In March, although the West Hebei Road of the Great Song Dynasty is not as cold as the land of Liaodong and the prefectures of Yunnei, it is still a cold spring, and pedestrians still wrap their heads and faces tightly, otherwise the cold wind is like a small knife desperately cutting.

Zhending Mansion on Hebei West Road in the Great Song Dynasty is the place where this road is governed. A road-level envoy who should be transferred to Changping was set up here.

It is no more important than Shaanxi Fourth Road and Western Xia, which have been entangled in war with Western Xia for decades, and there is no place to pacify the important dispatch that makes this kind of military and political power grasp in the West Hebei Road. When the war against Yan was going on, Tong Guan was the envoy of the Hebei Zhulu Xuanfu system, and he directly controlled the military and political power of Hebei Shulu. After the end of the war, this temporary and powerful dispatch was canceled.

It has been almost two years since the war ended, and the depression of Hebei Zhulu is still the same. The damage to Hebei was also huge, and the failure of the people's strength was not so easy to quell. Local governance is all quiet. All of the river workers were forgiven.

The local dispatch officers on Hebei West Road are also happy to be idle. Every day is just to take the minister's money and enjoy leisurely. The most remarkable thing is to send some relief to the displaced people from Bianliang to appease the local government, and if you have a conscience, you can just peel off a layer of skin in the past two years.

In the past, local officials still had a little time to spend on official duties. After a period of time, he completely gave up. The reason is also very simple, it is the palace change on February 2.

The Great Song Dynasty Gate suddenly had an earth-shattering change. There was news that Zhao Ji abdicated as the Taishang and the crown prince was deposed. And the three kings were proclaimed as new kings. That conquered Yanjing. Xiao Yan, the son of Nanlai who pacified Yandi. As others expected, as soon as he entered Bianliang, he was relieved of his authority, and he was silent from then on. but suddenly became the king of the Great Song Yan. Judge the Privy Council, and hold the military power in the capital. Two generations of kings, all in the palm of his hand!

If it weren't for the familiar husband, he would still be in charge of the East Mansion after this palace change, and he countersigned these edicts and proclamations of the counties and counties in the world. These local officials are going to make a fuss!

Even after the palace change, Bianliang seems to have maintained a reluctant political balance. It also made a group of local officials who could not see the direction of the wind clearly, barely able to wait for further changes. But the shock caused by the palace change is for the entire Great Song Empire. Or a far-reaching anomaly.

For more than 100 years in the Great Song Dynasty, even though there were important ministers who supported the young monarch, there were important ministers who let the queen mother withdraw the curtain. There are important ministers who preside over the change of the law in the world. There have been ups and downs several times, but he is still entrenched in the center. But there has never been a powerful minister who supported the army and abolished the monarch!

Xiao Yan's move was successful. He also killed the family of the Gate Forbidden Army to the point that no one resisted. The Metropolitan Gate Forbidden Army, which claims to be hundreds of thousands, was demobilized in January without many setbacks.

Only then did everyone in the world understand that the military system of the Great Song Dynasty, which was heavy on the inside and light on the outside, and was strong and weak, had been corrupted to such an extent. The military strength of the Great Song Dynasty has weakened to such an extent that it has weakened.

But how can anyone with some vision not see that the world is about to change? Even if the Great Song can still sustain it. It's no longer the original Da Song.

The local officials, in addition to desperately sending people back to Bianliang to find out the news. It is a non-stop contact, running and meeting to discuss. Look at which side of the bet will be pressed in this accident. Those who are not qualified to enter the game, at this time, few people dare to do more, just hope that this turmoil will not affect themselves.

As if there are four roads in Shaanxi, there are strong officials in the local area. changed his contempt for the military ministers in the past, and began to win over the relationship. At this time, which force is strong and strong, it is impossible to say that it will get a considerable piece of the cake in the future political pattern.

And on the Hebei West Road, there is also a rare military horse that can barely fight in the field in the Great Song Dynasty at this moment - the Yongning Army adapted from the embers of the Huanqing Army. At this moment, the town is being determined. For a time, it also became the focus of local attention.

Wang Yu and Ma Kuo, as the commanders and generals of this Yongning army. When I first left Bianliang, my life was inevitably a little sad.

