The ten-mile shop in the north of Gyeongju Prefecture was very lively this morning, and the tea shed that was originally used for the peddlers and pawns to rest and enjoy the shade is now full of old men dressed in green and blue official uniforms, and there are more than 30 people in Lala. There are only dozens of officials in the entire Gyeongju six or seven grades, so the identity of this group of people is more intriguing. Different from those ordinary officials, these officials have no chariot entourage, and each person only has a small burden on his back, and their expressions are a little excited, and there is a little expectation, and their obscenity is very different from those officials who are arrogant and pay attention to demeanor and cultivation on weekdays, and it is even more confusing.

He Yan sat in the center of this group of people, wearing a crimson official robe, and there was a bit of unruliness between his eyebrows.

Just a few months ago, he was still a small official from the eighth grade, and he worked in Guo Yanqin's curtain for an idle job, in such a troubled world, it seems that a powerless civil official like him has followed a master who has no interest. It's extremely difficult for me to do anything better. Unexpectedly, Li Wenge's entry into Gyeongju in Yanzhou brought great changes unseen in a century to the northwest frontier, and the fate of his poor scholar also changed.

Before the arrival of Li Wenge, he, a Fa Cao military officer, had almost nothing except an official robe on his body.

Now, he still had nothing but the newly made crimson official robe on his body.

But now he has power.

Since Gao Shaoyuan took charge of Gyeongju in May, the judicial and public security power of the eight counties of Gyeongju has been in the hands of He Yan, although the name has not been decided, but in the state capital system, he seems to be the number two person in Gyeongju, and this feeling of holding power is something he has never had. Originally, this time the official system was changed, if nothing else, a six-grade Gyeongju inspector would never be able to run away.

Therefore, when Li Wenge summoned him to Yanzhou a few days ago and put another choice in front of him, he struggled and hesitated.

However, he finally chose that uncertain future.

For no other reason, it was born in troubled times. The big husband can't eat five tripods. Bento five tripod cooking. Regardless of the world, since Li Wenge's rise to the northwest, even a fool can see that the situation in Guanzhong is about to change, and in such a kaleidoscopic era, personal achievements basically depend on pattern rather than intelligence. Although the prospect of a state's chief justice is good, how can He Yan be satisfied? The future of Li Wenge is still unknown, so do you know if he is another Liu Tingchang? This step is right, don't talk about one state and one county, and the feudal marquis of the column is just an idle matter.

So he made a decisive choice.

He is in his current position. It is called Tongzhi Eighth Route Army, Yanling Military and Political Envoy. He also adjudicates Lingzhou political affairs. From the five pins.

Whether it's from the fifth grade or the sixth grade. He Yan didn't care. After all, these dispatches are not the title of the imperial court. He saw the land as the land represented by this dispatch and held the administrative authority of the two states. Although most of these two states are still in the hands of Lingwu Jiedu Feng Jiye.

After Shen Chendi's secret letter arrived in Yanzhou. Li Wenge held a small-scale discussion within the meeting of his own army. Immediately he issued three orders to make the degree. Ordered the establishment of the Eighth Route Army's Yanling Military Political Envoy Division on the Yanzhou front. Shen Chen was appointed as the political envoy of the Eighth Route Army and the political envoy of the Yanling Army. He Yan was appointed as the secretary of the military administration of Tongzhi Yanling and the political affairs of Lingzhou. The rest of the military and political secretary Cao Ke officials. One is sponsored by two people.

What made He Yan even more excited was. Under the framework of the Military and Political Department, Li Wenge set up the Yanling Military Department and the Shuofang Arrest and Comfort Department. Shen Chen served as the commander of the marching department and the military envoy of the capital. He Yan served as the deputy military envoy of the capital and the ambassador of arrest and comfort.

This means: As a civil servant. He Yan had the opportunity to share part of the military merits.

This is unique in the military and political system of the Eighth Route Army.

Whether it is the article, Xiao Yali or his old boss Gao Shaoyuan, although he is feudal in Xinjiang Prefecture, he only has administrative power after all, and without military power, he will not be able to share military merits. Although Lu Xun grasped the military and political power, he was a military general, and it was only an expedient measure to lead the administration. No matter how great his merit is, he is promoted in the army. I can't get the boundaries of civil officials. And he He Yan, although this time he is only the deputy superintendent of the military envoy. After all, this is a real military position, according to the military system. In the future, it is possible to receive titles according to military merits......

