This means that in order to preserve as much vitality as possible, the Hezhong Basin (Yuncheng Basin) was completely abandoned and the Linfen Basin was retracted.

Of course the generals below also agreed, but no one objected. They just made a loud noise and then left each other.

"Sa Li drink!"

At this moment, Balisu suddenly stopped one of them. "Where are you going?"

The other generals turned back one after another.

Having just returned to the military camp, Sa Lihe, who was in a mess, was startled for a moment. He quickly became cautious and handed over his hands solemnly: "Commander, I will supervise the construction of the pontoon bridge and support the headquarters..."

"Go to Ma Wu!" Sa Lihe turned to look at a silent general, who turned out to be Yelu Ma Wu, a Khitan citizen. "That's your headquarters too."

Yelv Mawu, who had been standing there silently, slightly cupped his hands, then immediately turned around and left the camp. After looking at Sa Lihe, who was obviously in a panic, no one dared to openly wait to see a person.

Wanhu's jokes all followed Ma Wu out of the camp to get busy.

Sa Lihe, on the other hand, was at a loss for a moment and stood there, not daring to move, especially when the others left and suddenly only Ba Lisu and his bodyguards were left in the tent.

"Salihe." Ba Lisu took a deep breath. "You were defeated at the hands of Han Shizhong, and everyone said that he destroyed the partial army and backed the Wei army in front of them. Even if you think about it, you can't lie... Then you lost

I don’t blame you, but I would like to say that if it weren’t for my oversight and thought that Han Shizhong was still locked up, you wouldn’t have suffered such a defeat..."

Sa Lihe felt relieved for a moment, but knew that he could not offend the other party at this time, so he quickly blamed himself: "After all, it was me who lost. Han Shizhong is so cunning, how can it be Dutong's fault?"

"The battlefield is intersecting, and there is nothing to say if someone has a better chess, let alone the number one general of the Southerners?" Ba Lisu nodded, but continued to look at each other solemnly. "It's just Sa Lihe, why did your army of thousands of cavalry collapse?

, you actually arrived here first? So that we didn’t know the details of the Song army’s strength, forcing us to retreat and abandon Hezhong Mansion?”

Sa Lihe pursed his lips and explained seriously: "So that the capital will know that the former army was defeated at that time, and Han Shizhong's two elite troops were present, as well as at least one other troops. It would be useless to force another battle.

Instead of continuing to face the enemy, it is better for the strong men to cut off their arms and try to save the entire army... Therefore, the last general directly ordered the army to retreat."

Ba Lisu nodded and asked again: "But what happened to the Grand Master's slave? Why did several officers say that the Khitan's plan to defeat the Grand Master's slave noticed something was wrong and repeatedly told him, but you just didn't believe it, so that it was delayed

Got a fighter plane?"

Sa Lihe finally fell silent, and after a long while he had no choice but to say: "Du Tong, at that time I really couldn't believe that Han Shizhong was on the other side."

"It's human nature." Ba Lisu nodded again. "But it is already known to everyone that the Grand Master's slave has asked you for advice several times. Why didn't you deal with it after you came back? Or kill him to avoid future troubles.

Or promote him to show his correction? Instead, ignore it, so that this person will shake the morale of the army for nothing?"

Sa Lihe was finally stunned, but he suddenly realized what he was doing. He hurriedly handed over his hands and left, going to look for the Grand Master's slave.

But as soon as the people left, Ba Lisu sighed in the tent for a while, and then turned his eyes towards the back tent after a while.

In the back tent, there was a person who had been waiting for a long time. When he saw Ba Lishu looking over, he immediately turned out... it was none other than the slave of the Khitan Muke Taishi.

"Dutong."

The master's slave was obviously cautious.

"Ever since Yaoshan was beaten to tears by Wu Jie in the first battle, Sa Lihe has become more and more bastard." Ba Lisu sighed and sighed like this in the audience. "But Taishinu, you were also in the Liao Kingdom back then.

Those who hang around outside should know my helplessness... After all, his surname is Wanyan, and he and Wanyan Benjian both grew up in Taizu's tent. Three... two princes are in power, how can I deal with it? "

"The last general knows the difficulties of unifying the capital." Taishinu responded with his hand.

"So, if you want to prevent what happened today from happening again and avenge Yelu Yizhen, you have only one way." Balisu cheered up and faced him seriously. "That is to get past people like Sa Lihe, and also get past people like Sa Lihe.

