Chapter 249 Coach Candidates

I didn't have time to think about the reason for Fan Wenhu's transformation, and then said: "Now I will talk about the Lin'an Theater, the establishment of the Lin'an Theater has two purposes, one is to assist the Imperial Forest Army to defend our Great Song Xingzai (Beijing Division), and the other is as a mobile force, which may support other front-line theaters or other uses at any time, you have just heard my description of the establishment of the Imperial Forest Army, by the way, I will personally assume the role of the commander of the Northern Expedition, and the Imperial Forest Army will naturally accompany the expedition, and the establishment of the Lin'an Theater is planned to be set at about 40,000 peopleIt is composed of three chambers, of which 20,000 are from the forbidden army, and the other 20,000 are also re-recruited in the civilian population, and its structure will follow the original military structure of our dynasty, that is, the pattern of the chamber, army, battalion, and capital. ”

Everyone knows that the position of the commander of the Imperial Forest Army will be held by my henchmen, so no one is blushing, and they don't dare to have any ideas, but for the commander of the Lin'an Theater, everyone has their own plans, hoping to use their relatives and friends, after all, this is also the boss of the Beijing garrison, and its status is so high that it looks higher than the envoys of other theaters.

It's just that no one wants to be this bird, and the venue became silent for a while, of course, I also know that there are no famous generals to choose from in the last years of the Song Dynasty.

Li Beiyang saw that no one spoke on the left and right, so he was the first to get up and said: "The minister suggested that the veteran general Cao Shixiong should be appointed as the commander of the Lin'an Theater. ”

Cao Shixiong is a general in the period of Li Zong, and Gao Gao, Xiang Shibi is the same name, the surname is upright, after Jia seems to be in power, he immediately made a prestige, and slandered Cao Shixiong and Xiang Shibi who slandered him in the military camp in the barracks, saying that he had embezzled and stolen official money in the army, and as a result, both were exiled, and later, Xiang Shibi went away with grievances, Cao Shixiong was under the intervention of the Empress Dowager Xie Daoqing, and returned to Lin'an in the fourth year of Li Zongjingding, cloth clothes at home,

"Yes, everybody go on."

Lu Xiufu said: "Your Majesty, although Cao Shixiong is a famous general of our dynasty, but he is old, and the minister is afraid that his physical strength will not be exhausted, and the minister proposes that Jinshi Yin Yinglei take his post in the second year of Jiaxi (1238). ”

"Yin Yinglei, who is it." For this person, I have no impression at all, and I searched for Zhao Yu's memory in my mind, but it is also blank.

"Your Majesty, this Yin Yinglei is a Jinghai people, and then moved to Changshu, Baoyou two years (1254) as the state guard, when he went to office, it coincided with the invasion of the Mongolian soldiers, Yin Yinglei made Qiu Yue order along the river, the car soldiers broke into Hezhou, repelled the Mongolian soldiers, because of their strange surname, informal, and evil, so they were not liked by the first emperor, was dismissed, and now lives at home."

"Well, it can also be counted as a candidate, all Aiqing, you can talk about the candidate in your mind, I have always advocated that you can speak freely during the meeting, but after the meeting, once a resolution is formed, it needs to be implemented unconditionally."

"The old minister recommended Wang Jian, the son of Lord Wang, Wang Anjie, to take on this position." Zhao Kuidao, a veteran who attended the meeting as Lu Guogong,

Wang Jian, I know, is a general of Meng Heng, famous for commanding the battle of Diaoyu City (now part of Yucheng),

In February of the first year of Kaiqing (1259), the Mongolian Meng Ge Khan personally led the army to besiege Diaoyu City, under the leadership of Wang Jian, from February to May, the Song army repeatedly repelled the Mongolian siege of the city, in June, and repelled the Mongolian army that captured the outer city of Ma Junzhai, the Mongolian pioneer general Wang Dechen was wounded and died, in July, Meng Ge personally supervised the battle, was also wounded, and died in the army, Meng Ge Khan crisscrossed Europe and Asia, with soldiers like gods, the Europeans called it "God's divine whip", but finally died in the hands of Wang Jian, after Meng Ge's death, the Mongolian army then withdrew from the siege, Wang Jian was promoted to the commander of the Guards and Infantry Divisions because of his outstanding merits, and was later squeezed out by Jia Yidao and died of depression.

This history is described in Jin Yong's pen as Yang Guo's work,

The Diaoyu City Defensive Battle is one of the famous defensive battles in the history of Chinese wars, and the Ancient War Hall of the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution also specially made a sand table model of the ancient battlefield of Diaoyu City to show its important position in the history of ancient Chinese wars.

Zhao Kui continued: "Wang Jian's bravery, I am well known to passers-by, his son Wang Anjie is less subordinate to his father, and he has meritorious service in guarding Hezhou, and now he is worried about his father at home. ”

These three people seemed to have a grudge against Jia Nidao, and I turned my gaze to Jia Nidao: "Master, what do you see?" ”

"But it's up to Your Majesty to decide." Jia Rudao said lightly,

I don't understand what Jia Yidao is thinking, he seems to be indifferent to the choice of the commander of the Lin'an Theater, which is completely different from his attitude at the military reform meeting.

I nodded and said, "Junshi, immediately recruit these three people into the palace, and I will examine them one by one." ”

Lu Xiufu replied: "Yes, Your Majesty, the minister's decree." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, if you have other suitable candidates, you can also play Yu Yu before the official appointment of the commander of the theater is issued." With only these three candidates, I think it's a little too little.

"Yes, your ministers obey."

