The army of Qi was divided into three parts, the southern army, the northern army and the Wei army, and the three armies were all under the command of Li Yuanji, the king of Qi.

However, the control of the Northern Army was issued to Su Dingfang, although Su Dingfang could be absolutely trusted, but Li Yuanji still did not trust as much as he hesitated.

The power he gave to Su Dingfang was open in the whole army, stationed in the north, and had the right to deploy troops to attack all forces that could threaten the security of the north, and Su Dingfang was responsible for everything in the army.

The Southern Army, on the other hand, was relatively idle, and was also directly commanded by Li Yuanji, whose daily tasks were farming and training.

The guards were small in number, and were mainly responsible for the security of the northern city of Zhenbei, as well as the security of the two cities to the north and the surrounding area in the future.

The northern and southern armies each have 10,000 troops, but if it is really discussed, in fact, the southern army is still slightly superior, and even the southern army itself does not know that their equipment has already been quietly replaced.

The next day, the government soldiers of the Southern Army assembled in groups outside the north of the town.

"Tsk, this is here, if it were before, I'm afraid we're still preparing it at home!" Looking at the dense assembly team, Sun Sheng, who was also a member of the government soldiers, couldn't help but praise.

"That is, in the past, you had to worry about everything in a war, but now it's different, just get an order to assemble with equipment, and the rest will be solved by itself." Another soldier nodded, obviously agreeing with Sun Sheng's statement.

In the past, when the government soldiers were assembled, they had to prepare their own dry food, as well as all the miscellaneous things that needed to be used on the battlefield.

But now, you don't have to prepare anything, you just need to take your own gear from home.

Food, the above will personally prepare, logistics materials, also by the top unified responsibility, the government soldiers only need to fight with peace of mind, the rest, do not have to care about anything, naturally it is worry-free and effort-saving, and the speed of assembly is super fast.

These are a great burden for the above, but for the soldiers, they are the best gospel.

"What's that? Catapults? A soldier pointed to the big guy who suddenly appeared at the back of the team, and asked curiously.

"No, catapults aren't that small, and they don't look too bulky." Sun Sheng shook his head, he had seen catapults, bigger than this, and dumber than this, and often required many people to operate.

Look at this guy again, there are only four people around, or is he placed in a carriage, a small catapult? Smash your own people?

"It's kind of like a big bow, it's supposed to be throwing equipment, right?" Someone else guessed by comparing the appearance.

"It doesn't matter what equipment he has, anyway, it's all for us, we'll know when the time comes!"

The discussion of the soldiers did not stop because of the reality, and they no longer had any fear of fighting.

Those who can stand here are all veterans who have been soldiers for many years, and naturally it is impossible to be as timid as those new soldiers, what kind of battle have you not seen? And how can you restrain yourself because of this?

It's just a little reluctant, fighting a war is to kill people, although the current days are bitter, but there is still a thought.

However, since they enjoy the best treatment of the people in the country, they naturally pay more than others.

Talk about those reluctance to put it deep in their hearts, and then, take up arms and go to the battlefield, do what they should do, and do their duty.

They are not afraid, but Li Yuanji is afraid, he is worried that his soldiers will have too many casualties, so he can only desperately urge the Academy of Sciences to continue to improve the equipment.

Although it took hundreds of dollars to finally develop such a bomb delivery vehicle that did not look very advanced, Li Yuanji was still satisfied, and ordered the construction of 100 planes without disgust.

Regarding Li Yuanji's heavy investment in these things that did not bring much change, Ma Zhou could only shake his head and sigh, and once refused, but it had no effect, Li Yuanji did not listen to his advice at all.

Instead of spending all the funds on people's livelihood research, less than one-third of the funds are spent on people's livelihood.

"Hey!" Looking at these 100 bomb trucks, Ma Zhou sighed, how many hundred times did he change such a thing? The same can be done with old-fashioned catapults, although the effect is a little worse, but a larger number is not enough?

"The country cannot stand without defense, and the people are uneasy without soldiers!" Looking at the army that was being assembled below, Li Yuanji sighed with emotion and continued: "There is a lot of investment now, but in fact, it is not much, without a strong army as support, we can only be big fish and big meat in the eyes of others, when we are hungry, we will come up and take a bite, what do we get in the end?" Scarred? Or is it the so-called good? ”

Talking about this issue again, Ma Zhou was a little uncomfortable.

Every discussion ended in failure, but it didn't take long for me to find a new reason to continue the debate, and then continue to fail.

