Under the restraint of Gao Huaiyuan, the army moved very fast, compared to the speed at which the Song army could not walk twenty miles a day before, they can now almost be called god speed, and the speed of marching every day is maintained between fifty and ninety miles, and this marching speed does not affect the people in the team to camp early and rest in the evening. Gao Huaiyuan, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, entered Sichuan this time, in addition to going to do errands, he also happened to check the drills of the garrisons in various places along the way, so the route he chose was to go north on foot, to Zhenjiang Mansion to take the naval warship, and then go up the river, take Jiankang, Jiangzhou, Chuzhou, Xiangyang and other places, and enter Lizhou Road.

After this journey, Gao Huaiyuan was pleased to find that after more than a year of rectification, the spiritual outlook of the major garrisons has undergone great changes, and the remaining members of the army have basically disappeared, almost all of them have been replaced by young and strong soldiers, whether it is a queue or an action, there has been a great improvement, it is easy to see that these are elite soldiers, and the mental outlook of these generals is also very good, and the faces of each of the generals are full of vitality, sweeping away the previous kind of decadence and twilight...

Especially when passing through Jiankang, the local garrison army and the horse army division all assembled in the school field outside the city, rehearsed their array, and also carried out a cavalry confrontation exercise against the infantry army.

This exercise fully took into account the various new tactics of the infantry in the plain area to resist the cavalry, and used a cavalry of the Horse Army Division as an imaginary enemy to launch an attack on the infantry, and the infantry constantly conjured up all kinds of tricks and came up with various things to resist the cavalry attack, and with the same number of troops, it actually blocked several cavalry attacks in a row without confusion. After seeing this, Gao Huaiyuan was overjoyed in his heart, the tactics used by these infantry troops were also the tactics he had studied to deal with cavalry a few years ago, which did not know how much effort he had took, and after being tested in actual combat, he didn't know how much blood he had paid to sum up the things, and now they have finally begun to be widely promoted in the Song army, if even Jiankang's soldiers and horses can do this, then for the cavalry who will deal with Mongolia in the future, The Song army will reduce many unnecessary costs.

And the current commander of the Ma Military Division is no longer the Huang Wenhao, through the Lin'an Incident, Gao Huaiyuan also thoroughly understood Huang Wenhao's personality, and soon after the situation stabilized, let the Military Command Department find a reason casually, and gave Huang Wenhao to the end, and was sent to a bitter place in the southwest that did not know what the name was. . .

And the current commander of the Ma Jun Division, but it was Li Xiaotian, the commander of the Guardian Army under Gao Huaiyuan, this guy is already a well-known general in the army, when considering the commander of the Ma Jun Division, Gao Huaiyuan proposed Li Xiaotian's name, even if it was unanimously approved by Hua Yue and other members of the Privy Council.

So Li Xiaotian took office, and directly promoted him to be the commander of the Ma Military Division, with this guy here, Gao Huaiyuan was naturally relieved of Jiankang, don't look at this guy to Jiankang not long after he took office, but he did quite well, the cavalry of the Ma Military Division was in good order, and the combat effectiveness reached an unprecedented height, this exercise, their Ma Military Division dispatched 2,000 cavalry, although there is still a distance between equestrianism and combat effectiveness compared with the Mongolian cavalry, but the strength of these cavalry is not bad at all, This also fully proves that Li Xiaotian is also a pretty good general. After watching this exercise, Gao Huaiyuan made an exception to set up a banquet in Jiankang, and invited the generals such as Jiankang and Li Xiaotian to have a good drink, and really praised them, so that these people were flattered and didn't dare to take it.

"Good is good! A bad is a bad one! This official will never say anything against your will! After watching your drill today, this official is very relieved, if it goes on like this, it won't be long before our dynasty will get countless brave and good fighters, so why worry about the Central Plains not returning?

The reason why I have made an exception today to invite you to wait is to reward you for your efforts during this time! I salute you again, and I hope you will continue to work hard in the future, and once the time comes for this official to use you and so on, I will definitely bring an iron army to this official! Dry! Gao Huaiyuan stood up and said to the generals present with the wine bowl, and after speaking, he raised his head and wiped out the wine bowl in his hand. . .

After hearing this, the generals hurriedly stood up one by one and said with a wine bowl: "Please rest assured, we will never dare to live up to Prime Minister Gao's expectations!" After saying that, they all raised their heads and poured the wine down their throats...

"Rejoice! Then I would like to thank you! Gao also laughed out loud.

