Jingluo Guan Shaanxi (5)

After this incident, Shen Tuo beat and pulled, and faintly, he had already controlled the overall situation of Guanshan.

He also returned all the guards sent by Zhulu Jingluo, and ordered the whole army to re-elect soldiers to join the guard, and rebuild the three divisions in front of the palace.

In the Song system, the emperor drove before the palace division, the horse army division of the pro-army to be guarded, and the infantry division of the pro-army to be guarded. These three divisions are also known as the three ya, set up the commander of the capital, the deputy commander of the capital, and the nine military generals of the capital Yuhou, and the emperor's pro-army and the national forbidden army.

This is also a measure to strengthen the cadres and weaken the support and prevent the forbidden army from causing chaos. Song Taizu launched a rebellion with the main general of the forbidden army, and naturally feared that some people would follow suit in later generations, so he reformed the five-generation forbidden army system and set up more generals and deputy generals, so that the power was dispersed.

At the same time, there was also a civilian privy envoy and a general of each guard, and when the expedition was to be ordered by the privy council and the military department, the general of each guard was dispatched as a temporary commander to command the army.

After the Jingkang Rebellion, the Sanya pro-army was wiped out, and the forbidden army was not formed. When Zhao Gou was in Yangzhou, everything was hasty, and he only re-established the institution of the imperial front pro-army, established the left, center and right five armies before and after, and added the name of pro-army to the armies in various places, and did not really rebuild the Sanya.

Shen Tuo also knew in his heart that in such a chaotic era, it was very difficult to completely re-establish the original central military system. At this time, he ordered the rebuilding of Sanya, but it was related to his own authority.

As soon as he gave an order, the envoys of Sichuan and Shaanxi did not dare to slack off. After Zhang Jun's incident, Shen Tuo regained his authority and re-established the emperor's authority in the Western Army that could not be offended or questioned. If not, the decisive battle with the Jin soldiers is imminent, and the generals from all walks of life will never give their elite soldiers to others.

However, after half a month's effort, the selected soldiers and horses from all walks of life gathered in the state, and Shen Tuo filled the front division of the palace with five hundred martial arts to protect his safety. With 2,000 cavalry as the imperial front soldiers and horses, and 5,000 infantry as the imperial infantry army, the various armies were disrupted again, with Kang Chengxun as the commander of the front division of the palace, and the two guards who fled back from the city of the Five Kingdoms with him as the deputy commander, so that Wu Lan was the commander of the imperial horse army and the infantry army, but Qu Duan, who had just been released, was appointed.

Since the internal affairs were harmonious, Shen Tuo's eyes immediately couldn't wait to be on the front line with war clouds.

In the seventh year of Tianhui, the fourth year of Jingkang, and the third year of Jianyan, the war clouds were dense in Sichuan and Shaanxi. The 180,000 army, the elite of the entire Song Dynasty's western front, converged here. When a large number of Song troops moved, the smoke and dust under their feet rose to cover the sky and the sun.

In addition to the local soldiers in Shaanxi, countless soldiers traveled thousands of miles from Chengdu, Gyeongju, and Wanzhou to set up camp on the front line of Fuping, waiting for them. Dressed in straw sandals and iron armor, they held all kinds of standard weapons, like a crimson wave, sweeping from the middle of the river. Some of them were over half a hundred years old, and some were still young men, and many of them had no idea of the importance of this war, and they did not know anything about the scale and cruelty of the war. And when Shen Tuo appeased the army, these simple, tenacious, and brave Guanshan men, with their greatest enthusiasm, the most sincere eyes, and the loudest voice, saluted and saluted to the Son of Heaven, the incarnation of the dragon, and the symbol of the whole country in their minds, saying that they would fight bravely and never fail.

In addition, there were more than 300,000 people who accompanied the army, transported grain and grass, built barracks, and even issued barracks to a considerable number of people, and camped in the gaps of the regular army, as wings, to help the Song army defend.

In order to maintain such a large army, the logistics line stretched from Shaanxi to central Sichuan, and grain, grass, money, and silk were piled up like mountains. Zhang Jun loaned the people of Shaanxi and Sichuan for five years to give them financial resources to maintain it.

