Ren Pingsheng

Going to Huining again, Wanyan Kang's feeling is very different from last time.The last time I went with Wanyan Honglie, there was Wanyan Honglie making all the fuss along the way, so I didn't have to worry about anything, what I saw was full of colorful flowers and endless scenery.This time, even with the guidance of Pu San Anzhen and the assistance of Wanyan Chenglin, as the envoy, he still found many problems.

The first one is the silver-like pewter spear head of the Meng'an people, as Sakhalin said before.The degree of corruption and depravity is comparable to that of the Eight Banners!Wan Yankang finally understood what Pu San Anzhen meant by "don't be angry", and he was stunned again.JPG.

With the passage of time, the combat effectiveness of the army has declined. This is Wan Yankang's psychological preparation, but he did not expect it to be like this.It looks quite majestic and majestic, with bright armor, dazzling swords and guns, and even the horse looks fat and powerful.As a person who has never been in contact with the army, Wanyan Kang feels pretty good at this time.He is now "talking about soldiers on paper", not only commanding operations, but also evaluating the combat effectiveness of soldiers.

Wanyankang's military level is the same as his ability to rebel, and his theoretical accomplishment is first-class. Perhaps many generals in the world have not read as many military books as him, but his practical experience-zero!At this time, Wanyan Kang didn't have any intuitive experience of rebellion and marching.

On the second day out of Zhongdu, Wan Yankang thought: traveling independently, this is a good opportunity.

He was very active and made a big circle around the team. Personally, he was quite satisfied.I have heard the saying that "the Jurchens are not as tough as they were when the country was founded" before, but looking at them now, they are still fat and strong - such soldiers should be fine for ordinary battles, such as supporting them.

With such an optimistic attitude, Wanyan Kang happily invited the accompanying officers and soldiers to compete with him in martial arts. This was a more reliable method he could think of to get closer to the officers and soldiers.Whether it is recorded in historical records or Wanyan Kang's own plan, this method cannot be regarded as rustic.He also has the advantage of his age. It is quite normal for a boy of this age to like to compete with others in martial arts.

After several matches, he won completely.

This is not quite right.

Sahalin looked at him coldly, and said mockingly: "Don't waste your time, it's useless, that's what they are good at. If you do it again, their faces will not look good, so be careful of self-defeating." Wanyan Kang didn't believe in evil, but he knew that Saha Lin never targeted indiscriminately.With a frown, he made up his mind and offered a reward of a hundred gold, hoping for one defeat.Under the heavy reward, he only asked for two equals with him, one was an officer and the other was just a pawn.Wan Yankang knew that he had an advantage in martial arts, but at his age, he was invincible in the army?No matter how you look at it, it's not quite right.

Because he won the competition, Wanyan Kang was ridiculed by Sakhalin again: "I can't tell who can fight and who can't. You should stop leading troops."

Wanyankang couldn't care less about fighting against him, so he asked him for advice.Sakhalin has strong sarcasm, but he doesn't hide his secrets from Wanyan Kang: "Look at him. Have you ever seen someone with his head held high during a fight? They are all hunched over and ready to go. Have you ever tried it?" The meat is all loose. Look at their actions when they listen to orders, procrastinating. Also, you wake up too early every day, and they are very unwilling to accompany you to get up early."

After thinking for a while, Wanyan Kang went to look for Pu San Anzhen and Wanyan Chenglin, and said angrily: "Everyone let me go, what's the point?" A hint of embarrassment came out.They have seen Wanyan Kang's actions these days, and they are not without muttering in their hearts: What is this for?

Wanyan Kang has a father who is always capable of tricks, and people praise him as a "virtuous king" to his face and behind his back, and they are not unaware of Wanyan Honglie's scheming.Seeing Wanyan Kang like this now, he thought he was up to some tricks.When he ran over to complain, the two laughed again: After all, they are young.

A little embarrassed after laughing.Pu San Anzhen coughed dryly, and explained dryly: "That's all they can do."

Wan Yankang is stunned.JPG.

Hesitantly confirmed to Pu San Anzhen: "Isn't it? Although the martial arts I have learned are considered excellent, they are not top-notch. I have only practiced for a few years? How could it be?"

