In the Song Jing Imperial Garden, among the winding pavilions and pavilions, the monarch and the minister traveled together.

The monarch is Emperor Zhuozhen of the Song Dynasty, and the minister is Prime Minister Zi Pingxiu.

State affairs, family affairs, world affairs, monarchs and ministers are involved in conversations, and the topics go around and around, Zi Pingxiu finally brought the topic to the topic that Emperor Song Mu Zhuozhen didn't want to mention recently, "Your Majesty, the battle between Jiangfang and Mengshanming, the minister is still a little worried." ”

Mu Zhuozhen frowned slightly, "When it comes to war, the prime minister should admit that it is not as good as Luo Zhao." ”

The words are a little unpleasant, but he has been bored with this topic recently, as soon as Meng Shanming broke through the river defense, the courtiers were in a commotion, and the call to order the metropolitan governor Luo Zhao to retreat and intercept Meng Shanming prevailed.

The court argued endlessly about this matter, one side supported Luo Zhao's decision, feeling that it was necessary to take advantage of the weakness of Yan State and quickly eliminate Yan State in one fell swoop, while the other side felt that Luo Zhao was too aggressive and hoped to fight steadily. Both sides make sense, and he is biased towards Luo Zhao in his heart, and wants to do great feats that his predecessors have not done.

However, Meng Shanming's offensive rekindled the courtiers' fear of the obscene power that Meng Shanming had imposed on the Song State, and as soon as the Jiang defense was broken, the call for steady and steady victory immediately prevailed, which made Mu Zhuozhen faintly angry in his heart.

The courtier's thoughts are selfish, and he seeks to be safe for fear of endangering his own interests, but he is the lord of a country!

The shame that Yan Guo imposed on the Song State back then, he caught up, that was his shame, over the years, he reused the young and energetic Luo Zhao to sharpen the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty, just for the sake of shame, how can there be a reason to retreat.

Fortunately, Luo Zhao persuaded the three major factions, and with the support of the three major factions, coupled with his support, he suppressed the steady and steady call of the court, and at this time, Zi Pingxiu mentioned this matter again, and he was naturally unhappy in his heart.

"Yes, yes, yes. Ziping Xiu said humbly: "What Your Majesty said is that the minister is a civilian official, and the metropolitan governor is a military attaché, and the minister of war is definitely not as good as the metropolitan governor, but those who understand war in the army still have other opinions." Mengshan Ming Rong horse has been very good at fighting all his life, and what he has assembled in his hands is his old department, and he is the elite of the Yan country, and once the river defense is broken, I am afraid that it will endanger the entire Great Song Dynasty!"

Mu Zhuozhen: "Does the prime minister mean that my elite army of Jiangfang is not as good as the elite of Yan State, or does I insist on withdrawing troops to give Yan State a chance to breathe when our army is approaching Yanjing and is within reach?"

Zi Pingxiu said: "Your Majesty has misunderstood, and the minister is worried that Jiang Fang's people and Meng Shanming will lose their dealings. ”

Mu Zhuozhen: "The situation is clear, Mengshan Ming has limited grain and grass, or it won't be long before he can be dragged down, why be afraid?"

Zi Pingxiu: "Don't be afraid of 10,000, just be afraid of what happens, Meng Shanming can't be taken lightly." Now that the six million elite men and horses on the land of my Song Kingdom have been exhausted, three million attack Yan, two million Chen border defense Yan, and one million Chen border defense Han, the country is empty, once Meng Shanming is thrown out of the Jiang defense people and invaded, who can stop it?"

Mu Zhuozhen: "What does the prime minister want to say?"

Zi Pingxiu didn't go around in circles, and simply made it clear, "General Chen Shaotong took the initiative to ask Ying, and wanted to gather some domestic men and horses to go as a rearguard, once Meng Shanming got rid of the Jiangfang people, he could try to block and delay, so that the Jiangfang people and horses would bite again, so as not to let Meng Shanming drive straight in! Soldiers, murder weapons, and major affairs of the country must be guarded again, and there will always be no mistake to be cautious!"

