Li Heng's visit to Jingchu this time can be said to have come with two empty hands, in fact, even the central finances of the small Southern Song Dynasty are extremely bad, and it is impossible to provide him with the slightest support of manpower and material resources. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Don't say it's him, even Zhang Jun went to Shaanxi, didn't he go on the road alone. What he has in his hand is nothing more than a plaque of the Holy Decree and the righteousness of the imperial court.

However, Zhang Deyuan's situation is much better than him. First of all, Zhang Xiangming's name shook the sea, and when he gave an order, who dared not obey. Moreover, the Zhang family is rich, according to Zhang Xiang, this time he went to Shaanxi, and he carried 10,000 taels of gold with him to recruit soldiers. Best of all, he also has a huge Sichuan province that can provide him with human and material support.

In comparison, Li Heng is much more miserable. He was a poor official and had no net worth. Moreover, the Jianghan Plain was completely occupied by the thief army, and if you want to open up the situation, you have to rely on external forces.

This is also the reason why he was particularly enthusiastic about Kong Yanzhou's recruitment at the beginning.

Yes, Kong Yanzhou is a repeated villain. However, his troops have been almost defeated by Wang Shen, as long as they are received and reorganized, they can get a loyal army. Moreover, he, the supreme military governor of the Jingchu region, could also play the role of mediator and adjudicator in the Sizhou army and the Kong army, allowing Wang and Kong to check and balance each other.

However, before he arrived, Wang Shen cut off Kong Yanzhou's head, and no one could control it.

If this continues, he will inevitably become a puppet, an ornament.

These days, Li Heng is thinking day and night about how to split the Sizhou army, and he has talked to many generals who lead the army for this reason. But those warriors sneered at him and made him touch his head to ashes.

It seems that those bastards are going to go to the dark with the surname Wang.

There is no king butcher, and he still eats hairy pigs?

So, Li Heng wondered if he would simply pull up a force by himself. Anyway, he is an envoy appointed by the imperial court, and it is justified to recruit troops to protect the territory and the people, but Wang Daosi still dares to oppose it?

However, it takes money to pull the pole to raise troops.

Today, when he heard that Wang Shen had obtained so many seizures, he was tempted, with these 40,000 or 50,000 yuan of military expenses, a big thing can be done! Moreover, he is Wang Shen's immediate boss, and nominally speaking, he also has the right to meddle in military affairs.

Hearing his words, all the generals were angry, they really didn't expect this Li Heng's face to be so thick.

Seeing that Yue Yun and Gu Lie were about to have a seizure, Wang Shen suddenly smiled and motioned to the generals not to speak. asked: "Does Li Fujun want to make money, I don't know what the use of the faction is?" ”

Li Heng nodded and said, "General Wang, a certain is an envoy appointed by the imperial court, speaking of which, your army is also under the control of the old man, may I ask if it?" ”

Wang Shen nodded: "Wang naturally returns to the palace monarch to control it." ”

"That's good." Li Heng continued: "Is the general of the unified army who fought against the thieves on the text of this western expedition an old man? ”

"Naturally." Wang Shen replied. Yes, the military is a continuation of politics. In this western expedition, the name of Li Heng's envoy was naturally used in the inscription, which was the system and rules of the imperial court. Wang Shen is just a defense envoy of Huangzhou, and Anlu's side is not his defense area. As long as the thief army does not come to Huangzhou, he cannot leave the country to fight.

Unexpectedly, Li Heng bit this point today, and Wang Shen was helpless, wanting to see what he wanted to do.

Li Heng: "Okay, since the old man is the commander of this western expedition, the capture of this battle will naturally be classified as a public middle school." As far as I know, the Sizhou Army does not have a system for all seizures to be returned to the public, so should the general break this rule? ”

Wang Shen laughed: "What the minister said is, okay, this batch of seizures will be classified into the public middle school, and the expenses will be unified." ”

As soon as these words came out, the staff and servants around Li Heng were all happy, and they just cheered loudly.

The so-called: thousands of miles of officials are only for money.

This time, Li Heng came to Jianghan to be an official, and they didn't come over to see if they could make a fortune. It's a pity that Li Heng is a poor ghost, no soldiers and no money, after arriving in Huangzhou, there was not a penny sent down, and everyone was also guarded against thieves by the people of the Military Justice Department.

It's just that there is a war going on everywhere here, and there is nowhere to go if you want to, that's it.

"Envoy, what are you doing here? There are so many places in the army to make money, why did they give it all to Li Heng? After coming down, Lu Can complained in front of Wang Shen with great dissatisfaction. This honest man, because of the military funds so inexplicably, was divided into a large piece, and it was rare to get angry.

Wang Shen smiled and asked: "Ziyu, you are a gentleman, as soon as you speak, you should focus on the overall situation and the orders of the court." Isn't Li Fujun your boss and mine, shouldn't we follow orders? ”

"You ......" Lu Can said angrily: "The words of the court are not all right, and the officials in the court are not all righteous men and gentlemen, I think this Li Heng is a traitor." ”

Wang Shen: "Okay, okay, he Li Heng wants to be in charge, so I'll let him be in charge of this house." There is a saying that if you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are...... We don't have to pay attention to a little thing. The military situation is like fire, prepare it, and the troops will cross the river the day after tomorrow. The next target, Zhang Yong. ”

Having said that, Wang Shen sneered in his heart: Seeing the poor dagger, Li Xianggong, you think about things too simply.

