In the northwest of Chongqing, in the night, dozens of horsemen galloped in, and the sound of hooves alarmed a team of night sentry. However, after intercepting and questioning, the generals who led the team to search for the sentry saluted and retreated one after another.

These dozens of people and horses who came through the night, surrounded by a veteran with a helmet and armor and a white beard, was Wang Jian, who was in charge of all the armies of Xingyuan Mansion and knew Hezhou.

This veteran general, who was born in the loyal army and has been fighting horses for 40 years, looks like a dusty servant, but he still sits on the horse with a straight back and a blazing eye. In this battle of Meng Ge's invasion of Shu, the Diaoyu City guarded by Wang Jian was like an iron nail stuck in the throat of the Mongol army, which resisted the siege of Meng Ge's army for eight months, and still stood until Meng Ge's main force made a detour to the east. After that, Wang Jian took the initiative to lead the army to attack, repelled the military horses left by Meng Ge around Diaoyu City, completely relieved the siege of Diaoyu City, and opened up the communication between Diaoyu City and Chongqing.

Today, he was summoned by Pu Xuezhi, the envoy of Sichuan Xuanfu, from Diaoyu City.

However, after several days of hurrying, Wang Jian's general demeanor was still not slightly reduced, and he shared weal and woe with his subordinates, and it was even more different from the generals of the Great Song Dynasty, quite the style of Meng Zongzheng when he founded the Zhongshun Army in the past. Thinking of the former loyal army, the old general couldn't help but sigh.

At that time, the Zhongshun Army was a combination of the army and the people, raising their own fields, irrigating 100,000 dumps, every household raising their own military horses, bringing their own weapons, and everyone practiced martial arts, all of which were proficient. Neither the Jurchens nor the Mongols have ever curried favor with the loyal army. At that time, the Zhongshun army could not only hold Xianghan steadily, but also attack Henan from time to time and burn the flames of war to the territory of the Mongols.

Pity. Since the death of Meng Zhongxiang, the various units of the Zhongshun Army have begun to wither and decay. The imperial court also deliberately transferred most of the Zhongshun army out of Xianghan, so that they lost the foundation of self-support in Tuntian. The general's family also has no conditions for raising horses and practicing martial arts, so naturally there are no children and soldiers available. After that, the soldiers all relied on recruitment, and the generals who led the troops fell into the money eye one by one, and few people were still seriously leading the troops to train the troops.

That is, Wang Jian, a veteran who has worked in the Zhongshun Army all his life, has become accustomed to nature and still maintains the old style, so the soldiers of Hezhou are second to none in the Sichuan Song Army.

However, after Yu Yu was killed, and the imperial court successively sent Yu Hui and Pu Zezhi, two imbecile commanders who knew nothing, the morale of the Sichuan army had fallen to a considerable level. Even the elite soldiers of Hezhou could only hold the fortress and could not go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with the Tartar army.

If it weren't for the Tartar army going east this time, the siege of Diaoyu City would not be so easy to solve.

But the army of Tartars going east, who can resist it in the world? Jia seems to be the way? It is not easy for a scribe to do this. But compared with Meng Zongzheng, Meng Hui and Yu Jue, Jia Yidao's generals are too much worse.

As for Lu Wende...... Who doesn't know the name of luxury? If it had been thirty years earlier, he might have been able to brave the hardships. But now, it has long been decayed, how can you still lead troops?

The country of the Great Song Dynasty is really in danger!

Full of thoughts. Wang Jian's entourage has been sent into the city of Chongqing by the soldiers and soldiers who are on patrol at night.

Wang Jian's personal guards looked left and right on horseback. The city of Chongqing is strong and surrounded by water on three sides. The walls are tall and the fortresses are layered. But after entering the city gate, it seems to be with the Jin Ge iron horse outside the city. Beacon is a completely different world.

Although there were many night watchmen coming and going on the streets of the city, there was no strict curfew. All kinds of sedan chairs and vehicles come and go in an endless stream accompanied by richly dressed servants. From time to time, the sound of silk and bamboo and laughter can be heard in the wine shop and the green building. Most of the mansions in the city are also brightly lit, and needless to say, they must be the host's entertainers.

Sichuan is an important place. Civil and military officials have a lot of cars, and the wealthy families don't know how many. After the Mongols entered the army this time, most of them were concentrated in Chongqing Prefecture, where the Sichuan Preparation Division was located, which was after all the strongest city in Sichuan, with the largest garrison and the most prosperous market.

It's just that these old men who fled to avoid disaster can't keep a low profile and spend a few days with the soldiers who defend the city and share joys and sorrows?

Looking at the prosperous and gentle scene of the city, Wang Jian and his entourage's confidence in this battle against Mongolia fell a little more.

What surprised the veteran who had been struggling to support in Diaoyu City for eight months was even more surprised. In the depths of this Chongqing mansion, the Sichuan Xuanfu System Division, which is heavily guarded, is also brightly lit! There was also a faint sound of silk and bamboo. The envoy is actually setting up a night banquet, which is really a bit of a drunken dream.

What medicine did this Pu Zezhi take wrong? Are you really planning to break the can, eat and wait for death?

Wang Jian frowned and walked through one doorway after another, and finally went straight to the Priest's Hall. Outside the festival hall, there were guards in splendid brocade clothes, all of whom were carefully selected to be more than six feet tall, and the blades in their hands were shining under the light of butter torches, and they were very majestic.

