Zhao Xiaodao took Li Yuxuan to the hall where Zhao Zhen was. "General, I have brought you here." In front of outsiders, no one can call Chitose and His Royal Highness. So after Zhao Xiaodao called the general, he saluted and went down.
Zhao Zhen looked at Li Yuxuan, a middle-aged man with a beautiful face. Although this person's body looks very strong, his movements and expressions clearly carry a sense of elegance.
"What's the matter with you looking for me?" Zhao Zhen asked with a smile. "Master General..." Li Yuxuan said, "That's it. We want to come to you for refuge in hundreds of villages and villages around us. It is said that the Golden Army is coming soon, and the surrounding areas are captured by the Golden Army. Master Li Yanxian has already withdrawn I’m in Shanzhou City. I’m here to represent about 100,000 villagers to find a way to survive and go to General Gao."
Zhao Zhen smiled slightly and said: "You know, once you come to me, you must contribute to the protection of your home. Plant food, breed, dig stones, burn bricks, and build city walls. Are you...willing to do it?" The generals clearly learned that in order to have food and to protect their families, the villagers will work hard to the death. Let alone work, there is no difference in going to the battlefield."
In fact, Zhao Zhen couldn't ask for a large number of people to defect. But Zhao Zhen was also very embarrassed because he didn't have much food in his hands. Although with the help of Li Yanxian, he not only concealed that the army he led was the Xin Wang army. Zhao Zhen, who returned the pseudonym Gao Pang, applied for a formal military post, the army, and the royal court's food and army salaries. However, Li Yanxian did not dare to say that "Gao Pang" had 10,000 troops, only that there were 3,000 volunteers.
The army's salary for grain transported from the south, supported by Li Yanxian, and grain looted by Di Lei during this period, plus grain that was not burned back by Zhao Zhen's looting. In this way, Zhao Zhen gathered tens of thousands of people to eat for two to three months. In two or three months, the grain in the fields will be harvested, and they will still have grain to eat. But if a hundred thousand people came at once, even Zhao Zhen would not be able to accept it. Mainly did not eat.
"Mr. Li, I think you are also a scholar, and you know the saying that people rely on food as their heaven. It's not that I don't want everyone to come, but because we are now tight with food and grass, and there is not enough food for everyone!" Zhao Zhen said embarrassedly. .
Li Yuxuan said: "Master General, we will all bring our own food. Also, on our way here today, we found a strange team in the southwest. They have more than 2,000 people, and they are all carrying food and grass. More than five hundred carriages. It looks like I am from the Song Dynasty... but they are transporting grain and grass in the direction of Jiezhou that the Golden Army has already occupied..."
Zhao Zhen smiled: "Why, do they have any problems?" "We didn't care at all, but then we realized that there was a problem. If it is a caravan, how can we do business now in a chaotic situation? If it is the army's heavy lifting The team, but you can’t see the soldiers. The other side transports valuable food. General, I think it’s really hard for you to accept the people who are around us tens of miles around. But if this batch of food and grass can be captured..."
Zhao Zhen said: "Why don't you guess that it is my Da Song's heavyweight team?" Li Yuxuan shook his head and said: "Impossible, there is no reason why my Da Song's heavyweight team will give grain and grass to the Jinbing enemy."
Hearing what the other party said, Zhao Zhen was suddenly surprised and happy. To my surprise, there was someone in the south who collaborated with the enemy to deliver grain and grass to the golden soldiers. The good news is that if this batch of grain and grass can be robbed, the resettlement of these 100,000 people will be lost. Even if I can't eat two full meals a day, I have so much food, plus the original stock. Hundreds of thousands of people will be able to stay half-full until next year.
"There is no joking in the army! Your words represent the life and death of 100,000 people. Moreover, your news will let me send troops to obtain food, if it is fake." Zhao Zhen said with a gloomy face. He stared at him, observing whether he was lying in Li Yuxuan's eyes.
Regarding whether the opponent is lying, the special forces naturally have their own methods. Eyes are the windows of the soul. Li Yuxuan has not received any special training. For Zhao Zhen, it is not difficult to see if he is lying or not.
