With the help of this thunderbolt and rocket, the morale of the Jin army plummeted, and Meng Zongzheng finally waved his army to repel the army that had surrounded Zaoyang County for several months, and Gao Huaiyuan and his party also experienced the cruelty of the battlefield again in this battle.

In this battle, the Song army achieved an unprecedented victory since the beginning of the war, annihilating more than 5,000 Jin troops, and the Wanyan Race, which was directly pursued, did not flee in the wilderness, and completely won the battle of Zaoyang.

And Gao Huaiyuan is really concerned about the application of gunpowder by the Song army in this battle, from this battle, Gao Huaiyuan saw that the Song army still has many imperfections in the use of gunpowder technology and tactics, relatively speaking, although the Song army launched a lot of rockets, but did not really give full play to the advantages of long range, let alone form a comprehensive suppression, this time from the Xiangyang camp sent tens of thousands of rockets, the first battle was consumed clean, it can be seen that to form a bow army, the logistical pressure is also quite large, Only a rich country like the Southern Song Dynasty can withstand such consumption.

As for those thunderbolts and earth-shattering thunder, if they are really the same as the results of Gao Huaiyuan's original experiment, there are more scary elements, and the number of Jin troops who were really killed is not too much, even if they are used in such a dense battle formation, the number of people killed may not be much more than that of stoned death, this kind of power is really a bit disappointing!

However, for this kind of thing that has just been applied to the battlefield, it is more to make use of their effect on people's psychological shock, but we can't force their power too much, at least the more than 200 thunderbolts fired in this battle have played a vital role in the development of the war situation, and have completely destroyed the Jin army that has finished the face and race in spirit, so it can't be weakened.

After the war, when the Song army cleaned up the battlefield, it obtained a lot of baggage when cleaning up the camp of the Jin army, which greatly boosted the morale of the Song army, and the whole army was filled with a joyful atmosphere.

Many people in the army have made some achievements in this battle, and Meng Heng naturally will not forget to ask for credit for Gao Huaiyuan and others, but Meng Zongzheng and Meng Hui and others are quite indignant about Gao Huaiyuan's merits in Qifang Town last time, but there is no reward in the army, and they feel that it is really unfair to Gao Huaiyuan, so Meng Zongzheng wanted to personally write and ask for credit for Gao Huaiyuan's book again, but Gao Huaiyuan smiled indifferently after hearing about it and persuaded Meng Zongzheng.

"Serving the country is a matter within Gao's responsibility, not to mention that it was just to save his life at that time, Huaiyuan didn't care too much about this matter, thank you Lord Meng for your help, this matter is still it, Huaiyuan is still young, and there will be a chance in the future, so I won't trouble Lord Meng to worry about Huaiyuan!" Gao Huaiyuan stood in front of Meng Zongzheng's big case and said to Meng Zongzheng.

After listening to Gao Huaiyuan's words, Meng Zongzheng was quite emotional, so he also dispelled the idea of asking for credit for Gao Huaiyuan again, and nodded again and again: "Although Huaiyuan is still young, his bearing makes the old man have to admire!" Victory is not arrogant, defeat is not discouraged, quite a general's style! Well said! Since you can think so, then the old man will no longer do this, but as long as the old man is still in the army for a day, as long as Huaiyuan wants to join the army, he can come to the old man, and the old man will never treat you badly! ”

After Gao Huaiyuan thanked Meng Zongzheng, he walked out of the tent and returned to his baggage camp, but when he passed by Hu Zaixing's camp, a pair of eyes stared at him fiercely.

A low-ranking officer in a Song army uniform looked at Gao Huaiyuan's back viciously, then spat on the ground and scolded in a low voice: "What a drag!" Don't fall into Lao Tzu's hands, otherwise, Lao Tzu won't be able to kill you! Let's see! Then the guy turned around and walked back to the barracks of Hu Zaixing.

