Fu Song

Chapter 740
He raised his neck and drank another bowl of wine to the last drop.

Several wine jars had been lost on the ground, and Yelu Longxu had been drinking for half the night.

He wanted to get drunk so that at least he could have a little peace.

It's a pity that today, the more he drank, the clearer he became, the brighter his eyes became, and the clearer his mind became.

If he drank so much, he would have passed out long ago.

The news of Jianghuai's defeat has already been sent to him by a fast horse traveling eight hundred li.

Although I had some expectations in my heart, before things happened, I always held some hope.

What if I win!
There is a smooth road ahead of him in Daliao.

But the hope is very full, but the reality is very skinny.

Not only was it a defeat, but it was a fiasco.

Daliao's most elite Pishi Army and Shan Shan Army lost tens of thousands of people under the city of Xuzhou.

The officer who came to report the news, when he talked about the tragic situation in Xuzhou city, couldn't help crying bitterly, which made all the Daliao officials present burst into tears.

Liu Yu disappeared.

Chen Tiansong rebelled.

If there were no other accidents, Liu Yu should have been arrested by Chen Tiansong.

As expected, the state of Qi became a mess.

The Song army attacked across the sea, and the entire Jingdong East Road has almost fallen into the hands of the Song army.With a local tycoon like Chen Tiansong going through the needles, those local forces on the two roads of Jingdong may turn against Daliao at any time.

In fact, those people never really wanted Daliao.

It's just that he had to bow his knees in front of Daliao's iron fists and swords.

One hundred pounds of body, 99 pounds of anti-bone,
If you seize the opportunity, something will inevitably happen.

I have to retreat, if I don't retreat, if one is not good, I really can't go!
Yelu Longxu knew very well that Yeluzhen's failure in Jianghuai also represented the complete failure of Daliao's Southern Expedition this time.

Failure was not terrible.

In history, Daliao has failed many times, but every time, it can climb out of the pit of failure.

But this time is different.

Yeluzhen knew it well, and Yelu Longxu actually knew it too.

The only chance has been lost.

Because the enemy you are facing now is completely different from the enemies you have faced in the past.

The failure this time is a failure of the entire grand strategy.

The offensive and defensive momentum has been reversed.

Yelu Longxu stood up, kicked a wine jar high into the air, and then fell towards the bottom of Tucheng. He didn't hear the sound, but saw him turned into pieces all over the place.

He raised his head and took a last look at Xiangyang City, which towered over the river in the distance. He turned around resolutely, walked down the slope, and walked down the Tucheng.

From the first day he came here, he never thought of breaking the city that Yelumin hadn't even knocked on.

A month ago, he began to arrange the retreat.

On the way to retreat, all the support, food and grass have been properly arranged.

Now, he still needs someone to break his back.

Qu Zhen's face was pale.

"General, I have been loyal to Daliao all these years."

Yelu Longxu nodded: "I know this, Your Majesty knows it, and the Queen Mother knows it, so you will be the King of Zhao. Your son will still be the King of Zhao! Qu He is very smart, both civil and military, and will be successful in the future. There must be no limit."

"Can King Zhao, who has no territory and no subordinates, survive in Daliao?" Qu Zhen swallowed and said with some difficulty.

"Your family property in Tokyo, I guarantee that it will still belong to your family, and your family will also let Qu Hedu take it to Beijing." Yelu Longxu said lightly: "I am a person, you know it very well even if you think about it." , Don’t make promises easily, once you make a promise, you will definitely keep it.”

Qu Zhen gritted her teeth, "General, I understand, I will fight to the end and buy enough time for the general to retreat!"

Yelu Longxu nodded in satisfaction, patted Qu Zhen on the shoulder, and said: "You are also a smart person, a manly man, if you can exchange your own life for future generations, why not! "

"I want someone!" Qu Zhen stood up.

"Song King Zhao Suo!" Yelu Longxu laughed.

"Exactly!" Qu Zhen said: "With this person around, I might be able to last for a few more days. Anyway, this person was once the emperor of the Song Dynasty, the Supreme Emperor, and many civil servants and generals in Xiangyang recognize him. he!"

"Here you are!" Yelu Longxu said: "The value of his existence is almost nothing, allowing you to extract the last bit of value from him, it can be regarded as Daliao's last reward for raising him for many years!"

Qu Zhen stood up, this time, instead of saluting Yelu Longxu, he turned around and strode away.

