If the monarch and his ministers work together and use their lives, although the defensive situation in the north of Dai Viet is extremely bad, it still has a vast hinterland in Hehuai, Jianghuai, Jinghu, Jiangnan, Sichuan, and Guanzhong.
The Hu people also have a crushing advantage. If the Beilu strategy can be carried out, it will certainly be able to reverse the current bad situation.
However, throughout the ages, the difficulty lies in the principle of "the king and his ministers unite as one, and the generals and soldiers use their lives".
The core point of Belu Ce is to turn the entire Hehuai area into the depth of Dai Viet's defense, and to trap the Red Husband cavalry in it without gaining anything. This requires that each defense area has sufficient military potential to be exploited.
Taking the southwest defense zone as an example, Beilu Ce planned to place the garrison camp in Caizhou, where he would gather troops from King Qin from Sichuan, Sichuan, Jinghu and other places, and direct the troops to the north to restrict Bianliang and Caizhou.
There are enemy troops on both sides of the Cai River. However, as the war continues, in addition to the need for food and grass from the counties on the Jingxi South Road south of Caizhou, it is also necessary to organize troops and horses on the spot from the Jingxi South Road to gradually replace the long-distance reinforcements.
The diligent troops and horses of the king gave Dai Viet a stronger and more durable war capability in the Hehuai River.
Therefore, it is necessary to establish a capital defense envoy to control the military and political power of Caizhou and Jingnan Road.
Now that this discount has been reduced, the court seems to have accepted part of their suggestions. It is not in a hurry to transfer all the soldiers and horses of the King of Qin to Bianliang. Instead, it has established four new towns outside the capital to gather the soldiers and horses of the King of Qin, and selected ministers as commanders.
But in essence, they did not pay attention to Xu Huai's claims, or in other words, they still had illusions about the Chihu people and the entire war situation, and had a serious lack of understanding.
Xu Huai and his colleagues believed that the Red Husbands had captured Yunshuo, Hedong, and Hebei. The defense network was pierced with holes and could not stop the Red Husbands from attacking south. As long as the main force of the Red Hussars did not suffer heavy losses, as long as they did not suffer in the Hehuai War,
, felt that Dai Viet was still weak and could be bullied, and would inevitably go south again and again.
On this basis, Xu Huai put forward the strategy of preparing for the enemy, which could severely damage the main force of the red cavalry without relying on it once, and emphasized the resilience and endurance of the defensive area.
The compromise plan was to reduce the scope of a defense zone from several states to one state. To put it bluntly, the emperor and ministers in the DPRK focused their attention on resisting the upcoming southern invasion of the Chihu people, thinking that they would be able to resist the southern invasion of the Chihu people.
Once you stay there, everything will be fine.
Of course, Xu Huai was not surprised by this, and it was even completely expected. That was why he was unwilling to lead the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain into Bianliang. He had not yet realized that he would live or die with this city.
After sitting in the side hall for a while, Wang Zhen was free. Xu Huai, Zhu Hang, and Wang Ju rushed to meet them.
In addition to Wang Boqian and Wang Fan, deputy envoys to the Privy Council, there was also a middle-aged official with a thin face wearing official robes sitting in the handsome hall.
"I didn't know that Mr. Hu Kai was also in the commander's hall!" Zhu Hang saluted everyone and introduced Wang Boqian to Xu Huai, as well as that the middle-aged official with a thin face was Hu Kai, the waiting man of the Ministry of War.
"I just arrived at Wang Xiang's place just now." Hu Kai bowed his hands in return, but his eyes were looking at Xu Huai and Wang Ju.
Xu Huai didn't need to think about it. Hu Kai, the minister of the Ministry of War, was one of the defense envoys of the four states, and his generals were placed under Hu Kai's command and accepted his control.
There was no time for small talk, so Wang Zhen got straight to the point and said:
"Shilang Hu will be sent to lead Caizhou's defense envoy, the governor of the state, and the general manager of Caizhou's camp. I initially thought of transferring your troops to Bianliang to participate in the defense of the capital, but the officials and left minister Wang Qiyong and other ministers
After discussion, it was decided to divide multiple metropolitan inspection areas into the four new towns in order to fully mobilize local troops; one of them would be a new Huaiyuan County in Tongbai Mountain, which would be merged into Caizhou's jurisdiction as a metropolitan inspection area. Consideration
Everyone in Tongbai Mountain has deep roots in Huaiyuan. I am specially envoying you to go out to Huaiyuan and lead the inspection envoy of Huaiyuan City. Based on the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain, you will organize anti-captive soldiers and serve under the command of Mr. Hu Kailang..."
Although Emperor Tianxuan and the various ministers finally rejected the concept of a large defensive zone and now have a pocket version, Xu Huai finally got his wish to return to Tongbai Mountain - and the Huaiyuan County that he had been thinking about before, he did not expect that it would be here
Time comes.
Xu Huai hurriedly stood up again and saluted Hu Kai, who would be his immediate superior in the future: "Xu Huai received the support of Mr. Wang Xun when he was young and made some small achievements. There are also stubborn people who don't know the dangers and dangers. He was lucky enough to get something. I will look forward to Mr. Hu Kai in the future."
Please give me some advice!"
Strictly speaking in the dynasty, only the left and right prime ministers, those who were involved in political affairs, the three envoys, the privy envoys, the deputy envoys, and those who held various ministerial titles or above were qualified to be honored as the prime minister. However, Hu Kai, as the minister of the Ministry of War, called him
It’s not too much of a mistake to be a husband.
