Chapter 221: The Battle of the Army

In the past, no matter what official Gao Huaiyuan was, he couldn't touch these things of the armies in various places, but now the situation is very different, as a privy envoy of power, it can be said that he has become the supreme head of the military, as long as it is a military matter, he has the right to intervene. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Over the years, no matter what Gao Huaiyuan did, he had never ignored the information about the Southern Song Dynasty army, and he had come up with a set of information about the Song army in detail and sorted out a lot of experience.

And now that he can finally show his strength, he must adjust the Song army into an army that can be used at any time within a limited time, and make all preparations to resist the Mongol army in the north, which can be said to be a huge project.

He alone must not be able to accomplish it, so as a doctor of martial arts, Hua Yue has undoubtedly become his most powerful assistant, Gao Huaiyuan as soon as he took over the post of privy envoy, he said to Zhao Yun, promoted the Jingxi Road soldiers and horses to govern Meng Heng as the capital of Ezhou Jiangling Prefecture, with him as the chief general of the Ezhou military, responsible for the military affairs of the Jingxi Road.

After thinking about it, Zhao Yun read the resume of Meng Heng, and learned that Meng Heng was the son of Meng Zongzheng, the capital of Ezhou, and he was also an old friend of Gao Huaiyuan, and his performance on the battlefield was very good, so he nodded and agreed to Gao Huaiyuan's proposal and promoted Meng Zongzheng to the capital of Jiangling Prefecture in Ezhou, so that Gao Huaiyuan could rest assured on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and Meng Hui has also become an important general of the Southern Song Dynasty in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River several years in advance.

Before the New Year, Gao Huaiyuan once again included Li Quan's matter in the problems that must be solved at the moment, and in the early court, he proposed to Zhao Yun to raise troops to recruit Li Quanjun.

There are still some people in the DPRK who oppose this matter, at least Zheng Qingzhi does not support Gao Huaiyuan very much in this matter, because at present, in the eyes of their civil officials, Shi Miyuan and his party have just been eliminated, and the court situation has not yet reached a very stable point, Gao Huaiyuan has just taken up the post of privy envoy, and it seems too impatient to send troops to attack Li Quan so soon.

Moreover, after Zhao Hong's Xiachuan Change, the situation in the lower reaches of Jianghuai is very good, and at the moment Li Quan has not made too many moves, so sending troops to recruit Li Quan seems to be a little unknown.

So Zheng Qingzhi even raised his objections in the court, and was supported by some officials in the court.

Gao Huaiyuan also expected that he would attract Zheng Qingzhi's opposition by doing so, but he did not give up, but went out of class and said to Zhao Yun: Your Majesty! The reason why Weichen wanted to conquest Li Quan so soon was that this matter could not be delayed! Weichen once told His Majesty about the situation on Jingdong Road, Jingdong is the old land of my Great Song Dynasty, and it should have been under the rule of the imperial court! Since a few years ago, the Mongols have repeatedly invaded the Jingdong area, in order to control the Jingdong under their hands, although there are several northern armies such as Peng Yibin's army, ** army, Fu Daquan army, Zhang Rongjun, etc., but Li Quanjun is still the strongest person among the northern armies.

Li Quanren must be known to everyone, although this person had many merits in his early years, but over the years, what he did was a big loss of what he thought when he started to fight against Jin, and he only knew how to blindly grab benefits from our dynasty, compete for territory, and even colluded with the Jin people to smuggle all kinds of materials to the Jin people and the Mongols to seek huge profits from them.

Moreover, this person is the envoy of the Baoning Army, but he does not accept the king, and only nominally maintains a relationship with our dynasty, but in essence, he sits on the ground and claims the king, regards the Jingdong area as his forbidden territory, and does not allow our dynasty to enter the master, not to mention the matter of the imperial guard, but has repeatedly sent troops to attack other armies that are also the northern army, and even colluded with the Jin State to cooperate with the Jin people to attack Peng Yibin's army.

Last year, he launched the Chuzhou Mutiny, indiscriminately killed our court officials, and then at the beginning of the year, he colluded with the rebel king Zhao Hong, intending to commit rebellion, and after seeing Zhao Hong's defeat and escape, he immediately turned to express his allegiance to the saint

If it is still allowed to get away with it, if it goes on like this, it will cause a catastrophe sooner or later, and the land of Jingdong is a very important place for me to recover the Central Plains in the future.

At present, although our dynasty also has difficulties, Weichen thinks that it is necessary to solve this fang first in order to ensure that Jianghuai has no worries from now on! Weichen also knows the difficulties of the court, so although he proposed to send troops to recruit Li Quan this time, he did not plan to take away many soldiers and horses, as long as Weichen was ordered to bring 20,000 soldiers and horses from the front division of the palace and the infantry division, plus 20,000 soldiers and horses from the Zhenjiang Navy and the garrison army, and 10,000 soldiers and horses from the Zhongshun Army on Jingxi Road, Weichen could ensure that within half a year, the entire Jingdong Road would be completely included in the rule of our dynasty!

In this way, you can ensure that the north of the capital division is worry-free! Therefore, I hope that Your Majesty will grant permission!

Zhao Yun was really a little embarrassed to sit behind the dragon case, earlier when he was still in the Yiwang Mansion, Gao Huaiyuan analyzed the situation on Jingdong Road to him when he was fine, and explained to him many times the possible threat of Li Quan, and now through Li Quan's Chuzhou mutiny and support Zhao Hong's launch of the Xiachuan Mutiny, Zhao Yun also saw that Li Quannai was a wolf with ambitions, and this person would be a disaster sooner or later.

