Although the two countries signed the Lin'an Treaty, Shi Hao could not believe the credibility of the Ming Dynasty, especially Su Yonglin.
He also needs the ministers to immediately realize that this is a life-or-death situation for the Southern Song Dynasty. Please put down your political struggles immediately and start doing business for me immediately. Don't continue to pursue and fight Zhang Jun's remaining party, otherwise we will all wait to die together. Got it!
After Zhao Min received Shi Hao's call, he broke out in a cold sweat.
Most of Jiangnan West Road was occupied by bandits?
Is this bitch a bandit?
This is a separatist warlord!
Zhao Hao immediately realized that he had greatly underestimated the impact of this bandit army, and greatly overestimated the resistance and reaction capabilities of the local governments on Jiangnan West Road. As a result, he missed the opportunity and sat back and watched the bandit army grow bigger and occupy the city. Most of Jiangnan West Road.
Now this bandit army is definitely not a simple bandit army. They are a separatist warlord force that threatens the Zhao family regime in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Zhao Min was scared and annoyed at the same time, so he issued an order to Shangshu Province, asking Shangshu Province to immediately clarify the significance of this war.
This is not a war against bandits, this is a counter-insurgency war, a counter-insurgency war concerning the life and death of the country.
Regarding the three officials who came to the palace to see Zhao Hao at this stall and demanded that the political struggle be expanded and Zhang Jun's remaining party be completely eliminated, Zhao Hao did not say anything and was directly thrown into prison and sentenced to ten years. Their property was confiscated.
If you dare to say such words again and delay business, this will be your fate.
All the officials were frightened and trembling, and they immediately no longer dared to mention the matter of cleaning up Zhang Jun's remaining party.
At the same time, Zhao Min entered the Wanshou Palace in person, found Zhao Gou, and told Zhao Gou about the incident.
He said it more euphemistically, but Zhao Gou still heard it. The banditry on Jiangnan West Road was getting bigger, the court's first wave of conquests failed, and now a second conquest was needed to solve the problem.
Zhao Gou didn't care about Zhao Xin's words. He knew exactly what the problem was, so he turned pale with fright, then pointed at Zhao Xin's nose and cursed.
He rebuked Zhao Hao for his incompetence, and incidentally regretted passing the throne to Zhao Hao so early, without taking into account that Zhao Hao was basically pushed to the throne at that time.
Zhao Min didn't care about this, but looked at Zhao Gou eagerly.
"The Jinghu army has suffered heavy losses, and the Jiangbei defense line is empty. Currently, only the Xiangyang area still maintains defensive strength. Once the news of the banditry spreads to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty knows that our Jinghu army has suffered heavy losses, if someone has evil intentions, the consequences will be disastrous. , the Song Dynasty will be cut in half."
Zhao Gou was anxious.
"Then what are you still doing here? Go and do some work! Fill the vacancies and destroy the bandits! Go quickly!"
"Emperor, I need troops! I need many, many troops!"
Zhao Jun said eagerly: "Shi Hao suggested that I mobilize the Lin'an Imperial Army to fill the vacancy in Jinghu. However, the Imperial Army I can mobilize is only 30,000. This number is far from enough. I need to mobilize the army of the Dianqian Division to assist in the battle! I hope the Emperor will see it. For the sake of the Song Dynasty, promise me!"
Zhao Min bowed to Zhao Gou.
Zhao Gou was stunned for a while, thinking about it, fidgeting, walking around and around in circles.
Good guy, I knew you had bad intentions when you came here, but you didn’t expect that you were after my life.
Zhao Gou wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, he felt that refusing would be of no benefit to him. What if the Song Dynasty was destroyed, what would he do in his later years?
No matter how crazy Zhao Min is, he will never attack himself, so it's okay to give him a little army...but not too much!
So Zhao Gou made a decision.
"I can't give it all to you. If I give it all to you, it will break down if the Ming army comes again. I can't do it without anyone to protect me. Then I'll give you... No, it's too little. Then 20,000. I'll give you 20,000." people!"
"The Emperor! I need more troops! More! The more troops, the better. As for the Emperor's safety, I promise that I will protect the Emperor with my life!"
Zhao Xun eagerly stepped forward to worship and request.
Zhao Gou took a few steps back and said anxiously: "You protect me? How do you protect me? What do you use to protect me? You can't even protect yourself and you protect me? I know you want the army, why don't I want it?"
Now I have given you 20,000 yuan, and I can’t give you the remaining 20,000 yuan no matter what! That's my Praetorian Guard! Do you want me to have no army at all? Or do you want to harm me? ! "
Zhao Min looked at Zhao Gou in surprise, wondering why he could still have such a big imagination at this moment.
What good will it do me to kill you?
Zhao Min wanted to explain, but he soon realized that the explanation was invalid and Zhao Gou would not listen to him at all.
