Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 261

Cao Shi brought Fan Ning to his father Cao Yu, "Daddy, this is Fan Ning, I told you so!"

Fan Ning hurriedly bowed and saluted, "My junior, please greet my uncle!"

A smile suddenly appeared on Cao Yu's face, he pulled Fan Ning to laugh and said, "I have admired Fan Shaolang's name for a long time, and I always hoped that Shaolang would come to the mansion, and today I finally got my wish!"

"Uncle is too polite, the younger generation should have come to visit uncle long ago!"

"It's not too late now, come! Let me introduce you."

Cao Cao then introduced Fan Ning to the other Cao family's children, and everyone greeted them one by one. At this time, Cao Fu also came over and said with a smile, "But Fan Ning is here?"

"Exactly!"

Cao Yu introduced to Fan Ning: "This is Shi'er's fourth uncle and the queen's younger brother. He has always paid close attention to you!"

Fan Ning heard that Empress Cao had two younger brothers, one advocated Taoism and was indifferent to fame and fortune, and was later listed as one of the Eight Immortals, while the other was a playboy, who fought cocks and horses when he was young, causing trouble everywhere, even Liu Yong, a great poet The person who was beaten up by him in the brothel should be the person in front of him.

Fan Ning took a quick look at him, and saw that he was about [-] years old, wearing a military uniform of a high-ranking officer of the Imperial Army, but his face was pale, his eyelids were swollen, and his body was a little less violent. He might not be as troublesome as he was when he was young, but he still looked at him. It can be concluded that he is a drunkard, whose body was hollowed out by a woman.

Fan Ning still bowed and saluted, "Junior see Fourth Uncle Cao!"

"Fan Shaolang is too polite!"

Cao Fu quickly supported him, and whispered in his ear, "I know exactly what you said to the officials."

Fan Ning was suspicious, but he couldn't say anything more, so he took out the birthday gift and said with a smile: "This is a little wish for the old man's birthday. It is a top-grade Tianhuangshi Guanyin statue. I hope the old man likes it."

Cao Fu praised highly, "Tian Huangshi, a treasure that has just risen, and the most cherished thing of the official family!"

The surrounding guests were quite surprised to see that Fan Ning was so highly regarded by the Cao family. When they learned that the boy in front of them was the No. Gold prodigy Fanning.

When Fan Ning took out the Tian Huangshi Avalokitesvara statue, the surrounding guests were attracted again. During this time, Tian Huangshi was in the limelight in the capital, but most people had never seen it. , Amidst the admiration, Fan Ning signed his name and entered the Cao Mansion.

Although the Cao Mansion occupies a vast area, the current Cao Mansion is not the largest. Later, after Song Yingzong ascended the throne, he appreciated Empress Cao's kindness and rewarded Cao's family generously again. The area of ​​the Cao Mansion reached [-] mu. At that time, the Cao Mansion was rebuilt again and became one of the famous mansions in the capital.

But the Cao Mansion at this time is also very spectacular. After all, it covers an area of ​​[-] mu. The mansion is tall and tall, with cornices and bucket beams. Nearly a thousand guests.

The female guests all entered the inner house, while the male guests chatted together in twos and threes. Most of them were soldiers in military uniforms. Birthday, a large number of generals will naturally come to celebrate birthday.

Just now Fan Ning saw the name of his great-grandfather Fan Zhongyan in the guest register, as well as the names of Pang Ji, Bao Zheng and Ouyang Xiu, but he walked around but couldn't find them.

At this time, Fanning heard a slightly familiar voice, which seemed to come from the pavilion.

"It is urgent for the Song army to improve its equipment, but the quality of the army is also very important. I think it is necessary to walk on two legs. It is still difficult to win battles by improving equipment without training the army."

The voice came from a pavilion, and there were seven or eight high-ranking generals sitting in it. Fan Ning knew the person who talked eloquently, and it was Yang Wenguang, the former owner of his new house.

There were six or seven generals sitting around, all tall and tall, with straight waists and piercing eyes. The middle-aged general on the left was especially outstanding. He was the only person in the pavilion wearing a civilian uniform, but he was obviously from the military, and his face was contoured. Clear, like a sculpture, with an extremely resolute expression, when he looked back at Fanning, his sharp eyes were like knives.

Fan Ning smiled at him, found a seat and sat down, listening to them continue to talk about the military, the middle-aged civil servant was quite surprised, but did not object to Fan Ning sitting down.

At this time, after Yang Wenguang finished speaking, he raised his head and saw Fan Ning, and was surprised and delighted at once, "Fan Shaolang is here, but come with Ling Zu?"

Fan Ning smiled slightly and said, "I came alone, but my grandfather also came, but I don't know where?"

