Gu Qingjue held the master's letter and frowned slightly.
The master mentioned in the letter that the city has been tense recently. Starting in the past few months, the Song Dynasty and Xixia started a new round of war.
This war is actually a continuation of the Battle of Haoshuichuan.
The defeated Xixia has been waiting for an opportunity.
What a shame.
In late September of last year, Li Yuanhao, the leader of the Xixia Kingdom, gathered about 100,000 troops in Tiandu Mountain, and divided the troops into two groups to attack our country again. Last September was a month of Run, and on the first day of September, the Song Jingyuan Road passed by After receiving the news, Wang Yan, the envoy to appease the enemy, ordered his deputy envoy Ge Huaimin to lead some troops from Weizhou to Wating Village to stop the attack.
Unexpectedly, Xu Sichun, the governor of Watingzhai, and Liu Hebu, the governor of Huanqing, defied orders and marched north to garrison Wugukou.
On the ninth day of the lunar month, Wang Yan sent a special envoy to the camp with his letter, warning Ge Huaimin to show weakness to lure the enemy, set up an ambush for a surprise attack, and not to advance rashly.
But Ge Huaimin didn't listen.
Assemble tens of thousands of soldiers and horses and continue to advance north, just to gain reputation.
On September 20th, the army that had been running for several days thought it was close to Li Yuanhao's troops, so they stopped advancing and discussed attacking at dawn the next day.
Haha, they all disobey orders.
Ge Huaimin did not listen to Wang Yan's orders and insisted on going his own way. He also wanted to say: "I will not accept the military orders from abroad."
The final result was the defeat of Hexi. When Ge Huaimin led the remaining men to escape from the city, he was almost trampled to death.
Fortunately, Zhao Xun led the swordsmen and army warriors to fight back at the gate bridge, forcing the Xia army to retreat, and was able to temporarily protect the city from being breached.
At dawn on September 22, the Song army had been surrounded for a day and a night.
Therefore, it was decided to use Cao Ying and Zhao Xun as the vanguard, Liu He and Xu Sichun as the left and right wings, and Li Zhihe, Wang Bao, Wang Wen and other rearguards to assemble the army and break out eastward.
Before setting off, Zeng Shengji stopped Ge Huaimin's horse, just in case the Xia army cut off the retreat. It would be safer to change the route, but Ge Huaimin did not adopt it. As a result, Ge Huaimin and his generals Cao Ying, Zhao Xun, Li Zhihe and other ten All six generals died in the battle.
The Song army of nearly 9,400 people was completely wiped out.
The losses were not unbearable.
Xixia won a complete victory, but Li Yuanhao was not satisfied with this and continued to march south, breaking through several cities and reaching Weizhou.
They burned, killed and looted in an area of nearly 600 miles in Weizhou.
It was not until October that Li Yuanhao received news that Fan Chongyan, the pacification envoy of Huanqing Road, led his troops to rush for reinforcements. Since there were about 200,000 troops stationed on various roads in Shaanxi, he did not continue southward, but returned to Xixia with full harvests.
Then came the peace talks, which was another tug-of-war.
This battle left the Song Dynasty in a state of turmoil. At this time, the court made big moves. The officials dismissed Prime Minister Lu Yijian and appointed Fu Bi, Han Qi and others as deputy privy envoys.
Gu Qingjue was studying in the study, looking at the news delivered by Yang Junsheng, and guessing that the official family might make big moves next.
Sure enough, Fan Chongyan, who had always declined to participate in political affairs, still took this position.
The two were still at the teahouse where they met before. Yang Junsheng said: "Do you think that if Mr. Fan sits in this position, Chen Zhizhong will be so angry that his nose will become crooked."
"I'm afraid it won't stop."
Yang Junsheng asked curiously: "What's more? Could it be that Mr. Chen is so popular that he still wants to assassinate Mr. Fan?"
After Yang Junsheng finished speaking, he denied this guess without waiting for Gu Qingjue to speak: "No way, he is just a villain. Cursing a few times behind his back is enough to relieve his anger. Asking him to kill someone, once found out, then he is an official. Stop thinking about it.”
Gu Qingjue rolled his eyes at Yang Junsheng.
Listening to him continue to say: "However, Kong Chong originally placed his treasure on Chen Zhizhong, but now that he has not taken it, didn't he sacrifice his legitimate son in vain? I'm afraid the two will have a rift over this."
"This is the effect we want."
Kong Chong's position on the Privy Council was too stable.
If the master wants to rehabilitate the Zeng family, he must remove Kong Chong from his position as Privy Councilor.
Their current foundation is too weak and they want to attack the Kong family directly. They don't know how they will die, but Chen Zhizhong's Chen family is a good breakthrough point.
Another one is that Kong Chong, as an envoy to the Privy Council, formed a clique for personal gain and did not want to cultivate talents for the court. He excluded dissidents for his own selfish desires. His methods were ruthless and outrageous.
Kong Chong, the privy envoy, bore a great deal of responsibility for several battles with Xixia.
Pulling Kong Chong down not only rehabilitates the master's family, but also eradicates such a moth for the court.
At the end of September, Gu Qingjue returned to Jiangning Prefecture to prepare for the Qiu Wei Festival.
Gu Mingjue always paid attention to Gu Qingjue's movements.
Gu Qingjue did not deliberately hide it.
So when he just settled into an inn, the news was sent to Gu Mingjue.
Gu Mingjue sneered twice: "It's been two years, and this bastard still doesn't take me seriously. He wants to get past me. It's just a dream!"
Liu Yiting was squeezing Gu Mingjue's shoulders, her eyes rolling.
The master often mentioned Gu Qingjue in front of her, and she knew that it was this man's wife who put her father in jail.
"Master, he is so ignorant, why is he still here?"
Gu Mingjue pulled the hand on his shoulder, and with a little force, Liu Yiting fell into his arms.
Waves of charming laughter came from the study.
Mrs. Han stood upright, standing quietly by the moon door that she had just entered the study, followed by a maid carrying ginseng soup.
The maid looked at her wife worriedly.
Ever since the head of the Liu family was imprisoned, Liu Yiting has been left out. In the past two years, the relationship between the wife and the master has been good.
But for some reason, after the Liu family leader was released from prison, the vixen fell in love with her again. She dressed up all day long, but now she was flirting with him in the study.
Madam, she...
Han Shu smiled coldly: "Knock on the door."
Another maid immediately walked forward quickly and knocked on the door three times: "Master, my wife has brought you ginseng soup."
Han Shu heard a "pop" sound in the study, and his sarcastic smile deepened.
After waiting for a while, she heard the sound of the door opening. Liu Yiting opened the door with twinkling eyes: "Madam, I have been tired recently. I have come to beat my legs to relieve my fatigue."
Han Shu walked in without looking at Liu Yiting.
"Master is tired, why didn't you call me? I happened to stew ginseng soup to replenish the body. Master, please try it."
Gu Mingjue's expression turned grim. He felt uncomfortable because her wife was not as noisy as before.
If he had seen Liu Yiting in the study before, he would have definitely dragged her out by her hair and hit her with a few sticks.
She has some skills in her body and is very strong.
"Madam, this work of beating legs and squeezing shoulders is done by servants. How can you, the noble wife of the magistrate, do this?"
Liu Yiting: "..."
There is another chapter at four or five in the afternoon.
(End of chapter)
