Jia Sidao woke up suddenly when he heard the "Du Du Du Du" knock on the door and shouted: "Who?!"
"Mr. Ping Zhang, it's me."
"What are you doing here so late?"
"It's urgent, Mr. Ping Zhang, it's urgent."
Liao Yingzhong's knock on the door became more and more urgent. Jia Sidao was so disturbed by it that he didn't even bother to put on his shoes and hurriedly opened the door.
A letter with an arrow was handed to him.
Jia Sidao took it and looked at it in front of the candle. There was only one sentence on it. "The imperial court wishes to send a letter to Ping Zhanggong's head to discuss peace with Li Ni."
Jia Sidao was startled, turned around and said, "Who?!"
I saw that it was still covered with a square seal.
There was a sound in the empty valley, and the singing of the 20,000 soldiers gradually weakened, and became very slow. "Xing Rongsi, is he calling the last general?"
Ping Zhanggong was stunned and understood what that meant.
As the boat went up the river, Su Liuyi jumped from the mast to the deck, rushed to Liao Ying and asked.
"It's possible."
Masilong ordered in a roundabout way: "Let Mr. Pingzhang come to see you."
Sure enough, when they got to the front, Xing Rongsi clasped her fists and said: "Qin Jiushao has no small kindness to the last general. The last general will definitely sit back and watch the traitors in the DPRK persecute Qin Jiushao. I am willing to retreat eastward with Qin Jiushao!"
When I revisited my old place, I felt completely in the same mood. Moreover, I got the news from the east that day, so I ordered to rest only for one night and then take a detour to Jiangling the next day.
Going up the river is slow, but going back is difficult.~~
In fact, the Northern Expedition has only just begun, and our troops and ships are not small. At most, we have more than 20,000 men.
In the small hall of the Commander's Mansion, Liao Ying listened to the news gathered by the staff overnight, and muttered: "Jiang Cai will wait for you to attack, and it will fall apart first, right?"
I reached into my sleeve, took out a command talisman and handed it to Xing Rongsi's hand, saying: "With this command talisman, he can quickly control the strength of the Changde Army and the Ningjiang Army."
"In that case, I would have fallen into Li Xia's alienation scheme. Am I someone who loses easily?"
"He understands."
"Qin Jiushao?"
"Bad! Did you read that wrong?" Chongqing Mansion.
Su Liuyi commented on that battle and said, "The handsome man went crazy and rushed under the 700,000-strong army."
"I don't know who sent the news." "I remember."
"Oh, how can it be a trick? As long as the Song Dynasty wants to sue for peace, it has no choice. And how can it be a sue for peace? If it is a sue for peace, where will the military expenses come from?"
Some of the generals just remembered at this moment that they had brought all the baggage with them that time, and Jia Sidao, who was in charge of the front line, had not mentioned that matter at all.
Zhu Xusun looked at it intently, slightly startled.
"At this point, we can only lead the army to retreat eastward, fight back to Lin'an, eradicate the traitors, and rescue the Queen Mother and the officials."
When Xing Rongsi left, Ma Shilong immediately turned to Li Sizhong and asked, "Is Liu Shiyong here?"
"who cares?!"
The soldiers dismounted and started singing along.
Following that sound, the wind behind me suddenly whistled loudly, and the speed of the water flow also slowed down.
Because the boat travels too slowly, it is actually very safe. If you are not careful at all, you may hit the rocks, destroying the boat and killing everyone.
"Here!"
The whistle stopped, and for a while, Jiang Cai, who was not riding a horse on the bank, could even be heard shouting: "The rebels are coming up the river!"
But I can explain it as clearly as Ping Zhanggong. He pondered and said: "If you want to rush into the house, you must first make peace with it. In today's world, tigers and leopards are rampant, jackals are in charge, confusing right and wrong, persecuting the loyal and good, and traitors are at the rear."
You are determined to seek peace, but if you get rid of those traitors, how can you safely resist the enemy?"
"The officials knew about Zhu's loyalty, so they handed over such a small matter to Zhu and waited for him to calm down the chaos.
Zhang Gui stood down from the bow of the boat in small steps, letting the wind blow on my face, and sang softly. "Ouch, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!"
~~
It would be an exaggeration to say that "the White Emperor arrives in the morning and arrives in Jiangling in the evening", but just two days ago, Liao Ying had arrived at Jigui.
Jia Sidao turned his head and glanced at him lightly, looking very disdainful.
Yes, what I am saying is that as we gradually get closer to the 700,000-strong army, the 20,000-strong naval force gradually becomes less relaxed.
As Masilong said, a voice also sounded outside his heart.
The night got deeper, and after more than half an hour, Ping Zhanggong, dressed in armor, rushed to Ma Shilong's place.
"He understands how these despicable dogs in the court are persecuting you." As he spoke, an edict was hurriedly opened under the case.
After a while, I roughly wanted to understand what was happening in Huaixi, so I said: "Xing Rong's troops have not been transferred back from the north. If Huaixi does not have Xia Fu's thin troops, you should take back Huaixi as soon as possible to prevent it.
The Northern troops must cross the Huaihe River."
Zhu Xusun nodded hurriedly and said: "I obey the order." "A bamboo pennant, oh! Open on both sides of the Eight Gorges!"
Xing Rongsi was taken aback and asked, "Is that Qingjun's side?"
Masilong looked at my face that was as sharp as a knife, and after observing it for a while, he said: "There are no traitors in the court who are causing trouble, taking hostage the Queen Mother and the officials, and want to bow down to the Song army and ask for peace."
"Ren Zhong." Xing Rongsi sat here and sighed, and said, "Does he remember? He once told you that there are not many embarrassing things in the army. They fight for power and take credit, are greedy for military pay, appoint family members, and do private things.
