The emperor arranged like this, and his attitude was obvious, and in the sigh of admiration at the bottom of the stairs, the emperor stood up, tried his best to make a solemn gesture, and announced loudly: "Zhongshu Province intends to take Zheng Yunming as the ambassador of Henan, Hebei, Hedong, and Yanshan Economic Strategy, and the right prime minister, to control the military horses of the front roads, and when the holy decree arrives, immediately supervise and lead the whole army, and raise the army to the north, don't let the Hu people have a moment of respite after the new defeat!" ”

Even if the emperor's will was conveyed with a gold plate, it was still a step slow after all, and when the holy decree arrived in Ezhou, the more than 200,000 troops gathered here had already marched to recover Xiangyang. Sister-in-law Suo Ke Er said that the most suspicious Yan Qing girl said that the recovery of Xiangyang was achieved in an extremely easy way, and the prince Mo Ge, who was lucky enough to flee to Jiangbei, did not dare to stay for a long time, and after collecting tens of thousands of defeated soldiers, he hurriedly went north, and when he left, he handed over the defense of Xiangyang to Jinghu Jinghu Jingluo to beg for power, according to which this is not an inappropriate treatment, since Xiangyang military horse Wanhu Li Zhen was captured by the Southern Dynasty, the rank of the beggar power platform is the highest commander in Xiangyang, but there are only more than 1,000 people left under the beggar power platform, Although the defeated Mongol army has been going north through Xiangyang these days, no one wants to stay and share the fate with Xiangyang, Ren is three-year-old child also understands that Zheng Xianggong of the Southern Dynasty will soon lead a large army to take Xiangyang, this time, no military horse can stop his victorious army.

The beggar power platform exhausted all methods, and finally only got more than 10,000 defeated soldiers, he understood that these newly defeated soldiers were not enough when Zheng Yunming struck, in a hurry, he chose a confused to a somewhat outrageous way to enhance the troops, he ordered the army to sign in Xiangyang City, so that all the men over the age of thirteen in the city went to the city wall to garrison, he thought that with his more than 10,000 troops, it was more than enough to suppress the men in the city, and it was the cheapest thing to use the manpower of the Southern Dynasty to resist the army of the Southern Dynasty, he forgot one thing, the people of Xiangyang, It is a reserve soldier who has been trained by Zheng Yunming for 20 years, and when they have no weapons in their hands, they can only swallow their anger in the face of the obscenity of the Mongol army, and sending weapons into their hands is tantamount to a tiger and wolf getting out of the cage.

Especially when the army of the Southern Dynasties came. After Bai Yijie's spies disguised as defeated soldiers and infiltrated Xiangyang City, they immediately organized the strong men who were issued, killed the Mongolian army officers guarding the city gate, opened the west gate and the south gate, the Song army broke into with a drum, and the strong men everywhere in the city were also launched at the same time, almost in an instant, the Mongolian army in the city was swept away, and captured the beggar power platform and dozens of his cronies, and when Zheng Yunming entered the city in the morning, the city was already full of Song army flags, and countless tears and cheers of the people of Xiangyang.

The palace of the ambassador of Jinghu is already a sea of joy, and the servants of the major restaurants in Xiangyang also present the wine and delicacies to the water, and the wine that has been cellared in the city of Xiangyang for 20 years, the name is called "Xiongnu blood", or the wine brewed by the new distillation method after the victory of the first defense of Xiangyang, and to this day, it is a good time to talk and laugh and drink the blood of the Huns.

In addition to the current leaders of several major battlefields, the elite of the Southern Dynasty are all in Qi, and the first Wang Deng is obviously lonely, who would have thought that when the general decisive battle between him and Yang Luo for many years really came, he and Yang Luo were not present, which can really be described as the biggest regret in life, Yang Luo is sparse by nature, and in Yunnan is the Tiangao Emperor Yuan, I don't think so, for Wang Deng, who is thirsty for soldiers, it is indeed the most difficult thing to accept. Originally, the Privy Council expected that even if the Mongolian army came to attack in a big way, the focus would inevitably be in Sichuan, with the first general under Zheng Yunming guarding here, taking the needle tip of the road to Maimang, not wanting to suddenly have a change in Xiangyang, and the Mongols took advantage of the situation to focus on the attack on Jinghu, Wang Deng led 30,000 elite soldiers in Shu to be blocked by more than 10,000 Mongolian naval forces at the mouth of the gorge, which was an unprecedented predicament since he used the army, and finally Wang Deng used a deceitful strategy to lure the Mongolian army into the canyon near the White Emperor City. Only by annihilating them all was they able to successfully break through the defense line of the gorge and relieve the siege of Jiangling, but at this time the battle of Ezhou was nearing the end, and the Mongol army had been defeated. Wang Deng's gains are not to say the most, even Xiang Shibi, who is in charge of cleaning up the battlefield on the southern front, is inferior.

