Gao Huaiyuan walked in front of the team, a team of 300 people, escorting dozens of truckloads of grain, grass, tents and other things, and slowly marched in the direction of Ezhou after leaving Daye County.

A few days ago, Gao Huaiyuan suddenly got the news that the Jin Kingdom sent troops in April and launched an attack on the Southern Song Dynasty, Gao Huaiyuan knew that the pig-headed emperor of the Jin Kingdom would do such a stupid thing, but because he didn't know exactly when the pig-headed emperor would launch, when he learned the news, he was still a little surprised, which seemed to come earlier than he expected, so the preparation was not very sufficient.

When he heard about this, Gao Huaiyuan immediately arranged for Crouching Tiger Village to speed up the preparations, and immediately left Crouching Tiger Village with Xue Yan and rushed to the county seat.

When I arrived at the county seat, I knew that this time the Jin people sent troops to attack the Song Dynasty, and the Southern Song Dynasty was still relatively well prepared, and the war was together, Zhao Yi, who was the pacification envoy of Hubei at the time, immediately ordered all parts of Hubei to recruit Zhuang Ding to accompany the army to resist Jin, and Daye County was the closest to Ezhou, so it bore the brunt of the attack, and was ordered to quickly transfer the township to escort grain and other materials to support the Song army to resist Jin.

After Liu Zhixian received Zhao Fang's order, he did not dare to slack off, so he immediately asked Wang County Lieutenant to recruit all the township leaders, household heads, and elders to the county government for discussion.

And it just so happened that Gao Huaiyuan was an elder, so he was naturally among them, and he was called to the county government.

As soon as Gao Huaiyuan arrived at the county office, he ran into Xing Zhutou who had just come back from outside, and as soon as Xing Zhutou saw Gao Huaiyuan, he secretly pulled him to a place where no one paid attention to him and said: "This time the county is going to recruit the people to join the army to resist the gold, Young Master Gao, don't come forward, you don't want to come out this time!" ”

Gao Huaiyuan frowned, but he was still very grateful to Xing Zhutou, after all, people regarded him as a friend, otherwise he would not have specifically explained his words, so he nodded and thanked Xing Zhutou, and entered the yamen with him.

After hearing the news, the elders of the townships were all startled, and said in their hearts that this Jin country really doesn't let people stop, the last time Song and Jin went to war was only a few years old, and it came again so soon, and it didn't let people live!

In this war, Daye County was ordered to recruit 500 strong men to go out with the army, as an auxiliary army to assist in the fight against Jin, Daye County originally had 50 permanent archers, which were led by Wang County Lieutenant, and the remaining 450 strong men were to be borne by each township, and asked to elect a senior chief to lead these villagers to escort grain and grass to Ezhou to join the army.

For a while, the elders in the townships complained bitterly, it was okay to go out, but don't let them go out to lead the troops, this time it's a real knife * to follow the imperial army to fight, and if you don't do it, your life will be lost, so no one dares to be this bird.

In the end, no one came out after tossing for a long time, Gao Huaiyuan was angry, the country was in danger, but these rich squires in the local area did not want to serve the country, and passed the buck to each other, in order to hide at home and enjoy Qingfu, such a folk custom really disappointed Gao Huaiyuan.

Liu Zhixian is relatively weak in this aspect, seeing that no one is leading this errand, so he couldn't help but look at Gao Huaiyuan who was standing behind him again, but immediately vetoed his own idea, Gao Huaiyuan is also a son of an official family no matter what he says, if he sends him by name, he will inevitably offend his father Gao Jian, in that case it will not be beautiful.

When Liu Zhixian was in a dilemma, Gao Huaiyuan finally couldn't help but stand up, took the errand, and promised that the township under his jurisdiction would produce a hundred strong men, and the rest of the people saw that someone had come out, and it was a hairy young man, so they were overjoyed, and hurriedly said that it was not a problem to recruit strong men.

When Liu Zhixian saw the critical time, Gao Huaiyuan came forward to solve this problem for him, and he was very grateful, so he asked Gao Huaiyuan to go back and prepare, and then led these villagers to Ezhou to serve in the army.

