Chapter 119 Qinzhou Returns to the Song Dynasty
Half a month later, the Song army took over the entire Qinzhou and restored the administrative management of the five counties of Yongning, Qingshui, Longcheng, Tianshui and Chengji according to the old system.
Lao Cao said that the Tianshui garrison should still take charge of Qinzhou, and subsequent affairs would be handled after the report was submitted to Lin'an for confirmation.
Zhao Yulin obeyed Lao Cao's arrangement and went to the military camp to bid farewell to Fenghuang and return to Nanzheng.
The woman was in a much better mood, he went forward and hugged Fenghuang in his arms, the woman leaned on his chest and sobbed. He blamed her and said how could someone be so desperate, she was more manly than a man.
Fenghuang raised her head and said to him with a tearful face: From now on, no one will doubt that our Third Column will not fight a war.
Zhao Yulin tightened his arms, hugged the woman tightly and kissed her, and told her: No one has ever doubted the combat effectiveness of their Third Column.
After returning, he instructed Gao Jin: Take good care of the warhorse, feed it with grass and concentrated feed, and don't let it lose weight.
Hao Xiaoming and Gao Jin sent him a long way before returning to the city. The two brothers went into the house and sat down. Gao Jin pulled Hao Xiaoming in and whispered to him, "Young Master will definitely take action this winter."
Hao Xiaoming asked him what action?
Give birth to a litter of babies?
Gao Jin knocked Hao Xiaoming on the head and said, "I gave birth to you because you want to fight."
Hao Xiaoming glared at him and said, "It's enough for you to know it, why bother saying it out loud?"
The secret cannot be revealed, do you know?
Gao Jin looked at Hao Xiaoming in surprise. It turned out that he had understood it a long time ago.
Wang Shixian retreated again and again, and returned to Gongchang Prefecture to break away from the contact with the Song army, but he lost most of the new troops he had recruited. He led a mighty force of 100,000 troops out, but when he came back, there were only less than 30,000 left.
Although the Shenwei Army was magnanimous and released the prisoners after propaganda and education, and more than 20,000 prisoners returned, this battle cost him at least 50,000 troops and a huge amount of baggage in less than ten days.
A large number of crooked horses were given to the Song army without even using their equipment. He felt very regretful and began to re-examine the strength of the Song army.
The Jin army had always been crushing the Song army, and it was a shame for them to lose this battle. The Crooked Horse had just appeared, and the dishes had not yet been served, and the luxurious feast came to an abrupt end.
As soon as his 1,000 cavalrymen were ready to fight, they were stopped by the fleeing soldiers. They could not run at all, which made it easier for the Shenwei Army's observers to seize the opportunity and guide the catapults to launch thunder bombs. Those who rushed forward were caught by Zhao Yulin's muskets and fired at them. There was no chance for them to perform.
His eldest son was hit on the head by a powerful arrow from the Shenwei Army, and his ear was stuck. Two of his followers grabbed him and pulled his helmet out to remove it. He said with great feeling that the weapons of the Shenwei Army were powerful. He didn't expect Zhao Qi'er to be so cunning that he actually tricked us into charging.
Our muskets fired iron sand, while theirs fired bullets, which had a much longer range. Ours simply couldn't reach them, and we were hit in vain.
Wang Xian did not dare to be careless and ordered his troops to repair the city as soon as possible to guard against the attack of the Song army.
Zhao Yulin returned to the Qingyeyuan camp to report the situation to Lao Cao, and Cao Youwen was already happy. In this battle, the Song army not only won a great victory, but also recovered the entire Qinzhou. What a great achievement!
Lao Cao thanked Zhao Yulin for sending another 3,000 war horses and said that he had reported it to Lin'an, and the emperor would be very pleased.
In the Lin'an Palace, the emperor and his close ministers were drinking and chatting happily. This year, they first defeated Wuxian and then took Qinzhou. The good news came one after another. The emperor was very happy and held a banquet to celebrate.
