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Golden autumn in August.

Tong Guan led the army to victory and returned triumphantly.

Fang La was captured, brought back to Beijing and executed, and his head was cut off and hung on the Tokyo City Gate Tower for three days.

Because of the meritorious work of the rebellion, Tong Guan was promoted to the Taishi, Tan Zhi added the festival to the envoy, and Cai still had some time to return because he wanted to finish the aftermath, and the matter of the reward was still undecided for the time being.

After Tong Guan returned to Beijing, he was stunned to find that the imperial court had set up another Ying Feng Division to collect flowers and stones.

Tong Guan was stunned, and found the doorman, only to know what was going on.

Tong Guan entered the palace overnight and said to Zhao Ji, "Your Majesty, the minister has just removed a Ying Feng Bureau in Suzhou, why did Wang Hao set up a Ying Feng Division in Beijing?" The rice pot of the people in the southeast is not stable, and they have begun to engage in some flowers and stones again. We have 60,000 or 70,000 dead and wounded before we can extinguish the bandits, and if the common people rise up and rebel again, what will we do? ”

Zhao Ji didn't say anything on the surface, but in his heart he was very angry with Tong Guan's questioning, and felt that Tong Guan was arrogant.

Plus the rise of Cai still and Tan Zhen.

Zhao Ji felt that Tong Guan was no longer that important.

And Tong Guan saw that Zhao Ji reactivated Zhu Mian's father and son, and continued to collect flowers and stones, but he didn't listen to the advice, and he was also very disappointed.

Soon, Tong Guan was born.

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Through more than half a year of expansion and reorganization, Cai still has a total of 20 armies, each with 5,000 people.

These twenty armies were:

Jinwu former army, acting as the commander of Wu Jue.

Jinwu Zhongjun, on behalf of the control of Niu Gao.

Jin Wu rear army, on behalf of the command of Zhai Jin.

Jinwu Left Army, acting as commander of Zhang Qing.

Jinwu right army, on behalf of the command of Guan Sheng.

Personally guarding the former army, acting as the commander of Wang Sanniang, and deputy as the commander of Wang Yan.

Guarding the Chinese army, acting as the commander of Fang Baihua, and deputy commander Liu Qi.

personally defended the rear army and ruled Wang Sheng on behalf of him.

Personally defended the Left Army and commanded Zhang Jun on behalf of him.

Defend the right army and control Huarong on behalf of the army.

Select the front army and control Yue Fei on behalf of the army.

Step on the White Army and control Wang De on behalf of the White Army.

Back to the army, on behalf of Yang Zaixing.

Break the enemy army and control Gao Shidan on behalf of the commander.

You Yijun, acting as the commander of Yang Yizhong.

Tiger Ben Army, on behalf of Zhai Xing.

Amphibious Army, acting as commander of Li Bao.

The water army, on behalf of Li Jun.

Shenji Left Army, acting as the commander of Zhang Xian.

Shenji Right Army, acting as the commander of Lu Junyi.

After the formation of the 20th Army, Cai still transferred the pro-guard front army, the pro-guard middle army, the pro-guard rear army, the pro-guard left army, the pro-guard right army, the enemy breaking army, the Youyi army, the tiger army, the amphibious army, and the naval army to Taiwan to garrison.

And the remaining Jinwu Front Army, Jinwu Middle Army, Jinwu Rear Army, Jinwu Left Army, Jinwu Right Army, Xuanfeng Army, Tabai Army, and Beiwei Army are the soldiers and horses that Cai is still ready to bring back to the Jinwu Army, and they are also the soldiers and horses that Cai is still able to control now.

Although it has been delayed again and again, it has been delayed until the end of August, and Cai still can't drag it out anymore.

Cai could only send Chen Hoop to continue to extradite the displaced people to Taiwan in the name of soup soup for disaster relief, and then lead the army to return to the DPRK.

At the beginning of September, Cai still led the army to Jingkou.

It happened that the Shengjie army that had finished and cleaned up in Muzhou, Quzhou, Wuzhou and other places also returned to the court.

In fact, the Shengjie army had already arrived in Jingkou seven days earlier.

It's just that this group doesn't want to go back to Beijing now, and wants to play in Beijing for a few more days, so they have stayed here and haven't left.

Jingkou Han called Jingkouli, to the Eastern Wu Sun Quan to build an iron urn city, put Jingkou Town, Jin Ling County, Southern Song Xuzhou, Sui Runzhou, Song Sheng Runzhou for Zhenjiang Mansion, until now.

Jingkou District is located on the south bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and east of the ancient canal, where the Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the "cross golden waterway", converge in the territory, and is a hub connecting southern and northern Jiangsu for material circulation and economic cooperation. Jiaoshan and Beigu Mountain are distributed along the Yangtze River in the jurisdiction, and are famous for "urban mountains and forests, great river style", and have the reputation of "the first river and mountain in the world".

Jingkou is not only beautiful here, but also rich in beautiful women, food, and wine.

Therefore, as soon as the soldiers of the Shengjie Army arrived, they could not move.

This is the encounter between the Jinwu Army and the Shengjie Army.

said that it was an encounter, but in fact, Jin Wujun and Sheng Jieding did not really meet.

After the Jinwu army arrived in Jingkou, they stationed outside the city, and only sent a few small troops to the city to buy necessary goods, which can be said to have committed no offense against Jingkou Qiu.

Looking at the Shengjie army that came first, they had already broken into pieces and ran into the Jingkou to fight.

Now, the situation of the Shengjie army is that there is no one in the army, and there is no trace of them in the temporary shelter, and they have been mixed in the kiln, the hook fence, the gambling cave, and the Bofang for ten years.

