choke element

Chapter 793 Song People

Having said that, I don't know if Guo Ning made a gesture or nodded, the cavalry who had been galloping suddenly slowed down.

When the two armies separated slightly, the cavalry of the Dinghai Navy gathered in a team of dozens or hundreds of people, holding their spears high in their hands, like bushes growing out of the flat ground.

Song Jun, who was entangled with it, finally got a chance to breathe, and retreated like a tide.

Most of the soldiers of the Song army gathered behind Zhao Fang.Adhering to their long-standing habits, they paid great attention to command and overall cooperation. Even though they couldn't control the city gate at the moment, with their backs against the raging fire in the city, they formed formation again amidst the shouts of senior envoys and utilities. In an instant, the queue appeared dense again.

The soldiers in the formation were obviously unwilling to see the scattered corpses of their companions inside and outside the city gate, and many of them were furious with eagerness to try.

At this time, they heard the cavalrymen of Dinghai yelling, saying that Zhao Fang and the Jurchen conspired to trap the general of Dinghai, which triggered Dinghai's counterattack.The soldiers were all surprised, and many officers repeatedly refuted, but thinking about the strange situation of suddenly rushing to Kaifeng just now, and thinking about the cooperation of the defenders after their family entered the city, they felt that this was probably true.

That being the case, the next battle may become more and more difficult to fight. This time, it is not to fight the dog in the water, but to gnaw hard bones... No, no, it is to fight the downhill tiger head-on!
The soldiers originally felt that their allies turned against each other and everyone was resentful, but now they heard that their own family was unkind and provoked a powerful enemy. Apart from being filled with anger, they were also more confused and frustrated.

Many soldiers began to mutter secretly: Is this different from what they said before sending troops?Aren't the big shots above going to take the lives of us big-headed soldiers to death?Everyone got along well in the past two years, why is Grandpa Zhao like this?Could it be that the old man had thought about it long ago, but he only kept it from us?This is not appropriate!

Zhao Fang immediately felt the change in the atmosphere of his soldiers, but how could he send someone to refute the rumors?
Under Guo Ning's gaze, Zhao Fang stretched out his hand, trying to close the big man's burst eyes.But the whole face of the big man was smashed by the handle of the axe, the flesh on his face was rolled and sunken, and even his eyelids were torn and deformed. Zhao Fang tried several times, but it still failed, but his own palm was covered with blood.

After a while, the dead man's blood flowed down the cracks in the stone slabs, and even stained the hem of his robe, but Zhao Fang didn't notice it, and let the bright red blood slowly smear up.

Ni Yi, who was watching from the horseback, snorted twice: "You hypocritical dog official!"

Previously, there was intelligence that Zhao Fang loved soldiers like a son, and he had the demeanor of an ancient famous general.Seeing that his words are angry but suppressing himself at the moment, and his expression is abnormally compassionate, it doesn't seem fake.

The cavalry of the Ding Navy rushed into the city and charged fiercely, but the Song army's reaction was a little slow, and they did not cooperate with the defending Jin army. It can be seen that Zhao Fang's words were full of resentment, and it was not without reason.

But Guo Ning didn't sympathize with Zhao Fang at all, nor did he sympathize with the soldiers of the Song Army who suffered heavy casualties.

Guo Ning has always felt that apart from having a weird dream, he is still an ordinary warrior with limited knowledge.He has seen a lot of officials from the Dajin Kingdom, but he has never dealt with the high-ranking officials of the Song Dynasty seriously... Someone like Jia She must not look like a serious official.

So when he found out that the people of Song Dynasty and the Jurchen were standing together, he immediately became furious.He felt that this might mean that the people of Song had seen through their own plan throughout the whole process, and that they were about to cause a huge passive strategically for their own side, and they had to use thunderous means to break the situation.

But at this moment, when Guo Ning led the army into Kaifeng and saw the soldiers of the Dinghai Navy and the Song Army fighting together, and the Song Army seemed to be completely unprepared to take down the powerful enemy, he understood.

Song people don't have any long-term strategy at all. They take every step and look at it, thinking about speculation all the time; as a result, they were used by some people in Kaifeng at this moment, that's all.

In this world, the people who are officials are always the same.My family is full of meritorious deeds, and then takes the lives of my subordinates to fill in the ditch.

Back then along the boundary trench, it was clear that the black tartars were getting harder and harder to fight, and there were fewer and fewer grassland tribes on the side of Dajin.In fact, how can we destroy the people of the Tartar tribe?Those who died were all frontier soldiers!
However, a group of soldiers in the frontier died, and they did not harm the Jurchen nobles in the slightest. Occasionally there were battle results, but it was a step for the big shots.Therefore, the big shots never get tired of it, taking military adventures again and again, not caring about countless soldiers dying meaninglessly in Mobei. In order to maintain the stability of Jiehao, dozens of Hebei military states were drained of blood until the final collapse.

