After Li Zhongyi sat down in the main hall of the castle lord's mansion, he immediately ordered someone to bring the captured castle lord and his family members to him to take a look.

Seeing that Li Zhongyi did not give the order to unload his luggage and settle down, Zhu Niang knew that the army was likely to be dispatched overnight. As a result, the accompanying carriages lined up along the back door of the castle lord's mansion, maintaining the posture that they could be dispatched anytime and anywhere.

The tooth soldiers who acted as horsemen were not idle, and under the command of Zhu Niang, they replaced the pack horses that were already a little tired, and led them aside to feed water and forage.

As the saying goes, people are not rich without windfall, and horses are not fat without night grass!

In fact, if you want to pack a horse or a war horse without losing fat, you must add very nutritious beans to the fine forage from time to time.

Today's Li Jiajun has not only the horse source area of the Northwest Hetao, but also the captured Khitan horses and Goryeo horses, and the whole army has realized the mule and horse.

The army was out and about, and every officer and soldier carried with him ten days' rations. Today's marching rations are much more varied, and it is no longer the embarrassing situation of only pancakes and salt.

Fried rice, pancakes, corned beef, smoked lamb chops, fine green salt, pickled radish strips, pickled white siad, double water hyacinth and other things are all available, dazzling, and spectacle.

Since the establishment of the Hechi army, Li Zhongyi has always attached great importance to the mobile combat capability of the army, and traveling 100 miles a day has become the most basic combat requirement.

In this era, even the elite forbidden army of the Later Zhou Dynasty would advance fifty miles a day at most.

Why is that?

Li Zhongyi, who studied medicine, can easily give the answer, that is, the deviation of diet and nutritional structure has led to the general weakness of the soldiers' physique and short stature.

To put it bluntly, even the soldiers with tattoos on their faces generally eat very poorly, rarely eat a few pieces of meat in adulthood, and only eat two meals a day.

It is impossible for ordinary soldiers to eat millet in their daily meals, basically all kinds of grains mixed with wild vegetables, which can barely fill their stomachs, and the food is pickled radish strips.

Let's ask, if you don't eat well, is it possible that your physical fitness is generally great? The answer, of course, is no.

However, Li Jiajun was very different from any army of his time.

Li Zhongyi had the northwest and Goryeo in hand, and often robbed the tribes of the Xi people and Khitans near Yuguan, and there was no shortage of cattle, sheep, pigs, and horses, and the soldiers could drink very thick beef, mutton and pork soup every day.

Due to the strict daily training, 20 miles of armed cross-country travel is commonplace. The physical strength consumed by the soldiers is obviously very huge.

According to Li Zhongyi's requirements, the army eats three meals a day, and there must be meat or bones in the bowl to gnaw on every day. Over time, the physical fitness of the officers and soldiers of the Li family army is generally excellent!

As for the vegetables, melons and fruits needed by the army, hehe, the slogan of Park Manyang, the current ruler of Goryeo, is: It is better to starve ten Goryeo people to death than to cut off the supply of a Celestial Empire soldier.

Originally, most of the soldiers of the Li Jiajun wore straw sandals on their feet. Due to the increasing number of livestock, the source of leather has been secured, and the issue of leather boots is naturally on the agenda.

Under the supervision of Li Jiajun, hundreds of Goryeo leatherworkers led nearly 10,000 Goryeo captives and women to work on the assembly line, and rushed to make leather boots day and night. Today, the entire Li family's army is each with a pair of thick-soled high-top leather boots.

Troops who are good at sports warfare don't have a good pair of shoes on their feet, so how can they be?

Due to the very large amount of exercise of his subordinates, it is easy to damage the shoes, Li Zhongyi specially made a request, the leather boots of the army, in addition to gluing, must also have a few twine along the upper of the boots.

The devil is hidden in the details, and the Li Jiajun has been invincible and invincible so far, relying not only on the bravery of the soldiers.

The foundation of war, money, food, weapons, morale, auxiliary equipment, accurate maps, etc., are indispensable!

On the main hall of the castle lord's mansion, Li Zhongyi sat steadily in the middle, Zhu Niang held the spear in her right hand, stroked the handle of the knife with her left hand, and stood heroically beside the man.

On the right side of the steps, there is a book table, and Ye Xiaolan is holding an ink pen and kneeling in front of the book. Ye Xiaolan is Li Zhongyi's secretary in the inner study, and everything she does is within her purview.

Yang Xiaoyi's left hand was holding a winding six-stone bow, and his right hand was holding three armor-piercing cones in his middle fingers, wandering casually among the shadows of the wooden pillars in the hall.

Li Zhongyi picked up a cup of hot tea on the desk, took a sip, and casually ordered: "Bring the daughters of the castle lord first, let me take a look." ”

Ye Xiaolan didn't need to look at Zhu Niang, she knew that Zhu Niang's face must be ugly now. Although Zhu Niang is only a concubine, Li Zhongyi has been either going east or west in recent years, and he rarely stays in Kaifeng's house safely.

Zhu Niang, who is excellent in martial arts, has always been by Li Zhongyi's side, and she and Li Zhongyi have spent much more time together than all his women.

Li Zhongyi and Zhu Niang, although they are not legitimate husband and wife, they are better than husband and wife, this is both Ye Xiaolan's opinion and Han Xianglan's opinion.

