Chapter 136: Fighting for Hetao (I)

After Huo Zhixing left Tongxin City, Hou Dayong slowly returned to Guiyun Temple with the "wind".

Guiyun Temple covers a wide area. In order not to affect the normal religious activities of Dangxiang women in the city, Hou Dayong separates the religious places and residences of Guiyun Temple. Hou Dayong and the officials of the coalition forces all live in the residential area behind.

With a temple, it is not the same thing as there is no monk. Li Man summoned some monks outside under the order of Hou Dayong. Monks are different from craftsmen. The craftsmen come to Tongxin City with a generous salary, but the monks come to Tongxin City with the sense of responsibility to save all living beings. With the belief in saving all living beings, the monks come to Tongxin City one after another, and the long-lost bells, chanting scriptures and the curling smoke appear again in Guiyun Temple.

During the period of time in Qingshui River, Hou Dayong had to command the battle and consider the construction of Tongxin City, the base area. He was so busy that he turned around every day. In the busy life, time ran fast like a thief chased by others, and people could only see the far back.

After Hou Dayong walked into the yard, Feng Sha quickly put down what he had done, walked out of the cottage, and came to the yard gate to welcome Hou Dayong.

Feng Sha was only twenty-five or six years old, and was a handsome young man. He wore the simple soft armor that the staff of the Zhuyuan often wore. This dress was the mighty and flexible and convenient of soldiers. Feng Sha claimed to be a descendant of Feng Changqing, a general of the Tang Dynasty. In order to pursue the glory of his ancestors, he joined the Black Diao Army in Zhengzhou. Because he was educated and clever, he went to the Black Diao Army's staff organization Zhuyuan one after another like Shen Huaijing. Zhuyuan was originally a courtyard and the place where the staff officers of the Black Diao Army worked. Gradually, the Black Diao Army was called this staff organization. Feng Sha and Shen Huaijing were both rising stars selected from the Zhuyuan. Since the establishment of the coalition forces, Hou Dayong's daily affairs have become more and more common, so he asked Feng Sha to help him handle some daily affairs. His identity and what he did were similar to the secretary of later generations.

Hou Dayong entered the gate of the courtyard and always felt something was wrong. Looking around, the courtyard was still as clean and tidy as usual, without any abnormalities. He asked Feng Sha and said, "Has anyone been here today?" Feng Sha held a notepad in his hand, which recorded the names of the people who visited today. Because there were very few people coming to report today, he didn't have to read the notebook and replied, "In the morning, Deputy Commander Bai Shuanghua and Qian Xiangnan Observation Judge came. Deputy Commander Bai mainly talked about the supply of the new Fengzhou army, and Judge Qian did not say anything specific." When Hou Dayong came back, Feng Sha had already reported some things, so he didn't say much, waiting for Hou Dayong to speak.

After listening to Feng Sha's answer, Hou Dayong woke up. There were always many people waiting to ask for instructions in this yard. Today, the yard was empty and no one was waiting to report on work, so he felt something was wrong in a certain place. Hou Dayong laughed silently and thought to himself: I am really sick, and no one is waiting to look for me in the yard, so I feel panicked.

"Steal half a day of leisure for life." Hou Dayong did a few breast protection exercises in the yard. He said to Feng Sha who was standing beside him: "It's rare to be so leisurely, let's kill a game." Hearing the command of the Jiedushi, Feng Sha walked to the cottage a few steps and took the heavy orchid jade go. This orchid jade go is Feng Sha's favorite thing. He always carried it with him. The chess pieces are smooth and delicate, and they feel a warm feeling when they are held.

Hou Dayong's Go level is average. Since Feng Sha got to his side, he has been in the same game as Feng Sha when he has nothing to do. Hou Dayong's Go level is far from Feng Sha, and he lost in almost every game. Hou Dayong was not angry, and he took a break from time to time, let Feng Sha play chess with him.

When Feng Sha set up the chessboard, Hou Dayong smiled and said, "You stinky chess game, today I will let you taste my experience." Feng Sha knew that the Jiedushi played chess just to relax. He didn't care about winning or losing. He smiled and said, "Although the Jiedushi made rapid progress, he is not my opponent now."

