After arriving at the camp, Gao Huaiyuan knew that Hu Zaixing had already led his troops to make a detour to the north of Zaoyang to meet the invading Jin army, so he was not able to personally lead the army back to help him, so he was no longer angry about it.

After all, Hu Zaixing was in a military emergency, so he neglected to take care of his baggage team, rather than doing it sincerely, and Gao Huaiyuan was not a cautious person, so he put this matter down.

In the next two days, Gao Huaiyuan was responsible for constantly sending out the escort grain and grass equipment, and after arriving here, they were temporarily safe, and because of the success of the first battle, the generals in the army did not dare to underestimate their township soldiers, even if they sent people to receive grain and straw and other things, they were very polite.

And Gao Huaiyuan also took the opportunity to learn about the battle situation in Zaoyang, and couldn't help but start to be a little worried.

Although Meng Zongzheng led an army of 10,000 to rescue Zaoyang this time, the commander of the Jin Army, Wanyan Sai, did not also arrange heavy troops here, and planned to take Xiangyang directly after taking Zaoyang County, so in Zaoyang County alone, nearly 30,000 troops were gathered, and the strength far exceeded the Song army, and the battle situation was very unfavorable to the Song army.

From Gao Huaiyuan's point of view, if he wants to solve the danger of Zaoyang at the moment, it is not easy for the Song army to gather troops and horses to fight a decisive battle with the Jin army, otherwise not only will he not be able to solve the siege of Zaoyang, but he may also be taken advantage of by the Jin army and be wiped out, but he does not have a map of Zaoyang, and he does not know the details of the Jin army, so this kind of idea can only stay in his mind, and he cannot really make a battle plan.

As a township soldier escort who was responsible for transporting baggage, he was not even an officer, and he was not qualified to participate in any military meetings at all, so even if he had ideas, he could not put forward his own opinions, so he could only gather his subordinates Jia Qi and others together, and through some information he knew, he privately analyzed and discussed the battle situation, but in essence, he could not provide any advice to Meng Zongzheng.

However, this did not affect Gao Huaiyuan's interest, after all, he came here this time, not really wanting to make any military exploits, but with the idea of observing and learning, so although he could not participate in the war decision-making, it was not bad to be an auditor here, so he did not have any sense of loss, but ordered his subordinates to take this opportunity to see more, think more, learn more, and do their part well.

The next battle situation was really as he and Jia Qi expected, Meng Zongzheng was a veteran in the end, and he was not stupid enough to fight a decisive battle with the Jin army with weak troops, but divided his troops into three ways with Hu Zaixing, Chen Xiang and other generals, and began to attack the Jin army in the Zaoyang area from three directions, using the method of dividing troops to attack, seeking opportunities to destroy the enemy in the movement.

And Gao Huaiyuan's township soldiers, during this period of time, also distributed all the grain and straw they escorted to the various armies, and were once again ordered to return to Xiangyang to transport grain, but they were not able to go to the front line in person to participate in the offensive and defensive battle of Zaoyang, which lasted for several months.

Even so, Gao Huaiyuan was immediately ordered, ordered more than 400 of his villagers, and returned to Xiangyang on the road, and Meng Zongzheng also learned that part of the Jin army had bypassed Zaoyang from the area of Tanghe County, and began to contain the Song army in the vicinity of Xiangyang. The archers of the Song army, strengthened his troops, and even ordered the head of the capital to obey Gao Huaiyuan's dispatch, which shows that Meng Zongzheng has learned about Gao Huaiyuan's ability from Meng Hui, so he will be so gracious.

And Gao Huaiyuan also knows that now in the area of Zaoyang and Xiangyang, the forces of the Song and Jin armies are like dogs, and this trip can be said to be very dangerous, so from the very beginning, he ordered everyone in the camp to be vigilant and always be vigilant against the situation encountered at any time, and Huang Yan and others who had horses were also used as scouts, so that several of them opened the way in front of the team, and the provincial army was suddenly attacked by the Jin army.