Pu San Anzhen had a good impression of him, and this matter was not a secret, so she simply said: "Meng'an today is not as good as it was back then. My son, don't think this is a polite remark, or a general talk." Yan Kang still didn't believe it, and asked: "I've also heard of some. I think soldiers who have never been in battle are always worse than those who have seen blood. Why is there such a difference?"

Wanyan Chenglin coughed, Wanyan Kang turned his head suddenly, his eyes burning.Wanyan Chenglin was embarrassed, and reluctantly said: "Is this the difference between seeing blood or not?"

Now that the words were spoken, the two of them no longer concealed anything, and told Wan Yankang everything you said and what I said.

Since the establishment of the Great Jin Kingdom, the swallowing of the Liao Dynasty and the destruction of the Song Dynasty, it has occupied many fertile lands. As a conqueror, the Jurchens took it for granted.Whoever has more military exploits will have more privileges and occupy more territory.This also means that his family possesses and enjoys more resources, and the probability of raising a dude is increased by more than a little bit.

Wan Yankang said: "That's not what I heard. Didn't you just defeat Song? Is Song that weak? It's really that weak, and he was killed a long time ago." in accordance with.It would be too rude to simply say weak or strong, there are levels in the weak, and there are levels in the strong, isn't it?

Pu San Anzhen smiled wryly, "It's not all the people from Meng'an beating."

"What?" Wanyan Kang was stunned again, "What else?"

Wanyan Chenglin saw that he really didn't understand these things, so he took over the topic and gave him a lecture.Wanyan Kang said that Wanyan Honglie didn't know anything about military affairs, so why is he not like that in the eyes of others?

Wanyan Chenglin and Pu San Anzhen talked to you and me, and gave him a remedial lesson. Only then did Wanyan Kang understand that the main force of Jin Kingdom now is not Meng'an Muke when the country was founded.Whenever there is a war, the Han people are drawn as soldiers. In addition, there are also some ethnic minority soldiers, such as the Khitan people.Although the Khitans were defeated, some soldiers and horses remained in an organized manner, such as the Yi Army.The Khitan's Yi army has a very good combat effectiveness, and the Jurchens cannot be underestimated.After most of the people either went to West Liao, or died in battle, etc., some Yi troops merged into the Kingdom of Jin.

During the war, the combat effectiveness of Han soldiers and Khitan soldiers is now stronger than that of Jurchen soldiers.In addition, among the Jurchen soldiers who still maintain combat effectiveness, there is not much difference from Wanyan Kang’s judgment—in the Northeast, where the conditions are harsh, there is a group of Jurchen who have not moved south. You can call them the Jurchen.

Wanyankang is a little desperate: it is a bit difficult to dig into this corner of the resource that the country is eyeing.Looking at the two people next to him, with expressions of concern for the country and the people, Pu San Anzhen was very pleased: "It is a blessing for the country that my son cares so much about state affairs!" Wan Yan Chenglin also said: "My son should work hard to share the country's worries. "

Wanyan Kang was about to cry: [I'm here to rebel!I have the armor and the horse in my hand, now tell me that I can't find anyone, can someone do something? 】If you don’t, you will die miserably, Wanyan Kang quickly cleared up his emotions, and thought: Sure enough, I still need to come out, otherwise, how can I succeed behind closed doors?It's really not easy to win over a girl, but it's a matter of human effort, no matter what, it's better to have a little favorability than to have no sense of existence during this trip.

Instead, he humbly asked his servant Anzhen for advice.When he pulled his face down, Pu San Anzhen felt a little bit in his heart, worried that he would lose his courage and sink, but he didn't want his fighting spirit to rise again.Be more dedicated to answering his questions.

After his explanation, Wanyankang knew that the Khitan people had "rebelled".After Wan Yankang's analysis, it can be known that the Khitan people may not be sincere in surrendering, and the Jurchens are even more cautious when treating the Khitan people. Both sides lack that kind of sincerity. There is also such a big gap in people's psychology, so it seems to be reversed.Although it was suppressed, the flame was finally buried.Jin Guo also used and guarded against the Yi army.There are also Han people, the population is too large, and it is impossible to digest, use, and give official positions, but prevent the Han people from climbing too high to take power.

