The people of the Song Dynasty who Yang Peng rescued from the envoys are now placed outside the north gate of Dagou. Fortunately, Yang Peng seized more than 3,000 pack horses and 130,000 taels of silver from Yeli Hongguang's camp.
, more than 60,000 shi of food. Especially these 60,000 shi of food are very important. With this food, Yang Peng can save these 40,000 refugees in this extraordinary season.
Mao Xin is one of the refugees. He was originally an ordinary farmer in Pujia Village, Liangguli, Lanhe County. He has two elderly parents and a younger sister. His family has three mud houses and cultivates 23 acres of dry land.
Although Mao Xin has never been married, he is still a family with enough food and clothing. But in this era of war and chaos, the lives of ordinary people are not so easy. Half a month ago, the Khitan army came. Mao Xin heard that the Khitan people were ferocious, so he hurried away
With their livestock, he took his parents and sister and hid in Liangguli. There was a wall outside Liangguli, and there were fifty archers inside. Mao Xin hoped that these archers could defend Liangguli.
However, when the Khitan army really came, Mao Xin realized that things were not that simple. More than a hundred Khitan soldiers took bows and arrows and shot all the archers on the Liangguli city wall to death and ran away. The Tatars used rams to drive them away.
They opened the gate and arrested all the more than 3,000 people in Liangguli who were hiding from the disaster, saying that they would be taken to Liaodong to be slaves.
Mao Xin's family of four fell into the hands of the Khitan soldiers. Along the way, the Khitan soldiers hurried to the south to capture more slaves. They walked very fast and kept whipping the people who were slow to move away. Mao Xin
Xin's old parents were almost fifty years old. Their legs and feet were inconvenient and they walked slowly. They were beaten by Khitan soldiers with whips. The Tatars only let the people drink gruel once a day. The people were malnourished and the old people were injured.
How can we get better? The two old people had high fever and died one after another.
Even worse is Mao Xin's sister. Mao Xin's sister is fifteen years old this year. She is the age of a flower. She is a beautiful girl that young men from all over the country send people to marry her. But she fell into the hands of the Khitan soldiers.
In his hands, the Khitan soldiers took away his innocence. Later, he was killed by the Khitan soldiers. When Mao Xin went to collect the body of his sister, he heard someone say that it was his sister who was unwilling to cooperate when she was insulted, which angered the Khitan soldiers and killed her.
Killed.
In the blink of an eye, within ten days, Mao Xin's warm family disappeared, and Mao Xin became a loner. That night, under the supervision of two Khitan soldiers, Mao Xin and several men from the village dug a hole near the camp.
He buried his sister. Mao Xin cried loudly in front of his sister's grave and secretly vowed to avenge his sister, even if he bites a Khitan soldier to death with his teeth.
However, heaven has eyes and did not let Mao Xin's sacrifice be in vain. After the Khitan soldiers entered the boundary of Dagou, they encountered the Song Dynasty official army who dared to fight - the defenders of Dagou defeated the Khitan soldiers. The Khitan soldiers suffered a defeat in Dagou.
After that, they fled north. After ten miles, the Khitan soldiers stopped again, and all faced south to fight the officers and soldiers of Dagou. There was another battle, and the officers and soldiers of Dagou killed all the Khitan soldiers! The Khitan soldiers who were still alive rushed forward.
He went to the camp and snatched horses, then ran away without even looking back.
In this way, the people were saved. The Dagou officers and soldiers who saved the people treated the people very well and did not do anything to them. These days, it is said that the officers and soldiers are like bandits, and even more vicious than the bandits. It is really true that the officers and soldiers do not bully the people.
It was difficult to find them even with lanterns. Many officers and soldiers wanted to kill the refugees when they saw them, and handed over the heads of the refugees falsely claiming they were the heads of Khitan soldiers.