In front of the ministers were all high-end glass cups, and eunuchs were serving wine to each table, holding bottles of Wu Gu Feng's aged wine.
Some people began to congratulate the emperor for having good ministers like Cao Youwen and Zhao Yulin, who had brought peace to the border and recovered the homeland. It was rumored that many Jin generals wanted to surrender, which would surely strengthen the strength of our Song army, which was double the joy.
Shi Gaozhi didn't want to hear it anymore, so he motioned to Zheng Qingzhi to speak, but the girl pretended not to notice and just kept drinking. Shi's son had no choice but to bite the bullet and go out in person. He said quietly that the Sichuan-Shaanxi Administration Office already had more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, almost all of which were in the hands of Zhao Yulin. If he had any ulterior motives, it would cause the government trouble.
Shi's son bore the vengeance of Zhao Yulin in his heart, and every word he said was heartbreaking.
Then someone pointed out that Zhao Yulin did not know the difference between east and west, north and south, and criticized his reactionary remarks that all people in the world are brothers. Since ancient times, the Central Plains has always been the leader, and the Han family is the boss. How can they regard the southern barbarians and northern barbarians as one family?
Although Zheng Qingzhi was a historian, the emperor appointed him as prime minister regardless of party disputes, knowing that he was powerful. These people could not bear to see the victory of the West, so they wanted to report Zhao Yulin and punish him.
He was well aware of the importance of stability in Sichuan and Shaanxi. Forty percent of the imperial court's taxes in recent years came from Chengdu. There could be no chaos there.
Prime Minister Zheng quickly followed the thoughts of those gentlemen and criticized Zhao Yulin, saying that he had made changes in Hanzhong without prior notice. Although his governance was effective, it was also against the rules. He suggested that he should not be promoted this time, but should send an imperial envoy to swear the royal majesty and reward him with some silver.
The emperor naturally agreed. He also didn't want the border generals to climb up too quickly and end up without a position no matter how meritorious they were.
After the ministers left, the emperor hurriedly changed into casual clothes, got on a green-topped sedan chair and left the palace through a secret door.
The emperor was very busy, and he hadn't seen Kuang Sisi for a while, so he felt itchy inside like a cat scratching. He wished he had the kung fu of Sun Wukong to hug Kuang Sisi instantly.
As soon as he entered the small courtyard by the West Lake, Kuang Sisi flirtatiously hugged his neck and asked for a kiss. After a while of fun, the two sat down to eat dessert. Kuang Sisi mysteriously told the emperor that two new girls had come and wanted to compete with him in pitching pots. Whoever hit the target would have the other two take off one thing from their bodies until the one with nothing left would be considered the loser. The winner could make any request he wanted.
The emperor found it interesting, but he didn't care. He was the emperor, so he could definitely afford to lose. He was so eager to see the true face of Mount Lu that he couldn't wait for the game to start.
Soon, two stunning young girls came out from the inner room, walked up to the emperor with a smile, and slapped him on the face from the left and right. Then they twisted their slender waists and threw the ball one after another, but missed. The two women shyly watched the emperor take off his coat.
The emperor thought this game was so fun and was in great joy. He stood up and threw the ball, but still missed. He looked around and asked Kuang Sisi if he could just take the items one by one. He could just untie his belt first.
The woman's voice was as gentle as spring breeze. She said that the official was casual, as long as he had one thing,
As the game continued, a woman's tight-fitting tube top soon appeared...
Zhao Yulin would not be happy without the emperor. After leaving Qingyeyuan, he went straight to Nanzheng without stopping.
The plank road from Fengzhou to Nanzheng is under repair. Craftsmen use the new swing-pull rod designed by Yibin to easily insert the concrete beams into the stone holes on the cliffs, then install the diagonal braces, seal the holes with high-quality earth-cement mortar, and then lay the plank road panels.
The newly built plank road is slowly extending forward.
Logistics officer Yu Fuming told him that it would take until next year to fully repair the ship.
