Destroy Jin and conquer Song, and carry the Northern Expedition through to the end

Chapter 105: Good and Bad Mixed

"I am Liu Huai, the former commander of the Shandong Loyalty Army."

"I am the Secretary of the Tianping Army, the leader of the Xinzi Army, Xin Qiji."

"I have admired you for a long time."

"I have admired you for a long time."

After hunting down the bandits entrenched in the village, Xin Qiji asked the rest of the people to search the village to see if there were any enemies or survivors, and formally introduced himself to Liu Huai.

Liu Huai was stunned for a moment, and then quickly said that he had long admired him. Even Xin Qiji immediately followed suit and became polite.

In fact, neither of them was lying.

Needless to say, Liu Huai.

This is Xin Qiji!
This is Xin Qiji, the dragon among ci poets who is as famous as Su Shi in the history of Chinese poetry and is known as 'Su Xin'!
When drunk, he turned on the lamp to watch the sword, dreaming back to blow the horns and even camp.

I searched for him among the crowd for hundreds of times, but when I turned around, he was standing in the dim light.

Who in the world can rival Cao and Liu? If I had a son, I hope he would be like Sun Zhongmou.

How extraordinary is this literary talent that the poetry of the Song Dynasty could occupy half of the pages of the compulsory education textbooks that were fought over almost fiercely in later generations?
It can be said that if Xin Qiji could write a poem similar to "A Poem to Encourage Liu Dalang" for Liu Huai, then even if Liu Huai died on the spot now, as long as the poem exists for thousands of years in the future, Liu Huai will be able to live forever in cultural terms.

For example, Master Cen and Mr. Danqiu, these two people were not good at either literature or martial arts, but they just invited Li Bai to have a big drink, and their reputation will be passed down through the ages, so naturally they have a place.

For Xin Qiji, who was only 22 years old at this time, Liu Huai was also an unignorable and impressive hero.

Whether it was Li Tieqiang's experience, or Li Tieqiang's retelling of Liu Huai's statement about the world situation, or Liu Huai's real northern expedition to this place, these facts all gave Xin Qiji a feeling of great surprise and joy.

Liu Dalang is brave and resourceful, dares to speak and act, and does what he says. He has both political and military strategies. Who can deny that he is a hero in the world?
The two found a clean and flat place and started chatting with each other.

Xin Qiji asked in a deep voice, "Brother Liu, Li Tieqiang and I are close friends. I've also heard him talk about what you said and did, so I won't waste any more words. Why are you here, Brother Liu?"

Liu Huai first turned his head to look at the thatched huts in the mountain village and the corpses carried out of them, then frowned and said, "Brother Xin, please be polite. I'm just a guest at home. You can just call me Liu Dalang. To be honest, I'm here to contact Chief Geng Jing."

"Our loyal army has recaptured Haizhou and is currently in Yizhou, facing Linyi City. We will wait for the autumn harvest before launching a massive attack on the city."

Xin Qiji also saw the corpses and heard what Liu Huai said, and his face suddenly became extremely ugly.

He forced himself to calm down and replied calmly, "Liu Dalang, I'm the fifth son of the Five Clan at home, so you can just call me Wulang. So, are the Zhongyi Army here to contact my Tianping Army and attack Linyi City from both sides?"

Liu Huai turned around and was also silent for a moment before finally shaking his head: "That was the original plan."

"original?"

Liu Huai nodded. "Our Loyal Army is waiting for the people to harvest in autumn, and we are willing to let go of any opportunity to fight. Your army is acting like the Jin thieves. I absolutely dare not lead the Tianping Army into Yizhou."

After saying this, Xin Qiji's face suddenly turned red, and the guards behind him immediately became angry, opened their eyes wide and glared at Liu Huai.

Guan Chongyan, who was standing behind Liu Huai, clenched his knife and looked coldly at Xin Qiji's personal guards.

Xin Qiji ignored the quarreling guards. After moving his lips for a moment, he spoke with difficulty, "This matter... this matter was indeed inappropriate for our Tianping Army."

