The number one scholar of the Song Dynasty

Beside Yang Lin, there are a few little-known young generals, General You Yan scattered in various cities, and now Yang Lin is surrounded by newcomers who have just been promoted.

Standing behind him, Wu Jie suddenly noticed his younger brother, stared at Yang Lin's back, looked around, and couldn't help stepping on him secretly.

Yang Lin turned around and said, "You Yan has just returned, and the population has not yet been counted, but I estimate that there are no less than 5 soldiers and civilians near Yizhou. The number of people who squeezed into the city is only [-] to [-], that is to say There are [-] to [-] people scattered all over the country. Not to mention that these people’s lives are in danger, they can still provide food, grass and supplies for the Jurchen Tartars. In the city, if it happens again, I will never forgive you lightly."

When the generals saw his ugly face, they hurriedly clasped their fists to accept the order. Yang Lin saw Wu Jie's hesitant to speak, pointed at him and said, "What do you have to say, but you think I'm wrong?"

Wu Jie hurriedly said: "The young master's words are all golden and good words. The final general thinks that the Jurchens have torn apart the Yunnei border and killed them near Yizhou. Do you want to remind the court to prevent them from dividing their troops south to kill and plunder food and grass?"

Yang Lin stroked his chin and pondered: "It's not impossible to go south to Hebei. According to the usual tactics of Jurchen Tartars, they like to send out a few light cavalry to seek victory and kill and plunder everywhere. I have already reported to the court. , asking for more troops on the front line of Hebei, I don’t know who the imperial court sent.”

"Don't you know, Shaozai? According to the news just now, the commander-in-chief is Young Minister Cai, who is a student of Longtuge and attendant to the British Duke Cai You."

Yang Lin's complexion turned dark, he clutched his chest, gritted his teeth and said, "Damn it!"

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Chapter 428 The Quartet's Chaos

Cai You was obviously greedy for the great achievement of recovering You Yan last time, and somehow she came to Hebei to claim the credit.

If this is normal, it happens to be the eve of the unprecedented war between the Song and Jin Dynasties. As Youyan's neighbor, Hebei is the backing and backing of Youyan's nearly 20 Song troops. In such an important position, a person with little skill but an outrageous background The old Cai You, but this guy is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

Now that the matter has come to this point, Yang Lin has no extra energy to be idle with the Bianliang monarchs and ministers, so he turns around and arranges the defense of Yizhou Mansion.

"The Jurchens came here with the power to destroy the Liao Dynasty. They must be arrogant and conceited in their vain attempt to advance the two armies. We must not give up an inch of ground. After they have suppressed their arrogance, the next battle will be easy to fight."

It sounds like what Shao Zai meant was to compete with Jurchen for every fortification outside the city, which was quite different from the harassment tactics in the mountains.Seeing the suspicious looks on the faces of the generals, Yang Lin said with a smile: "With the fortifications, I no longer need to be afraid of their heavy cavalry charging. It is enough to harass and kill in the mountains, but defending the soil and defending against the enemy requires our soldiers to fight bloody battles to the death." I waited to take a step back, and the Jurchen tartars stepped forward. How will the people and local forces that have just been attached to us view our Great Song Dynasty? Don't lose it!"

These words were resounding, lingering in the hearts of all the generals in Chengtou, they had a high-spirited fighting spirit.They are all generals promoted by Shao Zai in Youyan, maybe it wasn't the last battle, they would never touch the threshold from soldier to general.

The current battle is obviously more intense than last time. Shaozai has already resigned from the position of deputy marshal of soldiers and horses, but he sits in Youyan and is a well-deserved commander in chief of the three armies.These young generals, who are not willing to work hard for Shao Zai, follow him to usher in glory again.

Now one wave is not smooth, another wave is rising, the Jurchens have gone and returned, and they have brought more abundant troops and supplies.

After the fall of Shangjing, the Jurchens managed to expand their military strength in the heartland of the Liao people they occupied.

In addition to the mature Jurchen in Liaodong, they also conscripted a large number of Bohai people, Xi people and other former Khitan vassals into the army.There are also many Liaodong Han children who were driven as vassals.These vassal army horses, because Jurchen has no experience in managing vassal armies, their combat effectiveness is mediocre, but their siege ability has been greatly improved invisibly.

Now it is even more because of the large number of mature women from Liaodong, the main force of real women who can be commanded by Aguda has reached a scale of nearly 10 people!

