Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 677 Promotion (please subscribe!)
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Li Yanchong waved to Fan Qiong, Wu Ge, and Wang De.

Seeing this, Fan Qiong walked quickly towards Li Yan.

Wang De's speed is not slow either.

Only Wu Ge hesitated for a moment before walking towards Li Yan.

As soon as Fan Qiong arrived in front of Li Yan, he immediately bowed to the ground and said, "Meet the official."

Li Yan asked straight to the point: "Have you chosen?"

Fan Qionglang said: "The minister is willing to lead the new army, and only die for the country on the battlefield. Why do you need to return the shrouded body in horse leather?"

Li Yan heard the words and said: "Okay! Soldiers should be like this!"

Fan Qiong said: "This is the duty of the minister."

Li Yan nodded and said: "You can go to the Ministry of War to report in a while. The people in the Ministry of War will take you to see your army. The soldiers in this army are all excellent reserves from our Liangshan Army. The main officers are from my army. Selected from the pro-army Jiefan Army and the Tabai Army, the soldiers, horses, and other equipment are also provided for you. As long as you get used to it, this is definitely a first-class elite. You have to be worthy of this army. In addition, get familiar with the team as soon as possible and wait for the order to go out."

Fan Qiong bowed: "No!"

Li Yan looked at Wu Ge and Wang De again, and said, "I am going to build three new armies consisting of ten thousand elite soldiers, and one of them will be handed over to Baochen. I wonder if you two will lead the other two. ?”

As soon as Li Yan said this, Fan Qiong couldn't help feeling a little bitter, "I sacrificed all the daughters of the royal family and clan of Zhao and Song Dynasties to get this promotion. What merits did Wu Yifu and Wang Yecha have? Also lead the elite new army?"

Wu Ge and Wang De did not expect that Li Yan would praise them so much.

Among them, Wang De is the most important.

Although Wang De is famous, but now he is just a low-level commander, commanding 500 troops, not to mention being compared with Fan Qiong, even Wu Ge.

Ever since Wang De's old boss, Yao Gu, was demoted to Guangzhou in the south of Lingnan, Wang De has become a rootless duckweed, running around in the east and the north, following this one today, and that one tomorrow, fighting and stopping for several months, more than 500 people So far, there are less than two hundred left.

Later, Wang De wandered to Zhengzhou.

There, Wang De heard that Tokyo changed hands, and Li Yan, king of Liaodong, took Bianliang City.

Wang De, who had nowhere to go, went straight to Bianliang City in Tokyo to join Li Yan after discussing with his subordinates.

By accident, Wang De became the first army to join Li Yan—in fact, he was not the first. When Li Yan was in Jeju Prefecture, he also recruited many rebels, and even recruited nearly ten thousand soldiers from Yun Tianbiao. As for the troops, Wang De was just the first one to vote after Li Yan entered Bianliang City.

Wang De is generally unknown to those who are not familiar with Song history.

But if Liu Guangshi, one of the four generals of ZTE, and Liu Paopao, who often runs faster than Zhao Gou, I am afraid that those who have a little understanding of Song history will not know.

Liu Guangshi, known as "Liu Paopao", is one of the four generals of ZTE, on a par with Yue Fei and Han Shizhong.

In the early stage, it was because Liu Guangshi was really hardworking, regardless of his background, from going south to conquer Fangla, to recovering Yanjing, to suppressing the rebels, and then to resisting gold, Liu Guangshi participated in the whole process, and he really fought a lot of battles.

Those who are good at fighting are undefeated, and those who are good at losing are never defeated. Liu Guangshi belongs to the latter.

Throughout Liu Guangshi's first half of his life, that is, during the Northern Song Dynasty, Liu Guangshi is definitely a model of repeated defeats and battles.

To be fair, Liu Guangshi is actually not bad compared to those generals who fled in the Northern Song Dynasty.

In the second half of Liu Guangshi's life, that is, during the Southern Song Dynasty, the reason why he was able to get better and better, and he got involved with one of the four generals of ZTE, was not only because Liu Guangshi would lose, but also because he got a treasure.

This baby is Wang De.

Almost all of Liu Guangshi's face-to-face battles in the Southern Song Dynasty were fought by Wang De.

Later, Liu Guangshi and Wang De parted ways, and Liu Guangshi completely became Liu Paopao, often running faster with Zhao Gou and Zhao Paopao.

On the other hand, Wang De became a famous general in the fight against gold, defeating Qi several times and defeating gold, and even defeated Wanyan Zongbi, also known as Jin Wushu.

This Wang De was born a mighty fighter. If he had been born a few years earlier, he would be another Yue Fei.

At the beginning, when Li Yan made a deal with Zhao Ji, he actually thought about wanting Wang De.