"Okay, here's the last war zone, Quang Nam war zone." I paused, took a sip of tea and moistened my throat and said, "The Quang Nam Theater is located in the south of our dynasty, its south is bordered by the Annam Domain, and the west is bordered by the former Dali State. I intend to organize according to the strength of the two chambers, the number of which is about 20,000, and the same as the Lin'an Theater, the theater system follows the original military system of our dynasty, and half of its strength comes from the forbidden army, which is generally recruited locally. ”

Lu Xiufu said silently in his heart: "No, Your Majesty, the forbidden army has a total of more than 70,000 people, and the forbidden army absorbed by these three armies is only about 35,000 people, and more than half of the forbidden army has nowhere to go." ”

I smiled and said: "Junshi, you are right, there are many old, weak, sick and disabled people in the forbidden army, take this opportunity to cut off the military status, return to the hometown to farm, or let it be a residence, I explained, this is not only for the forbidden army, all theaters also need to eliminate unqualified soldiers, and prepare for the reform of the recruitment system in our dynasty." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Next, let's discuss the choice of the commander of the Quang Nam Theater."

This time, Jia Rudao was the first to say in a rare way: "Your Majesty, the old minister has promoted Fan Wenhu, the former deputy commander of my court, to take this position, and the deputy commander Fan has been in the army for many years, has experienced a hundred battles and has managed the forbidden army all year round, so the minister thinks that Fan is the best candidate for the commander of the Guangnan Theater thousands of miles away. ”

"Well, the recommendation of the master and the minister, I will give priority, everyone, are there any other candidates?"

"Your Majesty, the minister also thinks that Fan Wenhu is suitable for this position." Fan Wenhuan, the secretary of the military department, also echoed,

My intuition tells me that Jia Rudao's party's struggle for the position of commander-in-chief of the Guangnan Theater must have been carefully considered.

Before this, everyone was guessing who the commander of the three armies would be, everyone agreed that the commander of the Imperial Forest Army would be served by my favorite ministers, most people guessed that Lu Xiufu, almost no one guessed that it would be the queen mother's brother Xie Daolin, for the candidate for the commander of the Lin'an Theater of Operations, the most guessed was Fan Wenhu, the reason is that Fan Wenhu himself is the highest military position in the forbidden army, and some people speculate that Jia Yidao is concurrent, according to the law of balance, the imperial power and the relative power are each one, and they are all happy, as for the Guangnan Theater, It seems that not many people are interested, after all, it is too far away,

Jia Rudao gave up the Lin'an Theater and turned to the Guangnan Theater, which was in line with the art of war, concentrating on attacking weak points.

It's just that the Quang Nam Theater is very far away from Lin'an, is Fan Wenhu willing?

I thought for a while and asked, "Fan Aiqing, what do you think of yourself?" ”

Fan Wenhu hurriedly said: "The minister obeys His Majesty's arrangement, and the minister is willing to guard the territory for His Majesty." ”

"Well, Aiqing has this ambition, I will consider it carefully."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

I continued, "Any other recommendations?" ”

When discussing the commander of the Lin'an Theater, Jia Nidao and his party were collectively silent, and when it was his turn to elect the commander of the Guangnan Theater, only Jia Nidao and his party proposed, and the others seemed to cooperate tacitly.

It seems that there are indeed too few generals who can still serve as the commander of one side, I secretly sighed, like Ouyang Jianqing, Xia Qing and other young people are still shallow, even Lu Xiufu, Wen Tianxiang and others are temporarily unable to serve as feudal officials, the way of officialdom is not only to see the ability, but also to see its comprehensive strength, although the historical Fan Wenhu always lost the battle, but its resources and connections in the court are sufficient, of course, this is based on the party of the Xiangquan, the so-called skinny camel is bigger than the horse, in the battle for imperial power, although Jia Rudao fell behind, But its power is intertwined, and it is not something that I can easily take back.

In the later period of Song Lizong, Jia Nidao worked hard in the court for more than ten years, which can be called the power of the government and the opposition, and Song Lizong was less concerned with court affairs, which invisibly created an impression that Jia Nidao was the family of the Song Dynasty, and even the high-level of northern Mongolia thought so, so in the decision-making of the Mongols, the "elimination" of Jia Nidao was the top priority, and they agreed that if the Song Dynasty did not have Jia Nidao, it would definitely be a mess.

Since Hao Jing's return, he re-examined the court of the Song Dynasty, and from the perspective of the Song Dynasty intelligence that Mongolia has mastered, Hao Jing subconsciously feels that the new emperor of the Song Dynasty is a more terrifying person, however, Hao Jing has not dealt with me, the new emperor, after all, so it is only in the guessing stage, and it cannot change Mongolia's established national policy for the Song Dynasty.

In the "History of the Yuan", Kublai Khan once said such a passage, "Shang said: 'The defender of the city is only one scholar Jia system, you 100,000 people can not win, kill for several months can not pull out, your generation is also guilty,'" this passage is one of Kublai Khan's evaluations of Jia Yidao, which means that there is only one person surnamed Jia in the enemy city, and you lead 100,000 people to be invincible, and you have not pulled out this city for several months, your sins,

Lu Xiufu replied cautiously: "Your Majesty, not for the time being." ”

If you look at it according to the recommended list, the commander of the Imperial Forest Army belongs to the faction of the imperial power, the commander of the Guangnan Theater is the party of the prime minister's power, and the Lin'an Theater belongs to the middle faction, which is also in line with the law of balance.

When I saw that the crowd began to fall silent again, I said, "In that case, then according to what I said earlier, you have the right person to play on me." ”

There are only three nominations for the coach of the Lin'an Theater, I am already too little, I didn't expect that the nomination of the coach of the Guangnan Theater will be even less, only one,