Although Cheng Zhijie was not very reliable before and his abilities were ordinary, he had always been a person with lofty ideals. As a general, his lofty ideals were to fight on the battlefield and expand territory for the emperor.

Of course, the ideal of expanding territory is too high. At the very least, the situation where the national gates are guarded and the enemy is defended in front of the formation.

He has been waiting for this dream for thirty years.

But what made him desperate was that as he got older, he saw his abilities more and more clearly. The only martial arts that he could show was not very outstanding in the army. At least after contacting Li Kui, he really found that he was so humble, but it didn't matter. Li Kui could do it. Cheng Zhijie, who didn't know what shame was, decisively hugged his thighs.

I have to say that he really hugged him.

On the horse, he got up at the third o'clock in the morning, carefully looked over his whole body, dipped his armor with vinegar and polished the floor and shine, and even his beard on his chin was carefully trimmed. Cheng Zhijie, who was riding on a tall horse, looked radiant, but he didn't look like he was going to fight. Instead, he had the glory of attending a banquet in the capital.

"Hareman, a long-cherished wish for many years is finally coming true today. Don't worry, I will listen to you when you leave the city. If you let me go east, I will go east. If you let me go west, I will go west." Cheng Zhijie is different from those arrogant and arrogant people. Facing a helper with real skills, he let go without caring about his figure.

Hu Yan, the subordinate next to him, almost rolled his eyes in his breath and lamented in his heart: "Is this guy actually a general? What's even more unlucky is that this guy is still the boss of this general!"

He is really a general. Cheng Zhijie has a high official rank and is now the third-rank General Yunhui and Commander. If he makes great contributions this time, there will be hopelessness to be promoted to the deputy commander.

Unlike other relatives, few relatives are willing to go to the frontier to make military achievements. As royal relatives, although the relatives of the royal relatives cannot compare with the royal relatives, if they want to be promoted and make money, they just need to live a life of drunkenness and death in the capital. The Gao brothers used this method to win most of the generals. Everything has advantages and disadvantages. It is easy to win official positions, but once they fall out of favor, they will be unlucky and beat thousands of people. Anyone can bully them.

The military achievements fought on the battlefield will not become dim even if they lose the emperor's favor, but will be even brighter.

The biggest reason why relatives of foreigners do not like to join the army to go to the battlefield is that they have no confidence in themselves.

The same is true for Cheng Zhijie. He has no confidence in himself, but he has confidence in Li Kui.

This is enough.

It was already afternoon when I left the city and marched to two houses.

Cheng Zhijie looked at Li Kui. He was very excited when he first left the city and said a lot, but as he spoke, his mouth became dry and his voice was a little hoarse, but he was still in high spirits: "My brother, are you still marching today?"

She is a marching unit and has appeared in military books since the pre-Qin period. The distance between one shed is thirty miles, and two sheds is sixty miles.

For the Song army, marching for sixty miles was already a very good distance.

Li Kui looked at the sky and nodded, "I would like to ask my brother to issue a military order to camp. I won't leave today. Also, we need to wait for someone."

"Don't worry, Renjie, Zhang Chuan is smart, he won't have any trouble." Then, Cheng Zhijie ordered Hu Yanzhuo: "Order the army to set up camp and set up fires to cook."

Hu Yanzhuo still didn't believe that Li Kui could use infantry to kill twice his enemy with a few muskets.

However, he could not refute the headline brought by Li Kui. He couldn't wait to write the secret letter, and the Xuanfu envoy Lu Huiqing wrote the memorial and sent it to the capital. Calculate the day, this memorial of the front-line victory will be sent to the court, and there will be no objection in the court.

Hu Yanzhuo was not a civil official, but he also knew that in a situation where the situation was very unfavorable to the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty needed a big victory to cover up the unfavorable situation of the front-line war.

The offering of prisoners in Taimiao is undoubtedly the best way to embellish the peace.