His subordinates beside him whispered: "Du Dutou, why do you always seem to have some holiday with this kid in the baggage camp!" Listen to it, the little ones will come back and help you out! ”

This guy looked around at no one, and then whispered to his cronies: "Don't talk nonsense when you kid listen, when I was defeated from Xinyang to Xiangyang, Lao Tzu led you to try to rob a convoy of township soldiers, do you remember?" ”

The subordinate nodded, "Remember, remember!" The one who led the village soldiers seemed to be a very young boy, and then General Hu came over and incorporated us into his army! ”

"Yes, that kid just now is the guy who refuted our face outside Xiangyang City, I inquired, this guy can be regarded as soaring now, and he has actually become the commander of the newly established baggage battalion, and he has also been awarded the title of Jiupin Baoyilang! Damn, God really has no eyes, and I actually met this guy here! The guy said through gritted teeth.

"Oh......!" The subordinate made a sudden realization.

Gao Huaiyuan didn't see that Du Hu he had offended was also in the army at this time, and returned to the camp to arrange for the villagers to rest, and soon Meng Hui personally carried the wine and food, found Gao Huaiyuan and drank with him, after the siege of Zaoyang was resolved, the Jin army retreated all the way to Xinyang before standing on its feet, and the camp stopped, and Meng Zongzheng and the Song soldiers of the Song army were also quite tired after more than half a year of fighting, seeing that the year had come, Meng Zongzheng knew that at this time the army continued to attack the Jin army, obviously the odds of victory were not high, Therefore, the army was ordered to rest in Zaoyang for a period of time.

Gao Huaiyuan's baggage battalion was originally going to continue to be busy transporting supplies for the army, but Meng Zongzheng considered that after the battle of Qifang Town, the baggage battalion did not take a breather for a few days at all, and Gao Huaiyuan's military achievements were great, but he did not receive any awards, so he did not let him continue to go back to Xiangyang City to escort grain and other things for the army, so that they could also rest in Zaoyang County for a while, otherwise Gao Huaiyuan would not have time to drink with Meng Heng.

In this way, Gao Huaiyuan completely relaxed, and led a group of little brothers to spend a strange Spring Festival in the army, but he didn't know that there was already a lot of trouble in the Gao family in Shaoxing at this time.

Gao Jian was very unhappy about Gao Huaiyuan's expedition with the army, and he didn't know if anything would happen to Gao Huaiyuan all day long, until two days ago, after the servants sent to Xiangyang came back, he learned part of Gao Huaiyuan's situation.

The servant told him what he heard about Gao Huaiyuan in the army, Gao Jian was happy and a little worried, happy that Gao Huaiyuan did not have any major incidents, and he actually made a meritorious contribution to the former enemy and became a nine-grade Bao Yilang, although it was a military rank, but at least it was out of the white body, and finally entered the ranks of officials, compared to his other two sons who were not angry, Gao Huaiyuan's performance was beyond his expectations, Gao Huaiyuan had vaguely told him before, talked about his martial arts, Gao Jian didn't pay much attention to this matter, and now it seems that Gao Huaiyuan still has some ability!

At least Gao Jian felt that although Gao Huaiyuan couldn't take the road of studying and entering the office, it was not bad to be able to take the road of military generals and entering the office, and it was at least a good choice for Gao Huaiyuan!

But at the same time, he was even more worried, he also knew that as soon as Gao Huaiyuan entered the military ranks and had the name of this Bao Yilang, if he wanted to leave the army again, I am afraid it would be even more difficult, let him continue to fight with the army, God knows if Song Guo can win the battle with Jin Guo this time, and when will this battle be fought! It is common for people to die in battle, and they can die at any time without eyes on the battlefield, Gao Jian naturally knows this better than anyone else, and finally Gao Huaiyuan has a little bit of success, and he is even more reluctant to die on the battlefield like this.

