On the first day of December in the 17th year of Tianbao, the leading generals of the Tang Army who received the order rushed to Shaanxi County to participate in the military strategic deployment meeting, including Guo Ziyi, the envoy of Shuofang Jiedu, Li Guangbi, the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, Zhang Shouyu, the deputy protector of Shan Yu, the envoy of Huainan Jiedu, the envoy of Xingping Jiedu Li Huan, the envoy of Huapu Jiedu Xu Shuji, the envoy of Pinglu soldiers and horses Dong Qin, the envoy of Zheng Cai Jiedu Ji Guangchen, the envoy of Hexi Jiedu Wang Rare, the envoy of Luqin Jiedu Wang Sili, and the envoy of Henan Jiedu Li Yuan. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Huan, Xu Shuji, Dong Qin, Ji Guangchen, Wang Sili, Wang Tianyuan, and others were the first to arrive, and they arrived on 28 November.

The people of the Marshal's Mansion arranged for them to be in an inn in the city of Shaanxi County, and in order to hold this military meeting, the Marshal's Mansion also specially chartered this inn, and at the same time sent troops to impose martial law in the city, and there were soldiers patrolling the streets and alleys at any time during the day and in the field.

Reception and arrangement of the various sections of the envoy room and board is the marshal's office director Wang Wei, although Wang Wei is a little indifferent to fame and fortune, but still very serious and responsible, he came to report to Zhao Ziliang: "Qiyu marshal, Li Huan, Xu Shuji, Dong Qin, Ji Guangchen, Wang Sili, Wang rare and others have arrived first, the lower officials have already put them in the city Yuelai Inn to stay, the accommodation is arranged there, the security is the responsibility of the major general, there should be no problem!" They mentioned to the subordinate that they wanted to meet with the marshal before the military strategy meeting. ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said, "That's it, you bring them to the Marshal's Mansion at night, and I will meet them!" When everyone is here, on the evening of December 30th, we will arrange a reception banquet, and I will attend at that time! ”

"Understood!"

As soon as Wang Wei left, Wang Can walked in and reported to Zhao Ziliang: "Dashuai, the assassination case has been solved, Tianxianglou has been uprooted, and the landlord Wuyunzi has also been captured. According to our investigation, this boundless man was the leader of the assassins raised by Li Linfu's mansion back then, and his real name was Wu Gui. Before Li Linfu died, this person left the Li Mansion and went into exile. According to the confession of the customer who was responsible for receiving orders under Wuyunzi, it was An Qingxu's subordinate Yan Zhuang who paid a lot of money to ask Tianxianglou to send a killer to assassinate the handsome! ”

Zhao Ziliang sneered: "Hmph, it seems that there are really a lot of people in the world who want me to die, there are people in the court who want me to die, and there are a lot of people in the rebels who want me to die, so I just want to live well!" ”

Wang Can asked, "What about the Boundless and the captured assassins under him?" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said, "Give them to Xuan Eighteen, the commander of the Huya Army, although some of the skills on these people are vicious, they are of great benefit when used on the right path!" It's not easy for these people to learn a whole thing, you tell them, I'm not trying to kill them all, if they can stay in the Huya Army to teach martial arts and skills, I can let them live for a long time! ”

"Got it!" Wang Can clenched his fists and retreated.

In the evening, Wang Wei took Li Huan, Xu Shuji, Dong Qin, Ji Guangchen, Wang Sili, Wang Rare and others to the lobby of the Marshal's Mansion to wait.

Soon, Zhao Ziliang arrived, and everyone hurriedly got up and stepped forward to greet him: "Handsome!" ”

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and smiled: "Don't be formal, come, sit down!" ”

"Xie Dashuai!"

After everyone sat down, Zhao Ziliang asked, "How are the generals and soldiers of the army?" ”

Everyone was gloomy for a while, and Xu Shuji clenched his fists and sighed: "Marshal, since our army suffered a defeat in the Battle of Xiangzhou in July this year, the loss of troops has been serious, and the weight of grain and grass has also been lost in the battle, and now our department has less than 3,000 men and horses, and I don't know how to solve the next meal after eating the last meal!" ”

Xu Shuji said a little exaggerated, no matter what, the current army is not as disciplined as the later generations, if there is no grain and grass, and there is no allocation from above, the soldiers and generals are likely to plunder the local people, even if the local people have no food, the army will not have no food.

Li Huan, Dong Qin, Ji Guangchen and others also complained one after another, Dong Qin said: "Marshal, now we have few soldiers and generals, and we lack grain, grass, baggage and ordnance, so we want to ask Dashuai to think of a way to see if we can add some soldiers, grain, grass and ordnance to us?" Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to fight now! ”

Zhao Ziliang weighed for a moment, and said to a few people: "Recently, we have recruited 12,000 recruits, but we have not arranged for copying and training yet, so let's divide these 12,000 people among the four of you, 3,000 each, and I will ask you to replenish half a year's grain and grass and a batch of ordnance!" ”

Although there are only 3,000 soldiers, these four jiedu envoys are still very happy, there is no way, their territory is now entrenched by rebels, and it is impossible to recruit soldiers at all, and if they want to expand their troops, they must find a way for the imperial court or Zhao Ziliang.

