In this way, the banner of the King of Letters was erected. Ma Kuo and Zhao Bangjie established Chaotian, Tiebi and other villages on Wuma Mountain. With the banner of Believe in the King, countless village owners and scattered Song and Rebel troops came to vote. In just a dozen days, the number of Wumashan Rebels and their families once grew to more than 100,000. Most of the Zhongyi Society scattered in Hebei and even all parts of Hedong exchanged information and supported each other with Wuma Shanzhai. Because of Zhao Zhen, the Wuma Mountain Volunteers gradually grew stronger.
Just as the Wuma Mountain Rebel Army was in full swing, the encirclement and suppression forces of the Jinbing began to mobilize. Liang Xing, the leader of the Volunteers of the Zhongyi Society, first got the news, and sent someone to send a letter to the Wumashan Volunteers on a fast horse.
The Jinbing army pressed the border, and the Wu Mashan Shuai Zang immediately called all the generals to discuss countermeasures. In the handsome account, Zhao Zhen proposed to leave Wuma Mountain immediately when the Jinbing army strengthened and attacked Wuma Mountain to join the other rebels and the Song army. However, the leaders of the rebel army were evasive for various reasons and reasons. They wanted to use Wuma Mountain as the foundation to defend against the Golden Soldiers. In fact, the main reason is that this is their foundation. If they leave their homeland, it is as if they have no foundation. The future is unknown, and they don't want to stay away from their homeland. Regarding Zhao Zhen's problem of coming out of the mountain, the voices of opponents were very strong, including Wu Mashan's deputy commander Zhao Bangjie, who did not support it.
Zhao Zhen knew that these rebels were unwilling to leave the land on which they depended and were unwilling to leave their foundation. But if he does not leave Wuma Mountain to move and fight, then he and the Wuma Mountain Rebels will be besieged by the Jin Bing army just like in history, and will be annihilated by the Jin army under Zhao Gou and Jin Guo's secret fornication.
Zhao Gou colluded with the Kingdom of Jin to attack Wuma Mountain, and it was also a strategy of killing two birds with one stone. On the one hand, it can punish the King of Letters and his forces; on the other hand, it can flatter Jin Guo and make Jin Guo not beat him.
In another time and space, when Wuma Mountain was besieged, Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan, two traitors of Zhao Gou, received Ma Guo, sent a mob to support him, and sent people to closely monitor his actions. In order to get the support of Zhao Gou and fight the Jinren together, Ma Kuo would of course unreservedly reveal all the military situation in the Wuma Shanzhai. Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan made some empty promises and missed the opportunity to bring out Ma Kuo's words as much as possible.
In this way, Jinbing obtained sufficiently accurate military information to be able to take away the newly established Wuma cottage in the shortest possible time. The letter king Zhao Zhen and some important leaders probably couldn't escape either. As for how Zhao Gou sent this information to the Jinren, they certainly have a set of agencies to deliver it in time. In order to cover people's eyes and ears, they will probably not be delivered directly, but the efficiency is definitely very high when transferring them to each other.
In a short period of time, the Golden Soldiers were able to break through the various camps in Wuma Mountain that had been incapable for a long time. In addition, the military operations carried out by the Golden Soldiers on the Wuma Shanzhai were so swift and clean and neat. The tacit cooperation between organizations is very efficient. Ma Kuo took the bait of Zhao Gou. He ran to Yangzhou with great pains, only to ruin the anti-golden career of Wuma Shanzhai. As soon as the anti-golden force of the letter king Zhao Zhen was wiped out by the golden soldiers, Zhao Gou wanted to be the emperor's dream. He only knew to run south, and for the rest of his life, he refused to go to the middle of the country again. Zhao Zhen now naturally won't let history repeat itself.
"Recently, I often think about a question." Zhao Zhen said: "I just don't understand. We have many Han people and few Golden Dogs. We went forward and succeeded. How did we stop fighting? But why do we fight more and more difficult? The shame of Jingkang Needless to say, and our rebels are still like stray bandits, we can only hide in the mountains to survive, but the Jurchens attacked the Liao Kingdom but quickly came down. They have attacked our Song Dynasty and have already occupied half of the northern Song Dynasty. Territory, why? Have you thought about this? Why?"