Liu Huai secretly breathed a sigh of relief. As the saying goes, one should speak to people in a way that suits them. If he were to tell the rebels who came from the Green Forest about the wanton killing of innocent people and the suffering of the people, that would be nonsense. But for Xin Qiji, who had multiple identities, these words had a huge killing power.

For the Confucian scholar Xin Qiji, massacring a village was a heinous crime in every sense of the word.

For General Xin Qiji, allowing the army to attack its own people would greatly affect its combat effectiveness.

For Xin Qiji, the leader of the Tianping Army, Liu Huai's words almost told him clearly that even if the Tianping Army gained power for a while, it would not achieve anything great in the end by acting like this.

But our loyal and righteous army is here to accomplish great things and cannot side with you.

Xin Qiji could only continue to explain: "The Tianping Army has a diverse background. Many of them are heroes of the green forest and strong men from the rivers, lakes and seas. In such a chaotic world, they can't survive. They brought hundreds or even thousands of people, along with the gold, silver and food stored in the camp, to join the Tianping Army to fight against the Jin.

For example, the Pingshan Hu is a branch of the Taishan bandits, with about three thousand soldiers under their command.

These people often form their own independent armies and are completely unable to enforce military discipline. If we try to reorganize them, the Tianping Army will be in internal strife before the Jin bandits are defeated."

After Liu Huai took control of the conversation, he replied with a sigh, "You can't even enforce military discipline, how can you defeat the Jin bandits? What did your leader Geng say? Did he not even think of dismantling the mountain stronghold?"

"Tear down the mountaintops?" Xin Qiji was stunned for a moment, then he felt that this description was exquisite: "Of course there is, but every time it is brought up, there are people who say that if you want to reorganize the army, you should first dismantle the Wang Army, the Rulin Army and my Xinzi Army, but how is that possible?

If these three armies are gone, it is hard to say whether Chief Geng can maintain his position as the chief.

But if we don't reorganize these three armies and forcibly disband the others, they will immediately disband."

Liu Huai was immediately speechless. It was not until then that he realized that Xin Qiji at this time was not the tactical strategist who later established the Flying Tiger Army, suppressed the bandits in Jingxiang, and wrote "Ten Essays on Beautiful Plans".

Instead, he was a young general with unparalleled courage, amazing learning ability but little experience.

"How many people are there in the Tianping Army now?" Liu Huai asked.

"One hundred thousand."

"Be more precise."

"...that's an army of 100,000."

Liu Huai once again exclaimed, "What a great guy!"

"I won't ask why there's no military register." Liu Huai rubbed his brows, realizing that his initial plan was a bit too good to be true: "There are so many of you. If anyone wants to disband, just let them go. Those who need rectification should be rectified, and those who need to be laid off should be laid off. Why keep so many people around?
"Who can command a hundred thousand troops, Xin Wulang, or Li Tieqiang? Don't ever say that Chief Geng can command a hundred thousand troops at will. You must know that even Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang, could only command this many."

Xin Qiji was inexplicably flustered, but Liu Huai didn't wait for him to think about it, and asked another question: "Xin Wulang, I forgot to ask you just now. You are the leader of an army and the chief secretary in charge of seals and military law. How did you end up here?"

Xin Qiji opened his mouth, as if lost in thought. After a moment, he said, "Our Tianping Army has broken camp and headed south to Yizhou. I came here to study the terrain and find a place to camp. Li Tieqiang's Rulin Army and my Xinzi Army are just over ten miles to the northwest."

Liu Huai did not expect that the Tianping Army would think the same as him, and was slightly stunned.

Xin Qiji thought Liu Huai was going to stop the Tianping Army from advancing south, and quickly said, "It's too late! The army has already been mobilized, and countless military funds have been spent. Not only you, but even Chief Geng can't stop it now. Remember, this is an army of 100,000!"

Liu Huai frowned, feeling a bit ominous. "Wu Lang, please introduce me to Chief Geng. I need to meet him no matter what."

Xin Qiji nodded and just as he made a gesture to invite her in, he saw a personal guard walking towards him quickly, holding a little girl, about two or three years old, with two buns on her hair.

(End of this chapter)