complete, Wang Shen doesn't want to have another Qichun siege battle, and the troops can no longer withstand such attrition.

The current Sizhou army has more than 10,000 soldiers, plus local garrison troops, which is almost 20,000. However, to defend the base camps of Qi and Huangzhou, there are long supply lines to maintain, and according to Wang Shen's calculations, he can use up to 10,000 horses on this westward expedition.

In this way, military progress is bound to be unfast and must be supplemented by political means.

In this matter, Zhang Jun really has to be left to preside over the overall situation of Jianghan.

The food in the barracks is enough to eat for more than ten days, and even if you return to Huangzhou and make up for it, it will not be much. The devil knows how much it will cost as soon as the battle to capture Jianghan starts.

At this time, Wang Shencai profoundly realized the sentence "What is fought in a war is money and food, and what is fought is consumption." ”

No matter how elite your soldiers and horses are, there is no food and grass, and everything is resting.

Speaking of which, since the beginning of the army, Wang Shen seems to have never been rich, and most of his energy has been involved in the chewing of people and horses. This time, it is the first time that there has been a huge harvest. Kong Yanzhou's treasury was full of clothes, armor, and weapons. Not to mention the gold and silver, there are so many copper coins that the money strings are rotten. In order to facilitate carrying, Kong Yanzhou simply melted all the copper coins and made them into copper sticks with a length of three feet and the thickness of an arm.

This is Kong Yanzhou's accumulation of more than ten years of robbing half of China. With this gain, Wang Shen will not have to worry about military funding in three to five years.

The Sizhou army has long established a system of confiscation and return to the public, but now half of the soldiers in the army are prisoners and recruits, and their eyes are red from top to bottom. The first to do it was Gu Lie's broken enemy army, General Gu was born as an old man in the Western Army, and he inevitably carried the habits of the old army, and his military discipline was the worst among all the departments of the Sizhou Army. So, the recruits who broke the enemy army began to put seals everywhere, and then, the situation was out of control, and all the soldiers grabbed money and stuffed it into their arms. As soon as the enemy army started, the soldiers of several other units also rushed into the storehouse, almost causing internal strife.

Fortunately, under the pressure of the commanders of the various armies and the Judge Advocate General's Office, order was finally restored.

Originally, according to Chen Da's idea, he wanted to kill a group of people to show the public, and he also tied up about 100 soldiers who were in trouble.

Wang Shen thought about it for a while and decided to open the net, saying that it was the first time that such a large seizure had been made. Moreover, the recruits had just entered the barracks and did not understand the rules, so they would not kill them this time, and each of them would be beaten with twenty military sticks. But the reward that should be given to them is not a penny.

To tell the truth, last time he killed so many soldiers who robbed and harmed the people, Wang Shen already regretted it a little in his heart. Yes, they have ruined their reputation. However, now that his reputation has been conceived, there is no point in killing soldiers.

The rewards and punishments are clear, and the army's heart is determined.

The seized gold and silver are redone, but in this troubled era, they are not as good as a handful of grain and a bag of medicinal herbs. Yes, no matter how much money Kong Yanzhou had, because he had no food and grass, he was trapped in the city for two months, and the troops and the people were starved to death and died of the epidemic.

To put it bluntly, money is just a contract of exchange, not the same as actual goods.

Grain, grain, what I need most now is food.

In order to feed so many people, they had to go west.

In order to get the land of Jianghan as soon as possible, he had to ask Zhang Jun for it.

It's terrible to be low and small, to be controlled.

"Hey......" Thinking of this, Wang Shen couldn't help but sigh lightly, and ate a mouthful of flying dust.

Looking at the gray sky, I had a lot of thoughts in my heart: when will the man be able to get rid of the mercy of others, stand in the sky, and soar over the clouds of the nine heavens?

The sky gradually darkened, and before I knew it, it was already evening, and there was not much way to go from the Yangtze River.

At this time, Hu Yantong behind him pointed ahead and said in a low voice: "Military envoy, the situation is not right, you have to be careful." ”

Following his fingers, he saw that in the wilderness in the distance, there was a sparse ash forest, and a faint fire was projecting from it.

The light of the fire was so faint that it was almost negligible. It's just that today's sky is too dark, but in a cyan twilight, it is so eye-catching.

Wang Shen's heart sank, and he shouted: "Pay attention, carefully encounter the thief army spies." As he spoke, he drew his bow and pinched an arrow in his right hand.

That's right, there is a Huangzhou between Qichun and Anlu, which is already Wang Shen's rear. However, the trouble is that there is a wide Yangtze River in front of it. The Sizhou Army's naval army did not have a few boats, and the Yangtze River defense was in vain. In contrast, the thieves had a large number of ships. As long as they are willing, they can go down the river at any time and go deep into the hinterland of Qi and Huang, which is also the most headache for Wang Shen.

How important is the offensive and defensive battle of Qichun, the thief army has already broken its courage since Yang Zaixing's troops were completely annihilated. But they still kept sending scouts to inquire about the military situation, and some time ago, the White Army caught a lot of enemy details.

Could it be that you encountered these pesky flies again today?

At that moment, Hu Yantong and the others all took out their weapons and drew their riding bows.

The group slowed down their horses, made a great circle in the wilderness, circled behind the light of the fire, and then dispersed into a formation of wild goose wings and advanced forward.

At this time, the thief's back road has been cut off, and he can only be killed if he surrenders.

