This student army from Jinyang and the Jinyang forbidden army were placed by Li Sifeng in a military village more than ten miles north of Jining City, which was also a cavalry training base belonging to the Ministry of War. It is said that it is a military village, but in fact it is just an earthen fort, the fort wall is not more than a zhang high, the length is five miles, mainly the cavalry training ground in the camp occupies a large area.

The camp was built against the mountain, cutting off the valley on both sides of the water on the left wing.

Li Sifeng has a stocky figure, a beard, and two looped legs make him look more like a prairie man. This guy was born as a horse bandit, and he, together with Li Cunshuo and Kang Jiu, has led the cavalry across the northern grasslands in recent years, almost wiped out the horse thieves on the grassland, and even exterminated more than a dozen robbed grassland tribes.

These people have a high prestige in the grassland department, and their speech is much more effective than that of the local officials appointed by the imperial court.

This kind of thing is accumulated by killing, and others can't learn it even if they want to.

"You have come just in time, there is a large wolf pack from the Northland grassland over Baiquanzi, and it is suffering from a wolf plague. The Tunpu and the Obstruction tribe there came to the rescue, and you followed the left battalion to help exterminate the wolf pack, which was also a way to train the troops. Li Sifeng said.

"The garrison is still in charge of this?" Li Ji said.

"This is nature, like horse thieves, unruly tribes, and wolves, as long as they harm the grassland, the garrison must take care of it. Ordinary small packs of wolves, the local tribe or the fort can deal with it themselves, this wolf pack is too large, and a large army needs to be dispatched to encircle and suppress it. Li Sifeng said. Wolves are very cunning, and many tactics are used when encircling and suppressing wolves. ”

"Can I hunt by the way?" Zhou Tingyu asked with some excitement.

"Hmm...... You can shoot some, but not too much, many people on the grassland still count on hunting in winter to survive, not to cut off people's way of life. Li Sifeng said, "There is a limit of less than 300 yellow sheep and roe deer, and there is no limit to rabbits and pheasants." ”

Li Sifeng's official position is the envoy of Yunzhong North Road, and the nominally directly subordinate troops are only the 6,000 Jining cavalry under his command, but in fact, if it is in wartime, from the north of Tongyuan City, there are more than 20,000 Tuntian military households in his jurisdiction, and there are more than 10,000 tribal herdsmen. In an emergency, more than 50,000 young people can be mobilized.

With the increasing number of Tuntian military households in the northern grasslands, in order to limit the power of the guards from being too large, the Tuntian District of the northern grasslands was divided into Zhangbei Town Fu Envoy Division, Yunzhong Northern Town Fu Envoy Division, Yunnei Town Fu Envoy Division and Hetao Black Mountain Town Fu Envoy Division, and the establishment of the four major town guard envoys basically replaced the original Tiande Army Festival Envoy.

Now the direct jurisdiction of Tiande Military Town is only the area around the Jiuyuan Basin.

After explaining the matter, Li Sifeng stood up, put his hands behind his back and said, "The deputy general of the Zuo Battalion will contact you in a while, everyone prepare, and set off early tomorrow morning." ”

A few people could only bow their hands and say: "The last general obeys the order!" ”

These people left Li Sifeng's festival hall, and a young man in half-body chain mail was already waiting for them in the courtyard.

"Li Jize, the deputy general of the left battalion of the Jining Army, has seen all the forbidden army robes."

Li Ji walked up to him after seeing him and smiled: "Your father asked you to come and keep an eye on us?" ”

Li Jize smiled bitterly and said to Li Ji: "Your status is noble, in case there is any mistake, it is difficult to explain to the Son of Heaven." Why are you bad to suffer in this army? ”

Li Ji said angrily when he heard this: "I know what a certain family wants to do, and I don't need you to teach me a lesson." ”

"Okay, you are a master, do whatever you want, your subordinates will never stop you." Li Jize had no choice but to say.

"I said that I went to the north to train soldiers, how did I become a wolf fighter? Isn't there a bandit cottage or anything like that? "Zhou Tingyu said, everyone is a noble son of Jinyang Xun, and they can usually see it a few times a year. Li Jize is Li Sifeng's second son, although he is older, he also trained in Jinyang Academy for a year.

"This place is stable, everyone can make do with their lives, where did those bandits come from. Do that line of work with your head tied to the waistband of your pants all day long, and you can't really survive until you can't live, how many people are willing to occupy the mountain as kings? Li Jize said, "It turns out that there are a lot of bandits and swordsmen on the northland grassland, and those who have been cleaned up in the past few years have been farming and grazing sheep in the Tuntian area when they are not in the army." ”

"Is the wolves easy to encircle?" Li Ji asked.

"It's not easy to get it, it's more cunning than a horse thief, and it's so bad that you can't even find a shadow." Li Jize said, "So you can't make too much movement first, you need to find out where they are often active first, and slowly close the net from a distance." ”

Li Jize followed them directly back to the military village, and then introduced the situation to them in detail on the map.

The wolf plague occurred in the area of Baiquanzi, north of the upper reaches of the Dajin River. This is a large swampy wetland, rich in water and grass, belonging to the traditional winter pastures of the Tatar and Zhubu tribes in the Yinshan area.

In the north of Yunzhong, the town of Fu envoy Department in the upper reaches of the Dajin River built the Axe Mountain City, the two forts of the Baiquan City belong to the Axe Mountain Guard, which are two forts based on animal husbandry and supplemented by agriculture. Within a month, the sheep in five winter pastures around Baiquanzi had been attacked by wolves and suffered heavy losses.

In the Northland grasslands, the tribes will also organize cavalry to round up and expel the wolves that follow the herd down the mountain after the transition to the winter nest in the autumn. Hunting in early winter is also a tradition of military training for the steppe tribes. Now, this tradition has been replaced by the annual training of the militia by the various town envoys.

In recent years, due to the pacification of the cavalry, there were no bandits to suppress, and the hunting of wolves was regarded as the main way of winter training, which caused a large number of wolves to flee far away from the Tuntian area and go to the grasslands further north. In the past two years, large groups of wolves have rarely been seen in the grasslands near the reclamation area.

"This year, the grasslands in Mobei may have suffered from snowstorms, which caused the wolves to venture to the grasslands near Tuntian District due to lack of food." Li Jize sighed after introducing the situation, "Be more careful next year, it is possible that the tribes of Mobei will come to Monan to rob." ”

"Wouldn't that be right?" Zhou Tingyu said.

"The bitter cold in Mobei and the harsher living conditions have also caused their tribal cavalry to be more fierce and cruel, and the grassland tribes under our control can't beat them." Li Jize said, "When the time comes, let's see how the imperial court arranges it." ”

"When are we going to act?" Yang Chongliang asked.

"The wolves have just attacked a sheep at a pasture and they have to wait seven or eight days to get enough to eat. Now that our army is moving, it will definitely scare the wolves away, and when the time comes, we will definitely disappear when we drill into the deep mountains and old forests. Li Jize said, "The wolf pack is also like fighting with us, first send a small group of wolves to step on the spot and reconnoiter the situation." ”

"I didn't expect this wolf pack to know the art of war, it's kind of interesting." Zhou Tingyu was in the spirit when he heard it......