Unknowingly, more than twenty days passed by in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye it was the end of one year.
This day happened to be the 27th of the twelfth month of the first year of Xuanhe. In Qingzhou City, Wu Song's mansion was crowded with people.
It turned out that half a month ago, Zhou Tong got married to Wanyan Wulu. Taking advantage of this theme, Chao Gai led forty or fifty heroes to come to drink the wedding wine. Brothers who were generals from various states also came with congratulatory gifts. Come, one will congratulate Zhou Tong, and the other will report to Lao Cao one by one the development situation and recent situation in various places.
The first is Liangshan.
With the deaths of Wang Qing and Tian Hu, the original four major bandit forces were reshuffled. Looking at the world, only Chao Gai and Fang La stood out for a while, known as the "Southern Holy Duke and Northern King." They were the leaders in the green forest in the world.
As a result, Liangshan's momentum became stronger and stronger, and many small villages and villages came to join him. Now there are no less than 120,000 soldiers capable of fighting.
In addition, due to the repeated defeats of the Liao Dynasty in recent years, the country's power has become increasingly declining, and the civil and military ministers have gradually lost control. Many people only care about their own wealth, ignore the prohibition, and smuggle war horses wantonly. Tongque Trading Company heard the news and took action. Zheng Tianshou from Zengtou City and Chai Jin from Cangzhou took the initiative to buy good horses and sent them to Liangshan one after another.
According to Chao Gai, there are now no less than thirty or forty thousand Liangshan horsemen. Lin Chong, Hu Yanzhuo and other generals are overjoyed. After selecting the best from the best, they have trained three thousand tiger cavalry, five thousand flying cavalry, and eight thousand leopard cavalry. The tyranny of strength is far from what it used to be.
There are also elite infantry troops. Lu Zhishen has personally trained a thousand heavy-armor infantry, and he is the leader among them. They are all selected strong and brave men, wearing sixty kilograms of heavy armor, and wielding axes, flails, etc., to charge and kill. The situation was such that the earth shook and the mountains shook. Wu Yong personally named him "the trapped warrior".
There are also three thousand barbarian card players trained by Xiang Chong and Li Gun, who are called "Array Warriors", and a thousand swordsmen trained by Guan Sheng, called "Array Breakers", as well as three hundred magic swordsmen left by Sheng Fan Rui. Soldiers, holy water and divine fire were re-refined by the two generals of water and fire, one thousand each.
Outside Liangshan, generals from other states have also selected new troops and refined their troops. Now there are as few as three to five thousand people, as many as nearly ten thousand, in the seven states of Lai, Qi, Wei, Zi, Mi, Deng, and Qing. Including Gaotang Prefecture, there are a total of 50,000 soldiers and horses, of which tens of thousands are cavalry.
These brothers who had sneaked into the imperial court and became generals came to Qingzhou with not only gifts for Zhou Tong, but also military orders issued by the imperial court.
After reading the transfer order, Cao Cao couldn't help but be shocked - according to what was written in it, the imperial court was actually going to send soldiers and horses from several states to Daming Mansion to defend the Liao Kingdom, and it was also going to send soldiers and horses from several other states to Bianjing to prepare for the southern expedition to Fangla! Looking at this posture, he was actually preparing to fight on both sides. How could Lao Cao not be surprised by this? Could it be that during his absence for a year, the bodies of all the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty were taken over by demons? Otherwise, where would this madness come from?
Lao Cao didn't know that the source of this strange thing was actually Yelu Dashi.
When Yelu Dashi escaped from Huining Mansion, Jin Danzi led his troops to pursue him but failed to catch him. He fled thousands of miles alone on his horse and fled back to the Liao Kingdom. He informed the Song Dynasty of sending envoys to Jin to make an alliance. Emperor Tianzuo.
After hearing the report, Emperor Tianzuo refused to believe a word of it, and laughed and said: "I have always known that the kings and ministers of the Song Dynasty are all ignorant and courageous people. I don't expect him to have the wisdom to collude with the Jin Kingdom, nor to offend our great country." The courage to form an alliance is nothing, it must be a counter-intentional plan set up by the old thief A Guda! The old thief thinks that I don't study, so don't you know the story of Cao Cao's war with Han Sui and Ma Chao in the past, and the counter-intentional plan to defeat the enemy? I also You know. With my wisdom, how can I compare to Ma Chao? He designed this plan to trick me into dividing his troops to attack the Song Dynasty, so that the old thief can take advantage of it. Don't you know that my sharp eyes have already seen through the old thief's heart, and he will be fooled? Haha , such a shallow strategy can only deceive young and short-sighted people like Dashi Linya."
