Brother Song Taizu

Chapter 282: Collect all Yan Yun and send troops outside the Great Wall

A rare opportunity.

If we don't take advantage of this large-scale military operation to sort out the reorganization of the Forbidden Army by sending troops to the Liao Kingdom, when we come back to sort it out, there will definitely be special ink marks, and it will be endless, and the effect will not be certain. It will be better.

After all, everyone knows that only by joining the Merchant Guard will you be able to be successful and prosperous in the future, and you will be freer and more comfortable without being under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council. If you own your own industry, you will also have a certain degree of autonomy over military spending.

These are the benefits that Zhao Guangmei pointed out clearly. It is a very simple truth. If the army does not engage in production at all and relies entirely on financial allocations, then officers at all levels will definitely be angry. Even if everyone is selfless, they will only want to pay for your money. Don't be right.

What's more, it's impossible for everyone to be selfless and free from corruption.

But if you want them to spend their own money, everyone should know how to feel distressed, and ensure that whether it is training or buying equipment, it will be faster and more economical.

Of course, there must be someone to clamp down and control. What he wants to learn is Persia. It would be ridiculous if he went in the direction of Vietnam or Burma. All military production and trade channels must be controlled. In the hands of the trading company, to ensure the absolute loyalty of the army to the trading company.

But despite this, spending their own money and working with the trading company is simply very satisfying for the middle-level officers. Moreover, if they work for the trading company, the trading company will not treat the soldiers badly.

Based on the experience of the Persian Red Guard, Zhao Guangmei will ask commercial banks to fund the construction of relevant middle schools and universities, so that the selected children can complete their studies and join the guard after graduation. During this period, they cannot keep fighting. In the army, soldiers will also be taught necessary After retiring in his 30s, he would work in various companies under the commercial bank. If he was a little smarter and more practical, it would not be difficult to directly become a small manager. It would even be possible to become a subordinate or even a serious official in the Song Dynasty through the revolving door.If you have meritorious service, you may be directly allocated a few stocks and become the ruling class.

Naturally, it is impossible for all soldiers in the army to know these details, but guessing, it is actually possible to make a rough guess.

Moreover, according to Zhao Guangmei's design, the Trading Company Guards will not easily go abroad to engage in large-scale operations. Instead, they will vigorously support local enemy warlords to fight proxy wars. Therefore, the military intensity is actually not high. It is really what young people are looking for. Great place to work.

On the contrary, the Homeland Defense Force is more tragic. The fact is that when an army completely shifts to a defense orientation, it will save a lot of money.

What is the most important thing about homeland defense?Railways, fortresses, city defense systems, border farms, large artillery and crossbows.

It seems quite expensive, but this money is not spent by the army. The money can go directly to the Ministry of Works from the Duzhi Department. At most, the Privy Council will send a few supervisors, and the Ministry of Works will contract down to the lower levels. Give it to the contractor and then build it. The core power of the entire process is in the hands of civilian officials.

As for daily training, it must be about the same. The intensity of the drills will be greatly reduced. Elite militiamen do not even need to be equipped with armors and weapons. They just need to build something similar to the government army system like in the Han and Tang Dynasties. As long as there is no war, the annual military supply is a fixed amount, and the leadership has almost no other way to make money except drinking the blood of the soldiers.

You can't resell military supplies, right?They must also have the courage.

For the elite of the Guards Division, such as the heavy armored infantry Tiger Division, this Homeland Defense Force can only be said to be a good place to retire, which is equivalent to delegating them from the first-line troops to the second-line troops for no reason.

This is very unpleasant.

Although there will definitely be certain transfers, for example, try to transfer young people to the Guards and old people to the Defense Forces, how to deploy officers at all levels, how to reorganize their numbers, who will retire and who will be promoted, the general meeting of shareholders of the trading company We have already fully discussed the above, but at most we can only make a big difference. No matter how we deal with this kind of thing involving the distribution of interests, it is impossible to satisfy everyone.

It just so happens that this time, because there is still a mission to go out, I will change it and I will almost set off. Are you satisfied, dissatisfied, fair or unfair? Who cares about you when the army is in danger?If you are not convinced, just endure it until I come back.

For this expedition, not only will the entire escort army be reorganized and go out together, Zhao Guangmei also plans to take everyone to Shangjing to station for a period of time. It is also possible for one or two years to finally complete the training here.

The grassland over there is suitable for horse racing and cavalry training. After the recapture of Daliao, the army will have no shortage of horses and horse breeding land. It just gives them more training. In the future, this will become one of the most important stations of the guard army.

