Poor Family - v2 Chapter 1034

  Chapter 1034 God-given opportunity

After many years, Li Yanqing once again returned to his hometown, but his hometown has long been changed beyond recognition. The former small village has long since collapsed, and only some foundation rubble shows that this was once a village. Even Lushan Town has been turned into ruins, only a few dilapidated buildings of the former Lushan Academy are left standing on the hills.

  The roads in the village no longer existed, and weeds half a person’s height were growing everywhere. The soldiers had to open a road before Li Yanqing came to his old house.

The old house has long been in ruins, and the childhood memories can no longer find sustenance. Li Yanqing walked through the ruins to a piece of grass behind. The traces are gone.

  Yue Fei pointed to a poplar tree, which he had planted back then, and it was next to Li Yanqing’s mother’s cemetery, a mark left for future tomb searching.

At this time, the poplar tree has become a towering tree, its root system has already reached into the cemetery, Li Yanqing sighed, knelt down in front of the poplar tree, placed sacrifices and incense burners, Li Yanqing lit the incense candles and yellow paper, and He kowtowed three times to his mother’s undead before standing up.

   “Du Shuai, do you want to build a wall to enclose this place, and then send troops to garrison?” Cao Meng suggested in a low voice.

  Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and said: “It can be like this, but this matter is left to the local officials, and the army will leave it alone.”

The army then set off to continue northward, and arrived at Tangyin County not long after. It was close to Tangyin County, and finally gained a little popularity. Within ten miles of the siege, there were wheat fields. Several foot shops and eateries.

  The army did not enter the city, and the county magistrate took several officials including the county magistrate out of the city to meet the arrival of the regent Wang Jianguo.

   “Your Majesty Wu Gan pays homage to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent!”

  Li Yanqing did not make things difficult for the Tangyin County parent official. The population of Tangyin County has not decreased, which means that the people from all over the country have fled to the county, which means that the county magistrate is still relatively close to the people.

   “Magistrate Wu, please stand up!”

  Li Yanqing politely asked him to stand up, which made several officials feel a little relieved, at least His Royal Highness the Regent did not order the soldiers to push him down and behead him.

  County magistrate Wu Gan hurriedly said again: “Your Highness, please go to the city to rest!”

   “No need, the army will continue to go north, you maintain order yourself.”

   “Your officer obeys!”

  Li Yanqing turned his head and ordered: “The army continues to go north!”

  The 200,000-strong army continued to march northward. At this moment, a soldier ran to County Magistrate Wu and said, “His Royal Highness the Regent has a private matter to ask the county magistrate to help.”

  Several officials looked at each other in blank dismay, and there was such a good thing, Magistrate Wu hurriedly said: “Just order!”

Two soldiers put a box of silver in front of the county magistrate, and said personally: “The tomb of His Highness the Regent’s mother is just south of Lushan Town. I will take the county magistrate there. The thousand taels of silver are used to repair the tomb, and another The cemetery watcher, the regent will bear all kinds of expenses in the future, just ask the county magistrate to protect the cemetery.”

  The county magistrate repeatedly agreed, “I will definitely handle this matter well and never disappoint His Royal Highness the Prince Regent.”

  The soldier smiled and said, “If the county magistrate has time, let’s go and have a look now.”

   “Okay! I’ll take a few yamen servants with me.”

   Not long after, the county magistrate and county magistrate took a dozen government servants and tomb repair craftsmen, divided into two mule carts, and followed the soldiers towards Lushan Town.

About fifty miles away from Tangyin County, Li Yanqing received an urgent report from the scouts. This scout was led by Li Zhen. There were 500 scouts active in various parts of Hebei. After an army went north, the scouts rushed to Xiangzhou to report to Li Yanqing in the form of relay express.

  This news made Li Yanqing immediately realize that there was internal strife among the Jin soldiers.

  At the same time, Wang Gui and Wu Jie of Hejian Mansion were ordered to turn around and intercept the Jin soldiers going north.

  The 40,000 army led by Cao Meng is not all cavalry, but includes 30,000 cavalry and 10,000 special soldiers. The special soldiers refer to 5,000 heavy armored infantry and 5,000 musketeers.

   Just after Cao Meng’s army marched north, Li Yanqing led the other 160,000 troops to also speed up, preparing to intercept some of the golden soldiers behind.

