"Hu An, according to you, how is the external situation?" Hu Yangeng was ranked as a pacification envoy, and Wang Shu and Zhe Yanzhi did not dare to regard him as a military minister.

"Our army is holding on to Yanzhou so that the remaining four roads can gather reinforcements. But now more than three months have passed since the gold thief entered Shaanxi, and the four-way reinforcements are nowhere to be seen. ”

Zhe Yan grew up in Jiangmen's house, and he agreed with Hu Yangeng's judgment in his heart, but he always lingered in his heart about the resentment that Hu Yangeng and Hu Yan Yankang participated in the civil strife of the Zhe family.

"If the reinforcements from the four routes don't come, they must be held back by Western Xia, if we give up Yanzhou, and the Jin soldiers caress our army's back, what should we do?"

"Jingzhao Yanzhou, such as Hexi Shuangmen, Jingzhao Mansion has been lost, and the door is open. If I am sticky, I will go straight to the northwest from Jingzhao Mansion and cut off the connection between the west and Yanzhou. ”

"Such a clever plan, I don't know why Sticky Han doesn't use it." Orihiko sneered.

"Okay," Wang Shu stopped the quarrel between the two, "Hu pacification is reasonable, our army should retreat to the mountains, Hu observe, how to intercept the pursuing soldiers, protect the whole city and the old and young retreat to the mountains, it's up to you." ”

"Old decay will not be dishonored."

The residents had already withdrawn, and Hu Yansu, as the chief official of Yanzhou, retreated with the five thousand people who had been broken. He looked at Yanzhou City, which was full of black smoke, and couldn't help but burst into tears: "My family has guarded this city for more than 100 years, but it was abandoned by me. ”

"Uncle Hugh is annoyed." Huyan Geng and Hu Yan suddenly walked side by side, "The gold thief occupied Yanzhou, but he couldn't get a bow and an arrow, a grain of grain, and a Dingkou, which can be said to be a failure to occupy." And we brought out people, and there was no loss of ordnance, food and grass, and this is victory. ”

"Shu Kang, if you say that, we still won?"

"Exactly, there is a kind of defeat called occupation, and there is a kind of victory called retreat. We and the gold thieves are by no means competing for the gains and losses of one city and one place, but the emphasis is on accumulating strength internally and accumulating momentum externally. ”

"Accumulating strength internally, the old man still understands, what about the general trend externally?"

"The gold thief starts in a bitter cold land, and the soldiers are fine, the hearts are united, they are hard-working, and they dare to fight. And I, Song Chengping, have been peaceful for a long time, and I can't compare with the gold thief because I dare to fight, but I'm afraid that everyone has their own thoughts, and their hearts can't compare to the gold thief. ”

"Even people's hearts are not as good as gold thieves?"

"Uncle can see that Fuzhou folds family affairs, if it weren't for the third brother in Fuzhou, maybe the folded family would have invested in gold."

In this way, there is some truth to it. So how do you build momentum? ”

"Although Suo Lu is an elite soldier, it is a small tribe after all, and it has taken the foundation of the Khitan, and all the tribes under its rule, the Khitans, the Bohai people, the Muguls, and the Tatars, all have to rely on the Jurchen headquarters to suppress them. If you are outnumbered, you will be in chaos. And the gold thief occupies the vast territory of the Central Plains, Hebei Zhulu, the population is not more than 30 million, as long as everyone is resentful, the gold thief is not enough to die. ”

"Everybody is resentful? It's easier said than done. ”

"Therefore, this is the external situation, the sages have clouds, how to educate the people, how to awaken the people, is the only major thing in our work."

"This sage speaks, but it is not sour and false, I don't know which sage?"

"The master of the Yanshan study is."

"Alas, the old man, as a martial artist, is really talented and simple, and he has never heard of the name of this great sage. According to this sage, how should we educate and awaken the people? ”

"My nephew has the heart to set up a college in Baoan Zhai to train people who are both civil and military, so as to fight against gold thieves and restore the backbone of rivers and mountains."

"This is a very good idea, but why did you choose it in Baoanzhai? It's not dangerous. ”

"My nephew watches the sky at night, and the security guards are outstanding."

"Oh, Shu Kang can also watch the sky." The uncle and nephew talked and laughed, and the melancholy of burning and giving up Yanzhou slowly dissipated in Hu Yansu's heart.

After the soldiers and civilians of Yanzhou settled down in the cave, he led his guards straight to Chunhua, where Quduan was stationed.

Wang Shu arrived at Chunhua with more than 100 cavalry, and Quduan was not stationed in the city, but set up a large village outside the city. Hearing of the arrival of Wang Shu, Qu Duan deliberately issued an order and set up five sentry posts. Every time Wang Shu passed through a heavy sentry, the number of guards was halved.

When he arrived at Quduan's tent, there were few people around Wang Shu.

Wang Shu threw off his saddle and dismounted, and strode into the tent. The big tent was empty, and Qu Duan sent his own soldiers to ask Wang Shu to sit down.

Wang Shu's entourage whispered to Wang Shu: "The intentions of the capital control are not good, and you should be careful." ”

Wang Shu waved his hand contemptuously: "He still dares to do anything to civil officials?" ”

At this time, he heard the sound of clanging armor, and he first approached the court in his uniform, and then he was in the same account with Zhang Bin and the walking horse to bear the official high school. The three of them stood, looking down at the seated prince. Wang Shu raised his head and looked at Qu Duan.

After a long time, he asked Shu Yan'an about the loss of his body, and said: "Temperance knows and loves the body, but I don't know how to love the Son of Heaven?" Slightly ashamed? ”

Shu said: "The soldiers and civilians of Yanzhou are all trying their best to resist, and they are poor and retreat, why are they ashamed?" Dare to ask the general, if I don't obey my orders, who loves him? ”

Duan said angrily: "I have my own strategy, how can I know it?" "Cause to account. Shu stayed in the army, and he was not at ease all day long.

