I, Han Gaozu, actually traveled through Song Gaozong?

Chapter 118
He knew that the emperor was in a hurry, but Zhang Taiwei didn't know that the emperor was in such a hurry.

Leaving aside the two Huaihe Rivers, it is estimated that Yue Fei has only been in Xiangyang for a month... Urgently report to the whole army, deploy defenses along the river, and raise food and wages and other matters.

How can it be done in only one month!

This Northern Expedition was said to be a three-front battle, but everyone knew in their hearts that only Xiangfan, Tangdeng, and Xinyang, where Liu Kai was located, were the real main battlefields.

It is the closest to Bianjing, and it is also the place where Jin Guoren's army is stationed.

As for the two Huaihe Rivers, they only played the role of containment and assistance.

Thinking that the emperor had lived a peaceful life for a few years, he might have forgotten the suffering of the war.

Zhang Jun cleared his throat and said in a low voice:
"Officials, even if we want to send troops, we will know that Han Liangchen and the others are the ones who will do it. Even if we really take down Shouzhou, it will also conflict with the Northern Expedition plan!"

Zhang Taiwei had a very strategic vision, and the emperor endured the humiliation and took a piece of paper and a book, and risked the reputation of betraying the alliance, just to take an advantage.

If this opportunity was only wasted on one Shouzhou...it would really be killing a chicken with a butcher's knife.

"And..." Zhang Jun seems to have remembered something, "The Jinren don't seem to be careless. The spies sent by the minister have already checked several times. The defense of Shouzhou City seems to be tighter than last year."

Originally, I wanted to send some people into the city first, and then cooperate with the inside and outside at the end, so it would be more effective with less effort.

But the city of Shouzhou is so well-defended that people can enter, but weapons and armor are out of the question.

In addition, the scouts on the opposite side have been staring at this side, as long as the boat on this side moves, Shouzhou City must be able to know.

In this way, it seems that there is no other way except to fight hard.

After listening to Zhang Jun's words, Liu Bang bowed his head and thought for a while.

It is naturally best for Jin people to be slack, but they are still on guard all the time, which shows that they are not idiots.

Looking at the map again, Shouzhou and Shouchun County are separated by a river, almost face to face.

On the east side of Shouzhou City, the Huaihe River just turned a corner, so that the south and east sides were blocked by water.

"How many defenders are there in the city?"

Zhang Jun glanced at Wang De, Wang Yecha was an evil ghost Yasha to Jinren and others, but when he was in front of the emperor, he became a little speechless.

Some stammered: "Three, about three thousand."

"Three thousand..."

This number is about the same as what I imagined. After all, this is almost a barrier for Bozhou, but this city is really too small.

There can be three thousand, plus the officials and civilian husbands in the city, there are almost 5000 people.

The real army should be the tens of thousands of people in Bozhou City.

The distance between the two places is four hundred miles, and it only takes three days. As long as Shouzhou City can last for three days, the reinforcements from Bozhou will be able to support them.

In other words, within three days, they had to win Shouzhou.

Except for being in bed, Liu Bang is fast in everything else, especially in war.

What other people seem to be very troublesome, he seems to be very simple.

Whether it's ingenuity or geomantic omen, whether it's the morale of the army or the gap between the enemy and the enemy, like Han Xin and Zhang Liang, there are always many things to consider.

He only thinks about two things, whether he can fight or not.

The disadvantage of leading an army like this is that it is easy to suffer defeat.

And the benefits... just one word:

fast.

During the half year from August of the first year of the Han Dynasty to April of the second year of the Han Dynasty, he attacked Hanoi, captured Sima Ang (ang), crossed Pingyinjin, went to Luoyang, and then took time out halfway to mourn for Emperor Yi, and finally met the alliance The princes went outside Xiang Yu's capital Pengcheng...

Yes, it only took half a year.

Of course, he did a good job with a series of performances such as burning the plank road. Anyway, when he came out of Sanqin, the princes had already started working with Xiang Yu.

Later, when he fought the Huns, it was also fast, so fast that he left everyone behind and surrounded himself in their encirclement.

