The yellow dust on the official road outside the city of Anyang County, Xiangzhou, was rolling, and I saw a team of cavalry rushing to the city gate, and a few guards rushed up to block the cavalry's way, "Where are you troops?" ”

The leader of the general is Wang Gui, and he held up the troop transfer turtle talisman high, "We are the imperial court forbidden army, and we were ordered to see Liu Zhizhou, this is the troop transfer turtle talisman!" ”

Although the soldiers had not seen the appearance of the turtle talisman, they all knew that the tortoise talisman was the imperial court's order to transfer troops, and everyone did not dare to slack off, and some people hurriedly ran to report to Liu Hao of Zhizhou, and Wang Gui also urged the horse into the city and led the army to run to the state government.

A few years ago, he was still an ordinary martial arts student, came to Anyang County to participate in the Wuju State Examination, in just a few years, he was able to lead the army into Anyang, and he had to meet Zhizhou, which was something that Wang Gui could not have dreamed of a few years ago, and now when he led the army into Anyang City, Wang Gui had an indescribable pride in his heart.

Not long after, Wang Gui and his entourage arrived at the state office, Zhizhou Liu Hao has received the news, personally went out to greet him, in the face of a state parent official, Wang Gui still did not dare to behave too arrogantly, he hurriedly turned over and dismounted, stepped forward and bowed and saluted: "The last general Wang Gui see Liu Zhizhou!" ”

"Are you ......" Liu Hao looked at Wang Gui suspiciously, not where did they come from.

"We are the Xuanwu battalion under the command of a kind of marshal, we are ordered by the imperial court to clear the Liangshan Army in Hebei, and my family commands the last general to come to Xiangzhou to transfer troops."

Saying that, Wang Gui handed the troop transfer turtle talisman to Liu Hao, Liu Hao then understood, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Li Tanhua's subordinates, I said how could there be cavalry in Xiangzhou, please go to the yain to talk about it quickly!" ”

Liu Hao invited Wang Gui into the inner hall of the state ya, and asked people to serve tea, he asked with a smile: "It seems that General Wang is also from our Xiangzhou!" ”

"The last general will be from Tangyin County, and we will command the same township."

"No wonder! Some people jokingly call Li Tanhua's army the Xiangzhou Army, and now it seems that this sentence is not groundless! ”

"Exactly! In the past, when the Hedong Army set up an intelligence battalion, it was the real Xiangzhou Army, and more than half of the brothers in the army were Xiangzhou children, but now as far as I know, at least six of the leaders of our Xuanwu Battalion are Xiangzhou people, so some people in the army criticized the commander for appointing people to the country, and our commander only laughed at it. ”

Liu Hao laughed, "Although others are uncomfortable, we sound very pleasant!" ”

The two exchanged a few more words, and Liu Hao ordered his staff to take the Xiangzhou turtle talisman, he had half of the tortoise talisman, and Wang Gui was the other half of the Privy Council, and the two could only mobilize the Xiangzhou army when they were put together.

Seeing that the two turtle talismans were put together tightly, Liu Hao nodded, "I don't know how many Xiangzhou troops Commander Li plans to mobilize?" ”

Wang Gui hurriedly said: "We want to mobilize all the Xiangzhou township soldiers!" ”

Liu Hao was slightly stunned, "Just the township soldiers?" ”

At present, there are two kinds of armies in Xiangzhou, one is the local box army, which is a local regular army, which is available in all states, generally stationed in the state, commanded by the governor, and the other is the township soldiers, which is equivalent to the militia of later generations, distributed in various counties, generally responsible for maintaining local security, building fortifications, transporting military rations and materials, etc., they are also soldiers and farmers, usually working at home and farming, and will be temporarily called when needed.

However, not every place has township soldiers, the township soldiers are mainly concentrated in the northwest and Hebei, where heavy troops are deployed, and they need a lot of manpower and material support.

