Hu Yangeng's reinforcements intercepted Suo Chao and the others who had broken through when the ship was resting on the shore, and learned that the daimyo had fallen.

"40,000 people, the impregnable defense line of the Daimyo's Mansion, lost in less than half a month?"

"It's all Wenda's thief, coward."

"Where are the 40,000 soldiers of the Daimyo's Mansion now? Surrendered the gold thief? ”

"Everyone scattered out of the city, and there were only a few shameless people who wanted to come to the gold thieves."

"Okay, Suo Zhie, you leave Guo Yun's grandson here, I will give you a command of the men, go around to collect the rout, within three days, how much can be collected, retreat in the direction of Cizhou, and join the Tianxiong Zhenfu Division."

Now that the daimyo has fallen, it would not be wise to break into the daimyo again. The Jin soldiers have become the defenders of the city, and Huyan Geng has become the attackers. And the grain and grass that Hu Yangeng carried with the ship could not support his long-term siege of the city. What's more, the total number of golden soldiers is five times that of his?

Hu Yangeng thought for a while, and took out another order arrow: "Zhang Xian and Gao Chong listened to the order, led five hundred foot riders, went to Xiangzhou, found Zhang Zhaofu, listened to his orders, and guarded his safety." ”

Hu Yangeng deliberately did not mention it, and Zhang Suo was Zhang Xian's father. But the purpose of his order was precisely to protect Zhang.

First, he admires Zhang Suo very much, and secondly, in the current civil official sequence in Hebei, the two appeasements make Du Chong and Zhang Yiqian unreliable, Guo Yong was martyred, and Zhang Yantang's qualifications are too shallow. And Hu Yangeng needs a civil official who can calm people's hearts like a mainstay, so only Zhang Suo is left.

Moreover, Zhang Suo is Yue Fei's master, and he has the grace of knowing Yue Fei. Therefore, in Hu Yangeng's subconscious, protecting Zhang Suo will help win over Yue Fei in the future.

Subsequently, Hu Yangeng sent two groups of messengers to report the news of the fall of the daimyo to Bianliang.

The above arrangements, Huyangeng is almost a decision made under similar conditions for launching. And after arranging these things that must be done, Hu Yangeng was confused: he was now in a state of being unable to advance or retreat with four regiments. The name has been lost, the advance has no effect, and the futility has returned to Cangzhou, and he is also unwilling.

He locked himself in the cabin and looked at the map, and he could now trace the Yellow River up and build a new defensive line in the area of Weizhou and Xiangzhou. But Du Chong should be there, who knows how he will command blindly. Returning to Cangzhou is unwilling, so ...... What about going north?

The three Jin soldiers went south, and in the area of Baoding Zhending, there was only one Wanyan Dala, with a strength of only 20,000 or 30,000 people. And Fanyang Zhenfu Division along the Hutuo River out of Gaoping, Tianxiong Zhenfu Division from Cizhou Xingzhou to the north, Pinglu Zhenfu Division westward, plus their own Henghai Town Fusi, the maximum possible one-time assembly of ten regiments, 25,000 people, plus the advantage of equipment, it is entirely possible to make a big fuss in the rear of the Jin soldiers, and even lead the three Jin soldiers who went south to return to the army, so as to buy time for Bianliang.

Hu Yangeng led his army northeast along the Yellow River, preparing to return to Bazhou and then attack Baoding westward.

And the messenger sent by Huyan Geng also entered Bianliang smoothly. This was the first time that news of the fall of the daimyo reached Bianliang, three days before Du Chong's messenger. Hu Yangeng's seal first went to the Privy Council, and then it was transferred to the capital, and then it was leaked by someone Bianliang City was known all over the city, causing an uproar in the city.

The current Bianliang, the queen mother removed the curtain, and the emperor Zhao Chen was only thirteen years old. All major military affairs are decided by the capital.

