Song Dynasty

Chapter 197 Li Heng's Thoughts

"What movement?"

On the Yangtze River at the mouth of the Qishui River, Li Heng asked.

On the boat, the soldier who screamed earlier stretched out his finger to Qichun City in the distance: "Look, sir."

"Ah!" Li Heng took a deep breath after only looking over there.

I saw that Qichun City, more than 20 miles away, was just a small black spot in the wilderness, which could be ignored.If you don't use your eyesight, you really can't see clearly.

However, in comparison, the group of cumulonimbus clouds over the city seemed extremely huge.

The black cloud was like a cauldron on Qichun city, baring its teeth and claws, viciously.

In the pitch black, there were flashes of lightning, and there was a faint rumble of thunder.

The snowy raindrops were dripping down, which was a rare spectacle in the summer sky.

Qichun city was already on fire, and when it was poured by the rain like a waterfall, white water vapor rose instantly.Rolling up, connected with the dark clouds in the sky, black and white, static and dynamic, forming a magnificent picture.

No need to guess, anyone with a brain knows that Qichun City has been captured by the Sizhou Army, and fierce street fighting is taking place inside.

There is a saying in the art of war, ten rules surround it.Wang Shen was able to besiege Qichun for two months, which shows that his army has an absolute advantage over Kong Yanzhou.In the cold weapon war, once the attacker rushed into the city, he had almost won the battle.

After yelling, Li Heng realized the seriousness of the problem, and couldn't help but turned his head and shouted to the cabin: "Deyuan, Deyuan, come out quickly, something is wrong!"

A steady voice came: "The old man has already seen it, why did Yanping panic like this?"

Wearing a green shirt, he walked onto the deck and set up an awning in his hand, and also looked towards the north.

This person is tall and has big steps, with three strands of long beard on his face, which looks elegant and unrestrained.

Li Heng looked anxious: "Yesterday you and I received a letter from Lu Benzhong, Lu Juren and Kong Yanzhou, talking about Kong Yanzhou's army introducing the court to recruit security. Please accept the reorganization of the Kong Department and order Wang Shen to retreat. How did it happen?" One night, Qichun will be captured by Wang Shen? It's really abominable, we can't let him go on like this."

"Can't it? It seems that Wang Shen has already entered the city, and the arrow is on the string, how can he stop it?" Zhang Jun asked lightly.

Li Heng: "The trust sent by you and me should have found Wang Shen, but he is still continuing to attack Kong Yanzhou. This is purely ignoring you and me. In the future, I will go through Jingchu, and I still have to rely on Kong Yanzhou. After all, Kong Bu is an elite soldier trained by the left-behind division in Tokyo, how could he not be here for no reason?"

Zhang Jun smiled: "Without Kong Yanzhou, wouldn't there still be Wang Daosi? Although there are not many Sizhou troops, they are a first-class strong army. At the beginning, when Wang Daosi was in Jiankang, he defeated the Jurchen kidnapper, Wushu had to divert to Jiangdu to cross the river. The soldiers and civilians in Jiankang city all lived because of him. With such an invincible tiger, we can expect to pacify Jianghan and even enter the six counties of Xiangyang. Kong Yanzhou was cruel and cunning, and surrendered Rebelling repeatedly, being suppressed by Wang Shen is not a big deal, so why do you want to protect him Kong Juji. So, there is no Kong Juji, butchers still eat hairy pigs?"

Seeing his calm face, Li Heng stomped his feet anxiously.He and Zhang Jun are colleagues in the Privy Council, and they have a good personal relationship.Although it is a superior-subordinate relationship, he can speak casually: "Deyuan, are you really stupid or pretending to be stupid. Kong Yanzhou repeatedly said that a villain is not temperate, but once he is recruited, he can be treated with kindness and righteousness. It is for my use. But Wang Shen is a white-eyed wolf who is not familiar with it. He is afraid that he will not listen to a word of my words. The rest of the army is still there and can still be used. And behind them there are three places in Hanzhong and Bashu that can raise troops. This Jingchu has been completely corrupted. Without Kong Yanzhou, a certain is a clever woman who can't cook without rice. Deyuan, you really stand up and talk Don't be afraid of back pain!"

Speaking of this, Li Heng's eyes were red as he watched the smoke soaring into the sky in the distance, and his heart was extremely irritable.

The two originally had a personal relationship, and they have been on the same boat from Hangzhou to Huangzhou for a month, getting along day and night, and they have become close friends who talk about everything, and he will not hide his thoughts in front of Zhang Deyuan.

Yes, Jingchu's side has been turned upside down by Zhang Yong and Cao Cheng's tens of thousands of bandits.These thieves are elites who have experienced many battles, and they might run away when they deal with Jurchen, but they are relaxed and happy to deal with the Song Dynasty's officers and soldiers.Thanks to the empty treasury of the Song Dynasty, when he came to Jianghan this time, the court did not allocate a penny, nor did he give a single soldier.

The officials only gave an imperial decree, ordering him to be fully responsible for the military administration of the three prefectures of Ezhou, Anlu, and Xiangyang. It means that if I don’t have any soldiers, you can recruit them yourself;

Originally, if Jingchu didn't have so many bandits causing trouble, all they needed to do was post a notice, and neither soldiers nor food would be a problem.But now, except for Wang Shen's Huangzhou, the entire Jianghan area is occupied by bandit troops. Li Heng is a polished commander.Coming to Jianghan this time is an errand to die.

