"Brother Wu, I can't find you anywhere these days, so you are free here!" Inspector Yu Shi Liuyi opened the curtain and stepped inside, he saw the seven or eight wine jugs on the table that had been emptied, he couldn't help frowning slightly, and waved his hand to let the two singers exit first.

Wu Yingying was disturbed by him, and glanced at Liu Yi with some dissatisfaction, but Liu Yi sat down regardless of it, poured himself a glass of wine, and said with a smile: "A few days ago, I was busy with the reading of the Jinshi Department, but I was very busy with my brother," he drank all the wine in the cup, and continued: "The emperor has accepted Zhang Qu and other thirty scholars as Jinshi, and is ready to give a banquet in the apricot forest tonight." ”

Wu Yingying remembered that last night there was a group of young scholars drinking and singing in Sun Chulou, looking up to the sky and laughing and going out. How high-spirited, Wu Yingying raised his glass and drank the remaining wine, still without saying a word. Liu Yi glanced at him, and said: "In order to show the royal family's importance to these reading seeds, Zhou Hou and Huang Baoyi, who is outstanding in literature, will attend, and the official Dao of the Wenwu Dynasty can participate in the court." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Yingying's half-closed eyes suddenly widened, and he released a sharp gaze like an eagle falcon to stare at Liu Yi.

He is the one who is in charge of ten thousand armies and kills decisively, this look is as pressing as a sword out of the sheath, Liu Yi immediately couldn't resist it, and shook his hand and said: "I also heard about you from Brother Lu." A word of advice, when it is broken, it is broken, although I tell you the news, I still hope you don't go. ”

Wu Yingying smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect Wu to have two friends." Stretched out his hand and poured himself a glass of wine and drank it with his neck back, looking out the window, the white sails fluttering on the head of Bailuzhou, and the faint mountains in the distance were really as unreal as a landscape of ink, and he couldn't help laughing: "Why can't I go, I'm just going to see the glory of the Jinshi's gold list titles. Zhu Zigui of the Manchu Dynasty is full of scholars. Later, it was already sad.

"Brother Wu, Brother Lu asked me to come to you, I can't bear to see you so decadent, the country is about to fall, and my generation is the time to cheer up. Liu Yi is still bitterly persuasive.

"Is the country about to fall? I don't think so, the cunning rabbit is dead, and I don't know when this lackey will cook it. The court guarded against suspicion of him, Wu Yingying had no scruples to express his dissatisfaction, and Liu Yi's face became ugly, so he had to ignore his words and change the topic: "Brother Wu, I came to you today, but not just to tell you about the Xinglin banquet. Do you know that the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Hukou battalion have been wiped out on the way east, and Zhu Lingyun, the commander of the Shenwei, has already surrendered the Song army. ”

"No way, it must be false news spread by the Song army. Wu Yingying said categorically, in his memory, the Hukou camp was defeated by the Song army because Jinling was in a hurry, and he had to enter the east to aid Jinling.

"It is absolutely true, according to the report of the military academy that fled back, the Song army forged the holy decree of our dynasty and forced the Hukou camp to march eastward. Liu Yi hurriedly explained.

Wu Yingying pondered for a long time, slammed the wine glass on the sandalwood table, and sighed: "The general trend is gone!" Liu Yi immediately looked like earth, and asked urgently: "What do you mean by this?"

"Brother Liu, although you don't know the soldiers, but the chess will always be it, when the Song army first went down to the south of the Yangtze River, the Jiangbei East, Central and West three road army is like three chess pieces, I am like two chess pieces in Jinling and Hukou camp, we are at a disadvantage, but there is still a fight, after the Changzhou war, the Song army was eaten by me, and the chess pieces on both sides became two against two. This is also the reason why I just said that the cunning rabbit is cooked by a dead lackey. However, as soon as the Hukou camp was lost, the chess game became a lone son of the Song army who came to each other's aid to attack our Jinling, and the situation could not be worse. Moreover, the waterways in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River were all owned by the enemy, and the moat became a shortcut for the enemy to transport grain. Wu Yingying drew on the table with his hand dipped in wine while explaining to Liu Yi.

"Our army still has a large camp in Chizhou available, should it still be two sons?" Liu Yi was anxious, and stretched out his hand to draw a large circle in the upstream direction about where Chizhou was.

