When the sun set, the Beiwei army sent to hunt down Wang Bailong finally returned to Xiangzhou City. At that time, Yue Fei was standing at the gate of the city with Zhao Butry, the prefect of Xiangzhou, and an official talking. Xiong Fei, a hundred households of the Wei Army, walked up to Yue Fei, clasped his fists and said, "Tell Yue Shuai, the last general is incompetent, and he only killed more than 400 golden soldiers, but he was still run away by the golden dog." ”

Yue Fei smiled, "It's okay. This is Xiangzhou, and the golden dog can't run away. Xiong Fei, come and see the prefect! ”

Xiong Fei seemed to have just seen the prefect and the others at this time, turned around and said without humility or arrogance, "Xiong Fei has seen Lord Zhao and all the adults. ”

Zhao Bu patted Xiong Fei's shoulder and praised loudly, "The general has the power of a tiger and a wolf, and he really lives up to his name." Being able to chase down 2,000 Jin soldiers with 400 cavalry is enough to strengthen the prestige of my Great Song Army. ”

Xiong Fei was about to say a few words of humility, when suddenly a shrill voice sounded from Zhao Buqiu's side. "Sure enough, they're all vulgar puppets! The prefect loves soldiers like sons, and does not use officials to suppress people, so are you just standing swaggering? Don't you even know how to kneel and kowtow? Yue Fei, these soldiers of yours don't understand the rules too much! ”

As soon as Xiong Fei heard this voice, he dared to be disrespectful to Yue Fei, and immediately turned his head angrily, wanting to see if it was the guy who didn't know whether he was alive or dead. The ** who spoke was about forty years old, and his facial features were handsome, but his face was pale, his eyes were blank, and he looked like he was empty of wine. With a square scarf on his head, he was wearing a first-class silk robe, shaking a gold-folded literati fan in his hand, and he was squinting his eyes to teach Yue Fei a lesson.

Yue Fei said with a smile, "Master Han doesn't know that there is no rule of kowtowing in my people's army. The army, which only knows kowtow, has absolutely no combat effectiveness. ”

Grand Master Han snorted coldly, "No rules!" Do you want to be humble? Yue Fei, although you are only a tenant of my Han family, you are not my Han family. But you have been in my Han family for a few months, and my Han family is in the family of poetry and books, haven't you learned some rules? ”

For decades, there has been a saying in Xiangzhou, "The largest official family is in the court." The prefect is the largest in the prefect's office. The largest of the Han family is in Xiangju. The middle-aged man who spoke was Han Xiaogui, the head of the Han family in Xiangzhou today. Although he is in his forties, he thinks that he is young and promising, and he is not allowed to be called by others, only by Han Dagong. His younger brother is Han Xiaoxuan, a close minister of the Son of Heaven.

Since Renzong became the prime minister of Han Qi, the influence of the Han family in the DPRK has been prosperous for decades. Although there has never been a prime minister, there will be one or two second- and third-grade officials in each generation. In addition, through marriage, the Han family weaved a network of relationships throughout the upper echelons of the entire dynasty. When Han Qi was not visible, the Xiangzhou Han family was just an ordinary family. But in the Huizong Dynasty, the Han family was already the first family in Xiangzhou. Even if it is the prefect appointed by the imperial court, the first thing he does when he takes office is definitely to visit the Han family. Because at least half of the land in the entire Xiangzhou belongs to the Han family, and half of the shop business is invested by the Han family. As long as the Han family wants to make it bad, the prefect will definitely not be able to sit for three days and leave.

A few years ago, because of his poor family, Yue Fei went to the Han family to work as a tenant for several months. When Xiangzhou thief Zhang Chao led hundreds of people to besiege the Han family's manor, he was just in time for Yue Fei to work in the Han family. So Zhang Chao was unfortunately killed by Yue Fei with an arrow. The remnants of the party are scattered.

That time, it can be said that Yue Fei stepped forward to save the entire Han family. But no one in the Han family was grateful. They inherited the character of their ancestor Han Qi who despised martial artists, and only respected literati and scholars, ignoring military generals. Di Qing, a famous general in the Renzong Dynasty, was a pawn by his side, and even though he became the privy envoy of the Great Song Dynasty, he was still despised by Han Qi. A courtesan of the Han family can make fun of Di Qing to his face (because Di Qing is from a poor background and has a gold seal tattooed on his face).