But in the view of Wang Jian, who has fought all his life, such a style just shows that the coach obviously does not know soldiers and likes to be in battle. I thought that the strong men in the generals gathered around them could protect their own safety on the battle array, but I didn't know that there were also a number of athletes in the army, and they all gathered around the commander, and only the old and weak were left to fight in battle, and it would be hellish to win!

In the festival hall, there are drinking and feasting, and there are officials singing and dancing to cheer up. Pu Xue was dressed in a brocade robe, sitting upright, and there were several seats on both sides, all of whom were first-class figures in Chongqing. Jiang Wanli, Liu Quan, and Yang Wen were all at the banquet, and they had already drunk some wine, and everyone was red and energetic.

During the banquet, there seemed to be someone writing poems and lyrics, all of which were beautiful words and chapters of great victory, and the female musicians who were waiting in the festival hall immediately led the merchants according to the palace, and the singing will come out, which immediately attracted bursts of applause, and it seemed as if they had really won the battle.

It was the most lively time, Wang Jian came suddenly, and everyone in the banquet turned their eyes. Pu Zhizhi, who was sitting at the top, was full of joy, and greeted Wang Jian: "Wang Dutong, there is good news coming today, we are celebrating, and the old general is also about to enter the table, how about drinking three cups first?" ”

"Good news?" Wang Jian was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart, can there be such things in Sichuan now? Who typed it? Liu Quan? Yang Wen?

Wang Jian looked back left and right, and set his sights on the two people who led the most troops in Chongqing.

"Now I only know that the Tartar soldiers are retreating west," Liu Cheng put down his wine glass and said with a smile, "Today, there is a return from the horse, and I saw a fire in the direction of Fuzhou, thinking that the pontoon bridge was burned!" ”

Yang Wen added: "If it is not bad as expected, it should be the army of Lu Jie's envoy who came from downstream and broke the Tartar army on the Sichuan River!" ”

What the!? Lü Wende went against the tide and defeated the army led by the Great Khan of the Tartars!! Wang Jian suddenly had a feeling of unreality. He and Lu Wende are also old acquaintances, what kind of person is the other party, why doesn't he know? If he said this twenty years earlier, he barely believed that at that time, the brave name of Hei Tan Lu was also resounding. But now, Lu Wende is just a rich man, and he can barely support the deployment of Wanzhou and Kuizhou, which is already impressive...... That's a lot of hard work!

Pu Zhizhi looked at Wang Jian with a complicated expression, muttered and nodded, "The retreat of the Tartar army and the fire in Fuzhou are true, and more than a dozen spies have been sent in return. I think that the Great Khan of Tartars was defeated by the hands of Lu Jie. ”

Lu Wende is now leading the Sichuan deputy envoy with the Baokang Army, and it is clear that he is coming to take over Pu Xuezhi's class. If there is no merit, can you get the system in your hands and say it, but now, the great achievement of defeating the Tartar Khan has been established, what else is there to say? Just wait for Lu Wende to take over!

However, such a result is better than the victory of the Great Khan of the Tartars and the death of the Great Song Dynasty. He Pu Zhizhi is a high-ranking civil official who writes articles and is admitted to the Jinshi examination, and he can't beat the Mongolian Great Khan who was born in murder and arson, is it strange? It's a big deal to raise the palace view, is it difficult to chase down the writing since birth (that is, to take away a qiē meritorious name, degraded to a commoner, similar to the expulsion from the party in later generations) and then arrest and punish the crime? In this way, will there still be civilian officials who will dare to come out to take charge of the army in the future?

This civilian official who can't fight is used to take charge of the army, and it's not the civilian officials themselves who want to come, or is it not that your Zhao and Song officials don't believe in martial arts? Otherwise, Yu Jue is still alive and well, how can the Tartar Khan enter Sichuan?

Wang Jian's voice suddenly raised a little: "Have you ever sent someone to contact Lu Jie's envoy?" Where is the Tartar army now? How is the military appearance? How many soldiers are left? Where are we heading? ”

This series of questions made the room full of people stunned, everyone had a feeling of the rest of their lives, it was too late to get lucky, who would think so much?

Wang Jian glanced at Liu Quan, a veteran who was also born in the Zhongshun Army, he didn't do the most basic things, why did he drink here?

He shook his head and crossed his hand at Pu Ze: "Xuanfu (Pu Xuanzhi has a Xuanfu envoy dispatch), let's go in person!" In any case, see with your own eyes the military appearance of the Tartars. ”

Pu Zhizhi was suddenly a little unhappy, is Wang Jian going to see Tartar or is he going to greet Lu Wende? My own people haven't left yet, and this tea has cooled like this? He looked at Liu Quan, and Liu Quan's face was also not very good-looking. The first line of the Zhongshun Army is now Wang Jian, Gao Da and he Liu Quan are supporting the market, but they are no longer as prosperous as they used to be, and even the old nest of Jinghu is gradually occupied by the two Huai generals. If Lu Wende is the governor of Shu, will there still be a foothold for the Zhongshun army in Sichuan?

Liu Cheng frowned and said, "Yonggu (Wang Jianzi), it's better to wait for dawn and then send spies to investigate." ”

Wang Jian slowly clenched his fists and arched his hands, and said in a deep voice: "The military situation is so urgent, and it will not be dawn until dawn, so we must do our best to find out the truth of the Tartars, contact the envoy of Shanglu Jie, and then decide on a decisive battle!" (To be continued......)