Bai Yijie looked at Wang Deng's sullen appearance, waved a feather fan and laughed: "Why bother Jing Song, now that the great mountains and rivers are in front of you, Luoyang, Chang'an, Taiyuan, Daimyo, Jinan, Yanshan and even Bianliang, how much glory is waiting for you to pick, why bother yourself for the credit you didn't get in this battle?" ”

Wang Deng said in a deep voice: "I don't have to do it, but I can't compete with the main force of the Mongols, and it's really hard to calm down!" ”

Wei Shengmeng took a sip of the wine in the cup and said loudly: "What's important, I already know the strength of the Tartars, if it was placed twenty years ago, they were indeed an invincible force in the world, but they have fallen behind, even if there are hundreds of thousands of catties of giant artillery, it is still impossible to overcome the strong barriers of our army, this is not because of the backwardness of weapons, this is the reason why training, tactics, supplies, and technology are all backward, what is the genius of the world comparable to Sun Wu, nor is it that we are really more courageous than Han Yue's predecessors, It is the national level of the Great Song Dynasty, which has surpassed the Mongolian country many times, and our army should be invincible in the future expedition! ”

"That's a good point!" Lu Wende, who was sitting on the first place on the left, stood up and threw away the leg of mutton in his hand, in terms of merit, in addition to the Ezhou officers and soldiers, Lu Wende and the Great Song Navy were in second place, and he naturally had the confidence to say this: "In the past, Zhang Rou said that ten Song soldiers were not the opponent of a Mongolian soldier, and after today, I think I have to change the word, one Song soldier can beat him five Tartars!" Broken, you say yes or no! ”

Only Han Feng still remained calm in the sitting, as the number one general who had won the most in the entire campaign and captured the most enemy troops, his response was unusually calm, he said indifferently: "Meng Ge will have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, gather in Ezhou to promote the narrow land, and can not use the siege of the city to help, with our army reinforcements as the first target, this is the root cause of his defeat, the advantage of the Mongolian cavalry, lies in the stride forward and retreat, enjoy the complete freedom of mobility, if you are in a formation to the death, hard work, is to expose its shortcomings, But if it was in the Central Plains, in the vast land of Qilu Yanzhao, they would never step into the same trap again, especially in the endless grasslands and wastelands of Mobei or the Western Regions in the future, which were the native of the Mongolian cavalry, and it would never be so easy to win easily. ”

Zhang Sheng shouted: "When you talk about it, it's exactly the same as that Xianggong, it's so boring!" Come on, come on, I wish you a feast today, no matter how bloody he fights! Strategist, do you dare to bet with me? ”

Everyone knows that he is a reckless man, and he is addicted to gambling, and there are strict orders in the army not to fight, but as long as he leaves the barracks, there is a ** in the casino, and there is a song in the army: "The iron bone and copper head Zhang Zhan is under the jurisdiction, and today he will be rewarded with a thousand eight, and tomorrow there will be no worries." "It's about the brave Zhang Chan in the camp, who fought bravely and often got heavy rewards, but in a blink of an eye, they all entered the bottomless pit of the casino, and even Panhuan has not been able to accumulate any land to this day.