At this time, Wang Gui’s 50,000 troops had just arrived at Hejian Mansion, while Wu Jie’s 30,000 troops arrived two days earlier than Wang Gui’s. Under the threat, eight thousand Hebei troops surrendered in Kaicheng, allowing Song soldiers to occupy Hejian Mansion without bloodshed. Occupying Hejian Mansion did not cut off the Jin Bing’s road to the north, and the Jin Bing could still take a detour.

  But the Song Army has a logistics center. The large amount of grain and grass materials in Hejian County gave the Song Army sufficient logistical support, and then sent more scouts to judge the route of the Jinbing northward, and basically intercepted it.

  But Wang Gui’s ambition was not here. He went north to Yanshan Mansion wholeheartedly. On the night when Hejian Mansion was captured, the Song Army, who had rested for half a day, was about to break out of camp and set off.

   At this moment, Wu Jie urgently sent someone to stop Wang Gui.

   “What else does Wu Dutong want from me?”

  Wang Gui was a little impatient, he was about to whip his horse northward, but Wu Jie sent someone to stop him.

   “The humble official is also clear. Wu Dutong said that there is a very important military situation. He will be there soon. Please wait a moment, general.”

   “Tell him to come quickly, I don’t have time to wait for him.”

  At this time, Wu Jie came galloping on horseback, “Wang Dutong, I can’t go north for the time being.”

   “Why?” Wang Gui asked dissatisfied.

  Wu Jie raised a piece of information in Yang’s hand, “The information I just received shows that a Jin army of about 30,000 people is heading north from the Daming Mansion. Please be sure to stay with me and intercept it with me.”

Wang Gui is a seasoned veteran. Although he really wants to go to Yanshan Mansion, it doesn’t mean he is a general who doesn’t know his priorities. Of course he knows what it means for Jin Bing to go north. He immediately jumped off his horse and stepped forward to meet him. After passing the information, open it under a torch for a closer look.

   According to intelligence reports, about 30,000 cavalry troops have left Daming Mansion and headed north, and there are quite a lot of Khitan and Xi people in the army.

   “Is this the split of Jin Bing?” Wang Gui asked in surprise.

   Wu Jie nodded, “I don’t know the details, but it is definitely not a good decision to divide the troops at this time. This will give the Song army a chance to defeat each one.”

Wang Gui pondered for a moment. The cavalry would go northward to Hejian Mansion for about five days. Now that they received the information, even if they used flying pigeons to send the message, it would take at least two or three days. The military order to intercept the enemy should be on the way.

  Thinking of this, Wang Gui turned his head and ordered: “Cancel the northward march, and all soldiers return to the barracks immediately.”

  Wang Gui made a major decision to suspend going to Yanshan Mansion and stay in Hejian Mansion to intercept 30,000 Jin soldiers going north.

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In the big tent of the military camp, Wang Gui unfolded a map and studied with Wu Jie the northward route of Jin Bing. Although Hebei is a large plain, it is not possible to run casually. There is no bridge to cross the river, and the army needs food and grass supplies, so the Jin soldiers must go to a slightly densely populated place.

Generally speaking, there are two official marching routes in Hebei, one is the east route, going north from Daming Mansion, passing through Hejian Mansion and Xiongzhou to enter Yanshan Mansion, and the other is the west route, going north from Xiangzhou and Zhaozhou, passing through Zhending Mansion Enter Yanshan Mansion.

  Obviously, this Jin army must have gone northward on the eastern front, and they may not have known the news of the fall of Hejian County.

  Wu Jie pointed to the county roads along the route on the map: “The official warehouses along the way have already been looted by Gao Qingyi, and the supply of 30,000 horses cannot be guaranteed by looting the people, so the target of the Jinbing must still be Hejian County.”

   “Then what do you mean?”

  Wu Jie pointed to Hejian County, “Trap the Jin soldiers in the county!”

Wang Gui took a few steps with his hands behind his back. If he wanted to trap the Jin soldiers in the county, he would first evacuate the 80,000 people in the city, and then remove the grain and grass. Soldiers, to lure them into being fooled, all links must be linked together, and the slightest negligence will be seen through by Jin Bing.

But then again, the 80,000 Song army really can’t stop the 30,000 Jin soldiers. If the Jin soldiers want to fight decisively, the Song army will suffer heavy casualties. If the Jin soldiers ignore the Song army and bypass the Hejian Mansion directly, they will not be able to catch up. .

   After much deliberation, they can only use the only weakness of Jinbing’s insufficient supplies to lure them into Hejian County. If the strategy fails, they can only be intercepted by force.

  Thinking of this, Wang Gui nodded, “Time is running out, we will start to arrange it immediately!”

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