Became a feudal lord in the late Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 261 Alive
The Song people's sentries are like weeds after autumn, extremely tenacious. No matter how the Han army's sentries harvest them, there will still be brave Song people crouching in every corner of the battlefield, trying their best to pass back battlefield intelligence.

However, the Song army in the rear was obviously sorry for this act of risking life and death. It was not until the beginning of September that they arrived belatedly. Groups of Song soldiers and horses entered the Yongxing Army Road and intercepted it from the southeast, northwest and all sides.

No matter who the opponent's coach is in charge of the overall situation, Liu Ling himself can conclude that the opponent does not know how to fight and is obviously a useless character.

Liu Ling still thinks that he doesn't know how to fight, but after all, he has experienced it many times, and the generals under his command all lead troops to fight, and he has heard and heard it, so he can at least "talk".

mid-September.

Dust was flying on the Yanzhou official road, and a group of cavalrymen came on horseback. The merchants who were having tea in the roadside teahouses fled in panic. They didn't even bother to pay for the tea, and Dr. Tea didn't dare to chase after them. Screaming loudly and trying to call those people back in a low voice, it was like a cooing old hen chasing a group of escaping chickens.

When he caught a glimpse of the armor Lai was wearing, his voice was gone and he could only stand at the door waiting for others to speak.

Han Chang urged the horse to speed up a little and rushed to the door of the tea shop. The dust raised by the horse's hooves splashed in front of Dr. Tea. The latter did not dare to say a word and stared at the ground with lowered eyebrows, as if there was something strange on the ground.

"Go and make tea, and prepare food and fodder!"

Han Chang's commanding tone had a sense of matter-of-factness. Although the weather was not yet cold yet, he already had a pair of sheepskin gloves on his hands. He took off his gloves while giving instructions, and then he held two gloves in his right hand and slapped them on the ground. The back of his left hand is indescribably chic.

"Call your shop assistant."

Liu Ling walked into the tea shop, looked around, chose a clean table and sat down, pushing away the tea bowls that other guests had drank from before. Dr. Tea hurriedly walked to him and said: "Master, please wait a moment." , little man, let’s make some tea.”

It's okay to drink tea. These military men generally can't taste the taste of tea. No matter where the remaining tea leaves are, he just puts them in and soaks them full.

But the fodder for the war horses and the food for the people
Seeing that the military master brought many people, they might be hungry tonight after eating this meal.

Dr. Tea was an old man who opened a tea shop on the official road. He had seen a lot of people traveling around, including outlaws and high officials, but he had never seen anyone like the man in front of him. He was obviously quite good-looking and had himself. The demeanor of youth, but full of momentum
There were once more than a dozen policemen escorting two death row prisoners through his place. It was said that they were the "mountain kings" who committed many murders on the mountain. They were caught while going down the mountain to look for prostitutes and were to be sent to the state city to be beheaded.

Now seeing this man, even though he didn't know his deeds, he suddenly had a premonition that he would have a nightmare tonight.

The surface of the black armor worn by each cavalryman looks very rough. This is armor that has been polished by war. Some dents that are difficult to repair still have dark blood stains that have long dried. From these alone, you can imagine that these cavalrymen are in How ruthless they would be on the battlefield.

He responded, walked to the side of his general with his head down, and whispered: "Borrow some money."

Dr. Tea hurriedly nodded in agreement, but there was already a bitterness in his heart.

It was said that the two death row prisoners had eaten people's hearts. After seeing the two men, Dr. Cha had nightmares for three days in a row.

Han Chang: "."

General: "."

"Why aren't you going?" Han Cheng looked down at him with displeasure on his face.

Liu Ling turned over and dismounted. Behind him, there was a sound of armor scraping. Most of the soldiers dismounted, but only a small group of people followed him and gathered around him. The rest of the soldiers just stood beside the horse and waited.

"Thank you so much for the honor, sir."

Liu Ling pointed in front of him and said, "Sit down and talk."

The soldiers on both sides looked at him, and Han Chang's eyes were fixed on the man. Even if the other man's movements were very ordinary, Han Chang still subconsciously wanted to imitate that "style" - the action he just flicked his gloves was. Learned it from men.

Liu Ling glanced at Dr. Tea who was standing at the door, and then at Han Chang who was following him. The latter was stunned for a moment, thinking he wanted him to stay behind and guard the horses, but then he heard the King of Han order in a matter-of-fact tone. He said: "What are you doing standing around? Give me money for tea."

Just when Dr. Tea was panicking, another cavalry team arrived on the official road, with more people. The heavy sound of horse hoofs seemed to hammer into people's hearts, and it came straight in front of everyone with a domineering aura.

"Bring me a nice pot of tea."

