asked Huang Shicong and Li Siwa to take a hundred elite soldiers directly to the prison palace prepared for him by Han Jiang, Zhang Bin didn't have time to wash off the dust on his face, so he followed Wang Sunchen to meet Han Jiang.

After more than half a year, I saw Han Jiang again, and the latter's attitude was very different from when we met in Dashun City.

Although the official authority is still there, his face is full of smiles, and he even greeted Zhang Bin at the gate of the mansion in person, with a gentle and cordial face.

This scene surprised the officials of the Zhending Mansion who accompanied Han Jiang to greet Zhang Bin.

You must know that a few days ago, when Guo Kui, the chief general of the Zhending Mansion and a senior member of the Zhengsanpin Army, came to visit Han Jiang, the latter did not go out to greet him, and he was not so enthusiastic.

After all, he is a dignified deputy prime minister of a country, although he was temporarily forced out of the center of the court by political enemies, he is still a bigwig-level existence, and even without Zhang Bin's help, it will not take long in the original history for Han Jiang to return to the center of the court.

Therefore, for a long time, Han Jiang is still one of the thick legs that Zhang Bin needs to hold.

Han Jiang's enthusiasm is his business, if Zhang Bin gets carried away because of this, it is really stupid, he immediately stepped forward a few steps, and said to Han Jiang: "Xia Guan has seen Xianggong, congratulations to Xianggong on his victory over the Liao thief, drive the Liao thief out of the country, and promote my great Song Guowei!" ”

"What a big win." Han Jiang didn't eat Zhang Bin's set, shook his head and sighed: "Let's not say that the losses of our army are twice as much as the Liao army, just more than two hundred beheadings, which are less than a fraction of the two great victories with the western thieves in the northwest, and there are three villages destroyed by the Liao, more than 400 people were killed and injured, and the grain, grass and property were also looted by the Liao. ”

Zhang Bin was a human being for two generations, and his face was thick enough, and he said: "The combat power of the Western Thieves is far from being comparable to that of the Liao, and the more than 200 beheadings are no less than the 2,000 beheadings of the Western Army." ”

Zhang Bin's words were said to the generals of the Zhending Mansion who were stationing.

He just swept over the generals, and found that except for a veteran in his fifties led by him, his face was sinking like water and he couldn't see the depth, and the rest of the people were listless and depressed, probably because this time they surrounded the Liao army with several times the force, not only failed to leave the other party, but their own battle losses were still two or three times that of the other party, and they were not happy to hit the generals' self-confidence.

The general of an army is where the courage of the army lies, and the confidence of the general directly affects the morale and morale of an army, the confidence of the Great Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers in the war with the Liao people is insufficient, this time there is a small gain, although their own losses are more, but in Zhang Bin's view, these front-line generals can only be encouraged, and must not be attacked, otherwise it will only invisibly weaken the morale of the troops.

Han Jiang saw that he knew Zhang Bin's deep meaning, and secretly praised Zhang Bin's carefulness and good intentions in his heart, and nodded with a smile: "This is also true, the combat power of the Liao thieves is indeed much stronger than that of the Western thieves, and you can behead more than two hundred in the first battle, which shows that the combat power of the Northern Army will only be stronger than that of the Western Army." ”

Zhang Bin and Han Jiang sang and harmonized, and the gloomy look on the faces of the Zhending Mansion generals who were standing dissipated most of them, and they were a little more excited, and their spirits were also a lot higher.

The veteran, who had been sinking like water, had a gleam in his eyes, and there was a hint of a smile in his eyes when he looked at Zhang Bin.

"Ziyu, I am introduced to you by this appearance, this is Guo Kui, the envoy of the Xuanhui Southern Academy, Guo Taiwei." Han Jiang pointed to the veteran who couldn't see the depth and said with a smile.

Guo Kui, like Wang Sunchen and Chong Ge, are all famous generals in the Northern Song Dynasty, and unlike Wang Sunchen, who has just started, Guo Kui is already a famous general in the world, with extremely high qualifications and prestige in the army. ”

Guo Kui helped Zhang Bin up with a smile and said: "The prison army is polite, I heard that because of the plan of the prison army, he had a great victory in Dashun City, so he was promoted and became the deputy envoy of the road to pacify all the way. ”

"Taiwei praised it falsely, the great victory of Dashun City is the work of Han Xianggong and the Taiwei, and the subordinate is just a meager effort." was humble in his mouth, but Zhang Bin remembered a rumor that was widely known in the army and officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty - the two famous generals of the Great Song Dynasty and Guo Kui were not in harmony, and the grudge was not small.

But Zhang Bin felt that Guo Kui's words just now were a bit deliberate, as if he was deliberately trying to let people know that he had a feud with Chong Ge.

Zhang Bin had doubts before, these two rarely work together, how can there be a grudge, but now it is more certain that these two veterans are really putting on a show, and they are for the Son of Heaven, the ministers of the two governments and the civil officials of the imperial court.

No way, during the turbulent times of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms before the Song Dynasty, the emperors of most of the countries were the result of the rebellion and usurpation of the military generals who controlled the military power, and even Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of the Song Dynasty, was also Chen Qiao mutinied, and the yellow robe was added to the body, and he seized the country of the Later Zhou Chai clan.

Therefore, the Song Dynasty generations of emperors and civil officials were extremely vigilant about the military generals' military affairs, such as Chong Ge and Guo Kui, who had a very high prestige in the army, if the relationship between the two was very good, I am afraid that it would cause a catastrophe.

