One of Zhao Zhen's knights, holding an oil lamp, drew two circles of Arabic numerals across the window to show the horoscope. Then, he repeated the secret signal twice.
In response to the signal from Zhao Zhen's guard, a flash of light flashed in the dark jungle far outside the town. A few seconds later, a flash of flash appeared in the jungle in the other direction, followed by a few flashes in other directions. The flash is from a rocket fired out, and it flashes away, like a meteor that sends a signal in the blink of an eye.
The guard of the Xinwangjun turned around and said, "Thousands of years, everything is normal. Except for the 1,000 soldiers of the Liao Army who are lying in ambush in the north of the town, no golden soldiers approach the town."
Although the soldier spoke Chinese, Yelu Dashi understood Chinese, and he realized that outside the town, in addition to his own troops, Xin Wang Zhao Zhen also ambushed soldiers and horses to protect him.
Yelu Dashi was surprised secretly. There were so many soldiers and horses in ambush outside, and the scout in front of him didn't notice anything, so he rammed in ignorantly! If the ambush is not Zhao Zhendi's subordinate but Jinbing, what will be the consequences
Thinking of this, he didn't feel a cold sweat coming out of his body. Yelu Linya slowed down. He knew that Believing in the King's Army was powerful, but he hadn't been so powerful before. But these things are secondary, as long as there are no golden soldiers to come.
Thinking of the other party coming in person, Yelu Dashi asked curiously: "His Royal Highness, I heard that you are commanding the battle in Jiangzhou, why did you suddenly appear in the occupied area of the Golden Army? This is too dangerous!"
Zhao Zhen smiled and said: "You are not afraid of danger coming, so I am afraid. Besides, you didn't expect it. How could the golden man know that I will come to Jiaoyan Road? Why did you come in person?"
"My staff can't preside over the overall situation for me, I must meet your principal. As for meeting you in person, it was really an unexpected gain for me." Yelu Dashi said.
There are many dangers in the enemy-occupied area, and everyone has no time for greetings and greetings, so they get straight to the topic.
Zhao Zhen asked, "Your Excellency Dashi, the king of the Liao Kingdom, I said from your letter that your army will enter Xijing to fight against the Jinbing? When will your army arrive on the battlefield?"
Zhao Zhen stared at Yelu Dashi with concerned eyes, waiting for his answer. Seeing the longing in Zhao Zhen’s eyes, Yelu Dashi said apologetically: “I’m sorry, Your Royal Highness, we are also very tight. Originally, without your kindness and rise, I would go west to survive. I thought at the beginning, The great cause of Fu Liao is no longer likely to succeed on the basis of destroying the gold. However, your sudden birth, and the results of defeating the Jin army many times make my heart move. With the hope of revenge, you send someone to contact me to share I am also very in favor of hitting the Jinjun."
Yelu Dashi finished speaking, changed the conversation, and said: "However, there are now many golden soldiers who bought the past nomads and concentrated their troops to fight against the tribes who supported me. In fact, my army is not ready to fight in Xijing. ."
"Not ready yet? Don't you want to return to the Liao Dynasty? Are you worthy of the ancestors of the Yelu imperial clan of the Liao Kingdom?" In an instant, Zhao Yan was so intimidating, his eyes were fierce, and his momentum surged like a mountain. Yelu Dashi almost couldn't stand still!
Only then did Yelu Dashi understand why this young prince of the Song Dynasty has the power to make the Jin Jun frightened, this king's domineering is really extraordinary!
"His Royal Highness, please allow me to explain." Yelu Dashi said. "I also really want to attack Xijing immediately, join forces with you for the last time, defeat the Jin army, restore my Daliao rivers and mountains, and restore your homeland of the Song Dynasty. But although the main force of the Jin army has entered the Pass, the Jin Kingdom still has heavy troops in Xijing. "
Yelu Dashi shook his head and said: "At this time, the army of the nomadic tribe who has taken refuge in the Golden Army is fighting our army. If our army enters Guanxijing, it will only bring the nomadic enemies into Xijing. Not only will it helpless to fight the situation, but on the contrary. Let our army fall into the situation of being attacked by the enemy."
