"Ridiculous!" Zhang Jun was furious after a moment's thought. If the emperor was not beside him, he would have cursed. "In terms of the strength of the army, isn't it your commander Han's trusted general Wang Heilong (nickname of Wang Sheng) who led 3,000 soldiers to the east? They are not weak. And all the soldiers are out, the only two reserve elite troops are your commander Han's 1,000 Beiwei troops and 1,000 Cuipian troops, but they are resting behind the dike now... Let me ask you, he has his own soldiers but he doesn't use them, why is he asking me, an empty-handed man, to support his men? Is Wang Heilong such a loser? Such a loser, how could he be the first to pull out the outer fence of the Jin army?"

"My commander said so!" The knight looked up at the confused civil and military officials, as if he had received an order. He was not afraid at all. "In a surprise attack, victory or defeat depends on a meal. If we cannot win quickly, we will just drag it out. It may seem that we have the upper hand, but it is just a waste of effort. We will just wait for the three armies to become exhausted and invite the Jin army to counterattack! Since the opportunity to fight in the east has already appeared, we only need to maintain the rest of the places. We should do our best in the east..."

"You've been talking for so long, but have you ever explained clearly why you don't use the reserve troops in his hands, but instead use the troops that are in the midst of a fierce battle?" Zhang Jun became more and more angry, and he wished he could immediately order the execution of this soldier.

"My commander didn't say this..." After the knight finished his narration, he looked at the furious Commandant Zhang and the high-ranking civil and military officials with pale faces, and he suddenly became discouraged.

Zhang Jun was so angry that he wanted to drive the man out of the city.

Uh, I must take this opportunity to say a few more words here.

At this time, the battle was basically carried out according to the plan made by Han Shizhong that day. Under the personal command of Zhao Jiu, the Song army gathered as many capable fighters as possible from various units, deployed precious armor and weapons, and gathered a total of more than 12,000 soldiers... This was the real fighting force of the imperial camp, which theoretically numbered as many as 40,000 on the Shouzhou battlefield, and actually could number as many as 60,000 including civilian laborers.

To be honest, Emperor Zhao himself didn't know whether he should feel pity or be thankful that he could finally come up with this number.

Then, according to the pre-arranged deployment, the less than 13,000 soldiers were roughly led by Qiao Zhongfu, Zhang Jing, Liu Bao, Huyan Tong, and Yang Yizhong, who led 4,000 soldiers to attack the west of the Jin army camp, that is, from the direction of Xiacai City; Tian Shizhong's troops and part of Zhang Jun's troops who were not elite went around to the north to block the enemy's feint attack, but in fact they quickly dug trenches to prevent the enemy from breaking out by cavalry when they were surrounded on three sides, which in turn caused large-scale casualties to the Song army; in the west, the Huaihe River direction could not deploy too many troops, so Wang De's troops and Fu Qing's troops who volunteered to fight with several hundred soldiers, together with 2,000 soldiers, took the lead; in the east, Wang Sheng, the general of the central army under Han Shizhong, led 3,000 soldiers to participate in the siege...

As for the only reserve force, it was none other than the 2,000 elite troops under Han Shizhong's command. One was his Beiwei Army, and the other was his Cuipian Army. The former was actually cavalry, but had only seven or eight hundred people, and had just arrived from the south bank of the Huai River recently; the latter had more than a thousand, and were the Song Army's most skilled crossbowmen.

Therefore, what Zhang Jun said actually made a lot of sense, and most of the civil and military officials on the city who knew the general military situation nodded in agreement, or understood the anger of General Zhang.

But at this moment, someone suddenly spoke from behind, which made Zhang Boying tremble with fear: "I am the Minister of Censorship Zhang Jun. I ask the emperor to issue a clear order to approve General Han's words... I just saw with my own eyes that General Han's flag has circled the Jin camp. He must know more about the situation in front of the battle than those on the city wall! At this time, you should trust the people you employ!"

PS: And…

On the second day of the Chinese New Year, I continue to wish you all a happy new year! By the way, the book should be available on the first of next month, so I'll let you know.