The future is uncertain, and the future is bright!

He looked at the sun, got up and coughed, and immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"What time is it?" He asked his entourage with a cold face.

"My lord, it's past two o'clock!" The entourage said respectfully.

He Yan frowned, and said lightly: "From today on, you are not allowed to call a certain adult, there is only one adult in the army, and that is the captain!" ”

The attendant was very surprised, and secretly muttered that he didn't call the adult anything, swallowed and spitted in response: "No! Envoy! ”

He Yan was relieved by this "envoy", he looked at a few subordinate officials who came panting from afar, with a smile on his face, and slowly got up and said, "Don't wait!" ”

The entourage retreated, and He Yan turned around and bowed his hand to everyone: "Colleagues, from today onwards, He will be working with the same office." Shuofang Comfort Division is the future Lingzhou Jiedu Judge's Office, which is in charge of the civil affairs of a state. However, Lingzhou is now in the hands of Feng thieves, and our governance is the front line, and civil affairs are also military, so this official made it clear in advance. From today onwards, the marching method of the Comfort Division is the same as that of General Shen's marching division, today is the first day, let me be lenient, and wait until two o'clock. Since tomorrow, the sunrise will go, the sunset will rest, a day trip of thirty miles, no matter the wind, frost, snow and rain, thunder can not move. Although we are civil officials, but this time we went to the front to march and fight, and the state capital did not have a car for us to sit on, no horses for us to ride, and no public opinion to make us comfortable. I know that you are all officials elected in the autumn of September, and you are originally the children of poor families, so presumably this bit of fatigue is not in your eyes! The ugly words of the official are ahead, if you fall behind and can't keep up, the official will never wait, the state government is equipped with 32 posts in the comfort department, and in the end there are as many people as the official will use, if all the people are left behind on the way, the official will support this comfort division alone! ”

"This He Yan, can it be made in the end? Brother Chunqiu, what do you think, let's hear it! ”

Li Wenge sat on his seat with his hands crossed, with a faint look of worry on his face.

Chu Weiyan stuck to his beard and groaned for a moment, and replied slowly: "This person is keen on fame, although he is a little unruly, he is very smart inside. I guess I won't disappoint the captain! ”

Li Wenge sighed softly: "This wartime three-division system. This is the first time it has been implemented, and if it is combined, it will be promoted to the whole army in the future. He Yan has all the courage and talent, but he is a little arrogant, I am worried that he and Shen Chen will not have a good relationship! ”

Chu Weiyan said with a smile: "The Taiwei appointed General Jun Ting as the military and political envoy and the commander of the capital, and even the military envoy of the capital was also given to him, which is a very clever move." Although He Lishan is a member of the council of the Junting, after all, he has the title of the same knowledge as the Military and Political Department on his head, and he is the deputy of the Junting in terms of identity. Even in the army, he is only the deputy capital supervisor and military envoy, and he is incapable of intervening in the military, let alone fighting for power with the monarchy! ”

Li Wenge smiled bitterly: "Wei Xun strongly opposes this appointment!" ”

Chu Weiyan was dumbfounded, although he served as the military officer of the Jiedu Mansion, but he knew that he had a shallow foundation in the civil and military system of Yanzhou, and Wei Xun, a military leader with great power, could never afford to provoke him, so he thought about it. He comforted: "General Wen Qian is defending the system, not opposing the appointment of the lieutenant. ”

Li Wenge nodded: "The establishment of the supervision army is the foundation of the army management system, and the use of civilian officials as the supervision of the army this time is indeed an exception, Wei Xundi is not wrong to worry, but He Yandi's errand is different from ordinary government affairs after all." In this situation, if he can't restrain the lieutenant generals and soldiers, those civilian officials can't do things at all! ”

Chu Weiyan said disapprenously: "The captain is too worried, and although he is an exception to be the deputy envoy of the prison army, it is not a bad system!" ”

Li Wenge was very surprised, and even he himself admitted that his appointment of He Yan was contrary to the rules of his system of separating civil and military affairs, and it was also a kind of destruction of the existing military supervision system. He looked at Chu Weiyan and said, "Spring and Autumn Period, please speak clearly!" ”

