Li Yanqing mainly took a fancy to Yan Qing's scout talent, Yan Qing was also the commander of the scout army in Liangshan, following Ruan Xiaowu, in addition to Yan Qing, Li Yanqing also got two of the Cao family's most outstanding third-generation children, Cao He and Cao Meng.

Cao Meng is only seventeen years old this year, burly, infinitely powerful, making a pair of eighty pounds of mixed yuan copper hammer, is the first fierce general of the Cao family, but not rude, and has studied in the Cao family for several years, is a plastic talent.

In addition, Li Yanqing also wants to recruit Gao Pet to his command, Gao Pet has already joined the army the year before last, he has the background of the Gao family, and is currently serving as Yu Hou in the Golden Gun Class of the Forbidden Army, with excellent marksmanship, even the Golden Gun General Xu Ning is not his opponent, and he is deeply valued by the Tai Lieutenant Gao Yu.

Of course, Li Yanqing alone will not come, but Cao Ping promised to help him bring Gao Chong over, with the friendship between Cao and Gao's two families, Gao Shen will definitely agree, and Cao Ping has a very high prestige in the military, even Gao Yu has to give this face.

The next morning, as Gao Zhong came to the barracks to report, the people Li Yanqing was looking for were basically in place, and in terms of civil officials, Mo Jun served as the secretary to join the army and was in charge of Liucao, and Liu Fang was appointed to join the army as the secretary and was in charge of clerical military orders.

At noon, Li Yanqing and Liu Jian led back the 5,000 Hedong Army, this army has followed the seed master for many years, and is the famous seed army in the Western Army, they also participated in the Western Xia Campaign a few years ago, and Li Yanqing is quite familiar with it, and three of the five partial generals Li Yanqing know.

Li Yanqing let the five continue to serve as partial generals, but he reorganized the army, he divided the 5,000 people into ten battalions, each battalion is composed of 500 forbidden troops and 500 Xiang troops, the Xiang army is not yet in place, each partial general temporarily commands 500 people, and the two commanders Liu Jian and Yang Zaixing each govern five battalions.

In addition, the Intelligence Department was formed, and Li Yanqing made Yan Qing and Yang Guang the chief and deputy Yu Marquis, commanding the scout battalion under the Intelligence Department, but now the intelligence department's military and civil servants are not yet in place, which is also a headache for Li Yanqing.

As 5,000 troops moved in, the barracks immediately became lively. Boom! The war drums sounded, and the 5,000 troops, who were resting on the grass, began to line up rapidly, and in a few moments, the 5,000 soldiers formed a large phalanx.

Li Yanqing stood on a big rock, looking at this majestic army, he raised his voice and said slowly: "Brothers, we have met again after three years, from today onwards, I Li Yanqing will lead you brothers, military law is ruthless, military orders are supreme, military orders are everywhere, even if there is a cliff ahead, I must jump off, but I will be fair to everyone, I will treat everyone equally, rewards and punishments are clear, and only military merit will be rewarded!" ”

Li Yanqing looked at the young and enthusiastic faces, and continued in a loud voice: "Last time we fought together with the Western Xia army, and this time, we will go on a northern expedition against the Khitans, we not only want to recapture Youzhou, which has been lost for a hundred years, but also defeat the enemy army and defend the dignity of the Great Song army. ”

Li Yanqing raised his arms and shouted: "Expelle the Tartars and restore the Han family!" ”

Under the leadership of Li Yanqing, 5,000 soldiers raised their arms together and shouted: "Expelle the Tartars and restore the Han family!" ”

The blood in the hearts of each soldier began to boil, and they were eager to immediately go north to fight the Liao army, they clenched their spears, and raised their arms impassionedly and shouted again: "Expelle the Tartars and restore the Han family!" ”

Li Yanqing waved his hand to calm everyone down, and at this time, he saw Master Dao and Zhang Shuye standing aside, so he said loudly: "No rules, no square circle, no camp, no army formation, now I will let Commander Liu divide the camp for everyone, please Commander Liu!" ”

Liu Jian stepped forward and shouted: "Now start to divide the battalion, 5,000 people will be divided into ten battalions, each battalion flag bearer will hold the flag, and the soldiers will stand according to the battalion flag." ”

Ten military flags were raised, and the soldiers began to quickly return to their positions.

