Xu Shiyang turned around and took out a notebook from the cabinet behind him.

This is the notepad he prepared for himself: 32K in size, vellum cover, 200 pages of very high quality white paper.

Xu Shiyang handed it to Zuo Helin along with a quill pen.

In this day and age, the price of this kind of hardcover notebook is not cheap, not to mention that in the traditional concept of the Han people, gifts such as pen, ink, paper, and inkstone also have cultural value other than money.

"Take it, a good memory is not as good as a bad pen, you can write down what you think and see, believe me, keeping a diary is a good habit."

"It's better to be respectful than to obey."

Zuo Helin didn't like to write before, mainly because his enlightenment teacher was an old pedant, and he would only explain the scriptures and meanings to him, or poetry and songs, Zuo Helin was very big about it, but he did know how to write, and even his cultural level was not low.

The old pedant once said that if Zuo Helin went to Jiangnan for the imperial examination, as long as he did not go to those imperial examination counties, at least one of them would have hope.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang asked him to keep a diary and study as much as possible, and he would not be too disgusted.

Anyway, this memory will only be something that he is interested in, and it will not have anything to do with poetry and poetry or Jingyi Bagu.

"I'll give you another note, you go and get a set of military uniforms, military ranks, and in terms of equipment, you can get a new one or use your old weapon. However, in the general staff, there is probably no need for long weapons. ”

"May I ask, who is this going to beat?" Zuo Helin asked.

"Who do you think I'm going to beat?" Xu Shiyang asked with a smile.

"When I came, I saw the queue heading east, and I thought it should be going to Liaodong."

Zuo Helin replied:

"But now I'm not sure, because I listened to Xu Shuai's words just now, and suddenly thought that at this time, I would gather troops and wait until I could launch an attack, it should already be winter in Liaodong."

"Liaodong in winter is not suitable for war! The weather is cold and the snow is difficult to travel, not only food and grass, but also winter clothes and firewood and grass to keep out the cold on the front line, and the supply cannot keep up at all. ”

"Hehe, yes, I've learned a lot."

Xu Shiyang said with a smile:

"Our strategic goal this time has just been notified to the general level, and you, the temporary captain, have no right to know it for the time being, so don't ask."

"When it's time to know, someone will let you know. Now all you need to do is get ready for a big fight. ”

"There's really a big war......." Zuo Helin thought for a while, and finally made up his mind: "Come with me......"

"They're not like you."

Xu Shiyang directly interrupted his words and commented very unceremoniously:

"I heard Wang Qinian say that they, a group of boys, are a bit of a young man's aggressiveness, but they are too far behind you."

"It's not bad to be a good one, but he's a party member."

Xu Shiyang shook his head and said in a somewhat regretful tone:

"I'm a person who doesn't trust foreigners by nature, and he hasn't shown himself to be trustworthy."

"Therefore, they can only get the most basic treatment, after the war starts, they will form an observation group with the official representatives of the Shihou family, and go to the front line to take a good look at my Great Qi military might!"

……

"This fall, Hangou didn't come."

"What's so strange, it must be preparing for a larger offensive, why, they don't come and miss them?"

"Don't tell jokes at this time." Wanyan Zongbi said with some dissatisfaction: "Since there will be a larger-scale offensive, then we should think about how to deal with it now!" ”

"What else can I do? With the same method as last year's fight against the Muguls, we have only one way. ”

Wanyan Zongwang put away his smile and said coldly:

"Actually, for us, it is much better for them to launch a large-scale attack than to burn and kill with only cavalry."

The Qi army's fixed cavalry offensive twice a year made the Jurchens miserable, and last year's harvest in the fertile Liaozhong Plain was only half of that of previous years, and this year it was even more directly and almost completely harvested - if the Qi army came again in autumn, I am afraid that it would be really lost.

Fortunately, they didn't come, so at least the core land between the two cities of Liaoshen was somewhat harvested.

However, this harvest only made the Jurchens breathe a little more breather, and the price of grain in Liaozhong dropped to 80 guan a stone during the autumn harvest, but the Jurchen nobles dried up and fished, not only did not reduce taxes this year, but even forcibly increased the tax rate to ensure that there was some surplus grain in the treasury of each ministry.

As a result, after the lowest Jurchens paid their taxes, they did not even have much seed food left, and most of the families had to use the last Aha slave in the family to pay off their debts, and the poorest ones even sold their sons and daughters.

As a result, the grain price in Liaozhong rose back to 120 guan one stone before the winter after a slight decline for more than two months.

After the first snow fell in Liaozhong, the price of grain rose further to 150 guan one stone!

Every day, people starved to death, the fireworks of burning corpses were not extinguished all day long, and there was an endless stream of people fleeing to the deep mountains and old forests in the north, the grasslands in the west, and even the Han people in the south and east, and at most 1,500 men and women fled in a month!

If this situation continues, without the Qi army to fight, Dajin himself will be able to starve himself to death.

Fortunately, the benefits of defeating the Muguls had not yet been digested, and the three princes ordered that some of the aging horses and ploughing cattle should be slaughtered, and the sheep would only keep some of the lambs, and all the others would be slaughtered to supplement the meat.

After having some reserves, the Bo Jilie immediately organized a large-scale winter hunt, hoping to rely on the hunt to replenish some food.

The pelts obtained from the hunt could also be sold to the Mughal tribes.

The Mughal people do not have any concept of a country or a nation, and they will naturally earn money if they have benefits, so although the west is also the enemy of Dajin, it is indeed the weakest link in the blockade of Jin.

The Mugyu people are not uncommon for furs, but they can sell them to the Han people of Qi, anyway, no matter how good the fur in the hands of the Jurchens is, they can't sell it for a high price, and they can make a lot of money when they sell it.

For the Jurchens, they could sell as much as they could, and the fur could be exchanged for some cattle and sheep to subsidize the scarce food.

With this multi-pronged approach, the Burgers believed that the food reserves could be half-starved and half-satieved until the rivers of northern Liaobei froze.

That's when they can chisel ice fishing.

Fishing and hunting people, the instinct to survive has not been forgotten.

The Bo Jilie felt that as long as the Qi army stopped attacking for a year or two, or at least through a decisive victory similar to Liaoyang's victory over the Mengwu, the Dajin Kingdom would still be able to slow down.

Therefore, the Jin army actually expects a decisive battle more than the Qi army.

It's just that they can't support the initiative to attack, so they can only expect the Qi army to be more active, and then break through the dual advantages of internal maneuver and supply.

This is the best and last chance.