For the first time since Li Yanzhi came to this time and space, he has met someone who can compete with him on an equal footing in the wine course. Li Bai seemed to have a bottomless mass, and successively drank Liu Jiwu and Cao Jian, who had just recovered from serious injuries. Even Tao Heng was stumbling left and right under Li Bai's continuous offensive, and he was embarrassed.

In the main hall of the Changshi Mansion, the coarse porcelain wine jar is already full of ground. The generals of the two armies who went to the banquet either lay unconscious at the table, or found an excuse to leave. The banquet, which lasted for nearly two hours, was carried out until now, and only the host Li Bai at the top and Li Yanzhi at the top of the side table were still frequently raising bowls and feasting endlessly. In the end, after drinking all the wine jars prepared by Li Bai in the house, Li Bai, who was like a bottomless pit, finally couldn't support it, and fell on top of the first few cases, and snoring sounded in a blink of an eye.

Li Yanzhi saw that Li Bai fell asleep in an instant, and he was not without pride in his heart. He got up and went to the side to wake up many of his generals. They had been asleep for more than half an hour, and the drunkenness had subsided a little. And although Li Yanzhi felt disdain for the rice wine that was like mash in this era, he couldn't stand the quantity. At this time, walking is also staggering. The armies with the slightly more sober will staggered back to the camp.

Li Bai prepared a mountain of wine, and his intention was to kill the prestige of this newly victorious county Sima. Unexpectedly, he had been preparing carefully for a long time, and he was extremely confident in his drinking, but he still capsized in the gutter. was poured down by Li Yanzhi in the lobby of the Changshi Mansion.

Fortunately, when Li Bai was drunk because of his strength, a cadre of subordinates around him had already crouched on several cases and were unconscious. And when he woke up a little, looking at the messy hall and the crooked subordinates, he was immediately ashamed and couldn't help himself, and quietly slipped back to the back hall of the Changshi Mansion to sleep.

Li Yanzhi brought the generals who went to the banquet back to the camp, and immediately ordered the guards on the left and right to bring cold water to wake up these subordinates. Liu Jiwu, Cao Jian, Tao Heng and others all know it. As soon as I woke up, although I still walked crookedly, I was able to be soberly obedient and talk. Li Yanzhi is also not polite with these old subordinates. said to them bluntly: "Now I am waiting to come to Dunhuang for the guest army. The fate of the future and even the whole family is still in the hands of others. ”

Li Yanzhi's words made the generals under his command suddenly sober up a lot. And Li Yanzhi's next arrangement plan made them gasp.

"From today onwards, the infantry in the battalion will wear armor and carry troops every day, bring all kinds of materials needed for wartime, and trek 20 miles on foot every day. Array drills and martial arts drills must not relax for a moment. The cavalry battalion soldiers immediately went out in batches, and went to the left of Yumen and Yangguan respectively to detect the movements of friendly troops and enemy troops outside the pass. The order to leave the customs, he went to ask Li Bai for it later. ”

And the soldiers of the Zhanfeng Battalion are the most elite in the entire Lingju County Army. Their every move is even more affected by many nerves. Li Yanzhi didn't plan to sit idle for this team that could fight habitually, and hung it high. In addition to the daily drills, the Battlefront Battalion also has to take on the duty patrol of its own camp.

After all, whether it is friendly troops or those who are paying attention to this place, if they can see or hear the atmosphere of the mighty army of Lingju County, they will definitely add a lot of points to themselves. More importantly, these soldiers in iron armor can undoubtedly show others the strong and good fighting side of the county soldiers.

Although in the previous battles, the soldiers of the Warrior Battalion, who were already small in number, suffered heavy losses after a series of hard battles. However, almost immediately after the war, Li Yanzhi incorporated a considerable part of the auxiliaries who had experienced the Battle of Lingju into the battle front battalion. These soldiers had already overcome their fear of death through the brutal battlefield. In addition, the vast majority of people have witnessed the tragic scene of Pao Ze falling beside them, and they have long hated the captives.

Such a number of new auxiliaries who have recently joined the Frontline Battalion have also brought new vigor and vitality to the Frontline Battalion. Previously, the Lingju County Workshop produced 50 collars of full-body iron armor every month, and after 4 months of rushing work, now there are more than 500 collars of iron armor equipped in the Zhanfeng Battalion! It was these craftsmen who worked hard to provide usable weapons and equipment, and the size of the Blade Battalion today is no longer the same as it was back then. And under the brutal training of Li Yanzhi and Liu Jiwu as always, the growth of this army is only a matter of time.