In this way, when they return in triumph, everything will be settled in the military reform. There is nothing that can be done about whoever has a bad temper. At most, there are some who are really good, or there are people behind them, and they can pass through bits and pieces. Then go to the escort army to adjust the broken method.

There is no shop like this after passing this village.

Still dissatisfied, and feeling that he was an elite and unwilling to join the defense force, he asked Zhao Kuangyin to join the navy.

The navy will also be under the banner of the Commercial Bank Guards, but it is not in the same management system as the army. Sooner or later it will have to be dismantled, but the overall idea of ​​​​building an army is still the same as that of the army, focusing on deterrence as much as possible. It is possible to support other countries' warlords to fight proxy wars. The core interest appeal is free trade, but there will inevitably be a certain conflict with Zhao Guangmei's land power, which can be regarded as a competitive relationship.

Of course, the more important thing is that this time he mobilized elites in order to act as a deterrent. The escort army was basically derived from the Dianqian Division, and the Dianqian Division was characterized by the use of a large number of new equipment, that is, artillery and muskets. Dependence becomes huge.

Naturally, more time is needed to allocate supplies. The troops and horses will go ahead before food and grass are used, so the pace of the march will naturally be slower.

It should be fine in the future, the train is almost under repair.

The management structure of the new escort army is extremely simple. Zhao Guangmei will be the commander-in-chief for the time being, and Gao Huaide will be the deputy commander-in-chief again, but he will only serve as a staff officer and assistant, similar to the general staff, and his subordinates are indeed To support a staff team.

In addition, the commander-in-chief of the cavalry is Yang Ye, and the commander-in-chief of the infantry is Pan Mei. They are both Zhao Guangmei's own people. The party ban and Tian Qinzuo serve as their deputies. However, Pan Mei is still in South Vietnam at this time. Zhang Qiong replaced him, and there was another person who was in charge of logistics and military discipline. Zhao Guangmei directly transferred Cao Bin to be on the same level as the other two general commanders. Dongchang was preparing to be abolished within a few years.

Is it a dual-core driver? In the future, the trading houses will be owned by the trading houses and the imperial court. Although the two supervise each other, the connection between the two will definitely not be as close as before. Most of their responsibilities will be divided between the Yushitai, the trading houses and the imperial court. The hub of the imperial court was through the Neichang and Xichang.

In this way, in the end, Zhao Guangmei led almost 3 Song troops to the north, and all of them were the best of the best. There were more than [-] cavalry alone, which really took away all the Song Dynasty's wealth.

Li Yixing also wanted to hire Dangxiang men to help him serve as auxiliary troops, but Zhao Guangmei refused, mainly because he was afraid that these Dangxiang men would have poor military discipline and intensify ethnic conflicts.After all, the ethnic issue between Dangxiang and the Khitan people is quite complicated, especially the Zhe clan in Fuzhou, which can be said to be a blood feud with the Khitan people. It is easy to lose control of this thing.

In this way, Zhao Guangmei led the army slowly, letting the baggage go to Xiongzhou by water, and then he led the infantry all the way on bicycles, covering thirty or forty miles a day, and entered the city when it was reached. Just eat, go to bed at night, and arrive at the front line as if on an outing.

It was also intentional, deliberately leaving time to give Yelvxian and the nobles who might be at ease a time to prepare, and also waiting for them, watching them, to see if they dared to take the opportunity to invade Yanyun or even Waqiao Pass.

Zhao Guangmei did not engage in any sharing of food and accommodation. With the strong military power of the Song Dynasty and his high personal prestige, it was not necessary at all. He could just let Yang Ye and the others capture the morale of the army. He himself sat in a huge, Xiao Chuo and his children were also in the extremely luxurious carriage. They even had the leisure time to read a book and make tea while they were on the road. It was extremely comfortable.

This was Zhao Guangmei's second time personally leading an army on an expedition, and even his first time leading an army. He had brought out all the family wealth of the Song Dynasty, military expenses were spent like water, and the morale of the soldiers was extremely high, until At the foot of Youzhou City, the entire team was arranged in an extremely tight marching formation. Every soldier wanted to fight like a pervert in heat, eager to look for the enemy with red eyes.

Not to mention goodbye to Han Derang, whether he and Xiao Chuo had any emotions in their hearts, out of consideration of appeasing people, Zhao Guangmei still allowed him to be the first Youyan Prefecture Yin, and then talked with him for a long time about Youzhou The question of how to develop.

