Yulu Lingling, the golden wind is blowing, this is after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the last good time before the cold winter comes, and it is also fighting.

On this day, the fifth watch is approaching, the waning moon in the sky is half-bent, like a silver comb hanging obliquely at the foot of the east sky, and the dim moon shines on the plain at night, only a faint outline.

In the city of Xiongzhou, war drums and horns sounded. Zhao Gouhe's subordinate civil and military forces have already ascended the north tower of Xiongzhou City.

The Yan Wang army, which numbered more than 30,000, was mobilizing at the fastest speed, whether it was infantry, cavalry, or bravery. The people, both inside and outside the city. Soldiers in battalions began to put on armor and straighten their equipment, and then gathered in the plains outside the north of the city.

Zhao Gou stood on the tower of the north city, from the fifth watch to the morning sunrise. He watched as under the warm sunlight, a group of sergeants wearing iron armor and leather armor, or passing through the north gate, or fighting the east and west sides, gathered one by one on the field outside the city, a battalion of soldiers gathered into a formation, and the red military robes of the Yanshan army were like a sea of fire.

Yang Weizhong, Wang Yuan, Wang Yan, Liu Rui and other generals who are all in charge or in charge of the capital next to him are also full of red faces, full of expectations for the war under them.

This was not Zhao Gou's first battle against the Jin State, but this was the first time that the Yan Wangjun army entered the territory of the Jin State and the first time that it entered the sixteen states of Yanyun. Thinking about Zhao Gou's grand wishes, if this battle is successful, they will really open up a big future.

Thousands of years later, Zhao Song has already become a thing of the past, and they can be like Wei Huo, famous in history and famous for centuries!

Next to Zhao Gou, there are also Wang Boyan and Huang Qianshan, as well as Zhao Buqian and Guo Yong. The latter is a native of the Daimyo's Mansion, and he is young and brave and decisive.

When Zhao Bu tried to serve as the general judge of the Daimyo Mansion, he sketched the military and got Guo Yong's help.

When the Jin people first went south, it was a cold winter, the city was frozen, and the moat outside the city was frozen and almost useless. Guo Yong happened to be in the Daimyo's Mansion, and after hearing about it, he proposed to relax the ban on fishing in the trenches, that is, to abolish the ban on fishing in the moat. If the people of the Daimyo Mansion are competing to catch them, the ice in the moat will not be able to meet. When the Jin army was killed under the city, they had no choice but to go.

Now this Hebei land has become Zhao Gou's territory, Zhao Butry recommended this person to Zhao Gou early, and was later appointed as the transfer envoy of Hebei East Road, which is Liang Yangzu's subordinate.

The latter said that he was a three-way transfer envoy, but in a sense, he was more like Zhao Gou's Hubu Shangshu.

More than 30,000 cavalry were mobilized this time, the main general was Yang Weizhong, the deputy general was Wang Yuan, and Wang Yan and Liu Rui were then prepared.

Wang Yan is the one who engaged in the eight-character army, which was originally under the control of Zhang, and after Zhang joined Zhao Gou, it was still under the control of the capital. And Liu Rui, as a general under Wang Boyan, is now the head of Hebei East Road.

Although everyone's identities are high and low, they all hope that Zhao Gou can win this battle in one battle - in the face of the big cake drawn by Zhao Gou, they can't help but feel relaxed. The pie on the painting wants to change from false to real, and now this battle is a must, which will give great confidence and encouragement to the senior executives of Yanwang Group. Then their hearts will be completely settled.

The ranks outside the city slowly expanded, and Yue Fei and Han Shizhong led the cavalry troops to gather on the field, and the eight thousand iron cavalry lined up in a strict formation, all wearing iron armor. Each cavalryman was armed with a lance, the tail of which was pressed against a round iron ring on the right side of the saddle, and the spears were lined with red tassels. At first glance, it is extremely powerful.

