Chapter 773: Gao Yu is wronged
"Do you say you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear, and have the same enmity with the son! How can you say that you have no clothes? With the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd, and work with my son! How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my armor soldiers, and walk with his son......"
The military song was loud, and 26,000 people sang in unison in the wilderness outside Tongwan City. QIN Feng. No Clothes", sang impassionedly, sang the same hatred.
Singing is actually unintentional. "National Style. QIN Feng. "No Clothes" as a military song was suggested by Wu Haogu to Murong Wangwu in his early years, and it is the tradition of the Military Academy. Later, it was brought to the Sanzhi Forbidden Army by the knights in front of the palace, and now it has become the military song of the new government soldiers.
Singing it every day after breakfast is just a routine. Even if Gao Taiwei was sick, Wang Yu, Yang Keshi and Yang Kebi, who presided over the training in his place, did not make changes.
But someone who heard more than 20,000 people singing in unison was intentional.
Rushing overnight, Hou Meng, who was drowsy in the carriage, suddenly lifted the curtain, revealing a very sleepy face.
Then he saw a shocking scene.
Countless people lined up on the steppe, strict and mighty, and seemed invincible. They formed a phalanx of 500 people and placed them on both sides of the official road. Standing in the front row were all pikemen, clad in iron armor and wearing scarlets, holding spears more than a foot long, the tips of which shone with a chilling glow in the morning light.
The officers were also neatly draped, with swords on their waists, walking back and forth in front of the phalanx. This temperament, this toughness, is different from the waste forbidden army in Kaifeng Mansion!
"Is this the Gao Jiajun?" Hou Meng muttered in a low voice, his face becoming more and more gloomy.
That's not right!
This is a demonstration to yourself! I happened to be in Tongwan today, and Gao Yu asked so many soldiers to line up on the grassland to sing "No Clothes", and also had the same enmity with the son, worked with the son, and walked with the son...... Who is this "son"? Isn't it Gao Yu Gao Taiwei? Do these soldiers trained by Gao Yu have to follow Gao Yu to make trouble?
Hou Meng is actually not a difficult civil official to serve, and he doesn't like to bully military generals very much. In history, because of Gao Yongnian's death, when Zhao Jiqian was angry with the eighteen generals of the Western Army, he was ordered to arrest him, but after arriving in the northwest, he took the initiative to say good things and exempted the "sin" of the generals of the Western Army.
However, this does not mean that Hou Meng will tolerate the resistance of the generals, if Gao Yu is soft and admits his mistakes. Even if he really provoked the side, Hou Meng would find a way to excuse him. The so-called confession is lenient! But Gao Yu is resisting now, and resistance must be strict!
Knowing that he and Wu Haogu were coming, he took sick leave, and he must have wanted to hide and not cooperate with the investigation!
He also instructed his soldiers to form a demonstration on the steppe...... How could the Great Song Dynasty tolerate such a general!? Even if he didn't provoke the border, he had to join him!
"Hou Yushi, what do you think of these soldiers? A certain family is Gao Taiwei who has the ability, right? It's only been a few days, and the momentum is up, okay! Twenty-five or six thousand soldiers were there. This is really easy to shake the mountain, and it is difficult to shake the Gao family's army! β
Wu Haogu's voice sounded in Hou Meng's ears again at this time, it turned out that Wu Haogu had already gotten out of his carriage, rode on a tall horse, and arrived at Hou Meng's carriage. While riding a horse, he excitedly praised Gao Yu in front of Hou Meng.
Gao Taiwei, who was hiding in the mansion and pretending to be sick, would definitely cry and faint if he heard Wu Haogu's words.
But Wu Haogu didn't care about Gao Yu crying and fainting...... And he also knows that Gao Yu, and Tong Guan behind Gao Yu, is not so easy to bully.
Tong Guan is one of the six thieves, the famous concubine! It is an existence that can move wrists with Cai Jing.
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"Gao Shiyan, the Liao people said that you led 20,000 troops to beat more than 10,000 people of their Heqing army, and also killed 500 leather room troops, but is there such a thing?"
Hou Meng has already seen Gao Yu who "resists strictness".
Although he was sick, he was still Shuo Fang Lu Jingluo appeased the deputy envoy and the head of the soldiers and horses - the matter of resignation is not so easy, and the official Zhao Ji may not approve it!
Therefore, he can't hide from people, and among the officials who greeted Hou Meng, he was ranked third, second only to Tong Guan and Quan Fa Shuo Fang Lu to transfer Xue Sichang.
After entering the lobby of Tong Guan's Preparation Division, Hou Meng did not greet him, and entered the theme with a calm face.
"Wronged!" Gao Yu looked aggrieved, "This official, not only this official, in the entire Shuofang Road, no one knew that the Khitans were beaten by us before...... Although our Shuofang Road borders the Khitan, it is calm everywhere, and there is no friction at all. β
"yes, not at all!"
"Sending 20,000 troops is nonsense, 20,000 soldiers and horses are dispatched, how much reward will you get......"
"It's even more nonsense to kill a 500 leather room army, 500 Khitan heads, how many houses do you have to exchange?"
"There's been no house to change for a long time!"
"Can you defeat the Khitan without a house? Impossible! You have to check the imperial history! β
Gao Yu really has a lot of henchmen! As soon as he spoke, the generals below echoed him.
