This Northern Song Dynasty is a bit weird

Chapter 137 Ashamed to be in the company of cowards like you
The Song Army came to the city of Xingqing Mansion again, which made the Xixia people feel extremely embarrassed.

It had always been Xixia who oppressed and humiliated Zhao Song, but now within a year, Zhao Song's army attacked the capital twice in a row.

The little emperor, who was less than three years old, was sitting on the dragon chair, like a puppet, barely moving.

Minister Wuzang stood on the left side of the dragon chair, looked at the courtiers below, and said in a dark tone: "You all said that Zhao Song couldn't beat my Dabai Gao Kingdom, but now, they are under the city again. , but on our side, there are no brave men who dare to go out of the city to fight!"

All the officials in the court hall looked embarrassed.

If they are marching in the field, the Xixia Kingdom, which has the advantage of cavalry, will naturally dare to confront the Song army. As long as the place is large and wide enough, the cavalry will be invincible under the advantage of mobility.

But the situation of the siege battle did not change... The opponent's army had already merged, and there were a large number of refusal horses and horse traps around them.

No matter how powerful the heavy cavalry and iron kites are, they dare not attack the large-scale infantry group that is already in formation.

Only in the magical world is it possible for elite heavy cavalry to pierce through the entire large-scale infantry line after charging.

In the real world, the effect of force is mutual. When a heavy cavalry rushes into an infantry formation, it is almost like being stuck in a quagmire. It is considered powerful if it can walk an extra ten meters.

Therefore, as long as it is a positional battle, without the cooperation of a large number of infantry, the Xixia cavalry dare not mess around.

There was no meeting and no one spoke, and the beard and beard were trembling with anger.

At this time, an official from the Song Dynasty stood up and said: "Minister Guo, as far as I know, the dog emperor of Zhao Song Dynasty has already used gold medals to urge the army to return. As long as we hold on to the city for a little longer, we will surely win. "

"You don't need to tell me about this, I already knew about it." Minister Wuzang snorted and said, "It's nonsense, I understand when Gao Guo met Song Dog and had to wait for them to retreat by themselves? Destroy the morale of my army and put him away." Drag it out, thirty sticks."

Hearing this, the Song man who spoke just now became anxious, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed and begged loudly: "President Guo, please forgive me, the villain is loyal, please forgive me, I am willing to fight the enemy bravely for the Dabaigao Kingdom, and now I will kill you!" Go, please spare my life..."

Until the man was dragged out of the hall, the Prime Minister of Tibet did not change his mind.

It's no wonder that Song people cried so miserably when they were demoted to officials. Thirty sticks are fatal. Even if they survived by luck, they would spend the rest of their lives in bed.

The sound of Song people's demotion seemed to still echo in the hall, all the officials lowered their heads, even the little emperor on the dragon chair subconsciously looked down.

After killing a man with a stick, Wuzang Guomin seems to have calmed down a lot. He said slowly: "The Song army is coming in menacingly, but it is almost cold winter. As long as we stick to it for a longer time, they will definitely return to defense. This time it is still the same." With Wuzang Suer in charge of the defense, who has any objections?"

In this case, who dares to have an opinion.

The general who surrendered before clearly did not say anything wrong, but he was dragged out and shot with a stick, that's why idiots speak out at such a time.

Some did not have the order of the Prime Minister of Tibet, and the entire Xingqing Mansion was mobilized, and a large number of soldiers were placed on the city wall.

After going down to court, the Empress Dowager Wuzang went directly to the Prime Minister of Wuzang, and asked, "Brother, why don't we withdraw one after another, Xingqing Mansion may not be able to hold this time, according to Su'er's nephew, the people from Song Dynasty are here." A real Lu, the utensils he made are amazing."

"We have to go." Wuzang Guoxiang snorted: "But you can't go too obviously, otherwise Xingqing Mansion won't be able to last for many days, just make preparations first."

