Song Dynasty

Chapter 116 The Annoying and Disgusting Lu Benzhong ([-])

Kong Yanzhou jumped into the icy Ba River with his upper body naked, and poured the clear water over his head in a wooden basin.His shaved scalp was shiny, and the braids tied at the back of his head had been undone and stuck to his body in a mess.

It was raining heavily in spring, the sky was hazy, and the swollen Ba River was rumbling like a galloping army.

This former soldier Ma Qian of the Song Dynasty was tall and strong, with muscles piled up on his chest, abdomen and arms, like a piece of rock.His Chinese face shape has the heroic spirit unique to northern men.However, a long scar on his face that had been burned by fire and small triangular eyes gave him a ferocious and cunning feeling.

It also made him look gloomy.

"Si!" The river water in early spring was very cold, and Kong Yanzhou couldn't help gasping for air, his grinning mouth was full of scorched yellow and incomplete teeth: "It's so cold!"

Finally, Kong Yanzhou couldn't bear it any longer and jumped ashore, took the silk scraper handed over by a frail boy of fifteen or sixteen years old, and rubbed it on his body with all his strength as if to vent his anger.

Just like his face, Kong Yanzhou was covered with scars from knives and guns all over his body, making a rustling sound as he rubbed against the flesh of the melon.

In a blink of an eye, he turned red all over.

This is the No. 15 day when he entered the Qi and Huang areas.

A good northerner, from Hebei to Shandong, then to Huaibei, Huaixi, and now Qizhou, he was almost driven crazy by one after another.The thing is, after the Jurchen invasion that year, as a Hebei tycoon, he naturally couldn't stay in the north.He had no choice but to flee to Kaifeng with his men and join Zongze's left-behind department in Tokyo.

Probably because he was a robber in the Taihang Mountains in his early years. He was fierce by nature and knew how to lead troops.Kong Yanzhou admired Grandpa Zong's character and methods very much.Under his command, he also obediently put away the bandit's tyrannical and unruly demeanor on his body, and worked hard with his life.

It's a pity that good people don't live long. Zong Rulin passed away after only two years in office and was replaced by the brutal and incompetent Du Chong.

This guy is good at politics and likes to kill people, so he put his idea on the leader of the left behind Sijialu rebel army, trying to seize the military power of the grandfathers.

Straight mother thief, if you really think we are easy to provoke, the knife is up to the neck, then, it's better to turn to his mother.

……

So Kong Yanzhou joined forces with Wang Shan, Zhang Yong, and Cao Cheng to defeat Du Chong's troops and occupied Kaifeng City.

Tokyo was beaten twice by the Jurchens in the year of Jingkang, and King Kang Zhao Gou came again after he came to the throne, and he had already been killed into nothingness.After Kong Yanzhou and others rebelled, without the support of the central government, Henan alone could no longer support the 10,000+ rebels.

Next, the various parties immediately parted ways, you take your sunny path, and I cross my single-plank bridge
Unable to stay in Kaifeng, the entire territory of Hebei has been occupied, so naturally they cannot go there.After thinking about it, Kong Yanzhou simply took the troops to Shandong.He led his troops along the way, looting and killing residents, burning huts, and looting property, so that he could barely keep the army from dispersing.He used to be a bandit in his early years, so he is very handy in doing this kind of thing.

But it’s not the way to go on like this all the time, grabbing all the land for another land, although Shandong is big, there will always be a day when everything is eaten up, so Kong Yanzhou began to think about whether to occupy a piece of land to recuperate.

It's a pity that the Jurchen didn't give him a chance. At the end of last autumn, two armies of Wushu and Wanyanchang went south to pursue Zhao Gou.

Kong Yanzhou was beaten to shame by the Jurchens, and fled in embarrassment all the way. After going through untold hardships, he finally fled to Qizhou.At this time, the Jin Kingdom's West Route Army had already crossed the Yangtze River, while Wushu's East Route Army was heading from Dantu along the Grand Canal to Hangzhou.Their strategic focus is on the southeast, and with Zhao Jiu, the Qi and Huang areas are finally stable.

If they occupy the land of these two prefectures, relying on this, they can sweep the entire Jianghan, not to mention feeding a mere 3 people, even a hundred thousand.

The ten days' march went very smoothly, Qi and Huang were originally owned by Wang Shen, but this army was small and poor, and the garrisons in the local counties were sparsely populated with more than a hundred men, all of whom were brave men.Kong Yanzhou easily occupied the entire Qizhou, and the striker also took down Macheng, which occupies an advantageous location.

He originally planned to cross the Ba River with his whole army, use Macheng as his base camp, and go straight down to Huanggang where Wang Shen Xingyuan is located.

It's a pity that this spring rain fell inexplicably. In the past, the Ba River, which was only below the knees, soared, and it was no longer possible for the army to go to Macheng.

We can only wait until the weather clears up and the river recedes.

At this time, a bad news came - the defenders of Macheng were beaten back by Wang Shen.

The thing is like this, Kong Yanzhou's vanguard troops occupying Macheng have about a thousand people, which can be regarded as the elite of the army.Even if the city wall of Macheng is broken again, as long as the people are recruited to defend the city, even if the whole army of Sizhou goes to attack, it may not be able to defeat it.

But the problem lies in the matter of recruiting civilian husbands, and Wang Shen's spies were mixed in.

On the second night, the secret workers who had already been hidden among the civilians set fires everywhere, causing chaos in the forward army.

Then, the Sizhou army took advantage of the chaos and rushed into the city, repelling Kong Yanzhou's forward army.

In this campaign, Kong Yanzhou's vanguard troops only occupied Macheng for one day, but they were beheaded two hundred levels, and fled across the river in a hurry.