Chu Weiyan said: "The way of the captain to govern the army. It lies in the opposition of the prison army step by step. It is not a civilian-military system. Although He Lishan was the deputy envoy of the supervising army, he did not have a military rank. Shen Junting has been in the army for a long time, and the army is obedient. Its status and authority, how can He Lishan and a scholar shake it? Moreover, the fourth-level supervising officers of the regimental and battalion teams in the army are all elite soldiers trained by General Wen Qian, and these people only know that there is a Tai Lieutenant in their hearts, but they don't know that there is a court, not to mention He Lishan, even the Jun Court can't prevent him from secretly communicating with General Wen Qian. How can this be reversed by a deputy envoy of the prison army? As long as He Lishan could not arbitrarily dismiss and replace the officers of the supervising army, he, the deputy envoy of the supervising army, was only for the purpose of mediating when the military and political officials attacked each other. ”

Li Wenge nodded: "If it weren't for the long distance of the troops this time, if we want to carry out a large-scale operation without rear, there would be no need for such measures!" ”

After that, he rubbed his temples and said casually: "There are so many headaches, it's really a little unbearable, I knew it was like this, and this section commander didn't do it!" ”

Chu Wei was speechless, not long after this handsome man made a farce of resignation, and now he has begun to say such unspeakable lies!

Li Wenge raised his head and asked, "Is there still no news from the seal?" Alas, I really miss this stinky and hard-nosed guy a little......"

Chu Weiyan was stunned.

Hundreds of cavalry of the Eighth Route Army galloped across the vast plains, dividing the fleeing enemy incessantly. The enemy's officers shouted in vain to gather their troops to organize and organize, but they were again and again broken off by the cavalry led by Niu Simo, and the plains within a radius of dozens of miles were full of panicked Tibetan warriors, who wore leather robes and garments, held rudimentary wooden clubs in their hands, and fought with the enemy wearing cavalry armor and holding cavalry crossbow standard lacquer guns, but it was difficult to inflict substantial damage on the opponent.

There were more than 2,000 Tibetan soldiers scattered on this battlefield, but under the mobile attack of the 500 cavalry of the slaughtering ox Sima, the army of more than 2,000 people was only passively beaten and exhausted.

The small river in the east was originally the source of the water for the whole army, but now it has become a moat that kills the whole army, and the cavalry that killed the ox Simo continuously swept back and forth along the small river, scattering and smashing groups of reluctantly assembled Tibetan army and driving the herdsmen who only had wooden sticks in their hands down the river, watching them struggle and flee for their lives in the water, watching the river gradually dyed red, Fengzhou Thorn Shi Wang Jia closed his eyes in pain.

To the east, in the distance, a black line was slowly pressing towards the creek, and it was the enemy's infantry, after several nightmarish battles. Wang Jia knew in his heart. Relying on the mobility of cavalry to bully the enemy's infantry is nothing more than wishful thinking on its own. If the enemy ground cavalry is a demon, then the enemy ground infantry is a demon king. The infantry of the Eighth Route Army, who were wearing iron armor and slowly advancing in groups of five, did not move quickly, but the killing efficiency was extremely high, and in the battle three days ago, in just a few shots, the Tibetan Cai tribe threw nearly two hundred corpses on the battlefield, and none of the enemy soldiers were killed, and only four were seriously wounded.

In the face of those terrifying infantry, you don't even have a chance to surrender and say goodbye. They don't have time to stop and accept your surrender.

This is not war, this is slaughter!

Wang Jia was desperate.

"Haven't there been any reinforcements from the Ying Tianjun and the Southwest Recruitment Division?" Wang Jia muttered with a gloomy face.

Wang Xun, the clan brother who had just dug out the arrow from his shoulder, shook his head with a pale face: "It's too late, we lost too quickly!" ”

Wang Jia's mouth was full of bitterness: "What should I do?" ”

A seven or eight-year-old boy rode a horse back from the east, his stature was too small, his legs couldn't reach the stirrups, but his face was full of resolute looks: "Daddy, this battle can't be fought, the enemy's armor is too sharp, we are sending it to death!" ”

Wang Jia was silent.

Fine-sealed Minda rode on his horse. Yang Li was wearing armor and walking, the two of them maintained a line, and the soldiers of the pro-army team surrounded them, slowly approaching the battlefield.

"It's almost night, it seems that it is impossible to be completely annihilated!" Yang Li said.