Zhao Yulin nodded. This was exactly what he wanted: openly repairing the plank road while secretly attacking Chencang. If the people in Hanzhong knew that he was repairing the plank road, then the Mongolian army in Guanzhong must also know that he was repairing it.
He wanted to go to Guanzhong via Ziwu. If he didn't let the Mongolian army know that the plank road could be repaired, wouldn't that expose his strategic intentions?
However, there are definitely smart people in Guanzhong.
Hubili received the report that the Song army had begun to repair the Lianyun plank road, and knew that Zhao Yulin was going to take action to seize Guanzhong, so he had already thrown a smoke bomb.
Now, Hubili is trying to persuade his mother to move back to the old camp on the grassland, away from trouble. Ever since his father Tulei was killed by the Khan with foot washing water, Hubili has worshipped Zhao Yulin as a god.
He believed that this man was very good at calculating and the military equipment he made was extremely advanced, and he was definitely not an ordinary person. It was a delusion for the Mongolian army to break into Hanzhong. It was just the right time to use the power of his Divine Mighty Army to weaken the authority of the Khan, disperse the control of the Khan's court, and then take back what he deserved.
Ture's wife was also a very smart person. She knew that the family was now an orphan and a widow living with the baby, so they had to hide. Since the Khan proposed to give Guanzhong to her nephew Kuoduan, they would not be able to defend it no matter how hard they tried. While she was asking the Khan for benefits, she was planning to move back to the old camp.
Zhao Yulin inspected the construction of Lianyun plank road and returned to Nanzheng. Chen Chen told him that Yangjin had left. He complained that he had neglected little Yangjin. They were his women, so he could hug them whenever he wanted. If he hid and pinched them, pretending to be a big shot, everyone would suffer.
Zhao Yulin didn't know where this girl got such profound imagination, and she was a lady from a noble family. He couldn't stand it anymore, so he went to the study room with the excuse that he had a lot of things to do.
At night, Ma Ling'er asked him to rest, but when he entered the room, he saw Chen Chen had already gone to bed. Zhao Yulin said weakly that he would go to the study to work for a while.
Chen Chen laughed and scolded him, saying, "What are you busy with? This is a battlefield." The woman beat him up without giving him any explanation.
After Chen Chen fell asleep, Ma Ling'er said that Yangjin went to Fenghuang to borrow soldiers, and asked for a battalion. Wouldn't you be angry, brother?
Zhao Yulin said, "What's one battalion enough?" Gao Jin had to send out the cavalry. We'll discuss it tomorrow.
The woman was delighted, and she leaned on him and said she would sleep like this for a while...
The next day, Zhao Yulin convened the three envoys of Shunfeng, Combat, Training and Logistics to discuss the situation of Tubo in Queqiao Mountain. After introducing the situation of Yangjin, he told them that he planned to gradually naturalize the grassland and incorporate it into the territory of the Song Dynasty.
Lu Youpeng thought it was feasible. At present, there were scattered kings of all sizes fighting in all directions in front and behind the Partridge Mountain. We have Yangjin's father, the great king Tuvapengcuo, as our support, so it should be no problem to take over the Partridge Mountain.
Zhao Yulin nodded and asked Liu Honggen, the combat officer, to formulate a combat plan and He Guoping, the training officer, to carefully count and adjust and enrich the organization of each column.
The newly recruited surplus troops were used to form the Partridge Mountain Column, and a cavalry corps was specially established. Such a team would go to Weizhou to complete the recovery and restoration of Partridge Mountain.
He asked Lao Lu to notify Li Yunqing and Gao Jin to come back and talk about the matter.
After accepting the task, everyone dispersed.
Ma Ling changed Zhao Yulin's cup and asked him: Are you going to help Yangjin grab territory? Ge'er dotes on her.
Zhao Yulin took a sip of tea and said, it doesn’t matter whether we pamper them or not. If our Shenwei Army wants to defeat the Mongolian Army, we must have a stable source of horses.
Otherwise, how to build a strong cavalry?
