Cao Wei has been interested in Li Yuanhao for more than a day or two, this time he came to Tuoyuan Village, on the one hand, to inspect the border defense, on the other hand, he also wanted to find an opportunity to meet the young Yingjie of this party member, because he was the same as Qin Han back then, he thought that the party person should not be underestimated, so he was also very concerned about the situation on the party side, not to mention that Li Yuanhao is still Li Deming's son, in case Li Deming dies, Li Yuanhao will be in charge of the biggest force of this party member.

"General Qiyu, Li Yuanhao's son occasionally comes to the border market for a walk, but every time he is dressed in disguise, ordinary people can't recognize him at all, every time he leaves, we will receive news that he has been here." Wang Fang also replied with a solemn expression at this time, he also attaches great importance to the party members, especially in the past few years, the strength of the party members has become stronger and stronger, and the pressure on them, the border army generals, has also increased.

"Although Li Deming is against our Great Song Dynasty, at least he doesn't dare to make any big moves on the bright side, but if his son is really as rumored, I am afraid that he will definitely not surrender to take over the power of the party in the future, and this kind of person must find out his temper and temperament sooner or later, so as not to be caught off guard in the future." Cao Wei also sighed at this time and said again.

Cao Wei is over fifty years old, and his health is not as good as before, and what is worse is that he looks at the Great Song Army, but there are very few talents who can provoke the beams, and the major generals are also withering, so he is also very worried that after his death, there will be no generals available in the border army, and if the party rebels again, I am afraid it will not be easy to suppress.

"Yes, since the emperor of Liao sent an army of 500,000 to attack the party three years ago, and was defeated by Li Deming with his troops, the prestige of the party is also increasing, especially the Liao State actually surrendered, and after the defeat, he took the initiative to send someone to crown Li Deming as Shang Shuling, the king of Great Xia, although this king is not recognized by our Great Song Dynasty, but Li Deming has already claimed the king within the party, and even posthumously crowned his father Li Jiqian as the emperor, which is simply bold!" Wang Fang also spoke again at this time, and his tone was a little more annoyed.

"Hehe, Li Deming's defeat of the Liao State was just his own boasting, the real situation is that Yelu Longxu led the troops to hunt, in fact, it was a training army, and then there was a conflict with the party, Li Deming and the Liao army only fought a few small battles, taking some advantage, at that time the Liao State was using troops against Goryeo, and naturally did not want to conflict with the party again, so he sent someone to appease Li Deming, but he boasted that it was a big victory, which is really shameless!" Cao Wei sneered when he heard this, the strength of the party is indeed growing, but it is far from the point where it is hard to carry the 500,000 army of the Liao State head-on.

When he said this, he saw Cao Wei pause for a moment, and then spoke again: "Although the strength of the party is far less than that of the Liao State and our Great Song Dynasty, it is also not to be underestimated, Li Deming has been using troops against Tubo and Hui in recent years, so he has no time to look east, but if he waits until he solves the threat from the west, he will definitely turn around and use troops against our Great Song Dynasty, so we must also be strictly guarded against the party!" ”

"What the general said is extremely true, recently I heard that Li Deming has won a few battles in the west, which makes Tubo and Hui temporarily unable to deal with him, and he has also returned from the west, and now he is in Huaiyuan Town, and he has also changed the name of Huaiyuan Town to Xingzhou, and he has also been training troops on a large scale recently, and it seems that it is likely to use troops on our side." Wang Fang spoke again with some concern.

"Hehe, he's the best to come, the old man has been itching lately, just give him some color to see!" Cao Wei sneered again when he heard this, he had already received information about Li Deming's movements, which was also the reason why he came to Tuoyuan Village to inspect, and even if Li Deming didn't come, he would take the initiative to attack these tribes outside the country.

Seeing that Cao Wei was so confident, Wang Fang also put his mind at ease at the moment, speaking of which, because Ding Wei suppressed Cao Wei before, Cao Wei was transferred, and the generals of their border armies also lost their backbone, and even a brave general like him felt that he had no confidence, and now Cao Wei was finally transferred back, and he was still the general Cao who was strategizing, which made him confident again.

Li Zhang and Cao Ma listened silently in the back, although the two of them often stayed by Cao Wei's side, their positions were too low, and they couldn't touch some confidential things, and Cao Wei wouldn't discuss them with them, and now they finally heard something important from the conversation between the two of them.

Cao Yu is eager for meritorious service, not only is he not afraid of war, but he is very excited, because for him, only by fighting can he earn military merits, and with military merits can he be promoted, and he also represents the idea of the young Zhuang faction in the army.

On the one hand, he also wanted to see with his own eyes what a large-scale war in the Cold Weapon Age was like, and the musket battalion also needed to go through battlefield training, but on the other hand, he was worried that with the war, the hard-won peace on the border would be broken, and it would be the people on the border who would suffer.

After Cao Wei took Li Zhang and they went around the border city, the party saw a lot, but unfortunately none of them seemed to be the legendary Li Yuanhao, which made him a little disappointed, and turned his horse back to Tuoyuan Village, but this time they did not rest in Tuoyuan Village, but immediately returned to Gyeongju City after lunch.

Originally, Li Zhang wanted to go to Jinshan immediately, but was stopped by Cao Wei, and then he summoned Huyan Shouxin and Qin Huaizhi, as well as several other generals, who assigned them the task of sending troops.

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, Huyan Shouxin and Cao Mata were actually divided together, the two of them each led their own people, and sent troops two days later, and the goal was to sweep away a tribe called "Zhangshan", this tribe is very strong, about 10,000 people, and both men and women are soldiers, known as 3,000 warriors, last year once killed into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, robbed several villages, the Great Song Dynasty has long wanted to do something to it.

After the task was assigned, Li Zhang also had to prepare for the logistics of the musket battalion, but before that, he still took the time to go to the inn where Mrs. Jin and the others lived, wanting to see how Jinshan was doing, but he had just come to the gate of the courtyard where Mrs. Jin lived, but he only heard a "bang", and a figure flew upside down and broke through the gate and rolled out.