Prime Minister

Chapter 958 Reviewing the Armies

Zhang Yue looked at the expressions of the generals below and truly reflected their thoughts. In a nutshell, Wen Tianwu has been playing for a long time.

This has been the case since the Chanyuan Alliance, and the armies in Hebei have been enjoying peace and prosperity.

After Song Qi served as the herdsman of the group, he inspected Ma Zheng.The armies of Hebei were the first line of troops to resist the Liao Kingdom. More than [-]% of the cavalry had no horses.

It was not until Wang Anshi became prime minister that he set out to change this situation, aiming to bring order to the world and control the barbarians and Di.

Since the fifth year of Xining, Wang Anshi and the officials have made plans. If he wants to rule the world and subdue the barbarians, he needs to make plans early.

Specifically implemented at the level, it is to attack from the west and defend from the east.

On the one hand, he sent Zhang Yue and Wang Shao to attack the Qing and Tang tribes.

The other side is to carry out defense preparations in Hebei.

The General's Art of War solves the situation where the soldiers do not know the generals and the generals do not know the soldiers. At the same time, the Baojia Method and the Huma Method solve the problem of civilian mobilization and the Song army's urgent shortage of horses.Since the implementation of the Baojia Law, a total of 6903 million civilians have been organized, and 56 have completed military training.

In order to resist the Liao Kingdom, Beijing mobilized the armed guards to strengthen the Hebei Fourth Route, and completed the dental formation and field training for the Hebei armies. They also began to repair the Hebei water and land defense lines, consolidate the city, and plant trees on the border to block the Khitan cavalry.

It was precisely because of these preparations and the threat from Xixia that Zhang Yue dared to go to Hebei in front of the officials. He only did it to take advantage of the situation and never to clean up the mess.

However, Zhang Yue saw today that the generals in Hebei were still not mentally prepared for a war with the Liao Kingdom, and completely turned a deaf ear to the above orders. Is this taking the court's orders as a joke?

Zhang Yue was a little angry in his heart. He glanced sideways at Wen Yanbo and thought, This is what you said, don't rely on him to come, rely on me to be ready.If you don’t rely on it, you can’t attack. How can you rely on me to have something that you can’t attack?

What a big lie.

But Zhang Yuexun immediately thought about it and realized that Wen Yanbo was not to blame.He, the old man, is powerless to change this situation now.

So it’s no wonder that when it comes to politics, we have to step up our efforts at every level. It turns out that the people below don’t take it seriously at all.

We must fight, which means that we may have to fight; we may have to fight, which means that it is almost impossible to fight; and it is almost impossible to fight, which means that we will never fight.

The silence and reluctance of the generals below almost formed a combined force to push against him.

What does it mean that it is difficult to disobey public opinion?

How about you being the Xuanfu envoy?So what if you have the right to do things cheaply?Can you still be more powerful than the Khitan people opposite you?

We don’t have to oppose you face to face, but you can’t make us agree!

Zhang Yue felt this subtlety, and it was okay to be unable to speak for a while.

He didn't bother to talk about any reason. These people couldn't be moved by reason.

He stood up and said without saying a word: "Three days later on the school field - review all departments!"

After saying this, Zhang Yue asked people to take away the notebooks of the generals and then walked away.

The handbook is also called the calendar handbook. It contains the comments made by the superior officer to you, which is related to your future promotion. It is like a personnel file.

Zhang Yue took away everyone's calendar notebooks and said that they would be reviewed at the school in three days. The intention behind this was self-evident.

The generals felt that Zhang Yue's request was very difficult for them, so they started talking about it.

"After the Chanyuan Alliance, the two countries have not fought each other for more than [-] years. If I start a war lightly and destroy the good relations between the two countries for decades and cause border troubles, I am afraid that no one will be able to bear the responsibility. of."

"Yes, so what if I win this time? After decades of war with the Khitan, can I always win?" "Commander Xuan is too worried. This Hebei is not the northwest. Those Qingtang people If you are not even as good as the Dangxiang people, how can you defeat the Khitans?"