Countless peasants who ploughed the fields were summoned from the fields of their own homes, gathered in the state capital, carried all kinds of war materials, nibbled dry food every day, drank cold water, and rushed to the rugged mountain roads of Shuzhong and Guanshan, under the conditions that the roads were not repaired, the mountain roads were hard and dangerous, and there were no modern means of transportation, like ants moving, a load of materials was transported from Sichuan to Shaanxi, and after the transportation task was over, With only a hoe in their hands, they were forced to take up their weapons and prepare to fight the enemy to the death.

And in the face of all this, no one has ever complained.

In ancient China, any large-scale assembly of people contained the danger of being inexplicable. The Yuan Dynasty was detached and wanted to dredge the river, so hundreds of thousands of migrant workers were gathered in the Yellow River, but it eventually triggered a large-scale peasant uprising and buried the Yuan Dynasty.

At this time, the most fortunate thing is that in all parts of Sichuan and Shaanxi, the army is simple and daring to fight, and the people are honest and loyal, if it were not for this, with the ruined situation of the Song Dynasty and the power of Sichuan and Shaanxi, it would be absolutely impossible to launch such a large-scale war.

Such a large-scale assembly was still from the beginning of the third year of Jianyan, until the Yangzhou Incident, Zhao Gou fled in a hurry, Zhang Jun spent a few months, and finally ended in August, and when September was approaching, he finally succeeded in assembling the army.

And because it took a long time to assemble such an army, the people, and the property, and the action was extremely large, the secrecy and suddenness of this battle disappeared completely, and all the actions of the Song army were all seen by the vigilant upper echelons of the Jin State.

All of Zhang Jun's actions are based on a misjudgment. He thought that the main force of the Jin army was in Wushu, that is, the commander of the Eastern Route Army of Wanyan Zongbi, who attacked the Yangtze River from the front line of Jiang Zhun and ****** until the Xing Dynasty was destroyed. Unexpectedly, after the meeting of the six marshals, Zong Han led the troops to attack Jiangnan, but after Zhao Gou was brought into Hangzhou, he temporarily stopped the next move.

The main force of the Jin army, however, was mostly assembled in Shaanxi, preparing to deal with the decisive battle with the western soldiers of the Song Dynasty.

Wanyan Zongfu was the marshal, sitting in the middle army, Wanyan Ali was the commander of the left wing, commanding the Western Route Army, and Wanyan Zongbi was the commander of the right wing, they mobilized from all over the country to gather seven or eight thousand pure Jurchen cavalry teams, brought together Wang Bolong and Han Chang's Han army of ten thousand households, plus Bohai ten thousand households, Khitan ten thousand households, the total strength has exceeded 100,000 people.

Since Zong Han led the army to break through Tokyo, the eastern and western armies of the Jin State were merged, and most of the Jurchen cavalry battles were fought for the first time.

Black iron hooves, black kidnapping horses, black whirlwinds.

A fierce warrior from the north, who is not afraid of death, strong in archery and martial arts, wearing heavy armor, and coming and going like the wind. In the plains, with the technique of flanking with two wings, so far, there is no opponent.

Each of them was physically strong, and their horses were carefully selected to bear the weight of the iron armor on their bodies. In peacetime, each heavy cavalry also had two servants to accompany them, carrying their shoulders and carrying luggage to save horsepower and physical strength, and in this way, hundreds of thousands of people were gathered opposite the crimson military formation of the Song army.

Zhang Jun originally decided to direct the war in Xuzhou, 200 miles away from Fuping, but was vetoed by Shen Tuoquan without discussion.

When the generals persuaded that the emperor could not come to persuade Shen Tuo in person because the front line was difficult and dangerous, Shen Tuo only said: "No matter how bitter Fuping is, is it bitter to pass the Five Kingdoms City?" Although the front line is dangerous, I hid in Tokyo that day, but what happened? Now that the war is coming, I am hiding behind the soldiers, how can I talk about personal conquest? Taizong was injured by an arrow when he conquered Yanyun, and his ancestors were so difficult to start a business, and the descendants of the future generations only knew how to dodge and escape, but they were afraid that they would inevitably become slaves of the country! ”

The emperor was so resolute that the generals had nothing to say. Since mid-August, the three divisions in front of the palace have escorted Shen Tuo to the front line of Defuping and stayed in the camp of the Chinese army.