From a son-in-law to a favorite of the empress

Chapter 1095

The autumn wind was bleak, and the floating clouds gathered and dispersed.

Wang Xiong looked anxious and a little resentful. He looked at everything in front of him and fell into silence.

Then he looked at Ji Shan and said slowly: "General Ji, I, Wang Xiong, have only been in the army for three or four years. I am not as experienced as you, but I have also studied."

"I can read, but later my family fell into poverty and encountered natural disasters, so I became a refugee."

"I have been following the general all these years. Do you know how difficult it has been?"

Ji Shan couldn't help but say: "What does this have to do with this battle?"

"It has something to do with it!"

Wang Xiong roared: "Because I know the situation of Dajin very well!"

"In the ninth year of Zhaojing, it was the second year of the severe drought. The whole Shandong was barren for thousands of miles. The refugees were like locusts. They robbed wherever they went and ate whatever they saw, eating leaves and bark, exchanging children for food, and even eating Guanyin soil. There were more corpses than grass along the way. "Duo, have you felt all this deeply?"

"You haven't, you were the governor of Huguang more than ten years ago, a second-rank military general, with an annual salary of 3,000 stones."

Tears appeared in his eyes, and his voice became choked: "We dare not eat human flesh, we can't bear to rob the poor people, so we fell outside the city of Shenjing and were rescued by the governor."

"In the battle of the Central Plains, compatriots slaughtered each other, and more than 100,000 people died in the battle of Funiushan alone."

"General Ji, the Central Plains and Qilu are the core areas of our Chinese civilization. We have created such a glorious civilization, but we live worse than pigs and dogs..."

"Do you understand this pain?"

"Do you understand the pain in the governor's heart?"

Ji Shan lowered his head and sighed slightly.

Wang Xiong said: "I won't mention the later Xiangzhou, Shanhaiguan, naval battles in the south, and Fenglangjuxu in the north. The dignity of a nation has been lost. It was the general who led us to fight step by step."

"Now, now, we are about to develop, and there are many things to be done. Good days are just around the corner, and Liaodong has something wrong again."

"Can it be done no matter what? Raising a tiger beside the bed, can we have a good life in the future?"

"We can only fight! We can only fight!"

He looked at Ji Shan and shook his head and said: "My general is not a warmongerer, he is just too anxious, too anxious!"

"Why have we fallen to this point? We want to know the answer, we fight, fight, and give everything... that The answer... shouldn't be death..."

He closed his eyes and murmured, "Withdraw the troops."

Ji Shan stood up and shouted, "Withdraw the troops? What did you say? Impossible!"

"Wang Xiong! Guhewei is the eastern throat of Liaodong. Once the troops are withdrawn, the enemy can march straight in, as if entering an empty land."

"This battle is difficult to fight, but the Huguang Army is not afraid of death and will not be a coward."

Wang Xiong shook his head and said, "I was born a refugee. When I joined the army, Liu Fang, Xiang Yong, and Li He were the deputy governors of the five military camps."

"But now, I am on an equal footing with Liu Fang, and the status of others is not as good as mine."

"I am not proud of this, but General Ji, do you know why the commander-in-chief uses me so much?"

Ji Shan shook his head.

Wang Xiong said slowly: "Because I understand the general, I know what he thinks in his heart, and I have the best understanding with him."

"I am not as radical as Li He and Shi Yi, not as steady as Liu Fang, and not as far-sighted as Xiang Yong, but... to be conceited, I am the most like the general."

"Guhewei cannot be defended. It is meaningless to die here. What we have to do is to delay!"

"The Tsarist Empire's southern invasion corps has broken its food and grass line. They want to eat Liaodong to supply themselves and win the war."

"What we have to do is not to fight them, but... to delay them until they can't walk."

"Keep consuming them, keep harassing them, until they panic, they are in chaos, and they have nowhere to go."

At this point, Wang Xiong laughed and said softly: "I understand the general, I know What to do, so although you didn't take the initiative to mention it, I know that the Marshal must have given you an order to listen to me, right? "

"Guhewei, I am the highest military commander, right?"

