"Lord Qi, Chief of Staff, Xuanying Wei Hetao Battle Report. Li Keyong withdrew his troops from the northern front to Daizhou, the main force began to move south to Taiyuan Province, and the Zhenwu army also began to move to the east to surrender the city. Xu Tianxiang looked at the latest battle report from the Xuanying Wei Feige Legend, and after marking the latest situation on the sand table for a long time, he smiled at Li Xuanqing beside him: "It seems that Chen Fan in the north can breathe a sigh of relief, Li Ke will withdraw the army to Taiyuan Mansion, this is good news." ”

Li Xuanqing looked at the large map of Youhe Erzhou, nodded and said: "Chen Fan is relieved, but my plan has failed, originally I thought that after the confrontation between Chen Fan's army and Li Keyong, he could divert his attention and go north to exterminate Helian Duo, and he could drag the Khitans into the water and let them fight another battle in Youbei." It seems that Li Keyong can also hold back at a critical moment? It's not as rigid as I imagined. ”

Xu Tianxiang didn't have such a big idea, and said with a smile: "Soon the reorganization plan of the General Staff will come out, and the lord will leave more cavalry, and it will be the same for us to fight ourselves when the time comes." ”

Li Xuan glanced at this guy innocently, and scolded with a smile: "Do you want to keep more cavalry?" If you don't want to be scolded to death by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, you can stay. Let's see how Mr. Cen cleans you up when the time comes. At the end of each year, the two major military and political departments hold a joint meeting to discuss and decide on the plan for the whole year for the coming year. ”

Xu Tianxiang waved his hand again and again, and said with a wry smile: "Lord, you still spare me, if I have a way to persuade Mr. Cen, do I still need to talk about it?" I think I'd better have a good fight with Lao Zuo and save money to raise cavalry. ”

"If you save money, you must also go from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and in the future, the military's industry cannot be directly intervened, and you must supervise the plans made by the logistics department, and those that can be handed over to the Ministry of Civil Affairs will be handed over to the Ministry of Civil Affairs as much as possible, and the military industry will not be allowed to control it, and people can be sent to supervise the quality and progress, and it is not allowed to meddle in finance." Hearing him say this, Li Xuanqing also remembered it, and said directly: "The separation of military and political means that the army concentrates on fighting wars, and does not intervene in civil affairs, and civil affairs specialize in psychological politics, and must not interfere in the army. ”

"What about the workshops created by the Logistics Department before, such as the Arms and Battles Bureau Consortium, the Coal and Iron Consortium, and the Black Fire Consortium?" Li Xuanqing's words made Xu Tianxiang suddenly understand the latter's determination, so he moved these industries of the logistics department out and asked.

"I'll talk about it at the upcoming military-political joint meeting, I just want to tell you one thing here, which can be state-run when it comes to the national economy and people's livelihood or the security of the dynasty." After Li Xuanqing said a word, he suddenly remembered something, and asked: "Have you done a good job of the adjustment plan for the various organs of the military department that you asked the General Staff to make last time?" ”

"It has been done, and the Political Training Office under the General Staff Department has been divided into two and changed to the Military Judge Corps and the Political Training Office; The Logistics Department was also redivided, divided into the Quartermaster Department, the Equipment Department, the Construction Corps, and the Post-Army Medical Care Bureau. Xu Tianxiang handed over a document and said: "Zuo Tiancheng has readjusted the logistics department according to the current organizational division, and the team directly under the logistics department has also been formed. ”

Li Xuanqing nodded and said: "After the New Year's Festival, the whole army implements an allowance system, which is divided into daily living allowance and combat allowance, and passes through the whole army. Let the brothers understand that although they are soldiers, in addition to rewards and seizure distribution, they also have a regular income to support their families. The salary of our Tiance Army can also become a motivation for the soldiers to kill the enemy. ”

"Rest assured, the military ranks of the General Staff have been fully produced, and after the joint meeting and the Ministry of Civil Affairs have been docked, they can pay the full monthly allowance according to the military rank standard." Li Xuanqing nodded, and didn't care why Li Xuanqing called the salary and silver an allowance, but faithfully implemented Li Xuanqing's explanation.