Thinking that Li Kui was always proud of himself in front of him, and even looked down on others with contempt, Hu Yanzhuo felt so angry that he felt sore. But there was no way. Li Kui had a backstage, ability, and noble Jinshi, and could suppress him almost any aspect so that he could not suffocate.

Speaking of which, Hu Yanzhuo didn't want to step on Li Kui to be happy. He just wanted Li Kui to know that men are not a mud, and the Hu Yan family's people are always in a good way to fight on the battlefield.

Unfortunately, the moment Cheng Zhijie handed over command of Li Kui, Hu Yanzhuo knew that he was amazed Li Kui on the battlefield, and even had no chance to accept him.

If you defeat the Dangxiang people, it was Li Kui's command and dispatch.

If he lost the battle, Hu Yanzhuo would not want to see Li Kui even if he didn't like him. Besides, if he really failed, Hu Yanzhuo probably would have to take the blame in the end.

Dada dada--

The iron hooves of the war horses pulled the earth and came whistling from a distance. This made Cheng Zhijie nervous. He would not have met Dangxiang people the day before, right?

The stove has just been heated, but I haven’t eaten a bite of the hot rice yet?

Fortunately, he seemed to be his own people, which made him feel much more relieved.

"Sir, I'm lucky to be humble and my destiny."

Less than half a month later, when I saw Zhang Chuan again, the memory of the elegant major general was blurred, and then replaced by a dusty face. The moment I raised my head, my eyes were red, and it was obvious that I had no rest.

Cheng Zhijie was so proud that he said to Zhang Chuan: "In the future, the military will be fully handled by the military supervisor. If you have any military information, please report it to him?"

"It's the general."

"Sir, Jinming Village is still in the hands of my Song Dynasty."

Zhang Chuan knelt on one knee, hunched his back, but there was no such a curled up feeling at all. Instead, he gave people a feeling of sharpness. The young master disappeared, and turned into a decisive general on the battlefield.

The moment he raised his face, the red scar on Zhang Chuan's face surprised Hu Yanzhuo: "Zhang Chuan, are you injured?"

"It's nothing, I was blown by the Dangxiangren's sword." Zhang Chuan's breathing lightly seemed to be stumbled and relaxed, but as a disciple of the general, Hu Yanzhuo knew the danger of this scar. If the Dangxiangren's sword was getting one inch, Zhang Chuan would be seriously injured. It would be impossible to even die on the spot.

Li Kui sat next to the fire and asked Zhang Chuan to get up and speak: "Zhang Chuan, tell me the situation."

"What the Dangxiang people are strange about is that the siege of the previous few days suddenly became messy. It must be the day before I came to ask for help after leaving Jinming Village. However, when our cavalry appeared, the Dangxiang people's attack became more and more stable, at least they would not be defeated at any time. Now the situation in Jinming Village is very bad, and there is a danger of falling anytime and anywhere."

Speaking of this, Zhang Chuan couldn't help but grit his teeth and worry. He hated himself and could not restrain more of the energy of the Dangxiang army.

Otherwise, the pressure on Jinmingzhai would not be so great.

Li Kui fiddled with the bonfire, and the sparks rose into the air with the heat, which looked very beautiful: "Now your mission has been completed. At most two days, our army will reach the periphery of Jinming Village. At that time, the pressure of Jinming Village's siege will be greatly reduced. Now my only worry is whether it will snow this day."

"snow?"

Zhang Chuan didn't think that snow would delay Song Jun's rescue, but he hesitated when he saw Li Kui's solemn expression.

Could it be?

After throwing away the mixed thoughts in my head, Zhang Chuan said loudly: "Renjie, I grew up in the northwest since I was a child. The weather will not snow this time, and it will not be possible for at least three or five days. Don't worry."

