Lu Wenhuan suddenly realized that his ears were still soft.
After all, he is not Lu Wende. Although Lu Wende has a greedy and jealous side, he can fight out of the battlefield with real swords and guns. His character is of course decisive and strong.
This cannot be learned.
At this time, Lu Wenhuan kept reminding himself not to trust Weng Yinglong gullibly, he was a repetitive villain, but the picture that came to his mind was the scene where Lu Wende handed over the Lu family to him before he died.
For the sake of the Lu family, he couldn't take any chances and had to choose the safest path no matter what he did.
"I still need time to think about it," Lu Wenhuan said.
Weng Yinglong shook his head and said: "Marshal Zhang doesn't have the patience. If Marshal Lu agrees today, he will open the road. He is not afraid that you will join the Yuan army and make a comeback after you return to Nanyang. If you don't agree, he will continue to attack the city tomorrow."
"
"Isn't he afraid that I will change my mind when I return to Nanyang?" Lu Wenhuan said, "Can he still trust me?"
"Whether Marshal Lu will attack the Yuan army next or continue to fight against Wang Shi is not entirely up to Marshal Lu." Weng Yinglong pointed to the document in his hand and said: "We should listen to the opinion of the imperial court."
Lu Wenhuan looked down and saw that what he was holding in his hand was actually Li Xia's decree to the world, and he couldn't help but sneer.
He thought to himself that he was not willing to listen to the opinions of the new Tang court.
But the next moment, he remembered that what the document said meant that Jia Sidao had rebelled. No matter what the truth was, Princess Rui became Li Xia's concubine, and a great scholar like Wang Yinglin defected to Jia Sidao's staff.
, it was impossible for the Lin'an court to turn a deaf ear.
The imperial court must recall Jia Sidao's army.
Thinking of this, Lu Wenhuan was shocked and felt a little confused for no reason.
For a while, I felt how sad it was that Jia Pingzhang was loyal to the country but was hampered everywhere; for a while, I felt that maybe Jia Sidao had secretly colluded with Li Xia.
But what is certain is that the imperial court will never order him to send troops north again, and will only let him return to Xiangyang to be ready to deal with changes in Jia Sidao's army at any time.
And if the Song army no longer cooperates with the Yuan army to attack the Tang army, but Boyan is not a good man and a trustworthy woman, how can he get together with the Song state? The Yuan army is afraid of the Tang army's artillery to fortify the city, and will only go south to rob and capture from the Song Dynasty.
Take a circuitous route to find the way north.
Now it seems that the best way is to cooperate with the Tang army to attack Boyan as Weng Yinglong said.
Lu Wenhuan felt incredible when he thought of this.
He tried hard to find a way to break the situation... It felt like there was one, but the prerequisite was a tough battle with Tang Jun.
"Damn it."
He cursed in a low voice, but it was his own ridiculous situation.
Weng Yinglong observed Lu Wenhuan's expression and knew that he had already figured it out, and said: "If you agree now, my master Wang can help you attack the Yuan army. Otherwise, in the end, you will have to be alone."
"Ah."
"Marshal Lu, do you know why this is?" Weng Yinglong said earnestly and sincerely: "Because among the three parties, our army is the strongest, and the Yuan army does not dare to attack it directly, so it can only seek compensation from the Song Dynasty."
Lu Wenhuan did not refute, but looked down upon Weng Yinglong even more, saying: "You are a complete traitor to the country, and your reputation has changed very quickly."
Weng Yinglong smiled humbly, a little shamelessly. He knew that it was time for Lu Wenhuan to step down, so he let out another long sigh.
"I have lost my integrity as a minister and should be despised by Marshal Lu. But regardless of the small state of Zhao, if we look at the world of the Han family, how can we bear to see the people reduced to humiliation? I have always known that Marshal Lu is righteous, so I only ask Lu
How about the marshal taking the lead in attacking the foreign invaders, and let’s talk about who owns the country?”
Lu Wenhuan closed his eyes and fell into thinking.
Just like what Weng Yinglong said before was all nonsense, only this last sentence of publicity and justice can really touch him.
In short, everything is for the Han family and the world.
~~
After abandoning Songzhou City, we can go south along the Yishui River to Luanchuan, bypass Funiu Mountain, and then go to Nanyang along the Baishui River.
