Chapter Twenty-Three: Nothing New Under the Sun

"You are too bold, from the face of the nine-rank envoy to reprimand the six-rank right martial doctor, even if you are not under his jurisdiction, this matter spreads, it is also arrogant and rude, you are also an official now, the rules of this officialdom must be learned, otherwise one day you will suffer from it."

Liu Jian, who went out, said to Wang Yue speechlessly.

"Isn't that what I am?"

Wang Yue said.

"What is a human design?"

Liu Jian asked.

"The image of me in Master Tong's heart.

I'm not a simple, scheming, reckless man who can say anything in his heart, since I'm such a person, then of course I have something to say, in other words, with my personality, will I know what a right martial arts doctor and Zhizhou are? I only know that Master Tai's words must be listened to, and I know that Wang Yu is my boss, and you two are friends, but this and, what is his name He? ”

Wang Yue said.

"He Xu, the right martial doctor, the history of Weizhou Thorn, Zhixiong Prefecture, his father Di Wuxiang's subordinate general He Bin."

Ma Kuo said.

"Heshen?"

Wang Yue was stunned.

Well, that's a good name.

"So can I know who he is?"

He went on to say.

Liu Jian looked at this guy with complicated eyes......

"You're used to acting!"

He sighed.

"Well, the play still has to be acted.

But we're also brothers, so there's no need to act.

But speaking of which, why did our Taishi make this arrangement, how could things on the battlefield be so arranged, if you want to fight, you will fight, if you don't fight, you won't fight, since you are still afraid of sending troops, where is his pride and ambition when he left Beijing? When you were in the capital, you all said that our army of more than 100,000 people would drown the Liao army even if they rushed up to drown, although I repeatedly reminded you that it was not that simple, but you think that I am worrying about nothing.

Now I'm right.

But now that the matter has come to this, it must be treated in the same way as in this situation.

If you should fight, you have to fight, but now people are putting on a posture that they really want to fight, but our side has begun to cower instead, even if it is to appease, first of all, we have to play majestic.

As long as he wins a battle, Yeluchun is naturally honest.

But why are you afraid of war in the first place? ”

Wang Yue said.

"Come, come, I'll show you."

Liu Jian said.

Then the three of them went straight out, and soon arrived at a military camp, where a large number of officers and soldiers who had just arrived were camping, these almost all infantrymen, and they all looked yellow and thin, most of the armor on their bodies was torn, and the rust on them had not been wiped clean. As for the weapons, they are similar, rusty knives and guns, bows and crossbows that have been obviously damaged for a long time, and some have not even wiped the dirt, and many people do not even have real weapons in their hands, so they just casually find a wooden stick and inlay a spear head.

And not all of them are young adults, and there are many of them with gray beards.

There is no military temperament in them, just a group of poor people with rudimentary weapons, and even many of them look like beggars in rags.

The temperament is also like.

Wang Yue was very suspicious that their occupation before they came was beggars.

The whole barracks were like that.

"The sixth general of Hebei Road has just arrived from Hejian Mansion."

Liu Jian said with a sigh.

Wang Yue looked with horror at a lame man, who was holding his so-called cone gun, walking crookedly, while arguing with a few soldiers, because Wang Yue's inexplicable language hangs, he heard it very clearly......

The goods were pimped, and the soldiers owed him money.

"You ask why the Taishi has no ambition?

Here it is.

Hebei Road Forbidden Army, since the Tanyuan Alliance, nearly 120 years do not know the soldiers, even the white-haired people have not seen the war, 120 years, 120 years of no war army, what kind of appearance will it erode into? The Liao people have been eroded to hundreds of thousands of troops, and the Liao lord has been defeated by less than 20,000 savages.

If the Liao people are like this, will we be better?

We're only going to get more erosive.

Taishi did think that the Hebei Forbidden Army was unusable, so he brought a lot of Western Army, but after all, the Western Army still focused on preventing Western Xia, and only a few could be transferred, and this battle had to rely on the Hebei Forbidden Army. Now after the forbidden army from all over the country gathered, I know that the Hebei forbidden army has already been eroded to this point, even if there are 200,000 such an army, what is the use, the border patrol army seems to be more than 100,000 people, but in fact, less than 30% of the people can be used. ”

Liu Jian said.