This is the 8,000 horses that Zhao Gou gathered after he scavenged most of the war horses on the three roads in Hedong, Hebei, and they were matched with two horses. It is the largest cavalry cluster in the Yan Wang's army.

The battle flags of the eight thousand iron cavalry flew and became one with the red red of the infantry armor, and it really seemed that a fire had burned on the flat ground outside the city.

One battalion and one battalion, one army and one army, the rivers converged into the sea, and the small Xiongzhou city gathered 35,000 Yanwang troops and civilian forces with the army.

The battalion leaders lined up one after another, and when the war drums stopped, when the trumpets stopped, there was not a single sound in the whole north of the city. However, a mountain-like majesty rushed towards him, making the soldiers and people in the city feel suffocated.

Since the beginning of the last year, Zhao Gou has never treated his soldiers lightly. Not to mention that he led these soldiers to defeat the invading Jin people, which in itself was a feat that won the hearts of the military, coupled with the rumors of God's blessing of the Mandate of Heaven, these soldiers were already his people. And the implementation of the military merit field system, and the fact that acres of fertile land were really sent to the hands of the military men, made them die one by one.

In a sense, Zhao Gou has already been served by these military men.

This is especially true of military generals, even many civilian officials.

The officials of the state capital and county on Hedong Third Road in Hebei Province, as time went by, there were fewer and fewer of them, and the reason was that they saw greater benefits on Zhao Gou's side.

Don't think that they don't know that Zhao Gou's actions will greatly damage the civil politics of Zhao and Song dynasties, and destroy the beauty that the literati have spent more than a hundred years to form, but they themselves can benefit from it and enjoy great benefits.

Few people can resist such temptation.

People are selfish, how many people can be truly selfless?

If the literati of Zhao and Song Dynasty can take care of the overall situation, can all focus on the overall situation, and can sacrifice their private interests for the public, will the world still be the world it is today?

Therefore, when these people are selfish, even if they don't work for Zhao Gou wholeheartedly, they will never leave Zhao Gou.

Just because Zhao Gou promised a hereditary title, a title that can be hereditary like the Qin and Han dynasties, it is another system that is very different from the previous title system of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

You must know that the old Zhao family has been established for more than 160 years, and the hereditary recumbent lord in the real sense, from the civil and military courtiers to the royal family of the clan, there is only one case of the heir Pu King (the heir king is under the prince and above the county king), if Zhao Gou, the king of Yan, is not counted.

Even the prince is crowned the king, the prince is only his body, and the descendants do not ask the heirs, with the longest one of them, the duke, and the rest of the descendants are just the shadow into the office, as the sanitation officer, and then in order to move around, and the different surname of the noble official Yin Zi into the general, must be in the old age, seniority, Fang Te to the county king, and his ancestors, father received the lord is not inherited.

The prince is not crowned the king and only one person inherits the duke, so Zhao Song categorically does not have the burden of the Zhu Ming clan. Even in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a situation where "there was almost no king in the clan surname". Until the time of Song Shenzong, he felt that his father Song Yingzong had joined Jirenzong outside the domain, and his uncle Zhao Zonghui was named the heir of Pu Wang and stipulated hereditary.

Even the close branch clan is like this, and the courtiers are even more so. Like Wen Yanbo, Han Qi, Wang Anshi and other famous big names in the political arena, the existence of feudal princes one by one is actually a lifelong knight, and he is a knight in death.

And Zhao Gou is now issuing a hereditary nobleman.

Of course, there are still lifetime knights. Among the chips opened by Zhao Gou, the Lifetime Jue is also the Liujue, and it is not difficult to obtain. For example, Zong Ze, if he is sick now, Zhao Gou will immediately be able to make him an earl and marquis, this is Liujue.

Regardless of civil and military, now all eyes are staring at the four words hereditary replacement. In the round cake drawn by Zhao Gou, the noble lord has a large area of jue land, which can be tax-exempt and exempt, and can also send students to Taixue, Guozijian and Wuluo Academy in the future. Although the latter also has certain rigid requirements and many restrictions, this is the dependence of maintaining the family's long-term wealth.

