Chapter 181: Advance as retreat
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This time, the Jinwu army went south to suppress Fang La, and the great battles were almost all fought by the Jinwu army, and the great achievements were almost all established by the Jinwu army. Cai was even promoted to one of the big bosses of the Song Dynasty because of the suppression of Fang La.
If Cai Shen continues to fight, especially as Cai Shen said, he will capture Fang La alive and send him back to the capital, then what happened to Tan Zhen in the future, Cai will definitely hold the second position of the Song Dynasty military, and may even kick Tong Guan away and become the first person in the Song Dynasty military.
So, as soon as Cai still volunteered, Tan Zhen immediately jumped up to stop him.
In fact, not only Tan Zhen was afraid of Cai Jian, but Tong Guan was also afraid of Cai Jian.
The several major battles fought during the Jinwu army's journey south were all defeated by a few, and all were not worth mentioning. The soldiers of the Jinwu army, from a group of commanders and soldiers at the bottom, were brave and fearless, dared to fight, and had a happy battle, and had strict discipline and a surprisingly good reputation.
Tong Guan is a soldier who has been in charge of more than 20 years. He has already developed a pair of fiery eyes. How come he can't tell the potential of the Jinwu Army?
Tong Guan even thought more than once: "The person who replaces me in the future will be Cai Ziyin!"
but--
Tong Guan is still not convinced of his old age and does not want to retreat to the second line and wait for death in the book of merit. He wants to make more contributions, and he also wants to regain Yan Yun’s title of king.
Therefore, Tong Guan could not let Cai still stand up and replace him in charge of the military power of the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, I heard from Tan Zhen that "the Jinwu army has fought dozens of battles since it went south, and the veterans have been exhausted. It is time to take a break. The Song Dynasty is our Song Dynasty. We cannot just teach the Jinwu army to shed blood and sweat." Tong Guan immediately followed Tan Zhen's words and said: "Yes, the Jinwu army has fought too many wars, killing 10,000 enemies and losing 8,000 of them. It is time to rest."
Although Cai still hates Fang La, there are really many innocent people in Fang La's rebel army. Therefore, Cai is still not interested in suppressing Fang La.
In fact, if it weren't for the need for military achievements to strengthen himself, Cai wouldn't have worked hard to suppress Fang La.
Nowadays, Cai still wants almost everything he wants.
If you show your strengths, you may be afraid of others, which is not a good thing.
Therefore, the reason why Cai still took the initiative to request the recovery of Muzhou was completely based on advancement and retreat.
However, it is still too obvious to retreat now, so Cai still said: "As we all know, our Jinwu Army has just expanded its army, so there are many new forces and there is no need to rest."
Tan Zhen said: "Ziyin, you are very wrong. It is precisely because of this that you have to stop and practice your recruits well. Otherwise, if you really bring them to the battlefield now, they will have to mutiny."
Tan Zhen said again: "Speaking of this, I heard that many of your new recruits were selected from the rebels, which is even more dangerous. What if they have a relationship with the rebels?"
Cai still defended: "The recruits I recruited from the rebels have been carefully selected and will not rebel again. Besides, there are so many prisoners this time, I can't all be deceived. I can only pick some useful ones from them, cut off the big thumb and big toe and put them on."
This is Cai Shen’s excuse to the outside world and has been reported.
Of course, there are also reasonable excuses for Cai to deal with this.
This excuse is - can't afford it.
There are more than ten or twenty-hundreds of thousands of kilograms of food consumed every day.
How to raise it?
Let the Northern Song Dynasty court pay and feed?
What a joke?
Because the wealth in the southeast was cut off, the Northern Song Dynasty court itself was almost cut off money and food was cut off. How could there be money and food to raise so many prisoners?
Therefore, if the front line cannot seize enough food, the Northern Song Dynasty court will have no choice.
In this case, Cai still said that he could not seize the grain (in fact, it was seized. In Wude and Deqing, Cai still seized millions of stones of grain, well... to be precise, Chen Jingu and Fang Baihua presented millions of stones of grain to Cai Lan). There was no problem with handling the prisoners in this way except for the slightly lighter punishment.
Tan Zhen said: "I didn't say that because you handled it improperly, Xuan Xiang and I only said that your soldiers have problems now and are not suitable to go to the main battlefield. Otherwise, you will go south directly to recover Yuezhou, Mingzhou, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Fuzhou, and be responsible for cleaning up the rebels on the periphery. How about it?"
Before Cai still opened his mouth, Tong Guan also said, "It's good that way. You can go home and take a look, build a tomb for your ancestors, and find a lost relative."
Shortly after Fang La's rebel army captured Hangzhou, all parties suddenly responded. The rebel army in Fuzhou simply destroyed Cai Jing's grandfather's grave and exposed his bones.
Cai Jing's grandfather was naturally Cai's ancestor.
Chinese people emphasize filial piety first. If Tsai still shows unfilial to his ancestors, then Tsai's image will collapse immediately.
In other words, even if you pretend, Cai Shen must also pretend this time.
Therefore, Tong Guan is not a little bit smarter than Tan Zhen. Even if Cai still wants to refuse, it will not work.
Cai still has a ancestral home in Chiling, Cixiaoli, Xianyou County, Xinghua Jun (that is, Dongzhai Village, Fengting Town, Xianyou County, Putian City, Fujian Province, later generations). If he wants to return home to worship his ancestors, he can only go to the front lines of Yuezhou, Mingzhou, Taizhou, and Wenzhou.
Cai still pretended to be helpless and said, "It's been two or three years since I left home, so it's time to go back and take a look. So... I'll just follow Xuan Xiang's arrangements."
Cai is still willing to give up his main attack position, so the next thing will be easier.
