Chapter 67: The Good General of the Country
Towards the end of the meal, Li Jingsui suddenly thought that Xiao Yan, Han Xizai, Liao Jusu and others who Lin Feng had proposed to participate in the debate competition before still recognized Lin Feng's knowledge of people, and his heart moved, and he asked Lin Feng if he could recommend candidates for the army.
If you don't ask, I'll find a chance to take the initiative! Lin Feng thought to himself.
Immediately, he groaned a little, and first put forward his own thoughts: "There are two unconsidered mature ideas among my subordinates, please ask the marshal to decide."
First, the subordinates believe that the personnel who observe and participate in the training on the spot should not only be limited to the land services, but also the naval forces, because future wars may be inseparable from the coordinated operations of water and land. Second, the age structure should be both old, middle-aged and young, but it should be dominated by young people. The subordinates believed that young people could accept new things quickly, and at the same time, it would not be a day's work to pacify the world, and this would also be conducive to the cultivation of the army's backbone force in the future. ”
"Insightful! Captain Lin, is there a specific candidate? Li Jingsui took the case again, looking at Lin Feng with blazing eyes.
Lin Feng pondered again and said, "Lin Feng has also inquired with the soldiers, and there are a few preliminary candidates, just for the marshal's reference. ”
In Lin Feng's impression, there are many famous generals of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, but most of them belong to the Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, Zhou and other dynasties in the north, and the only generals who have left deeds in history in the Southern Tang Dynasty are Cha Wenhui, He Jingzhu, Bian Hao, Liu Renzhen, Lin Renzhao and other Liao Liao.
Among them, Cha Wenhui is famous for being poisoned and released because of his failure to win over Wu Yue; Bian Hao was appreciated by Li Jing for his outstanding performance in the suppression of Zhang Yuxian's uprising and the campaign against Fujian, and entered the Wu'an Army, but in the attack on Chu in 951 AD, there was a "Bian Bodhisattva" Bian Hao connived at his subordinates to burn and loot, and the old generals of the Ma clan of Chu State, Liu Yan, Wang Kui, Zhou Xingfeng, Sun Lang and others rebelled, and Bian Hao resisted the disadvantage, the whole army was annihilated, fled back from Hunan, and was cut to the people;
Ho Kyung-so is 62 years old this year and is known for his good archery. He started from the time of the martyr Li Yu, and successively served as the commander of the Tianwei Army, the Marquis of Yu, the camp recruitment, and the Changbu Army, and is now worshipping the Chuzhou regiment training envoy. In this year in history, He Jingzhu led the order of Li Jing of Yuanzong, rushed to the aid of the Chulang Prefecture Jiedu to make Ma Xicao to attach, and moved to Wuchang Jiedu, and then when the Zhou army invaded Huainan, after the defeat of the Wu'an Army of Zhou, Wang Jinkui, and the general of Zhenguo. When the heir of the queen Li Yu was replaced, He Jingzhu begged for dismissal with his sick feet, awarded the right guard general, Rui Guogong, and still gave the whole family after the official service, and added the top honor of the first door halberd. He Jingzhu died in February of the second year of Qiande (964 AD) at the age of seventy-seven.
And Liu Renzhen was the person Lin Feng admired the most when he read the history of the Southern Tang Dynasty. As an envoy of Huainan Jiedu, when the Zhou soldiers came to attack in the thirteenth year of Baoda (955 AD), he held on to Shouchun (now Shou County, Anhui) for three years in the case of lack of food and soldiers. During this period, his youngest son Liu Chongjian wanted to row a small boat to smuggle to Huaibei in the middle of the night, but was caught, Liu Renzhen immediately ordered him to be beheaded, and the supervising army Zhou Tinggou sent someone to ask Mrs. Liu for help, Mrs. Liu said: "I don't love Chongji, but military law cannot be favoritism, and honor cannot be lost." If he is forgiven, then the Liu family will become an unfaithful family, and his father and I will have the faces to meet the soldiers! And urged her to behead her child immediately, and then to hold a funeral. In 957 A.D., when Liu Renzhen was ill and unconscious, his deputy envoy Sun Yu and others led a team to surrender. The day after the Zhou army entered the city, Liu Renzhen fell ill and died. After Zhou Shizong occupied Shouchun, in order to show his festival, he restored the Qing Huai army as a loyal army, and posthumously named him the king of Pengcheng County. In the Song Dynasty, "Zhongsu" was added.
