Chapter 318: Heading North
After Liu Dayong ended the battle of Yancheng, he immediately led the army towards Xuzhou! At present, they are estimated to have arrived in Pizhou, and it is estimated that they can arrive in two days! Hua Yue actually acted as Gao Huaiyuan's deputy when he sent troops this time, and Gao Huaiyuan asked Hua Yue to do many things on his behalf. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
It's still a bit slow! But that's not bad! It rained two days ago, and it was estimated that the road would no longer be easy to walk, and when he arrived, we could leave!
Zhou Jun, when did Fu Daquan lead the troops to Xuzhou? Do you already have news? Gao Huaiyuan nodded as he turned his head to Zhou Jun and asked.
Zhou Jun hurriedly got up and replied: "Qiqi Marshal, Fu Daquan has already led the troops out of Shuyang, rushing to this side, it is estimated that he may rush here tonight!"
Gao Huaiyuan was relieved, nodded and said: Yes, you can take your people to take over Xuzhou City as soon as possible, the terrain here is important, you must strictly prevent the Jin army from being unwilling, take advantage of our troops, attack here, you have to pay more attention, send more scouts, monitor the activities of the Jin army on the front line of Dangshan, send more detailed work, go to Tianfu to investigate the movements of the Jin country, and be prepared in advance! Xuzhou City, you leave 5,000 elite soldiers, and then recruit 2,000 elite soldiers in the surrender of the army, replenish the troops, you will temporarily garrison Xuzhou City in the future, don't be careless! At the same time, I also have to supervise the surrendered troops, dredge the canal as soon as possible, and as for the issue of food, I have already written a chapter asking the Holy Lord to allocate grain to this side, so as to ensure that before the autumn harvest this year, there will be no shortage of food here!
Zhou Jun hurriedly nodded in agreement, bowed down and took the order, and then retreated to the column and sat down, now he also regarded himself as a member of the Song army, and came to listen to Gao Huaiyuan's orders together.
At present, we are running out of grain and grass, if the grain and grass can no longer be transported here, I am afraid that we will have to delay our troop trip, General Hua, you send someone to urge again, so that the grain and grass can be transferred over as soon as possible, if the major event of the commander is delayed, the grain and grass officer himself will come to see me with his head! Gao Huaiyuan then said to Hua Yue.
Hua Yue got up again and agreed, Gao Huaiyuan has always asked for orders to prohibit vigorous and resolute action, as soon as he broke in Xuzhou, he sent people to Chuzhou and Yangzhou and Zhenjiang Mansion to supervise the grain and grass, and prepare for the dispatch of troops to Jizhou, and now there are three days left before his deadline, and he does not allow anyone to delay his plan to send troops.
Zhao Futang listens to the order! Gao Huaiyuan then pointed to Zhao Futang's name.
Zhao Futang hurriedly got up and said: The last general!
Xuzhou City has been laid for seven days, it is estimated that the officers and soldiers in the army should also rest almost, you will hand over the defense at hand to General Zhou today, early tomorrow morning, you will take 5,000 pioneers, rush to Jinan Mansion first, and contact Peng Yibin's army, and then I will take the army to Jinan! Gao Huaiyuan immediately ordered Zhao Futang.
Zhao Futang was slightly stunned, it's not that he is unwilling to accept the order, he is not afraid of fighting now, what he is afraid of is that now Li Quan has been leveled, in fact, Gao Huaiyuan has achieved his goal by sending troops this time, so if he continues to go north, he is afraid that someone in the court will not be happy, and he said behind his back that Gao Huaiyuan is more than he wants, so it is not a good thing for these generals, and now that the generals have been suppressed by the civil officials for a long time, they can't help but be a little afraid that the civilian officials will talk irritably.
Seeing Zhao Futang stunned, Gao Huaiyuan knew what he was thinking, and the other Song army generals were also a little surprised, so he smiled and said: Could it be that you Zhao Futang didn't dare to go north to touch the Mongolian army?
