"The minister, the superintendent, and the subordinate are here to repay the merits!"

Wu Haogu walked into the Fusi Festival Hall, and when he saw Tao Jiefu and Tong Guan who were looking at the map, he smiled and saluted, saying that he would repay his merits.

"155 heads of Western thieves, more than 700 prisoners, and burned several villages, figuring out the reality of Western thieves in Yinzhou...... That's a lot of credit, isn't it? ”

Listening to Wu Haogu's words, Tao Jiefu and Tong Guan both glanced at each other. Tong Guan said: "Da Lang, this time your men and horses are attacking without orders, it's not bad if you don't ask about the crime, and you still want credit?" ”

Wu Haogu said with a grin: "It can't be regarded as an unordered attack, right?" They have simply lost their way into the territory of the Western Thieves. ”

Get lost? Tong Guanxin said that this lost road is more than 100 miles, but they have a guide!

Tao Jiefu shook his head, and he didn't bother with Wu Haogu. Now Wu Haogu's Sanzhi Forbidden Army is the main force of Yan Yanlu, if you offend him, you will be able to work and not contribute, and it will be him who will be appeased.

"Xuanzan," said Tao Jiefu, "your men have plundered hundreds of Tibetans, right?" ”

"Yes," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "all of them are strong, and a Fan person is counted as twenty." ”

Tao Jiefu was stunned for a moment, is it considered twenty? What do you mean?

Tong Guan already understood, and frowned: "Da Lang, are you going to sell those people to Fusi?" ”

Wu Haogu nodded, "Envoy, I have caught more than 700 in total, and I wiped the odds for you, count 700, one 20, you can give 14,000 yuan...... If cash is not convenient, it is okay to give salt citations, but you have to give salt quotations with a face value of 20,000 yuan. ”

I also wiped the odds......

Tao Jiefu was all happy with Wu Haogu, Wu Haogu is really a profiteer! The business has been done in front of the Northwest Army.

"Da Lang!" Tong Guan looked at Wu Haogu, "It can't be like this!" ”

Wu Haogu also smiled bitterly: "Otherwise, I will have to paste 14,000 inside!" Official, do you think those real warriors who gave birth to girls will not want money? Moreover, they are guests of the official family...... The imperial court has always been kind to people from afar, and it can't be a loss to others. ”

In fact, Wu Haogu really wanted to leave Wan Yan Xian in the Great Song Dynasty as a general, so he wanted to give others a little sweetness.

When Tong Guan heard this, he also felt that it made sense. He also said to Tao Jiefu: "Make a chance, or ...... Leave these captives alone. ”

Leave it alone? Is that okay too?

Wu Haogu nodded again and again, "It's better to leave it alone, it's no good for Fu Si to redeem them." These people are all the people of the Tibetan tribe who moved from Hengshan, and they are enemies with us, so we have to be careful if we keep them, so it is better to sell them to the Jiehe Commercial Market. ”

The work of national unity in the Hengshan area has always been bad, and the contradictions between Fan and Han are very acute! In the past hundred years (from the time of Li Jiqian), they were the vanguard of the Xia army's invasion of the border counties of the Song Dynasty, burning, killing and looting, and doing all kinds of evil.

After the rise of the Western Army, the Song army that invaded Hengshan also went with the intention of revenge, burning, killing and looting or something, and the hatred between the two sides became deeper and deeper. And because they didn't want to be ruled by the enemy, many Hengshan tribes fled north to settle down in the Wuding River valley under the control of the Western Thieves. Among them, Ding Zhuang has also become the source of strength for the left wing of the West Thief's Shenyong Military Division and the Jiading Military Division. These plundered Tibetans are the Tibetans who live near Mida Cave, and Chage has planned to move them to the vicinity of Xiazhou City, but before they can make the trip, they encounter the evil Jurchens and obstruction robbers!

Tao Jiefu shook his head: "Xuanzan, there are many people in the DPRK staring at us!" ”

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid," Wu Haogu said, "Giving birth to a girl is really a barbarian!" Should the imperial court offend the barbarians who helped us fight for a hundred years for the sake of the barbarians who have fought with us for a hundred years? ”

Tao Jiefu asked: "Those people are really capable of fighting?" ”

Wu Haogu nodded: "I can fight!" Very good at playing! ”

Tong Guan shook his head: "But the birth girl we saw in Lazy Dian is really not very good at fighting." ”

"Those are the raw Jurchens who farm and do business," Wu Haogu said, "What Brother Zhao Zhong brought back are the raw Jurchens who killed people and set fires!" ”

And such a difference? Tong Guan was a little skeptical.

Tao Jiefu didn't have the heart to think about the Lazy Dian Jurchen, and he no longer thought about the captured Tibetan captives. The most important thing at the moment is whether we can fight a battle in this cold weather and take down a few key strongholds -- all kinds of ramp-up things can be talked about after meritorious service.

"Wu Xuanzan," Tao Jiefu asked with a frown, "Can your Sanzhi Forbidden Army still fight now?" ”

Wu Haogu said: "It depends on whether there is any money?" The dragon warrior and the knight in front of the palace fought for the house when they were in Huangzhou, and now the reward of the house is almost gone, and the motivation of the big guy is naturally not as good as before. ”

In fact, the reason why the Sanzhi Forbidden Army began to ask for money was not all because of the house, but because now there are 10,000 more pikemen. These people are not paid, and the Song Dynasty did not have military merits, and if they didn't give rewards, what motivation did people have to fight?

"How much?"

