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Volume One: Heroes of the World Gather at the Water Pond Chapter 876: Tong Guan plans to call it a day

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    I don't know why, when officers and soldiers conquered Liangshan, they always liked to set up their base camp in Yunzhou.  This is true for Gao Qiu, who was born a rogue, and the same is true for Tong Guan, who is experienced in military affairs.  Even during this unprecedented wartime meeting, Tong Guan and his victorious army did not move away. Instead, they urgently recalled many generals stationed on the front line to listen to his teachings.

    General Liu Zhongwu of the Western Army was also recruited this time, but as a veteran general in the expeditionary army whose prestige and qualifications were second only to Tong Guan, as soon as he arrived in Yunzhou from the front line, he enjoyed Tong Guan's private banquet.  treatment.

    "Prime Minister, are yougoing to leave!? Is this battle considered over?" Listening to the hidden meaning of Tong Guan's words, Liu Zhongwu couldn't help but freeze his hand holding the chopsticks, and asked aloud.

    Tong Guan chuckled, looked at the surprised Liu Zhongwu, pressed his hand down, and said, "Ziwen, now that the two routes (east and west) of Jingdong have been restored, it's time for a certain family to return to Beijing to report on their work! Seeing that the Privy Council has accumulated a  There is a lot of trouble, and the officials are anxious to see me, so there is no point in spending any more time here!"

    Liu Zhongwu mechanically stuffed a piece of duck leg meat from the chopsticks into his mouth, chewed it slowly, and began to ponder Tong Guan's true thoughts in his heart.

    Although the last city stolen from Liangshanbo has been recovered, from the perspective of outsiders, it is certainly the imperial court that has won a great victory and dominated the limelight.  However, as a veteran on the battlefield, he knew that at the moment it was just an offensive and defensive change at best, and it was far from a decisive victory.  Although the imperial court regained the lost territory, the thieves' effective strength did not suffer a devastating blow. Instead, they retreated to the offshore islands in an orderly manner with a large amount of loot. They may launch another attack on Jingdong Road at any time.  Therefore, this battle is only half fought at most!

    It is absolutely impossible for Tong Guan not to understand this, but as the coach, he wants to leave his job and return to Beijing at this time. What is this?

    Liu Zhongwu is not a little person who needs to be trembling in front of Tong Guan.  Even without Gao Qiu as an aid to the DPRK, he is still a well-known brand in the Western Army, second only to Zhong Shidao and Liu Fa, two famous generals in the world.

    So Liu Zhongwu had something in mind at this time.  He didn't pretend at the moment: "Prime Minister, you can't leave at this time! Although the army has made quite a few gains along the way, it has not hurt Yangshanbo's bones and muscles. Thousands of thieves are entrenched in Jeju Yangsanbo and the Salmon Islands outside Dengju.  , it is possible to gather strength at any time to further infringe on the lost territory I have regained. Although the imperial court has more than 400,000 troops in Shandong, if there is no such a respected commander as the prime minister, I am afraid that it will fall into the hands of each other.  The embarrassing situation of the war has been defeated by the Liangshan thieves one by one. By then, everything we have worked so hard for will be lost again in an instant! "

    This is the biggest difference between Liu Zhongwu, Zhong Shidao and Liu Fa.  Although everyone has different opinions, Liu Zhongwu will not directly contradict Tong Guan, and his words are mostly tactful.

    " Tactfulness usually represents concern, and concern is not far away from respect in a sense. At least there is a kind of teacher's way and Liu's method to compare. Liu Zhongwu can be regarded as respecting Tong Guan enough.

    Sure enough, Tong Guan's face was as usual at this time, still with a gentle smile.  To be honest, when you sit in his position, you don't even need to worry about strategizing. The only thing you need to do is to be present.  It¡¯s just about dealing with people.  One good thing about Liu Zhongwu is that he doesn't have the common problem of martial artists: arrogance and domineering.  Moreover, this man was very discerning, otherwise he would not have given up so much of his military exploits to Gao Qiu, who came down from the court to be plated with gold.