At that time, the center's financial plan was close to bankruptcy, although it was almost a dime a die when the Hedong Shenwu Changsheng Army left the town. The fee that the Yongning Army can get to open the town is only a few hundred thousand.

The town of the Yongning Army guards the royal area, which is extremely vast. Not only Hebei Zhulu is covered by it, but nominally even Yandi is also within the scope of the suppression. There is also the blockade of the Taihang Eight Paths from the west, and when the urgency is slow, it comes out from here to force the side of the Shenwu Changsheng Army in Hedong.

Such a vast defense area, such an important mission. What is the military expenditure of hundreds of thousands of Guankai Town?

And Hebei Zhulu, high-ranking officials and nobles have a lot of industries here, and they are intertwined. Wang Yu Ma Kuo did not dare to be as lawless as Xiao Yan, and in the name of the Jurchen Kou, he washed the local forces from Taiyuan Mansion to Ulzhou to the border of the eastern edge of the river. And Hebei Zhulu is exhausted because of the war against Yan, and the local treasury is empty, even if the Bianliang Center has instructed the local government to fully support the Yongning Army to open the town, it really can't support much.

What's more, how many local civil servants will wholeheartedly cooperate with these Qiu Bajun men who speak Shaanxi accents and have no roots in the local area?

Since entering Hebei West Road, it can be said that it is difficult for Pepsi. Just setting up a real camp almost spent all the money of the family. The grain and straw transferred from the Hebei West Road Transfer Department are all old grains for many years. ate a bunch of military men and almost made a noise. There are also local wealthy families who have carefully determined the place where the camp was set up, occupied their ancestral business, and even went to the barren forest to pick up wood and cook in the woods, all of which got into lawsuits, which lasted for more than a year. In the end, it was Wang Yu who scolded more than ten auxiliary soldiers who went into the barren forest to pick wood, and only then did he barely get through.

The so-called Yongning Army of the Hebei Barrier, in the past two years, not to mention being pulled out to fight in the field, is to maintain its own survival, and it has done its best.

The reason for this situation is also very simple, it turns out that the forbidden army stationed in Zhulu in Hebei is a mess of bad debts. Although it is not comparable to the huge military investment of Shaanxi Fourth Road, it is also a gold mine with more than millions of yuan every year. The local ministers and the garrison of the forbidden army will share the fertilizer in the meantime. is really a military quota, I don't know if there are still two or three percent left, even if it is still in the forehead, it is just a local civil servant and a local garrison of the forbidden army generals.

Now that the Yongning army has opened the town, it will dig out millions of treasures from their pockets in a year. If you don't give these old Shaanxi Qiu eight ugly, can't you still be a grandfather? It is best to run back to Shaanxi Huanqing Road. That's the joy of all.

The first step of the Great Song Dynasty to reorganize Hebei's defense. Since then, it has been stuck in a quagmire. Wang Yu Ma Kuo originally planned to recruit the embers of the Han army of the Liao State in Yandi. Recruit Hebei warriors who have participated in the war against Yan, and reorganize the defense line of Hebei Zhulu. At the same time, the grand plan to build a military village in Taihang Bajing was almost bankrupt from the beginning. For more than a year, I have been struggling to survive.

But with the news of the palace change, after finding out what had happened in Bianliang. The local officials on Hebei West Road suddenly changed their attitude towards the Yongning Army.

It turned out that the military salary, which was always delayed, was suddenly delivered for several months. He even withheld some of the minister's money.

The grain that was originally allocated was stale, but now it is all good rice and noodles. Fresh vegetables, fruits, and meat. Everything but the kitchen sink. There are even drinks in the big and small altars, as if they want to reward the entire Yongning Army for a few months.

The local wealthy clans who originally fought for land with the Yongning Army suddenly died down. In response to the entanglement between the military and the people, it disappeared. Not to mention that the local ministers who had never favored generals such as Wang Yu and Ma Kuo came to worship endlessly, and all kinds of gifts were piled up in a few rooms. He also diligently asked the Yongning Army if he wanted to set up a large camp, and Hebei West Road would definitely give it a convenience. If you want to recruit new soldiers, you should pay all the expenses in Hebei.

Even the former generals of the Hebei Forbidden Army who had the most hatred with Wang Yu and Ma Kuo were like the sea. The tricks of pleading guilty have come out. Seeing a few fat men with white flowers tied with rattan tied to their shirts and shivering in the cold wind outside the festival hall, Wang Yu and Ma Kuo were really crying and laughing at that time.

