Jingzhao Mansion Bashang Barracks is a new military camp established at the beginning of the year, here in the Han Dynasty and the Sui and Tang dynasties is the army's garrison of the important place, with a lot of excellent conditions for the garrison of the army, such as the vast wilderness, rich water resources, etc., especially water resources, not only there is Ba water flowing through, but also in the field to dig wells, basically can produce water, which is the most prerequisite for the army to be stationed.

After the New Year, the Jingzhao army encircled a military camp covering an area of 2,000 acres in Bashang, built thousands of large tents, had a wide training ground, built barracks and moats around it, and had a lookout tower every few hundred steps.

The Bashang Barracks, also known as the new barracks, is the training base for the township soldiers of the states of Shaanxi Road, and a total of 50,000 township soldiers from the states of Shaanxi Road and Qinfeng Road gathered here in late April for a month of intensive training.

The vast training ground has built a city wall as long as one mile, the city wall shouts and kills the sky, the two armies are carrying out fierce siege exercises, both armies are wearing leather armor, but the helmet color is different, one is the red helmet of two thousand people, one is the black helmet of five thousand people, respectively, it means the Red Army and the black army, the current state is the Red Army defending the city, the black army is attacking the city, under the city wall is a chest-deep pond, even if it falls from the city, it will not hurt his life, but minor injuries are inevitable, dozens of people will be injured in each actual battle.

Li Yanqing stood on a wooden platform as high as three feet high to watch the battle, condescendingly watching the two armies attack and defend the selection and training battle, each actual combat training had to be carried out for two hours, the Red Army had to withstand the fierce attack of the black army within two hours, and if it held, it would be rewarded, and if it failed, it would be punished for running.

The training of the 50,000 township soldiers was commanded by Han Shizhong, supervised by Tang Huai, and Li Yanqing only came to inspect the training and did not interfere in the specific training.

Han Shizhong shouted on the high platform: "On the trebuchet!" ”

Gao Tai waved the blue flag, and more than two dozen large trebuchets in the distance rumbled, lined up two hundred paces away, at this time, the bell of the retreating troops rang, and the five thousand attacking black troops retreated like a tide, and the trebuchets began to attack.

Of course, the trebuchet will not throw boulders, but project a huge fireball tied with wheat straw, the Western Xia army is good at fire attack, and the village soldiers must also carry out fire attack defense training, only to see a huge fireball soaring into the air, smashing towards the city, the city head poured a lot of fire oil in advance, and soon, the fire oil at the city head was ignited by the fireball, and the soldiers rushed to the fire with sandbags to extinguish the fire burning on the city head with sand.

After several rounds of fire attack and defense training, the horn sounded again on the wooden platform, and the five thousand black troops rushed towards the city wall with a shout again.......

Han Shizhong walked up to Li Yanqing and said: "This kind of training will be carried out six times a day, one of which is a night battle, and each soldier will have to conduct ten such offensive and defensive training in a month, as well as the usual actual combat drills and physical strength, spear, bow and crossbow training, after a month, it can basically be reborn." ”

Li Yanqing sighed and said, "There should be no problem with regular training, but I think special training should be strengthened." ”

"Does domination mean earth-shattering thunder?"

Li Yanqing nodded, "Soldiers must get used to the explosion of earth-shattering thunder, and in addition, they must be skilled in using shields for some effective defenses. ”

The gunpowder battalion has repeatedly tried and tested, if the shield is used properly, it can effectively resist the shrapnel attack after the explosion of the earth-shaking thunder, so that the killing effect of the earth-shaking thunder is reduced by eighty, even if the earth-shaking thunder explodes thirty steps away, the soldiers can survive, which requires soldiers to train repeatedly and accumulate experience, and the Jingzhaofu Forbidden Army has carried out firearms defense training including the earth-shaking thunder since the year before last.

"I'm going to do three or four special training sessions at a later stage."

As he spoke, several cavalry galloped from a distance, and in a moment, the leading cavalry was brought to the viewing platform, he knelt down on one knee and saluted, and presented a letter to Li Yanqing, "Jingzhaocheng urgent news!" ”

Li Yanqing took the letter and looked at it, his brows suddenly furrowed, "Commander, what's going on?" Han Shizhong saw a trace of uneasiness in Li Yanqing's eyes.

"There is an abnormality in Western Xia, Mr. Mo asked me to go back immediately, Qiao Zhongan brought extremely important information."

"Is it ..... Is war coming? ”

Li Yanqing shook his head, "I don't know yet, but the training will be extended, and without my order, gather the township soldiers and don't disband and return to the hometown for the time being." ”

"Ignorance, understood!"

Li Yanqing explained a few words to Han Shizhong, then walked down the viewing platform quickly, he turned on his horse, and under the escort of more than 100 personal soldiers, he urged the horse to gallop towards the northern camp of Jingzhao City.

.........

An hour later, Li Yanqing arrived at the Beida camp in Jingzhao Mansion and walked directly into the deputy tent of the Chinese army, which is also called the staff tent, which is the place where the commander's staff handle official business, Mo Jun and Liu Fang each have a special camp tent, and the right deputy tent is Mo Jun's camp tent.

In the big tent, Mo Jun was dealing with official business, and Qiao Zhongan was sitting not far to his left, drinking tea with a little uneasy, he had just rushed back from Xingqing Mansion and brought extremely important information.

"Dashuai is back!"

As soon as the soldiers outside finished speaking, they saw Li Yanqing walk in like a gust of wind, Qiao Zhongan hurriedly stood up, Li Yanqing waved his hand, "Lord Qiao, please take a seat!" ”

He nodded to Mo Jun again, and Mo Jun took a letter and walked over, "This is the letter that the proprietor Qiao brought back from Western Xia, Liang Anping's handwritten letter!" ”

Li Yanqing felt bad from Mo Jun's heavy tone, he took the letter and sat down, read it carefully, his eyes became sharp, obviously he also saw the key to the problem, it was not that the Western Xia tore up the armistice and withdrawal agreement, but that the Jin State ordered the Western Xia to send troops, which means that the Jin State is going to do it.