Li Yanqing hurriedly came to the front of Seed Master Dao and Zhang Shuye, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "See the big handsome, see Zhang Dutong!" ”

"Commander Li, please get up!"

Uncle Zhang said with a smile: "I just told the commander that your army is good, there are several fierce generals in it, and the first cavalry and archery alone is the first in the Fifth Army, as well as Yang Zaixing, the first fierce general of the Hedong Army, and the first gun of the forbidden army." ”

The seed master said with a smile: "There is also a little overlord Cao Qilang, Cao Ping's most proud grandson, I have seen it with my own eyes, a pair of sledgehammers is invincible." ”

Li Yanqing said: "It's not enough to have a neat lineup, you have to win the battle, otherwise it's just a show!" ”

"That's right, how mighty the army of 250,000 looks like, but it was defeated by the 40,000 newly recruited army in a battle, it is a typical tiger made of paper, and it is the real elite division to be good at fighting and winning battles."

Speaking of this, the seed master said to Li Yanqing again: "This morning I went to face the saint, and the saint agreed to give me Liu Tao and the new Hebei army he recruited, but Tong Guan was only willing to give Liu Tao and refused to give the army, he said that he was also short of the army, and as a result, he angered the Son of Heaven and reprimanded him fiercely, saying that he did not learn the lessons of failure, and was arrogant, and if he dared to disobey the order, he would let Tan Zhi be the Xuanfu envoy, Tong Guan had to obediently agree, this kind of person can only be cured by the Son of Heaven. ”

"How many people are there?"

"There are about 18,000 people, Liu Tao is training them in Zhending Mansion, the Holy Decree has rushed to Hebei, he will lead the army south to meet us at the Daimyo's Mansion, and the Xiang army on Jingdong Road will go to the Daimyo's Mansion to meet together."

"Are we going north?" Li Yanqing heard the meaning of the planter's words.

Seed Master Dao nodded, "The envoy of the Jin Kingdom came yesterday, and they proposed to jointly attack Yanjing with us, the Son of Heaven was a little anxious, afraid that they would capture Yanjing first, so he asked us to go north in three days, and Tong Guan also rushed to Xiangzhou today." ”

Li Yanqing hurriedly said: "But our civil officials are not complete. ”

"I know that everyone is short of civil officials, I have told the Son of Heaven about this, Cai Xiangguo suggested that a group of students from Taixue be selected to supplement the army, and the Son of Heaven also agreed."

At this time, Liu Jian ran over and reported: "Qi Qi commanded, and the distribution of all armies has been completed. ”

"I know, I'll be right over."

Seed Master Dao glanced at the army that was already lined up neatly, and said to Li Yanqing: "You give me the list of appointed partial generals and the list of joining the army, I will report to the military department today, the time is very tight, you must let the army take shape within three days!" ”

"Obey the order!"

Seed Master Dao and Zhang Shuye left, Li Yanqing returned to the team, Liu Jian had already assigned ten partial generals into each battalion according to Li Yanqing's formation map, each partial general stood in the first of the team, Wang Gui was the first battalion general, Niu Gao was the second battalion, Cao Xing was the third battalion, Zhang Wenxiao was the fourth battalion, Quartz was the fifth battalion, Gao Zhong was the sixth battalion, Cao Meng was the seventh battalion, Zhang Wensheng was the eighth battalion, Yang Tao was the ninth battalion, and finally the tenth battalion was also the original Hedong Army partial general Wang Fan.

