"Withdraw your troops? The Jin people are already in chaos!"
Next to the veteran general, a broad-robed civilian official said in shock: "Xu Dutong, we are just chasing death and chasing north, how can we withdraw our troops?"
Next to the broad-robed civil servant, several more people responded: "That's right! Our army is now strong, and all our regular and extraordinary troops are rising. We can drive away the northern rebels like a herd of sheep and wipe them out in one fell swoop!"
These people were all high-ranking officials. When they crossed the river, they were accompanied by a large number of cars, boats and boats. Many generals present had lined up to greet them. Therefore, after hearing their shouting, the soldiers who were delivering the orders did not dare to move.
The veteran was completely unaffected and calmly repeated: "Retract the troops."
The messenger then ran away.
Just as Monk Wanyan Chen expected, since the Jin army has penetrated deep into the territory, the only ones who have the courage to stop the attack are the troops in Jiankang Prefecture who have recently been deployed to the Wuwei Army. These soldiers and horses are the ten troops stationed in front of the Song Dynasty.
One of the soldiers, Xiang was the main force in the border defense of the Song Dynasty and also the main force in the Northern Expedition during the Kaixi Year.
At this time, the person who was called Xu Dutong was Xu Jun, a powerful general in the Southern Dynasties. His job title was very long, and he was called: martial arts doctor, governor of Jizhou, in charge of the bodyguards of Ma Jun Company, and also in charge of the military capital of Jiankang.
Doing business.
Xu Jun is not tall, but he is extremely strong, with a straight back and a strong spirit. Looking from a distance, you can't tell that he is nearly sixty years old at all. Only the beard under his chin is gray, showing a trace of age.
state.
He is a descendant of the Reformed people who fled from the north to the south during the Shaoxing period. He has been a soldier since he was a child. During the Chunxi period, he went to Jinghu, Guangnan and other places to fight, and suppressed many rebels for the imperial court. He followed the Reformed person in
Xin Jiaxuan, a well-known person in the community, has seen the heroic methods of "killing people like straw and using money like sand".
The imperial court has always been a little wary of reformed people. Many people felt that this generation was called loyal and righteous, but in fact they were cunning. If they were promoted to guard against enemy invaders, they would be more dangerous than the enemy invaders, so Xin Jiaxuan had always been depressed and frustrated.
The same goes for Xu Jun. Until the Kaixi Northern Expedition, famous ministers and generals from all walks of life were defeated one by one. Some of them lost their offices, some were dismissed from office, and even more lost their heads on the battlefield. This is the turn.
Xu Jun, who was over fifty years old, went into battle as a commander and made some meritorious deeds in a critical situation.
At that time, the generals who fought fiercely with Xu Jun in Lianghuai, such as Bi Zaiyu, Chen Shixiong and others, were all in their fifties. Today, Bi Zaiyu and Chen Shixiong each have the reputation of promoting temples, and they are roaming freely in the south.
After retirement, only Xu Jun was the unlucky one and was pushed into the fighting field again.
This battle is particularly strange. In the past few days, there have been many rumors and speculations about it in the army.
Hearing the suggestions from the civil servants beside him, Xu Jun's face was full of helplessness. He knew what these civil servants were thinking, and he also guessed that there was probably a crime that would be blamed on him.
Having said that, he is a veteran general after all, and he can still say a few words even in front of a group of civil servants.
"The chaos of the Jin Army is due to the fact that we used our elite troops to lurk on the flanks, launched a surprise attack under the cover of Tangpi, and attacked and robbed their generals with dozens of troops. But...please see, the Jin Army's central army did not
There is no chaos. The troops who encountered the attack were only slightly frustrated and are fighting back. If we don't retreat, we will be chased and beaten by them soon... We can't win this battle."
"Ten dozen ways?"
A person at the back of the civil service column suddenly frowned after hearing Xu Jun's words: "I remember the art of war. If I am dedicated and the enemy is divided, then I will be outnumbered and the enemy will be outnumbered. There are tens of thousands of golden soldiers in front of us. Why don't we gather elite soldiers?"
As one, but divided into dozens of ways?"
Here it comes, here it comes, starting to find trouble.
Xu Jun sneered in his heart, with a calm expression on his face: "Such powerful soldiers who dare to get into battle and attack unexpectedly should indeed be gathered into a team in order to win and attack, but the court's laws do not allow it."
"Uh...why does it involve legal regulations?"
"During the Kaixi year, Hu Ma peeped across the river, and the Huaihe and Huaihe troops fought fiercely with the enemy. The soldiers who fought in Chuzhou, Xuyi Army, Haozhou, Anfeng Army and other places were refined in hundreds of battles. In the end, a total of 2,500 people were left.
They had been through it for several years and had died bravely, and they had done the most hard work. However, immediately after the war, these soldiers and horses were ordered by the court to be assigned to the Jiankang and Zhenjiang armies. Each team only had a few people, so they could not change.
