"Also, now the civil strife in Jin is the best opportunity for our Great Song Dynasty to recover their homeland and expel the northern barbarians, if we can't grasp it, wait for Wan Yan Liang to calm down the civil strife, or Wan Yan Yong of Liaoyang to defeat Wan Yan Liang and unify the Jin country, we will never have a chance. Not to mention meritorious deeds and fame in history, for the sake of the people of the Great Song Dynasty and our own families to live in peace, we must also win the Jinren, even if we have to lose our lives, not to mention that as soldiers, it is not to protect the family and defend the country, it is inevitable to pay and sacrifice, put our own interests out of the way, and we can go all out! ”

Yang Congyi thought about it, he should still tell them some big truths, fight a dozen chicken blood, and correct the problem of personal interests that already existed in their hearts, once the army began to pay attention to personal interests, it would be difficult to win the war.

When the people heard this, they were silent.

What they are thinking in their hearts, Yang Congyi knows very well, after all, they have worked together for more than ten years, watching them grow step by step, from leading and commanding hundreds of people, to now leading and commanding tens of thousands of people, the power in their hands has become more, and the benefits they have obtained are great, and it is easy to forget their original intentions.

At that time, recruiting these people to form the Xuanwei Army, in addition to making meritorious contributions and getting ahead, more importantly, it was also one of the ideals to maintain the Great Song Dynasty, protect the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and recover the Central Plains.

These people in front of them were not ordinary people at the beginning, they were either members of the forbidden army, or they had fought with the Jin people in the north, because of the extraordinary recruitment standards and concepts of the new army, they came together and fought for so many years to have today's achievements.

It's just that many years have passed, everyone's identity has changed greatly, and they all command 10,000 people, so it is difficult for Yang Congyi to talk and communicate with them like before, and as for their ideals, no one mentions them anymore.

"For so many years, we have been trying to train the army, no matter how well other armies are getting away, for what? I remember when I was in the camp of the generals in Huzhou, I told you that all the preparations were for the purpose of fighting against the Jin people. It's just that I didn't say it too clearly at the beginning, and only told everyone that the Song-Jin Peace Conference would be torn up within ten years, and I didn't tell everyone what would follow, whether it was the fall of the Great Song Dynasty, or the opportunity to usher in the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and restore the old land. At that time, I didn't know, but I vaguely felt that once the peace talks broke down, maybe there would be a chance to finally the Central Plains. As a Great Song Dynasty person, how rare it should be to usher in an opportunity to restore the Central Plains in his lifetime! What an honor it would be to be a part of it! For this glory, even if you fight for your life, it is worth it! ”

Yang Congyi looked at the four people in front of him.

After a while, he continued: "I don't want to be famous, nor do I seek high-ranking officials, what I want in my heart is to restore the Central Plains with my life's strength." More than a decade ago, it still is! ”

"The opportunity to restore the Central Plains in front of us, if we can't do our best to seize it, when the civil strife in Jin subsides, the Great Song Dynasty will lose the opportunity forever, maybe in the near future, the Great Song Dynasty will perish, either in the hands of the Jin people, or in the hands of other aliens in the north, just like Liao was destroyed in Jin, Bianjing was destroyed in Jin, and the Great Song Dynasty will usher in the day of destruction. At this time, we can only have a chance to turn things around if we have a hard time. If the front-line generals have selfish interests, the Great Song Dynasty will undoubtedly be destroyed! ”

Everyone looked at each other and was silent.

"My lord, whether you can go north to the Central Plains or not, it should be Lin'an who is in charge, where can we control them. To put it mildly, if we are fighting well, but Lin'an wants to negotiate peace, and if we want to withdraw from the army, we can't help but withdraw the army, right? Pan Cheng suddenly spoke.

"At that point, I'll find a way. But we are now on the front line, and we must not give them an excuse to negotiate peace, and the defeat of the Northern Expedition is the best excuse for the Lord and the faction to take the position, so in any case, for the sake of the overall situation of the Northern Expedition, the Northern Expedition army must not fail on all fronts! If necessary, we will venture north, seize some prefectures and counties, send some good news to Lin'an, boost morale, and cooperate with the main battle faction to stabilize their dominant position in the DPRK. As long as the main battle faction did not lose ground due to the unfavorable Northern Expedition, Lin'an had no reason to withdraw from the army and negotiate peace. Yang Congyi explained in detail.

Yang Congyi's idea is obviously to influence the situation, which is contrary to the tradition that martial artists are not allowed to interfere in politics, everyone listens to it, more or less worried, once the incident happens, they will all be implicated, but now they are people in the same boat, if something really happens, no one can escape.

"It is very risky for us to do this in Xingren Mansion, but for the restoration of the Central Plains by the Great Song Dynasty, in order to expel the barbarians, and return the people to a peaceful world, no longer be plundered, we are afraid, take some risks, and even lose our lives, at any cost! I hope you are the same. If you don't have this awareness, you can go south to Defu, where there are people who only seek personal gain, and it has nothing to do with me how you toss and lose there. Now that he has said this, Yang Congyi no longer has too many scruples.

"Swear to follow your lordship!"

As soon as Su Zhong, Xue Wang and the others heard this, their faces immediately changed color, and they hurriedly got up to show their attitude.

