Fu Song

Chapter 289: Two hundred eighty-nine Anger

With a bang, Chen Gui angrily smashed the cup on the coffee table beside him.

In front of the emperor.

This is already considered a big loss of manners and disrespect.

The emperor's face twitched a few times, but he didn't attack.

"Since we have known the news for a long time, why didn't we launch it in advance? As long as King Jing is captured, Tao Dayong and other chief criminals are captured, everything will disappear in the bud." Chen Gui's slightly distorted voice swayed in the palace. Back and forth in the palace: "Xia Zhiyan, what do you want to do?"

"I just knew about it three days before you." Xia Jie said coldly, he knew that Chen Gui was angry because he didn't know about it immediately: "Besides, Xia told the officials immediately It's better for the Privy Council to stay calm and arrest people in advance? Privy Council, once you do it, is it possible to wipe out the thousands of frontier troops? If the news is leaked and these people scatter, will the world be peaceful in the future? Will this Bianliang be peaceful in the future? No one knows better the fighting power of the frontier army than you, right?"

"Okay, Privy Councilor Chen!" Zhao Suo knocked on the table impatiently: "That traitor is about to start, the top priority is what we have to do to catch them all in one go."

Chen Gui sat down slowly, his face extremely ugly.

Five thousand frontier troops!
Tao Dayong, Qin Min, who is not a battle-hardened hero, King Jing also has a long history of wars and rich experience, in this Bianliang City, where to find someone who can match them in a short time ?
Although he is a privy envoy, his actual military experience is very pitiful, and he has never experienced any serious battles.

"In Beijing, there are now more than [-] Japanese troops, the Tianwu Army, the Longwei Army, and the Shenwei Army. In terms of military strength, they far exceed the frontier troops." Chen Gui said: "But if we talk about organizational strength and combat effectiveness, It’s hard to say.”

"With [-] people, can't you deal with [-] rebels?" Zhao Suo said.

"Officials, this is a war, not a group fight. After a certain order of magnitude, the number has lost its meaning." Chen Gui shook his head and said: "If you let me tell you, the [-] people in Beijing right now are really not The opponent of the five thousand frontier army. Not to mention that the Fourth Army is still scattered and stationed in various places in Bianliang. Once they start fighting, they will fight quickly and defeat each of them."

Zhao Suo's face changed color: "Private, I don't want to hear you tell me about the difficulties, but I want you to give me a solution."

Chen Gui pondered for a moment, "Officials, King Jing's rebellion, the ultimate target is undoubtedly you, so as long as you are safe and sound, then his rebellion will not succeed. First thing, you can't stay in the Long Live Palace. This place is easy to attack and difficult to defend. Once the rebels attack, they will be unable to resist. You have to go back to the Forbidden Palace, and you have to go back secretly, so that the rebels will mistakenly think that you are still here. Right now, it is good to buy a little time of."

Zhao Suo nodded.

"The second is defense. The imperial palace is too big and requires too many troops to guard, and it is easy to have loopholes and be taken advantage of by the enemy. Therefore, the focus of our defense is the inner palace. The inner palace has high walls and solid walls, so we don't need too many troops. All you need is a capable general and a sufficient number of weapons."

"There are all kinds of weapons in the craftsman's camp, and they are in the forbidden palace, so there is no need to worry about all kinds of weapons, but who will command them?" Zhao Suo couldn't help frowning, Huang Chun and An Wei still went to the sea , or Xu Tai?
"I recommend Zhang Chao's son, Zhang Cheng." Chen Gui said decisively: "Although this son is young, he has seen many great battles with his father on the Hebei battlefield, and has also fought against the Liao people. He is more ambitious than these veterans. Son."

"He is only in his twenties, can he compare with these veterans?" Zhao Suo was puzzled.

"Officials, isn't Xiao Ding only in his twenties?" Chen Gui retorted. "Besides, right now, it is Zhang Cheng's troops who are on duty in the imperial city, and they can be arranged calmly and calmly when they are called into the inner palace, while Huang Chun and others will be ordered by the government to wait for the rebels to launch. Lead the army to besiege the rebels from the outside to the inside."

"How does the chief assistant feel?"

"The veteran thinks what Chen Shumi said is reasonable." Xia Jie said: "Zhang Cheng is indeed more suitable. Once the other ministries in Bianliang are no longer the opponents of the rebels, in the end they can only rely on Zhang Cheng's men to hold on to the inner city and wait for reinforcements. Cheng Suo's tribe must have fought in Hebei, so it is different from other tribes."