Only in these few days did Kong Yanzhou know that it was Wang Shen's former general Hu Yantong who took back Macheng.Hu Yantong happened to take more than 100 soldiers to Macheng to collect food that day, and instead of retreating, he took back the fallen county.

A mere thousand vanguard troops were beaten so badly by Hu Yantong, which made Kong Yanzhou extremely angry.

At the most troublesome time, once the river rose, Wang Shen would be expelled in the shortest possible time, and the strategic intention of occupying the land of the two states and further managing Ezhou could only be delayed like this.

In this way, wouldn't it give Wang Shen a chance to breathe?

What's more terrible is that Qizhou is too poor. More than 3 troops stay in this square inch of land, people eat horse chews, and every day is an astronomical sum.If the battle could not be ended quickly, Kong Yanzhou didn't think he could last much longer.

God is not beautiful, today he simply came to the Ba River to take a bath, using the cold river water to calm the anxiety in his heart.

Seeing that Kong Yanzhou's whole body was rubbed red, the frail young man next to him said worriedly: "Father, that's right, on the surface it seems that Wang Daosi only has 5000 troops, while our army has [-], outnumbering the few, it seems that the victory is sure. But……"

This boy is Kong Xian, the third son of Kong Yanzhou, and the only son who is still alive. Kong Yanzhou is from Linlu, Xiangzhou.Sexual prostitution, having sex with women every night, and having wives and concubines in groups at home.When he was in his hometown in his early years, he also married a wife, but his eldest wife was weak and died early, leaving no children.

Kong Xian is a concubine who gave birth to sons. Before him, other concubines gave birth to two elder brothers, but unfortunately they both died young.Up to now, the Kong family has only one seedling.

Probably because of the weak woman like his mother, Kong Xian didn't have the rough appearance of Kong Yanzhou, a warrior, but instead had red lips, white teeth, fine skin and tender flesh.

Kong Yanzhou was cruel by nature, and he never paid attention to such things as kinship.On weekdays, he also dislikes his son very much, and beats and kicks him when he moves.

Kong Xian fears his father like a tiger, and hides whenever he can.

As a result, Kong Yanzhou was extremely dissatisfied with him.

When I saw my son's wretched appearance today, I felt an evil fire in my heart: "Oh, what's wrong with you kid?"

Seeing his father's complexion, Kong Xian became more cautious and said with a smile: "From my son's point of view, although we have many soldiers, most of them are new recruits. This time when we came to Qi and Huang in the south, many soldiers recruited along the way were killed. I have never been to the battlefield. As far as I know, most of Wang Daosi's 5000 men are veterans of the Western Army drawn from Jiankang's left-behind division. They have killed more people than our newcomers have eaten. There are many more. Moreover, the backbone of the Sizhou Army all went through the bloody battle in Jiankang. Even the Khitans and Jurchen suffered a great loss under their hands, and Wanyan Balisu was even beheaded by Wang Daosi formation. Go on, I'm afraid we won't win. How about..."

Before he finished speaking, the wet loofah in Kong Yanzhou's hand hit him in the face, and then kicked him fiercely in the chest.

"You don't know anything about major military affairs. If I were you, I would go to this river to take a picture of myself right now, so I would be self-aware." Kong Yanzhou rarely looked at his son who was hesitating on the ground and vomiting blood.

He scolded: "Why, you still want me to agree to peace talks with Wang? You know the truth, Qi and Huang prefectures are so big that they can't support the two armies at all. I'm going to Ezhou to grow hair. The king blocked my way. Will he give me Huangzhou? There is no way to talk about this matter. One of the two must lie down and the other stand. Are you talking about that Mr. Lu Benzhong? Yours, did you take advantage of him, so you came here as a lobbyist? Straight to your mother, and you turned your elbows away. For money, even your father sold you. I really doubt that you are not from my Kong family kind."

Kong Xian caught the blood spit out of his mouth with his hand, and forced a smile: "Father, it is the son who is ignorant, it is the son who is ignorant."

"Go away, don't poke people's eyes here." Another kick kicked Kong Xian away like a kitten or a puppy, Kong Yanzhou quickly put on his clothes, and ordered: "Let's go back to Qichun, let the soldiers stationed in various places The horses gathered there. It was also the luck of the surname Wang. The rains from God gave him a chance to breathe. Now the Sizhou Army on the Huanggang side should have been assembled. State, we can only fight hard."

He sternly said: "Let those pestilent students in the yamen prepare the food, fodder, supplies and equipment for me as soon as possible, and then recruit the peasants to build a pontoon bridge on this river. If I delay my work, I will chop up all the scholars and throw them into the river." Hey bastard."

Looking at the back of Kong Xian who was limping back with the help of his soldiers, and thinking of Lu Benzhong's proud face and contemptuous eyes, Kong Yanzhou's anger became even hotter: His mother, Kong Xian must be a little bastard. To be a lobbyist for him.As for the benefits, if you think about it, this kid might not just take it.The man surnamed Lu is eloquent and a great celebrity.As soon as they arrived in Qizhou, Kong Xian was confused, and the two called each other master and apprentice. They should have killed that surnamed Lu.But……

But I can't kill it!

Not only could Lu Benzhong not be killed, even what he said just now about chopping up all the scholars in the state yamen and throwing them into the river to feed bastards was just talking.

Those scholars were either the children of local rich families, or the officials and civil servants in the prefecture and county yamen.

Kong Yanzhou was originally an outsider, and his eyes were smeared with Qizhou. His ambition was in Ezhou, and this place was only a place for him to live temporarily. Naturally, he did not have the patience to appoint new officials. Moreover, he was about to have a decisive battle with Wang Shen. In an emergency, he could only deal with the group of scholars.

(End of this chapter)