"Also, do you think these hundreds of thousands of troops are really hundreds of thousands?"

Ma Kuo said.

"Uh, is it possible that my Da Song also eats empty salaries?"

Wang Yue was stunned.

"During the Chongning period, there were only nearly 40,000 fugitive soldiers on Xihe Road, a total of nine generals on Xihe Road, all of which added up to only 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers, and nearly 40,000 fugitive soldiers, why do you think the generals don't care? Not only that, but there are also those who hired people to replace them when they were about to fight, look at these beggars, it is estimated that they are hired by the rich forbidden army to replace themselves.

Taishi mobilized 150,000 troops on his books.

But in fact, it is estimated that even the Taishi himself does not know, and it is good to exceed 100,000. ”

Ma Kuo said.

"Sure enough, there's nothing new under the sun!"

Wang Yue said with emotion.

This can also explain why the Song army lost so badly.

It is not necessarily true to say that the system is not true, because the forbidden army at this time is no longer the past generals do not know the soldiers, the soldiers do not know the generals, after the Xifeng reform, the Song army actually paralleled the art of war and the old law, but the art of war gradually became the main body, that is, similar to the general military system in the late Ming Dynasty. The military and political chiefs in various places recruit troops, and then these troops are commanded and trained by generals, and when they need to fight, these generals are transferred to the battlefield with their subordinates, in short, at this time will be the basic combat unit of the Song army.

The number of people is not fixed.

There are tens of thousands, and there are two thousand.

And Tong Guan's army of more than 100,000 people is put together like this, but if you have to eat empty salaries, it is difficult to say how much.

Not to mention that the vast majority have not fought in more than 100 years.

No wonder Yang Zhi is so valued by Master Tong, after all, this is still a real fighter!

"He wants to empty the gloves of the white wolf, and he wants to learn from others to play military blackmail!"

He said.

Master Tong had a shattered dream and had to play a dying struggle, just like the gamblers at the table who were cheating their opponents with a bad handful of cards.

I really don't dare to open the cards.

can only play the drama of these hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers.

Maybe you'll win?

After all, it is impossible for the opponent to come up with any good cards, what if Yeluchun can't hold it first?

"It's not necessarily a gamble, after all, the Liao army is really small.

Even if the Hebei forbidden army on our side is unbearable, but after all, there are still tens of thousands of Western troops, if we really start a war, our strength is still far beyond the Liao army, it is said that the Liao army in the opposite new city is only a few thousand cavalry, although there are still some Han soldiers in the local area, in addition to Zhuozhou There are also thousands of Guo Yaoshi's troops, and there are thousands of Xiao Gan, but the real combatable soldiers on the opposite side are only one or two thousand, and our army still has enough chance of winning. ”

Liu Jian said.

The premise of this victory is that the combat effectiveness of the Western Army is about the same as that of the Liao Army.

What's more, the coach here and the coach over there are not the same level, Tong Guan to Yelu Dashi, it's like someone jumping up and hitting someone's knee!

"When are we leaving?"

Wang Yue asked Ma Kuo.

"Brother Wang, you have thought about it, this trip is really going to risk death, since Ye Luchun killed the messenger, naturally he didn't think about surrendering, once we deal with it in Xijin City, the two sides began to fight on the battlefield of Baigou, the Liao army is defeated, it's okay, if the Liao army wins, then it is difficult to guarantee that it will not kill us."

Ma Kuo said.

"It's okay, Wang doesn't say anything else, so I'm not afraid of this kind of thing."

Wang Yue said with a smile.

He was afraid of Mao, and he didn't know that Ma Kuo didn't die in Xijin City at all.

He already remembered who this person was, the male protagonist of "Jin Ou Lack", was written by Xu Xingye miserably, and finally his wife was arrested as a slave girl, and he sneaked into the occupied area to redeem it, but he didn't expect to be tortured to the point that he ran out of oil, and finally saw the last face before he died, and then hugged the ashes and wiped his tears and walked towards the vast future......

However, he did not die in this mission!

This trip is thrilling!

What's so scary about that?