The emperor praised this, Qu Duan said nothing more! He knelt down and kowtowed to thank him, and then stood aside.

Zhang Jun and other ministers were in a complicated mood and each was qualified to serve as the general manager of the army. However, since the emperor appointed Qu Duan, he had to come forward one by one and greet him. Congratulations to Qu Duan for such a great task.

Qu Duan's temper was not as arrogant as he was back then. With the title of marching chief, the next step was to add the title of shu prime minister. In terms of official positions, he was no longer comparable to these shu prime ministers. However, when Zhang Jun and Zhao Ding and others came to pay their respects, Qu Duan still held the courtesy of subordinates. Although Zhang Jun had a serious rift with Qu Duan, he was also surprised at this time, and he didn't know why this person changed his character to this level.

He used the Shujin Prime Minister to rule Guanshan, and Qu Duan was just a general, so he dared to confront everyone. Even if he later made a taboo, Zhang Jun arrested him and wanted to behead him and killed him. Qu Duan had never said a word of begging for mercy. If this person was just for the position of marching chief supervisor, he might not even buy the emperor's account, and he would not deliberately flatter several Shujin Prime Ministers.

Zhang Jun and others were surprised, but Zhao Huan knew this well. Seeing Qu Duan like this, Zhao Huan smiled with satisfaction and smiled at the imperial guards present, "Why, I've just come to see the marching generals who are here?"

Wu Jie and others looked at each other, but they really didn't expect that the emperor would be the chief marching manager until the end.

Everyone was a general of the Western Army, and they knew each other well and had no objection to Qu Duan's talents. It can be said that at that time, the generals of the Song army were able to command large corps to fight without any confusion. Only Yue Fei and Qu Duan had the spare time, and even better in planning and judging the overall situation.

However, this person is too proud and kind to care about his soldiers but treats his colleagues less. Moreover, when the Jin soldiers invaded, Qu Duan was not allowed to do anything. In order to preserve the strength of his source soldiers, he sat down and watched friendly troops besieged many times, which made the generals of the Western Army criticized him and were very dissatisfied with his character.

But at this time the emperor spoke, but everyone had nothing to say. They pressed their swords and bowed and said, "I have met the general manager."

Someone also said: "I have met the general."

Qu Duan was named the mighty general in the past, and was very proud and quite proud. The generals saw it. They often ridiculed him. At this time, they mentioned the old title and mocked him, but they also taught Qu Duan to have nothing to say. According to Yue Fei's example, the marching chief officer increased the rank of general, although there was no clear edict at this time. It was also appropriate to call a few words in advance.

Qu Duan was in front of the imperial court and did not dare to receive the full ceremony of the generals. Seeing that everyone came up to worship each other, they also bowed half of the ceremony. When the generals stepped down, Qu Duan remembered what Zhao Huan had told him. He pondered for a moment and smiled at the generals: "Everyone is an old friend, and they know each other's roots. I, Qu Duan, was afraid of being able to tolerate others before, and I offended you many times. This time Your Majesty will entrust such an important task to me. If Qu cannot work with you, how can you be so trustworthy with your Majesty?"

He took a deep breath and pulled out an arrow from the arrow bag behind him. He folded his hands gently, and heard a "crackling" sound, and the arrow was broken into two pieces. Qu Duan smiled slightly, and the two broken arrows were still on the ground. He said loudly: "Qu Duan must treat all generals and the imperial guards equally, and will never make things difficult for you. He will also work with you to serve the court. If you violate this oath, there will be such an arrow."

Every commander and general will naturally have some remarks when they worship the general. But like Qu Duan, the four words "sharmony and support" are the first person. What he is thinking? Everyone naturally understands that such a stubborn and stubborn person is actually doing this when he goes to the battle to worship the general. He also made up his mind to live in harmony with the generals and stop doing the old ways.

Everyone listened strangely and had a complicated mood in their hearts, but they could not speak. However, Yao Pingzhong had never worked with Qu Duan for such kindness, so he had no grudges. At that time, the first person was the first to smile and pulled out the arrow and broke it hard. He followed Qu Duan and said the oath. Seeing that he was like this, the rest of the people stepped forward one by one, broke the arrow as an oath, expressing their willingness to follow Qu Duan and serve the country.

Qu Duan did not ask Zhao Huan in advance for his actions, but the results were very good. Although the generals were still a little reluctant, because Qu Duan was the first to show his example, everyone followed him and said nothing. As long as Qu Duan could really change his temper in the past, the generals would naturally not get along with him.

Zhao Huan was overjoyed when he saw it, and immediately stretched out his hand and ordered: "Come here!"

The guards standing around had already prepared themselves. After hearing the emperor's order, they immediately opened the wine jar in a corner of the conference hall, and a fragrance of white wine came to their noses.

"Good wine!" Zhao Huan praised first. When the guards filled the wine bowl and delivered it to him, the wine smelled even more strong, and the pure white soju wine swaying in the bowl was also pure white.

