Han Gang looked left and right.

In the hall, people were panicked, and there were even several people with pale faces. Although there were many people in the hall, and it was already spring, it still made people feel the bitter cold of winter.

just talked about why the Shiling Pass was broken, and it seemed to scare everyone.

If it's just the selfishness of the Taiyuan prefect, it's okay to say. But if it is the internal problems of the Hedong Army that lead to a sharp decline in combat effectiveness, it is completely different. As long as this point is clear, of course, every civil and military official in Hedong will become worried.

Especially the Weisheng Army, which went south from Taiyuan, is here. And attacking Kaifeng, Tokyo, and occupying the richest and most prosperous city in the world, is an irresistible temptation for any northern captive.

"Cardinal Vice, ask the imperial court for reinforcements immediately!" Wei Sheng Jun Zhijun said urgently.

"It's natural. How did Shiling Pass break, and it can't be recovered for this reason, and it is a serious matter to block Liao people first. But rest assured about the reinforcements, the Privy Council was already deploying men and horses when I set out, and the first batch should have already set off at this time. ”

Han Gang's words reassured the officials a little, but they were still hanging in their throats. It's really hard to say whether the reinforcements will be in time. After all, Taiyuan is close and Kaifeng is far away.

"The soldiers and horses outside the river also have to be transferred back, and there are ...... of the Western Army" The Zhijun of the Weisheng Army was saying, but he unexpectedly found that Han Gang's eyes were as cold as a knife, his heart twitched suddenly, and he hurriedly stopped, trembling: "The lower official has overpassed." ”

Han Gang smiled and shook his head, signaling that he didn't take it to heart and didn't need to care. But none of the officials dared to speak again.

More than a dozen people sat in the hall, but they were silent. Only Han Gang was at ease, took a sip of tea, and only heard him sigh leisurely, "This time, after finally understanding what was wrong, Tang Zhuangzong was inexplicably defeated." ”

Han Gang's words were inexplicable, and this unhurried attitude also made people listen to the fire, and the officials of the Weisheng Army blinked in confusion, not knowing how to speak.

"Isn't it that 'calamity often accumulates in the slightest, and wisdom and courage are trapped in drowning'?" Tian Zhen read Ouyang Xiu's comments. The defeat of Hedong had been decided before the start of the war, and at least the previous sentence could be confirmed.

"It was a national defeat, not a military defeat. The victory of Zhuangzong in the Later Tang Dynasty was won by the unity of the upper and lower hearts, and its defeat was defeated by the loss of the army's heart. If the lieutenant generals and colonels of the army are all loyal to Zhuangzong, what can they do if Li Siyuan and Shi Jingjiao are just opposed? It doesn't matter whether the prefects in the north are more selfish than the public, it's just that the generals are incompetent, so don't the others have a problem? ”

Han Gang pulled out a waist knife from the body of a straight man beside him, and the black and white lines on the knife were intertwined like flowers.

Holding a sword, he faced everyone: "If you compare the officers with the sword." The hand carrying the knife is the court, and the general is the handle of the sword, and the court controls the general and decides where the knife is cut. And the soldier is the blade, and the more brave the soldier, the sharper the blade. With a famous knife in hand, you can make a difference. And what about the blade? What is that? ”

The answer to the question of who is between the generals and the soldiers is known, but no one in the hall speaks.

"Is it a military academy of miscellaneous ranks?" The Weisheng Army Zhijun finally gave Han Gang a face.