In Han Xiaogui's view, if you are a tenant and can make contributions to our Han family, you are the ancestor who has accumulated virtue. Maybe our juniors in the Han family will mention the name of one of your tenants in our daily conversations.

After Yue Fei's soldiers came to Xiangzhou, Han Xiaogui suspected that this Yue Fei was the same Yue Fei who shot Zhang Chao to death. But it's just a suspicion, if you want to let Han Dagongzi go to the city, it's impossible.

During the siege of the city by the Jin soldiers for more than half a year, everyone in the city was in danger, but the eldest prince of Han was complacent, drinking and enjoying himself all day long, and did not take the besieging Jin soldiers in his eyes at all. Anyway, half of the Han family's population has already moved to Jiangnan with his younger brother Han Xiaoxuan. The Han family, who stayed in the old house in Xiangzhou, could only choose to bet on the gold side. Although the eldest prince of Han really wanted to surrender to the Jin soldiers, the prefect Zhao Butry was a clan and was very popular with the people. So Han Dagongzi just watched coldly, waiting for the golden soldiers to break through the city. When the time comes, Jin Bing will gladly accept it. After all, my old Han family is a famous family in the Central Plains.

It's a pity that Yue Fei's arrival broke Han Dagongzi's plan. More than 10,000 golden soldiers besieging the city were all defeated by Yue Fei in one day. When Zhao Butry led the officials out of the city to greet Yue Fei, Han Dagongzi also hurriedly left Han's house and came to see Yue Fei at the city gate.

When he found out that Yue Fei was the tenant of his own family, the arrogance of the eldest prince of Han came up again, and between the words, he was extremely unkind to Yue Fei. Yue Fei has a lot of respect for Grand Master Han.

However, Yue Fei's respect is not unlimited, and the eldest prince of Han can be unkind to himself, after all, he has been a tenant of his family, at least in name, it can be said that he was the head of his own family. But seeing that Han Xiaogui was getting more and more unapproachable, and his speech was becoming more and more excessive, Yue Fei raised his eyebrows and was about to get angry.

Zhao Butry interrupted Han Xiaogui's words, took Yue Fei's big hand, and said very affectionately, "Pengju, and follow me into the city." If it weren't for Pengju, the people of my Xiangzhou city would have died at the hands of the golden dog. You saved the people of Xiangzhou. Go, follow me to the mansion, the gentry of the city are waiting to wash the dust for Pengju. ”

Yue Fei smiled, "Why did Lord Zhao say this? I'm also from Xiangzhou. Most of my soldiers are also from Xiangzhou. Therefore, it is still the people of Xiangzhou who save Xiangzhou City under the rule of adults. ”

Seeing that Yue Fei was not proud of his achievements, Zhao Bu couldn't help but be even more happy, took Yue Fei's hand, and strode into the gate of Xiangzhou. Xiong Fei led hundreds of backed troops to follow closely. Ji Qian and the others, under the command of Ran Qing, were busy cleaning up the battlefield and counting the prisoners.

After counting the results, Ran Qing exaggeratedly opened his hands and shouted to the sky, "Get rich." We got rich. Ji Qianhua Ruyu and others were also very excited.

It's hard not for them to get excited. In today's battle, more than 4,000 Jurchen soldiers were killed and 7,000 were captured. More than 7,000 captives were Jurchen servants, that is, strong men who signed the army and brought in. But the 4,000 people killed were all genuine Jurchen soldiers. Although strictly speaking, they are all Liao people and Bohai Han'er, and there are not even a few mature Jurchens, but after all, they are all veterans of the two devils who have followed the Jurchens for several years, and they still have combat power. As a result, they were all defeated by the Protectors in one day. The Protectors suffered no more than 500 casualties. Luo Tian's two families suffered a lot of casualties, in order to block the gate, they really fought to the death, and as a result, more than half of the two thousand family members were killed and wounded.

In the end, these family members almost collapsed. Thankfully, the Protector's victory was already in place. As for the outcast army, which frantically grabbed horses and armor, there were two or three thousand casualties. However, the exile army was all elated, and did not care about casualties at all.

