Chapter 5 (06) Responsibilities and Rights (II)
Chen Pu quickly dismissed the idea of getting advice and advice from others. Through the gap in the door curtain, she could already see a new stack of papers on the table in the upper room. Just when she went to visit Liao Pheasant in the backyard, there were new documents waiting for her to look at and deal with. Her heart grew heavy again. Whenever she saw these papers piled on the table, she could feel a heavy burden on her shoulders. These documents reminded her that she was no longer a nominal general of the Pillar Kingdom. She is now in charge of the Yanshan camp and is the commander of the Great Zhao Yanshanwei, although this admiral is only a fake admiral with the acquiescence of the imperial court, she is in charge of the military and civil affairs of the first guard, and her every move is closely related to the entire Yanshanwei three prefectures, 460,000 households, 1.7 million soldiers and civilians. At this time, she should put all her mind on solving the current difficulties, she should think about how to clean up the mess in Yanshan anytime and anywhere, how can she always worry about whether the people below are willing to listen to her dispatch? She was ashamed and blushing for her narrow-mindedness.
She stood silently in the doorway for a moment until her emotions stabilized, and then she entered the house. She sat down in the chair in front of the table, and while putting her cold hands on the edge of the table to warm up, she tilted her head to look at the cover of the top paperwork:
"Detailed Submission of the Case of Bandits Attacking Officials and Killing Officials in Wangri Duanzhou in September of the 19th Year of the Eastern Era".
Looking at the title, this should be the investigation process of the bandits' robbery of officials in Duanzhou last month. She opened the official document, looked at the mention, glanced at the content twice, her face immediately became gloomy, and she went directly to the last page of the document, and saw that the last sentence was "...... True. The Zhou Guards should be quickly dispatched to attack. Otherwise. Fear of bandits is sinking day by day. So it became a big trend. Dengshi was so angry that he wanted to throw the paperwork out!
What are these guys up to?
She closed the paperwork with some exasperation. When she saw this official document on top, she thought that it was the most important matter, but who knew that they had sent a submission with six points of truth and four points of assumption!
It's not the first time they've done this! This is really bullying!
She was sitting by the desk and sulking when she came in. The clever guard immediately noticed that Chen Pu was in a bad mood, and did not speak, took the tea cup from the table, splashed the herbal tea in the cup, replaced her with a hot new tea soup, and then squatted on the ground to add charcoal to the two large braziers in the room.
Circles of neatly arranged new charcoal soon followed, and the red fire glowed red in the crackling sound of the charcoal. The room quickly became warm. There was a faint smell of charcoal all over the house.
Chen Pu stood up and took off his mink and re-read the official document. This time she learned a lesson, first look at the title of the document, and then decide on the urgency, matters related to military affairs must be given priority to approval, and again the local refugee resettlement issues and people's livelihood emergencies, as for those lawsuits that you know at a glance that they are Chen Sesame and rotten grain, you might as well put it aside.
There are only two urgent military tasks. One is the report of the defenders on the line from Xiashengguan to Zhouliubao, which has recently been frequently found to be infested by the scouts of Tuqici, and there are frequent contacts between the enemies at Chishengguan, Pingcheng and Yanbian, and there seem to be signs of gathering southward. Attached to the "Details" is a report of the camp, which not only lists in detail the areas of activity of the enemy cavalry in the last ten days, but also the judgment of the camp on this. Xingying thought that before the heavy snow closed the road, there must be another large-scale southward movement of the Tuqi people, and the most likely direction of their assault should be Xiashengguan or Peixian; In this way, they can directly face the Yanzhong Valley when they advance, and they can defend the counterattack of the Zhao army in a timely manner, and they can firmly grasp the initiative in the development of the war. In view of the current difficult situation in Yanshan and the various practical difficulties faced by the Zhao army, Xingying did not believe that the Zhao army had the possibility of counterattacking and regaining the lost territory before the beginning of spring next year, so the first task of the Shang Zhao army at the moment was to try its best to maintain the status quo on the battlefield and not to worsen the situation; In order to achieve this goal, the Zhao army should use Duanzhou as a hub to establish a consolidated defensive line from Xiasheng Guandong in the west to Yixian in the east to ensure the security of Yanzhou and Yannan. The other is that the Nanguan battalion in Yixian County requested reinforcements.
Chen Pu walked to the map erected in the corner of the house, and compared it repeatedly with the map in the detailed text. She stood in front of the map for a long time, then thought about returning to the table, dipped her pen in cinnabar and made a conspicuous mark on the cover of the official document, and then put it together with a pile of paperwork pressed with Qingtian stone paperweights. From the beginning to the end, she did not sign any opinion on this paperwork. This is not to say that she does not approve of the recommendations made in this instrument, or that she has a better view or a more appropriate idea, so she delays or hints in this way. No! She is not so arrogant, in fact, she also thinks that the analysis and judgment of Xingying are very accurate, and the proposed deployment is also very thorough. But she would not approve the plan, and she did not have the right to order its implementation immediately. She thought that since there was no warning from the camp that the Turquoise were about to move south, it meant that the enemy would not make any moves for the time being, in which case she could wait for two more days, and wait for the arrival of the two generals sent by the imperial court, and listen to their opinions before making a decision.
