"One hundred and eighty-four killed in the sixth battalion!"

The battle report officer read out the results of the two armies aloud, "The seventh battalion lost one hundred and fifty-five people, and the number of casualties is less than that of the sixth battalion, but the seventh battalion master will be picked, and another hundred people must be detained, and the seventh battalion will be killed by two hundred and fifty-five people, and the sixth battalion will win in the end!" ”

The soldiers of the sixth battalion immediately cheered, and a regretful sigh sounded all around, the soldiers of the seventh battalion hung their heads, and Cao Meng was even more angry and his face was flushed, and he punched the war horse hard, and the war horse snorted aggrievedly.

Li Yanqing announced loudly: "This time the 10th battalion military formation competition is officially over, and the 6th battalion has won the final victory, with a reward of 2,000 yuan, everyone applauds and congratulates!" ”

There was a round of applause all around, and Gao Zhong and his men hugged each other tightly in excitement and cheered again.

At this time, there was also applause in the distance, and it turned out to be the coach Seed Master Dao and Deputy Commander Zhang Shuye who came, and Li Yanqing hurriedly ran down the stands to greet him.

"Humble duty to see the handsome!"

The seed master smiled approvingly: "This method of martial arts competition is very good!" It not only improved morale, but also exercised the team, who came up with the idea? ”

"The humble post used this method to train the navy in Jiayu County, and it achieved good results in a short period of time, so now it is being concocted in the same way."

"I would like to know, how did your subordinates integrate with the Hedong Army and the Hebei Army? There will be no contradictions. ”

Li Yanqing bowed and said: "Qiqi Marshal, the Hebei Army is all young and strong who have just been recruited, and they have not been in the army for a long time, and they have not resisted the Hedong Army with their humble duties, and the marshal has also seen it with his own eyes, they fight side by side, fight fiercely with their opponents for common honor, and all contradictions and frictions will disappear in the battle." ”

Seed Master Dao nodded secretly, this is the reason why the right army and the front army are well integrated, and what they get is Liu Tao's Hebei recruitment army, not the box army of Jingdong Road.

However, the master also admitted that Li Yanqing let the battalions compete with each other, so that the soldiers have a common sense of glory, which is a good way to train recruits, and it seems that he can indeed take charge of himself.

The seed master sighed, and said to Li Yanqing: "I am specially here to inform you that the army will not be able to go north for the time being tomorrow, but I need someone to block the mouths of the civil officials in the imperial court for me, so that Tong Guan can not find an excuse to impeach me, your right army and the front army are the best integrated, you can go north first tomorrow, and strive to arrive in Bazhou before the first day of the eighth month, and send troops to Liao State according to the time stipulated by the imperial court." ”

Speaking of this, Seed Master Dao handed another letter to Li Yanqing, "How to send troops to the Liao State, I have carefully considered it, the detailed plan is in the letter, the key is that you have to cooperate closely with Gao Shixuan's front army, and you must not act alone." ”

"Obey the order!"

Before dawn the next day, the right army led by Li Yanqing and the front army led by Gao Shixuan set off after breakfast.

At the same time, the seed master road issued a military order, on the grounds of disobedience to the military order, the left guard general, the front of the infantry in front of the palace are all soldiers and horses, and the Yunzhou military envoy Qiu Zhaohe beheaded the public, for a while, the Jingdong state army was shocked, and finally began to accept the integration of the seed master road.

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Bazhou, like Xiongzhou, was also the main border state of the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao army, and a Juma River divided it into two with Zhuozhou on the other side, with the Great Song Dynasty boundary to the south and the Liao army boundary to the north of the Juma River.

In the past 100 years, although the Song and Liao countries have remained calm on the whole, small-scale friction has continued, especially in Xiongzhou and Bazhou, where the Song and Liao armies fought each other's grass valleys, invaded each other's borders, ransacked villages, and plundered the people, bringing great disasters to the people on the border.

