Qian Song

Chapter 86 Tong Guan is Coming (Read More!)
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The Huben army now has a set of effective methods for recruiting and surrendering prisoners.

Among them, the most effective means are naturally the complaining meeting, better treatment than Zhao Song, and fair opportunities.

As for those prisoners of the Song Army that the Huben Army didn't trust and particularly wanted, such as Yan Xiaoguang and his like, the Huben Army usually gave them an insurance policy, that is, rewarding them with the wives and concubines of those in power in Zhao and Song Dynasties.

Don't think that this is just a small means of not being popular, and it is of no use.

On the contrary, this method is actually very useful.

For example, in history, after the shame of Jingkang happened, the Jin people abolished Zhao Song and replaced Zhang Bangchang as emperor.

In order to prevent Zhang Bangchang from rebelling, the Jin people rewarded Zhao Ji's two low-level concubines to Zhang Bangchang.

To be an emperor is definitely a great thing that smokes from the ancestral graves, and it is an honor that many people would rather exchange their lives or millions of souls for.

But Zhang Bangchang just didn't want to be the emperor.

When the Jinren decided to make Zhang Bangchang the emperor, Zhang Bangchang first feigned illness and went on a hunger strike, and then vowed to commit suicide.

However, in the end, Zhang Bangchang was forced to the throne by the Jinren.

After Zhang Bangchang became the emperor, he didn't dare to sit on the dragon chair, and he didn't even dare to sit in the position where the emperor sits. Naturally, he didn't dare to call himself the emperor. He got along with other Song officials on an equal footing, and never regarded himself as the emperor.

Zhang Bangchang also tried his best to rescue Zhao Song's officials who were detained by the Jin people.

——It is no exaggeration to say that almost half of the officials in Zhao Song were rescued by Zhang Bangchang.

In other words, the foundation of the Southern Song Dynasty was actually protected by Zhang Bangchang to a large extent.

When the Jin army retreated, Zhang Bangchang led a group of officials to bow to Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, and sent them off with courtesies.

After the Jin army retreated, Zhang Bangchang hurriedly invited the former Yuanyou Queen Meng Shi (Song Zhezong's wife was abolished, and the Meng family was let go by the Jin Army because she had no royal title), and asked her to listen to the government behind the curtain, so as to show that she returned to the Zhao family. Determination.

Later, Zhang Bangchang voluntarily abdicated, went to Zhao Gou who was staying in Nanjing (later Shangqiu, Henan) to admit his mistake, and passed the throne to Zhao Gou.

It can be said that Zhang Bangchang did everything he could.

In addition, judging from historical records, Zhang Bangchang has never done anything bad in his life. In his resume as an official in the Northern Song Dynasty, the history books only record the wrong things he did. Officials only.

To be fair and just, Zhang Bangchang really has nothing to feel sorry for Zhao Song, and no one may be able to do better than Zhang Bangchang in that situation.

The only thing that can be nitpicking is that Zhang Bangchang drank too much wine one day, and a low-level concubine who couldn't help sleeping with Zhao Ji given to him by the golden man.

As a result, Zhao Gou took Zhang Bangchang's life for this.

Yes.

Zhao Gou killed Zhang Bangchang for sure not only for this reason.

But this reason is enough to be an excuse for Zhao Gou to kill Zhang Bangchang.

It can be seen from this that this kind of thing is definitely not a trivial matter in this era. In fact, it is understandable when you think about it. It is related to the face of these "big shots". Even if they don't care about their wives and concubines, they will never let them go easily. A person wearing a green hat.

The most typical example is Wu Sangui's anger as a confidante.

Of course, this insurance is definitely not that safe. After all, if a person is really determined to be a loyal minister of Zhao Song, it is impossible to change his attitude just because of a woman.

However, then again, having this insurance is better than not having it, and it will definitely make some people who betrayed Zhao Song a little bit more "loyal" to Li Cun.

Some people may wonder why Huben spends so much money on the military. Isn't it good to slowly recruit troops and train generals and officials?

Ok.