Another official document was an urgent proclamation from the Nanguan battalion in Yixian County requesting reinforcements. Since mid-September, more than 4,000 troops have gathered in the Yixian and Nanguan camps, a number of thirty percent more than the defenders of the camps; The defenders had to take care of the grain depots, guard the Tuqi people in the direction of Beizheng, and assist in the defense of Yixian, even if they had not officially engaged the enemy, the 3,000 troops were already stretched. Under the confusing situation, in order to ensure the safety of hundreds of thousands of loads of grain and grass and countless baggage supplies in the camp, and also to ensure the safety of Yi County, the Nanguan battalion specially requested that the camp increase three to five battalions in the direction of Yi County, and at the same time send people to rectify the rout troops stranded in the camp. It is recommended that three battalions be dispatched from Nanzheng, Yanzhou, to rush to the aid of the starry night, and the safety of the Nanguan battalion must be ensured, and the first brigade of the C Brigade and the B Brigade of the Yanshan Right Army should immediately move in the direction of Duanzhou to ensure the flank of Yixian and ensure the smooth flow of the road between Duanyi and Yi......
Chen Pu did not hesitate to sign his name on this document. The Nanguan camp is an important grain and grass reserve for the army, not only to support Yandong, but also to support Yanzhong, and there must be no mistakes; Especially in the current situation, the grain stored there is even more life-saving food for tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to survive the winter and spring famine, if something goes wrong, Yandong may be overturned, not to mention, it will definitely affect the entire Yanshanwei! Not only to reinforce as soon as possible, but also to send the most elite team to reinforce, and it must be foolproof!
She took a closer look at the team selected by the camp. The two battalions that set out from Yanzhou were both from the Yanshan Chinese Army, which immediately reassured her a lot, especially when she saw that the captain of one of the battalions was Sun Zhongshan. This man is cautious and steady, very thorough in everything he does, and very resolute in carrying out orders, and he is a reliable officer at critical moments.
Because the importance of the Nanguan camp was too prominent, she couldn't help but consider a lot of things, so she added another stroke to the official document: "In view of the situation, can Sun Zhongshan be ordered to control the two battalions, garrison Yixian, and form a horn with Nanguan?" I hope you will consider carefully. After using the official seal, she called a herald and told him to hand over this document to the camp at once, and let them carry out the reinforcements.
After the completion of the two military affairs, the rest of the other administrative affairs should be relatively relaxed, and the local affairs are only to provide relief to the fleeing people, to compensate the soldiers who were killed and wounded in the war, or to inform the progress and difficulties of the city fortifications in the autumn and winter. There are precedents in the imperial court for these things, and she mostly passes by at a glance, occasionally raises her head and thinks about it, and then approves "quasi", "according to it" or "re-discussion".
It must be said that the efficiency of the civil servants is not low, and the articles and words in the official documents are also very eye-catching, the content is concise and detailed, and the requirements and methods put forward are also reasonable, so it is relatively easy for her to read them. With a small amount of effort, a dozen or so local official duties were almost completed, and there were only two or three documents left on the table that I hadn't had time to read.
The scrivener of the Admiral's Mansion sent her new papers. It's another big stack.
She asked the scrivener to put aside the newly sent official documents, and then took away the official business she had already taken care of, and then she picked up the new tea soup that Jiao'er had given her. She sucked up the sticky hot tea soup with a lot of ginger, cane sugar and other ingredients, while picking up an official document and glancing at the title on the cover.
A piece of paper slipped out of the document and floated onto the desk.
Her eyes were immediately drawn to the paper, which had been soaked in black in many places.
Those black colors are definitely not ink stains. That's blood! It's faded blood!
She didn't care about being angry with those confused bureaucrats, and hurriedly snatched the piece of paper in her hand. A few lines of crooked words are difficult to distinguish between the blood spots and blood clusters.
"Shi Zhe is in danger of quickly asking for reinforcements and submitting a report in an emergency": "Send the town to stay and turn to the border of the city to make the military envoy Yamen and the border military government parallel camp." Speed. ●Urgent. Since the beginning of September. ●Siege ●Encirclement. Big ● ● Fight five times. Killed in battle ● half. That is, to save. ●No, I cannot. Please be allowed to ● leave. September 20 ●●".
Chen Pu held the piece of paper and frowned tightly. Shi Zhe is a small border army village on the right wing of Liuzhen, it stands to reason that since the enemy has conquered Liuzhen and Heping City, even if they are not defeated, their small military village will have already collapsed, why are they still supporting? Her gaze then swept over the date of the submission, "September 20 ●●" One by one, that is, until ten days ago they were still holding on, still waiting for reinforcements? How is this possible?
"Someone!" She stood up and walked to the door, "Immediately notify the camp, transfer all the military intelligence files on the middle road, and check the news of Shizhezhai in detail!" ”
News was not long in coming.
Since the day of the frost on the eighth day of the first month of September, even Chen Pu's hand has received three urgent documents sent by Shizhezhai, just because this document is not in line with the official writing system, no one has paid attention to it, and secondly, the military village passes along the Yanzhong Road have all fallen, but the three hundred border troops of their village are still resisting, which is really incredible, so no one took this matter seriously, and the result was ......
Chen Pu interrupted the words of the officials and the principals, and asked, "I don't listen to explanations!" I just want to ask, what now? ”
What else can I do now? The officials in charge all had wry smiles on their faces. The Tuqi people were about to reach the Yanhe Valley, a small army village far behind the enemy's rear, even if the camp tried to rescue them, it would be beyond the reach of the whip.
Chen Pu also knew that what his subordinates said was the truth. But even if this is the case, can it really be said that these soldiers who fought bloodily are really abandoned?
Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, it's all at a loss.
Chen Pu collapsed in his chair.
“…… It's your responsibility. What is Liability? Responsibility is decision. When things change unpredictably, you have to make a choice. Many times, you have to make choices in the midst of hardship and pain. ”