It's really handsome, Zheng Yunming stood at the door and shouted hello. According to the legend of the old man in the army, Yue Wumu also showed one or two unique skills to show his skills in his spare time. Of course, Han Feng is still young, and he still has a lot to learn to become a brave warrior on the battlefield.

"Have you learned how to play the firebolt?" Zheng Yunming said to Han Feng, who saw that Du Tong had already gotten up and hurried over to salute: "Firearms, bows and arrows, all of them must not be wasted, both of them will be of great use on the battlefield in the future." ”

Han Feng was embarrassed to take the blame: "I haven't learned the fire gun yet?" ”

Zheng Yunming's face immediately became serious: "What are you doing?" ”

"Because there's almost nothing to learn." After all, Han Feng was still a child, and complained a little coquettishly: "The veterans of the firearms team have passed by, not to mention teaching you well, and making fun of you every day." One will say that before the bamboo general, he will sacrifice to the gods, and he will shoot accurately with the blessing of the gods. After a while, he said that if you want to fight far, you must use the magic trick, and you have to cast spells to make the projectile fly far. After a while, he said that women and children were not allowed to approach firearms, otherwise General Lei Gong would be angry and blow up his chamber on the battlefield. It's really nonsense, can't someone as bold as Lai Niangzi touch it? ”

He is a child's fast mouth, and he can't tell the difference between the title of lady and lady for a while. Zheng Yunming didn't know, and said to him: "When people are out of their control, they will pray to the gods and ghosts. Although the sergeants of these firearms corps are known as veterans, they have only been in contact with firearms for a year or two, and they have only a simple and intuitive understanding of how to use artillery and firearms. It doesn't matter, in fact, the predecessors have already had a way to use firearms, and in a few days, you can bring two books for me and give them to Yang Luo, so that he can re-teach the gun and cannon art according to the words in the book, and let these Raushzi who cast spells and chant spells rest. ”

He waved his hand for Han Feng to continue practicing, and walked through the backyard with his hands behind his back and came to the study. Everything in the study is the same as when he left yesterday, because the envoy sent an extremely confidential secret report yesterday, and in order to avoid leaking the secret, he asked Zheng Xian and Zheng Yi not to enter the study.

He took out the all-important spy letter from the secret compartment in the study.

The spy was sent from the cardinal room of the Privy Council, and it was quickly sent from Lin'an to Xiangyang Mansion by urgent delivery, which was different from the usual urgent delivery, this time it was a deputy of the Privy Council who was responsible for the delivery, and there were four guards and envoys in front of the palace to protect them.

Zheng Yunming opened the secret report and read it skimmingly, and understood the importance of this intelligence document, and it was not a trivial matter for the cardinal government to use such solemn means to protect it.

The time of the Mongol attack, the route of the march, and the names of the generals to whom they belonged. The source of the troops, the names of the commanders of the upper and lower Mongolians. Everything is under control. It's as if someone from the Song Dynasty had personally visited the scene of the meeting of the kings of Helin!

It may not be that there are no people from the Song Dynasty who are really at the scene. Zheng Yunming and Bai Yijie often looked down on the intelligence work of the Southern Dynasties, believing that the intelligence operations of the Great Song Dynasty were surprisingly inefficient, and there were many absurd and dismayed places in between. Zheng Yunming and Bai Yijie vowed to make a new effort to rectify the intelligence operation in the north and bring it into the orbit of regularization.

However, although the intelligence operation ability of the Southern Dynasties had one defect or another, it was the most outstanding in the present world. Of course, only a small part can be recorded in the history books, or known to the people of the time, that is, a part of the records of the officials of good rank as emissaries, or in other words, a very small part that is exposed to the public eye.

There are also vast and dense intelligence networks running silently in unlit corners, which may be very inefficient and may send back a lot of false information. But at a critical moment when the survival of the Southern Dynasty was at stake, this intelligence network could be trusted.

Zhao Kui also once said to Zheng Yunming: "Jiangnan soldiers are not as good as people, they will be inferior to people, and the bow and horse equipment are not as good as people, what do you think we have survived to this day?" ”

Even Zheng Yunming had to admit that being able to withstand the Jin State's century-old offensive and survive the fierce first wave of the Mongols' blows, the intelligence work of the Great Song Dynasty was indeed worthy of his re-examination.

He flipped through the few pages of the secret report, and the names of the Hu leaders listed on it were all famous.

This autumn is destined to be cruel and bloody for the Great Song Dynasty, and I don't know who can survive in this cold north wind.

He slowly paced back and forth in the study with his hands behind his back, thinking about how his 12,000 subordinates should be deployed, and how to give full play to the maximum ability of the more than ten generals who were already in front of the tent.

For Xiangyang and Jing'e Deputy Metropolitan Division, this autumn and winter will not be too easy.

The people waiting in front of the hall are the command system of the entire Jing'e Deputy Metropolitan Division. In the sequence of military generals standing on the left, most of the old Confucian generals who were mostly deputy generals and preparing generals a year ago have become regular generals and deputy generals, and the three regular generals have all added military general official positions such as soldiers and horses or guards. Some of the low-ranking officers promoted last year have also stood at the end of the ranks, among which Liu Quan, Jiao Jin and Fan Zicheng are the most valued by Zheng Yunming.

The civil officials stood on the right-hand side, headed by Ma Guangzu and supplemented by Liu Kezhuang and Xu Yuanjie, and the operation of the entire staff organization was already very smooth.

