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First Meeting with the Temple Chapter 270 Thousands of Horses Galloping

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    Chapter 270: Ten Thousand Horses Galloping Since Yelu Chun became emperor, the Jurchens and Khitan have completely ceased fire, and everyone is busy dealing with their enemies.  The most important thing is that the Huanglong Mansion is too tough. The Khitans who had the chance to start a war really have nothing to do with the Huanglong Mansion.  Of course, Aguda had no way to defeat the Huanglong Mansion back then, so he used underhanded tactics to get the Huanglong Mansion.  At the same time, Ouyang also knew that Yelu Dashi was entangled, perhaps already entangled, or about to become entangled.  The fact is that Yelu Dashi was preparing to get entangled. He was meeting a guest.  Yelu Dashi sat in the hall, looked at the person who had been standing in front of him for a long time and said, "Please sit down." "Thank you, Marshal." The person who came sat down to the side without being humble or arrogant.  "Yuxu, I know you." "Thank you, Marshal." "You Han people are so bitter, especially you scholars." Yelu Dashi asked: "We Khitan people like to be straightforward. If you have anything to say, just say it."  Yuxu nodded and said: "I have heard that the Generalissimo is a cheerful person. Although Song and Liao are at odds with each other, I still have to admire the Generalissimo's magnanimity. I have heard that the Generalissimo is famous" "Let's get down to business." Yelu Dashi thought,  Ouyang is the number one pick after all, and others have never been like this.  Either they are brothers, or they are serious and flattering without being polite in advance, which is very boring.  "Okay, Marshal Yelu is really happy" Yuxu stopped when he saw that Yelu Dashi had a tendency to go berserk, and he despised him as a barbarian who has not transformed.  He took out a letter from his arms and said: "Generalissimo, please read it." The soldier took the letter, Yelu Dashi opened it, read it and pondered for a long time before asking: "What good can I do." Yu Xu said: "Then read it.  What benefit does the marshal want?" "How about being the emperor of Liao?" Yelu Dashi smiled disdainfully and said, "If you want the Khitan to move west, you can consider it."  , I'm afraid not. The Supreme Emperor is not as valuable as the Generalissimo thinks. "Maybe we can suspend the war for a certain period of time and let the Generalissimo move his troops to Tokyo calmly?"  , you can seize the checkpoints in Tongzhou and the north of Linhuang without any effort." Yelu Dashi said: "If you continue to pursue me, won't my Khitan be in danger?" "I am serving as the governor of the Northwest Military Road.  "I know that Tokyo is desolate. If necessary, I can provide some more material support." Yuxu said with a smile: "I heard that the Liao army is sitting on nothing." "What a wishful thinking, Han Shizhong." Yuxu asked.  "I don't know, what did the Grand Marshal think of?" "You evacuate Linhuang." "Impossible." Yu Xu said, "Wouldn't that tell the world that there is something wrong with it?" Yelu Dashi smiled and said, "You still can't do this.  Want to be innocent? " "Generalissimo, the letter says that the generalissimo is helping to kill someone. Who should he kill? Mr. Ouyang Ou, or me, Yuxu? " "Aren't you afraid of death?  "Yu Xu said: "In the Song Dynasty, officials were not afraid of death, and generals were not greedy for money." "Haha, this is interesting. You go down and rest first, and I will give you a reply after a few days." Yelu Dashi read the letter. It's funny.  Asked Li Chuwen next to him: "Ouyang wants to save people, and Han Shizhong wants to kill people. The Song Dynasty is also very interesting." Li Chuwen smiled and said: "Ouyang saves people openly, and Han Shizhong kills people secretly. Two very strange instructions.  It's really interesting that they all come from their emperor." Yelu Dashi asked, "Do you think Ouyang wants to save people?" "I think Ouyang definitely wants to save others. It seems that he is also worried about their emperor.  He was doing something wrong, so he rescued people first and reported the news. Unfortunately, he didn't expect that the people he rescued would be detained by Han Shizhong. They would definitely be silenced. " "Yes, that makes sense."  Dashi thought about it and then asked: "Who do you think will benefit more from cooperating with you?" "I only know that the person you want to kill will not get too many benefits. Our biggest mistake was to let Ouyang save the people around them.  "Li Chuwen said: "In this way, those people can spread the rumor that the Supreme Emperor is dead and the Khitan troops are attacking the border. It doesn't matter if we kill him or not, they just want to borrow our money.  "We are the ones who killed him, so the benefits are limited." "Then Ouyang" "Ouyang is a rich man and spends money very well.  "Li Chuwen said: "General, if you go north in the future, you will need a lot of money to win over all ethnic groups, recruit troops, buy horses and buy food.  ¡±&nbsp"Well" "Impossible" Ouyang refused: "One and a half million guan of silver or gold is too nonsense. The Yangping bank in the original Liao border only has a stock of more than 100,000 guan at most. Do I still have it?  Ask someone to transport it from Yangping? "Yel¨¹ Dashi said: "I have time." "I don't have time." "The emperor will give me two months." "Well, if Mr. Ou really wants to save the emperor, you can do it.  There is a way." Yelu Dashi pointed out: "Ten warehouses of food." "Where to go?" Ouyang despised.  "You are an imperial envoy, and Han Shizhong dares to have any objections to the allocation of military rations?" "After that, I was unlucky." "You are loyal to the emperor and patriotic." "To be honest, food is not good." Ouyang said: "Food is our religion.  Ze will not give me face. " "Then what can you give me?" "Well" Ouyang thought about it for a while and said, "Horses, ten thousand horses." "" This time it's Yelu.  Dashi thought, the Khitan's current ratio of foot to horse is two to three, but there is still a shortage of horses.  Horses are also needed to move supplies.  But Yelu Dashi naturally wanted food more than horses.  But Yelu Dashi also knew it.  Food management is a top priority.  It is directly under the logistics department and is responsible for the management of the official garrison. It is really difficult to mobilize.  Horses are different, because horses cannot be piled up and stored, and they have already been sorted below.  The logistics of the Song Army is like this. Food is calculated according to warehouses. After building a warehouse at a designated point, the logistics must ensure that the warehouse has enough rations for several days.  Each army has its own place to get food.  When the army takes away food from the warehouse, it is the army itself who is responsible for sending people there.  Therefore, Yelu Dashi still believed Ouyang when he said that he could get the horses that had been sent to the army.  After all, Ouyang was an upright imperial envoy and Han Shizhong's mentor.  Ouyang's condition is very sincere. Compared with Yuxu's various suggestions that have conspiracy theories, Ouyang's suggestions are only good for Liao and only bad for Song.  To be cautious, Yelu Dashi did not reply to Ouyang immediately, but made an appointment with Yuxu.  As expected, Yuxu¡¯s words always leave loopholes.  For example, if you want military horses, you can, but the Song Dynasty people are not familiar with driving horses, so if you want 10,000 horses, you can only send 10,000 cavalry.  You can also ask for military rations, but the military rations are all at Linhuang. Either the Liao people at the checkpoint come to get them, or the Song people send them to the checkpoint.  Although Yuxu seemed sincere, Yelu Dashi always felt something was wrong.  Then, after being reminded by Li Chuwen, Yelu Dashi realized that the Song people wanted to use the ransom to attack him and make him suffer a big loss. He naturally killed Song Huizong when he was angry, and then the Song people framed the crime on himself.  It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone.  So Yelu Dashi agreed to Ouyang's proposal.  Ten thousand horses were exchanged for Song Huizong, and they handed over horses and people at the border.  The Song army retreated twenty miles, and the Liao people went to pick up the horses from the Song army.  Ouyang is not worried about Yelu Dashi's mischief. First of all, Yelu Dashi's credit is relatively good. When dealing with such people, Ouyang's credit has always been relatively good.  Secondly, if Yelu Dashi used the trick to seize the horse but not release the person, Song Huizong would be smashed into his hands and would no longer be of any use. ?¡­ ?After discussing the details and setting a date.  Yelu Dashi ordered people to send Ouyang and his party away.  When Ouyang arrived in Jinzhou, he asked Han Shizhong to prepare troops and horses.  Han Shizhong said hurriedly: "Sir, you can't give military horses lightly." "Marshal Han, you are too unconcerned with current affairs. Now a horse sells for fifteen dollars in China." Ouyang said: "It's a grain hauler.  If you want these horses, I will resell them to you for 100 thousand horses. Besides, if you don¡¯t give them, what will I do with the horses?¡± After the war with Xixia, Northwest.  The number of military horses increased dramatically, but later, considering tactics, costs and the role of horses, military horses began to decrease.  We must know that one less horse can save one-third of the army.  Nowadays, the tactics are more advanced, and the defensive position is one man with a shovel.  Dig a trench on the spot so that horses cannot step in, and you can also avoid arrow stones.  The attack was advanced in formations, with hand cannons and heavy artillery raining down to ensure intensive, lethal and continuous firepower.  