On the official road leading from Jizhou to Yutian County, under the winter sun, a patch of red poured out of the horizon, which was an endless army and flags, and after a while, it became much clearer - a neat phalanx was advancing.

The phalanx in the march was naturally not as uniform as when it was lined up, but it was basically still intact, and it was red, like a sea of flames.

10,000 Qi troops, 10,000 Jizhou Han'er troops, plus hundreds of baggage vehicles, thousands of people, all the way up ten miles.

The 20,000-strong army went straight to Yutian County.

Because the return is still there. Liu Tang didn't have to sweep away the return to Libao, but at least he had to force Huilibao to escape north of Yanshan as soon as possible, even if he entered Jingzhou, it was better than nesting in Yutian County and being stuck between Jizhou and Luanping.

Without returning to the Ministry of Protection, Jizhou will be able to connect with Luanping as one, and the two sides will join forces, with a military strength of more than 50,000. Whether it is dealing with the enemy of Jingzhou in the north or the enemy of Yuguan in the northeast, they are much calmer.

Jingzhou, Jizhou and Yutian are in an isosceles triangle shape, but Jingzhou and Yutian County are separated by a remnant vein of Yanshan, and the connection is naturally blocked.

Those small roads were already in the hands of Hui Libao, he was deceived out of the city by Liu Yanzong and Han Qi Xianyu, and received an urgent report halfway through, and when he hurriedly returned with his troops, it was too late. The head of Jizhou City has been replaced with Lu Qi's flag. When Liu Tang arrived in Jizhou with his troops, he could only retreat from Jizhou City to Yutian.

And now that Liu Tang led an army of 20,000 to force again, he couldn't beat back to Bao, and he didn't have the confidence that he could rely on the nearly 10,000 Khitan soldiers and Xi soldiers in his hands to defeat the Qi army that won the Jurchen soldiers in the field. Not to mention that Liu Tang also brought 10,000 Han'er troops from Jizhou, which is even more advantageous.

But it is impossible for him to turn around and attack Luanping in the east, Zhang Jue has more than 20,000 people in his hands, and the folk Han in Luanping and Erzhou will respond in droves, and he can only seek his own death to the east. If so, the only way out for Libao was to cross the remnants of Yanshan Mountain north, go to Jingzhou, and have a round with Guo Yaoshi's department there.

From the moment Liu Tang's army went east, this was a road planned for Hui Libao. After arriving there, he happened to be stewed by Pharmacist Guo along with Yelu Dashi.

In other words, now that Guo Yaoshi has not surrendered to Lu Qi, but because of his background, many people have decided that Guo Yaoshi will surrender to the Qi army sooner or later. Among these people are Yelu Dashi, who was forced to flee to Jingzhou, and Hui Libao, who is now helpless to go north.

At noon, the trumpets of the army kept sounding, and slowly the army stopped advancing, gathered into one piece, and became neat and solemn, but it was time to stop for lunch.

The front army is still neat, and the 10,000 Han army in the rear is a shame compared to it.

But the few people who led the troops did not feel how ashamed they were, except for sighing at the front, 'strong soldiers in the world'. Because of this face, if you lose it, you will lose it. I don't care!

Half an hour was enough time for the whole army to have a hot lunch. Whether it is in the front or behind, the Han army in Jizhou is far inferior to the Qi army in front in terms of strength and armament, but in terms of logistics and food, it is already on par with the former.

On the march and fighting, two porridges and one meal a day, helpless, early and noon time is limited, and it is not enough to eat cooking cakes or dry rice. It can only be eaten in the evening, with a meal of rice cakes or a bowl of dry rice. The other two meals were thick porridge, the kind of solid squares pressed by the hammer with a hydraulic hammer, and in the winter they could pick up the dry food for the march to be used as bricks and smash people.

To say that this marching dry food is not cheap, there are not only grains and grains inside, but also egg powder, fish meal, shrimp skin and meat fat, seasoned with salt, salt and dogwood, a piece and a half pound, smashed into the pot, can meet the needs of a soldier for a day. Not to mention that Qi Jun also served dried meat and hot drinks.