"Is it because we have not enough Han people in Da Song? No, on the contrary, there are not enough Jurchen talents. When Wanyan Agu raised the flag, there were only two thousand horses. Up to now, there are only hundreds of thousands of troops, and most of them are Xiren, Bohai people, Khitan people and Han people. We in Song Dynasty have millions of heroes, and the total number of rebels is millions, which is more than ten times theirs." Zhao Zhen looked at everyone with a sharp look in her eyes. The look comes.
"Are the Han people not smart enough? No, on the contrary, Jurchen talents are brutal, they don't even have their own words."
"Are we Hans not strong enough? No, we Hans have been brave and strong since the Han and Tang Dynasties, and fought the most powerful Huns to flee west."
Zhao Zhen stood up abruptly and shouted loudly: "Then tell me why Jurchens occupied most of the northern part of my Song Dynasty and captured my Zhao family. And we still shed tears in the mountains to survive, why? ?"
The generals bowed their heads in guilt, and each of them shrank their heads, not daring to let out the atmosphere. "Boom..." Zhao Zhen hit the case table with a punch and roared angrily: "It's because you are not united and don't know how to fight with your brain. Because you selfish cowards, because you who are selfish and ungrateful, All our rebels can’t hug together. It’s because of a little bit of their own interests that everyone renounces their virtues and takes the mountains as kings. The result? We have repeatedly defeated, and thousands of our brothers have died. Our relatives are here. Weeping under the iron hooves of the golden dog, our homeland is wailing under the ravages of our enemies. Open your eyes, hold your chests up, take out your hearts, and ask the heavens, why did our Da Song fail? We? Why are my family members being humiliated? Why are our Han brothers and sisters being bullied by Golden Dogs? Why do we fight? Why are we living?" The big tent was as silent as death.
At this time, Zhao Zhen's eyes flashed fire, staring at everyone. Then, he said in a low voice: "The trees are moved to die, and the people are moved to live! Now that the golden army is pressing in, once we are surrounded, we will die. Don't look at the Wuma Mountain that we occupy is easy to defend and hard to attack, but ours The water source can be cut off, and the defense can be broken. At that time, the golden soldiers will cut off the water source, surrounded by all sides and attacked the cottage with all their strength, and we will die without a place to be buried."
Following Zhao Zhen's words, all the rebel generals also came to their senses. The leaders of the rebel army were a group of rough men with no culture and no military strategy. They were persuaded when they heard what Zhao Zhen said. As it was getting late, how to retreat and when to leave were discussed later, and everyone went back to rest one after another.
Early the next morning, Zhao Zhen was washing in the camp. Suddenly a crisp voice sounded, "Go, go, my father and Uncle Ma Jiao told you to go to the big tent to discuss matters." Zhao Qing'er rushed in like a gust of wind, looking very nervous.
"Is there anything urgent?" Zhao Zhen asked as she took the princess and her hands over the towel and wiped the water beads on her head. "The army is about to go out of the mountain and the war is about to go." Zhao Qing'er said excitedly, "His Royal Highness, please go to the Great Account first, Sister Wang, I will send two female soldiers to clean up here and prepare to evacuate."
After listening to her, Zhao Zhen was immediately delighted. He didn't expect Ma Kuo to act so fast. He just persuaded everyone yesterday that everyone will be out of the mountain today. Immediately, Zhao Zhen thought that Zhao Qing'er had said that there was going to be a war, and asked: "Is going to be a war?"
"Hurry up..." Zhao Qing'er grabbed Zhao Zhen's hand and pulled him out without any explanation. When the two walked out of Zhao Zhen’s military tent, they only saw crowds everywhere. Rebel soldiers rushed to and fro. The tents were disappearing quickly, and the battle flags were moving towards the grassland. Although there was no drums, no horns, and even I couldn't hear anyone shouting, but the stormy atmosphere still made people nervous and unable to breathe.
Zhao Qinger took Zhao Zhen and ran into the big tent, shocked. At this time, the atmosphere in the big tent was very tense, and everyone still looked at Zhao Zhen bitterly.
Seeing Zhao Zhen, Ma Guo quickly stood up and waved at Zhao Zhen, motioning him to hurry to his side.
"Ma Shuai just received the news that it was sent by the brothers of the rebels under Liang Xing. The Liang brothers said that the location of the rebels in Wumashan has been exposed. It is said that there are tens of thousands of elite golden soldiers rushing towards us. Come. Yesterday, King Xin said that there is nothing wrong. Once we are surrounded by golden soldiers, there is no way to survive and we need to retreat right away." Zhao Bangjie is a battle-tested and is still as stable as a mountain at this moment, speaking smoothly and powerfully, without the slightest panic.