Looking at the more than 160 years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, how many once prominent ministers and famous families have become obscure? If they have the slightest possibility, how can they be willing to see the decline of future generations?

And the answer given by Zhao Gou has that possibility.

The tax-exempt Juetian can be called the family to always maintain a certain amount of financial resources, and the students sent to Taixue, Guozijian, and Wuluoyuan are a symbol of the family's endless career, which is the real wealth and prosperity. This is also a temptation that countless people simply cannot refuse!

The Wuluo Academy is martial arts, and it is one of the promises made by Zhao Gou to the generals. In the future, it will be on a par with Taixue and Guozijian. This promise stimulated many generals below Yang Weizhong and Wang Yuan.

The Great Song Dynasty has been using literature to control military capital for many years, and now it is possible to see the possibility of attaching equal importance to civil and military affairs, which makes Zhao Gou greatly collect a military heart.

After such a few months, the soldiers under Zhao Gou may still be those soldiers from earlier, but their mental outlook and enterprising spirit are very different from last year.

Yang Weizhong, Wang Yuan and other generals looked at the soldiers below, and they had a feeling in their hearts. These people just don't have the earth-shattering thunder to rely on, and they can still have a tough battle with the gold people when they pull them out.

Zhao Buxian's face was a little flushed, and the spirit of the soldiers and horses in front of him made him look surprised and happy. In his heart, Zhao Gou is definitely an unborn genius, otherwise how could he make his soldiers and horses completely change their appearance in less than a year.

Don't say whether King Yan's promises will be implemented, but he has the ability to think of these promises, and he has done some of them, causing the morale of the generals and soldiers to boil one by one, this is the biggest ability, isn't it?

The army in front of him really gave him infinite strength and hope. The pie painted by Zhao Gou is very big and beautiful, but it is really possible to achieve it.

Soon after, the army and chariots were all assembled, few armed and no one wore armor, but they were just as high spirited and full of anticipation for the battle to come.

Because most of their identities are people who have a blood feud with the Jin people. The Jin soldiers invaded the south twice, burned, killed and looted, and did a lot of evil in the two roads of Hebei, and how many people had a deep blood feud with them. These people don't care what kind of attitude they had before, and now they seem to be die-hard supporters of Zhao Gou.

The people in Xiongzhou City have long been alarmed, and when they heard that the army in the city was about to be launched, countless people poured out of the city.

The Jin people's two southward journeys have made the people of Hebei taste the bitterness, knowing the barbarism and brutality of the Jurchens, and now that the army of King Yan has sent troops, everyone is praying that they can return triumphantly, because they all know that if King Yan's soldiers and horses are defeated, their fate will be so tragic.

When Zhao Gou and the others galloped out of the north city gate, the tidal cheers sounded, and countless people shouted: "I wish the king's banner a victory, and the horse will be successful, and the golden captives will be killed without leaving a piece of armor." ”

Zhao Gou and the others hugged their fists in respect, which attracted cheers and shouts.

When he rushed to the front of the army, the army of more than 30,000 people discharged an array five or six miles long, and the soldiers were in strict formation, one by one, the phalanx and the matrix were as straight as a knife and axe, and flags fluttered in the array.

Zhao Gou beat his horse and galloped past them.

That feeling of being in the spotlight, countless eyes gathered together, and at this moment, his own blood was a little boiling.

He suddenly drew his saber and raised it high, "Sons, the Jurchens are cruel and unjust. Yanyun Han'er has been suffering for a long time, and my king went north, hanging the people to fight crimes, and relieving the people from hanging. In this battle, our army will win! ”

"Victory!"

Although what Zhao Gou said was nonsense, more than 30,000 soldiers still held their blades high one by one, roaring in unison, and their voices shattered the sky.

"Victory!"

The laborers and the people also raised their hands high, and there were also many young and strong men around the people with hideous expressions, and their faces were distorted in the loud roar. They have an inextricable blood feud with the Jinren.