Pirate Song

After arriving at the camp, Gao Huaiyuan learned that Hu Zaixing had already led his troops to detour to the north of Zaoyang to meet the invading Jin army, so he could not personally lead his troops back to help him, so he was no longer angry about it.

After all, it was because of the military emergency that Hu Zaixing neglected to take care of his baggage team instead of doing it sincerely. Gao Huaiyuan was not a narrow-minded person, so he let the matter go.

In the next two days, Gao Huaiyuan was responsible for constantly escorting the food and grass equipment out. After arriving here, they were temporarily safe, and because of their success in the battle, the generals in the army did not dare to underestimate their countrymen.

When the soldiers arrived, even if they sent people to get food, fodder and other supplies, they were very polite.

Gao Huaiyuan also took the opportunity to learn about the battle situation in Zaoyang, and couldn't help but start to feel a little worried.

Although Meng Zongzheng led an army of 10,000 to rescue Zaoyang this time, Jin Army coach Wanyan Saibu also deployed heavy troops here. He planned to take Zaoyang County and march directly to Xiangyang.

In the Zaoyang County area, nearly 30,000 troops were assembled, and their strength was much greater than that of the Song Army. The battle situation was very unfavorable to the Song Army.

From Gao Huaiyuan's point of view, if they want to resolve the crisis in Zaoyang, it will be difficult for the Song Army to gather troops and horses for a decisive battle with the Jin Army. Otherwise, not only will they not be able to resolve the siege of Zaoyang, but they may also be taken advantage of by the Jin Army and be defeated.

The whole army would have to be wiped out, but he did not have a map of the Zaoyang area and did not know the details of the Jin army, so this idea could only stay in his mind and he could not actually formulate a battle plan.

As a rural soldier responsible for transporting baggage, he was not even an officer and was not qualified to participate in any military meetings. Therefore, even if he had ideas, he could not put forward his own opinions, so he could only

His subordinates, Jia Qi and others, gathered together without incident and conducted some private analysis and discussions on the battle situation through some information they had learned, but in fact they could not provide any suggestions to Meng Zongzheng.

However, this does not affect Gao Huaiyuan's interest. After all, he did not really want to make any military exploits when he came here this time, but came with the idea of ​​observing and learning. Therefore, although he cannot participate in the war decision-making, he can

It was not bad to be an auditor here, so he did not feel any sense of loss. Instead, he told his subordinates to take advantage of this opportunity to see more, think more, learn more, and just do their part well.

The next battle was exactly as he and Jia Qi expected. Meng Zongzheng was a veteran general after all. He was not stupid enough to fight the Jin army with weak troops. Instead, he and Hu Xingxing were divided into three groups.

The direction began to attack the Jin army in the Zaoyang area, using the method of dividing the troops to attack, seeking opportunities to annihilate the enemy during the movement.

As for Gao Huaiyuan's rural soldiers, during this period of time, they also released all the grain and fodder they had escorted to the various armies. They were once again ordered to return to Xiangyang to transport grain, but they were unable to come to the front line in person to participate in the Zaoyang War, which lasted for several months.

During the offensive and defensive battle.

Even so, Gao Huaiyuan was immediately ordered to gather more than 400 of his rural warriors and set out on the road back to Xiangyang. Meng Zongzheng also learned that some of the Jin army had bypassed Zaoyang from Tanghe County and arrived near Xiangyang.

Gao Huaiyuan began to contain the Song army in the Xiangyang area. It was not safe for Gao Huaiyuan, so he specially assigned them a capital (two teams in the Song Dynasty were one capital, with a hundred people in each capital!). The Song army's archers strengthened his troops.

He even ordered the captain to obey Gao Huaiyuan's instructions. It can be seen that Meng Zongzheng had learned about Gao Huaiyuan's abilities from Meng Gong, so he was treated with such kindness.

Gao Huaiyuan also knew that the forces of the Song and Jin armies were intertwined like canines in Zaoyang and Xiangyang. This trip could still be very dangerous, so he ordered everyone in the camp to be vigilant from the very beginning and be on guard at all times.

Encountered such a situation, Huang Yan and others with horses were also used as scouts, and they were ordered to clear the way in front of the team to avoid being suddenly attacked by the Jin army.