"Ma Shuai intends to lead his army to the Taihang Mountains area and join Wang Yan's army, but the leader Liu Xi and the leader Wu Feng disagree, thinking that there are not only the Golden State garrison in the Taihang Mountain area, but also the following Golden Army, which is easy to be flanked. Survival is difficult. He asked for a straight southward retreat and rendezvous with the imperial army, the commander Zongze. Not to mention safety, there is still a rush."
When Zhao Zhen heard this, without even thinking about it, he agreed with Ma Kuo's suggestion. Ma Kuo’s proposal coincides with his own ideas, and it seems that Zhao Gou’s traitorous remarks that he proposed have already affected him.
Going to the Taihang Mountains, taking Wang Yan's army in his own hands, and twisting the two strongest rebel forces into a rope is the most urgent thing now. There are also various people from the Zhongyi Society near the Taihang Mountain. The gathering of these people and the vast depth of the Taihang Mountain is very advantageous. If mobile guerrilla operations are carried out in the Taihang Mountains, then they will have a super strategic advantage.
At this time, Ma Kuo spoke. He pointed to the Taihang Mountain on the map and explained in detail the reason why he advanced into the Taihang Mountain. Taihang Mountain Eight-character Army is known as an army of hundreds of thousands, and there are probably at least tens of thousands of true elite fighters. Otherwise, Wang Yan would not be able to defeat the Jin Jun repeatedly. In addition, there can also be rendezvous with the army of the Zhongyi Society near Taihang Mountain, and the Taihang Mountain is very large, with more than tens of miles and hundreds of miles, which is conducive to the survival and development of the rebels. On the contrary, withdrawing south to Bianliang, the rebels are tantamount to activities in the stronghold of the golden army on the front lines of the two countries. The large number of golden troops deployed on the borders of the Song Army-occupied areas will do their best to encircle and suppress the rebels, and it will be difficult for the rebels to survive.
Chief Liu Xi said immediately: "You can't just see Wang Yan's Eight-character Army in Taihang Mountains. Wang Yan's Eight-Character Army is also fighting everywhere and has no foundation. On the contrary, if we join the Song Army southward, there will be not only the Rebel Army and the Song Army. As a guarantee, we will have a good background in the future."
Leader Wu Feng continued with Leader Liu Xi's words: "The current problem is that the Jin army has surrounded them. After we rushed out of their encirclement, we headed south. As long as we don't touch the main force of the Jin soldiers, we can always stand in a safe place. In the Taihang Mountains, not to mention the continued attack of the Golden Army, and there is no support from the imperial army. If we are surrounded by the Golden Army, we will remain alone in the deep siege, and we will surely be annihilated in the future."
Ma Kuo immediately retorted: "Once we go south to Kaifeng, it will pose a threat to the main force of the Golden Soldiers. All the Golden Soldiers will inevitably attack each other. We will also fall into deep siege and the entire army will be wiped out.
As time disappeared a little bit, Zhao Zhen became more and more anxious. This group of people is truly a mob. When is this, after listening to the command of the coach, they ran away, what are they still arguing about here? The same is true for Ma Kuo. He looks majestic, but in fact he is also a pus, and even his subordinates can't eat it.
In fact, Zhao Zhen wrongly blamed Ma Kuo, and Ma Kuo came to the Wuma Mountain Volunteers not long before him. Everyone elected him as the leader of the rebel army because of his fame and his original position. The leaders of the rebel army are the village chiefs of the villages, and the principals of the villages and villages. How can Ma Jiao be able to serve everyone in such a short period of time? It's actually very difficult for him to deal with these people every day.
"Xin Wang Qiansui, what's your opinion?" Zhao Bangjie suddenly cast his eyes on Zhao Zhen and asked loudly. Suddenly, there was silence in the big account. Wang Family Chitose was the backbone of everyone. Although Zhao Zhen was thin on the surface, the generals still attached great importance to the opinions of Wang Chitose. Hearing Zhao Bangjie's words, everyone looked at Wang Xin.
He is the son of Huizong, the younger brother of Qinzong, and the son of Heavenly Family. Since he is the Royal King of Letters, he should be exceptionally talented, he should have special abilities, and he should be much better than ordinary people.