"Emperor Taizong was so wise and powerful, and Duke Cao Guo was so heroic, but in the end he was completely defeated at the hands of the Khitans."

"Hebei's 70 years of peace are about to be destroyed."

The generals only need to give the Liao some money or some land in exchange for a peaceful life. If they fight a war, the cost will be huge.Of course, this was not entirely the case. Many generals also left silently, thinking about how to gain Zhang Yue's favor during the review in three days.

Zhang Yue retreated and discussed with Wen Yanbo.

Wen Yanbo asked: "Is it too presumptuous? The general of Hebei has been afraid of the strong soldiers and horses of the Liao Kingdom for a long time, and he has not heard the sound of drones and drums for more than seventy years. Although he has made preparations in these years, he is frightened if he rushes to fight with the Liao Kingdom. Most people.”

"It is better to slow things down with words and explain the truth slowly. Otherwise, if the pressure is too much, it will easily lead to a violent rebellion. In the past, we have not heard of collective mutinies after the army set off."

Speaking of this, Wen Yanbo felt a little sad.

Zhang Yue knew that the other party was thinking of the Beizhou mutiny.

The army of the Song Dynasty was expert in civil war but not expert in external war. In other words, only in the civil war did it completely inherit the level of the warlords of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties.

The Qingzhou mutiny that Zhang Zhi put down took place during the Battle of Lawu City.The Beizhou mutiny also alarmed the senior officials of the Song Dynasty, and it was finally put down by Wen Yanbo, otherwise the rebels would even capture Daming Mansion.

Wen Yanbo taught Zhang Yue his method of running an army, which was to coax him.

Zhang Yue did not agree, but said: "This matter is not comparable to that of the past. The Liao Kingdom is already stronger than me. If we don't explain in advance how to break this move, once we actually go into battle, something will happen easily."

After a pause, Zhang Yue said to Wen Yanbo: "Mr. Lu Guo, my generals and military personnel always put the word 'sincerity' first, and all principles of loyalty are derived from the word 'cheng'."

Wen Yanbo nodded when he heard this and said: "Good."

……

Three days later, Zhang Yue reviewed the armed forces at the campus outside Damingfu.

Zhang Yue was sitting in the stands of the school ground. On his left and right were senior generals like Du Jian, and generals such as Qian Ji sat beside him.

The remaining hundreds of generals were not eligible to sit and could only stand in the stands.

In order to resist powerful enemies, the four pacification envoys in Hebei were the first military region of the Song Dynasty, and the pacification envoys in Damingfu were the top priority.The Damingfu Road Appeasement Division has jurisdiction over Chan, Huai, De, Bo, Bin, Dizhou, as well as the Tongli and Baoshun armies. It can be said that it has many soldiers and generals.Except for Bianjing, the entire Song Dynasty was the place where resources were allocated with the highest priority. From this, we can know what the status of the other three armies of Hebei Province was?

Zhang Yue's deployment of troops and generals here today is also an old method that has been tried and tested in running the army in the northwest, which is to grasp the two ends and promote the middle.

Select outstanding generals from the army of Daming Prefecture and give them promotion rewards, and then depose and demote the weak generals.

By adding good to good, eliminating the weak and leaving the strong, let the vast majority of people in the middle know how to do it, and finally drive them through such clear-cut rewards and punishments.

Compassion does not command troops, so use thunderous means when necessary, but you must pay more attention to propriety and method when doing things.The soldiers and generals of the Song Dynasty were really capable of causing trouble.

The Song Dynasty spent more than three-quarters of its treasury revenue to support generals and soldiers, not to scare the Khitan people with fancy tricks.When it is abolished, it is abolished, and when it is dismissed, it is dismissed. Once in the battle, losing is a matter of losing one's head.

The generals looked at the hundreds of calendars in front of Zhang Yue's case. Every single one of them was related to their future. At this moment, they were salivating.

At this moment, drums were beating below the school grounds, and the review began.