"Well, it's a big job. Fortunately, the main task of the army in next year will be to readjust its establishment, rectify its internal situation, and enhance its combat strength. Li Xuanqing smiled: "So what we have is time to adjust well and let the soldiers have a good rest." ”

However, when the two were talking about military and political reform, the garrisons in Fengxiang and other places were still fighting on the front line. After the ultimatum ended, the Ministry of Civil Affairs began to unite with the military to forcibly confiscate farmland, seize family property, and arrest key family members of large landlords who refused to carry out land reform in accordance with the Department of Agriculture. Some families tried to break out of the shell and transfer their property to other places, but they were also blocked at the door by the Xuanying Guard's people, and those who were already on the road were also blocked by the cavalry battalion that had just completed the task of suppressing bandits, and began to pull the net to investigate.

Time returned to Fengxiang, after Hu Xiaosi accompanied Qin Wen away, Su Xiaohu took the Flying Eagle Brigade into the Qin family's compound. However, as soon as he entered, he felt that the Black Cloud Long Sword formed by Qin Xu on the opposite side was unusual, although it was a private army, it could have a murderous aura, and even a dead aura, which looked like a veteran or outlaw who had killed people on the battlefield.

"Privately storing dead soldiers, against the government and the army, I think you are all tired of being crooked. The brothers killed me, and left no one behind. After Su Xiaohu felt this breath, the corners of his mouth smiled fiercely, and he took the lead in pounced.

Almost at the same time, the sharp arrows in the hands of the warriors who occupied the courtyard wall one step ahead also shot out at this moment, and dozens of black long arrows broke through the air, almost instantly putting the people in front of the Black Cloud Long Sword to the ground.

"Kill me, don't let me live well, I want to see if your Tiance army is powerful or my Qin family's warriors are powerful." Qin Xu, who was behind, also gave an order after a short struggle at this time.

The two sides immediately began to fight, but for a while, the sword was full of light and murderous spirit. The black cloud long sword was holding a long-handled heavy sword made by the Qin family, and the black sword body was waved with a whistling wind. However, the Flying Eagle Brigade is the latest stainless steel scimitar of the Logistics Department of the Tiance Army, specially tailored for the Flying Eagle Brigade, the cold blade flashes with a faint blue luster, with an exclusive small gossip shield, and no one in the Flying Eagle Brigade rushing into the crowd can get close at all. The sword flashed, and these warriors basically did not fight against each other, but the scimitar flashed, and it grazed through the junction of the black clothes and black armor or the exposed neck, etc., and there was only one scar on the body of the person who fell to the ground.

"Don't think you don't know where your heavy armor weaknesses are." Su Xiaohu glanced at Qin Xu who was sitting behind him like an idiot, and his clear words made the other party shudder, he couldn't sit still anymore, he stood up and roared hoarsely: "Kill me, kill one person, my Qin family is willing to pay one hundred taels of gold, and kill one officer and reward one thousand taels of gold." I personally went to bring the gold and paid for it immediately. ”

Su Xiaohu smiled coldly, ignored the whereabouts of this guy, and brandished his scimitar to kill again.

At this time, Hu Xiaosi took Qin Wen to the Fengxiang garrison camp, as the rear of the former Hanzhong, the sixth battalion left one in Fengxiang, and cooperated with the city defense army arranged by the logistics department to defend Fengxiang City.

When he arrived at the barracks, Hu Xiaosi directly showed his Xuanyingwei characteristic token, and the commander of the sixth battalion was originally Xu Ying's personal guard general, and understood the origin of the great god in front of him, so he didn't dare to slack off after seeing the other party show Li Xuanqing's silver feather sword talisman, and directly handed over the command to Hu Xiaosi.

