Great time travel

Chapter 27, Three Hundred Warriors of Song Dynasty

On December [-]th of the first year of Jingkang in the Great Song Dynasty, the Northern Expeditionary Army led by the Immortal Guo Jing walked out of the Fengqiu Gate of Bianliang City in an unusually low-key manner.

——It wasn’t that Emperor Qinzong Zhao Huan was so mean that he was reluctant to hold a grand ceremony for Guo Jing. The real problem was that this Northern Expeditionary Army was so shabby that it could hardly be used: even counting the wheelbarrows and burden-carrying troops Military coolies, the whole army has just gathered 300 people!

Therefore, rather than letting such a pitifully small army go to the imperial palace to accept the review and flag presentation by the Song Dynasty officials, and laugh at the millions of citizens in Bianliang, Tokyo, it is better to let them go out of the city quietly, waiting for everyone After going far, it is better to carry out war propaganda.

——Three hundred warriors crossed the Hebei Expedition... Is this going to death?Or a show?

hello!This is Da Song, not Sparta!

And the [-] guys who went north to fight were all well-clothed, not the bare-faced gay fighters of the Greeks.

In fact, even being able to make up the lineup of these [-] soldiers and horses was due to Guo Jing's good luck. Just when the "Liujia Shenbing" fled one after another taking advantage of the opportunity that had not yet been tattooed, the Hebei soldiers Zong Ze, deputy marshal of Marshal Ma's mansion, came to Bianliang with two hundred "Teachers of King Qin".Then before he could catch his breath, he was presented with a hat of a pioneer officer of the Northern Expedition by the imperial court, and sent directly to Guo Jing's subordinates...

(In the Song Dynasty, marshal was not a regular military rank, but more like a temporary assignment like a theater commander.)
——Different from Kang Wang Zhaogou, Generalissimo of Hebei who had been obsessed with the throne of the Bianliang Palace from the very beginning, and Wang Boyan, the deputy marshal who hoped to support Conglong's achievements, the other was named deputy marshal Zongze, the magistrate of Cizhou, is a loyal minister with a red heart towards the imperial court.

As early as when King Kang was stopped, Zongze used the banner of the prince to gather the remnant Song army in Hebei to prepare for the king. Some important military towns are still in the hands of the Song army. In fact, the Jin army can't even maintain the logistics channel to go south. All supplies rely on local looting. After the extinction, in order to dispel the doubts of the court, Zong Ze personally took a small number of cavalry and rushed south to Bianliang to meet the emperor, and wanted to discuss a way to deal with the aftermath.

In this regard, Kang Wang Zhaogou and Wang Boyan did not intend to stop it-don't look at they have assembled 5 to [-] people in Xiangzhou, Hebei, which seems to be about the same strength as Bianliang.But now that the Jin soldiers have been destroyed, there is almost no chance of winning a direct confrontation with the court: Emperor Qinzong Zhao Huan is still the lord of the world after all. Come to Bianliang.As time goes on, Bianliang's military strength will gradually expand until it completely overwhelms Hebei.

Although these King Qin's troops were recruited temporarily by the local government, and the leaders were not well-known generals, I guess they didn't have the ability to fight the Jurchen iron cavalry, but it's still not a problem to fight the Hebei rebels of King Kang... and the gang of Hebei gangs dare to follow Kang Wang went all the way to the dark, but it's hard to say - you know, in the Song Dynasty, no prince had ever successfully rebelled by force.In the opinion of the military leaders in Hebei, instead of betting all their wealth on such a gamble with a slim chance of winning, it is better to tie up King Kang and offer it to the court, in order to ask for an official position or something...

——Although the situation is somewhat similar to the battle of Jingnan, Song Qinzong seems to be inferior to Jianwen Emperor, but Kang Wang Zhao Gou is even more incomparable with Yan Wang Zhu Di.

Moreover, in Bianliang City, Tokyo right now, there is still the Great Immortal Guo who is said to have mastered Taoism and killed more than [-] golden soldiers in one go.Since even the sturdy and bloodthirsty Jurchen iron cavalry can only be burned to ashes in front of him, let alone these mobs with different ideas under Zhao Gou's men-it is unreliable to think about it The capital rebellion usurped the throne?Let's wash up and sleep!

Therefore, the actual situation in Hebei is far less serious than that of Prime Minister He Su and others—even Zhao Gou himself has no confidence in the soldiers and horses under his command, and is more worried about what should be done about this mess. How to end it, instead of making a single-minded plan to usurp the throne.

