Chapter Ninety-Nine: Military Council

Li Ruoxu was ordered to come, Yue Fei met him very happily, and immediately ordered a banquet, and more than 20 people above the deputy commander of the general were invited, and they set up wine in the tent to welcome them.

Because of yesterday's incident, and this kind of drinking banquet is not actually on the wine, everyone knows that Li Ruoxu's identity is not ordinary as an ordinary staff officer, and sending him here also shows that the emperor and the cardinal government attach great importance to Yue Fei's department, and they dare not be presumptuous at the moment, although everyone toasts Li Ruoxu, but it is all a false story, not only do they dare not let Li Ruoxu drink seriously, but they only touch their lips slightly.

Fu Xuan was ordered to transfer away, because he wanted to hand over the army, check the accounts and collect the luggage, and he couldn't do it for a while, today the marshal invited all the officers in the army to a banquet, and also sent someone to invite, he said that he couldn't come, Yue Fei desperately urged, and then it was Yue Yun who was ordered to come in person, and he didn't have a good word to accompany him, and he carried Li Ruoxu out, although Fu Xuan was reckless, he was not stupid at all, knowing that Li Ruoxu was highly valued by the emperor, only under Yu Yunwen and others, if he was negative, he would offend Yue Fei and fall down, Li Ruoxu was not a good match, and the military general waved his fist in front of him, Drinking a bowl of wine afterwards is the same as no one, but if a civil official holds a grudge, he will not be able to live in peace for the rest of his life.

Sighing at the moment, he followed Yue Yun to the outside of the big tent, thinking that it would be noisy and noisy, who knew that outside the tent was like a rising account, without hearing a word, he knew that he was here to be worthwhile, and immediately reported his name outside.

"Fu Xuan is here, come in." Inside, Yue Fei heard that Fu Xuan was coming, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly called in. When Fu Xuan entered, Yue Fei smiled and said: "You are late, there are distinguished guests arriving today, you are so difficult to invite, I usually ask you to drink, and I must be the first to arrive." He looked like this, Fu Xuan was taken aback. Although he was beaten the day before yesterday, Yue Fei was the commander of the army, with 80,000 or 90,000 soldiers under his command, and he was a major member of the imperial court. The military exploits are only getting bigger and bigger, and the official position will be higher and higher, and it is also a matter of nine out of ten to be crowned as the king of the prince and county in the future, he is a small ruler, and his ability, talent, and martial arts are not as good as Yue Fei, and he does not have the idea of revenge in this life, as for Yue Fei to make amends to him, he has never thought about it. Who knew that it would be okay to invite him to the banquet today. With Yue Fei's character, only people confess their sins to him, how can there be any reason for him to accompany him, at this time, when he saw how Yue Fei looked, he obviously betrayed himself to make amends, but taught him to be like a dream in the clouds.

Seeing Fu Xuan in a daze, Yue Fei smiled slightly, and actually took him to the table in person, ordered someone to pour wine, handed it to Fu Xuan, and the two touched the bowl. Yue Fei said with a smile: "Although I am a handsome person. In fact, I have always treated you as brothers. Here are Wang Gui, Xu Qing, and Yao Zheng, all of whom raised troops with me when Tang Yin was in the past. A total of battles, as well as Li Dao, Wang Xian, and Dong Cheng, all of which were ordered by the imperial court to be attached, followed me. And you Fu Xuan and Kou Cheng, who were enemies before, and then attached to my account for the sake of the country's righteousness, I have always treated everyone equally, and I am only willing to work together with all the kings, and there is no view or arrogance. I hope that in the future, I will raise troops to the Northern Expedition and welcome back the emperor. My life's wish is sufficient. ”

When he said this, although he didn't explain what he said, everyone heard that he was paying compensation to Fu Xuan, and Fu Xuan had already come back to his senses, but it was hard to believe that a resolute and resolute person like Yue Fei would bow his head to himself.