The Empress Dowager did not hide and said with a light smile, "I understand."

Speaking of going back to Lu Sen, after the third refusal, Lu Sen said to Mu Guiying, "Jin Hua will be dispatched to my side, and I will serve you."

"Why?" Mu Guiying was a little surprised.

"I want to guard the rear and prevent the enemy from taking advantage!" Lu Sen said with a smile.

"How is it possible that we are behind..." Mu Guiying was halfway through her words, and she also realized that she was stunned for a while, then thought for a few moments, pointed to a place on the map, and said: "If the enemy circles behind me, where is the place?" It is the only way to pass, just guard here."

Lu Sen looked at the map, took notes, and left the tent with Yang Jinhua.

After half a stick of incense, a group of people quietly left the big tent and walked towards the rear.

After walking around midnight, we finally arrived at the designated pass.

It was already dawn at this time, and after Lu Sen asked Yang Jinhua to set up the defense line, he sat on the col of the pass and watched the fiery red morning glow in the sky.

Not long after, two people dressed as scholars also stumbled up, they were Wang Anshi and Zhang Zai.

Before Lu Sen left the camp, he also captured the two of them.

If they were kept on the front line, the command might be taken away again.

"Really Lu, you are so bold." Wang Anshi walked up, pointed at Lu Sen's face unhappily, and cursed: "You behave like this, you have no king, no father, no..."

Snapped!
Lu Sen slapped Wang Anshi's fingers open with a lot of force: "I'm not a Confucian scholar, don't apply Confucius to me."

Wang Anshi was in pain, and his expression was distorted while clutching his fingers. Lu Sen's attack was quite ruthless just now.

Zhang Zai immediately stepped forward and acted as a peacemaker: "You two have something to talk about, don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry."

Lu Sen squinted at Wang Anshi for a while, and said, "I don't want to quarrel with him, but that doesn't mean I can tolerate him. If there are such groundless accusations, he will directly knock out his teeth, so as not to speak badly."

"You!" Wang Anshi was furious. He has always been proud. Normally, he would not be able to hold back his anger. But for some reason, he has always felt guilty recently, especially when he was facing Lu Sen: "But everyone is like Lu Sen." If you go out like this and disobey orders, the imperial court will not dare to let famous generals take command, do you understand?"

"Heh, it doesn't make sense for a famous general to be in command." Lu Sen looked at Wang Anshi sarcastically: "The good situation was wasted by a supervising army like you, and 10,000+ soldiers were killed. It's better not to go out."

"you!"

When it came to this matter, Wang Anshi was speechless.

He tried his best to hold back his anger, and said bitterly, "Really Lu, don't be self-willed anymore, even if you block the gold medal from the capital, even if you really win the Xingqing Mansion, you will still be punished by the officials when you return to the capital." If you criticize, you will be tabooed by the officials, which is not worth it."

"At most it's just dismissal, what are you afraid of." Lu Sen said with a smile: "But taking down Xingqing Mansion will be different."

Wang Anshi sighed: "It's not necessary, even if it is defeated, it probably won't last long."

"Take down Xingqing Mansion, you can defend the northwest, and you can look east to the Liao Kingdom, forming a pincer attack on the border with the Zhong family, and you say it's useless?" Lu Sen tilted his head and looked at Wang Anshi: "Maybe you can do government affairs well." , but don’t get involved in this kind of military affairs.”

Wang Anshi took a deep breath: "Xingqing Mansion has been taken down, who dares to defend it? This is Li Yuanhao's place of dragon prosperity, let me ask you, who dares to defend it?"

"Longxing land?" Lu Sen sneered: "The land that has been conquered cannot be held for such inexplicable reasons. The Northern Song Dynasty might as well be destroyed now."

Wang Anshi was about to speak, but suddenly, he felt that something was wrong. He frowned and recalled what Lu Sen said just now, and suddenly asked, "You said the Northern Song Dynasty...could there be a Southern Song Dynasty?"