So Gao Jian began to think about how to get Gao Huaiyuan back to his hometown in Daye County again, after pondering and pondering, he felt that this matter still had to be operated by him behind his back, although Gao Huaiyuan was angry, but now he seems to be very assertive, and it is estimated that he will not listen to his orders, so he must work hard behind his back to get Gao Huaiyuan back, so after making up his mind, he took advantage of the holiday to get busy.

Not to mention how to find a way to get Gao Huaiyuan back, just say that Gao Huaiyuan spent a Spring Festival in Zaoyang peacefully, and was busy again, after a Spring Festival, the scouts who came back from Xinyang reported to Meng Zongzheng, and after Yan Sai was not in Xinyang to rest, he mobilized the Jin army from Luoshan, Guangshan and other places, and gathered tens of thousands of Jin troops again, and the Jin army in Xinyang was mobilized quite frequently, and there was a great intention to continue to attack Zaoyang in the south.

Therefore, Meng Zongzheng and Hu Zaixing and others prepared the Song army after the festival, strengthened the city defense of Zaoyang County, built the city wall on a large scale, and built various fortifications to resist the enemy, and Gao Huaiyuan naturally had to travel between Xiangyang and Zaoyang County to transport all kinds of materials, and after several battles, these township soldiers already had the consciousness of joining the army, became very good command, and orderly, so Gao Huaiyuan took a lot of effort, and the work was much easier, and he didn't have to worry too much about the road!

Since arriving in Xiangyang, although Gao Huaiyuan is in it, and he is only a low-level officer, but he has not lost his way because of this, even on the battlefield of flesh and blood, he can still maintain a cold and onlooker mood, and constantly absorb various nutrients in the war to enrich himself, so he can be said to be looking at this war as if he was out of the way, so many things can be seen more clearly.

From these months and Meng Zongzheng and their joint campaign, he will see a lot of knowledge from the war book and battle strategy, compared to the knowledge obtained by reading alone, more real, no wonder the ancients said that reading thousands of books is better than walking thousands of miles, talking about this truth, there is no success for no reason, all successful people are in the actual life of the accumulated experience, people who have not been on the battlefield, want to become a famous general, basically the probability is similar to the probability of falling down and picking up 10,000 taels of silver.

Gao Huaiyuan didn't read a lot of novels in his previous life, which of those famous generals who went down in history is not experienced in a hundred battles and learned from actual combat, a half-immortal person like Zhuge Liang is estimated to be made up at all! Gao Huaiyuan is a little skeptical now.

From this battle of Zaoyang, Gao Huaiyuan has seen that neither of the Song and Jin teams is enough to eat each other in terms of quality or quantity, this war has actually shown a stalemate, the Song army has contained the offensive of the Jin army when it first started the war, and stabilized the battle line, then what is the next is a protracted battle, what is the final outcome, it is excusable if others can't think of it, but he is like a mirror in his heart, in the end, the two countries consume national strength, and no one can help anyone. Cheapened the barbarians of Genghis Khan in Mongolia for nothing.

But as a Han man in the Song Kingdom, he naturally hopes that this war can end as soon as possible, and sincerely hopes that the victory can be on the side of the Song people, but unfortunately at the moment he is just a small baggage battalion commander, and his soldiers are only seven or eight hundred people, and the small aspects can help a little, but he has no way to deal with the left and right of the war situation, the township soldiers are the township soldiers, even if they are selected young and strong, there are also good and bad situations, and if they want to train them to be qualified soldiers, It's not something that can be done in such a short period of time!

Unless he is lucky enough to shoot the head coach of the Jin Army to death, otherwise, he Gao Huaiyuan can only be a bystander of this history! A little butterfly is still a little butterfly in the end, and it can't fan the big waves!

So Gao Huaiyuan is very content, he can do as much as he can, as for whether he can control the battle situation, he doesn't have much luxury, now is the time to learn, just seize the rare opportunity in front of him, not to mention that now he has more than 30 qualified officers under his command, presumably one day, he can always do something for this era!

