The emperor praised it so much, Qu Duan had nothing to say! Then he knelt down and bowed in thanks, and then stood aside.

Zhang Jun and other ministers were in a complicated mood, everyone was qualified to serve as the head of the army, but since the emperor had appointed Qu Duan, he had to step forward one by one at this time, greet him, and congratulate Qu Duan on winning such a great responsibility.

Qu Duan's temper is not as arrogant as back then, with the title of marching chief, the next step is naturally to add the name of the cardinal, in terms of official position, he is already on par with these cardinal ministers, but when Zhang Jun and Zhao Ding and others came to pay their respects, Qu Duan still held his subordinates and respected each other, although Zhang Jun had a very serious suspicion with Qu Duan, but at this time he was also deeply surprised, I don't know why this person changed his temperament to this point.

He was a cardinal minister through Shaanxi, Qu Duan was just a general, he dared to collide in front of everyone, even if he later committed a taboo, Zhang Jun arrested him to the Chinese army, to kill him, Qu Duan also begged for mercy and never said, if this person is only for the post of head of the march, even the emperor's account may not be bought, let alone deliberately meet a few cardinal ministers.

Zhang Jun and the others were surprised, but Zhao Huan knew this very well, looking at Qu Duan like this, Zhao Huan smiled with satisfaction, and smiled at the generals of the forbidden army present: "Why, haven't you come to see the marching commander who is waiting for you?" ”

Wu Jie and the others looked at each other, and they really didn't expect the emperor to choose to the end, so Jing appointed this person to be the head of the march.

Everyone is a general of the Western Army, they know each other well, and they have no objection to Qu Duan's ability. It can be said that at that time, the general of the Song Army had the ability to command the large corps to fight, and there was no chaos at all, and only Yue Fei and Qu Duan had spare strength, and even in the planning and judgment of the overall battle situation, they were even better.

It's just that this person is too proud, and he is kind to the soldiers but treats his colleagues lightly, and when the Jin soldiers attacked, Qu Duan Governor couldn't do anything. In order to preserve the strength of his own Jingyuan soldiers, he repeatedly sat back and watched the friendly troops being besieged and ignored, which made the generals of the Western Army greatly criticize him and were very dissatisfied.

It's just that at this time, the emperor opened his mouth to speak, but everyone had nothing to say, and they pressed their swords forward, bowed and saluted: "The last general has seen the chief manager." ”

There are also humanitarians: "I have seen the general." ”

Qu Duan was named a mighty general back then, and he was very proud, and he felt a little carried away, and the generals saw it in their eyes. often ridiculed, at this time the old name is mentioned, and it is sarcastically mocked, but it also teaches that there is nothing to say. According to Yue Fei's example, the marching commander increased the rank of general, although there was no explicit edict at this time. It is also the proper meaning of the question, and it is understandable to call a few sentences in advance.

Qu Duan was in front of the emperor, and did not dare to accept the full salute of the generals, seeing that everyone came up to worship each other, they also bowed half a bow one by one, and when the generals saw the salute and retreated, Qu Duan remembered what Zhao Huan confessed. He groaned slightly, and smiled at the generals: "Everyone is an old buddy, they know each other, I can't tolerate people before Qu Duan, and I offended you a lot, this time Your Majesty will entrust me with such a heavy responsibility, if Qu can't make peace with the generals." With national affairs as the priority, how can you be so trustworthy to Your Majesty? ”

He took a deep breath, pulled an arrow from the quiver behind him, and folded his hands slightly, only to hear a "crackling" sound, and the arrow had broken in two. Qu Duan smiled slightly, left the two severed arrows still on the ground, and said loudly: "Qu Duan will definitely treat all the generals and the forbidden army of all ministries equally, and will never make it difficult to overcome the difficulties, and the generals will also work together to serve the court, if you violate this oath, there will be such arrows." ”

Every big boss and commander. When worshipping the general, there will naturally be some rhetoric. But like Qu Duan, it is the first person who says the four words of harmony and solidarity that are particularly important. What his intentions are, everyone naturally understands that such a resolute and resolute character actually behaved like this when he went out to worship the generals, and he also made up his mind to live in harmony with the generals and not return to the old ways.

Everyone listened strangely, and their hearts were full of mixed emotions, but they couldn't put it into words. However, the other party showed favor like this, Yao Pingzhong had never worked with Qu Duan, but there was no mustard, the first one smiled and pulled out the arrow, broke it hard, and then Qu Duan said the oath, and the rest of the people saw him like this, so they also stepped forward one by one, broke the arrow as an oath, and expressed their willingness to follow Qu Duan and serve the country.

Qu Duan acted at this time, and did not ask Zhao Huan in advance, but the effect was very good, seeing that although the generals were still a little reluctant on their faces, but because Qu Duan took the lead, everyone swore with each other, and they didn't have much to say, as long as Qu Duan could really change his old taboo temper, the generals would naturally not have anything to do with him.

Zhao Huan was overjoyed when he saw it, and immediately stretched out his hand and ordered: "Fetch the wine!" ”

The guards standing around had already made preparations, and when they heard the emperor's order, they immediately slapped the wine jar in the corner of the meeting hall, and the fragrance of liquor came to their nostrils.

"Good wine!" Zhao Huan praised first, and when the guards filled the wine bowl and sent it to him, the aroma of the wine was even stronger, and what was shaking in the bowl was also pure white fine soju.

In the Song Dynasty, there was already the prototype of the spirits of later generations, Zhao Huan liked spirits, and he was not used to drinking warm rice wine, so he developed it with a good life, and finally made this kind of fine wine with a fragrant fragrance.

