"Withdraw your troops? The Jin people are already in chaos!"
Next to the veteran general, a broad-robed civil servant said in surprise: "Xu Dutong, we are just chasing death and chasing north, how can there be any reason to withdraw our troops?"
Next to the broad-robed civil servant, several people responded: "That's right! Our army is now strong, and all our regular and extraordinary troops are on the rise. We can drive away the northern rebels like a flock of sheep and wipe them out in one fell swoop!"
These people were all high-ranking officials. There were many cars and boats accompanying them when they crossed the river. Many generals present lined up to greet them. Therefore, when they heard their shouting, the soldiers who delivered the order did not dare to move.
The veteran was completely unaffected and calmly repeated: "Retract the troops."
The messenger then ran away.
Just as Monk Wanyan Chen expected, since the Jin army has penetrated deep into the territory, the only ones who have the courage to stop the attack are the troops in front of the Jiankang Prefecture who have recently been deployed to the Wuwei Army. This army was one of the ten troops stationed in front of the Song Dynasty. It was the main force of the Song Dynasty's border defense and the main force of the Northern Expedition during the Kaiju Year.
At this time, the man called Xu Dutong was Xu Jun, the powerful general of the Southern Dynasties. His job title is very long, and he is called: martial arts doctor, Jizhou governor, in charge of the bodyguards of Ma Jun, and also in charge of the control of all the armies in Jiankang.
Xu Jun is not tall, but he is extremely strong, with a straight back and a strong spirit. Looking from a distance, it doesn't look like he is nearly sixty years old at all. Only the beard under his chin is gray, showing a hint of old age.
He is a descendant of the Reformed people who fled from the north to the south during the Shaoxing period. He has been a soldier since he was a child. During the Chunxi period, he went to Jinghu, Guangnan and other places to fight, and suppressed many rebels for the imperial court. He followed the Reformed person in Xin Jiaxuan, a well-known person in the community, has seen the heroic methods of "killing people like grass and using money like sand".
The imperial court has always been a little wary of reformed people. Many people feel that this generation is called loyal and righteous, but in fact it is cunning. If they are promoted to guard against enemy invaders, they may be more dangerous than the enemy invaders, so Xin Jiaxuan has always been depressed.
The same goes for Xu Jun. Until the Kaixi Northern Expedition, famous ministers and generals from all walks of life were defeated one by one. Some of them lost their offices, some were dismissed, and even more lost their heads on the battlefield. It was then Xu Jun's turn to go into battle as a commander, who was over fifty years old, and made some meritorious deeds in the critical situation.
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At that time, the generals and commanders who fought fiercely with Xu Jun in Lianghuai, such as Bi Zaiyu, Chen Shixiong and others, were all in their fifties. Up to now, Bi Zaiyu and Chen Shixiong each had the reputation of raising temples, and they were living leisurely in the south. Only Xu Jun was the unlucky one, and he was thrown into the fighting field again.
This battle comes at a particularly strange time. In the past few days, there have been many rumors and speculations about it in the army.
Hearing the suggestions from the civil servants beside him, Xu Jun's face was full of helplessness. He knew what these civil servants were thinking, and he also guessed that there was probably a crime that would be blamed on him.
Having said that, he is a veteran general after all, and he can still say a few words even in front of a group of civil servants.
"The chaos in the Jin Army is because we used our elite troops to lurk on the flanks, used the cover of Tangpi to launch a surprise attack, and attacked and robbed their generals with dozens of troops. But...please see, the Jin Army's central army did not There is chaos, but there is no chaos. The troops who encountered the attack were only slightly frustrated and are fighting back. If we don't retreat, we will be chased and beaten by them soon... We can't win this battle."
"Ten dozen ways?"
A man at the back of the civil service column suddenly frowned after hearing Xu Jun's words: "I remember the art of war. If we are dedicated and the enemy is divided, then we will be outnumbered and the enemy will be outnumbered. There are tens of thousands of golden soldiers in front of us. Why don't we gather elite soldiers?" As one, but divided into dozens of ways?"
Here it comes, here it comes, starting to find trouble.
Xu Jun sneered in his heart, with a calm expression on his face: "Such warriors who dare to get into battle and attack suddenly should really be gathered into a team to win and attack, but the court's laws do not allow it."
"Uh...why does it involve legal regulations?"
"During the Kaixi year, Hu Ma peeped across the river, and the two Huai soldiers fought fiercely with the enemy. They fought with the refined soldiers of Chuzhou, Xuyi Army, Haozhou, Anfeng Army and other places. In the end, a total of 2,500 people were left. They had experienced it for several years and died bravely, and they had done the most hard work. However, these soldiers and horses were immediately ordered by the court after the war to be attached to the Jiankang and Zhenjiang armies. Each team only had a few people, so they could not be changed. .”