"I paid you five thousand hand cannons, which is half of my own." Yelu Longxu's voice came from behind.

Qu Zhen paused for a while, then turned around and accelerated to leave.

Giving or not giving can't change any result, but it can only bring more damage to the Song army.

And myself, still will be a dead end.

Yelu Longxu took his family as hostages and threatened him with the future life of his family, all he wanted was to fight to the end.

The next day, the quiet outside the city was very different from the past.

A scout from the Song Army rode his horse forward cautiously.

Song and Liao confronted each other in Xiangyang for a long time. There was no large-scale battle between the two sides, but there were not many duels between scouts.

In this buffer area of ​​about ten miles, the scout duel between Song and Liao was the main theme here during this period.

Today, the scouts have crossed the default midline, but on the other side, there is still no sign of the enemy.

The earthen city in the distance blocked everyone's sight.

Moving forward, and then moving forward, several scouts glanced at each other, nodded, and opened up the distance between each other. The one at the front was about hundreds of steps away from the one at the end.

This kind of formation ensures to the greatest extent that everyone will not give the opponent a chance to catch them all.

But it's okay,
Tucheng is getting closer.

The so-called Tucheng is nothing more than an earthen wall that the Liao people have dug and piled up over the past few months. It is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, and the width at the highest point is enough for two people to stand side by side.

It's so close now, yet no Liao army has shown up yet.

The leading scout didn't hesitate anymore, flew forward, untied an anchor hook from his waist, threw it out forcefully, and flew up with a long rope anchor hook, then hooked on it, pulled hard, and the scout flew away Then, he raised his legs alternately, kicked on the earthen wall, and in a blink of an eye, he had climbed to the top of the earthen city.

He glanced forward, turned his head, and looked at his companion below in disbelief.

"The Liao dog has run away!"

He yelled with all his strength.

Xiangyang moved, and Fancheng moved.

When the news of the Liao army's retreat across the board came back, Wang Zhu immediately gave the order to pursue them across the board without the slightest hesitation.

Ever since the news of Jianghuai's victory came, Wang Zhu began to make arrangements.

The reason why he didn't attack Yelu Longxu after getting the news, and keep this group of enemies in Xiangyang, is because Wang Zhu believed that a death fight with a trapped enemy would not increase the casualties of his subordinates. Great deal.Maybe he will get a lot of military merits, but Wang Zhu, who has climbed up step by step from the bottom soldier, has no interest in such military merits.

Destroying the enemy during the pursuit is what he prefers to do.

Such a harvest may be small, but it greatly improves the survival rate of his brothers.

Wang Zhu thought it was worth it.

Credit can be earned slowly.

Didn't Shoufu say that?After this battle, Song and Liao changed their offensive and defensive positions, and there will be a stalemate for a period of time in the future, and then the Song Dynasty will attack, and Liao will defend.

After the Northern Expedition started, I was afraid that there would be no credit for it!

Even because of this, he quarreled several times with Hu Qi, the Zhong Cheng of the Overwatch Council who came to inspect the place, but Wang Zhu did not change his original intention.

Hu Qi felt that we should do everything possible to keep the enemy and destroy the enemy.

Thinking that Wang Zhu was cowardly, bullets flew towards Jiangning one after another,
But Wang Zhu didn't care at all.

Brother is a person with a backer.

Brother's backer is not just the first assistant, but the serious master of the Great Song Dynasty, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.

The emperor is my elder brother and I carried it all the way from Tokyo to Guizhou.

I'm still afraid of you?

This made Hu Qi very angry.

Originally, after inspecting here, his next stop should be Yizhou Road, but this guy just stayed here and didn't leave, and he seemed to never leave until he found Wang Zhu's handle.

This time Wang Zhu attacked across the board, and Hu Qi actually climbed onto a horse and followed.

But Hu Qi never expected that he would see this scene in front of him.

On the opposite side of the position of Zhao Jun who was blocking the pursuers, a wooden platform was erected high. On the wooden platform, flags were fluttering, and a man dressed in the grand form of the emperor of the Song Dynasty sat on it.

Tens of thousands of Zhao troops formed a formation around the wooden platform.

Song Jun, who was chasing him, was at a loss when he saw this scene.

Reporting to the generals layer by layer, the Song Army, which had stagnated, finally waited for the Great General Wang Zhu of Xingyuan in the East and Hu Qi, the Prime Minister of the Overwatch Council. These two people are now the highest-ranking civil and military officials in Xiangyang.

