As soon as Zhao Xing received the news of Chao Buzhi, he immediately sent several caravans to the Hedong area, asking them to open warehouses in the local area in the name of doing business to store supplies. They carried a large amount of Yangzhou liquor, which was used by Zhao Xing as fuel, but they did not expect that the locals really liked this kind of liquor, and Cheng Buyan encountered the situation that each caravan encountered a swarm of seekers to overwhelm them, and only barely kept the minimum supply limit for this team.

The supply point chosen by Cheng Buyan is also a small castle called Qijiabao, which is a small castle of about 300 households, and Cheng Buyan hired the burghers to build a large warehouse in the castle, which gave him a high status in the castle. Everyone hopes that Cheng Buyan's stay can bring a turnaround to Qijiabao and give them a full meal in this era of frequent wars.

When this dusty team arrived at Qijiabao, the mood of the Qijiabao lord was like the New Year, and Qi Hu Qi Biao, the son of the Qibao lord, was a little puzzled by the excitement of the Qibao lord, and frowned impatiently and said: "Father, there are about more than 1,000 people in this team, how can the food stored in our fort be enough for them to eat, it is better to close the door and not accept it......"

"Idiot!" The lord of Qibao reprimanded: "I heard that Cheng Yuan came here to fight for his brother, and his brother is going to serve as the envoy of the Gyeongju Festival, and in the future, this will be the warehouse that will deliver news for his brother." What do you two brothers know, idiot.

Fang is now in turmoil, and the businessmen dare not enter, even some bold businessmen, and the goods they bring are just ordinary things, what are the Cheng people in Huangzhou doing, have you inquired, they are willing to come to us to set up a warehouse. In the future, our clan will not work, just stay at home to provide housing and hot water for the passers-by, and can also mix food and clothing, maybe one day, my Qijiabao can also develop into a big market, then we will not have to worry in the future.

What are the people who come to be afraid of? For those who do not bring dry food, it is enough for us to provide a place to rest and hot water, so go quickly. Inform everyone to boil hot water at home, and do not have too much hot water per pot. As long as ten cents, go quickly. ”

Only then did the two stupid boys understand that the Lord of Qibao did not sweep the backs of his two sons out of the corner of his eyes, he looked at the rest place of the caravan and said to himself: "Build a house!" How did I not think of it. Build more houses on that vacant lot, that's all money! ”

The people of the caravan, the lord of Qibao did not allow them to enter the castle, he only allowed Zhao Xing and a hundred of them to enter the castle to rest, and the rest of the merchants gathered in the open space on the edge of the castle and spontaneously formed a gang. It's easy to eat together.

Zhao Xing and the others who entered the castle were not idle, they just finished eating and entered Cheng Buyan's warehouse, where there was an assembled lathe and tongs, Zhao Xing began to command people to assemble steel crossbows and bows and arrows, Cheng Buyan introduced next to him: "The time is short, and there are not many things we send over." The seventh brother of gunpowder knows it in his heart, a thousand thunder rockets, and five hundred palm mines. Here. A lot of them are here.

We have two hundred of iron bow arms here, and two thousand wires...... This is all something given by Brother Qi. You know the number, it's all here.

The dozen or so horses sent by Brother Qi were only transported here 3 days ago, and I think they still need a few days to recover before they can ride. There are also fifty Wugang cars, all of which are equipped, and the things on the cars are also bundled, please check them out with Brother Qi. ”

Zhao Xing confiscated his initial business workshop as a family property in the Cheng family, he began to settle his own industry with the Cheng family in the attitude of his brothers, and over time, the Cheng family also began to treat the things between brothers in the spirit of this business contract, Cheng Shuang meticulously took out a list, and took a few companions to take a serious inventory of the goods, after a while, Cheng Shuang finished counting, the preparation of the steel crossbow has not yet been completed, Zhao Xing ordered: "Just rest here for a day, we will leave tomorrow morning." ”

The next day, many merchants had already received the news of the war on Huanqing Road, and some of them planned to follow Shinchishu, but most of them had already decided to resell their goods to others. Qijiabao sits on a Cheng family big money, he is not short of money, lack of materials, unwilling to continue to move forward businessmen have sold goods to Cheng Buyan, Cheng Buyan This action made the face of the lord of Qibao smile: "Build a house, build another house outside the castle, I want to build a continuous large house......"

