Chapter 402: Interpersonal Relationships
It turned out that Chai Wenshan was leaving, and Lu Wenhan and the generals conducted a final analysis of the temporary station of the Beida Battalion, as soon as Shi Xuehai died, the successor to the marshal must be Wu Zhuangyuan Fang Zhiye, this guy is not a timid person, but he can only serve as the deputy marshal in the Beida Battalion for a long time, no matter how the commander replaces, he just doesn't straighten him as the deputy marshal.
No matter how many military exploits he has made, he is only rewarded financially, but since he was promoted to deputy marshal, there has been no promotion in official positions.
Chai Wenshan made two suggestions, if after Shi Xuehai's death, the temporary camp of the Beida Battalion launched an attack on the Zhenyuan Prefecture Command Battalion, and immediately ordered the whole army to retreat into the mountains behind the Command Envoy Battalion, which had been in operation for many years, where it was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the 40,000 troops of the Beida Battalion would be defeated if they could not get close at all. When the cavalry team rushes out, it will defeat the Beida Battalion troops commanded by Fang Zhiye.
The black armor of Lu Wenhan's soldiers was also prepared by Chai Wenshan in the early years, so Zhenyuan Prefecture commanded a total of two sets of armor in the camp, one is the standard armor of the Song army, and the other is this black armor and black armor, this set of armor was secretly created by them, and the origin of all this is because of the dictatorship of the privy envoy Hou Jinbao.
After Hou Jinbao served as the privy envoy of the Privy Council, he has been eliminating dissent, retaliating against and framing others, appointing his own cronies, and trying to control the dynasty in vain.
Hou Zuoren was sent by Hou Jinbao to command the envoy camp in Zhenyuan Prefecture as a strategist, at first, Hou Zuoren was quite honest, but when Hou Jinbao's power was consolidated step by step, Hou Zuoren began to show his fangs, and on trumped-up charges, he killed many generals under Lu Wenhan.
Lu Wenhan's elder brother Lu Wenhao was the Guards Ma Junsi, the three yamen who belonged to the supreme command organ of the central government of the Song Dynasty, commanding the forbidden army and the box army respectively, and was removed by Hou Jinbao to send people to make a plan, and also killed Lu Wenhan's father Lu Quancai and other immediate family members.
When Lu Wenhan, who was far away on the border, knew the news, it was already a few months later, and the poor Lu family was loyal to the monarch and loved the people, and they couldn't resist the framing of the slanderers, fortunately, Lu Wenhan had run the command camp of Zhenyuan Prefecture for many years, and he was assisted by good ministers like Chai Wenshan.
Therefore, many years have passed, although there are people who are making waves here, they are still as stable as gold, but the command has made the control of the battalion much smaller.
Last time, the emperor ordered them to find an opportunity to get rid of Hou Zuoren, but because Xiang Qingxi was busy and did not kill Shi Xuehai in time, he asked the Beida Battalion to send troops to prepare to get rid of the Zhenyuan Prefecture Command Envoy Battalion, this time Shi Xuehai was beheaded, Chai Wenshan felt that this was an opportunity.
But the creation of this opportunity mainly depends on the performance of the new commander Fang Zhiye, if Fang Zhiye takes the will of the saint as the direction and continues to attack them to command the big battalion, then they have to retreat to the mountains and find another way, this battle can defeat the 40,000 troops of the northern camp, but their own side will also get heavy losses, so this plan is not the best.
Another plan is that if Fang Zhiye does not listen to the holy decree and retreats, he will inevitably issue an order to retreat, and Lu Wenhan can send all the cavalry to make a detour behind the Beida Battalion to ambush the 40,000 soldiers who are sleepy and short of horses in the mountains sixty miles away.
Of course, the consequence of this is that there will be no turning back, so that it will completely go to the opposite side of the imperial court, and you can only establish yourself as the king in the remote mountains here, and the grass will be ruined, but it is too much stronger than being eaten and killed by Hou Jinbao one by one.
The last time they collectively killed Hou Zuoren, these people were already grasshoppers on the same rope, and most of these people's family members were local residents of Zhenyuan Prefecture, so they didn't have much psychological pressure to rebel.
And Xiang Qingxi's intervention contributed to the last straw in their rebellion motivation, so Lu Wenhan did not hesitate, since the rebellion is a foregone conclusion, then it is inevitable to strengthen the strength, Chai Wenshan's last plan for Lu Wenhan still worked, bringing back a large number of loot and prisoners of war.
This made the generals sigh, Chai Wenshan had a lot of strategies to deal with Hou Jinbao calmly, but they were all denied by everyone, and finally stepped step by step to go against the country and the court, which was not what they really wanted to see, but now there is no way, so they have to take one step at a time.
Of the more than 20,000 people captured, some old and weak soldiers were sent to various camps to do coolies, and the remaining nearly 20,000 were all scattered, and 10,000 people were built in camps.
In addition, nearly 10,000 elites were dispersed into various squads to slowly digest them.
More than a month later, there was news from the Beida Camp that Fang Zhiye's more than 100,000 troops in the Beida Camp were defeated by the Khitan under the Beida Camp, and the Beida Battalion lost more than 60,000 soldiers, and Fang Zhiye was cowering in the Beida Camp and did not dare to fight.
The news of Shi Xuehai's death has been blocked by Fang Zhiye, and when he remembered the 40,000 soldiers and horses in Zhenyuan Prefecture and sent a herald to order the 40,000 troops to withdraw to the Beidaying base, he knew that the 40,000 people had long since disappeared and there was no trace.
Fang Zhiye didn't understand it, how could these 40,000 people disappear out of thin air, and it took many inquiries to get the news, the 40,000 people were scattered by a large number of cavalry in black armor and black armor that night, and all of them disappeared that night, soldiers, camps, weapons, tents, and even his newly appointed deputy marshal disappeared.
This news completely confused Fang Zhiye, although the battle with the Khitan gave him a loss of more than 60,000 people, but he thought that the remaining troops of the defeat plus the 40,000 main forces in Zhenyuan Prefecture could still pull up a team of more than 100,000, but the news turned out to be like this, Fang Zhiye had no choice but to order, the whole army retreated in the camp, and was not allowed to take the initiative to attack again, and strictly guarded against it.
On the other hand, he sent his cronies back to the court to move the rescue troops, and put all the blame on the dead Shi Xuehai, who was irrefutable anyway.
All this is going on in an orderly manner, and the 5,000 elite recruits who were brought from the Zhenyuan Prefecture command envoy camp have been completely integrated into the Xiang Qingxi military base, and all the management regulations here are all militarized management like modern society, and military quality and ideological rectification are grasped together, and Yu Hongliang's original idea is the same as the army's technology, and the ideology is highly unified.
In the large basin behind the base, Xiang Qingxi has all been circled, and now he is like engaging in enclosure movement, that basin covers a wide area, cool in winter and summer, very suitable for living, and surrounded by mountains on three sides, one side is adjacent to his military base, so after being circled by Xiang Qingxi, accurately measure, the land available for construction in this basin is a roughly rectangular basin three kilometers long and about two kilometers wide.