It was night, and Li Ruoxu didn't sleep all night.

"The day after tomorrow is going to attack the river, I wonder if it will go well? Yue Shuai asked for the soldiers to grant land, but the court has not heard from it so far, and I don't know if it will affect morale...... Deng Xianggong borrowed the general trend of the Northern Expedition to forcibly ask the states to learn and assess, and to reject the students who did not learn and did not know how to do it, would it be too hasty? Li Ruoxu had been thinking about various questions all night. He tossed and turned, simply put on his clothes, stood in front of the window and frowned and thought, his expression was the same as when he feasted.

"Many of the Northern Expeditionary Army were not military households, but farmers from Hebei and Henan."

"The sword has no eyes on the battlefield, who is not afraid of death? The reason why he joined the army and fought was nothing more than for the sake of his homeland. General Yue asked for 100 acres of land for each of the soldiers of the Northern Expedition, 200 acres for the commander of the army, and 1,000 acres of land for the commander and above, which was to imitate the system of granting land in the western part of the country and to inspire the soldiers to serve the dead. However, the imperial court gave all the fields in Hebei to the merchants who bought the Hebei coupons, and if they wanted to take out another 10 million mu of land to grant land, wouldn't it be to strip the flesh of the merchants' hearts? However, if there were no Hebei coupons, wouldn't even the food and salary for the Northern Expedition be available? ”

"Increasing taxes? It is even more impossible for the scholars to agree easily......"

"No wonder Zhao Yuanzhi had to break his house to raise food and salary for the restoration of the Central Plains, the soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first!"

In order to distinguish between the good and the bad, Deng Xianggong ordered a ban on donating lives. The world's official schools re-assessed the students, silently wrote the Five Classics, and those who made mistakes and omissions of more than 15 words were dismissed from school, although it was good to use, Qingliu was greatly encouraged. However, as soon as the decree came down, the backlash from the state and county was unexpectedly strong. Originally, I thought that the state and county officials were occupied by Qingliu, but now I found that there seem to be many people who do not learn and do not know how to do it, and even fill it, it is these people who use all means to oppose the re-screening of the students, and insist on donating students to make up for the lack of taxes, otherwise the state and county will not be able to make ends meet, and the taxes to the imperial court will not be paid. Deng Xianggong used the Northern Expedition to seize power and beat the state and county officials with good intentions, but some people who formed a party and ran a private business were really difficult to deal with. ”

"Don't delay the Northern Expedition to ......"

Li Ruoxu was in the Shogunate, and he knew far more than ordinary generals, but the more he knew, the more worries he had, the more he thought about it, the more anxious he became, and he opened the windows and let the cold wind blow for a long time, before he calmed down a little.

Since ancient times, all intelligent people will have many thoughts and worries.

If Li Ruoxu has the talent of the champion, how can he be an exception. Li Ruoxu has always taken Zhao Xingde as a model, and until now, although he has a knot in his heart for Zhao Xingde, he is still so. At this time, he would think, if Zhao Yuanzhi encountered such a situation, he would be like a river? Just half a thought, Li Ruoxu took this idea out of his mind, he decided to be a righteous and upright husband, so that she could also be impressed, how could he imitate others in everything? In the second half of the night, Li Ruoxu stood in front of the window in a daze, thinking about it, sad, tormented, anxious, sometimes recalling his rare relationship with Zhao Huan, and sometimes sorting out the overall situation of the Northern Expedition now, bit by bit, with thousands of thoughts, if it wasn't for the dawn of the day, he kept thinking about it like a cow's tendon, I was afraid that I would go crazy.

"Huang Bin is a person with real skills, and there will be a big battle tomorrow, he hurried to transport the artillery to the preset fort, so he offended Lord Li, and I hope you have a lot of Haihan." Zhang Xian looked at Li Ruoxu and said with a wry smile, "I also know that you are not a person who cares about this, otherwise, you would not have taken the initiative to invite Ying to come to the river to fight, how good it would be to stay comfortably in Yue Shuai's camp." The few who accompanied you last night are all good men in the army, and tomorrow, they will go into battle one by two, in a word, return my rivers and mountains, I don't know how many heroes want to cut off their heads and spill blood, no matter how fierce the thieves are, we will fight with them to the end. Therefore, Li Zhuangyuan Gong should not worry more about these rough people. ”

"This is natural," Li Ruoxu nodded, and wondered, "Isn't it too hasty to attack the Liao army tomorrow?" ”

He had been in the shogunate of Yue Shuai, and knew that the front army of Zhang Xian was about 30,000 horses, and it was only within two or three days that he gradually gathered in Hejian, which was comparable to the number of Liao troops in Hejian. Unexpectedly, Zhang Xian had already decided to attack the Liao army camp.

"In a hurry?" Zhang Xian was silent for a moment, looked at the busy soldiers in the camp, and said in a deep voice, "Yes, there are some." He looked at Li Ruoxu's puzzled face, sighed, and said: "However, every time the Liao army stops us here for a day, the food and salary consumption of the 150,000 troops of the imperial court, plus the transportation of hundreds of thousands of people, costs 100,000 per day, how long does Lord Li think the imperial court can support it?" Even if the imperial court can afford it, two more months, in the cold winter wax moon, the colder the Liao cavalry becomes, and our army is not as frost-resistant as the Liao army, and it has to march north, Youzhou Jiancheng is a hard bone. If the Liao thieves are determined to defend Youzhou, we may not be able to take it easily. If you can't take Youzhou? The whole of Hebei has become a white land, and the army is suffering a winter in the wild? Still want to siege the city? Field? ”

"Then why?"

