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Chapter 27, the Three Hundred Warriors of the Great Song Dynasty

On December 12 of the first year of Jingkang of the Great Song Dynasty, the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Guo Jing and Guo Daxian walked out of the Fengqiu Gate of Bianliang City in an unusually low-key manner.

-- It wasn't that Emperor Zhao Huan of Qinzong was so mean that he was reluctant to hold a grand departure ceremony for Guo Jing, but the real problem was that this Northern Expeditionary Army was so shabby that it could barely handle it: even counting the coolies who pushed wheelbarrows and carried burdens, the whole army had just gathered 300 people!

Therefore, rather than letting such a pitifully small army run to the palace to be inspected and awarded the flag by the officials of the Great Song Dynasty, and laugh and be generous in front of the millions of citizens of Bianliang, Tokyo, it is better to let them quietly leave the city and wait for everyone to go away, and then carry out war propaganda.

-- Three hundred warriors crossed the river to the north to ...... Is this a death sentence? Or is it a show?

Hey, hey! This is the Great Song, not Sparta!

And the three hundred guys who went north to fight were also tightly clothed, not the kind of bare-pig of the Greeks.

In fact, even the lineup of these 300 soldiers and horses was able to come up because Guo Jing had good luck - just when the "Liujia Divine Soldiers" took advantage of the opportunity to flee one after another, Zong Ze, the deputy marshal of the Generalissimo Mansion of Hebei Soldiers and Horses, came to Bianliang with 200 "Qinwang's Division". Then before he had time to catch his breath, he was presented with a hat of a pioneer officer of the Northern Expedition by the imperial court, and he was directly hit by Guo Jing's men......

(In the Song dynasty, marshal was not a regular military rank, but more akin to a temporary assignment such as a theater commander.) ）

-- Unlike Zhao Gou, the generalissimo of Hebei Soldiers and Horses, who was tired of the throne of the Bianliang Palace from the beginning, and Wang Boyan, the deputy marshal who hoped to support the merits of the dragon, Zong Ze, the other Cizhou Zhizhou Zong Ze, who was named the deputy marshal, was a hardcore loyal minister with a red heart to the imperial court.

As early as when he stopped King Kang, Zong Ze took advantage of the banner of this prince to gather the remnants of the Song army in Hebei to prepare for King Qin - at that time, the Jin army on the east road used the tactics of going straight to Tokyo, and most of the prefectures and counties, especially some important military towns, were still in the hands of the Song army, and the Jin army could not even maintain the logistics channel to the south, and all the supplies depended on looting on the spot - until there was a shocking upheaval under the city of Tokyo, and more than 100,000 Jin soldiers went south to be wiped out, in order to eliminate the doubts of the imperial court, Zong Ze personally led a small number of cavalry, went south to Bianliang to meet the Son of Heaven, wanting to discuss a way to deal with the aftermath.

In this regard, King Kang, Zhao Gou and Wang Boyan had no intention of stopping it--don't look at the fact that they had already gathered forty or fifty thousand people in Xiangzhou, Hebei, which seemed to be about the same as Bianliang's troops. However, in the case that the Jin soldiers had been destroyed, there was almost no chance of victory in a head-on confrontation with the imperial court: Emperor Zhao Huan of Qinzong was still the rightful lord of the world after all, and according to his edict, the army of King Qin6 in Fujian, Liangguang, Sichuan and other places continued to rush to Bianliang. With the passage of time, Bianliang's military strength will gradually swell until it completely overwhelms Hebei's side.

Although these Qinwang troops are all strong men temporarily recruited by the local government, and the leaders are not famous generals, it is estimated that they do not have the ability to fight the Jurchen Iron Cavalry, but the Hebei rebels who beat King Kang are still not a problem...... And whether the rabble in Hebei dared to go all the way with King Kang is difficult to say - you must know that there was a Song generation, and there was never a prince who successfully rebelled by force. In the eyes of the military leaders in Hebei, instead of betting all their wealth on such a big gamble with a slim chance of winning, it is better to tie up King Kang and dedicate it to the imperial court, so as to ask for an official and a half position......

- Although the situation is somewhat similar to the Battle of Jingjing, and Song Qinzong seems to be inferior to Emperor Jianwen, Zhao Gou, the king of Kang, cannot be compared with Zhu Di, the king of Yan.

Moreover, in the current Bianliang City in Tokyo, there is also the Guo Daxian who is said to be a god of the law and has killed more than 100,000 golden soldiers in one go. Since even the fierce and bloodthirsty Jurchen Iron Rider was only burned to ashes in front of him, let alone these rabble with different minds under Zhao Gou, let alone want to rebel and usurp the throne with this unreliable capital? Let's wash and sleep!

