Gao Yongnian groaned and woke up slowly.

For a moment, he didn't know where he was?

During the Qin Wangchuan battle a month ago, the crossbow in his right chest injured his lungs. This was a fatal injury! Fortunately, although Gao Yongnian was old and in high positions, he was not addicted to alcohol and sex, and still worked hard to strengthen his muscles and bones, and he had a lot of copper and iron bones. Only then did he barely save his life, but the wound still had pus. In fact, it was just inflammation, but there were no antibiotics these days. After the wound became inflamed, he should rely on his own white blood cells to fight!

So these days he has been having a fever intermittently, his whole body is drowsy, and he has nightmares when he closes his eyes.

In the nightmare just now, Gao Yongnian was taking his subordinates to fight against the Liao soldiers who were rushing towards the city wall of Kaifeng Prefecture. The soldiers on both sides seemed to crawl out of the sea of ​​blood, fighting silently. All the scenery was bloody and dazzling.

But there were too many Khitan troops, and the Khitan soldiers were too brave. The soldiers who followed Gao Yongnian fell one by one, and in the end they were only Gao Yongnian, who was still fighting to the death in Youzi. Suddenly, a long spear stabbed straight, and it pierced into his chest without any bias...

At this time, Gao Yongnian felt the pain in his chest. He reached out to cover it, but was grabbed by someone, and many familiar sounds sounded in his ears at the same time.

"Master Gao, you are awake!"

"Master Gao is awake..."

"Hurry, hurry up, go and invite Taiwei Zhong!"

Only then did Gao Yongnian remember that he was still waiting in Qincheng, the town of Qinwangchuan, and I don’t know who would save him. In fact, it would be better to die in Kaifeng Prefecture. At least he could leave his name in history... If there were still Han people writing history in the future, he would definitely say good things about him. He was beaten to death by foreign invaders to defend the Song Dynasty and the Han people. Why are they all heroes and martyrs?

But he died in Qin Wangchuan... When the Khitan army rushed south like a tide to open the Feng Mansion, he was waiting for death in Qin Wangchuan, who could not shit, even if he died, he would be frustrated!

Although there was still a pain in the wound on his chest, he was much more awake and the fever had subsided. A medical officer was carefully tearing open the gauze wrapped around his chest, revealing the scarred wound. Then Gao Yongnian heard the medical officer breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay... it finally healed and did not ulcerate. It seems that his life has been saved."

Can life be saved? Gao Yongnian thought to himself: Then you have to ask the Khitans and Dangxiang people surrounded outside!

"...How is the battle situation? Do you know the situation outside? How is Hedong and Hebei?"

A nephew of Gao Yongnian went forward and replied: "Report to the Taiwei, the siege has been lifted! The Khitans retreated three days ago, and then the Dangxiang people also lifted the siege, but sent a large number of raids to our south to prevent the road between us and Shuibo City from being unobstructed. However, Zhong Shuaisi still sent a dead soldier to break through the blockade of the Western thieves and sent us military orders, asking us to evacuate the Qin Wangchuan tonight, and Shuibo City would send a large army to help.

As for Hedong and Hebei, it seems to be quite peaceful. The Khitans don’t seem to want to fight us, but just sent troops to reinforce the Western thieves.”

Thank God! Gao Yongnian said to the song of Song Dynasty that his earliest military post was on Hedong Road. He knew how thin the defense of Hedong Road was. In the vast Hedong Road, there were only 12 generals, 4 of which were stationed on Fulin Road under Hedong Road. In name, he was guarding against the Western thieves, but actually looked at the Zhe family in Fuzhou...

If we don’t count the soldiers of the Zhe family, the entire Hedong can fight will be 60,000, which is comparable to the elite troops of the Western Army, and I’m afraid there will be no 10,000.

The Khitans really want to call them, maybe they will sweep all the way to Taiyuan City!

As for the Hebei Army, the situation is even worse. The Hedong Army also needs to guard against Western thieves. At least the Fulin Zhe family has some elite troops to use. What is there in Hebei? Jiehe Market? Waiting for the Khitans to rob them all!

Gao Yongnian was thinking about this, and the three of them rushed over, including Zhong Shiji, Zhong Shizhong, Liu Yanqing and the others.

During these days when Gao Yongnian was dizzy, the 40,000 Song army trapped in Qin Wangchuan was the three of them in charge. In fact, before receiving Zhong Fu's order, they were ready to break through and retreat because the military rations and the mules, horses and livestock that accompanied the army had almost finished eating.

If you don’t leave, you will have to wait to starve to death!

However, it is not easy to leave, because in the war a month ago, Gao Yongnian and Zhong Shiji's troops suffered heavy losses, much heavier than the numbers reflected! Ten thousand of the 50,000 were killed, seriously injured or missing. The loss seemed to be one fifth, but the total force of the 50,000 included auxiliary soldiers, and the real combat soldiers were only about 30,000.

In other words, the battle a month ago caused Gao Yongnian and Zong Shiji to lose one-third of their combat power.

