Song Dynasty

Chapter 62 Gathering the Crowd ([-])

Hearing this, Wang Shen's grief and indignation, which had already calmed down, welled up in his heart again.

What happened to the imperial court and the supply camp in the past month has been explained to Gu Lie in detail after he crossed the river last night. He never expected that he would risk his life and make such great contributions, but the imperial court would not reward him at all. .

What is wrong with this?

The current Wang Shen and the people in the supply camp are actually nothing more than tiny existences like mustard seeds on the military and political platform of the entire Southern Song Dynasty. How do they know about the affairs of the upper echelons.

The worst thing is that the supply battalion is now included in the battle order of the left-behind division, and it is already the separated Huaixi army.

Originally, Wang Shen planned to take his troops westward after arriving in Jiankang, nominally to join Liu Guangshi's main force.According to his foresight as a traveler, it is too late to chase Liu Guangshi at this time.The long-legged general only stayed in Jiujiang for a few days. Seeing that the Jurchen West Route Army had driven away, he threw Nuoda's Jiangzhou City and the Yangtze River moat to the enemy, and fled with oil on his feet.By that time, the supply battalion has become a lone army, a de facto independent force.Next, Wang Shen can lead this army to display his ambitions.

Unexpectedly, now the Huaixi army's supply camp has become Du Chong's Chinese army's Sizhou camp, which caught Wang Shen by surprise.

In fact, it is understandable for Du Chong to do this.At that time, Ma Nai, the army left behind in Tokyo under him, was the army with the largest number of troops, the best equipment, and the strongest combat effectiveness among the Song armies from all walks of life in the early Southern Song Dynasty.But after internal strife in Kaifeng, more than half of the troops split.Then Wang Shan, Zhang Yong, and Cao Cheng beat him to the bone.

After withdrawing thousands of miles south and crossing the river, there is no one in ten.

Now Du Chong is serving as the left-behind of Jiankang's left-behind department and is in charge of the entire Jianghuai war. In fact, he has less than [-] soldiers and horses, and he claims to be [-].The army is divided into three units: the front army, the middle army and the rear army.

The former army has [-] soldiers, and the commander is named Qi Fang, who is now Wang Shen's immediate superior; the middle army has [-] soldiers, and the commander is Chen Cui; the rear army has [-] soldiers, and the commander is Wang Xie.

Among them, Wang Xie was in charge of Zhao Gouyu's former army, and this one was the Yulin Army, so he didn't really buy Du Chong's account.After entering Jiankang, they stayed in the city. They had no choice but to use them as the general reserve team.

Therefore, the troops that Du Chong can command are only 3 people from the former army and the middle army.

And these 3 people also include a large number of auxiliary soldiers and masters. The real front-line troops are less than [-] people, perhaps only five or six thousand.The so-called pickling and pulling onto the plate are all vegetables, so Du Chong simply enriched the other troops that remained in Jiankang before they could withdraw to his command.

Unfortunately, Wang Shen's supply camp, no, now the Sizhou camp was annexed by others, which made his overall plan come to nothing.

According to real historical records, the entire Song army was wiped out in the Battle of Jiankang, and the Sizhou camp has now fallen into a pit of fire.

In fact, as long as Wang Shen is willing, he can leave Jiankang alone with An Niang and Yue Yun.However, how could he be allowed to abandon so many soldiers and horses he had managed to gather, and his brothers who were in trouble and flee.

He basically spent the night in a half-dream and half-awake, thinking about how to take the troops out in one piece, and he didn't have a clue until dawn.

In the end, he could only calm down: Forget it, let's take a step and see, I don't believe that my foresight can't find a way out for the brothers.

"Brothers, you don't have to worry about the problem of eating, I can solve it. However, it is not okay for everyone to eat, drink and mess around all day long. In this way, there is no military discipline. You have to set some rules for them." The last time I broke up with Chen Lanruo, Wang Shen was not polite either, he filled a sack full of silver and calculated the weight, at least 3000 taels.

In the eyes of later generations, 3000 taels of silver may not be a big deal, but it was a very large fortune in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Before a large amount of American silver was imported into China in the late Ming Dynasty, gold and silver had always been precious metals for preserving value.

The so-called antiques in prosperous times, gold and silver in troubled times.

In this day and age, what is more valuable than silver?

These more than 500 soldiers were recruited by Wang Shen little by little with the money. In a sense, Chen Lanruo was a nobleman who started from Wang Shen.

With this money in hand, Wang Shen has nothing to worry about even if the left-behind division doesn't have a penny of military pay.

