The left army is the general Gao Chongwen of the Shence, the right army is the general of the Shence army, the right army is the general Xing Junya, the left army is stationed in Haoqi, Linyou, Purun, and Fengtian, and the right army is stationed in Baili, Lingtai, and Liangyuan, each with more than 20,000 soldiers and horses.

In this invasion of Xifan, the right battalion, Fengxiang and Jingyuan Xingying were all prepared, and for a time the beacon wolf smoke was rolling and alerting each other.

Therefore, after Tan Zhizhong applied to the Daming Palace of the Beijing Division, he immediately printed the troops and horses, and ordered Xing Junya, the general of the Shence Right Army of Lingtai City, to send 15,000 troops to help Baili City, which was not far away; In addition, he asked Gao Chongwen, the general of the left army of Shence, to lead the troops to gather in Haoqi as a reserve army.

At the same time, in the Zichen Hall of Daming Palace, the emperor urgently summoned Li Mi and Xiao Fu, and under the planning of these two, he issued an edict saying: Li Sheng is the envoy of the capital and the envoy of Jiannan, and all the troops of Xichuan, Dongchuan and Banan are controlled, and the southern marshal and Nanzhao of Xifan are guarded against; With Duan Xiushi as the envoy of the capital Jiedu, he temporarily controlled the military strength of Fengxiang and Jingyuan, resisted the invasion of Shang Jiezan, the commander of the Eastern Province of Xifan, and at the same time ordered Liu Xuanzuo, the envoy of the Xuanwu Army, and Chen Xianqi, the envoy of Huaixi Jiedu, to lead the anti-autumn soldiers to Pingliang and start to build the city; Lingzhou Metropolitan Governor Kang Rizhi is the capital of the Jiedu envoy, in addition to the Dao soldiers, and then control Yanzhou Thorn Shi Du Xiquan, Xia Suiyin Sanzhou Jiedu envoy Han Tan, Zhenwu Army Jiedu envoy Zhang Guangsheng, etc., to guard against Bai Yu Mountain (Bai Yu Mountain, across more than 200 kilometers, located in the north of Shaanxi and south of Ningxia, that is, the Song and Western Xia repeatedly brutally contested the important Hengshan. The name Hengshan, since the Song Dynasty, replaced the original name Bai Yushan, and gradually became familiar) to the north of the vast area of the Hetao; In addition, it surrounds the north of Gyeonggi, and allows the Jiedu of Weining (Pizhou, Ningzhou) to make Han Yougui, the Weibei Jiedu to make the envoy of Dan, Dun, Yan, and Fang, especially Yanzhou as the important place) Dai Xiuyan, and Gyeongju Thorn History Theory Weiming three places, garrisoned in the area south of Baekyusan, along the Gyeonggi Gongwei.

In this way, Li Sheng, Duan Xiushi, and Kang Rizhi are all unified, which is equivalent to forming a huge "outer defense circle" around Gyeonggi, and Han Yougui, Dai Xiuyan, and Lun Weiming form a shrinking "inner defense circle".

Outside the internal and external double defense circles, there are nearly 50,000 people in the right battalion of Shence as mobile troops, responding to the four directions. Later, Li Mi suggested that the emperor send an edict to Taiyuan, asking Hedong Jiedu to prepare 30,000 elites for Ma Sui, cross the Yellow River at any time, and join the battlefield in the north and south of Baiyu Mountain, so Ma Sui's role is the general reserve.

In addition, the emperor was in Jingdong, and there was still a solitary department of the Shence army stationed in Tuntonghua Erzhou, the Quhuan Department who had just been appointed as Chen Xujiedu's envoy, and the troops recruited by Li Mi and Jia Tan near Shaanxi and Dongdu, and finally the troops of Han Hui, the envoy of the Jinshang defense and Fan Ze, the envoy of Shannan Dongdao, could also be reinforced at any time.

Therefore, the emperor is still full of expectations for the defeat of the Western Tibetan army this time.

And Li Mi, Xiao Fu, Han Rong, Jia Tan and other main battle factions are also very confident, Jia Tan specially put on the table to the emperor, saying that the invasion of Xifan in the past, all in the autumn moon season, is to carry forward the advantages of autumn grass and horse fat, and this time Shang Jiezan unscrupulous means, in the middle of winter to violate my border, to be born in the spring of the next year, the horses are not adapted, and the epidemic will be rampant, which is tantamount to self-sacrifice - as long as you can look up to Your Majesty Weiling and defeat Shang Jiezan, the morale of the people of the whole country will inevitably rise, and then build a city in Pingliang, and the day of counterattack can be waited.