Chen Shaotong is his son-in-law, he was dragged by him, and he was also feared and excluded because of him, he can also understand, how can he monopolize the military and political power?

Mu Zhuozhen raised his eyebrows slightly, and understood, this was to share the credit of killing Yan. His eyes flashed slightly, and he immediately laughed and said: "The prime minister is reasonable, but I was negligent, so tomorrow morning, the prime minister will propose this matter." This is tantamount to an agreement.

Zi Pingxiu immediately arched his hand and said, "The minister obeys the order!"

In fact, both of them know that this is a naked deal, Luo Zhao is in front of your emperor's intentions, and I can help you settle the constraints of the court, but I also want to take a share of the benefits.

To a certain extent, Zi Pingxiu is also a second-best thing, since the general trend cannot be changed, then he has to follow the trend, it is impossible to be vigorous and all of them are someone else's, he can't even hear a sound here, so isn't he, the prime minister, a decoration?

On the battlefield, it may be Luo Zhao's count, but his influence in the court is very important, as long as Chen Shaotong contributes, how much credit this power should turn into is still to be evaluated by the court.

And this compromise Mu Zhuozhen is also willing to bear, as long as his goal can be achieved, it is nothing to give Chen Shaotong some benefits.

The monarchs and ministers looked at each other and smiled, and after chatting with the person who presented the report, Mo Gao, who was not far away, changed his face greatly, turned around and strode back, and said stiffly in front of Mu Zhuozhen: "Your Majesty..."

Mu Zhuozhen knew that something was wrong as soon as he saw his reaction, looked at the report he held in both hands, and couldn't help but say in a deep voice: "What's wrong?"

Mo Gao bowed down to hold up the report, and said in a trembling voice: "The Jiangfang army has been wiped out!"

"What?" Mu Zhuozhen and Zi Pingxiu both said in unison, both shocked and shocked.

Zi Pingxiu stretched out his hand and almost snatched the report to see, but fortunately he retracted his hand at the critical moment, sweating a little in his heart, and quickly turned around and bowed to face the emperor.

Mu Zhuo really didn't notice this at all, snatched the report hand, quickly opened it to check, looked at it, his hands trembled, his face turned pale, and the whole person was shaky.

"Your Majesty!" Mo Gao and Zi Pingxiu were startled, and they both rushed to support him.

"Jiang Fang's two million elites are gone, just gone?" Mu Zhuozhen, who had been dumb for a while, finally let out a voice of grief and indignation, "The whole army is annihilated, how is it possible? How can this be, how can it be like this? Luo Zhao, Luo Zhao, you have disappointed me too much!"

He knew very well what the two million Jiangfang men and horses meant in such a situation, and the loss of the two million Jiangfang men and horses meant that the entire Song State would face the ravages of Meng Shanming's troops.

"Your Majesty!" Zi Pingxiu asked, asked for a report to check, and after reading it, he was also shocked, and sighed in his heart, Luo Zhao, Luo Zhao, this time you have really become a sinner of the Great Song Dynasty!

He didn't have the heart of schadenfreude at this time, but Luo Zhao took away nearly half of the elite people of the Song Kingdom, and now even if he wants to rush back, it will be difficult to quench his thirst. It was too late for the one million elite men in the northwest to withdraw, and they didn't dare to withdraw if they could, which was to prevent South Korea.

Yan has reached this point, there is still a large army in the north to guard against South Korea, Song Guo is really going to transfer the million elites, no one guards the border, the internal emptiness is raging with Meng Shanming, with his ass, he can think of who South Korea will attack, can South Korea be easy and cheap and not pick it up, and go to fight with the people and horses in the north of Yan State?

Therefore, the heavy troops in the northwest cannot be withdrawn, but who can stop Meng Shanming's army in the face of the country now?

