Chapter 30: The Eve of the Great War

Two days later, Xiao Yan stood on the north gate tower of Jiankang and looked at Jiangbei. In the past two days, Wang Yuancheng's people placed in Jiangbei kept sending messages to the city with pigeons. The Jin people have gathered 50,000 horses in Jiangbei, and now they are waiting to meet the people who withdrew from Xiangyang. It is said that there are more than 70,000 people in addition to those who stayed in Tangzhou. He is traveling to Jiangbei day and night. It seems that the Jin people are bound to win against Jiankang this time.

Xiao Yan stood silently on the tower for a while and walked down the tower and said, "Lord Lu, the petition to the court has been issued for two days, right?"

Xiao Yan took Xiaoqi Yang Zaixing and Lu Chen to the outer city to check the terrain and arrange the defense. It has been two days, and now the air seems to be filled with the tense atmosphere on the eve of the war, and the Jin people may launch an attack at any time. It has been nearly two days since the letter of asking for assistance sent to the imperial court. From health to Lin'an, one day is enough. For the sake of safety, Xiao Yan also suggested that Lu Chen send two batches of messengers in a row. So far, there is no news at all. Xiao Yan not only has a bad feeling.

Seeing Xiao Yan asking Lu Chen, he replied, "Not yet, but there may be news tomorrow."

"We are here to guard Jiankang for the imperial court. What on earth are these obscene officials of the imperial court doing?" He said angrily. Lu Chen was in the officialdom and knew the rules of the game. Although it was unpleasant to listen to Xiaoqi's words, it was a fact and he couldn't help but object to it. He just blushed slightly, opened the topic and said, "Isn't Xiao Zhaizhu still going to see General Yang's finding a new man? Why don't we go now?"

Xiao Yan nodded and ran all the way to the newly established military camp in the northwest of Jiankang, but the three of the four people, except for Yang Zaixing, were all outside the door to ride horses. Although they did not run fast, they knew that it was quite uncomfortable from their faces. Seeing this, Yang Zaixing kept teaching them to adjust their posture along the way. When he arrived in the West City, he was not only more proficient in riding. Along the way, Yang Zaixing told Xiao Yan some of the situation of this recruitment training. When it came to the barracks, Xiao Yan learned a picture of the situation.

This recruitment was quite smooth. Originally, the people of the Jin people who invaded Jiankang in the south this time were harmed. Finally, when Xiao Yan drove away the Jin people to recover Jiankang. And open the warehouse and serve porridge. Slowly, the people felt that they had recovered a little vitality. Just as people began to look forward to a stable life, they heard that the golden people were going to invade again. The blood in their hearts was stimulated by Xiao Yan's slogan of resisting Jin's capt and defending their homes, so they signed up enthusiastically, and even the elderly He falsely reported that he thought that he could join the army to kill the golden dog. In a day, 80,000 people were recruited in young and middle-aged people alone. As long as they were active, there were about 100,000 people, and some women and children volunteered to go to the barracks to cook and wash military uniforms for the soldiers. This time, it can be said that Jiankang City is a national soldier.

After listening to Yang Zaixing's words, Xiao Yan sighed with emotion. Why did such people let Song fall to now? Thinking of this, he couldn't help looking at Lu Chen. Lu Chen saw Xiao Yan looking at him. Just now, he also heard Yang Zaixing's words intermittently and knew why Xiao Yan looked at him, and couldn't help but have a face. Red.

After getting along with each other, Lu Chen may not even think that his mentality has changed slowly. He vaguely feels that with these people, as long as you open your heart and do things honestly, you will be respected. This feeling is far away for Lu Chen, but he doesn't know it. But others can feel it more or less.

Xiao Yan couldn't help blushing when he saw Lu Chen: "Lord Lu, these days, he has personally led people to deal with the big and small details in the city. These are not only seen by Xiao Yan, but also the people of the whole city. Lu Da

Can't people feel it?"

Lu Chen thought in his heart and looked at the dirty official uniform on his body and felt right: "I usually come out to carry eight sedan chairs and hug them. They feel that they are very majestic. The people are afraid that people are living so much, but they don't know that there are the saliva and curses of the people behind them. Now although they ride horses and their clothes are not bright, they walk to the crowd. There is no fear, only respectful eyes and simple greetings. Thinking of this, Lu Chen suddenly felt as if the winter ice and snow had suddenly come to spring. It loosened, and a warm current surged in his heart, and his whole body was indescribably comfortable. Look up

Xiao Yan smiled as if he could see through his heart and said, "Lord Lu."

Lu Chen also smiled immediately: "Master Xiaozhai." Everything goes without saying.

"Hahaha" Xiao Yan laughed first. Lu Chen was stunned and immediately laughed. Xiaoqi and Yang Zaixing suddenly laughed inexplicably. He couldn't help looking at the two and seeing them laughing happily, as if Yang Zaixing, who was infected, looked at Xiaoqi. Seeing that Xiaoqi also looked at him, he couldn't help looking at each other and laughing. People rode horses and laughed and came to the barracks.

Yang Zaixing is worthy of being a famous general in the future of the Song Dynasty. He trained according to his personal characteristics and selected 20,000 powerful infantry as heavy infantry for training. A captain's gun, a captain's swordsman, and the rest of them selected 3,000 people who were flexible and smart as a scout team for training alone. 5,000 people were slightly poor as a reserve, and Yang Zaixing also handed over 2,000 people to maintain public security and patrol in the city as a Chinese army. In addition, Xiao Yan also asked Wang Yuancheng to select 5,000 people from these people and took them to a valley in Zhongshan as cavalry. Of course, these Xiao Yan only vaguely said to Yang Zaixing. After all, they were not his own. And fortunately, there was a cavalry leader under Marshal Yue in Jiankang City who was driven out of the barracks to serve as the inspection department because of drinking. Xiao Yan was overjoyed after hearing this, so he finally dug up his side. In the process of this sneak attack on health, Xiao Yan was determined to build his own The cavalry troops captured so many horses of the Golden Man this time, and they were all good horses, and caught up with this recruitment to resist the Golden Man. How could Xiao Yan let go of such a good opportunity? For the rest, Yang Zaixing selected 10,000 strong-armed people as archers, and these people were responsible for training by the Flying Tigers brought by Xiao Yan. The rest are organized into two teams of light infantry. These four pairs of light and heavy infantry have been trained by himself.

Although it only took two days for the four people to come to the playground, they could also see some effects and couldn't help smiling. Only Yang Zaixing seemed to laugh reluctantly.

"Brother Yang, what do you think you seem to have something on your mind?" Xiao Yan asked.

"Brother Xiao, if these people can give me half a year, I promise to train a unit that is no worse than the forbidden army, but unfortunately there is no time." Yang Zaixing said a little lowly, "If we can have a sailor, we can put the golden dog in Jiangbei, but now the natural danger of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River is like a smooth road for the golden dog. We can only passively carry out urban defense. These people don't know how much is left in the end."

The three people didn't know how to answer after listening to Yang Zaixing's words for a while.

At this time, the sound of horses' hoofs in the distance broke the brief silence. The two riders rushed over, "The fat fish and the fat dragon are coming." Xiaoqi shouted first.