"One more thing, that's what I worry about the most. The soldiers under me are made up of the strongest warriors of the tribes. Although brave, they are also extremely difficult to control. Fighting in the homeland, defending the homeland and the land, those people can fight. Brave and tenacious, but if I leave my hometown of Buman and go to fight in the west, I am worried that their morale will be low and they will fail. Especially the several Mongolian tribes who have taken refuge in the Golden Army are still threatening to support my tribe, if I force The army entered Xijing to fight, but the Mongols who took refuge in the Jinmen attacked the tribe, burned, killed, and looted. Hearing that my hometown has been invaded, my army is likely to collapse." Yelu Dashi is not as strong as Zhao Zhen now, and he There are many places where Zhao Zhen is needed, so she seems to be sullen.
Zhao Ying asked, "So, what is the plan of Lord Dashi, King of Liao?" "This is what I personally came to say. Our army is about to launch an offensive, and intends to launch a counterattack against the Mongolian Army deep into our territory in the near future. The situation is favorable, defeat or conquer the Mongols, and once the rear is calm, I will immediately lead my army into Xijing and defeat the Jinbing!"
Zhao Zhen said: "So, did you ask for help from the Xixia Kingdom according to what I said in my superstition? With cold lips and cold teeth, the golden people are strong. Both of you and our country have lost the country and lost half of the country. Are Xixia people not afraid of being destroyed by the golden people?"
"I'm looking for them, the team you mentioned, they are afraid! Of course they are afraid of the golden guys! But they don't want to face the mighty golden guys, they want to send troops secretly, but they lack suitable candidates to lead the army."
"Okay!" Zhao Zhen held Yelu Dashi's hand and said: "We will fight in the past and fight side by side with you!" At night, two kings of the Liao and Song dynasties, one prince and one self-appointed king, they represent Signed the contract for his own benefit.
Early the next morning, two people left the inn. Zhao Zhen went back all the way in broad daylight, and clearly saw ruins everywhere, destroyed villages and cottages everywhere, leaving traces of the brutal claws of the Golden Army everywhere.
Many cities and towns were burned to white ground, and the people were completely killed by the Jinren using the most cruel methods, and even the people who collected the bodies were not left behind.
Zhao Zhen and others passed by a village. Everything in the village was burnt up. The trees on both sides of the road were covered with corrupt bodies. It was the Jinbing who had robbed all the things, and the whole village had no distinction between men, women and children. All hanged on the trees on both sides of the road.
At this time, hordes of wild dogs were gnawing at the corpses, and a large group of crows and vultures hovered in the sky, and the pungent corpse odor made people unable to breathe.
A group of people passed by silently, and Zhao Zhen felt heavy. The houses were razed to the ground, the people were all slaughtered, the fertile fields turned into scorched earth, and the former prosperous and fertile anointed land turned into uninhabited scorched earth ruins. No natural disaster, even earthquakes and floods, could cause this. Man-made destruction. The prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty was completely lost, this is the fault of the superiors! This is the crime of national policymakers!
Passing through the uninhabited villages, ruins and scorched earth one after another in the area under the rule of the Golden Soldiers, everyone's grief and anger bred in their chests. The soldiers of the Kirin Army squeezed their weapons and vowed to let the Golden Soldiers pay their debts.
The Kirin Army guarded Zhao Zhen and soon entered Ma Douguan, which was still occupied by the Golden Army. However, the number of 5,000 Kylin Army is more than any level and the city defense Golden Army or the Han Army, and the combat effectiveness is also stronger. Therefore, Jin Bing held the city and the checkpoint in his hand, and did not dare to come out to fight with the Kylin Army. Those officials watched with fear and trembling as the King Qilin Army passed their guarded city or outside the gate proudly.
Most of the officials at these checkpoints were former Da Song officials, nobles, and nobles. When the country was in danger, they chose to surrender to the aggressor.
Contrary to those former officials of the Song Dynasty, wherever the Qilin Army passed by, people who heard that the Qilin Army had come came to welcome them. The common people risked their deaths to give these soldiers privately hidden chicken, rice noodles, fruit and other edible things.
