Fenghou

Chen Qing was still puzzled, "It shouldn't be because of Zhang Jun!"

"No, the Xuan Fu envoy never cared about it, it's Fu Xuan!"

"It really is him!" Fu Xuan's treacherous smile from last night appeared in Chen Qing's mind.

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "There is someone in Fu Xuan's court. He wrote a letter and sued Wang Dutong. It is said that the officials were very dissatisfied with those eight words, so they were transferred from the army on the grounds that Dutong was seriously injured."

Chen Qing sneered in his heart, if the eight characters of 'reserve the country with a heart, swear to kill the gold thief' were changed to 'loyal to the king, serve the country, swear to kill the gold thief', I am afraid there will be no problem.

Of course, Chen Qing also knew that the Bazi Army was somewhat similar to the Zhong Family Army and the Yue Family Army. It was suspected of being a private army, and it was normal for Zhao Gou to not tolerate it because there were villains around.

"Who is Fu Xuan's backstage?" Chen Qing asked again.

"Zhu Shengfei, does the commander know?"

"It's him!"

Chen Qing and Zhu Shengfei didn't meet each other, but they did meet him. During the recruits' training competition, Zhu Shengfei was a scholar of Guanwendian, and temporarily served as the Minister of the Ministry of War. He was tall and thin, with a very elegant appearance. .

"I also want to talk to the commander about the compensation money."

Chen Qing cheered up, "Say it!"

Yang Yuanqing took out a thick booklet and handed it to Chen Qing, "This is the booklet. More than half of it has been distributed. There are still more than 400 soldiers whose families have not been found. The rest of the money has been deposited in the money shop in Chengdu by Zheng Ping."

Chen Qing flipped through the booklet, and there were dense names and fingerprints on it, which was really not easy.

"You have worked hard on this matter!"

Yang Yuanqing smiled and said: "I should, thanks to Wang Dutong sending more than a dozen civil servants to assist me and check carefully, otherwise I wouldn't be able to tell if someone pretended to be the leader."

"There are more than 400 people because their family members are inconvenient in Guanzhong?"

"Yes, but I heard that some family members have died. Commander, this matter may be a long-term matter, and we have to keep looking for it."

Chen Qing nodded, "I'll let Xiao Yi be responsible for this matter."

"Commander, can I still follow you?"

Yang Yuanqing stammered: "Wang Dutong is leaving, I don't want to follow Fu Xuan, his nephew Fu Moshan is very vicious, he actually called me Huanqing dog!"

"Fu Moshan is a mad dog, don't pay attention to him!"

Chen Qing patted Yang Yuanqing on the shoulder and smiled, "Don't worry, I've already made an agreement with Wang Dutong, you, Zheng Ping, and Xiao Yi will all be transferred to me."

Yang Yuanqing was overjoyed, "Fortunately, the commander is back, otherwise I will have a sad life in the future."

"You have 1000 people under your command, and Zheng Ping has 1000 people under him. That's 2000 people, and there are still 1000 people left. Do you have any suggestions?"

Yang Yuanqing thought for a while and said: "Wang Dutong has a magic arm crossbow army under his command, 500 people. It was established half a year ago and was selected from the entire Western Army. If we have won the fight, if we can get this god arm crossbow army, it will be of great help to the future command and recovery of Qinzhou!"

Chen Qing was really tempted. He knew that only bed crossbows and god arm crossbows could shoot through Jurchen cavalry armor. It was not easy to practice god arm crossbows, so he must seize this opportunity.

"But it's very difficult!" Yang Yuanqing said again.

"why?"

"This god arm crossbow army has been booked by Fu Moshan, and he will be the commander of this army." Yang Yuanqing regretted telling Chen Qing about it.

Chen Qing suddenly nodded, and went around in a circle, and he was going to compete with that brute Fu Moshan for the army again.

……

In the afternoon, Chen Qing hesitantly mentioned the matter of the God Arm Crossbow Army to Wang Yan, and Wang Yan slapped his thigh, "Why didn't you say it yesterday, I promised to return this army to Wu Jie last night!"

Chen Qing was taken aback, "Didn't you say that General Fu... wants to take over this army?"

"That's just wishful thinking on his part!"

Wang Yan took a military document from the table and handed it to Chen Qing, "This is Fu Xuan's recommendation letter. He really wants to give this army to his nephew, but do you see that I signed and printed it?"

