Nong Zhizhong finally decided to stop the mountain search strategy.

Now it's dark, torches are lit everywhere in the mountains.

When we arrived near Rongdong, we found that the 100-person team of Tongluo had no more than a single survivor.

There are corpses nearby!

Similarly, they were all enquired insults and were covered in nakedness.

After checking carefully, the deputy general took a deep breath and said, "General, it seems that he was defeated until he was killed. The Tongluo, which was known for his bravery when he broke Liuzhou, had never even been able to deploy effective defense? What's the reason?"

Nong Zhizhong didn't answer, just looked at the direction of clenching his fists tighter and tighter until his entire arm began to tremble slightly.

The deputy general thought about it and said, "The humble position has a bad premonition. The king and the military commander Huang have also decided on the strategy of moving east to Guangzhou. Otherwise, let's not care about these unpredictable villagers, and don't care about the suspected Wang Anshi grain transport team. Follow the king's footsteps as soon as possible and win Guangzhou?"

Nong Zhizhong shook his head: "No! I have a more bad premonition: this strange villager team will sooner or later become a confidant of our Southern Army. If you don't find a way to annihilate them here, the strategy of going east to Guangzhou will definitely fail. Let me immediately send a letter to the king and then allocate at least one army to my subordinates. I will have to open a big net in this area and capture this team, otherwise our Southern Army will progress too quickly and something will happen."

The deputy general knew that the general and the military commander Huang had never dealt with each other. Now, in order to capture this "village squad", the general had to allocate more than 2,000 troops from the already limited main force of eastward advance. It is probably difficult to explain the purpose clearly. For this reason, the relationship with Huang Shimi will be more rigid...

"Pang Xiang, Duanzhou has fallen! As you expected, Gao Shumi's strategic arrangements and the overall failure of the deployment of troops!"

Late at night, Secretary Liu Le hurriedly walked in.

The prime minister Pang Ji, who is still on duty in the capital, has a gray hair and is already over 60 years old. After hearing the bad news, he seemed to have aged a few years in an instant.

Liu Le put on a lamp, and then Pang Ji stood up and looked at the pictures of Guangdong and Guangxi areas hanging in Yudutang.

A few days ago, the Privy Councilor Gao Ruona was still full of confidence, saying that he would relax the emperor.

All of this is because Gao Shumi did not listen to Pang Ji and resisted the opposition, and quickly dispatched the Wugang Army and Nan'an Army to Guangdong from Jinghu South Road and Jiangnan West Road respectively.

He also merged the two armies with 5,000 troops and placed a heavy bet on the outpost of Duanzhou, trying to prevent Nong Zhigao from entering Guangzhou.

It was because Gao Ruona guessed correctly. It seems that Nong Zhigao is really going to enter Guangzhou, not smoke or rumor.

But even Pang Ji did not expect that Duanzhou, which had gathered 5,000 heavy troops to defend, would collapse in just three days and Duanzhou was declared to be invaded.

"Pang Xiang has tried his best. These barbarians are too fierce and are invincible since Guangyuan started his army. It seems urgent to be delayed. Western troops must be dispatched to Guang immediately to fight, otherwise Guangzhou will be in danger! Half of the southern country will be in danger!"

Secretary Liu Ledao.

"I don't know..."

But Pang Ji couldn't continue to say everything.

All of this is because of too much political pressure, otherwise the proposal to dispatch the Western Army into Guangxi had already been in place as early as last month.

As we all know.

As a long-term battle place facing the Western Xia, it was the Shaanxi border army that was painstakingly run by several Xuanfu envoys such as Fan Zhongyan, Pang Ji, Han Qi. The real elite level was completely beyond the pampered Fourth Army of the Imperial Army.

Di Qing was a favorite general from the Western Army and Fan Zhongyan.

Pang Ji, who was also one of the commanders of the Western Army at that time, naturally preferred the Western Army and Di Qing.

So when Di Qing was recommended to fight, he also proposed a strategic proposal to dispatch the Western Army to Guangxi to fight.

It was just because Di Qing was suppressed too seriously by the conservatives, if the Western Army did not transfer to Guang, the rest of the army would be unable to command the Southern Army and the Imperial Army to Di Qing.

If the order cannot be enforced and is disobedient by the generals of various tribes because of their lack of prestige, then they will only ruin more men.

It must be the Western Army.

He was a direct lineage of Pang Ji and Di Qing was also from the Western Army. He was dedicated to commanding like an arm to defeat Nong Zhigao, who was as powerful as a bamboo shoot.

After thinking about this for a long time, Pang Ji sighed: "I admit that I was too impatient at that time, too eager to show my ambitions, and eager to take the credit for being ordered in the Western Army."