Hou Meng's eyes wandered, and he took in the performance of all the generals in the lobby, and his impression of Gao Yu in his heart was a little worse.
Now Gao Yu is not only suspected of opening a border provocation without permission, but also supports the army and respects himself! This is a greater sin than provocation......
In addition, Gao Yu doesn't look like he's sick, but his spirit is a little sluggish. It seems that he is probably pretending to be sick and resisting! This attitude is quite bad!
Tong Guan smiled at this time and said: "Our family feels that the Khitan people just want to use this excuse to involve our army on Shuofang Road in place, so as not to march into Xingling...... Now the Western Front is fighting in Qinwangchuan! If Shuo Fang Lu can cross the Hanhai Sea with a large army to march west, the western thieves are afraid that they will be destroyed immediately. β
The first battle of Qin Wangchuan has already shown signs of a protracted war, and both sides are in the deep ditch of Qin Wangchuan, and they dare not fight a decisive battle easily. For the army on Hexi Road, the deep ditch and high base are nothing, and the problem logistics and transportation are very difficult.
And Hexi Road has no territory and population, so it is impossible to raise soldiers and food by itself, so he has no choice but to let Xihe Road bear more. Xihe Road only has a lot of reserves in Lanzhou, and after the reserves are exhausted, they have to be transferred from other places. Due to the difficulty of the road and the high cost of transportation, the Shaanxi transporter who was responsible for the transfer of Xihe Road made Li Bozong die in a hurry, and he kept saying that the Xihe and Jingyuan treasury were empty and difficult to maintain.
After Tong Guan knew the predicament of Hexi and Xihe, he wanted to cross the Hanhai with a partial division to get a credit. If Gao Yongnian wins in Qin Wangchuan, the Shuofang army will have a credit for helping the war, and maybe they can take Xingqing Mansion easily! If Gao Yongnian is defeated, then Shuo Fanglu will not have any losses.
However, the news that "Gao Yu is good at opening border provocations" from the imperial court involved Tong Guan. It was a bit scary for him to be unable to send troops across the Hanhai Sea - after all, the situation that the Liao State could go south at any time was a bit scary.
At the same time, the Recruiting Division in the southwest of Liao was very quiet, and there was no cross-border harassment at all. It seems that Gao Yu is really scared......
This made Tong Guan a little undecided.
"What the Tong envoy said also makes sense," Hou Meng nodded lightly, "But this official is here on order, so naturally he wants to make inquiries...... If you can't find out the bottom line, the officials will have their own discernment. β
"That's, that's." Tong Guan smiled, "Just check!" Just check!
Spread the order of our family, no matter what Hou Yushi asked, the generals of Shuo Fanglu must answer truthfully, if there is a little concealment, our family will definitely not spare him! β
"Whoa!"
The generals in the hall replied one after another.
Hou Meng's gaze swept over these people one by one, and found that most of them were very young. Not to mention the forty or fifty-year-old generals, there are not even many people over the age of thirty!
You must know that those who are qualified to meet Hou Meng in the Zhisi Hall are at least ambassadors, and some even have the rank of rampant officials.
Judging by their age, they should all be knights and dragon warriors in front of the palace, right? climbed to the current position at a young age, it should be indispensable to be promoted by Gao Yu, right?
Needless to say, these people must be high-ranking henchmen!
Now it doesn't matter whether Gao Yu is provoking the border without permission, the important thing is that he is supporting the army and respecting himself, and the government soldiers don't seem to be as good as they imagined!
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"Daofu, Dalang, you have to say good things to me at the official house!"
Hou Meng had already left Tong Guan's Zhisi and lived in the pavilion post in Tongwan City, where he interrogated the officers above the middle general of the Shuofang Army (shouted the general), and it was a separate question!
God knows what those people will say to Hou Meng? Gao Yu, who stayed in the division under the pretext of discussing the military, was obviously a little confused - he, like the young officers in Shuofang's army, had risen too fast, and he had not gone through many years of officialdom experience, so he was naturally prone to panic when he encountered things.
And he was also a little scared of himself, thinking that the official Zhao Ji was suspicious because he "had tens of thousands of soldiers". The generals of the Great Song Dynasty seem to be most afraid of this.
I knew that I shouldn't have trained so many soldiers, and I would accept it when I saw it, and wouldn't it be good to go back to Kaifeng Mansion to be a rich man?
"I heard you're going to resign?" Wu Haogu frowned and said, "Brother Gao, isn't this okay?" Hou Yushi just came, so you can resign......"
"You don't understand, you don't understand...... Gao Yu waved his hand, "The matter of provocation is nothing, but in the matter of training the soldiers of the new government, we have gone too far, and the military attachΓ© of the Great Song Dynasty can't do this!" Brother, I was confused and too aggressive before, but now I just took the opportunity to resign from my official position. Even if you are penalized, how many levels will you be downgraded? As long as you can send these two or thirty thousand soldiers out, it's worth it. Dalang, you have to be careful, too. Although you can't fight, you also have a lot of warriors around you, as well as the Jiehe Market! β
That's why I want you and Tong Guan to fight the thunder! Wu Haogu nodded again and again, but began to think about how to leave Gao Yu in the Shuofang Army.