General Zhang, don't be in a hurry, since we are here, we will never let anyone starve to death again! Now you can't eat more if you've been hungry for too long, take your time, otherwise it will hurt you! Gao Huaiyuan personally stepped forward, took the empty bowl from Zhang Shi's hand, and said to Zhang Shi sincerely. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although Zhang Shi didn't eat enough, he also knew that what Gao Huaiyuan said was for their good, and he didn't dare to ask for food anymore, so he thanked Gao Huaiyuan: Let Lord Gao laugh, I am really hungry in the next place, don't hide it from you, I have run out of food three months ago, and I first made a living by killing the mules and horses in the city, but after all, the mules and horses in the city are limited, and they were soon eaten up by the military and civilians.

Later, we ate bark and grass roots, but this thing in the city is also limited, to some time ago, we really didn't have anything to eat, some time ago, there was even cannibalism in the city, even the rats in the city, were dug up by the soldiers and civilians to eat a clean, in short, we have eaten all the things that can be eaten, and some people are hungry, so they eat the soil, and they are strangled to death, if you are late, I am afraid that everyone in the city will starve to death!

Speaking of this, Zhang Shi couldn't help crying again, everyone listened silently, and felt uncomfortable, especially Gao Huaiyuan, as if he felt that Zhang Shi was condemning him, he led the troops to Jizhou outside the city for nearly a month before the Mongolian army was repulsed, to be honest, fundamentally speaking, he did have some selfishness, in order to keep his generals from too much loss, he adopted the strategy of sticking to the camp, so that many people in the city were starved to death during this time, and now listening to Zhang Shi's words, he felt deeply guilty.

If there was no final defeat in this battle, then his strategy was not wrong, but in the end, he still fell into Polu's plan, and the Song army lost more than 20,000 people.

After listening to Zhang Shi's words, Gao Huaiyuan got up again, bowed deeply to everyone around him, and sighed: Although we repelled the Mongolian army this time, it can only be said to be a defeat, all because I underestimated the enemy, so that the soldiers and civilians in the city suffered in vain for so long, Gao Mou will report to the court to ask for guilt!

Although Gao Huaiyuan blamed himself, but others didn't see it that way, everyone didn't expect that Polu would abandon more than 20,000 people under Zhang Rong's subordinates, and the army would attack, although it was a fiasco at first, but if it wasn't for Gao Huaiyuan leading the troops to block the main force of the Mongolian army, and attract all the Mongolian army, then the others are estimated to be all over, and Gao Huaiyuan in a completely unfavorable situation, but also led the troops to resist the Mongolian army for a few days, and finally repelled the Mongolian army, everyone is only grateful, But there is nothing to complain about.

If someone else leads the army, it is estimated that he will first smear the soles of his feet with oil and run away, who will care about the life and death of other generals!

So no one complained about Gao Huaiyuan, but he respected him a lot, and after listening to his words, they got up to refute his words.

After fighting for a long time, Gao Huaiyuan felt that it was not interesting, now they were obviously temporarily unable to continue the northern expedition, the most important thing was to revitalize the army and civilians in Jizhou City first, and then rest on the spot to prevent the Mongols from coming back.

The city was in a dilapidated state, and there were not even a few decent houses left, so after discussion, the army was still stationed in the camp outside the city, but the camp was to be moved closer to the city wall, and the whole army went into rest.

This battle can be said to be the largest loss of troops, when the coalition army set off from Jinan, the strength of more than 60,000, in addition to the previous losses in the battle of Yuhe, after this battle only more than 30,000 people remained, the loss reached more than forty percent, many formations were disabled, and even some of the formations no longer existed, if not a reorganization, it is difficult to carry out the Northern Expedition Zhang Rong again.

However, Gao Huaiyuan did not intend to let Zhang Rong's life be better, but still sent a large number of scouts to Shenzhou, Jinzhou and other places to investigate the movements of the Mongolian army and Zhang Rong, and sent messengers directly to Zhang Rong's hometown Baozhou, so that Zhang Rong immediately returned to the imperial court, and threatened him that if he did not surrender, he would lead the army to attack him, and when the time came, his life would be killed, and even his whole family would not let go, and he would be destroyed Zhang Rongmanmen.

At the same time, in order to commend the merits of Zhang Shi, the general of Jizhou City, Gao Huaiyuan even ordered Zhang Shi to be awarded the title of Zhengqipin Yiweilang, and at the same time awarded Zhang Shi the post of the head of the soldiers and horses of Jizhou City, which was recorded in the book, and reported to the imperial court after returning to Beijing to officially confer the official, so as to commend Zhang Shi for leading the army to defend Jizhou City and resist the undefeated Mongolian army for half a year.

Don't look at this little Qipin Yiweilang is not a big official, but after all, this is also an official of the imperial court, and for the soldiers like Peng Yibin, it is undoubtedly a very high reward! This made Zhang Shi and the surviving soldiers and civilians in Jizhou City very pleased, feeling that their efforts in the past six months had not been in vain, and the imperial court finally recognized their merits.

In addition, Gao Huaiyuan also announced that all the soldiers and civilians in Jizhou City, regardless of life or death, as long as they have names and surnames, will be rewarded for meritorious service after the war, which greatly comforts the soldiers and civilians in the city.