Among them, a man wearing black armor was loosening his reins.

He coughed, sat down in front of Liu Ling, and then subconsciously stretched out his hand to pour tea, but then he realized that he had just said that he would make tea for the other party. He was panicked for a moment, and then he hurriedly retracted his hand.

Liu Ling couldn't help but smile when he saw the other party's embarrassment, and asked: "Is it difficult to live in Yanzhou?"

"It's not bad."

Doctor Tea replied vaguely. Liu Ling smiled and took the teapot from the other person's hand, poured himself a bowl of herbal tea, and took a sip unhurriedly.

At this moment, the curtain in the inner courtyard of the teahouse was lifted, and a girl stood at the curtain. She looked quite pretty, with a thin figure and cheeks. She had a wooden hairpin in her ridiculous bun and was wearing an ill-fitting blue dress. Commoner.

She didn't expect so many armored soldiers to come outside all of a sudden, and she turned pale with fright. But when she saw her grandfather sitting opposite a big man in armor, she mustered up her courage, walked to Liu Ling, and spoke in a low voice in Song Dynasty Mandarin. He said in a voice: "Master, the tea is ready, but what else do you need?"

"This is the villain's granddaughter. She is so ugly that she makes the high officials laugh."

Dr. Tea stood up, indicated with his eyes, and gently pushed the girl. The latter was afraid that her grandfather would suffer, so she just stood still.

In the past, when soldiers and horses from the Song Dynasty came over, he did not dare to let his granddaughter come out, not to mention that the opponent now was obviously not the Song army.

It should be the Northern Han people who have been rumored everywhere in recent years.

Hiss. That's more ferocious than your own soldiers and horses.

Liu Ling looked at their silent argument and couldn't help but sigh and said: "Don't worry, I just said a few words to ask for a drink of water. I, a big man, have no intention of robbing anything."

Not grabbing?

Dr. Tea was full of disbelief. Han Chang walked in with the money at this time and glared at him. Dr. Tea hurriedly lowered his head and replied: "Those who believe it, really believe it, these local soldiers of the Song Dynasty are all Those of you who are used to snatching, high officials, you think they are nobles in the Han army, right?
The villain has long been looking forward to the arrival of the Han army! "

Liu Ling took another sip of tea, motioned to Han Chang to sit down, and then took a handful of copper coins from his hand. Dr. Tea had seen it and said quickly: "A high official has come from afar, and a small man should be the host." , a cup of tea is nothing!”

Liu Ling shook his head, put a bunch of money on the table, and then looked at Dr. Tea's granddaughter.

"Can she speak the official dialect of your Song country?"

Dr. Cha felt nervous and said with an apologetic smile: "I have people from both the north and the south here. She has heard a lot here since she was a child and knows all the nonsense."

"Are the taxes in Yanzhou heavy?" Liu Ling suddenly changed the subject. "The amount is heavy. The government charges not only tea and salt every year, but also miscellaneous taxes. If a villain opens a tea shop here, there will be many customers on the surface, but it will only be enough to earn a sip of tea. , If the government allocates a lot this year, it will be good to have something to eat this year. "

Dr. Tea gradually relaxed a little, pointed at his granddaughter, and said: "The villain's granddaughter's father, the villain's son, was drafted by the government two years ago to work as a civilian husband in the army. There was no news at all. There was still some hope, but Last year, a villager sent a message saying that he was dead!"

"Oh?"

Liu Ling asked: "Which army was recruited?"

Dr. Cha's eyes turned red and he whispered: "It's the army of the Northern Expedition."

Northern Expedition
Wouldn't that mean he died in Yandi?

Liu Ling didn't say anything else. After drinking a bowl of herbal tea, he put some more copper coins on the table. Then, he took out the jade ring he usually played with, motioned to the girl to stretch out his hand, put the ring in her hand, and said : "I'll leave it to you as a dowry."

How dare Dr. Cha let his granddaughter accept this? Liu Ling stood up and said: "I gave it to you, just accept it properly."

solitary?
Dr. Tea was stunned for a moment, with shock in his eyes. He thought that this man was at most a general or something, but if he could call himself "lone", it seemed that
"You, change your temper in the future."

Liu Ling walked out of the tea shop, put his hand on Han Cheng's shoulder, and said with a smile: "After you left office, the two lieutenants from Yan people wrote letters to complain. Other things are easy to talk about, but this matter of robbing local civilians , it will never be allowed in the future.”

Han Cheng shuddered and quickly replied: "The general will understand, it's just..."

"Just what?"

"When the general was working in the puppet Jin army, as long as there was a war, whether it was Jurchens, Turks or Han people, they could grab a lot of things after the war, so they dared to fight to the death.