In desperation, Zhao Jin could only accept Zhao Gou's proposal and obtained 20,000 troops from the Palace Front Division, combined with the 30,000 forbidden troops under his control, to form a 50,000 forbidden army reinforcements, which he handed over to the Privy Council and Shi Hao for dispatch.
But Shi Hao was not happy.
Because there is a problem with the composition of this army.
To be precise, this army has problems at the command level.
Zhao Gou did hand over 20,000 troops to Zhao Min for dispatch, but he had a prerequisite, that is, the 20,000 troops must be led by the generals he designated.
This person is Qi Fang.
General Qi Fang, who had just been fished out of death row by Zhao Gou.
Zhao Xun's face suddenly turned as bitter as Huang Lianyou's.
He believed Zhang Jun's statement and almost killed Qi Fang. Qi Fang must not have any loyalty to him and must only obey Zhao Gou's orders. This of course guaranteed Zhao Gou's ownership of the army to the greatest extent.
Zhao Gou used Qi Fang to command the troops, making it clear that he did not trust Zhao Xun and that he wanted to divide military power with Zhao Xun.
The 50,000 troops that were finally gathered together still can't give unified orders?
But this was Zhao Gou's attitude, and Zhao Min was helpless.
Shi Hao couldn't agree, so he personally went to Wanshou Palace to lobby Zhao Gou, hoping that Zhao Gou would hand over all the troops to the Privy Council for the sake of the national crisis, and Qi Fang could participate in the war, but he would not become the commander of an army.
But it was useless to let him talk. Zhao Gou was determined to let Qi Fang command his 20,000 troops, and he was determined not to allow Zhao Xin to interfere with the ownership of the 20,000 troops.
Zhao Gou still believed that Zhao Min might take the opportunity to seize the command of his army.
Even now the Southern Song Dynasty is in danger.
Shi Hao, who was angry with this behavior, scolded Zhao Gou for being short-sighted on the way back to the Privy Council, scolding Zhao Gou for only caring about himself and ignoring the Song Dynasty, and didn't even care about his own honor.
But there was no way, this army was under Zhao Gou's command, and it was Zhao Gou's imperial guard. They couldn't take it by force, so they had no choice but to take it.
Shi Hao could only settle for the next best thing and seconded Zhao Gou to serve as the commander-in-chief of the army, Yang Cunzhong.
He felt that Yang Cunzhong himself was the commander-in-chief of the palace, the chief general who commanded this army, and he had deep qualifications. Even if he commanded the new army under Zhao Kan, he could convince the public.
As a result, Zhao Gou didn't say anything yet, and Zhao Min was unhappy.
Zhao Min did not trust Yang Cunzhong and felt that Yang Cunzhong was a close confidant of Zhao Gou and did not respect him enough. He felt that handing over the army to Yang Cunzhong would affect his control of his own army.
Yang Cunzhong has deep qualifications and high prestige. If he leads the army and wins the battle, won't the Guard Ma Junsi and Guard Infantry Division that he finally directly controls become Zhao Gou's troops?
Shi Hao almost fainted from anger.
Are you really a father and son?
But you are obviously not related by blood!
My Majesty! You are a descendant of Taizu! You are a descendant of Taizu!
At a time when the country is in crisis, you are actually considering this?
Consider whether your throne is still stable!
Shi Hao then had no choice but to do ideological work for Zhao Hao, saying that state affairs were of great importance. Yang Cunzhong was a veteran general. Although he was under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Emperor and was loyal to the Supreme Emperor, he was also very loyal to the country.
When he was guarding Lin'an, wasn't it Yang Cunzhong who stepped forward to stabilize the morale of the army, so that the Ming army did not invade Lin'an?
As long as the Supreme Emperor is alive, Yang Cunzhong will of course protect the Supreme Emperor, but sooner or later the Supreme Emperor will become the Daxing Emperor. Will Yang Cunzhong still follow the Supreme Emperor?
Zhao Xun thought about it and felt that he had no choice. The best candidate at this time was indeed Yang Cunzhong, who was highly qualified and highly respected. So after Shi Hao's repeated pleas, Zhao Xun relented.
After finally convincing Zhao Xin, Zhao Gou was not happy again.
It turned out that Zhao Gou felt that Yang Cunzhong was the only general he could truly trust, and was the last and most important line of defense for his safety. No matter what problems occurred, he had to protect him from Yang Cunzhong before he could feel at ease.
You want Yang Cunzhong to go to war. What if someone wants to murder me while he goes to war?
Faced with this problem, Shi Hao was so angry that he almost cried.
"If someone plots to kill the Supreme Emperor, Shi Hao will protect the Supreme Emperor with his life. The person who wants to murder the Supreme Emperor will step directly over my body! Otherwise, he will never touch a hair of the Supreme Emperor! Please agree to it!"
Shi Hao's eyes were cracked, and he kowtowed to the ground three times in a row, making a muffled sound on the ground.
But Zhao Gou was unmoved by this.