Qu Duan detained Wang Shu and rushed to Ningzhou overnight to see Lianghe and pronounce Zhang Jun. said: "Yan'an's five roads have been lost, and the doctor of "Spring and Autumn" has been able to specialize in Xinjiang, please return to the court." ”

Zhang Jun said: "There is a point in making things, and now it is arrogant to be good at punishing people and ministers, and it is self-righteous to do it." Qu Duan saw that Zhang Jun was unwilling to take responsibility for himself, and he did not dare to kill civil officials without authorization, so he returned to Chunhua unhappy.

Unexpectedly, Wang Shu changed his posture and claimed that he wanted to impeach himself. Qu Duan was overjoyed, received Wang Shu's seal letter, detained Wang Shu's entourage, and sent someone to escort Wang Shu to Yangzhou to discuss the crime.

After driving away Wang Shu, Qu Duan did not know that he would visit Zhang Hao, the envoy of the Xihe River in Huanqing, and took over the military power of the Six Routes by himself.

When Qu Duan was doing all this, Zhang Jun was silent. When the dust settled, Zhang Jun asked: "The public often suffers from the disagreement of the soldiers of all roads and the lack of wealth; Now that the soldiers have been united, the wealth has been prepared, and Lou Su has penetrated into my realm with a lone army, and it is not difficult for me to attack it with all roads. In case the Muhan army comes, why wait? ”

Duan said: "Otherwise, the art of war will be better than the other, and the enemy can win now, so stop the matter of Lou Su's lonely army; However, the elite soldiers will not reduce the day before yesterday. I am invincible, and I will stop with the soldiers of the five routes; However, the soldiers are no different from the past. In addition, because the gold man is bread for me, I am always a guest, and he is always the master. Now, on the contrary, according to the danger of the soldiers, the time to deviate from the division to disturb its cultivation. He can't plow, he must take grain from Hedong, then I am the master, he is the guest, and he will die in a year or two, but he can be destroyed in one fell swoop. In case of rash action, the future is a big worry. ”

Zhang Jun was unhappy when he saw that Qu Duan was still unwilling to take the initiative. He sent people to Yangzhou to inquire about the direction of the imperial court and then make plans.

When the crescent moon first appeared, Zhang Jun led 7,000 elite soldiers and unknowingly went down to the village ten miles away from Jiamu Lake. These days, Zhang Jun's deployment of troops has always been carried out in top secret.

In the big tent, Zhang Jun sat on a chair, his five generals stood on either side of the lower head, a huge map was spread on the ground, and a candlestick with a windshield was pressed on each of the four corners.

"Just this place, you all come and have a look." Zhang Jun pointed to the red circle on the map with his toes.

The five generals leaned over together, knelt on one leg, and leaned over to watch carefully.

"According to the original old regulations, strive to cut a thousand, not less than five hundred." Zhang Jun was in high spirits today, and he looked like he was holding the chance to win, "Surrounded from all sides, kill from the outside and inside, and don't call it a slippery net." The spies have come to report many times, signing 800 troops and 600 cavalry, which has always been the number. Signing the army doesn't count, infantry vs. cavalry, more than a dozen of us deal with him, it's not difficult for everyone! ”

"It's a credit to have the ruler in charge." "Is there anything else you want to say?" Zhang Jun paused for a moment and glanced at the generals' faces, "No! Just act now. We are here to hear from you! ”

The five men walked out of the tent one after another.

Zhang Jun softened and leaned back on the Taishi chair. Wang Dianshuai led the palace commander to go out to fight a decisive battle with the gold thief, he Zhang Jun got a good errand, and learned that the Jin soldiers concentrated the grain from the grass valley in Gaoyou, and they were ordered to seize this batch of grain, so that they could not burn this batch of grain.

The five generals arrived at Gaoyou to study the plan of action together. The actual situation here is very different from what was originally thought, and at a glance, the most concentrated people are around the threshing floor, which is close to the lake, and the soldiers are the easiest to escape.

A leading general proposed a method of pincer-shaped outflanking, intercepting the way, and then attacking from all sides. Several generals nodded in agreement.

After the third watch, the night was as dark as paint, the wind was tight, and the frost covered the earth tightly. The signatories were exhausted from the night's exertion, hunger and cold, and the pace of their work slowed down significantly. They hoped that the light of day would soon brighten, and no one expected that a catastrophe was about to come.

The Song army lit the cannon.

It was three loud bangs. The Song army of the two roads was the first to kill, pincer-outflanking, trying to block the way from the threshing floor to the forest.

The signatories scattered like a swarm of bees that had blown up their nests. The two Moukes who were guarding here also hurriedly rushed out of the forest to meet the battle, and divided their troops to resist the two Song armies, so that they could not successfully encircle.

The signatories fled for their lives and retreated to the threshing floor, scurrying aimlessly in despair. At this critical moment, an elite iron cavalry suddenly came in from the side, and the first general, holding a mixed iron spear, immediately shouted a few times on the side of the threshing floor, the voice was long and terrifying. The signatories immediately stopped running and gathered together tamely.

After receiving the order of Yan Wushu, he immediately ordered five hundred personal soldiers, quickly came out of Gaoyou City, and chose a Gaogang to lurk. Rushing to the edge of the threshing floor, he first saw the situation clearly from a high place, and then sent flying horses to quickly move troops to the city, and at the same time personally led the army to kill from the side, and soon rescued hundreds of signing soldiers.

Pu Sanzhongyi commanded the military horses to retreat slowly, and he rode alone behind the tail hall of the team.