Don't look at Cheng Zhijie, he has not been very reliable before, and his ability is also very ordinary. But he has always been a person with lofty ideals, and as a general, his lofty ideal is to fight on the battlefield and expand the territory for the emperor.

Of course, the ideal of opening up the territory is too high, and the second thing is to guard the country and defend the enemy in front of the battle.

He had been waiting for thirty years for this dream.

But what made him desperate was that as he grew older, he saw more and more clearly what he was capable of. The only martial arts that can be taken are not too brilliant in the army. At least after contacting Li Kui, he really found that he was so humble, but it didn't matter, he couldn't do it himself, Li Kui could do it, Cheng Zhijie, who didn't know what shame was, decisively hugged his thighs.

I have to say, I really let him hug it.

Riding on the horse, the third watch got up, carefully took care of his whole body, dipped his armor in vinegar and wiped the floor shiny, and even the beard on his chin was carefully trimmed, Cheng Zhijie, who was riding on a tall horse, looked radiant, but it didn't look like he was going to war. On the contrary, there is a kind of brilliance in the capital, participating in the banquet.

"Renjie, a long-cherished wish for many years is finally coming true today, rest assured, I will listen to you when I go out of the city, you let me go east, I will go east, you let me go west, I will go west." Cheng Zhijie is different from those arrogant people, in the face of helpers with real skills, he doesn't care about his body at all and puts it down.

The subordinates on the side almost rolled their eyes in anger, and lamented in their hearts: "This thing is actually a general? What's even more unfortunate is that this thing is still General Ben's boss! ”

is really a general, Cheng Zhijie's official rank is very high, and now he is the general of Yunlu of Sanpin, the commander. If he makes a great contribution this time, it is not hopeless to be promoted to deputy commander.

Unlike other relatives, few relatives are willing to go to the border to make military exploits, as a relative of the emperor, although the relatives are not as good as the royal relatives, but if they want to be promoted and make a fortune, as long as they are drunk and die in the capital. The Gao brothers used this method to lie down and win most of the generals' disciples. Everything has advantages and disadvantages, and it is easy to lie down and win an official position, but once it falls out of favor, it will be unlucky to be beaten by thousands of people. Anyone can bully them.

And the military exploits fought on the battlefield, even if they lose the favor of the emperor, will not become dim, but will be more shining.

The biggest reason why relatives don't like to join the army and go to the battlefield is that they don't have confidence in themselves.

The same is true for Cheng Zhijie, he has no confidence in himself, but he has confidence in Li Kui.

That's enough.

It was already afternoon when the march out of the city was two-quarter.

Cheng Zhijie looked at Li Kui, he was very excited when he first came out of the city, and he talked a lot, but his mouth became dry as he spoke, and now he was a little hoarse, but he was still in high spirits: "Brother Xian, are you still marching today?" ”

She, a marching unit, has appeared in the book of war since the pre-Qin period. The distance between one house is thirty miles, and the distance between two rooms is sixty miles.

For the Great Song army, a march of sixty miles is already a very good distance.

Li Kui looked at the sky, nodded and said, "Please also ask my brother to issue a military order to camp and not leave today." Also, we need to wait for someone. ”

"Don't worry, Renjie, Zhang Chuan is clever, he will be fine." Subsequently, Cheng Zhijie ordered Hu Yanzhuo: "Order the army to set up camp and make a fire to cook." ”

Hu Yanzhuo still didn't believe that Li Kui could kill twice as many enemy troops with infantry with a few firearms.

But he couldn't refute the head brought by Li Kui, and even Hao Sui, who couldn't wait, had already written the secret fold, and Xuanfu made Lu Huiqing write the fold and send it to the capital. Counting the days, this recital of the great victory on the front line will be sent to the court, and there will be no opposition from the court.

Hu Yanzhuo was not a civil servant, but he also knew that in a situation where the situation was very unfavorable to the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty needed a big victory to cover up the unfavorable situation of the front-line war.

And the sacrifice of prisoners in Taimiao is undoubtedly the best means to whitewash the peace.

Thinking that Li Kui was always proud of himself like a monkey in front of him, and looked down on people looking at him with disdain, he felt a pain in his liver. But there is no way, Li Kui has a backstage, ability, and a noble Jinshi identity, and he can be suppressed in almost any way, so he can't pounce.

Speaking of which, Hu Yanzhuo didn't want to trample Li Kui under his feet to be happy, he just wanted Li Kui to know that the men were not muddy, and the people of the Huyan family were invincible in the battlefield.

It's a pity that at the moment when Cheng Zhijie handed over the command to Li Kui, Hu Yanzhuo knew that he had amazed Li Kui on the battlefield, and even had no chance to surrender.

