Ding Yan also rushed out of the cabin. He was a man of letters, with noble emotions and great eloquence, but he had just experienced military service and was not used to facing such emergencies.
At this time, his face turned completely pale, and his feet were pedaling on the ship's plank: "The Mongolian army is coming again? Didn't the Shandong people stop them? These Qiu Ba are useless!"
Hou Zhongxin pulled Ding Yan hard: "Bachelor, these are not Mongols!"
"What?"
"The Dinghai navy is stationed every day, and the surrounding area must be heavily guarded, with sentries from far and near. Unless the Mongolian army uses a large force of thousands of people, how can they break into the vicinity of the camp? Even if the so-called elite black army arrived the day before yesterday, they would immediately
They have been expelled. Don’t worry, bachelor, I think this group of people must be the Zhongdu Jin Army who came to rescue us!"
"Oh?" Ding Yan looked at the other side suspiciously, and sure enough he saw that although the two sides were tensely confronting each other, they were not really fighting.
He relaxed slightly and said in a deep voice: "That can't be ignored... After all, there have been many wars along the way... Who knows what the Jurchens have in mind!"
Having said this, he pointed to one of his followers: "Go and get my bow and arrows!"
When the Song and Jin countries received each other's envoys, there was a part called the "Archery Banquet". At the banquet, the two parties competed in archery skills to show their national prestige. In recent decades, as the Jurchens' armaments weakened, the Song people
The messengers prevailed in every bow-shooting feast.
This time when the Song Dynasty came to envoy, the deputy envoy Hou Zhongxin was certainly an experienced martial artist, and Ding Yan not only wrote colorful articles, but also had the skills to shoot arrows with a hundred steps. He was already ready to humiliate the Jurchens again at the archery banquet.
I followed him and took the bow in a moment.
Although it was a light bow and a light arrow, Ding Yan had weapons in his hands, which made him more courageous. He looked around and saw his soldiers. The strong men were all holding sharp swords and were guarding the fleet. He immediately shouted and asked: "Who is going to ask?
What’s going on on the other side? You have to find out!”
Hou Zhongxin did not hesitate to do this kind of thing and bowed and saluted: "Bachelor, I will go."
Holding the feet of his robe, he quickly returned to the small boat in which he came, urging the boatman to quickly punt.
When the boat was swaying away from the shore, Ding Yan was shouting orders from behind, asking the soldiers and strong men to cheer up and be on full alert. A governor and two commanders who were responsible for leading the troops in the envoy team also showed off in front of Ding Yan.
Spiritual, shouting and shouting.
After an envoy leaves Xinjiang, he can be promoted as usual, and the envoys and deputy envoys have the right to appoint subordinate officials. Therefore, the entourage is nominally selected by the Privy Council from the three yamen and the Imperial City Department, but in practice most of them are envoys.
Private, specifically for the purpose of issuing promotion coupons in your hands in the future.
These governors and commanders were all close to Ding Yan, and they naturally showed bravery at this moment. On the contrary, the two hundred strong men recruited by Hou Zhongxin at the border silently guarded the fleet, and their strictness was like a strong army.
Hou Zhongxin turned around on the boat and shook his head quietly.
No matter how majestic you are now, it can't match the panic just now. Whether you have seen mountains of corpses and seas of blood, whether you have fought in vicious battles cannot be hidden from the experts. These soldiers have been in the field for a long time and enjoy the blessings, and their military quality is comparable to that of strong men.
They are far behind, let alone compared with the elite of the Ding Navy.
The water surface rose and fell, and the boat creaked away from the west bank, bypassing the swaying reeds, and reached the other shore in a blink of an eye.
Hou Zhongxin jumped onto the military ship that was docked on the shore, and then stepped on the long plank of the ship's side that was draped on the shore, and walked all the way into the inside of the camp where the two sides were facing each other.
The soldiers of Ding Haijun had obviously received their orders and no one stopped them.
In that cavalry team lined up with wild geese wings, almost everyone is wearing iron armor and fine iron helmets, and their horses are all magnificent. Looking at the faces of the knights, they may be Jurchen warriors with gold rings in their earlobes, or they may have shaved heads and braids.
Fa, Yi people or knights in the Chi army who imitated the customs of the Jurchens.
In front of the cavalry, a general with a leopard head and eyes and a beard was glaring fiercely at Chen Ran. Standing side by side with him, reining in the horse, was a tall, thin man with broad shoulders, serving as the imperial attendant of Jin Guojin.
color.
Fengyu from the Internal Affairs Bureau?
I have heard for a long time that since the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom came to the throne, he often used the personal bureau to get close to people and control the military and political affairs of foreign countries. Is the person in front of me here under the order of the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom?
Hou Zhongxin stopped and stood on the side of the two opposing parties.
The tall and lanky man immediately noticed Hou Zhongxin, his eyes swept over his rolled-up futou, Southern Dynasty-style official uniform and raccoon sleeves, and then he smiled and nodded slightly.
