Chapter 44: Picturesque Rivers and Mountains
Chapter 44: The Land of the Country is Like a Painted
Wu Ji rode on the war horse and led the Congxin Army. While retreating south, he looked at it. He saw countless plowing fields, crops spitting green, and a piece of green was lush, and farmers were busy from time to time.
From time to time, the farmer would yell a few folk songs to express their happy mood.
Listening to the farmer's singing and looking at the crops that were growing well, Wu Jida sighed: "The mountains and rivers are so beautiful, but they fall into the hands of foreign races, which makes people sigh!"
If you don’t enter the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, you don’t know the customs and customs here, and the lives of the people here. After walking in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, Wu Jida sighed that the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are really beautiful, with beautiful land and water, and are a very good farming area. No wonder the nomadic people of the Khitan have become different from the Huns and Turks in history.
"What a pity!" Huangfu Song also sighed: "Such a great river and a country can be called a painting, but it has become a Liao dog. This place is not the most fertile. The land near Youzhou is even more fertile. If there were no alien races rampant, the people in Yanyun would have a good life."
"Youzhou is the current Beijing. The land of Yanyun is the current North China Plain. Its richness is conceivable." Wu Ji nodded and sighed loudly: "The capital of the future Republic is now under the iron hoof of a foreign race! Well, we must find a way to take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun."
Zhang Tong waved the horse whip in his hand and said, "Now it seems that the people are living a good life, which is all illusion. People are busy and exhausted, aren't they still making wedding dresses for Liao dogs?"
This time, they went deep into the Liao territory and gained great success. They swept through many Liao military camps and saw many Khitans oppressing the people. When they heard this, they were all angry: "The mountains and rivers are so beautiful, but they are owned by foreign races. For Chinese men like us, that is a sarcasm!"
"Yes!" Everyone agreed in unison.
"Go! Go back." Wu Ji grabbed the horse's belly, and the war horse neighed, galloping south quickly.
This time, the reward army gathered together and rushed south. A long dragon splashed with large pieces of smoke and dust, rolling south.
Li Mingchu led 500 people to return to the letter with the war horses. The convert army led by Wu Ji was only 2,000. Now that they gathered together, it is impossible to have such a situation. It is just because Wu Ji and his team gained so much that every time they killed a military camp, there were many war horses and they could transport a lot of things. Now, their momentum is very great.
They soon arrived at the Song realm and rushed to Guixin. When it was dark, Wu Ji and the others arrived at Guixin.
From a distance, they were surrounded by the people of the Converted Army, and their faces were filled with joy. When they saw Wu Ji and the others, they hugged them, talking and laughing, venting their joy.
To this day, the people who converted to the Congregation are particularly proud. They have lifted the siege of Xiongzhou, made great contributions to the Song Dynasty, and had fame. Furthermore, the Congregation Army's deep entry into the Liao territory this time was a feat. For hundreds of years, no one in the Song Dynasty has ever done, and it is impossible to make them unpride.
The enthusiasm of the people was too high, far exceeding the erupting volcano. Wu Ji spent a lot of effort to comfort them.
After entering the city, Li Mingchu grabbed Wu Ji's reins and led the horse to Wu Ji, but his face was long and he was so angry that he didn't say anything, as if someone had borrowed him and refused to pay back his money.
"Li Mingchu, what happened? Did it not come back smoothly?" Huangfu Song was very surprised.
"No. Everyone blames the commander of Wu, who asked me to send the horse back, but did not go to kill Liao Gou." Li Mingchu gasped and looked at the Converted Army entering the city, with a lot of money, and he wanted to snatch it up.
"Li Mingchu, how angry you are!" At this moment, Luo Ming came over and kicked him in the butt, and shouted: "You have gotten back so many war horses, aren't you happy? I didn't even see the shadow of Liao Gou, are you still not satisfied? If you want to say it's wronged, I'm wronged."
"You are different, you haven't finished training yet." Li Mingchu did not accept his accusation.
"Then I am also a convert army." Luo Ming was very angry, and gave him a blank look, and turned around and greeted Wu Ji. The smiles on his face piled up layer by layer, smiling as if he saw his ancestors: "Commander Wu, you are a lot of sir, don't argue with this unsavvy guy. Commander Wu, in fact, if you send us Western soldiers, you will do better."
"Okay, I don't know your little bit of intestines?" Wu Ji was a little funny and said, "Don't you just want to kill Liaogou? As long as you train well, there are opportunities. If you don't train well, I can't let you be embarrassed."
Although the Western soldiers rolled over from the battlefield and were very powerful, if they did not have the combat power of the Converted Army and went to the Liao territory, once they encountered the Liao army and fought, they would likely suffer a great loss.
"Commander Wu Du, please rest assured that we will train well and we will train well!" Luo Ming was busy agreeing, with thousands of guarantees and ten thousand guarantees, and we will definitely train hard.
The left-behind Converted Army and the Western soldiers all came. Seeing a long dragon-like team entering the city, their eyes were dazzled, and they were also regretful that such a beautiful thing had nothing to do with them.
Back at the military camp, Huangfu Song and Qi Dabao were busy leading people to count the harvest. This time, the harvest was less than ten days after going out, and the harvest was so great that it far exceeded Wu Ji's imagination. It must have taken a long time to count it.