Wang Zhu squinted his eyes and looked at the old guy sitting there like a puppet clay sculpture on the high platform in the distance.

Hu Qi had mixed feelings in his heart,

He once admired the person on the high platform extremely, and all the way from a little transparent in the officialdom who didn't understand anything to a high position step by step was all thanks to the promotion of this person in front of him.

But now, the idol in his mind has become like this.

"Who is this person?" Wang Zhu asked, pinching his teeth.

"Who else could it be? The former emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, the Supreme Emperor!" Hu Qi said sadly.

"Nonsense!" Wang Zhu sneered: "Are you fooling yourself, or are you fooling yourself with lard? It is clear that Shoufu said that the Supreme Emperor of the Song Dynasty died in Wuguocheng a long time ago, and the Liao people wanted to mess with me. The hearts of the soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty, I don’t know where to find a Xibei product to pretend to be the Supreme Emperor, this is the most extreme insult to my Song Dynasty!"

Hu Qi suddenly turned his head and looked at Wang Zhu.

With a straight face, Wang Zhu raised his arms in a gesture.

Hu Qi was surprised to see that dozens of bronze cannons were being pushed forward by the soldiers.

"You, you" Hu Qi pointed at Wang Zhu, tremblingly said: "What do you want to do?"

Wang Zhu laughed dryly: "What else can you do! Damn it! A thing that pretends to be my Great Song Supreme and ruins my Great Song Supreme's reputation, do you want to keep him for the New Year?"

Before Hu Qi could say anything else, Wang Zhu had already ordered loudly: "Concentrate your firepower and blast that platform to pieces!"

There was a sound of thunder and smoke, and the tall wooden platform, in the eyes of everyone, instantly turned into ruins all over the place. The raging fire ignited, and there was a figure struggling in pain.

Looking at the figure in the fire, Wang Zhu let out a long breath.

Fourteen years ago, in the city of Tokyo, at the gate of the imperial city, a man set up a tall firewood, burned himself to the ground, and used his own death to accuse the then emperor.

The man's wife gathered all the family members, and then lit the house with a fire, echoing the fire between the imperial city.

Just when the raging fire ignited, he left Tokyo City with a two-year-old child on his back.

The cycle of cause and effect, retribution is unhappy.

Today, I finally let the faint king whom he hated for more than ten years also die in the fire.

I don't know what King Jing is thinking, maybe he is not happy, after all this man is his father, maybe he is happy, because what King Jing hates the most is people who betray the country and seek glory.

People like Zhao Suo should have died a long time ago, and being alive is a shame.

Lose the face of the ancestors of the old Zhao family, and also lose the face of the emperor back then.

Wang Zhu felt that it was his responsibility to expose this pustule.

"The whole army, attack!" Just as the sound of the cannons disappeared, Wang Zhu had already pulled out his dark sword and pointed the halberd forward: "Whoever stands in my way dies!"

The leader of the Skyhawk Army, Yue Teng, rode his horse and rushed out first.

"Whoever stops me will die!"

Countless Song soldiers roared and rushed forward.

Qu Zhen didn't expect that Wang Zhu on the opposite side would directly blast their former emperor into a pile of scum without even thinking about it. He thought he could drag it until dark at least.In this way, at least two days can be bought for Yelu Longxu.

But now, I'm afraid one day is also hanging.

"Block them, those who retreat will die!" Zhao Jun's supervisors shouted in unison, and rows of crossbows were raised, aiming at the backs of their own family members instead of the enemy.

The retreat of the Liao army was extremely fast, thanks to Yelu Longxu's advance arrangements. Wang Zhu never expected that the fat man of the Liao Kingdom who had been confronting him for several months, since he arrived at the city of Xiangyang, did not think about how to attack the city. Instead, he was preparing to run away.

Under the scorching sun, Yelu Longxu was sitting on a bullock cart while wiping his sweat while reading a letter.

The letter was written by Yelu Bianji from Zhending Mansion.

There was only one content in the letter, Yeluzhen could not go back alive, if he did not die on the Jianghuai battlefield, then Yelu Longxu had to find a way to kill him.

Slowly tearing the letter into shreds, kneading it into a ball in his hand, and then being soaked into pulp by sweat, Yelu Longxu's face was a little painful.

Although Yeluzhen has different political views from him, there is no doubt that they are friends.

(End of this chapter)