The golden thief finally retreated!
Although they did not retreat back to their hometown, nor did they retreat to Yanyun, they just retreated from Dagong Mountain and Tiancheng Fort 10 miles north to Liyang County, which means they retreated more than 20 miles. If Zhao Kai chooses a time when visibility is better to climb to the heights of Dagong Mountain, he can still see the marching team led by Wanyan Wushu meandering northward, slowly approaching Liyang County, which is still under the control of the gold thieves.
In Tangyin, north of Liyang, a Jin army with tens of thousands of people is currently stationed - they are the main force of the Jin Thief East Route Army led by Wanyan Yan Mu and Wanyan Zongwang. We arrived in Tangyin County on the 4th and may head south at any time!
Therefore, the crisis in Kaifeng Mansion and the crisis in the Song Dynasty are far from being resolved!
But in the early morning of the sixth day of the first lunar month of the seventh year of Xuanhe, Zhao Kai, who excitedly climbed to the commanding heights of Dagong Mountain and saw the Jin soldiers retreating slowly, was still a little excited and dancing.
"Wow haha... The golden thief retreated, the golden thief retreated, I won the battle, I won the victory this time, this is good, Kaifeng Mansion is safe for the time being!"
A group of civil and military ministers who followed Zhao Kai up the mountain heard what the Song Dynasty official said and congratulated him one after another.
"Your Majesty is wise and mighty, and he has won the victory. The golden thief has fled, and Tokyo can rest easy. I congratulate your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty has developed martial virtues and is invincible in every battle. Sooner or later, he will be able to attack Youyan and regain the lost territory. I congratulate your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty has a clever plan and a decisive victory over the enemy. He is an unprecedented hero since Taizong and Zhenzong. His Majesty is the emperor. It is a blessing to the country and the world!"
Some people flatter me, and of course some people throw cold water on me.
"Your Majesty is a great leader. Now it is too risky to cross the river with only 20,000 troops to stop the enemy. If there is even a slight mistake, wouldn't our family, country and world be in danger?"
"Your Majesty is the lord of the world, and it is your duty to govern the world. It is your duty to lead the troops in battles, and you, the general, can do it for you. I sincerely request that your Majesty return to Beijing as soon as possible to take charge of the overall situation."
The ones who threw cold water were two civil servants who brought troops to serve the king. One of them was a white-faced scholar with thick eyebrows and three locks of beard. He was thirty-six or seventeen years old. His name was He Li. He was appointed to the Huiyou Pavilion to be announced. Yanzhou affairs.
There was another person who was a tall, burly, fat man with a red face. He looked to be in his sixties, but he was still energetic and had a loud voice. This man's name is Zhang Shuye. He is a direct bachelor of Longtuge and knows the affairs of Qingzhou.
The places where these two officials served were both on Jingdong Road, very close to Junzhou and Huazhou where Sanshan Floating Bridge is located. Moreover, they seemed to be civil servants with some knowledge of military affairs, so they responded quickly. After receiving the edict from King Qin , and immediately summoned thousands of people and rushed to Kaifeng Mansion day and night. When they passed Huazhou and Yunzhou to the east of Junzhou, they heard that the Jin soldiers were attacking the Sanshan Floating Bridge. They immediately realized that the Jin soldiers had to be blocked north of the Sanshan Floating Bridge, so they changed their direction and did not go to Kaifeng Mansion. Instead, he went to Sanshan Floating Bridge for emergency relief.
The two met near Liangshanbo in Yunzhou, and then joined forces, leading six to seven thousand people together, and drove to Huazhou day and night. They only arrived in Huazhou last night, located at Wenzi Mountain at the southeast entrance of Sanshan Bridge. fort.
At Wenzi Mountain Fort, the two of them met Wang Yuan, who had just taken office to know about Huazhou affairs. From Wang Yuan's mouth, they learned a major event that almost shocked their jaws - Zhao Kai, who had just ascended the throne and had not even had time to change his reign title, had personally marched to the Sanshan Floating Bridge and was stationed at Qiju Mountain, commanding more than 20,000 people. The human Song army is resisting the Jin Dynasty! Moreover, he also fought a battle with the golden thieves and actually won a great victory, wiping out three to four thousand enemies... In this battle, the officials of the Song Dynasty even went into battle and captured alive a golden general (Guo Guo). Goddess), she is really brave to the extreme!
He Li and Zhang Shuye were not happy at all after hearing that the officials were so brave. Although the military system of the Song Dynasty was designed around personal conquests by imperial commanders - under normal circumstances, except for the emperor himself, no one else, whether they were civil servants, generals, or chamberlains, could have full authority to command the army or the enemy's territory.
However, the civil servants of the Song Dynasty did not agree with the official's personal conquest at the same time. They believed that it was not a last resort, and at the same time they were absolutely sure that the official would still serve as the imperial general from the "center" because they were in charge of the court.
The most ideal command method is for the emperor and a group of important officials who are familiar with military literature but have never seen a battlefield to formulate a specific combat strategy at the court, and then draw a battle plan and hand it over to the ministers and generals on the front line. , Chamberlain, let them act according to the plan without making mistakes.
Oh, by the way, it is also taboo to appoint a general to lead the three armies.
A more ideal approach is to have civil servants serve as pacifiers (Xuanfu, Zhizhishi, and Jinglueshi), military generals as commanders of the capital, and internal servants and supervisors of the army. The three of them jointly hold the power of dispatching and commanding. At the same time, the transfer envoys with cultural resources control the logistics of the army (the officers of the transfer envoy are generally the pacification envoys, and are not controlled by the pacification envoys), and then a group of generals such as commanders, commanders, generals, etc. are used to lead the armies.