Also against the Liao Kingdom, because the Liao people knew how to lay mines, the cavalry charge suffered relatively heavy losses.  So the Imperial Guard formed units that were fully equipped with horses, and units that were not equipped with horses at all.  The army also began to differentiate its functions, and the prototypes of heavy artillery, grenadiers, cavalry, and engineers emerged.  Because the Song Dynasty occupied two large areas of horse breeding land for merchants to manage, and border trade continued to purchase horses. At the same time, the domestic economy was weak, and people's enthusiasm for buying horses declined. Many people pawned their horses, so the inventory of horses was still relatively large.  of.  Of course, what Ouyang said about fifteen guan was quite nonsense. The merchants were shady and set a minimum price of 20 guan. This was a kind of price monopoly in which merchants formed an alliance.  No matter how shameless Zhao Yu was, he was embarrassed to ask Ouyang to pay for it.  Besides, Zhao Yu has never been shameless.  Ouyang Zeng indirectly stimulated the nationalThe ??economy may have driven up the price of horses and increased the enthusiasm of businessmen for raising animals.  Ten thousand horses were put together in two days, and it was time for trading.  The Song army retreated.  Yelu Dashi also admired Han Shizhong's measured advance and retreat after hearing the scout's report.  The battle line is spread out on such a large scale, but it is still possible to advance and attack, and to retreat and defend.  Not a single flaw was revealed.  Two thousand Liao soldiers walked to the Song Dynasty and left with 10,000 horses.  On the way back, Yelu Dashi also released Song Huizong. A group of Song troops who had been waiting for him led him away from the left side, avoiding thousands of horses.  Both sides were careful, and both sides proved to be very trustworthy.  What should I do after I have credit?  Of course it's cheap.  There was a burst of cannon fire, and the Song army's cavalry charged away.  Yelu Dashi smiled and charged at twenty miles away But unexpectedly, the ransom of ten thousand horses suddenly exploded, and the ten thousand horses were frightened and fled in all directions.  Yelu Dashi was furious. Damn it, Song Ma has never been on the battlefield, and has not even experienced the most basic training.  War horses, even pack horses, must undergo general training in explosions and flames, otherwise the explosion of a hand cannon can disintegrate a group of cavalry.  And after several explosions, horses, like people, have developed psychological preparation and immunity.  In just a few days, how could Ouyang collect so many horses that were not ready for battle?  The answer is that they must be cheating, and they have been prepared early in the morning.  But Ouyang did not cheat, the transaction between the two parties was completed, and the Song army did retreat twenty miles.  However, this random horse charged at our own defense line, and the enemy cavalry took the opportunity to follow. Who knows, Tongzhou's first defense line would be captured just like this.  Yelu Dashi reacted very quickly and immediately ordered: "Hand-throwing cannon" to use explosions to control explosions. A row of explosions with low power and loud sound caused the horses to turn around or flee.  Yelu Dashi gave another order to consolidate the defense line. After the defense line was consolidated, Yelu Dashi realized that he was in a tragedy. The cavalry on the left and right were not here to attack his defense line, but to lead the horses.  Unfortunately, Han Shizhong's army had begun to press in for reinforcements, and he missed an opportunity to win.  Of course, the opportunity to collect the horse was also missed.  Why did Ma Yang explode?  Yelu Dashi also has the answer. There are Song soldiers dressed as Liao people and sneaking in with 2,000 people.  Two thousand people is a lot of people, so it's not surprising that everyone doesn't know each other.  Being on someone else's territory again, I was naturally nervous.  In addition, horses need to be dispersed when driving, so it is normal to be caught.  But don¡¯t get me wrong, it was not Ouyang who came up with this idea, but Han Shizhong.  He didn't want the enemy to have 10,000 more horses, so Zuo Si thought again and came up with this method.  There is no loss on the left or right, so let¡¯s just fight.  The Song Army is very strong in the decisive battle now.  War is not something everyone watches in a movie. Two groups fight together and whoever dies loses.  For example, Han Shizhong had to consider whether the terrain could spread out his troops and whether the enemy might have an ambush. It might be impossible for him to ambush himself.  Pursue enemy routes and defend retreat routes.  Wait, only if both sides are warriors will they be entangled with each other. Han Shizhong and Yelu Dashi will use various means to destroy the enemy's attacking generals.  