The officers and soldiers of Dagou not only did not bully and kill the people, but also saved them. These officers and soldiers placed the people under the city wall in the north of the city, led the people to cut down trees, and let the people dig earthen nests under the city wall to live temporarily. The officials
The army organized people to dig wells and build public toilets outside the city. They also selected some young and powerful people from the people and asked them to cook porridge for other people. The thick porridge was once in the morning and evening, and each person had a big bowl. The porridge was extremely thick.
, it will not fall down even if a chopstick is stuck on it.
Although I can't eat 100% full, I won't get sick from hunger even if I don't do any physical work in Fanjiazhuang. Sometimes, the deputy commander of Dagou will come out to distribute porridge to the people in person. Mao Xin saw it and said,
That is a person like a fairy. Only a hero like the Lord of Tianjing New City is worthy of such a lady like a fairy. When Yang Tong heard those refugees calling him the Lady of the Lord, he didn't know how beautiful it was, and he was so excited
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Mao Xin asked around and finally found out that the city lord of Tianjing New City was named Yang Peng. On this day, the city lord Yang Peng finally came to see the refugees in the north of Dagou City. The city lord was very young, wearing a red official robe and a brocade uniform.
With more than a dozen followers, he marched to the refugee's den. The refugees in the den knew that their savior was coming, so they all ran out of the den and stood outside to look around. The city lord
The adults checked the refugees' homes one by one to see if the refugees had been exposed to wind and rain and whether they were malnourished.
Seeing how kind their savior was, many people cried on the spot. Several old people who were well-known among the refugees walked out of the crowd, walked up to the Lord of the City, and knelt down tremblingly. "Thank you Ming Gong.
He annihilated the Tatars with thunderous means, and saved us and other people with his compassionate heart. Your kindness will never be forgotten by the common people!" Seeing the old people kneeling down, the entire refugee group felt the same and knelt down together. Tens of thousands of people were lying on the ground.
In front of the nest, he was kowtowing to the city lord who saved his life. Only the head could be seen in the dark area. The scene made Mao Xin stand in awe. How capable and upright an official must be to be so loved by the people?
The lord of the city helped up the elders who were leading the way, and said with a smile: "It is my duty as a military attache of the Song Dynasty to help the people, so there is no need to pay such a courtesy!" The lord of the city looked around at the people and said loudly: "Everyone, get up quickly, get up quickly.
!” The old man walked up to the city lord with a bowl of well water and said: “The people have nothing to offer and have nothing to repay the city lord. This is the well water dug by the saved people in the north of the city and given to the city lord.
Moisten your throat, sir."
The city lord drank the well water without saying a word. When the old people saw that the city lord drank the well water, they wanted to kneel down again, but the city lord stopped them and pulled them up. The city lord said goodbye to the old people and walked to each room.
Inspection in front of the nest. When the city lord walked in front of Mao Xin, Mao Xin finally couldn't help it and knelt on the ground with a thud.
Yang Peng came up to help Mao Xin and said with a smile: "Young man, what are you doing?" Mao Xin, however, lay on the ground and refused to get up. He said loudly: "Sir, my parents and sister were killed by the Khitan people! Your Excellency, my parents and sister were killed by the Khitans!"
Let me join your army. I don’t want military pay. As long as I can fight the Khitan soldiers and save a few suffering people, I will be happy for the rest of my life!"
On October 20th of the first year of Xianping, the Khitan troops withdrew from the Song Dynasty, and Cangzhou lifted martial law. On October 24th of the first year of Xianping, Cangzhou City paraded in the streets to praise the soldiers who had won the victory in Tianjing New City.
The city is only sixty miles away and is connected in one piece. Once Tianjing New City is captured, the Northern Envoys can arrive at Cangzhou City in one day. Therefore, the people of Cangzhou all know that the great victory of Dagou means that the safety of Cangzhou City is preserved. The people of Cangzhou
They were very happy to defend their troops, so Xu Nan arranged this parade to praise them.
