When Xu Xingwei wrote a letter to solicit, he probably didn't know that Chong Ji and Yao Pingzhong had been seriously injured one after another, but even so, he still wrote a letter, which was probably what Xu Zixian meant.

They used to be friends with comrades, a family of generals like Chong Ji and Yao Pingzhong, with good skills, and they are all young people in their twenties, with a good future and ability, it would be a pity if they died on the battlefield in western Liaoning.

Chong Ji and Yao Pingzhong both understood in their hearts, but they still chose to refuse. Without it, it's not that there is no friendship, and it's not that he doesn't want to go south to gain a ready-made reputation, both of them are now battalion commanders, and with their skills and qualifications, it is not difficult to fight in the south to command the military capital of the government army in two or three years.

As long as the King of Qin does not openly raise the banner to rebel, the government army is also within the system of the Great Wei army, serving for the King of Qin, joining the government army, and still being the military attache of the Great Wei Forbidden Army.

It's just that no matter how clever the calculation is, it can't match the current depressed and frustrated state of mind of the two.

The army has been confronting each other for a long time, and the edict is holding the red flag one after another, and the army is likely to set off to fight with the enemy, and is forced to fight, and the chances of victory of the army will not exceed fifty percent.

"I'll wait until the results are available." Tane Ji finally said that this is already a conclusion.

"Wait for news." Yao Pingzhong also sighed and said no more.

The big ship shook, this ship was a sailor ship of the imperial court, old and dilapidated, and it was already a miracle that it could be moved. The warships of Wang Zhi's department are quite well preserved, but for more than half a year before, Wang Zhi's department has been running and working hard, and the court has not given a penny or a stone of grain, and everything is paid by Wang Zhi out of his own pocket.

Wang Zhi is to invite people to buy people's hearts to redeem the past, and now Wang Zhi's reputation is not much better than before, and his subordinates have sacrificed a lot for the war in Liaoxi, and people have accepted that Wang Zhi's department occupies many islands, and even the plan to use Dengzhou as a base is also tacitly approved by the imperial court.

Although the trade in the north has shrunk, Wang Zhisuo's department has also been disbanding the old department, and now the number of people has shrunk greatly, and the ships have also eliminated a number of old ones, and now there are only more than 200 warships of different sizes left.

Even so, the strength of Wang Zhi's division is still enough to be proud of the entire northern seas, and the Bohai State has an old naval division, which is not as strong as the Nanyang naval division of the Great Wei, with only dozens of warships and thousands of officers and soldiers of the naval division, which is not enough for Wang Zhi to fight in one go. And the strength of the Great Wei court in the north is also similar to that of the Bohai Kingdom, or even weaker.

If the imperial court gave the royal government food and salary, its sailors could naturally be used by the imperial court, but now the royal direct department has withdrawn and recuperated, or re-integrated as a merchant ship, or collected taxes at sea, and used these means to support himself.

After working hard for the imperial court for several months, no one was able to criticize Wang Zhi from a righteous standpoint.

The old Imperial Naval Ship was constantly shaking, and the old hard sails and masts were creaking, as if the hull could break at any moment.

The bow of the ship split the seawater, and the hull of the ship tried to avoid large pieces of ice floe, and the whole hull moved forward crookedly, heading in the direction of Tianjin Harbor.

"The red flag is coming." A young military attache in military uniform, who had the responsibility of an officer in the battalion, shouted loudly on the arrow tower at the gate of the camp when the red flag edict came again, in the dark, obscure, and light rain bad weather.

Many soldiers stood in the spring rain, staring at that group of people with confused or angry eyes, and within ten days, the red flag made seven solstice, which means that there was an edict every day with the red flag to urge the war.

The weather was extremely bad for a while, almost ten days without seeing the sun, every day was either dark and cloudy, or drizzle, the weather was wet and cold, this cold was much more uncomfortable than the dry and cold in winter, everywhere was wet, the snow had not yet melted, mixed with the drizzle, the ground was frozen in the morning, and at noon it melted again, muddy, the barracks tents were also damp and cold, everyone's mood was the same as this weather, cold and wet.

There was an old soldier who watched the horse's hooves fly, splashing a large muddy red flag in the camp, and his right hand was already frozen and cracked, and he spat on the ground violently, and scolded in a thick northwest accent: "Thief, you are a thief, and you are urging your life." ”

Another forbidden army looked into the depths of the camp, which was the most heavily fortified area, and even in the eyes of many people, the Chinese army camp with trenches, horses and arrow towers was safer than Ningyuan City, where there was a fairly obvious invitation to make the big banner, and the red flag made the horse gallop, and it was close to the big flag.

Li Guorui and Yue Zhi did not live in Ningyuan City, this city built at the pass was just erected, the radius was only more than three miles long, there were large trenches on the periphery, antler arrow towers and other ancillary defense facilities, the whole city was full of mud and fishy smell, in winter, the sun was not hot enough, all the houses seemed to be not dry.

