Dai Yunyi, who was drinking tea next to him, was suddenly startled, and hurriedly asked, "What five hundred crossbows, what's going on?" ”

Zong Ze was also stunned, it actually flowed out from Qin Fengjun's side, he immediately understood Li Yanqing's intentions, so he was silent, Li Yanqing seemed to see Dai Yunyi on the side, "Old general, who is this?" ”

"This is Captain Tong's staff member Dai joined the army. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Zong Ze introduced Li Yanqing to Dai Yunyi again, "This is the Li Commander of the Intelligence Department, presumably Dai has also heard of it." ”

Of course Dai Yunyi knew about Li Yanqing, wasn't that batch of gold and silver made by him? But at this time, Dai Yunyi didn't have the heart to greet him, he continued to ask: "May I ask Li to join the army, what is the matter with the five hundred army crossbows you mentioned?" ”

Li Yanqing hugged his fists and saluted, "It turned out that the lieutenant's secretary Dai joined the army, and he has been looking up for a long time, and those five hundred crossbows were a case that only happened yesterday." ”

"What case? Can you elaborate on Li Senjun? ”

"Of course, early this morning we heard that there is a black market trade in weapons in Taiyuan Prefecture, I sent an army to sweep it, when the army arrived, the people trading in the black market had already heard the news and ran away, but in an abandoned house by the river, we inadvertently found five hundred new military crossbows, and wrapped them in oil paper, packed in crossbow sheaths, according to the number on the crossbows, I went to the warehouse in the afternoon to check in detail, but found that this batch of crossbows should be from Qin Fengjun, I think the matter is very important, so I came to report to the marshal, but the marshal has already gone to the border to inspect."

"Who else knows about this?"

"Of course, everyone who should know knows that the Intelligence Department, the Military Division, and the ...... of the Commanders"

"Nope! No! You don't understand what I mean, I mean.... Do you have ..... Report this matter to the imperial court? ”

"Of course not, I haven't reported to the shuai yet, how can I report to the court in a hurry? However, according to the convention, this matter must be filed with the Ordnance Superintendent, and we are waiting for news from the commander. ”

Dai Yunyi has followed Tong Guan for many years, of course he knows the seriousness of this matter, there was a similar thing five years ago, eight hundred pairs of armor mysteriously disappeared, the news was forcibly suppressed by the Tai Lieutenant, and finally it was over, this time there was another military crossbow thing, Dai Yunyi relied on his intuition, five hundred military crossbows were probably only part of it.

Dai Yunyi was so anxious, he didn't care about urging the silver taels now, he had to rush back to Jingzhao Mansion immediately to report to Taiwei.

Li Yanqing handed him a list, "This is the number on the crossbow, I hope to help Dai join the army to find out the reason!" “

"Thank you!"

Dai Yunyi put the list in his arms, and said to Li Yanqing and Zong Ze: "The big war is coming, I hope that the morale of the army will not be affected because of this incident, everyone must be cautious, and it is best to communicate with the captain to find out the truth of the matter." ”

What he meant was to remind Li Yanqing that this matter could not be reported without authorization, Li Yanqing nodded knowingly and smiled: "Please rest assured that the marshal will definitely communicate this matter with the captain." ”

Dai Yunyi hurriedly left, Zong Ze looked at Li Yanqing and said, "Is this thing true?" ”

"Of course it's true, it should have been stolen from the military warehouse of Jingzhao Mansion, if there is no ghost in this matter, who would believe it?"

Zong Ze smiled meaningfully: "This matter is very timely!" In this way, Tong Guan is afraid that he will be embarrassed to mention the matter of silver again. ”

"That's right, I believe that Dashuai will make full use of this matter to block Tong Guan's mouth."

Things were as Li Yanqing and Zong Ze expected, Dai Yunyi returned to Jingzhao Mansion and never came to Taiyuan Mansion to ask for silver, Tong Guan never mentioned the matter of silver again, ten days later, Qin Fengjun's chief officer Liu Yong and a commander were beheaded, and twelve soldiers were dismissed, but Tong Guan's report never mentioned the case of the disappearance of ordnance.

Soon, Tong Guan and the seed master reached an agreement, and the Hedong army escorted another 50,000 taels of silver to Jingzhao, and in addition, the two manors in Taiyuan Mansion each covering an area of 100 hectares were given to Tong Guan.

In the blink of an eye, in the middle of August, 250,000 Song troops began to advance to the Song-Xia border from the east and west, and at the same time, the 150,000-strong Xixia army was also ready for battle, distributed in various dangerous passes on the Xixia border.

