Take the system back to the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 241
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"The ones who can fight in this season are the real soldiers, and they are the pride of the entire Song Dynasty!"

"Master Zhao led Chizhou's last team without uniforms into Lingzhi Mountain for a decisive battle, right?"

"Hey, it should be so, but there is no way to know the details. In short, as long as there is still a way to win, with Mr. Zhao's wit and wisdom, he will try his best to do it."

Everyone in Chizhou City is concerned about the current situation.

No one knows where Zhao Cheng's troops have gone, but since they defeated the South Gate and did not return to the city to repair, the simplest guess is that a decisive battle is about to begin.

There will really be many frozen bones on the road this year. Many people will die of cold every winter, especially this year when there is a snowstorm.

"It's lucky that people don't freeze to death in this horrible weather. How can we have a decisive battle?"

Even if the siege of Chizhou has been lifted for the time being, many people are still worried about Zhao Cheng's aggressive advance. If the decisive battle is really imminent, if he loses, it means that after the blizzard stops, Wang Xiu will attack the city again.

Cai You is also one of the worried groups.The embarrassment is that the snowstorm keeps coming, and many people are unable to escape even if they want to.

Zhang Ji doesn't know how to perform military formations, and he doesn't know the final outcome of Zhao Cheng's troops marching into Ganoderma lucidum Mountain.

Concern is very concerned, but it is useless to be anxious, because the situation in Chizhou City is now more serious than the rebel siege.

The thing about people taking tea to cool down is happening in the city.After Wang Xiu's evacuation and Zhao Cheng's departure, conflicts about hunger broke out.

Under normal circumstances, people like Cai You can solve many problems.But now it can't be suppressed anymore, the Guichi County government has drastically reduced the supply to refugee camps and slums, including food and charcoal fire.

This is because the part that Zhao Cheng bought with IOUs has been used up, and after Zhao Cheng left, the future of Chizhou is uncertain, and the powerful and local tyrants have refused to sell any more.

There are not many supplies, and now that the road is blocked by heavy snow, the price on the black market has tripled.

It took less than a day for the price to triple from parity, and as long as one of the people who waited and watched refused to release the grain, they would all follow without a single grain coming out.

When Zhao Cheng was here, he could barely share the joys and sorrows, but now he can't share the dawn.

Two camps have been formed in Chizhou, and the big families have gathered their own private soldiers to guard the courtyard, guarding the door with knives, watching those poorly dressed people passing by with extremely vigilant isolated eyes.

Although the refugee camp is not a hell on earth, it looks miserable. In the case of being as thin as a skeleton, now there is no food, no medicine, no heat.

People have already started to freeze to death one after another, and there are still coughing sounds all over the camp.

There were people running around naked before, but they were just a few naked kids with nothing to do.Now, Zhang Ji, who is patrolling the refugee camp, sees many women naked and has no sense of shame. Apart from the fact that they themselves don't blush, Zhang Ji doesn't feel blush either.

The reason why there are naked women is because now is the most critical moment. Their clothes are taken off and wrapped around the coughing doll.

"Ahem, sir...my brother has followed you to the Ganoderma Mountains. Will he win...ahem..."

Passing by a little girl I usually know well, she asked Zhang Ji this way.

This scene made Zhang Ji feel great fear!

Unable to answer now, Zhang Ji left quickly without saying a word, hurriedly entered the state government office to find Cai You, and said with red eyes, "If you don't do anything, something more serious than the rebel siege will definitely happen in Chizhou .”

Taking a deep breath, Zhang Ji still couldn't calm down, and said with a rare demeanor, "At that time, Zhao Cheng gave them promises and hopes, and they believed them. Going to Ganoderma lucidum mountain under harsh conditions. Is Master Zhizhou really indifferent to this?"

It is impossible to say whether it is fair or not, or whether it makes sense.

Cai You could only turn around in a hurry, "I understand, I understand, I know what you mean. But now they don't listen to me, and I can't help it. Now they don't believe me, and they don't believe that Zhao Chengbu can come back .So after Zhao Cheng took away the last strength of Chizhou, they not only were not afraid of me, but also rebounded. Now it’s the other way around, they only have knives, and the government no longer has them. You don’t have knives and the other party has knives. Can we still To frighten them?"

Zhang Ji looked strange, "You didn't have the last power of Chizhou as you said. But it was in Zhao Cheng's hands. So the power has always been there, it just depends on whether it will be used?"

