"Jiangdong still has nearly 100,000 horses in the hands of Cao Di, although the two sides have stopped fighting, but ..... General Zhao, General Han and Liao Kou fought hard for more than a month, but Cao Di kept his troops moving, instigating the arrogant soldiers to make trouble every day, and asked us for food and salary, and his movements were very worrying. Cao Liangshi said to Deng Su. After the Li Society admitted that Zhao Qi temporarily took the throne, the relationship between Chen Dong and Deng Su eased somewhat.

The soldiers and horses in the hands of the three generals Zhao, Yue, and Han are comparable to the soldiers and horses mastered by Cao Di. Therefore, when Xia Guo proposed a joint attack and Han Shizhong proposed a strategy to pursue the Liao army, Deng Su, Chen Dong and others were quite worried. is not only worried that the defeat in World War I will lead to the collapse of the overall situation, but also worried that the three generals of Zhao Yue and Han will suffer too heavy losses and lose the strength to balance Cao Di.

After the two families joined forces, Cao Di asked the Ezhou Prime Minister's Mansion to bear the food and salary of more than 100,000 horses under his command. Although there was no distinction between two families in the Great Song Dynasty, the Ezhou Prime Minister's Mansion was able to integrate the manpower and material resources of Zhuluzhou County, however, the sudden increase in the supply of these hundreds of thousands of horses and horses, the military department and the household department did their best to be unsatisfactory, just a few days ago, more than 1,000 soldiers under the jurisdiction of the Xijing Xing Battalion ran to Ezhou City, surrounded the military department to ask for food, killed more than 10 people, burned dozens of houses, and almost caused a big chaos. In a hurry, Chen Dong almost ordered the transfer of the Baoyi army back to Bao'ezhou, and finally under the advice of Cao Liangshi, he took into account the overall situation and only transferred the Henghai Navy into the city to quell the chaos. Han Shizhong ordered the sailors to fire artillery on the river to warn, and then ruthlessly beheaded more than a dozen leading rebels, which stabilized the situation. After this fake drama really made a mutiny, Deng Su's wariness of Cao Di also rose, and Deng Su and Chen Dong and others also talked about Cao Di in the past, but now they began to show it as if they were careless.

"I'm afraid of wolves in the front, I'm afraid of tigers in the back, so I'm still fighting a bird fight." Han Shizhong slapped the table, glared and shouted, "Cao Di's rabble, give me 10,000 cavalry to level him." After the victory of the sailor, Han Shizhong was awarded the title of privy deputy envoy. The position is similar to Yue Fei and Cao Di, and it is slightly better than Zhao Xingde.

"The matter of sending troops and attacking the Liao State together, I will discuss it with Yuan Zhi again." Chen Dong's fists clenched fiercely. After he was elected as the prime minister of hundreds of counties, he had many more worries than before. Since the invasion of the Liao thieves to the south, the killing has been extremely heavy, and it is difficult to gather hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the situation in the southeast has become the climate. There is absolutely no problem in defending, but it is necessary to desperately challenge a strong enemy, but there are many concerns. He sighed, pondered for a long time, took out a roll of writing paper from his sleeve, and handed it to Cao Liangshi: "The people of Liao are strong and strong, and our dynasty has many weak soldiers. Instead of envying the fish in the abyss, it is better to retreat and close the net. Yuanzhi has a strategy for training and raising troops, I think about it, it is very implicated, and you will also refer to it in detail. ”

Zhao Xingde's ability, Deng Su already knew that Chen Dong said that everyone would refer to it together, he wanted to have a sneak peek, and he did not avoid suspicion, so he stood up and looked behind Cao Liangshi, and the first line of small block letters on the upper right side of the paper was "National Military System". Cao Liangshi slowly turned the paper, and Deng Su read it one by one. Although Han Shizhong wondered what Zhao Xingde had written, he still sat upright with his own identity, and only speculated on the pros and cons of this strategy on both sides from the looks of the two.

