(PS: Today's first chapter!) The next chapter, estimated to come out around eleven o'clock. Not...... So far, this book finally has a very positive person, and I feel so powerful! ）

Xie Shence saw the gentle King Li Yan for the first time, and then heard a compassionate word that he had hardly expected to hear before.

"The record you see now is nothing more than how many people died at that time, and how wonderful the battle between the Modao Army and the Great White Fish Cavalry was....... However, there are many things that cannot be carried by historical books and military law, so you can't see them. ”

Xie Shence asked, "So what is it exactly?" ”

"Miserable?" King Li Yan said as a matter of course.

But misery in the narrow sense is still only a small part of it.

"At that time, I was just a captain in the Mo Dao Army, and I was not even qualified to participate in the internal meetings of the Mo Dao Army, so I couldn't know some inside stories, so if you want to hear any secrets, I can't satisfy you."

"But I can tell you something else."

Xie Shence listened carefully, of course he knew that with the status of King Li Yan at that time, at best, it was only a potential stock worth cultivating in the eyes of some big people, but it was far from being able to serve the general for a long time. So in that war, there was a lot of complicated information, even some generals couldn't figure it out, how could he, a small Modao captain, be qualified to know.

"That year was the twenty-second year that the general had defended the Western Front. That year...... I'm still very young. Before the war, because of your uncle's prominence, many people in the Western Front Army felt very excited, including Sima Bi, who was still a general. But everyone knows that the battle with the Qin State is not easy to fight. ”

"Wait! At that time, Sima Bi had a good relationship with my uncle? Xie Shence couldn't help but interrupt King Li's words.

King Li Yan was obviously a little unhappy to be interrupted, but seeing the appearance of thanking Shence and the gang, he explained, "Don't you know? Now the generals who are guarding one side, including your father-in-law, Hubei Province and Shandong Province, are all trained by the general. ”

General?

Xie Shence reacted at this time, the general mentioned by King Li Yan was not Sima Bi, but Sima Deguang.

So, they are all classmates?

Or the kind that have carried guns together?

And the old days are still very deep.

After Li Yan explained, regardless of whether Xie Shence was in a daze or not, he continued: "There are so many aspects of difficulty. First of all, the supply of grain and grass is tight, although the last account before the old man is clear, but during that time, the supply of grain and grass is still not maintained. ”

"Take the simplest example to illustrate, except for the captain and above, there is almost no one on the front line who has not eaten white meat."

The so-called white meat is human flesh. This title seems to sound more elegant than the two-legged sheep, but it is even more cruel.

"During that time, there were no military prostitutes, because almost all those who had nothing to do with it were eaten."

Xie Shence had goosebumps on his body.

What a huge army it was, and how many corpses had to go into a man's stomach to such a scarcity that the rations were so scarce.

However, what made Xie Shence feel even more incredible was that under such conditions, in the face of the Qin army's desperate counterattack, this army did not collapse.

"The soldiers are naturally extremely hard, but the general is even harder, so he survived with everyone."

King Li Yan looked at Xie Shence and said, "Before that big battle, there was actually a long time of confrontation, and the supply of military food was not enough...... This kind of thing, if it were you, and you were hell-bent on winning a war, would you allow it to happen? ”

Xie Shence thought about it for a while, and said with difficulty: "The Great Jin has accumulated national strength for a long time, and it should not be like this. ”

King Li Yan laughed twice and said, "Yes, it's not like this. ”

"Then can you imagine the reason why the military rations will not be supplied?"

Xie Shence shook his head.

"At that time, the grain and grass transfer officer was Wei Liao."

"You, do you understand?"

Xie Shence lowered his head and thought about it, then hesitated and said, "Perhaps...... What's the real problem? ”

"Impossible!" With a wave of his hand, King Li Yan denied Xie Shence's inference that he couldn't convince himself.

"The war between the two countries, such an important event, how could such an oversight occur? If it is true, then how could Wei Liao take over Zhao Botao's class and become the commander of the Tiqi Division? ”

Zhao Botao was the commander of the Tiqi Division before Wei Liao, and was later sacrificed to the stele at the gate of the Tiqi Division by Emperor Jin for corruption.

Lowering his voice, King Li Yan said: "Actually, there are people who don't want this batch of military rations to be sent to the Western Army. ”

Listening to these words, Xie Shence gradually connected it with the original conjecture.

Could it be that the conjecture back then was true?

Is it really possible that Emperor Jin did it? But at that time, when Emperor Jin succeeded to the throne at the beginning, how could he have any ability? What's more, who gave him so much guts?

Playing with fire and self-immolation, nothing more.

However, even so, thanks to Shence's understanding of Emperor Jin's heart, if he really needs it, Emperor Jin may really do it. And now it seems that Emperor Jin has indeed done this.

"And at that time, the Western Army was alone." King Li Yan's words added another weight to Xie Shence's heart.

Unlike the current distribution of military forces, at that time there were only five armies and eleven subordinates in the Great Jin Dynasty, except for the Jingwei Battalion and the Imperial Forest Army, the Northern Army, the Southern Army and the Western Army, which were the most capable troops in the entire Great Jin Dynasty, and especially the Western Army, which was later divided into the Northwest Army and the Luoyang Mansion Army, had the strongest combat effectiveness.