Cheng Buyan, who had already been instructed by Zhao Xing, interjected: "I know a way to build a steel stone fort, if the lord of Qi Fort allows, I will buy the flat land outside the fort ......"

The lord of Qibao immediately answered: "I'll send you - I mean, I'll give you the land outside the fort, you give me the recipe for repairing the stone fort, and the labor required to repair the stone fort ......"

Cheng Buyan immediately replied: "The castle master is responsible for recruitment!" ”

A pair of profiteers smiled happily, they hooked their shoulders, walked down the fort wall like brothers, went to the inner room to discuss specific matters, and on the main road, Zhao Xingdi's team continued to march.

In the spring of the seventh year of the Yuan Dynasty, after receiving sufficient supplies, Zhao Xing's team still walked on two legs, followed by fifty Wugang carts, which were filled with supplies, such as tents, field marching stoves, sleeping bags, and so on.

Wugang car is on the eve of the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, Prime Minister Li Gang invented a kind of special car to deal with cavalry, because it was invented by Li Gang, so it was named Wugang car. These two-wheeled chariots are similar to the Roman chariots of the Spring and Autumn Period, with a maximum of two people on the car, and one side of the carriage has an anti-arrow baffle, hence the name partial van.

The car is not big, it is impossible to pull all the equipment of individual soldiers, Zhao Xing had to pick the most important things to put on the car, he walked all the way, all the way back to his team, sighed and said: "War is not at all ordinary people can afford to play, this is how many people, equipping these teams is an astronomical amount." ”

Shuai Fan followed, and also sighed: "My Great Song Dynasty can be said to be enemies on all sides, with Liao in the north, Xia in the west, Tubo, Jiaozhi in the south, and the rebellion of the Tusi. In the past two hundred years, the land of our Great Song Dynasty has continued to expand, and all those who have won seven and lost three in diplomatic battles, while the Tang generation has only five wins and five losses; There is a Han generation. Seven losses and three wins also. ”

Shuai Fan is talking about a statistical result, which shows that the victory of the Great Song Dynasty in the foreign war of 10,000 people is far higher than that of the Han and Tang dynasties.

Zhao Xing glanced at Shuai Fan strangely, and said thoughtfully: "We lack a big victory!" Although the Han and Tang dynasties were repeatedly defeated in diplomatic battles, the result was good, and the last big victory covered up all the defeats. Since then, the four realms have been stable. And we only lack a big victory, we don't have a big victory to intimidate the four realms. ”

Shuai Fan turned around to look at the team and said proudly: "So." It's up to you and me to start! ”

Zhao Xing's team was indeed satisfactory, and it was said that it was not suitable for long journeys in a draped state. But the armor on the ship of these people is just like a modern man wearing a top world famous brand, and they are proud and forgetful, although they are panting, although they are sweating. But the emotions of walking are high.

Zhao Xing looked at the local family who walked in front of him and shook his head gently.

Shuai Fan is wrong, let's not talk about whether one person, or hundreds of family members, can save the world, if it really succeeds, it may not be a good thing for individuals, there is Di Qing in front and Yue Fei in the back. These people who have made great achievements have a tragic end.

Zhao Xing looked ahead again, his eyes were very dazed, Shuai Fan was still next to him telling about the ambitious plan, Zhao Xing didn't listen to a word, after a while, his eyes gradually cleared, he looked into the distance and ordered: "Stay in the wild tonight." Let's practice wilderness camping. ”

A few days later. Zhao Xing arrived at the second supply point, and his team grew even larger. Two or three hundred hired local men followed him in a cart, and behind him, more than a dozen caravans, large and small, drove the wagons in unison.

After a few days, the team entered the Yongxing Military Road, and the Yongxing Military Road, which was in the place of fighting, was in a state of emergency, and the entry of this team immediately attracted the attention of the local military, and the local government confirmed Zhao Xing's identity and insisted on sending people and horses to escort him, but Zhao Xing demanded: "Send me to Yanlu, I want to see the commander of the palace." ”

What Zhao Xing said was "the preparation of the Extension Road and the Slippery Division, and the wearing of the class hall servant", because the fold Keshi has the "wearing of the class hall attendant", so people are commonly known as the palace marshal.

