After Li Qiong was alone, he rushed to Chai Rong's mausoleum non-stop, and he didn't even return to the county palace. When his old brothers learned the news, Li Qiong was already hundreds of miles away from the capital, and he was completely out of reach.

Whether it is to use literature to control force or to use force to control force, each has its own advantages and disadvantages. In the final analysis, it is one sentence: can the monarch firmly grasp the power of the army?

Li Zhongyi attaches the most importance to the two powers of the military and the police, starting from the establishment of the Hechi Township Army, and to this day, the institutionalized separation of powers and checks and balances within the military has laid a solid foundation.

The General Staff Department is in charge of operations, training, and transfers, the Department of Suppression and Pacification is in charge of military and political personnel, the Department of Military Justice is responsible for supervision, and the Logistics Department is in charge of quartermasters.

On the basis of mutual restraint, no matter which important general in the army, he cannot monopolize military power.

In addition, over the years, these students who have graduated from the lecture hall have spread to every corner of the entire Li Jiajun.

Li Zhongyi has always been the head of the martial arts hall, and as long as he is free, he will go to the martial arts hall to teach in person. Heaven and earth are the king's teachers, once the identities of the kings and the teachers overlap, the grace of promotion and cultivation is as deep as the sea, second only to the kindness of birth and cultivation.

On the bank of the Yellow River in the middle of the night, Li Zhongyi sat on the back of the "bloody killing" and silently watched the soldiers who were passing through the pontoon bridge in an endless stream.

Erecting a pontoon bridge over the Yellow River was the biggest task that Li Zhongyi gave to the engineer battalion after opening the blockade. Today, on the Yellow River, there are three pontoon bridges, and the elite army rolls through.

"If we succeed, will our army be able to win?" Li Zhongyi pointed to the north with a whip and asked Yao Hong with a smile.

Yao Hong clenched his fists and replied loudly: "There is no doubt that Jinyang will be taken." ”

Li Zhongyi couldn't help but smile slightly, after seeing the huge power of the bronze cannon that fired the flowering bullet, Yao Hong's earthen bun was greatly opened, and he no longer had any doubts about the terrible lethality of the new weapon.

"Lord, our army claims to recover Youzhou, will the Khitan Tartars be fooled?" Yao Hong was worried that the Khitans would rush out to rescue Jinyang.

Li Zhongyi touched his chin and said with a smile: "With the help of the water division, even if Brother Yelu Xiu sees through my plan to attack the west, he will not dare to transfer too many soldiers and horses to reinforce Jinyang." ”

Yao Hong and Guo Huaijiu were stationed in Lingzhou in the northwest, and almost all the soldiers and horses under their command were foot soldiers, although they had a certain understanding of the super mobility of the water division, they did not raise it to the strategic level to consider.

Since Li Zhongyi was transferred back to the Central Plains, the Northwest Lingzhou Army has been dominated by Guo Huai and Yao Hong.

Under the constraints of the system of separation of powers, Guo Huai and Yao Hong have never had two hearts, and they can be said to be loyal to Li Zhongyi.

Li Zhongyi transferred Yao Hong back to Beijing this time, and naturally it was impossible to treat the meritorious ministers, and generously promoted Yao Hong to be the commander of the newly formed Shengsheng Army, and rewarded Wei Yuanbo's generous lordship.

You must know that in today's Li Jiajun, the principle of never conferring knighthood without military merit is implemented extremely thoroughly and resolutely. It is even more difficult to obtain a knighthood than to be promoted to an official position.

Yang Lie, who is the general of the Hebei Provincial Army and the general of the expedition to the north, is not only a disciple of Li Zhongyi, but also has outstanding military achievements, and now he is just a marquis.

In the Li family's army, the military exploits of the foreign war against the barbarians have always been higher than the level of the civil war. The so-called civil war, Li Zhongyi defined it as: the old territory of the prosperous Tang Dynasty occupied by warlords.

Based on this, the second campaign of the conquest of the country of Haidong, when the Syrian military exploits, were greatly superior to the military exploits of Li Chongjin and Li Yun.

By extension, if you capture Youzhou, where the foreign Khitans live, there will be several more marquis in the Li family's army.

In fact, as early as five days ago, some of the elite troops of the Li Jiajun had already crossed the Yellow River in the dead of night and set up a bridgehead.

There is no way, in this northern expedition, Li Zhongyi took almost all the 6-pounder bronze guns out of the capital, a total of more than 500 guns.

However, although the number of artillery grew rapidly, the training of artillery was not achieved overnight. For the sake of today's plan, we can only follow the basic principle of learning from others to catch up with and surpass the others, and adopt the strategy of using the old to lead the new, so as to bring the new artillery into the state as soon as possible.

The core problem of breech bronze artillery in this era is not the question of shooting accurately or far, but how to ensure that the breech is not blown up!

Therefore, skilled breechers and loaders are the most important guarantee to ensure safety.

As for the problem of charging, the continuous improvement of fixed charging and the continuous evolution of charging equipment have now been able to achieve good moisture protection and quantification.

Among them, the most important moisture-proof measure is actually to use the jar of pickled vegetables and completely seal it with beeswax.

The specific method is to wash the jar first, expose it to the sun for a few days, and then place a layer of lime bag at the bottom of the jar, and then use a small wooden board to separate the gunpowder bag on it.

The gunpowder bag is packaged in a special oil paper package, and as long as the beeswax is unsealed, it can be easily taken anytime and anywhere.

