Five years ago, that is, in November of the tenth year of Chunyou, because of the eight years of hard work and hard work of Yu Jue, the ambassador of Sichuan's pacification system, the imperial court ordered a commendation and was promoted to the second level.

Along with the holy decree, there was also a private letter, which was written by Zheng Qingzhi, the current prime minister, to Yu Jue.

The letter said that he was about to return to his hometown, and he just wanted to wait for a highlight moment as a step to retreat, which means that you can get some dazzling results as soon as possible, and the old man will be glorious.

Yu Jue is a rare handsome talent, and he wants to regain the lost territory, and he was instigated by this, so he decided to start the Northern Expedition and take Hanzhong first.

He soon mobilized elite troops from all walks of life, set out from Chongqing, and supervised the construction of Pingliang Mountain City while patrolling the northern border.

At this time, Hanzhong was upgraded to Xingyuan Province by Mongolia, but the ancient name Liangzhou, named "Pingliang", is the meaning of Fuping Liangzhou, expressing Yu Yu's determination to go on the Northern Expedition.

In order to restrain the Mongol cavalry, Yu Jue had already built more than a dozen mountain cities in Sichuan, so he was very experienced, and it took two months to repair Pingliang City.

At this time, it was already March of the following year, and he immediately led his army to Hanzhong, defeating the Mongol Marshal Wang Jin in the area of Jinniu Road in the first battle, followed by three battles and three victories, capturing a large number of enemy troops.

In April, Yu Jue arrived at Zhongliang Mountain outside Xingyuan City, set up camp and began to siege the city, and at the same time burned the plank road in the north of Xingyuan City to prevent Mongolian reinforcements.

However, the Mongolian defenders in Xingyuan City are not general, but the battle-hardened Mongolian generals Jiagu Longgu Belt, who has been operating Xingyuan City for more than ten years, and the city defense fortifications are very complete and solid.

At the same time, this "fake bone dragon" has many Han staff, so he also does a good job in civil affairs, the warehouse is full, and unlike most other Mongolian generals who only practice killing, this guy has learned to be gentle and calm, and more than a dozen local tyrants who were originally divided from one side have joined one after another, and four or five Song generals have taken the initiative to surrender.

Therefore, although there are only 5,000 defenders in this Xingyuan City, it is really difficult to fight, and the Shu land is mountainous and difficult to travel, and Yu Yu's army cannot bring large siege equipment, although it has launched many fierce attacks, it has not been able to conquer.

Yu Jue saw that the hard attack was difficult to work, and he also used tactics many times, but he was all recognized by a Han staff named Li Tang under the "Fake Bone Dragon", so he had to surround Xingyuan City to the death, attack the surrounding areas, and also achieved certain results, surrendered several Mongol Han armies, and captured 500 good horses from the north to pay tribute to the imperial court.

On the Mongolian side, Marshal Tuxue and Gongchang Marshal Wang Dechen and others led the army to the rescue, but because the plank road in the Qinling Mountains was burned down, they were stuck and could not pass.

Until they caught three Mongolian deserters who escaped from Hanzhong, and under their guidance, they killed Hanzhong from Chencang Road.

Yu Jue learned that the Mongol army was coming to help, so he had no choice but to burn all the siege equipment and retreat overnight.

Jiang Huai's department was originally a guerrilla left army stationed in Tun Jiankang, and it was a guest army when it came to Sichuan Lunwu, so it was used as a Chinese army by Yu Jue, and it never went to war.

In order to make better use of the terrain, Jiang Huai divided the 4,000 people into three divisions, he himself led 2,000, Liu Xiuli and Chen Xiaokun each received 1,000, and the layers of delays were delayed to harass the Mongolian army, and the effect was very good, and the large army evacuated safely.

After completing the task, Jiang Huai also began to evacuate, sending a message to Liu Xiuli, asking him to answer at a place called Songshuping.

As a result, Liu Xiuli quietly killed the messenger, and then revealed the location of the response to Wang Dechen in pursuit through Cui Jianzhang, so Wang Dechen immediately led the army to Songshuping in advance, and set up an ambush in the valley.

After waiting for a long time but waiting for bad news, Chen Xiaokun had to retreat with Liu Xiuli, who pretended not to know anything, and then, although he also suspected Liu Xiuli, but without any evidence, he could only endure it in his heart, if he hadn't found Cui Jianzhang today, he might never have been able to confirm the truth.

At this time, Chen Xiaokun could no longer endure the flames in his patience, and punched Liu Xiuli on the bridge of his nose, "You brute! Brother Jiang has always regarded you as a confidant and sibling, but you have sinned against him, and buried 2,000 fellow brothers, you are not as good as a beast!"

One punch, another punch, made Liu Xiuli's skin open and fleshy, and he was not human.

Zhao Meng inspired Wu Qiong to stop Chen Xiaokun, "Just beating him to death like this, it's too cheap for him, he must be made to pay enough price to comfort so many souls who were killed by him."

Liu Xiuli was like a puddle of mud, spread on the ground, but his eyes flashed with madness, pulling the corners of his rotten mouth, and laughing strangely.

"Huh...... Hehe...... Treat me like a brother and sister!? He is nothing but hypocrisy...... Hehe, obviously nothing is as good as me, but I have repeatedly snatched away what should have belonged to me! When learning art and martial arts, he is not as strong as me, his understanding is not as good as mine, and he has never won against me, but the master doesn't seem to see all this, and he has never had a good face for me, and he hides his housekeeping skills and doesn't teach me, but secretly teaches Jiang Huai, why!? …… He Jiang Huai even gave me the restraint of his apprenticeship, let him teach me, but he refused to die!"

