Qiming 1158

Chapter 721 You are not a scholar-officer

This political change, called a palace coup, was the first and very large-scale political action launched by Zhao Tan after the war.

He acted quickly. After the officials of the main war faction arrived, before Zhao Gou [Back to Luan], he took down the main peace faction government in one fell swoop, realizing the seamless switch from the main war to the main war.

The dominant communist government under Zhao Gou was struck by thunder and overturned.

The main war faction government under the leadership of Zhao Tan officially came to power and began to fully control the political and military affairs of the Song Dynasty.

After Zhang Jun arrived in Lin'an, he was personally appointed by Zhao Tan as a member of the Privy Council. He was in charge of the Privy Council and the Song Dynasty military power. With the support of Emperor Zhao Tan, he could carry out drastic reforms in the army.

After the personnel appointment was completed, Zhao Tan was very happy with the situation of [Zhongzheng Yingchao], so he called them together to hold a meeting to conduct a comprehensive reflection on the disastrous defeat of the Song Dynasty to the Ming Kingdom in this war, and Take targeted countermeasures.

Each of them had a lot on their minds about the fiasco.

Zhang Jun first expressed his opinion.

"This great defeat can be said to be three feet of freezing and not a day's cold. One is the slack and waste of armaments along the border. The other is the indifference and timidity of court officials. It's the third."

At the beginning, Zhang Jun listed three major reasons for the inevitable defeat of the Southern Song Dynasty, which was unanimously agreed by all the participants.

Then Zhang Jun broke up the issue with them and talked about it.

"The desertion of armaments along the border is not a matter of one or two days. It is a problem that has arisen since the agreement with the Jin Kingdom. Under the long-term entrustment of the army that can conquer and fight well, it gradually wastes its training and loses its ability to fight. combat power of the past.

Not to mention that the top and bottom of the ordnance are perfunctory and deduct funds, so that the swords and guns are not sharp, easy to rust and corrode, and the bow and crossbow are either of insufficient wood, or the bow string is unqualified, and it cannot be pulled at all, or it will break as soon as it is pulled. .

Officers do not go through strict assessments, and they are awarded important military posts only by looking at who can get the attention of the ministers in the Privy Council. Some of them even exchanged military posts by bribing Shangguan. Is such a person holding a military post for the purpose of rectifying the army and preparing for war? ?
Soldiers too, many old, weak, sick and disabled people fill the army, and the situation of empty pay is very serious. The army that eats empty pay is the general army, and the old, weak, sick and disabled without empty pay are called elite soldiers. ?How many percent? "

Zhang Jun spoke out about the actual problems he had learned, and all the ministers nodded.

Hu Quan also sadly reported to Zhao Tan some of the problems he knew.

"As far as the minister knows, the monarchy of the Jiankang Dutong Sidu has always been known for corruption, and the phenomenon of the army under his command is very serious. There are even rumors that the [-] troops of the Jiankang Dutongsi Ming were killed by him and the army. Less than half of the salaries paid by the generals under the congress are less than half, which shows the extent of corruption in the army!"

Zhao Tan furrowed his brows, his heart was full of anger.

After the war, Zhao Tan basically learned the details of the whole process since the war with the Ming army through comprehensive information from all aspects.

Although the two major commanders of the front line were defeated and destroyed, Liu Qi's subordinates still carried out very fierce resistance. Yangzhou did not abandon it until the last moment, which was to maintain the final dignity of the Song Dynasty, especially Liu Qi himself was also because of the war. Death due to overwork and illness is considered a death in the line of duty.

Therefore, Zhao Tan did not hold Liu Qi accountable for his defeat, and let him equalize his merits and demerits. He would not reward him and his family would not punish him. Everything was the same as before.

He then arranged for Liu Qi's funeral according to the court's custom, but he didn't make a big deal out of it. It was considered to have given Liu Qi face. Even if this page was uncovered, everyone owed each other.

But Jiankang House's guard, the king's power, really deserves to die.

This bastard ran away before the Ming army attacked Jiankang Mansion and left his subordinate Yao Xingli behind to guard Jiangning City. As a result, Jiangning defenders followed Wang Quan's footsteps on the eve of the war, leaving less than [-] defenders to face The [-]-strong Ming army was quickly wiped out.

Yao Xing died in the battle, was chased by Zhao Tan, and was posthumously named Taiwei.

And Wang Quan, the bastard, fled to the Chizhou Metropolitan Secretary and sought the protection of Chizhou Metropolitan Li Xianzhong.