He didn't expect that this woman would be able to say this one day, and this was so frightening that Cai You felt a chill in his heart.

Frankly speaking, even if there were more casualties in Chizhou, the defeat and Cai You ran away again, the responsibility would not be as big as heaven, but if you let go at this time and follow Zhang Ji's thinking to engage in Zhao Cheng's set, the political responsibility will be worse than Chizhou's death Much bigger.

It's very simple. The Great Song Dynasty shared the world with the literati, bureaucrats and squires, and the world belonged to this group of people.If Cai You, as a veteran powerful family, rebelled against this class at this time, it would be a catastrophic event.

If it is not extreme, on the contrary, Zhao Cheng can do it to a certain extent. Zhao Cheng has no roots, and he has hidden opposition to this group of people. He is relatively small. He comes out to bite a few times. Yau is a good person and easy to settle.

To a certain extent, Zhang Ji also understood Cai You. When he realized that he was being too aggressive, he calmed down and said, "Perhaps... there is another way to buffer?"

Cai You couldn't help but stare blankly, looking at her with great interest.

Zhang Jidao, "It's really not good to take things from local tyrants, but... what if it's an official? As an official of the court, at this critical moment of life and death, do you really have no obligation at all?"

"This……"

Cai You twirled his beard and hesitated for a while, narrowed his eyes and said, "You mean Zhu Xiao, right?"

Zhang Ji nodded slightly.

"It's not impossible in theory..."

Cai You hesitated for a while, "The question is how much food can his family have?"

Zhang Jidao, "You don't need a lot, just five days. You only need to distribute five-day rations to more than 3 people in refugee camps and slums, and keep it until Zhao Cheng comes back. If he can come back, it means that the battle of Chizhou has been won. Then That's all right."

"With his small number of people and the current severe cold, you really think he can come back."

Cai You is not talking nonsense about this but is really not optimistic about it.

Zhang Ji is not optimistic either, but he can only fool him first, "I know he can win, the worse the weather, the greater his chances of winning."

Cai You walked back and forth worrying about gains and losses, "I told you, don't bother me. Do you have some basis and source for what you said?"

I can’t ask other questions, but Zhang Ji’s strong point in citing scriptures, he said, “It’s the same situation when Li Jing, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, broke the Yin Mountain. Zhao Cheng’s military talent and ability to control morale have been proven repeatedly, so I think it can produce similar results.” result."

This sounds technically true.

But Nima scared Cai You up even more. Fuck, there are no details in the history, but once the success is complete, everyone only knows the glory of the battle of Dingding, but in fact it was at the cost of almost death!

Assuming that Zhao Cheng can really win, and his grass roots are basically dead to pay the price, and when he comes back, he sees the parents and relatives of those who followed him starve to death, then something really happened in Chizhou. Show is worse.

"Well, although the Zhu family is not easy to mess with, they are really more cowardly in comparison. Then we can only find soft persimmons."

After Cai You sighed, he made the most important political decision in his life: secretly arrest Zhu Xiao.

The confidant Cai Jiu around him also became puzzled, it was hard to believe that the master would make such a decision one day.

To be on the safe side, Cai Jiu asked in a low voice, "Where are the other main members of the Zhu family?"

Cai You didn't speak any more, and made a slight gesture of wiping his neck.

Cai Jiu nodded and left the room.

On the contrary, Zhang Ji was startled and lost his voice: "This... Your Excellency is overreacting..."

"To shut up!"

Cai You has completely changed now, and he is no longer in a relationship. "In short, the dog is going to jump the wall, and Benzhou has also been forced to this position. People, they are all forced out."

Zhang Ji said again, "But it's not that strict..."

"Shut up!"

Cai You interrupted coldly, "You are older in terms of learning, but you are far behind in terms of these. If you don't want to do it, you have to do it to the end. If you think a family with a century-old dynasty and a thousand-year-old family is fake, you know How long has the Zhu family been operating in this place, and how entangled are they? I don’t know where the Zhao Song Dynasty was, but they were the overlords here! Remember, if you want to distribute food, you must kill people. Otherwise, if the state puts the words here, it will be Zhu Xiao promised to open the warehouse, as long as he and his descendants are still there, believe it or not, Benzhou used whips to drive them to get food, and few people dared to go in to get it!"