After Pu San Anzhen finished explaining, she was also a little discouraged, and comforted Wanyan Kang and said: "The matter is not so bad that it cannot be cured, the son should work hard on his own."

Wan Yankang thought in his heart, that is the end of the game, the emperor couldn't see the situation clearly, and he was still angry with Li An'an, and finally there was a virtuous king, who just put his heart on rebellion.Forget it, I'm still going the other way.

Pull up your spirits, and ask servant Anzhen how to march and deploy an army: "With such soldiers and horses, how can we fight to win? It looks very dangerous."

This is Pu San Anzhen's strong point, so I will use this march as an example to explain it to him, and it will be easy and effortless.Many of what he said are verified in the military book, and many are completely different from the military book.

Wan Yankang curiously asked him why. Pu San Anzhen had a studious student, and he was more than happy to talk about it: "Soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent. Have you forgotten, my son, that our soldiers and horses are disorderly?" Everyone has them, and different components have different equipment.When it comes to real transfers, if this difference is ignored, it will be easy for the ranks to split up and be taken advantage of by others.

In addition, servant San Anzhen also taught him the method of passing orders on the march: "Orders must be short and easy to understand. Soldiers are illiterate. If you give a lot of orders in a polite manner, they can't understand. Wouldn't it be a waste of time? Or just before the battle At the time of the handover, the order has not yet been issued, and the enemy army comes to hide and kill again, it is a dead end."

Wanyan Kang memorized them one by one, and then listened to Pu San Anzhen talk about the way of marching and deploying troops.He was a little confused about the formation: "Isn't this waiting for others to fight? It's not flexible." Pu San Anzhen smiled and said: "Wrong, wrong, is it a decoration? The key is to change. Every formation must change, What remains unchanged is a useless formation. This is the same as orders. The battlefield changes in an instant, how can you give you the time to plan how a certain team will change? After rehearsing in advance, if a certain banner is issued, a certain team will How does it change? Wouldn’t it be quicker? For example, to encircle the enemy, the left wing will copy to the left, the right wing will copy to the right, and the central army will advance. This is divided into three groups, which is the simplest formation. It saves the need to divide the troops into three groups before the battle.”

Along the way, Wanyan Kang only felt that he had learned more practical skills than he had learned in the previous ten years.I only hate that I am on the road and have no chance to practice at all.If it was more than a month, I arrived in Huining.

It was snowing heavily in Huining, and after arriving, Wanyankang ordered the camp to be set up and inspected the camp according to what he had learned along the way.

The local officials picked him up, and Wanyankang still remembered a stay-at-home man surnamed Tudan in Huining Mansion who he had met when he came to Huining.Laughing and asking him in Jurchen words: "I haven't seen you for a few years, how is the old man?" Liu Shouwan didn't expect that he still remembered himself, and was quite moved: "I have been asked by the prince, and I have always been very good." Wanyan Chenglin was very surprised, secretly said, the prince He is a careful person, which is really similar to Zhao Wang.

The matter of offering sacrifices to the mausoleum was arranged by the officials themselves, Wanyan Kang only needed to wear a large dress and walk around according to the etiquette.After finishing the work, Wanyankang really wanted to stay a little longer, and then went north for a little more research. He said that he had been to Huining in the past, and he really wanted to go and see more.

Pu San Anzhen said: "That's all right. When the son comes out, don't you want to go to Zhongdu to bring some gifts? It's better to stay for a few more days and prepare the gifts before leaving."

This move was in line with Wanyan Kang's wishes, he thought to himself, since he can't recruit troops right now, it would be good to leave a little impression.He laughed and said, "I'll catch some wild animals myself!" He challenged Wanyan Chenglin to see who could hunt more.Wanyan Chenglin wanted to play with him, so he agreed with a smile.

Wanyan Kang abandoned the use of guards and only recruited some local aborigines.He learned some methods of marching and camping along the way, but he still doesn't know how to fight in battle.The local aborigines are good at hunting, and they are somewhat cooperative, but they are not so good in terms of orders and prohibitions.Wanyan Chenglin saw it, and asked with a smile, "How is it?"

