Fenghou

Chapter 115 Building an Army

Wang Yan squinted at Fu Xuan, who was furious. Thinking of the back arrow he had thrown at his back, he had the urge to cut him in two.

"General Fu, I don't understand what you are referring to?" Wang Yan asked while restraining the anger in his heart.

"You know very well, how can you hand over the God Arm Crossbow Army to Wu Jie without authorization? You clearly know that I have appointed Fu Moshan as the commander of this army. Are you targeting me on purpose?"

"General Fu is serious. I didn't mean to target you at all. This army was originally Wu's army. It didn't belong to us. It was just transferred to us. Now Wu Dutong asks me to go back. Of course I can't refuse. "

"But now I am the commander of the army. Even if you want to return it to Wu Jie, I will pay it back. How can you exceed your authority without authorization!"

"Fuck your motherfucker!"

Wang Yan finally turned his back, stepped on the stool, pointed at himself and said: "Now I am in charge of the capital, I have not handed over the military power yet, you go away and cool off!"

"you--"

Fu Xuan's face was very ugly, and he said slowly: "Wang Yan, I warn you, the imperial court has appointed me as the commander of Jingyuan Army, and you have been changed to the counselor of the Xuanfu Division. It is your business that you do not have the right to send troops, but this An army and the court have been handed over to me, if you want to fight against the court, there will be no good results."

Wang Yan laughed, "Liu Qi is also in command of the capital of the Jingyuan army, and the commander of the Jingyuan army in Quduan has not stepped down. I just served as a counselor for the Xuanfu Division, but the commander of the capital of the Jingyuan army has not been dismissed. Now with you, it is already There are four Jingyuan armies under control, who knows which army you are taking over? General Fu, maybe you are taking over Liu Kai's army, what do you think?"

Fu Xuan was speechless for a moment. This is also the characteristic of the official system in the Song Dynasty. There are several radishes in a hole. Only when he officially obtains military power can he prove that he has control of the army. This requires Zhang Jun to preside over the transfer of military power.

The handover of military power is scheduled for the day after tomorrow, so Wang Yan arranged various aftermath matters in the past two days, including handing over [-] elite troops to Chen Qing, returning [-] god-armed crossbow troops to Wu Jie, etc. Choose a form of revenge in disguise.

Fu Xuan stomped his feet, "You are ruthless!"

He stared at Chen Qing viciously again, turned around and walked away quickly with his nephew.

Looking at Fu Xuan's back, Wang Yan sneered and said, "This man has a strong hatred, even if you don't provoke him, he will never make you comfortable!"

Chen Qing remembered Fu Xuan's vicious gaze when he left, and he said calmly: "In fact, I have already offended him."

"Maybe! This time I gave you some elite troops, he felt a little uncomfortable, but what to do with him? You are not his subordinate, and you are afraid of his fart."

Wang Yan took three army books and said: "I will give you Yang Yuanqing's one thousand troops and Zheng Ping's one thousand troops, and then I have a thousand directly subordinate troops, which are the most elite troops of the Eight Character Army. I can only take them away at most. Two hundred people, and then [-] people will be handed over to you, which is [-] people, and then you ask Wu Jie to bring back the [-] god-armed crossbow troops, [-] people, and your troop quota will be full. "

"There are three hundred more people!"

Wang Yan laughed loudly, "It's not that accurate. Zhang Jun said he would give you a quota of [-] people, but in fact he will give you a little more. This is the practice of the Western Army. To be honest, as long as you can solve the military salary yourself Military rations, even if you recruit [-] troops, no one can control you. When fighting with the golden soldiers, there is no upper limit on the number of troops. No matter how dissatisfied Fu Xuan is with the army, I just promise to give him [-] troops, and he doesn't care how I arrange the extra troops!"

Speaking of this, Wang Yan patted Chen Qing on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "Zhang Jun just doesn't dare to talk nonsense, but you have to be flexible. You can use the name of recruiting logistics personnel to increase the number of troops. This is allowed by the court. This is actually an expansion loophole."

Chen Qing also sighed, "No one taught me these things, can you give me a civil servant who understands these things?"

"I'll arrange a few civil servants for you to manage supplies and account books for you. They are all veterans of the army. You can ask them if you have anything."

Chen Qing knew that Wang Yan had a strong sense of urgency, so he would assign the army to him in the afternoon. His top priority now was to have a barracks and territory, so he had to find Wu Jie. When he came out from Wang Yan, Chen Qing hurried to Wu Jie camp.

Coincidentally, in Wu Jie's camp, Fu Xuan happened to be making trouble. The five hundred crossbow soldier Wang Yan had already handed it over to Wu Jie, and Fu Xuan wanted to take it back.

When Chen Qing walked into the big tent, Wu Jie nodded to him, motioning him to wait for a while, and Chen Qing sat aside and waited.