Liu Le remembered this, but was immediately rejected by the Privy Councilor Gao Ruona, because the reason was that the army was transferred from Shaanxi to Guang, which was slow and far away. If the Western Xia was at this critical moment, there would be internal and external troubles at that time, and the Song Dynasty would have a crisis of overthrowing.

Even though he knew that the conservative Gao Ruona just didn't want Di Qing to fight, he couldn't do anything because what he said made sense. Moreover, this statement was supported by Zhang Fangping, the envoy of the Three Sessions, and even scared the emperor.

The result of the discussion on this great dynasty: he agreed with Gao Ruona's strategy and transferred troops from Jinghu South Road and Jiangnan Road to aid.

"It was because of my own confusion. In order to control the old man Gao of the Western Prefecture in disguise, he instigated the emperor to give the deputy envoy of Du Qing. Unexpectedly, it was a counter-effect. The conservatives immediately broke into the country, and more than half of the censors impeached Di Qing. This led to the emperor who was naturally kind and did not want to form group opinions and regretted it and refused to allow Di Qing to fight for the time being."

Pang Ji said: "I didn't expect that after suppressing Di Qing, under the command of those mediocre talents, the Wugang Army and Nan'an Army were defeated in the offensive and defensive battle in Duanzhou. Five thousand Erlang... If it weren't for the political strategy that was too hasty, if Di Qing had the opportunity to command, it wouldn't have been like this."

Liu Ledao: "The old man is angry and must take care of himself. At this time, the Song Dynasty cannot be without you. It's just a matter of the mistakes in Gao Shumi's policy."

Pang Ji thought for a while and said, "Blame him, but not him. After all, he still didn't feel good after losing 5,000 people but still did not defend Duanzhou. He wanted to suppress Di Qing, but what he said at that time was not completely unreasonable."

Seeing Liu Le holding a bunch of documents in his arms, Pang Ji pinched the corners of his eyes and said, "Stop talking, tell me other newspapers. I know there is no good news recently, but can it be worse?"

At this point, Liu Le started reading the newspaper:

"After the battle of Huaiyuan, Lu Shijie and Zhao Ping'an once again crossed Rongshui, left Nong Zhizhong's army, continued to move towards Liucheng, and looked for new opportunities in the escape..."

“Huh?”

When he heard the keywords "Lu Shijie and Zhao Ping'an" again, Pang Ji was slightly stunned.

Liu Le also stopped.

Pang Ji thought to himself and said, "Are they those scholars with problems with their brains? I remember that they were one of the teachers and the other of the magistrate of Jinling. Who was under Wang Anshi's rule? He seemed to have inexplicably taken six or seven people to the war zone to make a fool, and wrote a letter to the two people in the capital?"

"Uh, it's them." Liu Le's expression became strange.

"I didn't expect that they were still alive."

Pang Ji also had some fun and started laughing.

At first, I really felt that the two had a trick in their brains, and the colleagues in the Tutang even joked with each other to give them the nickname "Duote Scholar Duo".

However, they were also kind-hearted, and they were stupid, and they were both stupid. At that time, everyone ran out. There were so many people who died in Guangxi, and it was already so chaotic, and not many of them caused trouble. Moreover, their behavior of taking the initiative to run to the war zone to die was indeed not suitable for denial at that time.

So Pang Ji just didn't care much, but he was not allowed to reprimand or punished.

Unexpectedly, for so long, the two living treasures were still alive, and they heard from them in this middle hall again.

Pang Ji said: "I remember at the beginning, they said they were blocked by heavy rain from Anhua. Now they are almost at Liucheng?"

"Reply to old husband, yes."

Liu Le nodded and said, "There are better articles about them, but I always feel that they have been running away, which is not conducive to positive publicity. My husband told me not to scold them, so I didn't report them to you many times. In fact, they have been pursued by Nong Zhizhong all the way from Anhua. If I remember correctly, they have experienced five encounters and retreated."

Pang Ji sighed: "Oh, it's hard for them. It's a certain extent possible to escape without dying. I remember that they only had nine people when they started the army in Changzhou, but they seemed to have incorporated dozens of people after they started to Anhua. They claimed to be the "Guangnan Camp of Liangzhe Transportation Department," right?"

"Yes." Liu Le said: "The prime minister has a good temper. Someone wanted to pursue it because you said don't scold me, otherwise they would not be today."

Pang Ji nodded slightly, his tone was filled with loss: "It hurt them. I encountered Nong Zhizhong five times. I think there were dozens of them at that time, but there were not many left after they fled to this day, right?"

Liu Le scratched his head for a while and looked at the report again: "I don't know what went wrong. After Huaiyuan encountered the battle, they now have more than 2,000 people in the war, and the elderly, weak, sick and disabled people, and they are now detouring to Liucheng for a generation."

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Chapter completed!