Believe in the king's army has strict discipline, the soldiers do not accept anything, it is really impossible to shirk, they have to give money, the people have refused. An old man said angrily: "I came here at the risk of my death, is it just to give you some money? I give the warriors who fight for myself and my homeland something to eat, what more money do I get? Kids, you guys eat more, no need Money, as long as I get back as soon as possible, I will die too!"
Although the people's actions are kind, they have been dazzled by the golden army, and what they have taken out is their own food for life! They didn't want to give money, and the soldiers didn't dare to take the people's things with the decapitating military discipline. The two sides were entangled in this way. One had to give things without money, and the other had to give money without taking things. This kind of thing seems simple, but even the officers and generals can't solve it. The army could not even move on.
After learning about the situation, Zhao Zhen immediately ordered that everything given by the people would be charged without any money. However, all the people who sent the goods must accept the grain that His Highness King Thaksin thanked him more than dozens of times. This food is the "disaster relief food" given to you by the King of Letters, and everyone must collect it!
When everyone heard that they believed the "disaster relief food" given by the king, they received it. Everyone was a citizen of the Song Dynasty, and the Prince of Song Dynasty represented the Song Dynasty court in the north. They all admired Xinwang Qiansui, who had come back to attack gold by one person. They did not recognize the inevitable emperor Zhao Gou, but only recognized the Xinwang Zhao Zhen. Just because Zhao Zhen's mother is a noble concubine, who the future emperor will be is not certain! Since it was the life-saving food given by the imperial court to survive the famine, the people accepted it. In this way, the problem of the army's inability to advance was solved.
When I think of the small town inn where I signed the contract with Yelv Dashi, I encountered those Jinbing Han soldiers and simple villagers who had a heart to the Song Dynasty. Coupled with the countless people around who risked their deaths to welcome the army. Zhao Zhen thought that the pillars of this country and the most patriotic were the low-level people who had a stronger patriotic sincerity and a stronger sense of conscience than the high-ranking nobles.
At the time of the national disaster, the people most loyal to Song Dynasty were not the high officials and nobles, but the lowly people who were usually looked down upon. Everything seems to be the other way around. The civilians at the bottom are eager to resist the war, and they eagerly hope to recover the lost ground. They were loyal to their country, yearned for the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties, cherished their love for the rule of the Han people, and cherished the fallen Great Song country. They eagerly looked forward to the return of the country's army against the offensive.
On the contrary, the old officials, nobles, and many literati who were favored by the court in the past are almost all on the side of the Kingdom of Jin. They are full of their mouths to celebrate the "Victory of the Golden Army", and they never hope that the army of the Song Dynasty will kill. I came back, because at that time, Da Song was going to settle old accounts with them.
Along the way, Zhao Zhen's Kirin Army encountered a lot of horse bandits, rebels, bandits and Song Dynasty skirmishers.
In the area occupied by the Kingdom of Jin, the golden soldiers had to deal with all the rebels, the army of the believers, and the army to attack the Song army. Those desperadoes and bandits, in the area occupied by the Golden Army, they all became alive.
Because the King Xin Army implemented the protection system of the militia in each village, all the bandits and bandits in the area occupied by the King Xin Army were either starved to death or wiped out. Therefore, all the bandits and thieves all rushed to the area occupied by the Kingdom of Jin or the Southern Song Dynasty where the Zhao Gou imperial court was farther south.
In the area occupied by the Kingdom of Jin, thieves are swarming, gangs are numerous, and the civilians have no way of survival. In the towns, it is the Golden Army soldiers and horses raging, hiding in the mountains and forests, and encountering the cruelty of bandits and bandits.
Those bandits and thieves who had become black in the woods of Wuthering Mountain belonged to neither the Rebels nor the Golden Soldiers. They did not buy any of their accounts, robbed their houses, occupied the roads and robbed them, and were more cruel than the Golden Soldiers.
In the face of the Qilin Army, there are still gangsters who dare to rob. The Kirin Army encountered these gangsters who blocked the road and robbed them several times, but a single charge knocked out these bold bandits and bandits.
There are also some thieves. They are all soldiers of the Song State Army and local garrison troops who have been broken up by the Jin State Army. They have organized a variety of underground resistance groups, such as the Anti-Jin Rebel Army, the Anti-riot Rebel Army, and the Anti-Violence Rebel Army. Jinjun or something. Although the banner sounds nice, but forced by survival, they do not do much harm to the locality than the Golden State army.