I will serve you before the person who can really make the decision...I will give you a marching silver medal. You will go north immediately to meet King Wushu of Wei at Jingxing. Don't hide anything about the situation of this battle, just tell him everything! Then!

Tell King Wei again that Sa Lihe wants to kill you, and you are loyal to Dajin and don't want to betray him, so you directly risked your life and begged me. I saw your sincerity, so I gave you this silver medal to find him.

I hope I can stay with him as a staff officer, and I also ask him to take advantage of the situation and seriously consider my overall strategy! Our cavalry must be concentrated and fight in the plains in order to be effective!"

"The general knows that he will definitely persuade the fourth prince to follow the general's strategy to fight the Song army." The grand master's slave took the silver medal from the guard's hand and immediately leaned over and kowtowed to show his allegiance.

"Go!" Pulling Su Nuzui signaled.

After a while, as the Grand Master's slave turned away, the tent finally gradually became quiet, but Bali Su was silent for a long time.

At dawn.

The melee ended... Han Shizhong had already achieved his set goal before he even reached the south of Tieling Pass.

The only two ten thousand households that the Jin army explored were one in the south and one in the north, one at Zhiguanxing and one at Zhilubu, and one on the south bank of Huishui facing the Jiangxian Passage, and they retreated at the same time overnight.

Soon, as the Song army moved northward and the Jin army urgently increased the strength of Jiangzhou City on the other side of the Fen River, there was no doubt that the confrontation was pushed out to the Hezhong Basin (Yuncheng Basin).

The so-called thin line separates areas. If we give up this line, the fall of Hedong City is basically a matter of time.

At noon, Han Shizhong returned to Tieling Pass. After immediately re-erecting his big banner, he summarized the military situation, which was also a matter of pride... On one hand, he personally wrote a military report to Zhao Guan's family, reporting on various military situations, and on the other hand, he expressed his merits and complained;

However, he did not delay the announcement of the victory. At the same time, he passed documents to Wu Jie and sternly questioned Guo Zhen about the relevant matters.

Let’s not talk about how passive Wu Jie was and how Li Yanxian suffered again. Let’s just say that when the document and the good news were passed to the south, the land of Henan was not so easy.

The reason is very simple. After three years of peace, there was a sudden increase in labor force and the mobilization of the Northern Expedition. Problems would have arisen one after another. Moreover, with the fermentation and spread of this half month, the comprehensive mobilization of the Central Plains and Kansai regions was finally fully launched, but it triggered an unprecedented

mess.

This is of course expected, because the hasty mobilization of the Yellow River frontline caused so many problems before, let alone the current situation of nationwide mobilization?

To give a simple example, let’s talk about Monk Mahamati from the southeast.

This guy collected grain from Jingshan Temple in the autumn of this year, and as promised, he personally brought several monks from the temple to deliver it. As a result, when he got to Kaifeng Mansion, there happened to be a war in the north, and he delivered the grain outside Tokyo as agreed.

However, unexpectedly, the officials from the Ministry of Industry who were there did not accept the food at all. They only talked about the words in the document and forced the monk to send the food to the imperial cavalry stationed outside Tokyo.

That is Luoyang.

Moreover, the deadline is one month, and anyone who disobeys the order will be executed.

To put it bluntly, everyone can wake up to the fact that they encountered lazy and bad governance, that they were forcibly oppressed by evil officials, assigned the work of transporting military rations, and passively arrested the strong men.

However, the great monk is really generous. Although he woke up immediately, he saw that many monks and merchants from the southeast were being oppressed in this way. After all, he did not say who he recognized, Zhang Jiucheng, the right minister of the Ministry of Works.

I didn’t say that I was an old acquaintance with Zhang Shuxiang and his wife.

This is not to say that we should get used to these evil officials, nor is it to say that the great monk is thin-skinned and embarrassed to ask for help, but that the great monk knows very well that this kind of thing is inevitable, and the face of Zhang Jiucheng and Zhang Jun can save him

I escaped from misery with a few Jingshan Temple monks, but I couldn't stop this large-scale disguised labor assignment.

Rather than let the common people suffer this crime, it is better for monks like Jingshan Temple, who have no worries about food and clothing, to do it... Didn't the abbot say that? The temple at least has sesame oil for enema and gold rice grains for three buckets and three liters of menstruation.