This is not what he named to ask Gao Huaiyuan to go, it was Gao Huaiyuan who wanted to go by himself, so he couldn't help his father Gao Jian to go back and blame himself for knowing about it, Liu Zhixian secretly rejoiced in his heart, and finally solved this trouble.

But Gao Huaiyuan was not polite to Liu Zhixian, he did not have enough armor on hand, since he took this errand, he was unwilling not to get some benefits from the county, so after deciding on this matter, the lion's mouth was wide open, and a batch of armor was extorted from the county government, at least it was enough to arm the township Yong under his jurisdiction.

Then he immediately returned to the area of Gaojiazhuang, and asked Li Zheng and the head of the household to assist in selecting fifty young and strong villagers in the local area, these people are all people who have followed him to practice martial arts recently, which can be regarded as a force that he can control, and it will be easier to use when the time comes, after mobilizing these villagers, Gao Huaiyuan distributed the armor to them, and divided them into three groups, twenty pikemen, twenty sword and shield men, and ten archers, each of whom went home to prepare, and left Daye County with him three days later.

And the remaining fifty places, he did not showdown to the households, but left them to himself, from the teenagers of Crouching Tiger Village, selected the fifty strongest teenagers, this time the reason why he was so enthusiastic to take this errand, in order to let his young Zhuang Ding to see what is called the battlefield, but also to test, their training results for so long, and at the same time let them also experience it.

Originally, he didn't want Huang Yan and Zhou Hao to go with him, but wanted to leave the two of them at home and take care of the house for him, after all, both of them have parents and brothers, and once something goes wrong, Gao Huaiyuan is afraid that it will be difficult to explain to their parents.

But as soon as the two heard Gao Huaiyuan's words, they were anxious on the spot, Huang Yan didn't fight with Gao Huaiyuan last time, and this time he didn't let him go out with the army when he heard it, so he smashed the dishes and bowls, and hung himself to wipe his neck.

Zhou Hao didn't make a fuss, just silently packed up and left a sentence for Gao Huaiyuan, if Gao Huaiyuan didn't take him there, he would follow him, which made Gao Huaiyuan shake his head, knowing that Zhou Hao's temper was doing what he said, so he let him run by himself, it was better to take him on the road! So I had to agree.

It's easy to talk about things at home, Xue Yan is still staying at the old house, Liu Er is in charge of Wohu Village, supplemented by Zhou Laowu, Zhou Yi, and Jiang Peng, who are responsible for taking care of Crouching Tiger Village, and Huang Zhen is naturally responsible for business matters, and he has nothing to worry about.

As for Liu Er, she was naturally reluctant, but she also knew that she couldn't persuade Gao Huaiyuan, this matter was a sure thing, the county government had decided it, and it couldn't be changed, so she secretly cried and prepared for Gao Huaiyuan and them.

And Zhou Botong and Lu Laoshi saw that Gao Huaiyuan was about to go on the expedition, so they worked overtime to make ten Liuyun scimitars and handed them to Gao Huaiyuan, and those leather armor was also under the control of Liu and other female dependents, and finally completed before departure, is exactly the effect that Gao Huaiyuan wants to achieve.

Three days later, Gao Huaiyuan led the fifty people out of Crouching Tiger Village, met with fifty villagers from Gaojiazhuang at the old house, loaded the armor on the two big carts that the wealthy households of Gaojiazhuang collectively paid for them, and rushed to the county seat.

Originally, the townsmen looked down on the fifty young men brought by Gao Huaiyuan, and felt that they were a little indiscriminate, but after they went on the road, these townsmen found that the difference between Gao Huaiyuan's fifty young Zhuang Ding, although they were not very old, but they were very disciplined, and they strictly followed Gao Huaiyuan's instructions along the way, and the food and drink were in order, not chaotic at all, and there was no one chatting nonsense at all during the march.

After they arrived in the county seat, these villagers of Gaojiazhuang also began to be infected by their teenagers, and began to become orderly, and according to Gao Huaiyuan's requirements, they rested in situ outside the city, waiting for further instructions from Gao Huaiyuan, not for anything else, just for the sake of face, and they adults did not want to be underestimated by these teenagers.