"Fu Dutong, it's not that I don't want to give it to you. This army was originally composed of elites selected from various armies of the Western Army. Everyone wanted this army. Logically, this army should be given to Wu Ling, because he contributed three times. Hundreds of people, but Wu Ling is my brother, I don't want to leave a handle to be close to others, Liu Kai, Liu Ziyu, Qu Duan, they all want this army, so I finally gave it to Wang Yan.

Now Wang Yan returns this army to me. If I give it to you again, it will be given to you twice in a row. I can’t explain everything else, so don’t make things difficult for me. "

"Wu Dutong, Wang Yan did something wrong in this matter. They handed over the army to you without my consent. I have been appointed by the court, but I have not handed over power yet. Besides, I am still his deputy general. He should discuss such an important matter with me."

Wu Jie was silent for a moment and said: "According to the practice in the army, there can only be one chief general, and there is no second general in the army."

Fu Xuan was furious, "If that's the case, then I'll go to the Xuanfu envoy for an evaluation. Should I respect my opinion?"

Wu Jie didn't want to make matters worse, so he said, "Wu Ling and Liu Kai have also approached me, and I didn't agree, so let's do it! Let's compete fairly, and the winner will take this army, how about it?"

Fu Xuan said that going to Zhang Jun was just talking, he bypassed Zhang Jun and went to the court to sue, and he was also Zhu Shengfei's man, Zhu Shengfei and Zhang Jun were not on the same path, and Zhang Jun was quite dissatisfied with him at present, so he delayed It took half a month to hand over to him, how could Fu Xuan dare to really go to Zhang Jun.

Fu Xuan borrowed the donkey from the slope, nodded and said: "Yes! But after I hand over."

"That is of course!"

Fu Xuan didn't even look at Chen Qing, turned around and left.

Wu Jie smiled and asked Chen Qing, "Are you looking for me for a military camp?"

"Exactly!"

Chen Qing was a little embarrassed and said: "Wangdu will assign the army to me in the afternoon, and the army handover will be handled today, but I don't even have an army, so I can only trouble Wu Dutong."

"I've already arranged it for you!"

Wu Jie walked to the map, pointed to an open canyon to the west of Dasan Pass, and said, "You should be familiar with this place!"

Chen Qing nodded, "This is the West Valley, defending against the golden soldiers on the West Road."

"Wanyan Wushu will definitely learn the lesson from the last time, and attack from the Xigu army. I plan to deploy two armies in Xigu, one is Liu Ziyu's Xihe army, and the other is your Qinzhou army, where your barracks will be stationed. Just at the Jiwang Slope at the southern foot of the West Valley, the military camp has been arranged, enough to station [-] troops, you can directly lead the army to station, and I will allocate supplies to you later."

Chen Qing was overjoyed, he hesitated and said: "I don't know if a humble job can't participate in the competition of the five hundred god-armed crossbow troops?"

Wu Jie chuckled, "Are you interested too?"

Chen Qing said with a wry smile: "The humble officer asked Wang Dutong for this army this morning, and he said he had already returned it to you. In the end, he only gave the humble officer [-] people, and he included the five hundred troops. It is said that a total of [-] low-ranking people were given."

Wu Jie laughed loudly, "It seems that not allowing you to participate is not enough, good! Even if you are alone, how will you compete? Wait for my news."

The West Valley is a canyon between Heshangyuan and Dashanguan. The canyon is about a hundred miles long, the widest part of the valley is more than [-] miles, and the narrowest point is also ten miles. Jiwangpo is about [-] miles away from Dashanguan, backed by the Qinling Mountains. , is a strategic highland, and if the army wants to attack Dasan Pass, it must take Jiwang Slope, otherwise the logistics will be easily cut off.

There are quite a few highlands like this in the West Valley, but Jiwangpo is the only one that is called a strategic location because there is a source of water here, and with water, the army can be stationed for a long time.

The area of ​​Jiwangpo is about one square kilometer. It is a highland with lush green grass. A small stream flows from the depths of the Qinling Mountains and divides Jiwangpo into two.

The barracks had been built a month ago. It was a plank barracks with hundreds of large tents and a large open space as a training ground, enough to accommodate [-] people for defense. Currently, there are only a hundred soldiers in charge of guarding the barracks.

Wang Yan's efficiency was indeed very high. He was afraid that Fu Xuan would show up again, so he allocated [-] troops to Chen Qing in the afternoon, and went through the formal handover procedures. Zhang Jun signed and stamped the army's internal allocation letter to approve The internal allocation of this batch of troops.

No matter how dissatisfied Fu Xuan was, he had no choice but to dare to confront Zhang Jun.

Although Zhang Jun cannot avoid him, it is easy to transfer him away, but this is not in line with the intention of his backer Zhu Shengfei. He is Zhu Shengfei's pawn in the Western Army, and he is also the capital of Zhu Shengfei's competition for positions.

At dusk, Chen Qing led the army to the Jiwangpo barracks.

(End of this chapter)