As part of the deployment before the expedition, Lu Fang had been sent to Qingliu Mountain by Wang Yan.

Lao Lu's task is to blend in with the Qingliu Mountain Cottage as much as possible to do internal response and understand the situation. If this is not possible, then scout in the vicinity and gather as much information as possible.

However, Wang Yan and Mu Guiying's conclusions are surprisingly consistent: there is a high probability that Lu Fang can blend into the cottage.

The reason is that his appearance of thief eyebrows and rat eyes used to be similar to the existence of a cottage leader, and then he was very famous in the rivers and lakes, known as righteousness. So it is possible to be accepted by the other party......

It seems that Mu Guiying's influence on the Lu'an Army is not bad, so their efficiency on this march is okay, and they have reached five miles outside Shuzhou City in three days.

The herald of the fifth battalion of the Lu'an Army came in and knelt down and said: "Report to Mu Shuai, the fifth battalion has arrived five miles outside the city, and our general happens to have sores on his back and can't go out of the battle, but the general has ordered, and all actions are under the command of Mu Guishuai." ”

Khan, originally thought that the general of the Lu'an Army would also follow and pretend to be forced, but he "asked for sick leave", which was witty enough, but it was good.

They could not enter the city because of the system of the Great Song Dynasty, and the army could not enter the city without the approval of the civilian officials. Therefore, this team of bandits was blocked by Yang Zhiyong, the official of Shuzhou, five miles away.

At that time, the commander of the fifth battalion looked very wronged and said, "We were ordered by the commander of the Yamen to go out to suppress the bandits, and we came to Shuzhou to meet Mu Guiying and eat by the way."

Yang Zhiyong, the magistrate, said: "That's your business with Shuaisi." We have not received the relevant coordination procedures, so we prohibit you from entering the five-mile range. ”

The commander of the fifth battalion said, "Then how to solve the problem of food?" ”

"That's the matter of the Shuai Si and the civil affairs department, and the Tui Si is only responsible for not allowing you to enter the city." That's what the magistrate replied at the time.

So, now this little soldier is very aggrieved and cried: "Mu Shuai, Xiao Wang Yanei, the brothers are now hungry outside, what can I do?" ”

"These bureaucrats are really against the sky, you must not let the master get mixed up in the position of ruler one day, I am not such a good talker as Wang Anshi's father." Wang Yan muttered to himself as he walked with his hands behind his back.

Mu Guiying said: "I'll go to Chen Si to judge the theory." ”

Wang Yan hurriedly stopped: "Auntie, don't bother. Chen Jianming is not an idiot, of course he knows about this situation, but he can't solve it. ”

"But why?" Mu Guiying was also stunned, "Isn't it him who has the final say now?" ”

Wang Yan said: "It is indeed he who has the final say. But because he has the final say, he is a urine who is responsible for everything that happens all day long. So because of his rights, he now happens to prefer not to do things rather than make mistakes. Obviously, among the several bureaucrats in Huaixi now, some are my father's people, some are Sima Guang's people, and most of them are wall-riding factions. Now that there is no leader, Chen Jianming's prestige is not enough, so this situation will inevitably occur. Chen Jianming, of course, he can let all the yamen act cheaply, and everything needs to be tilted to suppress bandits. However, once this coordination is made, politically it shows that he resolutely supports the use of troops in Aoyagi Mountain this time. Then he was worried that once Aoyagi Mountain ate the moth, he would be too deeply implicated. On the contrary, now that all parties are in a mess, and his order to send troops is also simulated and ambiguous, then we have merit for winning the battle, and there is a lot of room for him to push the pot if we lose. It's like the defeat of the Chen Department, 'this is a combination of reasons, not a single person'. ”

In the end, Wang Yan concluded: "Auntie, this is the characteristic of the literati politics of our dynasty, collective decision-making. ”

The fifth-battalion herald soldier didn't know much about these words, and just waited for dinner.

"Hmph, if I don't rely on their traitors, I don't have any pressure."

At that moment, Wang Yan instructed Ma Jinsi and others very obscenely to push a few carts of "compressed military rations" out.

Compressed military rations are just good-sounding, but in fact, chicken feed is further dehydrated and roasted, and then used a simple "stamping machine" to make it easy to carry, named compressed dry food.

Sweat. It's just that it sounds ugly, but during the production, Wang Yan assured everyone that it was a good thing.

In fact, it is the whole nutrient of later generations, which is even more natural and environmentally friendly than that. Wang Yan himself occasionally eats it, because this thing is also rich in crude fiber, and it is smoother to eat. Of course, Wang Yan is now a rich man and doesn't like to eat chicken feed very much. But what is obscene about him is that he often feeds Erya.

Because Erya is weak and needs nutrition. Of course, it's okay to eat eggs, but eating too many eggs is actually not good, and the burden on internal organs is heavier. As for this kind of chicken feed, which is mostly coarse grains, it is no problem to eat more in terms of Erya's belly.

Wang Yan and Erya did not eat this kind of dry food, but like noodles, after getting it out, they were pinched into noodles and ears, or cut noodles with knives, and then added some green vegetables, and after cooking with oil and salt, it was a bowl of deliciousness.

As for military rations, of course, I won't talk about it so much.

Leaving the city with the prepared military rations, Ma Jinxi looked strange.

This big hooligan is now considered well-off, so although he was forced to eat by Wang Yan, and he also knew that this thing could not eat dead people, but since there were big fish and meat, he didn't like to eat these things when he killed Ma Jinsi. He thinks it's too ugly, the chicken feed?