Zhang Zai next to him also trembled when he heard this.

Lu Sen sat facing the rising sun in the sky, without speaking.

"Northern Song Dynasty, Southern Song Dynasty..." Wang Anshi kept chewing these two words, and soon he turned his head to look at Lu Sen: "You are a person of cultivation, so it is not surprising that you have the skill of foresight. Tell me, do you see What's up?"

Lu Sen turned his head to look at Wang Anshi and stopped talking.

Wang Anshi walked up to Lu Sen, grabbed Lu Sen's lapel, and said angrily, "I'm asking you something, do you have the ability to see..."

Snapped!
A heavy punch hit Wang Anshi's face, blood spurted from his nose, he fell backwards and took a few steps, then screamed, holding his face with both hands, almost fell to his knees on the ground in pain.

Lu Sen withdrew his fist and said coldly, "I warned you before, don't bother me anymore."

"Jiefu, Jiefu, are you okay?" Zhang Zai immediately ran to Wang Anshi's side and helped Wang Anshi smooth his back, as if he wanted to use this method to relieve his pain.

Lu Sen continued to sit on the col and watch the sunrise.

Wang Anshi held his face in his hands, stared at Hui Lu Sen bitterly, and went down the mountain.

After that, Wang Anshi never met Lu Sen face to face again. When he saw Lu Sen, he turned around and avoided him.

But according to what Zhang Zai said, Wang Anshi has been chanting words like: Northern Song Dynasty...Southern Song Dynasty...such words.

Lu Sen couldn't be bothered.

However, he did have a little bit of admiration, this Wang Anshi really had a delicate heart, he just made a slip of the tongue and said an extra word that was not obvious, and he found out.

As the days passed, Lu Sen got stuck here and intercepted many 'enemies'.

There were three people who urged him to hand over the power of supervising the army, and then Mu Guiying, Zhe Jizu, and Di Qing who urged him to return to the defense, each with two gold medals.

Together with the previous three, there are already a total of twelve gold medals.

Lu Sen was playing with a gold medal. Beside him was a special envoy of the post station. He cupped his fists and said sadly, "Really Lu, please let me go. I must send the gold medal to Marshal Mu, otherwise the higher-ups will definitely will be blamed."

"Impossible, you have been arrested by me, as long as you are not an idiot Shangguan, you will understand."

"But our superior is a bit of an idiot."

Lu Sen smiled: "Then don't do it, why don't you change jobs? I'm recruiting self-motivated generals here."

"Being Lu Zhenren's family general?" The messenger was stunned for a moment, and then beamed with joy: "No problem, no problem, I will step down now, remember to have someone tie me up."

Then the messenger left happily.

Lu Sen threw away the gold medal in his hand, read the content of the edict again, and chuckled helplessly.

Sure enough, as he expected, after he refused the order, Zhongshu's subordinates turned their ideas on the general.

Lu Sen didn't dare to accept the order, he refused to give up his post of supervisor, and he refused to return to the defense. It was because Lu Sen was now a civil servant and it was difficult to handle. They knew this very well.

Because even Sima Guang said when he built the fort on the border: the general is out, and the emperor's order is not acceptable.

This general, of course, refers to the marshal who is a civil servant.

If the general is in charge, that's another way of saying it.

So when the decree and the gold medal appeared on Mu Guiying and other generals, they had no choice but to accept the order.

So this is why Lu Sen wants to set up a barrier at the rear pass to block all the gold medals and edicts until Xingqing City is breached.

Thinking about it now, more than 20 days have passed, and it is estimated that it will be soon.

With trebuchets and Guangzhao accumulators, the Marshals of the Three Routes are all true masters of war, and there are no literati to interfere with them. Lu Sen can't figure out how to lose this battle!
Thinking of this, he laughed.

At this moment, a few cavalrymen holding the Yang family flag came over. After they got off their horses, they were immediately brought to Lu Sen.