Fortunately, on the way back to Xiangyang, they were lucky, and they drove forward with an empty car along the way, walking relatively fast, and did not encounter any Jin troops again, and rushed to Xiangyang City three days later.

At this time, it has reached the early autumn season, counting the time, their group has been out of Daye County for almost three months, and even the weather has begun to become a little cooler, and the wind in the night has begun to bring a little coolness.

At this time, Gao Jian, who was in the Gao family compound of Shaoxing Mansion, was holding a letter and was furious, slapping the table and shouting: "This San Lang is really too bold!" It's good not to stay in the old house, but go out with the army to fight in Xiangyang! Damn it! What a damn thing! It's not like that! ”

Gao Jian originally heard the news that Gao Huaiyuan became the elder from an old man in Daye County some time ago, and he was a little happy at first, but when he thought that Song Jin was now at war again, he was a little uneasy, although he didn't care much about Gao Huaiyuan's affairs before, but after the meeting a year ago, he began to love this son who could know filial piety from his heart.

Thinking that Daye County was not far from Ezhou, Song Jin had to recruit local people to join the army when he started the war, and Gao Huaiyuan, as an elder, should be within the scope of requisition, so he hurriedly wrote a letter to Liu Zhixian in Daye County, asking him not to recruit Gao Huaiyuan to go to the army, and also sent some money to Liu Zhixian to dredge this matter, what he was afraid of was that Gao Huaiyuan was young and vigorous, and ran to the army to serve.

He also wrote a letter to Gao Huaiyuan, asking him to stay at home in peace, don't be a rafter, the war is not a joke, the war has been a hundred years between Song and Jin, and the war has basically not stopped, basically the Great Song Dynasty suffers mostly, Gao Jian is of course very clear, so he told Gao Huaiyuan not to do stupid things impulsively.

After sending someone to send it to Daye County urgently, Liu Zhixian of Daye County wrote a letter in person, greatly praising Gao Huaiyuan, and informing Gao Jian of Gao Huaiyuan's trip to Daye Township to Ezhou Daying, and told Gao Jian that now Gao Huaiyuan and his party should have arrived in the Xiangyang area.

Gao Jian just received a reply from Liu Zhixian at this time, and he was dizzy on the spot, if it was placed in the past, he would not be very happy at most, Gao Huaiyuan's life and death are not a big deal, but now because of the improvement of the relationship between father and son, Gao Jian has attached great importance to Gao Huaiyuan's life and death, and when he heard that he had led people to Xiangyang, his heart suddenly pinched.

Shaoxing Mansion is very close to Hangzhou Lin'an, so the news is better than other places, and such a major event as the Song and Jin wars, as a person from the government, is always paying attention to the development of the situation, and Gao Jian is just responsible for the general judgment of the documents, so of course he knows the movements of the Jin army, and knows that the Jin army has taken Xinyang and other places in Jiangbei at this time, and the soldiers are pointing directly at the Xiangyang area, Gao Huaiyuan ran there at this time, and in his opinion, it was like sending him to death.

That's why I was so anxious, like an ant on a hot pot, while getting angry, I walked around the house, thinking about if there was any way, Gao Huaiyuan would get Daye County.

But after thinking about it, he couldn't think of any good way, now Zhao Fang is in charge on Jingxi Road, he is just a Shaoxing general judge, and he can't reach Zhao Fang's side at all, and in the chaos, even if he can find Gao Huaiyuan, he doesn't dare to let Gao Huaiyuan leave Xiangyang without authorization and run back to Daye County, otherwise, he will escape from the battle, and even his father will be connected!

What annoyed him even more was that this time from Liu Zhixian's letter, he actually found out that Gao Huaiyuan was also the escort of the Daye County Township Barracks this time, Gao Huaiyuan was actually the chief general of the Daye County Township Barracks, this matter made him a little helpless, he really couldn't figure it out, even if Gao Huaiyuan was better than before, he would not be so powerful that he could be the leader of hundreds of people!