There was a glimmer of expectation in people's eyes, even Ma Kuo's eyes had a glimmer of expectation, but Wang Jin bowed his head sadly. This child is indeed the son of Huizong, but he who served the emperor's family deeply knew that the Zhao family's imperial family had no military knowledge at all, except for their relatively strong knowledge of poetry, songs and calligraphy. It is useless to expect him to command the army and command the rebels to overcome the current difficulties.
Zhao Zhen also felt a little nervous under everyone's attention. This is a major military matter, and it is related to the life and death of thousands of people. If this idea is wrong, it will kill people. It will not only kill others, but also kill yourself.
"Believe King Qiansui, let's talk about it, should I rendezvous with the Taihang Mountain Rebels, or go to the old handsome Zongze's Great Song Army?" Zhao Bangjie didn't have a definite idea, facing the pressure of the Jinbing army, he looked very anxious.
Facing everyone's hopeful gaze, Zhao Zhen couldn't say anything that he couldn't do under the eyes of everyone. Although everyone actually lacks confidence in themselves, in any case, he is nominally a believer in Wang Qiansui, a banner in everyone's mind, and a backbone of everyone.
After stabilizing his mind, Zhao Zhen said: "The Golden Dog occupied most of the north in a short time. Do you know why?" The crowd was puzzled and waited for him to continue.
"Speaking of unfilial piety, this is the credit of my father and brother being deceived by a group of villains. Some villains want to surrender to the Golden State for their own benefit, and deceive my father and brother not to resist the golden soldiers, but Blindly wronged and asked for peace. The result? As a result, Jin Guo took the money and recruited troops and horses to become more powerful, and more confidently attacked the Song Dynasty. We did not resist and let the Jurchen take advantage of it, if my father and brother emperor If all the troops and money are used to fight the Jurchens, will there be any encroachment by the Kingdom of Jin on me? Will there be the disaster of Jingkang?"
Everyone looked at each other, thinking about each other. When I think about it carefully, that's really the case. Everyone's eyes began to change. Based on these few words, plus yesterday's words, it is not easy to believe in the king. He is knowledgeable and intelligent.
"Don’t talk about the other things, what I’m saying is that we can’t just retreat. We want to attack, and offense is the best defense. We will unite the rebels and fight the golden soldiers in a vigorous and vigorous manner in the north. It’s much better than going back to the south. On the southern side of the old handsome Zongze, we need to find a competent person to contact, so that the main force near Kaifeng can echo our north and south to fight against gold. I believe that the king is here, you are all Meritorious ministers. After defeating the Jinbing and returning to the second emperor, you will be honored as the ministers.
Ma Jiao, Zhao Bangjie and others looked at him together, and their eyes were as surprised as they were. This Belief King is really extraordinary, and a few words clarify things that would be difficult to make a choice. Real people don't show their faces. Wang Jin was dumbfounded. He was the one who underestimated the belief in the king. When did he become more capable, and his words were like that.
Ma Kuo turned his eyes to Zhao Bangjie. Zhao Bangjie stared at the map for a long time, and slammed the case and said: "Go to Taihang Mountain."
Zhao Zhen did not accompany the generals with a large account, but stayed behind to have something to say with Ma Kuo. At this time in the big tent were Wu Mashan commander-in-chief Ma Kuo, deputy commander Zhao Bangjie and Wang Jin.
"The people here are not outsiders. I need Ma Kuo Aiqing to take a trip if I have something to do." Zhao Zhen looked at the three of them and said to Ma Kuo.
"According to your Royal Highness, your subordinates will go through fire and water, and die without hesitation." Ma Kuo said to Zhao Zhen very solemnly, arching his hands.
Zhao Zhen nodded and said: "Old commander Zongze is very old, and now he is leading all kinds of soldiers and rebels to fight against the Jin soldiers with full of enthusiasm. However, my emperor's brother Zhao Gou is a weak man. Facing Jin Soldier, he either flees or asks for peace. Even the old commander Zongze is unable to return to heaven. The old commander Zongze, who is dedicated to guarding the country in the Northern Expedition, had already worked hard to subdue the rebel army to fight against the Jinbing, plus facing me The imperfect emperor brother. Under this kind of mental and physical pressure, coupled with the old man's advanced age, I am afraid his body..."