The Song army was all infantry, but their steps over the mountains were not slow.
Especially since I don’t have much luggage to bring back this time.
"Hurry up, we can rest when we reach the intersection with the Ya River in front!"
A Song army commander named He Fu shouted to his soldiers like this, his dark face covered with sweat.
His lieutenant saw him and quickly handed him the water bag. At the same time, he leaned over and whispered: "Looking at the distance, are you really going to withdraw? The Tang army won't pursue it?"
"Yes." He Fu raised his head and drank water and said, "We guessed right. The commander-in-chief has made an agreement with Tang Jun not to fight."
"This battle is really boring. I want to fight or not. I just wander around in the hot weather."
He Fu pushed the water bag into the deputy general's arms, gave it to him, and said, "What else? Are you hoping to beat him so hard that you will ask your brothers to fill it with their lives?"
"That's not true. How could the general have guessed a few days ago that the commander-in-chief wanted to make peace with the Tang army?"
He Fu asked: "Do you remember that year when Li Ni became emperor and the Tang army attacked Xiangyang?"
That year, He Fu was still a general under Lu Wende. He first followed the army to besiege Li Xia, but later the Yuan army crossed the Han River, hoping to take advantage of the situation when both sides suffered losses.
At the end of that battle, Lu Wende still ordered to advance the Yuan army, and He Fu was one of the troops at the forefront when attacking the Yuan army.
Now when he talked about it again, there was a look of memory in his eyes, and he said: "What's the point of one's own people beating one's own people? Only beating the bandits is the most powerful thing."
"Speaking of which... many people in the army said this. When we attacked Luoyang, I knew that a few commanders did not fight at all. They said that Li Xia and Zhang Jue were heroes who defended Shu in the past and did not want to fight.
"
He Fu raised his eyes, glanced around, and said, "Shh, don't spread the rumors."
"I will talk to the general about this, but I see that some of them are afraid of the Tang army and are saying this to save face."
"Are you the only one smart? Stop guessing." Qing
"But let me tell you, if we continue to lose like this, our soldiers in the Song Dynasty will be regarded as cowards."
He Fu was not talking, as if he was thinking about whether he was a coward.
…
After stationing in the camp that day, Lu Wenhuan summoned the generals of the army to discuss matters.
First, the soldiers were asked to surround the big tent to ensure that the contents of the military discussion would not be eavesdropped.
"Soldiers, we have worked hard to regain Nanyang. However, the Yuan army took advantage of our march north to attack Li Ni and broke into Nanyang. Now they are stationed on the east bank of the Baihe River downstream. How can we allow others to snore next to the couch?
?!"
After He Fu heard this, he couldn't help but straighten his waist and cheer up.
He looked at the map and saw that Lu Wenhuan had marked the location of the Yuan army's camp and the route to attack the camp.
This situation seems to have returned to the battle in Xiangyang.
He Fu couldn't help but wonder why this was the case.
He first felt that it was because Marshal Lu was loyal and righteous and took it as his own duty to drive out foreign invaders.
More importantly, resisting the captives is a tradition that has been preserved for more than a hundred years by the Jinghu soldiers of the Song Dynasty who inherited the legacy of Grandpa Yue.
This is the military spirit of the Song Dynasty soldiers.
"We are not bad." He Fu thought.
Facing the coming war, he has become more confident...
~~
June 17, Luoyang.
A large sand table was placed in the Luocheng Hall.
The silt was piled up to form the undulating Funiu Mountains, and the Baihe River to the south was filled with blue paint.
Li Xia personally held several war chess pieces and played with them on the sand table while listening to the news from all parties. He also issued a few orders from time to time.
"Your Majesty, the latest news is that Boyan has divided his troops and fled. He has sent a troop each to Dengzhou, Tangzhou, and Tongbai Mountain. Lu Wenhuan was worried that the rear would be lost, so he divided his troops and went south. The formation was in a lot of chaos. Marshal Zhang was worried about this.
It's Boyan's trick, he doesn't dare to fight immediately..." Qing
Given the distance between the two places, it would take a day at the fastest for the news to come back, so Li Xia did not command remotely, but paid close attention to respond in a timely manner.
He frowned and played with the war chess on the sand table a few times, deducing.