"Also, if it wasn't for my Liu family's way to join the army, how could I directly join the command of Chen Du, and happen to be accepted as a student by him? …… Haha, learning military affairs, Jiang Huai is still not as good as me! However, that guy is used to pretending to be obedient and secretly hooking up with Zhiniang...... Scold... Hehe...... Chen Shuai originally planned to marry Zhi Niang to me, but he was used by that guy to seize Zhi Niang's heart, and deceived Zhi Niang into not marrying him!"

"Hah...... Everything was taken away by him, my beloved woman, Chen Shuai's mantle, the guerrilla left army commander, and the Fenghua army were all taken away by him! How he doesn't give a damn! He should have died a long time ago!"

Like a madman, Liu Xiuli hysterically complained about the "injustice" he had suffered.

Crazy about love?

Liu Xiuli and Jiang Huai are rivals in love?

Because of frustration in love, why do you hold a grudge?

Could it be that Liu Xiuli let his son marry Wanwan to make up for the regret that he couldn't ask for?

It sounds a bit bloody, and it seems that hateful people must have pity, but it's just psychopathic and distorted human nature.

What's more, for the sake of personal grudges, he collaborated with the enemy and treasoned and sent 2,000 lives to the enemy's butcher's knife, which is really too despicable.

Zhao Mengqi shook his head, too lazy to listen to it again, "Don't let him say it again, the dog's mouth can't spit out ivory, this kind of person always feels that all the unsatisfactory is owed to him by others."

Wu Qiong's method of telling Liu Xiuli to shut up was very rude, took out a dagger, twisted it into his mouth, and picked out a broken tongue.

Afterwards, Liu Xiuli could only let out a meaningless howl, gradually becoming more and more powerless, lying on the ground, twitching from time to time, like a dying dog.

Wu Qiong asked, "Your Highness, what should I do with this guy?"

Backstabbing is a hundred times more hateful than the real enemy, and Zhao Mengqi naturally has nothing to be polite to Liu Xiuli.

"Such collaborators and traitors, murdering their comrades, betraying the nation, and forgetting their ancestors by counting the classics, and dying ten thousand times can hardly justify their crimes, hanging them in the city tower, devouring their lives from heaven and earth, and after death, they will break their bones and scatter ashes, and at the same time declare their crimes to the world, so as to warn those who come after!"

In the more than 20 years since the Song and Mongolia wars, many generals of the Song army have surrendered to Mongolia, and if they do not want to come up with practical measures, I am afraid that there will be more in the future.

Zhao Mengqi's high-profile attitude can be regarded as a deterrent to some potential traitors.

As for Cui Jianzhang, he can't let him die easily, hand him over to Hou Tao for follow-up interrogation, and hollow out his so-called secrets.

In addition to ordinary soldiers, Liu Xiuren and other prisoners, Zhao Mengqi planned to escort them to Lin'an and let the imperial court deal with them, so that someone would jump out and pick a thorn, saying that he had no rules for King Yan.

At this time, the battlefield was still in chaos, because of the lack of manpower, there was only time to send the wounded defenders to the city for treatment, as for the nearly 1,000 wounded soldiers of the rebels, they could not take care of it, and the corpses of both the enemy and us did not have time to clean up.

Fortunately, Cao Lie brought 5,000 reinforcements, although he didn't catch up with the battle, but this matter of cleaning up the battlefield could be handed over to him.

After arranging things, Zhao Mengqi returned to the city, thinking about the wounded, so he went to Wu Tower first.

This time the defense of the city was won, but the price paid was not small, the defenders and the people suffered most of the casualties, four or five hundred were killed and killed, and there were six or seven hundred wounded, if the treatment was not in place, the number of deaths would definitely increase.

Wu Lou covers an area of more than two acres, the place is not small, but it can't accommodate so many wounded, fortunately, the people nearby spontaneously gave up their shops and houses, and took the initiative to help take care of the wounded.

Outside the Wu Building, Zhao Mengqi did not see the expected noisy and panicked scene, although people were busy with their feet not touching the ground, but faintly seemed to be in order, it seemed that Wanwan was handled well.

Zhao Mengqi relieved his mind a little, thought about it, and decided not to go in, so as not to help, but to add to the chaos.

There was nothing to do for the time being, a strong exhaustion came up, and he felt a little unbearable, so he simply went back to the county office first.

As soon as he entered the door, Wu Qian came to him, and he didn't even have a word to congratulate him on the victory, so he said eagerly, "Your Highness, I originally planned to open the gate early this morning to drain the water, but it was mixed up by the rebels, and now I don't dare to delay it any longer, I have to execute it immediately."

Zhao Mengqi's mind was a little dazed, and he was stunned when he heard this, "Huh? I've really forgotten about it, but I don't think the sun is shining now, so I don't need to release the flood."

"Lao Chen went to the lake to see the water level, and it was only two feet away from the embankment, which means that at least it must still be raining in the upper reaches of Taihu Lake, and it is absolutely impossible not to open the gate." Wu Qian's face was solemn.

"......?" Zhao Mengqi pondered for a while, his mind was still a little confused, and finally decided to believe Wu Qian, after all, it was also something that had already been decided.

"Okay, then do what Wu Gong said, it just so happens that there are five thousand soldiers outside the city, plus most of the Dongwei and Fenghua armies should also arrive, if you have time, try to arrange it properly, at least to ensure the safety of the people's lives."

"That's what the old minister wants."

"Then leave everything to Wu Gong to preside, I'm so tired that I want to sleep for a while." Zhao Mengqi shook his head.