Such a huge contingent, in such an era when marching basically relies on walking, and communication basically relies on roaring, not to mention fighting, even if it goes on this journey, many people will have to be killed and wounded.

Zhao Yunrang especially misses the four-vertical and four-horizontal high-speed rail, if there is this, the morning and evening will come, and it will definitely make Li Yuanhao fart and pee.

The team was stationed along the road, which was miles of moving towns.

Of course, Zhao Yunrang doesn't care about this kind of thing, or it doesn't reach his level.

Anyway, he didn't say anything else, but he asked for logistics to be guaranteed!

In these days, fighting a war is fighting logistics!

Eat and clothe yourself, and have a few pieces of silver in your pocket—that's the standard.

Zhao Yun issued the order, and all were paid twice during the expedition.

All families are entitled to the treatment of military dependents during the expedition.

There were even several soldiers who received letters from their parents, wives and children at home.

The content of the letter was very simple, that is, the government came and gave food, silver, and clothing, and was exempted from labor and taxes.

There was nothing else to say at all, which made Zhao Yunrang think that his thoughts were in vain.

I thought that I had relieved the soldiers' worries, and at least I should thank myself.

As a result, when I went out to inspect that day, I was recognized, and a group of five big and three rough men fell to their knees, and the mountain shouted long live!

Zhao Yunrang was almost scared to death, can these two words be shouted casually?

Fortunately, the men are very sensible, long live our emperor, and finally let Zhao Yunrang's cold sweat go down.

There is no way, such a thing as giving grace and favors can only be done by Zhao Zhen, even if he does it himself, it is in the name of the imperial court.

Now that he has an army of 80,000 in his hands, although the rebellion may not be successful, it is estimated that Zhao Zhen's heart is also beating the drum.

No, after half a month of expedition, there have been three condolences for me.

There is no way, it can only be thank the Lord Longen!

Fortunately, there are professionals, and the people selected by Zhao Yuanyan are all easy to use.

Coupled with Zhao Yunrang's just right point, there were no major problems with the march along the way.

Of course, it is inevitable that there will be a few people on the road who have violated the law and discipline during the march and have problems.

Zhao Yunrang did not hesitate and beheaded the public on the spot.

Even with one of the commanders, they were all beaten with military sticks, and the crime was that the emperor was not strict.

Although it is a killing, it is actually a rescue.

If not, I am afraid that many people will be guillotined.

Killing one or two and intimidating others is the rule of the army.

Zhao Yunrang has a deep understanding of this point, and he will crack down when it is time to crack down, and in extraordinary times, military control, these terms have long been familiar.

Sure enough, this large-scale publicity of this incident directly led to the fact that although the army could not be said to have committed no crimes, at least it could be regarded as strict military discipline.

Seeing that there were still hundreds of miles away from the border, the Tanma who was passing back and forth had already replied to the message.

Ahead, Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi had already returned from defeat.

When the news came, the barracks shook.

Zhao Yunrang was not surprised at all, originally, this defeat in history was doomed.

You must know that although Zhang Yuan and Wu Hao, who were deposed by Zhao Zhen, were scholars, they were familiar with Chinese history and military strategy.

They tried their best to encourage Yuan Hao to enter the right place of Guanzhong, occupy Guanzhong, and advance to the hinterland of the Central Plains.

At the same time, it united with the Liao State and allowed the Liao people to attack the Song Dynasty in Hebei, and finally made the Song Dynasty face enemies on both sides.

These strategies are all poisonous moves to seal the throat with a sword, and no matter which move is successful, the Song Dynasty will have the worry of losing the country.

However, because of the incident of the New Year's coin, Da Liao has already had some tacit understanding with Zhao Yunrang.

At this time, as long as there is no support from the Great Liao, or the fall of the Great Song Dynasty, the Western Xia is not worried.

In history, the Western Xia won three victories, and finally died in civil strife, which is the reason.

Da Song wins in productivity.

As long as it does not receive a devastating blow, it must be the Great Song Dynasty that wins in the end.

In addition to these two traitor think tanks, after the vast area of Hexi was occupied by the Western Xia, Li Yuanhao also spent a lot of energy on rectifying and reorganizing the Western Xia army.

First of all, he took the Yellow River as the demarcation, divided the army into two armies on the left and the right in the Western Xia, and set up 12 supervising military divisions, which were respectively ordered to be stationed in the name of the army.

As a result, the command system of the Western Xia army was improved.

At the beginning of the founding of Yuan Hao, the total military strength of Western Xia had reached 500,000 people, not including the number of people recruited from various tribes as soldiers during major battles.

It can be said that at this time, the Western Xia was all soldiers, fighting with all their might, not inferior to the military strength of the Great Song Dynasty.

Secondly, Yuan Hao developed and fixed several new troops: the Iron Harrier, the Capture Army, the Garrison Army, and the Poxi Army.

The Iron Harrier was the most elite cavalry unit in Western Xia.