Now facing this situation, he began to ask himself again in his heart:
Can you fight?

Of course you can fight, it's just a fucking small town.

Can you beat it?
Zhang Jun has 8 people under his command, and 2 people are left to deploy defenses in the south. The rest of them are almost ten to one, and what the hell can't beat them?
There was already a calculation in his heart, and he was about to speak, when Guo Yaoshi, who had been bowing his head, suddenly spoke.

"Your Majesty, the little old man has an idea."

Zhang Jun never had a good impression of this old man, but he didn't know his identity, and he saw the emperor getting close to him...well, the reason why he didn't like him was because he was getting close to the emperor.

Seeing that he wants to speak first now, how can he let him show the limelight!

He hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty, I also have a plan!"

Wang De on the side gently tugged on Zhang Taiwei's sleeve... After following this person for several years, he knew that Zhang Taiwei was tougher than Liu Guangshi, but he was also tougher. At least he dared to show his sword against the golden man.

The rest of the time, most of them are thinking about how and when to withdraw.

Now that the emperor killed Qin Hui, he said what would happen to those who stopped him from taking revenge. If Zhang Jun offended the emperor at this time... Anyway, Zhang Jun still has nothing to say to his subordinates, so Wang De wanted to stop him , Anyway, it may not be right if you say it, but it must be good if you don't say it.

Don't lose face again.

And Liu Bang... He brought this old man with him, and didn't expect him to be able to play any role. It's just that it's rare to have such a sensitive person. If he was slaughtered, that would not be good.

The people of Song State hated Guo Yaoshi, but Liu Bang did not; the people of Song State blamed him, but Liu Bang did not.

Seeing him talking like this now, I remembered that the old boy was the number one general of the Song Dynasty after all, and in terms of his record against the Jinren, no one could compare to him except Yue Fei, Liu Kai, and Han Shizhong.

But seeing Zhang Jun's earnest expression again, Liu Bang waved his hand:
"The lieutenant speaks first."

Zhang Jun glared at Guo Yaoshi triumphantly, and broke away from Wang De's hand again:
"I dare not hide it. Ever since I arrived in Shouchun in Lin'an, I have been thinking about how, how..."

Zhang Taiwei thought for a while, and finally remembered how to describe it:

"How to outsmart Shoucheng! Thanks to the guidance of the officials, the old minister really figured it out!"

Liu Bang rolled his eyes at him: "Don't talk nonsense to me, hurry up and get down to business!"

Zhang Jun quickly said yes, then pointed to the map and said:
"We can take it here first!"

As he spoke, his fingers slowly moved from the left side of Shouchun to Shunchang Mansion, which is the location of Yingzhou.

"After taking this place, even if Bozhou City sends troops, they will come to Yingzhou first."

"Since we have a large number of people, we can divide our troops and wait in Shouchun. As long as Bozhou City sends troops, it will be much easier for us to take Shouzhou again."

"At that time, we can go north from Shouzhou again, take Bozhou directly, and call the dog thieves in Bozhou city to come and ignore the tail!"

Zhang Jun's method is to give up what he planned at the beginning, and take Bozhou as soon as possible...

Liu Bang's eyes narrowed slightly, Wang De coughed several times, and even Guo Yaoshi frowned.

It's not that Zhang Jun's suggestion is good, it's just that this place...

In the peace talks before this year, the Jin people returned almost all of the south of the Yellow River to the Song State. Later, Wanyan Wushu killed the King of Jin and the ministers of the faction, tore up the peace treaty and invaded south again.

At that time, the Shunchang Mansion had already been handed over to Song Dynasty.

It was there that Liu Kai won the most beautiful battle in his life since the war between Song and Jin.

Originally, Liu Kai was going to Kaifeng to be his stay-at-home in Tokyo. When he got to Shunchang, he heard the news and immediately entered the city to guard.

At that time, Liu Kai had only 2 troops under his command, and no more than [-] could fight... But he had severely injured Wanyan Wushu's forward army several times, forcing him to sit in Kaifeng and prepare [-] troops for Yue Fei. The fourth prince of the Kingdom of Jin had no choice but to personally lead his troops to help.