"If you lie to me and lie to the military, please take my head from the military." Li Yuxuan said categorically. "However, General, I just said that it may be a collaborator, but I am not sure yet. I need to find out first."
"Kata..." Zhao Zhen stood up with her feet stumped. Since the ground was bluestone, the noise was loud. Zhao Zhen's boots are leather boots with buckskin studs. On the heel and forefoot, there are still iron nails inlaid, and they clicked straight as they walked.
It doesn’t matter if the people of Song collaborating with the enemy or not, it doesn’t matter if there is anything else, what matters is... food! For the grain and grass, the grain and grass that Gaozong Zhaogou gave to the Jin Jun will also be robbed.
"Come on," Zhao Zhen shouted. At this time, Zhao Xiaodao came. "Give me drums and gather soldiers!" Zhao Zhen ordered. Following his order, Zhao Xiaodao immediately sent someone to play drums.
The big drum set on the school military field is a signal used by Zhao Zhen to gather soldiers. He only heard the drum sound of "Dong dong dong dong...", the army that was training immediately stopped.
Zhao Zhen was lightning-fast, picked up the armor on the side shelf and quickly put it on. He put on his breastplate and fish scale skirt, and took off his pure steel gun from the wall. Then Zhao Zhen put the red jersey on her body.
In Li Yuxuan's surprised eyes, Zhao Zhen walked out and said to him: "What are you making? Follow me to see. The rations of 100,000 villagers are all on you." Li Yuxuan hurriedly followed up a few steps. .
Zhao Zhen went straight into the school grounds. On the school grounds, a densely packed tens of thousands of soldiers were already standing. They held their helmets in their hands, with masks, leather armor, swords, shields and spears hanging on them, all standing like pine. More than 10,000 soldiers were silent.
Among them, many soldiers pulled a horse and stood upright. On the school grounds, there were occasionally a few horses chirping, which seemed solemn and quiet.
"Soldiers, now, we have to stop our training," Zhao Zhen rode on the horse and shouted: "Just now, a friend came to tell me that there has been another caravan with the Golden Army. For this, moments In order to subvert our Da Song’s regime and fight against our Da Song’s traitors, we must not be soft. They, all the time, do not want to do us harm. They are a group of the most hateful people. They betray the country and their compatriots for their own interests. The methods are shameless and indecent, and all the evils in the world are unclear. Therefore, we have to fight, arrest them, and let them know how powerful our Song army is and how powerful our army is. I, as your commander, must bring Go fight!"
Loud and bright voices screamed, tens of thousands of voices shouted together: "Fighting, fighting..." I saw this scene. Li Yuxuan was stunned. He just said it was possible, he asked Zhao Zhen to check it out first, but didn't he say that this is going to start a fight
"Mr. Li Yuxuan, you lead the way. Let's go to the person you said is collaborating with the enemy." Zhao Zhen said after he said, "Take two hundred carriages, adjust one battalion of infantry and one battalion of cavalry. Let's set off!"
Li Yuxuan said, "But... Master General... I'm not sure they are the spies of the Kingdom of Jin..."
"Okay..." Zhao Zhen said: "Whether he is or not, do you think there will be normal businessmen coming to the battlefield between us and the Kingdom of Jin at this time? They are not afraid of the Jinbing's robbery? Why don't the Jinbing Will rob them? Naturally it is collaborating with the enemy. Take down first. If they come up to be obedient, if there is no serious crime, then there is no need to die, but if they are not obedient, they are ghosts. Killing them is normal, then. You can’t blame us, can you? The people who call you will lead the way. With the grain and grass, all the villagers will come to our city-state. I will give you a safe and happy place. Come on!"
Li Yuxuan was stunned when he heard it, "A safe paradise? It is a safe paradise, the safe life everyone is looking forward to." As he muttered to himself, Li Yuxuan turned and shouted: "Brothers, folks... Quickly lead the way... !"
To the southwest of Zhongtiao Mountain, a large food transport team rushed northward. "Hurry up, hurry up..." a young man said and cried. This person's name is Zhao Ruqing, who is the largest merchant in Longshang, and also a distant relative of the imperial family of Zhao Chong in the Great Song Dynasty. At the same time, he was a traitor who had colluded with the Jin Dynasty’s Duwanyan Lou room and secretly provided food and grass to the Jin army.