When the middle-aged civil servant heard that Fan Ning's surname was Fan, his heart moved and he asked with a smile, "Wen Guang, who is this petty official?"

Yang Wenguang introduced with a smile: "This Fan Shaolang is the grandson of Fan Xianggong, this year's No. 1 in the Boys' Section of the imperial examination, Fan Ning, currently serving as the Superintendent of the Imperial Academy!"

Suddenly, the middle-aged civil servant got up and laughed, "Di Qing, I have received many favors from my ancestors, and I have long admired the reputation of a small official!"

When Fan Ning heard that the man in front of him was the famous Di Qing in history, he couldn't help being awe-inspiring, and bowed deeply again, "The younger generation has long admired the reputation of General Di. General Di killed enemies for the country and protected the people of the Song Dynasty. Please be respected by Fan Ning." Ning Yili!"

Fan Ning's ceremony immediately caught everyone's attention. In the Song Dynasty, civil officials always looked down on generals, either turning a blind eye or being superior. Fan Ning, as the No.

Di Qing hurriedly supported Fan Ning, waved his hands and said with a smile: "Inspector Fan, you don't need to be polite, please sit down!"

This was the official invitation to Fan Ning to sit down. Di Qing smiled and said, "We are talking about the equipment of the Great Song Dynasty. I wonder if Inspector Fan has any ideas?"

Fan Ning bowed slightly and said, "You're late at school, so you don't have any good ideas. The juniors are willing to listen to the opinions of the seniors!"

Di Qing smiled slightly, "Fan Duxue is highly knowledgeable and has a beautiful mind. Even the emperor gave him a gold medal for exempting him from calling. Why should he be so modest?"

Di Qing is not a frontier general now, he is currently serving as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and he still knows some secrets about the imperial court. Although only a few people know that Fan Ning won the gold medal for exemption from summoning, Di Qing is obviously one of the few people.

The people around were very surprised and asked one after another: "Private envoy, why are you exempt from calling for gold medals!"

"It's a long story, why don't we listen to Governor Fan's opinion first."

Although Di Qing was a military commander, he was not reckless. He knew that some words must be said to the end, and he could not spread them too much, at least not from himself, so he no longer mentioned the matter of calling for gold medals.

"Inspector Fan, please say something!" Yang Wenguang also encouraged.

Everyone didn't ask too many questions, and asked Fan Ning to say a few more words.

Fan Ning couldn't refuse, so he said with a smile: "Then I'll just say a few words, I'm wrong, please forgive me!"

"Inspector Fan, please speak, we are all ears!"

Fan Ning sorted out his thoughts and said: "Just now General Yang mentioned that army training and weapons and equipment are the two legs of battle, and both are indispensable. I fully agree with this point of view. In fact, I think the current combat effectiveness of the Song Army is not bad. If it is compared with the Liao Army And the Xixia army has no cavalry, and everyone uses infantry to fight, so we must win.

I'm not going to talk about training today, but let's talk about equipment. I know very well that many times the Song army often defeated the opponent in a battle, but could not be defeated, because the opponent maneuvered at high speed, and immediately retreated as soon as they were defeated, and then reorganized the army. Fight again, maybe after the Song army is exhausted and then fight again, the Song army will win first and then lose.

This is actually a matter of war initiative, because we cannot keep up with the opponent in terms of speed, and the combat initiative is always in the opponent's hands. The harvest is not big, everyone is an actual general, I don't know if I am right? "

Fan Ning's words resonated with everyone, and a general said: "I used to be stationed in Fengzhou, and I often had small-scale conflicts with the Liao army who crossed the border to thresh grain. They are all cavalry, and they come and go like the wind. Our army often ambushes them, but their armor is strong, and our bows and arrows cannot penetrate from a long distance, so we can only fight the enemy at close range. It often takes three soldiers of the Song army to deal with one Liao army cavalry.

In fact, every time we so-called victory, we only retreated because the opponent failed to grab the victory. The opponent's casualties were extremely small, but our casualties were twice as much. Even if we are infantry, we can fight the enemy cavalry. "

Di Qing sighed and said: "The Song army fought fiercely, costing a lot, but gaining very little. Fan Duxue has got to the bottom of it. The Song Dynasty is powerful, but every battle costs hundreds of thousands of guns and suffers heavy casualties, but Xixia did not." What is the consumption of national power? This is why the small country of Xixia can also fight the Song army.

They retreated if they couldn't fight, and when the Song army caught up, they made a detour to attack the Song army's logistics supplies. The Song army in front had to withdraw and was ambushed and wiped out by the enemy cavalry. It is a huge shortcoming of the Song Dynasty. If this issue related to the initiative of the battle is not resolved, the Xixia war will not be fruitful. "

Yang Wenguang asked again: "Then what good advice does Inspector Fan have?"

(End of this chapter)