And now what he is difficult to do is that what Zheng Qingzhi said is also reasonable, he is in charge of the new treasure, the court situation is not too stable, Gao Huaiyuan will personally lead the soldiers and horses, and go north to crusade against Li Quan, he is really a little worried, now he is really used to relying on Gao Huaiyuan, as soon as Gao Huaiyuan is not by his side, he is a little lacking in confidence, for fear that Gao Huaiyuan is not in the capital, and he will not be able to suppress these ministers.

Master Gao must be joking! Li Quan also has nearly 200,000 soldiers, plus the other northern armies, the number of soldiers and horses is not less than hundreds of thousands, and Gao Daren only has 20,000 soldiers and horses from the front division of the palace and the infantry division, plus the Zhenjiang naval army is less than 20,000 soldiers and horses, plus 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Zhongshun army, and he wants to solve the matter of Jingdong within half a year, so is it too child's play? Zheng Qingzhi said to Gao Huaiyuan when he came out of class.

Although he is a civil official, but he has also heard of the situation in the Jingdong area, Gao Huaiyuan just proposed to bring only such a few soldiers and horses, and solve the problem that the entire Jingdong area has been unable to solve for more than ten years within half a year, he feels that Gao Huaiyuan is a little too trusted, and there is a hint of sarcasm in his words.

Zhao Yun couldn't help but worry when he heard this, and asked Gao Huaiyuan: Gao Aiqing only brought so many soldiers and horses, can he really solve Li Quan's matter?

Gao Huaiyuan knew that everyone didn't believe him very much now, so he immediately surrendered his hand and said: A soldier is more valuable than a fine soldier! The armies ordered by Weichen this time are the elite armies of my Great Song Dynasty, aren't they comparable to those rabble under Li Quan's command? And if Weichen goes to Huaidong this time, he will outwit if he can outwit, not to be reckless, so in half a year, there should be no problem, for this reason Wechen is willing to set up a military order, with the head of the head guarantee, if Li Quan cannot be destroyed within half a year, let His Majesty dispose of it!

After listening to Gao Huaiyuan's assurance, all the officials in the DPRK and China were shocked, this kind of thing was put on them, they didn't even dare to think about it, and Gao Huaiyuan actually wanted to take the head of the head as a guarantee, which shows that Gao Huaiyuan's intention to send troops this time has been decided.

But Zheng Qingzhi immediately said: Although what Lord Gao said is reasonable, but the affairs of the military family are not as usual, this also involves the problem of the financial resources of the imperial court, tens of thousands of troops go out to fight, and the money and food consumed every day are huge numbers, I am afraid that it is now approaching the end of the year, and the imperial court can't come up with such a large sum of money, so let Lord Gao go out to fight the thief!

Gao Huaiyuan was a little angry, Zheng Qingzhi made it clear that he wanted to go against him today! Originally, the two of them cooperated quite well some time ago, why did he Zheng Qingzhi become this right minister, and he began to sing against him? Could it be that he asked the Holy Lord to send troops to recruit Li Quan this time, without consulting him in advance?

Gao Huaiyuan felt that there was this possibility, although Zheng Qingzhi did a good job in assisting Zhao Yun to eliminate the Shi Party this time, but this person is still a little flawed in his character, at least he is not broad-minded enough, and he is good at seeing the wind and steering the rudder, compared with some famous ministers in history, Zheng Qingzhi is deficient.

Thinking of this, Gao Huaiyuan was not polite, and immediately replied: The officials have already thought about this matter, although the imperial court has been tossed by traitors all these years, the treasury is empty! But this is not the key issue, if we are talking about food alone, let's talk about food first!

The two Zhejiang, Fujian, Huainan, Jiangnan and other places have all been in good weather this year, and the various treasurys are very full of grain, so as long as the grain of some of the treasury of the two Zhejiang roads is allocated, it will be enough to cope with the use of this army.

And in terms of money, there is no need to worry, this time the subordinate officials are not invited too many troops, but just confiscated the money from the traitor's family, as long as a small part is taken out, it will be enough for the subordinate to send troops this time!

Gao Huaiyuan mentioned sending troops to attack Li Quan this time, in fact, he made full ideological preparations, and the problem of grain and straw had been implemented in advance, and then he presided over the confiscation of the traitor's family property, just from Shi Miyuan's prime minister's mansion, the confiscated family wealth is an astronomical amount, plus the fields of Shi Miyuan's family, it is not too much to say that this old guy is rich and rivals the country, over the years, Shi Miyuan has controlled the government, and the money obtained from selling the official mantle alone is not less than 10 million yuan, not to mention that Xue Ji, Li Zhixiao, and Hu Yu and many other Shi Miyuan's cronies and henchmen's family property, these people are all greedy for ink and full of fat, and they have hoarded a large amount of property at home, adding up to the two-year income of the Southern Song Dynasty treasury.

After the money was filled into the treasury, it immediately enriched the treasury that had been tossed empty by them, and the treasury was not at all empty as Zheng Qingzhi said, Zheng Qingzhi was talking about this matter now, undoubtedly deliberately setting up obstacles for him, Gao Huaiyuan was very unhappy in his heart, and even refuted Zheng Qingzhi's words.