Lord Moyu was forced to open

The news that Zhang Zheng received the Wanmin umbrella from the local people in Youer County spread throughout Bianjing the next day.

The people in Bianjing were talking about this, saying how good this government was before he was given the Umbrella of the People. He should be a very good official.

However, some people think this is just a show!

In a private room of a certain restaurant.

"Hmph! That Zhang Zheng didn't read saints' articles since he was a child. He came out of the so-called political school that only knew how to calculate data. He neither studied hard like us, nor studied the meaning of saints' scriptures, nor did he pass five years like us. He killed six generals and ranked among the best in the imperial examination!
How could Zhang Zheng know how to govern a place?
I'm afraid this Ten Thousand People's Umbrella was all a show he directed just to brag about himself! "

"That's right! That's right! What kind of political school? People who come out of such a place will cheat and engage in such deceptive things.

How could disciples of saints like me be as shameless as them!
I don’t know what the Holy One thinks. There are disciples of saints like me, and the elites are not used. Instead, we use the people from the Political Academy who are as good at calculating as businessmen.

How can we manage the Song Dynasty with people like them? "

"Hmph! This is a government! When he comes to Bianjing, you must give him a good look! Let him know that this Bianjing is not from the local area, and he can be allowed to commit fraud. We are not those stupid people who are easy to deceive!"

"That's it! That's it! Brother Chen, count me in when the time comes!"

……

Dialogues like this are common among officials in Bianjing. Most officials who came from the imperial examination are full of hostility towards Zhang Zheng, an official with an unorthodox background.

Xingwu four years, August 21st.

The hot summer has come to an end, and the bleak autumn has begun to take shape.

Autumn is about to enter, and the court is getting busier and busier, with everyone in the court preparing for the autumn harvest.

The financial situation of the imperial court next year will depend on this autumn harvest.

It can be said that all departments are already busy.

Local officials are also making intensive preparations.

Just as the whole country was preparing for Qiu Shou.

The sudden outbreak of an incident filled the Song Dynasty, which was originally joyfully preparing to welcome the harvest, with anger!
In the fourth year of Xingwu, August 16th, the Mid-Autumn Festival of the Song Dynasty had just passed, when everyone was immersed in the joy of the festival.

On the southwest border, the Bi Kingdom launched an attack on Shilin Village in Caiyun County, which was closest to the Bi Kingdom at 8:00 on the evening of the 16th!
Shilin Village is located at the northwest edge of Baixing Caiyun County, next to a mature village in Biguo.

It is the largest native village within a hundred miles, with a population of more than 5,000.

However, that night, this once most lively and prosperous village turned into a sea of ​​flames.

The people in the entire village were trampled into ruins by the three thousand elite soldiers and twenty elephant soldiers from the Kingdom of Bi who sneaked across the border. The men were killed, and the heads of the elderly and children were beheaded.

All kinds of supplies were plundered, and women who were still alive after being insulted on the spot were taken away as trophies.

As for this village, it was directly burned to ashes by a fire!
And this is just the beginning!
The next day, dozens of villages around Bianjing were also attacked, and tens of thousands of natives who had lived here for generations died at the hands of the Biguo people.

This time, someone finally escaped alive and fled to the nearest town, reporting the news of the invasion of the country to the local government.

After receiving the news, the local government immediately reported it to the authorities. By the time the Caiyun County Sheriff's Office received the news and reacted, the country had already launched a large-scale invasion!

A total of thirty thousand people!
Along the way, they defeated Sunset Mansion and Huangtian Mansion near the border.

After the people of Biguo conquered these two mansions, they committed all kinds of evil, and the people of Song Dynasty suffered heavy casualties.

After Liu Xuexian, who was the governor of Caiyun County at the time, urgently sent the news to Bianjing, he was about to ask for help from Sichuan and Qianzhou County.

At the same time, the 10,000-strong garrison that had been prepared immediately set off for Niujia Town, where they were preparing to build a defense line.

Niujia Town is the only way to get to Zuohe Prefecture, the next prefecture from Sunset Prefecture and Huangtian Prefecture.

If you don't go here, you can only go to places like mountains, rivers and woods that are extremely unfavorable for the army to advance.

The Biguo people who sent a total of 30,000 people will never go to those places. Wherever they go, not only will their mobility be greatly hindered, but their non-combat casualties may also be high.

As long as the Caiyun County garrison can guard the traffic chokepoint of Niujia Town, it can prevent the Biguo army from continuing to enter the hinterland of Caiyun County.

August 23, the fourth year of Xingwu.

Seven days have passed since the invasion of the country.

And the 30,000-strong army of Biguo has been fighting with the 10,000-strong garrison of Caiyun County for two days in Niujia Town!
Both sides hurt each other.

The Caiyun County garrison relied on their weapons superiority and were in a defensive state to block the 30,000 people who invaded from the Bi Kingdom outside Niujia Town.

Seeing that the attack for two days failed to achieve good results, Zhao Yuan, the leading general of Biguo, was already panicking.

This invasion was a premeditated invasion.

After careful calculation and intelligence investigation, the Biguo side learned that the Caiyun County garrison only had 10,000 people.

They thought that they had 30,000 people on their side, and with a sudden sneak attack, they could catch the Song Dynasty by surprise. In five days at most, they could capture at least the five prefectures of the Song Dynasty. With the prosperity of the Song Dynasty, even if it was only the five prefectures, They can also get a lot of benefits.

At the very least, they can occupy as many mansions in the Song Dynasty as possible before reinforcements from other parts of the Song Dynasty arrive, thereby plundering more supplies.

As for the problem of not being able to defeat the Song Dynasty, they have already considered it. Now they only have these 30,000 soldiers in the country.

The number of men in the country is too scarce and it is no longer possible to continue recruiting soldiers.

However, the Song Dynasty, a vast country, had a population and strong men that far exceeded theirs.

After Da Song reacted, he would definitely not be able to defeat them.

But they don't have to fight.

They have already thought about it, grab as much as possible from the Song Dynasty before the Song Dynasty reacts, and then just surrender when the Song Dynasty reacts and sends troops!

That’s right! Just surrender!
In the impression of the people of the country, the Song Dynasty was a very face-saving country. Even if they committed all kinds of evil in the Song Dynasty, as long as they finally surrendered and presented a letter of surrender to the Song Emperor, the Song Emperor would not attack them again for the sake of face.

It is even possible that in order to appease them, Emperor Song even took the initiative to send benefits to the country of Bi.

And all they had to pay was surrender, and there was no real loss.

As long as Da Song satisfies their vanity of good looks, they can rob Da Song, and Da Song will also give benefits. This kind of business is simply a huge profit.

If you don’t do it, you’ll be sorry for yourself!

However, what they didn't expect was that just after they captured two mansions, they were actually stopped by the Song Dynasty's garrison in Niujia Town. The number of this garrison was only 1, but they had a total of 3. However, people cannot break the defense line built by these 1 people. .

Watching the days go by, he knew that with every day he delayed, Song's support would arrive faster.
If they cannot break through Niujia Town as soon as possible, they will have no chance to continue the fight when support from the Song Dynasty arrives.

But now there are only two ways in front of Zhao Yuan.

Or, continue to fight until the Song Dynasty's support comes and surrender directly.

Either retreat and find other ways to get there, or go directly back to the country.

But looking at the greedy eyes of his soldiers, he knew that the soldiers who had just tasted the sweetness should go back in despair.

There is absolutely no way they would agree!
Then we can only continue to fight!

Zhao Yuan's eyes flashed sharply, and he immediately summoned all the generals.

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(End of this chapter)