"Okay, with you, I can at least feel relieved." Li Kui was worried about snowing because the artillery was basically a waste lump in rainy and snowy weather. If it was rescued on a snowy day, Li Kui was worried that the casualties would be so unbearable that he could not bear it, and even a crushing defeat would be inevitable.

Fortunately, Zhang Chuan's experience made him at least relieved of a lot of worries in his heart.

Li Kui comforted: "Zhang Chuan, you and your people prepare for it and go to the city to repair it. After three days, the repair is almost done, and then go out of the city to look for fighter opportunities. This is not possible for you. Even if you don't want to rest, your soldiers need to rest."

The soldiers' physical strength is strong and weak, and after overdrawing their physical strength a little, the combat effectiveness of the army will be greatly reduced.

When Li Kui saw Zhang Chuan's blood-filled white eyes, he knew that Zhang Chuan had not had a good rest. He was worried that the thousand cavalry commanded by Zhang Chuan would be destroyed. Seeing Zhang Chuan's appearance, Hu Yanzhuo thoughtfully and leaned over and said, "Sir, I can also command the cavalry."

Unlike other children from the Song Dynasty who came out of the sect, most of them were good infantry commanders, but the Huyan family was a few cavalry generals. Since Emperor Gaozu Hu Yanzhuo, the Huyan family has a complete set of secrets for training cavalry and cavalry warfare. Since Hu Yanzhuo joined the army, he could only hang out among the infantry and was quite unwilling to accept it.

At this time, Mao recommended himself, so he naturally realized that Zhang Chuan was already at the end of his strength and wanted to replace him.

Besides, the army commanded by Zhang Chuan is the imperial guards directly under the palace, and Zhang Chuan is considered a general of the Western Army. If no one was available, it would be impossible for Zhang Chuan to come to command.

But Li Kui Duan Ran refused, "No, your task is to build a camp with eight hundred large chariots I asked for from Lu Gong after the Dangxiang Army appeared, before the other party launched an attack, so as to protect our infantry from the frontal attack of the Dangxiang cavalry."

Seeing that Hu Yanzhuo was still thinking about his cavalry at this time, Zhang Chuan became anxious and stood up and said, "Sir, I can still withstand it."

"No, rest is necessary. Your current situation is very bad. Li Yun's cavalry came back first, and the army avoided the main force of the Dangxiang people, but only raided. Although the casualties were not large, the soldiers were exhausted. If they continued to stay on the battlefield, if there was a tough battle, wouldn't they be defeated at once?"

Li Kui wasn't really willing to let these two thousand cavalry return to the city, mainly because he didn't have to rest, people could not stand it or horses could not stand it.

Then Zhang Chuan had no choice but to slowly head towards Fushicheng with his cavalry.

Hu Yanzhuo was still following Li Kui, promoting himself as a rare general of the horse army in the Song Dynasty and the infantry general who could not let him go. But Li Kui suddenly turned around and stared at Hu Yanzhuo and said, "Zhang Chuan wanted to fight to the death for his own father, so why are you?"

Hu Yanzhuo's mouth was clumsy, and he didn't know how to answer Li Kui for a while.

That night, the weather was getting colder and colder in the wilderness of Yan'an Prefecture, and I could hear the yelling of wolves in the middle of the night.

In Tokyo, the atmosphere in the temple seemed to be very wrong. Since the war broke out in the northwest, the people in the Privy Council were stunned. The result of the discussion between the Dushitang and the Privy Council was that Hehuang was the first to be in Hehuang and then Xixia. After all, Xixia had fought with the Song Dynasty for fifty years, and both sides had their own victory or defeat. In terms of the number of victories, the Song Dynasty occupied it. According to the results of the battle, Xixia occupied it. Qingtang Tubo in Hehuang had been destroyed once by the Song army, and the Song army had an absolute advantage over Qingtang Tubo.

Overall, the Song Dynasty’s understanding of the Western Xia was that it was only possible to slowly pursue it and eat it a little bit.

