Because of Li Yanqing's return, the master did not participate in the afternoon martial arts evaluation, and gave Zhang Shuye the main examination of the bow horse department on behalf of himself, you must know that Zhang Shuye had sent an envoy to the Khitan when he was young, and he shocked the Khitan cavalry with his superb cavalry and archery level in the Khitan, and he was also a well-known cavalry and archery general in the imperial court.

In the marshal tent of the barracks, the planter carefully flipped through the intelligence booklet brought back by Li Yanqing, the content of which was very detailed, including the strengths and weaknesses of the Liangshan army, the armor and weapons of the Liangshan army, the number of war horses, and the number of warships.

Li Yanqing did not hide it, and told Luan Tingyu about the process of giving him information, and finally said: "The lowly position also knows that there is no important information to be detected in a short period of time, so the lowly position can only hope for Luan Tingyu, and it is also the will of God, Luan Tingyu prepared this detailed information for the lowly position." ”

Of course, the seed master Dao knew the relationship between Li Yanqing and Luan Tingyu, he waved the information in his hand, and said to Li Yanqing: "Just as you said, this is the will of heaven, with this information, we will definitely let the Liangshan bandits be completely wiped out in our hands!" ”

"To be so evaluated by the handsome, it is worth the hard work."

"You don't have to be modest, although this information is not personally investigated by you, but you risked your life to get it, and the first credit for exterminating the Liangshan bandits this time is still on your head."

Seeing a bitter smile on Li Yanqing's face, the seed master Dao hurriedly smiled and comforted him: "Don't worry, it is your credit that will definitely be yours, I have already reported to the Son of Heaven that you have made great contributions in Western Xia, and now the Privy Council and the Imperial Historical Observatory have sent people to the northwest to investigate, I believe that the imperial court will definitely give you justice." ”

"Thank you for speaking out!"

Seed Master Dao sighed slightly, "You don't have to thank me, this matter was originally my dereliction of duty, and my subordinates were not treated fairly, I feel ashamed!" ”

After a moment of silence, Li Yanqing diverted the topic and asked, "Is he still in charge of the intelligence battalion?" ”

Seed Master Dao smiled and shook his head, "People always have to go to high places, you and Liu Jian performed very well in the battle of defending the city in Shizhou, this time I will give you another chance, I told you last time, I will form two independent cavalry, called Xuanwu and Suzaku, you and Liu Jian each command one, the Intelligence Department originally wanted you to concurrently serve, but I thought about it again, I am afraid it is difficult for you to use two things, I plan to hand it over to Zhang Shuye." ”

"Let Uncle Zhang join the army as the intelligence department?"

"No, he is the marching Sima, the Intelligence Department is in charge of him, and the Intelligence Department is appointed by him to join the army, I don't interfere, I just hope you don't have any dissatisfaction!"

"There is no dissatisfaction in the lowly position, it's just.... There is a matter of humble duty that begs the permission of the marshal! ”

"What's the matter?"

"The lowly has a few good friends of martial arts, and they are also eager to go on the expedition with the lowly position."

"It's Wang Gui and them!"

The seed master laughed, "I don't have an opinion on this, you can decide for yourself!" ”

"Thank you for your kindness, and I will take my leave!"

Li Yanqing slowly walked to the door of the big tent, but the seed master stopped him again, and the seed master said hesitantly: "There is one thing I'm sorry for, I can't transfer the intelligence battalion of the Hedong Army, and the pressure from the Privy Council is useless, Yao Zhongping refuses to let go, that cavalry battalion is too elite, and he has already incorporated them into his direct army." ”

Li Yanqing nodded silently, bowed, turned around and walked out quickly.

Seeing that the Jurchens were about to destroy the Liao State, the next step was very likely to be directed at the Great Song Dynasty, the Song army's armaments were loose and corrupt, and the current combat strength was simply vulnerable, and he was too old to serve the Great Song Dynasty, so he could only cultivate a group of young pillars as soon as possible to prepare for the upcoming war against Jin.

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Li Yanqing followed a herald of the Seed Master Dao and walked towards his own camp, and as soon as he arrived in front of the cavalry camp, he saw Liu Jian head-on, Liu Jian was also very excited, ran forward and hugged Li Yanqing, and said with a smile: "The marshal said that you went on a special mission, we were all very worried, and finally came back safely." ”

"Thank you for your concern, how are you, is Vice Marshal Yao willing to let you come?"

Liu Jian pursed his lips, "He wishes I could get out of here and vacate the seat for his henchmen." ”

Liu Jian waved his hand again, "We don't talk about this, we will be disappointed when we mention that person!" ”

He pointed to the large military camp behind him and smiled: "There are two military camps here, one Xuanwu Camp and one Suzaku Camp, each of which can accommodate thousands of people, guess which one is yours?" ”

"Do you need to ask?"

Li Yanqing pointed to the military camp in the north and said with a smile: "Xuanwu is the north, and the military flag is still black, of course the military camp in the north is mine." ”

"Sure enough, it's a civil official!"

