Heavy rains have been raining for more than 40 days, not only the roads are muddy, but even the time for autumn sowing has been significantly delayed.

Although the ghost weather did not help, the construction of rutted roads with the active participation of township troops from all over the country was in full swing.

The so-called rutted road is to dig two hard stone roads that can be rolled by wheels on the official road leading to Jinyang.

After all, digging all the official roads into rutted roads is an unusually huge amount of work, and it is impossible to complete it in a short period of time.

The two rutted roads, which are only more than twice as wide as the wheels, are about a foot wide when one piece is added, and the amount of work is significantly less than ten times.

Of course, the rutted road is not without drawbacks, if the car in front is broken, the convoy behind will be completely blocked, and it will not be able to move!

The lesser of two evils!

The temporary construction of rutted roads not only solves the problem of the passage of the gun truck, but also solves the problem of the passage of the baggage truck, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone!

Li Zhongyi rode on the back of the bloody slaughter, looking at the artillery convoy rolling past the horse, and couldn't help but show a knowing smile.

The so-called rutted road, in Li Zhongyi's eyes, is actually a track. It's just that the inside of the rutted road is padded with hard stones, and the bottom of the track is sleepers.

"Master, the front throat camp sent a battle report, and three more batches of guys of unknown origin were arrested, and they have been detained in the camp." Li Anguo patted his horse and came to Li Zhongyi's side and loudly reported the battle report in front of him.

"Hmm, Jinyang's side is quite willing to work the military situation in my Central Plains?" Li Zhongyi knew in his heart that more than a dozen groups of suspicious elements who had taken the path north had been arrested, and there must be mistakes among them, but it was difficult to guarantee that there was no Jinyang's meticulous work lurking in them.

Li Zhongyi adopted the strategy of fighting fast and slow, and originally wanted to take advantage of the sunny weather to quickly dispatch troops, so that the Jinyang side would not have time to carry out the assembly of the whole territory.

Unexpectedly, the heavens are not beautiful, from the north of Kaifeng to the two states of Xiongba, the continuous heavy rain has fallen for more than 40 days, which has seriously slowed down the progress of the army.

However, it was difficult for Li Jiajun to advance, and Jinyang also relaxed its vigilance because of the continuous heavy rain, and has not issued a call order so far.

Like the Great Zhou, the Liu Han regime in Jinyang was also a basic economic form based on agriculture.

However, limited by the constraints of national strength and population, Jinyang adopted the strategy of all the people as soldiers, that is: the compulsory conscription system of soldiers when they go out and farmers when they enter.

The entire Great Zhou had a population of more than 40 million, and the area under the rule of the Liu Han regime in Jinyang was at best more than a million people.

However, in order to guard against the attack of the Great Zhou, the Liu Han regime in Jinyang, with a total population of more than 1 million, actually raised more than 100,000 standing troops.

Jinyang, that is the place where the Li clan rose in the Later Tang Dynasty, the folk customs have always been fierce, and there are countless people who are good at shooting and riding, which is also the fundamental factor that the Liu Han regime can use the land to contempt the Great Zhou.

According to the detailed report sent to Jinyang, among the more than a dozen military states in Jinyang, there is not a single rich state and county, and all of them are poor military states that have eaten the last meal but have not eaten the next meal.

The Jinyang regime controlled the land east of Hedong in the Tang Dynasty, with 278,000 households at its peak. After the Battle of Gaoping, the Liu Han regime was defeated, and the number of registered households in the territory under the jurisdiction of Jinyang was sharply reduced to 180,000 households, that is, about one million people.

Li Zhongyi sent troops this time, and the soldiers and horses brought out from Kaifeng were more than 80,000 people, less than 90,000. Judging from the total strength, Jinyang even has a slight advantage.

However, in this battle to recover Jinyang, Li Zhongyi brought out nearly 600 6-pounder bronze guns, apparently intending to complete the battle.

Li Zhongyi didn't take Jinyang's soldiers and horses seriously, he was more worried that Yelu Xiuge led the Khitan iron cavalry to set out and did his best to help Jinyang.

Since the Later Zhou Taizu Guo Wei invaded Kaifeng, he deceived and killed the son of Liu Chong, the founder of Jinyang, and the Liu Han regime of the Great Zhou and Jinyang has become a mortal enemy!

Liu Han of Jinyang also knew that he was alone, and he could not fight against the Great Zhou at all by relying on the strength of the Twelve Military Prefectures in Hedong alone. Therefore, Liu Chongtian shamelessly worshiped the Khitan Emperor as his father emperor, and repeatedly asked for help from the Khitans when the Great Zhou Dynasty attacked.

Li Zhongyi is eyeing Jinyang, in fact, it is not unusual at all, the twelve states of Hedong are in the hands of the Liu Han regime, which is equivalent to falling into the hands of the Khitans.

Jinyang is in the hands of the Khitans, and Yelu Xiuge is equivalent to grasping the strategic initiative to attack the Great Zhou, whether it is from Hebei or Hedong, it is enough for the Great Zhou to drink several pots.

The logic is actually very simple, in this era when there are no military reconnaissance satellites, the Khitans are a steppe people on horseback, and their mobility is very strong.

In other words, the Khitans completely pretended to send troops to Hedong, but they could quickly mobilize heavy troops on the front of Hebei, so as to play a strategic deception effect of attacking the east and attacking the west.

