choke element

Chapter 770 Song People

The cane has been used for many years, and the green bamboo has turned yellow.

Zhao Fang pushed it on the ground with great force.The bamboo pole collided with the stone slab at the head of the bridge, and suddenly slid into the deep groove on the stone slab, making a creaking sound immediately.

Zhao Fang lowered his head and stared at the engraving on the stone. After a long time, he bent down and touched it. The engravings ranged from shallow to deep, and there was a crack at the bottom, which should be the mark of a heavy knife cut a long time ago.

On the subgrade at the end of the bridge, the original exquisite pattern of flying horses riding clouds can hardly be seen clearly, but a large number of scratch marks can be seen everywhere.

There are obvious traces, which are caused by the collision of the shaft and axle, but there are also many deep and long traces made by chopping with knives and axes.If you distinguish carefully, you can still see the result of fierce shooting with strong bows and arrows at close range, but after decades of wind and frost, the traces are only tiny white spots, which can't be distinguished clearly if you don't pay close attention.

This used to be a battlefield, where the Song and Jin armies fought desperately.

Xiaoshang Bridge is a bridge over the Xiaoshang River at the junction of Linying and Yancheng. It is said that it was built in the Sui Dynasty.

However, this place became really famous 76 years ago when King Yue Zhongwu made his Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.

In the tenth year of Shaoxing, at the beginning of July, King Yue defeated Tie Futu and Ma Jingrui, a general of Jin State Wanyan Zongbi, in Yancheng, and then marched northward.On July 76th, which is [-] years ago today, King Yue's general Yang Zaixing led [-] cavalry on a patrol, and suddenly encountered Wanyan Zongbi's army assembled again at Xiaoshang Bridge.

Yang Zaixing led his troops to fight desperately, killing more than [-] enemies and more than [-] officers from ten thousand households below Sababojin.Unfortunately, Yang Zaixing himself was trapped in the Xiaoshang River. He was hit by countless arrows and died bravely.Later, the Jin army got his body, and after burning it, they got as much as two liters of arrowheads.

After this battle, the Jin army was frightened.King Yue marched again, and defeated Yan Zongbi's 13 horses in Yingchang, killing the men as blood men and the horses as blood horses.Killed more than 78 Jin troops, captured more than [-] people, including [-] generals, and captured more than [-] horses.

After that, it was the battle in Zhuxian Town.But at the last moment when the gateway to Bianliang was opened and King Yue was about to recover the capital, the imperial court awarded twelve gold medals in a row, and the ten-year achievement was destroyed once. Never approached Bianliang.

Zhao Fang often imagined the road from Xiaoshang Bridge to Zhuxian Town in his dreams.When he was young, he often heard the elders in his family talk about the majesty of Master Wang's Northern Expedition, and the enthusiasm of the people in the north to welcome Master Wang with the old and the young.Sometimes he would even secretly imagine that if he were the king of Yue, he would lead such an army to flatten the Helan Mountain Que for the Song Dynasty and wash away the shame of Jingkang, what an honor it would be.

Today, decades later, this imagination has suddenly become a reality.

At this time, the army and horses of the headquarters began to move, and the flags were raised high. As Bianliang approached, the morale of the soldiers became higher and higher, as if they were fearless.Columns of infantry and cavalry were mixed in a line of troops.The sound of flags blowing against the wind, the sound of footsteps stamping on the ground, and the clanging and clashing of armor all gathered in one place, resounding like thunder.

Amidst the rumbling thunder, Zhao Fang clenched his cane tightly, his thoughts were complicated and his heart was surging.

He was happy, he was excited, and he felt bewildered and sad.

"What is father thinking? Could it be that the military situation has changed, causing you to worry?"

Zhao Fan, the eldest son who accompanied Zhao Fang, and the newly-appointed head of the Jinghu System Department, Ji Yiwen, asked Zhao Fan.

He was eager to try again: "If the Jin army is still fighting somewhere, I would like to take one to defeat it!"

Zhao Fan is 34 years old this year, he is in the prime of life, and he joined the army as a young man, and he went to battle to kill the enemy during the Kaixi year.

Since the army entered the territory of the Jin Kingdom, the enemy troops retreated one after another. The forwards of the army, Meng Zongzheng and Hu Zaixing, reported victories again and again, and Zhao Fan obviously couldn't hold back his desire to make contributions.At this moment, he asked Zhao Fang what worries he had, but in fact he meant to ask for a fight.

Zhao Fang shook his head.

"You go to watch the rear team's luggage and urge the march, and don't worry about the rest."

Zhao Fan bowed resentfully and went to the back line.Not long after, the sound of the wheels of the big wheels crushing the ground came rumblingly.