Winning the battle against the party was the result of Li Kui's command and dispatch.

If he loses the battle, Hu Yanzhuo doesn't want to see Li Kui even if he doesn't want to see him. Besides, if he really fails, Hu Yanzhuo estimates that he will eventually take the blame.

Da Da Da –

The iron hooves of the war horse shook the earth and whistled from afar. This made Cheng Zhijie nervous, he wouldn't go out of the city the day before he met the party members, right?

The stove has just been hot, and you haven't eaten a bite of the hot rice?

Fortunately, looking at the banner, it seems to be his own person, which reassures him a lot.

"My lord, I am fortunate to be humiliated."

After less than half a month, when I saw Zhang Chuan again, the memory of the personable young general had been blurred, and it was replaced by a dusty face, and the moment he raised his head, his eyes were red, obviously he had not rested well.

Cheng Zhijie straightened his stomach and said to Zhang Chuan: "In the future, the army will be handled by the supervising army, what is the military situation, you go and report to him?" ”

"It's the general."

"My lord, Jin Mingzhai is still in the hands of my Great Song."

Zhang Chuan knelt on one knee, leaning his back, but he didn't have that sense of curling up at all, but gave people a feeling of sharpness. Brother Gongzi is gone, and he has become a decisive general on the battlefield.

The moment he raised his face, a red scar on Zhang Chuan's face surprised Hu Yanzhuo: "Zhang Chuan, are you injured?" ”

"It's nothing, it was scraped by the party's knife." Zhang Chuan's breezy tone seemed to be as relaxed as if he was stumbling, but as a disciple of Jiangmen, Hu Yanzhuo knew the danger of this scar. If the party's knife was advancing an inch, Zhang Chuan would be seriously injured. It is not impossible to even die on the spot.

Li Kui sat on the edge of the fire and asked Zhang Chuan to get up and speak: "Zhang Chuan, tell me about the situation." ”

"It's very strange that the siege of the city a few days ago suddenly became chaotic, and it should be the day before I came to Shishi to ask for help after I left the city from Jinmingzhai, there were such signs. However, after the appearance of our cavalry, the attack of the party men will be in shape, at least it will not be defeated at every turn. Now the situation in Jinmingzhai is very bad, and there is a danger of falling anytime and anywhere. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Chuan couldn't help but grit his teeth and worry, he hated himself and couldn't contain the energy of more party troops.

Otherwise, the pressure on Jin Mingzhai would not be so great.

Li Kui fiddled with the bonfire, and the sparks after the firewood was burned rose into the air with the heat, which was very good-looking: "Now that your task has been completed, at most two days, our army will be able to reach the periphery of Jinmingzhai, and the siege pressure of Jinmingzhai will be greatly weakened at that time." Now my only concern is whether it will snow on this day. ”

"Snowing?"

Zhang Chuan didn't think that the snow would delay the rescue of the Song army, but looking at Li Kui's solemn expression, he hesitated.

Is it possible?

Throwing away the miscellaneous thoughts in his head, Zhang Chuan said loudly: "Renjie, I grew up in the northwest since I was a child, and it won't snow in this weather, at least not for three or five days." Rest assured. ”

"Well, with your words, I can at least feel a lot more at ease." Li Kui is worried about snowfall, the reason is that artillery is basically equivalent to waste bumps in rainy and snowy weather, if this is a rescue on a snowy day, Li Kui is worried that the casualties will hit him to the point that he will not be able to bear it, and even a fiasco will be inevitable.

Fortunately, Zhang Chuan's experience allowed him to at least let go of a lot of worries in his heart.

Li Kui said with relief: "Zhang Chuan, you and your people are ready to go to the city to repair." After three days, the repair is almost done, and then go out of the city to look for fighters. You can't do that, and even if you don't want to rest, your soldiers need to rest. ”

The physical strength of the soldiers is strong and weak, and after a little overdraft, the combat effectiveness of the army will be greatly reduced.

When Li Kui saw the whites of Zhang Chuan's bloodshot eyes, he knew that Zhang Chuan had not rested well. He was worried that the thousand cavalry commanded by Zhang Chuan was about to be scrapped. Seeing Zhang Chuan's appearance, Hu Yanzhuo was thoughtful, and leaned up with a probe and said, "My lord, I can also command the cavalry." ”

Unlike the children of other generals in the Great Song Dynasty, most of them are good at infantry command, but the Huyan family is one of the few cavalry generals. Since the beginning of Gaozu Huyanzhuo, the Huyan family has a complete set of secrets for training cavalry and cavalry. Since Hu Yanzhuo joined the army, he can only mix among the infantry, and he is quite unwilling.