As soon as Zhao Futang heard this, he stopped doing it, and immediately shouted: Dashuai misunderstood, who is my surname Zhao, Dashuai knows best, how can he be afraid to go into battle to kill the enemy, isn't it the Mongolian army? Will the last general be afraid of them! The last will be ordered! Tomorrow will be a departure immediately!
Gao Huaiyuan nodded to express his satisfaction, and Hua Yue reminded him: "Marshal, now that Li Xinxin is gone, we will continue to send troops north, should we wait until the official family agrees to send troops?" Otherwise
Gao Huaiyuan immediately cut off Hua Yue's words, shook his head and said: It can't be delayed, this matter has its own official responsibility, the Mongolian army has been going south for a long time, and it has been besieging Jizhou City for many months, if Jizhou is lost, the Mongols can go straight to the hinterland of Jingdong, and Dezhou will be dangerous!
With the combat power of Peng Yibin and **, I am afraid it will be difficult to stop the Mongolian army from driving straight in, and our Northern Expedition is not only to destroy Li Quan, controlling the entire Jingdong is the ultimate goal of our northward journey this time, how can the Mongols be involved in Jingdong at this time, so I will not wait at this time, I will not be affected by the foreign monarch, and I can't wait any longer!
I have already written a chapter and explained the purpose of this trip to the Holy Lord, and I expect that the Holy Lord can understand our painstaking efforts, and should not stop us from going north to fight against the Mongol army, and I will take responsibility for this matter, if there is anything, the responsibility lies with me, not on you!
No matter how the court decides this time, I can't shake my determination to go north, three days later, as soon as Liu Dayong and the military rations arrived, we immediately set out, this time we are not attacking the city, there are many fewer weapons with the army, we must rush to Jinan within ten days, and Peng Yibin will join forces to relieve the siege of Jizhou!
After several months of fierce battles with Li Quanjun, these generals are now confident and have become accustomed to this kind of life, and now they have accumulated a lot of military exploits, so go to Jizhou and the Mongols to do a fight, see what the Mongols are really powerful, and when the time comes, it is estimated that the reward is absolutely indispensable!
Early the next morning, Zhao Futang ordered 5,000 soldiers and horses of the Holy Army in front of the palace, bid farewell to Gao Huaiyuan and others, and led the army out of Xuzhou, all the way to the direction of Jinan Mansion.
Before this dispatch, Gao Huaiyuan had already contacted Peng Yibin, who was recuperating from his wounds in Jinan Mansion in advance, Peng Yibin fought very hard in these months, after the Mongolian army surrounded Jizhou City, he sent troops several times to relieve the siege of Jizhou, but in the end, under the counterattack of Polu, they all fell short, and even he was seriously injured and almost lost his life in the south of Jizhou City.
Now his morale in the army is low, and the phenomenon of desertion has begun to appear, and under the loss of troops, the strength has been insufficient, and his ally ** is also too busy to take care of himself, unable to send troops to relieve the siege of Jizhou, and the Flying Tiger Army is helping the Song army to deal with Li Quan, Peng Yibin is now a little lonely.
Peng Yibin can now be said to be in urgent need of assistance, whether it is troops or food and grass equipment, someone needs help, and the soldiers and horses of the imperial court are surprisingly competitive this time, and they actually killed Li Quan in more than three months, and now they actually offer to send troops to help, which makes Peng Yibin very surprised, and he can't help but be overjoyed.
Peng Yibin is a loyal person, although he was born in the jurisdiction of the Jin State, but his ancestors have always regarded themselves as Song people, Peng Yibin has been taught by his ancestors since he was a child, looking forward to the day when the Song army can recapture Jingdong and even the entire Central Plains, and then Liu Erzu in Jingdong uprising, he immediately gathered hundreds of neighbors, into Liu Erzu's hands against Jin.
Later, after Liu Erzu's soldiers were defeated and died, he continued to resist Jin from Hao Ding, Hao Ding established the Tianqi regime and changed the Yuan Shuntian, but Hao Ding was later defeated by Fusan Anzhen and was captured and died.
