Chapter 427: The Situation in the Northwest

Yue Fei, Dong Xian and others left Yanjing City on December 17, and they went all the way west, and only began to rest when they couldn't see the road clearly in the middle of the night.

Until the afternoon of December 19, they came to Bauhinia Pass!

Yue Fei's son Yue Yun was stationed here, and when he saw Yue Fei coming, Yue Yun was overjoyed.

Early the next morning, Yue Fei, Dong Xian, Yue Yun and others headed towards Datong Mansion together.

In the middle of the night on December 21, they arrived at Datong Province.

Wang Fang, the deputy commander of the Huanqing Army, is stationed in Datong Mansion, where there are now a total of 50,000 soldiers and horses!

However, Yue Fei's 40,000 cavalry arrived, and the number of soldiers and horses here has reached 90,000, in addition to 30,000 soldiers and horses in Yanmen Pass, Ningwu Pass and other places, and Taiyuan Mansion has 20,000 soldiers and horses!

"General Yue, you're finally here!" When Wang Fang saw Yue Fei coming, he was overjoyed and said.

"General Wang, is there any news of the Jurchens during this time?" Yue Fei laughed, he and Wang Fang walked towards Datong's mansion together, Yue Fei said.

"For the time being, there is no news from the Jurchens, only that a large amount of grain, grass and baggage have been transported to Zhongjingcheng! In addition, Wan Yan Chang, Guo Yaoshi and others have left Zhongjing City and gone to Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, and now only Wanyan Wushu, the fourth prince of the Jin Kingdom, is stationed in Zhongjing City! If you go south, I'm afraid it will still be a complete vulture! Wang Fangdao.

"Tomorrow morning, I'm going to see how the Huanqing Army is." Yue Fei said with a smile.

"Let General Yue review it!" Wang Fang laughed.

In the early morning of the second day, when the sky was dark, Yue Fei had already woken up.

And at this time, the trumpets in the army also sounded, and countless soldiers of the Huanqing Army had come out of the barracks and headed outside!

There were more than 3,000 soldiers stationed on the city wall, and the rest of the soldiers rushed to the outside of Datong Mansion to train outside the city!

It's just regular training, 365 days a year, and it's almost non-stop!

Yue Fei, Wang Fang and others took more than a dozen personal soldiers to inspect and review the team, and they saw that the soldiers were training extremely hard! The ranks of the soldiers are unusually neat! It is not uncommon to see two teams fighting each other, and the soldiers are fighting as if they were in real combat!

In the distance, the 40,000 cavalry of the forbidden army under Yue Fei were also training, and they were also extremely hard!

It was two hours, and it was already noon, and Yue Fei, Wang Fang and the others finally stopped!

"Our soldiers are the strongest soldiers in the world! If it is about the hardships of training, no army can compare to the army of our Great Song Dynasty! Even the Jurchens, they are far inferior to us! The reason why the Jurchens were so powerful back then was because they hunted in the deep mountains and old forests all year round and practiced their skills, and they were not afraid of death in battle, so there was a saying that the Jurchens were invincible! However, the current Jurchens only know how to covet pleasure, and there are hardly many people who train! On the battlefield, many Jurchens are also greedy for life and afraid of death! Such Jurchens are definitely not our opponents! General Wang, I am glad that your soldiers and horses are so well trained! Yue Fei stood on the wall of Datong and said.

"The strength of the forbidden army is still above our Huanqing army." Wang Fang said with a smile.

"The walls of Datong are also unusually strong! Since the beginning of this year, there have been a lot of equipment and materials stored here! There are 50,000 celebration troops here, and even if the Jurchens go south, it will be difficult to conquer Datong! Moreover, there are Yanmen, Ningwu and other places behind, and it is even more impossible for them to conquer them! Yue Fei said.

"We are here to stay here, and the Central Plains is as safe as Mount Tai!" Wang Fang said confidently.

"The only thing I'm worried about now is Yinzhou, Xiazhou and other places! I don't know how Han Shizhong, Wang Yan, and Zhang Jun are? Will they be able to hold those places? Yue Fei said.

"Will the Jurchens attack those places?" Wang Fangdao.

"Quite possibly! Although the Jurchens are barbarians, they are not fools! Datong and Yanmen are so difficult to attack, they are very likely to attack Yinzhou, Xiazhou and other places to the west! I want to lead the forbidden army to the area of Linzhou, and if Yinzhou and Xiazhou are attacked, I can also help in time! Yue Fei said.

"The bitter cold land of Linzhou, where the city is ruined! General Yue, you might as well stay in Datong Mansion first! Wait until the beginning of spring, and then go to Linzhou! Wang Fangdao.

"No! If there is such a war in the direction of Western Xia, it will be bad! I have already sent someone to find Han Shizhong and the others, and ask them to come to Linzhou to meet me!" When necessary, I will personally go to Yinzhou, Xiazhou and other places to see how they train. Yue Fei said.

He stayed in Datong for two days, carefully observed the deployment of Datong, and after determining that Datong was not in danger, Yue Fei led 40,000 cavalry towards Linzhou!

Linzhou is located in the north between Datong and Yinzhou, but it is bitterly cold there, and the Song army has no soldiers stationed there, which is equivalent to an abandoned city!

After Yue Fei came here, he first cleaned up the place and let the soldiers settle down!

On December 26, Han Shizhong and Wang Yan led thousands of soldiers to Linzhou City.

The two of them were stationed in Yinzhou together, and it was only more than two hundred miles away from here, so the speed of arrival was very fast.