"It's useless to follow me, what you want to follow is the banner of 'restoring the Central Plains'. It is inevitable that there will be accidents in the war, and maybe one day I die, whoever can take on the important task of restoring the Central Plains, who can carry this banner, you will have to follow whomever you want. Nowadays, looking at the entire Great Song Dynasty army, except for our one, there are very few people who have the ambition to restore the Central Plains, all of them are for fame and fortune, and everyone must believe that we are the absolute main force in the restoration of the Central Plains. If one day, I am gone, or I leave the army, if you think about your relatives, think about the ordinary people of the Great Song Dynasty, and restore the aspirations of the Central Plains, you will not forget. Of course, this is all hypothetical, and I will definitely do my best to restore the Central Plains with you! Yang Congyi raised his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down.

Everyone looked at each other, sat speechless, and did not know what to say.

Everyone thinks that today's Lord Yang is a little different from the past, but they can't say what the difference is, but they just feel a little strange.

"Well, that's a lot to say. Next, it's time to make some arrangements. The situation around Xingren Mansion, I think you all know, the east and south are garrisoned by the Song army, there is no danger, the Yellow River in the north, the towns and counties south of Jishui are also in our hands, but north of Jishui, not under our control, the Jin people also have a lot of garrisons, a hundred miles away in the west, the Jin people garrison 50,000, one is to prevent us from attacking Bianjing in the west, and the other is to wait for an opportunity to seize Xingren Mansion, so for a long time in the future, our main opponent is the 50,000 garrisons a hundred miles away, they move, we move, they don't move, we don't move, and confront themto accumulate strength. Su Zhong led the army to Jiaxiang, Xue Wang led the army to Liangshan, Pan Cheng led the army to Yuncheng, Yuan Hua was stationed in Xingren Mansion, and the armies trained well and waited for the opportunity. ”

"Yes!"

The crowd took the order.

"The troops can be recruited and replenished by themselves, but there is one rule, you must not forcibly recruit strong men and destroy the agricultural affairs! If our grain and grass from the north are transported from the south, it will be inconvenient, and if there is an accident, as long as the local fields are not barren, we can procure grain and grass to cope with the accident. Do you understand? ”

"Understood."

Last year, they brought nearly 200,000 military dependents to Suzhou, Bozhou, and Chenzhou in order to restore local agriculture and provide grain and grass for the army.

Lin'an is too far away, Jiangnan is too far away, there is an accident on the road to transport, if the army runs out of grain and grass, there will be trouble, a long time ago, they understood this truth.

"After the troops arrived at the station, they concentrated on garrison training and tried not to interfere with the governance of the local government. Also, your grain and grass are supplied by Xingren Mansion, don't privately requisition grain and grass, let alone rob it, no matter what happened before, now you are the people of the Great Song Dynasty. Yang Congyi heard that the Song army in Guide Mansion had forcibly requisitioned the people to store grain, and he was afraid that Su Zhong and Xue Wang would also learn and lose military discipline and rules, so he deliberately pointed it out.

"Yes!"

Su Zhong and Xue Wang felt Yang Congyi's gaze sweeping across the faces of the two of them, and immediately raised their hands to respond.

Pan Cheng and Yuan Hua also raised their hands in response.

Subsequently, everyone discussed for a long time about the specific training in the army and how to deal with the Jinren heavy armored cavalry, and discussed the solution.

After a long time of discussion, it dispersed.

On the second day, Su Zhong, Pan Cheng, and Xue Wang led their troops to leave Xingren Mansion and stationed in important counties and districts to the east and north.

In fact, Jiaxiang didn't need too many people to garrison, but Yang Congyi was worried that Li Xianzhong's troops would be summoned by Zhang Jun to Guide Mansion, once the northern Jin people learned the news and sent an army from Dongping County or Pingyin County to the south to sneak attack and contain the Song army's northern expedition, the Jiaxiang garrison could take the sneak attack on the Jin army as quickly as possible, or cut off their retreat to the north, trap them in the south, or force them to Shandong.

As far as the Northern Expedition is concerned, Yang Congyi can only believe in himself now, especially Zhang Jun's first Northern Expedition, after the fiasco in Jeju, he no longer believes in Zhang Jun and others, plus this time Su Zhong and Xue Wang encountered Cheng Min's calculations in Qixian County, and the loss of troops and generals, it is even more impossible for him to trust the people in Guide Mansion, they are either for personal gain, or for fame, and the interests of the Great Song Dynasty are not in the first place in their eyes.

Yang Congyi even suspected that Su Zhong and Xue Wang's army was pitted in Qi County, not only by Cheng Min alone, but perhaps Zhang Jun also played a disgraceful role in it.

His suspicions were well-founded, and in the first Northern Expedition in May, he was excluded from the Northern Expeditionary Army by Zhang Jun and became a marginal person, not wanting the two generals to disagree, the Northern Expeditionary Army suffered a crushing defeat in Jeju, and the army retreated to Xuzhou City.

Then, Yang Congyi took a risk, went north with his own strength, redeemed the defeat of the Northern Expedition, and achieved huge results, so that the Northern Expedition could continue.

But this move will undoubtedly greatly damage Zhang Jun's self-esteem, as an old commander who has no qualifications in the Great Song Army, he is not as good as a junior who has not much seniority and has sprung up, how can he accept this?

If Yang Congyi's limelight is extinguished, how can he command the Northern Expeditionary Army?