Lu Yihao said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Mingjian, a few months ago, my emperor was forced by the power of the gold thief to go to the sea, and now he has just returned to Lin'an, and the hearts of the people of the Great Song Dynasty are fluctuating, if the emperor can come to the front line to supervise the battle, the morale of the army and the people will be boosted, and this battle will be won!" ”

"Well, Lu Xiang's words are reasonable!" Zhao Tianci said to Zhao Gou, "Father, the child thinks that what Lu Xiang said is very reasonable. ”

Zhao Gou nodded, and said in his heart I also know that he has a point, but how can this matter of going to the battlefield be so easy, besides, he was chased by Jin Bing for a long time, and he didn't want to see them from the bottom of his heart.

Zhao Tianci suddenly turned out from behind the dragon book case, and respectfully knelt in front of Zhao Gou and said loudly: "Father, the child is willing to supervise the army on behalf of his father!" ”

As soon as he said this, not only Zhao Gou, but everyone was stunned.

"I can't!" Zhao Gou stood up suddenly.

Zhao Tianci had tears in his eyes and said in a trembling voice, "Father, some time ago, the child was in exile among the people, and there were many rumors from the people, and there were even more disrespectful people who called the father the 'Runaway Emperor', although the child is young, but he also knows the righteousness of the son of man, for the reputation of the father, for my Great Song Dynasty Wannian foundation, please allow the child to go on behalf of the father!" ”

He said these words extremely earnestly, and Zhao Gou stood there with trembling figures, tears in his eyes, and couldn't say a word. How could he not know these folk rumors, but...... He can't help it!

Qin Hui, who was kneeling there, spoke again, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is the important weapon of the country, golden branches and jade leaves, and it is not suitable to appear in the reckless army, as for the folk rumors, whoever dares to talk nonsense, just grab it and kill it!" ”

Zhao Tianci jumped up, took three steps and made two steps to Qin Hui, reached out and grabbed his collar and lifted him up. "Bastard, don't you know the truth that the mouth of the people is more important than the defense of the river?"

"Huh? This ......" Qin Hui was dumbfounded again, this would really slap the horse's hooves.

The prince pushed Qin Hui hard, and Qin Hui fell to the ground with a thud. The current Zhao Tianci is not the powerless little doll a few months ago, and the strength of his fall made Qin Hui fall backwards.

Lu Yihao rolled over and fell to his knees. Crying, "Your Majesty, since ancient times, there has never been anything like today, the people of the Great Song Dynasty endured humiliation and shame, looking forward to the arrival of the Son of Heaven and driving the enemy thousands of miles away. Please let the emperor make his own decision! ”

The prince and old man Lu are working together to stage a double reed, if you can't see it until now, then you don't have to stand in the court.

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

"The ministers seconded it!"

In the blink of an eye, he knelt down in a large area, Zhao Gou had tears in his eyes, and said in a trembling voice: "What the prince said today is really beyond my intentions, if there is a son like this, what more can the husband ask for?" As he spoke, he burst into tears.

"Father. If you really want to drive the expedition, how can children and other orphans and widows deal with themselves? Zhao Tianci knelt and climbed two steps. He bowed and wept.

"Your Majesty, you can't!" The courtiers pleaded in unison.

Zhao Gou sighed, "That's the case, what about it...... I'll allow the crown prince to oversee the army on my behalf! ”

"Thank you, Father!" Zhao Tianci's voice was louder than anyone else.

The matter of the crown prince going to the front line to supervise the army was thus decided.

The next step is to make the preparations.

The first person to make a big fuss was the crown prince's biological mother, Concubine Pan Xian, when she learned that her son was about to go to the front, this always gentle and elegant concubine suddenly changed her temperament and dragged Zhao Gou to make trouble for two days. There was really no way to make Zhao Gou trouble, so he called Zhao Tianci over and explained it in person, and finally let Concubine Pan Xian, who was red and swollen in eyes, reluctantly agree.

But what can she do if she doesn't agree? In fact, after Zhao Gou said that sentence in the court, he also regretted it. After all, the crown prince is too young, and it is too ugly to let him supervise the army on behalf of his father at such a young age. But the emperor, Jinkou Yuya, you can't change what you say casually, it's just that Zhao Tianci was extremely excited when he saw Zhao Tianci's elated appearance, which made his guilty mood improve slightly.

But the rest of the people are different.

First of all, there are several high-ranking staff around the prince, Li Zongzhi doesn't need to say it, his father Li Gang doesn't need him to say it, and directly asks him to protect the prince closely, and he can't leave an inch. Lu Qinghou was also strictly advised by his father, the prince's safety is not only related to the society, but also closely related to the rise and fall of his Lu family, and there is no need to ask when he is by the prince's side. Zhao Yiyan and Fan Yunqi were sent over by Zhao Ding, and dropped a sentence "If the prince is there, the prince will die" and then turned his head away, making the prince have a lot of good feelings for this unsmiling imperial envoy. In order to persuade his mother, the young Fan Xun made trouble at home for three days and three nights, until he was forced to go on a hunger strike, and he reluctantly obtained his mother's consent and was reluctantly sent to the prince's mansion. However, his father Fan Zongyin had a calm face, saying that "the eldest husband is ambitious but not old", and he agreed very much with his young son's military career. Zhu Shengfei was also unambiguous, and he didn't care about his baby son Zhu Chongwen following the prince to the front line.