Yue Fei met Han Shizhong and Wang Yan, and he had a good impression of these two! Especially Han Shizhong, who is strong in martial arts, once blocked Jin Wushu from going south when he was in Huang Tiandang, and he is also a generation of famous generals, both of them have a sense of sympathy for each other! As for Wang Yan, if history remains unchanged, this is Yue Fei's enemy, but now that history has changed, this is the first time the two have met! Wang Yanchang is simple, he is also a peasant, he is the leader of the rebel army, and Yue Fei is also a peasant, and the two also feel cordial.

"Hurry up, please come in!" At the location of the city gate, Yue Fei saw the two of them and laughed.

Han Shizhong and Wang Yan nodded, and the two headed towards Linzhou City.

After entering Linzhou City, I only felt that this place was extremely dilapidated, many of the houses in it were damaged, and there were no ordinary people here at all, and all the soldiers I saw occasionally were soldiers!

They entered the state government of Linzhou, which was also deserted, with only dozens of pro-soldiers here, even those who boiled water and served tea!

The room was also cold, and there was not even a stove.

"We just came here two days ago and haven't packed it up yet! After coming here, there was no firewood, so the soldiers picked up some of them, but they all used them, and I didn't have them here, so I couldn't make a stove! Yue Fei said.

"I have long heard that General Yue loves soldiers like sons, and now it seems that this is indeed the case!" Wang Yan exclaimed.

"Don't dare to be! As a general, it should be so! When I was in Hanzhong, His Majesty personally trained the soldiers, and His Majesty did the most painful and tiring things first, and His Majesty did the pleasure last! I'm just learning from Your Majesty! Yue Fei said.

"Oh, I often hear about His Majesty's military training in Hanzhong, but I have heard about it, and I don't know if it's true or not! Some say that Your Majesty's divine power is amazing, one person can defeat a thousand people, some say that Your Majesty is a god descending from heaven, when Your Majesty is training troops, auspicious clouds sometimes float in the sky, sometimes golden light, Han Mou secretly thought that it was a little untrustworthy, General Yue might as well tell us about His Majesty's training back then! Han Shizhong said.

"Good! I'll just talk about His Majesty's military training back then! At the beginning in Hanzhong, Zhe Keqiu had just been annihilated, the discipline of the Zhejia army was sloppy, and the combat strength was extremely poor, His Majesty came to the Zhejia army......" Yue Fei said slowly.

Speaking of the events of that year, Yue Fei's face had an expression of excitement and admiration! To be able to subdue the army in just a few days, and then stay in the barracks for months in a row, sharing the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, no emperor has been able to do this for thousands of years! The emperor personally trained the soldiers, ate and slept with the soldiers, and under such circumstances, the Zhejia army underwent earth-shaking changes in just a few months, and became the strongest forbidden army in the Great Song Dynasty! As for the method of military training created by Zhao Chen, the infantry drill code has also proved to be far superior to all previous military training methods!

"I see!" Han Shizhong sighed softly.

With such an emperor, such a general, and such an army, it is inevitable that Zhao Chen will defeat Zhao Gou, and there is almost no suspense! At this moment, Han Shizhong was convinced by Zhao Chen!

"What Your Majesty has done is truly admirable! General Yue, let me ask you, when will we use troops against the northern Jurchens? Wang Yan said.

"If you want to use troops against the Jurchens, I'm afraid it won't be until next year! First, this year's war is endless, and the soldiers are exhausted and need a temporary truce to recuperate! Second, Yanyun and the Central Plains have just been recovered, and hundreds of thousands of troops need to guard Yanyun and the Central Plains to prevent turmoil in Yanyun and the Central Plains! Three, a year of war, the country's money and grain consumption is huge, and Yanyun and Central Plains disaster relief also need money and food, we now have no money and food support, it is difficult to fight! So, for the time being, we can only defend! Wait until next year or the year after, when the situation in the country is very good, the horses are fat and the soldiers are strong, and the money and food are sufficient, then it will be the time for us to go north to destroy the Jurchens! Yue Fei said.

Han Shizhong and Wang Yan both nodded.

"By the way, I don't know what the situation is in Yinzhou now?" Yue Fei said.

At that moment, Han Shizhong said that there are now 50,000 soldiers and horses in Yinzhou City, some of which are the original Han army, and some of them are the original Henan rebels! As for the remaining rebel soldiers, they have now returned home, and they no longer want to fight, they just want to return home! Yinzhou City has sufficient materials, these 50,000 soldiers and horses have now been trained in accordance with the infantry drill code, and the propaganda office in the army has also entered Yinzhou City to continue to transform the army!

Yue Fei discussed the art of war with Han Shizhong and Wang Yan, both of them had extraordinary opinions, and Yue Fei was overjoyed!

Yue Fei left the two of them for a day and said, "When Linzhou City settles down, I will lead my troops to Yinzhou to observe the situation in Yinzhou!" We are all defending the land for the Great Song Dynasty, and we dare not slack off in the slightest! If the land is lost, you and I will die and will not be redeemed, Yue Mou asked the two brothers! ”

Han Shizhong said with a smile: "Brother Yue, don't worry! We will definitely defend Yinzhou City! We are also looking forward to the day when we will go north to attack the Jurchen! ”

Sending the two away, Yue Fei temporarily put his mind at ease with Yinzhou, and when Linzhou is stable and the conclusive information from the Jurchen side comes, he will take time to go to Yinzhou to inspect the specific situation in Yinzhou.

"Why hasn't Zhang Jun come yet?" Yue Fei said secretly.

However, thinking that Xiazhou was far away from Linzhou, Yue Fei didn't think about it anymore!

It's just that until the last day of the sixth year of Xuanwu, the Chinese New Year's Eve, Zhang Jun has not yet arrived, and Yue Fei can't help but call his son Yue Yun over.

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It's ten o'clock, and I'll update a chapter first, and there's another chapter in half an hour. I've been thinking about it for a long time today, and the plot behind it is basically smooth. Thank you for your support.