Originally, he still admired Li Quan very much, and followed Li Quan's southern expedition to the north and fought a lot of victories, but later he found out that Li Quan was a wolf with ambition, perverse, and brazenly launched the Chuzhou Mutiny, expelled the court officials, killed the court officials, and ordered him to rebel together, Peng Yibin did not comply, so he led the troops to contact many red jacket troops around him and defected from Li Quan.
In fact, Peng Yibin is very willing to be stronger in the imperial court and recover the Jingdong area, how can Shi Miyuan be in power before, and adopt a policy of avoidance everywhere, so that seeing that Jingdong is no longer under the control of Jinguo, but has not been able to recover Jingdong, Peng Yibin is really disappointed.
And now there has been a big change in the imperial court, Shi Miyuan and his party were actually mutiny launched by today's officials, killed in one fell swoop, even if the weather changed, in less than a few months, they sent troops to suppress Li Quan, it seems that this time the court has changed its style, and it is necessary to completely take back control of Jingdong.
Therefore, Peng Yibin was very happy on the sickbed, and immediately sent someone to reply to Gao Huaiyuan with a message, asking Gao Huaiyuan to quickly speed the army north to reinforce him and relieve the siege of Jizhou City as soon as possible.
However, someone around Peng Yibin advised Peng Yibin, saying that this time the imperial court sent troops to suppress Li Quan, don't take the opportunity to come here, and then take away Peng Yibin's military power, and persuade Peng Yibin to only accept the support of the imperial court's grain and armor, and solve the affairs in the north by himself.
But even if this person who advised was driven out by Peng Yibin, Peng Yibin scolded: We are the people of the Great Song Dynasty, although we have laid this field by ourselves, but in the past two years, the imperial court has treated me well, and has allocated food and salary many times to aid our army!
Besides, Jingdong was originally the old land of the Great Song Dynasty, and now the imperial court has sent a large army to help us and save the brothers in Jizhou from danger, how can I refuse? After all, now that I am also an official appointed by the imperial court, how can I not listen to the reasoning of the imperial court?
How can I, Peng Yibin, be Li Quan's generation, just thinking about sitting big? Who are you and I? Stand down immediately, dare to say more, and see if I don't tie you up and send you to the court for disposal immediately! Someone, get him out of here!
As a result, the people who advised Peng Yibin fell into disgrace and were driven out of Peng Yibin's residence, and the rest of the people waited for a look, and they didn't say anything more, after all, their situation is not good at the moment, and it is also a good thing that the imperial court sent troops to help them, Li Quan has now been beaten to the ground by the imperial court, and they also rebelled against Li Quan at the beginning, isn't it because Li Quan is too arrogant?
If the Song army came over and wanted to absorb them, they would admit it, after all, they are still righteous now, and they are considered grass-headed generals, if the imperial court adopts them, they will all be righteous officials! In the future, I won't eat the last meal or the next meal, and I still have money to get every month, at least my life is better than now!
Therefore, Peng Yibin's army did not have much resistance to the Song army's arrival in Jinan, and they all looked forward to the imperial court quickly sending troops to support them.
Besides, the gold lord in Bianliang City, Wanyan Shouxu, when he saw the twists and turns of the Guide Mansion to guard the Chilu Capital, he angrily threw the twists and turns on the dragon case, and said angrily: The Southern Dynasty deceived me too much, since I ascended the throne, I have always wanted to befriend them, and now they are taking away my Xuzhou, which is really unreasonable! Xuzhou is my big metal land, Lu Futong has already returned to our dynasty, but the Song army still captured Xuzhou, it is really too deceitful! How could I allow them to do this! Someone came, and told Chiludu to let him gather troops and horses, and quickly take back Xuzhou for me! If we continue like this, I'm afraid they're going to hit us right under our noses!
After listening to Yan Shouxu's holy decree, some ministers hurriedly admonished: Your Majesty is angry, this matter is very important, Your Majesty still needs to think about it in the long run, now the Mongolian army is still storming the Western Xia Kingdom, the threat to our Dynasty is becoming tighter, our heavy troops have moved to the northwest, and now the strength of the country is insufficient, although the Southern Dynasty is too deceitful, but now it is not easy to raise swords with the Southern Dynasty again, this time Weichen heard that the Southern Dynasty official army was prosperous, and Li Quan was exterminated in just a few months, and Lu Futong was Li Quan's old department, and the Song army attacked him, which is also understandable!