Whether it is a country, a family, or a group, the most important power is personnel power and financial power, he naturally refuses to let people get involved in his finances, and he already has a countermeasure in his heart, so that Li Yan will be happy.

Li Heng has no soldiers and no food, if he is robbed of his financial power like this, Wang Shen is not qualified to survive in this troubled era.

Hearing him say that he wanted to fight Zhang Yong, Lu Can was excited at the same time, but he was shocked in his heart, and said: "Military envoy, the thief Kou Zhang Yong is the so-called alliance leader of these eight thief armies, and his troops are powerful and urgent. Besides, if you look for him now, you will have a decisive battle. The thief will inevitably make the other thieves join forces to fight. In this way, our army is at an absolute disadvantage. When it comes to war, we pay attention to planning and then acting. If you can't take him, causing the thief to be blazing, what can you do? According to the next opinion......"

Wang Shen looked at him with a smile: "What about the meaning of the rest of the child?" ”

Lu Can thought for a moment and said, "We should first cut off the other weaker bandits, remove their branches, and isolate them. ”

"Ziyu is stubborn, but the current situation cannot be calmly arranged by us." Wang Shen said: "You are not unaware of the situation of our army, the army is short of food. Although some grain was captured in the battle just now, it could not last a few days. I have said before that this western expedition is a quick attack and cannot be delayed for a long time. It is necessary to pick the most powerful thief army for a decisive battle at the beginning, and take its military resources for self-sufficiency. The most important thing is that this battle is both repressive and appeasement. The thief army must be beaten and disabled, so that the children dare not cry at night, so that they know that they are afraid, and they will obediently surrender. Ziyu is relieved, I am very sure of this battle. ”

"Grasp, grasp, where is the world where there is a very certain. It is said that Zhang Yong has 60,000 or 70,000 people, if the war starts, as soon as the other reinforcements arrive, there will be at least 100,000 horses. Lu Can was worried.

"No, time doesn't allow us to delay."

"Okay!"

Looking at Lu Can's worried look, Wang Shen disagreed.

Yes, there are many thieves, but their hearts are not aligned. Wang Shen had a hunch that this time he would use Zhang for a fight, but he was afraid that several other thief armies might not be willing to send many reinforcements. The reason is very simple, first Yang Zaixing was beaten by himself and lost his armor, and then Kong Yanzhou died and his reputation was destroyed, and yesterday Li Heng was also wiped out by the whole army.

Moreover, in real history, it was also this group of thieves who rebelled after Zong Ze's death. In the first battle of Nanxunmen, the army of 100,000 was beaten by Yue Fei with thousands of cavalry. It can be seen that these thieves do not have a suitable tactic of breaking through the cavalry.

The key to this battle is the rational use of cavalry, in Wang Shen's opinion, the white cavalry and back warriors he trained are not inferior to the unit led by Yue Fei, so why can't he use it?

"What Grandpa Yue can do, so can I, Wang Shen." Thinking of this, Wang Shen was suddenly angry and fierce.

After eliminating Li Heng and taking Xiaogan, the door to Anlu was completely opened.

Wang Shen didn't even bother to enter Xiaogan County, and on the second day, he led the army to cross the Huanshui along the pontoon bridge.

In ancient times, the county seat was small, not to mention Xiaogan County, even Huangzhou, where Wang Shen's base camp was located, and Qichun, which had just been taken, were also two or three streets, with a population of 20,000 or 30,000 in the city, which was already the capital of a city. As for the county seats, most of them only have two streets, and the remote cities have only a few thousand people, which is not as good as a township in later generations.

This can also be understood, in ancient times, the county did not have much economic value, that is, the grassroots structure of the state to rule the locality, and there was not much oil and water. After the occupation of De'an Province by the thieves, all the city's belongings have already been looted by him.

Therefore, for Wang Shen, this county can only be regarded as a material supply point for the Western Expedition, and it is enough for the rear army to send hundreds of people to be stationed in the area to protect the safety of the grain road.

"The bridge is well repaired." Standing at the water's edge, Wang Shen nodded to Kong Xian, Liu Fu, and Qin Sizhao with satisfaction, his face full of praise.

The rear army did a good job, and in two nights and one day, they actually got a lot of small boats and built two pontoon bridges around the water.

The planks were also paved smoothly, and the army was driving over the bridge one after another, and the sound of neat footsteps was all over the ears.

Hearing his praise, Qin Sizhao was overjoyed. It was the first time he had been in charge of a single task, and it was now a success. Although he was very excited, he still kept his face calm and said, "It is the duty of the last general." ”

Kong Xian and Liu Fu both looked at each other and smiled, and said in their hearts: "Young General Qin is Wang Shen's adopted son, and his future prospects are not small. This time to lay the bridge, whether it is manpower or materials, once he opens his mouth, other troops will naturally do their best to cooperate. However, this little Qin general is a person who can do things, at a young age, he actually stayed by the river for two nights and a day and didn't fit his eyes, but he was a person who could endure it. ”

"Stay up late, look at your red eyes, get on the grain truck and sleep." Wang Shenzhi pointed to a grain truck that was moving forward.

Qin Sizhao puffed up his chest: "Military envoy, the last general is not tired." ”

"Haha, whatever you want." Wang Shen smiled and looked at Li Heng beside him again: "Fujun didn't sleep well?" ”

Hearing him ask, Li Heng showed an unbearable look on his face, and his eyes were full of anger.

Not only did he not sleep well, but after a messy night, he was almost mad by those military ruffians: "Didn't sleep well, Wang Shen, don't you know?" ”