"General Han, you immediately lead the whole army to the west of Fengxiang City as quickly as possible, and go out of the main road of the Western Regions, Fengyuan Ridge, surround me, where is the secret base of the Qin family. Remember, you can't let go of a person, I want to take over the Qin family completely, if anyone disobeys the military order, there will be no mercy. However, Hu Xiaosi did not ask for this command, but spread out the map he carried with him, pointing to the southern route of Fengxiang's western post road to the Western Regions, that is, along the path on the north side of the Qinba Mountains. There is a lone peak in the Fengxiang area, and the surrounding peaks are not connected to it, so that a flat passage across the Qinling Mountains is also formed around the east and west sides of the Fengyuan Mountains.

"What does Commander Hu mean that the Qin family is ready to give up the Guanzhong industry and take refuge in Li Maozhen, who is in Xichuan?" Han Shicheng looked at the lines drawn by Hu Xiaosi and said with some surprise.

Hu Xiaosi looked at the seemingly honest general in front of him with a little surprise, and was stunned and then nodded secretly, but he sneered on his face: "If he wants to take refuge in Li Maozhen, he has to agree with me." Don't think that his Qin family smuggled weapons to Li Maozhen through this secret channel, and my Xuan Yingwei couldn't find out. Don't say it, you set off immediately, take Fengyuanling for me, and then I will go to the General Staff to ask you for credit. In other words, you all have a good vision of the general, and you are always serious. ”

Hu Xiaosi's order Han Shicheng naturally and faithfully carried out, but seeing the horn in the barracks, the army galloped back and forth, and the front team immediately left the camp and quickly drove towards Fengyuanling after the front team was fully equipped.

Seeing Han Shicheng's rapid movements, Hu Xiaosi smiled slightly, took Qin Wen's hand and said, "If the old man doesn't want to rest in the army, I have already let people inform Xiaohu, and I will take you back to Qin's house immediately after it is over." ”

Qin Wen shook his head and said, "Let's go to Fengyuan Ridge too." I remember that the old man once said that the Qin family had some drawings of Qin crossbows and chain crossbows back then, but later I and Qin Xu had never seen them, maybe they were hidden, and this thing could not be lost. After saying this, seeing Hu Xiaosi's eyes shining, he smiled and said: "It's just a part, the ancestors of the Qin family inadvertently got these drawings back then, but there were outsiders together at that time, so several people discussed dividing these drawings equally, but I didn't expect that this point would no longer be able to copy the original." ”

"In this way, the current skills of the Shen family in Jiangnan are also the credit of the drawings back then?" Hu Xiaosi was stunned by these news, and pulled Qin Wen as he walked.

After Qin Wen and Hu Xiaosi got on their horses, they chased towards the army under the escort of their own guards, Qin Wen said: "Part of the reason is that the Shen family originally had a heritage in the manufacture of bows and arrows, and after getting the drawings, it was like a tiger with wings, and after a hundred years of development, it has long been innovative." Wait until you go to Jiangnan in the future to ask the Shen family, and it will be clear. I'm not the head of the house, so I hear these messages on a regular basis. ”

"In this case, let's hurry up, we can't let the Qin family, especially Qin Xu's father and son, run away." Hu Xiaosi shook the horsewhip and smiled. Several people suddenly sped away.

Fengyuan Ridge is more than a hundred miles west of Fengxiang City. However, Han Shicheng let the cavalry team exist, and the cavalry of more than 1,000 people galloped away from the large army. The cavalry was more than 100 miles, that is, about two hours. By the time Hu Xiaosi and the others arrived, Fengyuanling had basically become a huge military camp. The guards left behind by the Qin family were waiting to keep an eye on the cavalry below. And the figures of Qin Xu's father and son inside are also clearly visible.

"I think this Qin Xu is also stupid, and at this time he still wants to rely on the terrain of the mountains to block the pace of the army. The cavalry immediately gathered and went to the fork behind the mountain to block their retreat for me, and ordered General Han's Chinese army to speed up its advance and capture Fengyuan Ridge. Hu Xiaosi smiled coldly, he couldn't look down on the other party's arrangement in Fengyuanling, no matter how powerful the arrangement was, it would be a piece of cake in front of the Tiance Army.