Wu Yingying smiled bitterly, stretched out his hand to erase it, and said, "The backbone of the establishment of the Chizhou camp is my original Jinfan Army and Heiyundu. First of all, all the backbone of the Jinfan Army were squeezed out, and then there were black clouds that were left in Jinling to defend, and now the camp in Chizhou is just an empty shell, and those strong men who have just been requisitioned from the state capital are the opponents of the Song army like wolves and tigers. Seeing that Liu Yi was silent, he said: "I guess that after the Song army defeats the Hukou camp, it must march east along the river, and the Chizhou camp must only defend Shaanxi, and cannot send a single soldier to intercept it." ”

Liu Yi nodded wordlessly, his spirit was already depressed to the extreme, and suddenly, he knelt on the ground all of a sudden, Wu Yingying hurriedly jumped up from the stool, helped him up and said, "Brother Liu, what are you doing here?"

Liu Yi grabbed Wu Yingying's hand hard and said, "Brother Wu, you use your soldiers like a god, otherwise you wouldn't have analyzed the situation so clearly, you must still have a way to save this crisis, right?"

Volume 36 Morning Birds Cry in the Sky Like a Dream Chapter 57 Tryst

Wu Yingying saw that his eyes were like a drowning man grasping a life-saving straw, he couldn't bear it, and comforted: "Jinling City is high and deep, and the soldiers are good and well-fed, if they can hold on for a year and a half, maybe the Song army will retreat if they can't attack the city." ”

"Really?" Liu Yisheng was afraid that Wu Yingying would just deal with himself casually, so he asked eagerly.

Wu Yingying nodded and said in a deep voice: "Seriously." Sun Tzu said in the Art of War, where the division is 100,000 and goes on a journey of thousands of miles, the people's expenses, the public's dedication, and the daily expenses are thousands of gold. If it is long, the blunt army will be defeated, the siege will be bent, and the long-term violent division will be insufficient for the country. If the husband is blunt and the soldiers are frustrated, and the princes take advantage of their disadvantages, although there are wise men, they cannot be good at it. He came to this era, by coincidence became a general with heavy troops, and in private he also made up for Sun Tzu's Art of War, at this time, he casually quoted it was actually catchy, Liu Yi couldn't help nodding, and he said: "Judging from the current situation, although the Song State is large, although the military is strong, how can it be surrounded by strong enemies on all sides, Khitan and Taiyuan are all strong, if the more than 200,000 forbidden troops have been dragged in Jiangnan for a long time, it will inevitably give people the opportunity to take advantage of the situation, I am afraid that Kaifeng will not sleep peacefully at night when he sits on the dragon chair." ”

Liu Yi turned his worries into joy, and said with a smile: "That's good, Brother Wu, you are really a general, I will contact my colleagues now, and I must try my best to ensure that you are reused, and lead the army to drive the Song people back to Jiangbei." ”

Seeing that he believed in himself so much, Wu Yingying couldn't help but be moved in his heart, and thanked him: "Brother Liu, the most taboo party in the court, you are the official of the court, I am the commander of the army, and some personal friendships are acceptable. Moreover, Hu Zenai, the commander of the Tiande Army, is a veteran general in the army, good at defending the city, and he is now the commander-in-chief of Jinling City Defense, and even if he uses me, it is impossible to do better than him. ”

Liu Yi nodded with some disappointment, picked up his wine glass and said, "No matter what, the country is troubled, Brother Wu, you must cheer up." ”

Wu Yingying also raised his glass and did it with him, the two of them had their own hearts, drank a lot and talked little, and finally supported each other to go home.

When he returned to the mansion, it was late, Wu Yingying immediately found a basin of cold water and poured himself from head to toe, and the thin wine suddenly sobered up, because he was participating in the apricot forest banquet specially opened for the new science and technology scholars, he picked out a black Confucian robe, tucked the mask of the night suit into the cuffs, and then rode to the palace to attend the banquet.

The apricot grove banquet was not really held in the apricot garden, but because of the name of the previous dynasty. At the beginning of Tang Zhongzong, when the new science and technology Jinshi released the list at the time of the spring flowers, the royal family gave a banquet in the Qujiang Garden where apricot trees were planted in Chang'an, so it was also called the "apricot garden banquet". Before the feast, it is necessary to select young and handsome people among the new science and technology scholars to take the horse path to enter the gardens of Chang'an to take famous flowers to help the fun, and this Jinshi is called "Tanhualang", which is another period of romance.

In previous years, the list was released in March, and the spring flowers were luxuriant, but this year because of the southern invasion of the Song army, the time for the examination was delayed. However, the palace has its own method in the palace, and the palace maid uses various colors of silk silk and satin to tie silk flowers on the tree.