The people of the Great Song Dynasty who Yang Peng rescued from Zheng Zhao are now placed outside the north gate of Dagou. Fortunately, Yang Peng seized more than 3,000 pack horses, 130,000 taels of silver, and more than 60,000 stones of grain in Ye Hongguang's camp. In particular, these 60,000 stone of grain are very important, with this food, Yang Peng can save these 40,000 refugees in this extraordinary season.

Mao Xin is one of the refugees. He was originally an ordinary farmer in Pujia Village, Liangguli, Barrage County, with two old parents and one younger sister in his family. There are three earthen houses in the family, plowing 23 acres of dry land, although Mao Xin has never married, but it is also a well-fed family. But in this era of war and chaos, where is the life of the common people so good. Half a month ago, the Khitan army came, and Mao Xin heard that the Khitan people were cruel, so he hurriedly drove the livestock and hid in Lianggu with his parents and sister. There was a ring of walls outside Naliangguli, and there were fifty archers inside, and Mao Xin hoped that these archers would be able to hold Liangguli.

However, when the Khitan army really came, Mao Xin knew that things were not so simple. More than 100 Khitan soldiers took bows and arrows and shot all the archers on the city wall of Liangguli to death at once. The Tartars smashed open the gate with a rushing car, arrested all the more than 3,000 people who were hiding in Liangguli, and said that they would be taken to Liaodong to be slaves.

Mao Xin's family of four fell into the hands of the Khitan soldiers. Along the way, the Khitan soldiers hurried to the south to catch more slaves, walking very fast, constantly whipping away the slow people. Mao Xin's old parents were almost fifty years old, their legs and feet were inconvenient, and they walked slowly, so they were successively injured by Khitan soldiers with whips. The Tartars only let the people drink gruel once a day, and the people are malnourished, how can the old man get better if he is injured? Two elderly people with high fevers died one after another.

What's even worse is Mao Xin's sister. Mao Xin's sister is fifteen years old this year, she is the same age as a flower, and she is a beautiful girl who is sent by young men from ten miles and eight towns to kiss. But as soon as it fell into the hands of the Khitan soldiers, it was taken away by the Khitan soldiers. Later, he was killed by the Khitan soldiers - when Mao Xin went to collect his sister's body, he heard that his sister was unwilling to cooperate when she was humiliated, which angered the Khitan soldiers to kill her sister.

In a blink of an eye, after more than ten days of work, Mao Xin's originally warm family disappeared, and Mao Xin became a loner. That night, under the supervision of two Khitan soldiers, Mao Xin and several men in the village dug a pit near the camp and buried his sister. Mao Xin cried a lot in front of his sister's grave, and secretly vowed to avenge his sister, even if he bit it with his teeth, he would bite a Khitan soldier to death.

However, the sky has eyes and did not let Mao Xin make a sacrifice in vain. After the Khitan soldiers entered the territory of Dagou, they encountered the Great Song official army that dared to fight, and the defenders of Dagou defeated the Khitan soldiers. After the Khitan soldiers were defeated in Dagou, they fled north, and after walking ten miles, the Khitan soldiers stopped again, and all of them faced south to meet the officers and troops in Dagou. It was another big battle, and the officers and soldiers of Dagou killed all the Khitan soldiers! The still alive Khitan soldiers rushed to the camp to snatch the horses, and ran away on horseback, not daring to turn their heads back.

And so the people were saved. The officials and soldiers of Dagou, who saved the people, treated the people very well, and Qiu did not commit any crimes. In recent years, it has been said that the officers and soldiers are like bandits, even more vicious than bandits, and it is really difficult to find officers and soldiers who do not bully the people with lanterns. Many officers and soldiers wanted to kill the refugees when they saw them, and they lied about the heads of the refugees as the heads of the Khitan soldiers and handed them over.

And the officers and soldiers of Dagou not only did not oppress and kill the people, but also saved the people. These officers and soldiers placed the people under the city wall in the north of the city, led the people to cut down trees, and let the people dig soil and live under the city wall for a while. The officials and soldiers organized the people to dig wells and build public toilets outside the city, and also selected some people from among the people who were in the prime of life and asked them to make porridge for other people. Thick porridge once in the morning and once in the evening, a large bowl per person. The porridge was so thick that even if a chopstick was inserted on it, it wouldn't fall down.

Although you can't eat 100% full, you don't do any physical work in Fanjiazhuang, and you won't get sick from hunger. Sometimes, the chief officer and deputy head of the Dagou will come out to personally distribute porridge to the people. Mao Xin saw it, it was a fairy-like figure. Only a hero like the Lord of Tianjing New City is worthy of this fairy-like lady. When Yang Tong heard those refugees call him the wife of the city lord, he didn't know how beautiful it was, and he did it with great energy.