"The general is either saying that he thinks something is wrong with the king, or" Han Cheng organized his words and said with some confusion: "The king is usually so strict, but as soon as this kind of opening is opened, it will be difficult to control the people below, and now it is The expedition is away, how does the king plan to boost morale? "

Liu Ling was too lazy to answer too much, so he raised his hand and slapped Han Cheng on the back of the head.

"Just be obedient."

Han Chang, who led his army to fight for ten times on the battlefield, was beaten like a quail by two slaps from the king of Han. He got on his horse with his neck scrunched up and rode away after him.

"There's a letter from Yan Bei."

Liu Ling finally spoke, and in the slight change in Han Chang's eyes, he said: "Your father Han Qinghe came to surrender with more than 10,000 troops and more than 60,000 refugees. After this victory, you should be able to Saw him in Yandi."

"my father"

Han Cheng was not stupid. He thought about the meaning behind it and blurted out after a moment: "Could something happen to the Kingdom of Jin?"

Liu Ling hummed, rubbed the horse's mane slowly, and said calmly: "Wanyan Gao is dead."

The season when chrysanthemums are falling coincides with the ancient saying that "the autumn is high and the horses are fat and it is time to go to war". Therefore, as soon as Tan Zhen took office, he urgently ordered all the troops to prepare for war.

He fell from power after the "Zhang Jue Incident" a few years ago, and because Tong Guan came to power later, the latter stepped on him hard. Tan Zhen had lost his life a long time ago, and Tong Guan's kick was He almost didn't get killed.

Fortunately, he is lucky.

When Zhao Guan's family was troubled by the ministers, they thought of him again, so they appointed Tan Zhen again on Liang Shicheng's recommendation.

The situation in Zhao Guan's family is not that no one can use it, but that no one dares to use it. In the court, Wang Fu and Cai Jing lead two gangs of bastard court officials to quarrel every day. It would be great if they could identify who is deliberately causing trouble, but Zhao Guan's family also knows in their hearts that Wang Fu What kind of thing is Fu, and what Cai Jing said was always very reasonable. With a headache, he had to use eunuchs to lead the troops.

In other words, he is not leading troops, he is just serving as a supervisor and a nominal commander.

Zhao Guan's idea is actually reasonable, because Zhang Xiaochun "behaves first", he is afraid that the handsome officials in Hedong will imitate him, and there must be the necessary restrictions and supervision.

But what Tan Zhen wanted in his heart was to seize power. How could he be willing to go to the front line without seeing his hands? Therefore, as soon as he arrived in Hedong, he directly ordered soldiers and horses from all directions to surround the Han army.

There were frequent transfers above the head, and those who felt it most deeply were the middle and lower-level officers.

Wu Jie walked into his tent cursing, where his younger brother Wu Lin was sitting. The latter was a low-level officer and was not qualified to participate in military meetings at his brother's level. Seeing his brother's appearance, he couldn't help but curiously asked: "What's this?" What happened?"

"Are those officials above me eating shit?"

Wu Jie was sitting in his tent, with his younger brother next to him. He was not afraid of being heard by others, so he directly cursed: "It turns out that Marshal Yao and those from Hedong had a good strategy. The Han army was alone, and this is our place." , they would rather lose several states and territories to the Han army, but also have to slowly wear away their spirit.

But today, the superiors said that we must take the initiative to fight! "

"It's better to take the initiative to fight."

Wu Lin didn't realize it yet, and said excitedly: "Let the Yan thieves know that this is our territory of the Song Dynasty, and let them walk over and lie down and go back!"

"Brother," he said eagerly, "I want to go too, please help me establish connections and let me lead more soldiers. Maybe by the end of this year, I can earn another official position!"

He was not reckless. When he was talking to his brother the day before yesterday, his brother was very excited and told him that if there were not 200,000 troops dispatched this time, there would be 70,000 to 80,000 troops. Wu Lin thought in her heart:

With 70,000 to 80,000 Western troops besieging tens of thousands of Han troops, isn't it just a matter of grasping the situation?

Wu Jie slapped his brother on the head and said sternly: "Asshole, those are Han troops, not the traitorous soldiers like Fang La and Song Jiang we talked about in previous years!"

"What happened to the Han army? They are human beings too."

Wu Lin was a little dissatisfied and said: "The white knife goes in and the red knife comes out. Let's see who can stand in the end. How can we be afraid of him in a fight?"

"Keep this in mind," Wu Jie held his brother down and whispered, "We really want to fight the Yan people head-on."

He took a deep breath and said: "If you are a deserter, my brother can still protect you and help you cover up, but if you are fighting head-on, my brother will not dare to say that he will survive."

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(End of this chapter)