At this time, Mao Sui recommended himself, naturally seeing that Zhang Chuan was already at the end of the crossbow and wanted to replace him.

Besides, the army commanded by Zhang Chuan is the forbidden army directly under the palace, and Zhang Chuan is considered the general of the Western Army, if there is no one available, it will not be Zhang Chuan's turn to command.

However, Li Kui Duan Ran refused: "No, your task is to set up a camp of 800 carts that I asked for from Lu Gong after the party's army appears, before the other party launches an attack, to protect our army's infantry from the frontal attack of the party's cavalry." ”

Seeing that Hu Yanzhuo was still thinking about his cavalry at this time, Zhang Chuan was anxious, stood up and said, "My lord, the last general can still withstand it." ”

"No, rest is a must, you are in a very bad situation right now. Li Yun's cavalry came back first, and the army avoided the main force of the Dang Xiang people, and only attacked and harassed. Although the casualties were not large, the soldiers were already exhausted, and if they continued to stay on the battlefield, if they had to fight a tough battle, wouldn't they be crushed at the first touch? ”

Li Kui was not really willing to let the two thousand cavalry return to the city, mainly because he didn't rest, people couldn't stand it, and horses couldn't stand it.

Zhang Chuan was helpless at this time, and slowly walked towards Fushi City with his cavalry.

Hu Yanzhuo also followed behind Li Kui, selling himself as a rare general of the horse army in the Great Song Dynasty, a foot soldier general who couldn't let him go. But Li Kui turned his head suddenly, stared at Hu Yanzhuo and said, "Zhang Chuan wants to fight hard for his father, what are you for?" ”

Hu Yanzhuo was clumsy, and he didn't know how to answer Li Kui for a while.

That night, in the wild of Yan'an Mansion, the weather was getting colder and colder, and a wolf howl was heard in the middle of the night.

And in the city of Tokyo, the atmosphere in the temple seems to be very wrong. Ever since the war broke out in the Northwest, the Privy Council has been stupid. Originally, the result of the discussion between the Metropolitan Hall and the Privy Council was to precedently Huang and then Western Xia, after all, Western Xia had been fighting with the Great Song Dynasty for fifty years, and both sides had their own victories and defeats. In terms of the number of victories, the Great Song possessed. According to the results of the battle, Western Xia possessed. The Qingtang Tubo in Hehuang had been wiped out once by the Song army, and the Song army had an absolute advantage over the Qingtang Tubo.

On the whole, the Great Song Dynasty's understanding of Western Xia is that only by slowly trying to eat it up can there be hope.

If you want to rely on one big victory after another to force the Western Xia to surrender, or even destroy the Western Xia in one fell swoop, it is impossible to say anything. So re-laying the river and destroying Qingtang and Tubo has become the unanimous opinion of the Great Song Dynasty temple. And the strategy of the Privy Council also started from targeting Hehuang, Liu Yannian's 30,000 elites were deployed on Qinfeng Road, and this army was also the only mobile force that the Song Dynasty could use in the northwest.

But what I didn't expect was that the Tubo in Qingtang City was not defeated, but the party members of the Western Xia couldn't bear it, and even used the whole army to invade the border fortress between the Great Song Dynasty and the Western Xia.

The three roads were besieged by the Western Xia army, and the situation was precarious.

Even if Li Qingchen didn't want to be this privy envoy very much, he had to eat and live in the imperial city under the unfavorable situation of the border fortress, and he had a sad face all day long.

A lot of opinions were raised, and all the opinions were only one, increase the troops, increase the troops, and increase the troops.

But the problem is that the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty really can't move, and even if these forbidden troops are pulled down to the northwest, I am afraid they will not be able to win the party. The situation of the forbidden army in other areas of the Great Song Dynasty is not satisfactory. And it was at this time that Li Kui, who was driven out of the capital because he was disgusted with the Empress Dowager Xiang, sent a good news from the northwest.

1,500 soldiers, no matter how strict the selection of the forbidden army in front of the palace is, in the eyes of Li Qingchen, it is still inferior to the Western Army. This evaluation was not made by him, but told to him by the big boss of the capital hall, Prime Minister Zhang Dan.

Li Qingchen had no experience in leading troops, nor had he been on the battlefield. But Zhang Dian has, for the strength of the forbidden army in the Central Plains, I am afraid that no court member is more familiar with it than Zhang Dan.

"It's not as good as the Western Army!"

It was these four words of evaluation that made Li Qingchen even more incredibly that Li Kui could almost annihilate the 3,000 cavalry of the party with more than 1,000 people in his hands, this is no longer a lie about the military situation, but treating him as a fool!

