The official system of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and even the early Song Dynasty, was very complex and chaotic.

There were too many officials in the previous dynasty, and they were offered highly, and most of them were only officials and had no positions.

Or give you an official position of the first grade, and only give you a position of the sixth or seventh grade, so that you are not afraid of using your qualifications to rebel.

However, this arrangement did not solve all the problems, and there was another dispatch.

Assignments are temporary positions and are not limited by rank, but the magnitude of their powers is also not easy to distinguish.

For a long time, officials of the third and fourth grades were more powerful than officials of the first and second grades, and even an official of the sixth and seventh grades, because of the importance of dispatch, was more powerful than the officials of the first rank.

All of them are deployed as temporary dispatches, or the most powerful of the dispatch officers.

According to later generations, this position was equivalent to the commander-in-chief of the group army.

As the prince, Zhao Dezhao served as the commander-in-chief of the Southern Han Dynasty.

And Pan Mei's camp and the left army are all deployed, which is equivalent to the commander-in-chief of the left army, and it is also a compromise dispatch.

According to Zhao Dezhao's meaning, Pan Mei has been developing in Hunan for several years, and has a good understanding of the situation here, so it is most suitable to serve as the commander of the logistics corps.

But he has been preparing in Hunan for several years, and he has no credit and hard work, so he can't come and rob him of his credit.

Therefore, instead of setting up the deployment of the rear army, the left army was deployed.

Wang Quanbin is a generation of famous generals, and his loyal army and Long Jiejun are all elite soldiers who have been fighting.

Pulling these people over from Xishu is to let them kill the enemy, so naturally they must be distributed on the blade.

They can't be arranged in the rear army, and they can't arrange Pan Mei in the rear army, so they will have a left and right army.

But in fact, Zhao Dezhao only regarded them as auxiliary troops, and did not want to rely on them to attack the city and plunder the formation.

On 23 July, Zhao Dezhao arrived in Tanzhou, and on 24 July, a military parade was held on the beach at the foot of Yuelu Mountain and the Xiangjiang River outside Tanzhou.

The purpose of this military parade is not to promote military prestige, but only one purpose, which is to distribute money.

In ancient times, the army fought for money, and the soldiers did not have the idea of loyalty and patriotism.

If you go to war, you have to allocate money, and if you go to war, you have to double it.

Although Zhao Dezhao didn't like this kind of atmosphere, he didn't want to challenge this system at the beginning.

If you don't pay money, the soldiers won't listen to you at all.

This kind of thing is not like military discipline, you can stand up to power, you kill everyone, who will fight for you?

Or you have to go out under pressure, but as soon as you turn around, I'm afraid you will get up and run.

After Pan Mei captured Tanzhou, the armies under his command were also exchanged, except for the 25,000 forbidden army that has been retained, the other side armies have changed several times in recent years.

Most of the Xiang troops who remain under his command today have been recruited from Hunan in the past two years, with a total of more than 15,000 people.

This also includes the 3,000 barbarian native people of Xitong who returned to the Great Song Dynasty.

As for the other township soldiers recruited locally, they are all half-employed people, and it is okay for them to guard the local area, so it is unrealistic for them to go out to fight and leave their hometowns.

They have left their hometown, who will farm the land? Who's going to do it?

Nearly 100,000 soldiers, as well as 50,000 laborers forcibly recruited from Shannan Dongdao and Hunan, formed the 150,000 army of the Southern Expedition.

Among them, one soldier is allocated money twice, and one servant is always allocated money.

All the allocated money can be carried by yourself, or you can give it to the military secretary and distribute it home on behalf of the soldiers.

These are all in charge of the Transshipment Division, they are not in the same system as the army, and they are not afraid of being greedy for ink from them.

This system has also been in place for nearly a millennium, and every soldier believes that his family will receive the money.

The money allocated for labor is collected by local officials or village elders, who are responsible for helping them deliver to their homes.

In addition to allocating money, Zhao Dezhao brought more than a dozen boatloads of Jinchuang medicine and various anti-miasma powders, and each person had a medical kit.

In addition to a few packets of medicines, there was also a small jar of alcohol, a piece of gauze, and a piece of needle and thread.

Each soldier has a new coat and a pair of cloth shoes, and each servant has a pair of cloth shoes.

These are all materials that Zhao Dezhao raised for more than half a year, and the women's workshop in Hanjing was busy for half a year.

There were not many things, but after each soldier received the real money and supplies, his mood was high.

At the beginning of the second day, the 100,000-strong army began to train, and Zhao Dezhao left 200 Jinyi guards as personal guards, and the rest of the 2,300 people were all stationed out.

For every army of more than 3,000 people, there is a small team of brocade guards who are responsible for military discipline.

They are responsible for supervising training, military discipline and regulations, and even have the military badges distributed by Zhao Dezhao, and have the power to directly enforce the law against the generals below the command level.

Unlike Zhao Dezhao's expectations, they did not encounter great resistance, mainly because their identities were too special.

Each of them is a nobleman, a brother of the general's family, a soldier in the army, and there is a natural fear of them.