These outcasts are beggars in troubled times, and death is not a daunting path for them, but a road to heaven. Besides, now that Fang has won a big victory, he has weapons, armor, and war horses, although he is dead, he will always have a bite of meat to eat.

If only four thousand Jurchen soldiers were eliminated, it would definitely not make Ran Qing and the others so excited. They found mountains of gold and silver jewels in the great tent of Jerumma5, and counted them at least a hundred thousand taels of silver. These silver taels were also expected by Ran Qing. You must know that the Northern Song Dynasty was extremely rich, and the families of ordinary rich people also had a thousand taels of silver at home. For most of the year, Yeluma slaughtered many villages and grabbed so many gold, silver and jewelry, not too much, but too little. There must have been several batches of shipments to Yanshan Mansion. When he caught the captive and asked, sure enough, a month ago, Yelu Ma Wu also transported tens of thousands of taels of gold and tens of thousands of taels of silver to Yanshan Mansion.

They also found tens of thousands of stone of grain in the barracks. This is enough food for tens of thousands of troops for three months. But that's not what makes Ran Qing so excited. What made Ran Qing very excited was because they had captured 7,000 intact horses in today's battle.

Although Yelu Wanhu led only Jurchen second-class soldiers, the 7,000 Jurchen soldiers still rode one person, and there were thousands of veterans with one person and two horses. Hundreds of mature women are really one person and three rides. So the total number of horses in the entire camp was close to twelve thousand. Although nearly 2,000 Jurchen soldiers escaped. But the 10,000 horses left in the camp were taken by the Protectors.

Although there are nearly 3,000 disabled horses. But none of this mattered, the important thing was that the Protectors captured seven thousand intact horses. What is the concept of 7,000 war horses?

In the first-class army of the Jurchens, it was just the standard equipment of two thousand households. But in the eyes of the Protectors, it almost symbolized that another cavalry division could be formed.

You must know that it has been a few months since the establishment of the Protector Army, Yue Fei, Huang Zong and others racked their brains, but they only collected 6,000 war horses, one person and one horse, and formed a cavalry division of 5,000 people. Some of the horses were smaller than donkeys, and they were still regarded as treasures by the Protectors, and they were carefully cared for.

After being happy, Ran Qing looked at the brightly lit Xiangzhou City, and said a little vigilantly, "Brother Ji, Brother Zhao, Sister Hua, and Brother Yue are the best parties, and they like to act impartially." I'm afraid that Brother Yue will be divided equally between the war horse and the Xiangzhou army by a few kind words from Governor Zhao. In that case, we're at a loss. ”

Ji Qian slapped her thigh and shouted, "Yes." Brother Yue is a bit of a good person. No, our people's protector army needs war horses too much, and we can't give them to the Xiangzhou army. Besides, they didn't make much merit today, they just beat the side drum. Just give them a little grain and silver. ”

Zhao Hong opened his mouth and said, "Miss Ran, Ji Qian, I said that you also take Yue Shuai too lightly. Yue Shuai is no longer the Yue Shuai of a few months ago. Although he is a bit of a good man, he also knows what our Protector lacks the most. Our Protectors are not an army defending the city. It is the elite of the world who want to compete with the Golden Dog Plain, how can it be done without cavalry. Don't worry, I bet that Yue Shuai will never give the war horse to the Xiangzhou army. ”

As soon as Zhao Hong's voice fell, Xiong Fei, a hundred households of the Beiwei Army, came to the camp and conveyed Yue Fei's order in a loud voice, "Generals, Yue Shuai asked Commander Zhao and Yue Heng to camp outside the city, and the other generals followed me into the city for a banquet. ”

After finishing speaking, he whispered to a few people, "Yue Shuai said, let Master Zhao and Yue Heng retreat to Kaide Mansion early tomorrow morning, join Master Zhihun and take all the war horses." ”

Zhao Hong laughed, looked at Ji Qian proudly and said, "Lao Ji, how is it?" Brother Yue, I was right. ”

Ji Qian picked her thumb unconvinced and reluctantly admitted defeat. "Zhao Dabeard, you are amazing today."