The [-] Jurchen soldiers are already five times as many as the Jurchen army that destroyed the Liao Dynasty. With the addition of countless vassal troops and raw slaves, the Jurchen's shortage of troops has been made up for to the greatest extent.

Wanyan Zonghan has also been under the Great Wall in the north of Yandi, silently accumulating strength and recruiting soldiers.A Guda's identity made people unconsciously focus on the Jurchen West Route Army.But as the Jurchen general at the moment, Zong Han and his Lou Shi's commanding skills are by no means inferior to Aguda, and Lou Shi is called the number one Jurchen general by later generations.Once this team is launched, it will be like a thunderbolt.

Including the main force of Jurchen, all kinds of vassals, and all kinds of driven civilians.Even Zong Han couldn't figure out the exact number of troops and horses he dispatched. He could only estimate that it was more than 15.

These two armies entered Yizhou from Weizhou all the way, advancing from west to east.All the way from north to south, along the gap of the Great Wall among the mountains, pointing directly to Tanzhou and Yanjing.

According to Xi Yin's plan, they were going to defeat the Southern Dynasty army.The two roads merged under the city of Yanjing, then swept across the entire land of Youyan, and then went south to enter the roads of the Great Song Dynasty and Hebei Province.

After Yan Zonghan's 15 troops gathered and dispatched troops, the land of Youyan was suddenly full of flames of war, and Jurchen cavalry were everywhere.And a large number of vassals, like locusts, swept through Wubao towns in rural areas such as Tanzhou and Yanjing, which had recovered a little bit, to raise food and fodder for the main force of Jurchen.They captured their lives and looted their wealth.

In just a few days, the entire northern part of Yandi seemed to be overwhelmed by the overwhelming Jurchen army!

Thick smoke rose, and Wang Zhi jumped out of the cloud of smoke with the reins in hand. The bowstring in his hand was already broken, and the armor on his body was covered with scars.

There were more than [-] elite soldiers and knights who followed him, all of them were good men who could fight in the Youyan border area, and at this time, less than half of them remained.

There are only one or two remaining people in the village in front of them, and tears are rolling down. At this time, they are also pulling horses and carts, resisting panic, fear and tears, and start to clean up the corpses of their fathers and villagers.

At this moment in the village, there are only hunted and burned houses and corpses all over the ground.These corpses included not only Wang Teng's men, but also the people in the village, as well as a group of Jin Guo Bohai soldiers who were strangled by them.

Wang Ting didn't intend to stay here for a long time, now that the army is in turmoil, there are Jurchen cavalry sentries everywhere, if he stays in any place for a long time, there is a danger of being targeted.

He waved his spear, and led his men straight to Tanzhou. When they arrived at the Tanzhou government office, there was already a scene of chaos.The newly repaired city wall went around, the city gate was closed tightly, and all the young men went to the city.And outside the city, there were a large number of powerful soldiers and horses who had fled from all over the place, as well as some ordinary people who had gathered together with difficulty.

Wang Zhi saw an acquaintance from among the cavalry on the periphery, and said loudly, "Hu Yantong, why don't you open the city gate and welcome the people into the city?"

"Still going into the city? The outer area has been completely lost. The Jurchen Tartars may attack at any time. Pohan Hanshuai has an order to escort them to Jizhou."

Only then did Wang Ting understand that the most mobile cavalry of the Song Dynasty outside the city were fighting outside the city to hold back the pace of the Jurchen army and cover the people from fleeing to Jizhou.Jizhou is not within the war zone of Han and Zong, so it may be able to save them from the flames of the Youyan war, and save the lives of the few people in Yan.

"Wang Ting, it's useless for you to be here. It's better to go to Changping Juyongguan to support Zongze." Hu Yantong shouted, driving away his soldiers and horses, wrapping the people and fleeing eastward, looking back and grinning: "I After sending away these burdens, I will meet you."

"Han Shuai, is he going to give up Tanzhou?" Wang Ting asked with a frown.

"Po Hanwu wants to guard Tanzhou by himself. I said he didn't have that ability. He was whipped by a dog every day. Now everything is messed up. You don't have to be rigid. When the demons are dancing, you have to learn to look at the situation yourself. Let's fight." After Hu Yantong finished speaking, he had no time to continue chatting with him, and he urged the people to move eastward like a horse driving cattle and sheep.