Ji Shan nodded helplessly and said, "Yes, the Marshal specifically said so."

Wang Xiong said, "So... Ji Shan listens to orders!"

Ji Shan gritted his teeth, hesitated for a moment, half-knelt and clasped his fists, and said loudly: "I listen to orders!"

Wang Xiong said slowly: "Lead the Huguang Army and the 40,000 Leiden Army, carry all the food and supplies, rush to Jianzhou, and defend the city."

"The 20,000 captives over there are already repairing the city walls and fortifications. You must defend Jianzhou with a strong defense."

"If you can't defend it, before the city is broken, gather all the food and burn it all. ""The food must be destroyed before you!"

Ji Shan couldn't help but said, "What about you!"

Wang Xiong said, "I will take 20,000 Leiden troops to guard Guhewei."

"The city here is low and narrow, 20,000 people are enough to fill it. Standing on the city wall, they can't see that we have withdrawn."

"This will make the opponent cautious, which can delay the opponent's time."

Ji Shan's face changed, he raised his head, shook his head and said, "General Wang, you are still young... Leave this to me..."

Wang Xiong said, "Execute the order!"

Ji Shan shouted, "You are still young! You are better than me! Dajin needs you more!"

"I am old, so let me stay here with 20,000 people. If you... you recognize me and help me take care of my mother, wife and children, I will be grateful..."

Wang Xiong looked at him, took out his token, and said word by word, "Huguang Jiedushi Ji Shan, execute the order!"

Ji Shan stared at the 30-year-old strong man and was stunned for a while.

He opened his mouth, but tears flowed out inexplicably.

He knelt down slowly and shouted, "I obey your command!"

...

The killing is continuing.

Hundreds of Tiqi, led by Ye Mian and Xiong Kuohai, cleansed the Suzhou Guard, Liangzhou Guard, Yongchang Guard and Shaanxi Xingdusi forces in the dark.

No evidence or trial is needed. All those on the list must be killed.

"If there are innocent people who die, I will take the blame."

Ye Mian is smooth, but he is vigorous and ruthless when he really does things. He often does whatever it takes. Otherwise, he would not have been able to become a senior official of Jinyiwei with the attitude of a literati.

According to him, the entire Gansu Town must be cleaned, screened thoroughly and filtered completely.

As for the power of the Ma family in Gansu Town, it is necessary to kill them all. The dogs raised must be beheaded, the eggs must be shaken and scattered, and the earthworms must be split vertically.

The interior is clean, but the real crisis has also arrived.

Xiong Kuohai rushed into the general's mansion, wiped the sweat off his fat face, and panted, "It's faster than we thought. Zhuanglang Guard, Hezhou Command Guard, Lintao Prefecture, Gongchang Prefecture, Taozhou Guard, Minzhou Guard, all fell."

"The other side is organizing troops and heading towards Liangzhou Guard. They will arrive the day after tomorrow afternoon."

"That is... August 15th, Mid-Autumn Festival."

Song Wu hurriedly asked, "Have you found out the number of people?"

Xiong Kuohai shook his head and said, "I can't find the specific number, but it is estimated that it will not be less than 110,000, because the Ma family has 60,000 troops in Xining Guard, and at least 50,000 people came from Yarkand, of which more than 10,000 are cavalry, so there is such a fast speed. "Song Wu took a breath and murmured, "No less than 110,000... Now there are 50,000 enemy troops under our tower..." "We are facing the enemy from both sides, and we are in trouble from both sides. There are 160,000 troops in total, and we only have 100,000 in total." Xiong Kuohai shook his head and said, "No, it's 83,000, and nearly 20,000 people have died." Song Wu smiled bitterly and said, "It seems that our lives are hanging by a thread." He stood up, having made up his mind, and said in a deep voice, "Leave Suzhou Guard to Li He, I will go to Liangzhou Guard in person and fight them to the death." "Mid-Autumn Festival, I will reunite with the Ma family!"