After a pause, Cai You pointed to Zhang Ji's nose again and said, "There are too many reasons. As long as you are serious, the Zhu family can be sentenced to death a hundred times and not run away. Anyway, you can't get away with this matter. You forced it, and you participated in it." , you give Benzhou a book, that’s all.”

Zhang Ji opened his mouth halfway.

"That's what war is like. The more chaos there is, the less rules there are."

Cai You waved his hands and said, "It's either you die or I die, and your father can do the same in extreme times. The truth is never important. Regarding Zhu Xiao's matter, no matter what you hear afterwards, just shut up. If you still have a little conscience, don't let your father and uncle bother me about this issue. You don't need to regard me as a good person, tacitly, just throwing a mouse, isn't it simple? "

After that, Zhang Ji was forced to leave the state government office. When he left, he was still confused. Could it be that he was really forced to come out? Or was Lao Cai really led astray by Zhao Cheng...

The blizzard finally stopped.

It has been the third day since Zhao Cheng's troops came out, and there is still no news.

The entire city of Chizhou was trembling. Now that the blizzard had stopped, Cai You tried to send a team in the direction of Ganoderma lucidum Mountain to find out the news, but no one was available, and they were quite timid.

Anyway, Lao Cai had gone berserk, so he arrested Liu Qishan's youngest, and asked him to enter Cai's mansion and put him under house arrest.Cai Jiu went to invite Liu Qishan to drink tea with a grim smile and said, "You won't object to going out of the city now and bring your Master Zhao back, right?"
How could Liu Qishan refuse? There are rumors that Zhu Xiaodu, a fish in the pond, has been killed by them with a black knife. Otherwise, Liu Qishan would not believe it to his death. If Zhu Xiao is still there, would anyone dare to go to their Zhu family to get food?
As a last resort, Lao Liu took seven or eight brothers and went out of the city with a feeling of walking on thin ice, searching in the direction of Ganoderma lucidum mountain.

It was very harsh along the way, and corpses could be seen along the way, but they were not in scale. Fortunately, most of the costumes were not Zhao Cheng's militiamen.

In this case, Liu Qishan's hanging heart was half down. Boss Zhao had always been wretched, and he only fought prepared battles. Before going out, he drew a lot of hatred and concentrated resources to fight the cold. At that time, he had already considered the way out.

Now that he has prepared for this, with his wretched and witty peeing, he might really win.

The deeper you go, the more corpses there are. It's frightening to see, most of them are frozen to death.

There were more dead bodies at the mouth of the Yangtze Ridge, but the red color was almost invisible, and they were all frozen and covered by heavy snow.

The more the rebels died, the greater the possibility of Boss Zhao winning, so old Liu became more courageous, "Brothers, don't be afraid, follow me to Ganoderma lucidum mountain, and at least get a reputation for helping the war. Basically, it doesn't matter. Whether Chizhou wins or loses, Mr. Zhao has become a kind of spirit. He wants to see people and corpses, and the state government ordered us not to go back if we can't find him."

……

The temperature began to warm up, and the Bianjing Everbright City became more active at night, full of luxury.

In the darkness, three people and six riders galloped towards the capital, shouting from afar, "Hurry up for eight hundred miles! Great victory at Ganoderma lucidum mountain in Chizhou!"

Basically, no matter what kind of people in the imperial court are waiting for this news, the city guards opened the city gate like hell, and even performed a very responsible performance, escorting them all the way, bumping into whatever they saw.

There are city management officers in Bianjing, but now they all drink in kilns, so the night market in Bianjing is particularly lively, and there are various stalls filling the streets at night.

Liu Qishan was awesome this time in his life, not only did he go to Beijing, but he was not called a countryman.And there is a Japanese army uncle who helps to open the way with a whip, and there is no need to pay for the stalls that are damaged.

He didn't even need to be reviewed, and rushed into the imperial city in one go, and entered the center of the Song Dynasty - Zhengshitang.

"The humble Liu Qishan has met my husband!"

Old Cai Jing and Zhang Kangguo were not there, they must all be sleeping at night, only the night owl Zhang Shuye was "on duty" in the middle hall.

"Tell me quickly, how is Chizhou?"

Zhang Shuye walked down especially excitedly, not even checking his identity.Anyway, this is not very important. If there is a problem with the inspection later, this guy will be dragged into Kaifeng Mansion and beaten to death.