And the most headache is that Miss Lu, hearing that the prince wants to supervise the army on the front line, Miss Lu resolutely decided to accompany her, not to say that her family, even the prince himself completely disagreed, which made her very depressed, and later under the "guidance" of Fan Xun, who succeeded in the "struggle", took the "hunger strike" magic technique, so that the family gave in, which is also strange.

Luo Yunfei, the martial artist of the crown prince, heard that he was going to the front line in person, but he was as calm as water, and the sentence "When to go, I will go and prepare" set the itinerary to protect the prince with him, so that Li Ge'er next to her was angry and stared, when she learned that the "hunger strike" was useful, it was already the second day after the prince led the Qin guard to set off.

There is no need to mention the people in the prince's camp, and when they learned that they were going to the front line with the prince, everyone was very excited. However, when they learned the specific itinerary and arrangement, the young soldiers quit, and looked at the soldiers who had just participated in the training for more than a month and were arrogantly preparing to set off, they were so angry that they blocked Zhao Yiyan and Lu Qinghou in the camp, and vowed not to let them go, and the two commanders couldn't go.

However, on the day of departure, the young soldiers still came in full gear one by one, followed by a large number of officials of all kinds, crying out to pull them back. It's a pity that the good dolls on weekdays blocked them back with a sentence of "We are the prince's people, and the prince is older than the sky".

Zhao Tianci actually from the bottom of his heart, he still hopes that these "second generation officials" will follow, after all, no matter how much training is usually done, it is not as powerful as the real battlefield, but they are children after all, and it is inevitable that their blood will be surging, and there is no need to be impulsive. However, the prince's sentence of "those who violate the military order will be killed" did not scare them, and the young soldiers collectively demanded to "live and die" with the prince, which made the prince laugh and move at the same time.

Zhao Gou is even more happy, seeing that these children of the official family and their beloved children are of one heart and one mind, life and death together, and he was moved to make a will, all the children of the official family of the prince's mansion, who are officials in the court, are all added to the official level, and those who are not listed in the official status will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver, so that it has really become a happy situation.

But the saddest thing in this is the initiator Lu Yihao, when the prince came to him in military uniform, he said in a low voice with a bitter face, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, if you have any mistakes, you don't need the emperor to speak, those people can eat the old minister alive!" ”

Of course, Zhao Tianci understood his thoughts, and after a few words of comfort, he led the crowd to set off.

After it was decided that the crown prince would supervise the army, the imperial court notified Han Shizhong in an expedited manner. Han Shizhong, who is the envoy of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, was stunned when he heard the news, he didn't know how old the prince was, let a doll prince supervise the army, what does this mean?

He couldn't figure it out, let alone others, and for a while, the whole army was talking about it, and they didn't know what the court was going to do.

However, there was a person beside him who saw the mystery, and this person was his wife Liang Hongyu.

"The prince is supervising the army on behalf of his father, and it is a good time to boost the morale of the army!" Liang Hongyu woke up the person in the dream with a word, Han Shizhong suddenly realized, he thought that it would be Emperor Gaozong who came in person, he had just cooperated to quell the Miao Liu Rebellion, not only his wife Liang Hongyu was named Mrs. Anguo, but he also had to send a real envoy from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the saint was thick, if the emperor came in person and showed his might in front of the saint again, the future of his Han family would be infinitely better.

After such a little pull from his wife, his original disappointed mood immediately warmed up again, and ordered the whole army to prepare and prepare to meet the prince.

At this time, the general of the Jin soldiers, Wanyan Zongbi, that is, the golden vulture, was taking a full load of 100,000 military horses all the way north along the Yangtze River, preparing to return.

This area is not far from Lin'an, but he took the men and horses all the way south to pursue Gaozong Zhao Gou, the lone army went deep, it has been five months, people are tired and tired, from Chizhou all the way, almost everywhere there are Song people attacking, making him miserable, but also strengthened his determination to seize the time to retreat north, after all, there is no backup here except for his own lonely army, and he will be swallowed by the Song people if he is not careful, so he only takes the waterway on the way, and rarely docks, which saves him a lot of trouble.

A short distance north along the Yangtze River, it is the place where the water division of the Great Song Zhenjiang River is stationed, and the commander of the water division is also familiar with it, the man named Han Shizhong will meet when he goes south, but he did not block his tiger and wolf division, and after the small battle, he led the troops to withdraw. So he didn't think that Han Shizhong would dare to lead people to wait for him in Zhenjiang.

However, his speculation is speculation after all, Han Shizhong not only stationed troops in Zhenjiang to prepare to compete with him, but also prepared another rich gift for him, that is, Xiuzhou City.

Among the Han people, there has never been a lack of people who drill camps, and they are known as "traitors" in history. Wang Mingquan is one of them. Ever since he was brought on board by the Jin soldiers in Chizhou to act as a guide, he has devoted himself to fulfilling his "sacred" duty.

Wang Mingquan has lived along the river for generations, and is very familiar with the waterways in the south of the Yangtze River, which is also an important reason why the Jin soldiers have rarely encountered resistance since they got the waterways. (To be continued.) )