But for the Song army, the biggest problem is still the lack of intelligence, although there are still shops opened by Han people in some big cities in the interior of the Western Xia, but the border area has no Han figures, and the Song army can only rely on experience to judge the reality of the Western Xia army.

The eastern front of the Song army's attack on Western Xia was responsible for the 100,000 Hedong Army of the Seed Division, but it was not only the Hedong line, but also included the Suide Army and Yan'an Mansion in the east of Shaanxi Road, and the battle line was more than 600 miles long, while Tong Guan led the 150,000 army to be responsible for the western part of Shaanxi Road and the Qinfeng Army Road and Hehuang area, with a battle line of more than 800 miles.

On the morning of this day, the planting master Dao began to hold a mobilization ceremony in the big tent of the Chinese army, and the planting master invited the sword of the Son of Heaven Shang Fang to the handsome case, and said slowly to the generals: "The Western Xia army is our old opponent for many years, we know each other, he knows us, we also know them, each has its own advantages, the advantage of the Song army is that it is well-equipped and logistically prepared, and the advantage of the Western Xia army is that the soldiers are brave and good at fighting, the armor is complete, and the weakness lies in the lack of national strength, which is destined to end this war soon, it will be a tug-of-war that lasts for months or even half a year, Everyone should be fully mentally prepared. ”

The generals were solemn, and Li Yanqing also sat in the big tent, and his intelligence battalion was the smallest independent army, but it was also qualified to be in the middle.

Although the official positions of the Song army in peacetime are the commander of the Xiangdu, the commander of the army, the commander of the army, the commander of the army, etc., which is their official position in the imperial court, but in wartime, it has become another set of wartime establishments, divided into commanders, deputy generals, partial generals, generals, capital heads, team heads, etc., like Li Yanqing's small commander belongs to the generals, but no one will treat him as a general, everyone still regards him as the head of the intelligence department to join the army.

The seed master said: "This time we sent 250,000 troops, but this is only the number of 200,000 forbidden troops and 50,000 soldiers, in addition to 300,000 Xiang troops and township soldiers for logistical support, and also mobilized more than 100,000 people and tens of thousands of carts, the imperial court called millions of money and grain, and countless weapons and military funds, this is a large-scale war against the Western Xia, I hope we can wash away the humiliation of our predecessors who were invincible." ”

Seed Master Dao raised his arms and shouted: "Our army will win!" ”

The generals also shouted: "Victory!" ”

The atmosphere in the big tent was warm, and Li Yanqing was also infected by the strong atmosphere of seeking war, and his heart was boiling, and he also raised his arms and yelled.

The mighty army immediately began to set off, Li Yanqing's intelligence department was located in the central army, this time their intelligence department was divided into two, the inner division stayed in Taiyuan to prevent spies in the rear, and the outer division followed the northern expedition, including Wu Xianliang, ten civilian officials and Wang Gui led three hundred intelligence battalion cavalry, under the leadership of Li Yanqing, followed the commander north.

The main army of 100,000 people in the division of the road includes 80,000 forbidden troops and 20,000 soldiers, in addition to 150,000 Xiang troops and township soldiers and 80,000 people, the intelligence department has been established for a short time, and has not yet collected information on the deployment of the Western Xia army, but the Songxia border is a mountain range of thousands of miles as the boundary, the mountain range is called Hengshan, the width is more than 100 li, the mountains are reckless, almost all of them are high mountains and valleys.

According to the experience of hundreds of years, there is only one way for the army to enter the hinterland of Western Xia from the eastern front, that is, along the Wuding River Valley through hundreds of miles of mountainous areas, but it is not said that the army only has this one way to enter Western Xia, and there are many other trails over the mountains and mountains, but there is only one road that can take logistics and transportation, which is the throat of the fierce competition between the two sides, and is currently controlled by tens of thousands of troops in Western Xia.

After passing through the Hengshan Mountains for hundreds of miles, you will enter the Gobi Desert area within a radius of thousands of miles, and then cross the Gobi Desert for more than 1,000 miles, and you can go straight to Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Western Xia.

In fact, the main force attacking Western Xia should be the Western Route Army, out of the Qing Pingguan into the territory of Western Xia, only more than 400 miles away from the capital Xingqing Mansion, more than twice as close as the Eastern Route Army, the 150,000 Northwest Army led by Tong Guan is the main force of the Song Army, and the Eastern Front Army is only a side response to some extent.

The 50,000-strong army marched all the way west, and that afternoon, the army arrived at Dinghu County, Shizhou, on the east bank of the Yellow River, and on the other side of the Yellow River was the Suide army on the Shaanxi Road.

He ordered the whole army to rest in the camp and prepare to cross the Yellow River to the west the next day.