Emperor Tianzuo's words said that Yelu Dashi had no place to stand, but the words he said about counterintuitive schemes gave Yelu Dashi some inspiration. He immediately sent many people from his family to the Song Dynasty to spread rumors that the Liao and Jin Dynasties had been repaired. He cut Liaodong to the Jin Dynasty and granted Aguda the title of King of Donghuai.
Rumors spread, and the Song Dynasty court was shaken. They immediately shelved the alliance with the Jin Dynasty, and put the Jin envoys Li Shanqing, Sandu, Boda and others who came with Ma Zheng and Hu Yanqing under house arrest. The monarchs and ministers were panicked. , discuss countermeasures.
Seeing the decline of the officialdom and the horror of the ministers, Tong Guan held his chest and head high and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the Liao Kingdom has ceded Liaodong to the Jurchens, and its national strength has been greatly damaged. As expected by the old minister, he will definitely send troops to invade south and rob us of Hebei." To make up for it, we just raised the troops to overwhelm the country and accomplished our task in one battle. We destroyed the Khitans first and then swallowed up the Jurchens to achieve the cause of overlord! In this way, your ministers will live up to the importance of the king, and your majesty can also surpass Tang Zong and Yue Han Wu. , and achieve eternal achievements!"
As soon as Tong Guan said something, everyone in the hall was shocked.
You must know that more than a hundred years after the founding of the Song Dynasty, even during the reign of Emperor Taizu and Taizong, none of the many famous ministers and generals dared to speak such bold words!
Cai Jing was the first to jump out, with a face full of sorrow: "Your Majesty, Privy Tong has lost his mind and gone crazy. I beg your Majesty, I wish you could serve the country wholeheartedly and have made great contributions. Please quickly ask the imperial doctor to treat him!"
Tong Guan was furious: "What did the Grand Master say? Why did I go crazy?"
Cai Jing looked at this old comrade and rival sadly: "How can you make such arrogant remarks if you are not crazy? I know that the strategy of uniting Jin and destroying Liao was your hard work for many years. Now that once it was revealed, you became so angry that you lost your mind. Sanzhi, your majesty will not blame you, and we ministers will not laugh at you."
The Zhao Guan family also had expressions of sympathy and pity on their faces, and advised: "Tong Qing family, I know your loyalty from the bottom of my heart. But even if the plan to unite the Jin Dynasty to destroy the Liao Dynasty is successful, our country can take back the homeland of Youyun. Fortunately, now that this strategy has failed and Youyun is still unavailable, wouldn't it be foolish to talk about destroying Liao and Jin? Come here, hurry up and tell the imperial doctor..."
But when he saw Tong Guan's eyes shining brightly and his face full of excitement, the official couldn't help but get scared - what if he rushed forward and punched me a few times?
"Your Majesty!" Tong Guan shouted: "I'm not crazy! Listen to me!"
Zhao Guanjia was frightened by him and looked at Cai Jing. Cai Jing winked and Guanjia immediately thought: Oh, coax him first and wait until the imperial doctor comes! He immediately forced a smile on his face and said: "Okay, okay, Lao Qing, please tell me. I and the ministers are all ears!"
Tong Guan made an impassioned speech: "Your Majesty, Grand Master, it turns out that we have always thought highly of the Liao Kingdom! The Liao Kingdom has strong soldiers and horses. What happened a hundred years ago has now been peaceful for a hundred years. They have long been vulnerable. This is not the old minister's lie. If I hadn't asked Ma Zheng and Hu Yanqing carefully about the details of my last mission, I'm afraid that now, just like Your Majesty and the Grand Master, I would have thought that the Liao people were strong."
Zhao Guanjia and Cai Jing looked at each other and saw surprise in each other's eyes. Tong Guanruo was crazy, but his words were coherent. Cai Jing rolled his eyes and couldn't help but said: "Privy Council, please tell me in detail, why do we think so highly of the Liao Kingdom?"
