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Chapter 107: Deploy troops and generals

 Zhao Ji was thinking, what other promising generals should I use to accompany me to conquer Fangla?

The first thing he thought of was Han Shizhong (also known as Po Han Wu).

The time traveler Zhao Ji knows how brave and capable Han Shizhong is among the "Four Generals of ZTE" in the future, with a strategic mind and an upright man.

However, Zhao Ji could not name Han Shizhong, who would eventually be "an enemy of ten thousand people" in such an important imperial edict. This was also a kind of protection for him. After all, although Han Shizhong has been in the army for twelve years, he has only just

Thirty years old.

Today, Han Shizhong is also in the Western Army, and he is now a partial general under Liu Yanqing.

Zhao Ji this time used Tong Guan, Liu Yanqing, and Liu Guangshi to lead 10,000 elite cavalry soldiers from the Western Army southward, preparing to conquer Fangla. It is very likely that the tall and brave man made a decisive move in the war against Xixia.

Bring along Han Shizhong, who has made great contributions.

After all, according to the history that Zhao Ji knows, it was not until the next year, the third year of Xuanhe, when the Fangla uprising in the southeast gained momentum, that the imperial court mobilized forces from all directions to conquer. At that time, Han Shizhong accompanied Liu Yanqing as a partial general.

and accomplished the great feat of capturing Fang La alive, but when he reported it to Zhao Guan's family, he was not mentioned about him poking Han Wu.

Zhao Ji understands that he should not encourage the talents of generals. Otherwise, if a butterfly effect occurs due to his time travel, the talents who have grown normally may be harmed.

Zhao Ji continued to issue the edict:

He ordered the eunuch Tan Zhen to be appointed as the envoy of the Zhejiang Province, and transferred 10,000 "elite" troops from the imperial army in the capital, and immediately went south to Shezhou to prepare for the suppression of the bandits...

In this way, Tong Guan, Liu Yanqing, and Liu Guangshi led 10,000 elite cavalry troops from the Western Army to Hangzhou, and Tan Zhen led 10,000 elite Imperial Guards from the capital to Shezhou. In terms of strategic layout, these two forces formed horns and had to be dealt with.

It is the rebellious people of Fangla tribe who have just revolted under the "horns".

Of course, Zhao Ji also wanted to lead the expedition in person, but as a time traveler, he knew that "a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall." He, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, must not lead troops and act as a vanguard in the future!

Zhao Ji wants to lead the expedition in person, just to pick up the fruits of victory. By the way, he can improve my reputation. More importantly, he can train the army of the Song Dynasty and practice his courage. In the end, there will be a great war between the Jin and Song Dynasties...

Zhao Ji must take advantage of now to practice courage and learn military command as soon as possible, otherwise, he will end up talking armies on paper.

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Zhao Ji's two imperial edicts to mobilize troops still have to be decided by the Privy Council before they can be implemented.

Zhao Ji said to the eunuch serving at home:

"I am sending an oral order to the Privy Council to make a decision before lighting the lamp tonight: I want to transfer Tong Guan, Liu Yanqing, and Liu Guangshi to lead 10,000 elite cavalry troops from the Western Army to Hangzhou:

Send Tan Zhen to lead the 10,000 elite Imperial Guards from the capital to Shezhou to jointly eliminate the banditry in the southeast..."

"My little slave obeys the order." The eunuch who served in the chamber went out of the hall to deliver the order.

In fact, Zhao Ji had already issued an imperial edict to mobilize troops to Tong Guan, Liu Yanqing, and Liu Guangshi and ordered them to be dispatched by 800-mile express horse.

This is equivalent to finishing things first and then getting the certificate.

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When the Privy Council made the decision, the chief, deputy historians and officials were all suspicious: Are Zhao Guan's family crazy? Did they mobilize so many troops to suppress the bandits in the southeast? Why did they mobilize their troops in such a way?

In fact, the officials in the Privy Council did not know the true intentions of the Zhao family.

