Hearing this, Wang Shen was puzzled and a little angry. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info these war horses are his baby bumps, and stepping on the white army plays a pivotal role in his future strategy. With the cavalry here, the shortcomings of the troops have finally been filled.

Seeing the pain of these war horses in front of him like this, his heart ached.

Lao Guo: "Don't worry, master, I know it." Didn't Fang just say that these horses have been raised by the people left behind in the division, and they walk on the road on weekdays with a low-level waist, unlike qualified war horses, and they run with their heads held high. War horses are meant to be used to charge, and if you don't look straight ahead, don't you collide with other war horses? The reason why it took a long time ago to list the formation was also related to these horses. Therefore, the little ones hung the heads of these horses and made them accustomed to holding their heads up. Rest assured, nothing will happen. In two more days, the horse's head will be raised, and the wild character will be gone, even if it is boiled. ”

He continued: "Isn't the master worried that there are not enough war horses? Yes, it is difficult to find qualified war horses, and the south is not a horse-producing area. This is not true or not, in fact, the people are not without horses. It's just that those war horses have not been trained, and they are also used by the people as big animals to transport goods on weekdays, but they can all be levied and enriched into the army. In this way, don't you have the war horses of the cavalry? ”

Wang Shen: "Lao Guo, you are talking about pack horses and pull horses, is it okay to use them for war?" ”

"Yes, the key is to see how you train. Although it cannot be compared with the healthy horses ridden by the Liao and Jurchen cavalry in the past, it can still be used to encircle and suppress the thieves and rogues. ”

Wang Shen was in high spirits: "Yes, anyway, as long as you run faster than the infantry, you can do it, and if you can't do it, you can use it as an infantry on a horse." "If you don't have a qualified war horse, you can't form an armored army, so I can always get a fast motorized unit, right?

Guo Ya: "The master is right, one step at a time on the battlefield, one step at a time, the key is to grasp the opportunity." ”

Wang Shen asked again, "What is the situation of the soldiers?" ”

When Lao Guo heard the master ask, he was also helpless. Since stepping into the Bai Chengjun, all the training has been implemented on his head. The cavalry commander in the name of Dao Sigong has never come once, and he is really helpless: "It's okay, more than thirty percent of the troops are cavalry veterans, and the other recruits are all clever people, and there will be no mistakes with veterans, and now they just have to be pulled out to fight." If you don't fight, you can't see what is wrong with the troops. ”

"I will stay in the White Army and train with the soldiers for the next few days, as for the battle with Kong Yanzhou, I am not in a hurry for the time being, and I will talk about it for a while. If you play one day late, you will have more certainty. ”

"As far as the old man knows, Kong Yanzhou's army has lacked food in recent days, and as soon as he entered Qi and Huang Prefectures, he couldn't wait to attack the city and plunder the land. The general wants to delay, but I am afraid that Kong Juji may not be willing. Marching and fighting is not a hand-to-hand talk, and the enemy must wait for you to have no regrets before you should make a move. Wang Shen, don't think things too simply. Sun Ziyun: The husband is the victor without a fight, and he has to count a lot; The temple is not victorious without a fight, and it is considered to be less. More wins, less wins, and nothing counts? The meaning of this sentence is that the victory is expected before the start of the war because of careful planning and sufficient conditions for victory; The reason why we did not expect victory before the start of the war was because of poor planning and insufficient conditions for victory. Well-planned, conditions are sufficient to win; If the planning is not enough, the conditions will fail, let alone not planning. You don't count Kong Yanzhou, people are calculating you. It is not possible to fight you in the place you predetermined on the day you predetermined. ”

A voice came, hoarse and desolate.

Just now, Fang Irong, who was standing next to him, listened to Lao Guo talk about raising horses, and he was listening to it with relish, but he didn't want to have another person in this dark stable.

Moreover, this man was also very unkind to General Wang when he spoke, not only calling him by name, but also reproaching and sarcastic.

In the minds of the Sizhou soldiers and the subordinates of Qi and Huangzhou, Wang Daosi is simply an invincible god of war and a highly respected hero. Although he has a good temper, he always smiles when he talks to people. But I don't know why, when I saw him, everyone had a feeling of trembling and sweating.