The cavalry roared away, and the dust raised also made the faces of Qin Xu's father and son on the mountain change at this moment, the other party's move was not a strange thing, and he had already had a way to deal with it, but the delay in the return of the spies who contacted Li Maozhen was an important reason for casting a shadow on his heart.

And Hu Xiaosi under the mountain seemed to know the reason why Qin Xu was waiting, but Qin Xu's reaction was too slow, he had arranged so many people in Hanzhong, if he couldn't block his spies, then Xuan Yingwei shouldn't be confused.

The time for this coming and going was already in the afternoon, and Han Shicheng's Chinese army finally arrived in a hurry. Hu Xiaosi pointed to the position on the mountain and said with a smile: "General Han asked the brothers to work hard, and the logistics team immediately began to set up catapults, prepare fire oil bombs, and bomb me, I don't believe how long his turtle shell can last." ”

Han Shicheng looked at the distance and said with a wry smile: "Commander Hu, if the oil bomb is dropped, then Fengyuanling is estimated to be burned to the ground, I heard that Qin Xu put many classics of the family here, and the oil bomb is estimated to burn all together." ”

Hu Xiaosi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then understood what was going on, and asked, "How is your battalion practicing the three-three system combat method promoted by the lord some time ago?" ”

Han Shicheng nodded and said, "It's very skilled, but this formation is so strange, the last general is stupid and doesn't understand the mystery of the formation, so——"

Hu Xiaosi glanced at him and said: "The principle of the three-three system is a gradual tactic of mutual cooperation between stragglers, which is the most suitable for this kind of mountain attack. The Flying Eagle Brigade has been tested many times, and you immediately mobilize the most elite team to start preparing for the attack, remember to follow the three-three system of running and coordination. You personally command the Chinese army, once the vanguard army attacks, the army will immediately press on and completely cut off the calamity for me. ”

"Okay, I'm going to get ready. A quarter of an hour later the attack began. Han Shicheng was stunned, and then began to mobilize the army to prepare.

"Old man, there are no relatives on the mountain, right?" Hu Xiaosi saw that Qin Wen's face was changing, and he thought that there was someone else on the mountain, so he hurriedly asked.

"There are no more people, but remember to tell the army not to kill those masters, craftsmen and envoys as much as possible, many of the Qin family's skills are operated by them." Qin Wen shook his head, his expression a little emotional.

Hu Xiaosi nodded, let the guards behind him tell Han Shicheng, and then pulled Qin Wen to the side and gave way to the open space in the middle.

Han Shicheng's ability is still good, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the elite front army of more than 1,000 people was sorted out, and they lined up neatly in front of the mountain, but after seeing Han Shicheng's simple command, everyone began to prepare for the attack, and the five ballistas accompanying the logistics team also began to adjust the firing range and target, quietly waiting for the order.

With a wave of his right hand, the war drum corps began to beat the drums, and the rumbling drums issued the order of the commander. The front army also began to spread out its formation at this moment and charged forward. At this time, the ballista team began to fire crossbow arrows, which had almost become a standard step in the battle of the Tiance Army, disrupting the opponent's formation with crossbow arrows with strong range, covering the advance of their own assault personnel.

But seeing the piercing sound of breaking the air in the air, one by one the thick crossbow arrows quickly swept over the head of the former army, and roared towards the position of the Qin family halfway up the mountain, and the next second only the sound of puff was heard endlessly, the power of the five ballistas was not big enough, but the power of the crossbow arrows fired out did not change at all, and the latest improved ballista was smaller in size and faster in firing, which was the favorite of the garrison.

At this time, the counterattack of the Qin family's position also began, compared to the neat and uniform steps and tight and orderly objects on the side of the Tiance army, the opponent's counterattack was a bit chaotic, which was also the difference between the regular army and the private army, no matter how well equipped there was no baptism of iron-blooded war, it was a group of rabble. However, the Qin family has a little advantage that it is a weapon manufacturer, and all kinds of weapons emerge in endlessly, there are more than a dozen kinds of bows and arrows alone, and the range is also very well configured, both far and near, and the density of arrows shot is also very high, and the front army is pressed at the foot of the mountain and marches slowly.