In addition, the intelligence department, the scout battalion, the pro-soldier battalion, the firearms battalion, and the logistics battalion have not yet been formed, and Li Yanqing is ready to select 50 elites from each battalion to form a scout battalion and a pro-soldier battalion, and the firearms battalion and logistics battalion can only be selected from the van army after arriving at the daimyo's mansion.

"Everyone can go to training separately, disband!"

The ten battalions of troops were taken away by their respective generals, and the main thing below was that the generals had to get acquainted with their respective subordinates, and it would take at least half a day, and Li Yanqing would not interfere, so that they could show their magic and submit their subordinates.

At this time, Yang Zaixing came up and said to Li Yanqing: "How does the commander plan to distribute the war horses?" ”

Li Yanqing groaned and said: "One thousand war horses is too little, I plan to hand over five hundred war horses to the first battalion to form a cavalry battalion, and the other five hundred war horses to the scout battalion and my personal battalion, and then continue to replenish after we capture the enemy's war horses." ”

Li Yanqing called Liu Jian again and said to the two of them: "Just now the marshal told me that the Son of Heaven has decided to go north in advance, and we will set off for the north in three days. ”

Liu Jian and Yang Zaixing glanced at each other, and Liu Jian was surprised: "It's only been three days, it's too hasty, and there are still a lot of things to do!" ”

"Set off to the Daimyo Mansion first, and then rectify it there for a while, and the tacit understanding between the soldiers and soldiers, I can only use the march to carry it out."

Liu Jian thought that he was only going to set off in three days, and the pressure on his shoulders suddenly became heavy.

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"Bang!" In the big tent, a teacup was smashed to pieces, Tong Guan scolded angrily, "What is his cultivation of the Tao, he wants the wind to get the wind, he wants the rain to get the rain, let me Tong Guan come to hold his stinky feet, the old man has worked hard for ten years, and now that it is going to be completed, he actually wants to take it away for nothing!" When I was a child, was it a puppet clay sculpture? ”

Today in the imperial study, Tong Guan was scolded by Zhao Ji, the Son of Heaven, because of Liu Tao's matter, which made him very angry, but if it was just 20,000 Hebei recruits, Cai Jing instigated behind his back, so that the Son of Heaven reinterpreted the edict of Shenzong, and changed the most critical conditions, so that the Seed Master Dao also had the opportunity to be crowned king, so that Tong Guan was going crazy, he had been planning for ten years, and made a wedding dress for the Seed Master Dao at the last moment, how could he accept it?

The anger in his heart, which had been depressed for many days, finally detonated because of Liu Tao's incident.

Tong Guantie paced back and forth in the big tent with a blushing face, he would never tolerate this matter, he would rather let the Seed Master Dao fail miserably again, and never let the Seed Master Dao take away the prince he had been planning for ten years.

At this time, Tong Guan's staff Yang Lin whispered on the side: "There is a plan for the humble position, so that the seed master Dao is tied. ”

Tong Guan stopped all of a sudden, turned around and said, "What kind of strategy, you say it quickly?" ”

"I heard that the troops of the Seed Master Dao are insufficient, and the official family transferred the Xiang army of Jingdong and Jingdong to supplement him, but is there such a thing?"

Tong Guan nodded, "There is indeed such a thing!" ”

"Then the matter is simple, the Xiang Army of the Jingdong Two Roads was formed after the Taiwei destroyed the Liangshan Army, as long as the Taiwei orders to go down, it will be difficult for the Seed Master Dao to integrate the Xiang Army of the Jingdong and Jingdong Roads, won't his Northern Expedition be stumped?"

Tong Guan pondered for a moment and said: "I'm just afraid that this Xiang army is from the states of Jingdong Road, and the people's hearts are uneven, and it is easy to be broken by the various masters of the Dao." ”

"Has the captain forgotten Qiu Zhaohe?"