Following the sound, he turned his head to look over, and saw a thin old man standing in the corner of the stable, who was grabbing a handful of horse material and studying it carefully.

He was wearing a cyan robe, with an indescribable elegance and ease.

Wang Shen laughed: "Mr. Donglai, you are here, why are you also interested in my cavalry?" Then he glanced at Fang Irong again: "Fang Irong, don't come and see Mr. soon." ”

"Ah, Donglai...... Donglai Xian...... Mr. ......" Fang Irong had goosebumps all over his body, and he hurriedly stepped forward and shook the ground, trembling slightly with excitement: "But 'hating the king is not like Jiang Louyue, north and south, east and west, north and south, east and west, only Mr. Donglai, who is inseparable from each other'?" It's time for the students! ”

"Who else can it be, naturally he hates the king but is like Jiang Louyue, he is full and loses, he is full of losses, and when will he be reunited." Wang Shen laughed.

That's right, this person named Mr. Donglai is the famous lyricist and Taoist Lu Benzhong in the late Northern Song Dynasty. His ancestral home is Laizhou, a native of Shouzhou. The great-great-grandson of Lu Yijian, the prime minister of the Renzong Dynasty, the great-grandson of Lu Gongzhu, the prime minister of Zhezong Yuanyou, and the grandson of Mr. Xingyang Lu Xi, are really from a famous family, and his protégés are all over the world.

During the Yuanfu period, he served as the chief bookkeeper of Jiyin and Cao Peng of Qinzhou, and was later recruited by the imperial court as a cadre of the marshal of the Daimyo Mansion. In the sixth year of Xuanhe, he was promoted to the Privy Council as an editor.

Jingkang changed the yuan and moved to the outside office.

Although his official is not big, he is very famous in the Shilin and literary circles, and the grandmaster of the Jiangxi poetry school occupies a place in the literary history of the Southern Song Dynasty.

After Zhao Gou retreated south, because his family was in Huaixi, he was in a hurry, and he was separated from the imperial court.

Just a while ago, Kong Yanzhou's army flowed through Huaixi, and Lu Benzhong fled to Huangzhou with his family, preparing to wait for the war in Jiangnan to subside and the Jin army retreated north before going to Lin'an to return to the court.

Lu Benzhong was a very serious person, and he only stretched out his hand to help Fang Wurong and let him get up. Then he said lightly to Wang Shen: "Wang Shen, I am from Shouchun, and Kong Yanzhou also knows a little about the situation in the army." He came to attack this time, and his ambition was not small, not necessarily because he wanted to annex your Sizhou army and Qi and Huang prefectures. ”

Wang Shen: "Please also ask Mr. Donglai." ”

Lu Benzhong: "Kong Yanzhou has a department of 30,000, which came from Huaixi and coerced a large number of people. Qi and Huang are barren, and these two states alone can't feed so many people? According to the old man, his ambition is in Ezhou, and his advantage is to attack quickly. You can't afford others to sleep soundly on the side of the couch, and you can't avoid this battle. ”

Ezhou is the capital of Hubei Province in the future, Wuhan, which is located on the Jianghan Plain and has the benefit of water transportation on the Yangtze River. The land is fertile and the population is large, making it a good place to raise soldiers.

The Sizhou army happened to be stuck on Kong Yanzhou's westward passage to Ezhou, and they were nominal officers and soldiers, so they naturally became a thorn in Kong Juji's side, eager to pull it out quickly.

Hearing what Lu Benzhong said, Wang Shen suddenly realized: "I see, these are troublesome." ”

It's just that the troops have not been trained, especially the cavalry, and now I am afraid that it is not a good time to fight him. The most terrible thing is that the troops are also short of food, and the grain in the army is only enough to support a ten-day battle.

Fighting a war is not a joke, you have to plan and then act, and don't act rashly until the material conditions are not fully prepared.

However, will Kong Yanzhou give me the opportunity to prepare calmly?