For most of the officers and soldiers of the Yongning Army. Such a move by the local ministers. Instead, they scolded their mothers even more. Maybe we have to count on us to fight hard with King Yan, so I set aside a few stinky money to get some drinks and change my face. Where did you go when we were hungry and cold here and suffered all the white eyes?

Straight generals, these military men look down on us!

But King Yan is really a hero, doing such a splashing career, and venting the depression in his chest for us. I only hate us all the way from the Huanqing Army to the Yongning Army, and I am not blessed to follow such heroes and heroes!

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The Yongning Military Administration of Zhending Mansion has been moved to the capital city. It turned out that the good official property somewhere was sprinkled and swept up, and it was given to the two generals of the Yongning Army for the main station.

Wang Yu and Ma Kuo were not the kind of people who were willing to enjoy happiness, and they felt more comfortable in the army. But now, taking advantage of the change in the attitude of the local officials, they are all open to support. It is also necessary to set up the government office closer to the civil servants, so that it is convenient to transfer materials and materials to replenish the army at any time. It is also convenient to communicate with this generation perfunctory.

Wang Yu and Ma Kuo are all poor and afraid, and at this time, taking advantage of the chaos of the local civil servants, I hope that the army can make a little more money. Who knows when the limelight will turn again, and the military ministers will fall again. Compared with the head snake of the earth, the Western Army and the Yan King who has the center and is bold and bold. The Yongning army is still a little weaker, and it is an out-and-out guest army in Hebei. The foundation is not yet solid enough to be shaken no matter how the situation changes.

At this moment, the two of them were dressed in civilian clothes and were pointing at Mu Tu in the festival hall.

The strength of the Yongning Army is really too thin, and the old foundation is the embers of the seven or eight thousand Huanqing Army, of which there are less than five thousand soldiers who can fight. In Kaizhen, Hebei, for more than a year, not only did not increase, but even reduced the number of employees. The days are too hard, and there are many places where they flee and die.

At this time, it is necessary to quickly recruit strong and expand strength, and can no longer be cramped in one place, it must be expanded.

However, the two of them pointed and pointed, and they were all at the junction of Hebei Zhulu and Yan geographical edge. Even on the wooden map, they deliberately avoided the passages that entered and exited the land east of the river from the Taihang Eight Paths.

After pointing for a while, I heard Ma Kuo groaning: "The soldiers are entering Yandi, our Yongning Army has not been operating for more than three years, don't expect such a move." And the rise of the Jurchens, such Hulu people, sooner or later, will have to go south. At the junction of Yandi in Hebei, there were originally anti-Liao measures. These places need to be restored immediately. In case the Jurchen Tartars have a move to go south, they can fight here, and they can resist a little. ”

Wang Yu just shook his head: "Zichong." When the swallows are fell. This marginal land. I don't know how many times I've walked back and forth with you. Don't you know what happened in the meantime? The original water barrier prevented Hu Ma from galloping, but now it is silted up by people and occupies fertile land. The original military village was all abandoned, and there were garrison military horses in the forehead, and there was no one in ten. Don't say that the troops are entering the swallow land. If you run this well, three or a few years may not be enough! And how can there be so many military horses on the edge of the bridle? Now we have less than 10,000 soldiers, no more than 5,000 soldiers, and even fewer cavalry troops. If you want to run the edge, how can you use it without 50,000 military horses? ”

Ma Kuo also shook his head, it turned out that he was a rising star in the Western Army, and he was summoned by Zhao Ji several times. He was also involved in the maritime alliance with the Jurchens. is not only skilled in arching and horses, has the ability to lead troops, but is also a rare figure in the Great Song Dynasty who is familiar with the Jurchen insider. All the way over, it is reused and over-relocated. In his early thirties, he was on a sidewalk. He is the deputy commander and general of the First Army, and he is responsible for the Hebei side. If it weren't for Xiao Yan's demon. It is already a rare outlier for the Great Song Dynasty Wuchen.

Since the career is smooth, even if Ma Kuan is young and old, it is inevitable that he will be proud. But the devastation of the difficult opening of the town for more than a year has made him much thinner and more mature, and his face is green, and he has retreated. He even had wrinkles on his forehead.

