[Today's first watch, there are two more that will definitely be driven out. The next watch will be before 12 o'clock, and the third watch will be later. 】

"It's coming pretty fast." Hearing the news, Han Gang laughed, "It seems that Bai Yu can't wait." ”

"Didn't the Privy Counsellor keep him in the rear for many days, just to see him impatient?" Huang Shang smiled with him, but frowned again, "But I'm so anxious, I'm hungry and thirsty, once I go into battle, I can't guarantee that I will fall into the evil deeds of Liao thieves." This time, Fanzhi County fortunately didn't let Bai Yu lead the army, otherwise the situation might have been turned over by the Liao thieves. ”

"Not really. The Kansai side has had enough of the hardships of the ambush soldiers, and a good water river can make people remember it for fifty years. remembered that Bai Yu had obeyed orders under Ren Fu when he was young, and he would not be careless. Even if he is anxious, the people below will also remind him. ”

The Loess Plateau, with thousands of mountains and ravines, made the Song army fall into the trap of the party members many times. In the battle of Haoshuichuan, Ren Fu stepped into Yuan Hao's trap with one foot, so that the entire army was wiped out and only a few escaped. Beware of ambushes was almost instinctive for the generals of the Western Army. If Bai Yu hadn't even discovered the ambush hastily arranged by the Liao army, he wouldn't have survived now. Han Gang knew this much better than Huang Shang.

"The next Jingying will not be of great use, if he is slow, I really have to change someone to lead the 7,000 Western Army." Han Gang's smile brought a touch of coldness to him, which made Huang Sheng feel a little chilly.

"Actually, Jingying is not bad. Although it is not as good as the Western Army, for the sake of the future, they have to be sharpened more. The privy council was afraid of their protection before, and when they encountered a strong enemy, they ordered the soldiers and horses in Hedong to fight on their behalf, which was not a method of strengthening the army. ”

It's not that Huang Shang likes to contradict Han Gang, but Han Gang knows that he can't know everything, and someone needs to fill in the gaps, and allows and even encourages the staff below to question his decision.

"There's no need to take risks. Presumably Mian Zhong also knows how much he eats in the middle of the camp. It's not that I don't believe them, it's that they don't deserve it. After going through the battlefield once, it can be regarded as having experience, and the next step is not to let them fight head-on with a strong enemy, but to clear the gaps. ”

"Clear the vacancies?!" Huang Sheng was a little confused, how did Han Gang's idea jump to that aspect.

"Exactly!"

As the representative of the forbidden army in Beijing, the four armies of Longwei, Shenwei, Tianwu, and Zhuri, who had to spin under the emperor's nose every day, were better than the Western Army. But the task of the Fourth Army is to defend the Beijing Division, and it is impossible to transfer it.

The soldiers and horses of the forbidden army under Han Gang's command who were transferred from Gyeonggi were nominally more than 64,000 people, and they were claimed to be 200,000 to the outside world, but in fact there were only 37,000 people.

This situation of empty salaries is certainly better than that of Jianghuai Zhulu, and it is similar to that of Hebei, but it is certainly not as good as Hedong, Guangxi, Hunan, and Chengdu, which have just experienced war in recent years, and cannot be compared with Guanxi Zhulu.

In the fifth dynasty, the powerful Liang elite soldiers, so that many princes did not dare to look directly at the front of the palace, now if the bonus of weapons and armor is excluded, even the strength of the three or four percent of the year can not catch up. Such an 'elite', of course Han Gang can't use it with confidence. Along the way, they tried every means to get them used to the war, and even if they went to the battlefield, they mostly let them wave their flags and cheer for them, and the real battles were all completed by relying on the various departments of the Hedong Army.

So Han Gang admires Guo Kui a lot. In two or three years, the Hebei Army was transformed into a new face, and this time in the big war, it used it as the main force to resist the Liao army that could ride the horses to its heart's content, and the level of command and training was so high that Han Gang knew that it was difficult to match it. It's just that he is not ready to let Jingying continue to rot like this, and the abscess will eventually be pierced.

"In a few days, I plan to officially check the military registration and count the soldiers and horses. If there is a big war at that time, you can see that the number of casualties reported will be at least 10,000 more. That's all empty! but it will ruin my reputation. ”

The imperial court has a lot of pensions for the soldiers who died, but a one-time gift is naturally not as good as a long-term harvest, so the number of casualties reported before covering up the vacancies is very small, which is basically the actual casualties. However, once Han Gang wants to start counting the true number of soldiers and horses, those military leaders who drink the blood of the soldiers and eat empty salaries will definitely have to settle the accounts and clear the empty names, and the number of dead will definitely increase significantly. However, in the barracks, when there is no battle, those military leaders cannot cover the sky with one hand and fabricate non-existent casualties.

"Privy!" Huang Shang's tone became anxious, "You have to think twice about this, it's wartime now!" ”

"After the war, most of the imperial court will send people to check the number of soldiers and horses. I don't want to be told that it's a cover-up of casualties and a boast of merit. The only way to do it is now. Han Gang snorted lightly, he was not without enemies in the court

"What a military heart!"

"It doesn't matter! Do they dare to mutiny? The barracks blocking the passes are all guarded by the Hedong Army, and the Beijing camp can be more here. ”

After fighting under his command for many days, Han Gang believed that his prestige had penetrated into the hearts of the soldiers of the forbidden army in Beijing, and those officers wanted to incite it, and they could suppress it by appearing themselves. What's more, those soldiers who want to let the Hun family come out to do small business, can they still be with the generals who eat empty salaries? Han Gang was not worried at all.