Moreover, during the defeat of the army, a large number of long weapons and divine arm bows were lost.

Gao Yongnian had already supported himself and sat up, because he had been dizzy for a few months and had no strength. A personal soldier brought him a bowl of horse broth and fed him half a bowl. He suddenly felt a little energetic and his mind was completely awake.

"... The Grand Marshal Gao of Shuofang Road has already served as Xingling Xuanfu, in charge of the military affairs of the six routes, and also received the title of Tongzhi Privy Council. The strategy to rescue us this time was decided by him. Three armies attacked the Western thieves, among which Taiwei Gao personally led 60,000 troops to attack Xingqing Mansion! The Khitans who besieged us should have gone to rescue Xingqing Mansion. This is our opportunity, why don't you leave tonight!"

Master Zhong said the general situation quickly and urgently, but Gao Yongnian's brows tightly frowned.

Gao Qiu actually led his army to attack Xingqing Mansion! This was too courageous... He sent troops from Baichi City, Yanzhou to attack Xingqing Mansion to cross the vast sea of ​​Gobi! This was almost a battle of back and forth. If it was not good, it would be difficult to retreat and go back.

If Gao Qiu defeated Shuofang Road's strength, the Khitans would probably take advantage of the opportunity, and the entire Shaanxi would be shaken by then!

"Shi Yan Gao was too dangerous!" Gao Yongnian shook his head, "If there is any mistake, the Song Dynasty will be in a catastrophe!

...Then let's leave tonight! In any case, I always owe Gao Shiyan a favor. If I can survive, this life will be given to us by Gao Shiyan!"

Zhong Shiji said: "Taiwei, since you have woken up, then you should come to the overall situation. The last general will lead the subordinate of the palace!"

Gao Yongnian waved his hand, "How can I get the soldiers like this? Uncle Yi, come and command."

...

As night falls, a large army is surging above the vast sea of ​​Gobi.

I saw a half-baked remains in front of me. From the appearance, it should have been abandoned and destroyed not long ago.

Seeing the scene in front of him, the military opportunities in the central army where Gao Qiu was located started to whisper.

"I'm a thief, I've destroyed another well!"

"The Western thief must be afraid of Xuan Shuai, and there is only one way to strengthen the wall and clear the world."

"Yes, the Western thieves are scared. Moreover, we can't stop us by destroying the well. It's just two hundred miles of sand, not two thousand miles. We can finish it in three or four days, and we can still carry this little water!"

"Let's go quickly! Let's walk for another twenty or thirty miles tonight, so that you can fight the Western thieves and Khitan the day after tomorrow!"

"It's a pity that the Western thief and the Khitans can't change their houses... Otherwise, after this battle, we will have a new house to live in!"

"We are following Xuan Shuai now. Are we still afraid that there will be no big house to live in the future? After this battle, Xuan Shuai will not be the affairs of the Tongzhi Privy Council, but the official affairs of the Zhi Privy Council!"

"That's great. With Gao Shuxiang in charge of the Privy Council, we military officers have the opportunity to make contributions..."

The military affairs are very interested and they all regard themselves as people involved in Gao Qiu, but this is also true! Although they all came from the Military Academy similar to the modern military academy, they still cannot escape from this era. It is unrealistic to ask them to regard themselves as soldiers of the country. They are the followers of Gao Qiu, the leader of the Privy Councilor Xuan, and their relationship with Gao Qiu is to prosper and lose with each other.

Moreover, they have discovered that they are a special existence. In this era, the military generals of the Song Dynasty were nothing more than two types of military origins and military origins, but they were military officers from school. This did not mean military officers who had studied. It was because they had been to military officers for several years in the military school, which gave them rich, systematic and practical military knowledge that other military officers and civil servants did not have, and at the same time they also made them a very easy group of officers to join.

They need to find their place in the Song Dynasty, which values ​​culture and neglects military affairs!

Gao Qiu was talking loudly, but his mood became heavier. He had already clearly felt the uniqueness of these military opportunities. They were not afraid of civil servants, and they did not feel inferior in front of the heroes who sang the name outside Donghua Gate... They had just been in the Military Academy for four years. If they were from Yuntai Academy and had taken the right-list Jinshi and became military officers, would they still be willing to be suppressed by civil servants who were from the left-list Jinshi?

It seems that Mr. Dongpo and Wu Haogu are really wrong...

Just as Gao Qiu was confused and thinking, his confidant Li Yongqi suddenly rode his horse in front of him, "Report to the coach Xuan, I found the Western thieves' camp in the distance!"

"Discover the camp?" Gao Qiu was stunned, "Where did you put Yuanzhangzi? On the edge of the Yellow River?"

"No," Li Yongqi shook his head, "It was them who entered the desert! He set up a village on the edge of the desert, and pulled it for twenty or thirty miles before blocking us."

"It seems that I don't want to let us out of the desert." Gao Qiu snorted, "How far?"
Chapter completed!