"The archers followed, covering the assault of the front army." Han Shicheng yelled at the five hundred archers around him who were ready to go, and the latter set off almost as quickly as the order was given.

At this time, the front army also began to enter the range of the opponent's bow and arrows, and the front army of more than 1,000 people not only had to face the steep and rugged roads, but also the arrows swarming from the mountains, but also had to face the boulders that kept rolling down, and the task was very difficult. This is also the essence of Li Xuanqing's piracy of the three-three system of warfare in later generations.

The front army of these people in the moment into the opponent's bow and arrow range quickly changed formation, and suddenly a small force of fifty people began to roll up like a snowball, each pair was lined up in a very loose skirmish line to advance, the same front sword and shield hands, follow-up archers, each charge distance will not exceed ten zhang, to the distance automatically began to find cover in place to defend, archers and the other side to shoot, and the follow-up troops saw the front team stop immediately began to follow-up, and waited until more than the front force about ten zhang distance to stop again. And so on and so forth. If the opponent encounters concentrated fire, it will automatically cover and wait for follow-up support. In the face of this rolling advance, just aimed at this, that came up again, and finally suppressed this force, and the other enemy climbed up vigorously, so that these people were simply unable to defend themselves. Therefore, the war was fought for less than half an hour, and the front army had already broken through to the front of the opponent's position less than thirty zhang away. At this time, Han Shicheng nodded, and finally had a direct feeling for this three-three system of warfare, and suddenly pulled out his long knife, and moved forward, and the Chinese army immediately followed and began to assault the whole army.

And the front army also started the last wave of offensive at this time, the sword and shield men began to bow their heads and rush, and the archers behind them released their arrows with all their might, and the arrows rained down for a while, and Han Shicheng's five hundred archers who reinforced the front army also arrived at the front army at this time, and the two of them worked together to completely suppress the attack on the mountain, and also gave the sword and shield men room to charge. The distance of thirty zhang even the hillside could not stop the pace of these northwest men, I saw that these people did not take death to heart at all, and after the comrades-in-arms fell beside them, the follow-up manpower rushed over, and such a wave-like wave rushed into the position of the Qin family's private army in an instant. A killing ensues.

When Hu Xiaosi saw that the former army had successfully entered the mountainside, he immediately relieved himself and said to Qin Wen beside him: "Old man, let's go up too." After speaking, he and a few guards supported Qin Wen and began to walk up. Along the way, soldiers from the logistics team rushed up and sent their wounded to the logistics tent one by one to urgently bandage and stop the bleeding.

By the time Hu Xiaosi and the others reached the front line, the battle situation was already clear, the Qin family's private army was completely divided, and in front of the field troops of the Tiance Army, these people were not enough to see, and there were big guns and halberds on the battlefield, unless there was such a superb martial arts as Li Cunxiao, otherwise it was basically impossible to prevent dozens of bright weapons from all directions to greet together.

"Qin Xu's father and son have already escaped, do you still have to resist? Our Tiance Army arrested the main culprit of the Qin family, and if the accomplice laid down his weapon, he could be dealt with lightly, and if he continued to resist to the end, he would be killed. Hu Xiaosi's words made everyone who was still resisting stunned, and the absence of Qin Xu's father and son at this time also made this group of private troops who were originally gathered because of interests no longer have the fighting spirit. Quickly collapsed in front of Han Shicheng's strong soldiers.

"General Han is here for you, everything must be done according to the old man's orders. I'll go catch Qin Xu. Hu Xiaosi saw that Han Shicheng was looking back and saw himself, and immediately shouted. Then he left two personal guards to escort Qin Wen and Han Shicheng to converge, and he quickly crossed Fengyuan Ridge with the remaining dozen people, and hurried away in the direction of Hanzhong in the south.

His departure also officially announced that the hardest fortress in Guanzhong had been strongly breached by the Tiance Army, and the bloody storm that had been set off in various parts of Guanzhong around the land had reached a climax at this time. The land reform in the province of Tiance has pulled out the most hard-line opposition.