Xu Huai was not familiar with the ministers of the court. He had not had time to listen to Shi Zhen and others talk about the affairs of the court in detail. He was not familiar with Hu Kai.
Since the founding of the Dai Viet dynasty, most of the functions of the Ministry of War have been divided up by the Privy Council, which only handles matters such as ceremonial guards and military examinations. In the early days, the Minister of War did not even have responsibilities, and was only a transfer official for the ministers. It was not until recent decades that the official rank
He is listed as a formal official, but as the deputy to the Minister of War, he does not have much real power.
Xu Huai also only knew that Hu Kai, as a minister of the Ministry of War of the third rank, remained silent on the alliance's attack on Yan and was a neutral faction.
Of course, Xu Huai believed that no matter how stupid and incompetent Emperor Tianxuan and Wang Qiyong were, and no matter how many calculations and precautions they had in mind, there should be some considerations in the selection of defense officers in the four towns other than Wang Zhen.
And the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were not completely without people who were determined and available.
Wang Zhen, Zhu Hang, Han Shiliang, and as direct descendants of the Cai family, Guo Zhongxiong finally died in Yingzhou, buying time for Lan Shuo's army and people to retreat south, which was beyond Xu Huai's expectation.
Therefore, Wang Zhen recommended Zhu Hang to serve as Caizhou's defense envoy. After being rejected, Emperor Tianxuan, Wang Qiyong and other prime ministers finally chose Hu Kai, and Xu Huai had nothing he could not accept.
At this time of life and death, he is willing to give Hu Kai more trust and cooperation.
Hu Kai was quite satisfied with Xu Huai's statement. He nodded and said to Wang Chen:
"In addition to Xu Junhou and General Wang Ju, we also need to borrow two people from Wang Xiang."
"Please tell me." Wang Zhen said.
"I served as the training envoy of the Longzhou regiment at Qinfeng Road, and I met Yang Lin, the general of the Longzhou army at that time. I wanted to borrow Yang Lin from the bodyguard Ma Junsi..." Hu Kai said.
Hu Kai went to Caizhou to take up his post. As the commander-in-chief, he had to take charge of the soldiers and horses of King Qin who came from all directions in the southwest. He could not leave Caizhou to enforce military discipline, and there were no soldiers to guard his personal safety. He could only come from Caizhou.
The Gyeonggi garrison seconded a group of forbidden troops to serve as personal soldiers and went to Caizhou to take charge of the overall situation.
Wang Zhen frowned and complained in front of Wang Boqian, Hu Kai, Zhu Hang and others: "Prime Minister Wang and Prime Minister Zuo don't want me to transfer Xu Huai to Bianliang, but you want to transfer Yang Lin from Bianliang."
If Liang is transferred away, don't you want to leave me with a few people that I can use comfortably? That's all, who is the other person? You don't want to borrow Han Shiliang as well, do you?"
Xu Huai also wanted to remind Wang Zhen to make good use of Han Shiliang, but he did not expect that Han Shiliang had already been in Wang Zhen's field of vision, and Yang Lin, whom Hu Kai wanted to borrow, was obviously Wang Zhen's long-cherished candidate.
Xu Huai thought about it. Before Wang Zhen was exiled to Tangzhou and Lanzhou, he served as Yushi Zhongcheng in the capital. His familiarity with the military officers and generals of the court was unparalleled even by Zhu Hang.
Probably Shi Zhen, who had been an official in the Ministry of War for a long time and silently watched the struggle between the various forces in the DPRK and China from the bottom, was more familiar with this matter than Wang Zhen.
"How dare Hu Kai be so greedy? Besides, Yang Maoyan followed King Lu out of Weizhou and had already begged Han Shiliang in front of the officials. I don't dare to fight for Han Shiliang with His Highness King Lu without knowing what is going on," Hu Kai said with a smile, "
I want to lend Master Zhu Hang’s eldest son, Shi Zhuzhi, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, to my side. I also want the Prime Minister of the King, and Master Zhu Hang agrees..."
Hu Kai once served in Bianzhou and knew the outstanding generals in the Central Forbidden Army very well, which shows that he is not an ordinary person. It is not a fluke to be appointed to Caizhou at this time of life and death. At this time, he was thinking of transferring Zhu Zhi to Caizhou.
It was obvious that he was not interested in Zhu Zhi's talents, but probably hoped that Zhu Zhi would be able to better coordinate with everyone in Tongbai Mountain by his side.
In other words, Hu Kai did not intend to be aggressive and used his official title to suppress Xu Huai, which shows that Hu Kai is a very pragmatic official.
However, what shocked Xu Huai was not this, nor was it the fact that Han Shiliang was transferred to Weizhou by Yang Maoyan and King Lu.
How could Xu Huai not connect the new emperor with Lu Wang Zhao Guan at this moment?
There were still more than 100,000 troops stationed in Hebei. When the Japanese invaders invaded the south, they were unable to leave the city to fight, but they defended the city and were not annihilated by the Japanese soldiers.
When Bianliang City was about to be besieged by Japanese soldiers, the DPRK sent ministers or princes to take charge of this part of the army. Xu Huai did not need to remind him, and someone must have thought of this.
Xu Huai just didn't expect that Emperor Tianxuan's candidate would be King Zhao Guan of Lu, let alone that someone would recommend Han Shiliang to King Zhao Guan of Lu at this time!
Will Han Shiliang become a general under King Zhao Guan of Lu?
Could it be that Lu Wang Zhao Guan was the man destined by destiny?
Indeed, when the entire clan of Dai Viet was being made dumplings by the Red Husbands, only King Zhao Guan of Lu was leading the troops. Wasn't he the only candidate?