Fortunately, on the way back to Xiangyang, they had better luck. They moved with an empty carriage all the way, walked faster, and did not encounter any more Jin troops. They arrived in Xiangyang City three days later.

At this time, it was already the season of early autumn. Calculating the time, it had been almost three months since their group had left Daye County. Even the weather had begun to become a little cooler, and the night wind began to bring a little warmth.

There was a hint of coolness.

At this time, Gao Jian, who was in the courtyard of the Gao family in Shaoxing Prefecture, was furious with a letter, slapping the table and shouting: "This Sanlang is so bold! Please stay away from the old house."

, but went out with the army to fight in Xiangyang! Damn it! Damn it! You are not looking for death like this!"

Gao Jian originally heard the news that Gao Huaiyuan had become a senior citizen from an old friend in Daye County some time ago. He was a little happy at first, but when he thought that Song and Jin were at war again, he became a little uneasy.

Although he had not cared much about Gao Huaiyuan's affairs before, after that meeting a year ago, he began to feel some love for this son who knew how to be filial.

When I thought of Daye County, it was not far from Ezhou. During the war between the Song and Jin Dynasties, it was inevitable to recruit local people to join the army. As a senior citizen, Gao Huaiyuan should be within the scope of recruitment, so he hurriedly wrote a letter to Liu Zhixian of Daye County.

I wrote a letter, asking him not to draft Gao Huaiyuan into the army, and also sent some money to Magistrate Liu to clear the matter. He was afraid that Gao Huaiyuan, young and energetic, would go to the army to serve.

He also wrote a letter to Gao Huaiyuan, asking him to stay at home peacefully and not to be a leader. War is not a joke. The feud between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty has lasted for hundreds of years. The war has basically never stopped. Basically, the Song Dynasty

Of course, Gao Jian knew that most of the people would suffer losses, so he gave many warnings to Gao Huaiyuan not to do stupid things impulsively.

After sending someone to Daye County in a hurry, Magistrate Liu of Daye County wrote a letter in his own hand, praising Gao Huaiyuan, and informed Gao Jian that Gao Huaiyuan led Daye soldiers to the Ezhou camp, and

Tell Gao Jian that Gao Huaiyuan and his party should have arrived in the Xiangyang area by now.

Gao Jian had just received a reply from Liu Zhixian, and he was furious on the spot. In the past, he would have been unhappy at most. Gao Huaiyuan's life and death was not a big deal, but now because of the father and son,

Due to the improvement of their relationship, Gao Jian already attached great importance to Gao Huaiyuan's life and death. Hearing that he had taken people to Xiangyang, his heart suddenly tightened.

Shaoxing Prefecture is very close to Lin'an, Hangzhou, so the information is better than other places. As for major events such as the war between Song and Jin Dynasties, as a member of the government, they are always paying attention to the development of the situation, and Gao Jian is the general in charge of documents.

Judgment, so of course he knew the movements of the Jin army. He knew that the Jin army had already captured Xinyang and other places in the north of the Yangtze River at this time. The front was pointed at the Xiangyang area. Gao Huaiyuan ran there at this time. In his opinion, it was as if he was going to die.

That's why I became so anxious, like an ant on a hot pot, wandering around the house while the fire was burning, thinking about whether there was any way to help Gao Huaiyuan to deal with Daye County.

But after thinking about it, I couldn't think of any good way. Zhao Fang is now in charge of the Jingxi Road side. He is just a Shaoxing magistrate and can't reach Zhao Fang's side at all. In the chaos of war, even if he can find

Gao Huaiyuan, he did not dare to let Gao Huaiyuan leave Xiangyang without authorization and run back to Daye County. Otherwise, he would have escaped from the battlefield, and even his father would be implicated!

What annoyed him even more was that from the letter from Liu Zhixian, he actually found out that Gao Huaiyuan had become the escort of the Daye County Township Barracks this time. Gao Huaiyuan was actually the commander of the Daye County Township Barracks.

This incident made him even more helpless. He really couldn't understand that even if Gao Huaiyuan was better than before, he was still not powerful enough to lead hundreds of troops!

In his opinion, what happened this time was simply caused by the instigation of Gao Huaiyuan by Magistrate Liu of Daye County and others, and they must have fed Gao Huaiyuan, a silly boy, something to make him come out on his own initiative.