Zhao Fang straightened up and walked across the bridge.

When he was a teenager, he was very bookish, and he thought it was easy to make meritorious deeds on the battlefield, and killing a lot of people was just a figure on paper. With his own ability, he wanted to achieve the great cause of restoration, and he could do it with his hands.

But as the official became bigger and bigger, Zhao Fang organized the army in Jinghu, and if he wanted to achieve results in military training, he had to use a lot of old men and troops from the Yue family army. From this, he knew more and more about the extraordinaryness of King Yue.

He often thinks that compared with Yue Wang, he has lived a long life in vain, and he is afraid that his civil and military talents are not as good as one tenth or one percent of Yue Wang.

With hundreds of millions of people ruled by the Great Song Dynasty, an old scholar like Zhao Fang is nothing.But as he got older, his black hair turned into white hair. Zhao Fang watched Wu Jie's brothers' ambitions unfulfilled, Yu Zhongsu's public aspirations but unfortunately died too late, and Han Tuozhou's plan for the Northern Expedition but was useless. The general, on the contrary, missed his own life; watching Xin Jiaxuan take the Wanzi Pingrong Ce to exchange for the owner's tree planting book...

It's too difficult, it's too difficult to make a career in Dasong.

So many sages and predecessors can't do it, is it because they are incompetent?Of course not, it's just that the situation forced me to be held back by too many people!

And today the Song army is here, is it because of me, Zhao, who is outstanding?
I was just lucky, and the situation came unexpectedly!
The ridiculous thing is that this situation was not achieved by Da Song's hard work, but because of the civil strife in the Kingdom of Jin!

Because hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and generals of the Kingdom of Jin were all lost in the battlefield with the northern Heita!
Because within the Kingdom of Jin, the man named Guo Ning swept half of the Kingdom of Jin with his mighty might, forcing the prince of the Kingdom of Jin to rely on Tokyo Bianliang to pray for the possibility of surviving in the three-way battle!
For many years, Da Song looked down on Beiren, thinking that there was not a single hero among the millions of Beiren.Otherwise, it is time to take the initiative to get up and destroy gold.

But now, the heroes among the northerners have reached this level. That Zhou Guogong Guo Ning rose from the reckless, with nothing to rely on, but he has already killed the northern Jurchen with blood, and then used Tokyo Bianliang as an execution ground , I'm going to tie a rope around Dajin's neck and make a noose!
The heroes of the Han family in the north rose so violently, what did the Song Dynasty do when the state of Jin was weak?

Da Song is the one who should hate the Kingdom of Jin the most in the world. Da Song should work hard to restore it, and should try hard for decades.There is a way, the way of heaven is good, and China has principles that must be extended. People follow suit, and everyone will take revenge!

That's what he said, but Da Song actually didn't do anything.

Even in this coalition operation to destroy gold, Da Song was completely exploited.

Some things, even in Xiangyang, Tangzhou, Zhao Fang can understand.In the previous six months, Shi Miyuan and Mr. Shi Xianggong were moved by the trade profits released by Guo Ning. He had no relationship with the Dinghai regime in the north on the surface. In fact, the people underneath were running wildly for money and bribes.

As a result, the strength of the Song Dynasty was used as a tool to entangle and weaken the Kaifeng Jin army.

In order to prevent his family's power from being overthrown by the raging scholars from the ruling and opposition parties, Shi Xianggong actually jumped up and advocated the Northern Expedition again, setting up a military policy like a joke!

Is Shi Xianggong a fool?

Doesn't he know what a new Han'er regime will replace the Kingdom of Jin, and what it means for Da Song?
Shi Xianggong is so good at weighing, of course he knows.

It's just that he doesn't care about that.What he values ​​more is the wealth of his own family in front of him, and he will let the entire historical party survive the turmoil in the court and continue to be in power at all costs.As for the next thing, no matter how hard it is, it's hard to lose his authority, he doesn't bother to go so far!

So, I, Zhao Yanzhi, actually stood on the Xiaoshang Bridge, watching the soldiers continue to go north.

But is this also considered the Northern Expedition? Is this also considered to be recovery?

Zhao Fang is very confident in the fighting power of his 2 elite soldiers, and he also believes in the blood and loyalty of the soldiers.But to decide the fate of a great country in the world, how can [-] people be enough?
Just going to fight like this, do you really expect to win Bianliang?
So what if they were lucky enough to win Bianliang? 2 people faced the tiger and wolf division that swept across the north, and then counted on the lip service of those scholar-bureaucrats in the court?

This is too rash!If the device is not a hero but just a fluke, if it falls into the history books, it will probably be ridiculed for hundreds of years.

