Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 23
Cao Bin's expression became serious, and his majestic eyes swept across the audience, everyone immediately fell silent, and the audience was silent.

Then Cao Bin said to Ye Chen in a slow voice: "Since there is no problem with the military situation, then Brother Ye is kind to me, Da Song. Please settle down in my camp first, and we will talk about it after I report the military situation to the officials."

Speaking of this, Cao Bin shouted to the left and right without waiting for Ye Chen to express his opinion: "Come here! Take Brother Ye to change clothes first, and then take him to the Huotou Army to eat. Alright, everyone else go back!"

After speaking, Cao Bin rushed out of the tent, followed by a group of generals and soldiers.

Only one soldier left came to Ye Chen, and politely asked Ye Chen to go with him.

Ye Chen knew very well that although he was not a prisoner, and even made some contributions to the Song army, but now he might be out of control in some matters, so he could only take one step at a time.

Therefore, he could not refuse Cao Bin's arrangement.In fact, he didn't want to refuse, because he was really hungry at the moment, and he felt as if he could eat a whole cow.What's more, his clothes are really torn, and the ragged clothes are talking about him, even half of his buttocks are faintly visible, he needs to change into a new one, even the Song Dynasty military uniform.

In the imperial tent of the Chinese army, Zhao Kuangyin looked gloomy. He vaguely felt that the Khitans would not give him too much time. However, Jinyang City was impenetrable for a long time, and the Northern Han Dynasty still existed.

At this moment, there was a faint noise outside the tent, mixed with the sound of horseshoes.

Zhao Kuangyin frowned, and asked, "What's the noise outside?"

A soldier ran in at the door, touched the ground on one knee, bowed and said, "Officials! There is an urgent military situation, and it was sent by General Cao Bin himself."

Zhao Kuangyin's expression froze, and he vaguely guessed something.

In the camp of the Chinese army, Cao Bin personally led a dozen of his own soldiers, galloped on horseback, and rushed straight to the imperial tent where Zhao Kuangyin was.One of the soldiers was still in line in front of Cao Bin, and there were four red flags behind him. Each red flag had a word 'urgent' written on it, which together read "Urgent! Urgent! Urgent! Urgent!".

Wherever he passed, everyone ran away one after another, and no one dared to complain, just because this was the highest level of urgent military situation.

A group of people reined in their horses and jumped off ten feet away from Zhao Kuangyin's imperial tent. Cao Bin jumped off his horse and left his soldiers on the spot. .”

The soldiers around Zhao Kuangyin had already received instructions from the imperial tent, and while taking the saber from Cao Bin's crotch, they said, "General Cao, please come in."

Cao Bin rushed into the imperial tent, put one knee on the ground, performed a military salute, took out a brass pipe with the thickness of a finger from his arms, put it on with both hands, and shouted: "Officials! The Northern Army's urgent report..."

Zhao Kuangyin's expression froze when he heard the words, and he shouted, "Submit it quickly."

A little Huangmen who had been waiting beside Cao Bin quickly took the brass pipe from him, and while running towards Zhao Kuangyin quickly, pulled out the piston at one end of the brass pipe, carefully pulled out a roll of thin paper from it, and handed it to Zhao Kuangyin respectfully. Zhao Kuangyin.

Zhao Kuangyin read quickly, but his expression became more and more dignified. After finishing reading, his brows were already tightly knitted.

"I didn't expect that Empress Xiao, who was only two decades old, possessed such wisdom and bravery. Not only did she take advantage of my Northern Expedition to reconcile domestic conflicts with the righteousness of her family, but she also turned domestic conflicts to the Song Dynasty. The most important thing What's more, this woman dares to personally lead the troops to the south, and offend our army. It really is a woman who won't give in to a man!" Zhao Kuangyin muttered to himself, with half worry and half fighting spirit in his expression.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Kuangyin gradually regained his composure, and said to the left and right: "Order the whole army! The commander of the army will send the generals above to come to the camp of the Chinese army immediately for military discussions."

Nearly eight messengers agreed, got on their horses and galloped away in eight directions.

Then, Zhao Kuangyin glanced at Cao Bin, and said, "Qing Cao, your military intelligence is extremely important, and you came at the right time! Well... I will pass on my will! Those who find out about this military intelligence will be promoted to two ranks. A reward of 50 taels of gold."

Cao Bin got up, hesitated for a while, and didn't say anything about Ye Chen.It wasn't that he deliberately deceived the emperor, but that he knew very well that at this moment, the officials only wanted to break through Jinyang before the Khitan army came, so that they could fight the Khitan army with all their strength.What's more, although Ye Chen's matter was extremely surprising, it didn't reach the point of reaching the emperor directly. After he can confirm the authenticity of this military situation, he can handle the matter with full authority.

Soon the commanders of all the armies gathered in the imperial tent with the above-mentioned generals and the accompanying civil servants and ministers.

After Cao Bin notified the Khitan army's military situation, Zhao Kuangyin asked everyone to propose a method to break Jinyang City within half a month.

These days, while leading the deployment of the siege, everyone is also thinking hard about the way to break the city, and they have more or less experience and ideas.At the moment, each expresses his own opinion and speaks freely.Civil servants and military generals competed to state their opinions, and the majority believed that Jinyang City has now become a truly isolated city, and the army has been besieged several times. It is possible to deploy troops and horses to organize strong attacks on key defense areas. , when able to break the city.

Prime Minister Zhao Pu sat on the side without saying a word, and looked confident.Zhao Kuangyin asked him if he had a good strategy, but he pointed his finger at Chen Chengzhao, the commander of Zuo Shenwu, smiled slightly, and said: "The best strategy to defeat the enemy is in General Chen's mind."

It turned out that Chen Chengzhao went to the Prime Minister Zhao Pumi to discuss the strategy of defeating the enemy in the past few days. They rode horses around the city and checked the terrain.

Chen Chengzhao stood up, bowed his fists to Zhao Kuangyin, and said, "Report to the officials! I believe that Jinyang is a battleground for military strategists of all dynasties. It must be a battle of trapped beasts, defending the city desperately, it is very difficult to attack under the rush, even if it can be captured, it will surely lose soldiers and soldiers, the casualties are heavy, it is really not worth the loss, not to mention the fierce battle with the Khitan army."

Knowing that Zhen Chengzhao had more to say, Zhao Kuangyin hurriedly asked, "In Aiqing's opinion, how should we break the city?"

Chen Chengzhao smiled mysteriously, and replied loudly: "There are millions of soldiers around, why don't you borrow them?"

The civil servants and military generals stared wide-eyed at what he said, but they didn't know what he meant. Only Cao Bin looked thoughtful.

Zhao Kuangyin was deeply surprised, and said: "All the soldiers and horses I can move are outside Jinyang City, where are there millions of troops available for use?"

Chen Chengzhao said: "The water of the Fen River is rushing and rushing to vent, and the raging waves are circling and mighty for thousands of miles. Once it is poured into Jinyang City, it will rush in like hundreds of millions of beasts. It will destroy everything and devour everything. How can it be a thousand troops?" Kazuma can compare?"

In a word, the generals and ministers suddenly realized what they said, and they all laughed with joy.

Zhao Kuangyin was also overjoyed, and nodded again and again: "Flooding Jinyang City is indeed a good plan, a good plan!"

He immediately ordered that each of the four armies draw 5000 people under the leadership of Chen Chengzhao to build a dam on the Fen River, store the Fen River, and prepare for a water attack.Other armies from all walks of life are still attacking the city, but their strength has been halved.

(End of this chapter)