It is impossible to force Xixia to surrender with one victory after another, or even destroy Xixia in one fell swoop. So it was impossible to conquer Hehuang again and destroy Qingtang Tubo. The strategy of the Privy Council also started with targeting Hehuang. Liu Yannian's 30,000 elite troops were deployed on Qinfeng Road, and this army was the only mobile force that the Song Dynasty could use in the northwest.

But unexpectedly, the Tubo in Qingtang City was not defeated. Instead, the Dangxiang people in Xixia could not bear it anymore and actually used their national forces to invade the border border borders borders between the Song Dynasty and Xixia.

The three routes were besieged by the Xixia army and the situation was in jeopardy.

Even though Li Qingchen didn't want to be the Privy Councilor, he had to eat and live in the imperial city while the frontier was unfavorable, and he was frowning all day long.

I have put forward a lot of opinions, but there is only one opinion: increase troops, increase troops, and then increase troops.

But the problem is that the imperial guards in the Song Dynasty, the area in Zhending could not move, and even if these imperial guards were pulled down to the northwest, they would probably not be able to defeat the Dangxiang people. The imperial guards in other areas of the Song Dynasty were not as good as they were. It was at this time that Li Kui, who was driven out of the capital because he disgusted Queen Mother Xiang, sent a good news from the northwest.

No matter how strict the selection of the imperial guards in front of the palace was, Li Qingchen was still inferior to the Western Army. This evaluation was not made by him, but by the boss of the Dushitang, which Prime Minister Zhang Dun told him.

Li Qingchen had no experience in leading troops and had never been to the battlefield. However, Zhang Dun had, and probably no official in the court was more familiar with the strength of the imperial guards in the Central Plains than Zhang Dun.

"It's not as good as the Western Army!"

It was these four words that Li Qingchen couldn't believe that Li Kui could almost wipe out the three thousand cavalrymen of the Dangxiang people with more than a thousand people in his hands. This was no longer a lie about military information, but a fool!

When Li Qingchen thought of Li Kui, he felt so angry that he had toothache: I can't ask for this student anymore.

He seized the report sent by Lu Huiqing, and Zhang Dun suggested that the emperor seize Hao Sui's memorial. It was obviously a big victory, but there was a tense atmosphere in the capital that the scandal was about to be revealed.

At this time, rumors of Li Qingchen deliberately suppressing the soldiers of the border army were circulated in the streets and alleys of the capital. This frightened Li Qingchen. The high-ranking officials of the Song Dynasty used the method of splashing dirty water as the simplest and most crude method. Moreover, it was tried and done repeatedly and was very useful. When Li Qingchen thought about it, he suspected that he had gotten into someone, Zeng Bu.

However, Li Qingchen was in a panic at this time and didn't bother with Zeng Bu at all. He went to the emperor to confess his innocence first.

"Your Majesty, I still insist that the prisoners did not come to the capital and must not push this matter to court. Once the news is wrong, it is nothing to be criticized, but your Majesty must not be criticized. In my opinion, this matter will be suppressed. In the future, arrange for the imperial envoy to go to the northwest and bring the news back in its original form, which will naturally be solved."

Li Qingchen insisted on suppressing this matter.

Although Zhang Dun was the prime minister, he was not allowed to inquire about military affairs without authorization. He was silent on the side, but at this moment, Yang Wei entered the hall with a memorial, with a strange expression: "Your Majesty, everyone, Fuyan Road decided to rescue Jinming Village and sent 5,000 infantrymen. At this time, these 5,000 troops had already left the city and would fight a decisive battle with the 50,000 Dangxiang people within one or two days at the latest."

Five thousand to five thousand.

According to the poor record of the Song Dynasty, this is a disaster of immortals.

The war cannot be carried by gods, and Lu Huiqing actually dared to send reinforcements in such an unfavorable situation. This is clearly a way to send armour to the Dangxiang people!
To be continued...