Liu Jian laughed, "Let's go!" I'll accompany you over to have a look, and by the way, I'll tell you something. ”

Li Yanqing walked quickly to the north barracks, only to see that the Xuanwu barracks covered an area of hundreds of acres, consisting of 350 large tents, surrounded by barracks, in fact, an independent barracks in a large barracks, and the Suzaku Camp was the same.

There is a black military flag in the middle of the Xuanwu military camp, surrounded by yellow edges, which is actually the tradition of the Northwest Army of the Great Song Dynasty, and the commander has four cavalry battalions directly under the command of the Qinglong and White Tiger Xuanwu Vermilion Bird, each battalion is about 1,000 people.

The intensity of this expedition to suppress bandits was slightly lower, and the master only asked the imperial court to allocate 3,000 war horses to form two cavalry battalions, according to the standard of one cavalry with one auxiliary, each battalion should actually be 2,000 people.

But the strange thing is that there is almost no one in the barracks, Li Yanqing looked back at Liu Jian in confusion, Liu Jian smiled, "The war horse is not in place yet, and the cavalry has to choose by itself, and it will take a few more days, and it will be the same on my side." ”

"It's been ten days, and the army hasn't been fully equipped?" Li Yanqing was extremely shocked in his heart.

Liu Jian smiled bitterly and said: "There are one million forbidden troops in the imperial court, but in fact there are less than half, most of them are divided into various places for defense, the forbidden army in Bianjing is only a hundred thousand, and these hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops only give me 15,000 people, and the other half of the soldiers have to be transferred from all over the country, I estimate that most of them are local soldiers." ”

Li Yanqing was speechless, the imperial court raised soldiers according to millions of people to allocate money, food and equipment, and in the end, the money, food and equipment were allocated, but no people were there, how could they go to war?

Liu Jian sighed again and said: "This kind of serious situation of empty salaries is not available only in the Northwest Army, so the Northwest Army is also the army with the strongest combat effectiveness in the Great Song Dynasty, but it is a pity that the imperial court refuses to transfer troops from the northwest to us." ”

"What about the cavalry? Do we want to teach our soldiers to ride horses from scratch? ”

Li Yanqing had to face the most severe situation, you must know that it takes at least one year for a soldier to train for riding and archery, and three years for mastering riding and archery, and this level of mounted archery still cannot compete with the Jurchens who grew up on horseback.

"I'm afraid the situation is worse than you think, Yu Shen, Zhang Bangchang and a group of civil officials wrote to the Son of Heaven, saying that the spring wheat is newborn, the horses will trample on the wheat seedlings, and the hinterland of the Central Plains is not suitable for cavalry fighting, the Son of Heaven listened to their advice and did not approve the cavalry requirements of the marshal, and the marshal said that he would try his best to solve this problem, let us wait patiently for a few more days."

Liu Jian whispered to Li Yanqing again: "Tiansi Prison raises more than 20,000 military horses in Mu Huogang, which costs millions of dollars every year, I suspect that there are not so many military horses in it at all, or they are all inferior horses pretending to be military horses, and some people in the court are afraid that the situation will be exposed, so they refuse to give us cavalry." ”

Li Yanqing nodded silently, if the million forbidden army is actually less than half, then it is likely to be the same on the side of the military horse.

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Li Yanqing came to his big tent, which was empty, there was not even a chair, there was no blanket on the ground, and it was overgrown with knee-high weeds.

At this time, there was a rush of running behind him, Li Yanqing turned around, only to see Yang Liang running quickly with a sickle in his hand, running to the door of the tent, he hurriedly knelt down on one knee and saluted, "Humble duty see join the army!" ”

"Why did you go get the scythe?"

Li Yanqing smiled and asked, "Do you want to cut the grass here before I come?" ”

"Humble... Humble ..... I'm sorry, but the lowly duty should have been cleaned up a long time ago. ”

"Forget it, get up!"

Yang Liang got up and hurriedly came over to mow the grass, Li Yanqing didn't stop him, and asked with a smile: "Tell me about your affairs in Yunzhou, I heard that you are in danger?" ”

"Yes! I was going to enter the city at dawn, but in the middle of the night the army began to search, and I was arrested with a dozen other guests from other places, but Liang Shanjun was careless and only sent two people to escort us to the barracks, both of whom were killed by me, and more than a dozen people ran away, and as a result, Liangshan Army sent thousands of people to pursue, and I jumped into the river to escape the pursuit, and later I found that my wanted notices were plastered everywhere, and the paintings really didn't look like me. ”

When Yang Liang said this, he carefully took out a reward notice from his arms and handed it to Li Yanqing, "This is it!" ”

Li Yanqing took the notice and looked at it, it was indeed painted like a ghost, fierce and vicious, but the big mole on his chin was pointed out, "It's worth a lot!" He offered a reward of 1,000 taels of silver. ”

Yang Liang grinned, "This is the first time in my life that I have been so taken seriously, and I want to keep it as a souvenir." ”

Li Yanqing returned the notice to him and asked, "Has anyone been looking for me in the past two days?" ”

"That's right! Last night a very fat official came to you, surnamed Zheng, and said that he was your best friend. ”

Li Yanqing suddenly remembered the prince's appointment, and he nodded, "I know, you continue to be busy, I have something to go out, and I will return to the camp later!" ”