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"Observe the order! The minister waits to leave!"

Zhao Junsheng got up and shouted: "King Langya stay!"

Everyone else left, only Sima Chuzhi stayed where he was.

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand: "Langya King, tell me your specific thoughts!"

"No!" Sima Chuzhi agreed, and immediately explained his thoughts in detail.

Zhao Junsheng listened quietly, and after Sima Chuzhi finished speaking, he raised his puzzles one by one. Sima Chuzhi answered them one by one, and Sima Chuzhi didn't think about some detailed arrangements for a long time. Discussions were held and improvements were made step by step. The clerks next to them recorded the plans they discussed in detail for the first time.

After the two of them perfected the plan, Zhao Junsheng took the recorded plan from the clerk and read it carefully, and handed it to Sima Chuzhi after reading it: "See if there is anything else that needs to be added!"

Sima Chuzhi looked it over and said: "The veteran has nothing to add!"

"Since that's the case, follow this plan. The specific deployment is only known to me and you. Try to leak the information. Even the person in charge of the execution can only let him know what he should know, and you can't tell him what he shouldn't know. !"

"promise!"

One day later, before the Song Army navy arrived in Xiakou, Zhao Junsheng ordered the troops to return to the court, leaving Sima Chuzhi as the governor of Yingzhou and the prefect of Jiangxia.

At the same time, the corresponding Jiang'an garrison strength has also been reduced a lot, with only 5000 troops stationed in Jiangxia City.

Song Guo's careful work on Qianjun's side quickly spread the news to Xiakou. After Xiao Bin got the news, he immediately started to secretly prepare for crossing the river to attack.

Soon, the navy transferred from Dongting Lake arrived in Xiakou. In order to prevent Zhao Junsheng from leading his troops back after receiving the news of the eastward transfer of the Dongting Lake Navy, he organized troops to cross the river with the assistance and support of naval warships that night. attack.

This time the Song Army chose to conduct a feint attack at two landing sites in the east and west, and placed the real landing site at the riverside wharf ferry outside Jiangxia City. Although a large number of river bank defense facilities were also built here, the Song Army had never attacked here before. However, the defenders are a little careless relying on the strong fortifications and sufficient troops here.

That night, when the battles on the east and west river beach defense lines started, an hour later, Liu Gun's attention was attracted by the two battles. Because the two defense lines were in a hurry, he had to deploy some troops to support them. Jiang Xia The troops on the riverside outside the city were correspondingly reduced.

So the Song Army invested more than 2000 troops in one go, and with the cooperation and cover of a large number of naval warships, they landed on the Shangjiang Beach and launched a fierce attack.

After more than an hour of fighting, the defenders were insufficient and forced to retreat due to heavy casualties. Once this line of defense was breached, the defense lines on the east and west sides could not hold up when the flanks were threatened, and the defense line on the riverbank completely collapsed.

After dawn, the Song army captured all the fortifications on the Jiang'an defense line and quickly surrounded Jiangxia City.

In less than an hour, Xiao Bin, the head coach of the Song Army, crossed the river with a happy face and arrived outside Jiangxia City.

Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses surrounded Jiangxia City so tightly that not a single fly could fly out.

Xiao Sihua rode on the horse and observed the fortifications of Jiangxia City.

"Marshal, according to the detailed report, there are 5000 defenders in Jiangxia City, and 2000 of them are allies!"

After hearing the report, Xiao Bin immediately ordered: "No matter how much you pay, take Jiangxia City within two days!"

Then, Xiao Bin ordered one after another to dispatch troops to capture nearby cities and passes.

1065 - Catch the horse's feet

There is no doubt that the army squad is on its way back to Chang'an.

It is generally believed that once the army is dispatched, if there is another storm on the border, it is impossible to return to the division to fight again.

There are two reasons: first, the momentum of the army is no longer, as the saying goes, it will decline again, and then it will be exhausted!Second, the soldiers are waiting to receive the reward after the squadron returns to the court. If this problem is not resolved, the soldiers will definitely not turn around and go back to fight.

It was based on the above two points that Xiao Bin, the head coach of the Song Army, dared to quickly cross the river to counterattack. He was not afraid of the Qianjun turning around and coming to fight him again, because once the Qianjun was in charge, they would lose the momentum and morale to attack. is invincible.

