The sky darkened, the day's fighting finally passed, the Jin people retreated fifteen miles, and the outside of Kaifeng City was clean for the first time in months. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

There were many clan women and folk women who were rescued, and Lu Junyi did not dare to slack off, so he hurriedly ordered the splendid female barracks that stayed behind to take care of them. The leader was Sun Erniang, and when she led a group of female soldiers to the west camp, it was already dark.

A group of clan women who had been bullied and devastated gathered in several large tents, their faces all pale. When they were first rescued, Dong Ping's soldiers distributed some of their marching rations to these poor ladies. Most of these former noblewomen failed to maintain their old manners, they robbed the soldiers of their rations, squatted in the corners of the tents one by one, devouring coarse and hard bread, it seems that the Jin people not only bullied and destroyed them, but also did not give them enough food.

Only a few people such as Empress Qinzong Empress Zhu, Huizong Concubine Wei, Xing Clan, Zhu Clan, and Fujin Emperor Ji barely maintained their manners. When Dong Ping personally delivered the food to them, they still maintained the posture of chewing lightly, and their eyes were full of relief to get rid of the great difficulty.

Looking at the group of women who were miserable, Dong Ping, a merry two-gun general, couldn't help but have tears in his eyes, no matter how he said it, they were all compatriots of the same race, making women suffer, but the sons and daughters of the Han family were naturally difficult to calm down.

Just because the forward soldiers and horses are all men, it is inconvenient to take care of these women, after Dong Pingfei reported to Lu Junyi, Lu Junyi ordered Sun Erniang to lead 500 female soldiers of the Splendid Battalion to take care of them in Xiying as needed, and leave Gu Sister-in-law to serve Xinjun in Dongluo County.

After Sun Erniang arrived with the female soldiers, she brought food and clothing, although it was not as good as the original brocade clothes and food, but it was not too bad. Then Sun Erniang instructed the female soldiers to boil water to freshen up and change clothes for the women of the clan, all of them were cleaned, and after changing into new clothes, the women were a little brighter, but there was nothing to make.

Empress Zhu, Wei's, Xing's, Zhu's, Fujin Emperor's and others also freshened up and changed their clothes, and Sun Erniang arranged a better tent for them alone.

Later, Sun Erniang brought a military doctor to diagnose the women, many of whom were weak and in a trance, showing that they were greatly stimulated. After the military doctor saw it, he prescribed more tonic medicines, and some decoctions to calm the nerves and condense qi.

After everything was done, it was almost time for Sun Erniang to lead the female soldiers to send a decoction to Queen Zhu and others, and she couldn't help but comfort a few words. Empress Zhu thanked her for a while, and only after using the decoction did she ask, "Does the female general have news of the second emperor and other clans?" ”

Sun Erniang said: "There has been no news yet, but Marshal Lu has been tortured and interrogated by the Jin prisoners, hoping to ask the whereabouts of the Second Emperor and other clans." Empress Zhu sighed and said: "I have heard that during the Jin people's banquet, I have seen the second emperor a few times, but there is no news later, and I don't know if they can be safe in this chaos." ”

On the side, Wei and others persuaded him, and Wei asked about the whereabouts of his son King Kang, but the news of King Kang's death had not yet come, and Sun Erniang had to roughly tell all the daughters about the blood edict of the second emperor.

After hearing this, Concubine Wei, the mother of King Kang, and Concubine Xing, the wife of King Kang, couldn't help but cry loudly. Empress Zhu sighed and said: "The ninth brother is also a little excessive, his father and brother expect him to lead the troops to come to King Qin's rescue, but they don't want him to only care about supporting the army and respecting himself." I waited here to endure hardship, but he was there to seek a dynasty and usurp the throne, which is really chilling. Concubine Wei and Concubine Xing were just crying, but they didn't dare to argue anything, this matter was indeed something that King Kang did wrong, he didn't even care about his wife and children for the throne, in fact, all the women in the account knew King Kang's thoughts, but they didn't break it.

Sun Erniang asked about the whereabouts of other clan women, but after the Song army broke through the Jin army camp, they only found less than 300 clan women such as Empress Zhu, and the rest were folk women.

Empress Zhu shook her head and said: "The Jin people have separated us into custody, and Wang Guifei and Emperor Huishu, Emperor Kangshu, Emperor Shunde, and Emperor Chongyi have been detained separately, and we may not have heard from them for a long time." ”

Xing Shi cried on the side: "Actually, a few days ago, I heard that the two emperors of Shunde and Chongyi were unbearable and had committed suicide. Hearing this, Empress Zhu frowned and said angrily: "Why didn't you say that you knew about the palace in the morning?" ”

Xing Shi cried: "At that time, the queen was weak, and she committed suicide to be rescued, and I was afraid that I would know about it with the queen, and the queen's phoenix body would be greatly damaged." Empress Zhu also burst into tears, but she didn't cry, just sighed and said: "The palace is not so fragile, what I have seen and heard in Jinying these days, are these still rare?" ”

On the side, Zhu cried for a while, and suddenly opened his mouth and sang softly: "In the past, I lived in the sky, the pearl palace was jade, and now I live in the grass, and the green shirt is wet with tears." Stoop to humiliate the ambition, hate the snow, return to the spring, and be sad. Hearing this poem, the girls wept even more sadly.