It's an acquaintance...Old Qi!

"My lord, it's not Lu Jianjun. It's a happy event. The Xingqing Mansion has been captured." Their bodies were covered in blood and dust, and their tired faces were full of joy.

Lu Sen had expected it earlier, so he was not surprised. He just stood up, went back to the tent, looked into hundreds of pairs of expectant eyes, and said with a smile, "Xingqing Mansion has been captured, and we have won."

"Long live long live!"

The soldiers roared wildly.

At this time, Wang Anshi and Zhang Zai also went out of the tent. They looked at the excited soldiers with indifferent expressions, but also full of entanglements.

Lu Sen walked over and said with a smile: "Congratulations to Wang Pingzhangshi, congratulations to Wang Pingzhangshi, as the supervisor of the army, he broke through the Xingqing Mansion, and from then on, he will be able to rise to the top."

Wang Anshi's face was almost distorted due to the strange yin and yang.

After all, Lu Sen threw one of the imperial edicts and the gold medal into Wang Anshi's hands: "Take these things, take these soldiers as attendants, and go to Xingqing Mansion to receive the prisoners of war and appease the post-war affairs."

Wang Anshi snorted: "That is to say, I am the supervisor of the army?"

"Correct."

"Then Reverend Lu, please bind your hands, as a punishment for resisting being hit by the book door, okay?"

Seeing Wang Anshi's angry expression, Lu Sen smiled and said, "Do you want to be punched by me again?"

Wang Anshi subconsciously rubbed his nose, but he felt doubtful about making this gesture in front of Lu Sen, so he sneered, and led the troops away with his head held high.

Marshal Mu and others are very qualified as marshals, but they are not good at internal affairs and public security.

Therefore, the post-war affairs of Xingqing Mansion had to involve Wang Anshi and Zhang Zai.

Lu Sen looked at Yang Jinhua and several veterans of the Yang family, smiled, and said, "Let's go too."

More than ten days later, under the swift delivery of the courier, the news of the destruction of Xingqing's mansion was reported back to Bianjing City.

At the same time, Marshal Mu and Marshal Di Qing have returned triumphantly, while Xingqing Mansion is temporarily managed by Wang Anshi and Zhang Zai.

Xingqing Mansion is in the hands of civil servants... That's good.

Hearing this, both the officials and the civil and military officials were all relieved.

After all the gold medal special envoys went out, they disappeared without a trace, and no news came back. This really frightened them.

I'm really afraid that Master Lu is in the north, already dressed in imperial robes.

At this time, the official surnamed Li jumped out again, crying: "The fact that the gold medal special envoy has no news must be caused by Lu Zhenren, and there is no news about him now. This matter is extremely suspicious!"

All civil and military officials in the court frowned.

At this time, the Runan County King stood up, holding a small wooden box in his hand.

He hadn't gone to court for more than a month before.

Zhao Zhen asked, "King Runan County, what's in your box?"

"Realist Lu's official robe, official seal, real estate documents, and letter of resignation."

"What!" Zhao Zhen stood up abruptly.

The King of Runan County picked up a blank sheet of paper, and said with a smile, "Shame on being with cowards like you. Just this sentence."

In many cases, the less words, the bigger the matter.

After reading, King Runan shook the white paper in his hand and put it back in the box.

Zhao Zhen sat back on the dragon chair with a gloomy expression.

And the expressions of the civil and military officials all looked strange.

It was very early today, and a group of imperial guards rushed out of the palace and went to the dwarf mountain... Then, in the surrounding forest, there was only a flat foundation.

No more square buildings, no more gardens in the forest.

Master Lu left and disappeared... The news quickly spread all over the country.

　PS: Originally, I wanted to write more about this turning point in order to create a better atmosphere.But many friends don't like it, so forget it, just step on the accelerator and pull it over.The plot of the first volume is over, and in the next volume two, Master Lu will start to change the Great Song Dynasty according to his own ideas.

　　
　
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