Wang Ting pondered for a moment on the horse, then directed his subordinates and said, "Let's go to Juyongguan!"

Chapter 429 Tell me loudly, whoever decides in Yandi

In Miyun County, Tanzhou Prefecture, a group of people was marching along the wild lake outside the county, and they didn't look like they were going to fight at a leisurely pace.

In the field at this time, many farmers are harvesting crops. Although they are not yet fully mature, who knows if there will be a chance to harvest during the autumn harvest.Around the wild lake, farmers can be seen everywhere, cutting crops hard and distressed.However, the bustling scenes of village women delivering meals and children playing in the usual times are no longer seen.No one dared to let the children come out to play, most of them were hidden in the vegetable cellar at home, and they were not allowed to come out to see the sun during the day.

The people who buried their heads in the ground were all startled when they heard the neighing of the horse, and they were relieved when they looked up and saw this army horse carrying the banner of the Song Frontier Army.

In Youyanyun, the folk customs are aggressive, especially the Han'er here, who have been chaotic and chaotic, and have frequent melees.

Since the rebellion in Anlu Mountain at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty lost its former glory and could no longer restrain the tyrants everywhere.In Youyanyun is the battlefield of feudal clans, where countless powerful feudal clans fought in melee, and several generations of kings in the five generations all rose here.

After the founding of the Song Dynasty, the place became much calmer, because it was ceded to Khitan by Shi Jingtang, and the soldiers of the Song Dynasty were always unable to defeat Hedong. Except for one Yongxi Northern Expedition, there really was no war broke out again.

Once the centuries-old peace and tranquility were brought back to their original form, the smog everywhere turned the trees that should have been green in summer into gray.

Now this group of people is Han Shizhong leading his personal guards to inspect the defense lines set up by his soldiers outside Tanzhou, as well as the repairs of many military villages, and also inspect the migration of refugees in the north.

Han Shizhong pointed at the people around him, and said in a deep voice: "Young Zai has ordered that all these people should be driven to the city for refuge, or they should be moved to Jizhou in the east. Right now we don't have much time. Send people from house to house, even with knives, and get them away, so as not to stay where they are and be eaten as cattle and meat by the Jurchen Tartars."

The soldiers around him lowered their voices, looked around, and said in a low voice: "Shuai Han, this young master has already stepped down from his position as deputy marshal of soldiers and horses. It is said that he came to see Shishi this time. We don't have an edict from the court. If we forcefully drive the people away, we are afraid that there will be traitors in the army, and the civil servants who report to the court will know, but we will feel better."

When Han Shizhong heard this, he gave him a hard look, but his heart was agitated.I'm not afraid, as long as Yang Shaozai doesn't fall, no civil servant can do anything to win me.

But what Xiao Bing said is also reasonable. If the political enemies in the DPRK and China use the excuse that Shao Zai exceeded his authority to command the army, it would not be a good thing for Shao Zai to read the book.Yang Shaozai was also really bold, he didn't regard himself as an outsider at all, he was automatically promoted to his official position when he met the enemy, and the whole Youyan was mobilized by him.How can a civil servant have such dominance over the soldiers at the frontier without arousing the suspicion of the nobles in the court?

Han Shizhong laughed, and said: "Follow the power in a hurry, we don't have any decent ministers in the Song Dynasty, we don't listen to Shaozai's words, don't you listen to those thieves who play birds with big headscarves, if you really want to do that, now this Youyan is still It’s in someone else’s hands. You just follow orders, and if anything happens, I’ll be the one to blame, and you’ll be responsible for it.”

The soldiers laughed and said, "Calm down Shuai Han, I'm also thinking of Shuai Han."

"For my sake? For my sake, stop talking nonsense and remember these fortifications. At that time, every fortress will have to compete repeatedly with the Jurchen Tartars." Han Shizhong looked at a fortress in the distance, his expression full of thoughts With a heavy appearance, his voice is no longer as loud as before, as if he doesn't care about everything in the world.

This battle is about to sweep through Youyan. In the future, it is not ruled out that it will spread to Hedong, Hebei, and even further south. If people like myself do not fight well, they will repeat the mistakes of Khitan and let these vicious Tartars fight to Bianjing. Not impossible.

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In Daming Mansion, Cai You's Imperial Guards have been stranded here for ten days.