Bai Yijie smiled: "What does Dutong want to bet on?" ”

Zhang Sheng rolled his eyes, showed a treacherous smile, and said: "If you guess the odds and doubles, use a chip, I'm afraid that others will say that I have bullied the military advisor, if it is a big and small elephant play, fighting the double land, it is impossible for us rude people to compare with the military advisor, in this way, let's make a simple bet, just guess where Xiang Gong is now?" ”

Zheng Yunming just presided over the ceremony of the banquet at the banquet, and said a few words such as "all the gentlemen are brave, enjoy this day" and other scenes, and left the table in a hurry after the second tour, everyone is accustomed to it, Xiang Gong is not a character who likes hot scenes, everyone has already developed the habit of entertaining themselves, and Xiang Gong has never thought about it. After such a good killing, if he didn't lock himself in the study and hold back one or twenty lessons, how could he come out easily? ”

Everyone laughed, but Chen Guang shook his head and said: "I don't think so, after every battle, Xianggong must first ask about the wounded, and pay tribute to the deceased, I estimate that he is either doing private things in Longtan Temple now, or checking the wounded soldiers in the immortal camp." ”

Yu Jue also seemed to be infected by the lively atmosphere, and said in a long voice under the seat: "The envoy of the imperial court arrived yesterday. Perhaps it is fair to ask for rewards for our merits, today's great achievements, I don't know how many people on the seat are honored as marquis, glorious ancestors, and everyone has to write the annals of history from now on, and it will be famous for centuries. ”

Everyone was excited, if they could leave a name in history in the world, they would really live up to the blood of a head in the field for so many years. But Zhang Sheng said triumphantly: "No, no, I said that what you said is not right, Xianggong must be there"

"Wait." Bai Yijie shook the feather fan and said with a smile: "Where there is a guanpu, there must be a reward, I don't know today's host, but what is it?" ”

Zhang Sheng lifted a silk scarf from his side, untied it, it was a gorgeous Mongolian gold broad-brimmed helmet inlaid with large and small gems, and said: "We were deceived by the Tartar Li Dai Tao's stiff plan, although we didn't get Meng Ge's body, but we finally didn't have empty hands, and we won a helmet here." What does the military advisor think? Is this helmet worth at least two hundred taels of silver? ”

Bai Yijie nodded: "It's a good thing, I don't know what I should take out to correspond?" I'm a poor scholar, and I can't get such treasures. ”

"There is no need for anything else," Zhang Sheng said loudly, "If I guess correctly, I only need the white feather fan in the hand of the military advisor." ”

When he said this, he made the hall laugh, and Wang Jian, the commander of the Xiongwu capital in Shuzhong, slapped the table and said with a smile: "Zhang Manzi! Do you want to learn from a military advisor and become an elegant Confucian general, a chaotic man like you who can't read a few big characters! That's why you call monkeys to wear costumes, and they don't look the same inside and out! ”

Zhang Sheng blushed and shouted: "Who is willing to be like these scholars, who doesn't use knives and guns to fight, and pretends to be a feather fan!" I just took the fan and hung it in our own hall, and when a guest came, I asked about this fan, and I said that it was won from the smartest person in the world, how glorious! ”

Bai Yijie laughed, raised the feather fan flat, gently placed it on the table, and said, "Okay, just bet on this host!" Where is the minister's name, please make it clear! ”

Zhang Sheng said triumphantly: "You don't know that Xianggong is not elsewhere at this time, and is looking for flowers and hunting for flowers in the prisoner camp in the west of the city." ”

When he said this, there was a big uproar in the hall, Jiao Jin slapped the table with a shocking sound, and shouted: "Zhang Sheng, you are such a big dog, you dare to slander the reputation of the public!" You're going to lose your head, you know! ”

Zhang Sheng argued: "When I came to the banquet just now, I saw the prime minister dressed neatly and rode out of the west gate. I heard that this time Meng Ge brought a lot of palace dependents with him, among which there are not a few good-looking girls, I heard that there is a woman from the Western Regions, who was originally the concubine of the king of a small country in the Western Regions. Breathtaking beauty? That's right, it's called sinking fish and falling geese! And this woman is born with a heterogeneous nature, and can emit a body fragrance similar to the fragrance of flowers, I heard the soldiers of the vanguard say, even if they have not seen her face yet, but the men who walked through her tent are all intoxicated by her fragrance. ”

Han Feng shouted with a calm face: "Why do you think you are a good person? What did Hugh say about the woman of the Western Regions, even if it was really the reincarnation of Xizi, could it be that Xianggong was really a husband? ”