Therefore, after getting a preliminary understanding of the details of the Generalissimo's Mansion in Hebei through Zong Ze, after a little bit of relief, the imperial court, lacking in integrity, sent Zong Ze out again, and transferred him to Guo Jing's name to strengthen his momentum. Act as the vanguard of the Northern Expedition.

——Different from the ostentatious Forbidden Army in Bianliang City, these Hebei veterans brought by Zongze, although they were also defeated by the Jinren, they had seen a lot of blood after all, and they were warriors who fought hard on the battlefield Sergeant, one stop there, this murderous aura makes people feel unusual.

So at the beginning, Guo Jing was still a little worried, wondering if he could suppress these arrogant soldiers before he found an opportunity to show his supernatural powers, but later found that this worry was obviously unnecessary-in the Song Dynasty, the status of soldiers It's so low that it's outrageous that once anyone joins the army, he is not allowed to retire. In fact, he is a soldier for life, and the vacancies of soldiers will be given priority to by-election from the children of the army.If a soldier flees or commits a crime, the military punishment will be extremely severe, and even his relatives and villagers will be implicated.In order to prevent the soldiers from fleeing, it is even more necessary to tattoo on the face of each soldier like branding a slave.Di Qing, a famous general decades ago, became a privy envoy, but because of the tattoos on his face, he still couldn't hold his head high among the literati. Even a prostitute dared to ridicule him openly, which shows the low status of the warriors of the Song Dynasty.Every soldier has an extremely low self-esteem in his heart, and he is completely short in front of civil officials and scholar-bureaucrats.

As for Guo Jing, the real protector of the country, although he is not an orthodox scholar-bureaucrat, he is a "immortal" with a higher status!I didn't see that the officials of the Song Dynasty had to hold the teacher's gift to him, and those civil officials and scholars who were born as Jinshi were even more respectful to him... And the dozens of miles of dead land scattered on the outskirts of Bianliang, and the cloud city "New Tokyo" hanging in the sky This is what they have seen with their own eyes--I heard that the officials recently thought that the "New Tokyo" in the sky is too deserted, although it has beautiful buildings and magnificent buildings, and they are going to recruit a group of loyal and reliable people to become the "Heavenly City" People" too!

——Such a lofty status and such a destructive power have already made these soldiers feel awe.Now that this real person actually appeared in front of them, these "humble warriors" who have long been used to lying low and being petty, how dare they be presumptuous?

In short, at least when they left Tokyo, the hastily assembled small team got along with each other fairly smoothly.

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After a group of people walked out of Bianliang, Tokyo, all they saw was a piece of scorched earth covered with white snow.

——Last month, Nobita Nobita's [Full-automatic Plasma Concentrated Plasma Cannon] showed great power over this land, turning more than [-] Southern Jin troops and the same number of captive coolies into ashes in an instant, and even their bones were destroyed Burned into flying smoke... At this time, people walked on it. Although they couldn't see the miserable scene of bones exposed in the wild, the dead scorched earth that had been crystallized by the high temperature made people feel palpitations even more.

Everyone walked silently through the scorched earth where hundreds of thousands of souls were buried, without saying a word.

However, when choosing the northward route, the veteran Zong Ze, who had always been good-tempered, had a dispute with Qin Hui and the others for the first time.

——During the Northern Song Dynasty, if people from Bianliang, the capital of the capital, wanted to go north, they usually left Fengqiu Gate and turned to the northeast, and crossed the Yellow River pontoon bridge in Yanjin County.Although the Yellow River Floating Bridge has been burned down by the Jin soldiers, it is still the most convenient ferry to Hebei, and the official road also goes there.

(It is true that the Song Dynasty built several bridges on the Yellow River to connect the north and the south—though they were all pontoon bridges.)
But Zong Ze and the others insisted that everyone go around in a circle to the west, cross the river from Zhengzhou and Zhongmu, and run an extra hundred miles out of thin air.

However, when Qin Hui and Guo Jing asked them why, these people from the north couldn’t explain clearly, they only said that “it’s okay to walk alone, but it’s not easy to pass with luggage and horses”... Such a vague explanation obviously couldn’t make people listen. The bewildered Bianliang people were satisfied.In addition, Qin Hui, the censor Zhongcheng who was theorizing with Zongze, also had some arrogance tendencies of bureaucrats and bureaucrats in the Song Dynasty looking at people with their nostrils-so it didn't take long for them to quarrel.

In this regard, Guo Jing, who was also unclear, had no choice but to smooth things over. He suggested that everyone go to the Yellow River Ferry in Yanjin County to see it first.

Then, there, Guo Jing and his party finally understood why Zong Ze asked them to take a detour.

——The Yellow River has stopped flowing!