Wu Haogu asked: "Then it depends on where the envoy wants to fight?" ”

This sounds a bit like a business, but that's really how the Song Dynasty army operated! No general would dare to bring his troops to the front without a good price. The reason why Gao Yu didn't talk about money before was because Zhao Ji gave the deed......

Tao Jiefu said: "Stone Fort Village and Yinzhou City! ”

"Stone Castle?" Wu Haogu shifted his gaze to the map.

Tong Guan stretched out his finger and clicked on a cottage at the northern foot of Hengshan on the map, more than 30 miles away from Yinzhou.

"The terrain of this village is dangerous, there are cliffs on three sides, and only one side can enter and exit." Tao Jiefu said, "In the middle of the West Thief's Cellar, there are about 100,000 stones!" ”

"How can you capture it when it's so dangerous?" As soon as Wu Haogu heard Tao Jiefu say, he immediately felt troubled.

If the stone fort is a flat city, you can also carry out tunnel blasting. But this is a mountain city, and Huang Shilang's sappers are probably not easy to rely on.

"The stone fort does not need to be attacked by the Sanzhi Forbidden Army," Tao Jiefu said, "This official has his own way to capture it." However, it is up to your cavalry to clear and block the area around the stone fortress, so that the thieves will not be able to detect the truth and the truth. ”

"Then we have to settle the accounts of the 100 or so thieves' heads that were cut off first."

"Okay!" Tao Jiefu said, "It will be given according to the market of the Western Army." ”

"Then the subordinate allocated the best Jurchen cavalry to the envoy, including more than 750 people with auxiliary soldiers, and you have to give 8,000 yuan for the promotion."

"Here you go!" Tao Jiefu said, "In addition, Yinzhou City needs your people to attack, and after the battle, it needs to build the city." ”

Wu Haogu thought for a while, "Fight Yinzhou and send 30,000 troops, and one person will give 30,000 to 90,000, which must be given first." Beheadings and prisoners are counted separately after the war. ”

"Okay!" Tao Jiefu nodded, "How many people do you need to build a city?" How much grain and grass do you need? ”

Wu Haogu shook his head and said with a smile: "Minister, this is not easy to say, I have to let the military commander calculate it, how about giving you an answer in a few days?" ”

"Military aircraft should be commanded?"

"The staff of the lower officer." Wu Haogu explained, "The lower officials don't know how to fight, and they have to rely on the assistance of their staff, so they asked the officials to set up this command." Most of the officials among them are selected from the knights in front of the palace. ”

"I see." Tao Jiefu nodded and didn't ask any more.

The Song Dynasty was suspicious of military generals, and it was taboo for generals to set up their own shogunates, but with the permission of the officials, and the staff were all from the imperial knights, it was another matter.

……

"We've been robbed?"

It only took four days for the news that the Yinzhou Fan tribe was sacked by the robbers of the Song Dynasty reached Xingqing Mansion.

But whether it is the lord of the country, Qianshun, or Xiao Heda, Wei Ming Jingsi, Wei Ming Anhui, Wu Yi Boma and other ministers, they can't believe that there is such a thing.

It's a bit like a gang of robbers that has been around for more than a hundred years and suddenly finds itself the target of a robbery!

"You can't be wrong!" Brother Cha of the Metropolitan Commander is very sure, "The emergency document of Mida Cave was sent by six good horses who died on the road, and there will be no mistake." ”

After confirming the message, the doubts were not cleared. The old minister Wei Ming Jingsi was puzzled: "The Mida Cave is almost here, why did you retreat in a hurry?" Why don't you snatch Yinzhou City? We're very empty around Yinzhou City! ”

Now the Western Xia began to clear the fields on both sides of the Wuding River, but there was also a process of clearing the fields on the walls, and the first to retreat were the village tribes near the border of the Song Kingdom. Among them, the area around Yinzhou City was almost empty, and while the people near Yinzhou retreated, there were few defenders left in Yinzhou City.

In Wei Mingjingsi's opinion, since the Song army was able to enter more than 100 miles and easily defeated a cavalry commander of the Left Wing Divine Warrior Army, there should be thousands or even tens of thousands of horses.

So many people moved to kill them, grabbed a handful and left? And I didn't grab anything.

"Do you want to speed up the retreat?" Wei Ming'an, who is also old, said, "The current situation looks a bit like the seventh year of Da'an." ”

The seventh year of Da'an is the fourth year of Yuanfeng of the Great Song Dynasty, and the fifth road of the Great Song Dynasty is in this year!

Qianshun looked at his younger brother Brother Cha, and Brother Cha said, "It's not slow to withdraw...... It's that this Song army came too fast! ”

"How's that to be?"

"Let's wait and see." Brother Cha didn't have any ideas, after all, he hadn't figured out the situation on the front line, so he naturally didn't know how to deal with it.

But he waited, and only a few days later came new bad news.

This time, the "cavalry" of the Song army attacked from the security army, crossed the Great Wall Ridge on a snowy night, and then directly crossed Hongzhou, where the defense was empty, and went all the way deep into Youzhou. They used a tactic of small groups of cavalry taking turns to charge, and without difficulty they defeated the 2,000 cavalry of the Jianing Military Division, killing at least 200 people and capturing more than 200. Subsequently, this murderous Song army drove the captured Western Xia cavalry and the plundered people to attack the city of Wuguyan.

Another day passed, and new bad news came from Youzhou. The empty city of Uguyan was breached before the rescuers sent by Youzhou arrived! All the people in the city and the Western Xia soldiers and civilians who were forced to attack the city were all killed! The Song army that withdrew from the city marched east along the Wuding River, burned all the way, and rushed to the city of Xiazhou before turning back to the south and disappearing into the Hengshan Mountains......