Parading the streets were the Tianjing New City Huben Regiment and other soldiers and horses from Cangzhou. The leader was of course the Huben Regiment, which had "made the greatest contribution". Duan Zhixian led a thousand soldiers from the Selection of Frontier Regiment to represent the Huben Regiment and walked in the front. A member of the Selection of Frontier Regiment
Thousands of veterans lined up in a square formation of twenty and fifty people, entered the city from Anxi Gate, walked through the county government office from Xicheng Heng Street, then walked to Dongcheng Heng Street, paraded in the street to praise their achievements under the gaze of the people, and finally walked out of Cangzhou from the east gate of the town.
city.
People who flocked to Hengjie Street to watch the warriors parade crowded the road. Both sides of Hengjie Street and the streets and alleys bordering Hengjie Street were full of people. The common people crowded here and there, just wanting to take a closer look at the warriors who defeated the Khitan soldiers.
What does a warrior look like? I heard that the soldiers from Tianjing New City can fight Khitan soldiers one by one. I wonder how tough these soldiers are?
Under the gaze of the villagers and elders on both sides of the road, the soldiers of the Selective Group were extremely proud. They did not carry guns at this time, but each wore a short knife. They straightened their chests one by one, and put their right hands empty on the
On the scabbards, a straight line of people stood and marched forward.
That neat and orderly formation attracted bursts of admiration from the people nearby! "The soldiers in Tianjing New City are so mighty!" "What an orderly formation, fifty people walking as if they were one person!" "No wonder they can defeat the Khitan soldiers, all of them are so powerful!"
He is one of the best heroes!"
Many people brought out their own home-brewed rice wine and poured glass after glass for the soldiers of the Selection Corps to drink. As the soldiers of the Selection Corps walked in the queue, they gulped down the rice wine handed to them on both sides. After drinking, they put the wine bowls away.
As soon as the people nearby stopped, the people helped the soldiers pass the wine bowls back. Some wealthy households thanked the officers and soldiers for defeating the Khitan soldiers and for helping them save their heads and property, and they all took out exquisite pastries and gave them to the electors.
The soldiers of the Front Regiment, the soldiers ate as they walked, eating all the way.
Behind the vanguard selection group, there were scattered soldiers and horses from other roads in Cangzhou. These soldiers and horses were just here to make up the numbers, and they moved in a sparse and disorganized manner, which made the people watching muttering in their hearts - can these weak soldiers defeat the Khitan soldiers?
They were probably responsible for waving the flag and shouting on the battlefield, right? Although these officers and soldiers did not perform well, they were actually the "heroes" of this battle - these soldiers all received the merits of this battle, and they all said that they were the heroes when publicizing to the outside world.
Heroes who have fought in battle. These soldiers are afraid that others will say that they got something for nothing, so they will never tell the truth that they did not fight in battle.
The common people murmured in their hearts, and were not so enthusiastic about the scattered soldiers and horses. They just stood there and watched the soldiers walk by. Occasionally, one or two common people would hand over drinks, which would make these soldiers smile with joy.
Duan Zhixian was wearing the flying fish suit and jade belt given by the emperor, riding a Wusun BMW, and walked proudly at the front of the entire team - yesterday, the flying fish suit and jade belt given by the city lord were delivered to Dagou by fast horse. The city lord passed the message,
He praised Duan Zhixian for his great contribution in killing Ye Qi Hongguang and called Duan Zhixian a great contributor to Tianjing New City.
Being praised by the city lord, he was given the flying fish uniform and jade belt of Jinyiwei, which was a great honor. The flying fish uniform was embroidered with a "flying fish" with teeth and claws - most of the flying fish's body resembled a big python, with horns, but the tail was a fish
Tail - This flying fish suit, which resembles a python suit and is paired with a jade belt, has a very majestic shape, making Duan Zhixian the focus of the audience.
Where Duan Zhixian rode, the people cheered loudly, and they were all happy to have such a majestic military attache in Cangzhou. There were people from Zhang Luo ahead of Duan Zhixian, who were servants from the county government. Every time Duan Zhixian walked a certain distance, there would be servants from the county government taking the money.
