Ye Zongge was shocked, and only said, "How is this good?" ”

Han Shizhong shook his head and sighed: "Liu is absolutely different from me, he only has King Kang in his heart, King Kang refuses to abdicate, he plays a great role in it." I think Chang'an Tianzi also understands it in his heart, and Liu Guangshi knows it in his heart. In any case, he must find a way to save King Kang from the throne. This matter cannot be good, and I cannot turn my sword soldiers at my own people, and there are many golden soldiers on the other side, and I cannot abandon the defense line. What happens to this matter can only be seen and seen. ”

Ye Zongge only felt bitter in his mouth, but he had to nod and say: "Yes, there is only so much that the lower officials can do, and the only thing below is to wait and see." ”

Han Shizhong smiled slightly and said to him: "In the world, it is up to people to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen." As courtiers, you and I are just doing our best, and it's useless to think so much. ”

He is indeed open-minded by nature, among the four generals of Zhongxing, only this person does not lose the name of loyalty and righteousness, and can be good at life, and his attitude towards people is also an important reason.

Seeing that Ye Zongge was still depressed, Han Shizhong patted him on the shoulder and laughed: "You are a minister, what are you doing with so much care?" Don't worry, in my opinion, Liu Guangshi is just a mediocre talent, and he will definitely be trapped under the strong city. The battle, one will not be big, and the other will definitely be beneficial to Jingkang Tianzi. ”

Ye Zongge smiled bitterly: "I hope so." ”

While the two were walking, Ye Zongge only felt a fragrant breeze blowing in his nose, and when he turned his head, he saw that he had already entered the inner room of the Han Mansion, and there were many young maids shuttling between them, and in the middle of the inner room was the beautiful woman he met at the city gate in the morning.

Seeing Ye Zongge approaching, the woman smiled, bowed to him, and said with a smile: "What the lord and the grandson said, the concubine has heard everything. I hope that everyone in the world will be like adults, worried about national affairs, strong and fierce, and the world will naturally be able to do things. ”

What she said about "strong and intense" naturally refers to Ye Zongge's previous act of writing poems and words at the city gate.

It was the first time that Ye Zongge had seen the wife of a high-ranking official so down-to-earth and generous, and he was also quite blushing if he was not informal.

Han Shizhong ignored it, first smiled at his wife, and then said to Ye Zongge: "This is Neizi, if she hadn't met you earlier, I wouldn't have been so easily edicted." ”

He laughed when he said it, stroked his beard and ordered: "Come on, serve wine, I want to conspire with Lord Ye to get drunk." ”

Ye Zongge remembered today's events, although it went well, but it was also extremely dangerous, and he unconsciously sighed: "I only said that I am a downright man, an official of the court, and I act with God's blessing, unexpectedly, it is a strange woman like Li Yi'an who helped me achieve great success this time." ”

He high-fived and admired, but just sighed: "It's a pity that Li Yi'an is a woman, if not, I will definitely get acquainted." ”

Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu looked at each other and smiled, but did not speak.

The two of them are of the same mind, and they know each other's meaning without words. This Ye Zongge seems to be bold, but in fact, he is still a scholar in his bones, there are many talented people in this world, where to hold on to the difference between men and women, it is really pedantic!

When Han Shizhong and Liang Hongyu met, he was just a junior colonel in the Western Army, and Liang Hongyu was just a beautiful prostitute.

Ye Zongge had also heard a little about their husband and wife, and when he saw their appearance at this time, he originally had some thoughts that Han Shizhong should not marry a camp prostitute, but for a while, there was no trace of him.

He sighed, picked up the wine glass given by the maid, drank it all, and smiled at the couple with a smile: "I only hope that my Great Song Dynasty can pass this pass, Jingkang Tianzi will work hard, the Northern Expedition Jurchen, and the country will be rich and the people will be strong." ”

"Okay, here's the go!"

Han Shizhong also raised his glass and drank it all. Although Liang Hongyu is a woman, she is not willing to be left behind, so she also raised her glass and drank it.

The three of them laughed for a while, just raised their glasses and drank bitterly, and said nothing else.

Ye Zongge was drunk until he was drunk, and when he was helped up to rest, he was just thinking in his heart: "Then Liu Guangshi dared to brazenly send troops, I don't know if Miao Fu and others can resist." ”

When he arrived at Zhenjiang, his footsteps were already extremely fast, and he was not as fast as a real cavalryman. Two days before he arrived in Zhenjiang, the news of Miao Liu's mutiny and King Kang's forced abdication had already reached Zhenjiang, and naturally it had reached the ears of Liu Guangshi, who was stationed in Jiankang.

This person is also a general of the Western Army, and the rest of Liu Yanqing is a general of the Western Army. After King Kang ascended the throne as emperor, Liu Guangshi led thousands of elites of the Western Army to the Generalissimo's Mansion to take refuge, becoming one of the earliest military forces of Zhao Gou.

The Liu family is also a family of generals in the Western Army, but their prestige and virtue are far inferior to those of the generals and the generals. Because of his family background, Liu Guangshi became a senior military attache of the Song Army early.

It's just that although ******** reputation is famous, his ability is extremely poor. In the battle between the Song soldiers and the Jurchens to attack Nanjing of the Liao Dynasty together, hundreds of thousands of Western troops under the leadership of Tong Guan were majestic and went straight to Yanyun, but because Liu Guangshi was afraid of the enemy and afraid of war, he did not come, resulting in a great rout of the whole army, and the corpses stretched for dozens of miles, which was despised by the Jurchens, which led to the later Jingkang tragedy.