Statistical training and firing records have proved that almost all of the basic factors for safety accidents are man-made disasters, and the core safety hazard is that the gun chamber is not cleaned. Or they have already filled a pack of medicine, but due to panic, they fill another packet of medicine, which eventually leads to a tragic injury accident.

Therefore, the most core posts of artillery: charging soldiers and ammunition loaders are all veterans of more than two years.

In this era, artillery is definitely a high-tech branch of high technology, especially the old artillery, which is all Li Zhongyi's heart, and he takes special care of him like caring for his eyes.

It is no exaggeration to say that the salary and various political and economic benefits of an ordinary artilleryman even exceed those of the capital in the infantry army

Different technical content must also be treated differently, which is the basic principle of universal application.

In later generations, the various treatments of fighter pilots in the Air Force have long far exceeded those of their brothers in the Army.

The remuneration of carrier-based aircraft pilots is even higher than that of the three armed forces, and the rank and treatment are more than twice as high as that of ordinary air force pilots.

Tonight, it was the turn of the Guards to cross the river en masse. Li Zhongyi simply called Yao Hong, and while talking about the old feelings of the year, he silently paid attention to the army that was crossing the river quickly.

Since the establishment of the army in Hechi, Yao Hong has spent most of his time in Lingzhou in the northwest, and together with Guo Huai, he has mastered the military power in the northwest.

Guo Huai served as the commander of the Lingzhou army, and Yao Hong was the envoy of the pacification and took on the important task of making the final decision. To put it bluntly, in the politically oriented Li Jiajun, Yao Hong's status is actually higher than Guo Huai, and he belongs to the veritable king of the northwest.

At first, many people around Li Zhongyi were worried about Yao Hong's loyalty. However, Li Zhongyi sent an order to Lingzhou in the northwest, and Yao Hong took the order back to Kaifeng without hesitation.

Facts speak louder than words, and Yao Hong proved his absolute loyalty to Li Zhongyi with practical actions. Li Zhongyi is also a lord who values affection, so it is naturally impossible to treat loyal people badly.

"Success, as soon as you returned to Beijing, someone impeached you for often instigating the struggle between tribes in the northwest, making the people slaughter charcoal, and the people were miserable." Li Zhongyi looked at Yao Hong with a smile.

Yao Hong not only did not have the slightest panic, but instead clenched his fists and said: "Your subordinates are carrying out the established policy of the Lord, what is the crime?" Besides, if I don't toss those barbarian tribes, when they are strong, they should raise troops to slaughter and plunder my people. ”

Li Zhongyi couldn't help but smile, with the strategy of razing and razing, Yao Hong implemented it very thoroughly, and the results were also unusually fruitful.

When Yao Hong took office as the military envoy of Lingzhou in the northwest, there were about 200,000 party members, and after all these years, I am afraid that there are not even 100,000 people, right?

If it is not of my race, its heart will be different!

If you are not of my race, you must quietly cut down its population, this is the basic strategy that Li Zhongyi has repeatedly emphasized in his secret order to Yao Hong.

Yao Hong's ability to be made an earl is inextricably linked to his implementation of the strategy of using barbarism to defeat barbarians.

To put it simply, the bad things Yao Hong did were mainly to secretly send people to instigate a certain party tribe to blatantly attack another tribe.

In the entire Northwest Lingzhou, wars between party members occur almost every year. At the beginning of the tribal war, Yao Hong opened his eyes and closed his eyes as usual, and when the two warring sides were exhausted, the Lingzhou army was dispatched again and cleaned up the two tribes that were good at sword soldiers.

By the time the party members understood the taste, the total population of the entire clan had dropped from 2.78 million to just 112 million.

The party members who have gone to the general trend, although they hate Yao Hong to the core, but they are more deferential than before.

After Li Zhongyi mastered the major politics of the imperial court, Yao Hong successively drew strong men from the northwest three times, and his name was beautiful: go into battle to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions.

This time the northern attack took Jinyang, and the accompanying party cavalry was as many as 7,000 people. The party members in the northwest are only in their early 100,000s at best, and after being drawn to the army by so many strong men, their strength has been sharply reduced, and they can no longer rely on people to do evil.

Some things can be done but not said, and other things can only be understood but not spoken, which is like two sides of the same coin, good and evil are relative positions.

Yao Hong deeply thought of Li Zhongyi's private words: If my Han clan wants to live happily and happily, there must be foreign races in dire straits!

Between countries, between nations, and even between people, the prevailing rule is: the weak eat the strong, and the fittest survive!

"Success, some people say that after taking Jinyang, it is better to take Youzhou. What do you think? Li Zhongyi deliberately took Yao Hong with him, the purpose was to cultivate it well, and he was the future governor of Annam, Luzon and other places.

Yao Hong shook his head and said, "Your Majesty has always remembered your teachings, save people and lose land, and people and land; The land is lost, and the land is empty. The campaign method that our army is best at is not the sidelines, but it is the attack that must be saved, and the encirclement point is to send reinforcements. ”

"In the opinion of his subordinates, in another five to ten years, when the elite of our army has trained more than 300,000, Fang Hao will have a strategic decisive battle with the Khitans. Among them, taking Youzhou is still secondary, and if you take the opportunity to eliminate the main Khitan force, it is the best policy. ”

Yao Hong's incisive analysis made Li Zhongyi Long's heart happy, and he couldn't help but clap his hands a little forgetful, slapped Yao Hong's shoulder, and praised: "It's really worthy of my thousand miles of horses!" ”