Gao Huaiyuan then ordered the army to speed up the march again, and at the same time requisitioned the state capital and township soldiers along the way to transport the materials needed by the army, but after entering Guizhou, the army's march speed had to slow down, there are mountains and mountains everywhere, the mountain roads are narrow and dangerous, even if the speed of the march is accelerated, it is not fast, so Gao Huaiyuan is even more anxious. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, fortunately, these troops and horses are the elite soldiers of Chuzhou, and they are very patient with hardships, although the road is dangerous, but the army still does not relax, and continues to follow Gao Huaiyuan's requirements, repeatedly strengthen the speed of the march, and Gao Huaiyuan also simply refused the hospitality of the local officials along the way, in addition to accepting supplies, never stop the march easily, even if it is raining heavily, he insists on moving forward.

Fortunately, they finally entered the territory of Lizhou a month later, and the front station they entered on Lizhou Road was Jinzhou in the territory of Jingnan Road.

Jinzhou is also an important military fortress arranged along the Yangtze River in the Southern Song Dynasty, among the four capitals in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Sichuan, Jinzhou is in the easternmost point, and it is also the east gate of Lizhou Road, the strategic location is very important, so after Gaozong crossed to the south, the Wu Jie brothers, who had passed through the Sichuan area, set up a garrison army in Jinzhou, and repeatedly defeated the Jin soldiers, so that the Jin army could not enter the southwest hinterland, and ensured the safety of Sichuan.

And this time, as soon as Gao Huaiyuan arrived in Jinzhou, he immediately summoned Chen Yu, the commander of the Jinzhou Metropolitan Division, and asked him about the situation of the rebels and why the army of the Jinzhou Metropolitan Division was defeated by the rebels.

When Chen Yu learned that Gao Huaiyuan led the army to Jinzhou, he did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly came out to greet Gao Huaiyuan, and carefully accompanied Gao Huaiyuan to inspect the situation of the troops under the command of Jinzhou.

When Gao Huaiyuan asked him about the defeat, Chen Yu immediately asked for guilt: Qi Qi Gao Shuxiang, this defeat was due to the incompetence of his subordinates, and after sending troops, when he entered the territory of Tongjiang County, because the leading general was negligent and fell into an ambush by the rebels, so that under the attack of the two rebel armies, he was defeated, please punish Gao Shuxiang!

Gao Huaiyuan saw that this Chen Yu was quite sincere, and he did not shirk his responsibility, so his anger was suppressed a lot, but he still asked with a straight face: Then who is the general who led the troops to battle this time? How many troops did you send in total?

This Chen Yu hurriedly replied: The leader of the troops is Geng Biao, the deputy commander of the Metropolitan Command Division, who led a total of 4,000 soldiers and horses, and Geng Biao unfortunately died in Tongjiang in this battle. This is a lowly command is not good, and please deal with it with the high cardinal!

Gao Huaiyuan nodded and said: And how many soldiers and horses do you have in the current capital division?

In recent years, the number of personnel in the Jinzhou Metropolitan Department has been decreasing, and before the war, there were only less than 11,000 officers and soldiers left in our Metropolitan Division, and after Zhang Tong's rebellion this time, the lower officials recruited 5,000 recruits, but at present, these recruits are still unusable, so there are only less than 8,000 generals left, and most of them are stationed in various places, and the number of soldiers who can be used is very small! Chen Yu hurriedly replied carefully.

Gao Huaiyuan frowned, and said in his heart that the armament in the northwest is indeed too bad, fortunately this time he came here to quell the chaos, if it drags on for a while, the situation here will be even worse, once the Mongolian army comes to attack, it is estimated that there are really few elite soldiers who can be called by these commanders.

General Chen, for the Jinzhou Metropolitan Division, the imperial court has issued an edict to expand the organization a few years ago, and the quasi-Jinzhou Metropolitan Division has been expanded to 30,000 regular soldiers, but why has it not expanded its recruitment until now, and only recruited 5,000 new soldiers in the battle? Gao Huaiyuan then asked Chen Yu.

Chen Yu was stunned when he heard this, as if he couldn't believe his ears, and after a pause, he shook his head and said: Where did you start with this matter, my lord? Xia Guan really doesn't know!

Gao Huaiyuan became furious when he heard this: "Nonsense, in October last year, I presided over the Privy Council to re-examine and approve the personnel of the garrisons in various places, and in addition to the reduction of redundant troops, the regular garrison troops and the soldiers and horses of the Metropolitan Command Department were basically allowed to be expanded, and your Jinzhou Metropolitan Commandery Department has a fixed number of 30,000 personnel, and has already sent to various orders to supervise the handling, how can you not know?

After Chen Yu heard this, a layer of fine sweat suddenly appeared on his head, but he insisted: Lord Qiyu, the lower officials really don't know about this matter, otherwise, it is impossible for the lower officials not to expand, we are under the jurisdiction of Lord Zheng of the Sichuan system, even if there is an order, it should be forwarded to Jinzhou by Lord Zheng, but the lower officials have never received such an order!

After hearing this, Gao Huaiyuan looked at Chen Yu's expression, and knew that there would be no falsehood in this matter, for a metropolitan commander, it was impossible not to hope to expand the army, so for him, there was only good and no harm, and if Chen Yu didn't know about this matter, then the problem could only lie with Zheng Yan.

Is that really the case? You really don't know? Gao Huaiyuan asked again.

Chen Yu nodded vigorously and said: Xia Guan really doesn't know! Please also have a good understanding!