Wang Yan felt that the old horse was simply weak, what kind of force, when he entered Beijing, you waited to see the same thing as the master and me to change the packaging, give this kind of full nutrition Amway to the powerful and the emperor to eat, and eat them with a great body, and then I will make money, what's wrong with this.

What do you really think will be a jar of Amway nutritional powder for hundreds of dollars in the future? Actually, it's these things from my big bird, and my materials are more natural and have no hormones.

After arriving at the barracks, an officer hurriedly dismounted, and said half-kneeling with a military salute: "Yang Jian, the commander of the fifth battalion of the last general, see Mu Shuai, see Yanei." ”

"Hey, I didn't expect it to be your kid commanding the fifth battalion?"

Mu Guiying immediately pulled this young man over, pinched here, and looked at it.

Obviously, this is a relative of the Yang family, Mu Guiying's junior.

Yang Jian said: "When the general learned that it was Mu Shuai who came out of the battle this time, he transferred the little nephew to the fifth battalion to listen to the tune, saying that it would be better. ”

This guy is not tall, only to Mu Guiying's chest. Aunt Mu slapped him on the back of the head and said, "Why don't you bring someone to receive the military rations and distribute the food." ”

Yang Jian found that they only carried a few large boxes and had no grain and grass convoy at all, so he was stunned and said, "Where is the military rations?" ”

"That's it." Mu Guiying pointed to the words on the box and said: "See, press, shrink, army, food, isn't it written, I remember that my mother taught you to read." ”

"That's it?" Yang Jian almost fainted.

Wang Yan said: "I am reluctant to give you food, including the military horses, they also eat this, and they are full." ”

Whoop -

The scene immediately fainted.

They finally realized that soldiers have no human rights, and this time they were treated as animals by these bureaucrats in Shuzhou?

Through Wang Yan's rhetoric, they suspected that they were really using horse feed to fool people.

As a pig's foot, it was underestimated again, no.

But Wang Yan thought it was very YY, so he walked up in an old-fashioned manner, and also slapped the back of Yang Jian's commanding envoy's head and said: "What's the ink, let you eat it quickly, and you won't die if you eat it." ”

Being smoked by Mu Guiying was a joke by the elders, but being pumped by this bad boy, the big guy only dared to cooperate with the arrangement.

They are really afraid of Wang Yan, no one knows how bad this calf's temper is for the time being, but the people who signed the Privy Council. Now that there is no privy deputy envoy, Wang Anshi is the No. 2 person in Xifu, and if he offends this gentleman, it is possible to be killed by the general of the Lu'an Army when he goes back.

So the big-headed soldiers began to eat fodder......

Now Wang Yan was looking everywhere in the barracks, but after looking for a long time, he didn't see any extra military horses, so he said, "Where are the war horses, where are you hiding?" ”

The people of the fifth battalion were embarrassed for a while, and they all lowered their heads in silence.

Mu Guiying looked at the appearance of about eighty war horses, so he said, "It's okay, this should be temporarily beaten out by them to the pacesetter battalion." Our Great Song Dynasty originally did not have many horse troops, and the upper fourth army of the Gyeonggi system was slightly better, such as the Lu'an Army stationed abroad, and theoretically more than 100 war horses were considered luxurious. Among them, the main loan has to be given some bonuses and benefits, and the officers have to keep some as their own cars. If it weren't for you and me, we would only see one infantryman. ”

Therefore, according to Mu Guiying's meaning: the Great Song Dynasty has war horses, but there is no horse army.

The root cause of the problem lies in the misallocation of resources, not to mention the Xiang army, which is almost a coolie engineering team. But the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty had nearly one million. The politics of the Great Song Dynasty don't like to be one-size-fits-all, and like to pay attention to balance, so that everyone has a little oil and water. So after the herd of animals allocated the war horses to the three yamen of the forbidden army, those bureaucrats would let each unit get some.

In principle, of course, they are inclined to the front division of the palace, they have the Japanese army and the Tianwu army, followed by the horse army division and the infantry army division, they have the Divine Guard Army and the Dragon Guard. This is the elite of the royal army, with more than 200,000 registered troops, a total of ten compartments. So as to enjoy the most resources.

The rest of the forbidden army must also be there. If not, these hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops stationed all over the world will be in a mood. Therefore, it is okay to have less, and the "military vehicles" always have to be assigned some of the past to each number, knowing that the officers' public cars are used for private purposes, and even if they take the fuel and sell it for welfare, they can only acquiesce.

These are the current situation of the Great Song Dynasty.

If you really want to calculate carefully, there are a lot of Great Song War Horses, but they don't play a role. For example, the Liu'an Army was a reorganized army, with a size of more than 2,000 people, and when the bureaucratic habits were serious and corrupt, the entire army only had more than 100 horses, which meant that the Great Song Dynasty had no cavalry.

If the Lu'an Army and the Wuwei Army are all cut into infantry formations, and all the war horses are concentrated in them to form two independent battalions, then it will really be considered a cavalry regiment. But it was scattered, except for allowing senior officers to ride horses to flirt with sisters, although the Great Song Dynasty spent countless resources, there was no cavalry. That's the way it goes.

At first, I was expecting to ride a war horse with a full cavalry lineup to pretend to be forced this time, but Wang Yan cried blindly, which was not YY at all.

I hope that after Wang Anshi comes to power, he will be able to control these frantic military spending gaps to a certain extent......