Tong Guan quickly took out the combat plan he had already formulated and said: "Then the Central Imperial Army and Shengjie Army will go to Fuyang to attack Muzhou, and then work with the Western Route Army to force the main force of the rebels back to Qingxi and encircle and annihilate them on the spot..."
As soon as the combat meeting was completed, Cai still took his men to the Jingyuan Army.
Cai Shen sent Chai Jin to inquire from many sources and finally got the list of generals and schoolmen of the Western Army. Cai Shen was finally sure that Wu Jie, Wang Yan and the group of fierce generals under them were now in the Jingyuan Army.
At this time, Wu Jie served as the deputy lieutenant of Jinyi in the Jingyuan Army. Not long ago, he prevented Fang La's rebel army from retaking Hangzhou. Wu Jie led his brothers to defeat him and capture the chief. He is now well-known.
Wang Yan once followed Zhong Shidao to confront Xixia twice and was also well-known in the Jingyuan army.
Cai is still determined to win the fierce generals such as Wu Jie and Wang Yan.
Therefore, when learning that the Jingyuan Army was also stationed in Hangzhou, Cai immediately brought people to visit the Jingyuan Army.
The commander of the Jingyuan Army was Yang Keshi, who has always been famous in the Western Army for his daring to fight and his unauthorized rights. He is also the number one general in Zhong Shidao.
Cai still suddenly ran to Jingyuan Road, which made Yang Keshi very puzzled.
But despite this, Yang Keshi led his generals to meet him as soon as possible.
Liu Qi knew Yang Keshi, and Yang Keshi also knew Liu Qi.
So, Liu Qi recommended Cai Jian to Yang Keshi and said, "General Yang, this is my husband. He has heard of General Yang's hero for a long time and came to meet General Yang."
Liu Qi was not a lie. Although Yang Keshi suffered defeats in several key battles between Song and Liao in history, he was still a general who dared to fight, at least much stronger than other Song generals of the same period. Therefore, Cai was still happy to know Yang Keshi. After all, the two may have to deal with them in the future.
Cai still knows the hero of Yang Keshi, but how come Yang Keshi never knew that the hottest hero of Cai still is now?
Moreover, Yang Keshi often hears that Cai is still the number one master today, which makes Yang Keshi, who is also unsuccessful in the Western Army, feels a little dissatisfied.
Therefore, Yang Keshi has been looking for opportunities to meet Cai Shen at first sight.
Meeting today just fulfilled Yang Keshi's wish.
Yang Keshi's level is several levels lower than Cai, so he first said, "I will meet you in the end."
Cai Jian quickly helped Yang Keshi up and said, "General Yang is polite. He has long wanted to know General Yang. It's a pity that you and I are both busy, so we have never been able to meet him."
Yang Keshi didn't know what Cai Jian said was true or false. He quickly invited Cai Jian into the camp to enter the camp with good wine and good food.
Cai still never mentioned the purpose of his trip, but just gave a cup of tea with Yang Keshi and others.
However, while drinking with Wu Jie, Wang Yan and others, Cai still seemed more polite and enthusiastic.
Actually, Cai still didn't think about poaching Wu Jie, Wang Yan and others today. What he thought was to get familiar with Wu Jie, Wang Yan and the others first, and then send someone to dig them slowly.
Unexpectedly, after half of the drink, someone came in and reported: "I'll go and see your BMW, it bit and kicked all the horses in the stable, and we can't hold it."
When everyone heard this, they went out to see the tent together.
Soon, everyone came to the stable, and then they saw Cai Jian's claw Huang Feidian chasing the stable and kicking the horses.
As soon as he saw Cai still appear, Zhu Huang Feidian immediately stopped and then ran to eat grass honestly.
The generals of the Western Army had been dealing with horses all their lives, so they could tell at a glance that Jaw Huang Feidian was one of the rare BMW horses in the world.
Yang Keshi couldn't help but praise: "What a BMW, a BMW that is in a million miles!"
Cai still asked Yan Guangxiao to go over and tie the claw Huang Fei up, and then said to Yang Keshi: "This horse is given by Your Majesty. If General Yang likes it, I will forward it to General Yang."
Yang Keshi dared not ask for the BMW that Zhao Ji gave to Cai Lan. He quickly said, "I will not receive any reward without merit, but Keshi dared not ask for the BMW that my husband has."
Cai Jian smiled and said, "I won't give it to you for nothing. I'll use this horse to replace two people with General Yang. How about it?"
Yang Keshi glanced at Wu Jie and Wang Yan in the distance and said, "Do you want to replace Wu Jinqing and Wang Zicai?"
Cai Jian laughed and said, "It was actually made General Yang see it."
Seeing that Cai still admitted it alone, Yang Keshi said: "Although the general's mount is good, he is still not as good as our Jingyuan Army general."
Cai still said in surprise: "Jin Qing and Zi seem to be just team generals. When will they become generals?"
Yang Keshi laughed and said, "It's not just my husband's wise eyes to recognize the pearls, but Keshi is not a blind man. Within ten years, if Jin Qing and Zicai cannot lead the army alone, Keshi will dig out these eyes!"
Cai Shen heard this and said to himself: "It's bad. I'm too anxious. I'm going to catch Wu Jie and Wang Yan even tighter. Now, I may not be able to dig Wu Jie and Wang Yan!"
Unexpectedly, Yang Keshi suddenly changed his tone and said, "However, if my husband really wants Wu Jinqing and Wang Zicai, he will not be able to discuss it at all."
Cai Shen's eyes lit up and said, "Oh? General Yang wants whatever he wants, just say it."
Yang Keshi put away his smile and said, "My husband fights me. As long as my husband wins me, everything is easy to discuss!"
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Chapter completed!