[Second Update.] 】

When I returned to the Herd Division, it was only the hour.

After dealing with today's official business, a stack of copies was sent to Han Gang's desk.

On the light yellow standard official letterhead, the columns of upright regular script of the three museums have not yet dried. Each one begins with a certain official position and a certain minister, and all of them are cantatas—and they are transcripts.

The transcripts of these pieces are all top-level classified military information. Except for a few high-ranking officials in the two ministries and the Privy Council and the Central Library, the others are not qualified to inspect them, and can only see the extracted entries according to their different functions.

If Han Gang is still just a herdsman in the same group, according to the rules, he can only see the number of damage to the livestock, and other data can only be known through rumors.

However, Han Gang has been directly involved in the military aircraft. In order to allow him to grasp the latest military information as soon as possible, lest he would make a wrong judgment because of unclear information, or delay his precious time to inform him of the military situation, Han Gang was sent by the same Privy Council a few days ago.

In the office, the Privy Councillor is customary to concurrently serve as the herd herd envoy, and the herd envoy and deputy envoy have always served as the chief and deputy of the Privy Council. After Han Gang served as a herdsman in the same group, he did not get a part-time job. The current position was originally an ice cellar for him to rest, but the current situation had to let the Son of Heaven give Han Gang more power.

However, Han Gang only looked at the information sent at the moment, and as for the actual work of the Privy Council, it was Han Jin's purview, and Han Gang had no intention of competing with him. I didn't bother to fight, just looking at the past half a month, Han Zhen was so busy that he didn't come to the Yamen of the Pastoral Division, and threw all the affairs of the Yazhong to Han Gang, so he knew that the errand that the Privy Council of Ludao had promised was not an easy job.

The documents sent to Han Gang's desk basically included all the emergency military information sent to the capital from yesterday morning to midnight. In general, Han Gang had already understood the briefing sent to him before the early dynasty, but the details were the key. In many cases, a small help in the details has a chance to turn the situation around.

On the first page is the casualty statistics reported by the Jingyuan Army.

More than 11,000 people who had abandoned Youzhou were killed in battle and their whereabouts were unknown, and 16,000 were lightly and seriously injured, and nearly half were killed or wounded. The officers who had already entered the rank suffered twenty-seven casualties—a terrible number, and the vast majority of the commanders who commanded four or five hundred men were only palace attendants, and basically less than nine ranks. The total number of missing, killed and seriously wounded generals is 27, which has reached one-third of the officers who went to war, including Miao Yu and his son Miao Lu. Generally speaking, on the battlefield, the higher the rank, the smaller the casualty rate. Judging from the number of casualties among the generals, the casualty report of the Jingyuan Army is relatively accurate.

When looking at the list of casualties listed at the back of the table, Han Gang sighed and shook his head, there were several names on it that he still had an impression of, and his evaluation of them was not low, and he couldn't imagine that they would be ruined.

It is that Sanchuankou and Haoshuichuan do not have such an exaggerated casualty ratio, that is, when the defeat of Dingchuan Village was that year, Ge Huaimin was stupid, and he just broke into the ambush circle of the party members, so there was such a big loss of generals. It's not as simple as breaking your muscles and bones. Or because of going deep into the enemy's territory, once defeated, casualties. If you fail in the country, it will be easy to escape.

And the casualty report of the Huanqing army has not been reported yet, and I don't know what happened to Gao Zunyu's side, Miao Zhi was seriously injured and did not delay, he was good, he arrived in Weizhou at least one day earlier than the Jingyuan army behind the palace, but his movements were slow and orderly.

Gao Zunyu is finished. After the defeat of the army, he even took the notebook and impeached Miao for not obeying military orders, being negligent, and not aware of the treacherous schemes of the party members. Today's second-ranked copy is the fourth transcript since Gao Zunyu's defeat, and while impeaching Richard for being unable to deal with the transfer of the army, he did not forget to take Miao out and scold him again.