During the Song Dynasty, the prototype of later generations of strong wine was already in the form of a later generation. Zhao Huan liked strong wine in nature and could not accustomed to the warm rice wine. He made it easy to develop it and finally made this kind of fine wine with a strong aroma.

"All the generals, drink."

Zhao Huanping picked up the bowl and drank it all in one go. The emperor was so refreshed that more than ten commanders were all excited. It was not on the battlefield at this time, so he could not use his sword to express his loyalty and bravery to the emperor, so he had to raise the bowl and signal it all in one go.

"Okay, I will raise an army today, and I will wait for you for good news." Zhao Huan did not smash the wine bowl, but handed it to the guards around him, and then smiled and said, "Only by combining civil and military affairs can we achieve great things. All generals will go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, but you need to remember that without the support of the Political Affairs Hall and the rules of the Privy Council, how can the army achieve great things alone? I don't respect all the ministers, please respect all the ministers and ministers."

After the words came, the generals naturally gathered their fun. They immediately filled the wine and smiled and went forward to worship several Guanyin. Zhang Jun and others were surprised at first, and then moved. Although they were not as talented as Yu Yunwen, they actually worked hard in the Guanyin Academy and did a lot of logistics work. The most fear was that the emperor would not see it, and the generals would become more and more favored, and subverted the tradition of emphasizing civil servants. At this time, seeing that the emperor knew the role of civil servants in his heart, he ordered the military to respect him in the future. Everyone was comforting. Although the wine was so strong that it was hard to drink, they all drank it all.

Yu Yunwen was a young man and had a bright future, so he didn't care about the position of the head coach or the reward for a while. However, Zhao Huan's handling of Qu Duan's affairs was not obvious. At this time, he inadvertently sootheed the concerns and grievances in the hearts of Zhang Jun and other civil officials, which made him admire him very much. At this moment, this young hero realized that military efforts required to deal with interpersonal relationships, weigh the interests of all parties, comprehensively consider them, and then guide them based on benefits. Although the knowledge in this area is different from military affairs, it still requires experience, wisdom, and even talent.

At this time, Zhao Huan could not understand the thoughts of the young man beside him. He paid a general and awarded a seal of honor. The army gathered together. Time was tight, and the vanguard had already appeared in Hebei. If the enemy was cautious enough or had a sharper sense of smell, he would definitely be able to find that the large number of Song Dynasty imperial guards appeared in the Hebei battlefield. If Zong Bi cut off his arm, he would definitely give up Hebei, abandon the Yellow River line, and quickly fled to the Yanjing area, and rebuilt the defense line along the Great Wall. In this way, the Song army's plan to cut off the Jin army and enter Yanjing with an absolute advantageous force would inevitably be greatly affected.

Due to the urgency of time, after the Golden Palace was appointed as a general, Zhao Huan ordered the three armies to set off together, cross Taihang, and head straight for the land of Hebei.

Taihang Mountain is also known as Wujie Mountain, Wangmu Mountain and Nuwa Mountain. It runs for thousands of miles in the four provinces of Beijing, Hebei, Shanxi and Henan. The entire mountain is steep in the east and slow in the west. This time, the imperial guards in the east, nearly 30,000 pioneers had already left Taihang in advance, and the rest of the troops also sent vanguard troops into the mountain. After Quduan received the order, there were still about 150,000 people. They set off from Taiyuan and Xiongzhou in sequence, from Taiyuan Valley, crossed mountains and ridges, and entered the mountains.

The entire Taihang River stretches very broadly, and most of the altitudes are above 1,000 meters. Although the winding paths between the mountains have long been climbing and walking. The so-called Taihang Eight Paths have been famous for a long time, but the mountain is steep and not easy for large troops to operate. In history, military operations, if you want to attack Taiyuan, you either cross the Yellow River from Guanzhong and go straight into Shanxi, or you go from the grassland into the clouds, from north to south. As for the military operations over Taihang, a small number of elite troops are still acceptable, and large troops are too difficult to pass through. Although there have been many examples of large troops crossing Taihang in history, few successes and many failures are because the mountains are dangerous. As long as one side builds a city and sets a village on the opposite side to defend it, the army that crosses the mountains will be difficult to break through and make achievements.

Since the Privy Council formulated a battle plan to attract the main force of the enemy in the Central Plains, the main force of the Western Army crossed Taihang and cut off the enemy's rear, the investigation of the Taihang Mountains and the so-called Taihang Eight Paths was also included in the battle plan of the Privy Council early.

Because Taihang charity was active, the sectar and the sectars were in contact with the sectars in the mountains, and many of them were directly under the command of the sectar. Therefore, they had twice the result with half the effort when they acted. Since the entire huge combat plan was determined, a large amount of materials were transferred into the mountains, and local people were hired with money and food, and even secretly transferred many civilians from Hedong to build ancient plank roads, widen old roads, add bridges, set up supplies from the Ministry of War, and draw dangerous maps. Over the past year, many imperial guards have entered Taihang in advance, and even sneaked into Hebei to observe the enemy situation. The entire mountain road and the situation of the squat in Hebei were under the control of the Song army.
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