Tong Guan said quickly: "I sent Qingzhou Jiedu envoy Wu Zhi to accompany me on this mission. He brought several generals to help the Jin people and Liao people fight. They won several games in a row and played brilliantly. Reputation. Later, before the Jin Chief A Gu fought against the emperor, his generals fought against the Jin generals again, and they won many battles. It can be seen that the soldiers and generals of the Song Dynasty were still better than the Jin Kingdom, and even better than the Liao Kingdom."
Zhao Guanjia was a little surprised when he heard this. He rolled his eyes and thought for a long time: "That Jiedu Envoy, I remember that he also made great contributions to defeating Tian Hu and Wang Qing. Can he return to Qingzhou to serve now?"
Tong Guan shook his head and said: "Because of his extraordinary bravery, he was kept as a hostage by A Guda. He promised to let him back the next time the envoy went there. Now that Liao and Jin have made peace, he was probably killed by A Guda."
When Zhao Guanjia heard this, he couldn't help but smacked his lips: "Oh, isn't it a pity?"
"What a pity?" General Tong Guan spread his hands: "Our dynasty has ten military envoys, all of them are heroes, and there are also generals of the Western Army, among them countless heroes. Although Wu Zhi is brave, he is against the Liao Dynasty. Jin Lier, how can there be no one who can compare with us in the Song Dynasty army? Not to mention others, only that when he defeated Wang Qing, he fought under Liu Yanqing. Both of them were awarded Jiedushi for their merits, and when they defeated Tian Hu, It was also his brother Wu Song who killed Tian Hu in the army. Although Wu Zhi is dead now, Liu Yanqing and Wu Song are still there, and there may not be any brave men among the other generals."
Zhao Guanjia nodded while listening, and his face gradually became excited: "So, my Da Song... is actually very strong?"
"Very strong!" Tong Guan nodded decisively, and then sighed: "In fact, if it weren't for Wu Zhi's trip, the veteran would never have thought that the Liao Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom were nothing like this. Although Wu Zhi died, we looked down upon them. Real truth! Your Majesty, why do we actually need to form an alliance with the Jin Kingdom? Destroying the Khitan first, and then devouring the Jurchens, is the cause of men!"
During this conversation between the monarch and his ministers, all the officials in the court were first disdainful, then thought deeply, and finally couldn't help but become excited - Privy Tong knew the generals, and what he said was well-founded and truly convincing! Isn't it? If we randomly send a military general on an envoy, and his bravery shocks foreign countries, what does it mean?
It shows that we are the strongest!
Just as the monarchs and ministers were excited, urgent news suddenly came - Jiangnan had rebelled against Fang La, and the situation was in a state of corruption.
The officials seemed to have been poured cold water on their heads, and they were suddenly shocked: "Oh, ministers, what should we do?"
In an instant, all the ministers and ministers were dumbfounded, and Taishi Cai was speechless. However, the sea was flowing across the sea, and he showed his true colors as a hero. At this juncture, Privy Tong shouted again: "Your Majesty, don't worry! Let's call the soldiers from Hebei and Shandong to gather the big names. In the Mansion, Chen Xiong sent troops to the border to deter the Liao Kingdom. If he came to invade, he would block it from the country's gates. He waited for the old minister to lead the Western Army, go south with a thunderous force, and annihilate Fang La in one fell swoop. Then he led the victorious army. Return to the army and go north, join forces with Hebei and Shandong troops, first take over the homeland of Yanyun and Han, and then open up the Great Song Dynasty in Liaodong. I swear to be my emperor, open up thousands of miles of territory, and achieve my emperor's heroic reputation throughout the ages!"
"Ah! Lao Qing's house!"
Zhao Ji stood up with a roar! As a perceptual artist, at this moment, his artistic soul burned brightly, and he was deeply moved by Tong Guan's impassioned ambition.
O eternal hero!
"If that day comes!" Zhao Guanjia's face turned red, he looked at the palace full of ministers and shouted loudly: "I will carry forward the history of the ages with Tong Qing's family, Grand Master Cai, and all the officials and ministers!"
The ministers looked at each other and saw that the official was completely over the top right now. Who dared to dampen his interest? They all bowed deeply together and shouted in unison: "First take over the land of Yanyun and Han, and then open up the Great Song Dynasty in Liaodong!"
