Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

"The villain has already died once, and now this life belongs to the prince. The villain is not afraid of dying again. Even if he dies, the villain will drag Wang Jien to die with him!"

"Do you have such a great ability? I'm afraid you won't even see Wang Jien's face when you go back."

"My lord, then...then what should I do? If I go back to Beijing, I will die, but here I will die..."

"Who said that!" Song Jiajun said, "We will go back alive, and we will come back victorious!"

"Yes." Defang nodded, "Whether we are at the border or return to Beijing, we will not die, and we will never let the foreign and internal thieves succeed!"

Lin Yanshou asked, "My lord, shall we send troops?"

"Of course!"

"The villain is willing to take the crime and do meritorious service!"

"You? Hehehe, what do you know? Can you wield knives and guns or shoot arrows?"

"I..." Lin Yanshou lowered his head, "Little people are useless..."

"Okay, get up first." Defang ordered Chongming to present his armor. Li Jilong and Yuan Jizhong were very surprised. "My lord, this is..."

"Since I came out of Beijing, I have intended to send troops to Liao. I saw the two of you yesterday and did not speak out. This is because I want to understand the current situation and see if the two have a strategy to resist the enemy. This time the Liao Several generals were dispatched, Emperor Liao personally led the troops, and the morale was high. Yesterday, I saw that the two generals were determined to fight against the enemy, and the soldiers were very determined to fight, so I finally made up my mind."

"My lord is worthy of the name of a virtuous king. The final general will never disappoint my lord. I will definitely drive the Liao people out of the Song Dynasty!"

Defang looked at the crowd and said, "A strong family and country requires virtuous ministers inside to secure the country, and strong generals outside to establish the state. Both are indispensable. If the courtiers have no good strategies, and the generals are less loyal and brave, how can the family and country be stable? Now the Liao army is invading the Song Dynasty in the south. Tu, raiding the city, killing the people, this hatred must be avenged! If this king does not repel the Liao invaders during this trip, he will never return to Beijing!"

Li Jilong and Yuan Jizhong knelt down and said, "Under the order of the lord, I will swear to the death to resist the enemy!"

"The two generals please get up quickly." Defang helped the two of them up, "I wonder if the two of you have a good strategy to control the enemy?"

Li Jilong said, "My lord, there are currently [-] troops in the Dingzhou camp. The general and General Yuan have countermeasures. As long as the lord gives an order, the general will deploy immediately."

"Okay, that's it." Defang thought for a while, "General Li, as far as I know, the Jingsai Army in Yizhou is also near Dingzhou. Is it true?"

"Your Highness also knows about the Serenity Army?"

"How could this king not know about a rare elite cavalry army in Song Dynasty?"

"My lord... the last general..." Li Jilong said with a look of embarrassment on his face, "the last general is also responsible for the fall of Yizhou..."

Defang froze for a moment, "General Li, what do you say?"

"Returning to your lord, the Jingsai army fought bravely, and they were transferred to the army when the final general retreated to Dingzhou, but General Yuan disagreed, because the Jingsai army was all from Yizhou, and all their families were in the city. They stick to Yizhou, and they can resist the enemy's invasion, but... the last general did not listen to General Yuan's words..."

"So that's the case." Defang nodded, "But Yizhou's fall is not all because of this. The Liao army attacked the city with tens of thousands of soldiers, while Yizhou only had a thousand soldiers defending the city, and the Jingsai army only had 2000 people, so they couldn't resist. How many more days of delay, if the imperial court does not send rush rescue, it will be a matter of time before the city is destroyed, and now the Jingsai army is in Dingzhou, this time we must let them recover this blood debt in person, General Li don't have to blame himself too much."