For some reason, the official army has always liked to set up their base camp in Yunzhou when they conquered Liangshan. This is the case with Gao Yu, who was born in a splashy background, and the same is true for Tong Guan, who is old in the military. Even in this wartime meeting of unprecedented scale, Tong Guan and his Shengjie army did not move, but urgently recalled many generals who were stationed on the front line to listen to his teachings.

Liu Zhongwu, the general of the Western Army, was also in the ranks of the conscription this time, but as a general second only to Tong Guan in prestige and seniority in the army, as soon as he arrived in Yunzhou from the front line, he enjoyed the treatment of Tong Guan's private banquet.

"Minister, this is ...... Going to go!? Is this battle over? Listening to the meaning of Tong Guan's words, Liu Zhongwu's hand holding the chopsticks couldn't help but freeze, and asked out loud at the moment.

Tong Guan smiled, looked at the surprised Liu Zhongwu, pressed his hand down, and said, "Ziwen, now that Jingdong and the two roads (east and west) have been recovered, it is time for a certain family to return to Beijing to report on their work!" Seeing that the Privy Council has accumulated a lot of things, and the official family is in a hurry to receive me, it will not be much fun for me to spend any more time here! ”

Liu Zhongwu mechanically stuffed a piece of duck leg meat from the chopsticks into his mouth and chewed it slowly, but he began to ponder Tong Guan's true thoughts in his heart.

Although the last city of Liangshanbo has been recovered, in the eyes of laymen, it is of course a great victory for the imperial court and has taken the limelight. However, as a veteran of the battlefield, he knows that the current situation is at best a change of offensive and defensive situation, far from a decisive victory. Although the imperial court recovered the lost territory, the living force of the thieves did not suffer a devastating blow, but retreated to the offshore islands in an orderly manner with a large amount of loot, and could attack Jingdong Road again at any time. So, this battle is only half the battle at most!

It is absolutely impossible for Tong Guan not to understand this, but as the head coach, he wants to pick his son to return to Beijing at this time, what is this called?

Liu Zhongwu is not a little person who needs to tremble in front of Tong Guan, even without Gao Yu, the Austrian aid of the DPRK and China, he is also a well-known signboard in the Western Army. is only second to the two famous generals of the world, Seed Master Dao and Liu Fa.

At this time, Liu Zhongwu had something in his heart, and he didn't pretend at the moment: "Prime minister, I can't leave at this time!" Although the army made quite a lot of gains along the way, it did not hurt Liang Shanbo's muscles and bones. Thousands of thieves are entrenched in the Salmon Islands outside of Jeju Yangsanbo and Dengju, and they may gather forces at any time to further infringe on the lost territory we have recovered. Although there are more than 400,000 military horses in Shandong, if there is no virtuous and respected marshal like the prime minister, I am afraid that I will fall into the embarrassing situation of fighting for each other, but will be broken by the Liangshan thieves. At that time, the situation we have worked so hard to get is only afraid of an instant. It's going to be lost again! ”

This is the biggest difference between Liu Zhongwu and Seed Master Dao and Liu Fa, although everyone has different opinions, Liu Zhongwu will not go straight to Tong Guan, and his words are more tactful.

Tactfulness usually represents concerns, and in a sense, concerns are not far from respect, at least there is a kind of teacher Tao and Liu Fa to compare, Liu Zhongwu is enough to respect Tong Guan.

Sure enough, Tong Guan's face was as usual at this time, still with a gentle smile. Honestly, sit in his position. You don't even need to bother with strategizing, the only thing you need to do is deal with people. Liu Zhongwu has a good person, that is, there is no common problem of martial arts: arrogance and domineering. And this person is very eye-catching. Otherwise, he would not have given up his military exploits to the gold-plated Gao Yu who came down from the court.

Therefore, for Liu Zhongwu, who had lost his support, Tong Guan was mainly based on enveloping, and he smiled at the moment. said to Liu Zhongwu in a heartfelt tone:

"I don't know if Ziwen knows it, after the imperial court and the Goryeo Kingdom negotiated the possibility of borrowing the road in the future, the official family was in Jinmyeongchi. Taking the only three commands of the Tokyo Navy Shenwei and the Tiger Wing Army as the foundation, the sergeants of Zhaojiang, Huaishan Shuiban, and Xiang entered Beijing to form a new army, preparing to train into an elite army within two years. Now it seems that this elite army is still far away from being used in the north, but if you want to break the Liangshan bandits, you have to wait for him to train them. Before these 50,000 people become an army, a certain will not play up his shortcomings and avoid his strengths and fight a decisive battle with the Liangshan bandits on the water! ”

"Except for water warfare, now our army has taken land warfare to the extreme! Catch the thieves apart from the islands, there is no stronghold on the land to live in, and that's enough! If the Liangshan thieves want to go ashore to attack the state and break the mansion, they have to taste the taste of filling the corpses under the fortified city! ”

Liu Zhongwu is a character who understands everything, and he immediately tasted Tong Guan's true intentions. It turned out that the other party did not realize the potential harm of the Liangshan bandits, but wanted to use the defense of the city to consume the living force of Liangshan, and even used it to consume the many troops in the imperial army that needed to be solved urgently.