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Xu Jun stroked his beard and said leisurely: "The year before last, when I was the deputy capital commander of Chizhou, I was criticized for killing Yao people indiscriminately, so I was transferred to Jiankang to be in charge of the official affairs of Ma Jun Company. At that time, someone reminded me that when
He ordered the Northern troops to be scattered among the various armies and never allowed them to assemble. How could I disobey him?"
"The Northern troops are scattered, what will happen?"
"Since the Northern soldiers are dispersed, they can only be used dispersedly!" Xu Jun beat his legs and sighed: "I would like to teach you that those Northern soldiers with no more than a few people in each team are the main force that I just sent out to ambush.
Of the 2,500 old soldiers back then, there are now more than 700 under my command; among the more than 700, there are more than 100 who can still fight and are willing to die for the imperial court, and they have been divided into more than a dozen teams.
I finally gathered it together..."
"Of the 2,500 old soldiers, there are only a hundred or so left?" the civil servant asked subconsciously.
"It's gone now, not a single one is left."
Xu Jun raised his whip and pointed at the battlefield ahead: "Those more than a hundred people were the main force I sent to raid the Jin soldiers after Tangpi. There were also more than a thousand people who were bluffing to support them. More than a hundred people were all dead, and more than a thousand people were bluffing.
People will run away from home."
"this……"
Xu Jun did not wait for the civil servant to continue speaking, and turned his horse: "Let's go quickly! Everyone who can fight is dead. If we leave now, the army will not be in chaos. If we stay here, are we waiting for the Jin people to rush up and arrest us?"
Do you want me to take credit? Is it possible that this is how we send our annual coins?"
The civil servants looked at each other.
Seeing that Xu Jun had left, the soldiers followed him with rumble steps.
The leader of the Baowen Pavilion, Li Dadong, whose expression changed several times, finally decided not to worry about the specific issue of fighting with troops and took the lead in urging his horse to follow.
Then Huainan transfer judge Zhao Shanxiang breathed a sigh of relief and whipped his horse repeatedly.
Xu Jun's words may not be true two out of ten times, but no one dared to force him at this moment. This was because this blockade was not Xu Jun's intention, but Li Dadong and Zhao Shanxiang's intention.
Li Dadong and Zhao Shanxiang are engaged in such a fierce battle, not because they are about to take charge of the affairs of the Huaixi Production Company and the Yanjiang Production Envoy respectively, but because they have led a group of subordinates to come here with a key task.
It is the handover of Sui coins.
This incident is a joke. The Kaifeng government was furious because of financial constraints. Facing the Southern Dynasty, which had always been perfunctory, and really couldn't figure out their thoughts, they finally sent troops south to plunder. In fact, their plunder was completely unnecessary.
At the suggestion of Prime Minister Shi, the Lin'an court had reached commercial cooperation and political understanding with Zhongdu, as well as a secret transaction involving hundreds of thousands of copper coins. With this transaction, Prime Minister Shi had
In order to have the confidence to appease the two golds in the East and West at the same time, while maritime trade was expanding on a large scale, Sui coins were already sent to Kaifeng.
Shi Ping always tried to be cautious and appropriate in the diplomacy between Song and Jin. Even if there was a tacit understanding between China and China, he was not willing to irritate Guo Ning, Duke of Zhou, in a big way. Of course, this was also to avoid triggering turmoil between the DPRK and China.
Therefore, according to the practice in previous years, the annual coins that should be sent from Xuyi Quechang to Sizhou were specially changed this year under the care of the historian. The entire batch of materials was transferred from Dangtu across the river and transferred to Wuweijun via Hezhou.
As the commander of Jiankang, Xu Jun is the person responsible for receiving this wealth from the Wuwei Army. If everything goes well, he should lead his troops to accompany Li Dadong and Zhao Shanxiang to the Anfeng Army's Huazhen Town.
Then the two civil servants will contact the Jin people to hand over the matter.
Who knew that the person escorting the money went all the way north, but heard the news that the Jin army was heading south brazenly.
To the civil servants who were escorting the coins, this news meant one thing, that is, the war between the two countries had resumed. Those who were leading the war there would have jumped three feet high and would have said anything to relieve their anger. If they knew about the coins
It has been smuggled to the north of the Yangtze River, so why shouldn't we be reviled like crazy? Even if there is nothing we can do against Xianggong Shi, the people responsible for the affairs, including Li Dadong, Zhao Shanxiang and Xu Jun, will all be regarded as traitors and traitors, and dismissal from office will be considered a frivolous matter.
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As a result, the two civil servants forced Xu Jun to send troops every day to fight with the Jin army going south.
As long as they win the fight, it will prove their loyalty and bravery; if they lose, it will of course be Xu Jun's incompetence.