Not moving to the city to live, these are only secondary reasons, no matter how bad the conditions in the city are, they are much stronger than outside the city, Li Guorui just doesn't want to live in the city, and those prison envoys, military envoys, and transit envoys are crowded together...... There are at least 100 officials sent by the imperial court, the officials of the two governments, the three divisions, the officials of the weapons supervisor, the grain supervisor of the three divisions, and all kinds of officials who inexplicably go to the front to make military merits, and there are dozens of red-robed officials in the city of several miles.

This is not surprising, the great expedition of 300,000 people, mobilized in the front of more than a million people, this is the largest military mobilization after the founding of the country, the government and the opposition are concerned, from the Son of Heaven to the local are extremely concerned, the soldiers are fierce and dangerous, there are many people who hide from the battlefield, thinking of making enough credit on the battlefield, the scarlet robe for the purple robe, the blue robe for the red robe must also be very many.

These officials either pretend to be clean with their sleeves and put on a clean official face that does not enter oil and salt, or they are flattering and crooked, which makes people bored at first sight.

Li Guorui doesn't live in the city, he would rather live in a big camp outside the city, but here he is a person who does practical things, even if it is a handsome official, he brings or selects it himself, at least in the officials, he can't see those nasty things.

Li Guorui is the Jinshi during the Wuzong period, is the "same Jinshi and the first", above it is the Jinshi and the first, there are only three people, under it is more than 200 people, called "the same Jinshi origin", there are dozens of people with the Jinshi, he is the top rank among these dozens of people, the first award is the Privy Council editor, a few years later turned to the Jingxian Order, the local pro-people official in Gyeonggi is the most difficult, because the capital is not rich or expensive, the Beijing master of this dynasty does not leave the clan, but the powerful are not few, This qualification can be regarded as laying a solid foundation for Li Guorui's position as a pacification envoy, not that he has learned much, but in this position, because of his cautious and cautious, but capable and decisive style of acting, he has won the appreciation of several bigwig-level court officials, and since then he has entered the fast lane of promotion.

It is said to be fast, but in fact, it is also one step at a time.

In his early thirties, he went from the Jingxian Decree to the Privy Vice-Chancellor, then to the Imperial History, the Military Commissariat Commander, and then the Privy Commander, the State Defense Envoy, and then the Palace Attendant System, the Transit Envoy, the Privy Counselor, the System Envoy, the Pacification Envoy, and the Privy Deputy Envoy.

Li Guorui's official position, without the central dignitaries or noble positions such as Cilin and Zhongshufang, has always been in the position of the Privy Council, the Arms Superintendent, and the local pro-people official, and the chief political official.

Thirty years of history, nearly fifty years old now, for the army to recruit envoys, privy deputy envoys, if the Northern Expedition is successful, Feng Gong is hopeful.

"It's actually Lord Lang Zhongling." The Red Flag Envoy is equivalent to a formal edict, and has the same status as the Son of Heaven before the edict is announced, that is, it is equivalent to the will of the Son of Heaven.

For Li Guorui and others, the Son of Heaven has been involved quite frequently, not only the Red Flag Envoy urging the war, but also many officials adhering to the will of the Son of Heaven and frequently interfering in specific military affairs, which has made people feel unbearable.

In fact, Li Guorui has no interest in his career, if it weren't for the Northern Expedition, not only the life and death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in front of him, but also the luck of the Great Wei Dynasty, and the future of hundreds of millions of Chinese people, he would have wanted to withdraw and go home directly.

"I've seen the Envoy." Chen Chang had to hold the red flag in his hand, saying that it was a courtesy, but in fact, his back was straight. He went straight into the big tent, and the surrounding soldiers, military attachés, officials, and officials had recently seen a lot of red flag envoys, and they were already quite familiar with everything in front of them.

Li Guorui, Li Xian, Zhang Bangwen, Yue Zhi, Li Youde, Liu Guoding, Mai Jitong and other important high-ranking officials and generals also followed.

Chen Changde stands in the middle, the red flag is actually a small flag, the flagpole is only about three feet, just a small red flag, but the flag is quite exquisitely made, the bottom step of the flagpole is inlaid with gold, the flagpole is painted yellow, the red flag cloth is triangular, the decorative pattern pattern, in the middle of the red flag, it is a quite obvious "edict" word.

This is the red flag that represents the will of the Son of Heaven, the military was frequent during the Taizu period, many generals in charge of the army were in charge, and it was not common for Taizu to send envoys to carry the red flag to supervise the war, because Taizu was magnificent, and he did not suspect that he would not use people, and many generals in charge of the army would not only not see the edict around him, but even the civil officials of the supervising army were not permanent.

Chen Changde was not polite with the officials, and after standing, he said proudly: "The Son of Heaven said: Donghu Kehuahu? Now that the army is gathered, the armor is like a cloud, and the warriors are like rain, should they not fight hard and fight the enemy? The court raised soldiers, raised soldiers for a hundred years, the first hundred years of the dynasty, the next hundred years of events, all of which were caused by chaos, now Li Guorui, Yue Zhi and others led the army to Yuguan outside, paused, wasted money and food, how should it be to the court, the army, and the people? At this time, it is not advisable to think too carefully, and to move forward bravely, now, the order period gate ordered Chen Changde to the front of the army, when the army will fight, I beat the drum for the three armies, and the army should rise forward and smash the Yellow Dragon! Ladies and gentlemen, reluctantly. ”