Listening to Wang Yu's words, Ma Kuo could only sigh, and then said proudly: "No matter how difficult it is, we have to do it!" Nowadays, it is rare for the civil servants not to be constrained, recruit the strong as soon as possible, and occupy the place first. Then again, we have been delayed for too long in this Zhending left, if the Jurchen Tartars settle in the Qianliao place, they will go south at any time! ”

If you talk about old age, Wang Yu is more obvious than Ma Kuo. It turned out that he was reused by Tong Guan and turned his back on the group of Western Army Jiangmen. For a time, he was also an important minister valued by the center, and he was bound to enter the Sanya in the future, and he was firmly titled a lieutenant on his head. Unexpectedly, Tong Guan was taken into custody one by one, and the Shengjie army trained by Wang Yu was under Xiao Yan's command. He, a Tong Guan henchman, also kicked in the palm of a defeated Qianhuanqing army. After more than a year, the town was opened, and there was no smooth wind under Tong Guan's command. It turned out that when he was Tong Guan's confidant, Xuanfu controlled the Hebei region, and he used Tong Guan's power to toss the local officials in Hebei who were responsible for the support of the Yan army. Now he has been redoubled his revenge by these big turbans. Now a sturdy man in his early forties, his hair is a little gray.

Although Ma Kuo has been frustrated, he still has a sharp spirit in his bones. Wang Yu nodded and shook his head: "...... Even if you don't mention the matter of operating the border defense fortress, where do the soldiers come from? It stands to reason that Yandi now has no owner, and there are many Han troops who have been scattered, not to mention so many Hebei soldiers who have been dismissed, how come there are no people who have joined the army? Is it these days that the initiative to start recruiting, and there are few applicants? Have they all been scattered back to their villages? ”

Ma Kuo pointed to the direction of Danzhou on the wooden map: "It is said that Danzhou has risen more than one surname Haoqiang, and integrated the embers of the Liao people in Yandi. There's a lot of momentum right now. Will the Lord not see that there is a steady stream of merchants from Danzhou who sell horses, northern pearls, and furs? I'm just strange, this Yu surnamed Haoqiang, if he was born in the former Liao Haoqiang, it would be enough to integrate the embers of the Liao people, how can even Hebei dare soldiers be rarely seen? Could it be that he was also taken over? ”

Although he has been trapped in Zhending Mansion for a long time, Ma Kuo is still concerned about the situation in Yandi. Gather as much information as you can from the north. The merchants who flowed because Yan Di restored the basic order were Ma Kuo's biggest source of information. However, I can only know that there is a force rising in Danzhou, and I don't know much about the real situation, so I can only vaguely guess it.

Speaking of the news that most of the Hebei dare soldiers were scattered and did not know where to go, Wang Yu and Ma Kuo were silent. The two of them are also characters who have been delayed in Yandi Hebei for so long, how can they not guess the slightest clue. At the beginning, the backbone of Xiao Yan's military generals, in addition to being born in the Western Army, was a person who dared to be a soldier in Hebei! And Xiao Yanping's Yan military horse also tried his best to recruit as many Hebei warriors as he could. These Hebei athletes, who were pressed on the head by the Western Army, let them fight hard battles, and were robbed by the Western Army, were an important part of Xiao Yan's powerful and invincible Shenwu Ever-Winning Army.

If Danzhou is a force arranged by Xiao Yan, then in addition to integrating the embers of the Liao people, it is more logical to recruit those scattered Hebei warriors.

You must know that Xiao Yan has been entrenched in Danzhou for a while. It was also a sudden U-turn from Danzhou, taking Yanjing in one fell swoop, and destroying the last main force of Xiao Gan, the king of the Liao people on all sides!

Regarding this topic, even if there were only two of them in the festival, Ma Kuo and Wang Yu were reluctant to say more. They can only gesture to each other.

Xiao Yan has been laying out since Yandi. Unyielding. It's pretty obvious. No wonder you have made such a big career in Bianliang!

For Xiao Yan this person. Wang Yu and Ma Kuo's feelings are very complicated. Xiao Yan's heroic posture. But for men, there is no one who is unconvinced. It is a miracle to start from scratch and do this. And it is precisely because of his career in Bianliang that the Yongning Army has a rare few days of good life. The soldiers below are all shouting King Yan one after another.