However, the fierce general and loyal general who was most recognized by Lin Feng in the history of the Southern Tang Dynasty - "Lin Huzi" Lin Renzhao was killed by Li Yu with a cup of poisoned wine and self-destroyed the Great Wall. At this time, Lin Renzhao was still an unknown figure in the navy.
"In addition to veterans such as Bian Hao, who are already famous in the army, Weichen specially recommended Lin Renzhao of the water army, Liu Renzhen, the envoy of the Qinghuai Festival, and He Jingzhu, the regimental training envoy of Chuzhou." Lin Feng opened his mouth and said.
"Envoy Bian Jiedu, Envoy Liu Jiedu, and General He know very well, who is this Lin Renzhao?" Li Jingsui was surprised.
"My subordinates also listened to the rumors of his soldiers, this Lin Renzhao is a native of Fuzhou, with a strong physique, brave and good at shooting, and it is rumored that he can use his own strength to pull out the arrows without injury, and he is called 'Lin Huzi'." Lin Feng replied.
This is a real thing that happened to Lin Renzhao in history, but Lin Feng advanced the time of its occurrence. In November of the second year of Zhou Xiande (955 AD), Zhou Shizong Chai Rong led the army south to Huainan, and in the battle of Zhengyang Bridge, Lin Renzhao led four people who dared to die to raise fire to the bridge against the wind and prevent the Zhou army from attacking. Later, Zhou and the front of the palace commanded Zhang Yongde, who saw him pulling arrows, and said in surprise: "There are people among them, don't underestimate the enemy." "Urgently order to retreat.
"Okay, I've made a note of it, and I'm sure I'll recruit these people over!" Li Jingsui was also surprised and answered.
After a simple and cheerful lunch, Li Jing hurriedly left the base and returned to Jinling.
Lin Feng and the others had been sending Li Jingsui to the outside of the valley for a long time, watching the carriage disappear, but Lin Feng was still standing.
At this moment, Lin Feng's heart was sighing with emotion: At this moment in history, the Southern Tang regime was already in crisis. The people of the time commented on the Southern Tang regime very unceremoniously and said: "There are no virtuous ministers in the court, there are no unscrupulous generals in the army, there is no distinction between loyalty and loyalty, and there are no rewards and punishments." ”
"Now, I have worked hard to elect the virtuous ministers, and I have also helped to elect the good generals, I hope that the Southern Tang Dynasty can be reborn from now on, glow with new hope, and bloom with new vitality!" Lin Feng muttered softly.
In the afternoon of the same day, Li Jing entered the palace to face the saint and told Li Jing everything he had seen today and Lin Feng's suggestions. Li Jing was also very excited when he heard this, and all of them agreed, and ordered Li Jingsui to carefully explore the materials that could be made in the army, and he could be specially ordered to be transferred to Beijing in the near future.
At the same time, in the strict Dali Temple Prison, Xiao Yan of Dali Temple and Confession After several days of sleepless interrogation, the captured assassin also endured several rounds of torture, and finally couldn't stand it anymore, and confessed: They belong to the northern assassin organization "Wushuang Society"; They dispatched all twenty Assassins from Jiangnan this time; The assassin who escaped was Jiangnan's deputy director, known as 'Ghost Shadow' Mu Han, and the total reward for the assassination of Lin Feng was 100,000 yuan, and the main family contact was a masked young man.
Xiao Yan sarcastically told the assassin that the assassin they had contacted had been killed with a single slap, in front of the main hall of the Lin Mansion. The assassin was stunned for a moment, then burst out loud before revealing the location of their connection with the masked young man, who had figure, accent, and martial prowes features.
With these clues, Xiao Yan immediately sent all the criminal investigation masters in Dali Temple, and some of them secretly focused on investigating high-ranking officials in the court, especially the backbone of the Song Party, who raised young people with strong martial arts around them, on the other hand, all the martial arts masters in Dali Temple were ambushed in the place where the assassin and the masked young man were connected, in case the young man appeared again. Considering that the young man's martial arts were too high, Xiao Yan even brought up a Jiang Yang thief who had been sentenced to death from prison, promising him that if he could help catch the young man, he could be sentenced to ten years in prison.
That night, the masked young man who had disappeared and disappeared for three days appeared in a secret room in Song Qiqiu's mansion.