Luo Zhao pinched three million elites in his hands, but he had to sit back and watch the Song Kingdom suffer a catastrophe, how could he not become a sinner of the Song Kingdom through the ages, and who in the court would dare to help Luo Zhao speak?

He can imagine that Luo Zhao's wisdom over the years has been completely planted in Meng Shanming's hands!

Losing his mind, Zi Pingxiu looked up and found that His Majesty the Emperor had grabbed his wrist, and said earnestly: "What the Prime Minister said before is really true, it can be seen that the Prime Minister's wisdom, Chen Shaotong's leading the army, I will be allowed now, and it is expected that the courtiers will not disagree, Cheng Yuan immediately asked Chen Shaotong to go to the emergency quickly, and wait for Luo Zhao to lead the army back to help!"

"......" Ziping stopped talking again, his intestines were repentant, and he couldn't wait to slap his mouth, this time was also too good, not to say it sooner or later, but at this time, he came to the emperor in front of this matter, even if it was mentioned a little later, it's okay now, lift a stone and hit his own feet.

The crux of the matter is that the two million elite men and horses can't stop Meng Shanming, and his son-in-law is also worthy of fighting Meng Shanming with some rabble?

His own son-in-law proposed it by himself, once Chen Shaotong is defeated, he has no place to throw off his responsibility, and he has to be dragged into the water together!

How could he say yes?

But in the major affairs of the military state, the king has no jokes, and there is no joke in front of the king, and some words cannot be taken back.

Mu Zhuozhen looked at this prime minister with sincere anticipation, of course he knew that the power that this prime minister had managed for many years was not trivial, and at this time he was going to force this prime minister to exhaust all his energy to deal with emergencies.

Zi Pingxiu was dumbfounded for a while, his old face looked sluggish, he had forced himself into a dead end, he couldn't refuse, and he was cursing Luo Zhao for the eighteenth generation of his ancestors in his heart.

The defeat was too sudden, the defeat was too happy, and the defeat caught people off guard, and he was smashed into the pit as the prime minister.

In the end, he could only receive the order with difficulty: "The minister obeys the order!"

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The Song army, which was approaching Yanjing, was still moving forward, and under the tree next to the road, Luo Zhao, who received the battle report, was crumbling.

Thinking of the situation that the Song Kingdom was going to face, thinking of the predictable pressure in the court, thinking that the strategy he had put in his heart would fall short, and thinking of his own fame, Luo Zhao suddenly grabbed the heart socket, and his angina was terrible.

Unfortunately, as expected, Meng Shanming really attacked with water, hoping that the last hope held by his own misjudgment was dashed, and the emergency military order passed to the Jiangfang people here was still a step slower, and the Jiangfang army was wiped out!

"Metropolitan Governor!" Su Yuanbai hugged him, and was about to cast a spell to regulate his breath.

Luo Zhao, whose eyes were black and his throat was sweet, was already angry, "Poof!" A mouthful of blood could not be held back and spurted out.

"Grand Duke!" exclaimed.

After emergency rescue, Luo Zhao, who was lying under the tree, finally came to his senses, and the first sentence that seemed to be dying was, "Order the forward men and horses to speed up the march, and after breaking through Yanjing, the chickens and dogs will not be left, and the city will be slaughtered!"

The reason is very simple, Meng Shanming swept away the two million elites of the Song Kingdom, and the Song Kingdom swept the capital of the Yan Kingdom, and he can fight without suffering!

The key is that in this way, he can also give an explanation to the Song court, otherwise he will go back empty-handed without achieving any goal, and it will cause the Song country to fall into such a dangerous situation, so how can he, who has always resisted the pressure and insist on his own opinion, explain? He really has no way to explain to the court.

He could imagine that the imperial court would inevitably force him to withdraw his troops and return to help, and he was afraid that even the emperor would force him, so he wanted to take Yanjing before this!