"Huh?" Li Qi looked at Zhang Shu.

"Since March, in two months, the Khitan has entered the Yunzhou border nine times and entered the north of the mountain five times, while last spring the Khitan crossed the border to harass only eight times in three months, less than three times a month, the number of attacks has nearly doubled, and the number of cavalry dispatched each time has increased from the original 30 or 50 people to more than 200 horsemen, and even more than 500 horsemen broke into the vicinity of Tongbei City last month."

"Uh...... I don't want people to live in peace! Li Qi sighed with emotion, "Is it that every time the Khitans are ready to make a big move, they will do this?" ”

"Not necessarily, if we have internal turmoil, there will naturally be no warning of their sorties, but, in general, this kind of small-scale attack is a test and preparation for a large-scale attack." Zhang Shu said.

"Okay, since they're going to do it, we can't just wait to be beaten passively, we have to take the initiative." Li Qi thought for a while, "First find out which tribe did it, and go over to raid their nest." Shi Kuangning was ordered to be the defense envoy of Montenegro, An Congjin was appointed as the defense envoy of Jiuyuan, Li Sifeng was transferred to Jining Zhenfu envoy, and Li Cunshuo was appointed as the defense envoy of Zhang Yuan. ”

He transferred the cavalry of the two to the Khitan border, and he had the intention of taking the initiative to attack.

This Shi Kuangning is the eldest son of Shi Jianjiao, a famous general of the Jin Army, but he is not as brave as his father, and the biggest advantage is that the three generations of the Shi family are loyal to the Li family, and it is reassuring to put it anywhere.

The border areas are still under the command of generals and implement militarized management, but in Jindi, Li Qi has already begun to implement the separation of military and civilian rule. This is an inevitable thing, in a stable area, the local garrison fully implements military reclamation, in fact, the power of the general is transferred to the hands of the Tuntian Division under the Zhongshu Order.

Otherwise, a town will be under the control of both the military and the people, and it will still not solve the problem of separating feudal towns since the Middle and Tang Dynasty.

With the rapid development of the Tuntian District, Li Qi needed more skilled people to manage the Tuntian Guards for him, mainly workshops and water conservancy facilities. The recruited scholars were arranged to various places after only half a year to a year of short-term training in Jinyang Academy, and there was still a serious shortage of manpower.

Those generals under his command wanted to be magistrates, so it would be easier to make money, but it was a pity that Li Qi didn't give these rough men who couldn't read a few big characters a chance at all. If you want to be a magistrate in the future, you can first obediently follow the clerk in the barracks to read and write, and only then can you become an official.

The students of the first phase of Jinyang Academy except for the 100 students who left the academy with the best learning, and the 300 martial arts who followed Li Qi to become a pro-military military academy, the rest were all stationed in various places to serve as technical and cultural guides.

However, only more than 300 students were assigned to serve in the army as secretaries and join the army. The military is a place of practice, and there are some things that can never be learned on paper. Marching and fighting also requires talent, but it is more about the accumulation of experience. The situation on the battlefield is ever-changing, and some people can see at a glance what the key is, while others will just keep their heads on the ground.

Killing people on the battlefield is also a technical job, and it is a fact that those well-equipped and well-trained veterans can be ten on the battlefield.

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Xinghe Fort is located in the northwest of Huairong County, on the edge of the grassland on the dam, is a new fort built by the Tang Army after the construction of Huairong City. Because it is located at the junction with the Khitan state, it is often harassed by Khitan cavalry who cross the border.

In view of the increase in the number of Khitan cavalry crossings this year, the Privy Council ordered Li Cunshuo's Weisai cavalry troops to move to Xinghebao to defend against Khitan raids.

Liang Xing, An Shouluan and other five graduates of Jinyang Academy were assigned to the Weiyuan Army, that is, Huairong City, but after Li Cunshuo was transferred to the Weiyuan Army general, the cavalry moved to Xinghe Fort further north. A group of more than 50 students set off from Jinyang by carriage, and after passing the Yanmen Pass, there were classmates who got off at the resettlement place from time to time and left, and there were fewer and fewer people, and after Tianzhen, there were only five of them left.

Among these five classmates, An Shouluan and Shi Jianning are "generals", while Liang Xing, Li Jiyun and He Wei are from ordinary civilian families, and among the three, He Wei's family is a businessman from Jinyang, and his family is also quite wealthy.

Stayed overnight in Huairong City, and had to change to a carriage to Xinghe Fort early in the morning.

At the time of the fifth watch, the five people had already packed up, An Shouluan and Shi Jianning were born in Jiangmen, and there was armor prepared at home, and they all took out the armor and put it on their bodies. When they came to the lobby for breakfast, the two of them were wearing tasseled helmets, chain mail, and two white silk silks crossed in front of them to restrain the armor, looking majestic and quite heroic.

The carriage first went west along the road north of Xiyang, and then went north, passing through the mountains for more than ten miles, and a newly built fortress city could be seen in the grassland on the side of the mountain in the distance. When these people followed Li Qi's side to be the Son of Heaven's pro-army, they had seen the grassland on the dam, and they were not very unfamiliar with the scenery in front of them.

It was the height of summer in May and June, and the carriage set off before dawn, and several people were sweating profusely all the way, and the armor on the bodies of An and Shi Liangzhi had already been taken off, and it was not until noon that they arrived at Xinghe Fort. The camp of Wesai was not in the fort, but at the foot of the hill to the east outside the city. The gate of the military village was wide open, and the carriage belonged to the Weisai Cavalry Battalion, and after greeting him at the door, he entered the military camp directly.

Entering the camp, several people saw that the whole camp occupies a very large area, occupying two hillsides, the camp is separated from the outside world by a rammed wall of more than three meters high loess, and there is an arrow tower every fifty steps. The training ground of the camp is much larger than the playground of Jinyang Academy, and there is also a special obstacle training site.

The carriage stopped, and when several people got out of the carriage and took off their luggage, the old soldier who was driving the carriage pointed to the tallest building in the military camp and said to them with a smile: "Several officials, that is the festival hall of the general, and the south is the place where the records and the army are served. ”

A few people thanked the old soldier who was driving the car, and walked towards the office in the camp with their luggage on their backs.

Although he was the boss of these newly assigned low-level officers, he knew that these students from Jinyang Academy were all from the army of the Son of Heaven and had a great future, so he was very polite to them.

The military system of the five dynasties followed the Tang system, and there were military and political eight Cao in charge of logistics in the military office, who belonged to administrative officers and did not lead soldiers.

Li Cunshuo had already explained when he left, and several people were arranged to be subordinate officials in the logistics Bacao, and they were all civilians. An Shouluan and Shi Jianning, who were born generals, knew that it was difficult for this civilian to have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, so they muttered in their mouths, although the boss was unwilling, but there was no way.

Among them, the two Cao Cao and the judicial officer are directly managed by the military officer, while the right director is in charge of logistics and grain, and the left is in charge of ordnance and military horses. The Son of Heaven demanded that literacy and character learning activities be carried out in all military camps, so Li Cunshuo, five students of Jinyang Academy, were arranged to teach in the army, mainly in the evenings and after training, to teach the soldiers in the camp to read and write......