On this trip, Zhao Ruqing personally went to the horse, and he wanted to use the grain he had gathered in Sichuan and Gansu in exchange for the high-ranking officials of the Golden Kingdom and the treasures of gold and silver.
The Liao State is stronger than the Song State and has a long history. In the early years, during the Song-Liao War, the Song and Liao people suffered a great loss. Later, after signing a series of tribute treaties, the Liao State and Song State signed the contract.
However, the powerful Liao Kingdom was destroyed by the powerful Jurchen Jin Kingdom in just over ten years. Facing the incomparable Jin Guo army, facing the Jurchen army which has housed millions of Liao army. Some people in the Song Dynasty were afraid, some hated, some were helpless, and some chose to surrender to the enemy. And Zhao Ruqing chose to vote against the enemy.
The Jinjun was short of food and grass, and all the Jinjun took over Yan Lou's room frowning, collecting food and grass everywhere. Upon learning of this, Zhao Ruqing immediately contacted the Jin Jun. In this era of turmoil, the people are not living. He collected a lot of grain, and the southern land of fish and rice can also sell countless grains. Zhao Ruqing not only contacted the Jin Jun to send five hundred carts of grain, but also added about a hundred carts of salt, wire and silk.
The Jin Jundu Wanyan Lou room promised Zhao Ruqing not only to give him the gold and silver money worth of all these materials. Moreover, it is necessary to report to the Emperor of the Kingdom of Jin, let him be an official of the Kingdom of Jin, and enjoy the glory and wealth of his life.
Because of the pseudonym Gao Pangdi Zhao Zhen, the army he commanded belongs to Li Yanxian, and it has not been revealed that he is the army of the king. Because this matter is very secret, only Li Yanxian knows. Those who believe in the king's army have already taken refuge in Li Yanxian in name, so they cannot be regarded as true believers in the king's army. So he didn't know that Zhao Zhen, whose alias was Gao Pang, was a matter of believing in Wang Jun. As long as it is the army of the Song Dynasty, then Zhao Ruqing will let him go, because he has a certain identity, so he can have the final say in the territory of the Song Dynasty!
With more than six hundred cars and belongings, the team walked very slowly. Forget the silk and silk, but how could the cart with salt and iron be so light? So Zhao Ruqing's speed is very slow, this is really impossible. However, fortunately, Zhao Ruqing brought the family's swordsmen, who were all well-known masters in the martial arts. The most powerful among them was Xia Houdong, who was given the nickname Qiankun Swordsman by the person known as the number one swordsman in the south of the Yangtze River.
Zhao Ruqing is assured of the martial arts of the swordsman Xia Houdong, he believes that the swordsmanship and martial arts of the swordsman Xia Houdong are very powerful. This person's swordsmanship is so high that ordinary people can hardly imagine that he can cut a huge piece of wood with one sword.
Xia Houdong, a swordsman from the universe, was very powerful, and his skills were as good as electric martial arts. He walked sideways in the Jiangnan area with his own martial arts, even the government. Ordinary people, Qiankun swordsman Xia Houdong can split him in half with a single sword. What he is most particular about is to speed up the speed of his sword and use speed to exert his strength.
Zhao Ruqing looked at the rugged mountain road. He had more than two thousand people. But he knew that the six hundred vehicles he brought with him were too expensive. Five hundred carts of grain, thirty carts of salt, fifty carts of iron, ten carts of silk, and ten carts of silk.
What is this number? It can supply a hundred thousand army for two months! Or in other words, these materials can keep millions of people half full for a month. In the past, Zhao Ruqing secretly passed the Golden Army, but only sent some intelligence and maps, but this time it was his biggest shot by Zhao Ruqing.
When the army fights, food and grass go first. Especially the soldiers of the Golden Army, they had three meals a day during the war, and they had a lot of food. These grains are enough for a 100,000 army to eat for two months. But the people have two meals a day, half-dried and half-porridge. These foods are enough for 100,000 people to eat for three to four months, or even more time. And if there is no alternative, the people only drink porridge and keep themselves from starving to death, then millions of people can drink porridge for half a year without starving to death.
