The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 253

In the early morning of the next day, Zhao Tun had just changed defenses with Zhuo Mao and returned to the residence when he heard the sound of horseshoes in the distance and the ground trembled. He knew it was the cavalry from Luzhou City who had dispatched.

The army Wang Qing sent out did not have many cavalry. There are more than 3 soldiers left in Luzhou City, and about four to five thousand cavalry.

At the beginning of Wang Qing's rebellion, only some leaders had horses, and there were no cavalry at all. In fact, even if they could occupy the entire Huaixi, they would not be able to gather many horses at all.

To put it bluntly, these war horses were sent to Wang Qing by the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army twice before. As for the cavalry on the horses now, many of them are the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army who surrendered.

Zhao Tong stood in the courtyard and listened to the movement outside for a while, then walked into the house expressionlessly.

Now that they have been in contact with each other, the Song army will definitely not stay outside the city for a long time. Even if the cavalry in Luzhou go out of the city to look for them, it may be difficult to find them.

Then three or four days passed, the military defense in Luzhou City became more and more strict, and the battle report ahead was very unfavorable. In this way, he was still beaten step by step by the Song army, and lost several games in a row. Although the casualties were not too large, the morale was completely lost.

Wang Qing had sent an order for Gong Duan's army to withdraw to Luzhou, and the atmosphere in the court became more and more tense.

On this day, Wang Qing's face was gloomy, and he looked at the people below and said, "The Song army is still the same Song army, and its combat power is still weak. Judging from Gong Duan's battle report, although he lost several games in a row, there were not many casualties. It's too much, but just like this, it still can't stop Song Jun from moving forward, so please tell me, what's going on?"

No one spoke below, even Li Zhu closed his eyes slightly, not knowing what was going on in his heart.

Seeing that no one spoke, Wang Qing's expression became more and more gloomy: "Could it be that there is no Ai Qing who can tell the truth and decide to break it?"

Everyone lowered their heads at this time, they didn't even see the appearance of the Song army who attacked this time, how could they guess the reason, probably because they wanted Gong Duan to be useless, but no one dared to say this, after all Gong Duan was the Generalissimo of the Army and Horses ordered by Wang Qing himself.

Wang Qing's brows were furrowed at this moment, seeing that no one was talking, he felt a little annoyed in his heart, just as he was about to lift the table, he saw Zhao Tun came out.

His expression changed immediately, and he said, "Does Li Aiqing have anything to say?"

Zhao Tong said: "Your Majesty, I have come up with a reason, but I didn't think of any plan to defeat the enemy."

Wang Qingdao: "Ai Qing cares about it."

Zhao Tong thought about it, and said: "I think that since the soldiers of Song Dynasty have not changed, but the battle is unfavorable, the reason is that the opponent's commanders are different. The soldiers have not changed, but the commanders have changed, so this kind of thing happened."

Wang Qing pondered: "Aiqing means that Gong Duan's strategy is not as good as the other party's? That's why he retreated steadily?"

Zhao Tang said: "Your Majesty, it's not that Marshal Gong is too weak, it should be that Marshal Zhao is too strong. I heard that Marshal Gong led the troops in the previous two attacks of Song Dynasty, but they won a complete victory. It can be seen that Marshal Gong met this time. opponent."

Everyone's face twitched when they heard the words, secretly thinking that this Li Fei speaks well, not saying that his side is weak, but only that the other side is strong, and he must learn to use it next time.

Wang Qing wondered: "Then Zhao Tun is only twenty years old, so where does he have the ability to command troops? Could it be that there are some masters under his command?"

Zhao Tong said: "This minister doesn't know..."

Wang Qing looked at Li Zhu: "What does the prime minister think about this matter?"

Li Zhu came out of the class and said: "Your Majesty, it seems that he has indeed underestimated the King of Qi, Zhao Tuo. Since he is a prince, he is naturally different from Deng Xunwu and others. He may have gathered some strange people from three mountains and five mountains around him. In other words, I think the current plan is to wait for Gong Duan to come back, and then set up a joint camp in front of Luzhou City to prevent the other party from besieging the city, and then try to break it."

Wang Qing frowned and nodded, but he really couldn't think of any good way. He glanced at the two civil and military classes below, pondered for a while, and finally fell on Zhao Tang, and said: "Li Aiqing is superb in martial arts. She has worked hard defending Luzhou recently. Resign from your post and lead an army to prepare for battle."

