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Pre-war meeting.

Li Yan said: "Before the official meeting, I would like to announce an important decision of mine. ”

The generals, the staff officers, and all the relevant personnel all looked right.

Li Yan looked around, and finally stopped his gaze on Liu Qi, and said, "Where is Liu Qi?" ”

Liu Qi heard the words and bowed: "The minister is here." ”

Li Yan said: "In this battle, you are in charge of the capital and responsible for commanding the whole army. ”

As soon as Li Yan's appointment came out, everyone was stunned, including Liu Qi himself!

Immediately after, everyone was puzzled and unconvinced!

How could Liu Qi be the commander of such an important battle? How can he be virtuous, he has never even won a big battle, how can he be qualified for the post of commander-in-chief? Even if the metropolitan governor is not in charge himself, he should also find a more suitable person, such as Xu Guanzhong, chief of the general staff, such as Yue Fei, Wu Jue, and Han Shizhong, who had made great contributions before, and then Zhu Wu and Qiao Daoqing, who commanded the Battle of Kaijing......

Although he was puzzled and unconvinced, no one dared to squeak, let alone question Li Yan, who had never been wrong.

Li Yan didn't explain, but looked at Liu Qi, who didn't take orders, and asked, "What's the matter, no confidence?" Then I'll let Wu Jue, Han Shizhong, and Yue Fei replace you? ”

Don't look at the fact that after joining the Liangshan Army, Liu Qi didn't have any merits.

Before joining the Liangshan Army, Liu Qi was the most famous, the most prominent, and the highest position among the officers they traded with Zhao Ji.

Liu Qi's father, Liu Zhongwu, is a contemporary famous general, who served as the commander of the Northwest Army for many years before planting the master's way, and several of his brothers are also famous generals.

However, Liu Qi's fame and military exploits have nothing to do with Liu Zhongwu and his brothers, but he broke out on his own.

Liu Qi was witty and brave in the battle with the Western Xia, not confined to the situation, won nine out of ten battles, and rarely lost, so that the Western Xia people were afraid of Liu Qi, and the Xixia children cried, and their mother thought "Liu Qi is here!" "To intimidate him.

Liu Qi also took the initiative to go deep into the tiger's den to be the hostage of the strong enemy Qingtang Qiang leader Zang Zhengpuge, thus facilitating a peace negotiation.

Liu Qi's heroic deeds were passed on as a beautiful talk by people in the army, and later they were all spread to Tokyo, and it also became an excellent step for Liu Qi to come to Tokyo later.

Moreover, Liu Qi also has the quality of a literati, and his poetry and singing can even be compared with outstanding contemporary literati.

Many people have a high evaluation of Liu Qi as "both civil and military, and extraordinary".

Because Liu Qi was too good, and because Zhao Ji wanted to control Liu Zhongwu, who was in charge of the Western Army at that time, Zhao Ji later transferred Liu Qi to serve in the Tokyo Forbidden Army - in fact, he wanted Liu Qi to be a proton.

In just over two years after arriving in Tokyo, Liu Qi was promoted to a high position like the commander of the guards, pro-army, Ma Junsi, Long Shenwei Sixiang and the four compartments that few people at his age could reach, so people who knew Liu Qi called Liu Qi "Liu Sixiang".

Liu Qi was also appreciated by Zhao Ji and became Zhao Ji's cronies and attendants, and actually held the power of the guards and the guards - other guards and commanders with higher positions than Liu Qi, such as the palace marshal Tai Lieutenant Gao Yu and the deputy commander of the envoy Ma Du Lieutenant Cao Sheng, etc., are just a name.

How could such an excellent Liu Qi not have the confidence to be a commander?

Therefore, despite the surging heart, Liu Qi still bowed and said: "The minister obeys the order." ”

Chic manners, elegant conversation, capable and flexible, not humble to superiors, not overbearing to subordinates, socializing, can be modest, Liu Qi's calm and unhurried temperament really makes anyone like it, including Li Yan.

Of course, the reason why Li Yan chose Liu Qi as the handsome is not because of this.

Li Yan chose Liu Qi as the handsome for three reasons:

First of all, Li Yan can't command this kind of general battle and decisive battle with the participation of 120,000 people and horses, there are too many factors to consider in this kind of war, Li Yan knows very well that he has no talent in this area, and once he goes up to command blindly, he may bring ruin to Shuibo Liangshan, which he has worked hard for many years, so Li Yan is bound to find an outstanding general who can command this kind of big war to replace him as the commander, and the candidate in Li Yan's heart, Naturally, he was one of Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Wu Jue, and Liu Qi who commanded this kind of war in history and achieved great victories.

Secondly, Li Yan has now consciously balanced himself to prevent the emergence of a situation of one dominance - this is no way, if someone is allowed to dominate the family, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not stimulate his ambitions, and then it will bring unforeseen disasters to his own forces, and if there are no talents under him, it is just that, obviously there are many talents under him, why bother to cause trouble? Now, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and Wu Jue have all stood out, and Liu Qi, whose talent is not inferior to the three of them, was surpassed by Yang Yizhong, Wang Yan, and Zhang Xian, who were slightly inferior to the four of them, because of bad luck, how can this work?

Again, and most critically, this battle is a cavalry battle and a decisive battle with the nomads in the plain area, and it is a general battle and a decisive battle in which the other side will invest 70,000 cavalry and at least the same troops. It even evolved into no Jin army generals dared to fight with Liu Qi again, that battle was one of the most important defeats suffered by the Jin army since the southern invasion, shocked the ruler of the Jin State at that time, Hong Hao, who sent the Jin State, reported to Zhao Gou on this battle and said: "The battle of Shunchang, the enemy was terrified and lost, and the treasures of Yan were taken to the north, intending to donate Yan to the south and abandon it." Judging from that record, Liu Qi should be the general under Li Yan who is best at fighting on the plains against cavalry.

In short, Li Yan finally chose Liu Qi to command the battle.

Seeing that Liu Qi had taken over the burden, Li Yan said to Ruan Xiaoqi: "Go and move a chair and put it under me." ”

In the entire big tent, there was only one chair, that is, the chair where Li Yan was sitting, and everyone else was standing, which was the rule between monarchs and ministers.

In fact, before the Song Dynasty, ministers were allowed to sit in the court hall to discuss matters, and only when they went to the court and retreated from the court, they only visited the court.

The reason why only the emperor sat and the ministers could only stand later was because Zhao Kuangyin did one thing, and since then the ministers can only stand in the court.

After Zhao Kuangyin became emperor, he was very dissatisfied with Fan Zhen, the prime minister of the previous dynasty (Zhou Shizong Chai Rong's former minister), sitting and discussing things, thinking that this could not show the imperial power, so he said: "Fan Aiqing, I am dazzled, you bring the document and read it to me." ”

Fan Zhen heard this and immediately got up and stepped forward.

When Fan Zhen finished reading and went back, he wanted to sit down, but found that the chair was gone.

From then on, the ministers could only stand on the court, until the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

Waiting for Ruan Xiaoqi to bring the chair and put it away, Li Yan pointed to the chair and said to Liu Qi: "I won't go on stage to worship the commander, after all, this is not an expedition with troops, I will go out with you to watch the enemy plunder for you...... I emphasize again, I only watch the enemy's raiding formation, where this battle is fought, when it is fought, how it is fought, in short, as long as it is related to this battle, it is up to you to decide, only whoever does not obey your orders, I will kill him for you...... Come, sit down here, and you will be the commander in chief of this battle. ”

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