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Chapter 363 0360 [Lead the army to serve the king! 】

Nanjing Road?

All the old, weak, sick and disabled people did not show joy, but were worried.

Nanjing Road is a bitter and cold place, and it borders the Kingdom of Jin, where wars continue.

Even though Han Zhen provided excellent treatment, including housing and farm assignments, and free loans of farm tools and seeds, many people still showed hesitation.

After struggling for a moment, the elder Song Jun hesitated and said: "If we go to Nanjing Road, do we still have money and food?"

"Of course!"

Han Zhen nodded.

"Then...I'll go then."

"I'll go too."

With the first, there is the second.

In the end, most people choose to go to Nanjing Road.

The temptation of twenty acres of fertile land is still great after all.

However, there are a very small number of people who, after some struggle, would rather risk being massacred by the Jin army than return to their hometown in Hedong.

Han Zhen didn't bother to care about this.

Given the opportunity, it is up to them to decide which path to take.

Life or death was not Han Zhen's turn to worry about.

After dealing with these, Han Zhen ordered the Qingzhou Army to camp on the spot.

In the evening, the wealthy merchants in the city sent people to bring wine and meat, saying they wanted to reward the soldiers, but they were ruthlessly rejected.

In the military tent, Han Zhen stared at the map in his hand and asked, "Where did Wanyan Zonghan hit?"

Liu Qi replied: "Reporting to the county magistrate, according to the battle report sent back by the spies, we have arrived in Xiangzhou!"

Hearing this, Yue Fei's expression changed.

Xiangzhou is his hometown, and the whole family still lives in Tangyin's old house.

But there is a distance of more than 300 miles between Jizhou and Xiangzhou, and Damingfu and Mingzhou are separated in between. Even if Yue Fei leads his troops and sets off now, he will not be able to make it in time.

He could only pray secretly in his heart that his family could escape the disaster.

At this time, Han Zhen ordered: "Yue Fei!"

"The general is here!"

Yue Fei came to his senses and hurriedly answered with cupped fists.

"I now order you to lead eight thousand Song army camps under your command, and give you eight hundred cavalry to capture Xingzhou, Mingzhou and Cizhou within seven days."

"The last general takes command!"

A hint of gratitude flashed in Yue Fei's eyes.

Mingzhou is adjacent to Xiangzhou, and the meaning is self-evident.

"Huang Kai!"

"The general is here!"

"Lead three thousand Qingzhou troops and capture Enzhou within three days."

"The last general takes command!"

Han Zhen continued to give the order: "Pass on my oral instructions, ordering Zhang He to lead his troops out of the city, capture Dezhou and Bozhou within five days, and assemble with the army in Enzhou. Order Wu Jie and Xiao Wu to prepare for war and be prepared to attack Yingtian Mansion and Yingtian Mansion at any time. Preparations for Xingren Mansion.”

As military orders were issued one after another, all the generals looked excited.

Finally, we are going to take action against Zhao Song Gyeonggi!

……

As soon as he received the military order, Zhang He led 10,000 Qingzhou troops out of Yucheng, divided into two groups, and headed straight for Dezhou and Bozhou.

Because these two states are close to Jinan Prefecture, they have already been penetrated into a sieve.

Most of the people under the rule went to Jinan Prefecture to seek livelihood, and the subordinate officials in counties and counties even obeyed the officials' orders. They wished that Han Zhen would come as soon as possible. As soon as they got some information, they sent people to Jinan Prefecture to report.

After learning that the Qingzhou Army had entered the city, they immediately opened the city gate and welcomed the Qingzhou Army into the city.

The superintendent of the Liaocheng County Government Office in Bozhou took Zhang He's hand and said with red eyes: "General Zhang, why did you come here? It's so hard for us to wait!"

This custodian has a distant cousin in Dongping Prefecture. He was originally just a comrade in the county government, but now he is the magistrate of a county.

This made him envious.

I thought that since it was close to Jinan Mansion, County Magistrate Han would send troops here soon.