Even those generals didn't dare to offend these brothers easily, after all, they were also members of this class.

And Zhao Dezhao, Pan Mei, Wang Quanbin and other generals began to study the route of travel.

Hunan and the Southern Han Dynasty are separated by Nanling, but Nanling is not a moat.

Since the time of the Qin Emperor, the Central Plains army has opened up several war routes, and in the following millennium, several trade routes have been developed.

The most dangerous thing about Nanling is not the terrain, compared with Shu Road, there are many routes that can be traveled here, and the most dangerous is miasma.

The main reason why the army chose to open after autumn is because the period after autumn is the time with the least miasma.

After a meeting that lasted for half a month, the route of the army's march to the east and west was determined, the transportation of people, the logistics supply, and the front and rear liaison routes.

The Eastern Route Army went straight down to Shaozhou along Chenzhou, and set up a base camp in Chenzhou, led by Zhao Dezhao Shenji Battalion, the Crane Army, and half of the firearms battalion, Ding Deyu led the iron cavalry as his deputy.

The Western Route Army took Yongzhou as its base camp and marched along Fuzhou, Hezhou, and Zhaozhou in Guangxi. They were dominated by the Loyal Army, the Longjie Army, and the Firearms Battalion allocated half of the soldiers and explosives to assist in the siege.

Zhao Dezhao completely split the Jinyi Guard, they were not only responsible for the military discipline of each army, but also were assigned by Zhao Dezhao to all corners from Tanzhou to the front line.

The 2,500 baggage battalions drawn from the Shenji Battalion and the Firearms Battalion completely controlled the 50,000 people, and worked out a detailed transportation strategy for everything from the food and weapons of each army to the needles needed by the officers and men of each army.

And Shen Yilun, a veteran, has become the leader of the largest team.

He has been following Zhao Dezhao for two years, and has personally experienced all the processes of Zhao Dezhao's development from scratch in Hanjing Mansion.

Although his ability is not necessarily the strongest, he is definitely the general who knows Zhao Dezhao the most and is the most proficient in logistics coordination.

On August 16, the day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, all the armies began to move.

Zhao Dezhao was the first to set off, and his flagship arrived in Hengzhou from Tanzhou against the current, and set up a point here.

The people transported supplies along the Xiangjiang River, and most of them became slender men along the Xiangjiang River.

Wang Quanbin led the Western Route Army along the Xiangjiang River to Hengzhou, and after bidding farewell to Zhao Dezhao, he went to Yongzhou.

Pan Mei did not set off and remained in Tanzhou.

The east, which is less than 300 miles away from Tanzhou, is the territory of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

The Great Song Dynasty wanted to attack the Southern Han, and the Southern Han had formed an alliance with the Southern Tang, and in order to prevent the Southern Tang from attacking Hunan, it was necessary to leave Pan Mei as a deterrent.

Of course, Zhao Dezhao knew that the Southern Tang soldiers were cowardly, and even in history, they never dared to take the initiative to provoke the Song army.

But if Pan Mei is left behind, no one will take credit from him.

Of course, in order to make Pan Mei agree to stay, Zhao Dezhao also paid the price of exchange, and his eldest son Pan Weide was the vanguard of this southern expedition.

Pan Weide was already older, and when the new army was formed, he was the general of the Shenji Battalion, Marquis Yu.

Later, the Shenji Battalion expanded from 3,000 to 12,000 people, and Pan Weide was the deputy commander of the capital, and also led the 3,000 people of the first guard of the Shenji Battalion.

In this southern expedition, as long as he does not make mistakes and makes great contributions, the Pan family will be able to achieve at least decades of development.

If it weren't for this reason, Zhao Dezhao would not have appointed Pan Weide, who was not very talented, as his deputy.

The appointment of Pan Mei as the capital of the left army of the camp gave him an honor, and let Pan Weide serve as the forward officer, which gave him practical benefits.

As for whether he would be worried that Pan Weide would make Zhao Kuo's mistake, Zhao Dezhao was not worried at all.

Because the responsibility of the Shenji Battalion is to attack the fortifications, they will not leave the protective circle of the army.

What's more, there are still many other brothers in the current Shenji Battalion, and Zhao Dezhao is not worried about Pan Weide's arbitrary advance.

Pan Weide's performance in combat is not very good, but he is very steady, this person has a kind personality, and can listen to the advice of others.

And the second guard's general Yu Hou Cao Can, the third guard's general Yu Hou Fu Zhaoxin, and the fourth guard's general Yu Hou Li Shouen are all generals that Zhao Dezhao is very relieved of.

The Shenji Battalion led by the four of them is relatively harmonious in terms of structure and complementarity of the main generals.

On August 22, the army all set out from Hengzhou, and at this time, Zhao Dezhao changed his flagship, took a flat-bottomed river boat, and went south along the Leishui River.

I changed to a small boat, although I lacked some prestige, but I was able to reach the north of Chenzhou along the Leishui River.

Although Zhao Dezhao is the main general, he is also a prince, this expedition, to win the battle, but also to show the majesty of the Great Song Dynasty after the victory.