So years ago, the Privy Council also ordered all local commanders to open martial arts halls in the army, so do you know about this? And the capital is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War, do you know? Gao Huaiyuan found that the problem was very big, so he immediately continued to ask.

The matter of the martial arts hall has been learned by the lower officials, and has begun to start the preparations, and now the personnel have been selected and transferred to the capital to unify the division, ready to open the martial arts hall, and the Privy Council ordered the selected elite people to enter Beijing to enter the martial arts The lower officials have also selected and transferred ten people to go, but the affairs of the capital as a subordinate to the military department, the lower officials have not yet known!

Gao Huaiyuan was dizzy this time, he didn't expect such a big thing to be conveyed to the hands of the capital commander like Chen Yu, it seems that this Zheng Yi really didn't do anything in Sichuan, the whole Yang is against the yin, and his military command department is also out of reach of the whip commander on the Sichuan side, and has not yet entered the Jinzhou Metropolitan Division, so that he doesn't know about such a big thing.

So Gao Huaiyuan suppressed his anger, waved his hand and said to Chen Yu: Let's not talk about this matter for the time being, today I will tell you that the DPRK issued a decree before the middle of the year, ordering the garrisons in various places to expand the regular army, and to dismiss some chaotic new troops and local soldiers, and your Jinzhou Metropolitan Department has a fixed establishment of 30,000, you immediately start to supervise this matter, and the expansion must be completed within three months, but the soldiers must be strong men, and they must not be filled with old and weak! I will leave you ten soldiers, and you must recruit at least the standard of soldiers before you can recruit into the army.

There is also the matter of teaching martial arts, you will have a month, and you must also start it to train low-level officers for the military department, and the classics used will be sent later, all of which are military books and war strategies published by the Privy Council, and there will be some martial arts professors who will go to the local area to teach martial arts!

As for the matter of the capital institute, you don't have to ask, I will find Master Zheng to reason, if you find that the quality of the armor made by the capital institute is poor, you can not accept it, and directly return it to the capital institute to replace the qualified armor!

Chen Yu hurriedly knelt down and promised: The next official will handle it as soon as possible! Don't dare to procrastinate!

The more Gao Huaiyuan thought about it, the more worried he felt, and then said to Chen Yu: In the future, I will send a messenger from the Privy Council to deliver your orders, and if you have anything, you can also send a messenger directly to me, and there must be no more such a situation where you have not received it because of forwarding!

Chen Yu also hurriedly agreed.

Thinking that now is not the time to deal with these things, Gao Huaiyuan said to Chen Yu: At present, the military situation is urgent, you send the map to me first, and recruit the deputy general Lu as well, I want to know about the situation of the rebels!

Not long after, the deputy general Lu who led the defeated troops to break through was recruited to the big tent of the capital commander's camp, and Chen Yu also sent a detailed map of the local area to Gao Huaiyuan.

Gao Huaiyuan first asked Vice General Lu to stand aside, and he looked down at the map handed over by Chen Yu, and soon found that the map was very old, and the labeling in some places was not clear, and the scale of the map was too large, so that the terrain in many places was not clear at all.

These maps are too old and ill-marked, and I have given you another order to send someone to draw a detailed map within a hundred miles of the surrounding area as soon as possible to make sure that the map is accurate, if you rely on this map to march and fight, there is no guarantee that you will be defeated! Gao Huaiyuan hung up the map and said to Chen Yu.

Chen Yu cautiously hurriedly replied yes, and Gao Huaiyuan nodded to the deputy general Lu and asked: You tell me in detail about this defeat!

This Deputy General Lu is about thirty years old, and he is also born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and he looks quite tough, but he looks very nervous when he looks at Gao Huaiyuan's expression, or it may be that he has never seen such a big official, so he looks very nervous.

As soon as he heard Gao Huaiyuan ask him, this Deputy General Lu hurriedly stammered and said: This subordinate is not this time

Gao Huaiyuan immediately disliked and said: Why are you so nervous? Slowly and in detail!

Chen Yu hurriedly explained in a whisper: Lord Qiyu, this Lu Youliang was born with a stutter, not because of nervousness!

Gao Huaiyuan was angry when he heard this! How did you meet such a person, a deputy general actually stuttered, how can he command a battle when he is in battle?

So he suppressed the anger and nodded: Then you can speak slowly! Don't be in a hurry!

So this Lu deputy general stammered how the troops were ambushed this time, how the main general was killed by an arrow, and how he led the remnants to break through to Gao Huaiyuan.

And Gao Huaiyuan also heard a sweat, which was really exhausting, but he also heard that this deputy general Lu was really a good general, just a little born with a stutter, but this did not affect him to become a good general, this time they were under the leadership of Geng Biao, out of Jinzhou all the way to Bazhou, Geng Biao originally wanted to give the rebels in Bazhou a surprise attack, but did not want to just enter a valley in Tongjiang County, they were suddenly attacked by the rebels, and the rebels had already discovered their marching route, There were thousands of soldiers and horses in ambush, and as soon as they entered the valley, they blocked two sections and waved their troops to cover up and kill, resulting in a great defeat of the officers and soldiers, and the main general Geng Biao was also killed in the army with several arrows.

Later, when the rebels rushed down the mountain, the officers and troops were already in chaos, but fortunately, this deputy general Lu was brave and led the two battalions under his command to fight without retreating, and finally repelled the rebels, and opened up the valley to retreat to the end of Jinzhou.