    Therefore.  For Liu Zhongwu who had lost his support, Tong Guan mainly tried to win over him. At that moment, he only smiled and said to Liu Zhongwu in a sincere tone:

    "I wonder if Ziwen knows that after the imperial court and the Koryo Kingdom reached an agreement on the possibility of borrowing the passage in the future, the officials used the only three commanders of the Tokyo Navy Divine Guard and the Tiger Wing Army in Jinming Pond to issue an imperial edict to Jiang Jiang.  , Huaishan Shuijin, and Xiang soldiers went to Beijing to form a new army, preparing to train an elite army within two years. It seems that this elite army is far away from being used in the north, but it must wait until he is trained.  Before these 50,000 people form an army, I will not take advantage of my weaknesses and avoid my strengths to fight the Liangshan bandits on the water!"

    "Except water warfare. Now our army has performed land warfare to the extreme! It is enough to drive away the thieves except for the islands. There is no stronghold on the land to live in! The Liangshan thieves have to try if they want to go ashore to attack the state.  It¡¯s like stuffing corpses under a fortified city!¡±

    Liu Zhongwu was an easy-to-understand person, and he immediately understood Tong Guan¡¯s true intention.  It turns out that the other party did not realize the potential harm of banditry in Liangshan, but wanted to use the defense of the city to consume Liangshan's effective strength, and also to consume the large number of surrendered troops in the imperial army that needed to be solved urgently. This was a good thing that killed two birds with one stone. As expected, Tong Guan still  with ideas.

    But he was also a man with something, and he immediately pointed out the loopholes in Tong Guan's general strategy: "What if the bandit soldiers do not take Jingdong, but go around to Hebei, or Huainan, or even the two Zhejiang Roads, the financial and taxation center of the Song Dynasty? I  so whatCan you survive it?  "

    Tong Guan laughed when he heard the words and threw out two lines of poetry: "There are two lines of poetry written by the scholar Dongpo, which are called 'I don't know the true face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain'. How come Ziwen didn't hear it on the front line? Liangshan is here  Dengzhou, crossing the sea and withdrawing troops are all risky river boats, so how can they go to Zhejiang and Zhejiang to cause trouble? Furthermore, a certain Liangshan mooring was besieged and they were not attacked because they had lost sight of it and abandoned their old nest and fled far away.  There is no news about Wang Lun in Deng, Lai and other places. Some people estimate that this person is undoubtedly on Liangshan Island. He usually regards himself as loyal and loyal, and the people under his command are somewhat deceived. If he abandons his master and escapes at this time, it will be a thief.  The soldiers will lose their morale before fighting! When the time comes, I will put a ready-made naval force in Huainan to wait for work, and ambush them halfway, and Liangshan will be defeated!"

    Liu Zhongwu also laughed, and immediately slapped Tong Guan: "The Prime Minister is brilliant!" After taking the photo, he said: "But if there is a ready navy, why don't we cross the sea in Dengzhou and attack? The thieves swept through Jingdong before and swept away  Even if we don¡¯t spend tens of millions of dollars in food, we can survive the siege for two years. If he doesn¡¯t leave the island for a day, we¡¯ll spend the whole day with him?¡±

    Tong Guanjian said, shaking his head and smiling bitterly, "Ziwen, Ziwen, you and Captain Gao have a close relationship. How could you not know what happened to Liu Menglong? Although this man is usually arrogant, he is really unparalleled in the Jiangnan navy."  Even he was defeated at the hands of thieves. If my victorious army sailed across the sea to fight on these guys¡¯ ships, wouldn¡¯t they have fulfilled the thieves¡¯ scheme?¡±

    No wonder we have to select and train new recruits in the capital. It turns out that we don¡¯t have enough faith in the Jiangnan Navy!  This means that it is definitely unreliable to rely on them, but if you use them to beat the drum, you can make the best use of them.  When Liu Zhongwu saw this, he couldn't help but secretly nodded, and he admired Tong Guan's caution in his heart.

    "As for the huge amount of money and food taken away from Liangshan" Tong Guan smiled proudly and said: "You marched all the way, and you were most intuitive. Did you find any abnormalities in the household registration in each state?"