At all times, public opinion propaganda is the most valued by the rulers.

Zhao Dezhao set out on this expedition, although he only brought caution and caution when he set off, and two maids waited, but after arriving in Tanzhou, the maids became twenty-two.

Officials from all over the country chose beautiful women to pay tribute to Zhao Dezhao, and these women were all from everyone's door and had a clean net worth.

Serving Zhao Dezhao is just a channel, if they can give birth to a son and a half daughter for Zhao Dezhao, then their family will follow suit.

Twenty-two maids, thirty-six chamberlains, and two hundred brocade guards formed the core honor guard team.

No matter where they went, they had to show their majesty in front of others, and relatively speaking, letting Zhao Dezhao command the battle was secondary.

On September 1, Zhao Dezhao arrived in Chenzhou, and at the same time, Wang Quanbin of the Western Route Army also set out from Yongzhou to set up the base camp of the Western Route Army in Baixia.

On the same day, after receiving a secret report from the Southern Han Dynasty, Liu Gang sent Gong Chengshu to garrison Hezhou, Guo Chongyue to garrison Guizhou, and Li Tuo to garrison Shaozhou to guard against the Song army.

The Southern Han Dynasty gathered an army of 120,000 in Shaozhou, which seemed to be outnumbered.

But now the Great Song army has not yet arrived, because of the large number of soldiers stationed, the people of Shaozhou are burdened and the people are not happy.

More than 100,000 troops were stationed in a small city, and people had to be supplied locally for food and horses.

However, Shaozhou has a lot of mountains and little land, which is already a heavy burden, and now there are tens of thousands of people, and they can't support it at all.

And these soldiers burned, killed and looted in the local area, and when they were dissatisfied, they went on a killing spree, so that the people could only abandon their homes and businesses and live in other places.

Li Tuo had no choice but to disperse the army, of which the main army was stationed in Wujiang Buffalo Bay (Pingshi Town) on the border with the Great Song Dynasty in the northwest.

Pingshi Town is located at the southern foot of the Lingnan Mountains, the upper reaches of the Wujiang River, known as the "North Gate of Guangdong, the first town of Lingnan".

There were tens of thousands of troops stationed here, but Li Tuo was timid and did not dare to go to Buffalo Bay in person, but handed over the power to his confidant Yu Shun.

Liu Gang wanted to be an official, first from the palace, these generals who became eunuchs had no roots, and even had no courage.

On September 3, with the Shenji Battalion as the main force and the Iron Cavalry Army as the auxiliary, the army arrived in Yizhang County, and Zhao Dezhao was still busy in Chenzhou at this time to meet with local officials, Dahao.

On September 5, Pan Weide and others arrived on the north bank of the Wujiang River, where several zigzag-shaped bays were drawn, and the river could be crossed everywhere.

The Southern Han army held the Buffalo Bay of the Wujiang River and the Baisha River, and did not have the courage to harass the Great Song army at all.

And the Song army was not in a hurry, cutting wood along the Baisha River, and began to build bridges in an orderly manner across the river.

Yu Shun saw that the Song army was strong, and sent more than 10,000 people to destroy the Song army's bridge, but as soon as the army assembled on the other side of the river, he heard a thunder from the sky, and more than 10,000 troops were scattered.

Most of the Southern Han troops saw the cannon for the first time, and the roar of the cannon was a heavenly punishment for them. Not to mention, the chain bullets and flowering bullets fired directly caused thousands of casualties to them.

The escape of more than 10,000 soldiers directly discouraged the more than 20,000 soldiers in the earthen wall of Buffalo Bay.

Yu Shun could not restrain the army at all, so he could only flee south with these soldiers.

When Zhao Dezhao arrived at Buffalo Bay, the Song army had not injured a single person, and they occupied the northern gate of the Southern Han Dynasty.

"Your Highness, the Southern Han army is vulnerable, and it will start to flee as soon as the cannon sounds, so it seems that it should not be a battalion step by step, but should go straight to Huanglong."

"Don't worry, wait a few days and see how the Western Route Army is marching. You must remember that we are here to turn this place into our land, to turn the people here into our people, and to fight and kill the enemy is only a means, not an end.

From the moment he stepped across the Wujiang River, he must always restrain the morale of the army, and he must not let the soldiers burn and loot, otherwise, Jinyiwei will definitely not spare him. ”

What he is worried about is not the Shenji Battalion, the generals of the Shenji Battalion are all nobles, and the people below are newly trained, and they have not yet been corrupted.

Other armies are the source of trouble.

(The main character of the new book is a history lecturer who travels through a world changed by a time-traveler.) This Ming Dynasty occupies 90 percent of the world's land and has 80 percent of the population, and the remaining 40 or so countries can only survive under the pressure of the Ming Dynasty.

However, this Ming Dynasty is not restless, Xizhou (Africa) wants to build a country, Dongzhou (America) wants to be independent, corruption is rampant, the system is gradually deteriorating, and the internal worries are far greater than the external troubles.

This world, for a time-traveler with a noble status that is neither high nor low, is a promising world. ）