Just when Ye Xiaolan thought that Zhu Niang would be angry, Zhu Niang was actually calm, no matter how good she was like a husband and wife, she was not a serious husband and wife after all.

A man's wife can only be the princess of the Chai family. Even the so-called flat wife Zhesaihua, in front of everyone's eyes, did not dare to call Li Zhongyi's wife, let alone Zhu Niang, a concubine who was born as a maidservant?

No matter what the women in the hall thought, Li Zhongyi wanted to see the daughters of the castle lord, and he didn't have half a heart.

The first beauty of the Khitan Kingdom, the future Empress Dowager Xiao, was lying on the couch of the back exploration. As long as Li Zhongyi can, he can pick her red pill and break her buds anytime and anywhere.

Soon, the five daughters of the castle lord were escorted into the church. It's just that they are unkempt and shivering, and Li Zhongyi can't see their looks clearly.

"Lift your heads up and let me see your faces." Li Zhongyi just glanced at Ye Xiaolan, and Ye Xiaolan became a man's mouthpiece in her heart.

Maybe it was because he was very afraid, or maybe he was worried that he would be seen clearly, but it would cause big trouble, and none of the five daughters of the castle lord dared to raise his head.

Without waiting for Li Zhongyi to speak, Ye Xiaolan put down the brush in her hand and said coldly: "Since you don't want to raise your head, then send them all to the barracks and serve those soldiers well." ”

Li Zhongyi touched his chin, secretly proud in his heart, Ye Xiaolan went from being untamed, to being extraordinarily obedient, and then taking the initiative to act as a helper for him, hehe, the original thought of boiling the eagle was really not in vain!

Ye Xiaolan's false words and intimidation had a good effect, and the daughters of the castle lords present, no matter how stupid they were, knew what it meant to be sent to the barracks to serve those vulgar soldiers.

Several girls, albeit a little shy, scrambled to raise their heads.

Li Zhongyi looked at it calmly, the faces of the five little ladies were dusty, and for a while, he could only roughly see the figures, and he really couldn't get out of his appearance.

Ye Xiaolan received Li Zhongyi's eyes again, and she immediately ordered someone to fetch a basin and a handkerchief, and asked the sword attendants to help a few little ladies wash their heads and faces.

When everything was cleaned up, Li Zhongyi finally saw clearly, among the five little ladies, only one little lady could be regarded as superior, and the rest of the little ladies seemed to be more ugly, one more unsightly than the other.

"Keep this one, take the rest down, interrogate it carefully, record the confession, and show it to me." Li Zhongyi didn't bother to speak, so he only left the most beautiful little lady, and sent the rest away.

After the idlers were all gone, Li Zhongyi slowly got up from the Hu bed, took square steps, and paced in front of the little lady who stayed.

"Your sisters are not as good as you." Li Zhongyi stared at the little lady whose head was almost lowered into her skirt, and said with a smile, "If what I expected is good, your Aya will definitely find a good family business for you, right?" ”

"Well, you don't want to talk, it doesn't matter. As long as you are willing to cooperate with me, I will definitely let you return to your mother intact. Li Zhongyi had a smile on his face, but the words he said were more vicious than the sharpest knife, "If you are not willing to cooperate with me, then good, I have a group of burly party members under me, and they will definitely serve you very comfortably, about this, please don't doubt my decision......

To be able to build such a large-scale dock fort under the noses of the Khitans, if the owner of the fort is not a traitor, Li Zhongyi will never believe it.

Li Zhongyi saw the daughters of the castle lord, in fact, he already suspected that the castle lord was likely to use the marriage relationship to obtain the understanding of the Khitan people in Nanjing.

Especially after seeing the beauty of the little lady in front of him, Li Zhongyi became more determined, his initial judgment.

As for the name of the little lady in front of him, Li Zhongyi actually didn't care at all, it was just a symbol, the important thing was that through the little lady's mouth, she knew the Khitan magnates hidden behind her.

With Li Zhongyi's experience, in today's era without rich experience in counter-detailing, it is definitely much easier to get the information he wants from the little lady's mouth than from her father.

The so-called benevolence does not take care of the government, mercy does not take care of the generals, and no poison does not serve husbands!

Li Zhongyi is a person who pities the fragrance and cherishes the jade, but if the daughter of the traitor does not repent, but lies and deceives, he does not mind poisoning her hands and completely beating her into the eighteenth layer of hell, and she is not clean when she dies.

Perhaps because of Li Zhongyi's vicious methods, about an hour later, the situation of the castle owner's family was revealed in front of Li Zhongyi's eyes.

As Li Zhongyi expected, the owner of the castle here, surnamed Liu Benzheng, is not only an authentic Han Chinese, but also a famous businessman in Jizhou.

The most beautiful little lady, named Liu Yun, was promised by Liu Benzheng to Yelu Handi, the deputy head of the Khitan Nanjing Provincial Soldiers and Horses, as a concubine.

Yelu Handi used his power to turn the military fort built into the private fort of the Liu family. The private fort here is mainly used for all kinds of shady smuggling business, such as salt, iron and other prohibited things.

It's just that Li Zhongyi is quite puzzled, where did Liu Benzheng get so bold to dare to build a dock fort on the way west of the Li family's army?

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