Mao Xin inquired around, and finally knew that the city lord of Tianjing New City was called Yang Peng. On this day, the city lord Yang Peng finally came to see the refugees in the north of Dagou City. The lord of the city was very young, and the official robes in the red brocade guard costume led to the refugee's nest with a dozen retinues. The refugees in the nest knew that this was a life-saver, and they all ran out of the nest one by one and stood outside to look. The lord of the castle inspected the refugees' nests one by one to see if they had been affected by the wind and rain and if they were malnourished.

Seeing that the life-saving benefactor was so kind, many people cried on the spot. Several old men who were famous among the refugees came out of the crowd, walked up to the lord of the city, and fell to their knees tremblingly. "Thank you to Ming Gong for annihilating the Tartars by thunder means, and for saving us and other people with compassion and heart, my lord's kindness, and the grass people will never forget!" Seeing the old people kneeling, the entire refugee group felt the same way and knelt down together. Tens of thousands of people prostrate in front of the earthen nest, kowtowing to the city lord who saved his life, and only the head could be seen in a large area of black pressure. Mao Xin was in awe when he saw that scene. How capable of a clean official must be to be so loved by the people?

The city lord helped up the first few old men, and said with a smile: "It is the duty of my Great Song military attache to help the people, and there is no need to make this great gift!" The lord looked around at the people and shouted, "Get up, get up, get up!" The old man walked up to the lord of the city with a bowl of well water and said, "The people have nothing to repay the lord of the city. This is the water from the well dug in the north of the city by the rescued people, and it moistens the throat of the city lord. ”

Without saying a word, the lord drank the water from the well. When the old people saw that the city lord had drunk the well water, they were about to kneel again, but the city lord stopped him and pulled him up. The lord of the city said goodbye to the old men, and walked to the front of the earthen nests one by one to inspect. When the city lord walked in front of Mao Xin, Mao Xin finally couldn't help it and knelt on the ground with a pop.

Yang Peng came up to help Mao Xin and said with a smile: "Young man, what are you doing?" Mao Xin lay on the ground and refused to get up, and said loudly: "My lord, my parents and sister were killed by the Khitans!" My lord, let me add your officers and soldiers, I don't want military salaries, as long as I can fight the Khitan soldiers, as long as I can save a few suffering people, I will be willing in this life! ”

On October 20 of the first year of Xianping, the Khitan soldiers withdrew from the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, and Cangzhou was relieved. On October 24 of the first year of Xianping, Cangzhou City praised the soldiers of Tianjing New City for their achievements. Tianjing New City is only sixty miles away from Cangzhou City, and it is connected as one. Once Tianjing New City was captured, the Northern Recruitment Envoy could be under the city of Cangzhou in one day. Therefore, the people of Cangzhou know that the great victory in the ditch is to ensure the safety of Cangzhou City. The people of Cangzhou were very happy to guard their army, so Xu Nan arranged this time to praise the streets.

Parade through the streets are the Tianjing New City Tiger Ben Regiment and other soldiers and horses from Cangzhou. The first was of course the "most meritorious" Tiger Regiment, and Duan Zhixian led a thousand soldiers of the Xuan Feng Regiment to represent the Tiger Regiment, walking in the forefront. The 1,000 veterans of the Xuanfeng Regiment lined up in a phalanx of 20 and 50 people, entered the city from the Anxi Gate, walked through the county yamen from Xicheng Heng Street, and then walked to Dongcheng Heng Street, praised the streets under the gaze of the people, and finally walked out of Cangzhou City from the east gate of the town.

The people who flocked to Hengjie to watch the warriors parade filled the road, and the streets and alleys on both sides of Hengjie and the border with Hengjie were full of people. The people crowded around, just wanting to see more about what the warrior who defeated the Khitan soldiers looked like. I heard that the soldiers of Tianjing New City can fight the Khitan soldiers as one and two, I don't know how strong these soldiers are?

Under the gaze of the villagers and elders on both sides of the road, the soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment were extremely proud. They did not carry guns at this time, but each of them wore a short knife. One by one, they straightened their chests, put their right hands on the scabbard, and marched forward in a straight line.

The neat pace of the queue attracted bursts of admiration from the people next to him! "The soldiers of Tianjing New City are so mighty!" "What a neat queue, fifty people walk like one person!" "No wonder they can defeat the Khitan soldiers, they are all heroes who are one in a hundred!"