"Thank you, Dashuai!" The four of them happily clenched their fists and said.

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said, "Don't thank you first!" Recently, the local officials in your defense area have been sending me complaints against you, saying that you have connived with soldiers to plunder the people around your garrison! Bing, I can give; I can also give you food, grass, baggage, and ordnance! But if you take it and allow the soldiers to plunder and plague the people around the garrison, don't blame me for being unsympathetic when I want to march and give you swords and axes! ”

When everyone heard Zhao Ziliang say this, they knew that they couldn't play tricks in front of Zhao Ziliang, Zhao Ziliang gave them face, asked people to give people, and asked for money to give money, if they still did that, when Zhao Ziliang really investigated it, he really didn't have the face to say that Zhao Ziliang was not. This person is really different from others, Wang Chengye compared with Zhao Ziliang, and made a judgment. Zhao Ziliang was born to be the material of the commander, and the generals had to obey in front of him, which was really respectful and afraid, but in front of him, ordinary soldiers felt that he was easy-going and amiable, and there was no arrogance, this was the way of the general's commander.

So everyone said solemnly: "Don't worry, Dashuai, we will seriously restrain the soldiers in the future!" ”

The next day, Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, Lai Yao and others arrived one after another and went to the marshal's mansion to meet Zhao Ziliang, and Zhao Ziliang took time to meet them once.

Guo Ziyi and Li Guangbi were very excited to see Zhao Ziliang, the two and Zhao Ziliang had not seen each other for more than ten years, and this meeting was an extremely rare meeting.

Guo Ziyi said: "I haven't seen the handsome for many years, and the handsome is more powerful than before!" ”

Li Guangbi said: "It's a pity that I haven't listened to the teachings of the big handsome for many years!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "Now that you are in a high position as a festival envoy, you are already a feudal official, and a minister of the humerus of the imperial court, what else do I have to teach you?" Ziyi has been with me for a few years, Guangbi has never been by my side, but General Wang Zhongsi values you very much! Okay, let's talk about the old things later, but when you come today, I want to know the truth about your current situation, how many soldiers and horses you have, whether the ordnance, food and grass are sufficient, and what is the combat strength and morale? Let's talk about it one by one! ”

Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, Lai Yao and others respectively told their own situations. Guo Ziyi's Shuofang army still had more than 15,000 people left behind in the rear, and nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses in the Hedong area.

Li Guangbi also has nearly 30,000 people under his command, but this is already the entire army in Hedong, and many soldiers have been lost in previous wars, and there are often wars in Hedong, and the people have fled seriously, and it is more difficult to recruit soldiers, unless they capture strong men, but Li Guangbi can't do this kind of thing.

Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi's soldiers and horses are not bad in terms of combat effectiveness, after all, they have been in war for a long time, and they are soldiers in the border areas, and their combat effectiveness is stronger than that in the mainland, and the soldiers and horses under the command of Lai Yao are much worse, and the strength is only 20,000, and it is a little difficult to hold Huainan and other places, and it is basically impossible to take the initiative to attack.

Zhao Ziliang knows Guo Ziyi better, Guo Ziyi has his own set of leading soldiers, he treats his subordinates more generously, as long as the generals and soldiers do not commit capital crimes, he generally turns a blind eye, and often gives rewards to the soldiers, the military discipline of the army under his command does not dare to compliment, there are often people in the army who do some things such as stealing chickens and dogs, digging graves and robbing graves, he also does not know, over time, the generals think that he is a generous elder, plus he is older than ordinary people, The generals and soldiers also respect him very much, as long as he commands properly during the battle, the soldiers are very brave in the battle and can die in battle! However, his army is not good in terms of the will to fight, and once the battle situation is unfavorable, the army can easily collapse.

Guo Ziyi's idea of commanding troops is related to his own feudal education, and he puts the bargaining chips of whether the army can win the battle on him, the supreme commander and generals, that is to say, the ability of the general determines the ability of his army, and attaches importance to the training of generals and colonels rather than the combat power of soldiers.

Guo Ziyi has been with Zhao Ziliang for a long time, but he only learned some of Zhao Ziliang's tactics of marching and fighting, and did not learn Zhao Ziliang's thinking on governing the army, everyone has their own ideas, and Zhao Ziliang can't force Guo Ziyi to learn his set.

Zhao Ziliang attaches great importance to the training of generals, but also pays more attention to the training of ordinary soldiers, and pays more attention to the ideological education of the army.

Li Guangbi's thinking on governing the army is similar to Guo Ziyi, but he also has his own set, Guo Ziyi is old and serious, and he likes to be upright in commanding operations, while Li Guangbi is in harmony with each other, so from the beginning of the An Lushan Rebellion to the present, Li Guangbi has not only fought more times with the rebels than Guo Ziyi, but also won more battles and lost fewer troops.

After learning about the combat strength of the troops under everyone's command, Zhao Ziliang had a spectrum in his conscience, he remembered something, and asked Li Guangbi: "How did Ge Shuyao do when he came to you?" ”

Lee Kwang-pil replied; "Ge Shuyao is good, he is very serious in his work, although he did not inherit Ge Shuhan's martial arts and art of war, but he did a good job in civilian work, I handed over the logistics affairs to him, he arranged them very well, I am also very relieved!" (To be continued.) )