Zhang Sheng muttered: "The husband is not necessarily bad, the storyteller has said it, before Gou Jian, the husband was still the overlord." Xianggong is not a saint who is not close to women, you see that he has a wife and a concubine, all of whom are first-class beauties, and you know that he will never treat himself badly in the matter of women. ”

Although everyone is not angry, they know in their hearts that what Zhang Sheng said is very reasonable, Zheng Xianggong is a true character, and he will never be as rigid as Zhu Fuzi, his philosophy of being an official is that the public is self-righteous, regardless of private affairs, for the interest of beautiful women, he has no need to be obscure, although he has never exceeded the etiquette in his life, but if the emperor is dignified and rewards him with the captured beauty, it is also reasonable.

Bai Yijie smiled and picked up the feather fan from the table and sighed, "It seems that I won this game." ”

Zhang Sheng was taken aback, and then said angrily: "It's unreasonable for the military advisor to speak, I saw that the prime minister was my luck, so why don't you make a good bet?" ”

Bai Yijie smiled and said: "I didn't say that the gambling contract is invalid, but the prince must not be in the palace tent of the Mongolian concubine." ”

Zhang Sheng asked, "Where did the military advisor say?" ”

"Outside the West Gate."

"Wow, apart from being in the prisoner camp, do you need to ask the prince himself?"

"I believe it." Bai Yijie said lightly: "There is a place where you must go, you all come with me!" Xianggong must hope that we are all present at this time! ”

The generals rode to the west gate, and the soldiers and civilians in the city saw that the generals and generals were dispatched together, and they did not know what was going on, so they avoided one after another, and a group of people went out of the west gate, crossed the prisoner camp, and went straight to the west, until they reached the bank of the Tanxi River.

The bamboo forest here is luxuriant, the breeze is breezy, and there is a tombstone of a person erected in the bamboo forest, and the man in front of the tombstone bows his head and is silent, which is the supervision of the soldiers and horses of all roads, and the right prime minister Zheng Yunming.

Since crossing the captive camp to Tanxi, everyone has understood where Zheng Yunming is, there are three people's tombs, it is the late Jinghu ambassador Meng Hui, Jinghu envoy Lu Xunzhi and Jing Hubei Dutong Ge Huai, Meng Heng died, it was about the eighth year of the official war between the two countries, Meng Heng and the then Yanjiang envoy Zheng Yunming, Jinghu envoy Lu Xunzhi joined forces, and was preparing to carry out a large-scale northern expedition with the cooperation of Henan Neiying, recovering the two capitals in one fell swoop, and achieving the unfinished cause of Duanping year, but at that time, the four Ming people in the DPRK controlled the government. The three front-line marshals applied many times like mud cows into the sea, Meng Heng couldn't afford to be depressed, and finally resigned with hatred, and when he was dying, he called Zheng Yunming to the front of him, pointing to the north, unable to speak, but crying. In the second year, Lu Xunzhi also died due to illness, and he said: "A body of honor and disgrace is always empty, I like to see the chick is a hero, how sad is it to drive a crane on this day, and I hate Daning Palace." ”

The next day, Ge Huai, the capital of Jing and Hubei, laughed loudly at a banquet at home and died without illness. According to the last wishes of Meng Heng, Lu and Ge, Meng Heng was buried at the junction of Tanxi and the Yangtze River, and Lu Wang and Wang were buried on their sides.

"Gongsuke, do you know?" Zheng Yunming said slowly: "Why did Meng Gong choose here? ”

Without waiting for Bai Yijie to answer, he pointed to the river in the distance and said to himself: "Crossing the river from here, you can go to the newly built official road from here, and from here all the way to the north, it is Tangzhou, and further north is Caizhou, Yingtian, Luoyang, and Bianjing." ”

Zheng Yunming said slowly, just like Meng Heng told him about the geography of the mountains and rivers of Henan and the people of the city, "If you go with 100,000 soldiers, you must enter Tun Shangluo with a soldier, but the enemy capital Tongguan comes to help, a soldier enters Tun Caizhou, and the Huaixi army and horses are horns for each other, and then the army marches from the main road, first take Yingzhou, and then enter Zhuxian Town, and then, then, then."