"Why did you delay the attack on the river until now?"

Li Ruoxu looked at Zhang Xian in silence, although his status was detached, he still couldn't explicitly criticize the former military commander.

"The Liao army has built a camp and set up artillery, can six or seven thousand cavalry capture Hejian City?"

A sneer appeared at the corner of Zhang Xian's mouth: "To deal with the Liao artillery, we will use artillery, even if the artillery team comes up slowly, we will wait." And to get past the enemy's artillery, I have to have enough people to fill in, otherwise the dead will die in vain. Tomorrow, if the Liao army fights this battle with us, my 30,000 horses will be killed in at least 3,000 and 6,000 wounded. ”

Not far away, a group of soldiers took off their military robes and sweated profusely digging the artillery fort.

"Since Zhang followed Yue Shuai, he went into battle to kill the enemy, and life and death have long been put aside." Zhang Xian sighed and said in a deep voice: "However, since there is such a thing as artillery, fighting a war has become a dirty job, hard work, and tiring work. No one wants to stay up like this, but if anyone doesn't save enough strength and rush forward, they can only be blown to pieces by the artillery on the opposite side, and you can only rush thousands of people and tens of thousands of people out of the way, so that you can rush over with those damn bullets, and then kill enough to come back! Do you understand? He patted Li Ruoxu's shoulder and said, "Master Li, you are the leader of the champion and the pillar of the country." Fighting a war is a matter of martial arts like Zhang, and there is no shortage of you before the battle, and when you fight tomorrow, you will follow me, but you yourself have to be clever, and the cannon is not long-sighted, I don't want to let the two marshals Yue Xianggong and Lord Zhao settle accounts with me! ”

Li Ruoxu had just arrived, and he couldn't intervene in everything, and Zhang Xian didn't plan to let him go into battle.

Therefore, Zhang Xian told Li Ruoxu to stay carefully in the camp of the former army and not to move around like yesterday.

The war was imminent, Zhang Xian's military affairs were busy, and he only accompanied Li Ruoxu for a short time before leaving.

Li Ruoxu looked at his back, and many soldiers in the camp cheered at Zhang Xian, and there was a burst of amazement in his chest.

The soldiers were drenched in sweat, and most of them wore their military robes open, revealing their tanned backs from years of work.

In the eyes of some, they are landless outcasts, insignificant pawns.

But in Li Ruoxu's eyes, they are all good men who go to trouble for the country.

It's a pity that these heroes are still cheering happily today, and some people are either looking forward to a piece of land or building a military feat. However, according to Zhang Xian's statement, nearly 10,000 people are destined to be killed and injured tomorrow, and perhaps it is one of these people. Li Ruoxu suddenly started the rising price of Hebei coupons in Yangzhou Zhengxin Hall, did those merchants who bought the coupons want to get that every inch of land in Hebei was actually exchanged for the lives and blood of the soldiers of the Northern Expedition? Isn't it good for the imperial court to happily agree to grant land?

Li Ruoxu shook his head, put aside his complaints about the imperial court for the time being, on this day, he consciously stayed in the big camp tent, not to add unnecessary trouble to the busy former army staff, Li Ruoxu watched from a distance The bright sun rose in the east and set in the west, shining on the wide battlefield.

"See the Khitan artillery forts?" Zhou Ding finished his military affairs and came over to accompany Li Ruoxu.

Li Ruoxu followed the direction pointed by Zhou Ding, only to see a large road leading to the city between the two rivers, about two miles away from the city, the Liao army built two camps, the sun and moon flags were erected on the camps, and the surrounding crops were all burned to a scorched earth. Because of the distance, the camp of the Liao army appeared very short and small, only the rivers and hills, the shadowy figures, and the cooking smoke rising from time to time did not have the appearance of the continuous tents when the two armies fought in the past. This is also because of the artillery, a well-arranged artillery fort, assuming a dozen barrel cannons, is enough for thousands of archers to release arrows. Both sides relied mainly on artillery to kill and wound, the cavalry was the sharp knife to capture the fort, and the foot soldiers were the strong shield to protect the fort. Unconsciously, artillery has become the center of the battlefield, changing the face of the entire battlefield. Li Ruo was shocked, and some understood that Zhang Xian's reverence for Yue Shuai still mentioned Zhao Yuanzhi and Yue Shuai together.

"Where is the artillery of the Liao army?" He squinted, trying to tell.

The Liao army's camp was not very obvious in the yellow-brown hills, and it was not easy to find the main artillery fort at a glance.

"Where, there!" Zhou Ding pointed to the middle of the narrowest part of the distance between the two rivers.

The expression on his face was very serious. "In order to test these places, we have lost a lot of brothers." Zhou Ding pointed to a central artillery fort that was higher than the other camps, if you look closely, you can find that it occupies a large area, enough to arrange dozens of hundreds of cannons, "See?" I'm going to take this place tomorrow, and I don't know how many brothers I'm going to fill in. His face darkened slightly, and his tone was low.

The golden sunlight shone on the two sparkling rivers, as if two golden ribbons were wrapping around the river city, and the scenery was particularly magnificent.

The sunset is infinitely better, but when he thinks of the casualties in this big battle, Li Ruoxu's heart suddenly dissipates a lot.

He couldn't help but wonder if Zhang Xian said this on purpose, and he was actually frightened by him, which was really embarrassing.

This night, Li Ruoxu didn't sleep well, and when Yin was in time, he was woken up by Zhou Ding, and he was about to start attacking after the o'clock.