The leader of the squad was in awe, his hands did not leave the square inch, and he replied respectfully: "The palace marshal is gathering troops, and it is just right for the bachelor to go." Please come with me. ”

As soon as he turned around, the soldier Guan Jun muttered with relief: "Great, the imperial court finally sent a stupid and bold bachelor, those soft-footed shrimp in the past heard that there was a war in front of them, and they immediately fell ill and couldn't walk, this official actually wants to see the palace marshal, take him quickly." ”

The joy of this Guan Jun is reasonable, Zhao Xing saw Zhi Keshi, and immediately understood the reason for the joy of Guan Jun, Zhi Keshi squinted his eyes, looked at Zhao Xing's team, and immediately replied happily: "Okay, I'm worried about the lack of armor, these 81 pairs of armor are too timely." Zhao Taishou, you can rest assured that you will stay here, and I will also be indispensable to you for the post-war credit. ”

It turned out that he thought I was here to send the armor land, but Zhao Xingchong Keshi glared angrily: Do you think this guy is very familiar with him, 300,000 pieces of armor, if you don't have a word of thanks, you have to take it up.

This month, the imperial court reverted to Su Song as the right minister, Su Zhe as the servant of the door, and Qian Xian was promoted to the head of the household department. And use Liang Tao, Liu Anshi, etc. The talk of the friends of the time was very grand, and the ministers of the court constantly attacked each other. At this time, the Western Xia troops attacked Huanzhou, and the two sides were at a standstill. Su Zhe is Wang Gong's recommender, Wang Gong is more greedy than a place to be greedy, repeatedly reported, Su Zhe not long ago because of Wang Gong's corruption, according to the rules of the Song Dynasty dismissed, but only a few months later, the court re-appointed Su Zhe as the military department.

In the same month, Lu Dalin's "Archaeological Map" was completed, which is the earliest systematic catalogue of ancient artifacts in China. Lv Dalinzi and uncle, Lv Dafang's younger brother, is the initiator of the Lantian Township Covenant, and also governs the school, is a disciple of Ercheng, and still lives in Lantian. At the same time, the Liaosheng Jurchen tribe was impeached to death. At the time of the impeachment, the officials were first established, and the officials were all called extremely fierce. After his death, his younger brother Po Sara Shu took up the post of envoy to the festival.

Zhi Keshi said this, and those around him rushed to Zhao Xing's family with a strange cry of joy, they were already impatiently preparing to pick up the armor from people, Zhao Xing's face was gloomy, and he pushed Tyson next to him, Tyson only lifted the watermelon hammer next to him, Shuai Fan had already screamed strangely, and ordered: "Beat them flat, whoever dares to do it, they will be knocked down." ”

The scene immediately turned into a brawl arena, the fight was fierce and unbearable to witness, the people who rushed over were all battlefield warriors, the fight scene gave them the upper hand at the beginning, Shuai Fan jumped three feet high, and shouted: "Dead man!" Team – You've forgotten what you talked about in training. Form a team to fight, one group per team, one group to defend and resist, one group to support, one group to lure the enemy, and the remaining two groups surround one person and fight me to the death. His mother didn't recognize the beating. ”

The handsome jumping attracted the attention of the Yanlu officers, and three or four officers rushed at Shuai Fan, and Zhao Xing suddenly shouted a few words of feudal language that no one could understand. At this time, six or seven people were hugging Tyson. And Tyson dragged two people on his lap. There are still two people on his waist, and two people in his hands are picking ***, hearing Zhao Xing's words, he screamed strangely and struggled. The people holding him flew out, and then Tyson lifted the watermelon hammer and stood beside Shuai Fan, hitting the officers who pounced one by one.

With Tyson's protection and Shuai Fan's concentrated command, after a while, Zhao Xing's team achieved an overwhelming advantage. More than eighty percent of the officers were beaten to the ground, and the remaining six of the most powerful ones were still resisting stubbornly.