So...Jin Wushu lost consecutive battles. Originally, he arrived in Shunchang on June [-]th, and ordered that he would have breakfast in the city on the [-]th.

He also said that after the city was broken, all the women's jades and silks were plundered by the generals, and all the men were killed.

As a result, he was unable to enter the city and fled in despair.

This battle perfectly supported Wu Lin, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong on the two wings, and Song Guo really achieved a complete victory on all four fronts.

Liu Qi was also promoted to the commander of the Ma Junsi because of this battle.

However, when Uncle Liu Xin was there last year, he encouraged the people in the city and scuttled the boat he brought, giving the people of Shunchang Mansion an attitude of never giving up on them.

In addition, Jin Wushu gave the order to massacre the city again, and in this way, the soldiers and civilians worked together to fight this battle.

It can be said that without the help of the people of Shunchang Mansion, it is absolutely not enough to rely on Liu Kai's little people.

In the battle of Shunchang, the enemy was terrified and frightened, and took all the treasures of Yan to the north, intending to donate Yan to the south and discard them... almost made the people of the Jin Kingdom return the land of Yanyun.

but……

The last time the emperor forbade everyone to go to the north and summoned all the generals to return to Lin'an. In addition, Liu Kai sent troops to help Yue Fei before, so there were no soldiers in Shunchang at all.

Once the war between the two countries ceased, except for the Shang and Qin states occupied by Wu Lin and the Tang and Deng states occupied by Yue Fei, the rest of the state capitals were returned.

Naturally, this Shunchang Mansion was also included.

Liu Bang didn't know what the people in the city thought, and there was no definite news about how many people were executed.

But the only thing he knew was that if Zhang Jun wanted to seize Yingzhou from Yingshui, it would be much more difficult than Shouzhou.

Although Yingzhou is not as close as Shouzhou across the Huaihe River, it is true that the Song army may be more likely to go ashore without being discovered.

But Zhang Taiwei obviously underestimated the hearts of the people and overestimated the status of Song State in the hearts of the people in Yingzhou.

When planning before, all the generals deliberately bypassed this place. As long as Bozhou and Caizhou are taken, there will be no reinforcements here, and they will naturally surrender.

Zhang Jun, a genius, really gave up a hard bone and wanted to gnaw on that hard rock.

Liu Bang was extremely fortunate—fortunately, Lao Tzu came today, otherwise the idiot wouldn't know how big a hole he would have made.

Jin Wushu was almost consumed to death there, and the idiot also wanted to consume Lao Tzu to death there.

I really listened to what he said, first opportunity, first fart!
Taking a deep breath, looking at Zhang Jun who was waiting for praise, Liu Bang patted him on the shoulder:

"Very well, don't say it next time."

Perhaps because he didn't notice the second half of the emperor's sentence, Zhang Taiwei only heard "very good" and went in, showing an expression that everyone knew he was happy.

Liu Bang looked at Guo Yaoshi again: "Tell me about you, try not to exaggerate too much."

Guo Yaoshi glanced at Zhang Jun, who stared at the sky with his nostrils, and then he nodded and said:
"If you demand fast, you should outsmart it."

"Hmph!" Zhang Taiwei snorted coldly, "Don't just pick up on other people's words!"

Pharmacist Guo ignored him: "There are still seven days left, and it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-]th."

"Shouzhou and Shouchun were originally one prefecture, but the current situation is so deceptive that the north and south are separated."

"And there are many contacts between the people in the two places, and there are many close relatives by blood. During this festive season, there will inevitably be many people who will cross the river to reunite."

"At that time, it was the time when Shouzhou's city defense was the most lax, so..."

Taking advantage of the large number of people during the festival, crossing the river in the name of reunion... can really achieve the effect of deceiving people.

Liu Bang didn't think much about it at all, and the two people's proposals can be said to be judgments.

Gently nodded, he ordered:
"Then pass the news to those in the east, and we'll do it on August [-]th!"

(End of this chapter)