Troubled Times: Start with 800 Dead Soldiers

Liu Yanqing took a soft knife from Gao Qiu.

When I turned back to my camp, my nose was not a nose, and my face was not a face.

Who can be happy with that speech?

Good guy, I came up with the idea and let myself be the pioneer.

As soon as he sat down at the table, an officer on the side quickly came forward and said: "General Liu, this is a letter from your family. Please open it and take a look."

Liu Yanqing was even more puzzled. His transfer to Bianjing was a secret. In addition, even if his hometown knew that he was transferred to the capital, how could he even have a place to garrison the army?

But despite this, he quickly opened the letter.

What surprised him was that the letter was from none other than Su Xia.

General Liu Yanqing, your words are as good as your face. I, Su Xia, once served as an official in the same court as you and served as the commander of the Pinghai Navy and the Chengdu Navy. Today, the emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Ji, is ignorant and immoral, and the people are suffering unspeakably. The officials are forcing the people to rebel, and the people have no choice but to rebel. Eighty thousand of my men fight in Haizhou and wipe out the Song army several times.,,,,,

If seeing all this did not make Liu Yanqing nervous, until he saw it later, it clearly listed the identities of the main participating officers of the Western Army, troop equipment, etc., which made him shudder and tremble with fear!

After reading the letter, Liu Yanqing's heart was beating wildly and he looked at the officer beside him: "Who sent this letter?"

"A young man who seems to be from the northwest?"

"Where did this person go?"

"Oddly enough, the man disappeared so quickly after we settled in."

Liu Yanqing asked nervously: "Has anyone read this letter?"

"No sir, this letter has been kept strictly confidential. The sergeants and I guarded it day and night without any problems."

Liu Yanqing was a little suspicious at this moment.

The army was about to go out, but he suddenly received a letter from the enemy persuading him to surrender. He even understood that what the other party said was right.

Although he was the deputy commander-in-chief and had assembled an army of 15 with Gao Qiu, Liu Yanqing was not sure about annihilating Su Xia's national defense army.

Although the Western Army has strong combat effectiveness, many officers and soldiers are not used to it coming from the sweet and cool land in the northwest to the Central Plains.

In addition, Gao Qiu had already served as the commander-in-chief of the rebel army and suppressed the Western Army.

In normal times, the officers and soldiers never leave or leave the barracks, rather like little wives.

Just when Liu Yanqing was thinking about these things in his mind, a Huotou Army officer on the side came forward to report, "Sir, the mutton we promised before has only arrived at one thousand kilograms."

"One thousand pounds?"

Liu Yanqing's thoughts were suddenly brought back to his eyes.

This mutton was the expedition food and grass that the army requested from the court before going on an expedition.

It is also called Zhuangxingjiu.

Before marching to fight, you must prepare strong wine.

If you have wine, you must have food. The emperor rewarded the Western Army with mutton. 8 people were given one thousand catties of meat, and eighty people could eat one catty? How can that be.

"Thinking of this, he asked a little confused, how much wine was there?"

"Eight Thousand Jars"

Having said this, the officer said again: "Sir, there is something I don't know whether I should say or not."

Liu Yanqing raised his head and glanced at him: "Have you been with me for so many years? Is there anything I shouldn't say, but it doesn't matter."

"After traveling thousands of miles here, we were about to go to war, but after our brothers told us, we found out that the imperial army and the imperial army under Gao Qiu's subordinates had been given wine and meat, and there were hundreds of carriages attached. Only our Western Army is short of meat and wine."

"Is there such a thing?

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Liu Yanqing frowned, and what he was most worried about had indeed happened.

Gao Qiu really put on small shoes for his Western army.

The Western Army has the strongest combat effectiveness and has traveled thousands of miles to fight. At this moment, it is actually being treated differently.

Then we will be stepmothers.

Liu Yanqing was still worried about this, watching his generals come in. Most of these Western Army generals had been with him for a long time and were about to die without even a bite of meat or a drink of wine.

Liu Yanqing's anger surged upwards, and he rushed to the commander's camp with his soldiers.

In the Chinese army's tent, when Gao Qiu saw Liu Yanqing's displeasure, he started to curse: "Deputy commander, the date of departure is about to come. If you don't prepare for the battle in front of the enemy's camp, why are you here?"

"Commander, all the armies are allocated grain, grass, supplies, wine and meat. Why is it that only my Western Army is not allocated enough? My Western Army is about to go on an expedition. Why is it that we don't even have the supplies? If you do this, why can't you? Let the soldiers not feel cold."

When Gao Qiu saw Liu Yanqing coming to attack, he was furious: "Vice Commander Liu, don't you understand the military regulations of the Song Dynasty at all? You are good at leading soldiers to break into the Chinese army's tent. Come on, take it!"

Liu Yanqing was confused. Here, Bi Sheng, the flying tiger general in front of the imperial army, led some armored soldiers and took out their swords, and captured Liu Yanqing, two generals, and a group of soldiers outside the tent.

Gao Qiu said coldly: "Since the year before last, Lin Chong, the instructor of the 80-strong Forbidden Army, has dared to break into the White Tiger Hall with a knife. I think this is the reason why I went out to fight, otherwise I will definitely capture you today." ’

Now that things have happened, Liu Yanqing fully understands that the reason why this old boy doesn't give his troops meat and wine is to give himself a disincentive.

Damn it, what a sinister intention.

With the knife on his neck, Liu Yanqing had no choice but to admit his defeat: "Commander, it was,,,, the last general was rude."

Seeing that the other party had relented, Gao Qiu waved his hand: "That's all."

In fact, he didn't really intend to make Liu Yanqing lose his official position, he just wanted to give him a power and make him bow to him.

But I didn't expect that he was playing too big.

Liu Yanqing bowed his head to Gao Qiu here and admitted his mistake...

After Liu Yanqing left, Bi Sheng, the flying tiger general in front of him, put away his sword and stepped forward to report: "Commander, will we offend Liu Yanqing if we do this? What if it happens to the tens of thousands of elite Western troops under his command? "

"Bi Sheng, do you know how to give me a slap in the face?"

Bi Sheng still didn't understand, Gao Qiu said: "I have asked the Huotou Army to prepare food and fodder again and allocate it to the Western Army. In addition, I have asked you to directly serve as the liaison officer and secretly monitor Liu Yanqing's movements for me. If there is any trouble, Report to me immediately."

"Yes, sir."

The Flying Tiger General Bi Sheng is likely to be Gao Qiu's favorite confidant, and Bi Sheng is asked to be the "supervisor of the army".

Liu Yanqing had just arrived at the Western Army camp, and not long after, Flying Tiger General Bi Sheng followed him. He first brought the meat and wine that the imperial court had given them and had been detained, and then announced Gao Qiu's order. , he will be jointly responsible for the front army and urge the Western Army to attack quickly.

As Liu Yanqing expected, Liu Yanqing's Western Army was the main force in attacking Su Xia's territory.

In Haizhou City, in order to deal with the Song army's attack, an intensive pre-war preparation was in full swing.

Su Xia, on the other hand, frowned and asked Xiong Hui at the side: "Xiong Hui, is there nothing happening at Liu Yanqing's side?"