If it's just a mess with the school, it's not a bad thing. It's not a good thing to win the hearts of the army too much, after entering the two mansions, Han Gang now needs to pay attention to this aspect of the problem. But instead of alienating the Western Army, which is the foundation, it is better to attack the intertwined officer groups in the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army. Obviously, there are fifty or sixty thousand troops, and only three or four percent of them can go into battle and fight bloodily, Han Gang has nothing on the surface, but he is still disgusted with the generals and colonels of the Beijing Camp Forbidden Army.

"Alright." Han Gang waved his hand and stopped Huang Sheng who still wanted to admonish, "This matter will be discussed later, don't let Bai Du wait for a long time." ”

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Bai Yusu stood outside the door, waiting for Han Gang's reception, and his son Bai Zhaoxin followed behind him. No more calm than Bai Yu, a veteran, Bai Zhaoxin's face had obvious expectation and nervousness.

I don't know if it's because of the view of the portal, or for some other reason, the Hedong system has made Han Gang have been ignoring the Western Army that came to help since he came to Hedong. As the tide of battle improved, there was no place for them.

A basin of cold water was poured on Bai Zhaoxin, who thought that he had finally waited for the opportunity, and followed his father to lead the army north. The excitement in my heart gradually turned into resentment as time passed, and finally precipitated into indifference.

Bai Zhaoxin was already desperate, and every day he just urged the children below to pay attention to the traces of the thieves, and then burrowed into the valleys on Wutai Mountain, but he didn't expect Han Gang to remember them one day.

When he arrived at Xinkou Village with the army, his father received another order from Han Gang to entrust the affairs to his deputy, and come to the newly recovered Daizhou to listen to the command.

Bai Yu didn't dare to slack off, and immediately set off after explaining, Bai Zhaoxin was Bai Yu's personal general in his position, and he also set off with his father.

Leave Xinkou Village early in the morning, take a railroad to arrive at Dawangzhuang, and then use an hour to rush to Daizhou, at this time, the sky is not yet dark.

He was known before he went to the line, and after only waiting for half an hour, he was summoned inside. Compared to the identity of Han Gang's privy envoy, this waiting time is really not very long.

Bai Zhaoxin only heard the father in front of him breathe a sigh of relief, and he also figured it out in a flash, it seemed that the young privy deputy was going to use his father this time.

"Bai Yu meets the privy council."

"Bai Zhaoxin visits the privy councillor."

With his father, he saluted Han Gang, and it was not the first time he had seen him, but every time Bai Zhaoxin saw Han Gang, who was not much different in age from him, there was always an indescribable feeling in his heart. However, this time, in addition to meeting his father, Han Gang also recruited him as a third-class borrower, which also gave Bai Zhaoxin more expectations.

After a few words of greetings, the hall fell silent, and Bai Yu's father and son were slightly restrained, not daring to take the initiative to ask Han Gang what instructions they had when they came to him.

Bai Yu is in his fifties, Bai Zhaoxin is also in his thirties, and the two fathers and sons are older than Han Gang, but in front of Han Gang, they all look cramped and uneasy.

Han Gang smiled lightly and said softly, "I was born in Kansai, and I have long heard of the name of the capital eunuch. After the Gyeongju Guangrui Mutiny that year, the army was depressed. The capital eunuch was able to defeat the western thieves in Xinzhai, not only in those beheadings, but also in the morale of the army. ”

The direct cause of the rebellion of the Guangrui Army was that Wu Kui, who won the hearts of the army, was imprisoned by Han Jiang without charge, but tracing back to the source, it was the year before, Qingshuai Li Fugui took the initiative to fight with the Western Xia and failed, and he killed in the Huanqing Road Army.

In the defeat of Gyeongju that year, Li Fugui put the blame for the defeat on the heads of the generals below. All the way to the jurisdiction and the capital inspection were executed, and his uncle Chong Jianzhong, who also served in Huanqing, was sentenced to death in prison, and a large number of military academies below were also punished, including the Guangrui Army as the main force.

Among the main generals who participated in the war, only Bai Yu relied on Guo Kui's rescue and was saved, and he was guilty of meritorious service. Soon after, Bai Yu won a great victory in Xinzhai, and Han Gang heard that the Son of Heaven had said to Guo Kui in person: "Bai Yu can make up for it with merit, and Qing has the power to do it." "This time he fought against the Liao State, if he was under Guo Kui in Hebei, he would probably be of great use.

Bai Yu hurriedly got up, "Bai Yu is ashamed. There was finally a little joy in his eyebrows.

"And I once had a relationship with Chong Chen, and I talked very happily, and my nephew was from the same disciple of Mr. Wencheng. It's a pity that he died young. ”

"It's a shame indeed. The heroic posture of the four species will often be recalled at the end of these years. If he is still there, his deeds should not be lost to his brother. ”

Although Bai Yu and Chong Yu are colleagues, the relationship is actually not harmonious, so he can get Guo Kui's favor, if he is close to the seed family, Guo Kui, who always looks at the seed is not pleasing to the eye, how can he save him?

It's just that Han Gang has a close relationship with the seed family, and everyone knows it in the Western Army, so how could Bai Yu touch his head.