Since Luo Tianming has become the commander of the Western Expedition Army again, all the previous conflicts have passed for the time being. The situation where the general is about to fall into the abyss miraculously turned back.

To be honest, Luo Tianming really didn't understand how this bend turned, but it doesn't matter. He doesn't have much ambition anyway. As long as he can be safe and stable, he will be satisfied.

Returning to the northwest, facing the mess left by Xia Shu, Luo Tianming and Mu Guiying felt a headache even though they were very capable.

After a big defeat, the territory captured by Luo Tianming, Mu Guiying and Fan Zhongyan were all lost, and a large number of troops were also lost.

But the most troublesome problem is that the morale of the Western Expedition Army has dropped to the bottom. If Song Renzong had not followed Xia Shu's war report and pushed out the generals as scapegoats, the Western Expedition Army would have collapsed.

Even though Luo Tianming's reputation was very good in the Western Expedition Army, the soldiers were willing to follow him to fight, but the problem was that the soldiers did not believe in the court. If the court transferred Luo Tianming away again and replaced someone like Xia Shu to take over, wouldn't they be cheated again?

There were a lot of troubles inside, and Li Yuanhao didn't stop. Of course, he would not let go of such a good opportunity. He kept rushing to the Song army's defense line and trying to occupy more territory.

With such internal and external difficulties, even Luo Tianming and Mu Guiying partnered, it would be difficult to turn the tide and could only barely maintain it.

Fortunately, the military supervisor this time is quite reliable and did not cause trouble for Luo Tianming, otherwise the situation would be even more difficult.

Although the military supervisor was not Fan Zhongyan, he was also a famous minister, Fu Bi.

Fu Bi's background is stronger than Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi. His father-in-law is Yan Shu, who is equivalent to the leader of a civil official.

Fu Bi himself is also quite talented, otherwise Yan Shu would not look down on him. Moreover, when Fu Bi was young, he was quite backbone and was not worthy of fighting against the Liao Kingdom.

Fu Bi was very young at this time, and it was not long ago to confront Liao Kingdom.

After the Western Xia and Song Kingdom started fighting, Liao Kingdom was invading, hoping to take this opportunity to blackmail Song Kingdom and increase the annual monies.

Fu Bi was ordered to go to Liao Kingdom to negotiate the annual monies.

Under the sword and axe of the Liao Kingdom, Fu Bi, a weak scholar, was not afraid and strongly refused their request to increase the annual monies.

Fu Bi, who made great contributions during the negotiations, got unanimous favor from the court after returning, so when Luo Tianming became the commander of the Western Expedition Army for the second time, he sent him as the military supervisor.

The purpose of doing this is to put another layer of gold on Fu Bi, because even the civil officials felt that if Luo Tianming could win a big victory, the military supervisor would take advantage of the credit; the second was to let the tough Fu Bi compete with Luo Tianming for the morale of the army and cultivate a literati who could lead the army.

Because Fan Zhongyan criticized Xia Shu's performance in the court, other civil officials felt that he was a military expert.

Fan Zhongyan has only been following Luo Tianming for a few months and has performed like this, so it is not difficult to cultivate another Fu Bi.

When the literati have the ability to lead troops, what is the use of military generals? It is enough to be able to charge and rush into battle.

Because of this, in addition to Fu Bi, the military supervisor, more than 20 literati also came. Like Fu Bi, they were all preparing to lead the troops.

Luo Tianming not only did not object to the joining of these people, but instead sent all the tasks to let them learn in practice.

Although they are all literati, after they have been rolling in the military camp for a long time, will they still be pure literati?

Even if they still regard themselves as literati, do other literati still regard these guys with strong military style as their own people?

Even if they are still people in the literary camp, it doesn’t matter. As long as they start to get involved in martial arts, they will be inseparable from the future. It is almost impossible to re-transfer the civil service, and it will form a middle class between civil servants and military generals.

With this class in it, the life of military generals will be much better, at least they won’t be able to cut off their heads by just finding an excuse.

Therefore, Luo Tianming paid great attention to these twenty or so literati, and specially sent experienced veterans to take them to understand everything about the army.

When they knew about it, they would be transferred back to Luo Tianming and let them act as counselors.

Scholars are smart. Even if they have not systematically learned military command, they have all read military books and have been trained at the grassroots level for a period of time, which is considered to be a foundation.

The rest can be done while learning. Even if you make any ridiculous plans, it doesn’t matter. With Luo Tianming and Mu Guiying checking, there is no big problem.

The staff system did not exist in this era. After having these staff members, Mu Guiying felt very tired at first, but after teaching them, it was much easier all of a sudden. He didn't have to worry about many trivial things, so the staff member did it.

But even though everything was developing in a positive direction, the Song army was still at a disadvantage and was beaten by the Western Xia army.

Not only was the Xixia side at a disadvantage, but the Liao Kingdom was also becoming more aggressive, making the situation of the Song Kingdom even more difficult.

At that time, Luo Tianming suggested that he fight Xixia himself and leave Yang Yanzhao behind to guard against the Liao Kingdom's coercion.

But those civil officials refused to listen and forced Yang Yanzhao, who was seriously ill, to fight Xixia, leaving Luo Tianming to guard against the Liao Kingdom.

As a result, Yang Yanzhao was seriously ill and could not bear the heavy responsibility of commanding the army. He died on the battlefield and could only let Luo Tianming take over.

But Luo Tianming took over the Xixia side, and no one resisted the Liao country, so he could only hold on.

I don’t know what Fu Bi was thinking. Without asking for the opinions of Luo Tianming and Mu Guiying, he secretly wrote a letter to the court, suggesting that Mu Guiying be in charge and resist the Liao Kingdom.

This suggestion unexpectedly caused a stir in the court.

From ancient times to the present, except for a Fu Hao, I have never heard of a woman who has been the commander of the first army. Fu Bi is not a sound, and he makes a big splash!

But the situation of Song State was indeed too difficult at this time. Fu Bi could strongly refuse the Liao State's request to increase the annual monies, but what if he refused? It was not that he had to rely on his strong strength, and the Liao State dared not make such a request again.

The problem is that the Song Dynasty did not have such hard power at this time, and in the past, he could rely on a coach like Yang Yanzhao who was more intelligent than the enemy, to defeat the strong with weak and maintain the border between Song and Liao.

Now that Yang Yanzhao is dead, Luo Tianming cannot separate himself from Xixia. Who else can he expect besides Mu Guiying?

After three days of quarrel in the court, Song Renzong became impatient and decided to let Mu Guiying take charge!

You killed Yang Yanzhao at the beginning, but now you would rather destroy the Song Dynasty than let Mu Guiying take charge. Are you ready to surrender to the Liao Kingdom?

Of course, Song Renzong would not say this, but his doubtful eyes could no longer bear it, and he could only agree to this ridiculous suggestion for the first time.

So when the imperial edict was sent to the northwest front, Mu Guiying himself was also confused and asked himself to lead the troops alone? Are the Song Dynasty crazy?
Chapter completed!