Zhi Keshi squinted his eyes and looked at the battle scene, and when he saw the result, he sighed, turned to look at Zhao Xing, and said, "I thought this was a group of young master soldiers, but I didn't expect them to be so able to fight." The black slave was so brave. What a brave general. ”

Zhao Xing also squinted his eyes and looked at Zhi Keshi, this middle-aged man is exactly forty this year and is at the best age of his life. He was recommended by his predecessor Yanshuai Guo Kuidi to succeed him. Originally, he was a member of the party, because he married the Song people in the past dynasties, his appearance was full of the handsomeness of a mixed-race child, and his face was carved full of masculinity by wind and frost and war.

After observing Zhao Xing, Zhi Keshi nodded with satisfaction: "I have heard of you, Hedong Road has sent a fast horse to me, I heard that you left when Master Su arrived in Yangzhou, only a month, you came to lead the Yongxing Army like wings, well, it is really like a divine soldier."

I heard that you have traveled to the seven seas for the sake of a bachelor, I didn't believe it, but now that I see your actions, I believe that you really crossed the seven seas.

I inquired, and it is rumored that Zhang Yong, the envoy of the Mizhou regiment, admires you very much, and the children of the Privy Council also say that you can fight. ”

Zhi Keshi shouted, Zhao Xing also waved his hand here, the brawl in the field stopped, the two sides separated, Zhi Keshi spread his hands and said: "Lend me 50 pairs of armor, I will pay you back after the war, how about it?" ”

Zhao Xing shook his head, Zhi Keshi was slightly disappointed, and Zhao Xing said: "I brought the craftsmen who made Qingtang Jia, they are behind, and they will arrive in the summer." ”

Zhekeshi's eyes flashed and he said, "I can't afford to pay." ”

"It's okay", Zhao Xing waved his hand: "I need you to say that the war on the Yongxing Military Road is tense, and I hope the imperial court can keep me on the Huanqing Road for a few more years - I don't have high requirements, as long as my term of office expires for three years." ”

Due to the continuous war, in order to facilitate the war, the imperial court divided the Yongxing Military Road into three parts, one part of which was Huanqing Road, and unified Qingzhou, Huanzhou, Zhou, Ningzhou, and Qianzhou. Later, Qianzhou was abolished and renamed the Dingbian Army. These five prefectures are under the jurisdiction of the Huanqing Road Economic Envoy, and Zhao Xing's official positions are the envoy to guard the border of the Huanqing Road to recruit and pacify, the envoy of the right Qingyang Festival (Zhizhou), and the Qingyang regiment training envoy, mainly managing the civil affairs and reserves of the Huanqing Road, and at the same time responsible for controlling the Gyeongju army.

The remaining half of the front-line states and counties of the Yongxing Army are in charge of the Yanjun Road Strategy, and the chief officer is Fan Yu, the envoy of the Yanlu Strategy, and the handsome mixed-race commander in front of him is called "Yanlu Preparation", that is, the commander of the Yanlu Army and Horse, the deputy of the Economic Strategy, and the highest military attache in charge of the military.

There is also a Wenchen on the Huanqing Military Road and Yanjun Road as the chief officer of the Yongxing Military Road, sitting in Jingzhaofu (Xi'an) and coordinating the actions of the two roads. This position has been held by many famous ministers, such as Sima Guang, Fan Zhongyan, and so on......

Now this official is Fan Chun, the son of Fan Zhongyan, and the word Deru.

Although Huanqing Military Road and Yanjun Road are also called "roads", they do not set up a transfer department and a lifting prison, and these two aspects are under the unified jurisdiction of the Yongxing Army. At present, the transfer envoy Yamen is in Yongxingjun (Jingzhao Mansion), and the prison is in Hezhong Mansion (Yanjun Road). The Yongxing Military Road is merged with the Qinfeng Military Road, commonly known as Shaanxi Road, so Huanqing Military Road and Yanjun Road can only be regarded as a three-level "road". The "road" is an official position, which is two grades lower than the ordinary "road" level officials.

The imperial court stipulated that Huanqing Road and Yanlu were as follows: because the war really consumed people's power, the imperial court stipulated that the two roads should fight separately, and this year it was the turn of Huanqing Road to defend, Yanlu was responsible for attacking, and the next year the two sides would rotate their offense and defense.

