Chapter 87: The Expedition of the Tiance Army (1) (2nd Update)
"The Divine Decree has arrived! Please come forward and listen to the seal! ”
Hearing this, Li Ye immediately stepped forward, stood in front of the eunuch Xuanzhi, and bowed slightly. Behind him, Pei Rong, Liu Qi, Li Hong and others stood separately, obviously curious about how the holy decree could come, and they still came to the army to announce the decree, whether it would be impossible to fight.
"The minister takes the order!"
Seeing that Li Ye was so polite, Liu Jishu also nodded slightly, and then took out a holy decree from the brocade box next to him and began to read it.
Although the decree was written in some words, the general content was still understood by everyone.
Roughly speaking, Li Ye, the king of Fengshou, was the envoy who was responsible for commanding the Xichuan Army and the Tiance Army and went to Shuzhou to quell the rebellion. The envoy is not a permanent position, it is generally set up temporarily in wartime, and is generally concurrently held by ministers, generals or local administrators, who are in charge of suppressing the people's uprising and recruiting surrenders and rebellions.
During the period when the war was not over, the power of the envoys was great. It's just that everyone didn't expect that Li Ye, the young prince, would be appointed as a recruiting envoy to be responsible for countering the rebellion.
"Chin this!"
Liu Jishu's shrill voice deliberately lengthened the last two words, and after he finished speaking, it meant that the holy decree was read out. Li Ye shouted to receive the decree and thanked him, and took the holy decree with both hands, Liu Jishu smiled and said to Li Ye, "Congratulations to King Shou, Your Majesty attaches so much importance to King Shou, and I hope King Shou will not live up to the grace." ”
"Gonggong Liu is tired of traveling and driving, please go into the camp and rest for a while." The Liu Jishu in front of him is not a good thing, but in history, the other party launched a mutiny after he became the emperor, imprisoned and abolished his emperor. However, at this time, Liu Jishu had just emerged, and he was not even a first-level eunuch among the eunuchs, just a eunuch beside Li Yi.
Although Li Ye doesn't like the other party, he won't reveal his true thoughts.
"King Shou doesn't need it, our family has to go back to the palace to restore his life, so I won't disturb His Highness. Your Majesty is very concerned about the counterinsurgency, and asked our family to tell His Highness, hoping to send troops as soon as possible to relieve the siege of Shuzhou and quell the rebellion. Liu Jishu rejected Li Ye with a smile.
"Since Gonggong Liu has something to do, then Xiao Wang will not force Gonggong Liu to stay. Zhang Wei, on behalf of the king, send Liu Gonggong a ride! Li Ye instructed Zhang Wei on the side.
"Yes, Your Highness!"
Zhang Wei and Li Ye have been working for a long time, and they know what to do with such a eunuch. It is definitely inevitable to give some money, not to mention that Liu Jishu is still a eunuch by Li Yi's side, he must not be lazy, not to mention letting him say good things by Li Yi's side, but he can't say bad things either.
After Liu Jishu left, seeing that the subordinates around him had not yet reacted, Li Ye ordered, "Pass the order, officers above the rank of lieutenant colonel in the army, come to the council hall quickly, this king has something important to order." ”
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"Shouwang has arrived!"
The conference hall is naturally a place where military affairs are discussed, and since officers above the rank of lieutenant are all involved, there are many people, so it is in the spacious conference hall. Zhao Xiong, the pawn of King Shou's Mansion, trotted a few steps, came to the entrance of the conference hall, and shouted loudly. In fact, this kind of thing should be handed over to Zhang Wei, but Zhang Wei is a eunuch after all, and his shrill voice is not easy to use in the army.
As soon as the voice fell, Li Ye, who was dressed in military uniform, stepped into the conference hall, looked at the people inside, and asked, "Are you all here?" ”
Although this is in the army, there is also a distinction between civil and military, with literati standing on the left and military generals standing on the right. The literati are naturally headed by Pei Rong, and below are civilian officials at all levels, and Li Yingxu is also among them, because the instructors of the martial arts hall are all ranked; In terms of military generals, Liu Qi and Li Hong are both lieutenant generals, and they both have their own cronies in the army.
After seeing Li Ye come in, everyone saluted and shouted, "See Your Highness!" ”
Li Ye came to the top, sat on a wooden chair more than a foot above the ground where everyone was standing, and waved his hand, "Sit down!" ”
Seeing these people present, Li Ye was also a little proud, these are his own team, with them, he has the possibility of winning the throne, and he can also fight in this late Tang Dynasty like a troubled era.