Humans are group animals. Friends and relatives have the desire to communicate, and equal communication is also indispensable. Even emperors sometimes demoted themselves and found a few friends to relax. This is also an important psychological reason why Gao Qiu of the Song Dynasty could become a confidant of the Song Dynasty by relying on his good football skills.

Hou Dayong also has many friends. These friends are divided into different levels according to their identity differences. One type is people with relatively high status, such as Wang Pu, deputy envoy of the Privy Council, Wang Yanchao, the governor of the Yongxing Army, Li Hui, the governor of the Banzhou Army, Xiang Xun, and others. These types of friends can communicate equally; the other type is good helpers in career and their confidants, such as Shi Hu, Guo Jiong, Qian Xiangnan, He Wulang, Kuang Cao, Meng Shu, Jiang Hui, Hu Li, etc. These people can communicate equally. ;The three categories are relatively low status and confidants and friends, and the most genius are in the Black Eagle Army, such as Chen Meng, Du Gang, Tie Xiangnan, Duan Wuwei, Ling Shi and Feng Sha, who are around them. Because of their low status, they are difficult to achieve true spiritual equality and have more command and obedience relationships; some are pure subordinates, and most of these people are generals in the coalition army, such as Yang Tianpan, Guang Zituo, etc.; some have average friendships, and more for the exchange of interests, such as Sima Ling, the Minister of Personnel, Luo Ling, the Sogdian.

In theory, Feng Sha is a confidant and friend with a low status. Although his status is relatively low than Hou Dayong, he is free and easy and always has a generous attitude towards Hou Dayong. His attitude towards Hou Dayong is respectful and close, which makes Hou Dayong feel very relaxed. Feng Sha's neither humble nor arrogant expression always reminds him of his comrades in the special forces.

After the chessboard was arranged, Fengsha asked the guards to boil fresh water so that they could brew a cup of good tea. After the chessboard was finished, Fengsha sat at the chess table.

When Feng Sha was doing these things, Hou Dayong had nodded to lay a chess piece. At this time, the game of Go was always placed diagonally on the four star positions, that is, the seats, and then Bai Zi made a move first. Hou Dayong followed the rules of this era and waited for Feng Sha. The position where Hou Dayong sat, you could see that there was constant burning incense in the yard in the front yard, in the yard in front of the hall, so there was always a faint smoke floating around in the air.

Seeing this scene, Hou Dayong suddenly felt that this was a bit funny. The front yard of Guiyun Temple was a group of good men and women praying for world peace in front of the Buddha statue, but the back yard was a group of martial artists who were more fierce than butchers, discussing behind the Buddha statue how to kill people more efficiently. The front yard occupied the soul of Dangxiang woman, but the back yard conquered Dangxiang woman's body.

In the middle of the game, as usual, the situation of the White chess gradually became unfavorable. Feng Sha did not give in. He took the style of beating the dogs in the water and made the White chess into a desperate situation step by step. Hou Dayong tried his best to do anything but failed to rescind the decline. After racking his brains, he could only abandon his son and admit defeat. Hou Dayong pretended to be angry and said, "Feng Sha, why are you not humble at all? Are you not afraid that I will turn against you?" Feng Sha smiled and said, "I play chess to people. If the opponent is a narrow-minded person, I must give in. But my opponent is the Jiedushi. The Jiedushi Prime Minister can hold a boat in his stomach, which is a real hero. If I give in, it is disrespectful to the Jiedushi." Although Hou Dayong knew that Feng Sha was a flatterer, Hou Dayong was not disgusted. He mocked himself: "Every time I was killed by Feng Lang, I am the real bad chess player."

Feng Sha explained tactfully: "The chess skills of the Jiedushi are actually quite good, but I learned chess from famous teachers since I was a child. So I took some advantage." Hou Dayong knew that Feng Sha had learned chess seriously and asked casually: "Who is your master?" Feng Sha said: "During the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Tang liked to play chess. There were many Hanlin Academy chess assistants who specialized in playing chess with Emperor Tang. During the Kaiyuan and Tianbao periods, there was a Hanlin Academy chess assistant named Wang Jixin. When he was a young man, he always brought chess tools to his side and communicated with others at any time. In the Kaiyuan year, Wang Jixin and the master Feng Wang played nine consecutive games in Taiyuan. As a result, he won a big victory and was promoted to the number one player in Kaiyuan. He wrote a volume of "Nine Games of Jinguyuan", a volume of "Fengchi Picture", and three volumes of "Chess Trick". I belonged to Wang Jixin's school."

