At this time, the door creaked open, and Zhu Pei walked in with a cup of tea, she put the tea cup on the table and said with a smile: "Don't dare to face us, escape here early"

"What don't you dare to face" Fanning was a little confused.

Zhu Pei pointed to the table, Fanning noticed that there was a copy of "Hong Kong Economic Journal" on the table, he picked up the "Hong Kong Economic Journal" and looked at the date, it was yesterday's newspaper, and then looked at the contents, he suddenly secretly screamed bitterly.

The headline on the front page was 'Xiao Fan Xianggong entered the prime minister to worship the commander', which said that he would go to Hebei to command the Song army and the Liao army to fight.

Fanning's face was bitter, and he said for a while: "I only found out about this matter today, if you all oppose it, I can not accept this appointment." ”

Zhu Pei shook his head, "If you don't accept it, it will be a deserter of the Great Song Dynasty, and it will be spurned by the people, we will not object, but you hope that you can think more about your own safety, for example, today, the dignified commander of the Great Song Dynasty army, he doesn't even have a guard, and he has to call an ox cart on the street. ”

"Today is an accident, I mainly consider that Zhu Long and they are all old, but they have no wife and heirs, and they don't even have a family, and they think that Ganjiang Island lacks loyal and strong martial arts people, so I sent the four of them to Ganjiang Island, where did I think that as soon as I entered Beijing, I was taken into the imperial court, and I was asked to go to Hebei to replace Han Gelao, and I was caught off guard."

Zhu Pei said quietly: "I don't mean to blame the husband, I'm just worried, hey!" The Zhu family still has some dead soldiers with strong martial arts, but in the old mansion of Wujiang, let Sister Jian follow you for a few days! With Sister Jian here, I am also a little relieved. ”

Jian Meizi returned to the Plum Blossom Temple of Putuo Mountain shortly after Fan Ning arrived in Quanzhou, and served as the master, but she has been excluded by several junior sisters, and she is not very good at dealing with the world, and the female disciples in the temple do not listen to her, she resigned from the master in a rage, and returned to Quanzhou at the beginning of the year to join Zhu Pei, and now she is practicing in Fanning's mansion while protecting Fan Ning's family.

Fan Ning nodded, with a few ordinary attendants, and Jian Meizi to protect him in secret, it was almost enough.

He took a few sips of tea and felt hungry, so he got up and smiled: "I'm a little hungry, let's go to dinner!" ”

.........

After the family finished eating, the children went to evening class, that is, to practice calligraphy, Fanning returned to his study.

He took out a map of the confrontation of the situation in the Liao and Song dynasties, which was a map of the situation in which the Liao and Song dynasties fought in Hebei during the Song and Song dynasties.

At this time, a maid said outside the door: "Official, there is a guest visiting outside, saying that I hope you can meet him." ”

Fanning was stunned and asked, "Who is it?"

"It's a very energetic old man, he says his name is Yang Wenguang."

Fanning laughed, "I know, please come to the outer study for a while, and I'll be right away." ”

Fan Ning knew that he would be targeted once he returned to Beijing, and sure enough, the first person was Yang Wenguang, who hadn't seen him for many years.

Fanning changed into hospitality clothes and walked to the front yard, where there was his outer study, which was actually the place to receive important guests.

Fan Ning walked into the courtyard, and saw Yang Wenguang sitting in the lobby drinking tea, his Cuiyun Building was bought from Yang Wenguang, Yang Wenguang was only in his early fifties, and now he is more than sixty years old.

However, it seems that the spirit is very strong, quite a bit of old and strong feeling, in history, Yang Wenguang is a late bloomer, Song Yingzong began to use him after he ascended the throne, Song Shenzong Zhao also valued him very much, and finally died without paying for his ambition, at the age of seventy-five, which can be regarded as a lifetime of military career.

At present, Yang Wenguang is the commander of the cavalry of the Dragon Guard, in charge of 10,000 cavalry.

At the beginning of the year, the military system was reformed, simplifying the military system, and combining the wartime military system with the peacetime military system.

The 400,000 forbidden army, 200,000 box army and 200,000 border army are divided into 16 guards, each guard has an army of 50,000 people, and the main general is called the capital commander, and there are five commanders under the capital system, and there are five commanders or general soldiers under the commandery.

The commander level is equivalent to the original commander, there are 2,000 people, if it is stationed alone, it is called the general army, if it is stationed with the large army, it is called the commander.

Then below the commander is the battalion general, and below the battalion general is the escort team and the gang commander.

Du Yu Hou and Yu Hou are still retained, as the deputy general of the capital and the system, the term of office of the capital is four years, the term of office of the command is five years, and the command level can be transferred.

In addition, under the control of the capital, there are six officials and staff battalions, and under the control there are six officials, who are in charge of military affairs as civilian officers.