"Generals, drink."

Zhao Huanping picked up the bowl and drank it all first. The emperor was so refreshing, more than ten generals were excited, this was not a battlefield, there was no way to use a sword to express loyalty and martial arts to the emperor, so they had to raise a bowl to signal, and then drank it all.

"Okay, start the army today, and I will wait for your good news." Zhao Huan didn't break the wine bowl, but handed it to the guards beside him, and then said with a smile: "Only by combining civil and military forces can great things be achieved." Generals go into battle to kill the enemy, but you need to remember that without the government hall to support the food and grass, and without the rules of the Privy Council, how can the army achieve great things on its own? I don't respect you ministers, please ask the generals to come and pay tribute to the ministers. ”

The voice fell, the generals naturally had fun, and immediately poured the wine full, smiled and stepped forward, saluted a few cardinals, Zhang Jun and others were first surprised, and then greatly moved, although they were not as talented as Yu Yunwen, in fact, they worked hard in the cardinal, did a lot of logistics work, most afraid that the emperor would not look at it, but also afraid that the generals would become more and more favored, subverting the tradition of emphasizing literature and light martial arts, at this time, seeing that the emperor was clear about the role of civil ministers, and ordered the martial arts to be respected, everyone was comforted in their hearts, although the wine was hard to drink, but they were all drunk in one go.

Yu Yunwen is just a young man with a great future, but he doesn't care about the position of coach or a temporary reward. It's just that Zhao Huan's handling of Quduan's matter is not obvious, and at this time, he inadvertently soothed the concerns and grievances in the hearts of Zhang Jun and other ministers, which made him admire him very much. At present, this young man understands that military affairs need to be painstaking and laborious, and to deal with interpersonal relationships, weigh the interests of all parties, consider comprehensively, and then guide according to the benefits, although this aspect of learning is different from the military, it still requires experience, wisdom, and even talent.

Zhao Huan couldn't pay attention to the thoughts of the young henchman around him at this time, set the commander to worship the general, awarded the festival seal, the army gathered in one place, the time is pressing, the vanguard has appeared in the land of Hebei, if the enemy is cautious enough, or the sense of smell is more keen, he will definitely be able to find that a large number of Song Dynasty forbidden troops appear in the Hebei battlefield where the fatal place is, if Zong Bi broke his wrist, categorically abandoned Hebei, abandoned the Yellow River, quickly fled to the Yanjing area, and rebuilt the defense line along the Great Wall, in this way, the Song army cut off the connection between the Jin soldiers, The plan to go straight to Yanjing with an absolutely superior force is bound to be greatly affected.

Due to the urgency of time, after paying homage to the generals in the Golden Palace, Zhao Huan ordered the three armies to set off together, crossed Taihang, and went straight to the land of Hebei.

Taihang Mountain is also known as the Five Elements Mountain, Wangmu Mountain, Nuwa Mountain, thousands of miles in the later generations of Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan four provinces of the realm, the whole mountain is steep in the east and slow in the west, the Eastern Expedition Forbidden Army, the vanguard of nearly 30,000 people has been out of Taihang in advance, the rest of the departments, is also to send more vanguard troops into the mountain, after Quduan gets the order, there are still about 150,000 people, from Taiyuan and Xiongzhou nearby, set off in turn, from the Taiyuan Valley, over the mountains and mountains, into the mountains.

The whole Taihang stretches very widely, most of the elevation is above the kilometer, although the winding path between the mountains, there have long been people who have crossed and walked, the so-called Taihang Eight Paths have been famous for a long time, but the mountain is steep, and it is not easy for the large army to move, military operations have always been carried out, want to attack Taiyuan, either cross the Yellow River from Guanzhong, go straight into Shanxi, or from the grassland into the clouds, from north to south, as for the military action of crossing Taihang, a small number of elite soldiers are acceptable, a large force of troops through, it is too difficult, although there are many times in history that the army crosses the Taihang area, However, there are few successes and many failures, because the mountains are dangerous, as long as one side builds a city and a wall on the opposite side to defend it, and the army that crosses the mountain is difficult to break through, and then make some achievements.

Since the Privy Council drew up a battle plan for the Central Plains to attract the main force of the enemy, and the main force of the Western Army to cross Taihang and cut off the enemy's rear route, the investigation of the Taihang Mountains and the so-called Taihang Eight Paths was also included in the Privy Council's battle plan as early as possible.

Because the Taihang righteous people are active, the cardinal has long been in contact with the righteous people who are active in the mountains, and many of them directly accept the command of the cardinal, so they act and get twice the result with half the effort, since the whole huge battle plan was determined, a large number of materials were transferred into the mountains, with money and food, hiring local people, and even secretly transferred a lot of people from the east of the river, building ancient plank roads, widening old roads, adding bridges, setting up military supplies, drawing dangerous maps, more than a year, many forbidden army officers also entered Taihang in advance, Even infiltrated Hebei to observe the enemy's situation, and the entire mountain road and the situation of the Hebei garrison were under the control of the Song army.

Although the Jin State has long established the intelligence agency of the corresponding pedestrian department, it is a pity that the Han people are willing to act as spies in very few places, and the Jin people do not understand Chinese, and few people understand, and it is difficult to pretend, plus the area around the Taihang Mountain is full of rebels, heavily guarded, and it is extremely difficult for outsiders to blend in, and it is difficult for the entire Song army to know the movements of the entire Song army in the Hedong area, let alone know, the 200,000 army is ready, and begins to cross Taihang and go straight to the land of Hebei.