Zhao Tong hastily said yes.

Then Wang Qing pointed out a few more people and gave the same order. These people are also highly skilled in martial arts. They originally had other duties, but they were all exempted and let them lead troops to prepare for the battle alone.

After the soldiers and horses in charge of each person were allocated, some food and grass matters were arranged, and then the dynasty was announced to be dispersed.

Zhao Tong was assigned to a small army, and after going down to court, he went to the barracks for a brief handover, and then went straight back to his residence.

Liannaza's position as the guard of the Xiping Gate has not been replaced, which makes him relieved. In fact, it is not an easy task to cooperate with the inside and the outside. The army in front of the garrison city.

The so-called siege has always been just a strong attack on the weak. Like the current situation where the strength of each other is about the same, and the combat power is not disparate, it is impossible to hide in the city and wait for the opponent to attack.

Most of them have to camp outside the city, with their backs against the city, and fight a few battles. It is impossible to escape back to the city until something can't be done.

And once the two armies reach this point, the general strategy will be hard to be effective, and they will probably fight to suppress the morale of the other side.

At this moment, although Shouzhou has been recovered, behind Luzhou there is still the territory of the First Army of the Five States watching each other, which is actually very detrimental to the Song Army.

Especially the longer the time drags on, the advantage will often be turned into a disadvantage, so the fight against Luzhou should be the same as the fight against Shouzhou, and it is best to fight quickly.

But this quick battle gave Zhao Tong a headache. If his subordinates were not these unsatisfactory Gyeonggi Forbidden Army and replaced by the Western Army, Gong Duan's team might be overwhelmed by the previous wave, and then they would go straight to Luzhou.

But he didn't have the Western Army under his command, so he could only push forward steadily. As for how to arrange it when he came to Luzhou City, it could only depend on the situation at the time, but Zong Ze was not the kind of coach who was only upright and unremarkable. Zhao Tong felt that Zong Ze was impossible Willing to confront each other just below the city, there must be other arrangements.

After returning to the mansion, the diet became more and more simple. It turned out that since the Song army appeared outside the city that night, Luzhou City had completely closed the city gates. It can cause internal friction in the city.

Because of the inspection last night, Zhao Tun lay down to rest after eating, and it was evening after he woke up. After waking up, he went out and walked to the front, only to see Yao Pingzhong and Di Ya playing with the yellow horse.

Yao Pingzhong said: "Little Diya, my yellow horse eats a lot. If it doesn't have enough forage, it can even eat dry tree sticks."

Di Ya shook her head: "How can there be such a horse? If you say fresh branches are edible, how can there be a horse that eats sticks?"

Yao Pingzhong said: "If you don't believe me, you can try it!"

Dia naturally didn't believe it, she went to the side to find a stick and said, "Big man, if you want to lie to me, you chew the stick yourself and go down."

Yao Pingzhong rubbed his hands with a smile and said, "I can still lie to you little girl!"

Di Ya handed the wooden stick to the horse's mouth, and sure enough, the yellow horse "clicked, clicked", and Dia could not help being amazed.

Yao Pingzhong watched the horse eat for a long time, and Diya stepped forward to touch the horse's head again, but the horse didn't make any movement.

Dia groped there for a while, and said, "Big man, this horse does seem to be unusual, but it's just that I can't see what's unusual for a while."

Yao Pingzhong nodded, and walked forward in wonder, but before he was completely close, he saw the horse opened its mouth wide and sprayed him all over his face with a mouthful of wood slag, so angry that he jumped and scolded: "You Beast, I treat you the best, but I always spit on you, and I don't have any conscience!"

Di Ya watched in a daze, and suddenly realized that Yao Pingzhong wanted to trick her, so she couldn't help but said: "Everyone knows that you are a big man, if you don't blame you, who will you blame!"

Seeing this, Zhao Tang couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, coughed lightly, and the two of them immediately came over to salute.

Zhao Tang looked at Yao Pingzhong and frowned and said, "It's a shame, don't wash it off!"

Yao Pingzhong blushed suddenly, and trotted away. Di Ya said at this time: "General Li, my general asked you to go over to discuss the art of war. I can't disturb you just now, so I have been waiting."

Zhao Tang looked up at the sky, it was already dark now, the jade rabbit rose slowly, and nodded involuntarily.

(End of this chapter)