The thing that makes the young lady of the Hou family so hesitant right now is that everyone knows that this battle is extremely dangerous. Under normal circumstances, the men in her family may have a narrow escape from death.
Therefore, she was wondering whether she should go and see someone so that her man would not have to go to war.
As long as she goes to see that person, Hou San will definitely be able to stay in the safer city of Kaifeng.
The reason is very simple, because she is the 20th daughter of Zhao Ji, the last official of the Song Dynasty, Song Huizong, and the biological sister of the current Empress Maode, Zhao Duofu, also known as the Roufu Emperor.
Although she and Queen Maode were not born from the same mother, they still had a very good relationship.
I thought that as long as I showed my identity and asked to see Queen Maode, after Queen Maode spoke, there would be no problem for Hou San, a young squad leader of the new army, to stay in a safer city.
It's just that during the six months since I was married to Hou San, my life was quite miserable.
Even the empress of the Tian family, who used to be a female beauty just as a hobby and pastime, her delicate little hands became extremely rough after being washed and mended every day.
But for Zhao Duofu, these six months are still the most peaceful and happy days in her life.
Once she revealed her identity, she knew she would never be able to return to this kind of life.
In the end, Zhao Duofu finally made up his mind to seek an audience with Queen Maode due to the serious matter involving the safety of his own men.
Before that, she decided to tell Hou San her true identity.
After gritting her teeth, she began to speak:
"Officer, I have something to tell you in detail. I am not a maid in the palace, but..."
But as soon as he started to speak, he was interrupted by Hou San. With a very pitiful expression, the former bachelor stretched out his hand and gently touched the head of his wife's head.
He said calmly in his mouth: "Needless to say, I'm afraid you don't know, little lady, that you have the habit of talking in your sleep at night.
After listening to your sleep talk many times, I already know your identity, I also know that you don’t actually want to go back, and I also know what you want to do now.
Since you don’t want to go back, then just don’t go back; although the Tian family is good, we, the daughters-in-law of the Hou family, don’t have to suffer such grievances.”
After hearing this, Zhao Duofu immediately hugged Hou Sanda and started crying.
It's night! Zhao Duofu worked hard to meet Hou San, hoping that if one of his men was unfortunate in this battle, the Hou family would have a descendant.
What she didn't know was that on the original historical line.
Half a year ago, she would be captured by the Jin people. After suffering many hardships, she finally escaped back to the Southern Song Dynasty. She was initially accepted by Zhao Gou and lived a good life for a while.
But when Zhao Gou's biological mother, Wei Shi, was sent back by the Jin people.
Since Weishi had seen Zhao Duofu with his own eyes, how he had been humiliated many times by the Jin people and how he could please the Jin people, he immediately declared Zhao Duofu to be a counterfeit.
After a severe beating, Zhao Duofu admitted that he was a fake and was executed in Lin'an East City.
As for the appearance of Hu Biao and others, there are many, many more people whose destinies have been changed like this; but this is just the beginning of many major events that will follow.
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The next day, when it was getting slightly brighter.
With the people in the city supporting the old and the young, almost the whole city mobilized and came to the "Monument to the Volunteers" located twelve or three miles outside the east city.
Because today is the day when the whole army goes to battle after Privy Envoy Hu inspects the new army.
Among the soldiers who were about to fight to the death with the Jin people were their fathers, brothers, men, sons, etc.
It can be clearly seen that most people are holding a small flag in their hands. The flag is a fiery red color with the word "Song" on it.
In this era, there was no such national flag.
But when Hu Biao and others were forming the new army, they always felt that something was missing, so they made this thing. Unexpectedly, it soon became popular in Kaifeng City.
This can be regarded as a way to strengthen the common people's sense of identification with "Guo Jia".
But when many people rushed to the place, they all gasped.
I saw tens of thousands of people standing in a large open space in front of the 'Monument to the Volunteers', motionless. No matter whether you looked horizontally, vertically or together, they all formed a straight line.
Just standing there doing nothing, the aura of a powerful army rushed towards my face.
In addition, the soldiers of the new army wore red battle coats, iron helmets on their heads, breastplates on their bodies, long spears in their hands, and a forest of bayonets.
More than a hundred artillery pieces, large and small, were spread out in front of the formation.
Inexplicably, a fire rose in their hearts that even they themselves could not explain.
In such a situation, until the morning sun officially rose, shining everything golden, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, the Privy Council Privy Councilor, Hu Biao and Hu Yitong.
When Queen Maud was asked to come forward to lecture her, the other party wisely shook her head to express her refusal.
Hu Biao did his part and stood in front of the 'Monument to the Volunteers' together with a group of netizens who would almost all go out together this time.
Holding a big tin trumpet in his hand, he was ready to start a pre-war mobilization.
In response to this matter, Hu Biao spent the whole night burning countless brain cells and wrote a speech that spanned several pages.
Just for today, let me explain something clearly to you:
Without a country, there is no home. I hope that our military and civilians will unite as one and fight the enemy bravely to serve the country.
But when you see what is happening in front of you, they have spent countless efforts and sweat to form a new army, and they have tried their best to support the hundreds of thousands of people under their command.
The pair of pairs looked here, eyes full of confusion, fear, worry and other complex emotions.
Immediately, he just crushed the speech into a ball and had no intention of following this idea at all.
He was so angry that he yelled at the top of his lungs: "Everyone is here, bayonets on~"
Under such an order, a group of musketeers quickly pulled out their bayonets from the holsters around their waists and put them on the barrels with a 'click', based on long-term conditioned reflex training.
Then, Hu Biao shouted again: "The gun is on the shoulder~"
The sound just fell. The sharp armor-piercing cone spears and the brown Bess muskets with bayonets were carried on the shoulders of the new army in uniform movements.
With just two simple actions, that chilling aura came out all of a sudden.
Under such circumstances, Hu Biao finally said loudly: "What a big truth, I don't want to say more now.
I just want to tell you that if you lose this battle, the Jin people will burn your houses, kill your parents, take away your food, wives, and children, and your descendants will be slaves to them.
So let me ask, what should I do?"
"Kill, kill all those golden men."
Hou San, who was in the team, thought of his delicate daughter-in-law and the children he didn't know existed, and as if his skin had been touched, he raised his hands and shouted out this sentence.
The next second later, countless "kill" sounds were uttered from the mouths of the comrades around him.
A few seconds later, countless arms were raised high, like a dense forest. The sound of 'killing' made birds fly in the sky, and all the fish in the river jumped out of the water.
That was when everyone, including Queen Maode, raised their arms and turned all the suppressed emotions in their hearts into the word 'kill' before roaring out.
Looking at the determined faces, Hu Biao immediately yelled out the last sentence:
"Let's go to Zhuxian Town. If we advance or retreat, we will win this battle~"
Yes, that's right! It was the Zhuxian Town where Grandpa Yue's fourth Northern Expedition in history defeated the Jin army and almost reversed the entire war situation.
History is always full of amazing coincidences.
Even though Hu Biao and others have made so many changes after traveling through time, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the entire direction has changed beyond recognition.
However, due to the continuous development of the war situation, they faced the terrifyingly powerful Jin army.
In the end, after countless deductions; in this famous place in history, there will still be a battle that determines the fate of countless people...