The hot drink is actually milk tea powder, of course, it is not milk tea in the northern nomadic areas, and few people in the Central Plains can adapt to that taste. Qi Jun's milk tea is simply mixed with milk powder + black tea powder + sucrose powder, and the taste is naturally far inferior to the fragrance of later generations, but in winter, it is already lucky for soldiers to drink a cup of instant milk tea.

Of course, if you eat thick porridge and eat your stomach, you can save milk tea, and you can find another time to solve it.

Therefore, after putting on a warm cotton coat and eating the food of the Qi army, the Han'er army in Jizhou returned to his heart in an instant. God is pitiful, how long have they not been fed and clothed? And is it still so good to eat, dress well, and have money to take now?

Although this evaluation is only because their original living treatment was too low, now the comparison between the two sides reveals the gap. But I don't know that the current treatment is just a helpless move limited to the boundary of Yanjing Mansion. If it was changed to northern Hebei, the army would fight on the front line, and the chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep in the rear would have been sent to the front of the army in a steady stream.

For soldiers who want to fight desperately, Emperor Lu has always been generous. Even if more than 100,000 troops eat a mouthful of oil together - 200,000 catties of pigs and sheep are enough, the Qi army is not the Song army that lacks oil and water in the stomach, and the cost is only a few thousand.

That's ten, twenty, thirty, fifty, and it's only hundreds of thousands.

With a mere amount of hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for hundreds of thousands of people in the whole army, the army's morale is like fire, how could Emperor Lu not do it?

That battle collapsed the main force of the Jin Army, and its impact and benefits were more than billions?

It's just a pity that there are really few pigs and sheep in this Yanjing Mansion, and the only thing used in the army is salted jerky transported from the rear.

But such treatment has made Han Erjun extremely satisfied. This is the difference between the original standards of the two sides.

In the Khitan Palace of Yanjing Prefecture.

"Minister Ma Zhi greets Your Majesty!" Ma Zhi, that is, Zhao Liangsi earlier, stepped in cautiously and bowed to each other, and Emperor Lu raised his hand to signal Ma Zhi to get up.

After thanking him for his grace, Ma Zhi stood up, and when he saw that Emperor Lu was sitting on the book, there were only Le He and Song Jiang on the side, and it was obvious that the limitations of this discussion were very small.

"Yanjing is calm, but the side affairs are not over. The Jurchen Wu is the fierce rival of my Great Qi. And the land of Yanyun has not returned to China for two hundred years, and the barbarian spirit is very heavy, so I want to establish Yanjing as the northern capital to calm Yandi. ”

"Ma Qing was born in the Yandi clan, and he knows a lot about this office, and he paid more attention to the affairs of the north before, so he didn't need to go back to northern Hebei, and he served as a governor in Yanjing. This is my northern capital of Great Qi, and I don't expect you to change it in two or three years, but you also have to be careful. In the future, the government affairs, financial endowments, river works, transportation, household affairs, and acres of land here are all major matters, and you need to grasp them and quickly manage them, and the cabinet will uniformly dispatch and dispatch officials to cooperate. ”

Later, Emperor Lu mentioned shipping, "In the future, if you want to fight with the Jin army, you will have to fight with the grain and military supplies." It was too expensive to transport by land, and it was necessary to find a good port north of the Boundary River for sea transport. ”

Speaking of this, Emperor Lu smiled again, "I will also set up a left-behind division in the northern capital to be in charge of military affairs and assist in government affairs. Looking at Hei Saburo, moving Song Jiang from the position of governor of northern Hebei to Yanjing to stay behind can also be said to be a kind of leveling. And the right of Yanjing to stay behind does not seem to be as big as the original governor of northern Hebei, but there is a saying that military merit is the best. Hei Saburo is a self-motivated person, but when he was knighted earlier, he only got a Ren Cheng man, and he stepped into the threshold of knighthood, not to mention compared with Chao Gai and Hua Rong, even compared with Zhu Tong and Lei Heng, it was only flat. This made Song Sanlang's attitude towards the outside world change abruptly, and it also made him deeply realize what it means to be a civil official.

