Zhang Yue looked at the expressions of the generals below and truly reflected their thoughts. In one word, he said that Wen Tian and Wu had been playing for a long time.
This has been the case since the Chanyuan Alliance, and the armies in Hebei have been enjoying peace and prosperity.
After Song Qi served as the herdsman, he inspected the horse administration. Among the Hebei armies, the first line of troops to resist the Liao Kingdom, more than 80% of the cavalry had no horses.
It was not until Wang Anshi became prime minister that he set out to change this situation, aiming to bring order to the world and control the barbarians and Di.
Since the fifth year of Xining, Wang Anshi and the officials have made plans. If he wants to rule the world and subdue the barbarians, he needs to make plans early.
Specifically implemented at the level, it is to attack from the west and defend from the east.
On the one hand, Zhang Yue and Wang Shao were sent to attack the Qing and Tang tribes.
The other side is to carry out defense preparations in Hebei.
The Art of War solves the situation where the soldiers do not know the generals and the generals do not know the soldiers. At the same time, the Law of Baojia and the Law of Huma solve the problem of civilian mobilization and the urgent shortage of horses for the Song army. Since the implementation of the Law of Baojia, a total of 6.93 million people have been organized.
, 560,000 people have completed military training.
In order to resist the Liao Kingdom, the Central Beijing mobilized the armed guards to strengthen the Hebei Fourth Route, and completed the dental formation and field training for the Hebei armies. They also began to repair the Hebei water and land defense lines, consolidate the city, and plant trees on the border to block the Khitan cavalry.
It was precisely because of these preparations and the threat from Xixia that Zhang Yue dared to go to Hebei in front of the officials. He was only doing things to take advantage of the situation and would never clean up the mess.
However, Zhang Yue saw today that the generals in Hebei were still not mentally prepared for a war with the Liao Kingdom, and they completely turned a deaf ear to the repeated orders from above. Is this taking the orders of the imperial court as a joke?
Zhang Yue was a little angry in his heart. He glanced sideways at Wen Yanbo and thought, This is what you said, don't rely on him to stop coming, rely on me to be waiting. Don't rely on him not to attack, rely on me to have something that cannot be attacked?
What a big scam.
But Zhang Yuexun thought about it and realized that it was not Wen Yanbo's fault. He was powerless to change the situation now.
So it’s no wonder that when it comes to politics, we have to step up our efforts at every level. It turns out that the people below don’t take it seriously at all.
We must fight, which means we may have to fight; we may have to fight, which means it is almost impossible to fight; and it is almost impossible to fight, which means we will definitely not fight.
The silence and reluctance of the generals below almost formed a combined force to push against him.
What does it mean that public opinion is hard to disobey?
So what if you are the Xuanfu envoy? So what if you have the right to act expediently? Can you still be more powerful than the Khitan people opposite you?
We don’t have to oppose you face to face, but you can’t make us agree!
Zhang Yue felt this subtlety, and it was okay to be unable to speak for a while.
He didn't bother to explain anything. These people couldn't be moved by reasoning.
He stood up and said without saying much: "Three days later on the school field - review all departments!"
After saying this, Zhang Yue asked people to take away the notebooks of the generals and then walked away.
The handbook is also called the calendar handbook. It contains the comments made by the superior officer on you, which is related to your future promotion. It exists like a personnel file.
Zhang Yue took away everyone's calendar notebooks and said that they would be reviewed at the school in three days. The intention behind this was self-evident.
The generals felt that Zhang Yue's request was very difficult for them, so they started talking about it.
"After the Chanyuan Alliance, the two countries have not fought each other for more than 70 years. If I start a war lightly and destroy the good relations between the two countries for decades and cause border troubles, I am afraid no one will be able to bear the responsibility.
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"Yes, so what if I win this time? After decades of war with the Khitan, can I always win?"
"Commander Xuan is too worried. This Hebei is not the northwest. Those Qingtang people are not even as good as the Dangxiang people, so how can they defeat the Khitans?"