The five phases of the capital hall, Zuo Cheng Zongze has passed away, Huang Qianshan advanced to the next level, for the Shangshu Zuo Cheng, and Zhang Wei for the Shangshu Right Cheng.

In the seal, Hu Yangeng naturally impeached Du Chong for improper command of the pacification of Hebei West Road, abandoned the city and fled, resulting in the fall of the daimyo and the martyrdom of Guo Yong. Li Gang advocated severely punishing Du Chong, He Li and Sun Fu had unclear attitudes, and Huang Qianshan and Du Chong and Zhang Yiqian were kind, so he said: "With Hu Yangeng's words, Du Gongmei will be questioned, how can he convince the public." ”

The crowd was stubborn, so they had to wait for Du Chong's seal to arrive, and then dispose of it.

Li Gang returned home, sat quietly in the study, late at night, the old family went to persuade Li Gang to rest, Li Gang sighed: "Headache." ”

Since the reign of Renzong, the Great Song Dynasty has been deployed with civilian officials as the commanders of soldiers and horses, and military ministers as the capital, responsible for battlefield command. Now according to this style, Du Chong and Zhang Yiqian are respectively appointed as pacification envoys of Hebei East and West Road, and they are the commanders of the two roads. But now it seems that Du Chong has no talent to command the army, and Zhang Yiqian has shrunk into the river, and he has never heard of any achievements in military affairs. And he used to make trouble with Zong Ze.

Halfway through the battle, the two pacifiers were unreliable. Let's send someone to go, not to mention the risk of changing the commander on the spot, it seems that there is no suitable person yet. The ministers of the court are either not prestige enough or too old, such as Zhang Shuye, who is over seventy years old or has never spoken for life, such as Liu Ju and others, such as Zhang Jun, Zhang Hao, Fu Liang, Zhang Qu and others, all faced the attack of the Jin soldiers.

Li Gang was distressed at home, and the newly promoted Shangshu Zuocheng Huang Qianshan also couldn't sleep at home. Du Chong and Zhang Yiqian were both kind to themselves, and after some flashes and moves of their own, they finally moved the two of them to the position of appeasement. Especially Du Chong, if he mixes some seniority in the position of pacification envoy on Hebei West Road, he can return to Bianliang to serve as a fellow servant in the Privy Council, so Zhang Shuye will no longer be the sole ruler of the Privy Council.

But I didn't expect that the impregnable defense line of the Daimyo's Mansion would be lost so quickly, and Du Chong stayed behind as a Daimyo, and he didn't commit suicide, so there must be a royal history ready to impeach him. While he was tossing and turning, he thought left and right, and did not fall asleep until the third watch.

The next day, because of such a major event as the fall of the Daimyo, all the governors and privy envoys had to go to the capital hall to deliberate. Dazai Li Gang, Shaozai He Li, Zhongshu Shilang Sun Fu, Shangshu Zuocheng Huang Qianshan, Shangshu Youcheng Zhang Wei, Zhiprivy Council Zhang Shuye, Privy Counsellor Xu Han, and Zhikaifeng Mansion Liu Ju, all arrived.

After the eight governors sat down, they first dealt with a few administrative matters, and then Li Gang opened his mouth and talked about the defeat of the daimyo. Li Gang's mind is still recovering the impact of the fall of the lost Daimyo and reducing the loss, so he first proposed to transfer Du Chong back and order the Wenchen to lead the army.

Huang Qianshan took offense as defense, first said that Yang Weizhong risked in and lost troops, and then said that Guo Yong had always been arrogant and could not tolerate people, which was the reason for the rebellion of the soldiers of the Daimyo Mansion. Anyway, both of them are dead, and he can't justify it. Later, he brought up the uselessness of the Daimyo's defense line.

Xu Han, the secretary of the Privy Council, has always been loyal and upright, and opened his mouth to shout: "It's all stone ......."

Li Gang hurriedly shouted: "Without stones, the defense line is of course useless. Suppressed Xu Han's words. Li Gang is not a direct minister, and at this moment, he doesn't want Xungui to become his enemy.