On the same day, a military letter was sent out like snowflakes——
First, Wang Huan, the Jiedushi envoy of Henan and Hebei, and the Jiedushi envoy of Anping, Zhongshan, opened two lines of troops and sent troops to Damingfu to prepare for the Liao army.
Tiao Qingzhou Military and Horse Superintendent Mu Hong, Dengzhou Military and Horse Supervisor Sun Li, Zizhou Regiment Training Envoy Xiao Jiasui, Weizhou Regiment Training Envoy Zhu Jing, Laizhou Military and Horse Superintendent Shi Xiu, and Mizhou Regiment Training Envoy Yuan Lang each took their own troops and horses, and went to Daming Mansion helped in the battle.
Then recruit the Sixth Route Western Army to conquer Fang La.
Which six routes? The first line of Xihe soldiers is led by Xin Xingzong and Yang Wei, the second line of Jingyuan soldiers is led by general Liu Zhen, the third line of Huanqing soldiers is led by Yang Keshi and Zhao Ming, and the fourth line of Yanyan soldiers is led by Huang Di , the fifth route of Qin Feng soldiers was led by Ma Gongzhi, and the sixth route of Hedong soldiers was led by Ji Jing.
The above six groups of soldiers and horses were all dispatched by Liu Yanqing, the military governor of the three cities in Henan. The total number of internal and external troops was 150,000, and they were personally commanded by Tong Guan.
Tong Guan was also afraid that he would lack strong generals capable of fighting, so he transferred Laizhou defense envoy Lu Junyi, Qingzhou regiment training envoy Du Bo, and Gaotangzhou soldiers and horses to control the three generals Wu Song. Each led his own troops and horses to join him in Bianjing. Conquer Fang La.
Naturally, Lao Cao didn't know the ins and outs of the court. He only thought that he wanted to start a war with Fang La and Liao at the same time. So he was dumbfounded. After thinking about it carefully, he asked Mu Hong and others to lead one or two thousand troops each to Daming Mansion, while he and Wu Song , Lu Junyi, and Du Bo went to Bianjing to see clearly.
However, since it would take some time to mobilize the Western Army, Lao Cao immediately asked them to delay the time in the name of building weapons and reorganizing the troops, hoping to wait until his nephew was born before going there.
Wu Song's mansion was originally bought by Lao Cao for Master Li to live in. Later Hu Sanniang and others moved to Qingzhou, bought another mansion, and left it to Wu Song. Zong Yun'er naturally gave birth in this mansion.
On this day, Zong Yun'er couldn't bear the boredom, and Wu Song couldn't persuade her. He could only watch her practicing martial arts with her big belly. Suddenly she used a move, and the gun came out like a dragon. She suddenly felt abdominal pain, and immediately shouted to Wu Song: "Husband, the baby seems to be coming out."
Wu Song was shocked and carried him into the room. Fortunately, everything was ready. Wang Po and An Daoquan had been waiting at his house for several days. When they heard the sound of his arrival, Wang Po hurriedly washed her hands and entered the room. He delivered her baby, and An Daoquan provided timely consultation outside. The two complemented each other well.
Not long after, Cao Cao, Chao Gai and other brothers arrived one after another, and the Wu Song Mansion was crowded. After more than an hour, a cry was suddenly heard, and Grandma Wang shouted: "Congratulations to the second master, congratulations to the second master, mother and son are safe, The old martial arts family has added a young master!"
Wu Song heard this and quickly looked at Lao Cao. The two brothers looked up to the sky and laughed. Chao Gai and others also laughed, and they were all happy for Wu Song. After a while, he washed the baby and took it out for Wu Song to see. Wu Song's iron hands that could kill big insects were holding the baby like cotton. Thanks to Lao Cao, he was taking care of him.
Chao Gai and others made a fuss and asked Wu Song to name him. Wu Song thought for a long time and said slowly: "I gave birth to this child today. Fortunately, mother and son are safe. Brothers have a good laugh, so I will call him Wu Xiao."
I came back a little late today. My computer crashed once while I was writing. After restarting, I couldn't find the more than 1,500 words, so I had to rewrite it. I cried to death.
I didn’t have time to pay the debt yesterday, so I’ll pay it tomorrow! Please excuse me.
(End of chapter)
