The gate officer guarding Fengqiu City Gate heard clearly what Yang Wenguang said, and his face instantly became very ugly.
"Oh my God, Su Shi hasn't left Bianliang City yet, and he smashed the Thirteen Ministers' Mansion first. This is too bold. Then will he get angry and smash the city gate too?"
"No, let him go quickly. Why do you feel so uneasy when he is here?"
"Anyway, there is only one stick of incense left until the city gate is opened, so opening it a little early is nothing."
The city gate official, with sweat pouring from his forehead, immediately ordered, "Come here, open the city gate."
"Yes." All the soldiers under his command were stunned for a moment. It probably wasn't time yet.
But who cares, even if the superior officer has an order, they only need to obey it. If anything happens, they don't need to be responsible.
Fengqiu City Gate opened a quarter of an hour earlier than usual. Su Shi's Guojue voice soon came from the carriage, "Get out of the city!"
As Su Shi expected, when more and more courtiers in the palace reported Su Shi's audacity, Zhao Zhen issued an order to his subordinates, San Shusheng, "The young master and loyal general Su Shi was so audacious that he openly smashed the mansions of his colleagues.
The door must be severely punished. However, considering that he has gone to the front line to serve the country and cannot come back to be punished, the reward for three great achievements will be offset instead, and the remaining Su government personnel will be ordered to spend money to repair the thirteen doors as punishment."
Offset three great merit rewards.
What it means is that Su Shi made three great contributions on the front line without being rewarded.
This is obviously because Zhao Zhen is optimistic about Su Shi and is afraid that he will not be rewarded for his great achievements, so he has laid the groundwork here in advance.
As for Su Shi paying for the repair of the gate, this is
Money matter?
This is obviously a face issue, right?
Do the ministers of the Song Dynasty still lack the money to exchange for the door?
But there is no way. As Zhao Zhen said, Su Shi has already left the city for the North. Is it possible to ask him to come back because of this matter? That is not impossible. Who of you can take his place?
Just replace it.
There are three tribes waiting on the front line. Everyone can't hide. Who will take the initiative to rush forward at this moment?
I've already lost face, and now I'm losing my life. It's really not worth it.
The matter ended with a reprimanding edict from Zhao Zhen. When Su Shi learned the news, he couldn't help but smile.
This Zhao Zhen has some intentions, he wants to use himself, but he is afraid that he will become bigger.
Su Shi feels that he has been wronged. I did everything according to your wishes. Besides, I really have no intention of replacing you. Of course, this requires a premise, that is, no one forces me.
Don't force me, otherwise I can do anything.
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Song Dynasty, Xinzhou.
Yangxing Village in the south.
This is a Song Dynasty village and a market and trading center. It has a permanent population of 30,000 and is defended by an infantry battalion of 400 people from the Xiang Army.
The Xiang Army belongs to the local army. It is called the Standing Army. It is actually a handyman of the state capitals and some central and central agencies. It is under the control of the state governments and some central and central agencies, and is under the supervision of the Guards Mahan Division and the Guards Bucha Division.
The main tasks are to build cities, make weapons, build roads and bridges, transport food and reclaim wasteland, and serve as guards for officials, responsible for greeting and sending off, etc. Generally, there is no training and no combat tasks.
But now that there is a war, they have to go. Fortunately, there is an additional border army in Yangxing Village
This is the designated infantry battalion, which coordinates defense here.
Normally, it is just a larger market, with 800 infantrymen, and the defensive force is not small. But now, these 800 people are trembling.
Without it, Mengqi scouts had already appeared outside Yangxing Village.
Xinzhou has been surrounded, surrounded by Mongolian cavalry.
People in the prefecture should have been panic-stricken. On top of the city tower, there were nearly 10,000 soldiers guarding the city. Plus the temporary soldiers recruited in the city, the number was about 20,000.
There were 20,000 people guarding the city, and the city was high and strong. However, Mengqi did not launch an attack immediately. The first thing they did was to clean up the surrounding areas.
After completely occupying the periphery and ensuring that even if reinforcements from the Song Dynasty arrived, they would not be able to arrive immediately, they would begin to attack the city, then loot and massacre it.
Mengqi is such a barbaric person.
Once they invade a city, those who can be robbed will be robbed first, and those who cannot be robbed will be burned or killed.
Just like a goose plucking its feathers, everything it passes is wasteland.
A team of Mengqi was currently wandering around the perimeter of Sunshine Village.
Different from the Song, Liao and Xixia, the army established after the rise of the Mongols was organized according to the decimal system, with 10 people in a team, with a captain or "brand leader"; 10 teams formed a "hundred households", and 10 hundred households
One thousand households are composed of 1,000 households, and 10,000 households are composed of 10,000 households. Ten thousand households are the highest organizational unit of the Mongolian army. Hundreds of households, one thousand households, and ten thousand households are not only the establishment units, but also the names of the officers.
The Mengqi of this team have been watching here for two days.
We have already had a clear picture of the situation around Yangxing Village.
Now all we have to do is wait for the main force to arrive and attack the stronghold and massacre it.
like this
They've been doing a lot of things lately.
When I was in Mengdi before, I always heard how prosperous the outside world was, but no one ever came out.
