Li Rubai took a step forward and saluted: "The last general has seen the Inspector." ”

Yang Hao hugged him and said with a smile: "Brother Xiao Cheng, are you still here with me?" When your old lady was there, no one in the whole Liaodong was afraid of him, and you didn't put any son-in-law on my shelf back then. ”

He was commensurate with Li Rubai's name, and did not put any boss's score, Li Rubai felt very relieved in his heart, and at the same time he was a little angry in his heart, the Li family is no longer beautiful, and many civil officials have begun to pose in front of him, you must know that Li Chengliang was almost no different from the king of Liaodong when he was in power, his eldest brother Li Rusong was in Xuanfu when he was the chief soldier and the governor of Pingli, and he also beat a three-grade civil official with his fist, which caused an uproar, and finally called the Wanli Emperor to force it down, Li Rubai muttered a few words in his heart. There was still a smile on his face.

The two sat opposite each other in the room and drank tea, Yang Hao mentioned the matter in Beijing slightly, and finally said: "The use of soldiers seems to be inevitable, I will make a statement to the Beijing Division, but if you urge again, I am afraid that you will have to do it immediately, Xiao Cheng, after you go back, you must always be ready for soldiers and horses, and once you are ordered to go again, you must choose a time to swear to enter the army." ”

Li Rubai knew in his heart that the court's decision to enter the army now was very absurd, and the civil officials in the court did not know the actual strength of the Jianzhou Department, and even Yang Hao in front of him was not clear, the old slave had been in business for many years, and had trained into an invincible strong army in the past 30 years, with excellent armor, strict orchestration, personal courage and overall command tending to be perfect, even if it was Liaozhen at its peak, it was very difficult to fight such an opponent, and it needed the assistance of other military towns, not to mention the sparse strength of the current Liaodong Ming Army.

It's just that he can't say this kind of thing, even Yang Ho he can't say it bluntly, Yang Ho is so decisive, self-serving, and narrow-minded, when he was in the Renchen War, because of the contradiction between the southern army and the northern army, as well as the conflict between Yang Ho and Ma Gui, which led to the defeat of the Ulsan Ming army, the Li family knew a lot about the matter, because Li Rusong also thought about returning to the dynasty and being the commander, if he hadn't died in the war with the Mongols, Li Rusong and Li Fujiading were also likely to set foot on the land of Chao and Xian again.

Thinking of his eldest brother Li Rubai is sighing in his heart, Li Rusong's talent and ability are outstanding, and he is deeply favored by the emperor, how many mistakes have been made Emperor Wanli has tolerated it, the dynasty and Xian also called Li Rusong as Wu Jingluo, if the battle in front of him is not for the Yang Hao in front of him as the supervisor, but to call Li Rusong as the commander, maybe there will still be a dozen.

Despite the slander in his heart, Li Rubai still bowed down and said: "The last general, thank you for your trust." ”

Yang Hao waved his hand and said: "If you depend on me, Xiao Cheng is enough to be the commander of the Western Route Army, but the princes of the court have other ideas, and besides, Juniper is not a good person!" ”

Li Rubai said with some resentment: "Du Heizi has been in the same scenery for a while, his subordinates have clashed with my subordinates many times, I asked someone to inform him privately, and he ignored me." ”

This is a small talk with the superintendent in private, but Yang Hao did not stop it, but showed a very interested expression.

At this time, a chief came over, bowed down and said, "Master, Vice President He is coming." ”

Yang Hao got up and said with a smile: "He's here, let's still talk at the table." ”

Yang Hao's food here seems to be really ordinary in Li Rubai's identity, ordinary dishes, the stew is not exquisite, and the wine is ordinary.

"This guy is too unbelievable." Li Rubai was a little angry, and said to Yang Hao: "The general soldier, the deputy general, are not separated by a line, I and Vice General He are brothers in the army, Du Heizi's frame is too much." ”

He Shixian added: "I don't look at our Liaozhen soldiers and horses. ”

Although most of He Shixian's personal soldiers were from Shaanxi, he actually started in Liaodong, and the soldiers and horses he led were also Liaozhen soldiers and horses, and Li Rubai could share the same hatred.

Yang Ho did not express his attitude, but he did not stop the two military attaches from complaining and slandering their colleagues.

After the end of the banquet, He Shixian and Li Rubai went out together, Yang Hao sent them out of the second gate and turned around, in the courtyard of the front door, He Shixian came on horseback, standing in the room by the soldiers to help him tie his cloak, Li Rubai's sedan chair class was waiting outside, He Shixian whispered to Li Rubai: "Li Shuai, I thought the Inspector was supporting us, what do you think?" ”

Li Rubai said: "The most evil supervisor is actually Liu Ling, followed by Du Heizi, tonight is obviously asking us to work hard, he will fight for us, and he also wants us to have no signs with Du Heizi." ”

He Shixian clapped his hands and said: "We are not afraid of fighting, we will fight with Du Madman." ”