In his opinion, this time the incident was fundamentally caused by Liu Zhixian and others in Daye County instigating Gao Huaiyuan, and they definitely poured some ** soup into Gao Huaiyuan, a stupid boy, so that this stupid boy would take the initiative to jump out and be this bullshit escort, this kind of thing should be done by the county lieutenant or the archer in the county government, otherwise, Gao Huaiyuan is only fourteen or fifteen years old after all, how can he serve the public and lead the troops!

Therefore, Gao Jian firmly thought that Liu Zhixian and his gang were harming Gao Huaiyuan, so he hated these people in his heart, although he was an official in Shaoxing Mansion, and it was not all the way to Jingxi Road, but he knew about the matter of official communication, so after thinking about it, there was no way to get Gao Huaiyuan back from the battlefield at the moment, but he had to take a breath of no matter what he said, and rectify Liu Zhixian or that Wang County Lieutenant.

Therefore, he sent someone to write a letter to the prefect of Ezhou, who was a fellow scholar, and tactfully told him about the matter, suing Liu Zhixian and Wang County Lieutenants to gain power, and sending his son, who was only 14 years old, as an escort to serve in the army, and also gave this colleague a generous gift, asking this colleague to help him breathe a sigh of relief.

As for Gao Huaiyuan's matter of leading the township to join the army, everyone in the Gao Mansion quickly learned about it, and the wives immediately secretly rejoiced, and they all saw that now Gao Jian is more and more fond of this stupid son, especially the Zhang family, who is his wife, seems to see a glimmer of opportunity from it.

Now he has no hope that Gao Jianneng will forgive her biological son Gao Huailiang, and until now her uncompetitive son Gao Huailiang has been sent to Fujian to suffer, she can't help it, this time when she heard that Gao Huaiyuan left home without permission to join the army to help the war, she felt that this opportunity had come, even if she couldn't let her son Gao Huailiang return to Shaoxing, at least she would try to get him back to his hometown, at least the hundreds of acres of fields in the old mansion could also let him end up with a life of food and clothing, which was always much better than in Fujian.

After making up her mind, she immediately found Gao Jian and tried to persuade Gao Jian, in the name that Gao Huaiyuan was far away from the old mansion and there was no one to take care of it, she wanted Gao Jian to bring her son Gao Huailiang back, and go back to the old mansion first to take care of the affairs of the old mansion.

But as soon as Gao Jian mentioned this unfilial son, he was angry, and he also knew that Gao Huailiang was his own flesh and blood, but where in this world is there a saying that his son cuckolds his father? So he was determined to ignore this guy, and the person who went back to Daye's old mansion this time also brought back the news, saying that Gao Huaiyuan had already arranged the affairs over there before leaving home to fight, leaving a loyal servant named Xue Yan to take care of the affairs over there, and according to the people who came back, this Xue Yan took care of the old mansion well, and the hundreds of acres of land on the old mansion, he also made up his mind to leave it for Gao Huaiyuan to use for the elderly, so when he heard the idea of Zhang's old house again, he wanted to get Gao Huailiang's unfilial son back, immediately became even more furious, reprimanded, and drove Zhang back to her residence, ordering her not to mention the name of Gao Huailiang's unfilial son in her life.

As a result, Zhang's nose was dusty, and he went back to lie on the bed and cried a lot, but there was no way to take Gao Jian.

Gao Huaiyuan didn't know that his father Gao Jian had already known his whereabouts, and was busy "venting" for him in the back, and at this time he had already loaded the grain needed by the army in front of him in Xiangyang, and left Xiangyang with the convoy again, rushing towards Zaoyang County.

You have to have the consciousness of what to do, although you can't go into battle to kill, but Gao Huaiyuan doesn't envy those soldiers who can go into battle to kill, after all, he is still young, he wants to do more things for the Han people, and he is not in a hurry to go to the battlefield to die! What's more, if he wanted to, he could have been in the army a long time ago, and he would have been an officer in the regular army under Meng Zongzheng or Hu Zaixing, but as soon as he entered the army, it would be even more difficult to come out again! Therefore, he still decided to do the things at hand first, anyway, it seems that this battle between Song and Jin will not take a short time, and sooner or later there will still be a chance to meet with Jin Jun.