At this time, there were about 1,000 troops in Bazhou, led by a commander, who maintained the weakest defense of the Great Song Dynasty, but the Liao army on the other side was also in chaos due to the death of the new emperor, and was unable to invade the south at all, so that Bazhou actually gained unprecedented peace after the defeat of the Song army's first northern expedition.

On July 29, Li Yanqing led 10,000 right troops to arrive at Bazhou City, Bazhou City is close to the Juma River, but the Juma River is the name of the Liao State, the Song Dynasty called it Baigou, the army arrived under the city, the city of Zhizhou Zhao Lin and the commander of Zhang Mingcheng to welcome the arrival of the army.

"You two don't have to be polite, now I want to know the situation of grain and grass in Bazhou City, the report says that there are still a lot, there should be nothing wrong!"

Li Yanqing went north with light troops, and did not carry baggage, but all the way north, the military warehouses in various states were empty, although there was food in the official warehouse, but they could not use it at will, they did not get any supplies, which made Li Yanqing a little anxious, and the dry food they carried could only last for one day.

Bazhou is the first Northern Expedition, the East Route Army's supply and logistics of the important place, Xin Xingzong led the 50,000 troops in Zhuo County was defeated by Xiao Gan, the Liao army chased them all the way to Baigou, Xin Xingzong ordered to set fire to the pontoon bridge on the river, so that the Liao army stopped the pursuit, so the Liao army on the East Road did not cross Baigou, there should be a lot of grain and grass materials in the warehouse of Bazhou City.

"Qi Li Commandery, there is indeed some grain and grass and military materials in the Bazhou warehouse, but Li Commander should also know that Hebei's military grain and grass are mainly in Zhending Mansion."

At the end of last year, Li Yanqing led an envoy to Hebei to supervise the situation, and of course he was very aware of the situation of grain and grass materials in Hebei, but this time the Northern Expedition was still too urgent, and a large amount of grain and grass materials were only transported to the Daimyo's Mansion, and he could not reach the front line of the former enemy at all on the first day of the first day of August.

Li Yanqing immediately ordered the army to enter the city to rest, and he rushed to the warehouse with a dozen personal soldiers, and the warehouse in Bazhou consisted of more than 20 large warehouses, and Zhao Lin, the governor of Zhou, personally accompanied him to inspect.

They walked into a warehouse full of grain, and Zhao Lin said with a smile: "Fortunately, Xin Xingzong is a henchman of Taiwei Tong, so the grain and grass materials transported are very sufficient, and after the defeat of the army, Xin Xingzong only brought a small amount of grain and went south." ”

"How much grain is in this warehouse?" Li Yanqing asked as he looked at the mountains of grain.

"There are 8,500 sacks of grain here, about 9,000 stone of grain."

"How much food is there?"

"There are no specific and accurate figures, because the army is also consuming in the past two months, two months ago, the inventory was 90,000 stones, and now there should be about 80,000 stones, in addition to 150,000 loads of forage, 30,000 war knives, 54,000 spears, 8,000 pairs of armor, 2,000 tents, 3,000 crossbows, 300,000 crossbow arrows, probably so much grain and grass military resources."

Li Yanqing felt that the armor was a little less, it should be about 10,000 pairs, and it was estimated that the soldiers defending the city also took the opportunity to change their outfits.

"Take me to see the armor."

Li Yanqing came to the armor warehouse, all of them were packed in sacks, one bundle after another had not been opened, he took out a dagger and picked open a sack, which was full of hats and iron armor, which was standard forbidden army equipment, and he even picked up more than a dozen sacks, all of which were the same armor.

"Are all armor the same?" Li Yanqing asked, pointing to the hundreds of marijuana bags in the warehouse.

"There are a small number of mountain character armor, about a few hundred sets, and everything else is the same."