With the battle of Lingju, a large number of county soldiers and generals were killed in battle, and the generals who can still survive today, whether it is the previous Lingju headquarters, Li Yanzhi's own team, and some other middle- and grass-roots officers with slightly different backgrounds, have all been promoted. Liu Jiwu is still a hundred generals. This benevolent brother Yunwen Yunwu belongs to the kind of all-round character who "moves where you need to". Li Yanzhi also attaches great importance to him. As Zhou Xing's injuries had not yet healed, he was left in the county town by Li Yanzhi to recuperate, and Liu Jiwu became the 100-man general in charge of the Zhanfeng Battalion.

Cao Jian is still in charge of military law and serves as the Sima of other departments. It's just that his subordinates have become Li Yanjiong's newly established Jianrui battalion as a pilot reform. This battalion is composed of the old battalion infantry and auxiliaries who participated in the first battle of Lingju. Through the efforts of the workshop, this army was also issued with new weapons and equipment: each person received a leather armor to protect himself from the cold, and a ring head sword. It's just that today's ring-head knife is very different from the previous ring-head knife.

Under the vigorous advocacy of Li Yanzhi and the spontaneous technological innovation of the craftsmen in the workshop, the methods of steel filling and smelting and steel clamping for forging have long been popularized in the workshop. This batch of ring head knives is also forged by the new method of cladding steel and clamping steel. The difference from the previous swords used in the army is that the angle of the blade is larger. Like a long-edged knife, the angle between the two sides of the blade forms the shape of an axe blade.

This shape of the sword is more durable and durable on the battlefield. Due to the shape of the axe blade, when they slash at hard objects, such as the bones of enemies, and the metal armor they wear, the force fed back by these hard objects is absorbed by the broad blades. For the damage of thicker cutting edges, it is actually relatively limited.

These sturdy and durable swords have ensured the operational continuity of the army and have also virtually relieved a lot of pressure on logistics and baggage. In addition to this new-style knife with hidden mysteries, each of the soldiers of the Jianrui battalion was equipped with a round medal, a tuomu bow, and sixty arrows. Li Yanzhi's initial idea was to build this battalion into an elite mountain combat unit. Therefore, in addition to weapons, this light infantry, which is full of 800 men, will also carry a large number of ropes, hooks and other climbing tools when marching and fighting.

Before coming to Dunhuang County, Li Yanzhi had already taken these soldiers to specialize in climbing practice and bow practice in the mountains near Lingju County. These soldiers are now largely able to perform basic climbing operations. It's just that the kung fu of the bow and arrow is really not something that can be practiced in a few months. Although Cao Jian was used as the head of the coach, he was in charge of the 100 people of the Jianrui Battalion. The Orion-turned-marksman went out of his way to teach his men. However, judging from the performance of these people in the drill, their accuracy is really hard to expect.

Li Yanzhi, who knew that it was not a short-term effort to build an elite, still made Cao Jian practice strictly every day. But he didn't criticize the generals who belonged to the Jianrui battalion too harshly. He knew in his heart that by this time, everyone had indeed done their best.

However, at present, all the county soldiers have been moved to Dunhuang, and Zhang Jun's eagerness to recover the Western Regions has been fully revealed. Li Yanzhi also has a growing sense of urgency in his heart. Despite their slow progress, the soldiers continued to practice daily at the shooting school set up outside the city. Now Cao Jian has also found a good way. When he ordered everyone to practice the bow, he ordered each person to tie a five-pound stone or wood to his arm as a counterweight. The bow aimed at the grass and wood rakes on the school field.

This boring drill lasted for more than ten days, and seeing that the soldiers complained about it, Cao Jianfang gave them arrows, allowing them to tie up the counterweights, and then shoot freely at the targets on the school field.

After a whole day's hard work, Cao Jian looked at the targets on the school field that were far denser than the arrows in the past, and he couldn't help but feel very happy. He said to the soldiers who had gathered and staggered, "Brothers, you have done a good job. Today, I will make the decision privately and add food for everyone! I hope that in the future, everyone can rise up and make persistent efforts in the exercises, and strive to be stronger day by day! ”

When the soldiers heard this, they shouted for joy and threw down the weights bound on their arms, and then marched in their hands with their bows and arrows in their hands and marched towards the camp room.