As for the losses of the Converted Army, it can be ignored, because this operation exceeded the imagination of the Liao Kingdom. Wherever they went, the Liao army was not prepared or had no battle.
Wu Ji invited Zhang Tong into the house, poured tea, and asked, "Your things can be taken away. If you need help, say it, I will do my best."
"Haha, thank you for Commander Wu Du." Zhang Tong asked with a smile: "Commander Wu Du, this time I went to Liao territory, I have gained a lot, but I have also missed it. How do you plan to deal with it?"
The Song army went deep into the Liao army to plunder and had not happened in the hundreds of years of Song-Liao war. It can be imagined that Yelu Hongji would be furious when he received the news, so he should have made plans to deal with it.
"There is a saying that soldiers come to block the generals, and water comes to garrison the earth. It's no big deal." Wu Ji didn't care at all: "Although the Song Dynasty was not enough to attack, there was still more defense. Otherwise, there would be no city that would not be lost in hundreds of years of war."
During the hundreds of years of war, although the Song Dynasty was at a disadvantage, it did not abandon the city, which shows that the Liao Kingdom's attack was insufficient. Although the Liao Kingdom's cavalry was powerful, it still left helpless when it encountered the strong city of the Song Dynasty.
"It seems that Commander Wu is already in his heart." Zhang Tong said with a smile.
"I can't say that I'm confident, but some of my concerns are true." Wu Ji nodded slightly and said, "For this incident, I believe that Yelu Hongji will definitely be furious. First, he will question the court and the officials will respond toughly, so there is no need to worry about this. Second, Yelu Hongji will send a large army to invade the territory, so we must be prepared to fight. If we want to fight, we naturally have to find Wang Shumi. I'm going to Xiongzhou tomorrow to meet Wang Shumi."
Wang Shao is in Xiongzhou. If he wants to fight, he will definitely command the troops. With him there, there is really no need to be afraid of the Liao Kingdom. Of course, it is necessary to meet him and have a good time to worry about it.
While the two were talking, Huangfu Song and Qi Dabao came in happily. They grinned and smiled, with joy on their faces. They walked like flying, and were extremely brisk. They shouted from afar: "Commander Wu, you have a great victory, you have a great victory! This time we captured more than 31,000 war horses, and the food and grass were enough for us to convert to the military for two years, with nearly 100,000 taels of gold and silver."
"More than 31,000 war horses?" Wu Ji was a little surprised. The harvest this time would definitely be very rich, but he didn't expect that it would be so rich. Not to mention anything else, just so many war horses were enough to shock people.
Last year, the Liao army invaded the border and in the battle of Xiongzhou, although it captured many war horses, it was a heavy price. However, this time, there were no casualties and no fewer war horses obtained than during the battle of Xiongzhou.
"What's the matter?" Qi Dabao raised his head and thrust his chest, and was extremely proud: "We got more than 20,000 war horses in the horse farm alone. During the robbery along the way, we got tens of thousands more. Isn't this a total of more than 30,000?"
"What do you want to deal with it?" Wu Ji looked at Zhang Tong.
"So many. Just give us nine thousand war horses." Zhang Tong was also surprised and very readily: "These nine thousand war horses alone are worth a lot of money. We don't want them anymore. This is the first time to cooperate, and it's a gift for meeting."
"We will cooperate in the future. As long as your news is accurate, we can start." Wu Ji was very excited.
This operation also proves the powerful intelligence capabilities of Qiyun Club. If it truly cooperates with Qiyun Club, it will be beneficial to both sides. The intelligence mastered by Qiyun Club is more accurate than the information mastered by the Song Dynasty. With such a powerful intelligence network, are you afraid that there will be no good things?
Huangfu Song and Qi Dabao naturally had nothing to say about this. They all knew how powerful the intelligence capabilities of Qiyun Club were.
At this moment, Wu Ji wrote a memorial and sent someone to Bianjing. Yelu Hongji would definitely send someone to question it, and it was necessary to let Song Shenzong understand the situation. Of course, Wu Ji concealed the cooperation with Qiyun Club, which was Zhang Tong repeatedly reminded him.
That night, the Converted Army held a celebration banquet to celebrate. The most joyful thing was the Converted Army, who made great achievements again. The most disappointing thing was the Western soldiers such as Luo Ming kept complaining, why didn’t they come to Convert and complete the training earlier?
The next day, on the school ground, Huangfu Song shouted to the Western soldiers: "Brothers: You were Western soldiers before, very strong, but you have not mastered our tactics yet, and you still need to work hard. This time, we went to Liao territory and took a special robbery. You have seen the harvest. If you want to go too, cheer up, train well, and go to Liao territory to capture his mother as soon as possible!"
"Train well!"
"Bad kidnapped!"
The Western Bing responded loudly.
On this day, the Western Army trained very hard, very conscious, and enthusiastic, and wanted to train well immediately.
When Wu Ji was inspecting, the Western Bing admired him as endlessly as a flood, much stronger than before. Although the Western Bing knew a lot about Wu Ji and admired Wu Ji, how could he compare to his achievements?
Chapter completed!