Becoming a bullshit escort was something that should have been done by the county captain or the archers in the county government. Otherwise, how could Gao Huaiyuan, who was only fourteen or fifteen years old, be able to obey the crowd and lead the troops!

Therefore, Gao Jian firmly believed that Magistrate Liu and his gang were harming Gao Huaiyuan in this matter, so he hated these people in his heart, even though he was an official in Shaoxing Prefecture, not on the same road as Jingxi Road.

But he knew about the interoperability between officials, so after much deliberation, he couldn't get Gao Huaiyuan back from the battlefield at the moment, but he had to take a breath and rectify Liu Zhixian or the Wang County Lieutenant.

Therefore, he sent someone to write a letter to the Ezhou magistrate who was recruiting scholars in the same department, telling him the matter tactfully, telling Magistrate Liu and Wang County Wei to seize power and send one of his fourteen-year-old sons as a escort to accompany the army.

Lao Lao also gave this colleague a generous gift and asked this colleague to help him breathe a sigh of relief.

As for the fact that Gao Huaiyuan, as the elder, led Xiangyong to join the army, everyone in the Gao family soon learned about it, and the wives immediately secretly rejoiced. They all saw that Gao Jian was now obsessed with this silly son.

He fell in love with her more and more, especially as his wife Zhang seemed to see a glimmer of opportunity in it.

Now he has given up any hope that Gao Jian can forgive her biological son Gao Huailiang, and until now her unsatisfactory son Gao Huailiang has been sent to Fujian to suffer. As a mother-in-law, she can't help it. This time when she heard about Gao Huailiang

Huaiyuan left home without permission to join the army to help in the war. She felt that this opportunity had come. Even if she could not let her son Gao Huailiang return to Shaoxing, she would at least try to get him back to his hometown. At least he could get the hundreds of acres of land in his old house.

The ending of a day of subsistence is always much better than in Fujian.

After making up her mind, she immediately went to Gao Jian and tried to persuade Gao Jian. On the pretext that Gao Huaiyuan was far away from the old house and there was no one to take care of it, she wanted Gao Jian to bring her son Gao Huailiang back and go back to the old house first to take care of the old house.

It would be better to leave things at the old house unattended than to let him suffer alone in Fujian. After all, Gao Huailiang is still Gao Jian's biological flesh and blood!

But when Gao Jian mentioned this unfilial son, he became angry. He also knew that Gao Huailiang was his own flesh and blood, but how could there be any theory in this world that his son cuckolded his father? So he was determined not to care about this guy.

, and the people who returned to Daye's old house this time also brought back news that Gao Huaiyuan had arranged things there before leaving home for the expedition, leaving a loyal servant named Xue Yan to take care of things there.

Things, and according to people who came back, Xue Yan did a good job in taking care of the old house, and he also made up his mind to leave the hundreds of acres of land in the old house to Gao Huaiyuan for his retirement, so

As soon as she heard that Mrs. Zhang was planning to bring back Gao Huailiang's unfilial son, she immediately became furious, scolded Mrs. Zhang and drove her back to her residence, telling her never to mention Gao Huailiang's son again.

The name of an unfilial son.

As a result, Mrs. Zhang was frustrated and went back to bed and cried a lot, but there was nothing Gao Jian could do.

Gao Huaiyuan didn't know that his father Gao Jian had already known his whereabouts and was busy venting his anger behind him. At this time, he had already packed up the food and fodder needed by the front army in Xiangyang and escorted the convoy to leave again.

Xiangyang, heading towards Zaoyang County.

Whatever you do, you must have the consciousness to do it. Although Gao Huaiyuan cannot go into battle and kill, Gao Huaiyuan does not envy those soldiers who can go into battle and kill. After all, he is still young and wants to do more things for the Han people. He is not in a hurry to go to the battlefield yet.

He's going to die! What's more, if he wanted to, he could have joined the army long ago and become an officer in the regular army under Meng Zongzheng or Hu Zaixing. But once he joined the army, it would be even more difficult to get out! So he still

I decided to do the things at hand first. Anyway, it seems that this battle between Song and Jin will take a long time. Sooner or later, there will be a chance to meet the Jin army.