Starting from Lin'an, Gao Huaiyuan traveled all the way, and did not arrive in Lizhou City until the beginning of May, but Gao Huaiyuan can be said to have gained a lot along the way, at least he is in a very good mood, along the Yangtze River under his power, the various garrison troops are working hard, doing what he asked to do, although there are still many unsatisfactory places in some places, but at least it is moving in the direction he has formulated, especially the establishment of the lecture hall, which provides a certain degree of qualified low-level officers for the army, In addition, the rotation training of high-ranking officers in Beijing over the past year or so has greatly improved the quality of the officers of the Song Army, and now officers at all levels are stepping up their training in accordance with what they have learned. There is also the gradual formation of the military command of the supervision network has basically spread all over the army, under their supervision, those in various places who eat empty salary, drink the blood of the soldiers and do not do the work of the officers have fallen off the horse, should be killed, should be exiled, so the previous kind of doing empty salaries, drinking the blood of soldiers has basically been eliminated in the army, the Song army has basically reached the full state, the surplus and redundant personnel have also been abolished, the officers themselves also have a sense of crisis, as long as the slightest lack of effort, they are likely to be immediately driven out of the pressure of the army, So most of the officers began to get serious ...

Everything is afraid of the word serious, in fact, everyone is not very stupid, as long as they do things seriously, they can always do things well, so Gao Huaiyuan believes that the current Song army is already different from before, and the time to recover the Central Plains is getting closer and closer...

Zhao Kui learned the news that Gao Huaiyuan was going to enter Sichuan in advance, and made all preparations in advance, just waiting for Gao Huaiyuan's arrival, and when he learned the news that Gao Huaiyuan was not far from Lizhou City, he immediately led the civil and military officials of Lizhou out of the city to greet him.

When the two met, there was naturally a burst of joy, because the two of them were old acquaintances, Zhao Kui was Zhao Fan's younger brother, and he was also the son of Zhao Fang, the ambassador of the Jinghu system, who had served in front of the army since he was a child, and he could be called a military general among the Confucian ministers, and Gao Huaiyuan was valued by Zhao Fang when he first served in the army, so Zhao Kui and Gao Huaiyuan had seen many faces, and the two got along quite well.

Zhao Kui is a few years older than Gao Huaiyuan, so Gao Huaiyuan is now in power, but when he sees Zhao Kui, he is still called a brother, after seeing Zhao Kui this time, Gao Huaiyuan is still very polite to Zhao Kui, which makes Zhao Kui quite grateful, and even said that he didn't dare to be, and after introducing some of his staff to Gao Huaiyuan this time, Gao Huaiyuan and his party were welcomed into Lizhou City. . .

After sitting down, Gao Huaiyuan asked Zhao Kui, "I don't know if Brother Zhao has already arranged the things entrusted by the students?" ”

Zhao Kui hurriedly replied: "Please rest assured, how dare the lower officials delay the matter entrusted by the adults!" Now the lower official has long been Saban? Gongga Gyaltsen arranged the post house, and chose a place for Saban in Lizhou City, and built a monastery for a period of time, dedicated to worshiping the Buddhist holy relics that Saban brought this time, and will not neglect Saban, and now only Saban will go to Lizhou with my delegation! ”

Gao Huaiyuan nodded and said, "That's good, then the students can rest assured!" This time I met with Saban, and Brother Lao Zhao was more out of it, so we must make Saban sincerely submit to our dynasty, as for the conditions, we can relax a little, as long as Saban agrees to contact the Tibetan tribes, all of them can belong to our dynasty! ”

Zhao Kui replied: "This is natural, if it weren't for you, how could I have thought that one day I would be able to make Tubo return to my heart!" The officials will definitely help the cardinal minister do a good job in this matter! ”

It turned out that Gao Huaiyuan went to Lizhou this time, in fact, there was a main purpose, that is, a year ago he sent a huge delegation headed by Zhou Cong'an and Li Ruohu as the deputy envoy to Tubo, after a year, he was finally going to return to the Song Kingdom, and Gao Huaiyuan learned the news in advance, so he rushed to Lizhou first to wait for the arrival of Saban...

Zhou Cong'an and Li Ruohu lived up to expectations, and finally met Saban, and along the way also met many influential monks and tribal leaders in Tibet, gave them a lot of gifts, and also gave a lot of Buddhist temples a considerable amount of incense money, after meeting Saban, Zhou Cong'an successfully communicated with Saban to let Saban understand the ultimate purpose of Zhou Cong'an's trip to Tibet, that is, to tell them that the Tubo people would be the ultimatum of the Southern Song Dynasty to Tubo, or Tubo would submit to the Southern Song Dynasty, and from then on become a subsidiary of the Song Dynasty, Either the Tibetans can disagree, but the Southern Song Dynasty will once again levy a large army and enter Tibet to subdue the Tibetan tribes by force!

After communicating with Zhou Cong'an, Saban thought about it carefully, and also examined the current situation, and finally made his choice, after discussing with the forces in the sect, he overrode the public opinion, and agreed to follow Zhou Cong'an's Great Song delegation to the Song realm to negotiate about the entry of Tibet into the Song Dynasty.

Less than three days after Gao Huaiyuan arrived in Lizhou, Li Ruohu led the army to protect the mission and the accompanying monks and laymen of Saban and returned to Lizhou City, which had been absent for more than a year.

After Gao Huaiyuan heard the news, he immediately took the civil and military officials of Lizhou out of the city for ten miles to greet him, and received Saban's arrival with a grand Tubo etiquette.

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