"Exactly! The blade is fragile, and even if the blade is sharp, it is useless. If the blade is strong, it doesn't hurt to be almost sharp. Han Gang smiled, "You may not know that the saber and the horse chopping knife are not sharp, and they are even a little blunt. But the blade is solid, and even a thick piece of wood can be cut down. If the military academy of the miscellaneous ranks was strong, this battle would not be so ugly. It's just a change of general, a year or two of hard work, the Hedong Army, which can fight with the leather room army, how can it become a waste? ! ”

What Han Gang wants to talk about is from the team leader, the ten generals, and the general Yuhou, to the capital head, and the commander of the miscellaneous military academy that does not enter the stream, that is, the non-commissioned officers of later generations. The non-commissioned officers are not effective, which makes the influence of the generals on the combat effectiveness too heavy, and the Great Song Dynasty made a 'general not a private army' in order to prevent the troubles of the five generations, which makes the combat effectiveness of an army fluctuate sharply with the change of generals.

Han Gang has always thought that he attaches great importance to the staff officer and non-commissioned officer system, but in retrospect, when he was in Hedong, he did too little in this regard.

It will be the courage of an army and the leader, while the military school below is the bones and blood. When capable and prestigious generals and colonels are taken away from their posts and moved to the left, even if the remaining soldiers are still elite, they are just a pile of useless dead meat, not to mention that they have been replaced by a group of waste, how can the combat effectiveness of the soldiers be maintained? The hearts of men are scattered.

This is the general theory of the world, and this is exactly what Han Gang thought when he discussed the loss of Daizhou with Huang Sheng and Tian Yu before. But in retrospect, I made a big mistake. A qualified organizational system should not put hope in at least one person.

The feudal army is far from the modern army in terms of organization, and the staff system and the non-commissioned officer training system are one of the reasons.

"Obviously, the soldiers have not weak combat power, and the armor and weapons are unparalleled in the world, but just the generals are incompetent, but they have become bullied, and they have not even defended the dangerous passes, which cannot be taken for granted." "In the curtain, it is the staff who are not effective, and in the army, it is the military academy that is not effective!"

Han Gang made a discussion, made a fork, and complained seemingly out of tune, which made the officials in the hall still look at each other inexplicably, but everyone's faces eased a lot.

Seeing that the officials of the Weisheng Army were no longer afraid of the Liao, Han Gang stopped messing around and coughed lightly: "Let's get back to business." The Liao people went south this time, and the capture of Hedong was also an accident for them. Otherwise, there would not have been nearly ten days after the capture of Daizhou, and there would have been no movement to the south, just plundering the countryside of Daizhou. There is also Hebei, which was blocked in Baozhou and Bazhou and could not go deeper, which was a failure for Beiyu. This is also evidence. It can be seen that it is not ready for war internally, and it has to rush to send troops in order to cooperate with the Xingling dispute. ”

Han Gang swept the hall and saw that people were listening attentively, and after drinking tea and moistening his throat, he continued: "But for my Emperor Song, the fall of Yanmen Pass was also caught off guard. It takes time for the imperial court to straighten out the soldiers and horses, and it will basically take half a month before a large number of reinforcements arrive. Before the reinforcements arrived, it was necessary to rely on the east of the river to work together. ”

"Don't worry, the Wasion Army obeys the orders of the Vice-Chairman." Zhijun got up and took his subordinates to Han Gang.

Han Gang nodded with satisfaction and motioned for them all to sit down: "Let's talk about the things in front of us." The fall of Shiling Pass was a few days ago. It is more than 100 miles from Shiling Pass to Taiyuan, and it is a valley road, even if the troops are sent south immediately after occupying Shiling Pass, now at most they are only attacking Taiyuan. As for the main force of the Liao army wanting to enter the hinterland of Taiyuan, there will be at least two or three days, or even longer. ”

Two or three days is actually a short time, but no one dares to say it.

"Do you know that after the Liao army enters Taiyuan Mansion, it will go there first?" Han Gang looked at the officials of the Weisheng Army with the eyes of an examiner, "In the land of Taiyuan Sitong, where will the northern captives attack first?" ”

"It's Yuji!" Others were still thinking, but an official had already responded, "After the northern captives enter Taiyuan, the first step should be Yuci County!" ”

This official sat at the bottom of the place, only a little taller than the county lieutenant and the county lieutenant, in his forties, wearing a green robe of eight or nine grades, and his accent was not from the north.