The reason why Gao Huaiyuan dared to do this, in fact, is also because he has the right to dispose of Jingdong's affairs granted by Zhao Yun, he has the right to decide on the appointment and dismissal of officials under the six products, and after returning to Beijing, he only needs to report to the Ministry for the record, so that he can be awarded to Zhang Shi on the spot to encourage him, otherwise, even if he is a big official, in the era of the Song Dynasty, he has no right to award officials to anyone.

In addition to being busy, Gao Huaiyuan also began to think about Jingdong's affairs, and sent someone to pass ** to Jinan Mansion to meet him, and by the way, Peng Yibin was also healing in Jinan Mansion, and happened to talk about it together, and Fu Daquan and Zhou Jun were also Jingdong's final say, so naturally they were also on the agenda, Gao Huaiyuan himself also arranged the affairs of Jizhou City, handed over the military affairs to Hua Yue to be responsible, and returned to Jinan Mansion with Zhao Futang.

In any case, this Northern Expedition has basically achieved his goal, and it is impossible for him to take this opportunity to continue to expand the land, and it is enough to recover the land of Jingdong, as for the recovery of the Central Plains, the current conditions are not yet mature, so it is the first thing to maintain Jingdong at present.

He has also received the news sent from the capital, the new Jingdong system envoy Zhao Fan has arrived in Chuzhou, and the prefect officials from all over the country have also begun to take over the local government affairs of Huaidong's original Li Quan's jurisdiction, and Xu Xiji has also rushed to Xuzhou to take up his post, at least the Huaidong area has been initially stabilized, as long as the original policy is implemented, Huaidong's agriculture and commerce These economic matters will be solved quickly.

As for the small number of Li Quan's old troops who refused to surrender, they could not make any big waves, and after the Huaidong Army gradually moved north, it would be able to maintain local stability, and sooner or later these people would lose the basis of their activities and eventually become honest.

And the current thing is Peng Yibin and **, Zhao Yun's meaning is very clear, they can't be let be local warlords anymore, otherwise, sooner or later, disasters are likely to occur, so the army can continue to lead for the time being, but it must be unified, and the military personnel of the imperial court will serve as commanders, reintegrate their soldiers and horses, gradually reorganize, disrupt their territorial boundaries, and gradually form a regular army.

And Gao Huaiyuan also agreed with Zhao Yun's opinion, no one who is the emperor wants anyone to sit on his own soldiers and horses, and the Tang Dynasty is in the midst of the separation of warlords, such a lesson The emperor of the Song Dynasty has always kept in mind, so he has always suppressed the military with literature, but he did not agree to let the civil officials control the military generals, the civil officials do the civilian affairs well, and the war matters should be less interfered, so that they can do their own things and will not affect each other.

Fighting a war is a professional thing, not someone who can learn it after a few days of studying, if civilian officials can fight, then the generals are useless, so he advocates the separation of Jingdong's military and civilian affairs, and does not interfere with each other in their own ways, and now he is entrusted with full authority to deal with Jingdong's affairs, which is also a rare opportunity, so Jingdong will be a test field, so he can try this kind of policy.

has the right not to expire and invalidate, Gao Huaiyuan is still a pragmatist in this regard, and he still dares to take risks when he should take risks, so ten days later, ** and Peng Yibin, Fu Daquan, Zhou Jun and other important local military and political figures in Jingdong have rushed to Jinan Mansion, and Gao Huaiyuan and others are in Jinan Mansion.

**This time I came to Jinan Mansion can be said to be uneasy, after all, he was first an official in the Jin State, and later returned to the Song court, and then was forced by Li Quan, and also switched to the Mongols, and then turned against the Song court.

At present, he can also see that Song Ting's recovery of Jingdong is already a sure thing, although he controls Dezhou, Cangzhou, Qingzhou and other places, but at the moment his strength has absolutely no room for bargaining with Song Ting, Li Quanquan is powerful, right? Not in less than half a year, it was completely cleaned up by the Song army, and the current Jingdong recruited the envoy Gao, but he is not a good talker, from the situation of his use of soldiers, this person is an absolute main battle faction, this time the Great Song Dynasty sent troops to the Northern Expedition, it can be seen that it is all promoted by this person, and the new monarch of the imperial court seems to have made up his mind to completely return the three places of Jingdong to the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

At the moment, he doesn't really want to sit on the ground and claim the king, after all, his territory is close to the sphere of influence of the Mongols, and the Mongols have always coveted the land of Jingdong, to be honest, his land is not a good place, as long as the Mongols go south, his piece of one acre and three points of land is the only way, and he is not sure when it will be swallowed by the Mongols.

This time, no matter what, he led his troops to resist the attack of the Mongol army in Dezhou, which was regarded as a big gift to the imperial court, but I don't know how this tall man plans to arrange him in the future, on the way to Jinan Mansion, ** has been thinking about these things.

Knowing that ** had arrived outside the city of Jinan Mansion, Gao Huaiyuan did not sell much, and personally led his subordinates out of the city to greet him, and picked up ** and his party outside the city gate.

From a distance, ** led 500 iron cavalry escort this time, although the number of troops is not much, but it also seems to be very clean, indicating that ** still has a small hand in commanding troops, otherwise it would be impossible to let the Mongolian army touch a nose in Texas.

Gao Huaiyuan dismounted and led his subordinates to stand in the official road, and when he saw a tall man dismounting, he dismounted from a distance, and those of his entourage also dismounted, leading the horse and walking quickly towards his location.

You must be a tall man! Humble ** See tall man! stepped in front of Gao Huaiyuan, lifted his robe, and knelt down in front of Gao Huaiyuan.