Whether it is Li Zhongyi or Yelu Huge, neither of them is stupid, they must know that the stability or abandonment of Hedong is absolutely inseparable from the stability of Youzhou.

Although Yelu Hugo didn't understand what strategy was, after many years of war, he could tell him unmistakably that the land east of the river could never be easily seized by Li Zhongyi.

The weather conditions were very bad, which was unfavorable to both the enemy and us, but for the Li Jiajun, which carried a large number of artillery, it was relatively unfavorable due to the labor expedition and the long logistics supply line.

Nearly 90,000 troops are moving, and at least more than 80,000 auxiliaries are accompanying them, not to mention anything else, just the food eaten every day is enough to build several mountain bags.

What's more, firewood for cooking is not everywhere in the Great Plains, and it is also necessary to send people into the mountains to collect firewood.

Although there is a lot of grain in Kaifeng, it has to be transported to Zhenzhou, a gathering place thousands of miles away, and the chewing and wrapping of people's husbands and mules and horses on the road is a lot of food expenses.

All kinds of expenses, spent like flowing water every day, but the road has been rainy, this is the Li Jiajun this kind of modern army, if it is an ordinary warlord's feudal army, I am afraid it has long lost its combat effectiveness.

To this day, in addition to Li Jiajun's three drills a day, including the soldiers and horses of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Western Shu and Northern Han, they still maintain the inherent old tradition of one exercise every three days.

It is not an exaggeration to say that if you can maintain a three-day exercise, there is still a threat of Da Zhou. If one day, the Great Zhou Kingdom collapsed, the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty was afraid that he would give an order, enter Kuma and release Nanshan, and practice the way of culture and education.

In the beginning, the rutted road was only a gun truck, but later, the logistics department found that as long as the stone pad was harder, the rutted road could completely walk the grain truck.

In this way, the progress of the entire army has been accelerated several times invisibly.

Finally, three days later, Li Zhongyi rushed to Zhenzhou, the starting point of the expedition to Jinyang.

Zhenzhou, that is, the territory of present-day Shijiazhuang City, is close to the Taihang Mountains in the west, and the Great Plain of Jizhong in the east.

Li Zhongyi set up the garrison in Zhenzhou, the purpose is actually very clear, the north can threaten Youzhou, and the west can attack Niangzi Pass.

Niangzi Pass, whose real name is Wei Ze Pass, during the opening of the Sui Dynasty, Wei Ze County was set up in this place, and the name of the county was obtained.

The reason why it is also called Niangzi Pass is mainly because there are two folk legends, one is that Princess Pingyang, the daughter of Tang Gaozu, once led the army to garrison in this pass, so it is called Niangzi Pass.

Another said, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the sister of Jiezitui of the Jin Kingdom Jieshan burned Mianshan, and the descendants built a shrine to remember it, so it was called Niangziguan.

No matter how the folk legends are, all in all, Li Zhongyi commanded the army and stationed at this pass.

The reason why he chose to attack Jinyang from Niangzi Pass is because, entering Hedong from Hebei, there are only two ancient roads, and the other is Jingcheng Pass.

Jingcheng Pass and Niangzi Pass, across the mountain, relatively speaking, Niangzi Pass is more precipitous than Jingcheng Pass. But the problem is that after the on-the-spot investigation of the technicians of the map room, as long as the treacherous Niangzi Pass is broken through, there is no obstacle to go down the mountain to Jinyang, and the artillery can keep up with the speed of the march of the large army.

Jingcheng Pass is very different, there are rugged and winding ancient roads along the way, which are not only difficult for cars, but also difficult for people.

Under the city of Zhenzhou, Yang Lie, the general of the Hebei Provincial Marching Army and the general of the expedition to the north, was standing in front of the suspension bridge under the city, respectfully welcoming his mentor Li Zhongyi.

Li Zhongyi patted the horse and came to Yang Lie's approach, and he was so excited that he was actually in the mood to joke, "Yo ho, our general of Zhengbei is becoming more and more manly......",

Yang Lie has always been an unsmiling personality, he just didn't hear Li Zhongyi's ridicule, beat his chest heavily, and gave an unusually standard military salute.

"Your Majesty Yang Lie, please see the Lord, the Lord will be blessed." Yang Lie slammed to the ground, Li Zhongyi hadn't seen him for a long time, so he immediately climbed off the horse, took Yang Lie's hand, and said with a smile, "After this battle, it's time for the teacher to marry you, don't shirk." ”

Yang Lie only felt that his head was eight years old, his parents died when he was a child, and he was an orphan who grew up eating hundreds of meals.

That is to say, according to the logic of the Patriarch of Heaven and Earth, Li Zhongyi, who is both a monarch and a teacher, has the absolute right to marry Yang Lie, even if he is not happy, he has no tricks at all.

"Lord......" Yang Lie has always spoken little, but when it comes to marriage, he can't help but explain it clearly in advance.

Li Zhongyi waved his hand, stretched his waist, yawned and said: "Since Yang Bai is here, the army will be handed over to you. ”

Li Zhongyi, who yawned three times in a row, easily threw the small seal of the troop transfer and a bag with a hidden password into Yang Lie's arms, and then led the guards to gallop towards the Shuai Mansion without looking back.

Yang Lie had long been accustomed to Li Zhongyi's bad habit of being the owner of the hand, and he didn't bother to look at the small seal of troop transfer in his hand, so he directly stuffed it into his arms and took over the supreme command of the whole army step by step.

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