Even in this battle with Liao, it was the opponent who attacked them first, and they were forced to fight back in desperation.
But he didn't expect that the Liao soldiers, who were said to be very powerful, were so incompetent that they were defeated without any effort.
What is even more unexpected is that after the Liao people gave in and General Zhebu led them to the Song Dynasty, the Song soldiers were even weaker and often defeated in one blow. Not only that, the Song people were far richer than the Liao people.
At this time, all of them were already very happy and addicted to robbing people and things. It seemed that if they didn't do something to the Song people for a day, they would feel uncomfortable all over.
Yes, in Meng Qi's eyes, the people of the Song Dynasty were just lambs waiting to be slaughtered, just like their lunch, they could eat them whenever they wanted.
Just like now, although there are still 800 Song soldiers in Yangxing Stronghold, and the Mongolian cavalry rushing here only has two hundred households and two hundred cavalry, they are still confident.
With two hundred fighting eight hundred, their strength was only a quarter of the opponent's, but they were confident that they could easily capture this place. Without it, the Song people were too weak.
"Just wait, our army will arrive in half an hour at most, and we will prepare to massacre the village at that time, hahaha." The captain laughed while riding on his horse. It seemed that at this moment, all the Song people in the village were dead and they could do whatever they wanted.
They take everything.
Meng Qi laughed loudly outside the stronghold, so impudent and unobtrusive, but the Song soldiers inside the stronghold who were two hundred steps away did not even have the courage to rush out.
eight hundred pairs
There were ten people, including four hundred border troops. But with such a balance of forces, they just didn't dare to rush out.
In addition to the fact that the opponent is cavalry and I am infantry, I am afraid that I will not be able to catch up at all, there is another important point, that is, they were recently killed by Meng Qi.
It has been said before that the Xixia cavalry are ruthless, but compared to the Meng cavalry they are still far inferior.
Often, wherever the Meng cavalry goes, they won't even leave an iron pot behind. This is something that even the Xixia cavalry can't do.
"What should we do? Commander Wen, it seems that Mengqi will launch an attack soon. Can we stop it?"
Behind the earthen wall of Yangxing Village, Zhang Qi, the commander of the Xiang camp, asked Wen Yang, the commander of the side camp.
Even though Wen Yang put on armor, he couldn't conceal the scholarly atmosphere that came from his heart.
Needless to say, he was born as a scholar. In his early years, he passed the examination as a scholar and also worked as a clerk in the county government. At that time, he offended the most trusted master of the county magistrate, and then he was made things difficult for him everywhere. In a fit of anger, he left his hometown.
Throw a pen and join the army.
Finally, relying on his erudition and ability, he became the battalion commander and the commander of the 400 border troops.
This time, he followed the order of General Wang Xin and led his troops to help Xinzhou. However, when he arrived here, he discovered that the surrounding areas were full of Mongolian cavalry, and they could not be seen to the end.
Looking at the 400 infantrymen behind him who were walking on their legs, and at the sturdy horses on the opposite side, Wenyang gave up the decision to rescue Xinzhou City, and instead came to the outskirts and stationed himself in Yangxing Village.
There is no need for Wenyang to worry about disobeying military orders. General Wang Xin told them before they came that if they could be saved,
Save, if you can't save, just stay on the outside, find a way to contain the Mengqi troops, and wait for the court's reinforcements to arrive.
Now Wenyang's troops are staying in Yangxing Village, which is to implement the military orders of General Wang Xin.
"We must defend even if we can't. As long as we still have breath, we can't let the Mengqi enter the stronghold and harm us, the people of the Song Dynasty." Although Wen Yang's face does not have the domineering look of a warrior, it still has the pride of a scholar.
, when I talk about these, I feel very angry.
It gives people a sense of failure or failure.
After Zhang Qi heard this, he swallowed hard and said, "I'm not afraid of death, I'm just afraid that it won't be worth it. Commander Zhang, do you think reinforcements from the imperial court will come?"
"Come on!"
Even though he had been studying since childhood, Wen Yang couldn't help but use foul language at this moment.
If the imperial court would send reinforcements, they should have been sent as early as when Xixia attacked Fengzhou. It has been almost two months now, and there is still no reinforcements. Needless to say, it must be the thinking of those gentlemen in the court who think about things with their butts.
Talking about peace.
As a scholar, Wen Yang could naturally imagine what those ministers were thinking.
It's nothing more than, anyway, as long as Bianliang City is safe and we can continue to live a good life, then why should we care about life and death outside?
Those who stand up and talk without pain in their backs will not consider what kind of life and death the Song people in the North will experience at all. They will always consider their own interests.
Negotiation is what they consider to be the most conservative method. They use the national treasury to pay the aliens who invaded them and let them retreat. In the end, it is the national treasury that loses and the people who die on the border of the North are still them.
"What? Commander Wen
What you mean is that we have no reinforcements?" Zhang Qi was shocked after hearing this. His hope had always been based on the presence of reinforcements, and if there were no reinforcements, wouldn't it mean that he would have to face Meng Qi alone? If so,
, even if he died in battle, he would not be able to defend Yangxing Village.