Therefore, although Yue Fei did not say it explicitly, he had burst into tears, and when he tilted his head, a bowl of wine had already fallen into his stomach. Wiping his wet lips and chin, Fu Xuan said to Yue Fei: "Dashuai doesn't need to say it anymore, Fu Xuan is reckless first, Dashuai is right." Since the marshal looks up to me Fu Xuan, and asks the marshal to write to the court, Fu Xuan is willing to stay in the army to serve, never frown before and after the saddle, and never do shameful things like greed for money, please rest assured. ”

"Okay, the two generals' move is worth a lot of disclosure." Li Ruoxu watched it from the sidelines, hurriedly raised his glass and invited everyone to drink, at this time, not only him, but everyone drank the wine together.

Yue Fei was also very emotional in his heart, and he and Fu Xuan dried up the wine, patted each other on the shoulder, and said with a smile:

"You deserve it, and you're right. It's my fault, how can you say that you're greedy for money. ”

Seeing that Fu Xuan was about to say more, Yue Fei stretched out his hand to stop, and when he returned to his seat, he had already changed his face, and said to everyone: "Senator Li was ordered to come here to deploy this year's war on behalf of the cardinal government. Now it has been handed over in May, and after two months is the autumn defense, in the past, we are all based on the city, dare not fight. Now His Majesty and the cardinal government discussed, the Jin soldiers were defeated again and again, and lost a lot of elites, and Taiyuan Yunzhong has been restored, and the imperial court canonized a lot of Taihang Mountain righteous soldiers, with the knowledge of the privy Wang Yan Lord as the Xuanfu envoy, responsible for this matter, in this way, the enemy has to guard against the western army out of Tongguan, Taihang, and need to guard against the two quasi-Han Shizhong and Yang Cunzhong, left and right, I here they always think that just to seek peace, the vitality has not recovered, and Xiangyang opposite is the heart of the Central Plains, the place of the four battles in the plain, it is expected that we will not go straight out of the army, and they face each other. ”

He paused, saw that everyone had a contemplative look on their faces, smiled with satisfaction, and said: "The more this is the case, the more you can beat and beat hard." The cardinal government has already sent personnel to investigate, my Yue Fei's department has a cavalry system with three military horns, "Beiwei", "Youyi", and "Tabai", although there are only 2,000 war horses, but the cavalry training is strong, but it is the crown of all armies. It is even a hundred battles of the Western Army, when it comes to cavalry training, and it is also the knight under our command, the most elite. ”

In order to improve the morale of the soldiers, his words were somewhat exaggerated and untrue, but they were not the same. Yue Fei is the heaviest cavalry in his life, in the early years of 20,000 or 30,000 people, he has built a cavalry army, hundreds of war horses, and then he learned to ride and shoot in rotation with soldiers, and each knight received the salary on top of the foot soldiers, Yue Fei carefully coached the method of riding and archery every day, he himself was a fine horseman, known as the "brave champion", many of the knights of the army were carefully taught by him in the early years, and then served as a junior officer, and then went to train the new army, since Yue Yun gradually grew up, the most elite back army in the cavalry was handed over to him to lead, but also practiced on weekdays, never stopped. The training method of Yue's army, with heavy armor, bow and arrow in the body and holding a riding spear, full military generals riding horses to practice rushing slopes, jumping trenches, picking straw people, immediately archery and other techniques, to focus on actual combat and courage training, rather than the rest of the Song army like heavy formation, this is the opinion of the main general Yue Fei himself, but also the best cavalry training method. At that time, except for the famous horse general Yao Duan and his elite in the Western Army, other cavalry were no longer the opponents of Yue Fei's department.

As soon as the connoisseur stretched out his hand, he knew if there was any, although Yue Fei exaggerated slightly, the generals under him also knew that the cavalry of the Yue family army was strong, and it was indeed the best in the Song army.

But he heard Yue Fei laugh again: "The former's golden soldiers attacked Chang'an, and the loss of troops was also returned, and more than 30,000 war horses were lost in vain, which is rare." Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, war horses are extremely rare, when the reorganization of the king division has been completed, the 16 armies of the forbidden army are nearly 500,000 people, and the box army is more than 200,000, of which the number of war horses is less than 50,000, and most of them are from the Jin soldiers. ”

Speaking of this, Yue Fei couldn't help laughing, and the generals couldn't help laughing when they thought of the Jin people's losses and sending war horses.