Wang Gui nodded, "This is the order of our kind of commander, we can't disobey it!" ”

"Alright! Since there is a transfer of troops, I have nothing to say, at present there are 4,000 township soldiers in Xiangzhou, distributed in the three counties of Anyang, Tangyin and Linzhang, do they need to be taken away by General Wang after assembling in Anyang? ”

"There is no need to assemble in Anyang, please Zhizhou immediately order, so that they can rush to the Daiming City within five days to assemble, and the food and materials do not need to be carried, and they must arrive in the Daiming City on time."

"Good! I'm going to give a decree to the counties. ”

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At the same time that Wang Gui rushed to Xiangzhou to transfer troops, Li Yanqing also recruited township soldiers in the Daimyo Mansion, and there were still 3,000 Xiang troops in the Daimyo City, which was the last bit of strength for Liang Zhongshu to defend the Daimyo City, of course he did not want to hand it over to Li Yanqing, and Li Yanqing had no right to take the Xiang Army away, so the two reached a compromise, and the Daimyo Mansion would pay for the food and soldiers, and the Xuanwu Battalion would send people to temporarily recruit 10,000 township soldiers in the five counties of Daimyo County, Wei County, Guantao County, Neihuang County and Linqing County.

The Xuanwu battalion sent 200 soldiers to recruit people from the counties of the Daimyo, and their slogan was very inspiring, 'Eliminate bandits, defend the homeland', plus the Xuanwu Battalion won successive battles, which brought great confidence to the people of the Daimyofu, and the Daimyo Mansion also took out a lot of money and food, which was very tempting for the peasants who were damaged by the military disaster, and for a time the counties signed up enthusiastically, and 10,000 village soldiers were recruited in just two days.

On a vast training ground outside the Daimyo Castle, 10,000 township soldiers were divided into three large formations and were training simple formations, Niu Gao served as the chief instructor, leading 100 soldiers to be responsible for the training of 10,000 township soldiers, and they had to let the township soldiers master simple military skills within 10 days.

"The Commander is here!" A soldier shouted from the side, Niu Gao hurriedly turned around, only to see Li Yanqing rushing towards this side surrounded by a group of cavalry.

Niu Gao hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "See the general!" ”

"How's the training?" Li Yanqing looked at the army that was training in the distance and asked with a smile.

"It's not bad, more than half of them were originally village soldiers, and they have all experienced training, so it is easy to adapt."

"Can you train in 10 days?"

"I don't think there's a problem with my humble position."

Speaking of this, Niu Gao hesitated for a moment and said: "I am worried about the township soldiers in Xiangzhou, I am afraid that there is not much time to train them." ”

"The Xiangzhou township soldiers are already well trained, just tidy up a little, don't need to train much, they are already on the way, it is estimated that they will arrive in Daimyo City tomorrow, you are responsible for receiving it."

"Humble duty understood."

Li Yanqing came to the training ground with the cavalry again, only to see that the three teams were training the most basic spear formation, the movements were uniform, the shouting of killing shook the sky, the township soldiers wore leather armor, wore iron helmets, and held spears, each of them had a knife and a pair of bows and arrows in addition to the spear, and the general township soldiers did not have such equipment, which was also Li Yanqing captured a large number of armor in several battles.

There are thousands of pairs of his iron armor, but it is obviously not enough to equip 10,000 township soldiers, so Li Yanqing intends to use it to equip the township soldiers in Xiangzhou, and the township soldiers of the Daimyo's Mansion are equipped by Liang Zhongshu with 10,000 pairs of leather armor and helmets from the old armor warehouse.

Li Yanqing looked at it for a long time, then turned back to Niu Gao and said: "The point is to teach them archery, and their role in the future is to defend." ”

"Didn't the commander want them to participate in the final battle?"

Li Yanqing shook his head, "Letting them participate in the decisive battle will only drag down our army, don't look at them now that they are well-trained, once they really fight, it won't be long before they collapse, so I plan to use them to defend the city, and so is the army in Xiangzhou!" ”

"It turned out that they were asked to defend the city!"

