Soldiers are the emperor’s life and death line, and they will never surrender until the end.
This time, however, he took Zhao Shen rather than Zhao Shen to introduce three main generals of Lin ‘an Imperial Army, Zhao Mi, Li Peng and Cheng Min, and some other senior officers.
Zhao Gou asked these senior officers to salute Zhao Shen, saying that this is our DaSong Emperor Tai and Zhao Shen was also asked to meet these senior imperial officers one by one.
The officers were greatly surprised in their hearts, but no one dared to say anything. The monarch and his subjects met Zhao Shen and Zhao Shen in the week, and they also got to know these generals one by one. They remembered their names and gave them a reward for their imperial status.
Zhao Gou eyes to reward Zhao Gou have no opinion.
So the senior officers basically understood the meaning of the emperor.
Then when reviewing the troops, Zhao Gou rode with heavenly sword, and Zhao Shen led Zhao Gou horse to accompany Zhao Gou around the field to review the troops and make his first appearance in front of Zhao Shen army.
This unusual move has made the army and the court talk about it. People have been saying whether the emperor has a heart of abdication, and whether he intends to abdicate his throne. Otherwise, how could he take the initiative to review the army with the emperor?
The sensitivity of soldiers needs to be said, but any emperor with brains and pursuits will not allow others to touch soldiers, even before the emperor dies, otherwise it will be rebellion
As the saying goes, I can’t rob you if I don’t give it to you.
I gave it. That’s you.
Now that Zhao Gou has taken the initiative to take Zhao Shen to review the army and know the generals, he has also shown his face in front of the Zhao Shen army, which shows the political significance.
Some wise people realized that Zhao Gou had done this and realized that Zhao Gou had made some preparations.
At the same time, Congren also made some predictions about this contest of Big Song Jun.
Chapter 61 The First Song War began.
On March 20, the second year of Da Hongwu, Zhou Lin, the envoy of emergency consultation in the Song State and the third-in-command of the Privy Council, arrived in Haizhou to meet with the general.
Talks Zhou Lin begged the army not to go to war, and expressed his willingness to negotiate with China on the issue of the new year’s currency. He didn’t finish the negotiations before, but now he can continue to talk about whether he can avoid war.
Zhou laughed and then offered three hundred and two thousand pieces of silver and three hundred thousand pieces of silk cloth-but his materials were discounted.
But the total price cannot be changed.
This request scared Zhou Lin almost didn’t fall to the ground.
"Fifty thousand more? Wasn’t it 250 thousand originally? "
"If you promised to negotiate 200,000 silver and silk cloth, it would be fine. This is the big bottom line, but since you refused to talk with such a powerful sword, now you want us to call a truce and not give more, even if the big army refuses!"
Zhou Se Li looks like a face where the strong bully the weak.
"Having said that, this is also a DaSong mistake, but three hundred thousand is too much. Can you cut it a little? Even if it remains the same? "
Zhou Lin begged hard.
Don’t move around
"Now want to maintain the status quo? What did you do early? Moreover, the mobilization of large troops has been completed. How much materials and food do you need to consume in the Haizhou army? Who gave this money? "
Zhou Lin continued to beg Zhou not to go to war, but he couldn’t get any tangible benefits. Zhou lost patience and finally simply drove Zhou Lin out of the barracks and officially issued a declaration of war to the Southern Song Dynasty on behalf of the great powers.
Zhou Lin was frightened out of my wits and quickly ran south with the team.
On the third day after Zhou Lin left, on the week of March 23, Hongwu officially ordered the army to attack, and the army and the water army attacked together to carry out different military plans and cooperate with each other.
The first Song War began.
According to the strategic plan agreed before the military, Haizhou army prepared a large number of ferries and pontoons before the start of the operation, and the material army began a large-scale operation to cross the Huaihe River on the same day
They built ten pontoons under the cover of the South Water Army in Lianshui County, and hundreds of ferries crossed the river with extremely high-speed troops crossing the river.
There have always been more than ten garrison troops on the south bank of Huaihe River. Before crossing the river, Zhou Mancheng commanded the navy to take the initiative to attack.
They didn’t react, so they ate the army’s big rocket, which was blown to pieces, and then they were surrounded by the superior navy.
Zhou Mancheng commanded more than 30 combat ships to bully more and kill the patrol water army in Song Jun and Huaihe River, sank five warships in Song Jun and captured eleven ships, which made a good start.
After the army began to cross the river on a large scale, the elite troops crossed the river in advance and quickly formed an army array to advance and guard against the possible Song Jun attack. The subsequent river crossing team established a reliable beachhead position so that they could cross the river safely
A total of 50 thousand people, the army spent two days and one night crossing the Huaihe River at a very fast speed, and left enough for the logistics forces to make the pontoon bridge and guard the water army
In this period, in addition to a small-scale Song Jun sentry who came to spy on the situation, one of them fled and left after being chased by the army cavalry, and Song Jun attacked again.
Even the water army didn’t attack.
Soon, Zhou integrated the troops and commanded the army, and the southern soldiers quickly pointed to Shanyang County.
According to Song Jun’s tactical characteristics of defending the river and not defending the Huai River, Zhou first judged that there was no strong Song Jun defense in Huainan.
However, on the evening of March 21, according to the latest information, Liu Kun, the Song general, did not agree with Song Ting’s strategy, and he repeatedly requested to be stationed in Huainan, so Song Ting allowed him to take tactical action.
It is said that Liu Kun has begun to lead an army to cross the river to Huainan, and I don’t know what tactical arrangement he will make.
But in just a day or two, Liu Kun will not make tactical arrangements even if he can lead the army to cross the river.
Zhou Zhou decided to pre-empt Liu Yong with a quick attack.
The main force of the army has not set out for a while after the merger, and Zhou learned that the vanguard cavalry has occupied Shanyang County-
Song Jun doesn’t seem to be going to stick to the Shanyang County Army Pioneer and withdraw before he arrives, leaving a city and people intact.
According to hindsight, Shanyang county magistrate and Chuzhou secretariat root didn’t have the guts to fight with the army, and Song Jun didn’t arrange large-scale resistance troops in Chuzhou in advance, and Liu Yong’s troops disappeared.
Knowing that the army began to cross the river, the bureaucrats in Shanyang County rushed to flee for their lives to the south and never thought of guarding the city.
As soon as the officials left, a small number of armed men in Shanyang County fled, and some rich people fled with them for fear of being involved in the war and dying.
Landlords and squires can run away, but if they can’t, they will tie up a village and defend themselves. The whole county is left, but the ordinary people in the city are stuffed with dumplings by military pioneers.
Fortunately, they met a military discipline. Yan Jun left a small army stationed in Shanyang, and then opened the Shanyang county treasury to distribute food, and posted a notice saying that all troops except the security forces were not allowed to enter the city.
Then he really didn’t enter the city, but quickly led the army to continue south.