In fact, it can be seen in the court that Gao Zunyu is shirking his responsibility, and the Son of Heaven is also very disgusted by this, and it has reached the point of issuing an edict to denounce him, and he thinks that it should be sent to Gao Zunyu's hands in the next two days. But Miao Zhu is also indispensable to punish crimes, and Gao Zunyu's impeachment cannot be said to be completely unreasonable. But Miao Zhu is now seriously injured, and if he dies of his injuries, not only can he not be guilty, but he must also be praised, otherwise he has no intention of motivating the general to be loyal to the country. Only when he recovers can he be punished.

Then the third letter was a joint petition from Gao Zunyu and Miao Zhu, asking the imperial court to allow them to abandon Weizhou and withdraw to the territory, so as not to stay abroad, so that the military spirit was unstable.

Seeing this piece of music, you can know that the two armies of Jingyuan and Huanqing are abolished. And it is necessary to send officers to the front line as soon as possible to appease the morale of the army, otherwise the next letter will not be a simple four words of unstable military morale.

And the fourth part is still from Weizhou, and the last one is the one in the army. Mi Yue said that the day before yesterday, more than 10,000 thieves from the west pursued him, and Gao Zunyu sat back in the city and let the thief army show off outside the city. And the whereabouts of the thief army turned out to be Mingsha City.

This is clearly to intercept the back road of Qin Feng and Xihe's coalition forces!

Fortunately, when he received the briefing in the morning, he had a little bottom, and Han Gang didn't jump.

And yesterday I received the gold medal rush from Wang Zhongzheng, and I already said that after the defeat of Jingyuan and Huanqing, the whole division of the Western Thieves came to attack, and its department fought fiercely with the thieves for many days, killing tens of thousands of thieves, but there were also many losses. It was already difficult to support alone, and there was a risk of being attacked before and after, so he requested to withdraw from the Hulu River into the territory of Jingyuan Road.

Wang Zhongzheng has the power to make decisions and act cheaply, and he must act first and then send a report, and now he has retreated into the territory of Jingyuan Road.

However, in this way, the Iron Harrier will be able to penetrate directly behind Liangzhou from Yingli City, and Wang Sunchen, who is attacking Hexi, may be in danger, and Han Gang can't help but worry about him. Of course, Wang Zhongzheng is now returning in vain, only thinking about himself, and will try to increase his troops in Liangzhou, and someone should remind him.

Then there was Qin Feng's transfer of judge You Shixiong's recital. He was originally in charge of the transfer of the Xihe Road, but when Wang Hou was confirmed to be in charge of the Xihe transfer before the war, he was transferred to Weizhou in Jingyuan to assist Richard. This one is because he has a great prestige in Huanqing, the rebellion of the Guangrui Army that year, the first defeat given to the rebels was You Shixiong's command in Pizhou; On the other hand, Jingyuan Road is also under the jurisdiction of the Qin Feng Transfer Division, and You Shixiong can speak well on both roads.

You Shixiong's twist and turn was to report that dozens of nearly 100 deserters had fled into the territory every day in recent days, and asked the imperial court to comfort his people and not deal with them according to military discipline to prevent mutiny. Judging from You Shixiong's twists and turns, he has already begun to do this. This letter explains from the side that the previous joint recital between Gao Zunyu and Miao Yu was not groundless.

Later, there were more than 20 reports on military affairs in Yanyan, Hedong, Hebei, and other places.

After hurriedly skimming through the two dozen or so reports, Han Gang took out a booklet from the pocket in his arms and made a brief record of some of the key information for use. This is also compared to the data received in the previous days. In order to be more intuitive, Han Gang started a few days ago, and made a few simple charts to strengthen the comparison, and today he received new data, so he started to add a few strokes to it.

Hanging a few charts in the public hall, Han Gang rubbed his short beard under his chin, frowning and staring at the folded line representing the total strength of the army, which was descending with a steeper and larger slope, the loss was beyond imagination, and the combat effectiveness of the party's iron harrier in a desperate situation was visible. But how much should they lose in these battles?