Such troops were equipped with the best horses and the finest armor, and the total number of men was 3,000 men, divided into ten teams.

There is no such military branch in the Great Song Dynasty, and it can be said that it is the earliest special forces.

The Capture Army was a specially established unit in Western Xia in order to capture the opposing people's people in the war.

This kind of army is the "Yuanchuang" of Western Xia, with a very large number of people, 100,000 people, burning, killing, prostituting and plundering all kinds of evil.

The garrison was the Western Xia Praetorian Guard, with a total of 5,000 people, all of whom were served by the children of the Western Xia nobles.

The Poxi army was an "artilleryman", mainly using stone throwers to assist in the attack during the siege, and the smallest number was only 200 people.

The choice of Yanzhou as the target of attack was a careful arrangement made by Li Yuanhao, Zhang Yuan, Liu Hao and others after careful consideration.

The two countries of Song and Xia are bounded by Hengshan, from Linzhou in the east to Yuanzhou and Weizhou in the west, stretching for 2,000 miles.

Yanzhou was chosen as the target of the attack, and it was precisely because of the wide access roads around Yanzhou and Yanzhou that it was convenient for attack.

However, Zhao Yunrang was still a little surprised by the inertia of the wheel of history, and Fan Zhongyan himself could be regarded as a vague reminder, didn't he listen to it at all?

As a result, when he saw Fan Zhongyan, Zhao Yunrang realized that he didn't complain about this matter.

At this time, the highest governor of Yanzhou was Fan Yong, who was the envoy of the Zhenwu Army and the governor of Yanzhou.

After Li Yuanhao launched a military operation, he sent an envoy to send a letter to Fan Yong, saying that he wanted to negotiate peace with the Song Dynasty.

As a result, this old master Fan was stupid and believed it.

Li Yuanhao took this opportunity to storm the troops led by Li Shibin on the outskirts of Yanzhou.

Li Shibin was the Jin Ming capital inspector of the Song Dynasty at that time, and he himself was the chief of the Dangxiang clan, with nearly 100,000 fierce Qiang soldiers in 18 villages, stationed in Jin Ming Village in the north of Yanzhou.

In fact, this is a nail in the coffin of the Great Song Dynasty on the side of Western Xia.

For this old enemy, Yuan Hao's assassination plan, counter-plot scheme, surprise attack plan, etc., were all used all over again, but nothing was accomplished.

In the end, it was the "arrogant strategy" that succeeded.

Whenever Li Shibin was in battle, the Western Xia army "retreated" after a few hits, and shouted loudly: "The Iron Wall Xianggong (Li Shibin's "nickname") is here, let's flee for our lives." ”

In this way, Li Shibin is quite conceited.

At the same time, Yuan Hao also sent batch after batch of party tribes to "surrender" to Li Shibin.

In the face of the surging party members, Li Shibin himself is not easy to deal with, after all, not everyone is like Merkel, who does not refuse refugees.

In fact, the problem of refugees has existed since ancient times, and if it is not handled well, there will definitely be a big mess.

So he reported to his "superiors", Fan Yong, the old master of Yanzhou, and demanded that these party members be relocated to the south, far from the northwest border.

Fan Yong had no military strategy, but wanted to "use razing to defeat raze".

So he rewarded these Western Xia people and asked Li Shibin to organize them into various military strongholds around Jinmingzhai.

Li Shibin did not want to disobey the orders of his superiors, so he had to do so, which was equivalent to the placement of a large number of "time bombs" in various military fortresses of the Song Dynasty.

Sure enough, after the arrangement was stopped, a cannon rang out, and the Yuan Hao army suddenly attacked.

The refugees who surrendered in advance rose up one after another, and more than ten Song Dynasty sergeant strongholds outside Yanzhou, such as Jin Mingzhai, were occupied by the Tanguts, and Li Shibin's father and son were also captured.

Li Yuanhao's army reached the city of Yanzhou.

Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi rushed to help, but was ambushed by Western Xia at Sanchuankou, and was defeated, killing and wounding more than a dozen generals.

Moreover, Fan Zhongyan emphasized that Western Xia had a military system that lacked morality.

Li Yuanhao deliberately selected the captured Han people to form the "Bang Linglang" army, with these Han people as the vanguard.

Let them rush in front of the main army of their clan to act as cannon fodder to minimize the casualties of the soldiers of the Western Xia Party.

After speaking, Fan Zhongyan still couldn't hide his shame, after all, emphasizing the reason could not change the fact that he was defeated.

In fact, the team led by Fan Zhongyan, a military genius, did not lose the battle.

It's just that in this strategic battle, it doesn't mean that he won alone, this is considered a victory.

From a strategic point of view, the Western Xia achieved the strategic goal, and the Northern Song Dynasty of course failed.

Zhao Yun's eyes flashed: "Master Fan, do you want to keep these Xixia people and relieve their boredom on weekdays, or do you want to fight him so hard that he doesn't dare to come again?" ”