Li Xianzhong was regarded as the best Song general in this battle. Not only did he lead the army to take the initiative to try to retake Jiankang Mansion, but he also reluctantly confronted the Ming army in the field.

Although it was still defeated in the end, it ensured the retreat of the army and preserved Chizhou, and did not allow the Ming army to invade and destroy the Song army's defense line along the river.

Therefore, Zhao Tan decided to promote and reward Li Xianzhong after the war, and severely punish the kingship.

He appointed Yu Yunwen, the editor of the Privy Council, to go to Jiankang House to investigate and collect evidence, and to investigate Wang Quan's crimes of breaking the law before the war and running away in war.

Zhao Song family law does not kill scholar-bureaucrats, but your royal power is not a scholar-bureaucrat, what else do you want?

Especially now that all the backers of the royal power have fallen, and the main war faction is in full power, do you still want to escape from the royal power?
Zhao Tan ordered Li Xianzhong to personally arrest Wang Quan and come to Lin'an. Li Xianzhong was rewarded, and Wang Quan was imprisoned and prepared to be executed.

Of course, in addition to Wang Quan, what annoyed Zhao Tan was Zhao Mi, the commander-in-chief of the Huzhou battle, who lost his soldiers and directly led to the siege of Lin'an.

But seeing that Zhao Mi did resist for a few days and did not run away, and he was 61 years old, and Yang Cunzhong pleaded for him regardless of the previous suspicions, Zhao Yan did not kill him in the end, but demoted him to a commoner and took away all his positions Preferential treatment, the whole family is distributed to Leizhou, and they are not allowed to return home.

Then Wang Quan and Zhao Mi's subordinates were also dealt with one by one according to their position and the size of their faults. Some were sentenced to death in prison, some were demoted to commoners, and some were demoted and retained.

All in all, the factions of Zhao Mi and Wang Quan in the army collapsed, and two hilltops in the Southern Song army collapsed because of this.

The two senior generals, Wang Quan and Zhao Mi, were dealt with one after another. Although they achieved the effect of setting things right, killing chickens and warning monkeys, the military problem was still very serious.

First and foremost is the issue of losses in this battle.

Regarding this issue, Shi Hao, a pragmatist, got first-hand data and reported it to Zhao Tan.

"According to the specific battle report, the troops that attacked the Ming army this time in the Song Dynasty were the three commanding divisions of Zhenjiang, Jiankang, and Chizhou, and the forbidden army of Lin'an Three Ya. The number of soldiers is [-], and the Chizhou Metropolitan Government has a total of [-] soldiers.

In addition to the three major commanding divisions, the number of Lin'an Sanya Forbidden Army who participated in the war was 5, 6000 went north to Zhenjiang in the early stage, and 18 went north to Huzhou in the later stage, plus about [-] navy soldiers used before and after. To sum up, This battle, not including the Battle of Lin'an, which was not fought in the end, a total of [-] troops from the Song Dynasty participated in this battle.

Correspondingly, as the attacking side, the specific troops dispatched by the Ming army, according to the announcement of its chief general Zhou Zhi after the signing of the peace treaty, were 3000 horse infantry troops, [-] navy troops, and a total of [-] troops, almost equivalent to One-third of our army.

In terms of battle damage, the battle damage of the Ming army is currently unknown to us, but the battle damage of our army can be counted. In this battle, except for the 1 people guarding Yangzhou in the Zhenjiang Metropolitan Division, the rest were not destroyed. They were destroyed in Huainan and Jiangnan respectively.

Of the 5 Imperial Imperial Guards, 2 of them were destroyed in Hufu Town together with the routs of the Zhenjiang Dutongsi, and another 3 were wiped out in Huzhou. Except for the routs whose total number is less than [-] according to current statistics In addition, only the [-] defenders of Yangzhou returned to Jiangnan.

As for the Jiankang Mansion, according to the accounts of some of the defeated troops, except for the 4000 people who perished in Jiangning City and the Jiankang navy that was destroyed on the water, the Jiankang Mansion army almost collapsed without a direct confrontation with the Ming army.

In Chizhou, Li Xianzhong attacked Jiankang Mansion with [-] troops, encountered the Ming army, and then retreated. He reported that the loss was about [-], and he preserved the main force of Chizhou Dutongsi, so if he did not lie, Chizhou Dutongsi. still complete.

In other words, Jiankang Dutongsi and Chizhou Dutongsi together lost more than 14 people. Counting the losses of Zhenjiang Dutongsi and Sanya Forbidden Army, the Song Dynasty lost [-] troops in this battle. Fourteen thousand people. "

(End of this chapter)