The sky was already extremely dark, and it was not until this time that Zhao Chen and the others came to Juyong Pass!

Qu Duan, Kang An and other important generals of the General Staff Headquarters followed Zhao Chen's side! Zhao Chen drove the expedition in person, and they will go to the northern battlefield with Zhao Chen! Many capable personnel in the General Staff Headquarters will also follow Zhao Chen to the north, of course, there are still a large number of personnel staying in Yanjing City to coordinate various military regions to fight together!

At this moment, under the city of Juyong Pass, more than 100,000 soldiers are waiting for Zhao Chen to arrive!

The moment Zhao Chen appeared, there was a sound of a tsunami in the army!

Li Xianzhong, Li Yanxian and other important generals of Juyongguan had already come out, and they dismounted and knelt on the ground one after another.

"The last general will wait to see Your Majesty, long live Your Majesty, long live Long live!" Li Xianzhong said excitedly.

"Hurry up! Now that you're at Juyong Pass, I won't say anything to you, if you're on the battlefield, you have to kneel down when you see me, and the enemy kills you, what should you do? Zhao Chen said.

There was a lot of laughter all around!

"Let the soldiers be flat!" Zhao Chen shouted.

Only then did the surrounding soldiers stand up one after another.

More than 100,000 troops stood neatly under the city of Juyongguan, with torches everywhere, shining a bright light here, and countless soldiers looked in the direction where Zhao Chen was.

"It's so late, it's almost time, and the soldiers should be allowed to rest, not come out to meet me." Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, we have received the news of your oath to cut gold, and we know that you are coming to Juyong Pass! The soldiers look forward to your visit every day, that's why they are here to greet you! Moreover, the soldiers have just finished their training and not long ago! In the past, they also rested at this time! The war is about to begin, and the soldiers are training especially hard during this time! Li Xianzhong said.

"Your Yanyun Military Region has a total of 170,000 troops, are you ready for battle now?" Zhao Chen said.

Originally, the Yanyun Military Region had an army of 150,000, but this year 20,000 young people from the Production and Construction Corps joined the Yanyun Military Region, so the number of soldiers and horses here has reached 170,000.

"Your Majesty, everything is ready, only the east wind is owed!" Li Xianzhong said.

"Don't let me down on the battlefield!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, we will never let you down! Each of us will move forward bravely, sacrifice life and forget death, and do whatever it takes to complete the important task of destroying gold! Li Xianzhong said.

Zhao Chen nodded, and he walked forward, and everywhere he passed, all the soldiers looked at him with excited and enthusiastic eyes.

Every soldier here has undergone hard training, and they stand there straight, and some of them have their clothes wet with sweat! The autumn nights had become cold, but everyone stood there motionless!

"How old are you?" Zhao Chen came to a soldier, and when he saw the soldier's immature face, he couldn't help but understand.

"Your Majesty, I'm sixteen years old!" The soldier said hurriedly.

"Sixteen years old, still very young! Are you afraid? Zhao Chen said.

"Don't be afraid!" The soldier said firmly.

"On the battlefield, you are very likely to be killed by the Jurchens, and from now on you will never see your father and mother again, and you will never see your relatives again, and you will not be afraid?" Zhao Chen said.

"Don't be afraid! We joined the army, fought for the country, and died without regrets! The soldier said.

"Very good, the whole army, everyone must have such a belief in sacrificing their lives! Only by going forward from generation to generation, can my Da Song become stronger and stronger, and my Da Song will not be bullied! If any soldier dies on the battlefield, the state will take care of his parents and relatives, and the country will also engrave his name in the martyrs' shrine, and the times will be admired by future generations! To be able to go to the battlefield, everyone is a hero! Zhao Chen said.

The sixteen-year-old soldier stood there, trembling with excitement, and Zhao Chen patted him on the shoulder before continuing to move forward.

He went from one team to another, constantly talking to the soldiers and encouraging them.

After walking for a while, he found that the team was full of crossbowmen!

All the soldiers had crossbows in their hands, but this crossbow was different from the Divine Arm Bow, and it was also a little different from the Qin crossbow! This crossbow seems to be one size smaller than the Divine Arm Bow and Qin Crossbow, and it looks much lighter! In addition to their crossbows, they are equipped with swords at their waists, which they can fight with if necessary!

"Your Majesty, after we got the Qin crossbow from the area of Zhongnan Mountain, there were a large number of imitations, but the Qin crossbow was too big to carry, and then the craftsmen in Guanshan and Sichuan and Shu improved the Qin crossbow, and combined the advantages of the divine arm bow to make a new crossbow, the name of this crossbow is Song crossbow! Compared with the Qin crossbow and the Divine Arm Bow, the advantages of this Song crossbow are obvious, its production process is relatively simple, it can be made in large quantities, although its range is not as good as the Divine Arm Bow, but it is no longer under the Qin crossbow, and the power it uses is much smaller! Qu Duan said on the side.

"I'm going to give it a try!" Zhao Chen took over the "Song Crossbow" from a soldier, he pulled the Song Crossbow apart, and found that the power used was indeed much smaller! He put the crossbow bolt on and shot it into the distance, only to hear a sharp sound, and the crossbow shot at the target in the distance, hitting the red heart, and the surrounding soldiers let out a cheer.

"That's good, this range is 200 paces!" Zhao Chen said.

"Your Majesty, now the Yanyun Military Region has been fully equipped with the Song crossbow! There are 170,000 soldiers and horses in the Yanyun Military Region, including 50,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry, and the remaining 70,000 are all crossbowmen! With a strong bow and a strong crossbow and an army of 70,000, we can compete head-on with the nomadic cavalry of the north! Li Xianzhong said.

"Good!" Zhao Chen nodded.