As a result, after waiting and waiting, there was no sign of the Qingzhou Army, and more than half a year passed in a flash.

Zhang He was a little dumbfounded and comforted: "Isn't this coming now? Where are the government officials?"

Oshi replied: "When I heard that the general was coming with his army, they all ran away."

"Okay."

Zhang He nodded.

In this way, in just two days, Bozhou and Dezhou fell into the hands of Han Zhen one after another without spending a single soldier.

……

But it was said that Yue Fei led eight thousand Song army camps and headed straight for Xingzhou.

In just two days, Xingzhou was captured.

In another three days, Mingzhou was captured.

Then, after Yue Fei ordered his subordinate Zheng Li to lead his troops to attack Cizhou, he took 800 cavalry and headed straight for Xiangzhou along the Zhang River.

After arriving in Xiangzhou, his heart sank.

Everywhere he passed was devastated.

Villages along the way were either burned down or deserted.

Dead bodies can be seen everywhere, including old people, children, and naked women.

Yue Fei clenched his fists, veins twitching on his forehead.

Just as he was approaching his hometown of Tangyin, a group of fleeing people appeared on the official road ahead.

These people, including men, women, old and young, looked horrified, and there were hundreds of Jin soldiers chasing behind them.

"Destroy the enemy!"

Yue Fei roared loudly, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and the horse under him immediately jumped out.

At this moment, the common people and the Jin army at the end of the official road also discovered them.

When the fleeing people saw the cavalry coming, they all looked desperate.

Rumble!

The power of the galloping war horses is like overwhelming mountains and oceans.

The hundred or so Jin soldiers sensed something was wrong and did not run away. Instead, they formed a formation and prepared to meet the enemy.

Fighting all the way from the south, all the Song troops encountered were defeated at the first touch.

It looked okay, but as soon as they fought, his weak nature was immediately exposed.

Therefore, these Jin Jun are extremely arrogant. Boom!

The two sides collided, and Yue Feige fired a spear, swinging his iron spine and slamming it down.

This hammer, with the power of hatred, hit the Jin Army's iron helmet and burst into pieces.

In just one charge, all hundreds of Jin troops were wiped out.

Seeing this scene, the people who were originally running away stopped in their tracks, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.

Speaking in Tangyin dialect, Yue Fei shouted: "Folks, don't be afraid, County Magistrate Han ordered me to come and save you!"

Hearing the Tangyin dialect and hearing the words County Magistrate Han, all the people suddenly looked surprised.

An old man asked in a trembling voice: "Is it really the Qingzhou Army?"

"Exactly!"

Yue Fei replied.

Hearing this, the old man said happily: "Great, the Qingzhou Army is here, we are saved!"

The fleeing people gradually gathered together.

In the crowd, there was a person who kept staring at Yue Fei. After looking at him for several times, he suddenly said, "Are you the fifth son of the Yue family in the filial piety?"

Yue Fei was stunned: "Do you recognize me?"

Yue Fei had four brothers and one sister, and a younger brother Yue Fan. However, the four brothers died young and the sister got married early.

The man replied: "Why don't you recognize me? I am Wang Da from the East Village."

Yue Fei hurriedly asked: "Wang Da, have you ever seen my mother, wife and children?"

Hearing this, Wang Da hesitated.

Seeing this, Yue Fei knew that he had something to hide, so he got off his horse, pulled him aside and asked, "What's going on?"

Wang Da then said: "I...I heard that your mother-in-law left her children and ran away with a man a while ago."

"..."

Yue Fei was silent for a while.

When he was sixteen, he got married to his wife Liu, in order to give birth to two children.

It's just that he joined the army not long after he got married. He was away for seven or eight years and came back only a handful of times.

The longest time I spent at home was when my father passed away two years ago. After returning home to observe mourning for three months, he was hastily recalled by his army.

After a long time, Yue Fei sighed slightly: "I am away from home all year round, so I owe her a lot."

Wang Da consoled him: "Yue Wulang is a talented man, and now he is a general under County Magistrate Han. His future is limitless, so why worry about not having a woman."