At least this Xiao Yan is very martial arts! And Xiao Yan fought from the Khitans to the Jurchens, and this real record made Ma Kuo admire him even more. He knew that the Jurchens were dangerous. But the Great Song Dynasty is now Wen Tian and Wu Xi, and when the Jurchens are really moving south, Xiao Yan is the mainstay!

But Xiao Yan's manipulation of the actions of the two generations of kings and his high-flying and domineering actions also made people from Jiangmen families like Wang Yu and Ma Kuo deeply unaccustomed to it. Moreover, the two of them also knew that as a military horse not far from Bianliang and a rare military horse that could barely fight, Xiao Yan of the DPRK and China would definitely use them. Have a fight with Xiao Yan!

But the Yongning Army is not stronger than the Western Army, and now the military heart is even more towards Xiao Yan. I'm afraid of issuing a military order to Bianliang. The whole army will be broken up in an uproar.

And even if the army's heart is stable, what will the Yongning army do to fight Xiao Yan? To the east of the river, there is the main force of the Shenwu Winning Army, condescending, looking down on the flank of the Yongning Army. Bianliang Xiao Yan is also training the new army, and the resources of the entire Metropolitan Gate Control Army are in Xiao Yan's hands, not to mention that Xiao Yan is still a holy hand of making money. If you have money, you can have soldiers, don't take half a year, Bianliang said that there are also 50,000 Yanwang military horses that can go into battle.

And the two also vaguely guessed that Xiao Yan also arranged a military horse in Yandi, which was a strong army that integrated the embers of the Liao people and owned almost the entire Yandi, as well as Hebei Dare Warriors to join strongly!

Xiao Yan is arranged on three sides, where does this battle start?

Therefore, the two discussed the expansion arrangement of the Yongning Army, and they tacitly avoided those key roads from Hebei to Hedong. Avoid confronting Xiao Yan directly.

But how long can such a self-deceptive delay last? When someone from the center comes to recruit the Yongning Army, what should I do?

It was to hit the stone with an egg and tear the prelude to the bloody war between the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty from then on. Or do you support your own army and become a warlord of a feudal town from now on?

No matter which one it is, it is not a choice that Wang Yu and Ma Kuo are willing to make. Especially for Ma Kuo, he is well aware of the fierceness of those Hulu named Jurchen in the hometown of the Liao people! At this moment, the Liao State, whose combat strength was far greater than that of the Great Song Dynasty, was wiped out under their iron hooves, and the Great Song Dynasty not only did not rearmament, but had a tendency to fight internally. Could it be that the Great Song Dynasty is going to fall like the Liao State?

In the festival hall, there was silence for a while. Wang Yu and Ma Kuo's faces were pale, and they were not even interested in discussing how to expand the strength of the Yongning army.

At this time, I saw the four-box flag in the army respectfully reporting outside the door: "General, there are guests to worship." ”

Ma Kuo Wang Yu is the boss is impatient, how can these Wenchen turbans do things so unpleasantly. We are not people who hold grudges, since we should spend money on the Yongning Army, the past is even if it is over. Do you still think that we are the king of Yan, and there will be a chaos in this Zhending Mansion?

However, at this moment, it is the time when the Hebei region needs to support it with all its might, as long as you wear the official robes of civil ministers to worship. Wang Yu and Ma Kuo had already taken care of the flag, and all of them were passed on. The two could only work hard, tidy up their clothes, and come out together. I have to rub a smile on my face, and I have to go to a good life today.

The two went straight out of the middle door, and the visitors were already politely welcomed into the second hall and waited. When Wang Yu and Ma Kuo walked in, they saw a vermilion and purple robe-uniformed Wenchen standing up and saluting from afar.

This man Wang Yu and Ma Kuo both knew.

It is the backbone of the original Qingliu princelings, Yuwen Xuzhong, who once declared the victory of Yanjing!

I haven't seen him for more than a year, and it turns out to be a suave clear stream think tank. In addition to the color of servants, people have also aged a lot. The eyebrows are full of gloomy color. But still the bearing does not reduce how much the day, between concessions, chic and free.

Wang Yu and Ma Kuo glanced at each other.

Bianliang finally came, could it be that the center of Bianliang was finally going to tear his face with Xiao Yan? And where will the Yongning Army go? (To be continued......)

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