Since an organization is formed, it should be put into work immediately, and if it has no practice, it will be nothing more than a reality, and it will inevitably be useless in the long run. After Li Congjing set up the General Staff Office, the first time he convened a military meeting of the General Staff Office, he summoned them to the Yanwu Academy. And the first task given to them by Li Congjing was what Li Congjing told Du Qianshu, to study the enemy situation.

To study the enemy army and improve the army, it is necessary to have a knowledgeable army general, and the General Staff Office just meets this requirement. The establishment of the Martial Arts Academy and the General Staff Office is a continuous relationship, without the former, the latter is like water without a source, no matter how much it is tossed, it cannot become the institution in Li Congjing's plan, only the integration of the academy and the army can meet the standards set for them in Li Congjing's mind.

It can even be said that Li Congjing's establishment of the Military Intelligence Department was also preparing for the establishment of the Military Intelligence Institute and the Staff Office, and the establishment of the Military Exercise Academy and the Staff Office was the development of the Military Intelligence Department. Without the Military Intelligence Office collecting all kinds of intelligence information from both the enemy and us, it would be impossible for the Exercise Academy and the General Staff Office to study the enemy's troops, and the Exercise and Military Exercises and the General Staff Office would also make the greatest use of the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Office to the greatest extent possible.

This line is a military "industrial chain" planned by Li Congjing, which is a virtuous circle that will eventually continue to develop and bring about metamorphosis to his army.

As a result, coupled with the improvement of armaments, the evolution of tactics, and the integration of civil and military forces, Li Congjing's military thinking has roughly become a system.

Of course, in Li Congjing's head, his thinking is not only limited to military affairs, but the practice of some other ideological systems has to wait until Li Congjing's position is raised again and he has more power.

Needless to say, let's just say that if Li Congjing's military thinking can smoothly become a reality, what kind of role it will play in promoting the development of this era, even history, and the development of military history in the world is immeasurable.

Li Congjing didn't think so much for the time being, if he said that he was ambitious now, it was to "protect the border and fight the thieves", breaking the national power that the Khitan had accumulated for a long time, and further afield, it was just a struggle for hegemony in the world, conquering the princes, and unifying Shenzhou.

Du Qianshu knew about the establishment of the General Staff Office, and the ten students that Li Congjing transferred from the Yanwu Academy were the absolute elites that he had painstakingly selected from hundreds of students. But when he saw that the staff office had just been formed, he was taken to the Yanwu Academy by Li Congjing and thrown here, he was still taken aback. Although Du Qianshu now has the title of "Acting Martial Arts", he doesn't think that his status is very high, and so many big names have come to the Acting Martial Arts Academy at once, which makes Du Qianshu feel a little nervous, restrained, and apprehensive while being "flattered".

Li Congjing comforted him and said: "The staff office is now lost to you in the Martial Arts Academy, that is, you, the soldier under the command of the dean of the Martial Arts Academy, you have to lead them to complete the duties of the Martial Arts Academy." If someone is not convinced, or if it is a big thing that ruins this handsome, don't say that I won't spare them, and I won't spare you. ”

Du Qianshu smiled bitterly: "Qianshu is the one who receives the order." ”

"You can make room for two courtyards for the staff office to eat, and you can respond to other things when you want, and you don't have to do anything more." Li Congjing continued, "This task of studying the enemy army and improving our army is supplemented by the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Department, and with the staff office, it can almost be completed halfway, and it depends on the results." However, there will be no war in Youzhou this year, but there will be time for them to toss. In addition, Ben Shuai will tell you about the craftsmen again, how have you collected the craftsmen? ”

Du Qianshu said truthfully: "The order of the commander of the army, some experienced craftsmen have been summoned in the academy, and they do have some real skills, and since the military marshal has made a list and sought craftsmen with a lot of money, there are countless craftsmen who come to the martial arts academy every day, but there are a lot of them, and it is painstaking to identify them." Fortunately, now that the craftsmen of the Yanwu Academy have begun to take shape, the things arranged by the military commander can be implemented. ”

Li Congjing nodded, affirmed Du Qianshu's work, and then said: "The craftsmen are divided into two parts, one is for them to improve the existing battle armor, blades, and equipment, and the other is to give them only one task, that is, to improve gunpowder. Li Congjing still has a lot of feelings about burying explosives to blow up the city gate, so he arranged to use half of the craftsmen to do this.

"A thousand books can be saved." Du Qianshu arched his hand, and then the corners of his mouth moved, as if he was a little embarrassed and shy, and finally said: "Military marshal, this martial arts academy has increased so many mouths at once, and the funds are ......."

"Give!" Li Congjing waved his hand, "How much you want, how much you give!" That's not a lot of money! ”

Du Qianshu raised his eyebrows and shook his head to the end, "Xie Junshuai!" ”

Li Congjing waved his hand, signaling that Du Qianshu didn't have to take it to heart, and said: "The two hundred students sent to Liaodong have already been selected?" ”

"It's been selected, just wait for the commander to give an order, and you can set off at any time!" Du Qianshu said.

