Chapter 47: Your Majesty See you
Han Zhanzhou sent his family to invite Hu Yangeng to come. It turned out that he saw Hu Yangeng's battle with his own eyes. Seeing the tragic battlefield, the more he felt nervous, he was even more reluctant to stay on the river beach for a long time. Now he left the airs of the prime minister's family and begged Hu Yangeng to let him cross the river as soon as possible.
Hu Yangeng looked at the situation on the river beach. As the people became more and more orderly, one-half of the people had crossed the river, all the elderly, weak, women and children. Even though the war that happened not far from the beach just now did not disrupt the process of crossing the river. Although it caused some panic among the people, a few unlucky people who ran around died on the rungs, some of whom were beheaded by the Song army who maintained order were beheaded and displayed in public. Overall, the people did not suffer any losses.
Now that the Jin soldiers are repelled, the people's emotions will be more stable. He thought for a while, Han Zhanzhou's forced to be considered an old word, so he called a personal soldier and arranged for Han Zhanzhou and his female family members, as well as an older butler to cross the river first, and then continued to detain the servants and dig trenches.
The sun slowly sets westward. After today's battle, the Jin soldiers will not come to attack the trench in the middle of the night. This day passed safely again.
After two days of excavation, the positions of the Song soldiers on the river beach have been formed. Unless the Jin soldiers are prepared to attack according to the formal siege, they will definitely not be able to siege the positions of the river beach in a short period of time.
Early on the third morning, the Jin soldiers' sentry reached the periphery of the riverbank to monitor the Song army. The Song army was on guard and continued to arrange for the people to cross the river. On the fourth day, even the conscripted civilians arrived at the south bank of the Yellow River, and Hu Yangeng ordered his subordinates to retreat.
When the army was halfway through retreat, the Jin soldiers tried to assault and were chopped back by the sword and axe riding from the trench. When Shen arrived, Hu Yangeng led the last two commanders onto the ship, and the Jin soldiers never came again.
Han Xianzhou met his servants on the south bank, and did not say hello to Hu Yangeng, and rushed to Luoyang overnight.
Hu Yangeng was not concerned about him, and was busy commanding the army to set up defenses on the south bank. At this time, when he saw Qiu Muling Zhonglian, he said to him with annoyance: "The Jin thieves have set up a camp in a certain place upstream, and there are about 3,000 people in the camp."
"Didn't you drive them back?"
"The Jin thieves crossed the river at four locations at the same time, and there were thousands of people at each point. The enemy soldiers from the three places fought back before setting up the camp. However, it was too late to be in the fourth place, and the generals dereliction of duty."
Hu Yangeng said: "Zhong Lian should not blame himself. You only have more than 4,000 people on hand, and you have to guard the camp and take care of the opposite bank." Hu Yangeng did not blame Qiu Muling Zhonglian because he knew that Qiu Muling Zhonglian had always been cautious and would not make any mistakes in defending the river bank. If he did not stop the last Jin soldiers, he would definitely not be able to catch them.
In the next few days, the Jin soldiers were also trying to cross the river more, but the Song army, with increasing troops, drove all the Jin soldiers back and earned hundreds of levels of beheading. But the nail that the Jin soldiers in the upstream was never pulled out.
Suddenly one night, heavy snow suddenly fell and the river began to freeze. Hu Yangeng knew that the Yellow River was not enough to be a barrier, so he led his army to retreat to Luoyang.
This time, the retreat was orderly and everyone obeyed Hu Yangeng's command. Some military men happily sang Henan Bangzi. There were Western troops in the team, who started to sing Qin Opera at the top of their voices and sang with the men in the capital.
Since childhood, the Song army was defeated and killed in Yuci, and he never had the courage to fight against the Jin soldiers. Whether it was Jie Qian or Zhang Hao, the entire army was defeated with a number of no less than the Jin soldiers in front of him. However, Hu Yangeng led them, he seemed to have made no special arrangements. He was in the Bishui, Fajiushan, and Heyang, and the Jin soldiers were in a mess. As long as the generals of the Song Dynasty were effective, they were not cowards.
The military men thought so and confirmed with each other with their comrades beside them, so their morale became even higher.
They only took one day to reach the city of Luoyang. The gate of Luoyang was closed. Hu Yangeng sent Shi Xingfang to call the city. The city disturbed for a while. Soon, the city gate official touched the city head: "The prefect has an order, and the Jin thief is approaching, and the city gate cannot be opened without permission." 6
"We are the official army retreating from the river defense."
"The Jin thief is cunning, and the prefect clearly ordered that the city should not be opened without authorization."
After all, the city gate officials just won’t open the city.
Lu Zhishen was furious and shot an arrow to the top of the city: "The thief has angered the Sa family, and the whole group rushed into the city."
The city gate official retreated from the city and waited for a while. The Henan magistrate Yan Ying stood at the top of the city: "Which army is here under the city?"
Shi Xingfang replied respectfully: "We are the river defense force. The river is frozen, and the Jin thieves have crossed the river. Please ask the prefect to open the city and we will enter the city to defend."
"Since it is a river defense force, you should guard the river strictly. How come you ran to Luoyang? The military situation is urgent. I will not bother you. You can leave quickly and don't disturb the people in the city."
Hu Yangeng was surprised that the prefect was not concerned about defending the city at all. He sent Xuanzan to negotiate with the prefect, but the county horses did not make any face. Hu Yangeng said, "We will find a village next to Luoyang to camp, and we will set up camp and go directly to Bianliang tomorrow."