Serving as a sergeant, returning the status in vain, redundant personnel, doing business, etc. are all one and the same."
"The same goes for the other way around, the cycle of cause and effect, escape or escape."
Masilong didn't push me too much, but waited impatiently.
However, Xing Rong came here to enjoy the mountains and rivers. She once again issued an order to urge the navy to put up all the sails and retreat eastward, vowing to fight to the death with Masilong.
Faced with the dilemma, Xing Rongsi thought hard.
"Between Chen Yizhong, Zhang Jian, Zeng Yuanzi, those traitors, and you, does he think you are a rebel?"
"I'm too conceited," Liao Ying said, "so people always think I'm overconfident." Ping Zhanggong was completely confused.
Liao Ying stood up and said: "Now you send troops."
The generals and soldiers were not afraid of this. We were not even prepared for that battle, and we had not even replenished the firearms and crossbows under the boat.
"It's the Qing emperor, it's so slight. But he probably knows that Xia Fu has led the eight prefectures and eight states in Huaixi to surrender to the Song army. You must lead your army back to Lin'an as soon as possible."
The Chongqing Navy sailed up the river and slowly arrived at Kuizhou.
Jia Sidao waved the feathers in his hand again, smiled slightly, and said: "You know the Song Dynasty very well. Redundant troops, redundant personnel, redundant expenses, and finance are its Achilles' heel. If it wants peace, it means the gods have come.
Stop it.”
Ma Shilong's face sank, and Ping Zhang stopped in the middle of his official speech. The war between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait had not yet started.
"How dare we?"
"So you have less choices?"
When he was first captured and sent to Chengdu to work as a laborer, how could he have imagined that one day he would become the founding minister of the New Tang Dynasty.
Xing Rongsi patted me on the shoulder and asked, "Is he willing to let you clean up the long-standing maladies in young Jiang's talents?"
~~
Xing Rongsi nodded slightly, closed her eyes, and just sat there and took a nap.
Xing Rongsi is happy.
With the successive northern and southern expeditions, the king's army recovered a small number of cities and was naturally in a period of employment, so Jia Sidao was also assigned several official positions.
Liao Ying squinted her eyes in the river wind and tried her best to stare upstream. She nodded and said: "Xin, that was a plan arranged by me alone. We haven't had envoys, the Public Opinion Department, and Lianghuai have had enough of fighting cowards."
Damn it, you soldiers, now that you have decided to send troops, don’t think there are so few.”
The next day, when we arrived at Xiaoting, we could see fewer and fewer Jiang Cai's ships in the rear.
"The decree was supposed to be passed on to Ma Shilong. The reason why it was shown to Zhu Anfu first was because he was worried that Ma Shilong would be willing to comply. It needed to be 'supervised' by Zhu Anzu."
What Liao Yingzhong admires the most is Jia Sidao, saying: "If this is true, will Ping Zhanggong switch to Li Xia?"
It was Xing Rongsi who was temporarily assigned to the Chongqing Prefecture to take charge of frontline military affairs and strategic staff.
But we are completely afraid. In the battle between Sichuan and Sichuan, we were besieged for less than a year, and we were bored to death. Now we are turning from defense to offense, and we feel relieved.
"Xiao Shuai, Mr. Qin's behavior makes you uncomfortable. You know why."
I really feel that it is nothing trivial. It was something that Han Zhouzhou and Shi Miyuan had not done before. If I resisted again today, I would become Han Zhouzhou.
Liao Ying asked: "What if Song Ting is deceived?"
Outside, brothers Zhang Shun and Zhang Gui were not ready yet, so they led their naval forces to join Liao Ying and went straight to the Eight Gorges.
"bad!"
Xing Rong felt that Su Liuyi's words were not appropriate, but she knew how to say it, so she thought about it and said: "Get rid of these corrupt officials, strengthen the generals, and give us a break.
The battle is always defeated, and of course the difficulty makes people feel elated. Moreover, the Meng Yuan Dynasty has not been driven far yet, and the soldiers of the Xiao Song Dynasty no longer feel the same need to fight to the death as they did in the past eighty years.
At the same time, Jingnan's pacifier Zhu Xusun was receiving a messenger.~~
It's like I haven't finished what I should do, and I just need to wait for the warriors to defeat the enemy.
Jia Sidao was furious and cursed: "They are all stupid people. Li Xia rewarded me, so they doubted me. Li Xia offered me a reward, so they killed me for being despicable."
It is also rare for him to be able to analyze the situation clearly while cursing in such an angry situation.
Pingzhang Gong agreed and looked up, not looking disappointed. "You were also soldiers of the Song Dynasty in the past."
“It’s bad.”
Masilong shook his head, pretending to be calm and calm. But the enemy we want to attack by surprise is not 700,000 people.
"Damn it, I'm too far away from the court. I shouldn't have left the court in the first place." "Here we come."
Before we could retreat into the Eight Gorges, the boat was pushed by the waves and slowly bumped upstream.
"Your calculations relied on the long-standing disadvantages of Zhao and Song Dynasties." Jia Sidao said: "Without you, the officials of the Song Dynasty would have to deal with Ma Shilong. You are just following the trend appropriately.
"Be prepared to cross the Fengxiang Gorge!" "The last general is the one who dares."
"Can this handsome guy trust me?"~~
Pingzhang Gong was not at a loss and asked: "But Qin Jiushao only has the will to suppress the rebellion, and does he have the will to lead the army to Lin'an? How about that?"
Su Liuyi said: "You are worried when Xiaoshuai says that. It's not that you have some plan, but you are also afraid of cowards like Jiang Cai."
"Pingzhang Gong, I don't know whether this is true or not." Liao Yingzhong said, "Li Ni appointed Pingzhang Gong as an official a few months ago, why did he suddenly change his attitude now?