Chapter 291: Reasons for the Southern Expedition
In the early morning, Luo Dacheng slowly opened his eyes and lay quietly on the bed, smelling the faint fragrance in his nose, recalling everything that happened last night.
When you lower your head gently, you can see a very beautiful woman lying on your chest in your arms while you are sleeping, with tears still remaining on your beautiful cheeks. The original strength has turned into weakness, which is pitiful.
Her delicate body was naked, tightly attached to his body, covered with the same big red quilt. Everything around her was filled with joy, just like it was really a wedding day.
Luo Dacheng silently lowered his head and pressed his face against her soft black hair, savoring the fragrance of her hairline, and recalling everything last night.
All the things were obviously done by Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi. At the banquet last night, he felt that the two important officials acted a little strange. At that time, he only thought that these two Han officials could not bear the fate of the Song Dynasty, so he behaved abnormally. Later, he got drunk and ignored this matter. Now, their plan had already begun after he captured Mu Guiying.
This may be their last effort to the fate of the Song Dynasty. He still trusted the loyalty of these two ministers, but he should pay more attention from now on to avoid anything else coming.
In his arms, Mu Guiying still had tears on her beautiful face, and crystal tears were hanging on her long eyelashes, which made him look lovingly. She lowered her head and gently kissed the tears on her eyes, and couldn't help but smile slightly.
The door sounded, and Luo Dacheng suddenly raised his head and saw several girls walking in timidly, kneeling on the ground, and kowtowed and said in a trembling voice: "I have heard from the emperor, I have been ordered by Lord Zhao Qianhu to come and serve the emperor to wash and change clothes."
Luo Dacheng frowned slightly, remembered the role Zhao Hu played in it, and shook his head and smiled bitterly.
Although I was drunk last night, I didn’t know anything. I vaguely remember that it was these beautiful girls who helped me back to the bedroom and took off my clothes with a few hands. It was obviously them.
Since he had seen it, there was nothing to be shy about. Luo Dacheng ordered lightly: "Come and serve the Empress in dressing!"
Mu Guiying fell in his arms and woke up, but she didn't dare to move around. She bit her cherry lips and lay on his chest. When she heard his orders, she still gritted her teeth and waited for the maids to dress her.
Her delicate body was extremely tired, countless times more tired than the battles she had in the past. Although she wanted to hold Luo Dacheng and prevented him from having time to lead his army to attack south, unfortunately she was powerless. "The spring night is short and the day is high, and the king will not go on a presidency from now on" can only be her dream.
On the other hand, Luo Dacheng got up by himself as if nothing had happened, quickly put on his clothes, and then saw the beautiful girls with blushing cheeks kneeling beside the bed, serving his bride to dress and wash.
When Zhao Hu was summoned in, the couple were already dressed neatly and sat on the chairs in the front hall of the new house and drank tea.
Zhao Hu knelt down on the ground, kowtowed with a smile, and said, "Celebrating the wedding of my elder brother and sister-in-law! My younger brother came in a hurry and didn't bring any gifts. Just kowtow a few times to my elder brother and sister-in-law as a celebration gift!"
He kowtowed his head, but Mu Guiying raised the long sleeves of the red wedding dress and covered her face. Shame and joy came all the way, choking her throat and unable to say a word.
Luo Dacheng laughed and gave a reward casually, looking happy, but without any embarrassment.
Zhao Hu thanked the reward, stood up and peeked up with a smile. Seeing his old boss's shy look, he couldn't help but feel happy. He could only think that seeing General Mu's shy appearance was worth the fare, and it would be worth the night of happiness.
Mu Guiying was blushed when she was seen, and she just wanted to dig out his pair of thieves' eyes, but because of her physical fatigue, she was wearing the newcomer's red wedding dress and could not do anything casually. She could only sit in the same place, looking at one side and ignore him.
Luo Dacheng glared at him, and did not even ask him about conspiring with Fan Zhongyan and others to frame his old boss. He asked first: "Have the soldiers gathered?"
Zhao Hu replied with a smile: "Yes, all the soldiers have been prepared and are just waiting for the emperor to issue an order to go to war."
Luo Dacheng nodded and said lightly: "Transfer the order and leave the city to fight south!"
After saying that, he stood up, reached out to hold Mu Guiying, and walked out the door with her.
Outside the hall, two important officials knelt on both sides of the courtyard path, trembling and kowtowing, lying on the ground and not daring to say more. Beside them, Zhang Long and Ma Han were also staring at General Mu, who was as beautiful as a flower, beside his brother, as if he was in a dream, and could not believe what he saw.
Mu Guiying bit her cherry lips lightly, turned her head and didn't look at them. She walked gently and followed Luo Dacheng and walked out the door.
