Shen Yi came from a scientific background and was a second-level Jinshi. He was a pure-blooded civil servant. Even until now, most of his official positions were civil servant positions, such as the Minister of War, the Governor of Shandong, and the Right Deputy Censor. These are all It's a civil servant.
But in fact, Shen can no longer be regarded as a civil servant.
Because his foundation lies entirely in the Huai'an Army.
His subordinates, such as Ling Su, Xue Wei, Su Ding, even Zhang Meng, Liu Mingyuan, Wan Zhong, Zhong Ming, Zhou Huai, Gao Yong and other middle-level generals will all be military attachés of Da Chen in the future. These are all his of power.
Although this kind of "mountain" was not intentional by Shen Yi, but formed spontaneously in the process of founding the Huai'an Army, it has to be admitted that this hill has actually been formed.
This hilltop can be called Shen Dang, but a more accurate name should be called "Huai'an Sect".
Under this situation, and at the current progress of the Northern Expedition, Shen Yi was the de facto military attache leader.
If there were no special circumstances, it would be difficult for him to enter the parliamentary hall to pay homage to the prime minister.
Therefore, there is no need for him to pursue the unity of civil servants. Although Ganquan Academy is not small, and his father-in-law is the current head of the academy, Shen Yi should not and will not, because the other party is from the academy, so he will Quyi pulls up.
Firstly, Shen Yi himself does not agree with this kind of behavior, and secondly...
When you have actually become a military attache leader, you still have to win over civilian forces, which is easy to be feared by others.
This fear does not necessarily come from Emperor Hongde, but may come from the entire court.
After spending a few days sorting out some accumulated documents with Zhang Jian, Shen Yi's study finally felt a lot cleaner. In the past few days, news came one after another from Tianjin Port.
The war in Tianjin was not smooth.
In the past few days, Liu Mingyuan tentatively sent two thousand-household battalions to land. However, after a brief battle with the Tianjin Three Guards, there was a huge disparity in combat effectiveness between the two sides, and they suffered a moderate loss.
This is not surprising.
Liu Mingyuan's Dengzhou Navy was basically part of the vanguard army that Xue Wei left behind in Dengzhou, and many of this vanguard army were newly recruited by Xue Wei in Dengzhou, Laizhou.
After all, when Xue Wei left Dengzhou, he was ordered to attack Jinan, so naturally he wanted to bring all the elites with him.
Later, after Liu Mingyuan arrived in Dengzhou, based on this part of the vanguard army, he recruited another part of the army and formed the Dengzhou Navy.
For more than a year, Commander Dengzhou has practiced water warfare and is not very good at land warfare. Moreover, the Tianjin Sanwei of the Northern Qi Dynasty are an elite unit in the capital of Yandu in the Northern Qi Dynasty. They are responsible for the offshore defense of the entire capital. It is normal to suffer losses in battle.
Fortunately, the Dengzhou Navy could not defeat the Tianjin Three Guards on land. Due to the huge equipment gap at sea, the Tianjin Three Guards were no match for the Dengzhou Navy, and the two sides reached a stalemate.
The current situation is that the Dengzhou Navy has held back the Tianjin Three Guards, making the entire Tianjin Three Guards unable to move.
You should know that the normal strength of the first guard is about 5,000 people, while the number of Tianjin's third guard is slightly larger, adding up to more than 16,000 people.
Although the Dengzhou Navy has a large number of people, the number of troops on the ship is only about 5,000. With both sides restraining each other, the Huai'an Army undoubtedly took advantage here.
Therefore, after receiving Liu Mingyuan's report, Shen Yi ordered the Dengzhou Navy to continue to stay near Tianjin Port, waiting for opportunities, and did not allow them to act rashly again.
After all, this trip at least destroyed the Tianjin Port and the Tianjin Shipping Department, destroying an important source of income for the Qi people.
In addition to the battle situation of the Dengzhou Navy, Su Ding is slowly moving north from Hejian Mansion after occupying Hejian Mansion. However, to the east of Hejian Mansion is Cangzhou, and Cangzhou has also gathered a large number of Southern Conquest troops. , so Su Ding moved cautiously.
If Cangzhou's Southern Army was not taken into account, Hejian Fucheng was only more than 300 miles away from Tianjin. In six or seven days, Su Ding would be able to reach Tianjin and, together with the Dengzhou navy, attack the three Tianjin guards.
