Song Dynasty

Chapter 73

In the past half month, the situation in Jiangbei has deteriorated beyond control.

The advance of the Jurchens from the east and the west can be described as sweeping, and they have hardly encountered decent resistance.

The Golden Army's West Route Army was alright, with only 1 horses marching southeast from Henan under the leadership of Wan Yanchang, advancing unhurriedly, and now they have reached Lujiang, which is Hefei, the capital of Anhui in later generations.

The defenders of Lujiang dispersed in a rush, and it was only a matter of time before the city fell.

As for the strength of Wushu on the East Road, it is even stronger, with a total of 5 horses, which is almost all the mobile teams that Jin Guo can use at this moment.

Although Wu Shu has major flaws in his personality, he is extremely experienced in being a soldier and likes to take risks.

Others commanding such a large-scale field army must fight steadily and advance step by step, and must not give the enemy a chance to take advantage of loopholes.In fact, the current Jurchens are at the peak of their fighting power, if they do this, no one will be able to resist it.

But in this way, the Song army will be given a chance to escape, and Jurchen's strategic goal this time is to capture Zhao Gou and completely eliminate the Song people's resistance and the central decision-making center.

Therefore, from the moment he entered Huaibei, Wu Shu picked up a light cavalry and marched all the way, traveling hundreds of miles a day, preparing to use a beheading tactic against Zhao Jiu.This tactic really has the meaning of penetrating, cutting, and encircling in depth.

However, the Yangtze River Tianzhu saved the life of the new Southern Song dynasty.

No matter how fast the Jurchen cavalry is, they don't have wings.

Moreover, the Song army in the south of the Yangtze River had already made preparations to strengthen the walls and clear the country, bringing all the ships from the north of the river to the south of the Yangtze River, and burning those that could not be taken away.

In this way, Wushu was blocked to the north of the Yangtze River. In the past half month, he was busy collecting warships, but he couldn't pose a real threat to Jiankang on the south bank.

"The Jurchen Tartars will definitely not be able to cross the river. Don't worry, everyone." Seeing that the Jin soldiers had been on the north bank for more than half a month, they could only look at the ocean and sigh, and the soldiers and civilians in Jiankang felt at ease.The people who fled the city in the past also returned home one after another, and a large number of soldiers were stationed in the city, showing a kind of abnormal prosperity in the city.

"Officer Wu, brother toast you, and drink this wine." A soldier raised the wine bowl.

At this moment, five soldiers from Beiwei Camp in Sizhou Camp were eating wine in a street tavern.

The leader was Wu Xianxian, and the other four were soldiers who knew him well in the army. Strictly speaking, they were his subordinates.Now he is already a detaining officer of a brigade of Beiwei Army.

According to the military value of the Song Dynasty, a small team of three people, a squadron of nine people, and a brigade of five squadrons.The officers of each brigade consisted of five officers who served as detainees, team leaders, deputy team leaders, and left and right flags.

Originally, Wu Xianxian was used to hanging out on the streets before, and the military system was too strict. He couldn't stand it, and he had long since thought of becoming a deserter.However, because of the strict control of the army, there has been no chance to escape.

When the army is full of honest and honest children from good families, it is difficult for him, a quick-witted man who can read a few words, to stand out. After half a month, he was appointed as the detainee of the brigade.

The Dugou prison officer is different from the team leader who is in charge of the military. This position is in charge of military discipline and internal affairs, as well as documents.

He was very proud of having dozens of people under his control.

However, after thinking about it, being an officer is not very interesting, not to mention that he can't make a fortune, and he sweats more than others every time he trains.If his subordinates made mistakes, he, as an official, would have to be punished accordingly, which is not frustrating.

In this way, the desire to escape is even worse.

"Yes, yes, officer, I respect you all the time." Several other people also raised their glasses.

It was finally the day of vacation, and there was an order from above that the five capitals of the Sizhou Army took turns to take vacations, three capitals on the first day, and two capitals on the second day.The Beiwei army is the essence of the army, so naturally they have to rest first.

These people wanted to curry favor with the official, pooled money together, and invited Wu Xianxian to the city for a drink.

The Sizhou army has no military salary, and each person only has [-] Wen per month as an allowance for purchasing personal items.The soldiers were all refugees, and they were satisfied with a mouthful of food, and now they had pocket money, so they were all very happy.

The four of them cost only a hundred cash, so naturally they couldn't eat anything good with this amount of money.I also cut a plate of mutton, sifted a corner of the wine, and two plates of vegetarian dishes. Everyone sat on the street and had fun in the cold wind.

"Come on, let's do it." After drinking a cup of wine, Wu Xianxian asked, "Where are the others in the capital, and General Yue?"

"General Yue Yun accompanied General Wang to go home to visit relatives, and everyone else finally got a vacation. This is the first time for everyone to visit this stone city, and they went to this stone city, and they disappeared in the city early. It's just... "

"Just what?" Wu Xianxian asked.

The soldier said: "It's just that the bird man Wu Tuo still stays in the army, training with other people in the capital, and refuses to take a vacation."

Wu Xianxian was stunned: "Is this Mrs. Wu stupid?"

The man laughed and said, "Madam Wu is afraid that I will run into the officer you when I go out of the barracks. You are indeed a softie! Officer, when we return to the camp, we will clean up and deal with him. Straight lady thief, if you think you can hide, just hide." Do you have to take it off?"

Everyone burst out laughing, and said: "Yes, yes, when we return to the camp next time, we'll make fun of him." In the past half a month, Wu Tuo had been beaten several times by Wu Xianxian, but his nose was still bruised and his face was swollen.

The army is full of men with blood and blood, and they hate losers the most, especially when Wu Tuo dares not fight back every time he is beaten.