When Gao Huaiyuan arrived at the county office, there was already a group of villagers from various townships who were surrounded by chaos, most of these villagers did not come voluntarily, but they were forced to have this errand, so most of them were very unhappy, scolding in private, and looking unhappy.

After Gao Huaiyuan met Liu Zhixian and others, he handed over the roster from them, because Wang County Lieutenant wanted to feel the Ezhou camp first, so Wang County Lieutenant himself first took fifty archers and one hundred and fifty village warriors to set off first and sign in to the camp, while Gao Huaiyuan worked hard and took the rest of the people to escort the heavy grain and then rushed to the Ezhou camp.

They don't dare to underestimate Gao Huaiyuan now, and working together several times has made them all see Gao Huaiyuan's calm and capable, and I believe that Gao Huaiyuan can do these things well.

Under the send-off of Liu Zhixian and others, Gao Huaiyuan took over the remaining 200 townships in other townships, took over these dozens of carts full of grain, left Daye County, and rushed to Daying, Ezhou.

For this outing, Gao Huaiyuan had already been mentally prepared, and he was thinking about where he would follow Song Jun to deal with Jin Jun this time.

Judging from the news he has learned so far, this time the Jin Army has sent a total of two large armies to invade the Song Dynasty, the East Route Army sent troops from Henan, directly pointing at Guangshan, Luoshan, Dingcheng and other counties to coerce the Xiangyang Yangtze River line, while the West Route Army sent troops from Shaanxi to attack Sichuan, thus forming a two-line attack form, wanting to break through the natural danger of the Southern Song Dynasty from the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River and seek the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty.

As for the specific battle situation, Gao Huaiyuan is not clear, and he will inquire in detail after arriving in Ezhou, but at this time, Gao Huaiyuan knows that Jin Xuanzong's invasion of the Song Dynasty this time is the same as the outcome of the last Song Ningzong Kaixi Northern Expedition, and now although the Southern Song Dynasty is weak, but the Jin State is not strong, otherwise, even the Western Xia will dare to bully them Jin State, not to mention Genghis Khan's Mongolian army, both sides fight to the end, no one can help anyone, in vain to consume the national strength of the two countries, and after this battle, Dajin State After this battle, will be completely destroyed, history is like this, no one can stop it now!

Speaking of which, Gao Huaiyuan is now the leader of the township Yong in Daye County, but among the three hundred township warriors, there are only 100 people in Gaojiazhuang and Crouching Tiger Village, and the rest of the 200 people are simply a rabble, and they don't even have decent armor, since they left Daye County, these guys have been complaining, and they are procrastinating when they walk, and they are clamoring to rest after walking a few miles, which makes Gao Huaiyuan smile bitterly and shake his head, if he takes this group of people into battle to kill the enemy, he thinks that he should hurry up and apply oil on the soles of his feet, It's better to slip away, otherwise, you're guaranteed to be killed by these guys.

And Gao Huaiyuan is even more unhappy that there is a huge Daye County, and he is also a leader of the troops, but he has not even caught a bad horse so far, all of them are a group of infantry, the best used to pull the cart is a few mules, the rest is some donkeys, and even a few carts are still covered with cattle, it can be seen that the Southern Song Dynasty is now short of horses to what extent, Gao Huaiyuan originally wanted to catch a horse to ride majestic, but he failed to get his wish after all, Huang Yan prepared a mule for him, as his mount, But he was rejected by Gao Huaiyuan, if he rode a mule into battle, it is estimated that people will laugh off his big teeth!

In the past, he only knew that the Southern Song Dynasty lacked horses, but after he really arrived in this era, he knew that it was not a lie, he had been here for more than two years, but he had never seen a few horses, but he was not surprised by this matter, because it was not easy to raise horses in the south, and there were only four countries around the Southern Song Dynasty, one was the Jin State, one was the Tubo State, one was the Dali State, and the rest was the Annam Li Dynasty of South Vietnam.

Needless to say, they are now short of horses, and they are feuding with the Great Song Dynasty, although the two countries have a market, but the Jin Kingdom strictly restricts the export of horses, and the Great Song Dynasty wants to buy horses from the Jin Kingdom, which is undoubtedly seeking skin with the tiger!