Firecrackers were set off. The crackling sound of firecrackers made the atmosphere of the entire parade even more lively.
The further we walked, the more people were watching. People were standing on both sides of the road with rice wine and well water, and the road was blocked. There were also people climbing on the roofs on both sides of the road to watch, and they didn’t know if it was possible.
The tiled roofs of the houses were trampled and broken. Seeing that there was no way ahead, the governor's Yamen people took strings of firecrackers and threw them forward to scare away the people blocking the road, and then they found the way forward.
Walking to the door of the county government office, Xu Nan led a dozen civil servants from Cangzhou to stand at the door of the government office. Duan Zhixian glanced over and saw that Lu Hualin was also there. His precious brother Lu Huarong stood behind the officials, leaning towards Duan Zhixian.
Look here. Seeing the flying fish suit on Duan Zhixian, Lu Huarong turned pale and seemed to be very afraid - this flying fish suit represents the appreciation of the city lord of Tianjing New City. How far will Duan Zhixian be in his career? Will he remember himself?
hatred?
Even Lu Hualin has some regrets - he shouldn't have favored his younger brother at that time. He should have beaten Lu Huarong dozens of times to relieve Duan Zhixian's anger. Now Duan Zhixian is rising through the ranks and has been promoted to six levels in a year. I really don't know when he will be promoted to a
Head! I don’t know if he still remembers Lu Huarong’s breath.
Xu Nan saw Duan Zhixian, looked at Duan Zhixian while stroking his beard, and nodded. He poured a glass of Erguotou wine for Duan Zhixian who was riding on the horse, and handed it to Duan Zhixian. Duan Zhixian quickly jumped off the horse and held the wine.
He drank it all in one gulp and shouted, "Good wine."
Xu Nan looked at the well-organized selection team behind Duan Zhixian, nodded and said: "As expected, they are all good men of the Song Dynasty! No wonder they can defeat the Khitan." Xu Nan poured another glass of wine for Li Zhi, and poured a glass for himself.
Then he passed the wine jar to the back and asked more than a dozen civil servants to fill up the wine glasses. Then he raised the wine glass and said: "I will lead the Cangzhou civil servants to toast the leader!"
Duan Zhixian drank all the sweet wine and said: "I would like to thank the governor! Thank you all!" Xu Nan led the civil servants to drink all the shochu in one gulp. After drinking two glasses of shochu, Duan Zhixian continued to walk forward on horseback. Others paraded in the street.
The military generals also arrived at the county government office one after another. Xu Nan no longer poured wine for these generals who took credit for their work. The servants came up to pour the wine. Xu Nan dipped the wine glass with his mouth and it was regarded as a toast.
Duan Zhixian went all the way east and led a thousand soldiers of the Selective Regiment to ride to the vicinity of Jingbianfang in the east of the city. He saw that the original neighbors had already lined up on both sides of the road, leaving only a small road for the Selective Regiment to pass through.
"Duan Zhixian is here! Look! Look! Duan Zhixian is here!" "Brother Duan is returning in triumph. It is said that he has killed more than 1,500 enemies!" "Ah! Why is Brother Duan wearing a dragon robe? Only the emperor can wear it.
Dragon robe?" "You idiot, look clearly, that's a python robe, for officials to wear!" "No, that's not a python robe, it's a flying fish suit given by the Lord of the City. Although it looks like a python, it's not a python.
also!"
Duan Zhixian was riding on his horse, walking through the intersection of Jingbianfang, and heard the neighbors calling him affectionately. "Brother Duan! Brother Duan! Do you still remember me? I am Zhao San, who sold you oil!"
Brother Duan! I am Chen Deyu! I even took you to buy alkaline noodles!" "Duan Zhixian! Duan Zhixian! I am Auntie Lin! You have grown so fast now! Do you still remember me Auntie Lin?"
