Son of Song Dynasty

Chapter 151
Pan Mei now only has more than [-] soldiers and horses in her hands. Even with Chen Yu and other private soldiers entangled with the leading party and others, there are only more than [-] people, but there are as many as [-] to [-] soldiers from the Southern Han Dynasty in the city!
At present, the Song army is relying on the discord among the people after the civil strife in the city and the lack of morale in the army, so that they can control the more with less and barely maintain the order in the city without causing chaos. This is already very good. Public grievances and public indignation may ruin the event.

After Pan Mei thought for a while, she waved her hand and said, "Right now, we just need to calm people's minds, and the follow-up processing will have to wait until His Royal Highness the County King personally handles it."

Chen Yu was startled for a moment, and then he understood.

At noon the next day, Pan Mei's banner officer arrived in Panyu with a follow-up [-] cavalry army, and stabilized the chaos in the city in time. With a little more troops, Song soldiers on horseback patrols began to appear on the streets. The gangsters and broken soldiers who looted and looted in the market have disappeared one after another.

Also on this day, Pan Mei and Chen Yu completed the rectification of more than 2 soldiers from the Southern Han Dynasty with a sharp knife.

"Reorganizing the troops" was a strategy for dealing with the aftermath of the war that had been decided long before the expedition. It was also a common strategy used by the Song Dynasty to deal with local separatist forces. It was not easy for the Forbidden Army to train and raise troops, and the cost required was far more than that of the local army. Therefore, the Forbidden Army was also a top priority. Because of their high quality, it was impossible for the imperial court to keep an expensive and expensive forbidden army in the place for a long time. This was determined by the national policy of the Song Dynasty court to "strengthen the trunk and weaken the branches". What's more, Lingnan is not a key area of ​​national defense, nor can it be rotated. To deploy high-standard armed forces to garrison.

For this reason, the Imperial Imperial Army will definitely withdraw to the capital, and the only troops that will stay behind for a long time in the future will be the troops recruited and trained locally, that is, the so-called "Xiang Army".

In terms of recruiting and accepting rebels, the Song Dynasty has rich experience and has always had a fixed set of practices, usually rewarding gold and silver generously, and bestowing officials and titles everywhere. This is the case, and so is the subsequent Southern Tang Dynasty!
But this time, Pan Mei played a new trick that was different from the past. He neither gave money to rewards nor promised any favorable treatment to these surrendered soldiers. The middle and upper-level officers selected a group of lower-level officers and soldiers from the Song army to be promoted to fill the gap. This is equivalent to rewarding combat meritorious service, and it is also conducive to controlling this large number of Southern Han soldiers.

These selected officers and soldiers are basically southerners, and most of their origins are in Lingnan or the Hunan area close to Lingnan. They are more adaptable to the local water, soil and climate, and are usually willing and able to settle down here.On the other hand, this is also to avoid language barriers and customs differences between them and the local descendants, causing the lower-level Southern Han descendants to rebound and cause trouble.

This trick is called "mixing sand". It was what Zhao Dezhao told Pan Mei before the surprise attack on Panyu. Pan Mei thought the name was wonderful.

Of course, the Song army could not pick out so many qualified officers who could serve as officers. Pan Mei's solution was to exchange the officers from the original Southern Han surrendered troops with each other's subordinate battalions. In this situation, even if any general wants to make trouble, it will definitely not cause trouble.

This trick was not taught by Zhao Dezhao, but came from the common routine used by the Song Dynasty court to prevent military generals from rebelling. It can also be regarded as a feature of the Song Dynasty's military system.

Pan Mei himself was a victim of this routine in the past. He has always been quite critical of the court's approach, because "generals don't know soldiers, and soldiers don't know generals" extremely harms the combat effectiveness of the army and is a "self-inflicted injury." She tried to maintain stability and prevent chaos, but people's heads follow their butt. Now that Pan Mei's butt had changed places, she naturally used this trick without any politeness.

Two days later, Zhao Dezhao arrived with two main forces of more than [-] infantrymen. The rich and powerful also stood firm one after another, so that the lineup that came to welcome Zhao Dezhao was unprecedentedly grand, and the well-dressed scholars almost filled half of the square in front of the Southern Han Palace.

Zhao Dezhao rode a tall horse, looking down at the crowd coldly, his eyes swept over one after another humble and flattering faces, these people, there were old and young, tall and short, some were from rich aboriginal families, Some of them are the same as Liu Yun’s ancestors. Their ancestors were officials and generals who moved here from the Central Plains, and they took root here after the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. They're all the same with fat brains and hideous faces!
He felt that some words of the Confucian sages were quite reasonable: "The country has no way, and the rich are ashamed." It's a good thing, and [-]% of it is silverfish and bastards.

While Zhao Dezhao was thinking about how to deal with these silverfish and bastards, he listened casually to Pan Mei's report, nodded slightly from time to time to show his approval, and hardly said a word.

It wasn't until Pan Mei mentioned that the whereabouts of the Southern Han emperor Liu Xuan was unknown, Zhao Dezhao frowned slightly, and turned to look at Pan Mei: "You mean, Liu Xuan was not caught?"

Pan Mei hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice: "Our Heavenly Soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty only had a few hundred soldiers in a surprise attack, and they were unable to wipe out the enemy in street fighting, so they did not rush into the palace first. Chen Yu and others who returned to our Great Song Dynasty led their own private soldiers. , took advantage of the chaos and rushed into the palace together to settle the overall situation, this matter is a matter of urgency, and we did not make our own decisions, please forgive me, Your Highness."

After Zhao Dezhao listened quietly, he stared at Pan Mei with a faint smile on his face.

When Zhao Dezhao saw it, Pan Mei felt a little nervous, and couldn't help worrying whether the things she had done were in line with his wishes?He could imagine it with his ass. The military riots in Panyu City, especially the killings in the Southern Han Palace, hurt the "benevolence" reputation of the Song Dynasty court. If it was reported back to Tokyo, it would definitely cause an uproar in the court. At that time, I might become a person who takes the blame.

"You!" Zhao Dezhao nodded to Pan Mei with a smile, and said in a low voice, "Good job!"

A big stone fell in Pan Mei's heart, and she suddenly became energetic. She held a piece of paper from her arms and said with a smile: "Your Highness, Chen Yu and other meritorious ministers, a total of 23 people, are all on this list."

Zhao Dezhao was not interested in this, and he didn't even look at the list. The whip in his hand pointed at the crowd in the square in front of the hall: "Send an order to send three thousand soldiers to surround this place!"

Pan Mei was taken aback.

(End of this chapter)