Seeing this, Chen Dong took the initiative to explain to Han Shizhong: "The world is not the world of one person, but the world of the people. This sentence is the other way around, that is, everyone in the world has the responsibility of defending the land and serving the country. The strategy of Yuan Zhi coincides with the soldiers of the Han and Tang dynasties and the armor protection law of this dynasty, but there are many differences. The soldiers of the county of the Han Dynasty and the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are not yet called 'the whole people'. And with the policy of Yuan Zhi, the rise and fall of the world, the husband is responsible, this word "all" is not only to protect the people, but also to make no exceptions. Men in the state and county must be recruited into the army when they reach the year of the crown. ”

"It's not going to work." Han Shizhong was surprised and asked rhetorically, "What kind of military food can anyone eat?" Han hadn't read a few books, but he also knew that soldiers were not expensive. In the past, whenever there was a flood or drought, the imperial court provided relief and recruited the victims to be the army, and they also had to choose the strong, not all of them. Besides, all the men are soldiers, who will farm? How much does the military ration and salary cost, and where does it come from? "His face was full of incredulity. Next to him, Cao Liangshi and Deng Su both had solemn faces, and after reading Zhao Xingde's handwritten strategy, Deng Su closed the door and pondered for a moment, his eyes opened, revealing a ray of essence, and he said in a low voice: "Brother Cao, Yuan Zhi's intentions, I'm afraid it's not just to expel foreign insults." Cao Liangshi was noncommittal, turned back to the frontispiece, and read it again from the beginning.

On the other side, Chen Dong continued: "General Han is worried. But this all-people military system does not conscript all men into the army. Although all men have the responsibility of enlisting in the army, each of them has only been in the army for three years. In the past three years, I have practiced the way of defending the queue and practiced the formation of firearms and spears. After three years of service, he returned to his profession and practiced only 15 days a year thereafter. Compared with the original armor protection law, the township soldiers only need to serve for three years, and there is almost no delay in their livelihood after that. If there is something wrong with the country, such as the Liao State invading the Central Plains in the south, the soldiers of the prefectures and counties, and the soldiers that China can fight will be in the millions. He paused, "In the past, recruiting soldiers, those who were not strong and strong could not draw bows and arrows, but now that artillery and firearms are popular in the world, Ding Zhuang only needs the power of the gun to educate the army." In this way, China is enriched, and it is even more worried about foreign insults. ”

"After three years of training, and then released to the people, even if they are re-recruited, they will be a rabble," Han Shizhong has an instinctive antipathy to this all-people military system, "When it comes to fighting, these rabble will not be able to help at all." ”

Cao Liangshi retorted: "Many of the soldiers in the Baoyi Army are state and county volunteers, and they haven't been trained for three years before, right? It's not very good to fight. Han Shizhong frowned and raised his voice: "Cao Shangshu, you can't just look at those volunteers. Zhao Xingde's command, nearly half of them are water bandits in the southeast of Zhao'an, like Luo Xianshi and Lu Mingyu, these giants, at the beginning, the imperial court went to the sea to catch official documents, and fought with the southeast battalion, and the Xianxiang army could not match. Cao Liangshi said: "At that time, the traitorous party was in charge, and the official. Force. People. Anti. It is also a good thing that Zhao Yuanzhi can inspire them to serve the country. ”

The argument involved the generals of the Baoyi Army, Chen Dong coughed, pulled the topic back, and said: "The township soldiers are in a hurry and difficult to use, and Yuan Zhi has also taken it into account. In addition to ordinary village soldiers, elite soldiers must also be recruited. As General Han said, soldiers are not expensive, if you use the national strength of the heyday of this dynasty, you can recruit 100,000 strong and brave warriors in the world. Most of these elite soldiers were stationed at the border gates, and a small half were scattered in the prefectures and counties as officers to teach them to fight. ”

