Chapter 406: Companionship

"Rush!" The little girl with pigtails on her head ran out of the flowers excitedly with two little boys with snot, this is Wu Yu, Wu An and Wu Heng, the princess of Xia Kingdom is playing the game of ambushing the enemy with her younger brother, it is difficult for the two little boys to endure waiting for a long time, and finally when someone approaches, the three children are extremely excited. When they ran closer, Wu Yingying suddenly laughed, opened his eyes and wrapped the three children in his arms, and hugged them hard, and the three children were so excited that they screamed. After the ambush is successful, this father is the only one who can play with them like this, and other adults, whether it is mothers or servants, will reprimand, but children are always happy to play the game of war.

"Yu'er is an older sister, don't mess around with her younger brothers. Huang Wen heard the sound outside in the room, walked out, and watched helplessly as Wu Yingying was destroying her educational achievements again, Wu Yu inherited her almost unforgettable talent, and now Huang Wen is already teaching her to read the "Women's Training" written by Cai Zhonglang of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Wu Yu's rather clever eyes rolled slightly, pursed her lips, and made a look of grievance, Wu Yingying saw that she was worried about her mother's punishment, and deliberately did this, she couldn't help but smile, put the three children down carefully, and smiled at Huang Wen: "When I was a child, I played more fun games, so that these children could have more brotherly affection." ”

Huang Wen glanced at her and said angrily: "My daughter has spoiled you, how can you marry in the future." Stretched out his hand and took out Wu Yu, who was hiding behind Wu Yingying, took out a handkerchief, and wiped the black mud and dust that the three children painted on their faces in the style of the hussars, and said to Wu Yu: "Today, I will copy the "Women's Training" ten times. Wu Yu winked at Wu Yingying, Wu Yingying shrugged his shoulders, and couldn't help it, the little daughter had to hang her head and return to the study with an aggrieved expression on her face.

When the two little boys saw that their sister was punished, they didn't dare to move, Huang Wen said with a cold face: "An'er is two years older than Heng'er, and when she saw her sister messing around, she didn't persuade her, but mixed it together and stretched out her hand." Wu An is quite aggrieved, he and Wu Heng are both coerced and subordinate, but Huang Wen's punishment for him is always heavier. Huang Wen broke a rose branch with thinner thorns, and gently whipped ten times in his palm, while the young Wu Heng was five times, she was quite skilled in punishing the children, and the two children bit their lips tightly to endure the pain, but they did not break the skin and bleed.

Wu Yingying smiled and looked at Huang Wen disciplining the child with a cold face, he was busy with military affairs all the year round, if there was no such virtuous help at home, he was afraid that he would have no good descendants, so as long as it was not a wrong thing, he would carefully maintain Huang Wen's prestige in the eyes of the children. Generally speaking, Huang Wen's discipline of her daughter is more strict, she is a little worried that her daughter is too lively, and it will be difficult to please her in-laws and husband in the future, after all, the princess of the Xia Kingdom cannot be upbringing like the former Tang Dynasty, so that the princess of the Manchu Dynasty will avoid it when she hears that she wants to marry with the royal family. And the discipline of little boys should be slightly looser, Huang Wen feels that boys still have to be managed by their fathers, so they often punish small punishments and admonish them. But even so, Wu Yingying still thinks she is a very competent mother.

Seeing the two boys drooping their heads, Wu Yingying smiled and said, "Mother's words make sense, so you have to listen to them." Speaking of this, Huang Wen glanced at him again, and Wu Yingying smiled, "It's okay to play in the garden, don't disturb adults to do things." He paused, "Do you want to play a game of war with me?" The boys' eyes lit up when they heard this, and if it weren't for their mother's side, they would almost immediately jump and cheer.

"Come to my study. Wu Yingying smiled and took them to his study, and dragged out a wooden plate under the desk, which carved the future territory of the entire Xia Kingdom, including Guanzhong, Longyou, Hexi, Western Regions, Hezhong, Qingtang and other places. Wu An is already more than five years old, seeing this, his eyes widened with curiosity, Wu Yingying took out a lot of wood-carved soldiers from under the desk like a treasure from a treasure bag, some of the costumes are the infantry and cavalry sergeants of the Xia Kingdom, and the words "Dragon Teeth", "Hussar", "White Feather" and other words are engraved on the back, and some are carved to the appearance of the forbidden army of the Song Army, with the words "Control Crane", "Iron Cavalry", "Dragon Jie", "Tiger Jie" and other words on the back, and some are carved into the appearance of the cavalry of the Liao Army, with "Gongfen", "Leather Room", "South Courtyard", "North Courtyard", "Han Army" and other words.

"Let's play the game of the Three Kingdoms War. Wu Yingying said with a smile, these Three Kingdoms dialect is extremely popular in the Longyou area of Hexi, even children know that Cao Mengde is a white-faced traitor, Uncle Liu Huang is a crying country, Zhuge Liang is a god, and Guan Yu is a red-faced good person.