When Li Qingchen thought of Li Kui, he had a toothache angrily: This student can't have it.

He withheld the recital sent by Lü Huiqing, and Zhang Dian suggested that the emperor seize Hao Sui's excerpts, which was obviously a great victory, but there was a tense atmosphere in the capital where the scandal was about to be revealed.

At this time, rumors spread in the streets and alleys of the capital that Li Qingchen deliberately suppressed the soldiers of the border army. This made Li Qingchen very frightened, and the high-ranking officials of the Great Song Dynasty used the method of splashing dirty water as the simplest and rude method. And it's tried and tested, and it's very easy to use. As soon as Li Qingchen pondered it, he suspected that he had fallen in love with someone, Zeng Bu.

However, Li Qingchen was so anxious at this time that he didn't care about arguing with Zeng Bu at all, so he went to the emperor first to prove his innocence.

"Your Majesty, the minister still insists, the captives have not come to the capital, and this matter must not be pushed to the court, once the news is wrong, it is nothing for the minister to be criticized, but Your Majesty must not be criticized. In the opinion of the minister, this matter was pressed, and after a few days, he arranged for Qin to go to the northwest and bring back the news in its original form, which was naturally solved. ”

Li Qingchen insisted on suppressing the matter.

Although Zhang Dian is the prime minister, the prime minister is not allowed to intervene in the military without authorization. He was silent on the side, but at this moment, Yang Wei entered the hall with a note, and said with a strange face: "Your Majesty, everyone, Yan Yanlu decided to rescue Jin Mingzhai and sent 5,000 foot soldiers, at this time, I am afraid that these 5,000 men and horses have already left the city, and they will fight a decisive battle with the 50,000 army of the party members in a day or two at the latest." ”

Five thousand against fifty thousand.

According to the bad record of the Great Song Dynasty, this is an immortal tribulation.

The gods can't bring the war, and Lu Huiqing dared to send reinforcements in such an unfavorable situation in the war, this is obviously to send ordnance to the party members!

Li Qingchen, who was a privy envoy, found that he had even lost control of the major military movements of the border army, his face turned blue with anger, and he said angrily: "Your Majesty, the minister implores Your Majesty to condemn Lu Huiqing, this person is bold and reckless, and regards the lives of my Great Song Dynasty soldiers as a mustard, at this time, I am afraid that the road to Yan Yan is in danger!" Shaanxi Sixth Road is in danger! ”

Zhao Xu was dumbfounded, 5,000 against 50,000, or infantry fighting cavalry, if the Great Song Dynasty had the courage, would he be bullied like this by a small Western Xia?

But let him make a judgment, he was only a teenager, and his urine was about to be scared out, but he didn't have a little idea.

Zhang Dian looked at the chaos in front of him, as well as Zeng Bu's guy, who made it clear that he watched the excitement after setting the fire, and secretly held a grudge in his heart, but at this time, he, the prime minister, didn't say anything. Zhang Dian coughed and cleared his throat, which was just a reminder to Emperor Zhao Xu. Fortunately, Zhao Xu also noticed it and said vigilantly: "What is Zhang Qing's plan? ”

Zhang Dian smiled bitterly, what good way did he have?

The current solution is to send his brother Zhang Qi to the northwest, and then immediately arrange for a high-ranking and powerful Qincha to go to the northwest to govern.

Zhang Dian thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, this matter cannot be delayed, and it should be decided immediately. The minister suggested that the important ministers should be sent to inspect the Northwest Sixth Road, and send reinforcements to quickly reinforce the Yanyan Road, and the minister was afraid that once the frontline battle situation was unfavorable, I was afraid that the entire Shaanxi Sixth Road would be affected. ”

"Accurate!" Zhao Xu said with a sigh of relief.

At this time, Zeng Bu suddenly spoke: "I am willing to go!" ”

What number of roads?

Li Qingchen was stunned, and then he was alerted to the fact that this Zeng Bu was really stinky shit and caused trouble everywhere, so he immediately suggested: "Cai Bian can go." ”

Su Zhe looked at the noisy court and sneered in his heart: "Dog eats dog, when can this official be arrogant?" ”

Suddenly, I didn't know who it was, and suddenly shouted in the main hall: "The minister thinks that it is most appropriate for Su Xiang to go." ”

Su Zhe trembled with fright, turned his head and glared at the hall, and was furious in his heart: "Which bastard harms people?" ”

didn't wait for Su Zhe to react, but Zhang Dian seemed to have turned a corner, thinking that Su Zhe was not good, not his own person, he made a mistake, and he was corrected!

He immediately agreed: "The minister seconded the proposal!" ”

Li Qingchen was entangled for a while, and sneered: "The minister also seconded the proposal!" ”