As for the local officials in the prefectures and counties located in the war zone, it is not the ministers such as Xuanfu and appeasement who can use military laws to supervise them, let alone remove and punish them in the name of delaying military aircraft.
Of course, the above model is still a case where the war is limited to one pacification envoy. If the war spreads to multiple pacification envoys, it will be even more chaotic. Sometimes a commander-in-chief is appointed who will nominally lead each branch. Sometimes, a commander-in-chief is not even appointed, and the subordinates are asked to directly take orders from the court... And how can the court understand the situation on the front line? ? Of course he was giving blind orders.
In other words, if Zhao Kai did not take command of Sanshan Floating Bridge and instead sent He Guan to lead troops, then He Guan would not be able to control Liang Fangping, and Liang Fangping would not listen to He Guan. Of course, it was impossible for the state capitals such as Renfu and Yunzhou to accept the orders of He Guan and Liang Fangping to send out civil servants. Not to mention putting Huazhou directly under the "military control" of General Wang Yuan.
And the consequence of this kind of front line without a commander and the military commander not being able to take military control of the place is of course a huge defeat...otherwise in the original history, how could the gold thief reach Kaifeng Mansion with such unstoppable momentum?
So after hearing He Li and Zhang Shuye's advice, Zhao Kai could only smile bitterly and said to them: "If I hadn't been here, the thief would have crossed the Yellow River today! So there is no need for the second minister to persuade me to return to the capital to take charge. , because I can’t go back to Beijing now!”
Zhang Shuye was a civil servant who had fought in the war. Of course he understood that what Zhao Kai said was true, so he did not say anything further.
He was trained as a "Commander Yan" - because the Song Dynasty had always followed the line of using civil society to control military affairs, but at the same time it had to deal with the long-term war with the Western bandits (Xi Xia), so starting decades ago, it was intentional or unintentional To train some "military civilian officials".
These "military civil servants" generally look fierce and have some martial arts skills. After becoming officials, they will be sent to the northwest front line to serve as officials in the border areas of Shaanxi and accumulate military experience.
This Zhang Shuye is such a civil servant.
And He Li was born as the number one scholar in the imperial examination, and he was the great leader in the world. He first served as a school secretary, then as a scholar, then as an official in the Ministry of Rites, and then as a minister and a remonstrator. Along the way, he followed the path of a pure remonstrator. It was only because he offended someone by impeaching powerful officials that he was impeached twice by foreign parties. However, he did not serve as an official on the front line, so his military experience was almost zero.
When he saw that Zhao Kai still wanted to continue fighting abroad, regardless of the important affairs of the court, he became a little anxious and angry, so he continued to speak: "Your Majesty, now that the golden thieves have retreated, the defenses on the Sanshan Floating Bridge are strong, as long as one or two people are appointed General Chen Chen is enough to ensure that everything is safe. I ask your majesty to return to the capital immediately and take charge of the overall situation of the fight against the Jin Dynasty."
Zhao Kai waved his hand and said with a smile: "He Qing doesn't know the military...or the crisis of the current situation, so there is no need to say these useless words. You should first listen to the military discussion between me and the generals!"
Then he said to Zhang Shuye: "Zhang Qing, you know the military... You don't need to participate in the military meeting later. I will immediately issue an order to appoint you as the personal military envoy and deputy privy envoy." You immediately lead your troops to Tokyo City to help Li Gang strengthen the city's defenses."
Li Gang is also a "military veteran". His father, Li Kui, was an aide to Lu Huiqing, the commander-in-chief of Yan Yan, and participated in the northwest war against Xixia. But Li Gang had no military experience, so Zhao Kai was worried that he could not organize the militia and defense of Kaifeng Mansion, so he hurriedly sent Zhang Shuye to Kaifeng Mansion to help.
After coming down from Dagong Mountain and returning to Jushan Camp, Zhao Kai first asked Chen Ji, a Hanlin scholar who was accompanying the army, to draw up the imperial edict, and asked Zhang Shuye to take the imperial edict and take office quickly. Then he summoned the generals and He Li, and they gathered together in a large tent around a large wooden map to start a military discussion.
"Your Majesty, the defenses to the north and south of the Sanshan Floating Bridge are considered solid for the time being." He Guan, the camp envoy, said to Zhao Kai, "But the gold thieves on the north bank of the Yellow River will never retreat... They will definitely cross the Yellow River eastward, and then The detour approaches Kaifeng Prefecture. The northeast of Kaifeng Prefecture is almost flat, except Liangshan Po in Yunzhou, which is a dangerous place. Liangshan Po is located in the east of Yuncheng County, with mountains and rivers, as well as Jishui, Guangji River, Wenshui, Huangou merges into it and extends in all directions. If we station a large army in it, we can defend ourselves when we retreat, and we can threaten the gold thieves who are detouring westward to Kaifeng when we advance."
"Okay! Let's go to Liangshan!" Zhao Kai immediately dispatched his plan... He is still very familiar with the terrain in the Liangshan area. Liangshan is very close to his hometown in his previous life!
He had heard the story of the Liangshan heroes quite a lot. He also knew the "Water Margin" by heart... I wonder if there are any Liangshan heroes there?
"Your Majesty," He Li on the side felt something was wrong again, "You want to go to Liangshan? Isn't it wrong?"
It is indeed inappropriate for officials of the Song Dynasty to go to Liangshan! When an official went to Liangshan, how could the heroes of Liangshan expect to be recruited?
Zhao Kai thought about it for a while and smiled: "It's not me who went to Liangshan, but Captain Gao who went to Liangshan... Captain Gao went to Liangshan (he was captured in Liangshan in Water Margin), and he is familiar with the roads. There’s nothing wrong with doing it again!”