In contrast, although Zhang Jun was traveling alone, his situation was as good as heaven.As he said just now, there are still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to be restrained by Wu Jie in the mountainous area of ​​southern Shaanxi, and they are all the elite of the Old Western Army.As for money and food, there are two bases in Hanzhong and Sichuan, and they have inexhaustible human and material resources.

Why are people so different?

That's right, after all, Zhang Deyuan is the hero of Qingtian's protection, and the husband who is one step away from entering the political affairs hall, no matter his status or the favor of the official family, he can't compare with him.

Along the way, he was thinking about how to open up the situation after arriving in Hubei.

After thinking about it for many days, I realized that it was a dead end. If I stayed for a while, I would be driven back to Lin'an by the rebels because I couldn't stand.

At that time, his future will really be over. In fact, being sent to Jingxiang this time is already dismissed in disguise.

The politics of the Song Dynasty has always been to emphasize the central government and despise the local government.The losers in court political battles usually go down to serve in the localities, this time I am like this, and Zhang Deyuan probably is also like this, so I took the initiative to ask for it, right?
If he can't make a career in Jianghan, Li Heng's political life will come to an end.

Just last night, the urgent letter from Lu Benzhong and Kong Yanzhou arrived, and Li Heng immediately realized that this was a good opportunity for him to break the situation.

Kong Yanzhou had soldiers and territories, and that was a force he could rely on.The most wonderful thing is that the surname Kong is a rogue, and there is no one in the court. If he wants to survive, he can only follow him closely and be his lackey.

Li Heng didn't know that Kong Yanzhou's letter to Zhang Jun asking for security came from Lu Benzhong.At that time, old man Lu said such a sentence in order to protect himself, and Kong Yanzhou believed it when he said it.

Actually, Lu Benzhong didn't expect the letter to fall into Zhang Jun's hands, all he wanted was to delay it for a few days.But I didn't expect Zhang and Li to come so fast, and the messenger's luck was good, and they intercepted their official ship on the Yangtze River.

This idea came to his mind, wanting to take the Kong family army into his pocket, Li Heng was so excited that he couldn't sleep.

Seeing that they were about to reach Qichun City, but looking at the situation there, Wang Shen had already rushed into the city.Kong Yanzhou's entire army was wiped out, and it was a certainty that Qizhou became the territory of his king.

Li Heng was disappointed and angry at the same time. Hearing what Zhang Jun said, he couldn't help but said: "Deyuan, don't you forget who Wang Shen is. Will he listen to you and me? A traitor against the master, a despicable little man people!"

Yes, Wang Shen used to be a disciple of Zhang Jun's disciple. Later, he went to Jiangbei to recruit Li Cheng, and made great contributions to the pacification of Huaixi.But just because Zhang Deyuan wiped out his credit, he should change his family and join Du Chong's family.

And because of Du Chong's support, he became the defense envoy of Huangzhou, which was like a town, guarding one side, and the scenery was the same for a while.

Comparing the two, it can be imagined that the surname Wang doesn't know how to resent Zhang Jun.

The worst thing is that when Jurchen went south to Jianghuai, Zhang Jun saw the corruption in Jiangbei, so he asked for an order to restrain the soldiers and horses in Jianghuai. At that time, it was Du Chong who was in charge of the Jiangnan and Jiangbei military affairs.Then, the two turned their faces completely.

Later, when Zhang Shujun was about to enter the political affairs hall, there were calls from the government and the opposition for him to replace the incompetent Du Chong, and the two had become endless political enemies.

The loss of Tokyo led to the loss of a large area of ​​Jianghuai, Du Chong's reputation was extremely bad, and he was about to die.But at this time, Wang Shen, who had just joined Dumen, was born out of nowhere.With more than 1000 weak soldiers, they defeated the Jurchen iron cavalry crossing the river, beheaded the general of the Kingdom of Jin, Wanyan Balisu, and defended Jinling.

The military, political, and economic significance of Jiankang is so great. It can be said that Jinling exists in the south of the Yangtze River; if Jinling is lost, Jiangnan will not exist.

No one can obliterate such a peerless contribution. The villain Du Chong relied on this hearty victory to keep his position in the Zhengshitang. Jane is in the heart of the emperor, and there is a great possibility that he will become the palm print in the future.

This blow was serious to Zhang Deyuan, and he had no choice but to leave Lin'an sadly after receiving the imperial decree.

Today, there are villains in the court who have attached themselves to Du Chong and formed the Du Party.

As the banner figure of the Du party leading the army abroad, Wang Shen would naturally not give him and Zhang Deyuan good face, let alone listen to his orders from Li Heng.

Hearing Li Heng's angry words, Zhang Jun smiled lightly: "Yan Ping, after all, you are the military and political chief of Jianghan, and the court has its own laws and regulations. Maybe Wang Daosi is not willing to be restrained by you, but the [-] bandit army is a disaster for Anlu , Jiang Han, he, Wang Shen, also has the responsibility to defend the land and fight against the enemy, so let’s seek common ground while reserving differences! I’m passing through Huangzhou this time, so I’ll find a chance to have a good talk with him, and I think Wang’s defense envoy will put state affairs and the overall situation first.”

"How can a man place his hope on others, just a military ruffian who understands state affairs and righteousness? No, I have to go to Qichun right away." At this point, Li Heng couldn't stay still any longer, and ordered: "Put down the springboard and prepare the horses!"

(End of this chapter)