"You are very good… "
Kou Ji praised.
Wang Kai said neither overbearing nor overbearing: "Thank you Shangguan for your humble position."
Kou Ji nodded, "Bring your people and keep on patrolling."
Wang Kai clasped his fists and led the troops to continue their inspections.
After Wang Kai left, Gao Chugong pouted and said: "His great-grandfather is also a person. When my father was alive, he often said that if his great-grandfather died later, he might be able to teach him."
Kou Ji turned his head to look at Gao Chugong, questioning: "So what do you want to say?"
Gao Chu Gong said in a faint voice: "In the past, the Emperor Taizu held a rite of worship in Luoyang and called Wang Quanbin to accompany him. It is so glorious. Now only a few decades have passed. His great-grandson wanted to become an official and make meritorious deeds. , All need to be recommended by others.
sad! Sigh! "
Gao Chu Gong probably passed the decline of the Wang family, and was afraid that the Gao family would follow in the Wang family's footsteps, so she made a faint voice.
Emperor Taizu, Zhao Kuangyin, held a big sacrifice ceremony in Luoyang, which is not an ordinary sacrifice.
It's a meeting of rewards for meritorious deeds.
During the ceremony held in Luoyang, Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin summoned each of the generals who followed him to establish the Song Dynasty and made great achievements. According to their merits, they were rewarded for their merits and deeds, and they were awarded to officials.
It can be said that since the establishment of the Song Dynasty, there has never been a Jiao Si, which can be as heavy as this one.
It is such an important ancestor that Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin summoned Wang Kai’s great-grandfather Wang Quanbin to accompany him. This shows the weight of Wang Kai’s great-grandfather Wang Quanbin in the heart of Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin.
It stands to reason that his descendants, in the Song Dynasty, must be among the high-ranking officials.
But only a few decades after his death, his children and grandchildren have reached the point where they need to be nominated by others, which shows how quickly the Wang family has fallen.
Whether there are any other factors behind this, leave it aside for the time being.
The speed of the decline of the Wang family alone was enough to make the fellow generals sigh with emotion.
Kou Ji knew Gao Gong’s thoughts, so after Gong’s voice fell to the ground, he said faintly: “There is a way of sharpening the sword and the fragrance of plum blossoms from the bitter cold. The decline of the Wang family is not necessarily the same for Wang Kai. A bad thing."
Gao Chugong shook his head, disagreeing with Kou Ji's words.
The Wang family is now in decline, and it is as difficult for Wang Kai to make the Wang family rise again.
The imperial court has now implemented a decree of emphasizing text and suppressing military force, which has reached a heinous level.
It is impossible for Wang Kai to want the Wang family to rise again under the pressure of such decree.
Seeing this, Kou Ji probably guessed Gao Chu Gong's thoughts, but only smiled faintly without explaining more.
Kou Ji ordered Ming Ho to lead the servants of Kou Mansion and the students of Jiangwutang to set up camp outside Qu Yechuan.
Ming Ho led the servants of Kou's house and the students of Jiangwutang to set up the tent, and after settling in, he found Kou Ji alone.
Kou Ji was sitting in his tent reviewing the war documents of Baode City sent by Liu Hyung. Hearing Ming-ho's request, he was brought into the tent with Ming-ho.
As soon as Ming-ho entered the tent, he took the lead in giving salutes. After the salutes, he did not speak and stared at Kou Ji eagerly.
After reviewing the war documents sent by Liu Hyung, Kou Ji put down the documents in his hand and stared at Ming Ho, who hadn't spoken in front of him for a long time.
"Something?"
Ming Ho gave Kou Ji a salute and replied, "Go back to Shangguan, yes!"
Kou Ji knew that Ming-ho was a talented person, and Ming-ho took the initiative to find him. It is very likely that he had a strategy and a strategy to offer to him.
Kou Ji stared at Ming Ho with interest and said, "What's the matter, talk about it."
Ming Ho smiled dryly, and stood still and said nothing.
Kou Ji was stunned, and after a long time indulging in it, he roughly guessed why Ming Ho was not speaking.
Koj waved his hand to the servants in the tent to let them go out.
As soon as the servants left, Ming Hao spoke up, "Shangguan, there is a way for subordinate officials to help Shangguan resist the Liao people."
Kou Ji said indifferently: "What way, just say it clearly."
Ming Hao groaned: "Shangguan and the deceased Gao family Patriarch went to the northwest to defend against the Liao people. Now Baode and Yinzhou are fighting each other, but Shangguan did not go, but went to Qu Yechuan.
Presumably Qu Yechuan will have a big battle in the near future. "
Kou Ji stared at Ming Ho without a word, even if Ming Ho had guessed that the person wearing the mask was Gao Chu Gong, even if Ming Ho had already guessed that Qu Yechuan was about to have a big battle.
