Retrograde

Chapter 9 Great Victory

Just when the generals were a little stunned by this sudden change and didn't know what to do for a moment, a familiar and majestic voice sounded from outside the hall: "Why, didn't you hear the commander's military order? Don't you understand the principle of ordering a ban for generals and military orders like mountains?

"General!" Everyone followed the sound, but saw Du Qianjun standing there, dressed in neat armor and completely going to fight to kill the enemy, which surprised everyone again: "Why are you back? What the hell is going on?

"Now is not the time to talk to you about this. Now the top priority is to kill the barbarian people outside the city!" Du Qianjun did not give any explanation, but suddenly said seriously: "The generals listened to the order, quickly went to their respective military camps to order the people, and followed the general and the general out of the city, and caught the Hu people off guard!"

"Ye!" The generals woke up like a dream. After agreeing in unison, they hurried out. Looking at the back of their departure, Du Qianjun fell into the memory of what had happened before--

Just two hours ago, he was ordered by Wang Chong to take it down. After his initial consteration, Du Qianjun was full of disengness. He knew that he had never betrayed Song, but why did he have such a reputation today, which soon gave him a sense of resistance. He believes that with his prestige in the army, as long as he can get out, many of those generals must be on his side. In that case, things will turn around.

But after being taken to a quiet room next to him by those soldiers, and then someone untied the rope for him, Du Qianjun felt a little confused. He looked at the teenager and said, "What are you doing? Didn't I say that I have a foreign enemy? How dare you let me go?"

"Let General Du be wronged. I'm here to apologize to the former commander-in-chief." The young man suddenly arched his hand to him: "We naturally know that you have been framed, and this is also to blind the enemies inside and outside the city."

"Hmm?" Du Qianjun was not stupid and immediately heard the meaning from his words: "Do you know that I didn't communicate with the enemy? Is it all a plan?"

"Not bad. It is clear that there is a traitor in Youzhou City, but this traitor has never shown anything, so the general and I have decided on this plan to lead the snake out of the hole. And the other party was obviously also cunning and thought of this layer, so we added another layer to the plan so that they could use it for us.

"Your strategy is..." Du Qianjun narrowed his eyes and asked.

"Use the mouth of the traitor to make the barbarian relax their vigilance, and then kill them in one fell swoop!" The young man gave the answer happily: "And at the same time, we can also capture the traitors in one fell swoop, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone. Of course, after that, the transfer of personnel in the city still needs to be commanded by General Du, so I will explain everything to you.

"So that's it!" Du Qianjun nodded. He had understood everything and said with admiration, "I didn't expect this to be a serial plan. Marshal Wang is really powerful!"

"It's not the old man who is powerful, but Jinghong!" With this sentence, Wang Chong also strode in. He pointed to the young man with a smile and said, "It's him, Xu Jinghong, who designed this trick with two birds with one stone!"

"Are you Xu Jinghong?" Du Qianjun couldn't help but look at the young man up and down: "I have heard your name for a long time. You have become a famous person in Beijing from a slave in a mine. You are very famous in my Song Dynasty! No wonder you can come up with such a trick. After a pause, he showed doubt again: "But your appearance makes me feel a little familiar. Have you or I ever met somewhere?"

"No, this is the first time I have come to northern Xinjiang." Xu Jinghong knew that the other party had also seen Feng Liekong, so he felt familiar with himself, but he didn't break it: "Maybe this is fate."

"Haha, what a fate. If it weren't for the wartime, I would have a few drinks with you!" After Du Qianjun smiled, he said solemnly, "It turns out that what Commander Wang has done is to defeat the enemy outside the city. It's really nothing for the last general to suffer this grievance. If you have any instructions next, as long as I can do it, I will do my best!"

General Du is an important part of this plan, and naturally you are indispensable. In the middle of the night, I will let General Du play his role!" Wang Chong did not hide it and made a comprehensive plan.

Du Qianjun quickly came out of his memory, and then strode out of the lobby and went to the north city. This time, he will use his hands and weapons to teach the Hu people an unforgettable lesson and avenge the defeat of Peng Ziming, who was injured before!

When we arrived at the North Gate, there were already a lot of people waiting there. Twenty-three thousand people stood there without hearing much sound, because Wang Chong had issued a strict order to keep quiet before charging the Hu people's camp. Only in this way can the effect of the night attack be maximized.

"Marshal! They also went to bring their own people here!" Du Qianjun came to Wang Chong to report.

"Good! In half an hour, we will leave the city and win this battle!" Wang Chong looked up at the sky. At this time, it was the end of the third update. Before the fourth update arrived, when they went out half an hour later, it was when the enemy was sleeping soundly. Then their reaction when they suddenly encountered an attack would naturally slow down a little.