At the end of the day's work, under the orange-red sunset, Han Gang returned home.

The butler who greeted him informed him: "Long Tu, Huang Xiucai is visiting and is waiting in the small hall." ”

Huang Shang fell off the list again, but in addition to studying in Guozijian, he often came to ask for advice on the study of things. The family members of the Han family all know that Han Gang values this Fujian talent who has repeatedly failed the exam, and he is afraid of neglecting his hospitality.

"Oh...... Huang Mianzhong is here. Han Gang nodded, "I'll go see him after I change my clothes." ”

After changing into a homely robe and taking a shower by the way, Han Gang came to the small hall where he received regular guests.

There were ice cubes in the hall, it was very cool, and Huang Shang sat in the hall leisurely, holding a book in his hand, and slowly flipped through it.

"Dragon Figure." Hearing Han Gang's movement, Huang Sheng put down the book, stood up without hurry, and saluted Han Gang.

After returning the salute, Han Gang and Huang Sheng sat down separately, and asked, "What book was Mian Zhongfang reading?" ”

Huang Shang picked up the scroll on the small table and presented it to Han Gang: "It's Bachelor Su Zirong's newly published notebook "Thoughts and Stories", which contains a part of the content of astronomical instruments. Unfortunately, the print run was very small, so it took a lot of effort to lend it......"

Listening to Huang Shang's words, Han Gang smiled slightly. Probably because the last time we met, I gave him a microscope, and Huang Sheng is now interested in Gewuxue. Even if there is no Daozang and Wudian that are famous in later generations, it is not bad to have some achievements in Gewuxue.

"When it comes to astronomical instruments, no one in the court can match Su Zirong." Han Gang said: "I also have this part of his "Thoughts and Stories" in my study, and a few days ago, after I asked the printing workshop to make a book, he gave me a copy. If you are interested, it doesn't hurt to borrow it. ”

When Huang Sheng heard this, he quickly got up and thanked him.

It should be the influence of Han Gang's "Gui Window Cong Tan", and nowadays, there are more and more notes about Gewu. Shen Kuo's new book is in preparation, and Su Song's notes have already been published.

After chatting with Han Gang for a while about academic issues, Huang Sheng suddenly said: "Does Long Tu know Lu Dao, Yu Zhengdao was arrested and taken to Yushitai today, he is already the seventh, and in two days, Guozijian will not speak directly and professor." ”

"I heard." Han Gang nodded, "It's just that I don't know much about it." ”

“…… But it's a small thing. Huang Shang saw that Han Gang didn't care about this matter, so he didn't mention it with interest, and asked instead, "Huang Shang heard that the Liao army's 100,000 troops have arrived in Datong Mansion, is the Liao people going to invade the south?" ”

"How can there be a hundred thousand? The Khitan cavalry has one person and three horses, and if there are 100,000 horses, there are 300,000 war horses, and Xijing Road can't afford to raise so many. To get a few more discounts. And when it comes to their involvement, it should not be so. Tearing up the covenant that had been maintained for seventy years, whether in the Great Song Dynasty or in the Liao State, was not such a simple matter. It's not something that can be decided by the ministers who say the last sentence. Yelu Yixin would not be willing to take too many risks. ”

"Although the Western Xia won a small victory, the official army still occupied the Silver Xia. Lips and teeth are cold, won't Yelu Yixin send troops to aid Western Xia? ”

"What does this have to do with Jeruyshin?" Han Gang smiled: "Liao Guo is not his. A traitor who seeks power in the country, Mian Zhong said that he would consider his own net worth, life and power? Or will it be considered for the future of Liao? Will the idea of peace for all generations exist in Yelu Yixin's heart? …… But then again, the imperial court will not put confidence in Yelu Yixin, and Hedong Road will definitely strengthen its guards. ”