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More than three times the profit is enough to motivate people to commit crimes, not to mention a siege war with a hundred bottoms per person.

Stimulated by the high profits obtained in the Battle of Youzhou, mercenaries of all sizes have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. With this easy way to make money, no one wants to work as a coolie anymore.

Although there are many war dead in every battle, but even if they die, doesn't the wolf army also have thirty settling-in expenses, and the father and mother and children are guaranteed, and there is nothing uneasy about their own death, not to mention that they may not be so unlucky.

When Pei Xuan roughly counted it, he found that the mercenaries were as high as tens of thousands, and with so many people, it was definitely impossible to fight all of them in a siege battle, which required a choice, and the choice required a standard.

Soon, mercenary regulations were introduced.

The regulations set detailed requirements in five aspects: the number of team members, the quality of officers and men, the quality of equipment, combat experience, and discipline evaluation, and then divided dozens of mercenaries into three divisions, A, B, and C based on the scores of the actual evaluation.

Li Chang also made a requirement in terms of configuration, every time the Wild Wolf Army carries soldiers and equipment, not less than the number of mercenaries, and attacks large, medium, and small cities, the Wild Wolf Army will follow the standards of sending 2,000, 4,000, and 8,000 troops.

It took two months for the regulations and assessments to settle. The wolf army and the mercenaries fought two smaller cities in line with the requirements of the training exercise, and there were still six border cities left. These party members trembled and suffered, and they didn't know when the wolf army and mercenaries would come to the city.

After evaluation, the three relatively large mercenaries, Gale, Eagle and Northwest Wolf, were rated as Class A, each team had more than 500 people, Class B had ten, each team had no less than 200 people, and Class C had the most, with more than 30 teams, and the number varied.

As for the attack plan, Lin Chong decided to attack one city every month, and handed it over to the chief general who carried out each mission to arrange. Every siege battle is the best time for Lin Chong to train the team in rotation, and each general takes turns to play in a line.

In terms of strength and composition, one-third are veterans, and the rest are recruits who have completed their training. In more than half a year, all the teams have gained actual combat experience, and the running-in cooperation between different units has also been further improved.

As news of the victory in the northwest spread, more mercenaries moved into the east and asked to participate in the battle against the party.

Even, Han Shizhong saw many former colleagues, with their subordinates in the name of mercenaries, swaggering into Dongkuo to participate in making money. What's even more troublesome is that he also carries wine and food to find Han Shizhong to catch up, just to grab a good position in the mercenary sequence.

Lin Chong looked at the thriving mercenary market, and instructed Pei Xuan to start recruiting those outstanding and distinctive elite mercenaries to join the Wild Wolf Army, which was not much more expensive.

After all, in terms of equipment, training, and support, individual mercenaries can't compare with a regular army like Lin Chong, so some small and medium-sized mercenaries finally can't resist the temptation and join the wolf army.

By the middle of February and May, there were still four cities in the twelve border cities poked alone in the one-sided valley, like ripe fruits, and Lin Chong could gently pick them as long as he stretched out his hand.

At this time, the Wild Wolf Army had 20,000 troops and 15,000 mercenaries, and at this time, the land and political relations and logistics reserves were completely prepared, but the final battle was carried out against the four cities on the border of the party.

Han Shizhong, Yang Zhi, Monkey, and Zhuang Fei each took 2,000 men and horses from their headquarters, plus 2,000 mercenaries, and launched the final blow to the border city of Dangxiang at the same time.

The party defenders had long been rumored, and the grass and trees were all soldiers, and after a day and a night, the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and the twelve border cities finally fell into the hands of Lin Chong.

Chen Dong had already estimated this, and quickly stabilized the ground by dispatching and recruiting An.

After five months of continuous warfare, Lin Chong fought to the north to the Khitan border, to the west to defeat Yanzhou, and to the south to border Huanzhou, becoming the real northwest fence of the Great Song Dynasty.

When the news reached Tokyo, Zhao Ji, Gao Yu, Cai Jing and others had complicated faces, and they didn't know whether to celebrate or worry for a while. In short, it's a hundred and twenty-four embarrassments.

At this time, Cai You, who had been in the northwest, met the official's family and saw Zhao Ji with a bitter face and worried.

"Official, today's Weichen returned to Beijing to report on his work, coinciding with Lin Chong's defeat of the Twelve Cities, this is a great joy for the whole country to celebrate, why do you have a sad face?"

In fact, he already knew Zhao Ji's careful thinking, under Cai Jing's influence for many years, under the iron law of not figuring out his intentions, he could only pretend to be stupid and waste saliva.

Zhao Ji glanced at him, and saw that he looked like a swinger who was unscrupulous, and his heart was on fire for no reason.

"I have four seas and hundreds of millions of people, but I am controlled by people everywhere, the land of Yanyun of the ancestors has not yet returned, and now the wolf smoke in the northwest has risen again, how can I not worry? The Manchu Dynasty talked about the military on paper, and they were very happy, and they really wanted to fight and scatter the birds and beasts one by one, nothing to do! ”

This tone contains the meaning of complaining, that is to say, don't look at the two of us who usually call each other brothers, now that my throne is unstable, you are still leisurely, it is really annoying.

Cai You blinked his eyes and suddenly realized, "Official, what should I do, isn't it the Marquis of Northwest Lin?" Don't listen to those nerdy bastards, I'm just coming back from him, it's easy to say. ”

As soon as he heard that Cai You had a way, Zhao Ji became interested, "Oh, then tell me quickly, what is a simple method?" ”

Cai You went from far to near, carefully analyzed, analyzed layer by layer, and spoke for two quarters of an hour. In the end, the core of the problem was pointed out, and Tong Guan was used to being domineering in the northwest, and he actually wanted to set up a Hongmen banquet, which caused a lot of trouble.

Zhao Ji asked if there was room for maneuver at this time, and Cai You continued to explain that Tong Guan and Liu Fa had been assigned to the border pass, and Lin Chong's heart was already knotted, at least in the near future, there would be no plans to go against the imperial court.

However, Cai You suggested that in order to apologize, should Lin Chong and the soldiers of the Wild Wolf Army be knighted to show the favor of the official family.

This proposal is very good, Zhao Ji has been quite rich recently, after all, the western army has been almost consumed, and tens of thousands of people are locked up in Lin Chong's side. Therefore, you can consider using officials and rewards to resolve Lin Chong's grievances.

Zhao Ji also tried to get Cai You to lobby Lin Chong to see if he could promote a full-scale war against the party by the Wild Wolf Army, all the way to Xingqing Mansion, and force Li Qianshun to declare himself a vassal to the Great Song Dynasty.

Lin Chong is already a marquis, and if he is promoted, he will be a duke, and there are not many dukes in the Great Song Dynasty, and he can't secretly reward him, so he can only wait for tomorrow to invite the bigwigs to have a small meeting to agree.

And Cai You, as Zhao Ji's brother and Lin Chong's partner and friend, became the most suitable intermediary, and Zhao Ji promised that as long as he could facilitate this matter, when the party was pacified, he could be promoted to the king of the county with Lin Chong.