Seeing that Kou Ji had no words, Ming Hao continued: "When the Xiaguan set up a camp just now, he carefully looked at the terrain near Qu Yechuan. He found that there are several places outside Qu Yechuan where he can set up camp.
If we can set up camps in these places, once the Liao people come to attack, we will send a small number of soldiers and horses to stay in the stockade to contain a large number of Liao people. The momentum of the Liao people's offensive will also be greatly weakened. "
"Camping and establishing a village?"
Kou Ji mumbled, staring at Ming Hao and said solemnly, "None of us can say when the Liao people will arrive at Qu Yechuan. We don't have enough time to settle in Lizhai."
Hearing this, Ming Hao solemnly said: "Yes, we have enough time to set up a village. Shangguan gave me a thousand manpower. Within three days, I will help Shangguan build two villages."
Kou Ji squinted his eyes and said, "Three days, two seats? Are you giving me a military order?"
Ming Ho nodded solemnly.
Kou Ji stared at Ming Hao quietly and said, "You saw me reusing Wang Kai, and saw that Wang Kai went straight from a palace to become the commander of the army, so I wanted to offer advice to me and take the opportunity to win a game. The opportunity for promotion?"
Kou Ji couldn't see the joy or anger on his face. Ming Ho didn't know whether Kou Ji liked or disliked his advice, but Kou Ji had already broken the words, Ming Ho didn't dare to hide it, and nodded decisively.
Kou Ji said solemnly: "I like to see my subordinates are motivated, but the military affairs are different from other things, and can't tolerate the slightest play. Since you dare to make military orders, then I will give you a chance.
After three days, if Qu Yechuan had two more stockades, after this war is over, you will go to Linzhou to take office.
If not, then after three days, you pack your bags and go back to your hometown.
I will go to the inner court and let the inner court cut you off for the people. "
Hearing this, Ming Ho respectfully saluted Kou Ji, "Thank you, Shangguan, for this opportunity."
Kou Ji waved his hand and said: "You go down to pick a place, and a thousand people will come to you in a while, and I will send you some simple equipment you use to build the village."
"Thank you Shangguan!"
Ming-ho looked excited, and after Shili was about to leave the tent.
Before he left, Kou Ji reminded: "Whether it's the existence of Gong Li, or the imminent war in Qu Yechuan, you don't want to spread the word. Once you let me hear any trouble, you don't want to live in peace."
"The officials dare not..."
Ming Ho agreed and left Kou Ji's tent.
As soon as Ming Hao left, he walked into the tent dangling from above. He was not polite when he saw Kou Ji, and Guo asked, "How is the military affairs of Baode?"
Kou Ji picked up the document sent by Liu Heng from the table, and handed it to Gao Chu Gong. While reviewing the document at the high place, Kou Ji solemnly said: "Baode is 80% going to be lost... Liu Heng leads someone. When it came to Baode, the city of Baode was already under siege by the Liao army. There were as many as 50,000 Liao army, and they were all elites of the Liao State. Liu Heng led three battles and failed to break through the blockade of the Liao army.
More importantly, the Qingshan Army in Baode City did not send out people to respond during this period. "
Upon hearing this, Gong Gong immediately understood the key to the problem. He stared at Kou Ji and said solemnly: "The Qingshan Army may have suffered a lot of damage, and it is unable to send troops to meet Liu Heng."
Kou Ji nodded, and said with a heavy voice: "The Qingshan Army was formed by the integration of the Qing Frontier Army and the Volcano Army. The Qing Frontier Army used to be a miscellaneous army. It was the place where the imperial court sent out prisoners. The number has been around 20,000. When the court checked out the frontier army, it was found that the Qing frontier army had been eaten by a total of 12,000 troops. The Qing frontier army actually had less than 8,000 troops.
Among them, there are many old men who are still very old.
When the imperial court integrated the Qing border army, the old men among them were transferred to Dongping Road and Xiping Road to serve as small officials and bureaucrats. After the integration of the Qing border army, less than 5,000 people remained.
The situation of the Volcano Army is similar to that of the Qing Border Army.
Since the death of General Yang, the Volcano Army has been transferred from Daixian County to the north of Baode, reduced to a miscellaneous army, and a lot of troops have been engulfed in the middle.
Although there are still 12,000 people after the integration, the fighting power is not as good as the Qing Frontier Army, which has only 5,000 people.
The two armies were integrated into the Qingshan Army, with a total force of 17,000.
17,000 people, withstood the 50,000 Liao army's fierce attack, for more than ten days
The limit has been reached. "
Kou Ji didn't say one more thing, and that was the issue of armaments.