Now Emperor Lu has transferred him from civil to military, not to mention that he is only in charge of military affairs and feudal affairs, and he is also very happy. Just like that Ma Zhi, who was also transferred at the same level, the power of Yanjing Mansion Yin was not greater than that of the original political envoy of Northern Hebei, and there was no change in rank, but Ma Zhiwu was elated. It's just because he has changed from a deputy to a chief officer.

Even if there is still an assistant government affairs Yanjing left behind, this will not cover him.

In officialdom, it is a flat tone, and it is also a happy event to be able to change from a deputy to a main official. What's more, it's still the Northern Capital Mansion Yin. This is a bit like the ordinary deputy ministerial standing committee member in eastern Guangdong turned into the leader of Shenzhen or Yangcheng, how can it not be promoted.

It was this northern Hebei province that was then missing two big officials, and Emperor Lu was also very helpless, saying: "The imperial court's jurisdiction has expanded too fast, and the provinces are increasing day by day, but the imperial court can't put forward a suitable feudal official for a while, which is also a joke of this dynasty." ”

Song Jiang hurriedly bowed and said, "This is caused by Your Majesty's wisdom and martial arts. Although there are short-term constraints, they are only an immediate need. ”

Le He also said: "Your Majesty is heroic, Zhenghe raised troops in four years, and Zhenghe was king in eight years. The state system [Metropolitan Governor's Office] is only four years, and the time for the end is short. Many officials have been promoted to a higher level in only a year and a half, and so many handsome people have just emerged, and they are only in the state capital, so there is a shortage of officials. Your Majesty will wait for another three years, and there will be as many capable ministers and officials as as a fish crossing the river, as few as stars. ”

Emperor Lu laughed when he said this. "That's also the fourth year of Hongwu." But now he has to be promoted. For example, the governors of western Jiangxi and Fujian, as well as the governors of eastern and western Guangdong. Connected with the governor of northern Hebei, there are five vacancies at this time.

Later, Wen Huanzhang, Zhao Mingcheng and others were recruited, and everyone had nothing to say about the changes in the positions of Song Jiang and Ma Zhi. It is the cabinet and the ministry, and it only has the right to recommend provincial officials, but not the right to decide.

It's just that Wen Huanzhang and Zhao Mingcheng didn't expect Emperor Lu to suddenly pull out such a big piece of fat, the governor of the five provinces, which will implicate a series of position changes.

In those high positions, there was already a turnip and a pit, and now five suddenly appeared, so at least five people must be filled, and there will be five more positions behind them?

Of course, they also knew that even if this piece of fat was thrown by Emperor Lu himself, they couldn't eat it all greedily, it would break their stomachs, and it would make the guards in Yidu City disgusted.

Wen Huanzhang thinks a lot, and Zhao Mingcheng thinks a lot, but his identity is different from Wen Huanzhang. People do a very decent job in the position of the Ministry of Rites, and because of his talented mother-in-law, he is very popular. Now in the Lu Qi court, his identity is a little transcendent.

And he also vaguely felt that he was on the right path, "a gentleman is not a party" can not really be alone, but if there is the emperor's care, who wants to go down to the troubled waters?

You must know that several princes are growing up day by day, and they will soon have masters, which is the first round of standing in the court.

Zhao Mingcheng didn't want to wade into troubled waters. "The minister thinks that this northern province of Hebei will be the backup of the northern capital in the future." Because the establishment of the northern capital and the main responsibility of the left-behind division is to be responsible for fighting the war. As the closest province to it, Hebei is naturally the northern capital of the Olympic aid.

"So the new governor should be a man who is good at planning and scheduling."

Emperor Lu's eyes flashed, "Zhao Qing is right!" ”(https:)

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