Hou Dayong had never heard of Wang Jixin's name. He asked: "Which Wang Jixin is at the level of a national player?"

Feng Sha replied: "The chess and men are divided into nine grades. One is called entering the gods, the second is sitting and shining. The third is about concreteness, the fourth is about connecting the secret, the fifth is about using wisdom, the sixth is about smallness, the seventh is about fighting power, the eighth is about being foolish, and the ninth is about guarding clumsy. Wang Jixin was the national player of the Tang Dynasty. He should have reached the realm of entering the gods."

After listening, Hou Dayong didn't speak for a long time. He held a chess piece in his hand and gently tapped on the chessboard. Feng Sha's eyes kept moving up and down with Hou Dayong's hand. Although the Jiedushi didn't care about winning or losing, it depends on the Jiedushi's heart, and his heart was something that could not be explained clearly. Seeing Hou Dayong silent, Feng Sha was also a little nervous. When Hou Dayong slapped the Go piece on the chessboard, Feng Sha's heart also jumped hard.

Hou Dayong asked: "When will the military discipline be the worst?"

Feng Sha didn't expect that the Jiedushi's thoughts would jump from Go to the military discipline of the Black Eagle Army. When he heard about the military discipline, it was obvious that he was not angry because he lost the chess. Feng Sha was relieved. He thought for a while and said, "When the war started, the generals and soldiers were in the hearts of fighting. At this time, the military discipline was the best. Whenever the war ended, the soldiers were bored and were most likely to cause trouble."

Hou Dayong nodded and said, "Fengsha, you will go to the deputy commander of Baishuanghua tomorrow and ask him to buy some Go back, the Black Eagle Army, the Independent Army and the Fengzhou Army of the White Wolf Camp, each corps must have a Go picture."

According to the Great Zhou army system, fifty people were one army, the Black Eagle Army had 4,000 people, the Independent Army had 2,000 people, the Fengzhou Army in the White Wolf Camp had 4,000 people, and the total strength of the three armies reached 10,000, which was 200 troops. Feng Sha calculated silently in his mind, and calculated that he wanted to buy 200 Go pieces. He said in surprise: "There are not many soldiers in the army who can play Go, so what's the use of buying these many Gos?"

"Feng Lang, from today on, you will be the chief coach of the Black Diao Army Go. You can take some time every day to teach the soldiers chess. You can teach twenty people first, and then let these twenty people teach other soldiers, striving to make several Go masters in each battalion. In the spring next year, you will start a full-army Go competition. Well, just call the Black Diao Army Go League."

Feng Sha looked at Hou Dayong without blinking. Seeing that Hou Dayong was serious and not like joking, he said, "It is a new thing to play Go in the army. The governor means to let the soldiers do something when they are idle, so they won't be so bored."

Seeing that Fengshadi had a strong comprehension, Hou Dayong smiled and said, "The ancients said that an army without culture is a stupid army. Go is a part of culture. Soldiers all like Go, which can be regarded as popularizing culture in the army."

Feng Sha Ting Jiedushi's reason was a bit far-fetched. Thinking that it was not difficult to let the sergeant learn Go, he said, "I'll start doing this now."

Hou Dayong waved his hand habitually and said, "I'll have a next plate today. You can handle the matter at hand and do this." The waving gesture was gradually used to using it in Fengzhou. Perhaps because of the long-term command of others, Hou Dayong has used this waving gesture very familiar and freely.

After Feng Sha left, Hou Dayong sat at the table and looked at the Buddha statue in front of him. The Buddha statue used Buddhist scriptures to bring people from different ethnic groups and classes together. Culture and spirit have powerful power, but where did the spiritual power of the Black Eagle Army come from?

In recent years, the Black Eagle Army has fought countless major battles in the south and north. Every time they go out, they are famous. Attacking Liu Cunxiao in Cangzhou was under the banner of attacking the rebels; fighting with the Shu army in the three states was under the banner of regaining lost land; fighting with the Tubo people, Uighurs and Dangxiang people was under the name of resisting the Hu invasion of the land. In short, three years of wars between the land were famous, and they had a clear idea of ​​unifying the entire army.

