The news of the slaughter of Shenzhou frightened the people, and the ferocity of the Mongols exceeded their imagination, so not only the people of Jinan Province fled, but also the people of Enzhou (now Wucheng County, Shandong) and Dezhou were also wrapped in some soft things, all the way to the hinterland of Jingdong, and suddenly the road to the south was overcrowded. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The people of Jingdong can't figure it out, why they have so many disasters and difficulties, when the Jin army went south, it harmed their ancestors not lightly, these more than 20 years, the Jin country is getting tighter, and the rebels from all over Jingdong have swarmed, Jingdong has not been living for a few days, the people just want to farm well, and they can be content to have food, but often they have just planted food, and before it is ripe, they start a war again, and as a result, they have to flee to avoid the military disaster, and when they return to the original land, the food planted is long gone, So back and forth, the common people don't want to farm, anyway, they can't harvest it, and they are white when they are planted, so they simply go to the army if they have the strength, and whoever they follow, as long as they can eat and live, they can only flee if they have no strength, and as a result, the population of Jingdong is getting smaller and smaller, and the land in many places has been abandoned into wasteland.

After Gao Huaiyuan led the troops out of Xuzhou and into Tengzhou, his movement slowed down, and the roads were full of people who had taken refuge in the south, these people were yellow and thin, their clothes were ragged, and they could not get food supplies along the way, so that many people fell on the road while walking, and watched them starve to death.

When they saw a large army on the road, these refugees did not know the details and hurriedly avoided them, but when they saw clearly that it was the officials and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, they became a little bolder, and some of them came to the side of the road, knelt on the ground and begged the officials and soldiers to reward them with a bite to eat.

Such a tragic situation made all the Song officers and soldiers who went north palpitate, and they couldn't help but sigh and cry when they looked at the starvation who kept falling to death on the side of the road.

Gao Huaiyuan couldn't bear to see so many refugees starving to death on the way to escape, and ordered to open a porridge shed for relief along the way, and gave porridge to these refugees, but he didn't dare to take out a large amount of military food to use in porridge, after all, the amount of military rations they brought to the north this time was limited, if they were given to these refugees, then when they arrived at the front line, they would have to fight hungry, and they didn't have to fight to know what the result would be, Gao Huaiyuan was not stupid enough to flood love, so he could only allocate a small amount of military rations and soothe them a little, There is no guarantee that every refugee will be well fed, only that they will have a mouthful of gruel to drink and will not starve to death on the road.

Seeing so many refugees so miserable, Gao Huaiyuan knew that his current strength alone was not enough to help so many refugees, so after leaving Tengzhou all the way, he immediately wrote a chapter to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to quickly allocate the grain from the southern treasury to the north, and set up resettlement points in Chuzhou, Xuzhou, Suqian and other places to receive and resettle these refugees, and then repatriate them after the north is pacified. He also ordered Liu Chengyi to take out as much food as possible, set up a large resettlement site in Yizhou, receive as many refugees as possible, and provide them with food.

These refugees have suffered too much over the years, I am afraid that even history has not recorded their suffering, if Gao Huaiyuan did not personally lead the army to come today, I am afraid that the people of Jingdong have suffered to this extent, and now the whole army has no objections to this dispatch of troops to the north.

Gao Huaiyuan has repeatedly explained to the soldiers in the army that Jingdong is the old land of the Great Song Dynasty, and the people living here are the remnants of the Great Song Dynasty, and they are all brothers with the same root and the same bloodline, they are going to save these refugees in dire straits, only after stabilizing the situation in Jingdong, these people can live in peace, so long of propaganda, so that the whole army has reached a consensus, that is, it is necessary to repel the Mongolian army, in order to save the people of Li from fire and water.

Of course, this kind of psychological propaganda alone is not enough, Gao Huaiyuan also encourages morale with military merits, encourages the generals and men in the army to make meritorious contributions in front of the battle, and fights for their future wealth and glory. One is to have food to eat and get paid, and the other is to hope that through military merits, one day get ahead, as long as the army can reward and punish clearly, who said that the Song people are born cowardly? There are many people who are not afraid of death in the battle, which is also an important reason why they were able to successfully exterminate Li Quan this time.

The more the army went north, the more refugees numbered, so that the speed of the march became slower and slower, Gao Huaiyuan pinched his fingers, they had left Xuzhou for ten days, but only to the north of Qufu, if they went on so slowly, he was worried that if they did not wait for them to reach Jizhou City, Jizhou would be broken by the Mongols.