So, without saying a word, he took a few monks to escort the temple's food supplies to Luoyang.

But this journey was ten times more difficult than taking a boat along the canal.

Because at this time, the entire Central Plains was mobilized. The supplies here in Luoyang were piled up like mountains. However, it was difficult to transport the rivers on the front line, so the roads were full of soldiers and civilians. Not to mention the road congestion, the key was that food was hard to find, prices soared, and shops

You can't find vegetarian food at all in China, and even if it is available, the price is astonishing... And if it's just more hard work, just eat the new rice you bring home, because you're afraid that there will be less food when you go somewhere, and you won't be able to pay the difference.

Even if he was killed by some rude military academy, it would be impossible for Zhang Shuxiang, his mother and Zhang Jiucheng to fly over to save him, right?

Fortunately, Monk Dahui is a wise man. When he saw the dangers of the obstruction of Sishuiguan, he immediately called some people who came from the southeast to form a team and turned around to the south together, from the Shaolin Temple to Luoyang.

...In this case, although the journey is much longer, you can still buy cooking cakes and sauce buns, and take them with you to make dry food.

However, even so, Monk Dahui also encountered many things that were worth recording or not worth mentioning, but were not worth mentioning.

The arrogance of the evil officials at the grassroots level who bully others, the fear of the common people about the future of war, and the treachery of merchants and monks. When it comes to "Three Officials", "Three Farewells" is not on par, but the atmosphere is really bad.

And this low civil atmosphere caused by the hasty start of the war, coupled with the confusing information just after the war, and the empty official announcement that the newspapers did not know what to write, further fueled some folk rumors... Today

It was said that Yue Fei was defeated, tomorrow it was said that Han Shizhong was victorious but was injured, the day after tomorrow it was said that a certain minister took the opportunity to embezzle a lot of grain, a certain commander robbed a beautiful official lady in Hedong, and the day after tomorrow said,

The temperature suddenly dropped in the east of the river, and winter clothes could not be sent across the river. Many people froze to death on the other side of the river.

In this regard, Monk Dahui can certainly see that many of them are nonsense, but everyone has worked so hard and has grievances, and the situation on the other side of the river is really dark. Even if he wants to explain and comfort, it is not true.

He knew how to comfort...and this personal powerlessness made the great monk himself gradually feel depressed.

However, no matter what, after more than twenty days of torture, on October 17, Monk Dahui and his Jingshan Temple branch transport team finally arrived at Mangshan, and met the troops of the Imperial Cavalry here.

, entered the civilian camp where the imperial cavalry belonged, successfully handed over the general's rations, and settled the matter.

And on this day, the great monk, who was preparing to return to the southeast, saw Han Shizhong's messenger announcing his victory in the Mang Mountain Camp flying in, and the relevant documents that were subsequently posted.

"Mage, what does this mean?"

Many civilians who had been drafted gathered under the wooden banner next to the camp gate. Although some Jinshi who accompanied the army took advantage of the situation to publicize it when they posted it there, the civilians only knew that King Han had won another battle and what exactly happened.

Those who still didn’t understand and didn’t dare to ask those Jinshi masters would naturally wait for the military officials to leave and let Monk Dahui explain it.

In the early winter, Monk Dahui wore a shabby hat and a few strong monks with their sleeves rolled up and stood under the banner beside the door. He read it about twice, but he was completely elated... Others didn't know that a person of his level of education could

But how could he not know that Han Shizhong's victory was nothing more than that. The key was to directly force the Jin army to retreat to both sides of the Fen River. The Jin army at Zhiguanxing also retreated directly. The Song army took advantage of the situation to press... It was clearly Hezhong Mansion.

It has become the treasure of the Song Dynasty.

In other words, this should be one of the strategic victories that the newspaper has always said.

After all, the Zhao Guan family's hasty Northern Expedition has paid off enough.

However, looking back, Monk Dahui wanted to explain to these people, but he was at a loss for words because he really didn't know how to explain geography and strategy to these people.

You said that Han Shizhong won the battle and made many gains. They may understand, but how can they understand that taking advantage of the situation to burn the mountains and force the Jin army to retreat is the most critical result?

So, after thinking for a long time, the monk finally gritted his teeth, waved his hand, and used his best jingle to 'explain' to the people at the bottom of the list:

"When the god's arm bow is fired, through the heavy armor, the monk's door looks very smelly leather socks!"
To be continued...