If His Majesty were angry and sent troops to attack Xuzhou, it would be difficult to guarantee that it would not attract the Southern Dynasty to mobilize a large army to the north. And now Weichen also heard that the Mongolian army under the leadership of Polu is attacking the city of Jizhou of the red jacket thief, intending to get involved in the Jingdong area, and once the Song army solves Li Quan, maybe it will go north to rescue the Peng thief, which also happens to contain the Mongolian army and make the Song and Mongolia enemies.
Therefore, the wreck of Xuzhou is small, and the war against Mongolia is large, and I hope that Your Majesty can take back your life, and don't want another incident at this time! So much so that it angered the Southern Dynasty and made us fall into the belly and back of the enemy!
If history says that Yan Shouxu is the king of the dead country, I am afraid it is biased, to say that the demise of the Jin State, the real culprit, I am afraid to count it on the previous emperors, especially Jin Xuanzong Wan Yan Xun, is the real king of the dead country, and Wan Yan Shouxu can also be said to be a Ming Jun, and it is quite capable of which kind of Ming Jun, but unfortunately he spoke out and came to power too late, so that after he ascended the throne, he took over a super bad mess, Jin Guo was tossed by the previous emperors, It can already be said that it is difficult to return, so that Wanyan Shouxu has a black cauldron.
Wanyan Shouxu's gaffe just now was caused by anger, when he listened to the admonition of his ministers, even if he calmed down, he was also a person who understood, now of course he knows that he can't have a bad relationship with the Southern Song Dynasty, provoked the Southern Song Dynasty, and now the young emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty is also in power, from the fact that he ascended the throne in just two years, he eliminated Shi Miyuan, who controlled the power of the court, this emperor in power in the Southern Song Dynasty is not a peaceful person, if he sends troops to attack Xuzhou now, The emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, who might not really provoke him, was furious and mobilized a large army to attack the Jin State, if this is the case, then the Jin State will be completely finished, under the attack of Song and Meng, he will not be able to withstand the two strong attacks, and the destruction of the Dajin Kingdom is just around the corner.
After thinking about this, Wanyan Shouxu couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, fortunately it was the minister who persuaded him, otherwise, if he impulsively sent troops to attack Xuzhou, he might have caused big trouble this time, so Wanyan Shouxu quickly withdrew his life, and could only eat this dumb loss, seeing that Xuzhou was taken away by the Great Song Dynasty.
However, although this loss is eaten, but it can not be eaten in vain, Wanyan Shouxu then sent a minister as an envoy, sent an envoy to the Southern Song Dynasty, and asked to meet the Southern Song Dynasty Emperor Zhao Yun, take a few courtesies, be generous, and give Xuzhou to the Southern Song Dynasty, as much as possible to the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is best to drag the Southern Song Dynasty to help him resist the Mongol army.
In fact, Wanyan Shouxu is probably the most understanding person in the Dajin Kingdom, he has known the cruelty of Temujin for so many years, since Temujin became the Great Khan, for so many years, the southern conquest and the north have destroyed dozens of countries, and the place where he has passed is almost thousands of miles away, and the number of people killed is beyond count, if Temujin destroys the Dajin Kingdom, with Temujin's greed, he will never let go of the fat sheep of the Southern Song Dynasty, once the Jin Kingdom is destroyed, it will be the turn of the Southern Song Dynasty to be unlucky, and he wants the Southern Song Dynasty court to understand, At this time, only if they unite can they have a chance to resist the southern invasion of the Mongol army, otherwise, I am afraid that sooner or later everyone will have to play together.
Wanyan Shouxu told the envoys a lot of words, telling Shi Chen to find a way to meet the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty no matter what, and strive to reach a reconciliation with the Southern Song court, and not to let the Southern Song Dynasty take advantage of their downfall and stick a knife in their backs.
After the envoy agreed, he took his servants with him, and walked all the way out of Bianliang City and in the direction of Lin'an.