After listening to Yu Liyan's explanation, Xiao Lao Liu laughed happily, and Zhou Nan also nodded and said: "Only General Xiao can have the prestige to guard these three places." ”

Xiao Lao Liu suddenly said unhappily: "You kid should also change his words, General Xiao is long and General Xiao is short, and the tall boy is more affectionate than you." ”

Without waiting for Zhou Nan to speak, Yu Liyan's face turned red, and Zhou Nan said with a smile: "Uncle taught me a lesson. Then the matter of this crusade will be decided, and when the matter of searching for and arresting the stragglers is over, I will lead the troops to Pingzhou, and when the time comes, I will also bring Yuguan to my uncle to guard. ”

Xiao Lao Liu listened to what Zhou Nan said easily, and said with a smile: "I know that you have a lot of means in this matter of soldiers and horses, and you can surprise every time. I'm waiting for you to take down that Yuguan. Then his face turned straight and he said, "Boy, do you know where to go to Pingzhou?" And what's in the way? How many soldiers and horses will you use? How much grain and grass do you bring? Can arrows, weapons, armor, horses, etc. be used? Have you ever sent a detailed work to Pingzhou beforehand? ”

Zhou Nan was stunned by Xiao Laoliu's question, thought about it one by one, and said: "I only asked about Pingzhou, but I haven't been there in person." When I went to Pingzhou, there was no danger in Gaocheng, only Jizhou, which was solid. There is no need to prepare more than one spear, one armor, one bow, two bags of arrows, and one bag of food and one medicine bag for each person. That's enough for three days. ”

Xiao Lao Liu interjected and asked, "What about three days later?" ”

"After three days, there will be help. In the past, soldiers were only used near Yanjing, so only three days' rations were enough. When I went to Pingzhou this time, I prepared to build another logistics army to provide ration bags, weapons, armor and other baggage and grain for the army in front. As soon as the three days arrived, the logistics army would send these to the front of the army, and let the soldiers exchange them for themselves, and as for weapons and other things, they would take them according to their own shortcomings. In this way, the soldiers and horses fighting are naturally flexible and free, and there are many fewer fetters. When you start a war, isn't it just as you like? ”

Xiao Laoliu nodded, he deeply felt the same way as Zhou Nan said this, in the past, when the army went out, each soldier had to bring three horses, one person from each family, and people, iron, and armor had to be prepared by themselves. In this way, if it is an army of 10,000 men, it should be 30,000 men, of which only one is fighting, and the other two are almost serving this person. How can such an army be flexible? When encountering an elite horse army like Zhou Nan, I am afraid that it will collapse after a face.

Zhou Nan continued: "I have always led troops, I have always liked only a few people, not many people, there are two thousand horse troops, plus my own three hundred pro-army, it is enough. ”

This time, even Yu Liyan couldn't even say it, Xiao Lao Liu said with a straight face: "Although you kid has some explosive arrows, but if there are many opponents, under the chaotic battle, how can there be luck?" Two thousand is too little! If you don't think the Ten Thousand Victorious Army is enough, I will give you another 5,000 cavalry troops from the Black Iron Army. ”

"Uncle," Yu Liyan hurriedly said: "Right now, the Black Iron Army is just guarding Yanjing, and Yanjing has nothing to do around, why not let Zhou Lang take all these ten thousand Black Iron Army?" ”

"Hahaha, girl, I'll listen to you!" Xiao Lao Liu said briskly. terminal

"Not really! 10,000 cavalry is too many! Zhou Nan said, "10,000 soldiers and horses, people eat horses and chew, how much grain and grass do you need at the end of a day?" I'm going to have to eat up my logistics army. Besides, I've never fought hard with people, and asking too many people is in the way. ”

"In Sanssouci Village, Xiao Gan personally led his soldiers and horses to besiege the cottage, and he could escape from the secret passage, and there was a wine altar bomb, otherwise, the consequences would not be known. You went to Pingzhou this time, but there was no secret passage for you to go. Yu Liyan still disagreed that Zhou Nan would only take 2,000 people to Pingzhou.

"The princess said it exactly. Boy, do you know who the current guard of Jizhou is? Xiao Lao Liu asked.

"Who is it?" Zhou Nan asked rhetorically.

"Xiao Gan, the king of the four armies." Xiao Laoliu said with a serious expression, "That Xiao Gan was forced away by you, and returned to Jianke Mountain with Han soldiers, Xi soldiers, and Bohai soldiers, which was originally the hometown of the Xi people, the ancestral home, Xiao Gan had power, and gathered many people for a time, more than 80,000 people, known as 100,000 troops. And you should know that this Xiao Gan is extremely strong and ambitious. As soon as there were many soldiers and horses, he had to solve the problem of food and grass for soldiers and horses, so he took advantage of the turmoil in Yanjing and led his troops to capture Jizhou, and now the momentum is so great that it is about to surpass Pingzhou. ”

"There are so many soldiers?" Zhou Nan asked in surprise, originally he just thought that Jizhou and other places should be guarded by the Great Liao, and with the princess's order, aren't the state cities all over the country still subserving? Only Pingzhou is not subordinate to Yanjing, so he only said that he wanted to capture Pingzhou.

"In addition to Jizhou, there are also Jingzhou, Yutian and other prefectures, which have also been captured by Xiao Gan. Now these places under the command of Xiao Gan, plus the boundary of Pingzhou, are about to catch up with the size around Yanjing. Moreover, this Pingzhou guard general is the deputy envoy of the Liaoxing Army Festival Zhang Jue is the champion of the Bingyin Branch in the third year of Da'an, very capable, and also quite ambitious, that Xiao Defei was sent to Shi Liai to serve as the Liaoxing Army Festival Envoy and Pingzhou Assassin History, but it was simply set aside by Zhang Jue, and now Zhang Jue is also recruiting troops in Pingzhou, do you want such a character, and it is still two, how can two thousand people and horses be captured? ”

Listening to Xiao Lao Liuyi, Zhou Nan knew that his crusade was so dangerous.

Zhou Nan said: "Uncle is right, I am not in a hurry to leave in the next day or two, first, to wait for the arrest of stragglers to be over, and second, to prepare military rations and logistics troops." Thirdly, as my uncle said, the enemy is too strong to fight, and I am going to send a few people over first, investigate the situation, and then make a decision. ”

Yu Liyan relieved himself and said, "Zhou Lang, if you think so, the concubine will be relieved." Xiao Lao Liu also said: "I'm just telling you these things, so that you can be on guard early." Just with your explosive arrows, you can be worth more than 10,000 elite soldiers. Tsk, that arrow is really powerful! Even I can't think of a way to defend against it. Terrible! "Xiao Lao Liu has been lying in his bedroom since he was injured that day, and he didn't even hear the explosion, and afterwards he listened to his black iron army talking about how powerful the horse was with an explosive arrow, and he actually blew up the golden man Wanyan Lou Room into the sky with an arrow, and Xiao Lao Liu was very curious, and wanted to ask Gao Yuan for one to try his power, but Gao Yuan told him that now only those pro-soldiers in Zhou Nan have it, and it is not time, and it is strictly forbidden to use it privately.

Zhou Nan said with a smile: "When I capture Pingzhou this time, I will definitely send my uncle some explosive arrows and equip them to your hands." ”