With her intelligence and talent, she naturally understood that no matter how to stop him, Luo Dacheng would still lead his army south to attack Bianjing as quickly as possible. If he had to stop him, he would have been disgusted with him. Since that was the case, he could only think of ways on the road, use his tenderness to change his mind and leave a way out for the Song Dynasty.
The beautiful female general who was originally good at fighting fiercely will learn to use her tender offensive that she never understood to try to trap the emperor of China in a gentle land and calm his iron-blooded conquest. As for the result, it will only be left to fate.
On the street, countless Chinese soldiers had already rode on war horses, lined up in neat rows, cheering excitedly to welcome their most beloved emperor.
The will was delivered, and the horn sounded vigorously. Countless powerful soldiers urged their horses to cross the city gates and galloped towards the wealthy land in the south.
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The fall of Taiyuan City, a major military city, caused the army and government of the Song Dynasty to panic.
The reason for the southern expedition of China was publicly disclosed that the Song Dynasty arrested Chinese caravan personnel and banned trade with China, which had violated the former alliance, so it had to be punished.
The actual reasons are actually not much different. Because the severance of trade between the North and South dynasties completely cut off the income of the caravans in China, it was a heavy blow to the economy of the emerging China. Moreover, in order to revitalize industry and commerce in Luo Dacheng's mind, if there was no participation of the Song Dynasty economic circle, everything would be difficult, so it was necessary to conquer the Song Dynasty.
In the Song Dynasty, everyone complained in their hearts that Emperor Zhao Zhen attacked the Chinese caravan, offended the Chinese caravan, and caused a large army to invade. Zhao Zhen was also in trouble, but now that things were over, it was too late to say anything. He could only try his best to mobilize troops to resist the invasion of the northern army.
However, it took time to mobilize troops. Zhao Zhen issued a call to the Song army everywhere to go to Beijing to serve the king, but he didn't dare to think about how many people would arrive in time.
On the way to the south, Luo Dacheng was blocked by the Hedong Xuanfu envoy Qin Tong. Unfortunately, in a hurry, the Qin Tong could send only 80,000 troops. During the field battle, he was defeated by a large army of 100,000 cavalry. The fleeing Song soldiers were killed by countless Chinese cavalry in the wilderness, and more than 40,000 were forced to surrender. Qin Tong was only spared and fled back to Hedong with his remaining personal soldiers, and continued to collect troops, waiting for another battle.
In fact, it was not that the Qin Dynasty did not want to defend the city, but that there were too many spies in Shanxi. They used flying pigeons to report the mobilization of the Song army to the commander of the Chinese army.
After receiving the information, Luo Dacheng personally led the army southward to attack the Song army camp, and caught up with the moving Song army in the field and carried out a surprise attack. The unexpected Song army faced the surging cavalry army, if it was undefeated, it would be an exception.
After a great war, the 80,000 troops were wiped out, which still shocked and frightened the people of the Song Dynasty. At this time, the uncle Di Qing also led 200,000 infantry and cavalry reinforcements, crossed Yunzhou to the south, took over the Taiyuan city defense, and stationed the troops of the Chinese Kingdom in the nearby cities, firmly controlling this large territory under the rule of the Chinese Kingdom.
In the West, the Dangxiang and the Uighur coalition forces also crossed a long journey to Taiyuan, advanced all the way south, defeated the Song army defending the city of each city, conquered each small county, and plundered all the money inside, distributed as the spoils of the soldiers, and sent them back to the rear, and handed them to the relatives of the soldiers to cheer up the soldiers' fighting spirit.
Terrifying rumors spread everywhere in the Song Dynasty. Everyone said that the Chinese army was extremely powerful and could not defeat the war. If each city surrendered in advance, it would be expected to be treated preferentially; and if the conquered people refused to surrender, everyone would either be killed or became slaves, and the situation was extremely miserable.
Although the situation of Han slaves in China may not be as miserable as the rumors, they still scared the people of various cities to panic and flee, and refugees fled everywhere. Wherever the Chinese army arrived, many counties had to open the city to surrender, just asking not to be killed or plundered.
But plundering still requires plunder. According to the Chinese military law, in the cities where the city surrendered, all the wealthy households and shops will be searched, and more than half of the property will be collected for military use, so as not to go for the soldiers who came to attack the city for a waste of time. Although those wealthy households are reluctant, they can save the lives of the family and their wives and daughters will not be abused by barbarians. How can anyone take care of money and dare to resist?
The reinforcements from the rear advanced steadily, swallowing and controlling the borders of the Song Dynasty step by step. In the front, the Chinese cavalry army defeated all the Song troops blocking the road as fast as possible and quickly attacked the city of Bianliang.
Chapter completed!