This is the advantage of cavalry, a wide range of interspersed detours, charging and pursuing, in such a wilderness, once the infantry encounters light cavalry is a dead end.

Gradually, the horses ran faster and faster, and the sound of rumbling horses' hooves enveloped the field in an instant.

When he rushed to the front, Wang Shen realized that the fire was projected from a tent. The tent was full of people, and even the outside was full of armor soldiers with weapons in their hands.

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves, those soldiers were all in confusion, and they all ran out in a mess with their weapons, the total number was about 100 people, and it was suddenly a small army.

Wang Shen had so much combat experience, he could naturally see that these armor soldiers were suddenly attacked and chaotic, and they were obviously a rabble.

He had drawn his bow, his body undulating in the saddle, and he was about to shoot an arrow. At this time, by the light of the fire, I saw that those soldiers were wearing soft-brimmed red tasseled felt hats of the Song Army system on their heads, even if they were wearing iron helmets, they were also pointed original plates, and they looked like they were their own people.

However, they did not use any banners, but they were not sure where they were coming.

Thinking of this, Wang Shen was not in a hurry to rush and kill, and after approaching the other party, he suddenly turned around and swept in front of the enemy. Angry Dantian shouted: "A certain is the defense envoy of Huangzhou in the Great Song Dynasty, Wang Shen, report his name, otherwise he will not be spared." ”

As soon as the words fell, the arrows in his hands had already been shot away.

This rain of arrows came so quickly that he only heard Ding Dong's chaotic sound, and in the blink of an eye, the hats of four soldiers were shot away by him.

Earlier, the team of soldiers was still shouting to pounce, and when they saw Wang Shen's amazing archery skills and the dragon-like iron horse behind him, they were all shocked as if they were stunned, and they stood there and didn't dare to move.

"Good marksmanship, Yang Yuji, Fei General Li Guang is nothing more than that. Back then, the old man had also seen Liu Qi's archery skills in the army, and now it seems that he is even worse than you. A loud voice came from the sparse branches and leaves of the ash forest: "Is it Wang Daosi who is famous in Jinling outside?" ”

This voice is a big Song Bianliang official dialect, the words are correct and round, and it clearly reaches everyone's ears in the chaotic noise.

In his mouth, Liu Qi was a famous general in the Shaanxi Western Army in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, and his single-handed archery skills shocked the world.

Hearing this person say that he was one point stronger than Liu Qi, Wang Shen was proud in his heart and said with a smile: "Uncle Liu Ping and Liu Duhu are well-known marksmen in the world, how dare Wang Shen compare them?" If you can name so-and-so, why don't you come out and meet you? ”

Knowing that this man was a friend and foe, he put his bow in his pocket, turned over and dismounted, and strode forward.

Seeing Wang Shen coming, the group of soldiers were afraid in their hearts, and they subconsciously retreated.

"It's really majestic! Only a tiger general like you can suppress the gang of criminals who commit my Jiang Han. A man laughed and walked out of the shadows of the trees.

He is about forty years old, his face is like a full moon, and his three long beards flutter in the wind, and he has an indescribable chic calmness: "A certain name is Zhang Jun, General Wang, speaking of which, we can be regarded as old people." If you come here at night, there must be something, so it's better to go in and talk. ”

Wang Shen was taken aback, it turned out that this person was Zhang Jun and Zhang Deyuan, the envoys of Sichuan and Shaanxi Xuanfu.

He said that he was an old man, but he didn't ridicule Wang Shen for pretending to be his protégé, but he didn't wear it in front of everyone.

When Wang Shen heard this, his momentum immediately plummeted. At the same time, I was awe-inspiring in my heart: This Zhang Jun is really an incredible character, just one sentence, he actually suppressed me, and he had to come forward respectfully to salute. Being able to command the remnants of the Western Army and govern the land of Sichuan and Shaanxi was indeed the pillar of the country in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty. Cease......

He hurriedly took a deep look: "Boy Wang Shen, please meet Duke Deyuan." With armor on your body, you can't bow fully, and please forgive your sins. Hearing that Degong was coming, the kid was overjoyed and came to visit. But I don't want to meet Xianggong on the way. ”

Zhang Jun laughed, helped Wang Shen up, and said: "I took a boat for a month, and I was so bumpy that I just went ashore to rest, but I didn't want Dao Si to misunderstand that it was a rogue thief army, and the blame was not on you." Please up, please up. ”

As he spoke, he affectionately met his tent with Wang Shen.

Zhang Jun's tent is not big, but there are no superfluous items in it, and it looks very spacious.

There was only one carpet inside, and on the carpet was a small table, a pot of tea and a drawing with a few rough lines drawn on it.

He made a gesture of invitation and sat down on his knees.

Wang Shen was wearing heavy armor, so he naturally couldn't sit down, so he had no choice but to remove the armor, throw the Dacheng knife on his waist on the ground, and sit down after being busy for a long time.

I thought to myself: This Zhang Jun disarmed me so quietly! But I fell for him.

From beginning to end, Zhang Deyuan didn't speak, just smiled and looked over, as if he was looking at his favorite protégé.

Speaking of which, Zhang Jun's appearance is a bit similar to Li Cheng and Li Tianwang, both of them look majestic, so that people dare not force their eyes. It's just that Zhang Deyuan has a little more elegance.

He knelt on the carpet, his waist straight, showing the majesty of the minister. is not like Li Cheng, who scratches his head as soon as he sits down, unbridled, and has no shape.