As for Gao Yue's White Grass Army in Xingyuan Mansion, of course, the emperor did not forget it, but he did not let Gao Yue and Wei Gao be on the same front: Gao Yue assisted Duan Xiushi, and Wei Gao went to reinforce Li Sheng.

When the emperor's edict arrived at Xingyuan Mansion along Luogu Road, Gao Yue was parading soldiers on the altar of worship in the palace city.

In this big parade, in addition to Guo Zaizhen, who originally led 4,000 white grass soldiers and was on standby in Xingzhou Luoyang, the remaining 7,000 white grass officers Jian (including the 4,000 Huaixi soldiers who were added to Gao Yue after the fall of Li Xilie), and the 3,000 state soldiers and soil regiments collected by Wang Tong and Zhao Guangxian, the assassin of Yangzhou, all participated!

The entire edge of the Hanchuan River, from the altar of worship to the Tianhan Tower, on the battlements, buildings and mansions, the people and businessmen are like blockages, and the cheers are endless, reaching into the sky.

The soldiers and horses of the White Grass Army made Gao Gu, full of armor, wearing a scarlet cloak, holding a five-color order flag, standing beside Gao Yue, waving the flag left and right like electricity: five thousand foot soldiers in the seven thousand White Grass Army, divided into five parts: center, front, rear, left and right, the middle army is led by Cai Fengyuan, the front army is in charge of Hou Lan, the rear army is in charge of Cheng Junren, the left army is in charge of the newly promoted Baicao Army General Tang Jingyan, and the friendly army is in charge of Sun Bingqian, who was selected from the prisoners of war of the Huaixi soldiers. In the sound of the earth-shattering drums, he advanced and retreated freely.

Then the people of Xingyuan Mansion shouted higher, and on the colonel field under the altar of worship, You Yi made Ming Huaiyi lead 800 cavalry, five or five phases, taking turns to advance, sometimes like an electric shock, sometimes like a cloud gathering and scattering, demonstrating the art of cavalry warfare; Then the cavalry entered the field again, drew their bows one by one and shot arrows and targets, and used their horse lances to stab left and right, and the sound of hooves was bursting, all of which were unexpected.

After the cavalry received the big parade was the newly formed "Xingyuan Mule Army", Gao Yue promoted a man named Xu Si from the Huaixi captives as a mule army soldier and horse envoy, with 800 mule soldiers, divided into left and right wings, and became a mobile soldier in the White Grass Army.

"Look, look, how neatly those horses and mules run!" In front of the women's walls and buildings in the sub-city around the school field, the people of both men and women pointed and pointed, and on the ships docked in the city, many sailors also climbed up to the high place of the mast to see the mule soldiers of Xingyuan.

I saw that the mounts of the mule soldiers were all covered with felt cloth, and the soldiers carried a crossbow, twenty crossbow arrows, a side sign of animal skin, and a horizontal sword, riding horses and mules, and lined up in a horizontal line, running under the altar of worship, and then when they reached the other end of the school field, they quickly got off the mule, hooked the string on the crossbow, and then in the exclamation of the people, shot rows of crossbow arrows, and immediately debris flew on the opposite target.

In fact, the mule army of this Xingyuan Mansion is an infantry team that can move quickly, similar to the dragoons of later generations.

The last to be inspected was the state soldiers and soil regiments, who were all archers and crossbowmen, and during the period when Gao Yue was in charge of Xingyuan Mansion, he and Xuanrun Jiedu made Han Rong have always had commercial dealings: Xingyuan Mansion sold herbs, wheat, and timber to Xuanrun, and Xuanrun, as the most important armament production base during the Tang Dynasty, sold many copper crossbow machines, shields, armor (of course, tea, silk and other scarce materials) to Xingyuan Mansion, and the private trade between the two mansions was booming.

Even the crossbowmen in the Tutuan were trained by Xuanrunke Zhang Xi.

Gao Gu, the soldier and horse envoy, asked 200 Xuanrun crossbowmen, each of whom was responsible for teaching ten Tutuan soldiers, and after these ten Tutuan were trained, they would teach the other ten, so that the training was added together, but in half a year, the four thousand state soldiers and Tutuan of Quanxing Yuanfu were all proficient in bow and crossbow shooting skills.

"The training method of my Xingyuan Mansion is that the Han soldiers are infantry battle formations, the Fan soldiers are cavalry assault formations, the mule soldiers are strange soldiers, and then the earth regiment is used as the bow and crossbow garrison, such an experience should be extended to the whole country." After the big parade, Gao Yue sincerely praised Gao Gu's training skills of soldiers and horses.