Looking at this situation, it is indeed possible that Boyan pretended to go south, but in fact used a false shot to trick Lu Wenhuan into sending troops and horses to return for reinforcements, and then quickly returned with the advantage of the cavalry to attack Zhang Jue.
Zhang Jue was right not to engage in a decisive battle immediately. He should shrink his defense line to avoid being attacked by the Yuan army.
After all, it is a war between three parties, and everyone wants to reap the benefits...
Thinking of this, Li Xia hesitated slightly and picked up the war chess again.
He quickly pulled the three troops that Boyan sent to the south back to the north, and placed them directly behind Lu Wenhuan's war game. At the same time, he also pushed Boyan's small flag over.
Several ministers who were watching were surprised: "Your Majesty, you think Boyan will not attack us first, but attack the Song army first?"
"There is no shortage of such possibilities."
"But...Song and Yuan are allies after all."
"At critical moments, we only talk about interests." Li Xia said: "In this situation, Boyan has no time to hesitate. If he is not decisive, his entire army will be wiped out."
Even so, Li Xia did not send anyone to remind Zhang Jue.
Whatever he could think of on the battlefield, Zhang Jue could also think of it.
Even if he thought about it, Zhang Jue would not change his strategy. He wanted Boyan to attack Lu Wenhuan first, so he would still shrink his defense line.
On the battlefield, whoever is weak will die first.
However, this matter cannot be said for certain, Li Xia only guessed it through a few pieces of information.
He looked at the sand table and thought for a while, then said: "Send someone to tell Lu Xiufu to go to Kaifeng with troops, horses, food and grass first, and then take Kaifeng as soon as possible after Zhang Jue returns to the army."
"Then Zhengzhou..."
"I am here, can Zhengzhou be lost?"
"yes."
After arranging these things and handling other official duties, Li Xia still did not receive any new battle reports before nightfall.
There was no new battle report until noon the next day.
"Your Majesty, Marshal Zhang has an urgent message... Boyan has raided Lu Wenhuan's camp!"
This incident was not unexpected, but Li Xia quickly walked to the sand table and readjusted the war game based on the battle report, but he still sighed: "No wonder Kublai Khan promoted Boyan to be prime minister as soon as he saw him."
Lin Zi walked up and looked at it for a while, then answered: "Bo Yan does have some ability to kill fish and kill fish."
"Huo Xiaolian."
"exist!"
"You choose the front camp to cooperate with Lu Xiufu and listen to the news at any time. Once you learn that Boyan has left the battlefield and bite him, before I leave Henan, I want to see people alive and see corpses dead... It is best to live."
"Here!"
In fact, when everyone in the hall looked at the layout of the war game, they all felt that Lu Wenhuan's reaction was slow and he was far from Boyan's opponent.
According to their analysis of the Song Army's strength a few days ago, they all believed that the Song Army was going to be defeated.
But Li Xia still had confidence in Zhang Jue and believed that even if Boyan could defeat the Song army, he could not defeat Zhang Jue.
~~
Before nightfall that day, the final battle report finally came back.
"Good news! Your Majesty, Commander Zhang has defeated the Yuan army. When the news came out, the main force of the Yuan army was defeated!"
"Don't worry, tell me slowly, how was this battle fought?"
"At the beginning, the troops and horses transferred by the Yuan army to the south suddenly withdrew, quietly crossed the Baihe River, attacked the right wing of the Song army that had been transferred away, and attacked Lu Wenhuan's middle army. They also supported Boyan's main force to cross the river... Zhang Shuai confirmed
After hearing the news, he led his troops southward, and when they arrived at Dushan, they stormed Boyan's rear formation..."
Li Xia had already taken away Lu Wenhuan's war chess and was about to put Boyan's war chess into Nanyang City when he heard this and put it back.
"Zhang Jue came from Bowang?"
"yes."
"You still have to cross the Baihe River? The Song army was not defeated when you arrived?"
"We are not defeated. Boyan has been unable to attack the Song army for a long time. He is in a dilemma. When Zhang Shuai's army arrives, he will immediately offer gold and flee."
Although the result was similar to Li Xia's expectation, he did not expect such a process.
The tenacity of the Song army also caused Boyan to be defeated much earlier than he expected, and he was afraid that he might not be able to stop it in time...