I am Da Song

Chapter 135 The enemy not only did not surrender, but dared to fight back at me

On the [-]th day of the second month, the seventh day of the expedition, Zhao Huan led the main force of the Shenwu You Army to Ningling.

In the commander's tent, Zhao Huan put down the battle report in his hand, clicked his tongue, looked at Yue Fei beside him, and asked, "Your Excellency, are you sure that Wang Gui's battle report is not wrong?" Surround the city of Nanjing and wait for my support."

"Instead of more than [-] rebels besieging him under the city of Nanjing, waiting for me to rescue him?"

After all, Wang Gui's battle report is really outrageous, there are more than a thousand people in the area, how did he besiege the entire city of Nanjing with more than [-] rebels?
Yue Fei clasped his hands and replied: "The official, based on the previous battle reports, Wang Gui should not have falsely reported the military situation. After the victory in Ningling, he went all the way to Nanjing and fought forward. He defeated several enemy troops and besieged Nanjing just now."

"...In his words, the enemy not only refused to surrender, but dared to fight back at me."

"Then... really should be punished." Zhao Huan couldn't help but nodded in agreement.But he quickly realized, no!Aren't we discussing how more than a thousand people besieged more than [-] rebels?
"Don't you think that this battle is outrageous and weird? Wang Gui's army has more than a thousand people! How did you besiege Nanjing?"

Yue Fei explained with a smile: "Officials, Wang Gui is deliberately boasting. He has more than a thousand people. Although there are some people in the rebel army who resist stubbornly, there are also a large number of loyal people who defected as soon as they left the city. The former army is now At least nearly ten thousand people."

With that said, Zhao Huan probably understood a little bit.

Nanjing sent an army to resist the king's division, and they either surrendered as soon as they left the city, or they collapsed.

The war has come to a stalemate, and Nanjing dare not continue to send troops out of the city.

Wang Gui's subordinates are too few to conquer the city.

So the military newspaper became what it is today. Wang Gui led more than a thousand people from the Shenwu Youjun to trap Nanjing.

Zhao Huan finally knew what happened to those seemingly unimaginable memorials in history.

If Yue Fei, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, hadn't explained to Zhao Huan one by one the previous military newspapers, and only read this military newspaper, to be reasonable, Zhao Huan would also feel that the frontline generals were fooling ghosts.

Overall, in this battle against the rebellion, all the behavior of the rebels was within the expectation of the imperial court.

The first is that the rebels are not in the same mind.The high-level scholar-bureaucrats intend to treason the country, but the grass-roots generals and schools have no such intention.

After all, their family members and relatives are still under the rule of the Song court.In particular, the imperial court promulgated an edict, only punishing the chief villain, returning the soldiers to righteousness, and forgetting the past.

What's more, the court's treatment of military officials was obviously better, not only exempted from taxation, but also had a higher status and was not despised.

The soldiers voted with their feet, whether for loyalty or for material things.

This led to the low fighting spirit of the generals at the grassroots level, and even a large number of generals and schools led the army out of the city and straightened out the chaos and returned to the court.

The second is that Nanjing has not formed absolute prestige.

Including Zhao Gou, he couldn't command some generals.

Even if he personally sent some troops to rush to help, those generals turned a deaf ear.It's not that these high-level generals have any complaints against Zhao Gou. Since the scholar-bureaucrats chose to support Zhao Gou as the king, they really wanted to establish a new king.Even if the Song Dynasty is not overthrown, a new monarch must be replaced.

But the problem is that the generals at the grassroots level are all appointed by the imperial court.The reason why these high-level generals were able to command the army was that Song Dynasty or the official Zhao Huan entrusted the army to them.It's not that they can really use public weapons for private use, turning the Song army into their private army.They are still a thousand miles away from the warlords.

Now let them take these soldiers to rebel against the imperial court. They are afraid that their subordinates will chop off their heads as soon as they leave Nanjing and give them to the officials to ask for credit.They are also trembling, walking on thin ice.