Li Congjing nodded, "Give them a day to prepare, and the day after tomorrow, they will set off with the Military Intelligence Department and drive to Liaodong!" ”

Du Qianshu promised, and then asked curiously: "This time the students of the Martial Arts Academy go to Liaodong, who will be the general?" ”

"Meng Ping." Li Congjing said.

A thousand years later, there is a revolutionary army, with military academy students as the backbone, all the way to the Northern Expedition, invincible, invincible, invincible, Li Congjing does not expect that today's students of the Academy of Martial Arts have so much energy, after all, the two are not comparable, but for the students of the Academy of Martial Arts, under the leadership of Meng Ping, they went to Liaodong, and after meeting Mo Li and Tao Xiao, he was looking forward to how much the situation on the battlefield in Liaodong could be changed.

In fact, Li Congjing didn't ask much, as long as he could stop the decline of the Bohai State army and keep them from being driven out of Liaodong.

Leaving the Yanwu Academy, Li Congjing returned to the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion. At present, after the improvement of political affairs in Youzhou has been put on the right track, and its work has gradually become a routine military, agricultural, industrial, and commercial affairs, Li Congjing has not much to deal with. What he has to do now is to sit firmly in the rear, and while turning his thoughts into reality step by step, he will be able to break the Khitan momentum when he launches a war of annihilation against the Bohai State.

Accumulating strength, the most conventional and the most important two points, still lies in the army and money and food.

In the army, when the government treasury is full, the expansion and training of the army are the first priority.

Money and grain, in the final analysis, is still the hoarding of military materials such as grain, ordnance, and medicine.

Summer is over, autumn is coming.

This year, the weather is not bad, and the water conservancy facilities are in place, and most of the crops in the four major tuntian places in Lulong have obtained a bumper harvest. A steady stream of grain gathered in Youzhou from all directions and filled into the granary. The original granary could no longer hold so much grain, and in order to store these lifeblood things, Li Congjing had to dig two new granaries in Youzhou before the autumn harvest.

This autumn, the grain produced by the four major tuntian alone exceeded the grain output of the entire Lulong in previous years, and because these grains were produced in the tuntian, except for the rations of the people, the rest went to Li Congjing, and they were not exploited by the landlords and bureaucrats at all levels, and I don't know how much money was saved. In addition to the four major tuntians, in Lulong Kyushu, there are countless other scattered small tuntians, and before, Li Congjing repaired a large area of farmland in Lulong, replanted the abandoned farmland, and reclaimed wasteland, so the grain output is really a pity.

In the end, after the total amount of grain was counted, Rao was also smiling with Li Congjing's calm mind.

This year's new granary grain is more than four times that of last year. This also means that Li Congjing can not only support the new hundred battle troops stationed in Youzhou without the support of the imperial court, but also expand the army by 20,000.

After the food was in place, Li Congjing did begin to expand the army, so a new round of recruitment boom in Youzhou was once again set off. This time, Li Congjing recruited 10,000 soldiers. The reason why 20,000 troops were not directly recruited was to leave room for them. In addition, the reason why Li Congjing couldn't recruit too many troops was because of the restrictions of the imperial court. Now under his command, Lu Long's Hundred Battles Army is combined, and the mobile force is more than 30,000, plus the Kyushu border guards, holding the power of 50,000 or 60,000 troops, which is enough to make people fearful.

Of the 10,000 newly recruited sergeants, Li Congjing did not let them join the Hundred Battles Army or the Lu Long Army, after all, the Hundred Battles and the Lu Long Army still had to be run in after a round of layoffs and replenishment of the old and weak. Moreover, the reason why Li Congjing implemented the matter of reducing the weak and elite soldiers was to improve the combat strength of the army, and in this case, he naturally would not dilute the combat power of Baizhan and Lu Longjun. On the contrary, it will only improve their combat power.

Because of this, after he completed the training of new soldiers, Li Congjing only transferred generals at all levels from the Hundred Battles Army and Lu Long Army to command them. And the general who leads this 10,000 new pawns is Peng Zushan. Peng Zushan has the ability to train soldiers, so it is very suitable for him to lead the commander. In addition, nominally, Li Congjing added a deputy general to Peng Zushan, and asked Wu Gou to assist him in leading these 10,000 new soldiers.

After the completion of a round of tuntian and recruitment, it is natural that they will enter the next reincarnation. Taking advantage of the gap after the autumn harvest, Li Congjing built three new tuntian sites in Lulong, bringing Lulong's military tuntian to seven, and at the same time, continued to deepen the improvement and reclamation of general cultivated land.

And this time, the one who led the matter of adding three new tuntian fields was Yelu Min.

When the new soldiers entered the camp in Youzhou, Li Congjing got the news from Liaodong that the Bohai army was in Duli Town, after several months of fierce battles with the Khitan, each lost more than 10,000 soldiers, and finally stopped the pace of the Khitan army's advance in the case of several changes of banners in Duli Town, and the town was not recaptured by the Khitan.

This also means that there is still half of the entire Liaodong battlefield, firmly grasped in the hands of the Bohai State army.