But now, because the situation of the Conquest of the South Army is not yet clear, and although the Conquest of the South Army lost Hejian Mansion, its vitality was almost not damaged, and Nuo Yong still had a lot of troops, so Shen Yi gave the opinion, It also asked Su Ding to act cautiously and stay conservative for the time being.
Right Route Army Lingsu has just experienced a big battle and is still in the rest stage.
The entire Huai'an army is relatively stable now. The only thing that worries Shen Yi is that Xue Wei of Datong is still entangled with the Tatars.
This time, the Tatars sent out a total of 40,000 to 50,000 people. These Tatars, even if they dismounted to fight, could meet head-on with the elite vanguard army, fight immediately, and even crush the vanguard army.
At present, the number of the vanguard army is only over 20,000, and Xue Wei can only rely on the city to hold off the Tatars.
The good news is that the current situation is quite optimistic, but the bad news is that the Tatars have learned some siege methods from someone and have already captured several county towns.
In all likelihood, someone from Qi had arrived in their army.
After sorting out the situation on all sides, Shen Yi personally wrote letters to all armies in Shunde Mansion, conveying the next strategy and the combat policy of being as conservative as possible.
However, no matter what Shen Yi's current attitude is, there will always be four words in his letters to his subordinates.
Act according to circumstances.
Because things on the battlefield change rapidly, and sometimes fighter opportunities are fleeting, it is necessary to give the commanders and generals on the front line as much power as possible and allow them to exert their subjective initiative, so as not to miss any opportunity.
Why couldn't we fight at the time of the Great Sending? In addition to using civil society to control military force, the bigger disadvantage was that frontline generals had no command authority. Wars had to be fought according to the arrangements of the Privy Council, and even marches had to be based on the maps drawn by the Privy Council. When marching or fighting, we must march and set up the formation according to the formation diagram drawn by the Privy Council or the emperor.
If you fight like that, there won't be any good results.
After Shen Yi had arranged everything, it was already late November, and there were only a few days left before the twelfth lunar month.
In the city of Shunde Prefecture, Shen Yi, who was finally free, sat across the table from Zhang Jian. The two brothers clinked glasses of wine. After Shen Yi raised his head and drank it, he laughed softly: "During this period, there has been no situation in any of the armies. , the documents sent to me are also guaranteed to be problem-free."
"Moreover, it will be difficult to make any progress in the war in Tianjin for a while."
Zhang Jian also drank the wine in the glass and asked with a smile: "Can Ziheng finally return to Jiankang?"
Shen Yi said "hmm" and looked back to the south: "It's been two years since we left. I don't know what my family is like. I don't know how tall my son and daughter are now."
He sighed silently: "I don't even know what my little son looks like. Chan'er sent me a portrait of my son before, which she drew herself."
"But I don't know if it looks like it."
Hearing this, Zhang Jian also missed his family. He raised his head to drink wine and said with a bitter smile: "I haven't seen you for only two years. I haven't seen my family since the twelfth year of Hongde. In the blink of an eye, it has been more than four years." ."
"My child said that he wanted to be your teacher back then, but now I don't know what he's like now."
"My eldest nephew..."
Shen Yi counted on his fingers.
"Almost fourteen years old this year."
Zhang Jian nodded and shook his head slightly: "He is not very good at studying. He has not even passed the boy's entrance examination. He doesn't know where he will end up in the future."
"Not to mention Zhang Lian, who is still young now, no one can say for sure how he will fare in the exams in the future, even if he does not go well in the exams."
Shen Yi smiled: "Senior brother, how old are you? You are already a feudal official. It will be easy to get him a shadow official in the future."
Zhang Jian shook his head slightly and did not answer.
Obviously, as a person from a prime minister's family, he still attaches great importance to the fame of scientific examination.
After taking a sip of wine, Zhang Jian looked at Shen Yi and asked, "Is the one in your family nine years old after the Chinese New Year?"
"Next year I will be ten years old."
Mentioning Shen Yuan, Shen Yi smiled bitterly and said: "In recent years, his mother has taken care of him most of the time. I have taken care of him very little. I'm afraid I won't be close to me in the future."
Zhang Jian laughed loudly: "When father and son meet, the young prince will probably not recognize you as the eldest prince."
After saying this, Zhang Fantai drank a glass of wine by himself and sighed silently: "It's time to go back and take a look."
Shen Yi nodded and toasted Zhang Jian with a glass of wine.
"I'm waiting for Xue Wei's reply. Once Xue Wei's reply arrives, confirming that Datong and Taiyuan are fine, we will set off immediately."