Many people brought out home-brewed rice wine and poured cups after cups for the soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment to drink. The soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment drank the rice wine handed by both sides as they walked in the queue, and after drinking, they stuffed the wine bowls to the people next to them, and the people helped the soldiers pass the wine bowls back. There were also rich families who thanked the officials and soldiers for defeating the Khitan soldiers, thanked the officers and soldiers for helping them save their heads and family property, and took out fine cakes to give to the soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment.

Behind the Xuanfeng Regiment, there were scattered soldiers and horses from other roads in Cangzhou. These soldiers and horses are here to make up the numbers, and they are sparse and unorganized, which makes the onlookers muttered in their hearts - these weak soldiers can also defeat the Khitan soldiers? Probably they are all responsible for waving flags and shouting on the battlefield, right? Although these officers and soldiers did not go well, in fact, they were all "heroes" of this battle - these soldiers were all assigned to the merits of this battle, and when they publicized it to the outside world, they all said that they were heroes who had fought in battle. These soldiers are afraid that others will say that they have earned something for nothing, so they will resolutely not tell the fact that they have not gone into battle.

The people muttered in their hearts, and the soldiers and horses of the other walks of life were not so enthusiastic about the scattered formation, and just stood there and watched the soldiers walk past. Occasionally, one or two of the common people would hand over a drink, and the GIs would be able to laugh and laugh.

Duan Zhixian wore the flying fish suit given by the emperor, wore a jade belt around his waist, rode a Wusun BMW, and walked proudly at the front of the entire team - yesterday, the flying fish suit and jade belt given by the city lord were sent to Dagou by a fast horse. The city lord passed down the word, and praised Duan Zhixian's great achievement in killing Ye Yu Hongguang, calling Duan Zhixian a great hero of Tianjing New City.

Praised by the city lord, he was given a brocade guard, a flying fish suit and a jade belt, which is a great honor. The flying fish suit is embroidered with a "flying fish" with teeth and claws - most of the flying fish's body resembles a big python, with horns, but the tail is a fish tail - this python-like flying fish suit with a jade belt is very majestic, making Duan Zhixian the focus of the audience.

Where Duan Zhixian rode through, the people applauded loudly, and they were all happy that Cangzhou had such a majestic military attaché. Duan Zhixian was also in front of Zhang Luo's people, who were servants in the county yamen. Every time Duan Zhixian walked a while, a servant from the county yamen took out firecrackers to set off. The crackling sound of firecrackers made the atmosphere of the whole parade even hotter.

The farther you go, the more people watch. The people stood on both sides of the road with rice wine well water, and the road was blocked. There are also people who climb on the roofs on both sides of the road to watch, and they don't know if they will step on the roof of the house. When the governor of the yamen saw that there was no road ahead, he threw strings of firecrackers forward to frighten the people who were blocking the road, so that they could get the way forward.

Walking to the gate of the county yamen, Xu Nan led more than a dozen civil officials in Cangzhou to stand at the gate of the yamen in person. Duan Zhixian glanced over and saw that Lu Hualin was also there. His precious brother Lu Huarong stood behind the official, leaning over to Duan Zhixian. Seeing the flying fish suit on Duan Zhixian's body, Lu Huarong's face turned pale, and he seemed to be very afraid - this flying fish suit represents the appreciation of the city lord of Tianjing New City, how far will this Zhixian fly in the future? Will he hold a grudge?

Even Lu Hualin regretted it a little - at that time, he shouldn't have favored his younger brother, and he should have beaten Lu Huarong dozens of boards to relieve Duan Zhixian's anger. Now this period of Zhixian is on the rise, and he has been promoted to six levels in a year, and I really don't know when he will be promoted! I don't know if he still remembers Lu Huarong's breath.

Xu Nan saw Duan Zhixian, stroked his beard and looked at Duan Zhixian, and nodded. He poured a glass of two-pot wine for Duan Zhixian, who was riding on a horse, with a glass wine glass, and handed it to Duan Zhixian. Duan Zhixian hurriedly jumped off the horse, drank all the wine, and shouted good wine.

Xu Nan looked at the neat military selection group behind Duan Zhixian, nodded and said, "Sure enough, they are all good sons of my Great Song Dynasty!" No wonder it can break the Khitan. Xu Nan poured another glass of wine for Li Zhi, poured himself a glass of wine, and then passed the wine jar to the back, and asked more than a dozen civil officials to fill the wine glasses, then raised the wine glass and said: "I lead the Cangzhou civil officials to salute the head of the regiment!" ”

Duan Zhixian drank all the sweet wine and said, "The last general thanked the governor!" Thank you! Xu Nan led the civil officials to drink the soju. After drinking two glasses of soju, Duan Zhixian continued to ride his horse and walked forward. Other generals who paraded on the street also arrived at the county yamen one after another. Xu Nan didn't pour the wine for these generals who mixed the merits, it was the servants who came up to pour the wine, and Xu Nan dipped the wine glass with his mouth to be regarded as a toast.