Therefore, the actual situation in Hebei is far less serious than the worries of Prime Minister He Su and others - even Zhao Gou himself has no confidence in the soldiers and horses under his command, and is more worried about how this mess will end, rather than plotting to usurp the throne.

So, after Tongguò Zongze had a preliminary understanding of the details of the Generalissimo's Mansion of Hebei Soldiers and Horses, and was a little relieved, the imperial court, which lacked discipline, beat Zongze out again, and assigned it to Guo Jing to strengthen his momentum and serve as the vanguard of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

- Unlike those fancy forbidden troops in Bianliang City, these Hebei veterans brought by Zong Ze, although they were also defeated under the Jin people, but they were brave warriors who had seen a lot of blood and fought hard from the battlefield.

So at the beginning, Guo Jing was still a little worried, not knowing if he could suppress these arrogant generals before finding an opportunity to show his magical powers, but later he felt that this worry was obviously superfluous - in the Song Dynasty, the status of soldiers was so low that it was ridiculously low that anyone was not allowed to retire once they joined the army, but in fact they were soldiers for life, and vacancies in soldiers were given priority to by-election from the children of military dependents. If a soldier flees or commits a crime, the punishment is severe, and even to relatives and villages. And in order to prevent the soldiers from escaping, it is necessary to tattoo words on the face of each soldier as if they were branding slaves. Decades ago, the famous general Di Qing became a privy envoy, but because of the tattoos on his face, he still couldn't raise his head among the literati, and even a prostitute dared to laugh at him publicly, which shows the low status of the martial artists of the Great Song Dynasty. Every soldier has an extremely low self-esteem in his heart, and he is completely short in front of civilian officials and doctors.

As for this protector Guo Jing, although he is not an orthodox scholar, he is an "immortal" with a higher status! I didn't see that the officials of the Great Song Dynasty had to treat him as a teacher, and those civil officials and doctors who were born in Jinshi were even more respectful to him...... And the dozens of miles of death scorched earth scattered all over the suburbs of Bianliang, as well as the cloudy city "New Tokyo" hanging in the sky, are even more visible to them -- I heard that the official family has recently thought that although the "New Tokyo" in the sky has Qionglou Yuyu and is extremely beautiful, it is too deserted, and they are ready to recruit a group of loyal and reliable people to become "heavenly people"!

-- Such a lofty status, such a great power to destroy the world, has long made the hearts of these soldiers in awe. Now that this real person has actually appeared in front of them, how can they, who have long been accustomed to being low, be presumptuous?

In short, at least when they left Tokyo, this hastily assembled small team ran into each other quite smoothly.

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As the group walked out of Tokyo's Bianliang, they saw a scorched earth covered in snow.

――Last month, Nobita's [Fully Automatic Plasma Shaped Plasma Cannon] showed its might to this land, causing more than 100,000 Southern Expeditionary Jin troops and the same number of captive coolies to turn to ashes in an instant, and even their bones were burned into smoke...... At this time, everyone walked on it, although they could not see the miserable picture of the white bones exposed in the wild, but the death scorched earth that had been crystallized by the high temperature made people feel even more palpitations.

The crowd walked silently through the scorched earth where hundreds of thousands of living beings were buried, without saying a word all the way.

However, when he chose the northbound route next, Zong Ze, a veteran who had always had a good temper, had a dispute with Qin Hui for the first time.

-- During the Northern Song Dynasty, if the people of Bianliang in Beijing wanted to go north, they generally went out of Fengqiumen and turned to the northeast, and crossed the river by taking the Yellow River pontoon bridge in Yanjin County. At present, although the Yellow River pontoon bridge has been burned down by the Jin soldiers, it is still the most convenient ferry to Hebei, and the official road also goes there.

(It is true that the Song Dynasty built several bridges over the Yellow River to connect the north and the south - albeit pontoons.) ）

However, Zong Ze and others insisted that everyone go around in a circle to the west, cross the river from Zhengzhou and Zhongmu, and run hundreds of miles out of thin air.

However, Qin Hui and Guo Jing carefully asked them why, and these people from the north couldn't say clearly, only saying that "it is okay to walk alone, but it is impossible to pass by heavy carriages and horses"...... Such a vague explanation obviously could not satisfy the people of Bianliang who were confused. In addition, Qin Hui in the imperial history with Zong Ze's theory also had some arrogant tendencies of Song Dynasty bureaucrats and doctors to look at people with their nostrils - so it didn't take long for a quarrel to start.

In this regard, Guo Jing, who also did not know why, had to play a round from it, and everyone should go to the Yellow River ferry in Yanjin County to have a look.

Then, there, Guo Jing and his party finally understood the reason why Zong Ze asked them to take a detour.

-- The Yellow River has stopped!