Cao Liangshi continued: "There are as many as one million soldiers in the state and county, and if there is something in the imperial court, His Majesty, the Prime Minister, and the Privy Council need to use the seal together, so that the Privy Council can order the transfer of troops, otherwise it will be a chaotic life." He glanced at Deng Su, "If the power traitor controls the imperial court, acts perversely, and even has Dong Zhuo's generation usurped, the states and counties will learn to sacrifice wine and elect the prime minister, and the whole world can be sent to attack him." ”

Deng Su shook his head and sneered: "If you have ill intentions and envelop most of the states and counties, won't you be able to do usurpation?" In this way, in addition to the fact that the imperial court can arbitrarily mobilize a small number of elite soldiers, the control of the state and county is all maintained by the general righteousness, and as long as the Qingliushi people can control the state and county, it is equivalent to holding the military power, and they still have the strength to fight.

"If all the horses in the state and county of the world are all together," Chen Dong said coldly: "If the Great Song Dynasty does not die, it is unreasonable." ”

"You ......" Deng Su couldn't imagine that Chen Dong, as the prime minister, would say such a thing. The scene fell cold for a moment.

Chen Dong ignored it, and turned to Han Shizhong: "Zhao Yuanzhi also sent a letter to the book, and the Liao thief must not be allowed to retreat calmly. However, half of the country south of the Yangtze River relies on these hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, and there is no room for mistakes, and I hope that General Han will come up with a proper plan. "Since the decisive battle on the river, the Liao soldiers attacked Hanyang very urgently, Zhao Xingde could not get out of the battle in Jiangbei, Chen Dong and others planned the military strategy, and they also discussed with Han Shizhong. After the election, the Jingdong Road forces and the Southeast Science and Technology Society were like fire and water. It's just that the Liao soldiers are pressing the border and have to work together. Han Shizhong is thick on the outside and fine on the inside, and he is in a round and round way, and the people of the Harmony Society move around frequently, but Hou Huanyin, who is sitting on Jingdong Road, also regards him as a henchman and a minion, and Jingdong Road has a steady stream of food and salary from the sea every month, so that the expansion of the Henghai Navy is like a tiger with wings, which can be regarded as an outlier.

"That's easy to say." Han Shizhong agreed happily, but he didn't care much in his heart.

The four armies of the Great Song Dynasty had the most men and horses under Cao Di, but they were also the most hostile to the Ezhou Prime Minister's Mansion. Yue Fei, Han Shizhong, and Zhao Xingde each led an army, although they all respected the Prime Minister's Mansion, but they went their own way, and Zhao Xingde could not interfere in the military affairs of the Henghai Navy, and vice versa. Yue Fei was far away in Xiangyang as a privy envoy, and Zhao Xingde led the deployment of the southeast camp, and the two positions were not under Han Shizhong, and Han Shizhong was even more unlikely to be bored with himself to instruct them. The Privy Council is in vain, and the pursuit of the Liao army can only be done by the major generals.

Across the river, in the east tower of Hanyang City, the generals of the southeast camp and Jiangbei gathered together. For more than a month, the Liao soldiers stormed the fortress held by the Northern Jiangbei army, and Zhao Xingde sat in Hanyang to dispatch troops, fighting one battle after another, and gradually erected the authority of the marshal. After the news of the capture of Xiangyang by the Xia army and the Zhenguo army came, the momentum of the Liao army's siege of the city gradually slowed down. Zhao Xingde took a breath and immediately gathered the generals to arrange the long-planned pursuit plan.

"If the Prime Minister's Mansion, Cao Shumi, and General Han can make up their minds to assemble a large army and fight a decisive battle with the Liao soldiers, and then the elite of Guanxi will raid its flank from north to south, most of these 200,000 Liao soldiers will be lost in Jingxiang." A trace of regret flashed in Zhao Xingde's eyes. "If not, then the Liao army will attack the south, and the back road will be cut off, and it will inevitably lead troops back to Henan. At this time, if we don't take advantage of the situation to pursue, we will not be worthy of millions of unjust souls in the north and south of the river. ”