Half an hour later, with Wang Chong's order, all 50,000 selected Song soldiers quickly passed through the narrow corridor in front of the gate, and then rushed out of the city from the suspension bridge that had been lowered before.

"Kill!" After a low shout, Du Qianjun, who was already full of strength, went straight to the barren camp. Behind him are countless Song soldiers full of murderous intent. They have been trapped in Youzhou by tens of thousands of people for many days. They have been angry for a long time, and now they naturally need to vent to the other party!

There are also large areas of snow outside the city, which makes the war horses unable to run fast, so this attack by the Song army is mainly based on pawns. In this way, these soft snow covered up the footsteps of the Song army, allowing them to kill in front of the Hu camp more smoothly without being noticed by the enemies.

It was not until a hundred steps away from Hu camp that Du Qianjun shouted violently: "Kill!" Then the war horse who was often accompanied by ** launched a final charge against Hu Camp. At the same time, the soldiers also took off their bows and arrows at the same time, pulled them full and shot the long-made rocket at the barbarian camp. Although the weather is not conducive to the maximum power of bows and arrows, it is okay to shoot one or two arrows.

In this way, the dark sky was filled with rockets like meteors, and tens of thousands of rockets were shot into the Hu people's camp, making the original dark and quiet Hu people's camp turn blood red in an instant, and also awakening many sleeping barbarians, making They rushed straight out of the camp that had already caught fire.

When the Hu people found that it was Song Jun who launched a night attack on him, Song Jun had already killed him in front of the camp.

Originally, the Hu people's camp was not good at guarding, and this time it was an unprepared attack. Those messy horses and other things were quickly broken through by the Song army, and then the two armies fought in the Hu people's camp.

Many Hu people woke up from their sleep. Some did not wear coats, some did not take weapons, and some took weapons and were not their own guys, let alone riding a war horse. In addition, the Song army was more than twice as many as the Hu people, and he had no intention to think about it. Therefore, the Hu people were killed by the Song army, and even a decent defensive position could not be put out, and they had to retreat again and again.

Du Qianjun took the lead in killing him. Seeing such a good opportunity, he would not miss it. He immediately urged his generals to continue to attack the Hu people. When the day turned white, he had killed 20,000 Hu people out of their camp and fled north.

"Kill, don't let go of any dog! Today, we will avenge our dead brothers and the people who have been killed by them for decades!" Du Qianjun's words once again inspired the Song soldiers and soldiers behind them. They thought of all kinds of things in the past, so they had long ignored the truth of poor Komo's pursuit, biting the tail of the huss and devouring their lives little by little.

On the vast snowfield, the bodies of the barbarian fell all the way. Many of them were killed by the Song army without the power to fight back, and some of them lay in the wind and snow because they could not stand the cold climate bare.

It was not until he chased more than 50 miles and killed more than 20,000 Hu people with only 3,000 or 4,000 left. They dispersed the rats that the Song army stopped the momentum of pursuit. After all, if you chase him again, you will be killed out of the border, and the Song people have always had no good impression of the boundaries of the Hu people.

This battle not only took back the previously lost territory of Song, but also hit the Hu people who wanted to delay the main force of the Song army, killing and capturing nearly 20,000 Hu troops, thus completely releasing the people and horses in Youzhou.

At the head of Youzhou City, Wang Chong looked at all this happily. As the commander of the three armies, there was really no need for him to take people to rush to kill in person. The strange thing is that Xu Jinghong did not go out of the city, but accompanied the old handsome man.

"Jinghong, this time I didn't ask you to take someone to fight against the Hu people. Are you complaining about me?" Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, Wang Chong turned his attention back to his side and asked with a smile.

Xu Jinghong shook his head gently: "The marshal must have your own considerations for doing this, and you dare not be dissatisfied with your humble position."

"If the credit of this war is the first, you are still shocked. If you hadn't made this plan to stone two birds and lead the snake out of the hole, we wouldn't have won so easily. No general will object to this. Therefore, your credit is big enough. If you still compete with them on this kind of merit of killing the enemy, I'm afraid it will cause the fear of others. And Jinghong, you are still young and will have a long time in the army in the future. There is really no need to set up these enemies. Do you understand what I mean?" Wang Chong said and looked at Xu Jinghong seriously.

Xu Jinghong was stunned and instantly understood the meaning of his words: "Thank you for your care. Jinghong understands. That's what it means. This little contribution to me in this battle is enough.

"As long as you understand. If you can go further here, there will be a real successor in the Song army!" Wang Chong touched his beard and laughed with relief.

After the afternoon, Song Jun, who chased the Hu people from all walks of life, came back. Their losses are not great, but there are many heads of the barren brought back. These heads alone are enough to give the court an explanation.