But Xiao Bin just thought wrong, he made a mistake of empiricism, the reason why Zhao Junsheng ordered the teacher at this time was to make Xiao Bin feel at ease and boldly cross the river to counterattack.

In other words, Xiao Bin fell for it!

The reason why Zhao Junsheng dared to do this was of course relying on something. On the way of the class teacher, he ordered to hand out the rewards to the meritorious soldiers of each army along the way. Where did the money for the rewards come from?Naturally, it came from the government treasuries of the captured cities and the powerful landlords.

Xiao Bin, the head coach of the Song Army, believed that even if Zhao Junsheng got the news that he led the army across the river to counterattack soon, it would be impossible to boost the morale of the Gan army, and there was no way to encourage the Gan army, because if Zhao Junsheng did not solve the problem of rewarding meritorious soldiers It is absolutely impossible to raise morale.

This battle has been fought for nearly half a year, and the army hastily dispatched troops, with insufficient preparations in all aspects. By now, Zhao Junsheng must have no cash in hand to give rewards to the soldiers.

But fighting is not just about payment but no income. The Qian army really has a lot of income. The Qian army has seized a large area of ​​the Song State, with hundreds of cities and towns. How could it be possible to have no money?

Zhao Junsheng had enough money to give rewards to the soldiers. For those soldiers who had made enough military exploits to be promoted, Zhao Junsheng asked each army to draw up a promotion list early in the morning, and issued appointment documents all the way back north.

Therefore, although the soldiers of the dry army are in the squadron, their morale is always high.

When the news came that Song Jun crossed the river to counterattack under Xiao Bin's command, Zhao Junsheng knew that Xiao Bin was in the trap.

In the afternoon of that day, Zhao Junsheng ordered all the troops to stop and set up camp on the spot to rest. Where should they put the drafts and letters they exchanged with friends? "

Although the two women were afraid, they kept their mouths tightly shut and leaned together without saying a word.

"Don't think I can't find it if you don't tell me! Someone, take it for me!"

Under Lin Jinghui's order, the soldiers rummaged through the tents.

Soon a soldier came over with a stack of manuscripts and a few letters: "General, I found these!"

Lin Jinghui read the manuscript and found nothing suspicious. He opened and read a few letters. These letters were written to Pang Faqi by his friends many years ago. The letters are all old. The reason why Pang Faqi These letters are still kept, and Lin Jinghui guessed that these letters were written at a fairly high level, sincere and touching, and there is nothing else to be doubted about.

Lin Jinghui seemed to think of something, and took out a note, letter and manuscript to check the handwriting. There are only a few common fonts in this era. After a person has formed a writing habit, it is difficult to fake his handwriting. There will definitely be clues left on the strokes, which can be seen by those who have studied handwriting.

Lin Jinghui took these manuscripts, letters, pigeons, and notes to the handsome tent.

In the commander's tent, all the generals and officials of the army seemed to be present, and Pang Faqi was standing in the middle with his hands down.

"Your Majesty, Commander Lin is here, and he's outside the tent!" The primary school on duty outside the tent came in to report.

"Let him in!"

Lin Jinghui walked into the commander's tent with a soldier, saluted and said: "My minister sees Your Majesty!"

Zhao Junsheng asked: "The people below said that someone released pigeons in the camp to inform Song Jun of the news. Do you suspect it is Pang Gong?"

Lin Jinghui replied: "Yes!"

"Is there any real evidence?"

"Have!"

Zhao Junsheng waved: "Submit it!"

Lin Jinghui turned around and took the tray from the soldier and presented it up. The eunuch Kang Yide stepped forward to take the tray and put it down in front of the imperial case, then stepped aside.

Zhao Junsheng looked at Pang Faqi, turned his eyes back to the tray of the imperial case, and saw a few things in the tray, including a shot dead pigeon, a note, a stack of blank paper, a stack of manuscripts, and several letters .

Zhao Junsheng picked up the note and looked at the contents above, then looked up at Lin Jinghui and asked, "Commander Lin, how can these things prove that Mr. Pang collaborated with the enemy?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, according to the lookout post in the camp, the pigeons were released from near Pang Faqi's camp. There are several other officials' camps besides Pang Faqi's tent, but Pang Faqi is a newcomer, and the other officials are in our university. Having been an official for many years, these officials have not been suspected of collaborating with the enemy by the relevant yamen before. Therefore, the carrier pigeon is the most suspected of Pang Faqi!"