Tong Guan suddenly woke up to the fact that Qiu Zhaohe was his old subordinate, the current military envoy of Yunzhou, in charge of the 10,000 Xiang Army in Yunzhou, and Qiu Zhaohe was threading the needle in the various Xiang armies in Jingdong, and the Seed Master Dao did not want to successfully collect the 30,000 Xiang Army on Jingdong Road under his command.

"Your plan is good and can be implemented, but that's not enough."

"It turns out that the captain has already made arrangements?"

Tong Guan smiled yinyin, "Seed Master Dao thinks that the Hedong Army is his Seed Army, but he is wrong, at least half of the generals in the Hedong Army have changed their surnames to Tong." ”

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In the afternoon, the Beida camp became lively again, and more than 100 young Tai scholars entered the barracks, and they all took the initiative to participate in the Northern Expedition with enthusiasm for serving the country, and they will temporarily serve as various civilian officials to make up for the lack of civilian officials in the Eastern Route Army.

As an independent army, civilian officials also play an important role, such as material storage management and allocation, soldier military registration management and reward records, operational mapping, collation of various documents and war reports, collation of various intelligence, and even small letters to soldiers' homes, all of which need to be completed by civilian officials.

Li Yanqing brought back ten young scholars, these ten scholars are all in their twenties, from Hedong, Hebei and Kaifeng Mansion, in the big tent, Li Yanqing is giving a speech to welcome the ten scholars, "First of all, I want to welcome you to serve in the right army, as a senior of Taixue, I want to give you three pieces of advice, first, don't see yourself as superior, or different, civilian is also a kind of soldier, but the division of labor is different; Second, properly practice a little martial arts, once surrounded by enemy troops, a little martial arts may be able to have a chance to live; Third, strictly abide by military discipline and military law, military law is not only for soldiers, but also for everyone in the barracks, don't think that you are a civilian official, you can sneak out for a glass of wine or visit a brothel and the like, once discovered, it will be beheaded for public display, I am by no means alarmist, please keep in mind the above advice! ”

Ten gentlemen bowed together, "We remember!" ”

Li Yanqing smiled: "Then go and change into a military uniform!" Later, your boss will come looking for you. ”

Among the ten people, Mo Jun has the most people to take away, he has six Cao, each Cao needs a director, followed by the Intelligence Department, which needs three staff officers, at least the secretary to join the army, and only one person is enough to be Liu Fang's assistant.

At this time, Zhang Hu walked in, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "Humble position is under control!" ”

Zhang Hu has been following Li Yanqing for a long time, very shrewd and capable, Li Yanqing originally planned to promote him to a partial general, but because of the lack of places, he could only give up this idea for the time being.

"Get up!"

Li Yanqing asked him to get up and said to him slowly: "I have thought about it for a long time and decided to appoint you to join the army as the intelligence department!" ”

Zhang Hu's face did not change, and he bowed down and said: "There are orders for the command, and the lowly duty should be obeyed, but I am afraid that the lowly position is shallow and the military situation will be delayed." ”

Li Yanqing smiled slightly: "You have read for a few years, and there is no problem in understanding intelligence, but the more important thing about intelligence joining the army is not knowledge, but the need to be cautious, shrewd, and meticulous, which is precisely your advantage, and I believe that you are fully competent." ”

"Obey the order!"

Li Yanqing nodded and asked, "Joining the army as an intelligence department, what do you think is the first thing you should do once the intelligence department is operational?" ”

Zhang Hu pondered for a moment and said, "I think that the first thing is to find a very detailed map of Hebei and Youzhou!" ”

Li Yanqing laughed, took out a large roll of maps from behind him, handed it to him, and said, "Take it!" Do your research, there are three young scholars outside, they will be your men, take them away! In addition, the chief and deputy Yu Hou of the scout camp are Yan Qing and Yang Guang, you also have to communicate with them well, think about how to run the intelligence department, if you have any questions, you can always come and ask me. ”

"Obey the order!"

Zhang Hu hugged his fists and saluted, turned around and walked away quickly.