Zhao Suo was a little annoyed when he heard it. The two courtiers in front of him basically judged that the tens of thousands of troops in the city could not be the opponent of the five thousand frontier troops. army to completely solve the problem.

To put it bluntly, it was just an absolute advantage in numbers to eliminate these frontier troops.

"Is my Shangsi Army so unbearable?" He looked angrily at the two ministers in front of him, one civil and one military. "If it's really so unbearable, what have the two governments been doing all these years?"

Facing Zhao Suo's anger, Xia Jie dealt with it calmly. He has been on Hebei Road for these years.

Although Chen Gui was annoyed, the freezing three feet did not happen overnight, and he was responsible for the weakness of the Fourth Army, but this was not a problem he could solve alone!
The strategy of the round of battle is to solve this problem, but what will it look like in the end?

Stereotype was bitter for a while.

Wasn't it just because he was worried that King Jing's confidant frontier army arrived in Bianliang, and then the Fourth Army went to Hebei and was polished by King Jing, and became King Jing's man again, so King Jing was transferred back to Bianliang look.As a result, once Cui Ang left, did things get out of hand?
"Officials, according to Shoufu, although these frontier troops sneaked into Bianliang, it is impossible for them to enter Beijing with full armor, right? So their first step must be to attack the arsenal and seize armor and the like. Arming, the most urgent task right now is to defend the two large arsenals in the north and south cities, and never let them fall into the hands of the rebels." Chen Gui put those annoying thoughts aside, and said: "As long as there is no full set of armor and weapons, the rebels The power of force will be greatly reduced."

"The incident happened suddenly, and I have already issued an edict to order the Divine Guard to quickly send two battalions of troops to the two arsenals. Counting the time, they should be in place today!" Zhao Suo said.

Chen Gui is a little worried. The two arsenals in the north and the south can only accommodate two battalions of people at most. The question is, can they hold it?

The emperor is gone.

Xia Jie and Chen Gui will continue to stay here, creating an illusion that the emperor is still in the Long Live Palace.

Now no one knows if there will be King Jing's spies in the palace.

I think there must be some.

Chen Gui looked at Xia Jie with piercing eyes. Even Xia Jie, whose city was as deep as the sea, felt a little unbearable at the moment.

"If this matter is over, I will resign as a privy secretary and go home to take care of myself. This Song Dynasty, you can do whatever you want!" Chen Gui said suddenly.

"Jing Sheng, what are you talking about?" Xia Jie said in surprise, "After this matter is over, the imperial court will be employing people, so how could it be without you? The two of us should work together."

Chen Gui smiled: "Zhi Yan, if you really think so, you shouldn't have kept this matter from me. And I dare say that you didn't tell the truth to the officials, you hid a lot of things."

Xia Jie couldn't help being silent.

"I misunderstood you, you are not the Xia Zhiyan fifteen years ago." Chen Gui sighed: "At the beginning, the government didn't plan to call you back, but planned to let Luo Song take over as the chief assistant, and then call the horse The reason for returning to Beijing is that I felt that Luo Song could not control the situation at that time, so I urged Luo Song to back down, and then I, Li Guang, Luo Song, Xiao Yu and others wrote a letter together, which forced the officials to call you back .Now, I regret it."

"Jing Sheng, I have my own reasons, but you have to believe me, I am still the same Xia Zhiyan from fifteen years ago. I am not only concerned with the superior, but only with the truth. I will never do anything harmful to the imperial court." The commandment is sincere and authentic.

Chen Gui shook his head slowly: "The question is, what you think is right must be right? Zhiyan, this time you dared to trick King Jing, and I'm afraid that you will fall into your trap at any time. It's better to go home earlier."

"I don't have King Jingjing!" Xia Jie said angrily.

"You can stop him." Chen Gui sighed: "You must be able to stop him. But you didn't do it. Instead, you made trouble and pushed him behind. You didn't tell me because you were afraid that I would go Stop him, won't you?"

"Why would I do this?" Xia Jie said with a gloomy face, "Do you think I'm the same as Cui Ang?"

"Of course it's different!" Chen Gui said: "Cui Ang is just a swindler, and it's not worth mentioning. But you, Xia Zhiyan, don't want to leave King Jing with a chance to be superior. Wang Che was completely screwed to death. When you had to transfer Zhang Chao back to Beijing more than a month ago, you already knew these things? Xia Zhiyan, is the king of Chu really stronger than King Jing?"