Chen Qing looked at the military text, and the column for the general below was still blank.

Wang Yan sneered and said: "I don't want to give this army to his nephew at all. His nephew will never go to the front line to fight. Giving it to him is just a decoration in the barracks. Such a sharp army was wasted, so yesterday As soon as Wan Wujie opened his mouth, I immediately agreed."

At this moment, Fu Xuan came in angrily, followed by his nephew Fu Moshan.

"Old Wang, what you did this time is not authentic!" Fu Xuan denounced Wang Yan as soon as he entered the tent.

Chen Qing stood aside and looked at Fu Moshan. He hadn't seen him for almost a year. He had grown fat. Last year he was a very black, strong and burly man, like a wild boar, but now the wild boar has become a domestic pig, with such a thick neck and a belly. It's so big, like a big iron pot upside down on the stomach.

Fu Moshan also recognized Chen Qing, a smug smile appeared on his face, and he looked at Chen Qing provocatively.

Of course, Chen Qing understood the source of his pride, because his uncle was about to become a general, and he thought he could finally take care of himself, poor pig, didn't he know that he was already forming the Qinzhou Army?

Chapter 114 Building the 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. 200 people, and then 800 people will be handed over to you, which is 800 people, and then you ask Wu Jie to bring back the 300 god-armed crossbow troops, [-] people, and your troop quota will be full."

"There are 300 more people!"

Wang Yan laughed loudly, "It's not that accurate. Zhang Jun said he would give you a quota of 3000 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 and rations yourself , 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, there is nothing he can do, as long as I promise to give him [-] troops, he will control 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 300 yuan. 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 smiled wryly and said: "Hizhi asked Wang Dutong for this army this morning, and he said that he had already returned it to you. In the end, he only gave 800 people to Xiaozhi. He also counted the 300 troops among them, and said It is for a total of [-] low-ranking people."

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 was built a month ago. It is a plank barracks with hundreds of large tents and a large open space as a training ground, enough to accommodate 5000 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.

Chapter 115 The Barracks

"Commander, everything in this barracks is good, but it's a little too far from Dasan Pass, hey!"

The person who complained was fat Zheng Ping. He had a background in Lin'an and was personally appointed by Zhang Jun as the commander of the second battalion of the Bazi Army. He walked around the barracks and started grinning.

His lieutenant, Zhao Xiaoyi, smiled at Chen Qing in a low voice: "This fat man spends his days wandering around the Dasan Pass, and if he doesn't go for a day, he will be exhausted!"

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Dasanguan also built a tile in March this year, which is the commercial complex of the Song Dynasty. It integrates eating, drinking, and entertainment. There are four brothels in it. Soldiers go home to visit their relatives once a month when they are not fighting.

These measures stabilized the morale of the army, but they also produced some adverse reactions. Many generals indulged in Wazi's eating, drinking and having fun, and Zheng Ping was one of them.

Chen Qingcui immediately went forward and patted Zheng Ping on the shoulder, and said with a smile, "Do you want me to build you a tile in the barracks as well?"

Zheng Ping was taken aback, he turned his head and glared at Zhao Xiaoyi angrily, and said with a chuckle, "I just complain, if I want to choose with Fu again, I'd rather go back to Lin'an to sell medicine!"

"I thought you couldn't live without Wazi!"

"Hey! It's just a hobby! You have been staying in Lin'an and never came back. I feel depressed, so I can only go to Wazi for entertainment. Now that you are back, I am full of energy. It doesn't matter if Wazi goes or not."

Seeing that he spoke insincerely, Chen Qing couldn't help but smiled slightly, "We will go to Dasan Pass in a few days to compete for the [-] God Armed Crossbow Troops. Then you go together and let you have a good time."

"Commander, that's all I'm saying. You're serious. You just said, when are we going to Sanguan?"

Chen Qing laughed loudly, "Just wait! Put the troops in the camp first, everyone will eat some dry food tonight, and all kinds of military supplies will be delivered tomorrow."

……

Early the next morning, Chen Qing led the generals to investigate the situation of the water source.

The water source is the most important resource of the military camp, and it is the basic guarantee for the long-term garrison of the army. Chen Qing had enough experience when he was stationed at Jiandao Pass. The first step of his garrison was to search for the water source.

Leading the way for Chen Qing was a capital officer named Wang Zhong. He led 180 logistics soldiers to garrison the barracks for two months, and he still belonged to Chen Qing in the future.