The strong and strong Jing'e deputy commander was waiting for the moment when the main general gave the order to start the war.

Yang Luo fiddled with his fingernails impatiently. Since the deputy commander married the little lady of the Lai family, he was late five or six times when the military conference was held in just a few months. He thinks that his experience with women is much richer than Zheng Yunming, who has always maintained a humble and gentlemanly demeanor in this regard, but even he thinks that women are just playthings used to eliminate fatigue after hard work, and it is really a rare stain in Zheng Yunming's career to delay military affairs for the sake of women.

He glanced sideways at Wang Deng, seeing that his old god was there, and he didn't seem to be worried about Zheng Yunming's indulgence in women. He couldn't bear it anymore, and he pulled out his feet and was about to go to the back hall.

Bai Yijie waved his hand and stopped him with a white feather fan: "Young people are in love, and it is common to be intoxicated in the gentle township. But it doesn't matter, I'm sure the smell of war will soon dispel the smell of fat powder that envelops the vice-capital. ”

Yang Wei snorted, and before he could speak, he only heard the back Weijun shouting: "The deputy is here!" ”

Zheng Yunming was dressed in civilian clothes, with his hands behind his back, and slowly walked out of the back hall.

"Have you read all the briefings from the envoy yesterday?" Before everyone could salute, he asked in a loud voice.

The contents of the report of the Cabinet of Ministers are basically the same as those of the Privy Council, and in order to avoid exposing the source of information from the Imperial Court in the text, the writing machine of the Ministry of Transmission is a simple report for secondary processing.

Wang Deng said: "All the generals have circulated it, and they are waiting for the deputy capital to come to discuss. ”

Zheng Yunming ascended to the lobby and sat down on the chair. smiled at Lu Xunzhi and said, "What does Lu Weng think?" ”

Lu Xunzhi held yesterday's report in his hand, and said with a heavy expression: "The Lakers' southward attack this time is not trivial. Not only were there many soldiers and horses, but all the famous generals went into battle, obviously intending to capture Xiangyang with all their might, and after annihilating our army, they would carry out a comprehensive plunder of Jinghu. ”

Ge Huai shook his beard and sneered: "What Shi Tianze, Jiagu Liuqi, and Tasi are all in the sequence of the expedition. There are also Prince Kouwen Buhua, who led 20,000 cavalry, Jurchen heavy ministers who were responsible for supervising the Hu army, and Yang Weizhong, an important minister in the north. ”

"The strategy of last year is also the work of these two Hu people's military predecessors." Zheng Yunming said with a smile: "These two people are second only to Yelu Chucai's ministers in the north, and their status is still above the pro-noble Zhenhai, and these people have supervised the army of Jinghu for two years, which shows how much the Great Khan of Mongolia looks up to us." ”

"Who is in charge of the front command? Or is it still Marshal Tachar, an old acquaintance from last year? Bai Yijie shook his feather fan and asked lightly, although he was not in the army when he fought last year.

Yang Luo and Wang Deng glanced at each other, and he lowered his voice and said, "Military Division, the secret report came yesterday that Ta Cha'er died of illness in Taiyuan. ”

Bai Yijie sighed, slightly surprised, Tachaer Fang was in his prime, he was the best candidate for the Mongols' front-line commander, and he had always been responsible for fighting in the south, he was familiar with the situation in the south, and he surrendered the commander before the battle, which was not a good omen for the Mongols' southern expedition.

"The commander-in-chief of the enemy's front, believed to be Tath." Zheng Yunming said: "Last year's agreement can finally be realized this year. This time, Tath will not leave any mercy, and will definitely fight with us in Xiangyang. ”

"Other than that." Lu Xunzhi said: "The enemy army also assembled the Mongolian headquarters of Wanhu Huduhu, Naiman Wanhu Zhaosi, Dongping Road Marching Wanhu Yanshi and Jingxi Marching Wanhu Liu Wei. ”

Ge Huai Ha said with a smile: "Good boy, Liu Heima is finally here in person, this time let him see if the fists of our Jing'e Deputy Capital are hard or not!" ”

Zheng Yunming only ignored it and said to Lu Xunzhi: "There is another person, Lu Weng said that he missed it." ”

Of course, it won't be said that he missed it, and it is impossible for anyone to miss the name of any of the above people.

Wang Deng said loudly: "It is expected that as the vanguard of the entire army of the southern expedition, it is Zhang Rou of the marching army of Yanjing and Yizhou. ”

As soon as the name was said in the hall, it caused a stir of exclamations in the hall.

This famous general in the northern region, who has served in the Mongolian army since the time of Genghis Khan, can almost be called the number one pioneer used by the Mongols to attack the Jin State and the Great Song Dynasty in the south, and repeatedly defeated the Jin army with a small number of troops. Zhang Rou fought pro-arrows, every time he clashed with the enemy's formation, he fell into the enemy's thousands of weights, and immediately stepped down to kill the enemy, first seizing his courage, and then taking advantage of the situation to break it. Using this method of sacrificing his life, Zhang Rou repeatedly performed miraculous feats in the war against the Jin State, and even became the first Mongolian army to enter Bianliang City. After destroying Jin, because of his merits, he ranked first among the generals of the Southern Expedition, and was received by the Great Khan of Wokotai in Taiyuan, and was rewarded with a tiger talisman made of gold, which can be called the first fierce general in the Mongolian army that attacked Jinghu.