Since the Shengjie army arrived in Beijing, the kilns, goulan, gambling caves, Bofang and other places in Jingkou have suddenly prospered, and their counterparts from other places have also flowed in and rushed to join in the fun.

The soldiers of the Shengjie Army got into these old and new holes one by one, lived a good and wandering life, and easily refused to drill out again.

Speaking of which, the Shengjie Army still nominally belonged to the Western Army Command, and the Zhao and Song Dynasty did not explicitly stipulate that it should be separated from the Western Army.

However, since the Shengjie Army obtained the name of "Shengjie Army" separately, its supplies and military salaries were directly issued by the Privy Council, and they were better than the armies of the Western Army Headquarters in terms of quantity, quality, date of closure and other treatment.

The unusual treatment that the Shengjie Army received made it seem that it and the other Western Army were like an adopted son of Tong Guan, a member of the Privy Council, a righteous son who was especially favored by his godfather.

One might think of these special treatments as a form of "compensation".

If you want to talk about compensation, it is not without reason.

In the decisive battle of Muzhou, the opponents of the Shengjie army were those fanatical religious people, and their combat effectiveness that broke out in despair was extremely terrible, so that in a few months of fighting, the Shengjie army lost nearly one-third of its soldiers and horses, and later in a decisive battle near the source cave of the Qingxi Gang outside Muzhou City, it lost half of the two-thirds of the horses left.

The loss of so many men and horses in such a short period of time is still an extremely rare thing since the formation of the Western Army.

The Shengjie army suffered such a large loss, and it should be compensated by the upper peak.

This seems to have become an unwritten rule in officialdom.

Actually-

As far as compensation is concerned, the soldiers of the Shengjie army have already achieved it themselves—every time they capture a city, they have to let go of a loot, and take all public and private property into their own pockets.

Qingxi Gang Yuandong battle, Fang La's righteous army resisted bravely, but in the end they were killed by the Song army, and the family members of Fang La's righteous army were "cleaned" by them to "clean" the last strip of cloth on their bodies, and then hung their naked corpses in the woods and asked, lying that they committed suicide.

The woods where naked corpses hung in this way stretched endlessly, dozens of miles away.

Moreover, in addition to receiving compensation on their own, the officers and men of the Shengjie Army can also obtain official and legalized compensation, such as preferential material rewards, allowing the expansion of the number of officers and soldiers, increasing military salaries, and promoting senior officers.

Serving the powerful has always been a buy-and-sell transaction, and the two parties do not owe each other credit.

And with the will of Tong Guan's power, he will naturally not treat the eagle dog for his own drive.

In fact, Tong Guan was ready to expand the Shengjie army to a full army of 50,000 men, and was ready to build it into an army that was superior to the Western Army and the Jinwu Army.

Tong Guan is like this, in fact, he also has his last resort.

Although he had long participated in the war against the leaders of the Western Xia and Qingtang Qiang tribes as a supervisor in the Western Army, in fact, Tong Guan in the early days was a nominal "prison army".

Moreover, Tong Guan has long discovered that the leaders of the Western Army, whether it is the earlier commanders Liu Fa and Liu Zhongwu, or the later commanders of the Seed Master Dao, and Yao Gu, who is qualified to compete with the Seed Master Dao for the position of commander, although there are also internal contradictions and struggles between them, but for Tong Guan, they all adopt the same principle, that is, "respect and stay away" - they regard Tong Guan as a ghost and god, and they respect Tong Guan on the surface, but they do not let Tong Guan get involved in actual military affairs.

The key is that the cunning generals of the Western Army will never use Tong Guan's relationship to win him over the other party in competition - although getting close to Tong Guan can immediately increase the weight of their own side on the scale, but this is against the traditional morality of the Western Army, if they do so, they will first lose their reputation in the army, and they will no longer be able to command the whole army in the future. The Western Army is a very xenophobic army, and contradictions are limited to the inside, and it is difficult for people from the outside to intervene if they do not have a little connection, even if they are sent by the imperial court.

Tong Guan, who was very ambitious a long time ago, understood that if he wanted to enter the Western Army and be a veritable powerful faction, he had to come up with water grinding kung fu.

Therefore, over the years, Tong Guan has placed his cronies such as Wang Yu, Wang Yuan, and the Xin brothers in the key departments of the army, and has tried to pull the warriors in the Western Army to his side, making them characters in his pocket.

This is the birth of the Shengjie Army.

Tong Guan's expectations for the Shengjie army are very high - he originally planned to use the Shengjie army as the center to recover Yanyun.

It's just that two things happened that disrupted Tong Guan's deployment.

The first thing is that the Fang La uprising broke out suddenly, and Tong Guan had to send Shengjie's army to suppress Fang La.

The second thing is that Tong Guan was angry with Zhao Ji because Zhao Ji reactivated Zhu Mian's father and son to continue to collect flowers and stones, and he indulged in the advice and did not listen to it, and then became angry.

As a result, the first trump card in Tong Guan's hand not only suffered serious battle damage, but also had not been recovered in time, and because no one took care of it, they slowly went into decline, and the main force that recovered Yanyun collapsed.

When the officers of the Shengjie Army heard that the Jin Wujun had also come to Jingkou, they discussed it privately and decided to give Cai still a wind and a dust.

You must know that Cai is now one of the few bigwigs in the Great Song Dynasty military, the key is that Cai is still too young, and he is likely to be the first person in the Great Song Dynasty military in the future.

In addition, all the officers of the Shengjie army made a windfall.

Therefore, the officers of the Shengjie Army were ready to hold a grand welcome party for Cai Ying.

And Cai still wanted to come to Shengjiejun to wield his hoe for a long time, so he naturally would not refuse the invitation of the officers of Shengjiejun......

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