"We don't have enough troops to push them into a corner." Thin Seal Minda nodded.

Yang Li pondered.

Hosophon Minda looked to the east. He said: "Give the order to kill the ox, give up the river, and he will take a detour upstream to cross the river and intersperse it to the west." It's not worth entangling with the enemy here, only by taking Toyosu can we get a place to stay. As he spoke, he pulled out an arrow from the arrow and handed it out with his left hand.

A harrier herald of the fine seal clan took the arrow. Without hesitation, Pegasus galloped out.

Yang Li scratched his head: "This place is full of rivers. It's really troublesome to cross the river once if you can't walk more than ten miles! ”

The two eyes of the fine seal shone brightly: "That's why the master wants this place!" ”

Yang Li: "What do you mean?" ”

The fine seal grabbed the horse lance and thrust it into the ground. Then he lifted it up and handed the blade to Yang Li, and said, "Look! ”

Yang Li looked at the black soil on the blade. In his ears, he heard Xifeng say: "There is only a thin layer of sand on the surface, and the bottom is full of moist soil, this kind of ground, what is planted and what grows, these Tibetan people do not know how to farm, such a good land is used for grazing, it is really a waste!" As long as there is enough manpower, this place can grow grain all year round, and the land in Yanzhou can only be cooked once a year, at least twice a year, such a good place, who doesn't want it? ”

Yang Li nodded: "It's still a far-sighted adult, we rough people just want to break the sky, how can we know that there is such a good place on the north bank of the Great River?" ”

"Visionary?" A sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of Thin Seal Minda's mouth, "That's not necessarily, if we really follow what he said to go north along the river valley, we will be fools." ”

Yang Li coughed and said with some embarrassment: "I have lived in Yanzhou for more than 20 years, and I haven't been to Meridian Ridge, I don't even know that there is a road on it, how can adults know?" ”

Fine-sealed Minda snorted, but did not speak.

Yang Li asked in surprise, "How did you know that there was a road up there?" ”

The fine seal said lightly: "I'm a harrier!" ”

Yang Li was speechless.

In this Northern Expedition, the fine seal Minda led the way, and Yang Licai now has a road between Yanchuan Road and Malian River Road built on the ridge of Ziwuling, but no one has walked for many years and has been covered by vegetation. He hadn't read a book, so he naturally didn't know that this was the famous Qin Straight Road, which went straight from Guanzhong to Mobei, and was once a famous traffic artery in Chinese history, but this time it took a lot of effort to walk, and the 1,500-strong army marched while clearing obstacles, and the 700-mile journey took more than two months.

"Since there is such a road, why has the Dingyan army gone south, but why has it never been walked?" Yang Li couldn't help the doubts in his heart and asked.

Xifeng Minda smiled: "This passerby is easy to walk, drive a large herd of cattle and sheep for you to walk!" When the cavalry went south, they naturally took the river valley road with abundant water and grass, and who would find the way between the peaks and peaks of the mountains? ”

Yang Li suddenly realized, but listened to the fine Feng Minda said: "This road, don't tell the Zhe family!" ”

Yang Li frowned: "Are you not at ease with the folding family?" ”

"Before the Tuoba family was destroyed, everyone was naturally friends, but now that the Tuoba family is gone, it is difficult to say, this road is 600 miles away within the jurisdiction of the two districts of Zheyang, and if they block this road, they will cut off the connection between us and Yanzhou. We are on an expedition, far away from the old camp in Yanqing, and what we occupy is a rich and fertile land, it is inevitable that some people will want to come over and get a piece of the pie, although the Yang family is not greedy, but this kind of thing has to be prevented. Once this road was cut off, we worked hard to take this piece of land, didn't we make wedding dresses for those two families? ”

Yang Li nodded: "The better your Chinese dialect is, the more accurate the allusions are used than me." ”

Thin Seal Minda smiled and did not speak.

At this time, two horsemen galloped from afar, and the sharp eyes of Minda were finely sealed, and he had already seen that one of them was the harrier who had just been sent out to give the order, and his brows were tight, but he saw the two horses galloping close, and the harrier shouted loudly from afar: "Kill the bull and tell the commander, Fengzhou Thorn History, the Tibetan talent family leader Wang Jia, and ask the Eighth Route Army to make the right guard general surrender!" ”