Seeing that these generals and soldiers who were once in the army of the Song Dynasty and determined to defend the country are gradually becoming bandits and thieves, those forces that should be able to defend their homes and the country are being used in such places, Zhao Zhen feels Very distressed. Zhao Zhen knows that in the areas under the control of Zhao Gou in the south, there are more people who can't survive falling into the grass, threatening local security.
All this was caused only by the wrong decision of one or two people. All of this is the price paid by those who made the wrong decision in the first place. This price has caused tens of millions or even tens of millions of people to pay a tragic price!
In addition to the common people, there are also some Han troops who secretly provide convenience to this group of Kirin troops. They even send people to act as guides for the Kirin troops to pass through some necessary levels. In this bleak world of wars between the Jin and Song Dynasties, including this world, loyalty and evil, righteousness and evil, black and white are not so distinct. Between black and white, there is another color that includes most of the colors, that is, non-black and non-white gray.
Looking up into the distance, on the distant horizon, the military flag is flying, and there are countless places for the army. The Jiangzhou city in front is already in sight, and the King of Letters commanding the Qilin army is about to arrive on the battlefield.
Jiangzhou City. The Jin Army is in the city where Hedong Road has the strongest troops and is now the last stronghold on Hedong Road. It is now displayed in front of the hundreds of thousands of the regular army, militias, young men, and the people who help transport supplies.
Above the city wall, is the last golden soldier of more than 40,000 of Jinjun Shiguduo and Liu Lin reluctantly organized. Under the city, seventy-five thousand regular believers in the king's army, clinging to desperately taking back their own land and cities, believed in the king's army.
If Jiangzhou City is taken, it means that the most powerful combat power of the Golden Army on Hedong Road will disappear! The entire land of Hedong will be fully recovered soon under the powerful combat power of the Xinwang Army.
Of course, the real process may be very fast, or it may be frustrated. However, the Golden Soldiers of the remaining states were unable to resist the army of the King of Letters. It is estimated that in only three or two months at most, the whole area of Hedong can be liberated by trusting the king's army. But the prerequisite for the implementation of all plans is to win Jiangzhou City!
In order to win Jiangzhou City, Zhao Zhen not only used the regular troops of the Guards and the Chinese Army, but also mobilized firearms battalions, ballista troops, a large number of second-line garrison troops and militias, and a large number of civilians who helped transport supplies. Strong men. Faithful king army is bound to win Jiangzhou City.
This Jiangzhou city is a city of prostitutes set up by Wanyan Jammu of Jindu Tongwan for the nobles and the soldiers of the Jin army. All the nobles of the Jin Kingdom, as well as the people or army of the Jin army who have made merits in the war, or get After the Jindu reunification, Yan Jiamu's affirmation, will enter Jiangzhou City to enjoy countless women.
After Jindu reunification, Yan Jiamu recruits a group of Han women every month, and throws women who have played with him or the generals into the city, so there are always endless Han beauties in this city.
But now Jiangzhou City is no longer a golden man's paradise. For a while, Jin Du had finished Yan Yan's mother and swallowed one last breath, ending her sinful life. Before he died, Shiguduo and Liu Lin were formally appointed as the chief generals of Jiangzhou City, and Liu Lin, who was better at defending the city, was the main commander. Since Liu Lin took the post of defending the city, he has implemented the strategy of "digging trenches to build fortifications, accumulating grain to build walls, not sticking to it, waiting for reinforcements".
At this time, Nie Er, who cherished his own troops and was afraid that his troops would be damaged too much, put forward his own suggestions. He proposed to train the Han people in the city into an army to help defend the city.
"Take the people in the city to form a new army? It usually takes three months from recruiting soldiers to the completion of training, and it can't be less than one month." Liu Lin said slowly: "The sum of the Han people in the city. There are not many people, more of them are hundreds of thousands of women! Besides, everyone knows that those people and women are not at the same heart with us. You think that by relying on those people and strengthening the cities and trenches, we can Do you insist on the reinforcements until my big kingdom is thousands of miles away?"