"Mr. Hui... the great victory in Chizhou, Mr. Zhao led a thousand militiamen in the severe cold, and joined the two remaining battalions of the Wuwei Army. A total of 500 people marched out on Lingzhi Mountain, basically annihilating Wang Xiu's troops!"

Liu Qishan said out of breath.

Zhang Shuye slapped his thigh, and he was not in a hurry to receive the military report. He walked back and forth to calm down, and Lao Zhang asked again, "Tell me again, what happened to Chizhou?"

Liu Qishan was a little stunned, and didn't know what the gentleman meant, so he hesitated for a while to say something, "Eh...Chizhou won badly, but it's still a victory."

"you!"

Zhang Shuye couldn't help being annoyed, he raised his foot but didn't start kicking, "What the hell is it?"

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Lao Liu rolled his eyes, and this time he said smartly, "Humble position... well, it's both a great victory and a tragic victory."

"Drag this guy out and give him five lashes!"

He was finally hung up, and after a while, he heard Liu Qishan's screams outside.

Zhang Shuye took the details of the military report from the Chizhou Yamen and the private letter from his precious daughter, and was carefully reading it under the lamp.

This small-scale war has actually affected the entire court.Before this, no one knew how it would evolve, even if Cai Jing reluctantly made up his mind to cut off his own arm to solve the southeast problem.

But in fact, the court has almost no confidence to solve the problem.

Now, after comparing Cai You's report with Zhang Ji's report several times, I finally confirmed that Chizhou had indeed won.

This is not a great battle that will shine through the ages, but since then, many major problems of the country have been solved. It can be regarded as the first great victory in the southeast. To a certain extent, it also reflects the court's current attitude towards solving certain poisonous problems. determination.

Of course, after seeing the details of the military report, I was also terrified. Generally speaking, the country bumpkin named Liu Qishan didn't talk nonsense.The traitor Cai You did not write specific statistics, only said that the casualties were relatively large.This should be to show Chizhou's achievements, to show that he commanded and won beautifully.

However, Zhang Ji, the daughter of Zilai who can write splendid articles, wrote:

"Seventy percent of the battle was damaged, and most of the Chizhou army was disabled."

"Zhao Cheng's army of gods and ghosts marched, using the cover of the blizzard, biting the scattered rebels returning home, and launched a surprise attack at the moment when Chen Li opened the city on Lingzhi Mountain, rushed into the village in one go, and used their internal chaos, trampling, and unpreparedness to carry out the final decisive battle!"

"In the real decisive battle, the Chizhou Army suffered few casualties. However, after basically annihilating Lingzhi Mountain, the Chizhou Army was still in a blizzard, and the Chizhou Army was even unable to send the victory report back to the city. Many people lay down on the spot and lost their will."

"The rest of the people couldn't take care of the others, so they could only try their best to enter the sheltered area of ​​the cottage, and they couldn't wake up. If Cai You couldn't wait after the snow stopped, he sent Liu Qishan to look for them, and ordered to see the dead body. No one will know that the Chizhou army wiped out Wang Xiu's tribe, but they all lay in the Ganoderma lucidum cottage waiting to die."

"Liu Qishan found them, and Chizhou organized a large number of people to go to Ganoderma lucidum mountain but failed to save them. Many of them fell asleep after the decisive battle and never woke up again. A few woke up, but the doctor who organized to go there could not save them. After treatment, many people's feet were disabled, black and pus appeared, and the toes were stuck together, so the soles of their feet had to be amputated."

This is probably the details of the Battle of Chizhou. Zhang Shuye felt chest tight and didn't dare to look too closely at the moment, so he could only look at the end: the bandit leader Wang Xiu was missing.

For some unknown reason, Zhang Ji didn't say what happened to Zhao Cheng, and since the general situation was the same, Zhang Shuye didn't care too much about the life and death of a certain person, he just thought about how to use this hard-won victory so that he could win from the southeast region. Get bigger fruits.

If you don't take this opportunity to expand and go deeper, and investigate the southeast issue to the bottom, this battle will be in vain, and these people will really die in vain.

"These people are the heroes of the Song Dynasty. They died well. You made a good start. Next, the old man will send other people to fight another battle. You will not be disappointed. You have completed your mission and retired with honor!"

Zhang Shuye muttered to himself...

(End of this chapter)