When he left Xiangyang this time, he made sufficient preparations and researched the news about the Jin soldiers' activities in Xiangyang. Finally, he gave up the plan of returning to Zaoyang via the old road and chose a route that had not yet seen the Jin soldiers.

A slightly further road to the south.

After leaving Xiangyang, he immediately led his team to travel day and night and hit the road to the enemy's camp.

It is said that Meng Zongzheng led his army to fight the Jin army in Zaoyang, but in fact the main battlefield was between Xiangyang and Zaoyang. During these days, Meng Zongzheng, Hu Zaixing, and Chen Xiang had fought in seven directions many times.

There was a fight with the Jin people in the town area. The two sides fought inextricably. It can be said that there was victory or defeat for each other. Although the Jin army was stronger, this was still the territory of the Song people. Under the leadership of these three people, the Song army adopted guerrilla warfare.

They repeatedly dealt with the Jin army, making it impossible for the Jin army to grasp their main force and engage in a decisive battle. The Jin army in Zaoyang was also unable to attack for a long time, which greatly dispersed their forces and made it difficult to form a local attack on the Song army.

With their absolute advantage, Meng, Hu and others were unable to do anything for a while, and the war temporarily fell into a stalemate.

And Gao Huaiyuan's baggage team was not the only baggage team in Meng Zongzheng's hands. After all, more than 10,000 troops and horses were consumed. The supply of Gao Huaiyuan's baggage team of less than 500 people was far from enough. In ancient times,

In wars, there are often far more logistics troops than regular troops. There are still more than a dozen rural military camps doing the same thing as Gao Huaiyuan and his group. This is also for insurance reasons. One of the provincial supply teams was knocked out.

, the whole army was in a situation of running out of food.

Therefore, even if he took a long detour and walked two days longer, Gao Huaiyuan was not afraid that the army would run out of food because of his delay. Therefore, after careful consideration, he chose to return to Meng Zong's political camp via Huanglong Town.

Two days after leaving Xiangyang City, Gao Huaiyuan led the convoy into the mountain road. The reason why Gao Huaiyuan chose such a difficult road was for safety reasons. If he encountered the Jin Army cavalry again on the plains,

, with no front and no store behind, Yima Pingchuan has no other choice but to sit back and wait for death and resist stubbornly. It's okay to encounter a small group of Jin army. Once he encounters a large group of Jin army, the final fate of people like him is certain.

Still have to be killed.

Therefore, although the mountain road is difficult to walk, it is safer to walk, especially the road leading to Huanglong Town, which is far away from the passage between Xiangyang and Zaoyang. The possibility of encountering Jin Bing here can be said to be

Very little.

So in the end, after careful consideration, Gao Huaiyuan chose this path.

Although it has reached the end of summer, the weather is still extremely hot and muggy. The baggage trains often have to go on the road early, rest on the spot at noon when the weather is the hottest to avoid the high temperature period, and then go back on the road in the afternoon when the weather is cooler, so the journey is slow.

Also comfortable.

Especially after entering the mountain, everyone's tense nerves relaxed, so everyone talked and laughed while walking. Now that Gao Huaiyuan has completed the stage of establishing his power, he no longer carries a strange face every day.

From time to time, he would have a few playful chats with these village warriors, which brought him closer to the village warriors under his command. This is sometimes the case in running the army. It requires a person to be relaxed and relaxed, and not to be too old.

Asking his subordinates to be tense will sooner or later cause resentment among them. Gao Huaiyuan naturally understands this principle, so he grasps the standards very well, and gradually becomes familiar with these people.

In this way, it was more convenient for him to control the rural soldiers. Even the Song Army archers who came with them gradually integrated into their group. They heard that Gao Huaiyuan was in

After the defeat of the Jin cavalry in Qifang Town, these Song soldiers also admired Gao Huaiyuan very much, and no one dared to treat him as a child.

For two days in a row, they walked more than half of the mountain road and came to a place called Tiger Cliff. Seeing that it was noon, Gao Huaiyuan sent an order to stop the team and rest in the shade on the roadside.

After noon, start again.

But at this time, Huang Yan, who was clearing the way in front, suddenly ran back on horseback and shouted nervously: "A large number of golden soldiers appear in front, young master, hurry up and prepare..." dd