Duan Zhixian went all the way to the east and led the soldiers of the 1,000 Selector Regiment to ride to the vicinity of the Jingbianfang in the east of the city, and saw that the original neighborhoods had already greeted both sides of the road, so crowded that only a small road was left for the Selector Regiment to pass through.

"Duan Zhixian is here! Look! Look! Duan Zhixian is here! "Brother Duan returned triumphantly, it is said that he killed more than 1,500 enemies!" "Yikes! Why is Brother Duan wearing a dragon robe? Isn't it the Son of Heaven who can wear a dragon robe? "You stupid, see clearly, it's a python robe, it's for the officials!" "No, that's not a python robe, it's a flying fish suit given by the city lord, although it looks like a python, it's not a python!"

Duan Zhixian rode on a horse, walked through the street entrance of Jingbianfang, and heard the neighbors calling him affectionately. "Brother Duan! Brother Duan! Do you remember me? I'm Zhao San who sold oil to you! "Brother Duan! I'm Chen Deyu! I'll take you to buy alkaline noodles! "Duan Zhixian! Duan Zhixian! I'm Sister-in-law Lin! You're growing too fast now! Do you remember my sister-in-law? ”

Duan Zhixian couldn't answer the calls of the neighbors one by one, so he only rode on his horse and bowed to the neighbors, and said loudly: "If Duan Zhixian can be promoted this time, he will return to the well to set up a flowing water seat another day, and invite all the neighbors to get together." Hearing this, the crowd in the well side shop suddenly resounded with applause. This time, the Khitan army entered the customs and plundered, which can be regarded as an end.

This time, the Khitan army entered the pass and poisoned a hundred miles near Cangzhou. Below Cangzhou, the Khitan army conquered two big cities in Zhou County, except for the battle of Tianjing New City, the three battles were victorious, and the Khitan army captured 50,000 people and animals and returned to Youzhou. The soldiers and horses of the towns of the Great Song Dynasty did not dare to fight after following the Khitan army, and when Ye Deguang went out of the customs, he asked people to cut wood and write the four words "all officials are exempt from sending", "Riding in glamorous clothes, playing music and returning to Kai", in order to humiliate the Song army. Pan Hu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Liang Dong of the Ministry of War knew that they had the responsibility of guarding the pass and the land, and they took rhubarb every day in the army, and they were already dying at this time.

Cangzhou in the Great Song Dynasty was in a mess, full of ruins and broken walls after being looted and burned by the Khitan army, and suffered heavy losses. Of course, in this gloom, there is also the brightness of the victory of Tianjing New Town. In the first battle, the beheading level was 11,600, and the world was shocked.

After the victory of Tianjing New City spread to all places, there was a voice of praise from all directions. Especially Xu Nan, who was originally politically strong and belonged to the Qingliu, and at this time he made great contributions, and was praised by the gentry of the world as a capable minister who knew the enemy and knew the army, and a handsome man who could fight well. The official family is also very optimistic about Xu Nan, and summoned Xu Nan to the Beijing platform to answer correctly and give him imperial food.

However, Xu Nan's platform answer was very disappointing to the housekeeper, and the level of talking about military affairs really didn't look like a governor.

On November 22, Ye Hongguang's body and more than 11,600 Khitan soldiers were sent to the capital. The official family ordered to build the Khitan soldiers in front of the imperial city, and the head was Jingguan. And erect a big wooden to hang the body of Ye Yu Hongguang for the people of Bianjing City to see.

The people of the capital were very excited when they learned of the victory of Tianjing New Town. Since the Battle of Youzhou, the Song army has been defeated in successive battles outside the Guan, relying only on one Cangzhou, and the Jinyang defense line has supported the face of the Great Song Empire. The Liao State, or the Khitan army, broke through the pass several times, plundered and plundered like entering a no-man's land, killing countless people of the Great Song Dynasty. When did the official army of the Great Song Dynasty have such a big victory?

This battle was fought vigorously, and the national prestige of the Great Song Dynasty was played! At this time, I heard that more than 10,000 Khitan soldiers were piled up in front of the imperial city to build a Jingguan, and there were also the corpses of Khitan nobles, and the people scrambled to see them. For a time, the capital was empty. The road in front of the imperial city was crowded, and the people grabbed stones and squeezed into front of the imperial city, throwing stones at the heads of those Khitan soldiers.