Once Jizhou is lost, then the portal of Jingdong will be opened by the Mongols, and then the Mongolian army can attack Dezhou, or go south to attack Enzhou or drive straight into Jinan Mansion, in this way, and then want to drive the Mongols out of Jingdong, I am afraid that only with this little man on hand, plus all the soldiers and horses of the Flying Tiger Army, it is not enough to complete this task, the time limit of half a year is set by himself, and when Jingdong is unstable, he will not be able to escape the blame!

So Gao Huaiyuan no longer dared to slack off, and ordered the army to speed up to Jinan Mansion, leaving only a small number of auxiliaries to help the refugees along the way, so as to increase the speed of the march.

This time he led the troops to battle, bringing a total of 40,000 soldiers and horses, in addition to the soldiers and horses of the palace division and the infantry division, he also transferred a group of soldiers and horses from Zhenjiang Mansion, and also brought the 7,000 Flying Tiger Army led by Fu Daquan, in addition, he was also temporarily incorporated into the 5,000 strong men of the old Li Quanjun who surrendered to the Song army during this time, and only then did they gather 40,000 troops, if they arrived in Jizhou City this time and could not repel the Mongolian army, then it would be too late to transfer troops from the country.

Therefore, it is not easy to win this battle, Gao Huaiyuan discussed countless ways to deal with his generals when he was in Xuzhou, and he can basically do it with confidence now.

Among the men and horses of the Song army, there were a large number of vehicles of a peculiar style, this kind of car has thick wooden planks in front and one side, which can be loaded with materials when marching, the larger ones are pulled by mules and horses, and the small ones can also be pulled by soldiers.

Gao Huaiyuan knew that this object would be something for them to restrain the enemy cavalry, but few people knew what it was actually used for.

Peng Yibin of Jinan Mansion was about to see through it, and just when he was about to feel fooled by the imperial court, someone came to report that a Song army had appeared south of Jinan Mansion, numbering about 5,000 people.

Peng Yibin was first happy, and then there was a burst of disappointment, happy that the stars and the moon finally looked forward to the Song army, disappointed that the Song army only came 5,000 people, for the 30,000 Mongolian troops besieging Jizhou City, it was too little, he led tens of thousands of troops several times to rescue Jizhou City, but they were defeated by the Mongolian army.

But the bad guy came, he couldn't be rude, he had an injury on his leg at the moment, which was not conducive to walking, so he could only send his deputy general Shi Chonggui out of Jinan Mansion to meet the Song army on his behalf, and he insisted on having people carry him to the south gate of Jinan Mansion on a stretcher to wait for the arrival of the Song army.

Zhao Futang rushed all the way to Jinan Mansion, for the front station of the army behind, although there are not many soldiers and horses, but kneeling in the Holy Army is Gao Huaiyuan's most descendant of the soldiers and horses, its elite degree is second to none in the Song army, whether it is equipment or morale, are more than Peng Yibin's righteous army a lot, when Shi Chonggui led three thousand righteous troops to meet them ten miles outside the city of Jinan Mansion, after seeing the situation of this Song army, I couldn't help but gasp.

He now understands why the Song army was able to wipe out Li Quan in one fell swoop this time, because the Song army he saw this time was really much beyond his expectations, only to see that when this Song army came from a distance, the team was neatly drawn and banners were displayed, and they exuded a blatant murderous aura from afar, and they were also considered to have been on the battlefield for a long time, just one glance, you could feel the strength of this Song army, such a military appearance is not only something they have never seen in their army, even if it was at war with the Jin army back then, the flower hat army of Fusan Anzhen did not have such a lineup.

If the army is just in formation, it is estimated that many armies can arrange a very beautiful formation, but only this kind of awe-inspiring murderous aura can only be possessed by the real elite division that has been in a hundred battles, and then look at this Song army, since it appeared in front of them, until it has been in front of them, the whole army can not hear any noise, can only hear the neat roar of the landing when they take steps.

Stop! With a shout from the army, the whole army immediately stopped together, but the team was not in a mess, and then a war horse rushed out of the team and went straight to Peng Yibin's army to meet them.

I am Li Xiaotian, the former commander of the Great Song Palace, I don't know who your army is the main general, please come out and answer! The Song general, who came, pulled the reins of the horse ten zhang in front of Shi Chonggui, and the war horse immediately stopped.

Shi Chonggui couldn't help but secretly praise, the soul of the source soldiers, just look at the momentum of this Song general, you can see the difference between this Song army, although this Song army only has about 5,000 soldiers and horses, but the pressure on people is far more than tens of thousands of righteous troops, Shi Chonggui can't help but start to believe that this Song army may really be able to relieve the siege of Jizhou.