Looking at Xie Shence's bowed head and silent, King Li Yan explained: "Now the Northern Army is the main force of the Northern Army at that time, the Huai Army accounts for one-half of the strength of the Southern Army, and the Northwest Army basically preserves the entire structure of the Western Army, and the personnel are the most neat. ”

These Xie Shence knew it, but King Li Yan explained it and had his own meaning.

"At that time, the Northern Army could not be counted on, but the Southern Army could actually support it. It's just that it is said that the general sent countless letters asking for help, all of which were lost in the sea. ”

"I don't know if it's true, but at that time the battalion commander occasionally drank once in a while, and when he got drunk, he said that we were betrayed."

"It was true that someone leaked our military deployment, and then it led to passivity in wartime. Although it was extremely difficult in the early stage, in terms of the situation, we were the besieging side, and we were not at a disadvantage. ”

"The reason why the later decisive battle was pulled outside the gate, instead of on the city, may have something to do with it."

At that time, the most threatening thing to the morale of the army was not actually the war, but the fact that many people in the court impeached the general for refusing to fight a decisive battle, whether it was to commit treason and surrender to Qin, or to cut off the king. And the two forces that were impeached in this way are said to have had a fight. ”

"I say that, do you understand?"

After Li Yan finished speaking, he looked at Xie Shence, waiting for his answer.

Xie Shence nodded and said, "Understood." ”

King Li Yan also nodded.

Military rations, military aircraft, and the constraints of court officials were the biggest problems of the Western Army of the Great Jin Dynasty at that time, and these were the biggest ones, and the rest of the small ones, such as the military heart, the differences between the generals, etc., were innumerable.

"In Huaiyang Road for more than 20 years, I gradually understood some things, and the deepest experience is power scheme. The so-called checks and balances and control are the means that every politician must learn, and the more clever the politician, the more sophisticated he is. ”

"And the politicians at the top are the smartest people."

The politician at the top must also be the most powerful person in the world - not the emperor or which?

Xie Shence was shocked in his heart, knowing that King Li Yan was talking about Emperor Jin.

"Master, you already have an idea in your heart, otherwise you wouldn't have said this to your disciple."

"If you don't say that, you can't say it, and you won't say it if you change people."

King Li Yan glanced at Xie Shence meaningfully, and then said, "Actually, many years ago, the personal relationship between the three of you should have been very good. Although there are checks and balances, and there are some struggles among the people below, they can still work together with each other. Otherwise, the marshal and the governor would not worship under the general, and the scholar Sima had also asked the Taifu for advice. But after the death of the general, all this changed. ”

Xie Shence frowned and asked, "Is it that Sima Bi is obsessed with the big war back then?" ”

may be afraid that he didn't make it clear, Xie Shence added: "Sima Bi thinks that Sima Deguang died in battle back then, and it was the hands and feet of my Wang Xie family?" ”

King Li Yan squinted at Xie Shence, his eyes full of warnings.

"You should understand that without that person's meaning, it would be impossible for Lord Taifu and Lord Shangshu to do that. And even if that one spoke, it was impossible for the two elders to take this risk. ”

Taifu Xie, Wang Shangshu and General Sima are close friends, and they are the troika of the Great Jin Dynasty to the top, so naturally there will be no tacit understanding in major matters related to the country.

In fact, the three of them have always been the closest and tacit comrades-in-arms in those years, and with Qian Boan, the four of them almost represent the four most important aspects of the entire Great Jin.

In this case, how could there be such a thing as military rations and court officials? As for support, Sima Deguang's two protégés were in the Southern Army at that time, how could they not send troops to support?

So because of the struggle for power, we are squeezed out and so on...... The argument of party contention is simply untenable.

Then behind this incident, it will definitely not be what some old people think and what they let themselves think, it is to fight for power and profit.

Lord Taifu wants to push his eldest son to the military, and Lord Shangshu wants to completely control Huaiyang Dao.

But I don't want to think about it, which of these two things doesn't require the approval of Emperor Jin?

So in this case, why would anyone maliciously slander the two families, and Sima Bi always regarded the two families as enemies?

In the final analysis, Wei Liao, who came to power later, used many means to deny many people the opportunity to speak, so that the rest of the people did not dare to say it, or even dare not think about it. It also made Sima Bi firm up his hostility towards the two families.

And Wei Liao is the commander of the Tiqi Division, and the only person who can order him is Emperor Jin.

Xie Shence sorted out the front and back, and then became interested in the great general that King Li Yan respected very much. I finally couldn't help but ask.

Sima Deguang ...... What kind of person is he? ”

King Li Yan thought about it and opened his mouth several times, but he held back his words.

Presumably, he usually doesn't speak human words, so he can't say it now. Xie Shence thought so in his heart.

However, King Li Yan finally said it, and sure enough, just as Xie Shence maliciously guessed, such words popped out of King Li Yan's mouth.

"That's it...... Very nice people. ”

Hearing King Li Yan's pale description, Xie Shence sincerely felt a sense of pride.

In the past, you were always told to cry, but now you are also asked by me and have nothing to say, right?

However, then he thought that he was grinning and crying at that time, and at this time, King Li Yan was just short of words, and there was no embarrassment on his face at all, Xie Shence's pride was quickly replaced by disappointment.