But he is also a person with goods on him, and instantly pointed out the loopholes in Tong Guan's strategy: "What if the thieves do not take Jingdong, but go around to Hebei, or Huainan, or even Liangzhejiang Road, the important financial and tax area of my Great Song Dynasty?" How can I keep it? ”

Tong Guan smiled when he heard this, and threw out two lines of poetry: "Dongpo Bachelor has two poems that are well written, called 'I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain', how can Ziwen not hear it on the front line, Liangshan crossed the sea and withdrew troops in Dengzhou are all risky river boats, how can they go to Liangzhejiang to make trouble?" Moreover, a certain Liangshanbo was besieged but not attacked, and the defense was that this guy had no memory, but abandoned the nest and fled. Recently, there has been no news of Wang Lun in Deng, Lai and other places, and a certain family estimates that this person is undoubtedly on Liangshan Island. He usually tastes loyalty and righteousness, and the people under his hands are somewhat bewitched, if he abandons the master to escape at this time, the thieves will lose their minds before they fight! When the time comes, put a ready-made naval army in Huainan again, wait for work, ambush halfway, and Liangshan can be broken! ”

Liu Zhongwu also smiled, and immediately slapped Tong Guan: "The cardinal minister is smart!" After the shooting, he said: "It's just that if there is a ready-made naval army, why don't we cross the sea in Dengzhou?" The thief swept Jingdong before, swept away tens of millions of dollars and grain, and the trapped guard could support him for two years, could he not go down to the island for a day, and we would spend a day with him? ”

Tong Guanjian said, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Ziwen, Ziwen, you and Gao Taiwei have a good relationship, how can you not know what happened to Liu Menglong?" Although this is arrogant on weekdays, the Jiangnan Navy is really unsurpassed. Even he was defeated by the thieves, and if my victorious army crossed the sea on this boat, wouldn't it be the thief's trick? ”

No wonder you have to select and train recruits in Beijing, it turns out that you have some lack of faith in the Jiangnan Navy! This makes it impossible to count on them, but they can be used to beat the side drums. Seeing this, Liu Zhongwu couldn't help nodding secretly, and he was quite admirable for Tong Guan's caution in his heart.

"As for Liangshan......'s huge amount of money and grain," Tong Guan smiled proudly and said, "You marched all the way to the army, the most intuitive, did you find any abnormalities in the hukou of each state?" ”

When Liu Zhongwu heard this, he showed a thoughtful look, and said after a moment: "Don't say it, the last general hasn't paid attention yet." As far as I've seen along the way, at least five or six out of ten tenants in various states have followed the thieves, and now the entire Jingdong household registration is less than 20% is conservative, if there are 30%, it is not surprising! ”

"So a certain family always said that in the Western Army, the Dao of the Planter is old, and Liu Fa is a little restless, but Ziwen is the most worthy of training!" Tong Guan showed a very satisfied expression, and did not hesitate to praise Liu Zhongwu between words. However, the "training" in his words certainly does not refer to the cultivation of talents, and its meaning is self-evident.

When Liu Zhongwu heard this, he smiled "reservedly", and he did not show gratitude to Dade for Tong Guan's intention to step on others and promote himself, and of course he did not reject others, which was completely appropriate. Tong Guan didn't care, and continued to confess:

"What is the most worrying thing about my Great Song? It's people! These tenants who are struggling between hunger and hunger will not follow Wang Lun, and it will also be the bane of the imperial court in a disaster year. Liang Shan was able to win them, thinking that he had strengthened his momentum, but he didn't know that these people were dragging their families and mouths, and no matter how much money and food Wang Lun snatched, he couldn't fill their mouths. These people dare to rebel against the imperial court in order to stutter and eat, if Liang Shanbo can't satisfy them in the future, can Wang Lun, the first talent, predict the consequences that will happen in the future? ”

"Can't!" At this time, the reserved Liu Zhongwu was resolute, "These sour Confucians, they only know how to demagogue people's hearts and harm the discipline, when he really gets into trouble, where can he have any good strategies to help the world?" In the future, in addition to looking at the sea and sighing, I can only cry and pity myself. It's a pity that these thieves have suffered the people! Now that it is spring and summer, if the plague is epidemic again, Salmon Island will become a ghost island again! ”

Although Liu Zhongwu said resolutely, he still couldn't hide the horror in his heart, Tong Guan had always intended to drive people to Liangshan! No wonder the soldiers who were worse than the military discipline of the Western Army burned and looted along the road, this minister turned a blind eye, and it turned out that he also had the idea of consuming thieves. These Liangshan thieves are also really stupid, if people dare to take the bait, he dares to bite the bait. Those who carry good water will drown, and those who are righteous will be burdened by righteousness.

"Ziwen, everyone has their own ambitions, these people are isolated from the court, if there can be a good end, won't the world compete to follow suit?" Tong Guan's words are quite profound, especially when talking about the word court, the tone is slightly accentuated, as if he is talking about the fate of the thieves and the people, but there are some other meanings mixed in.

"It's the kindness of the last woman!" Liu Zhongwu tasted it in the end, and said: "The Liangshan thieves will be in turmoil within half a year!" In this way, the cardinal minister will not be able to leave. If you go, the Jingdong armies will lose their backbone! ”

"A certain family is gone, isn't there still a general?" Tong Guan laughed, suddenly stood up, his face changed, and he said very majestically: "Liu Zhongwu takes the order!" ”

Liu Zhongwu was stunned for a moment, saw Tong Guanbao's solemn appearance, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, only to see Tong Guan's rare personal reading of the holy decree:

"Qing Shiji is loyal, trained in military affairs, and Xuanlao is in the west of the year, and it is a national cadre. If there is no reward, how can there be a reward? He was specially promoted to the deputy commander of the guard pro-army horse army, and the Taining army Chengxuan envoy, and controlled the soldiers and horses of Deng, Lai, Qing, Mi, Wei, Zi, Yi, and Qingfu eight states. The friendship of the deep leaves in the same boat, the contribution of building the world, do not live up to my high hopes! (To be continued.) )