Chapter 123: Brothers' Dialogue on the Future of the Wu Family

Wu family.

After Gao Pet left, Wu Jue called his brother Wu Luan over.

Wu Xuan came in in a hurry, and when he saw Wu Jue, he asked impatiently:

"Big brother, why did you call me, I am training those new soldiers (captive soldiers)."

Wu Xuan fought bravely, was not afraid of the Jin Army, and always forged ahead bravely as a general, and was a tiger general. It is also the main general and pillar of the Wu family's army.

"I called you to come, I have something important to discuss with you, come, go to my study. You've had a hard time these two days. ”

"I'm experimenting with a new formation to resist the Ma army, but I don't know what the effect is, and I still need to verify the actual battle." Wu is practicing a new infantry formation that he calls a base formation.

The so-called base formation, in which pikemen squatted in front of the column with spears, were not allowed to stand, and the spears were put down when there was no battle, and the strongest archers knelt behind them, and the last was the sharpshooters. When the enemy is 100 paces away from the position, the sharpshooter shoots first; At 70 paces, the strong archer fires a volley. When the enemy cavalry is approaching, the spearmen obliquely erect their spears or stab the enemy's horses and riders. At the same time, when arranging the formation, the cavalry was first connected with iron hooks, shielded in front, and when the formation was completed, the cavalry retreated.

"Oh, Brother Lu is attentive. This time I called you because of such a situation, first, I have agreed to exchange grain with Western Xia for horses, and at the beginning I exchanged 3,000 horses, and they are high-quality Hetao horses. This time, in exchange for military horses, we can make up for the lack of our military horses. The key is that this time the Western Xia sold horses to open a precedent for more than 100 years to blockade the military horses and lose to the Song Dynasty, which shows that the strategy of the Western Xia towards the Song Dynasty has changed. ”

This handed over to Wu Jue and captured more than 10,000 horses, but there were not many military horses for so many horses, most of which were used by the Jin army to transport heavy horses.

"This is a great thing, we are adjacent to Western Xia, and we will not run out of horses in the future. Big brother, my Wu family army will definitely become the strongest army in my Great Song Dynasty in the future. This time we won a big victory over the Jin army, and the court didn't know what to reward us. Hearing his eldest brother say this, Wu Lan was full of expectations for the future.

"Brother Xuan, what can the court give? It's just a name! The eldest brother has reached this point today, dominating one side and staying away from the center of the imperial court, what is better than this? Whether it is Yue Fei, Zhang Jun, or Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, don't look at their officials who are bigger than their elder brothers, and they have more soldiers and horses than our Wu family, but they are all inferior. ”

"Big brother, why is this?" Wu Lan asked, he only knows about war, and when it comes to politics, he really doesn't know.

"We, the Great Song Dynasty, have been afraid of the existence of the separatist forces in the Tang Dynasty and threaten the imperial power since Taizu released the military power with a cup of wine. Therefore, the army is governed by literati. Although I have a large army in the Great Song Dynasty, I can't fight. You said that Jingkang was difficult, the Jin army besieged the city for the first time, and finally relieved the siege, but as soon as the people withdrew their troops, they withdrew the generals, and did not adopt all kinds of defensive measures proposed by the generals, and finally had the shame of my Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Let's just say that my old superior, Wang Yan, now Jinzhou is a prefect, he is a military general who is no worse than your brother, I think he brought 7,000 soldiers across the river back then, and brought back more than 100,000, and it is even more terrifying that no Jin army general dares to fight against him, his eight-character army is powerful!"

"But how? The army was brought back to Bianjing, and he went home to farm. ”

It's easy for Zhang Junyue to use him, but his straightness hurt him again, the battle of Fuping, how many chances are there, but Zhang Jun is keen on decisive battles. He bet that most of the generals thought it was inappropriate, but people didn't say it. Only Wang Yan and Qu Duan are two troubles. After two years of preparation, do you think Zhang Jun will listen? Listening to it shows that what he did before was wrong and the strategic direction was wrong. Qu Duan was killed by this Wu Jue and Zhang Jun. Wu Jue won't say this.

In the past two years, the official family has been rectifying the interior, and Li Heng and Zhai Cong, the envoy of the suppression, did not launch a war of alignment the year before last, and they have been fighting until Bianjing. By what? Is it the combat power of the army and the ability to command the capital? No! , they relied on the general's anyway in Liu Qi's army at that time. In the end, Liu Qi and the Jin army counterattacked, and even the six states of Jinghu were lost, and they hit Luzhou (Hefei) in the east. But does the imperial court have any support for this second- and third-rate army? No, Liu Guangshi in Chizhou didn't move, one Han Shizhong was on Fujian Road, and one Yue Fei was on Jiangnan West Road. This is what is outside, and what is going on inside must be settled first.

"In the past two years of war against Jin, we have to rely on military generals, and the foundation of the official family is not solid, and the official family still allows the power of these people to satisfy their desires. You can see their fate in a few years. ”

"You often remind my brother to cherish his reputation, don't you think I know? No, I don't need a good reputation, and neither do our Wu family. What we need is for the Wu family to take root in this Han. ”

"Now that the Jin Army has been newly defeated, do we have the strength to enter Guanzhong? Of course there is, but if we don't have the support from behind, we can't last long, with the support from behind, my Wu family can't last long here, without the support of Song, we can't eat the Jin army back, and if the Jin army can't fight back, the official family won't need us. ”

"So we're going to keep this wolf?" Wu Lan came over on the other side, what did his brother mean when he told him.

"Therefore, you have to remember that you must not be overjoyed, you only know how to fight, and you must think about the long-term development of our Wu family."

"Big brother, foolish brother remembers." Wu Lan completely obeyed this brother today. I know why in just a few years after the defeat of Fuping, he was promoted from a small general to a senior member of the first and second grades of the official residence. Become the emperor of the soil in this Hanzhong. What kind of woman, what kind of elixir is just a tool for this brother and the Wu family to protect themselves.

Do you see what a pure child Wu Lan was originally at the age of thirty-two, do you remember the conversation between the two brothers about surrendering or not surrendering to the Jin army on the killing of Jinping? The kid meets a strange uncle. Maybe it's the Wu family that wants to surrender to the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty when it comes to his grandson, so that the Yuan army can copy the back road of the Southern Song Dynasty from Sichuan, and then become a stain on the Wu family, as well as Wu Sangui of the Ming Dynasty, everyone knows this.

"It's far away, I'm here to discuss with you today that this Gao family's son Gao Pet wants to take advantage of the passage to cross the border." Wu Jue changed the subject.

"Didn't Gao Chong negotiate with us on behalf of this princess of Western Xia about border and trade?"

"This descendant of the Gao family should not be underestimated, he can establish such a close relationship with the Western Xia Kingdom, gain their trust, and entrust him with the important task of negotiation. A fourteen or fifteen-year-old child must have something extraordinary. Today's conversation with him was a dripping drop. ”

"Big brother, don't sigh first, okay, he wants to go over, as a child of the Gao family, although he has something to do with Xixia, will we stop him, and still borrow the way?" This Wu Lan was a little anxious by this brother's appetite.

"Do you know how many people you're going to bring along?" Wu Lan shook his head suspiciously.

"How many?"

Look at my brother stretched out a six-word.

"Sixty?" Wu Jue shook his head.

"Six hundred?" Wu Jue shook his head.

"Is it six thousand?" Wu Lan stuck out his tongue.

"Six thousand five to be exact." Wu Jue said.