Although Meng Zongzheng defeated the Jin army in Zaoyang this time, it did not essentially make the Jin army reach the point of breaking the bones, so the Jin army is likely to make a comeback soon, and the Song army's intelligence system is really flattering, often in hindsight, they could have expected the Jin country to attack this time, and they had been prepared in advance, but even so, it was still the Jin army in the initial stage of the continuous capture of a large number of cities, it can be seen how bad this intelligence work is!

So after Gao Huaiyuan secretly wrote down this article, he wondered in his heart whether he wanted to establish his own intelligence system, which could also play some role in the future?

However, at the moment, this can only be a plan, whether it can be put into practice, but it is necessary to see the actual situation, after all, to engage in intelligence work, the selection of personnel is very important, at the moment he has no suitable person to engage in this work, not to mention that if he wants to set up a huge intelligence network, the amount of money needed is probably astronomical, with his current financial resources, I am afraid that he will not be able to meet this requirement.

Sure enough, when Meng Zongzheng had just prepared in Zaoyang, Wanyan Sai was inconvenient to lead more than 50,000 Jin troops again, and he waved his division from Xinyang to kill it, and soon arrived in Zaoyang County.

After more than two months of preparation in Xinyang, the Jin army once again recovered its vitality, Wanyan Sai did not mobilize a large number of new troops from Luoshan Guangshan and the hinterland of Jinguo Henan, and pounced on Zaoyang County with great momentum.

So this time, when Wanyan Sai did not make a comeback, the preparations were quite sufficient, and the army brought a large number of siege equipment, and made a posture of not giving up if Zaoyang County was not attacked, but in this way, it slowed down the pace of their actions, and the army meandered more than ten miles on the road, moving slowly like a reptile, which greatly reduced the suddenness of their battle, and also gave Meng Zongzheng and other Song troops sufficient time to prepare.

Gao Huaiyuan learned the news on the way back to Zaoyang from Xiangyang, Meng Zongzheng sent someone to inform him that the materials needed by the military should be transported to Zaoyang County as soon as possible, and there were still things to tell him to do, so Gao Huaiyuan did not dare to slack off, and immediately urged the baggage battalion to escort a large number of materials transported this time, and accelerated the speed towards Zaoyang County.

However, after his baggage battalion transported the goods to Zaoyang County, he was stunned that he did not see a single Jin soldier arrive outside Zaoyang County, which shows how slow the Jin army's action speed has been this time, but it made Gao Huaiyuan run back and forth between Xiangyang and Zaoyang County a few times without danger.

"Huaiyuan came back so quickly, I'm worried that you will run into the vanguard of the Jin Army on the road! Now I am relieved, the speed of Jin Jun's coming this time is not fast, so we are fully prepared! Meng Zongzheng summoned Gao Huaiyuan to the temporary marshal's mansion in his city and said to him with a smile.

"Thank you for your concern, the young general thinks it's not surprising, the Jin army is attacking this time, there are a large number of soldiers and horses, and Xinyang to Zaoyang, all the way is mountainous, even if you want to be fast, you can't get up fast, not to mention that the soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first, and it is impossible for tens of thousands of people to eat and drink on the mountain road to go fast! It is said that the Jin army has lost the opportunity this time, and our army will definitely be able to repel the Jin army again under the leadership of Lord Meng in this battle! Gao Huaiyuan lost no time in patting Meng Zongzheng's ass, and by the way, he expressed his opinion on the slow movement of the Jin Army this time, anyway, everyone is comfortable listening to good words!

"Yes, I didn't expect Huaiyuan that you are not only brave and good at fighting, but also know so many things, not bad! This time you came back just in time, I just received a message from General Hu, he is ready to lead the army to attack Wuyang Pass, as long as Wuyang Pass is recaptured, then you can hold the gate of Ezhou, so that the Jin army can no longer enter Xiangyang! This time, the official wants to send you to transport a batch of supplies to Yingshan to support General Hu, I don't know if Huaiyuan is willing or not? Only then did Meng Zongzheng say what he thought.