When the military soldiers learned that they were not allowed to enter the city, they cursed: "These prefects and magistrates who have no courage in war will know that they will bully our military soldiers."
"I saw the real Zhang until the Jin thief came, and see who was protecting my Zhao Guan family."
"The Zhao official family was blinded by this prefect."
In the evening, Hu Yangeng summoned the generals to discuss matters. All the generals were indignant. Qiu Muling Zhonglian said, "It's okay, we want to buy time to defend Bianliang. As long as Jishou is well prepared in Bianliang, who will care about these old people in Luoyang?" Jishou here refers to Wang Bianjin.
Xuanzan said: "The general of Jie worked hard and made great contributions, and he would definitely be valued by the emperor. The strategy of defending the city proposed by the Lord will definitely be approved by the emperor."
Shi Xingfang spitted disdainfully. This was when he showed his ability: "You are also living under the feet of the emperor in vain. The work of the capital is so hard and hard work is useless. No eunuchs will arrange it for you. A local bun from the Western Army will not be able to see the official family for ten days and half a month."
Hu Yangeng did not care about Shi Xingfang's attitude, but said: "Longjie's commander Hu Yanzhuo is my clan uncle, and Zhang Chong of Zhixiange is my inner brother. I have written to Wang Xiang to take it there, hoping it will be helpful."
Although he said this, he was heartbroken: I don’t know what Wang Bing is going to be in Bianliang.
On November 10, the first year of Jingkang, at the time of Si Pai in the morning, he had already led his troops to Bianliang. Wang Bing, who was living in the home of Hu Yanzhuo, the commander of the fourth wing of the Longjie Army, received an urgent Xuan and asked him to come to the palace to meet him immediately.
It has been two days since Wang Bing led his army back. The 100,000 troops should have been the one who thought it was a city in Bianliang, but when he arrived outside Bianliang, he was not allowed to enter the city, and even the place where he camped could not be selected. First, he said that he shared a barracks with the imperial guards in the capital. Unexpectedly, the army came to the barracks near the barracks and found out that the barracks had been rented out by the officers. After a day of traveling, he had to find a village to camp. Wang Bingben lived with the army, but Puluru Bosheng sent Hu Yangeng's family to Zhang Chong's residence and sent a letter to Hu Yanzhuo's mansion. Hu Yanzhuo invited Wang Bing to live in his mansion. He had just had a banquet yesterday and they met too late.
With the original intention of the king, he wanted to see the emperor as soon as he came back. But for some reason, the official family had not issued an order. Until today, a eunuch suddenly came, and King Xuan immediately met. He hurriedly cleaned up and followed the eunuch into the palace.
This was an embarrassing day. For the luxurious Bianliang, it was still a long night in my dreams. In the first year of Jingkang, when the Jin soldiers first besieged the city, most of the "unrelated" people still retained the good habit of drinking all night. They pulled up thick curtains and curtains at home to isolate the sunlight outside the hall. Today, the official summoned Wang Bing at this time, which surprised Wang Bing secretly.
The inner court was still sleeping quietly, silently without any sound. The little eunuch on the hall saw Wang Bing bowing under the eaves, and quickly made a gesture of silence, lifted up the pearl curtain, and asked Wang Bing to enter the hall.
When Wang Bing came to the hall, the man who is now called the official family, the 27-year-old Emperor Yuansheng, who was licking and painting. Zhao Huan was not as talented as his father, Emperor Daojun, and he liked to draw a few strokes on weekdays.
After Wang Bing entered the palace, he bent down and bowed. There was no reply for a while. Wang Bing leaned his head on the blue brick, raised his ears, and there was no movement at all.
He raised his hands slightly to cover his head, and used his light to observe the reaction of the official family. He saw a figure above, looking at his paintings attentively, as if he had no idea about external things.
A Jiedushi, a general who had been alone in Taiyuan for more than 200 days, and a loyal minister who rushed to Bianliang to serve the king immediately after he escaped from the trap, knelt on the blue bricks, and Zhao Huan painted his painting leisurely.
It was not until Zhao Huan's painting came to an end that he seemed to wake up from a dream: "Wang Qing has been here for so long, how can he keep Wang Qing kneeling and beloved?"
Wang Bing rubbed his numb legs and stood up. He thought the officials were most concerned about the battle situation in Taiyuan, Longde and other places, or the arrival of reinforcements from various groups, and were about to report it. However, Zhao Huan picked up a stack of notes and handed it to Wang Bing: "My dear, take a look."
There were no officials in the hall, only two little palace maids hid far away. Zhao Huan expressed his kindness by handing things directly.
Wang Bingjie passed these memorials and opened the first one, and the cold sweat broke out. It was a memorial to impeach him: Someone impeached Wang Bing to guard Taiyuan, but only knew how to defend, but did not know how to echo the reinforcements outside, resulting in the collapse of 400,000 reinforcements.
Wang Bing wanted to argue, but the emperor waved his hand and signaled him to continue watching.
Wang Bing launched the second memorial, impeaching him: saying that the general Wang Bing lost his troops and humiliated the country, and the Taiyuan Shengjie Army was wiped out. As the commander-in-chief, Wang Bing did not commit suicide and died for his country, which is really disgusting.
The third memorial impeached Wang Bing to be domineering and openly took over the River Defense Army without receiving the orders of the court. You should know that the River Defense Army is mainly the Western Imperial Army, and has no connection with the Western Imperial Army where Wang Bing came from. Wang Bing actually took over the command power easily. Wang Bing must have secretly communicated with the Western Imperial Army and had a bad intention.
Chapter completed!