The officials of the Dajin Kingdom are like this, and the officials of the Song Dynasty are also virtuous.It's just that the brains of the Song people are better than the Jurchens. If they win the battle, they can write thousands of articles, blowing up a one-point victory into ten-point wisdom and martial arts, and deriving [-]% benefits in the political arena; Losing is just a matter of bad luck. Maybe some literati wrote a poem, sighing about the bones by the river and the people in the dream, in order to pass it on to future generations.

In the current situation, the thoughts of many people in Nanchao from top to bottom are nested layer by layer, and it seems difficult to understand.In fact, Guo Ning can see through it at a glance from the standpoint of a low-level warrior.

Most of Shi Miyuan and his subordinates were moved by the huge benefits provided by the Zhongdu court, and began to connive at their party members to make profits at sea, but Shi Miyuan wanted to rely on the strength of the Southern Dynasty to do something. gain direct benefits.

So he deliberately avoided Huainan, which was being continuously infiltrated by the Central Capital, and instead ordered Zhao Fang to go north with the [-] troops he had painstakingly trained in the Jinghu area.

This is of course because Zhao Fang's military training is good, and the soldiers under his command are very good at fighting; it also shows that in the eyes of Shi Xiang, the [-] soldiers are just chips that can be used for trial and error.

When Li Ting entered the city and was attacked by fire, Zhao Fang could have tried his best to fight the fire to win Guo Ning's trust, and he didn't necessarily have to be hostile to Ding Haijun.At most, he took a little risk to explain clearly to his face that although his side had the idea of ​​seizing Kaifeng, it had absolutely no intention of killing its allies.

However, the Kaifeng court was at the end of the road and intended to make a last-ditch effort, so the benefits offered by Hou Zhi were simply extremely attractive.Song Dynasty monopolizes Kaifeng?Da Song used the Kaifeng court as a puppet, and then reached out to half of the Dajin Kingdom?

If this matter is successful, no, even if it is not successful, it will bring huge benefits in the process. It will make Shi Xiang stand firmer in Lin'an, and Zhao Fang will jump into the dragon's gate!

Zhao Fang is a capable minister, but not a saint.He was attracted by this, so he half pushed and half allocated troops on the spot, intending to take down the outer city of Kaifeng and forcibly block the Ding Navy from it.

This plan is indeed very tempting. However, the battle goal of the entire army suddenly changed, the original battle plan was completely overturned, and the enemy army was regarded as a friendly army, and the friendly army was regarded as an enemy army on the spot... Is it so easy?

An experienced general like Zhao Fang must know how difficult it is, but he still did it.

Because after weighing it up, he felt that even if the major event failed, he could still pass the responsibility to some people in the Kaifeng court. Anyway, those people would die sooner or later.

And because he has [-] soldiers under his command, he is qualified and qualified to fight for that beautiful goal with the lives of the soldiers!

Now, because the Ding Navy cavalry is coming like lightning, Zhao Fang's plan has completely failed.At this moment, his compassion and resentment are real, but can the deaths and injuries of those soldiers really be attributed to Guo Ning?On the surface, he loves soldiers like children, but in fact uses them like mud and treats them like nothing. Who did it?
Guo Ning was about to swear a few more words, and cut off a few Song officers who were enough to vent his anger on the spot. Suddenly, the wind direction changed, bringing a fiery temperature.

In front of Nanxunmen Street, the fire became more intense, making the air heat up significantly.Even though they were far away from the battlefield, everyone subconsciously breathed heavily, but they still felt suffocated.

Zhao Fang raised his head and said in a deep voice: "Duke Zhou, when you came with your troops, our rear was in disarray. That's because our generals were busy collecting the water bags and water bags that the soldiers carried with them! All the people have gone to Caihe River to fetch water! Even if you don’t come, I won’t watch your soldiers die in the sea of ​​fire!”

"Oh?"

Guo Ning was a little surprised by this.He thought for a while about what he had seen when his soldiers led the way, and found that this statement was true.When several Song armies were overwhelmed by iron cavalry, they really held water bags and water bags in their hands.

interesting, interesting.Sure enough, the people of Song Dynasty were just as rumored, their level of fighting was mediocre, but they were very authentic in their work.

He made up his mind on this, and took two steps forward: "Nanxun Gate is mine, and Kaifeng is also mine. Your department hastily entered the city and many people were killed or injured, so don't hold on. The rest of the irrelevant people should go out of the city and wait." Let me order! Zhao Xianggong and Xuan Xianggong stay behind, as well as the envoys and utilities, also stay and help me put out the fire!"

This order was issued with confidence, as if Zhao Fang was his subordinate.

Behind Zhao Fang, Xuan Zang's face turned blue and then red.He wanted to ask Guo Ning how dare he be so arrogant?Could it be that the battle with the Jurchens outside the city is expected to win?How dare you command the handsome ministers of Song Dynasty and the army of Song Dynasty?Do you think that the men of Song Dynasty are not bloody?
But none of these rhetorical questions came out.

Zhao Fang narrowed his eyes and sighed.The two families are not life and death enemies, and since such a big loss has occurred, what else can they do besides willing to gamble and admit defeat?
He stood up and patted the dust on his sleeves: "OK."

(End of this chapter)