He spoke three times in a row, and then suddenly his throat choked, and he couldn't speak anymore, and hot tears flowed from his eyes.

Bai Yijie silently grabbed Zheng Yunming's arm and said softly: "Yesterday, Kublai Khan had learned of Meng Ge's death, and led all the soldiers and horses in Hanzhong to gallop to Mobei overnight. I have ordered Li Zengbo (Sichuan Xuanfu Envoy) to lead a large army to launch a suppressive attack on the entire territory of Shuzhong, and to expel all the remnants of the Mongol forces in the Sichuan Road with the most powerful offensive, and then march into Hanzhong to spy on Chang'an. ”

Zheng Yunming lowered his head, as if he was not listening to him at all.

Bai Yijie said again: "There is an express report in Huaidong, and Li Tan, the enemy's Shandong governor, has been greatly shaken by the victory or defeat of the battle of Ezhou, and has issued an order to transfer troops and horses everywhere, and has thrown a secret letter to the account of Huaidong to be corrected. I'm working overnight to repair the imperial court, and I'm requesting"

"No need." Zheng Yunming suddenly raised his head and said, "Is Jia Rudao still in Yueyang?" ”

"Jia Gong has been helping to handle the military affairs of Dongting these days by waiting for his guilt, and he has also made a lot of contributions." Bai Yijie said with a smile: "It's also difficult for him, he actually dared to go to the enemy camp in person at the last moment of the war, saying that tens of thousands of horses under the veteran gunner army marshal Zhang Zhongren were surrendered, and with this credit, he should probably be able to redeem the credit." ”

"You go and tell him, let him immediately rush back to Huaidong by boat, for the sake of the country's great cause, I will not worry about past grievances with him, I will repair the watch and play, please let the court still let him marshal Huaixi Huaidong people, unite with Li Tan, and the whole army will recover the land of Shandong!"

"I'm afraid that this matter is a tiger entering the mountain, and I will definitely regret it in the future" Before Bai Yijie finished speaking, Zheng Yunming hurriedly waved his hand and interrupted: "You tell Jia Yidao, I only want the Northern Expedition, everything is for the Northern Expedition!" Let him snatch the fame or something, but if anyone dares to obstruct the great cause of the Northern Expedition, I will definitely crush it! ”

Only then did Bai Yijie understand Zheng Yunming's determination, and he agreed, and said: "Fan Yongji has sent a letter."

A flash of light suddenly flashed in Zheng Yunming's eyes, and he asked, "When did you come?" ”

"Soon after the banquet began, he moved very quickly, saying that the sixteen cities under the rule of Henan were ready, and once the army arrived, he would be corrected immediately.

Zheng Yunming nodded slowly, and his tone was solemn as if the Yangtze River was majestic: "Gongfu, we are finally going to start!" ”

Bai Yijie's heart was like a galloping horse, and he shouted indulgently: "Expelling the Tartars, restoring unification, and three hundred years of Chinese temperament, only in today!" ”

Zheng Yunming turned around, in front of him was his brother who had been a brother and sister for 20 years, and he was an elite division that he had built from scratch and built by himself.

He smiled, and his clear voice echoed in the bamboo forest: "When you go, you will encounter thousands of enemies you never thought of!" You will encounter the high walls of the old capital of Kaifeng, the vast plains of Yanzhao, the desert and the Gobi in Mobei, the rain, snow, wind and frost in eastern Liaodong, the vast wilderness of the Western Regions, and even the dense rainforest of Tianzhu, you will encounter all kinds of cities and people, some customs have never even been imagined, you will meet the powerful Liaodong ironclad warriors, the real cavalry nomads in Mobei, the great food assassins who are proficient in assassination, the world's first-class Khorasan cavalry, and even the Crusader warriors with crosses and heavy armor in iron chains, As you begin to face all this, I ask you, are you ready? ”

The winter sun shone on everyone's faces, casting a layer of golden brilliance on their resolute countenances, Han Feng raised the battle flag in his hand, and the banner embroidered with "Peerless Warriors" rolled and unfolded in the wind, as if a magnificent history was about to unfold.

"We're ready!"

(End of the book, thank you readers for your attention and love these days)