Duan Zhixian could not answer the neighbors' calls one by one. He only rode on his horse and bowed to the neighbors in vain, and said loudly: "If Duan Zhixian can be promoted this time, he will go back to Jingbianfang to set up a flowing banquet and invite all the neighbors to gather."
Let's get together." Hearing these words, the crowd in Jingbianfang suddenly burst into applause. This time the Khitan army entered the pass and plundered, it was considered to have come to an end.
This time the Khitan army entered the pass and poisoned the area 100 miles away from Cangzhou. Below Cangzhou, the Khitan army captured two large cities in the prefecture and county. Except for the battle of Tianjing New City, the Khitan army won all three battles. The Khitan army captured 50,000 people and animals and returned to Youzhou. The Great Song Dynasty
The soldiers and horses in each town followed the Khitan army and did not dare to fight. When Ye Qian Deguang left the customs, he had people chop wood and write the four words "No officials are required to send" and "Ride in beautiful clothes and return in triumph with music" to humiliate the Song army. The Ministry of War
Pan Hu, the Minister of Military Affairs, and Liang Dong of the Ministry of War knew that they had the responsibility of guarding the country and guarding the territory and could not avoid death. They took rhubarb every day in the army and by this time they were already dying.
Cangzhou in the Song Dynasty was in a mess, with ruins everywhere after being looted, burned and killed by the Khitan army, causing heavy losses. Of course, in this gloom, there was also the bright spot of the victory of Tianjing New City. Ten thousand people were beheaded in one battle.
One thousand six hundred, the world was shocked.
After the victory of Tianjing New City spread to various places, there was a lot of praise from all directions. Especially Xu Nan, who was originally a strong political figure and belonged to Qingliu. At this time, he made great achievements and was praised by the gentry all over the world as an able minister who could predict the enemy and know the soldiers.
The officials were also very optimistic about Xu Nan, so they summoned Xu Nan to the Beijing platform to answer questions and gave him royal meals.
However, Xu Nan's correct answer on the platform made the housekeeper very disappointed. His level of talking about military affairs was really not like that of a governor.
On November 22, Ye Qian Hongguang's body and the heads of more than 11,600 Khitan soldiers were brought to the capital. The officials ordered that the heads of Khitan soldiers be built as a Jingguan in front of the imperial city, and a large tree was erected.
Ye Qian Hongguang's body was hung up for the people of Bianjing to see.
The people in the capital were very excited when they learned about the victory in Tianjing New City. Since the Battle of Youzhou, the Song army had been defeated in consecutive battles outside the pass. Only the Cangzhou and Jinyang defense lines were holding up the face of the Song Empire.
.The Liao Kingdom, or Khitan army broke through the border several times, looting and plundering as if entering an uninhabited country, killing countless people in the Song Dynasty. When did the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty have such a proud victory?
This battle was heart-stirring and demonstrated the national prestige of the Song Dynasty! At this time, I heard that the heads of more than 10,000 Khitan soldiers were piled up in front of the imperial city to build a palace, and there were also the corpses of Khitan nobles. The people rushed to watch.
At that time, the streets in the capital were deserted. The road in front of the imperial city was packed. The common people grabbed stones and squeezed into the front of the imperial city, throwing stones at the heads of the Khitan soldiers.
"You damn Khitan dogs, watch me stone you to death!" "Haha! If you dare to rob the people of our Song Dynasty, all of them will lose their lives!" "The Khitan soldiers will suffer heavy losses now, and they dare to enter our Song Dynasty at will.
Robbery?" "Look at the body of the Khitan nobleman, he's so tall!"
"Our Song Dynasty actually has such powerful officers and soldiers who can kill so many Khitan heads!" Emperor Zhenzong stood on the Chengtian Gate, looking at the Beijing and the people in the distance, silently. Yesterday, the horse came
According to the news, the Minister of War and Liang Tingdong were afraid that the emperor would hold them accountable, so they had been taking rhubarb for a month, and both of them were already dying.