Zhao Chen returned the Song crossbow in his hand to the soldier in front of him, the soldier took the Song crossbow, thinking that his weapon had just been used by the emperor, and he was also excited in his heart, and couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, I will definitely use this Song crossbow to shoot the Jurchen and make a contribution!" ”

"Do you have confidence in this battle?" Zhao Chen said.

"Yes!" The soldier said loudly.

"I'm confident too! Our Great Song Dynasty is united in the whole country, and the millions of troops are united, once we enter the north, it will be the day of the Jurchen demise! No matter how strong the Jurchen is, it is by no means the opponent of our millions of elites in the Great Song Dynasty! Zhao Chen said.

"Yes!" The soldier shouted again.

Zhao Chen's face couldn't help but show a smile.

In the middle of the night, he passed through the army, inspecting the soldiers, talking to them, sometimes to all the soldiers of a company and a battalion, and it took a full hour for him to go out of all the ranks, and the army dispersed to rest. It's just that the soldiers are excited, and they may not be able to sleep peacefully this night.

Zhao Chen, Li Xianzhong, Qu Duan, Kang An and others have entered the Juyong Pass at this moment and come to the city wall of the Juyong Pass.

"Li Xianzhong, you already know the battle plan, right?" Zhao Chen said.

"The last general has been in constant communication with the General Staff Headquarters a few months ago, so naturally he already knew about this battle plan." Li Xianzhong said.

"The army must fight like an iron fist! We need to concentrate all our strength on our fists and strike them out so that the enemy is undodgable and irresistible, and knock them to the ground in one fell swoop! You go all the way north, and the most important thing you need to be careful about is the 100,000 resentful army of Guo Yaoshi in Yuzhou! On the battlefield, you have to cooperate closely with Liu Qi's Liaodong Military Region, the two military regions surround Yuzhou with lightning speed, just like the five fingers on the fist suddenly close, you must not let the resentful army escape from your hands! Zhao Chen said.

"The last general understands!" Li Xianzhong said.

"I'm just talking on paper, and it's up to you what to do." Zhao Chen said with a smile.

"Your Majesty is proficient in the art of war, and the current training methods in the army come from Your Majesty! What His Majesty said just now is also the key to the art of war, and it is by no means a piece of paper! Li Xianzhong said.

Zhao Chen smiled slightly.

He started from Hanzhong and fought endlessly for many years, so that he could restore the country! Although he didn't really command the army himself, he repeatedly worked with the army in everything, with Yue Fei and countless other famous generals, and under the influence of his ears and eyes, he naturally knew the art of war! Of course, if he is allowed to command the army alone, he will definitely not be as good as famous generals like Yue Fei and Li Xianzhong!

"The three-way army of the imperial court, the Western Route Army wants to bypass Mayu Mountain, the road is the most difficult, and it takes the longest time, so the Western Route Army must go first! I will go to Datong and go north with Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others! The Middle Route Army will be handed over to you, and I hope that by the end of September, we will be able to meet Zhongjing! At that time, if you and Liu Qi can't make it to Zhongjing, I will be alone, and at that time, my safety will be unpredictable! I'm tied to the armies! Zhao Chen thought for a while and said.

"Your Majesty, we will definitely meet your majesty smoothly!" Li Xianzhong said.

"For the sake of the future of my Great Song Dynasty, we should work together, and everyone in the army must not slack off! Even me, there can be no slackness! The national fortunes of the Great Song Dynasty are tied to us, please! Zhao Chen sighed softly.

Li Xianzhong looked excited and nodded.

"Today we will rest early, tomorrow I will have morning exercises with the soldiers, and then I will go to Datong!" Zhao Chen said with a smile.

That night, Zhao Chen and others fell asleep in Juyongguan.

Early in the morning of the second day, the sky was slightly bright, Zhao Chen and more than 100,000 soldiers in Juyongguan exercised in the morning, and an hour later, Zhao Chen led thousands of guards all the way to the direction of Datong.

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The sixteen states of Yanyun are also a scene of autumn, and they have seen countless villages and countless farmlands along the way!

In the afternoon, I passed by a farmland and saw that there were sorghum everywhere, in patches!

The ears of sorghum droop down, and the sight gives a unique beauty.

However, Zhao Chen and the others did not have time to delay here, but kept moving forward.

There were also peasants working in the fields, and those peasants saw thousands of soldiers and horses galloping along the road, and all the peasants looked in that direction with curiosity!

If it had been ten years ago, when they saw such an army passing by, they were afraid that they would immediately dodge and never dare to come out again! In troubled times, the army is much more terrible than the bandits! However, since Yanyun recovered and the Great Song army was stationed here, paying attention to the "army and civilian, fish and water family", the army not only did not harass the people, but often helped the people, and more than a year has passed, and the people of Yanyun no longer have a fear of the army.

"Where do you say these soldiers and horses are going?" An old farmer said curiously with a pipe in his mouth.

"I'm afraid I'm going to Datong!" Several peasants came over and talked together.

"I heard that the imperial court is going to attack the Jin Kingdom, but I don't know if it's true or not?" The old farmer said again.

"I also heard that Your Majesty is going to take the royal expedition in person!" Next to a middle-aged man.

"The Imperial Driver? I heard that His Majesty inherited the throne at the age of ten, and at the age of twelve, he drove the imperial expedition in person, defeated the Jurchen general Wanyan Huonu, and recovered Guanshan! His Majesty's second imperial expedition is to recover Western Xia, and the third imperial expedition is to recover Jiangnan, this time if it is a royal expedition, the Jurchen will die! "The old farmer's road.

"That's right! Every time Your Majesty drives a personal expedition, the imperial court is fully prepared and will never fail! The Jurchen is the great revenge of my Han people and the Khitan, killing countless of our clansmen, this time we can finally take revenge! The middle-aged man smiled.