Since the Fangla Uprising only occurred a few days ago, and the distance from Muzhou to Kaifeng, the capital city, the capital has not yet received military reports of the Southeastern Fangla Uprising. On the contrary, in the southeast, many small groups of bandits have long been rampant.<

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Now, when the officials of the Privy Council saw that the Zhao family had suddenly changed their minds in the past few days, they first killed Lin Lingsu, and then sent their favorite ministers Gao Qiu and Wang Fu to Dali Temple for trial. They all secretly exclaimed:

I no longer understand the emperor’s will.

They are afraid that they will be the next Lin Lingsu or Gao Qiu or Wang Fu.

As a result of the Privy Council's decision, they all agreed that the Zhao Guan family would send two groups of troops to the southeast to suppress bandits...

After all, this time Zhao Guan's family wanted to mobilize two groups of soldiers. The total number was only 20,000, which was not too much. They felt that they could still afford to mobilize 20,000 elite soldiers from the Song Dynasty's so-called 800,000 forbidden troops to accompany Zhao Guan's family.
(Actually, the officials in the Privy Council didn’t know that it would take a few months until Fangla’s uprising in the southeast really gained momentum, and the imperial court would send out hundreds of thousands of troops from all walks of life, and then they could barely wipe out Fangla’s troops!)

Nowadays, the officials in the Privy Council can no longer understand the Zhao Guan family. They think that this time it is the Zhao Guan family who is doing the same thing as before when they were cultivating immortals and cultivating Genyue. After all, the "sage" Zhao Guan family may be interested in "Wen"

I'm tired of playing, and want to change my taste. Let's learn from the kind of people like Tang Zong and Song Zu who can establish themselves in the military so that they can leave their name in history!

…………………

When Zhao Ji learned about the Privy Council's decision, he smiled slightly and said: "The officials in the Privy Council are quite sensible!"

Zhao Ji was thinking, the status of generals in the Northern Song Dynasty is low now!

He decided to change the Northern Song Dynasty's original national policy of emphasizing culture over military affairs.

In fact, national policies cannot remain unchanged for hundreds of years.

At the beginning, Song Taizu experienced the wars of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. Song Taizu himself was able to join the yellow robe in the Chenqiao mutiny because he held military power. Therefore, after he became the emperor, he not only "released military power with a glass of wine", but also began to implement the national policy of emphasizing civility over military power;

And it has been continued to this day.

And the time traveler Zhao Ji knows: The Northern Song Dynasty will be subjugated in less than seven years. If he does not want to subjugate the country at that time, he will even fight against the powerful Jin army. Is it possible without raising the status of military generals?

Of course not.

I must quietly raise the status of military generals to even surpass those of civil servants...

Of course, this is just an expedient measure, otherwise, wait until there is peace and then learn from Song Taizu's "a cup of wine to release military power"!

The military also needs to be reformed to change the situation of the Northern Song Dynasty's imperial army where "the generals do not know the soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the generals".

Among the Forbidden Army of the Northern Song Dynasty, the only one who "knows the soldiers and the generals" is the Western Army of the Song Dynasty, which has been stationed in the northwest for many years to confront Xixia.

This is also an important reason why the Western Army of the Song Dynasty is by far the most capable of conquering the good among the Song armies.

Also, in the Northern Song Dynasty, before the army went on an expedition, it had to follow the formation map arranged in advance by the emperor and the Privy Council. This greatly restricted the generals on the front line from arranging their troops according to the enemy's situation...

Thinking of this, Zhao Jiming wrote and the eunuch drafted an edict: From today on, the rotation system of soldiers and generals in the Forbidden Army will be suspended. When fighting the enemy, the frontline generals do not need to arrange their troops according to the formation map arranged by the emperor and the Privy Council before the expedition.

Array...

When this edict was sent to the Privy Council for discussion...

All the officials in the Privy Council were simply shocked! They couldn't believe why the Zhao family changed their ancestral system and suddenly implemented such a big change in the military system?


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