"Even though Emperor Taizong was so wise and powerful, and Duke Cao Guo was so heroic, he was completely defeated by the Khitans in the end."
"Hebei's seventy years of peace are about to be destroyed."
The generals only need to give the Liao some money or some land in exchange for a peaceful life. If they fight a war, it will cost a lot of money. Of course, this is not always the case. There are also many generals who left silently, thinking about how to prepare for the review in three days.
Zhang Yue favored him.
Zhang Yue retreated and discussed with Wen Yanbo.
Wen Yanbo said: "Is it too presumptuous? The general of Hebei has been afraid of the strong soldiers and horses of the Liao Kingdom for a long time, and he has not heard the sound of drones and drums for more than seventy years. Although he has made preparations in these years, he is frightened if he rushes to fight with the Liao Kingdom.
Most people.”
"It's better to slow things down with words and explain the truth slowly. Otherwise, if the pressure is too much, it will easily lead to a violent rebellion. In the past, we have heard of collective mutinies after the army set off."
Wen Yanbo felt a little sad when he said this.
Zhang Yue knew that the other party was thinking of the Beizhou Mutiny.
The army of the Song Dynasty was expert at civil war but not at external warfare. In other words, only in the civil war did it completely inherit the level of the warlords of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties.
The Qingzhou mutiny that Zhang Zhi put down took place during the Battle of Lawu City. The Beizhou mutiny also alarmed the senior officials of the Song Dynasty, and it was finally put down by Wen Yanbo, otherwise the rebels would have even captured Damingfu.
Wen Yanbo taught Zhang Yue his method of running an army, which was to coax him.
Zhang Yue did not agree, but said: "This matter is not comparable to that of the past. The Liao Kingdom is already stronger than me. If we don't explain in advance to break this move, once we actually go into battle, things will easily happen."
After a pause, Zhang Yue said to Wen Yanbo: "Mr. Lu Guo, my generals and military personnel have always put the word 'sincerity' first, and all principles of loyalty are derived from the word 'cheng'."
Wen Yanbo nodded when he heard this and said: "Good."
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Three days later, Zhang Yue reviewed the armed forces at the campus outside Damingfu.
Zhang Yue was sitting in the stands of the school ground, with senior generals like Du Jian on his left and right, and generals like Qian Ji sitting beside him.
The remaining hundreds of generals were not eligible to take seats and could only stand in the stands.
In order to resist powerful enemies, the Four Pacifying Envoys Road in Hebei Province was the first military region of the Song Dynasty, among which the Damingfu Pacifying Envoys Road was the top priority. Damingfu Road Pacifying Envoys Division governed Chan, Huai, De, Bo, Bin, and Dizhou
, as well as Tongli and Baoshun Army, they can be said to have many soldiers and generals. In the entire Song Dynasty, except Bianjing, the most priority place to allocate resources. From this, we can know what the status of the other three armies of Hebei is?
Zhang Yue's deployment of troops and generals here today is also an old method that has been tried and tested in running the army in the northwest, which is to grasp the two ends and promote the middle.
Select outstanding generals from the army of Daming Prefecture and give them promotion rewards, and then depose and demote the weak generals.
By adding good to good, eliminating the weak and leaving the strong, let the vast majority of people in the middle know how to do it, and finally drive them through such clear-cut rewards and punishments.
Ci is not in charge of troops. If you should use thunderous means, you should use thunderous means, but you must pay more attention to propriety and method when doing things. These soldiers and generals of the Song Dynasty can really make trouble.
The Song Dynasty spent more than three-quarters of its treasury revenue to support generals and soldiers, not to let them show off their tricks and frighten the Khitan people. When they were abolished, they were abolished, and when they were dismissed, they were dismissed. Once they entered the battle, they lost.
Brain thing.
The generals looked at the hundreds of calendars in front of Zhang Yue's case. Every single one of them was related to their future. At this moment, they were salivating.
At this moment, drums were beating below the school grounds, and the review began.