"Tell me why the first target of the Liao people is never the Weisheng Army, but Yuci?"

"Yuci is the exit of Jingcheng, and once the northern captives occupy Yuci County, they can cut off the connection between Hebei and Hedong. If the northern captives go directly south, regardless of Jingcheng, there is a danger that the Hebei army will cut off the back road. ”

The movements of the Liao army are easy to guess, and if they are on the sand table, they can be seen at a glance. However, now there is no map or sand table, and if you want to make a judgment, you have to rely on the accumulation of daily life, and you need to have a certain understanding of military and geography.

Han Gang was even a little surprised, he couldn't see it at all from the appearance of this official, "You are the judge of this army, right?" ”

When Han Gang first lived in the post house before, Wei Shengjun and more than ten officials from Tongba County who came to ask for a meeting all reported their homes, but Han Gang could have written down all of them. Only the Zhijun, the General Judge, and the Zhixian remembered. Others only recognized their faces and official positions, plus a surname.

The official stood up and replied respectfully: "Xiaguan Chen Feng, today is the military sentence." ”

"Not from Jinshi?"

If an official has the qualification of a jinshi, he will not mention it when he reports his home, and the hairpin flower parade outside the Donghua Gate is the glory of a lifetime, but this one did not mention it, it should not be a jinshi.

Chen Feng's voice suddenly stumbled, and his face turned red with shame, officials from Jinshi looked down on non-Jinshi officials, and it was common in officialdom, but in front of everyone, it was still very hurtful to ask by the privy deputy envoy. Said very reluctantly: "Xiaguan was born in the Ming Economic Department in the fourth year of Zhiping. ”

"Fourteen years." Although Ming Jingke is not as good as Jinshi, he can be regarded as having a background in officialdom, and he has been an official for 14 years just for a military judge, which can be regarded as a slow promotion, "What should I do?" ”

Chen Feng was refreshed when he heard this, and he was overjoyed. Han Gang was staring at him, but his opinion of Chen Feng suddenly dropped by three points. Suddenly happy and worried, this city has a bad heart.

However, the excitement in Chen Feng's heart was far better than what appeared on his face. He is in his forties, and he is still only a military officer, and he can't be promoted for most of his life, and as for the transfer of officials, it is an unrealistic fantasy at all.

Now that an opportunity has fallen in front of him, how can Chen Feng not be excited. Han Gang's shogunate was equivalent to a dragon gate for a petty official like him. As long as you can jump over and make Han Gang satisfied, although you won't be able to soar immediately, at least the Jingguan and the court officials still have a lot of hope.

"First of all, we must keep Taiyuan from losing. As long as Taiyuan City is still there, Beiyu cannot be unscrupulous. ”

"How to keep Taiyuan?"

"Recruit reinforcements now. As long as there is a large army outside, the northern captives will not dare to attack the city at will. ”

"Reinforcements come from afar, and they can't be used for a while."

“…… There is no need for reinforcements to fight, as long as there are reinforcements in the Liao army and Taiyuan City. ”

Although Chen Feng can't say that he has a fluent answer, he can answer every question just by thinking about it, which makes Han Gang very satisfied, which can be said to be a surprise.

"Where's the table?"

"Ugh." Chen Feng didn't understand it for a while.

"I'm asking the military to sentence you."

A burst of ecstasy came to his heart, and Chen Feng hurriedly said: "Don't dare to ask questions as a deputy cardinal, the lower officials are full of cursive words." The most public to the righteous. Full of losses, full of humble benefits. ”

Han Gang turned his head to Weisheng Junzhijun and said, "I came here in a hurry, and the envoy didn't even set up a shelf. Now there is a lack of a handheld writer around him.,I'm going to temporarily lend Gongman to the system envoy.,I don't know if I can cut love? ”