Chapter 18 Heavy Snow Hinders the Journey
The goose feathers and heavy snow came, and the Song army advanced like a town. The www.biquge.info of this kind of weather was the most unfavorable for the march, and seeing that the speed of the march was getting slower and slower in the snowstorm, the king ordered the camp to be encamped.
A probe reported that the defeated army of Western Xia had withdrawn to Western Xia by the same route.
"Haha, it's really fast!" Tong Guan said with a glance at Zhe Keshi.
Wang Bian ignored their small movements, he and Yue Li were sitting by the fire in the tent, and the two of them sat opposite each other with a game of chess in the middle. When it was Yue Li's turn to play, he hesitated for a long time before putting down a son, and said to the king: "It seems that the civil strife in Western Xia is more serious than we imagined." ”
"General Yue, if I take advantage of the victory to pursue, I am afraid that you will lose this game, do you still have the heart to care about the civil strife in Western Xia?" Wang put down a son and looked at Yue Li.
"Lord Wang, if you are determined to win, then I can only admit defeat left. Don't go down, admit defeat. What the hell is the weather! Yue Li muttered and stood up.
"Look at you! I've only lost a few games and won't play! And the king also stood up.
Tong Guanzhi Keshi and the seed master saw that the two of them got up and didn't go out, and the three of them came to the chessboard. "Daddy?" Tong Guan shouted to the king.
Wang Bian smiled and nodded, the most boring thing on the march, it was a bit of fun for Wang Bian to have a game of chess pieces, not to mention these children.
A gust of wind blew into the tent, and Ke Jun and Zhang Ping walked in from outside.
"Lord Wang, General Yue!" When the two men entered the door, they saluted the two beside the king.
"How's it going, it's all settled? Sit down and say," the king sat down at the table, and a guard immediately stepped forward and handed the hot tea that had just been scalded to the king.
Several people sat down around the table, and Zhi Kejun said: "Just now we have summoned the chief and deputy generals of each ministry and the generals of each department, and according to the instructions of the prince and the general, we have ordered them to do a good job of protecting the soldiers from the cold. At present, the coal, grain and grass are still sufficient, and the prince and General Yue can rest assured that we will not be afraid even if it snows for a few days. ”
Yue Li said with a smile: "I'm so afraid that I can't talk about it, it's just that the prince is in a panic, and he wants to catch me, a stinky person who plays chess, to relieve his boredom." ”
Zhi Kejun and Zhang Ping also smiled, and Yue Li looked at the king and asked, "I said Lord Wang, why can't you see how happy you are when you win?!" ”
"What's the point of winning with someone who is not as good as me. It's like the Tangut people, looking at us to win, but they won in their own civil strife. Amusing! Alas! ”
Yue Li and the others glanced at each other, Wang Bian seemed to be very relaxed, but this kind of relaxation was just that he didn't have to find out about his son's news in the future, but it couldn't erase the guilt and regret in his heart. But in front of everyone, even if Wang Bi is sad in his heart, he will force a smile. What's more, he was also anxious about such weather, Zhao Ji urged him to return to the capital as soon as possible, but Xixia had such a good opportunity, if he didn't win it in one go, I am afraid it would be a hidden danger of the Great Song Dynasty in the future.
With a loud report, another scout horse walked into the camp tent: "Lord Qiqi, the corpses of several Western Xia soldiers were found twenty miles ahead. ”
"Probe, report!"
After the horse left, Yue Li said: "It's cold, it's estimated that it's an injured Western Xia soldier!" ”
Wang Fang nodded: "It is estimated that it is the usual team that escorted Li Liangzuo's corpse back to Western Xia, Zhang Ping, has the person you sent not come back yet?" ”
Zhang Ping was slightly stunned: "That's right!" I also sent a crowd to follow them to Zhenrong with the order of your release, the prince, are they also trapped in the snow? Why haven't you seen it yet? ”
Zhi Kejun speculated: "Do you want to stay in Zhenrong and wait for us?" ”
While a few people were talking, someone came to report: "Lord Qiqi, thirty-two corpses of Western Xia soldiers were found forty miles ahead. ”
"How did you die?" Wang Bi began to feel that something was wrong.
"Some of them have wounds on their bodies, and these Western Xia soldiers are all curled up together, and they seem to have frozen to death."
"Investigate and report again! Come back! If you see it again, check it carefully. ”
Wang Pan didn't know why, it was not particularly strange that a few or dozens of corpses appeared after a war, but the closer these corpses were to Zhenrong, the more they felt, and Wang Pan vaguely felt that things were not so simple.
Sure enough, when I came to the report again, I found hundreds of corpses of Western Xia soldiers sixty or seventy miles away from the front, and according to the soldiers' reports, the upper bodies of these Western Xia soldiers were heavier than what I saw before, and they seemed to have come from the direction of Zhenrong.
The snow has been falling for two days, and the snow is almost up to the calf joints, although according to Zhe Kejun's estimates, there must be enough food and grass for some time. But Wang Bian's psychology began to get anxious, this kind of weather not only delayed the best time to attack, but also more and more corpses in front of him began to make Wang Bian a little uneasy.
This kind of uneasiness is somewhat regrettable, maybe it is my own selfishness that makes these Xixia diseases freeze to death in the ice and snow. Still some anxiety and wondering how the usual situation is going? And the soldiers sent out by themselves, how come there is no news at all.