It is really that the imperial court was too decisive in suppressing the rebellion, and did not care about the reality of the 10,000+ army in Nanjing. The center only had [-] Shenwu Youjun and dared to directly march south.The beating caught Nanjing off guard, and he didn't even have time to win over the hearts of the people.

This led to the fact that the initiative on the battlefield has always been in the hands of Master Wang.The nominally more than [-] rebels in Nanjing did not take advantage of their numbers.

In every battlefield, Wang Gui can defeat the weak with the strong, easily defeat the enemy, and then chase and kill them wantonly.

Since dispatching troops, Wang Gui has even managed to defeat the [-]-man army of the rebels who claimed to have twenty commanders in the First World War, while only one wounded soldier was injured, or the cavalry moved too much in pursuit and fell off the horse accidentally.

The situation of the war was already in this situation, Zhao Huan could only stand up with a smile, and said: "Then let's go, the main force will continue to march towards Nanjing, and I will meet my ninth brother."

Officials want to come to the front line in person?
The reason why Yue Fei camped in Ningling was that he didn't want the officials to go to the front line and repeat the tragedy of the Gaoliang River War.

Yue Fei quickly persuaded: "Officials, the Shenwu Youjun has taken control of the battlefield, successfully cut off the water transportation in the lower reaches of the Bian River, and besieged Nanjing. Now Nanjing is an isolated city. Just wait patiently for the soldiers to attack the city wall and cut off the heads of the rebels. That's it."

Zhao Huan smiled indifferently, looked at Yue Fei, and said, "Cut off the head of a rebellious minister? You underestimate my ninth brother too much. In terms of escape ability, he can be called No. 1 in the ages. I'm afraid Liu Bei, Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty, can't match it." Him. If the battle is unfavorable, he wants to escape with all his heart, even if he searches the mountains and seas, he will not be able to catch him. There are more than a thousand people in the Shenwu You Military Region, and there is no way to keep a tight defense."

Hearing this, Yue Fei's expression became serious, and he said, "If Zhao Gou, the hypocrite, flees all the way, the literati in the south of the Yangtze River are used to drunkenness, and they will definitely support him to fight against the court."

"The group of scholar-bureaucrats in the south of the Yangtze River." Zhao Huan said mockingly, "It has been a tradition for thousands of years for them to live and die, but there is nothing to be afraid of, because the speed of their surrender is also top-notch."

Speaking of this, Zhao Huan asked: "Qing must be puzzled, why did I deploy Qing, the No.

Yue Fei replied firmly: "I am a soldier, and it is my bounden duty to obey orders. Wherever the court sends my ministers, I will serve them wholeheartedly."

This kind of loyal minister, which emperor would not like it?
It is also Wanyan Gou, who is rare throughout the ages, will kill him unjustly because of the request of the enemy country.

Zhao Huan explained to Yue Fei with a smile: "The appointment of Qing as Xuan Fu envoy of Huainan East Road and Huainan West Road is the unanimous decision of the left minister, the right minister, the Zhengshitang and the Privy Council."

Yue Fei was slightly surprised, which showed that this appointment was the unanimous opinion of the imperial court.But it is very rare that Sun Fu, the right minister, can agree with the left minister and Li Xiang of the main combat faction.

Zhao Huan followed the guidance and asked, "Do you know where the court's center of gravity is?"

Yue Fei was concentrating and meditating, he had always thought it was Hebei.Hebei Feng occupies the key points and stands as an important town. If a city is besieged, the cities will be disturbed or rescued.

But obviously the princes of the court have different views on this.

Yue Fei asked curiously: "Could it be that the court's center of gravity is in Lianghuai?"

"Haha." Zhao Huan laughed loudly and asked, "Why did you think it was the two Huaihe Rivers? Is it just because you were appointed as the Xuanfu envoy of Huainan?"

(End of this chapter)