Chapter 128: Scumbag Han Shizhong and the elite Huaiyang Army?
Zhao Huan also made some considerations about the arrangements of the new army.
Currently, the supreme commander of the new army is Zong Ze. Before the Northern Expedition, when Tong Guan was in charge of military affairs, he had no prestige or even no reputation.
The burial of talents like Zong Ze also indirectly reflects the shortcomings of the Song Dynasty's political system.
Many people in later generations commented on Tong Guan that Tong Guan was almost destroyed by the Western Xia Dynasty, so he had some military talents.
This evaluation is not because of the amateurs of keyboard warriors. In fact, among the senior executives in the late Northern Song Dynasty, there is really no one who can play better than Tong Guan, but this does not mean that Tong Guan is a military genius.
Just like the most awesome one in the national football team, you can't say that he is really the most awesome one in China.
It can only be said that the senior officials of the Song Huizong Dynasty were all garbage, and Tong Guan was just a relatively outstanding garbage among garbage.
The small countries like Xixia completely occupied the light of their predecessors. Xixia itself was small and lacked resources. The Song Dynasty and Xixia had been grinding for so many years, and they were almost done. People with a little military talent would fight Xixia better.
For example, if Zhao Ji dared to let the old generation do it, the situation in the Song Dynasty in official history might be completely different.
But it doesn't matter. At least Tong Guan was a normal fight. The Song army was abolished before, but in his hands, he relied on resources and people to pile up, and he still pressed Xixia to the ground to rub.
However, as the head of military and political affairs, Tong Guan did not promote talents for the Song Dynasty, which was his dereliction of duty.
Being able to fight the Western Xia outside and crush Fang La inside are all basic wars. What really needs to prove his ability is the war against Liao and Jin.
In fact, he was very cowardly and thought that the Song army could not resist the Jin army head-on, or even the Liao army.
Zhao Huan does not need such a commander, and such a person is not suitable for a commander.
Under cowarding, you usually don’t admit that you are cowarding and you have to suppress those who are braver than yourself. The means of suppressing are also very simple, such as not rewarding for making contributions, such as scolding others for being reckless.
Judging from the overall personal quality, Zong Ze is the most suitable for the new army commander.
However, the new army cannot have only one force. Yue Fei is considered to be half Zong Ze's person and half emperor's person. Zong Ze has a great influence on Yue Fei.
Therefore, Zhao Huan arranged Han Shizhong in, and Han Shizhong was a member of the teacher's teachings, which actually formed a check and balance between the two forces in the new army.
Han Shizhong is actually a very distinctive person. He is cruel enough to fight and is willing to take the lead in charge. Unlike Yue Fei's righteousness, Han Shizhong is both righteous and evil in his bones. He was a famous problematic boy in the village in his early years.
This time, he led the army eastward, and his opponent was Cao Sheng, the commander of the Huaiyang Army.
As the commander of the imperial guards, he could almost sit on the same level as a person like Zhe Keqiu. Even because he was a royal imperial guard, Zhe Keqiu had to be polite, so Cao Sheng naturally did not take Han Shizhong seriously at all.
Han Shizhong had no background or prestige. Although he was named the Emperor of the Northern Expedition, the imperial guards basically did not recognize him as the marquis.
I heard that his opponent was Han Shizhong, and Cao Sheng didn't take him seriously at all. Cao Sheng's army was stationed in Jeju, and he also claimed to be a 100,000 army to support the king. However, he was a little more cautious than Fu Min. At least the soldiers guarding the city were all in good manner and spies were distributed. He knew exactly where Han Shizhong had gone.
However, the commanders of the Huaiyang Army were eager to report to Cao Sheng to lead the troops to intercept Han Shizhong in front, and caught Han Shizhong off guard.
Cao Sheng was naturally happy to see his subordinates so enthusiastic, so he agreed immediately, so the commander of the army Qu Gaoyang led the troops of ten armies, equivalent to one wing, and headed towards Han Shizhong's army.