Li Yanqing immediately said to Yang Zaixing behind him: "Take 5,000 pairs of armor and change all the clothes for our van army, and leave the remaining 3,000 pairs of armor for the front army." ”

Although the former army led by Gao Shixuan set off at the same time as them, the march speed was not as fast as theirs, and it was at least a day later than them.

"The last general obeys!"

Yang Zaixing clasped his fists and saluted, and hurriedly went to gather the soldiers to carry the armor.

At this time, Li Yanqing left the warehouse, walked towards the city wall, and walked up to the north city, Li Yanqing looked at the surging white ditch water a mile away, and then in the distance was the undulating low hills, which was Zhuozhou of the Liao State.

Li Yanqing looked into the distance and asked, "Is it still Xiao Gan's army on the other side?" ”

The commander Zhang Jie hurriedly said: "Xiao Gan's army has withdrawn to Yanjing, and on the opposite side is Guo Yaoshi's Changsheng army, about 8,000 people, and I know that there were 6,000 here in Zhuozhou last month, and 2,000 in Yizhou, but I don't know about it recently." ”

"Pharmacist Guo?"

Li Yanqing gasped, he was not afraid of Guo Yaoshi, but vaguely remembered that Guo Yaoshi seemed to have surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty, Li Yanqing only remembered important events in this history, such as the defeat of the Song army, such as Tong Guan buying a Yanjing empty city with millions of dollars, but he didn't know the details, he knew that this kind of plausible memory would mislead him and make him make a fatal mistake.

For example, Guo Yaoshi's surrender to the Great Song Dynasty must have antecedents and consequences, something must have been triggered, and a certain condition was met before he decided to surrender to the Great Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Li Yanqing would rather put these memories aside, as if he didn't know that Guo Yaoshi would surrender to the Great Song Dynasty, so as not to make a big mistake.

Zhang Jie thought that Li Yanqing was afraid of Guo Yaoshi, he sighed and continued: "Guo Yaoshi's victorious army is the former resentful army of the Liao State, and it is the only Han'er army in the Liao army, and its combat effectiveness is quite strong, but fortunately, their new emperor died, which made their army unstable, otherwise Guo Yaoshi led the army south, and he could easily seize Bazhou, and these grains, grasses and military resources were gone." ”

"How do you know they're unstable? How do you know that there are 8,000 armies, and how they are distributed? Li Yanqing looked at him strangely and asked.

Zhang Jie's face flushed, "In the past two months, there have been Han'er soldiers of the Liao Army who swam over to surrender, so I know a little bit about my humble position." ”

"Are these surrendered Liao soldiers still there?"

Zhang Jie shook his head, "I was afraid that they would be cheating, so I didn't dare to keep them in the army, so I sent them away." ”

Seeing that Li Yanqing's face was not good, he hurriedly said: "If the control needs, the lowly position can send someone to the other side to inquire about the news." ”

Li Yanqing thought that today was July 29, and the day after tomorrow was the time for the imperial court to march, if they didn't take action, the Seed Master Dao would inevitably be impeached by Tong Guan, otherwise the Seed Master Dao would not send himself first.

Thinking of this, Li Yanqing immediately said: "I will send a few scouts to go with your people, you don't need to go too deep, just probe the situation within thirty miles of the north bank, you must give me information before tomorrow night." ”

"Obey the order!"

Zhang Jie hurriedly went to arrange people, Li Yanqing ordered someone to find Yan Qing, and after a while, Yan Qing, who was wearing a trumpet armor, ran over and knelt down on one knee to salute, "Humble position see the system!" ”

Li Yanqing asked him to get up, pointed to the other side and said: "On the first day of the first month of August, I am going to send troops to cross Baigou, you take a few brothers and the guide of the Xiang army to the other side to investigate the enemy's intelligence, as long as the situation within a radius of thirty miles, you must give me news tomorrow night, you go and prepare now!" ”

"Obey!"

Yan Qing hurriedly went, and Li Yanqing ordered Liu Jian again: "Start building pontoon bridges now, and build two pontoon bridges for me before tomorrow night!" ”