A group of people rushed out, and they retreated into two groups, splitting up the troops to pursue them. There was an ambush that cut off your retreat and attacked the heavy artillery group. You didn't know what was going on at the front and behind, and even if the front knew the situation, you still had to go to the back to help.  To use a force that is stronger than the opponent's to attack a weak enemy, you must also consider the focus of the attack.  Instead of charging, the logistics soldiers rushed forward with bayonets in hand regardless of supplies.  So Han Shizhong did not continue the attack.  To continue the offensive, some important positions, important towns, and transportation arteries must be occupied.  This will ensure that the enemy will not circle back behind you and will not cause the enemy to respond in a triangle.  The two sides still faced off until one side started a local attack or retreated. ?¡­ ?You must drink to calm down the shock. Getting 7,000 horses back from 10,000 horses is also a victory.  Although Song Huizong's affairs are troublesome to everyone, his temper is still awesome.  But he was more polite to Han Shizhong.  It's not that he is afraid of Han Shizhong, he is not afraid, but he does admire Han Shizhong.  After drinking for three rounds, he composed a poem, wrote it on a fan and gave it to Han Shizhong.  The poem has the tragic feeling of being wrapped in horse leather, but also the harvest of success and fame.  Han Shizhong introduced his generals to Ouyang and Song Huizong one by one. Most of these people did not participate in the imperial examinations. A small number of them were promoted soldiers, a small number of local warriors took refuge, and the main part were the original pro-soldiers around Han Shizhong.  This seems to be a common practice, but Ouyang knows that this is not good, because in history, Yue Fei was killed because of this pattern.  The Yue Family Army, to put it bluntly, is a warlord. Yue Fei is not using people sent by the imperial court, but promoting deployment and cronies to become main generals.  Although this enhanced the cohesion of the Yue family army, a large number of talented generals were promoted because of Yue Fei's talents.  But this goes against the system of a normal country. In a normal army, people are sent to you by the court, and you choose positions that they are more familiar with.  Instead of promoting cronies to fill the gaps when there are vacancies, one level leads to the other, resulting in the wrong idea that the soldiers do not know the court and the country and only know how to follow the boss.  No??Han Shizhong cannot promote, but before promotion, he must report to the court and send the general back to the court to record, saying that this is a talent or something.  As for whether the imperial court will give it to you or send it to other places, the imperial court has the final say.  Instead of Han Shizhong, who used the power of the commander-in-chief to promote him first, and then sent the prince to the court after he took up the post.  Of course, the imperial court will not be dissatisfied for the time being, but once it reaches a large scale, it is very likely to be dissatisfied.  Song Huizong, a veteran in politics, asked rudely under the influence of wine: "General Han, the more than ten generals here are very capable, I believe this. But I would like to ask, how many of them are from the Northwest Military Road?"  , How many of them were promoted by Yongxing Military Road? " "This the Supreme Emperor, the last general is unworthy of being the commander-in-chief, but" Han Shizhong didn't know what to say.  "You think they have been with you for a long time, endured hardships and hardships, experienced life and death, and are indeed talented. Therefore, it is appropriate to be promoted. Besides, you also have such rights. Wait a minute." Song Huizong shouted: "Here comes someone" "outside" the house  A soldier came in and cupped his fists.  "Let me ask you," Song Huizong said, "Now let me let you choose, don't serve as a soldier and go home, okay?" The soldier was stunned for a while and then said: "The generalissimo treats me like a brother, so naturally I will do my best to protect the generalissimo."  "Go down." Song Huizong looked at several tables and asked: "What about you? Are you grateful to Marshal Han for his promotion? From a soldier to a general, from a junior general to the generalissimo's army. Are you grateful to Marshal Han?  ?" "Of course I am grateful." All the generals were confused.  Only one young man stood up and clasped his fists and said: "The general only knows how to obey the military orders and kill the enemy to serve the country. He is ungrateful." "You are" "The general Wu Lin." Ouyang interjected and asked: "Is your brother the Hebei Army?  Lieutenant General Wu Jie?" "Exactly." "Sit down," Song Huizong said, "Han Shizhong, there is only one general who obeys military orders, but not Han Shizhong. Are you happy?"
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