Wanyan Kang said angrily: "You wait!"

Wanyan Chenglin whipped the horse again: "Okay! I can see wolves there. You only have pheasants and rabbits here, so be careful. Your men and horses are still a little unfamiliar. When encountering ferocious animals, be careful."

Wan Yankang watched him lead the team forward, and his side screamed ghostly, and the formation was loose.As a last resort, Wan Yankang took the lead and led the way for them, boosted their morale, and hunted some pheasants and rabbits.He rides and shoots all year round, and his arrow skills are extremely accurate. He has also hunted outside the city, and his arrows are not in vain.

When everyone saw that he was young but had great skills in archery, they applauded and gradually admired him.Wanyan Kang was able to order them gradually, but it was still a bit difficult.It's not that they don't want to listen to him, but they are used to doing their own thing, and sometimes they don't understand his orders.Wan Yankang also spoke Jurchen words, and everyone had to be a little slow to understand.

At the end of the day, Wanyan Kang's team lost, and everyone felt worried, fearing that he would be angry.Wanyan Kang didn't reprimand them first, and made an appointment with Wanyan Chenglin to compare tomorrow: "Come again tomorrow." Wanyan Chenglin said: "At your age, it is not easy to drive these people in one day. After all, they are not trained soldiers. Tomorrow It’s nothing more than that.”

Wan Yankang said: "Tomorrow we will see if we compare."

Servant Anzhen thought of her seniority and age, so she didn't expect it.But seeing Wanyan Kang's face puffed up, he also found it interesting, and pointed him a few words: "The people you recruited are all good in martial arts. It's your fault. If you recruit strangers, you must first organize orders and assign teams. to make them understand what they are going to do.”

What Wanyan Kang was leading was tribe hunters from Wuye and Tesiha. They were strangers to each other, and Pu San Anzhen could tell something was wrong at a glance.Teach him how to lead the army and how to train simple battle formations.Wanyan Kang followed his instructions and corrected them one by one. After a few days, he gradually changed his appearance.

It was cold and nothing happened, and there were no acquaintances to drink.Pu San Anzhen saw that he was learning quickly, and she was in a good mood.Simply teach him a little more: "Being kind does not command soldiers. The little prince always thinks of being thorough in everything. This is not acceptable. Thoughtful in everything, but not complete in everything. There is no general who does not beat soldiers with sticks, and there is no general who is not dead. The marshal of the people. It is not a good thing to be soft-hearted. If you want to protect everyone's life, you want to let everyone die together. You should stop and be disturbed by it." Wan Yankang became more modest, even Wan Yan Chenglin Also learned a lot of practical experience.

The surrounding area of ​​Huining was gradually not enough for the two of them to toss about, the team traveled farther and farther, Wan Yankang also met a lot of people from Meng'an on Shangjing Road, and had a rough assessment of the combat strength in various places.

A few days later, Pu San Anzhen reminded Wan Yankang again: "Your Majesty rushes forward to boost morale, but also remember that it is hunting now, and the prey will die if killed. Skin and eat meat, and bones soaked in wine. You can't die Yes, in captivity, you still peel and eat meat. When you go to the battlefield the next day, you will face humans! Humans and prey are different. People’s hearts are unpredictable." As he spoke, he sighed again.

Wanyan Kang realized it quickly this time, and asked, "You mean the conquest?"

Servant Anzhen stopped talking.

Wanyan Kang sticks out his tongue at Wanyan Chenglin, and the two compete again.

Wanyan Kang gradually became more comfortable in commanding, and the gifts were almost piled up, so Pu San Anzhen advised him to return to the Central Capital as soon as possible.Wan Yankang thought it would be useless to stay any longer, so he readily agreed.Pu San Anzhen first sent scouts to scout the road and report to the camps along the way, but didn't want the scouts to come back, but said: "It's snowing too much, the road is not easy to walk, I'm afraid it will be delayed."

Pu San Anzhen ordered Qingxue to open the way. At first, Wanyan Kang didn't think it was a problem.Until new information came to the desk: Rangers passed by along the way.The expressions of servant Gong Anzhen and Wanyan Chenglin became serious in an instant.