"In addition to the content of the letter, what else did Liang Anping say?"

"There is also the Western Xia and the Shaanxi Road is mainly to lead but not to launch, if you can't withstand the pressure of the Jin State and launch an attack, it is mainly to attack the Longyou Hehuang area, and the Shaanxi Road will not be attacked for the time being, and the other is about the trade between the two countries."

"What does trade say?" Li Yanqing is also very concerned about this matter, which is related to the military spending of the new army, even if the two countries are at war, he does not want to break this line.

"There is no problem over there in Western Xia, the key is that in the Song Dynasty, King Liang wants to take the trade route of Yan'an Mansion and Dunzhou, how do you see the opinions of the same knowledge?"

Li Yanqing nodded, he is also the governor of Yan'an Road, and he is responsible for the defense of Yan'an Mansion and Suizhou, and it is not a big problem for the business road to take this road, "What else?" Li Yanqing asked again.

Qiao Zhongan thought about it, then shook his head and said, "There is nothing else!" ”

"That's hard Joe, go down and rest first, if there is anything, I'll ask Mr. Mo to contact you."

Li Yanqing called two personal soldiers to take Qiao Zhongan down to rest, looking at Qiao Zhongan's back and walking away, Mo Jun lowered his voice and said: "If you fight with Western Xia and have trade with them, I'm afraid someone will impeach Tongzhi, and the crime will become very serious." ”

Li Yanqing waved his way and said: "Trade will continue first, I estimate that the imperial court will be very chaotic this year, and we can't take care of our affairs for the time being, for us, military spending is more important than anything else, and we can ignore everything else." ”

Saying that, Li Yanqing stood up, "I'll go to see His Royal Highness King Kang, and I'll leave it to you for the time being." ”

Li Yanqing was anxious in his heart, the changes in Western Xia and Jin must be transmitted to the capital by Zhao Gou, this matter is urgent, and it cannot be delayed for a moment.

.......

Li Yanqing left the barracks with his own soldiers, and soon entered Jingzhao City, King Kang's Mansion and Jingzhao Guard's Office were together, located in the middle of the city, surrounded by a wide area, there was a rather large square in front of him, Li Yanqing was not the first time to come to Zhao Gou, in the past, it was deserted here, but today King Kang's Mansion was full of carriages, and there were hundreds of palace guards standing in front of the gate, which made Li Yanqing stunned, what is going on, does Zhao Gou want to go back to the capital?

"Steward Liu!" Li Yanqing suddenly saw Liu Yan, the head of King Kang's mansion, coming out of the mansion, and he hurriedly shouted.

"Ahh Li Tongzhi is here. Liu Yan smiled and bowed to him.

"Steward Liu, what's going on?"

Liu Yan smiled and said, "Emperor Rongde and Cao Juma are here!" ”

It turned out that Cao Sheng was here, and Li Yanqing asked with a smile: "Is this just here?" ”

"I just arrived, and the things haven't been moved into the house yet!"

"Is His Royal Highness King Kang here? I'm looking for him urgently. ”

Liu Yan knew that this Li Tongzhi was deeply trusted by King Kang, and he didn't need to be notified when he entered the mansion, so he said to himself, obviously to save face.

"Of course Your Highness is here, please come with me."

Because Emperor Ji is also in the mansion, Li Yanqing can't walk around at will, so Liu Yan has to lead the way in front, Li Yanqing came to the middle hall for a while, and as soon as he walked into the atrium, he saw Cao Sheng and Zhao Gou sitting at the stone table in the atrium drinking tea and chatting.

As soon as Cao Sheng looked up and saw Li Yanqing, he was so happy that he hurriedly beckoned, "Yanqing, this way!" This way! ”

Zhao Gou looked back and smiled: "I thought you would come over at night, but I didn't expect the news to spread so quickly!" ”

Zhao Gou also thought that Li Yanqing had come to visit Cao Sheng, Li Yanqing stepped forward and saluted, "Your Highness, I may bring a rather disappointing news." ”

"What's wrong?" The smile on Zhao Gou's face disappeared.

"I just got the news from the Western Xia, and the Western Xia has decided to increase the number of troops to the Song-Xia border on the Shaanxi Road by the order of the Jin State."

Zhao Gou's face suddenly changed greatly, and he was speechless for a while, but Cao Sheng slapped the stone table heavily and scolded: "I know that the Western Xia people are unreliable, and the ink of the armistice agreement has not dried yet!" That's torn up, a bunch of treacherous bastards! ”

It seems that Cao Sheng has not realized the seriousness of the problem, Li Yanqing shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Master Horse, Xixia is not important, the important thing is Jinguo!" ”

Cao Sheng was stunned, "Jin Guo..... What does that mean? ”

This result Li Yanqing and Zhao Gou have deduced many times, at this time, Zhao Gou sighed and said: "Western Xia invaded the south on the order of the Jin State to contain our army on the Shaanxi Road, indicating that the Jin State was about to attack the Song Dynasty on a large scale. ”

Cao Sheng was stunned for a moment, and said for a while: "Will this be the case?" ”

Li Yanqing nodded, "It can only be for this reason, and the news is absolutely possible, now the Western Xia army should have arrived at the Songxia border." ”

"So what do we do?" Cao Sheng panicked a little.

Li Yanqing glanced at Zhao Gou, Zhao Gou understood in his heart, he nodded silently, "I'll write a letter to my father!"