So, everyone discussed how to have fun later on, whether to pour water into his quilt, or let him fall asleep at night, wipe his face with the pot of ashes, and ask him to be punished by Yue Yun to do push-ups because of his disorderly appearance.

Just as he was talking lively, Wu Xianxian let out a haha: "Come on, let's spare Miss Wu."

"Why did the presiding officer show kindness today? Isn't this your nature?" Everyone was puzzled and said in unison: "No, no."

Wu Xianxian put away his smile, put the wine bowl on the table, and said in a low voice: "Brothers, how about what I said before, everyone finally came out of the camp today, and just got out of the cage."

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent and looked at each other, but could not make a sound.

The training of the army was too hard, and the soldiers inevitably complained, and Wu Xianxian often mentioned the escape in front of their acquainted brothers.Every time this is mentioned, everyone agrees.

But I don't want to, this Wu Constitution is coming for real today.

"Why, don't you want to or don't dare?" Wu Xianxian asked, "Can't bear to eat in the army?"

"This, this... Brother Wu, we are just farmers. Jiangbei was occupied by the Jurchens, and we fled all the way to Jiankang. Fortunately, General Wang took us in. Yes, life in the army is hard, but the general did not treat us badly. There is meat for three meals a day, and there are new clothes and new quilts. I feel sorry for leaving like this. Besides, even if we leave the Sizhou Army, we have nowhere to go. Is it possible to return to work as farm laborers? It’s not hard for people to carry on.”

"Yeah yeah!"

"Shut up." Wu Xianxian was so angry that his face was livid, and he shouted: "You guys, when you talk about this in the past, you are more straightforward than the other, but now you are not willing to implement it. That's right, you are just a fucking bunch Useless farmers, with only one acre of land in front of them, but they don't know how big the sky is outside. You eat three meals a day of brown rice in the army, and I will go alone. At that time, grandpa will eat delicious food and spicy food, so don't look down Don't regret it."

After all, Teng stood up and was about to leave.

Suddenly, a soldier stopped him: "The officer wait a moment, listen to my brother."

"Why, you still want to stop us?" Wu Xianxian stared strangely, with a fierce light flickering inside.

"How dare, what kind of friendship do we brothers have?" The man was a little embarrassed: "According to the military system, if you run away with weapons, that is rebellion, and if you catch them, you will be beheaded, and the deserter's team will also be implicated. Brother Ang, What kind of friendship am I waiting for? If you want to leave, you will never stop me, and please give me the waist knife and take it back."

He started this, and the other three also stood up, surrounded Wu Xianxian, and kept bowing and clapping their hands: "Brother Ang, can you help me, you can't bear hardships, I understand that you have to find a future, but don't It made me wait."

"Okay, okay, it's useless to wait for big brother and big brother to shout affectionately on weekdays, but today is when people's hearts are seen in adversity!" Wu Constitution's face was so dark that water dripped out, there was nothing he could do.If you don't hand over your weapons today, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave.If the rest of the Beiwei army is alarmed, do you still want your life?

He could only untie the hand knife on his waist, and slammed it on the table: "Okay, can I let Grandpa go now?"

"Naturally, naturally. Brother, take care."

"You, you, all of you, what kind of brothers are you?" Wu Xianxian pointed at the four of them with trembling fingers, his teeth almost gritted with hatred.

After wandering around in boredom for a long time on the road, the bad breath in his chest finally dissipated.

He sneered in his heart: A group of ignorant idiots were really made stupid by General Wang Daosi. Military law, military law is nothing. When they leave the barracks and take off this skin, who cares.

The rules in the army are really too big, I will go crazy if I stay any longer, I'd better hang out on the street and have fun!

Just thinking about it, someone suddenly shouted: "Who?"

Wu Constitution subconsciously stood at attention: "Report, the second team of the Beiwei Army detains Wu Constitution..."

At this time, he realized that he was being interrogated by the guards before returning to Sizhou Yingyuan Gate.

It's a long way from the city to here, I'm not going to run away, why did I turn back.

No, no, I must be haunted, could it be... Could it be that Wang Daosi has spells... Impossible, impossible...

The guard at the gate was about to ask again, when a loud voice came: "You are Wu Constitution. I heard Yue Yun said that you are in good physical condition, excellent military quality, and literate. Not bad, not bad."

I saw Wang Shen and two followers walking over.

Seeing Wang Shen's friendly face, even though he had a lot of resentment towards the officer's language when talking with the soldiers in private.But at this time, with the approval of General Wang, Wu Xianxian became hot all over, straightened his body and said loudly: "The general is absurd, my subordinates are still far from qualified military personnel."

"Very good, very good." Wang Shen nodded and smiled: "Officer Wu, do your job well and don't let General Yue Yun down."

After Wang Shen left for a long time, the excited Wu Xianxian calmed down.After returning to the dormitory, he murmured: "It's really inexplicable, it's really inexplicable, I can't help myself if I just say a word, demon method, Wang Daosi must have used some demon method."

The four soldiers who entered the city with him had already returned, and Wu Xianxian had a strange expression on his face.

Wu Xianxian was ashamed and angry, and said angrily: "I can't bear to let you brothers, I can't bear to bear three meals a day, okay?"

In anger, he stepped on Wu Tuo's quilt, leaving a black footprint on it.

On the playground outside, a group of soldiers ran in circles neatly shouting chant, Wu Tuo was among them, his whole body was full of white air.

"Is this guy a ox? You're not tired after such a toss, and you don't even take vacations?"

"My surname is Wu, grandpa is very unhappy today, and I will have some delicious fruits for you later!" Wu Xianxian's eyes were full of green light: "Wait another half a month, half a month later, next time I am on vacation, I must run away. "

(End of this chapter)