Fan Ning walked into the lobby and said with a smile: "Let General Yang wait for a long time." ”

Yang Wenguang hurriedly got up and saluted, "It was I who came uninvited to disturb Xiao Fan Xianggong's rest." ”

Fan Ning was a little helpless, Xiao Fan Xianggong was originally just a joking title, but now everyone calls him Xiao Fan Xianggong, and even Yang Wenguang, who has always been serious, also calls him so, and it has become an official honorific title.

"General Yang doesn't have to be polite, please take a seat!"

Yang Wenguang sat down, Fanning asked the maid to serve tea again, and he asked with a smile: "I have been overseas for a long time, and I don't know much about the situation in the DPRK and China.

Yang Wenguang bowed slightly and said: "I am now in charge of the Dragon Guard, I belong to the forbidden army, and I am in charge of 10,000 cavalry. ”

Fanning's eyes lit up, "But it's a war horse from Kunzhou"

Yang Wenguang nodded, "Among the 10,000 war horses, seventy percent are from Kunzhou, and the other thirty percent are from Gyeongju Horse Farm. ”

Before opening up overseas horse breeding land, the Song Dynasty itself also raised war horses, such as in Shaanxi Road Qingzhou, Yuanzhou, as well as the Central Plains and Shandong Peninsula have horse farms, but the scale is not large, and mainly in captivity, unlike Kunzhou, the climate is cold, the implementation of wild stocking, raised high-quality Kunzhou horses.

Yang Wenguang knew what Fan Ning was interested in, and said with a smile: "Little Fan Xianggong, please rest assured, the Kunzhou horse is very strong, extremely fast, and the endurance is also very good, the bearing capacity is also good, it can be used as a heavy cavalry, we all call it Kunma." ”

After Yang Wenguang praised Kunzhou Ma again, the topic of the two turned to business.

Of course, Yang Wenguang has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, he got the news that the Long Weijun will not be transferred to the front line, he is a little anxious, he is already over sixty years old, and if he doesn't seize this last opportunity, this life may be over.

Of course, he can't change the decision of the imperial court, but Fan Ning can, as long as Fan Ning asks Long Weijun to go to Hebei by name, then the Son of Heaven will definitely agree.

Yang Wenguang said his intentions, hoping that Long Weijun would also be transferred to Hebei.

Fan Ning understood Yang Wenguang's intention, he didn't promise anything, but smiled slightly: "The old general has been fighting horses all his life, and there are two generations of famous generals from his father and ancestors, I don't know what the old general thinks of this battle with the Liao army"

The Tanyuan Alliance had been abolished by the Liao State, and before a new alliance was reached, the Liao and Song sides were in a state of war, and fierce battles would break out at any time.

Yang Wenguang immediately said excitedly: "This is a golden opportunity for the Great Song Dynasty to recover Youzhou, we can't blindly defend, we must also take the initiative to attack, but frankly speaking, our cavalry is still relatively weak compared to the Khitan cavalry, in addition to better equipment, all kinds of techniques and tactics are inferior to the other party, I think we should still advance step by step, with the city as the center, to fight the battle of advancing and defending the city, and it is best to divide the troops to attack." ”

"Shouldn't it be to concentrate superior forces to fight the enemy," Fanning asked with a smile.

"It's not like this, the battle between us and the Liao State is actually a battle of national strength, the prosperity of Buddhism in the Liao State, which consumed a lot of money and grain in the treasury, Yelu Hongji is even more poor and extravagant, which has led to the luxury and pleasure of the Liao nobles, and imported a large number of luxury things in Songcheng, just look at last year's border trade market, more than seventy percent are all kinds of luxuries, and the consumption of various spices is no less than that of the Great Song Dynasty.

The humble position boldly speculated that this time the Liao State went to war with the Great Song Dynasty because of the sharp internal contradictions of the Liao State, and Yelu Hongji provoked a war against the Song Dynasty in order to divert the domestic contradictions.

However, the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty is ten times that of the Liao State, as long as we use our national strength to compete with the Liao army, and do not care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, we will definitely have the last laugh. ”

Yang Wenguang's suggestion and Fan Ning thought of going together, and using national strength to consume the other party, he asked again: "What other good suggestions does the old general have?"

"I suggest that the offensive be launched again after next spring, when the Yellow River thaws, even if the Liao State surprises its troops south, it will not be able to cross the Yellow River to threaten the capital, as long as the capital is safe and sound, then it will be useless for the Liao State to surprise the army again."

Fan Ning smiled and nodded, "It seems that the old general doesn't go to Hebei to fight, it's really a waste of talent." ”

Yang Wenguang was overjoyed, got up and saluted, "The humble position will definitely not disappoint Xiao Fan Xianggong!" ”