Xia Jie was silent for a long while before he said, "Why does it have to be the king of Chu? The official family is in good health, and the remaining few princes are also smart and eager to learn. As long as there are ten years left, anything can happen!"

Chen Gui looked at the other party in surprise, and couldn't help laughing for a long time: "I still underestimated you Xia Zhiyan, let's go, I want to see how far you are going to go. But Xia Zhiyan, You cheated King Jing, how are you going to deal with Xiao Changqing! He won't let it go!"

"Is a King Jing who has no hope of ascending to the top really important to Xiao Changqing?" Xia Zhiyan said disdainfully, "I will still use Xiao Yu, so even if Xiao Changqing is unhappy in his heart, he will only put it in his heart. This person, I I still understand."

"This time King Jing's rebellion, Xiao Yu will definitely be involved." Chen Gui pointed at the other party and said, "You should immediately send someone to call Xiao Yu into the palace, and then take care of him."

"I have already sent someone! But with Xiao Yu's bad temper, he may not be willing to come!" Xia Jie said: "But it doesn't matter, even if he will stand by King Jing's side when the time comes, as long as His Majesty says he is innocent, I will Say he's innocent, and he's innocent!"

Chen Gui shook his head: "National law has become a toy in your hands. Anyone who plays with fire must set himself on fire. Xia Zhiyan, you"

Having said this just now, the night sky suddenly brightened up, and the two stood up at the same time, walked to the window, towards the south city, a red firework exploded in the air, and then another one flew up, and then, it was The third flower.

"It really is the Arsenal of Nancheng!" Chen Gui raised his head and sighed: "Let's go, go to the Forbidden Palace, if we don't go, we might become captives of the rebels!"

Chaos broke out in Nancheng.

Zhang Cheng stood on the high tower of the Forbidden Palace, and the shock in his heart had not dissipated until now.

The [-] soldiers under his command are moving all kinds of supplies for the defense of the city from Dalinli to the city like ants. Fortunately, the Battalion is located in Dainai, otherwise, it will be a big deal if they are at a loss. Oh no.

Just after the heads of the two prefectures entered the palace, the several-foot-thick gates of the Forbidden Palace had been closed, and the thousand-jin gate had been lowered. If the rebels wanted to enter the camp, they could only force their way in with real skills.

The frontier army is indeed powerful, but the three thousand sons under him are not the same useless people as before. After seeing the battle with the Liao people in Hebei, the whole appearance is completely different.

From this point of view, Xiao Changqing's round-of-war strategy was indeed good.An army that has not seen blood cannot be a good army.

Thinking of this, Zhang Cheng couldn't help but reached out and pulled out the knife at his waist. It was given to him by Xiao Chongwen. It was said that it was specially made by Tiangong Iron Art.It's a pity that that day's iron art was reduced to ashes in a fire this year.

Three thousand imperial guards, together with more than a thousand squadrons in the palace, and four thousand men and horses, are enough to guard the forbidden palace.

The [-] frontier troops wanted to attack this fortified city inside, and they had to deal with the siege of the Fourth Army outside. This rebellion should be easily quelled.

Zhang Chao galloped wildly on the snow field, followed by only a thousand cavalry.He even borrowed more than a hundred guard cavalry from Yelujun, including Wanyan Starling and other Jurchens.

"Xia Zhiyan's thinking is too simple!" After the envoy from Bianliang found out the truth, Zhang Chao couldn't help yelling. "What do they think the war is about? Is it a novel?"

Yelujun was also a little surprised at the incompetence of these high-level officials in the Song Dynasty.

These people may have high attainments in strategy, otherwise they would not have been able to confront Daliao for so many years.But when it comes to specific tactics, these high-ranking people are caught blind.

According to these arrangements of the Song people, King Jing, who is good at military affairs, may really succeed in the rebellion. I don't know if Zhang Chao can catch up?
Speaking of King Jing, there are only [-] people, but once the incident breaks out, how many of the [-] garrisons in Bianliang will also be recruited by the rebels?
Rubbing his chin, Yelujun couldn't help but want to laugh when he thought that a large number of the Fourth Army, which was defeated by the frontier army led by King Jing, would be forced to become the vanguard of the rebel army's siege.

Maybe when he arrived in Bianliang, Zhao Suo became the Supreme Emperor?
Yelujun was very happy.

This is really an interesting thing.

He is not afraid of the height of the stage when watching a play, and now he only hopes that the fire in Bianliang will burn even more intensely.

Anyway, the loss is the enemy's.

(End of this chapter)