After a while, the 'Juding' came over with a brocade bag, Hu Yanming took it and pulled it open, took out a delicate drawing from it, and then glanced at the big words on the cover of the 'Dongting Lake Defense Line Map' before he breathed a sigh of relief, and handed it to Du Jia respectfully with both hands: "The defense map is here, please take a look at it." ”

Seeing that his expressions and movements did not seem to be fake, it could be seen that it was indeed the first time to look at this array diagram, and Du Jia didn't know what to say about such a strange thing, so he could only take it and check it.

I saw that this was indeed a map of all the officers and soldiers who encircled and suppressed the water pirates in Dongting Lake this time, which was divided into two parts, one was the defense line along the coast to prevent the enemy from escaping and cutting off their supply lines; The other is to deal with the enemy in the lake, and it is written clearly and clearly, and this section of the defense line that Hu Yanming is responsible for is also on it.

Speaking of the marching battle map, the Northern Song Dynasty is also a wonderful flower throughout the ages, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin himself is relying on the mastery of military power and directly added the yellow robe, so he is very strict against his military generals, has reached the level of no matter how detailed, if it is not for the royal driving in person, all the generals who lead the team must draw their own marching map and layout map of the day clearly and then send the horse to the capital to let the emperor see, and then the emperor will give instructions and then send them back, as long as you honestly act in accordance with the emperor's instructions, Even if you lose the war, you will not be punished, on the contrary, if you do not follow the emperor's plan, you will be punished even if you win.

If you want to say that the march is enough, but where will the battle be set in stone, it is necessary to take targeted countermeasures according to the specific situation and the changes of the enemy, but the emperors of the Song Dynasty don't care, what they want is a 'obedient' rather than 'good war' general, so this rule has been handed down from the time of Song Taizu, until Song Gaozong has been beaten to the other side of the Yangtze River by the Jin soldiers, and most of the country is gone, and when he has to recruit volunteers from all over the country, he can be regarded as breaking this dead rule.

Therefore, it is also considered to be bitter for these generals of the Northern Song Dynasty, even if you have a strategy and understand the art of war, it is useless, the civil officials at the same level are in charge of you, and the emperor above is still indiscriminately remote control, which is equivalent to carrying a stone and tying a hand to fight with people, how easy is it to win? I have to say that there are often thousands of horses, and Bole is not often, except for the early Song Taizu There were still some generals in the world who were undecided, and later the entire Northern Song Dynasty was only Di Qing alone, and finally succumbed to death under the saliva and stuffy stick of a large group of civil officials.

This is a major weakness of the Northern Song Dynasty army, but now it is cheap Du Jia, he has a calculation in his heart after carefully looking at the deployment map, and he does not have to worry about the change of officers and soldiers, this deployment map must be approved by the capital without accident, although it may not be the artist emperor himself, but at least it has been decided by the Taiwei Mansion, so they will definitely find a map to do things in a proper manner, and no one dares to exceed half a step.

Du Jia's mood became better and better, and it was much more pleasing to the eye when he looked at Hu Yanming again, and he even ridiculed this strange thing: "General Hu Yan, your surname is not common, you won't have anything to do with Hu Yanzan, the Iron Whip King who founded this dynasty, right?" ”

He was originally in a good mood and joking, but he didn't expect that Hu Yanming would be ashamed and said: "My lord is really like a torch, and I can see through it at once, Xia Guan is indeed the descendant of the Iron Whip King, but it has been in the middle of the family for several generations, and I can only rely on my sister's nepotism to get into this position now, which is really discrediting my ancestors." ”

This time, it was Du Jia's turn to be surprised: "There was a double-whip general Hu Yanzhuo who was ordered to fight Liangshan before, could it be that you still have something to do with him?" ”

Hu Yanming said honestly: "My lord really knows everything, he even knows this, in fact, according to the genealogy, this General Hu Yanzhuo still has to call Xia Guan a cousin, but he is a descendant, Xia Guan is a branch after a few generations, and his status is not comparable with General Hu Yanzhuo, of course, it is even worse in terms of martial arts and military strategy, but even with General Hu Yanzhuo's ability, it was just a small group of training envoys before, and he was only half a level higher than Xia Guan, which shows that this court is really ridiculously tight, hehe, This gives people like Xia Guan a chance to take advantage of it.

But I heard that Hu Yanzhuo has already voted for Liangshan, and I don't know what he thinks, obviously he has a chance to get ahead by the palace marshal's mansion, as long as he works hard, he can at least be promoted to one level or two in the future, and it is not impossible to be a third-grade officer such as a general of the army or a soldier of the army, but he just voted for a group of strong people, which is really a shame for my Huyan family. . . ”

At this time, Hu Yanming saw that Zhu Tong, Lei Heng and the others were all looking at him with disdain, anger but mixed with a little pity and ridiculousness, he immediately stopped talking, and his mind was also spinning rapidly, could it be that he had said something wrong? Isn't that all the hard work you have ever worked to waste?

Hu Yanming broke out in a cold sweat on his head again, seeing that he couldn't think of anything wrong with him when he thought about it, he was very respectful to all of them, and he didn't say anything bad about anyone - except for Hu Yanzhuo, but that is also a family matter of our Huyan family, although these people don't know where they came from, they are definitely not their own family.

At this time, Du Jia suddenly smiled at him with a slight mockery: "Lord Huyan, we have been talking for so long as if I haven't introduced myself yet, it's a bit rude, my name is Du Jia, Du Fu's Du, Jia from Jiaxing Mansion." ”

Hu Yanming immediately came again: "It turned out to be Lord Du, and he had the same surname as Lord Shisheng, no wonder Xiaguan looked like a big man with a deep temperament and heavy as Mount Tai, and Jiaxing Mansion has beautiful scenery and pleasant climate, no wonder the adult is also as warm as jade, and the skin is so good, and the admiration of the adult is even more like a surging river.

Wait, what did you just say, Duja? Why does this name sound so familiar, Xia Guan seems to have heard my brother-in-law say it several times before, by the way, Xia Guan remembered it, it seems to be the name of the Liangshan thief leader, phew, how dare he be a robber leader with the same name as an adult, it is simply an insult to an adult, Xia Guan hates to arrest him and torture him, let him change his name quickly... ”

In order to make up for the mistakes he didn't know why he had committed before, Hu Yanming was in a hurry to show his merits, and when he was talking about spittle, he suddenly shivered, and he suddenly saw that the eyes of the people around him became more strange, and the pity and ridicule seemed to be a little more, and he quickly stopped and looked at Du Jia pitifully and didn't dare to say another word.

(End of chapter)