Not only did he not want to make enemies with the rules, but Li Gang didn't even bother to waste time dealing with Du Chong. So he stopped Huang Qianshan from defending Du Chong, and instead put forward a suggestion: Hebei to build a feudal town. And it was also revealed in and out of the words that as long as Huang Qianshan didn't make trouble, he would temporarily let Du Chong go.

This is a compromise that Li Gang came up with after thinking about it all night last night. At this moment, if he and Huang Qianshan continue to suffer internal friction, what will be delayed is only the opportunity for Da Song to redeem the defeat. Therefore, in the matter of punishing Du Chong, Li Gang must compromise, at least temporarily, and not pursue the matter.

Since Du Chong was spared, Li Gang wanted to exchange Du Chong's official position for something.

After dying in the battle of the seed division, Li Gang wanted to give the generals on the front line full power. And his third rescue of Taiyuan failed, Li Gang also realized how annoying the elbow control in the rear was. Therefore, he wanted to give the generals of Hebei the right to feudal towns: that is, those defended by Hebei and the recovered prefectures and counties could be built into feudal towns.

Hebei already has a number of envoys to pacify the town, and the establishment of the feudal town is only to further clarify the authority of the envoy to the locality.

Huang Qianshan was silent, he understood that Li Gang was making a deal with himself. He Li and Sun Fu glanced at each other, and the two of them stood up and simply objected a few words, but they were refuted by Li Gang, and they stopped talking. They have done their duty. If they blindly block Hebei from building a feudal town, if it causes Hebei to lose everything, the two of them will not carry this pot.

Seeing that four of the five dominators agreed, Zhang Wei, who had the least qualifications, shouted: "Hebei built a feudal town, where is the law of the ancestors?" ”

Li Gang retorted, saying: "Tang Zhifang Town really relied on his strength at that time to determine the disaster. Inappropriate measures, and the subsequent transfer of the authority of the appeased government, is a big problem. The ancestors reformed the previous evils, weakened the power of the state and county, and entrusted everything to comment on the history, although the feudal government did not have many troops along the border roads, and did not dare to act beyond the law, so as to deal with the time of peace and quiet. "That is, when it is peaceful, you can do without the feudal town.

Li Gang's words changed: "Once Yidi is driven for a long time, thieves will rise, and there will be no one in the state and county who can resist it." As a result, the siblings are not enough to defend the leader. For today's plan, if you imitate the system of Fang Town, choose people to leave authority, reduce the number of money valleys to raise soldiers, and the size of the training is dimensional, and help each other from near and far, you can save today's troubles. ”

Zhang Wei was just worried that the tail of the feudal town would not be big.

Li Gang was secretly anxious in his heart, but he didn't expect Huang Qianshan not to make trouble, but Zhang Wei, a "capable minister", was screwed up with him.

Zhang Wei, the word Chengbo, a native of Hejian. Dengyuan Yu was promoted to the sixth year of the Shidi. Tired of the Longtu Pavilion bachelors, the degree of transport envoys. Zhao Gou was the generalissimo of soldiers and horses, recruited all the soldiers and soldiers, and persuaded him to print salt money in the marshal's mansion for business travel. If you don't read it, you have to pay 500,000 yuan to support the army.

It is said that he is a member of Zhao Gou's family, Huang Qianshan is silent, and Zhang Wei should also agree.

Li Gang and Zhang Wei argued, and the anger slowly came up. At this time, Zhang Shuye said on the side: "You can set up a big river patrol envoy, the general system of Hebei defense, and the deputy envoy of Xuanfu, who is located on the pacification envoy, can Chengbo dare to do it?" ”

Uncle Zhang's meaning is that if you don't worry about building a feudal town in Hebei, then you can do it, don't be wordy.

Zhang Wei was calm: "For the sake of the country to keep peace, dare not obey orders." The lower officials also have to protect one person to guard Jinan, as the right wing of the lower officials. ”