At noon, Lu Wei came to Juxiang Restaurant as usual. He found that the shopkeeper and waiters of Juxiang Restaurant had changed. Lu Wei guessed that Juxiang Restaurant had been bought by Wang Shuang and became the other party's.
Information points.
There was an extra Han Feng at the banquet this year. Lu Wei had already met him last time. Last time, this man came in with one thousand five hundred taels of gold. Lu Wei knew that this man was a general with strong martial arts skills and that he was Wang Shuang.
His right-hand man led dozens of warriors and hid in Xianyang County.
Now that he appeared at the banquet again, Lu Wei knew that their main force had moved to Jingzhao. Jingzhao was no longer Wang Shuang and Zhou Hua. This may be the beginning of a change in their functions.
Lu Wei's guess was correct. Wang Shuang has now been appointed as the Chief Intelligence Officer of Sichuan and Shaanxi Province. He has also been promoted one level in his position and has been promoted to the judge of Hebei Shangshu Xingtai, ranking fourth among civil servants. This makes Wang Shuang work even harder and be eager to make contributions.
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A few people drank a few glasses of wine. When Wang Shuang saw Lu Wei frowning, he smiled and asked, "Lv Sima didn't talk much today. Did he encounter something upset again?"
Lu Wei picked up the wine glass and smiled bitterly, "How can a person live his entire life without having something to worry about?"
Next to him, Lu Jiao laughed and said, "I bought the house, but I don't have the money to expand it. Of course I'm annoyed."
Next to him, Zhou Hua frowned, "Didn't you get 50,000 guan? You spent 30,000 guan on buying a new house, and you still have 20,000 guan?"
Lu Wei looked embarrassed, Wang Shuang waved his hands, telling Zhou Hua not to ask any more questions, but Lu Qiao said too much: "Two thousand taels of gold has entered a woman's eyes, and it is difficult to take it out. I spent one thousand two hundred taels to buy it."
Zhai, the remaining eight hundred taels are tightly squeezed, you can ask the woman to take them out and have a look."
Everyone laughed and understood that the wife in Lu Sima's family was in charge of the money, and she was probably another Hedong lion.
Lu Qiao took out twenty taels of silver and handed it to Lu Wei, "This is the twenty taels of silver that I borrowed from you last time. I have returned it to you. Please tell me, Madam You, not to look down on me all day long, as if I borrowed money and won't pay it back."
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Lu Wei gave a quick laugh and put the money away.
Wang Shuang realized that he had an opportunity, so he stepped forward and laughed softly: "Lv Sima, do you want to earn some private money?"
Lu Wei understood what he meant, and immediately showed a somewhat tempted expression. He hesitated for a moment, drank the wine in the glass, and asked, "How much can you give me?"
"Depending on the value of the information, the minimum is fifty taels of silver and the maximum is one thousand taels of silver. You decide the importance of the information yourself, and then you make a price yourself. We think it's almost a deal."
Lu Wei thought for a moment and said, "I still have a piece of information in my hand. I think it's worth a lot. I want five hundred taels."
"What aspect?" Wang Shuang asked.
"The surprise soldiers of the Western Army!"
Wang glanced at Lu Jiao out of the corner of his eyes, stood up and said, "Let's go to the inner room to talk!"
The two walked to the inner room, went to the door, and talked for a while. Wang Shuang opened the door with excited eyes and said to Han Feng: "Give Lu Sima a hundred taels of gold."
Han Feng quickly handed a small wooden box to Lu Wei. Lu Wei opened it, looked at it, and left with the box.
Not long after, Lu Qiao also said goodbye and left. Wang Shuang then said to Han Feng: "This information is very, very important. I have to confirm that it is true. In the afternoon, you can find two brothers who can sail and go to the Military Ship Department.
To apply, just say that they are very familiar with the river section of Zhengzhou. If the other party accepts the two of them, it means that the information is true and should be sent to the Marshal immediately."
Han Feng nodded, "I'll make arrangements right away!"
Early the next morning, Chen Qing came to the Bashang camp again. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, Bashang has been the main garrison of the army. Currently, there are nearly 150,000 troops stationed in Bashang, divided into five camps. In addition, there is another camp outside Jingzhao West City.
With a garrison of 50,000, the entire Jingzhao garrison was nearly 200,000, accounting for most of the entire Western Army.
The five camps are Longxiang, Huben, Leopard Shadow, Langxiao, and Fengwu. Among them, Huben Camp is the camp of the Chinese army and an army directly under Chen Qing. Three commanders lead the most elite army of 30,000 people.
According to the regulations of the Western Army, the maximum number of commanders under each commander's command shall not exceed 50,000. The normal number of commanders is 30,000, and the minimum number is 10,000. Currently, the highest number is Zheng Ping, who commands 50,000 troops. The lowest number is Zhe Yanzhi, who has one commander.