As a Xiang army, the Qingshan Army's armament was not even worse than that of the Forbidden Army.
Before the imperial court integrated them, their situation was similar to that of the Serbian army. All of them wore thin clothes and rotten shirts, and they wielded a saber that had been sharpened in a small circle.
After the imperial court integrated them, they were re-equipped with iron armor, leather armor, and weapons.
However, there are not many iron armors, and only some generals can use them.
Most soldiers wear leather armor.
In terms of other armaments, the court also equipped them with some.
Such as bows and crossbows.
But the number is not large, and there are no bed crossbows, heavy crossbows, etc. that the Forbidden Army can control.
They are different from the Liao soldiers, who have been on the battlefield for many years. Although the weapons in their hands are a bit worse than the Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, they are stronger than the Qingshan Army. More than a little bit.
The strength of the two sides can be said to be very different.
In this situation, the Qingshan Army can still hold the Liao soldiers for more than ten days, and it certainly won't work without paying a big price.
The high place pursed his mouth respectfully, and said nothing.
Before the Qingshan Army was integrated, there would be such a large vacancy in the number of troops, and it would be inseparable from the Wuxuns.
As one of Wuxun, he is naturally not good to comment on this matter.
After all, the Gao family did not eat fewer troops or drink blood.
Seeing that Gao Chu Gong did not speak, Kou Ji continued: "This time the Liao people can be dragged down. It all depends on the defenders in Linzhou City and the Qingshan Army fighting the enemy bravely, buying time for us.
I will write a letter to the court later, so that the court will give generously to the defenders of Linzhou City and the Qingshan Army. "
Eighty percent of the Qingshan Army will follow in the footsteps of the defenders of Linzhou City. For their credit, if Kou Ji does not stare, then no one will help them.
Kou Ji didn't want them to shed blood and tears.
Gao Chu Gong seemed unwilling to discuss the Qingshan Army with Kou Ji. He seemed to be afraid that Kou Ji would take the matter to him, and the Wuxun would lose his face, so he changed the subject decisively.
"Once Baode is breached, the Liao people will most likely appear on the banks of the Quye River. There is not much time left for us, we have to prepare early. Just now I accompanied Wang Kai to inspect the surrounding terrain. I found a few more places that are suitable for Lizhai... ”
Gao Chu Gong’s words were not finished, but he was interrupted by Kou Ji. Kou Ji stared at him and said, “Do you want to say that if you build a stronghold in those places, you can use a small amount of soldiers and horses to contain them. The large number of Liao troops?"
Gao Chu Gong was taken aback, staring at Kou Ji with an unexpected expression: "Did you see it?"
Without waiting for Kou Ji to speak, Gao Chu Gong clicked his mouth again, exclaiming: "I thought you didn't know anything about military affairs. I didn't expect you to know some military affairs, and your eyesight was very vicious."
Kou Ji rolled his eyes and said, "I haven't been out for inspections, how can I see the problem? Ming-ho can see the problem. I have sent him to take people to Lizhai."
Gao Chu Gong was even more surprised, but he didn't say anything to praise Ming Ho.
Why
Because of the imperial system.
As long as the civil servants who can be recognized by the generals, the court will definitely reuse them and use them in military affairs.
Some people are really talented, and some people are talking on paper and only talking about them.
Gao Chu Gong didn't know if Ming Ho was really capable, so he wouldn't comment on him.
Gao Chugong groaned for a moment, "I'll go around where he established a village to see if he can really establish a village."
Gao Chu Gong was worried about Ming Ho, a civil official.
Kou Ji didn't say much, and said in deep thought: "Whether Qu Yechuan will start a war depends on the outcome of the war on the Wuding River and Hengshan Valley crossing."
The high place bowed his lips and said: "They tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, they ambush at the valley crossing in advance, and there are artillery to help out. If you can't get a partial division of the Liao people, they should all be beheaded.
What you have to do now is to mobilize troops and horses to Qu Yechuan as soon as possible to resist the Liao army. "
Kou Ji glanced at Gao Chugong and said: "I have already written to the old lady of the Yang family. I believe that the Zhejia army who stayed in Fuzhou and the Zhejia army in other places will come over soon."
The high place said in a solemn voice: "You have to send someone to stare at it, so as to prevent some of them from delaying the time and delaying the fighter plane on the march."
Now the northwest area where the Zhe family lives, all the Xiang forces that can be mobilized have been mobilized by Kou Ji.
Except for the Jinning Army that was still patrolling, only the Zhejia Army staying in Fuzhou did not join the battlefield.
The Zhejia Army is the main force that is about to resist the Liao army, so there is no room for loss.
Kou Ji said: "You don't need to remind you about this. I have sent someone to stare at it."