Tao Heng is now facing this grim task of sentinel, and he can no longer sit in the camp, every time he arranges the patrol sentry list, he has to personally accompany him to conduct reconnaissance on these areas that Li Yanzhi has explained. And when each post returned to hand over, he could only take a nap in the camp in a hurry, and then immediately set off again to continue spying on the outpost.

Li was stationed in Dunhuang for more than a month. Li Bai, the chief of the Western Regions, finally began to make substantive moves. The soldiers of the Western Regions Changshi Mansion, which was subordinate to Li Bai, began to transport the grain stored in the grain depot in the city to Yumen in batches. Yangguan all over the place.

Now, even when the soldiers of Lingju County are training, you can see a steady stream of armored soldiers at the city gate driving or pushing vehicles, driving the full grain carts out of the city one after another and heading outward.

Li Yanzhi, who was still meticulously training his soldiers, saw this situation and this scene, and he could be regarded as profoundly understanding the meaning of the ancients saying that "the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first". Li Bai can be said to have planned the route and strategy of the march in advance. Starting from Dunhuang, all the way to Yumen and Yangguan. A large number of small forts were set up in various places to store grain, grass, equipment, military supplies, and medicine for the army when war broke out.

Except for grain shipments. Recently, many medical centers and pharmacies in Dunhuang County have also closed their doors. The materials sent to those cantonments are not only grain and grass. The doctors and medicinal materials collected in the many medical halls and pharmacies that were closed were also "invited" to get on the bus, and then galloped towards the places where those tunpu were located.

Seeing that Li Bai had made so many preparations, Li Yanzhi felt a little relieved. After all, war is such a thing, to put it bluntly, it is actually a kind of co-ordination science. As a general, you must not only coordinate the generals and soldiers under your command. It is also necessary to coordinate a series of things outside the battlefield, such as grain and grass, medical care, ordnance, and logistics. These things, taken out in isolation, seem to have nothing to do with the war that is about to take place. However, when they are associated with war, they become indispensable.

In addition to training the soldiers, Li Yanzhi also ordered the soldiers of the Jianrui Battalion to cut down the surrounding mountains and forests and trees to make carts, stretchers, short spears and other items. Although he had the experience of commanding the war alone, he was still poor. Now that he was about to go out to attack the enemy country as the commander of the division, the more prepared he could, the better. The evacuation of wounded soldiers in wartime, as well as the transportation of supplies needed by the army in the event of a sudden enemy attack. Most of them were prepared and brewed in the few things he commanded.

The great progress made by the Jianrui Battalion today has been able to satisfy Cao Jian, who is in charge of them. After all, the war is imminent, and the progress made by these soldiers of Lingju County, who have undergone high-intensity drills and are about to go to the battlefield, has made even Cao Jian, who is usually always black-faced and known for his severity, no longer be able to reprimand them harshly.

As the war approached, the mobilization of the soldiers belonging to the Changshi Mansion was also frequent. Li Bai first appointed a tooth gate general under his account as a pioneer, and led his troops to set off first and settle in Yangguan. After the vanguard army set off, it summoned all 100 generals and above under the Changshi Mansion to carry out a rather brief military discussion.

The military council decided to take the soldiers of the Changshi Mansion directly under Li Bai's department as the main force, with 1,000 pioneers, 3,000 Chinese troops, and another 1,500 garrison soldiers, as well as escort grain and grass baggage, and this department attacked and advanced to Haitou, where the former Changshi Mansion was stationed in the Western Regions. With Li Yanzhi's department and a subordinate of the subordinate Qu Governor's department, there are more than 2,600 people. The 2,100 men of the Li Department went out from the west of Yumen Pass and attacked and advanced to Gaochang, the office of the commander of Wuji.

In the early stage, Li Yanzhi's headquarters sent sentry cavalry, and the enemy situation detected by Li Bai's headquarters has also been summarized to Li Bai one by one. The enemy army defending the city at Haitou had no more than 1,500 men. And the Gaochang garrison is the main force under Zhao Zhen, nearly 8,000 people!

"Dingdong is going here, if things are harmonious, then rush forward, if there is disharmony, you can retreat to the Jade Gate......"