A minister next to him asked, "But that's what you said about Jeju Chaogai." ”

Gao Yu said: "It's this person." ”

Although Gao Yu's power in the DPRK is monstrous, but he is not covering the sky with one hand, Cai Jing, Tong Guan and some of their old ministers still do not bird Gao Yu a captain who relies on kicking football, and someone immediately retorted: "Last autumn, the Liao soldiers attacked, and the soldiers went straight to the Daimyo's mansion, it was you Gao Taiwei who said that letting Chao Gai send troops can not only eliminate the Liao soldiers, but also make the Jeju army lose everything, but as a result, the Liao army was defeated, but the Jeju army was even stronger." ”

Gao Yu said proudly: "Isn't it a great credit to rely on my strategy to defeat the Liao soldiers?" Although the Jeju army was strengthened in this battle, it did not occupy any part of Hebei, so isn't this a successful strategy? It is impossible for the Jeju army to win every battle, maybe this time Hetian Hu has lost both of them. ”

The two sides quarreled and were inseparable, and finally Zhao Guan's family announced their withdrawal from the dynasty and discussed it later.

As a result, Tong Guan supported Gao Yu, and the official family agreed to Gao Yu's strategy, and immediately ordered Chao Buzhi to be the minister of the Qin Mission, and went to Jeju to ask Chao Gai to send troops to Taiyuan again to exterminate Tian Hu, who dared to be the emperor.

Chao Lao Shangshu received the order to have two heads in the head, Chao Gai is not a fool or a dumbfounder, it is impossible not to see through the intentions of the imperial court, where can he send troops again and again because of his own uncle.

However, Lao Shangshu was dedicated to the people, and for the sake of the imperial court, he did not bargain at all, and rushed to Jeju with the holy decree.

With the experience of the last time, Chao Gai didn't feel strange in the slightest.

"Uncle, you're here again." Chao Gai said.

Lao Shangshu said: "Well, here it is again, Tian Hu is the emperor in Taiyuan, and the court is furious and wants the Jeju army to go and exterminate it." ”

Next to Wu Yong said: "The holy decree of the imperial court is supposed to be that we can't have any opinions, but the experience of fighting with the Liao soldiers a few months ago has not been forgotten, we can't get any supplies when we get to Hebei, and the grain and grass transportation in Tokyo is too slow in the past, and the Zhending Mansion and the Daimyo Mansion are so poor that they can't distinguish the grain and grass at all, and now they have sent us to conquer Tianhu, once the grain and grass supply is insufficient, my Jeju army will fall into a situation from which it will never recover." ”

Lao Shangshu shook his head: "I am only responsible for announcing the decree, and other things are difficult." In particular, it is even more difficult to reach out to the imperial court to ask for money and grain, and now the Jiangnan region is in turmoil, the imperial court has lost its main water source, and the treasury has long been empty, and where is the money and grain to be allocated. ”

Chao Gai sighed: "It stands to reason that I can't have any conditions for my uncle to come, but this march and battle is about the soldiers and horses before moving the grain and grass, and if there is not enough food and grass to prepare, there will be no chance of victory." If the Jeju army loses to Tian Hu, Tian Hu's forces will take the opportunity to annex Hebei, and they can even threaten Tokyo Kaifeng at that time. ”

Lao Shangshu doesn't understand military affairs, and it makes sense when he hears Chao Gai say this, if the Jeju army is defeated, Natianhu's power will definitely swell.

"If General Chao has any requests, just mention them, and I will give a reaction to the imperial court." Chao Lao Shangshu said.

Chao Gai discussed with Wu Yong and Zhu Wu for a while, and proposed to Chao Shangshu: "I don't know if I can allocate food and salary to the imperial court in the Year of the Monkey, so instead of mentioning these nonsensical things, it is better to let the imperial court build the transportation route in Hebei to our Jeju army to ensure the smooth transportation of military grain for the Jeju army." ”

Chao Shangshu didn't expect Chao Gai to make such a low request, and he was moved to tears, and immediately said: "Okay, okay, I will report to the imperial court immediately and repair the grain transportation route in Hebei as soon as possible." ”

Chao Shangshu was quickly sent back to Tokyo in the form of an 800-mile urgent document, but he didn't expect Tokyo to be very fast this time, so he quickly approved it, said okay, and immediately mobilized the people to build roads.

It is a long way to transport grain from Cangzhou Huanghua Port in the mountains of Jingcheng County, and there are still hundreds of miles of land. This road is also improvised, and the whole can take a carriage, but the straightness is not good, and it is far from being as good as the official road, so Chao Gai proposed to repair the road in the imperial court.

These roads are part of the official roads, so they are not difficult to build, nothing more than rammed earth, lime, and curbs.

The 800-mile urgent document was reported to the imperial court, and the imperial court approved it on the same day it was received, saying that it agreed to requisition 100,000 people to build roads.

Chao Gai saw that the imperial court was so refreshing this time, and it was not easy to shirk it anymore, so he immediately agreed to send troops, and within half a month, the army would go to Taiyuan to exterminate Tian Hu.

This expedition was named the Western Expeditionary Army by the Jeju Army, and the main commander was Chao Gai, the governor of Jingdong, and the military divisions were Zhu Wu and Gongsun Sheng. Also participating in the war with the military headquarters were Shi Qian and others from the second division of the intelligence department.

The Western Expeditionary Army mobilized a total of more than 40,000 men and horses, and the Chao Gai personal cavalry led by Luo Yun was 1,500. There were 1,500 cavalry in Shibao, 1,500 cavalry in Yang Zhi, 1,500 heavy cavalry in Qin Ming, 1,500 cavalry in Luan Tingyu, and 1,500 cavalry in Sun An. A total of 9,000 cavalrymen, including 1,500 heavy cavalry.

5,000 infantry troops from Wu Song, 5,000 from Li Kui's department, 20,000 from the construction engineering troops, and nearly 10,000 infantry from Bian Xiang and Luda stationed in Jingcheng County also participated in the battle.

Why Chao Gai only mobilized 40,000 horses in the face of the Tian Hu Army, which had as many as 100,000 troops, was also the result of the accurate analysis of the Intelligence Department. Tian Hu was born in a strong family, although he is also proficient in guns and sticks, but he knows very little about military training, so most of the elites in his army are similar to the image of good hands in the rivers and lakes. Although this kind of soldier is very good to fight alone, once it fights in groups, it will be abolished, and the combat effectiveness is poor, the mutual cooperation is poor, and the mutual cooperation is not understood.

As for some of the soldiers of ordinary generals, they are all strong men who have picked up weapons, and although these strong men have also undergone military training, they have not gotten rid of the essence of strong men, and it is impossible to achieve strong combat effectiveness in a short time. Therefore, based on the above judgment, Chao Gai decided to mobilize 40,000 troops to Taiyuan. Although there were only 40,000 troops, the pioneers were indispensable, and the 1,500 cavalry of Yang Zhi and Suo Chao became the pioneers, and the vanguard army was more than 100 miles in front of the guards, scouting the terrain for the army, looking for a suitable place to camp.

As for the matter of escorting grain and grass, the Shi Jin Department of Huanghua Port is also in charge, and this time the Shi Jin Department is only responsible for escorting grain and grass from Huanghua Salt Field to Jingcheng County, and does not undertake any combat missions.

Along the way, the brigade of men and horses is not fast, a day is only sixty miles, walking nearly half a month before the army arrived in Jingcheng County, at this time the pass in the west of Jingcheng County is a fierce battle with the Tianhu army, the defender Luda, Shan Shiqi led his soldiers to fight bloodily.

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