    When Liu Zhongwu heard this, he showed a thoughtful expression and pondered for a moment before saying: "The Prime Minister has not said anything, but the general has not taken it seriously yet. According to what I have seen along the way, at least five or six out of ten tenants in each state have followed the thieves. Now the entire Jingdong household registration  Less than 20% is considered conservative, but it wouldn¡¯t be surprising if it was more than 30%!¡±

    "So a certain family always said that in the Western Army, the teaching methods are old and outdated, and Liu Fa is a little impatient. Ziwen is the most worthy of training!" Tong Guan showed a very satisfied look, and he did not hesitate to praise Liu Zhongwu in his words.  However, the "cultivation" in his words certainly does not refer to cultivating talents, and its meaning is self-evident.

    Hearing this, Liu Zhongwu smiled "reservedly" and showed no gratitude towards Tong Guan for stepping over others and promoting himself. Of course, he didn't reject others. It was just right.  Tong Guan didn't take it seriously and continued to explain:

    "What worries me most about the Song Dynasty? People! If these tenants who are struggling between hunger and fullness don't follow Wang Lun, they will be the bane of the court in times of disaster. Liangshan has won them, and they think they have strengthened their power, but they don't know these things  People are dependent on their families, and no matter how much money Wang Lun grabs, they can't fill their mouths. These people dare to rebel against the court just for food. If Liang Shanbo cannot satisfy them in the future, Wang Lun, a fallen scholar, can predict.  Get the consequences that will happen in the future?¡±

    "No!" Liu Zhongwu, who was reserved at this time, was determined. "These slanderous scholars usually only know how to confuse people's hearts and harm the rule of law. When they really get into trouble, how can they come up with any good ideas to help the world? In the future, apart from looking at the sea and sighing, they will only  I can weep and feel sorry for myself. It¡¯s a pity that these people who surrendered to the thieves have suffered! It¡¯s spring and summer, and if the plague spreads again, Salmon Island will become a ghost island again!¡±

    Although Liu Zhongwu spoke firmly, he still couldn't hide the panic in his heart. It turned out that Tong Guan had been deliberately driving people to Liangshan!  No wonder the surrender troops, whose military discipline was even worse than that of the Western Army, burned, killed, and looted along the way. This husband turned a blind eye and actually had the idea of ????consuming the bandits.  These Liangshan thieves are really stupid. If someone dares to take the bait, he will bite the bait.  The truth is that those who are good at water will drown in the water, and those who show off their benevolence and righteousness will be burdened by their benevolence and righteousness.

    "Ziwen, everyone has his or her own ambitions. If these people secede from the imperial court and still have a good ending, wouldn't they have people all over the world imitate them?" Tong Guan's words are quite meaningful, especially when he mentions the word imperial court, Wei Wei  The tone was emphasized, as if he was talking about the fate of common people who were thieves, but there was something else mixed in with it.

    "It's the last general's woman's benevolence!" Liu Zhongwu finally came to his senses and expressed his stance: "Liangshan bandits will cause chaos within half a year! In this case, the prime minister will not be able to leave. If he leaves, the troops in Jingdong will  You will lose your heart and soul!¡±

    "A certain family has left, isn't there still you, the general?" Tong Guan laughed, suddenly stood up, his face changed, and he said very majestically: "Liu Zhongwu takes the order!"

    Liu Zhongwu was stunned. Seeing Tong Guan's majestic appearance, he hurriedly knelt down on the ground. He saw Tong Guan read out the imperial edict in person, which was quite rare:

    "Your Majesty Shiji is loyal and well-trained in military affairs. He has worked hard in the Western Frontier for many years and has become a national fort. How can we reward him if there is no reward?"Mediocre?  He was specially promoted to the deputy capital commander of the bodyguard pro-army and horse army, and the propaganda envoy of the Taining army. He controlled the troops and horses of the eight states of Deng, Lai, Qing, Mi, Wei, Zi, Yi, and Qingfu.  , You can go to Qingzhou and Jingdong East Road to appease envoy Zeng Xiaoyun, and Zhidengzhou Liu Yu and others will discuss military plans.  We hope that the deep friendship between the two brothers and the unparalleled achievements made by each other will live up to my high expectations!  "(To be continued.)
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