Niu Gao understood the general's intentions a little, he suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked: "Isn't there an answer to the question that the general assigned last time?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled, "Brainstorming!" Of course there is an answer. ”

At this time, a cavalryman rushed over, rushed to Li Yanqing and hugged his fists and said: "The scouts on the south bank of the Yellow River have sent news, it seems to be very important information, please command the envoy to go back immediately." ”

"I see!"

Li Yanqing said to Niu Gao again: "Time is running out, if you train for another three days, I will start deploying." ”

"Obey the order!"

Li Yanqing turned his horse's head and ran towards the old town to the east, and dozens of cavalry hurriedly followed, and soon walked away.

Niu Gao saw Li Yanqing walking away, so he turned around and shouted, "Start training bows and arrows!" ”

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Li Yanqing rushed back to the big tent of the military camp in the old city, and a soldier stepped forward and handed him a volume of information, "This is a pigeon letter just sent from the other side, in a red letterbox." ”

Li Yanqing took the pigeon letter and asked, "What about General Wang?" ”

"He took a team of brothers to Weidian Town to pick up the township soldiers from Xiangzhou."

"Have the Xiangzhou township soldiers arrived?"

"It's already in Weidian."

Weidian Town is fifty miles west of the barracks, Li Yanqing didn't expect the Xiangzhou Township soldiers to come so quickly, one day ahead of schedule, he thought that he would arrive tomorrow.

At this time, Li Yanqing didn't care about the township soldiers, and hurriedly opened the flying pigeon express letter, there were only a few words in the letter, the 10,000 troops stationed in Yanggu County had retreated to Xucheng, this news Li Yanqing was not strange, Chong Lin had clearly told him before, the seed division would send troops to attack the Liangshan army within ten days, and now seven days have passed, it is likely that the seed master has sent troops.

However, this news alone was not enough for Li Yanqing to conclude that 'the Liangshan army will abandon Hebei', and he had to get further information.

He immediately ordered: "Immediately reply to the letter and ask the Jiang team to return to the north shore, saying that I will ask him some details." ”

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Li Yanqing soon arrived on the bank of the Yellow River, and at this time, a cargo ship was slowly approaching, and on board stood two young people who looked like villagers, who were the scouts sent by Li Yanqing to the south bank of the Yellow River to investigate intelligence.

This time, Li Yanqing sent ten scouts, divided into two teams to go to Yunzhou and Qizhou, these ten scouts are all natives of Yunzhou and Qizhou, and they have an innate advantage in entering the two places, of which Yunzhou is the opposite side of the Daimyo Mansion, and Qizhou is the opposite side of Bozhou, both of which have a significant impact on the current war situation.

After a short time, the ship docked, and two scouts got off the boat, the leader of the scout was a team leader, named Jiang Ying, who stepped forward and knelt down on one knee and saluted, "See the commander!" ”

Li Yanqing made him stand up and said to him: "I have seen your pigeon letter, but there are still some details I need to confirm, especially the transportation of grain and grass, which is the most important thing I am most concerned about." ”

Li Yanqing knew that the withdrawal of troops could be faked, and if they withdrew today, they would be killed tomorrow, only the grain and grass could not be faked, which required a lot of time and manpower and material resources to transport, if the grain and grass in Yanggu County were not transported, it would mean that the Liangshan army was not really retreating, and it would be killed.

"The commander of Qiyu sent the grain and grass before the army withdrew, and he witnessed it with his own eyes, filled with fifty small boats, and about ten thousand stones of grain were transported to Sucheng County, and the army withdrew two days after the grain was transported."

This news suddenly made Li Yanqing's heart feel relieved, and the transportation of grain and grass meant that Song Jiang was very likely to give up Hebei, and he could draw eighty percent of the conclusions.

But in this way, the Liangshan army in Shen County is likely to abandon the city and retreat to the south, and Li Yanqing suddenly felt that they had no time, and the township soldiers could no longer be trained, and they must immediately act according to the plan he formulated.