Seeing that Wang Shen's eyebrows were worried, Lu Benzhong asked lightly: "How many days do you need to prepare?" ”

Wang Shen thought for a while: "At least ten days." ”

"Ten days, I'll give you ten days." Lu Benzhong said: "When I was in the left-behind division in Tokyo, I met Kong Yanzhou a few times and could still talk. General, you might as well prepare some gifts, and the old man will go to Kong Juji for a trip. ”

Wang Shen: "Mr. Donglai, is this going to talk about two families?" ”

"Do you think it's possible? You are an official, Kong Yanzhou is a thief. The man and the thief do not stand apart. Lu Benzhong snorted coldly: "The old man has made it clear just now that things in this world can't get rid of a sharp word." He wants to plunder Ezhou to raise troops, and you, Wang Shen, are in his way, how can he make peace with you? I went to see him this time, but it was only a delay of ten days. ”

Wang Shen understood, and then rejoiced: "Ten days is enough, so please sir." ”

He was also strange in his heart, and he didn't know what method Lu Benzhong wanted to use to delay Kong Yanzhou's attack, and he didn't want to ask.

Anyway, the situation is already very bad, even if Lu Benzhong runs this trip is useless, it can't hurt anywhere, and it doesn't hurt to try.

Wang Shen was just a little worried about his safety, in real history, this Kong Yanzhou was a well-known killer. When Zhong Xiang was in turmoil in Dongting Lake, Kong Yanzhou couldn't get along in northern Hubei and wanted to go to Dongting Lake to eat with the army, so he reluctantly accepted the imperial court's recruitment and led the army to fight against the civil unrest.

After arriving at Dongting Lake, Kong Yanzhou's army attacked Zhou Tu County, killing people and occupying every place. In order to prevent the local people from being coerced by the peasant army and becoming a source of soldiers for the enemy, they directly killed all the people. Similarly, Zhong Xiang was also afraid that the officers and soldiers would recruit soldiers and food on the spot, and he would also wield a butcher's knife in his hand to kill people, and come to a strong wall to clear the wilderness.

Just like this, you kill me, and kill the land of fish and rice around Dongting Lake into hell on earth. After this catastrophe, the prefectures and counties around Dongting Lake have not been able to recover for decades.

Lu Benzhong went to see Kong Yanzhou this time, if it was bad in his hands, Wang Shen would feel guilty for the rest of his life.

Seeing the worry on Wang Shen's face, Lu Benzhong said proudly: "It's okay, the Confucian thief doesn't dare to kill the old man." By the way, Wang Daosi, you might as well write a letter with humble wording for me to bring over, so as to slow down his heart, but I don't know if you are willing or not. ”

What a mystery of confidence!

"It's just writing a letter, it's not a big deal, the big husband can bend and stretch."

When the old man left Huangzhou with letters and gifts, Wang Shen pondered. Indeed, although Kong Yanzhou is murderous, the political impact of killing Lu Benzhong is too bad, and the surname Kong can't bear this consequence, at least for now.

Old man Lu is a member of the Huaixi Wang clan, and his classmates, classmates, and protégés of the Lu family are all in the Dabie Mountains, Qi and Huang Prefectures, as well as Jianghan and the former protégés of the Lu family. Even if Kong Yanzhou wins the land of the two states and even Ezhou, if he wants to manage the place, he has to rely on these scholars. killed Lu Benzhong, who is willing to work for him?

Just with the group of fake Tartars under his command, is it coarse?

……

It's useless to think too much, what Wang Shen needs to do now is to hurry up and train the cavalry, and let the various branches of the Sizhou Army, which have swelled to a huge 5,000 level, run in as soon as possible.

After two days, Yan Yuemeng came up with a charter, which was clearly organized, detailed in data, and extremely feasible, and also allowed Wang Shen to see the capable side hidden under his cowardly character.

So, Wang Shen asked him to be Du Shu's deputy and implement it as soon as possible. At the same time, he also set up a market department, and got a navy army of more than 100 people to let Yan Yuemeng patrol the water to collect the Shangye tax for the ships coming and going.

Little by little, the grain needed in the army was requisitioned, and the entire civilian system of the Sizhou army was also mobilized to make material preparations for the coming big war.