Gu Lie nodded: "The commander is right. The so-called snake can't fly without a head, and the bird can't fly without a head. When the general is away, people's hearts are lost. Now that you're back, I know how to train them, so you can rest assured."

"That's fine, that's fine."

While talking, suddenly there was a huge commotion over there.

The two hurriedly looked at it, and they both took a breath of air at the same time.

I saw that tens of thousands of people shouted and rushed towards the fifteen boats brought by Gu Lie.

Gu Lie's boat is not big, and if it is crowded, each boat can only squeeze 50 people.However, the Yangtze River here is very wide, and it is raining again, with strong wind and waves.After being fully loaded, the draft of the boat is very deep, and it will capsize if one is not careful.

Therefore, 30 people were loaded on each boat.

The sky has fully opened, and the Jiangpu Ferry is the only passage from Jiangbei to Jinling.Some time ago, a large number of people who fled from Jiangbei flocked here.

Du Chong was completely frightened by the Jin soldiers. He had fortified the wall and cleared the country half a month ago, and withdrew the Jiangbei ships to the south bank.As a result, at least tens of thousands of people crowded here with the old and the young, eagerly looking forward to the arrival of the ship.However, they didn't know that the ship couldn't wait.

Wang Shen also wandered along the river for three days, and finally met a merchant ship fleeing from Yangzhou, and spent a lot of money to let them take Lao Guo across the river.

Now it was hard to see so many boats, so all the people stepped forward one after another, pleading and pulling out copper coins, begging the soldiers to let them go aboard.

Seeing the soldiers of the Sizhou battalion shaking their heads, they didn't know they would yell, and the desperate people rushed towards the boat desperately.The soldiers on the ship were so startled that they waved the guns in their hands and drew them forward.

For a while, there was a loud cry on the pier, and the boats were crowded crookedly.

Seeing that things were about to get out of hand, suddenly, a soldier on the innermost boat drew out his knife and slashed forward fiercely: "Mother, let go!"

Wang Shen knew this man, he was Wang Danian, the half-grown boy who was so frightened by the enemy that he closed his eyes and shot arrows during the Battle of Pingyuan Town.

Wang Danian had just turned 16 years old, and he was considered an adult in ancient times, but Wang Shen still regarded him as a child.After four days of that battle, the little guy was completely bloody, and he had grown into an extremely fierce warrior.When Li Cheng's cavalry charged into the army formation, he killed one of them.

After the war, he was promoted by Wang Shen to be the deputy head of the capital, and Gu Lie was brought by his side to train and train him.

The sharp light of the knife flashed past, and instantly slashed across several hands.More than a dozen fingers jumped into the air.

After a long time, blood came out from the hands of the people whose fingers had been cut off, and they fell to the ground and screamed loudly.

Seeing this scene, Wang Shen wanted to scream, but shook his head and closed his eyes.Even if he couldn't bear it anymore, he knew in his heart that there were too many people here and there were few boats, so it was impossible to take so many people across the river.As far as he knew, apart from the more than 1 people on the pier, there were still crowds pouring in from the north. If there were no [-] people, there would be [-] people. They were transported one by one, and they couldn't be transported in ten and a half months.And Jin Bing is coming soon, so he won't be given so much time at all.

Seeing Wang Danian moving the knife, the people who were about to rush up were frightened and subconsciously stopped.

Wang Danian used a knife to push his finger that fell on the deck into the water, and shouted: "Get back to me, if you dare to come here again, I will cut off your heads. The knife in Grandpa's hand does not recognize people, get out!"

The knife slashed in the air again, causing a loud scream.

The people took a step back, then moved forward silently.

"Stop, stop!" Wang Danian yelled sharply, seeing the situation, he could hardly control himself, his forehead was covered with wet water droplets, and he didn't know whether it was rain or sweat.

The river wind was still whistling, the rain didn't stop, and there were people in rags and ragged clothes with sad faces in front of them, it was really a miserable wind and bitter rain.

Gu Lie is not kind. In fact, in the real history, the soldiers of the Western Army were very fierce.When Fan Zhongyan and Fan Da Laozi conquered Xixia, the army passed by without leaving a blade of grass, but they did not have the so-called humanitarian feelings of later generations.

Seeing this situation, he put his hand on the hilt of the waist knife: "General Wang, I'll bring someone over there to suppress it. If we don't kill a few people, we may not be able to get away today."

Wang Shen sighed softly, shook his head and said, "We are the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty, our knives can only be aimed at the enemy, how can we cut at the common people. Recruit more than 200 new recruits, make up the number of [-], and take them across the river together. Bar!"

(End of this chapter)