Ten thousand.
The other metropolitan commanders Yang Zaixing, Liu Cui, Gao Ding, Niu Gao, and Liu Qiong all have a quota of 30,000. There are three more metropolitan commanders who are more special, Guan Shigu, Cao De and Liu Zan. Three of them have the qualifications for metropolitan commanders.
But they are all civil servants.
Needless to say, Guan Shigu was the counselor and the governor of the Military Department. Cao De was the inspector of the martial arts hall, which is also the principal of the military academy. Liu Zan served as the prefect of Jingzhao for two years. This year, he was changed to Zuo Sima of the Military Department, responsible for the militia.
Hezhou soldiers.
Before arriving at the military camp, I heard the fierce sound of war drums and shouts. This is the actual combat training of the army. Some actual combat trainings are very dangerous, such as the actual combat training of fire, thunder and kerosene. Soldiers must be highly nervous. If they are not careful, they will be injured.
Entering the gate of Huben Camp, you can see two armies fighting fiercely on the wide school field, one is cavalry and the other is infantry. Except that the weapons are blunt weapons for training without an open point, there is no difference between them and actual combat.
It often happens that soldiers are kicked and injured by war horses. The soldiers know that it is training, but the war horses do not know. There are also situations where the cavalry falls off the war horse and is dragged and injured by the war horse.
In fact, no matter what kind of training it is, as long as it is actual combat training, soldiers will be injured or even killed. However, this is a normal phenomenon. Actual combat training must never be stopped because of fear of soldiers being injured.
The cavalry was divided into formations of hundreds of people, trying to cut the infantry into pieces, while the infantry was organized into a battalion of a thousand people to prevent the opponent from breaking through. They were back to back, shoulder to shoulder, and used skillful cooperation to fight against the tall cavalry.
This is just a simple battle of infantry against cavalry, but in actual combat it is much more complicated. For example, Jurchen cavalry and archery. Jurchen soldiers will never stop and fight fiercely with the infantry. Instead, they will keep running, drawing their bows and releasing arrows. Every arrow will kill the enemy.
, or chop off the enemy's head while running, very fierce.
Although the Western Army defeated the Jurchen cavalry in the Xixia Campaign, it was also a special situation and was somewhat related to the Jurchen soldiers underestimating the enemy.
Similarly, the infantry also has many powerful weapons that are not available, such as the two-foot-long hook gun, the powerful iron fire thunder, bed crossbows, divine arm crossbows, and fine steel throwing spears, etc.
Therefore, Chen Qing also wanted to build a powerful Western Army, which was not only well-equipped and advanced in weapons, but more importantly, had a tenacious will to fight, which was the key to victory in the battle against the Jurchens.
The Jurchens are not good at fighting for a long time. If they cannot defeat the enemy in a short period of time, they will retreat and look for opportunities again.
The early Song army could not withstand the fierce attack of the Jin soldiers. They were defeated in a short period of time and were massacred everywhere.
The shameful situation of running away in fear.
But in the later period, because the decadent military system of the Northern Song Dynasty was completely destroyed, Zhao Gou learned his lesson. Except for the Sichuan-Shaanxi Army, all other armies no longer used civilians to control the army. This gave the rebuilt Song Army a completely new combat effectiveness and gradually adapted to the Jin Army.
tactics of warfare.
In addition, the early Jurchen soldiers retreated and died, the newly added Jurchen soldiers lost the wolf nature of their fathers, and the Jurchens themselves were underpopulated. A large number of Donghu soldiers joined the Jin soldiers, which directly led to a serious decline in the combat effectiveness of the Jin soldiers.
There is no longer the myth in the early days that "if the golden soldiers are less than 10,000, they cannot fight if there are 10,000".
Therefore, the Song army and the Jin army had mixed successes and losses on the Jianghuai and Central Plains battlefields. In particular, the armies of Wu Jie, Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, Liu Qi, and Yang Yizhong performed well and defeated the Jin soldiers repeatedly. The military situation has begun to reverse.
However, the Song Dynasty suffered a complete political defeat. The weak and incompetent court finally killed Yue Fei and accepted the Shaoxing peace negotiation.
This is the fundamental reason why Qin Hui has been notorious for thousands of years. It is not just because he killed Yue Fei, but because the Song army had begun to gain the upper hand militarily. Yue Fei's army had already reached Luoyang, but the court finally accepted the peace negotiation.
As a result, he lost the opportunity to regain Bianliang and wash away the shame of Jingkang. In the end, the Song Dynasty emperor had to kneel down to accept the canonization of the Jin Dynasty. This kind of shame and humiliation was unacceptable to later Han officials and rulers, so Qin Hui had to kneel down all the time.
At this time, Lu Gui, Hu Yanyun and Yan Jun, three commanders of the Huben camp, heard that King Yong had arrived and hurriedly came to pay their respects.