Chapter 388: Hussar General
This Zhao Qi is not easy, I heard that he was just an ordinary person in the new city before, and after he reached the age of seventeen, because he was really dissatisfied with the bullying of the Hu people, he volunteered to join the Xincheng Guard, and became today's commander and general from an ordinary soldier with his own strength, which is really not easy.
It's a pity that this Zhao Qi is more than brave, but the strategy is insufficient, such a person can kill the enemy on the battlefield, but if he wants to lead the troops to fight, it is too lacking.
Therefore, although the military discipline of the guards under his leadership is quite strict, the relationship with the people in the city is not very good, and this Zhao Qi also has a bit of a brave and arrogant character, and he often treats his subordinates with fists and feet, and he is also quite dissatisfied with the county lord of Xincheng.
A person with such a character is only suitable for being a soldier who charges into battle, and if he becomes a general and leads the soldiers and horses to mediate with the enemy, I am afraid that he has more than enough heart and not enough strength.
In addition to helping Xincheng fight against the Hu people this time, one of the most important tasks for them is to help Xincheng's guards choose a general who is more capable of leading and leading this guard army.
The biggest problem in Xincheng is not the harassment of the Hu people in the border market, but the discord between the military and the people, and the frequent contradictions between the people of the government and the people of the guards themselves, the relationship between the government and the people of Xincheng is also slightly stiff, and the people of the guards often oppress the people in the city under the leadership of Zhao Qi.
Although Zhao Qi is also from a civilian background, he has never been able to change the fierce temperament in his bones, and the guards he led out are also irritable and fierce, although sometimes they don't really want to conflict with the people of Xincheng, but because of their own situation, they will always make the people misunderstand that they are deliberately oppressing the people.
The discipline of the army should be strict, the most important point is to restrain all the soldiers in the army, the most important one is not to take anything from the people, the escort army is the first to the new city of many people, if even the duty of the guard has changed, then there is no need for the guard to exist.
After a short time, Prime Minister Shangguan hurried to the city gate, he lowered his head to identify it, and recognized that the group of people riding horses under the city wall were Shangguan Yinling and others.
"General Zhao, this person is indeed Shangguan Yinling, and I ask General Zhao to let them in."
Zhao Qi was not in a hurry.
"Your Excellency. Are you sure that the person below is Shangguan Yinling? Isn't it that you are old and dizzy, and the Hu people who have stepped up to harass him think of him as his son? ”
"General Zhao. The official's own son, the official still recognizes it, not to mention that there is no father and son on the battlefield, Shangguan Yinling can only be regarded as a subordinate of the official now, including you, who is also a subordinate of the official now. "The saint appointed him as the general of the anti-Hu army, in order to let him prime minister take care of all anti-Hu matters here, not to mention the general of the small guard army in Xincheng, all the cities near this pass that were harassed by the Hu people were directly under his jurisdiction.
"The official level crushes people to death." Zhao Qi said with some disdain, and then stretched out his hand and shouted, "Open the city gate!" ”
The soldiers opened the gates of the city, and the group was able to enter the city.
Prime Minister Shangguan and Zhao Qi went down to the city tower to greet them.
"The lower official meets the Prime Minister." When Shangguan Yinling saw Shangguan, he first made a subordinate salute to his superior, "I don't know if the prime minister is well?" ”
"Okay, okay," Prime Minister Shangguan, who was still hanging in his heart, suddenly felt a lot more relieved after seeing Shangguan Yinling and his people arrive.
He naturally knows his son's ability, Wen can solve cases, martial arts can kill the enemy, he can govern the special case department so well, it shows that he has the ability to lead the troops, and now the guards of this new city are lacking a backbone, I believe that after the elite people of the special case department participate, under the leadership of Shangguan Yinling, they will be able to break through.
"This is the famous Shangguan, right? I didn't open the city gate for my lord right now, and I hope that Lord Shangguan will understand. Zhao Qi followed behind Prime Minister Shangguan and said to Shangguan Yinling.
"Where is General Zhao, General Zhao is cautious and thoughtful, so that he can protect the stability of the party." Shangguan Yinling has now also learned to speak polite words, thanks to Lu Li's guidance, he has become familiar with polite words and is at ease.
The group did not delay much, and soon entered the city, Shangguan Yinling and others placed the soldiers and horses of the Special Case Division in a corner of the military camp of the guards, and then went to meet the county magistrate of Xincheng together.
The county magistrate of Xincheng is a chubby old man who is nearly fifty years old, and he may also be old, so he prefers comfort and pleasure, and he completely let go of the anti-Hu matter and handed it over to Zhao Qi.
When this county magistrate was an official before, he paid attention to a rule of inaction, and he was very comfortable and leisurely as an official. If there is any theft or robbery in the city, he just asks his servants to find it casually, and under his rule, it is a blessing that there is no chaos in the city.
Since he didn't want to take care of the affairs in the city, it just happened to be in line with Shangguan Yinling's intentions, and this time they only needed to deal with Zhao Qi alone in the new city.
Zhao Qi is so ambitious, so happy, he doesn't like others to interfere in the affairs under his jurisdiction, and he is very war-loving, if he occasionally encounters him beating the Hu people and retreating one after another, he will completely forget the criteria of escaping from Kou Mo and lead people to chase him out of the city.
Because of his reckless and impatient nature. I have suffered in this area before.
However, after Shangguan Yinling's observation, although this person has many shortcomings and is very reckless and impulsive, he really regards the guards as his own soldiers, and he really wants to take them to fight against the Hu people and guard the border.
In this way, this person is not a person who is not worth cultivating.
Maybe he can help fight against Hu this time and help Zhao Qi grow into a qualified leader of the escort army.
"The decree has arrived, please accept it." Shangguan Yinling invited out the most powerful Shang Fang sword given to him by the Holy Lord, that is, the Holy Decree, and as soon as everyone saw him take out the Holy Decree, they all knelt on the ground in fear.
"Fengtian carrier, the emperor said, recently, I learned that the border pass of Xincheng was more harassed by the Hu people, thinking that there is no one to train military guards in the new city, and now there is a special case department of the general director Shangguan Yinling, both civil and military are familiar with the art of war, leading the troops to control the strange, Shangguan Yinling is the general of the anti-Hu hussars, under the direct jurisdiction of the general Shangguan Min, the prime minister of all the affairs of the Xincheng Guard, the former Xincheng General Zhao is the colonel, assisting the hussar general in the affairs of the prime minister, Qin this."
After reading the holy decree, Zhao Qi couldn't be happy, he didn't expect that a Shangguan Yinling would come, and he would fall from general to colonel.