According to Hou Dayong's previous vision, if everything still develops according to the history he knows. Zhao Kuangyin successfully seized power, the Black Diao Army could have a slogan to restore the Zhou Dynasty and go to war with Zhao Kuangyin. With this slogan, the morale of the army could be fully mobilized. The soldiers would be more justified when fighting, and they would have morale. However, if history changed because of Hou Dayong's arrival, Zhao Kuangyin was not in a hurry to seize power, but pretended to be Cao Cao, controlled the young Chai Zongxun, and used the emperor to command the princes, then at this time, the Black Diao Army could only fight with the imperial guards, and used this slogan to fight against the emperor's orders, and the power would be slightly insufficient.

Hou Dayong calculated the time. From the end of Xiande to the sixth year of Xiande, in the past two years, Hou Dayong needed to do two things. On the one hand, quietly strengthened the strength of Lingzhou and Tongxin City. On the other hand, it was to enhance the cohesion and centripetal force of the Black Eagle Army soldiers. If war was needed, find a famous reason for war.

All Hou Dayong's work is carried out around these two contents.

While playing Go with Fengsha, Hou Dayong suddenly thought of a sports competition.

In modern society, troops of different levels have to conduct various levels of sports competitions every year. Through various competitions, the sergeants' sense of collective honor, cohesion and sense of belonging are enhanced, and the sergeants from all over the world are quickly condensed into a whole. Sports has become an important aspect of modern military camp culture.

Hou Dayong secretly thought about the situation of the Black Eagle Army. After the Xincheng and Lingzhou City were slightly settled, they could conduct sports competitions in the army, including archery, equestrian, martial arts, wrestling, Go, one hundred-meter running, high jump, long jump, 1,500-meter running and ten-mile cross-country running. They can not only train troops, but also unite people's hearts. If a comprehensive sports meeting can be held once a year, the effect will definitely be better.

Hou Dayong stood up, circled around the courtyard, thinking about various matters of the sports competition, Feng Sha won a game of chess, and inexplicably became the head coach of Go. He watched Hou Dayong walk around the courtyard and thought to himself: I wonder what unexpected ideas this governor, who often has strange ideas, came up with?

At this moment, a personal guard walked into the yard, followed by an extremely ugly woman. It was Lushui who could speak Central Plains. Lushui was holding a stack of clothes in his hands, all of which were Hou Dayong's clothes.

When the Black Eagle Army fought, except for Bai Shuanghua, who disguised as a man, they were all men. The war allowed the women in the Black Eagle Army to walk cleanly. Without women, the male hormones would have no place to bleed. When the male hormones accumulate to a certain amount, they would become more powerful and aggressive. This would help improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, especially in the era of cold weapons that require soldiers to lift swords and stabbing guns, this move is quite effective.

However, all men have advantages and disadvantages. For Hou Dayong, the level of washing clothes for his personal guards was too poor. Every time he picked up the clothes that his personal guards washed for him, he always felt that the clothes were washed with Yellow River water. The dirty places were not washed off, but they were made with some stains that could not be described. This made Hou Dayong very depressed. On that day, he ordered the military field to recruit weddings, and a few ugly women who no one wanted formed a washing room. From then on, Hou Dayong put on clean and soft clothes and lived a happy life. His heart was filled with gratitude to these ugly women. At this time, when he saw Lushui holding his clothes, he said to Lushui: "Lushui, bring the clothes over."

Lushui hesitated for a moment, and his guard whispered in his ear and shouted, "Go quickly." Lushui walked slowly to Hou Dayong. Hou Dayong took the clothes, and the clothes were soft, and when he touched them, he felt a soft feeling. Hou Dayong asked, "Lushui, did you wash them? What to wash them with? It's so clean." Lushui didn't expect that the dignified governor would care about such things, and said, "Washing clothes is always a woman's business, so it will be washed clean naturally."

Hou Dayong knew that Lushui was put on makeup, and he was a little confused: At that time, Qian Xiangnan said he wanted to bring Lushui to the military camp and asked her to teach makeup skills to the soldiers in the military camp. Why hasn't he taken action for so many days?
Chapter completed!