At this time, the bearded general said to Chen Ran in a deep voice: "I know you! You were a sergeant in Fuzhou Jiehao in your early years. Later, you followed Guo Ning and set fire to make trouble at Zhangyi Gate in Zhongdu. Later, Guo Ning fought in Zhongdu. You
I followed him all the way. Now Guo Ning has become the envoy of Shandong Province, and you have been promoted to the position of military commander, right?"
"That's right!"
Chen Ran said proudly: "Although I am not talented, I am familiar with the inside and outside of Daxing Mansion in Zhongdu. Therefore, I was looked after by my family's envoy and was given the responsibility of raising troops first to serve the king. Why, is there anyone in Zhongdu who doubts us?
Do you think the navy is good at fighting? Although we are just a small vanguard sent by Ambassador Guo Xuan, we have also taken many enemy heads along the way. If the general is interested, you may wish to come with me to check it out."
The bearded general had an iron face and ignored him.
After a long while, he said: "What Zhongdu is suspicious about is not whether you are good at fighting. In short, I have brought Marshal Gao Qi's order. Chen Qianha, you and the soldiers and horses you brought do not need to go there anymore.
It's north. The marshal has ordered the navy to guard Zhigu Village and supervise the transportation of money and grain. Other than that, especially in Zhongdu, there are people in charge, so you don't need to worry about it!"
As soon as these words came out, the Dinghai navy officers who gathered around Chen Ran all showed dissatisfaction.
Chen Ran sneered a few times, raised his whip, and pointed at the bearded general: "We are not allowed to enter Zhongdu? Is this an order from Shuhu Gaoqi? My envoy will be here in a moment. Do you think Shuhu Gaoqi is worthy? How dare you
Don’t dare to issue this order to my family!”
"Asshole!"
The beard general was furious and put his hand on the hilt of the knife at his waist: "How dare you say the name of Marshal Gao Qi even though you are a mere commander! How bold! You are seeking death!"
"Looking for death? Calling Shuhu Gaoqi's name means you are looking for death? Do you have the nerve to scare people with this crime?"
Chen Ran laughed heartily. During the laughter, he looked back at the knight beside him: "Let's not mention Shuhu Gaoqi for now. Do you know the identities of these two men who came to deliver the order with such force?"
The knight joked: "Please give me some advice."
"These two people, one is Wanyan Lin, the commander of the right wing of the Zhongdu Armed Guards, and the other is Wanyan Xielie, the envoy of the Imperial Attendant Bureau next to the emperor."
"Oh? Is the official position very high? Is it very intimidating?"
Chen Ran looked at the two men: "I don't know about this. I just remember that our army killed Hu Shahu's troops in Zhongdu that day. It was like mowing grass and killed more than one commander. As for the people from the Internal Affairs Bureau... there were very few of them.
Contact, but I heard a while ago that there seemed to be a valet or something who wanted to go south to Shandong by sea ship, but was caught in a storm and died."
When these words came out, Wanyan Lin and Wanyan Xielie were both angry.
The cavalry at the back were all the emperor's armed guards who had been reorganized in the past year, and they could not tolerate the nonsense of a mere commander from Shandong. Without waiting for Wanyan Lin to issue an order, hundreds of fine cavalry were all posing and drawing their swords.
The sound of the sword being drawn resounded through the front of the formation.
Wanyanlin glanced at the cavalry behind him and felt more courageous.
He is Shuhu Gaoqi's old subordinate and close confidant, and he knows a lot of inside information.
The two came here supposedly on the orders of Shu Hu Gao Qi, but in fact it was the emperor's wish. However, the emperor did not want to directly break up with Ding Haijun and wanted to leave some room for mediation.
In fact, it was precisely because everyone in the Dinghai navy was so unscrupulous in their anti-thief behavior that the emperor did not want them to enter Zhongdu!
Yesterday, when the emperor heard that Ding Haijun's front troops had arrived at Zhigu Village, he jumped up in the Da'an Hall on the spot.
What good can these grass bandits do when they arrive in Zhongdu? They also hijacked the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty? Their intentions are terrible! I think they are not trying to help the king, but they want to enter Zhongdu and cause trouble!
Whenever Guo Ning gets into trouble, he kills people without blinking an eye. That day, Tu Shan took him into the city, but how many people died? What did he do when he arrived in Shandong? Don’t you all know? Still, you know, pretending to be
Don’t you know?
Under the banner of King Qin, his subordinates want to enter Zhongdu? What a dream!
Find a way to stop them! Just let them stay in Zhigu Village! Zhongdu City is mine! In this city, the wind can enter and the rain can enter. Only Guo Ning's subordinates and the brave warriors of Ding Haijun
, no one is allowed in!
The emperor's true words were extremely rude. As a minister, why don't you know how to share your worries? Marshal Shuhu Gaoqi immediately dispatched the elite Chi army cavalry out of the city and arrived day and night.
The mission of this trip is to intercept the soldiers and horses of Ding Haijun, and to bring back the envoys of the Song Dynasty from the Southern Dynasties. If that doesn't work, even if it doesn't work, we can even drive back the envoys of the Southern Dynasties and the soldiers and horses of Ding Haijun!
By the way, there is a new leader. Thank you Mr. ROFLMAO!