"I want Guan Yu!" Wu An took the lead, and quite proudly picked an image of Guan Yu in his mind from the cavalry of the Xia Kingdom, placed it on his side, and picked a number of puppets of cavalry and infantry to put behind Guan Yu. Wu Heng was only less than three years old, he was ignorant, he only felt that his father and eldest brother were very fun playing with these puppets together, and he also picked a cavalry to put in front of him according to Wu An's appearance, and there were two rows of soldiers behind him, and he said in a milky voice: "I'm Zhao Yun." ”

Guan Yu couldn't help but smile at Zhao Yun and Wu Yingying, stretched out his hand and took a puppet of the Liao State Palace, and said in a deep voice: "I'm Zhang Liao, you have to be careful." Then he put the remaining puppets behind Zhang Liao's back.

As soon as he set it up, Wu An excitedly shouted "Kill", and rushed up with his little hand holding Guan Yu he had just placed, at this young age, he knew that he couldn't go into battle alone, and hurriedly followed the other soldiers closely behind Guan Yu, for fear that his general would be left alone.

Wu Yingying smiled slightly, and also put his Zhang Liao in front, fighting with Guan Yu, the iron cavalry on both sides was criss-crossed, the soldiers kept falling down and standing up to fight, the father and son were not still worthy of "Kill!" "Rush!" "Dead! Dead!" The sound was really as tragic as the battlefield of Jin Ge Iron Horse, Wu Heng was also quite excited to see it next to him, and sent his Zhao Yun forward, killing a few soldiers under Wu Yingying for a while, and killing a few soldiers on Wu An's side for a while, but he was young and only sent the main general to the battlefield, and it didn't take long for Wu An to surround Zhao Yun with several puppets of cavalry and infantry, and said: "You are surrounded!"

Just when Wu Yingying hurried to accompany his wife and children before the Battle of Guanzhong, the military reports from the Youyan front line were generally sent to the Bianliang Privy Council. In the palace, Zhao Jiong, who gave up his personal expedition because of the advice of the ministers, only slept less than two hours a day, and informed the left and right that as soon as there was a military report from Youyun, it would be communicated to the official family immediately.

At the beginning, the march was quite smooth, the three-way army attacked the city, the offensive was fierce, the Liao State heavily defended various passes, the counties of Pass, and the East Route Army and Cao Bin parted ways in the northwest of Youzhou, and the Ma Bu Army deployed Mi Xin to capture the two fortresses of Gongwei Zhuozhou's new city and Gu'an, and Zhuozhou, the southern gate of Youzhou, was already exposed to the Song army's attack range.

In the face of the menacing three-way army of the Song State, Nanjing stayed behind in Yelu Huge to adopt the strategy of resisting one by one, delaying time and waiting for reinforcements, and at the same time constantly sending cavalry to attack the grain routes of the Song army.

In Zhuozhou, the Liao soldiers resisted desperately, and the Song army's vanguard generals Fan Tingzhao and Cai Jilong were wounded successively, but finally took the military town of Zhuozhou. In order to wait for the Song army on the middle and west roads to attack Youzhou, the main force of the Song army on the east road stayed in Zhuozhou for ten days, and retreated after running out of food. Yelu Hugo thought that the Song army had completely retreated, so he not only divided his troops to reinforce the states behind the mountains, but also sent elite cavalry to attack Mi Xin's department after Ren Xuan, and all Mi Xin only led more than 100 cavalry to break through. Cao Bin immediately sent the fierce general Cai Jixuan to lead the cavalry to reinforce Xincheng, fought hard for two days, repelled the Liao army, and rescued the Mi Xin department.

Cao Bin, who had returned to Xiongzhou to get grain, was severely reprimanded by the officials, accusing him of not retreating in front of the enemy, and that he should immediately march again to continue to contain the main force of the Liao army. So Cao Bin and Mi Xin joined forces, led the main force of the Song army to attack again, and captured Zhuozhou again, and waited for the Western Route Army and the Middle Route Army to come together to attack Youzhou.

However, the resistance of the Youyan Han Jiangmen, which had been run by Han Derang for several years, was far more fierce against the Song army than during the last Northern Expedition, when the Central Route Army and the Western Route Army had to go through fierce battles for almost every city captured in the Shanhou Prefectures. Yelu Hugo also seized the short gap when the Song army retreated to Zhuozhou due to lack of food and grass, and sent two elite reinforcements to the Shanhou Prefectures, continuing to delay the actions of the Song army on the middle and west routes, and the elite of the Liao army even began to launch a counteroffensive in the Shanhou Prefectures with the cooperation of the Youyan Han army. Until the end, neither the Song Central Road nor the Western Route Army could realize their plan to fight a decisive battle with the East Route Army.