Emperor Zhenzong was a little speechless towards these two men. Both of them were considered talented soldiers, and he did not want to commit suicide out of fear of crime. Originally, after the great victory in Cangzhou came out, Emperor Zhenzong would not kill these two people because the merits and demerits were equal.
, they would not even take away their positions, but were only prepared to demote them by one level as punishment. However, they did not expect that these two people did not believe that the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty could achieve a great victory, and ate the rhubarb long ago. Although there is good news now,
, but their lives were beyond repair.
However, although the two civil servants were half-dead, they still wrote memorials to the officials to congratulate the victory. The question is, after their death, who will take over the vacant post of Minister of War? Originally, Emperor Zhenzong was very optimistic about this great victory in Cangzhou.
Xu Nan, the minister of the Ministry of War of Cangzhou Governor, hoped that Xu Nan would be able to take on the burden of the Ministry of War due to his outstanding ability. However, yesterday's platform was correct. Xu Nan made empty remarks about military affairs and talked about morality for a long time, which greatly disappointed the officials.
Whenever he couldn't explain why, Xu Nan started to talk about the sharp crossbows and the powerful volleys of muskets, asking Emperor Zhenzong to strengthen the management of the Arms Bureau, which made Emperor Zhenzong not know what he meant. The only option is to be an official.
When asked about Cangzhou's grain transportation, Xu Nan answered fluently and brilliantly. From this, the officials knew that the governor Xu Nan did not know how to fight with soldiers, but he was a talented person who managed money and grain.
However, Xu Nan's performance made Zhao Heng confused. Xu Nan didn't know the soldiers. How did the great victory in Dagou come about? With such a great victory, all the soldiers and horses in Cangzhou must be superior, otherwise how would they capture and kill the Tatars?
What if there are 1,600 heads? Since the governor does not have military skills, he must have brave generals who are good at conquering and fighting. However, among the generals in Cangzhou, I have never heard of anyone doing anything unusual before.
Zhao Heng suddenly remembered the name Yang Peng. It had happened twice. Every time the name of this small official appeared in the memorial, it would be a heart-stirring victory. Then this great victory appeared again in Tianjing New City.
More than 11,600 heads were killed, and Ye Qi was killed in red light. Every time, this Yang Peng was able to take the head of a general among thousands of armies and make his first contribution!
Is this just a coincidence? Or is this Yang Peng extraordinary? He contributed a lot to the great victory? Zhao Heng looked at the body of Ye Qi Hongguang hanging in the air in front of the imperial city, and saw how the people in the capital felt about Ye Qi Hongguang.
The corpses were thrown at stones and spit on - the people of the Song Dynasty had accumulated too much hatred and fear towards the Khitan over the years. Now that they had the corpses of the Khitan nobles, they could vent their hatred and reduce some of their fear of the Khitan soldiers.
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Otherwise, if this fear continues to accumulate, the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty will become less and less afraid to fight, and more and more officials and people will surrender to the Khitan. After watching for a while, Zhao Heng admired and said: "This Ye Qi Hongguang is really a burly man."
He is a Khitan man, and the general who killed this man is very skilled!" Wang Jin said: "Guan Jia Ming Jian! This Ye Qi Hongguang is the highest Khitan leader that I have killed in the Song Dynasty in decades!" Zhao Heng turned around and said,
He said to Wang Jin next to him: "Tomorrow I will lead hundreds of officials to pay tribute to the Ancestral Temple, and tell our ancestors about the great victory of this formation that killed Ye Qi's red light."
Wang Jin cupped his hands and said: "The official is a wise man!" "The officers and soldiers have made great contributions, so they must be rewarded! Otherwise, the officers and soldiers will be discouraged from killing the enemy and serving the country!" Zhao Heng pondered for a moment, and then said: "I will increase the reward for this attack.
Yang Peng, the lord of Tianjing New City in the red light, has a suit of armor and five hundred taels of platinum. I hope he will make new achievements in the future!"
If you want to know what happens next, let’s look at the breakdown in the next chapter.