Repeating this day after day, Li Yuanji's thoughts are still ongoing, from the failure of the debate to the actual failure, Ma Zhou has experienced it again and again.

Although he always loses, Ma Zhou faintly likes this feeling.

What if you lose? He was defeated, but Qi Guo was getting better and better day by day, this is the value of his failure, and he also learned a lot of theories from it, and was able to show it in his governance.

"There is not a lot of investment in people's livelihood, at least more than in Chang'an, and now we don't need to invest too much in people's livelihood, this is a gradual process, we need to adapt, and the people also need to adapt." Li Yuanji continued to preach his great truth, and gradually, he became obsessed with this feeling of preaching.

A person who moved bricks in later generations, but was able to bring substantial changes to the historical famous Ma Zhou with his own level, Li Yuanji still felt that he was quite accomplished.

Although it is not known what Ma Zhou will eventually change, at least he can be more capable and make greater achievements than he has in history.

"You're always justified!" Ma Zhou replied helplessly that he had lost again.

But the country has no defense, the people are uneasy, this sentence is deeply imprinted in his heart, in the Qi country during this time, let me deeply understand this truth, although Li Yuanji just made a summary, but he is still grateful.

Looking at Li Yuanji's back, the corners of Ma Zhou's mouth twitched slightly, and after a long time, he said, "Can you not go?" ”

"What?" Li Yuanji was slightly stunned.

"I didn't ...... It's nothing ......" Ma Zhou hurriedly shook his head.

"The king left you 2,000 troops, plus 4,000 of the guards, and the bomb cart also left you ten. During the period of this king's absence, all the important military and political affairs in the city will be at your disposal. Li Yuanji said lightly towards Ma Zhou.

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"Queue ahead, stay overnight in Midtown today! Let's go! With Li Yuanji's order, a military order spread around.

The soldiers quickly prepared for the march before the march, and the military formation was already lined up, and there was no need for special trouble, just the whole team.

Before each person was given three days of rations, fried noodles, is the kind of flour directly put into the pot and stir-fried, until golden brown, you need to eat it with water, there are some green powders in the fried noodles, no one can say what it is? About half a pound of bacon, which is frozen hard at the moment.

Zhongcheng is not the name of the city, but the city located between the north of the town and the north of the city, which has not yet been named, but it is located in the middle, so it is temporarily called the middle city.

Because there is no defense pressure in the middle city, and the planning has to far exceed the two cities, the speed of construction is also very slow, far less fast than the northern city.

However, due to the sudden southward movement of the Turks, Su Dingfang had ordered all the laborers of the northern city and the middle city to go south and return to the north of the town, but they were not allowed to take anything with them when they left, and the dwellings, bedding and the like they left behind became the equipment when the army passed by.

However, these are only borrowed, and the army cannot be taken with them either.

Both the northern and southern armies are cavalry, thanks to the war horses forcibly left by Li Yuanji in the last northern expedition, so there is no need to worry about speed, plus the distance is not far, so this march, Li Yuanji is not in a hurry at all.

"Report ...... Jieli has already led his troops to the north of the city, and there is no siege for the time being, and the general is ready. ”

After receiving the battle report from Su Dingfang, Li Yuanji opened it unhurriedly.

I couldn't find any reason to worry at all, and although the walls of the northern city had not yet been built, there were many facilities that should be in place.

The city wall has been built almost six or seven meters high, and the city gate tower has been built a few months ago, and there is still no problem in resisting the Turks who do not have any siege means.

After reading the entire letter, Li Yuanji instructed Ma Liu beside him: "Tell Su Dingfang to refuse to leave the city, and if the Turks attack the city, let them taste the taste of grenades." ”

"Hehe, in fact, I should let Jieli taste the grenade last time, I hope he can survive until that time this time." Ma Liu's face was full of excitement and rubbed his fists, saying that he must not leave with regret this time.

"Hmph, if you don't give him some color, I really don't know how many eyes Lord Ma has!" Li Yuanji snorted softly, facing Jieli, who had an advantage in troops, he was not worried at all.

"Report ......"

"Wait! Whose soldier are you? Ma Wu hurriedly stopped the other party, this person looked a little strange.

Ma Wu didn't say that he knew everyone in the Southern Army, but the people he often used to spread the news had also met many times, and when there were new faces in the past, they would only carry out the task alone with the old faces a few times.

"The lowly position is from the special training camp, and this time it is actual combat training." The person who came directly reported the name.

"Training camp?" Li Yuanji was slightly stunned, what the hell is the old gun doing?

"Ma Xiangguo ......"