Mo Li said in a letter to Li Congjing that after Da Ming'an experienced a previous defeat and was forced to retreat to Bo Cheng City, he learned from the pain, changed the arrogant attitude that had been cultivated due to the smooth war, and re-asked Mo Li to plan the tactical layout for the Bohai State army. And he himself, even more in heavy armor, rushed to the battlefield, and the soldiers of the Bohai State advanced and retreated together, for this reason, Da Ming'an was wounded several times, and once he was almost shot in the throat by a cold arrow, even so, the ruthless Da Ming'an still did not go to the battlefield.

It is precisely because of this that the army of the Bohai State was able to regain its fighting spirit, fight a bloody battle with the Khitan, and finally win the victory in the defense of Duli Town. If this is not the case, even if Mo Li has a clever plan, he will not be able to save the situation in Liaodong.

Mo Li also mentioned in the letter that the two hundred students of the Yanwu Academy who were sent by Li Congjing to Liaodong played a big role in this war. Not only did they go deep into the enemy's territory and discover the reality of the enemy army, but they even disguised themselves as Khitans and blended into the Khitan camp, and they almost burned the grain and grass of the Khitan camp; Through in-depth exploration of various local battlefields, they saw many fighters, and helped the Bohai army win small-scale victories again and again, and finally accumulated small victories into big victories and laid the foundation for victory.

So much so that in the end, Mo Li had to sigh that the students of the Martial Arts Academy were indeed the hope for the future of the army under Li Congjing.

In this regard, Li Congjing is also quite proud.

After all, the energy and financial resources he invested were huge, and he had been teaching in the Yanwu Academy for a long time, but he didn't think about it for a while, just to establish a proper appearance for the Yanwu Academy at the beginning of its establishment.

Although it is far from blossoming and bearing fruit now, Li Congjing has at least seen the hope of the result.

However, in the end, Mo Li also mentioned in the letter that although the Bohai State army kept Duli Town, it would face the counterattack of the Khitan army next, and the Bohai State army did not have the military strength to completely defeat the Khitan, whether it was in terms of the quality of soldiers, the allocation of armor soldiers, or resource support, it was difficult to capture the entire Liaodong. The war in Liaodong is likely to reach a stalemate, and Liaodong will also become a battlefield for the long-term struggle between the Bohai State and the Khitan, and it will be difficult to break the current delicate balance.

In short, the war in Liaodong will not end easily, and the war will be protracted.

In this regard, Li Congjing does not have much opinion, the Bohai State can conquer Liaodong, and it is naturally best to connect Yingzhou, but under the premise that Yingzhou is still controlled by the Khitan army, the Bohai State can only control half of Liaodong, and it is not too important. After all, the biggest purpose of this war was not the land struggle in the first place.

For Da Ming'an, he wants to control more power in the Bohai State through this war, especially military power. After the military power is in hand, he can control the government of the Bohai State, and when the Khitan attacks the Bohai State in the future, he can become the main person and lead the Bohai State to block the Khitan army. For Li Congjing, it would be enough for Liaodong to sharpen the combat power of the Bohai Army, so that they could block the Khitan horseshoe in the future, so that they would not die before the death of Yelu Abaoji.

And these two goals, as far as we can see, have been almost achieved.

At the end of the letter, Mo Li told Li Congjing that Li Congjing asked them to pay attention to the northbound fleet on the southeast coast of Liao, but they did not find Xu Zhihe.

In this matter, Li Congjing himself also ordered the military intelligence department to investigate in Pingzhou and even Yingzhou, but the result was nothing. If Xu Zhihe wants to go north to contact the Khitan, he can only take the sea route, which is undoubted, and the land route will definitely not work. But then again, if Xu Zhihe came prepared, it would indeed be too difficult for Li Congjing to intercept him halfway.

However, Li Congjing also has the attitude of giving it a try, and if he can do it, he will do it, and if he can't do it, he won't lose much, so he doesn't care too much.

After the autumn, Da Ming'an returned to the Bohai State, Mo Li accompanied him, and on the premise that Da Ming'an had mastered more than half of the army of the Bohai State, especially the elite army, it would be much easier to help Da Ming'an further stabilize his position in the court of the Bohai State, or even go one step further and become the minister who commands the military and political power of the Bohai State.

At the dawn of early winter, Li Congjing received news from Mu Gehua, who said that Mu Gehua had contacted the original Huangtou tribe in the grassland, and obtained their support, and was currently contacting other tribes, and some progress had been made. In this regard, Li Congjing warned Mu Gehua in his reply and told him to be careful and never expose his whereabouts. Because of what Mu Gehua planned, as long as his whereabouts are exposed once, there will be absolutely no second chance.

The Tatars have successfully settled in the southern foothills of the Golden Mountain, and although their pastures are not as fertile as before, they can finally ensure that the Tatars will not starve to death, and they will have time to recuperate in order to fight again in the future.

After these things, Li Congjing received a message from the imperial court, and when he received this news, Li Congjing was silent for a long time, he knew that the things he remembered in his mind would still happen after all.