When he left Xiangyang this time, he made sufficient preparations, investigated the news about the activities of the Jin soldiers in the Xiangyang area, and finally gave up the plan to return to Zaoyang by the old road, and chose a slightly farther road to the south where the Jin army had not yet appeared.

After leaving Xiangyang, he immediately led his team day and night, and rushed to the former enemy camp.

Speaking of Meng Zongzheng's army is in Zaoyang and the Jin army fighting, in essence, the main battlefield is between Xiangyang and Zaoyang, during these days, Meng Zongzheng and Hu Zaixing, Chen Xiang three people have been in the Qifang Town area and the Jin people have fought many times, the two sides are inseparable, it can be said that there are mutual victories and defeats, although the Jin army is strong, but after all, this is still the territory of the Song people, the Song army under the leadership of these three people, the use of guerrilla warfare, and the Jin army repeatedly maneuvered, so that the Jin army can not grasp their main force, can not carry out a decisive battle, The Jin army on Zaoyang's side was also unable to attack for a long time, so that their forces were greatly dispersed, and it was difficult to form an absolute advantage over the Song army locally.

And Gao Huaiyuan's baggage team is not the only baggage team in the hands of Meng Zongzheng, after all, more than 10,000 soldiers and horses are consumed, and it is far from enough to rely on Gao Huaiyuan's less than 500 baggage team supply, in ancient wars, it is often that the logistics soldiers may be far more than the regular army, and Gao Huaiyuan and his party do the same thing in the township barracks There are still more than a dozen, which is also for the sake of insurance, a baggage team in the province was knocked out, and the whole army fell into a situation of running out of food.

Therefore, even if he took a long detour for two more days, Gao Huaiyuan was not afraid that the army would run out of food because of his delay, so after careful consideration, he still chose to go back to Meng Zong's camp in Huanglong Town.

When leaving Xiangyang City two days later, Gao Huaiyuan escorted the convoy into the mountain road, the reason why Gao Huaiyuan chose such a difficult road, or for the sake of safety, once the Jin army cavalry is encountered again in the plain area, there is no place in front of the village and no store, a horse Pingchuan in addition to sitting and waiting to be killed and stubbornly resisting, he has no better way, it is good to meet a small group of Jin army, once he encounters a large group of Jin army, he will eventually end up with these people, and he will definitely be killed.

So don't look at the mountain road is difficult, but it is safer to walk, especially the road to Huanglong Town, which is far away from the passage between Xiangyang and Zaoyang, and the possibility of encountering Jin Bing here can be said to be very small.

So in the end, after weighing it again and again, Gao Huaiyuan chose this path.

Although it has reached the end of summer, the weather is still unusually hot, and the baggage team often has to go early in the morning, rest on the spot at noon when the weather is the hottest, avoid the high temperature period, and then return to the road in the afternoon when the weather is cooler, so it is also comfortable to walk.

Especially after entering the mountain, everyone's tense nerves have also relaxed, so everyone talked and laughed while walking, now Gao Huaiyuan has completed the stage of Liwei, so he no longer holds a pair of unapproachable shelves every day, and from time to time will also gag and chat with these villagers, so that he and his subordinates are much closer, sometimes the army is like this, pay attention to a degree of relaxation, can not always let his subordinates tense, that sooner or later will incur the disgust of his subordinates, Gao Huaiyuan naturally understood the truth, so he grasped the scale very well, and gradually became familiar with these people.

In this way, it is more convenient for him to control this village soldier, and even the Song army archers who came with them have gradually integrated into their group, after hearing about Gao Huaiyuan's previous battle in Qifang Town, these Song soldiers also admired Gao Huaiyuan very much, and no one dared to treat him as a child.

In this way, for two days, they walked more than half of the mountain road, and came to a place called Tiger Cliff, seeing that it was noon, Gao Huaiyuan ordered the team to stop advancing, and rested in the shade on the side of the road, and after noon, they started again.

But at this time, Huang Yan, who was opening the road in front, suddenly ran back on his horse, and shouted nervously: "There are a large number of golden soldiers in front, young master quickly prepare ......"