This person is indeed a talent. In history, it was this person who almost single-handedly brought the national power of the Liao Kingdom to its peak, and in terms of political power and national power, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a prime minister and a auxiliary. In theory, even in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, which was known as a cloud of good ministers, in Zhao Guangmei's view, no one could compare with him. Even Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi and others were slightly inferior to him.

Of course, it is difficult to say. After all, although Fan Zhongyan and Wang Anshi were trusted by the monarch, they were not enough to call them husbands. The prime ministers actually exercised monarchical power in history.

The entire Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, after the arrival of Zhao Guangmei and Xiao Chuo, there were no unexpected announcements. The sixteen prefectures came to see them one after another. The entire Nanyuan Armed Forces began to reorganize. Brother Yeluxiu also officially took Yelujing to Datong Mansion. , supported this person to become Emperor of Liao again.

But he himself did not come, perhaps to observe the situation.

The Jurchens sent envoys to express their willingness to help in the war, but Zhao Guangmei said that they should not cause trouble and just send a few leaders to express their submission. They should not even think about the restoration of the Bohai Kingdom.

What's more, Zhao Guangmei directly and roughly divided the Jurchens into two parts: the Birth Jurchens and the Mature Jurchens. The Mature Jurchens were all counted as Khitan people, and did not recognize their identity as Jurchens at all, while the Birth Jurchens, well...

He also didn't understand how many tribes there were on the Jurchen side and what their relationships were. In fact, even Xiao Siwen, who was specifically in charge of these, and even the mature Nvzhen didn't know about it.

So Zhao Guangmei wrote a letter to a Wanyan tribe, asking them to send someone to surrender without losing the position of Jiedushi.

As for what the Wanyan Department does and why it can represent all the real women, Zhao Guangmei can't explain it. Anyway, he knows about the Wanyan Department, and he also said that if he doesn't see the head of the Wanyan Department within half a month, he can't explain it. When he becomes the governor of Jiedushi, he will completely wipe out all the girls.

These are just trivial matters. Even if Brother Yelu Xiu doesn't seem to be as well-behaved as expected, it doesn't matter to him. Yan Yun has long been a piece of meat on the chopping board.

What he really cares about is the Khitan North Courtyard outside Yanyun.

To be honest, he still likes to call this area Inner Mongolia Prairie.

After staying in Yanjing for more than half a month, the sense of oppression was almost exhausted. Only then did Zhao Guangmei, who was extremely well prepared, lead his army out of the city and went straight to Linhuang Mansion in Shangjing.

During this period, there were quite a few Khitan rangers wandering around. Zhao Guangmei didn't care and pretended not to see them. He just asked the party to lead ten thousand knights to form a long formation and divide them into three shifts to protect them. logistics supply line.

He didn't even know if Yelvxian was still on this grassland now, and he didn't bother to find where his main force was and where Ai was. Youzhou was not far from Linhuang Mansion itself, and the supplies were not that long. , ten thousand knights are enough.

He even played poker with Xiao Chuo on the carriage every day out of boredom.

In fact, Yelvxian was not that far away from him, and in such a long time, he had almost finished all the army rations, and if he used any more, he would have to requisition the rations.

With the current situation of the Liao Kingdom, it is not certain whether it can be requisitioned. Maybe the so-called requisition of food will turn into a military grab for food.

"Your Majesty, you see, this is the march map of the Song Army. The [-] Song Army was basically divided into four parts. They marched in sequence without dividing the troops. At present, it seems that the part with only the supply of food roads is still the weakest, but there are also [-] Xiaoqi, if we want to fight, we can only try to rob the food road."

As for directly attacking Zhao Guangmei's main formation, this is a problem that has never been thought of at all.

"Brother Yelvxiu, and Yelujing, still haven't replied to my letter? Are they determined to sell this country of Liao?"

"They are still standing still. In addition, most of the adults, large and small, who have received the order to mobilize troops, still do nothing and are waiting to see the situation."

"Hey~, it's ridiculous, it's pitiful. I, Daliao Jianguo, ignored Yu Zai. Now at the critical moment of life and death, those so-called loyal ministers and good generals are still riding on the wall. Whoever wins they help."

"Then, shall we fight?"

"Fight! If I don't fight, I really can't bear to do it. If I don't fight, those people will definitely not stand up to the wall, and those who betray the country will have no burden. Fight!"

(End of this chapter)