With such a large batch of food materials, Zhao Ruqing also knew Xia Houdong, a swordsman who was worried about the universe. In fact, he has already sent several teams of horse bandits and bandits to play the autumn wind, so he is not very worried. In his opinion, as long as the army of the Kingdom of Jin is not dispatched, who can get him? The grain and grass they transported was still for the Golden State Army, and it was naturally unharmed.
At this moment, a cloud of dust suddenly appeared in the distance, and the earth shook. In such a situation, it is obvious that a large team is advancing. The scared Zhao Ruqing called out: "Master Qiankun Swordsman, Master Qiankun Swordsman..."
Qiankun swordsman Xiahou Dong said: "Master, don't worry..." I saw the dust flying in the distance and the earthquake shaking. This was a sign of a large number of cavalry coming here.
Zhao Ruqing said: "Master Qiankun Swordsman, there are a lot of people this time...Aren't we..." He meant to drive off the road quickly. He was utterly dumbfounded, scared when he saw soldiers. This area is not occupied by the Golden Army, and the people are either the Song Army or the bandits. He said that he was not afraid of Song Jun and the bandits, but after all, he was afraid of what he had done.
"Hahahaha..." Qiankun swordsman Xia Houdong laughed: "I have to see who dares to come, and I will talk about it after passing my level..." He is an old world, and he can tell at a glance. The other party's people are not too good It’s just as many as their number. If it is a Wanma Benz, it will not just be so much dust. If it's infantry, it's even more impossible.
"It seems..." A Zhao Ruqing's family soldier said: "It's a bit wrong..." Looking at a team, what you need to see is the banner. The bandit rebels in the Song Dynasty, once they got bigger, they would play their own banner. If it is the Song army, of course it is to look at the flag of the Song people, but this is not the army flag of the Song state, but a red high-character flag.
Since Zhao Ruqing’s news is not well informed, he does not yet know the Gao Pang tribe of the Song Army, which was most active in the recent period. The Jin Jun was unwilling to talk about his defeat. He was intercepted by Gao Pang twice and retreated all over his body. At this time, their shame would naturally not be revealed.
Several flags appeared in the dust on the opposite side. The first flag is a red high-character handsome flag, and the second flag is a red Zhao-character flag.
The first is a few people who can ride horses, they are leading the way. At this time, everyone didn't care much, because how could these people be afraid of the ordinary people or bandits who dressed in the people of Song Dynasty to serve. Even the militant people or the bandits, the people are the people, and the bandits are all the people who gather righteously after being forced into helplessness. However, it's not that you can get weapons by putting down your hoe. Their combat effectiveness is very poor. In front of the Qiankun swordsman Xia Houdong and the others, the people who came against him were no different from seeking death.
However, they soon discovered the knights with flags and the dense cavalry behind them. It turned out that the first people were not soldiers who fought flags.
The cavalry behind was galloping forward and had already seen this group of more than two thousand transporters. Now that you see it, you don't need to lead the way.
Zhao Zhen yelled: "Put the visor down!" The cavalry put down their masks, various masks, there are various evil and terrifying serrated rats, tusks, roaring tigers, staring rabbits, gnawing horses, and sharps. Horned sheep, angry dragons, tongue snakes, angry monkeys, fangs dogs, ugly pigs, sharp-billed chickens, fangs, ghosts, crying faces, smiling faces, elephant faces, Shura faces, and so on.
Suddenly, it was like a hundred ghosts going out. With the mask, his expression is not known by the enemy. And looking at these terrifying masks, will the enemy be not at all timid? It must be somewhat chilling.
Qiankun swordsman Xia Houdong and others immediately drew out their weapons, Zhao Ruqing said: "Wait a minute..." The opposite is obviously Song Jun. If it makes sense, it's a good point. Just by looking at it, Zhao Ruqing understood that these Song troops were different from ordinary Song troops, and that Song troops who could withstand the Jin troops on the front line were not easy to deal with. If something goes wrong, it's not good.