Yue Fei and the generals laughed together, although they held back their smiles, their faces were beaming with joy and could not be contained, and all the generals knew that he must have something to be happy about, so they stared at him one by one, waiting for him to talk.

Yue Fei didn't speak, only looked at Li Ruoxu, Li Ruoxu knew his intentions, shook his head and smiled, and said loudly: "The reorganization of the Wang Division has been completed, this is great news." First of all, the governor of the political affairs Qin Xuan acted on this matter, starting from the Western Army, cutting out the old and weak who were unusable, leaving the forbidden army with the strong, and then unifying the number, using the number as a record, which was convenient and trouble-free. In addition to His Majesty's three armies on the ground and the two armies of the Japanese army, there are still six armies from the first to the sixth in front of the Imperial Army, Jinghu is our three armies, one in Pingjiang Yang Cunzhong, two armies in Han Shizhong, and one in Zhunxi, except for Guo Hao and Guo Marshal who was ordered to lead the two armies as the commander-in-chief of the capital, in the name of the envoy of the Inspector General of the Colonel and the Major Protection of the Section, plus the title of the commander of the Jinghu Xiangyang Marching Army, and led the military of the three armies in front of the Imperial Palace. ”

Seeing that Yue Fei and all the generals in the tent were all pale, Li Ruoxu's expression on his face remained unchanged, but he actually smiled bitterly in his heart. Unlike the generals of the Western Army, Zhao Huan just fled back from the Five Kingdoms, and it was Wu Jue in the Western Army who welcomed him back, and then served Chang'an, and the soldiers of the Western Army have always been loyal. And Yue Fei and Han Shizhong's generals, one is not based in the Western Army, and the other is Xianda is promoted by Zhao Gou, and generals like them are so laissez-faire, Chang'an and the Western Army, there are those who admire, and there are those who are not convinced, but the emperor is bent on implementing it, Yue Fei and Han Shizhong are indeed prosperous with military achievements, and everyone can't think about it, so they have to stop. He paused, and Fang said: "The Jingxiang garrison is already the strongest among the armies, this time Your Majesty and the cardinal government have discussed that the armies of Tongguan should protect Chang'an, and they should not go out lightly, and the enemy's attention is also in Tongguan and Taiyuan. In this way, there are a lot of military horses needed, and the cardinal government undertakes the dispatch, in addition to retaining a small number of military horses to stay in the Western Army, with 20,000 war horses and Yue Fei's department, so that the cavalry under his command is consistent with the name and reality, and the combat power is more effective when doing war. ”

He had his own words, in fact, there was a plan between the emperor and the privymen, and everyone listened to it solemnly, and they all got up and replied: "Yes, the last general has thanked Your Majesty and you for your trust and love." ”

"Thank you for nothing." Li Ruoxu waved his hand and smiled, already revealing a deep sophistication that was different from his current identity. After everyone sat down, he said: "The lower officials will come first, and the military horses will go from Guanzhong to Hanzhong until Xiangyang, and they will arrive in about ten days." The generals first urged their subordinates, good life drills, and when the military horses arrived, the armies still had to be familiar, plus the preparation of ordnance, grain and grass, it had to take a month and a half to two months, at that time it was the time of high autumn horses and fattening, the Jin people must move from time to time, according to the calculations of many adults in the cardinal government, they still have to be like Jingkang in the second year, the troops are used in Taiyuan, and Taiyuan can be used in the middle of the danger again, to protect all parts of Gyeonggi, this strategic place, they have saved enough strength, they have to retake Taiyuan. So this year's war began in Taiyuan, and I am afraid that it will end in Taiyuan. And we will move when the time comes, go straight to Wanluo, and even retake Tokyo is unknown.

Gentlemen, work hard. ”

The generals hurriedly got up again, bowed their hands together, and replied: "Yes, I will obey the orders of my lord, and I am willing to return to the Central Plains with the great commander!" ”