This situation is like a lotus in the mud, straight from the outside, but the heart is lonely and bitter.It's a pity that, as a courtier of the Great Song Dynasty, he can only do his best for the imperial court's luck.

After 76 years, the army of Song Dynasty came here again.The court of the Great Song Dynasty is still in a daze, but the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty still have blood, and the scholar-bureaucrats of the Great Song Dynasty still have... No, the Great Song Dynasty still has the country's righteousness, and the scholar-bureaucrats who dare to fight bravely!
"Make a gentleman! Make a gentleman!"

While he was thinking about it, the soldiers rushed over shouting: "There is a golden army light cavalry approaching to watch!"

"Oh? Where?"

As Zhao Fang asked, he quickly got on his horse and stepped on the stirrups to stand upright and look out.He immediately saw the appearance of Jin Jun Qingqi.

That small group of cavalry was completely different from Wanyan Yeke's troops who fought in Tang, Deng and other places before.

They are all wearing military robes and light armor inside. Although the robes are dusty, the weapons in their hands are bright and shiny.Looking at the dozen or so of them, all of them were riding tall and tall horses from the north, and everyone was accompanied by a pair of horses, and their riding movements were extremely skilled, as if they were integrated into one, with a free rhythm.

Such an excellent cavalry team must move at an unimaginably fast speed, so Zhao Fang's covering cavalry on both sides of the formation failed to stop them.

It was not until they approached the Chinese army that the cavalry of the Song army caught up a little.More than a hundred knights were worried that the commander would be disturbed, so they shouted warnings and turned around from several directions, trying to surround the cavalry.

But this team of cavalry didn't seem to care too much. They kept moving along the Xiaoshang River until they could clearly see the distance between the middle ranks of the Song people.

Zhao Fang also saw their appearance clearly.They are all capable men, all of them are full of confidence, exuding a high-spirited and high-spirited attitude.

A cavalryman noticed Zhao Fang and the general flag behind him, so he pointed in the direction of Xiaoshang Bridge and said a few words to his leader.The leader of the cavalry also looked this way, and from a distance, he cupped his hands, and then led the team away with their horses.

Until they withdrew far away, the encirclement circle of the Song cavalry had not yet formed.

Many cavalry cursed and wanted to pursue, Zhao Fang hurriedly ordered: "Don't chase, those are the scout cavalry of Dinghai... they are our allies!"

Under the command of Zhao Fang, the Song army ignored the scattered Jin army and stopped attacking small villages along the way.The [-]-step cavalry from Jinghu speeded up their march again, chasing after the Kaifeng Jin army that was constantly retreating.

On July [-]th, the Song army arrived at Linying; on July [-]th, to Changshe; on July [-]th, to Weishi.

On the night of July 45th, the Song Army arrived [-] miles south of Bianliang City.

In the early morning of the next day, the envoy rushed into Kaifeng and reported to King Sui: "The Song army has arrived right after our reinforcements, and they are already approaching the city!"

Tian Zhuo jumped up excitedly: "Our chance has come!"

The envoy rushed into Lincai Pass and reported to the remaining generals of the thirteen captains who gathered here yesterday evening: "The Song army is approaching, should we retreat again?"

Monk Wanyan Chen was busy comforting the wounded last night, raising food and fodder, but at this time his body was covered with blood, which had not been bandaged yet.He stood upright and said generously: "How can we retreat? Retreat into the city and sit and watch the enemy besiege the city, starving and trapping us to death? Before that, the enemy army marched from north to south. Our army was short of food and it was inconvenient to dispatch. , It’s inevitable that you’re at your wit’s end, it’s not a crime of war! Now that they’ve gathered in Kaifeng city, they just happen to have a bloody kill!”

The envoy rushed into Chenliu and reported to Admiral Ding: "Yesterday night, the Song army followed the Jin army all the way. The Jin army entered Lincai Pass and joined the troops of Monk Wanyan Chen and Jiaguze who arrived earlier. The Song army occupied Zhuxian Town."

Guo Ning laughed, stretched out his arm, and held Tieguduo: "The Jurchens and Song people have traveled hundreds of miles, which is really hard... Don't let them slow down! Send an order to go out to fight! Let's One battle will determine the Central Plains!"

The second year of Xingding in Dajin, the first year of Yuanguang in Kaifeng Suiwang regime, and the ninth year in Jiading in Song Dynasty.

July [-]th at the turn of summer and autumn.The red sun rose, shining on Bianliang City, and also shining on the hundreds of thousands of soldiers gathered by the three forces with a radius of hundreds of miles around the city.

No matter whether you are high-spirited or exhausted, excited or lucky, no matter if the beast is still fighting or destroying the food, swords and swords or intrigues, it's time to see the outcome.

(End of this chapter)