Chapter 52: The Expedition
Song Xing summoned everyone to the hall, told them all his thoughts, and then looked at Zhang Yi and them, and said slowly: "This time to attack Zhongjing, life and death are unpredictable, if everyone is unwilling to follow, I Song Xing will not force it." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Zhang Yi stepped forward, clasped his hands into fists, knelt on one knee, and said in a deep voice: "Childe, Zhang Yi is a rough person and can't speak, but there is a sentence I have to expect here, I, Zhang Yisheng, am Childe's person, and death is Childe's ghost, Childe asked me to go to Knife Mountain, and I will never get into the oil pot." ”
When the monkey and the others saw Zhang Yi kneeling down, they hugged their fists and said: "Childe, our lives are yours, in the future, no matter where you go, we will follow, whoever dares to play tricks with Childe, I will be the first to stab him!" ”
Facing the group of hot men in front of him, Song Xing's heart was also inexplicably moved, "Since everyone insists on following me Song Xing, then we will be brothers in life and death in the future, it is not easy to hit Zhongjing, we have to sum it up." ”
Ma Kuo had a morbid trust in Song Xing, and smiled indifferently when he heard this, "Since Brother Song dares to boast about Haikou in front of Wanyan Aguta, he must have a strategy for fighting the enemy in his heart, and there are no outsiders here, let's listen to Brother Song's arrangement." ”
Song Xing shrugged helplessly, and said very sincerely: "I really don't have a strategy for the enemy, I only know that we must fight this battle, and we have to fight in front of the Wanyan room, we can't let the people of the Jin Kingdom see our jokes, otherwise our negotiation will be a flower in the mirror, a moon in the water!" ”
Ma Kuo groaned: "There are six or seven hundred miles from Shangjing to Zhongjing, and the Wanyan class room has most of the soldiers and horses, even if they are lightly armed and simple, the daily march will not exceed fifty miles, and we will hurry up and whip up, and it will definitely be no problem to run one hundred and fifty miles a day, so we can arrive seven or eight days in advance." ”
Yang Zaixing, who had not spoken, said tentatively: "The problem is that after we arrive in Zhongjing, how should this battle be fought, it is definitely not possible to attack the city directly, even if we take down the city gate, there is no one to guard it, let alone the pacification of the people in the city, and there is no manpower." ”
Song Xing smiled slightly, and said casually: "The bow should be strong, and the arrow should be long." Shoot the man first and shoot the horse, and capture the thief first and capture the king. There is a limit to killing, and the nations have their own borders. If you can control the invasion of the mausoleum, how can you kill more! ”
"Shoot the man before the horse, and capture the thief before the king?" Ma Kuo chewed on this sentence slowly, and suddenly his heart jumped, and his expression seemed quite excited, "I heard that Emperor Liao Yelu Aguo is taking refuge in Zhongjing, could it be that Brother Song wants to capture him?" ”
Song Xing habitually pushed the bridge of his nose and jokingly said: "If he doesn't run, we may not be able to catch him!" ”
Yang Zaixing smiled, "After several years of the Jinliao War, today's Liao State has been like a frightened bird, from Shangjing to Zhongjing, I don't know how many scouts come and go. ”
Song Xing knew that Yang Zaixing was telling the truth, because in his only historical knowledge, he knew that after the battle of Liaoshangjing, the next battle of Zhongjing was not fought at all, and the general defending the city did not even see the shadow of the Jin soldiers, so he burned the city and fled.
This is also how Song Xing dared to say that he used thirteen people to take Zhongjing, regardless of whether the Liao general escaped or not, but at least it can be proved that this person is by no means a good warlike talent like Yelu Dashi, but a straw bag who is greedy for life and afraid of death.
Ma Kuo didn't pay attention to his misjudgment, and then said: "If it is not the Liao Emperor Yelu Aguo, then it must be Zhongjing who stayed behind in Yelu Baisi." ”
"Jerubus?" Song Xing didn't have much impression of this person, and couldn't help but ask.
Ma Kuo nodded, and said with certainty: "That's right, it's this person, it is said that when the Jin soldiers attacked Shangjing, Yelu Ago ordered this person to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to help, but this person's march dragged on, and before he reached halfway, Shangjing was lost." ”
"It's a straw bale!" Song Xing thought secretly in his heart, and then called the monkey and said, "Know yourself and know your opponent, you will not be defeated in a hundred battles, monkey, I will give you a task, you set off overnight, first go to Zhongjing to find out the news, and I will leave tomorrow with Brother Ma and Brother Yang." ”
This is the first time that Song Xing has arranged a task, and the monkey didn't expect it to fall on him at all, and he was immediately overjoyed, "Thank you, Childe, even if the monkey fights for this old life, he will guarantee to complete the task." ”
Song Xing knocked on his monkey head, and said: "You are looking for news, you can only complete the task if you are alive, although Shangjing has been occupied by the Jin State, but this is the territory of the Liao State all the way, be careful on the road." ”
"Childe, don't worry, the monkey's life belongs to Childe, and no one can take it away without Childe's order." After saying that, he turned and walked out of the room, went to the kitchen to get some dry food, and rode on his way.
After the monkey left, he instructed Zhang Yi to take care of the horses, prepare the salute that should be brought, and try to travel as lightly as possible.
Then I took Huzi to Seoul, where there was a Chinese medicine shop to buy some Chinese medicinal materials such as star anise and cinnamon, and then I went to the herdsman's house to buy some raw beef, ginger and garlic.
Back at the residence, Song Xing carried these things to the kitchen, asked Wu Hu to guard the door, did not let others in, and did it himself, making all these beef into beef jerky, one pack per person, in case of emergency.
The next morning, when everyone was ready to go, Wanyan Aguta personally came to see him off, said a few encouraging words, and drank a bowl of Zhuangxing wine.
didn't say much politely, everyone turned over and got on the horse, Yang Zaixing carried a silver gun to open the way in front, followed by Zhang Yi, Song walked in the middle, and Wu Hu followed closely with his urn and golden hammer.
Although the commander this time was Song Xing, both Yang Zaixing and Ma Kuo had greeted Wu Hu in private, and no matter how the situation on the battlefield changed, he could not leave Song Xing.
Behind Wu Hu are Mao Xue Langhua and others, and then Ma Kuo, his weapon is also a gun, different from Yang Zaixing's silver gun, his gun is the kind of ordinary big gun, that is, the kind with a gun head on the ash rod.
Everyone galloped, just out of Linhuang Mansion, they saw Yan Wulu wearing Han dresses, riding her little red horse standing on the high hill, the desert wind and sand blew her dress fluttering, long hair flying.
Seeing Song Xing coming out, he also rushed down from the hill with his horse, came to Song Xing's side, and said loudly: "Little Nanban, I will go to Zhongjing with you." ”
"Silly girl, you don't have a fever, do you? Do you know what we're going to do in Chukyo? Don't mess around here, you go back with me! Song Xing didn't buy her account, but kept urging her to go back.
Wanyan Wulu said very stubbornly: "I knew that you didn't want me to go, so I ran out last night, let me tell you, Xiao Nanban, whether you want to or not, I will follow you." ”
Speaking of this, his voice suddenly changed, and he said not without trickery, "If you don't want me to follow, then I'll go alone, if something happens on the road, you will be harmed." ”