Empress Zhu wiped away her tears and said slowly: "Don't cry anymore, now that the national disaster is at hand, I have just been rescued, and it is not the time to cry, so I should help Marshal Lu find the whereabouts of other people, and I can save one by one." Sun Erniang saw that Queen Zhu's eyes were full of fortitude and determination, and she admired her very much, and she was worthy of being the mother of a country.

Sure enough, the women gradually stopped crying, and Queen Zhu ordered: "I know that many other women have been in and out of the gold camp to serve those beasts, maybe they will have news, tomorrow morning, everyone will go separately to ask other women, maybe there will be news." ”

Sun Erniang said: "The queen doesn't have to worry about it, my female battalion soldiers will go to inquire about this kind of thing, you rest early, Marshal Lu will arrange to send everyone back to Dongduan County tomorrow morning, the new monarch has succeeded to the throne, and now the palace is in Dongdu." This is still a battlefield, and it is very dangerous, so I should send you to a safe place first. ”

Empress Zhu shook her head and said: "Send them to Dongdusk tomorrow morning, you give me a set of clothes and armor, I will stay here, advance and retreat with your women's battalion, I will wait for news from the official family here." ”

Sun Erniang was taken aback when she heard this, and persuaded her a few times, Queen Zhu was also firm and determined to stay, but in the end, Sun Erniang couldn't, so she had to report to Lu Junyi.

After hearing this, Lu Junyi was silent for a long time before he said slowly: "Sure enough, she is a virtuous and strong generation, so let's do as she said." He instructed Sun Erniang to take good care of Queen Zhu.

At dawn the next day, Wei's, Xing's, Zhu's, Fujin Emperor's Ji and the rest of the rescued more than 300 female dependents were under the protection of the Song army, and settled in Dongluo County, and Empress Zhu stayed behind to advance and retreat with Sun Erniang's female army.

As the Song army pursued the Jin people, there were constantly clan women who were rescued, and the number gradually began to increase, but there were also many poor women's corpses found on the way to pursue.

Empress Zhu and Sun Erniang led the women's battalion all the way to the west, and along the way, they were constantly treating and sheltering the abducted women who were rescued or escaped. By dusk the next day, more than 2,000 people had been rescued, and it seemed that the Jin people had begun to discard such burdensome things as women who were difficult to take away.

Lu Junyi's army chased after Zong Han's palace and horses, and fought the Jin army three times in one day. Zong Han, the commander of the Jin people, was struggling to support in such an unfavorable situation, but with the continuous pursuit of the Song army, the defeat of the military horses behind the Jin people palace has been revealed, and the morale and fighting spirit are declining.

Rao is in this situation, Zong Han can still stabilize the army and horses, and the Song army three battles, although the Jin army is at a disadvantage, more casualties than the Song army, but Zong Han still successfully blocked the Song army's westward footsteps, this day the Song army only went west thirty miles.

The other Zong Wang led the army at noon the next day, and the forward army and horses arrived in Zhongmu, and sure enough, the banners of the Song army had been planted all over the city of Zhongmu. The banners of the Song army that captured Zhongmu were all the banners of Sanniang, and it was seen that Zong Wang scolded the female thief for being shameless and cunning, and actually let another army and horses play his own banner to deceive him.

Although Zongwang reached Zhongmu with the Chinese army, after arriving at Zhongmu to the left, fifteen miles away from the city, he saw that the Song army did not defend Zhongmu, but arranged many camps outside Zhongmu City, these camps were all backed by Zhongmu, and the joint camp was more than ten miles, firmly blocking the retreat of the Jin people to the west. Zong Wang saw the formation of the Song army, and judged that the Song army had no less than seventy or eighty thousand troops and horses here, if it bypassed Zhongmu, this Song army would definitely attack the Jin army, even if it could barely rush over, the broken Zong Han department would definitely be surrounded and annihilated by this Song army and the Song army that caught up.

So Zong Wang decided to try to fight a dozen Song troops first, to see if he could defeat this Song army and recapture Zhongmu, and at the same time ordered someone to report the situation here to Zong Han.

Zong Han led the army to resist Lu Junyi's Song army, and got the news of Zong Wang in the evening, after reading the military report, Zong Han suddenly said: "The second prince should be interrupted, if the Song army really has seventy or eighty thousand military horses, and it is hard to defend it, it will be difficult to overcome in a short period of time. When he stopped to attack Zhongmu, he fell for the trick of the Song female thief. ”

The general who came to deliver the military report said: "The second prince said, but he is afraid that after dividing his troops to bypass Zhongmu, it will be difficult for the deputy marshal to get out of trouble with 50,000 troops and horses." Zong Han laughed miserably: "After I stay and break off, I want the second prince to lead the army to get out of trouble as soon as possible, and my 50,000 troops and horses here will be difficult to escape from the day they stay and break off, so why should the whole army be wiped out together?" At that moment, Zong Han personally wrote a letter and handed it to the man, ordering him to go back and hand it over to Zong Wang.

Before leaving, Zong Han instructed: "Go back and tell the second prince and teach him to do anything, divide a military horse to entangle the Zhongmu Song army, and the rest of the main army and horses bypass Zhongmu, and only stare at the three Yellow River crossings west of Zhengzhou, and lead the army to cross the river as soon as possible, otherwise the thief and my whole army may be destroyed, don't care about anything else!" The general received the order and galloped away.

Watching the man gallop away, Zong Han muttered to himself: "I hope there will be no more accidents in Tongguan, otherwise our army will not even have the last hope." ”