Yan Yun was demoted after the war, and not long after, he was reinstated because he led his troops to exterminate several powerful northern peasant rebels. Since then, he has successively served as a Chengxuan envoy, an observer, in the hands of Zhao Gou, he has to be more reused, and even in the third year of Jianyan, Yan Zonghan attacked Yangzhou, Liu Bu's whole army collapsed without a fight, becoming the culprit of the loss of Yangzhou, Zhao Gou not only did not add guilt to him, but instead entered the Feng **** festival envoy, becoming the first general to hold the festival among the four generals of Zhongxing, his position in Zhao Gou's heart, which can be seen.

This person is so capable and not virtuous. Its unit contained a large number of rebels, surrendered troops of the rebel army, and bandits, and they were eclectic, and they did not refuse to come. The military discipline is poor, the combat power is poor, but there are only a large number of people, so that the imperial court does not dare to despise it.

Because of this, in the eyes of the civil ministers of the court, this person is unusable, and he has been repeatedly attacked, begging Zhao Gou not to let this person be a general.

Zhang Jun once bluntly said to Zhao Gou: "Liu Guangshi is arrogant and does not fight, and he cannot be a general, please stop." ”

Such opinions have been repeatedly mentioned in the DPRK and China, but Zhao Gou ignored them.

In this way, his reliance and trust in Liu Guangshi was also exchanged for the loyalty of the other party. If Han Shizhong and others supported Zhao Gou for the sake of overall stability, it was also because Zhao Huan did not have particularly tough measures, while Liu Guangshi was completely loyal to Zhao Gou, and even in order to protect Zhao Gou's throne, he did not hesitate to use his 50,000 left guards to fight against the Shaanxi-Gansu Western Army.

When the news of Miao Liu's mutiny came, Liu Guangshi did not hesitate. On the one hand, he hurriedly sent envoys to inform Han Shizhong and other generals on the edge of the town, and on the other hand, he issued orders to assemble the army, and when Ye Zongge arrived at Zhenjiang, his army had been assembled in just two days and gathered under the city of Jiankang.

Although his envoy did not say everything, he had already explained Liu Guangshi's attitude, and Han Shizhong also understood in his heart that no matter what other soldiers and horses were, this person would definitely rely on the most soldiers and horses under his command and use troops blatantly.

But as he expected, although it was not suitable to move troops in the cold of spring, the army was assembled in a hurry, and Liu Guangshi's character was not martial arts, the forward troops of the left guard army under his command had already begun to march towards the south at the same time as Ye Zongge arrived.

The drums and flags were not raised, the morale was not obvious, the brigade wore simple battle armor, held guns and spears, and the soldiers with blank and tired faces walked on the muddy road in the spring afternoon in the south of the Yangtze River.

Liu Bu's command, known as the Imperial Camp Left Guard, sounds high-sounding, but in fact, the composition is complex, and it can't be compared with Han Shizhong's department at all, and even the Imperial Camp Central Army Commander Yang Yizhong, who is guarding Suzhou, is also far from the middle.

These soldiers are complex, poorly trained, and poorly fed. Because the boss was afraid of war, the morale of the entire army was also very low, and when they were stationed in the Tianchang army, the Jurchen soldiers were still far away, and the army of more than 50,000 people collapsed and did not dare to engage in battle.

Although Liu Guangshi tried to strengthen military law and reorganize the troops when he reorganized the army, because of his own lack of personal ability and prestige, he achieved little success.

Watching the group of soldiers pass by listlessly, Liu Guangshi was not worried, but rode on the white fine horse that reached Hengshan in Western Xia, leisurely, waved the whip in his hand, controlled the war horse under him, and marched slowly in a beautiful small jumping riding posture.

At this time, it was almost noon, the weather was still very cold, and his soldiers were thinly dressed, poorly armored, and their faces were all cold and blue, and their hands were red and swollen. He himself wore a thick cotton robe under his armor, and he still had the finest wine in his arms, which he took out from time to time and drank a few sips to ward off the cold. The officers and men of the Chinese army guarding him were still the elite of the Western Army he brought out from Shaanxi, although the number was only two or three thousand, but they were the most daring and daring elites among his subordinates, and they were the most relied on by him, so they were also the most sophisticated in clothing and weapons.

Although he was not worried about the morale and combat strength of the troops, he just looked at the soldiers who were depressed and slow, but he couldn't help but be anxious.

He issued orders one after another, ordering his own soldiers to inform the generals of all departments, and they must supervise the soldiers and speed up the march. Because he was in a hurry, his well-maintained face also showed an anxious and angry look.

His own soldiers, rarely saw such a look and demeanor of the marshal, one by one did not dare to slack off, immediately split up and fell off the horse, and went to the various departments to give orders.

After a short time, the procession that was more than ten miles long was like a big snake swimming rapidly, and the speed of its movement immediately became faster.

Liu Guangshi listened attentively, only to feel that the rustling footsteps that were originally weak and weak gradually turned into a loud crackling sound, obviously all the soldiers had been ordered and were speeding up their pace.

He nodded with great satisfaction, took out the flask in his arms, and took a sip gently, only to feel a stream of hot air, which rushed down from the roar, making him extremely comfortable.

was complacent, but saw a small group of cavalry galloping behind him.