It's a pity that Wang De was not born at that time, and there was no way to find him.

Li Yan could only regret it.

Unexpectedly, there is no place to find after breaking through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it. Wang De actually delivered it to the door by himself.

Hearing that Wang De led people to vote, Li Yan was overjoyed, and immediately summoned Wang De, and did not hesitate to promote Wang De by several ranks.

Of course, Li Yan also had a plausible excuse, that is, Wang De was the first to vote, and he wanted a thousand dollars to buy a horse bone.

Naturally, Wang De didn't know what Li Yan was thinking, what he was thinking about, he only knew that a huge pie had hit him on the head.

Wang De, who was eager to get ahead, bowed to the ground without saying a word, and said: "Thank you for the promotion, Wang De will be smashed to pieces to repay the kindness of the official!"

Wang De did not have such complicated thoughts as Wu Ge.

Furthermore, at present, Zhao Song has been abolished by the Jin people, and Li Yan is about to ascend the throne, representing orthodoxy.

Therefore, Wang De has no psychological burden on accepting Li Yan's appointment.

But Wu Ge was not as free and easy as Wang De.

Although Li Yan gave Wu Ge what he wanted the most, after struggling in his heart, Wu Ge still said: "King Xie praised Wu Ge, but Wu Ge is a Song minister."

Hearing this, Li Yan turned his head and said to Wang De who was still bowed on the ground: "Wang Aiqing is free of courtesy, and you will report to the Ministry of War with Baochen in a while, and then receive your troops. Your troops are the same as Baochen's. It is composed of excellent reserves of our Liangshan Army. The main officers are selected from my pro-military Jiefan Army and Tabai Army. The armor, horses and other equipment are also the best. You should also get familiar with the army as soon as possible. Ready to go."

Wang De replied, "No!"

After hesitating for a while, Wang De said again: "Wang De also brought more than 170 brothers..."

Li Yan thought for a while, and said: "In principle, soldiers who have not been trained by the Recruitment Department and the Political Department cannot join our Liangshan Army. The people under my subordinates are directly incorporated into your respective teams, but you have to remember that after the war, they must take turns to go to the recruit department and the political department to receive training."

What Li Yan did was also an expedient measure - if Fan Qiong and Wang De were not allowed to bring their people into the new army, let them have a grudge, the point is, it is impossible for them to master the new army in a short time , so that the new army cannot be formed into combat power, what is the use of such an army?

Therefore, Li Yancai gave special approval.

Not only Fan Qiong knew the rules of the Liangshan army, but also Wang De. Therefore, both Fan Qiong and Wang De understood that Li Yan was treating them preferentially, and thanked them together: "Thank you for your kindness."

Li Yan asked Fan Qiong and Wang De to excuse him, then looked at Wu Ge, and said, "You don't speak dark words in front of Ming people. I really appreciate that you don't forget the old dynasty, and I also remember the merits of you leading people to the city to guard Bianliang City, but , if you insist on not acknowledging our dynasty, then I will not be able to use you no matter what."

Hearing Li Yan's blunt words, Wu Ge didn't know what mood he was in at the moment, so he could only bow to Li Yan absent-mindedly, and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your fulfillment."

Everyone knows that Zhang Bangchang returned power to Zhao Gou, fell to the ground and cried for death, and only then did the Southern Song Dynasty survive for 200 years.

But how many people know that the reason why Zhang Bangchang made this decision is because Zhang Bangchang was arbitrarily established, Zhang Shuye and Qin Hui refused to sign the petition, Zhang Jun, Zhao Ding, Hu Yin and others fled to Taixue, and Tang Ke drank medicine Wu Ge, Ma Shen, and hundreds of in-law officials could not bear to be subjugated and create different surnames. They killed their wives and children, burned their homes, and conspired with righteousness. Zhang Bangchang saw that he could not be the emperor at all, so he returned to power. For Zhao Gou.

Li Yan couldn't bear to use loyal people like Wu Ge and the others.

Therefore, Li Yan looked at Wu Ge and was silent for a while, and said: "If you are willing to be loyal to Lian, Lian guarantees that you will not be allowed to go inside, and let you go to the side court to kill Jinren and defend the frontier, how about it?"

With Li Yan's current status, retreating to such a point for him, an insignificant little man, is tantamount to Liu Bei visiting the thatched cottage to invite Zhuge Liang. How can Wu Ge not be moved?

Think about it again, Wu Ge's unsuccessful ten years in Zhao Song.

Wu Ge couldn't help but burst into tears.

After shedding tears for an unknown amount of time, Wu Ge knelt down, then prostrated himself on the ground, choking with sobs, and said, "Chen... Wu Ge leads the order to thank you!"

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(End of this chapter)