"You are indeed unfaithful to me. You only want to die, gain a good reputation, and be your loyal minister recorded in the history books, but you don't even think about what I will do after you die? Do you want me to be with you? Die?
If you die, no one will protect me, and I will die too. Is this your purpose? Yang Cunzhong would not think like this. He would lead the army to protect me to the end of the world.
His attitude is to protect my life even if he dies, let me be safe first, and then he will die. This is the true loyal minister, so stop talking, I will never let Yang Cunzhong fight. "
Zhao Gou's weird and paranoid thinking pattern made Shi Hao exhausted mentally and physically.
He was desperate, and he weakly withdrew from the Wanshou Palace, told Zhao Yu about the matter, and let Zhao Yu make a decision.
Zhao Min was furious and was very dissatisfied with Zhao Gou's behavior. He was resentful and felt that Zhao Gou was unreasonable.
Later, he refused to accept Yang Cunzhong's proposal to serve as general. Instead, he decided that the 50,000 troops would set off separately, each fighting his own way.
The bodyguard Ma Junsi went to Chizhou to supplement the defense line of the Chizhou army, and the bodyguard Infantry Division went to Jiujiang to supplement the defense line of the Jiujiang army.
Then Qi Fang was appointed to lead the army of the 20,000 Palace Front Division to counterattack Jiangnan West Road.
Of course, it was not Qi Fang's army. Wu Gong was also ordered to lead Tian Shizhong's remaining Ezhou army of 20,000 people to attack the bandits on Jiangnan West Road. The two men embarked on the journey again for several months from different directions and routes. The previous journey.
It is tantamount to restarting the strategy.
But there is nothing that can be done about it. The imperial court really does not have any more troops to mobilize in a short period of time.
Both Qi Fang and Wu Gong had participated in the battle to suppress bandits, and they also had a certain understanding of the bandit troops on Jiangnan West Road, including a relatively good understanding of the local terrain.
But Shi Hao can be considered to have a foresight.
He knew the conflict between Qi Fang and Wu Gong, so he divided war zones between Wu Gong and Qi Fang.
He decided to give Wu Gong the responsibility to recover Longxing Mansion, Linjiang Army, Yuanzhou, Fuzhou, Junzhou and other places.
Qi Fang was responsible for recovering Jianchang Army, Ganzhou, Jizhou, Nan'an Army and other places.
The two armies perform their own duties and are not subordinate to each other. They have no responsibility for each other. They all directly obey the orders of the Privy Council. They are absolutely not allowed to have any disagreements in private. It is best not to even come into contact with them.
Shi Hao felt that it was not enough, so he continued to set rules, saying that if the enemy army rushed into the other side's war zone, even if the enemy army was defeated and was being pursued, as long as they crossed the border, the two armies were not allowed to pursue each other. They only sent someone to report it.
These are rules. There is no such thing as who will suffer and who will not. Those who abide by the rules will be rewarded by the Privy Council afterwards. If they do not abide by the rules, they will still face punishment even if they win.
After reaching this point, Shi Hao felt that everything was fine and there should be no conflicts between the two armies.
At the same time, Shi Hao felt that Wu Gong and Qi Fang did not have any good methods to deal with the bandits, and they were not very strong generals. It was difficult to say whether they could achieve the strategic goals of the Song Dynasty, so he raised the idea of conscripting the Sichuan-Shu War Zone. Thoughts of armies and famous generals.
At that time, the leading general of the Song Dynasty was of course Wu Lin, the Dinghai Shenzhen in the Sichuan-Sichuan region. However, Wu Lin's goal was too big and he was mainly responsible for guarding the Hanzhong area. He directly faced the threat of the Ming army in Guanzhong. His responsibilities were important and should not be ignored.
After much thought, Shi Hao decided to go to Zhao Hao and ask Zhao Hao for permission to mobilize Yao Zhong, one of the three generals in the Sichuan-Sichuan War Zone, to participate in this battle.
Shi Hao's opinion is that Wu Lin is the leader of the three generals of Sichuan and Shu. Wu Lin is also the anchor of Sichuan and Shu, so as long as Wu Lin is there, the Sichuan and Shu region will be stable.
On this basis, dispatching the always brave and skilled general Yao Zhong and his elite troops may make the war situation different.
Zhao Hao did not object to this suggestion, but he felt that it would take two or three months to reach Jiangnan West Road from northern Sichuan. After these two or three months, the war situation would probably be clear, right?
Shi Hao has a different view on this.
"Assemble the two armies of Wu Gong and Qi Fang to attack. The veteran will order them to camp step by step, fight steadily, and no surprise troops are allowed, and they are not allowed to march in long distances. They will use a slow but determined offensive to slowly regain the lost ground and expel the bandits.
In this way, not only will we achieve a great victory, but at least we will not fail. We will also be able to gradually shrink the space for activities of the bandit army and control the development momentum of the bandit army. In this way, after more than two months, when Yao Zhong arrives, we can order Yao Zhong to command the army and achieve victory. The final victory. "
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