Xu Jun stroked his beard and said leisurely: "The year before last when I was the deputy capital commander of Chizhou, I was criticized for killing Yao people indiscriminately, so I was transferred to Jiankang to be in charge of the Majun Company's affairs. At that time, someone reminded me that when He ordered the Northern troops to be scattered among the various armies and never allowed them to assemble. How could I disobey him?"
"The Northern troops are scattered, so what?"
"Since the Northern soldiers are dispersed, they can only be used dispersedly!" Xu Jun beat his legs and sighed: "I would like to teach you that those Northern soldiers with no more than a few people in each team are the main force that I just sent out to ambush. Of the 2,500 old soldiers back then, there are now more than 700 under my command; among the more than 700, there are more than 100 who can still fight and are willing to die for the imperial court, and they have been divided into more than a dozen teams. I finally gathered it together..."
"Two thousand five hundred old soldiers, only a hundred or so are left?" the civil servant asked subconsciously.
"It's gone now, not a single one is left."
Xu Jun raised his whip and pointed at the battlefield ahead: "Those more than a hundred people were the main force I sent to raid the Jin soldiers after Tangpi. There were also more than a thousand people who were bluffing to support them. More than a hundred people were all dead, and more than a thousand more people were bluffing to support them. People will run away from home.”
"this……"
Xu Jun didn't wait for the civil servant to continue speaking, and turned his horse: "Hurry up! Everyone who can fight is dead. If we leave now, the army will not be in chaos. If we stay here, are we waiting for the Jin people to rush up and arrest us? Do you want me to take credit? Is it possible that this is how we send our yearly coins?"
The civil servants looked at each other.
Seeing that Xu Jun had left, the soldiers followed him with rumble steps.
The leader of the Baowen Pavilion, Li Dadong, whose expression changed several times, finally decided not to worry about the specific issue of fighting with troops and took the lead in urging his horse to follow.
Then Huainan transfer judge Zhao Shanxiang breathed a sigh of relief and whipped the horse repeatedly.
Xu Jun's words may not necessarily be true, but no one dared to force him at the moment. All because this blockade was not Xu Jun's intention, but Li Dadong and Zhao Shanxiang's intention.
The fierce battle between Li Dadong and Zhao Shanxiang was not because they were about to take charge of the affairs of the Huaixi Production Company and the Yanjiang Production Envoy respectively, but because they came here with a group of subordinates and had a key task. It is the handover of Sui coins.
This thing is a joke. The Kaifeng Mansion was furious because of financial constraints. Facing the Southern Dynasty, which had always been perfunctory, and really couldn't figure out their thoughts, they finally sent troops south to plunder. In fact, their plunder was completely unnecessary.
Under the advice of the Prime Minister, the Lin'an court had reached commercial cooperation and political understanding with Zhongdu, and there was also a secret transaction involving hundreds of thousands of copper coins. With this transaction, Shi Xiang had the confidence to appease the two golds in the East and West at the same time. While maritime trade was expanding on a large scale, Sui coins had already been sent to Kaifeng.
Shi Ping always tried to be cautious and appropriate in the diplomacy between Song and Jin. Even if he and Zhong had a tacit understanding, he was not willing to provoke Duke Guo Ning of Zhou in a big way. Of course, this is also to avoid triggering tensions between the DPRK and China.
Therefore, according to previous years' practice, the annual coins that should be sent from Xuyi Quechang to Sizhou were specially changed this year under the care of the historian. The entire batch of materials was transferred from Dangtu across the river and transferred to Wuweijun via Hezhou.
As the governor of Jiankang, Xu Jun was the person responsible for receiving this wealth in the Wuwei Army. If everything goes well, he should lead his troops to accompany Li Dadong and Zhao Shanxiang to the Huazhen Town of Anfeng Army, and then let the two civil servants contact the Jin people for handover.
Who knew that the person escorting the money went all the way north, but heard the news that the Jin army was brazenly heading south.
For the civil servants who were escorting the coins, this news meant one thing: the war between the two countries was rekindled, and those who were leading the war there would definitely jump three feet high and say whatever they wanted to say to relieve their anger. If they knew that the coins had been smuggled to Jiangbei, wouldn't they be mad at them? Even if there is nothing we can do against Xianggong Shi, the people responsible for handling affairs, including Li Dadong, Zhao Shanxiang and Xu Jun, will all be regarded as traitors and traitors, and even dismissal from office is a frivolous matter!
As a result, the two civil servants forced Xu Jun to send troops every day to fight with the Jin army going south.
As long as they fought, it would prove their loyalty; if they lost, it would of course be Xu Jun's incompetence.