If the snow doesn't stop, it becomes a snow disaster, and even if the snow stops, it will be difficult to travel. A probe came in with a sweaty head and reported, "Lord Qi, two or three hundred corpses of Western Xia soldiers were found in the first hundred miles. ”
The brows next to the king furrowed even tighter, so the Song army and these Western Xia troops had fought in front of him? These Western Xia troops basically had no room to fight back, not to mention that less than two hundred miles further forward was Zhenrong, and these people should have crossed the Zhenrong border and returned to Western Xia Huizhou. What's going on ahead?
The Western Xia soldiers retreated in two parts, one part was the batch that the king wanted to put around, and the other part was followed by Fang Dang and some generals of the Western Xia, rushing through Luzhou Village and going back, of course, Fang Dang was just a minister next to Li Liangzuo, if no one supported him in secret, and no one in the army cooperated, he couldn't do anything to kill Li Liangzuo and blame Manba's father and son. This time the Great Song Dynasty was dispatched, and Li Liangzuo drove the expedition in person, in addition to Manba's father and son, there were several deputy generals, one of whom was called Xianba.
The surname was first given because of the reward, and by the Song Dynasty, this surname had become the national surname of Western Xia. Of course, the surname can also illustrate a kind of glory to a certain extent. And this glory rarely illuminates the official career of Xianba, but how many years have he been mixed, he is still a deputy general. In the end he summed it up, and there were stumbling blocks in front of him. Fortunately, the prime minister and the queen appreciated him and gave him such a good opportunity to make meritorious contributions.
The cooperation with Fang Dang is still good, and their choice of timing is also correct, but it seems that God does not favor them. They were just happy that Wang Bei had entered the Xixia camp alone, and it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be able to kill Li Liangzuo and blame the Man's father and son, and by the way, to seize the commander of the Song army. But they never expected that the king was too brave, and they didn't expect that the commander of the Flying Dragon Garden, who was not good at words, and the hundreds of close soldiers of the Flying Dragon Garden, would play a decisive role at a critical moment.
In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Xianba promoted and appointed some generals, and finally stabilized the Western Xia army in turmoil, and now they have to consider returning to the Western Xia Kingdom as soon as possible to preserve their strength. Don't look at the sluggishness of the Western Xia army when it came, but under the leadership of Xianba, it was like a wolf. Although the fleeing Western Xia army was greatly defeated in Luzhou Village, Xiangba and Fangdang were still fortunate that the Song army did not chase them, which made them return to Western Xia in a hurry.
Although Xiangba and Fang Dang wept bitterly and were ashamed to plead guilty for not being able to bring back Li Liangzuo's body, the generous queen Liang Luoyao forgave them. The country cannot be without a monarch for a day, and Li Bingchang, Huizong of Western Xia, succeeded to the throne, because his age was too young, Liang Luoyao listened to the government and held the power of Western Xia with Liang Yi, the minister of state.
However, Liang Luoyao, who listened to the government, began to worry, and the war between Xiping Mansion and Tubo continued; The army of the Great Song Dynasty also attacked Xia Zhou at the same time; Even Huizhou is in an emergency, and the troops next to the king have already lined up to fight and may send troops at any time. Liang Luoyao gritted his teeth and scolded the king, and at the same time sent the soldiers to support these three important places in three ways; At the same time, he quickly sent people to Liao to move rescue troops.
The Western Xia was a vassal state of the Great Liao, and although the Western Xia people were eyeing the Central Plains, they did not dare to provoke the Liao people. In front of Da Liao, Xixia is an honest child who has been wronged. And Liang Luoyao even claimed to be an orphan and a widow, pretending to be pitiful. The so-called moving rescue troops is nothing more than taking a fancy to the relationship between Liao and the king and asking Liao to come forward to resolve the conflict.
Since the Great Liao State quelled the Luanhe Rebellion, the past few years can be regarded as smooth weather, Wang Fang originally let the Liao State through the way of grain stamps to the Goryeo mortgage, these years of interest so that Yelu Hongji can be regarded as a taste of sweetness. There is no need to worry about internal and external troubles, and governing the country is even more martial arts Xiao Ying, Wen has Xin Zan, Yelu Hongji has lived happily in the past few years.
If the emperor feels happy and happy, he must be too lazy to take care of the government, although the queen Xiao Guanyin is beautiful and moving, but after all, he likes to remind Yelu Hongji a few words that he doesn't like to hear, so after a long time, Yelu Hongji slowly alienated Xiao Guanyin. In terms of posture and talent, the concubine Shan Deng is definitely not as good as Xiao Guanyin, but Shan Deng will not nag in front of Yelu Hongji, nor will he persuade Yelu Hongji to be a Ming Jun and concentrate on political affairs.
Drinking and having fun every day, Yelu Hongji was very at ease, of course, he would occasionally miss the king, and whenever he was interested, he would mention the things on the Twin Towers Mountain. Shan Deng listened tirelessly, accompanied by a smile, and said from time to time: "The saint is wise and martial to have the help of the gods, and everything will be able to turn evil into good fortune and become auspicious." ”
With such a talkative concubine, how could Yelu Hongji not be happy? It's a pity that the king was born next to the Great Song Dynasty, if it was in my Liao Kingdom, how could the king stop him as the king of Zhennan? Shan Deng even likes Yelu Hongji, that is, he helps Yelu Hongji find beautiful women. This point is even less feminine than Xiao Guanyin's always persuading Yelu Hongji, which seems to make Yelu Hongji feel that Shan Deng is more intimate and lovely.
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