Hearing that 25,000 rebels rushed towards him, Han Shizhong did not say anything and immediately ordered the entire army to resist head-on. Hu Yantong suggested that Han Shizhong divide his troops and kill them from the left and right wings of the rebels, but was rejected by Han Shizhong.
Hold on to the front!
Han Shizhong wanted to prove himself to the simplest way to the imperial commanders of the Song Dynasty, who were born in the Song Dynasty. His blood began to boil. He felt that the luckiest thing in his life was to meet the young master, and only the young master was willing to give him a humble general's chance to prove himself.
Han Shizhong was granted the title of marquis in the Northern Expedition, but the imperial guards of the Song Dynasty did not recognize it because it was personal force and did not mean that they could command the army to fight.
But this time it was completely different. If Han Shizhong wiped out the rebels from Jingdong Road this time, his prestige would soar into the sky and would inevitably become a famous general in the future of the Song Dynasty.
The two armies met fifty miles outside Yunzhou. The excited Qu Gaoyang immediately ordered the entire army to launch an attack. Qu Gaoyang had already imagined giving Han Shizhong's head to Cao Sheng. Once the king succeeded, Cao Sheng would enter the Privy Council, and he would definitely enter the Western Prefecture. The power center of the Song Dynasty would have become prosperous from then on. He even thought about how many concubines he would marry after he became successful and in what order to come.
Unfortunately, the Huaiyang Army had just hedged against Han Shizhong's new army, and the situation was no suspense, and the new army immediately crushed the rebels.
The new army had an orderly phalanx, an orderly attack, and a brave and powerful army, just like a ground tank, while the rebels were like paper, with many soldiers who had just finished drinking and had not yet woken up.
In this situation, in less than half an hour, the Huaiyang army collapsed completely, and the new army killed the Huaiyang army without leaving any armor and captured Qu Gaoyang alive.
The time of the first battle of the Huaiyang Army was defeated can be said to have broken the record of the Huaiyang Army. When this incident was sent back to Jeju, Cao Sheng was furious and immediately began to dispatch troops.
So far, he still believed that Han Shizhong was not qualified to let him take action himself, so he sent two commanders to lead the two wings of troops, a total of 50,000 to push Han Shizhong.
This time, the commander-in-chief Chen Zhong and Li Liang, both of the two imperial guards, laughed hard, and led the 50,000 mobs to send their heads.
Facts have also proved that a brainless person will never know that he is a brainless person. In a brainless world, he is invincible until they meet someone who dares to ignore their identities and dares to fight against them.
This time, Han Shizhong fully taught the generals of the Huaiyang Army how to be a human being.
Just say that when their 50,000 troops came up, many of them rushed halfway through the new army's neat slogan "Long live the emperor! Long live the Song Dynasty!" was so shocked that their legs and feet were weak. Many people turned around and rolled and crawled on the spot. Many people in the Huaiyang Army were not killed by the new army, but were hit or trampled to death by their own people.
Even Chen Liang was missing, and he could not be found. In the end, he could only judge that he had been trampled into a paste, and Chen Zhong was also arrested.
In just a few days, Han Shizhong destroyed 75,000 new troops without stopping. The news of his defeat was sent back to Jeju again, and Cao Sheng and other generals were stunned.
This is impossible!
We are the imperial guards, the most elite army in the Song Dynasty. Han Shizhong had only 10,000 people in total. How could he be defeated so quickly!
This is absolutely impossible. It must be that you, a fool, took Han Shizhong's money and came to cheat me on purpose! Go to die! Damn it!
Facts once again prove that the brain-dead brain circuit is so weird. They have a little bit of knowledge about the world, and they all think that things they cannot understand are trash.
Until now, Cao Sheng still believes that Han Shizhong is a slap. He wants to personally lead the elite troops of the Huaiyang Army to break Han Shizhong, then go to Beijing to serve the king and move into the Privy Council!
Chapter completed!