If Li Cun was given three to five years, Li Cun would definitely not have the mind to grow stronger by recruiting surrender and accepting rebellion.

But the problem is, Zhao Song didn't give Li Cun three to five years at all, let alone three to five years, Zhao Song wouldn't even give Li Cun three to five months.

Today, Tong Guan is leading an army of 50 troops to the south in a few days, including 15 of Zhao Song's most elite Western Army.

On the other hand, Li Cun here, except for the defenders in Hangzhou, Suzhou, Huzhou, Muzhou, and Jiangning Prefecture, Li Cun's real fighting army is actually only the front guard army, the rear guard army, and the horse guard army. Only more than 2 horses.

In this case, if Li Cun didn't expand his army, how could he fight Tong Guan?
But want to expand the army.

First of all, Li Cun couldn't recruit so many recruits in a short period of time. After all, in the concept of people in this era, soldiers are inferior people similar to prisoners. Men are not soldiers", so, if it is not desperate, how can so many people be willing to take the initiative to serve as soldiers?
——In history, the reason why Fang La was able to pull up a team of millions of people in just a few months was that Zhao Song really forced the people in the two Zhejiang areas to the point where they had to rebel, and secondly, Fang Lazhen The most important thing is to coerce many innocent people, otherwise where would he get millions of people to rebel against him.

Insufficient recruits are actually secondary.

The key is that the team that has been pulled up in a hurry really can't fight.

To put it bluntly, if Li Cun used recruits to form an army of 20, they might not be enough to fight the 20 Western Army, and Li Cun would have to bear the expenses of [-] more.

The prisoners of the Song army were real soldiers at any rate, and without sufficient time for training, they must be better than farmers who just put down their hoes.

Therefore, based on the existing situation, Li Cun formulated a large-scale army expansion plan based on the original Huben Army soldiers as the skeleton and filled with captives and recruits.

Li Cun's goal is to expand the army by 20—[-] sailors and [-] troops, not counting the one hundred thousand people left behind in Hangzhou and Xiuzhou.

At present, the recruits and captives recruited from all over the country have gone to Jiangning Mansion to receive training, political education and preliminary reorganization from the officials of the Bingcao headed by Zhang Shi. The new reorganization will officially begin when Li Cun leads his troops back to Jiangnan.

Not bad.

Li Cun never thought of fighting the Song army in Jiangbei at all.

——Li Cun is not stupid, how could he think that he can beat Tong Guan's 50 army with a group of mobs who have just put down their hoes?
In fact, Li Cun never thought of crossing the river.

At that time, Li Cun led his troops across the river, in fact, he came here to scare Tan Zhen casually, and he didn't even think that he could survive the natural danger of the Yangtze River.

Who would have thought that Tan Zhen was too particular, he didn't even send anyone to guard the Caishiji pontoon bridge, and let Li Cun lead the guard horse army, trotting all the way across the natural danger of the Yangtze River.

Tan Zhen insisted on giving Li Cun the strategic materials, talents, and military resources of Yangzhou.

Then Li Cun can't ignore Tan Zhen's good intentions, can't he, so Li Cuncai reluctantly stayed in Yangzhou for a while, and sent all Yangzhou's strategic materials, talents, and recruits (including civilian husbands and the families of those who voted for the Huben Army) to Jiangnan or even It is sent to Hangzhou.

It is impossible for Tan Zhen and others in the Gaoyou Army not to know about such a big move here in Yangzhou, but they just watched the Tiger Army's ants move, and they have no intention of sending troops to stop the Tiger Army Army.

It is not difficult to see that Tan Zhen and the others have made up their minds. Before Tong Guan leads the army to the south, they will not fight Li Cun again even if they are killed.

Seeing this, Li Cun was so polite, he naturally moved whatever he could.

In this way, the Huben army mobilized hundreds of thousands of civilians, mobilized thousands of large ships, and kept moving...

Until the end of March, Wu Desi returned accurate news to Li Cunchuan: Tong Guan's army had been completely assembled and was scheduled to march southward on March 27.

Li Cun then began to make final preparations for the evacuation of Yangzhou...

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(End of this chapter)