Li Rubai smiled and said nothing, he and He Shixian's family is still elite, Li Fu's family is not much left, and he is old, but the skinny camel is bigger than a horse, as long as it is used well, it can still play a great role, He Shixian himself is brave, and the trained family is also very powerful, but the number of soldiers and horses to which the two belong is not much, unlike the West Route Army, which has a large number of generals, there are more generals, and the number of family members is more, and the combined combat effectiveness is strong, and the total number of soldiers and horses in the South Route Army is more than 20,000 people, which seems to be not much worse than the 30,000 people of the West Route Army. However, the West Route Army and the North Route Army are mostly Yansui Guyuan and Datong Xuanfu soldiers, and the elite degree is much stronger than the Liaozhen soldiers who have long been corrupted, although the transferred Western soldiers are not the main force of the towns, and the combat effectiveness is still far above the Liaozhen battalion soldiers, the North Route Army has Ye He soldiers as the allied army, and the East Route Army has more than 10,000 Chao and Xian soldiers, and the Chao and Xian soldiers are transferred from Hamgyong Province, and they are also the only soldiers and horses in the Chao and Xian Eight Roads who can fight.

Although He Shixian is fierce, he has a lot of eyes, and when he saw Li Rubai's appearance, he knew his thoughts, and said with a depressed face at the moment: "Then what should we do, didn't we eat this meal in vain?" ”

Li Rubai smiled and said: "The inspector just meant to tell us that he supported us and others, and was dissatisfied with Juniper and Liu Dadao, as for what we should do, did he say anything?" ”

"This?"

Li Rubai walked all the way, got into the sedan chair, and waved his hand before leaving: "I'll talk about it after the military discussion tomorrow morning!" ”

……

He Shixian and Jun Song were the latest to arrive, and the rest of the summoned civil officials and military generals had already arrived in Shenyang City.

For the people of Shenyang City, it is also a long time not to see so many officials and generals are concentrated in this 200-year-old acropolis, there are still a large number of soldiers and horses stationed in the city, these times the residents of the city from time to time and the officers and soldiers clash, the imperial court is not enough to pay the salary, often in arrears, the soldiers are not always hungry and cold, looting the people's property or forcibly eating and occupying things happen from time to time, because the military pay is insufficient, the generals are not willing to restrain their subordinates too much, which is likely to lead to mutiny. Since Jiajing, because of the lack of state, or the civil oppression is too much, mutinies have occurred from time to time, in Hangzhou a few decades ago, the rebels will beat the governor severely, in Xunyang, the general soldiers were forced by the rebels to jump over the wall, run late may be killed. More than ten years later, the governor of Liaozhen hanged himself, and all the problems of the Ming Dynasty were actually financial problems, but there was never a politician who really had the heart to explore and solve this problem.

In the vicinity of the superintendent's line, the guard is very strict, but under the surface of vigilance is actually the laxity of military discipline, Yang Hao's eyes have never seriously examined his subordinates, whether it is the preparation of ordnance or the control of military discipline, near the line, there was a robbery and murder a few nights ago, today is the first seven, because the area to hold a military conference is full of sentry posts, and the relatives of the deceased can not approach, they had to light the paper man and paper horse brought at the mouth of the alley not far away, and let out a low cry.

Outside the gate, the knives and guns are like a forest, the flags are fluttering, the tips of the knives and guns are flashing in the cold light under the early morning mist, and Yang Hao's superintendent flag is fluttering high on the six-high mast in the Yuanmen, but there is no wind this morning, and the flag is hanging low, just like the mood of the people who came to the meeting.

The main purpose of the meeting was not publicized with great fanfare, but the officials who came to participate were very clear in their hearts, it was already February, the DPRK ordered several times to urge the troops, everyone thought in their hearts that when the troops were sent at this time, the weather was still too cold, and there was still residual snow everywhere, this era was in the Xiaoice period, Liaodong was one of the coldest places in China, the weather in February was only slightly better than in the deep winter, there was no heavy snow one after another, and in such weather to march into the army, whether it was the morale of the army would not be high, In addition, everyone understands that Yang Hao's ability is insufficient, he has not sorted out the relationship between his subordinates at all, and he has no understanding of all the generals, and he, the superintendent, will not be on the front line to supervise the battle when he fights, only staying in Shenyang City to watch the crude map command, what will this battle look like, at least these people who are ordered to carry out the order have no bottom in their hearts.

At the beginning of the hour, the first horn sounded, and then the gate of the superintendent was opened, and people passed through two columns of door flags, and then passed through the door where two rows of guards were standing, and then the lobby was located, here and yesterday Li Rubai and He Shixian came to the banquet when the situation was completely different, two teams of bright armor guards stood under the steps of the lobby, holding long knives and iron guns and other weapons, behind them were all kinds of military flags, two lines of leopard tail flags were still placed in the position of last night, the tip of the flagpole is the tip of the spear of the front tax, which is the logo of the military aircraft heavy ground festival, After the horn sounded, including Wang Keshou, the governor of Jiliao, Zhou Yongchun, the governor of Liaodong, and Chen Wangting, and all the military generals, stood outside the second gate, waiting for Yang Hao, who led the Liaodong superintendent with the left attendant of the military department, to summon him.

Everyone didn't wait long, the second horn rang out, and Yang Hao, who was wearing a red official robe and embroidered with a peacock patch on his chest, walked out from behind the screen surrounded by staff and guards.