With a wave of his hand, Zhao Xing found that his hands were covered with calluses, which did not match his handsome appearance. The palace marshal clenched his fists and said, "Admit it, then I can take a big advantage." I heard that Brother Zhao is coming to Huanqing Road, I can inquire, I heard that Brother Zhao will be rich every time he governs a place, and Brother Zhao can stay on Huanqing Road for three years, but I am afraid that the year after Brother Zhao leaves, it will be my turn to attack. Presumably, there were enough materials on Huanqing Road at that time, and I was a great credit for nothing. Haha, let's go, I'll take you to see Fan Jingluo. ”

That night, Zhi Keshi held a feast to entertain Zhao Xing, and when he heard that Zhao Xing was short of horses, he generously ordered his subordinates to squeeze out excess horses for Zhao Xing to choose.

Zhao Xing stayed on Yanlu for three to five days, visiting officials everywhere. During this period, Zhe Keshi introduced the local situation and the battle situation to Zhao Xing......

A few days later, at the time of parting, Zhao Xing pointed to Yanzhou and said: "I heard that Mr. Mengxi was an official on Yongxing Military Road, and he said that Yan'an Mansion produces a kind of stone resin, and the wind will not stop blowing after lighting the fire. I need a lot of stone grease, and my brother said that there is no money in Yanlu, and how can I be poor when guarding such a big oil mine. You help me collect the paraffin, and I'll buy it. ”

Zhi Keshi's face turned cold, and he immediately said: "If Brother Zhao hadn't asked this, I would have arrested him on the spot." Yanzhou stone grease is used to make fierce fire oil, presumably Mr. Shen does not dare to understand. It is not sold to anyone else, but is taken by the Privy Council. ”

Zhao Xing waved his horsewhip with a relaxed expression: "The Privy Council must not need the land, there is still a surplus, and the rest of the land will be handed over to me...... Brother Zhen, don't say anything else, the Privy Council made the fierce fire oil that is garbage, you can buy it from me in the future, and you will ensure that you are satisfied. ”

Zhi Keshi groaned for a while, and immediately asked again: "...... this price?"

"Go back and talk to my master", Zhao Xing waved his whip and urged the horse to catch up with the team.

Zhi Keshi looked at Zhao Xing's back, until the latter's team disappeared into the horizon, he turned around and rushed to the servant and said: "Zhao Shuai's things need our escort, you have to check everything he has when you go back, and make a list." Be respectful, don't take offense, and don't ask for it.

I saw that he looked confident, and he must have a plan in his heart, the secret was in the luggage he carried, and he wanted to check it clearly, and we slowly asked each other for it when we turned around...... In addition, additional personnel were sent to protect the oil well in Yanzhou, and the Xiang army was ordered to extract more oil and store it. This thing can be exchanged for money, this is the first time I've known about it. ”

Out of Yan'an Mansion, Zhao Xing had only been gone for a day, and a team of scouts came from behind, and he saw Zhao Xing's team rushing over without pause from a distance, shouting all the way: "Emergency military situation, urgent military situation, Lord Zhao, go slowly!" ”

Due to the tense fighting on the front line, Zhi Keshi could not allocate too many troops to escort Zhao Xing, so he only drew out a dissatisfied capital, about 20 people to escort along the way. However, Zhi Keshi was very generous, and Zhao Xing's team all changed into war horses, including one officer and two war horses. So the team went very fast and has now entered the state.

Zhao Xing's team was very vigilant, although the people shouted all the way, saying that they wanted to report the military situation, but in the blink of an eye, Shuai Fan had already commanded four soldiers to rush forward and form a defensive circle, they raised the crossbows in their hands and aimed them at the people who were rushing, and shouted loudly: "Stop coming, dare to impact the queue, don't worry about killing!" ”

Behind the four soldiers who had rushed forward, the rest of the soldiers had jumped off their horses, formed a circle around them, and strung the reins together to form a makeshift horse formation, in which the soldiers attached their waist knives to the long wooden handles to form a large punk knife, while others took out their longbows and put them on full guard.

The person who came took a look outside Zhao Xing's horse formation, and exclaimed: "What fast hands and feet, such an elite warrior...... My lord, Wu Qing, the head of Huanqing Road, was ordered to chase after my lord and report the emergency military situation. ”