Next, Guo Kui introduced Zhang Bin to the generals under his command one by one, and when he introduced one of them, Zhang Bin couldn't help but look at it a few more times.

Because this person's surname is Zhe, he is the lord of the two major generals of the Great Song Dynasty, the chief general of the 30,000 horse step forbidden army in Fuzhou, and the governor of Fuzhou Zhekerou.

In later generations, those who really understand history and are not affected by the romance know that the real most worthy of singing and crying in the Great Song Dynasty is not the Yang general, but the Fuzhou Zheshi.

Because, at the edge of the town for generations, the Zhe family, which has produced many famous generals, is worthy of the name of "the first general of the Northern Song Dynasty", and his merits far exceed that of the Yang family.

As the saying goes, fight tiger brothers, go into battle father and son soldiers. The history of war in ancient China was, to put it bluntly, not a history of national wars, but a history of wars between families and countries, because the feudal dynasty and the country were tightly tied together.

In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the princes of the world were fighting, and the so-called princes were small and small, but the population was even larger, but most of them took the country as their surname, and they were a fighting collective integrating the family and the country.

Even in the Song Dynasty, due to the frequent wars, many fighting groups were also composed of relatives or friends with surnames, among which fathers, sons and brothers went forward one after another, and there were not a few Jiangmen families who fought together on the battlefield.

She Taijun, the widow of the Yang family who is still in command at the age of 100 in the romance, is admired by some people who regard romance and movies and TV series as history.

But few people know that in the romance, even She Taijun's surname is wrong, because She Taijun is not actually surnamed She, but surnamed Zhe, her maiden family is the Yang family general who has guarded the northwest border for nearly 300 years and has far surpassed the Yang family generals.

From the end of the Tang Dynasty to the southward migration of the Song Dynasty, for more than 260 years, the Zhe clan has always controlled the Linfu region, and the hereditary succession has been experienced for a long time of the 11th and 19th lords (note), which can be called the most in China, especially with only a corner of Fuzhou to resist the invasion of Liao and Western Xia, which is not easy.

Of course, the outstanding achievements of the Zhejia family also have a lot to do with the location of Fuzhou (now Fugu County, Shaanxi Province), because Fuzhou borders Liao and Western Xia at the same time, and is located at the forefront of Hedong Road.

The emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty were all small-minded, and they were the most jealous of the generals in history.

However, the Fuzhou Zhe family can hereditary Zhizhou, a unique exception, and this incident alone can show that the Zhe family will be a national treasure that the emperor relied on very much during the Northern Song Dynasty.

However, Zhang Bin came prepared for his trip north to Imperial Liao this time, and in the premeditated plan in his letter to Han Jiang, the most important part of the Liao army fell on the Zhejia army.

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"Report to Han Xianggong, Mrs. Guo. An urgent report came from the Changshan Grain Road, and it was found that the Liao scouts were infested, and General Wu, who was in charge of escorting the grain and grass, sent a messenger to report the incident. ”

Zhang Bin was about to say a few more words to Zhi Kerou, when suddenly there was a rapid sound of running outside, and then a dusty soldier was directly brought in by one of Han Jiang's personal soldiers, kneeling on one knee in front of Han Jiang and Guo Kui, and said loudly with fists.

The generals' expressions suddenly froze, and many of them even changed their faces, especially the few civil officials who were not in number, even with panic on their faces.

Since ancient times, because the grain road was robbed, or the grain and grass were burned, there are countless examples of defeat, and even more than two months ago, the great victory in the northwest Hengshan was because Wang Sunchen crossed the mountains and mountains, and burned most of the grain and grass of the western thieves with strange soldiers.

But Zhang Bin's eyes lit up, the light in his eyes flashed, and he glanced at Han Jiang, who was also in good spirits.

According to Zhang Bin's previous agreement with Han Jiang, the starting point of their plan was that the Liao army was eyeing the grain routes of the Great Song Dynasty.

On the other side, Han Jiang nodded to Guo Kui, then his eyes swept over everyone, and he said indifferently with a calm expression: "The military capital commands the above generals to stay, and the rest of the generals retreat to perform their duties, ready to fight at any time." ”

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Note: Hedong Road, Fuzhou and other places where the Zhe family lives are places where ethnic groups live together, among which the Dangxiang clan occupies the main position. Therefore, the Song Dynasty implemented a set of governance policies that were different from those of inland prefectures and counties, that is, appointing local tyrants or ethnic minority chiefs as governors or Tibetan officials, governing according to customs, and restraining them, so that they could contain each other, consolidate border defense, and stabilize order. The local military and political chiefs are all held by the local Wang people, and they are basically hereditary. The Zhe family has long lived in Fuzhou, and in the late Tang Dynasty, it was already a famous local family and the highest authority; In addition to the Fuzhou Zhizhou, where the Zhe clan lives alone, many important civil and military positions are held by the Zhe clan, their clansmen, and their in-laws; The tomb of the folding clan and the mausoleum temple are in Fuzhou. These factors all determined that after the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Zhe clan was still eager to continue to serve as the governor of Fuzhou to maintain the family foundation and interests. Starting from the Zhenwu Army's five towns of Yuanhe (its pedigree is as follows: Zhezongben - Silun - from Ruan - De Yan - Yuqing - Weichang - Ji Min - Ke Xing - can be ...... to the 10th generation of Hikoshi (c. 1080-1160) as a member of the Privy Council and a member of the Governor's Council.

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