"Okay, the soldiers fought hard to kill the enemy, which made my northern Xinjiang finally win another big battle 30 years later. The coach will definitely report this matter to the court truthfully, and everyone will be rewarded!" At the celebration banquet, Wang Chong announced in public that this naturally attracted the joy of the crowd. They knew that this victory made their respective positions a qualitative leap.

The celebration banquet was very lively. There was not only the wine and meat originally owned in the city, but also cattle, sheep and other livestock captured from the Hu camp. This time's happy drink lasted until the next day.

Looking at everyone's forgetful laughter, Wang Chong's eyes showed worry. The siege of Youzhou was indeed solved, and the Hu people were also hit hard, but there are still many Hu people in northern Xinjiang who have never appeared and don't know what their goal is, which has become a big problem.

At this time, Xu Jinghong also saw his worries and came over and asked, "Marshal, are you worried about the remaining tens of thousands of barbarians?"

"Yes, if you really want to talk about it, we are just Xiaosheng. Now there is no news because of the heavy snow blocking the road in the two states. I don't know what's going on. How can I not dare to be uneasy?" Wang Chong said worriedly.

"It's not difficult to understand the true intentions of the Hu people. Just ask those people." Xu Jinghong proposed, "Since they have collusion with the Hu people, they will definitely know some secrets. Why don't the general meet them?"

"You mean Geng and those people?" Wang Chong's face showed contempt: "Those guys who have forgotten their ancestors, I really want to kill them with a knife! However, after all, they are court officials and can't kill at will, so they saved their lives. Presumably they also know their own end, but I'm afraid they may not be willing to help us.

"If you ask this, naturally you can't ask why. But if they are executed, I don't believe they have that iron bone. Xu Jinghong's eyes showed a faint light: "Just give this to me, and I will definitely dig out the situation from their mouth!"

"Okay, then leave this matter to Jinghong." After thinking for a moment, Wang Chong nodded. Although he knew that this was a little contrary to the laws of the Song Dynasty, he had to use some extraordinary means for the stability of the north.

If Xu Jinghong continues his old business, he will naturally not be soft on those traitors. After several kinds of tortures, Geng and others told the truth. They not only confessed how they colluded with the barbarians, so that Youzhou City was besieged by 20,000 horses, but also brought out the fact that they had secretly plotted Peng Ziming at the Yanmen Gate before.

But Xu Jinghong did not stop. Under his continuous interrogation, more amazing news was also recruited by them one by one. They don't know the exact goal of the Hu people. After all, they just help the Hu people drag down the people of Youzhou, thus creating opportunities for them to take other cities in northern Xinjiang. But why did they do this, they were still forced to ask.

"What are you talking about? Are there people behind these people who dare to do such a thing? Wang Chong was stunned: "Who is so bold and capable that he can make them do such a thing?"

"Actually, the general should be able to figure it out." Xu Jinghong smiled and said, "Today, in the Song Dynasty, who has the courage to do such a thing."

"You mean... those families? Why did they do this?" Wang Chong was even more surprised, and other people who heard this became stunned.

"Not bad. As far as Geng and they said, it was precisely because of the joint efforts of the Ye family and the Wu family that they dared to do something to connect with the enemy. At the beginning, the people sent by Ye Mingyang also agreed with them that once it was settled, they would be the real power figures in the north.

"It's done? What else can it be if you sell Northern Xinjiang to the Hu people? Du Qianjun said angrily.

"Their target is not Northern Xinjiang or the Hu people, but Peng Shuai and Wang Shuai." Xu Jinghong laughed and said, "In the past two years, the family has been restrained because of my action, and it has also made them find their own problem, that is, the lack of military power. In order not to repeat the mistakes of the destruction of the Fang family, they naturally had to find ways to put their hands into the army. And now the most capable of fighting army in the Song Dynasty is the border troops in northern Xinjiang and southwest, but because of you and Peng Shuai, they can't control these two people, so they came up with such a poisonous plan.

"They plan to use the hands of the Hu people to destroy the two generals, so that they can hold a certain military power. As for how Northern Xinjiang will eventually be **, it is not within their scope of consideration.

"How can it be! As important ministers of the imperial court, it is really disgusting that they did such a thing!" Du Qianjun cursed at that time: "If I meet them, I will definitely cut off their dog's head with a knife!"

"But this time we have achieved such a great victory, which will definitely destroy their established strategy. So, commander-in-chief, I mean to report this great victory to the court quickly, so that they will fail to use this to attack your purpose.

"Jinghong said that he can't be polite to them anymore!" Wang Chong nodded, but then frowned, "But what should we do about the situation in Jizhou?"

"Under the internal and external attack, I'm afraid these two states can't be defended." Xu Jinghong sighed and said, "But we still have a remedy, so I don't know whether the general dares to take this risk!"

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