Tubo is a horse, but the Tubo people have been wary of the Central Plains for generations, so even if there is a city, they are also unwilling to send horses to the Great Song Dynasty, and the Annan Li Dynasty does not need to mention, the relationship is good or not, not to mention, they do not have many horses to the Southern Song Dynasty import, only Dali is left with this road to go, every year the Great Song Dynasty has to consume huge financial resources, from Dali to import horses, and these Dali horses are short, and not suitable for use as war horses, but even so, the Southern Song Dynasty can only buy a small number of horses from Dali every year, All of them were filled into the army, if the place where the Song army had the most horses was also in Sichuan, there were not many horses in the Song army in the Jinghu area, so it was basically impossible for Gao Huaiyuan to get a horse.

Therefore, Gao Huaiyuan can only honestly follow the team on foot, and now he is also a standard infantryman.

Looking at the group of villagers who were dragging all the way, Gao Huaiyuan felt more and more uncomfortable, so he finally couldn't restrain himself, became really angry, ordered the team to stop advancing, and gathered more than 300 people together.

"Gao wants to ask you, do you know why you went to Ezhou today?" Gao Huaiyuan stood on a big car, looked at the sparse villagers who were staggering around in the two hundred stations below with a cold face, and asked them.

The following people squinted at Gao Huaiyuan with ignorant eyes, no one paid attention to him, Gao Huaiyuan was secretly angry in his heart, but he still forcibly restrained his emotions, and then said to them: "You don't want to say it, then I'll say it for you, this time we are going to assist the Imperial Front Army to fight against the Jin soldiers!" It's to defend the country! And your performance along the way really made Gao feel cold! If you go to war like this, please forgive Gao for saying bluntly, you are looking for death! If that's the case, it's better to find a place to hang yourself, and it's better to end up with a whole corpse! Gao Huaiyuan couldn't help but be scathing when he spoke.

As soon as he said this, the people below were unhappy, and at this time, a strong man stood in the crowd and sneered and said: "You rich people know a fart, but it is the lives of our ordinary people to seek your own glory and wealth, we are not willing to be the head soldiers of any Laoshizi, we all have families, and our own land is still not available, where are we willing to go to the army to fight!" If it weren't for the fact that you people forced us to die, the devil would have been willing to go! Hum! ”

Gao Huaiyuan's sharp eyes saw this strong man who was making a lot of nonsense at a glance, and remembered his face in his heart, and sneered: "So do you think that Gao Mou is also going to war because he is also an official, so he is this up-and-coming bird?" ”

"That maybe! ......" At this time, many people muttered one after another, and their words immediately aroused the anger of the fifty teenagers under Gao Huaiyuan, so they immediately scolded angrily under the leadership of Huang Yan, and the following was chaotic.

Gao Huaiyuan was not lightly angry, and pointed at them and scolded: "You are the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain!" Now that the country is in danger, whether you like it or not, you have the responsibility to protect your family and defend the country, think about it, if the Jin people cross the river, how can you still live and work at home, since you are so ignorant, then I also tell you, since I am asked to lead the troops today, then I have the final say here, and you can't be rampant! If anyone disagrees, let the horse come now, and if you defeat me, then I will give way to you! If you don't plant it, just be honest with me, what do you do, otherwise, Gao will be in the army, and when the time comes, don't complain about the young master, I don't miss my neighbors! With that, he jumped out of the cart and stood in front of everyone.

Originally, because Gao Huaiyuan was very young, these villagers looked down on him very much, and when they heard him say this, they immediately started to coax and laughed one after another.

And Gao Huaiyuan's subordinates quit, Huang Yan lined up, and the fifty teenagers stood up one after another with weapons and lined up in five columns behind Gao Huaiyuan, each glaring at this group of uninformed villagers with angry faces, and the fifty villagers in Gaojiazhuang hesitated, feeling that Gao Huaiyuan was their person, and they felt shameless to be so despised and bullied by the villagers of other townships, so after hesitating for a while, they automatically lined up a team behind the youth team, especially the youth team exuded a murderous aura, rushed to the rabble on the opposite side, and immediately frustrated their arrogance.

Gao Huaiyuan looked at them and sneered, "What? Does no one have the guts to come out and try it out with me? ”