Li Xun observed the situation around him for a while, and then whispered to Wang Jiaoru: "You go and bring Zhao Shuo, the king of Chu, here." ”

The other party's target must be Zhao Shuo, the king of Chu, and his own goal is also Zhao Shuo, one is going to die, the other is to live, the way is different, but the goal is the same.

Wang Jiaoru nodded and led the two personal soldiers to leave quickly.

Yu Heng led a group of soldiers from the front hall and hurried over.

"General Yu, you came just in time, the other side is overwhelming, let's prepare to break through."

Li Xun put forward his own proposal.

Yu Heng shook his head: "If I remember correctly, the closest army from here, three hundred miles away, the opponent's strength is several times as much as ours, relying on the obstacle of the post station, we still have the strength to fight, once we are in the field, chase and kill all the way, can we escape?" ”

Li Xun said lightly: "Although the other party has a large number of people, they are all infantry, although our numbers are small, but all of them are cavalry, as long as they rush out of the post station, what can the other party do to me?" ”

Yu Heng was puzzled: "General Li, how do you know that there are not many cavalry on the other side?" ”

Li Xun said with a smile: "Judging from the other party's clothing, it should be the local government soldiers, and the equipment of the state and county government soldiers is needless to say." ”

The military system was effectively implemented in the early and middle Jin Dynasty, but it was gradually destroyed during the reign of Hezong and Wuzong, and was finally abolished by the time of Yizong.

There are many reasons for the destruction, but there are three main ones, frequent fighting, extended defensive lines, and heavy military service.

Originally, there was a certain period of rest in the border areas, but later, with the growing strength of the Tubo and Hu tribes, the war continued for a long time, and the government soldiers who went to the border areas were often forced to stay until they did not return for a long time, resulting in the government soldiers being tired of war and avoiding service, and more and more people fled.

Several emperors in the early Jin Dynasty experienced troubled times and knew that they were difficult and painful, so they respected the local government soldiers, and the treatment was also good, giving a certain amount of land, but in the middle and late Jin Dynasty, the local government soldiers were less and less valued, and the court came down several times, and the treatment of the government soldiers was greatly reduced, and they were often borrowed as private servants by local powerful officials, regarded as pigs and dogs, resulting in the local shame of serving as government soldiers.

After Wuzong, several generations of emperors succeeded to the throne, all of them were mediocre people, unable to restrain and improve the country's internal affairs, land annexation became more and more serious, and the objects of government military conscription were mainly Juntian peasants.

In this way, during the reign of Pingzong, the number of soldiers fleeing from the government increased day by day, so that the soldiers were exhausted, it was more difficult to deploy the conquest and defense, and the external military environment was getting worse and worse.

Although the government soldier system has been destroyed, ten rooms and nine emptiness, but it has not been completely abolished, a few areas where the land is not very serious, there are still a considerable number of local government soldiers, less than 1,000 people, set up Sima full-time management, more than 2,000 people, is to set up regimental training envoys, more important places, will also set up defense envoys, in the upper governors and festival envoys, that is, soldiers and horses full-time, it doesn't matter if there is land or not, anyway, the court will give food and salary.

Since it is not valued by the imperial court, and the equipment of the government soldiers is self-provided, how good can it be?

In fact, most of the local government soldiers and yamen, the personnel vacancy is very serious, and it is impossible to equip all weapons and equipment, which is Yang Shicheng, as a member of the Yang family, both rich and ambitious, he has been operating in the local area for several years, and the full amount of government soldiers and weapons and equipment are all Yang Shicheng spent his own money to improve it, and it is difficult to have such equipment and combat effectiveness in other places.

Yu Heng looked at the deputy general and asked for his opinion.

The adjutant general thought for a while, nodded and said: "The clothes on those people are indeed local government soldiers, although I don't know why local government soldiers have such combat effectiveness and weapons and equipment, but they are government soldiers after all, and the court does not give them, even if they have their own, there must not be many cavalry." ”

Another officer also said out loud: "General, what General Li said makes sense, the post station is so big, and the number of the other party is several times that of us. ”

Li Xun looked at them quietly and did not urge.

It stands to reason that Li Xungui is the prince of the country, and not long ago he was an envoy of Jiedu, sitting on the huge land of Longyou Western Regions, tens of thousands of elite troops, and this trip is mainly based on him, Li Xun can directly give orders, and there is no need to ask Yu Heng's advice at all, let alone pay attention to his thoughts, what he says is what he says.

If it were someone else, Li Xun would probably do it, but he knew a little about Yu Heng's background.

The Yu family is a small family in Lingnan, and its local reputation is not obvious, except for Yu Heng, the Yu family does not have a clansman who is an official in Fengjing, and there are not many family members, there are only three or four people who are officials, and the largest official is only a state Sima.

But Yu Heng's grandfather Yu Chengsheng is very powerful, and his eye for people is very accurate.

Yu Fengsheng entered the career in the name of lifting people, and after more than ten years, people reached middle age, and achieved a county order, because it was a person, and he was a county order, and his career has almost gone to the extreme.

Yu Yusheng has only one son, but he has many daughters, he knows that with his ability and fame, it is difficult to make a breakthrough in his career, and if he wants to develop his family through the progress of his career, this road has been blocked.

Therefore, Yu Fengsheng developed in another direction, that is, to pick those young people who were still very depressed at the time, and marry them with their daughters.

Qianzhou Jiedu envoy Wei Wennan, Chuzhou Jiedu envoy Wang Huailie's general Hong Wenhai, and just made a lot of contributions in Henan Yunji, the three of their wives were originally matched, all of them are Yu Chengsheng's daughters, these three people were down-and-out in their early years, and when they had not yet made a career, they were favored by Yu Chengsheng and married their daughters, and now more than 20 years have passed, these three people are in high positions and have become a hero.

From this point, I have to say that Yu Yusheng's vision of people is indeed extremely accurate.

Li Xun is not afraid of Yu Heng, but the two do not have any grudges, there is no need to be arrogant in front of him and make the relationship stiff, this is not Li Xun's character, sometimes, the attitude is gentle, and many things can be solved well.

Although Yu Heng is young, his personality is quite stable and mature.

Yu Heng arched his hand at Li Xun and said, "General Li, you are the biggest here, it's up to you to decide." ”

Others treat him politely, Yu Heng naturally will not be ignorant of lifting, and he is very polite to Li Xun.

Li Xun looked around, and finally said to Yu Heng: "Set fire and break through from the east and west directions." ”

Yu Heng nodded to the lieutenant general beside him, who immediately left to convey the order.