Although Li Ye's team at this time is not strong, it can be regarded as beginning to take shape, and because there is no expansion, he is no stranger to these faces.
On the side of the military Chinese officials, Pei Rong is faintly headed, this Li Ye also knows, but he also acquiesces to this status quo, and the balance of the short period should not be considered by him, that is in the future. In addition to Pei Rong, there were some other people, such as the judge Xu Shiren, Cang Cao, and the military Li Mi. Among them, Li Yu is still from the Li family in Longxi, but it is a very partial kind, which also shows that Li Ye is very disgusted with the family, but he has to use people from the family for a short time, because the proportion of people from poor families is indeed less.
On the military general's side, under Li Ye's deliberateness, it is mainly divided into two factions, naturally led by two Zhonglang. In addition to Li Hong and Liu Qi, among the remaining five heads, Liu Kui did not say that it was the capital of the cavalry, and it was also the most powerful unit of the Tiance Army, and more than 1,000 cavalry were rare in Shudi; The other four heads are Sun Jiameng from the Sun clan, Yuan Zhiqing, who is a close confidant of Liu Qi and a former Ya soldier, Ouyang Jing, who was born as a former town general, and Peng He, who was born as a former soldier of the palace.
The five heads of the capital can represent the forces among the current generals.
Although Li Hong, Peng He and Liu Kui were all from the royal palace before, Liu Kui was not one of the ten people who followed Li Ye from Chang'an to Chengdu, so in the faction of pro-soldiers, Liu Kui was an alternative.
Similarly, Liu Qi, who is Li Ye's father-in-law, only his real cronies are Yuan Zhiqing. Although Sun Jiameng was also his subordinate before, he was a member of the Sun clan, and now the relationship between Sun Fu and Liu Fu is not harmonious.
The remaining one is Ouyang Jing. He is the most nonexistent, but he is low-key, and he does not participate in the struggle between Li Hong and Liu Qi, and sits in a muffled voice.
Although Pei Rong, Li Hong and Peng He are all old people who followed Li Ye from Chang'an to Chengdu, in Li Ye's opinion, these are all old people, because even the first three are only a few months earlier for Li Ye.
In Li Ye's eyes, the newcomers are those who graduated from the Martial Arts Academy, but now the first batch of the Martial Arts Academy has not officially graduated. What Li Ye values most is actually the person who graduated from the Martial Arts Academy, he pinned some of his ideas on the Martial Arts Academy, and then realized some of his ideas, but in a short period of time, the Martial Arts Academy could not become his right-hand man, but he believed that as long as a few years passed, the situation would slowly change.
"Among you, there are people who came out of the king's palace, and there are also people who came out of the king's wives and concubines, and there are also people who came out of the tooth soldiers and county and town soldiers. The king took a look, and there were no new joiners among you.
This king doesn't care what your previous identity was, and what it has to do with this king, but this king wants you to forget your previous identity, and now you have only one identity, that is, a member of the Tiance army, and you are also a subordinate of this king.
Just now, His Majesty has issued an order to appoint this king as an envoy to lead the Tiance Army and the Xichuan Army to rescue Shuzhou and quell the rebellion. It has been more than a year since the establishment of the Tiance Army, but it has never been on the battlefield, and in the eyes of this king, an army that has not been on the battlefield, no matter how hard the training and equipment are, it is useless.
What this king needs is an army that may follow this king to fight in the south and north, quell the rebellion of all parties for the Tang Dynasty, and regain lost territory, not a straggler who guards the door. ”
Pei Rong, Li Hong and Liu Qi already knew about it before, but the others didn't know about it. Hearing this news, most of the twenty-five lieutenants in the five capitals and the west were very excited, what do soldiers rely on to be promoted, they rely on military merit, if they don't fight, where do they get their military merits?
Only they know how hard their training has been this year, and although they have heard that the rebels are outnumbered, they are not afraid, but excited. That kind of rebel army is not an army rebellion, but a popular riot, although there are many people, but in fact they are a rabble, as long as they do not make low-level mistakes, they do not believe that they are well-equipped and cannot defeat the rebels. So in their opinion, those tens of thousands of rebels are not rebels, but tens of thousands of military exploits.
"For our Tiance Army, Shence Army and Xichuan Army, they have always looked down on us, thinking that we can't fight, in the court, this king has already made a military order to His Majesty, so I hope you can take it seriously.
Time is very tight, within three days, the Tiance army must be all opened! ”
"Dare to ask Your Highness, what about the students of the Martial Arts Academy? Will you fight with the army? As soon as Li Ye's words fell, an abrupt voice sounded in the conference hall, and everyone was suddenly very curious, who was so bold.