"Khitan dog, watch me stone you to death!" "Haha! Dare to rob the people of my Great Song Dynasty, and now I lost my life! "Now the Khitan soldiers have suffered heavy losses, do they dare to enter my Great Song Dynasty at will to plunder?" "Look at the corpse of the Khitan nobleman, what a burly body!"

"My Great Song Dynasty has such a strong official army, and I can kill so many Khitan heads!" Emperor Zhenzong stood on the Chengtian Gate, looking at the Jingguan and the people in the distance, silently. Yesterday, news came from Kuaima that Shangshu and Liang Tingdong of the Ministry of War were afraid that the Son of Heaven would be held responsible, and they had been taking rhubarb for a month, and both of them were already dying and unable to return.

Emperor Zhenzong was a little speechless at these two people. These two people are considered to be talents who know the soldiers, and they don't want to commit suicide in such a fearful state. Originally, after the great victory in Cangzhou came, Emperor Zhenzong would not kill these two people for the sake of compensating for the merits and demerits, and would not even take away the positions of the two, and was only ready to demote the two of them to one level as punishment. Unexpectedly, these two people didn't believe that the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty could achieve a great victory, and they ate the rhubarb early. Now although there is good news, the lives of the two are powerless.

However, although the two ministers were already half-dead, they still wrote a congratulatory note to the official family. The question is, after the death of the two, who will do the vacant position of secretary of the military department? Originally, this Cangzhou victory, Emperor Zhenzong was very optimistic about Xu Nan, the squire of the Cangzhou Governor's Military Department, and hoped that Xu Nan had outstanding ability and could take the burden of the military department next. But yesterday, the platform answered correctly, Xu Nan's empty remarks on military affairs, and he talked about morality at length, which made the officials very disappointed.

Whenever he couldn't say why, Xu Nan began to say that the strong crossbow was sharp, and the bird salvo was powerful, and he asked Emperor Zhenzong to strengthen the management of the Ordnance Bureau, and Emperor Zhenzong didn't know what he meant. Only when the official asked about the grain and salary transportation in Cangzhou, Xu Nan answered fluently and was quite bright. From this, the official family knew that the governor Xu Nan did not know the soldiers, but he was a talent who rectified money and grain.

However, Xu Nan's performance made Zhao Heng fall into doubts. Xu Nan didn't know the soldiers, how did the great victory of Dagou come about? With such a great victory, all the soldiers and horses in Cangzhou must have something outstanding, otherwise how to capture and behead 11,600 Tartars? Since the governor is not familiar with military affairs, there must be brave generals under him who can fight well. However, among the generals in Cangzhou, I haven't heard of anyone unusual before.

Zhao Heng suddenly remembered the name Yang Peng. It's been twice, and every time the name of this petty official appears in the recital, it will be a great victory. Then there was a great victory in Tianjing New City, capturing more than 11,600 heads, and slashing the red light. Every time, this Yang Peng can take the first rank of general in the army and make the first contribution!

Is this just a coincidence? Or does this Yang Peng have extraordinary achievements? Contributed a lot to the victory? Zhao Heng looked at the corpse of Ye Yu Hongguang hanging in the air in front of the imperial city, and watched the people of the capital throw stones and spit on the corpse of Ye Yu Hongguang - the people of the Great Song Dynasty have accumulated too much hatred and fear of the Khitan over the years, and now they have the corpse of the Khitan nobles, which can greatly vent their hatred and reduce some of their fear of the Khitan soldiers.

Otherwise, if this fear accumulates, the officials and troops of the Great Song Dynasty will become more and more afraid to fight, and more and more officials and ordinary people will surrender to the Khitan. After looking at it for a while, Zhao Heng said in admiration: "This Ye Yu Hongguang is really a burly Khitan, and the generals who kill this person are very skilled!" Wang Jin said: "The official family is clear! This Ye Yan Hongguang is the supreme leader of the Khitan that my Great Song Dynasty has slain for decades! Zhao Heng turned around and said to Wang Jin next to him: "Tomorrow, I will lead a hundred officials to sue the Taimiao Temple, and tell the ancestors of this great victory in beheading the red light of Ya Yan." ”

Wang Jin arched his hand and said, "The official family is Shengming! "The soldiers have made great contributions, and they must not be rewarded!" Otherwise, it will chill the soldiers' hearts to kill the enemy and serve the country! Zhao Heng pondered for a moment, and then said: "I will reward Yang Peng, the city lord of Tianjing New City, who slashed the red light of Ye Yi this time, with a pair of armor, five hundred taels of platinum, and I hope that he will make new contributions in the future!" ”

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