Yue Fei asked again: "Where is my mother and child?"

Wang Da replied: "I went to Daming Mansion to join your sister a few days ago. Many people in the filial piety ran away. I couldn't bear to part with the crops in the field. I didn't expect that the Jin people really came to kill me. If I had known I should have followed." They run together."

"Thank you!"

Yue Fei cupped his hands.

Wang Dalian waved his hands and said: "Thank you very much. I should thank Yue Wulang for saving my life."

After learning the whereabouts of his mother and child, Yue Fei's heart dropped. He gave all the dry food for his cavalry to the villagers, and then said: "I still have military affairs, so I can't escort the villagers. You wait." Let’s take refuge in Daming Mansion quickly.”

"Yue Wulang Renyi!"

All the villagers were holding dry food and were excited.

After watching the villagers leave, Yue Fei got on his horse and said, "Let's go!"

A Dutou was about to make a move and said: "Brigadier, there should be a lot of Jin people in Tangyin County, why don't we kill some more?"

"If you kill the Jin man in the future, you can't ruin the county magistrate's plan!"

Seeing that his hometown was so devastated by the Jin, Yue Fei wanted to kill the Jin army more than anyone else, but he knew his priorities clearly and knew that this was a critical moment.

Moreover, they only had 800 cavalry, and going deep alone, it would be dangerous to encounter a large number of Jin cavalry.

……

……

May twenty-first.

Han Zhen led the army and went straight to Daming Mansion.

At this time, all the east and west roads in Hebei, except for Zhendingfu and Xiangzhou and other five state armies adjacent to Hedong Road, had fallen into the hands of Han Zhen.

After learning the lesson from last time, Zhang Shuye immediately controlled all the thousands of subordinate staff in the government office.

There's nothing I can do about it. Now that the subordinates see Han Thief, they feel closer to him than they do to their own father.

The reason why the Korean thieves were able to capture the two Hebei routes in such a short period of time was because of the surrender of subordinate officials.

Later, Zhang Shuye ordered Xing Wanli to clear the country and gather all the people in the surrounding villages and towns into the county.

The subordinates were under control, but problems also arose.

Yuancheng County already has a large population, and with the people from surrounding areas moving into the city, the number of people in the county has exceeded 200,000.

How can there be so many people without subordinates to manage them?

However, Zhang Shuye is not mediocre and has already thought of a solution.

He uses streets as units, and in each street, residents are allowed to voluntarily elect a respected person to serve as the director of the pavilion. If they have any problems, they can go directly to the director of the pavilion.

If the pavilion chief cannot solve the problem, go to the government office to find officials.

This is not a long-term solution, but it can solve the urgent need. Otherwise, if the subordinate is left alone, he will die without knowing how.

On May 23, the Qingzhou Army's front troops arrived at Yuancheng County.

Han Zhen looked at the strong walls and the towers lined with soldiers, and ordered: "Cut down the wood and set up camp!"

At this moment, I saw a hanging basket placed on the tower.

After a man stepped down from the hanging basket, he walked straight towards the front army.

Not long after, Xing Wanli was brought to Han Zhen.

Han Zhen asked: "Who are you?"

"A certain family is a soldier under the command of Mr. Zhang. I am here to ask about County Magistrate Han on behalf of Mr. Zhang."

As Xing Wanli spoke, he secretly looked at Han Zhen.

Han Zhen raised his chin: "Your husband-in-law and I are considered acquaintances, so just ask."

Xing Wanli said loudly: "May I ask if County Magistrate Han is going to ignore the law of heaven and tear up the alliance when he leads his troops south?"

The so-called disregard for the way of heaven is because after the peace talks, he killed three animals to sue heaven and earth.

Hearing this, Han Zhen chuckled and said: "The Jin people went south, and I led the army to serve the king. How can I say that I broke the covenant?"

Lead the army to serve the king?

Xing Wanli was stunned immediately, and all the words he had prepared were blocked in his throat.

(End of this chapter)