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Xin'an Army, the town of Xin'an, the area under its jurisdiction is not large, the west and south are the boundaries of Bazhou, the east is Cangzhou Mansion, there is a silt pass in the north, on the river of the Great Song Dynasty and the Khitan Boundary, it is an important town in the north, according to legend, Yang Liulang once led the army to garrison here. At this time, the second army of the forbidden army was stationed here, with a total of more than 2,000 people, as well as hundreds of old and weak soldiers. Originally, there were 5,000 forbidden troops stationed here, more than 1,000 van troops, and after the rebellion of Nong Zhigao in the south, the Privy Council took away more than 10,000 people from the elite Wuwei army, led by Di Qing and Yang Wenguang, and went south to quell the rebellion. The Great Song Dynasty and the Khitan have not had large-scale conquests at the northern border for many years, and there are mostly small frictions, and there is a natural danger here, so the strength of the Xin'an army at this time is enough to guard against the northern Khitans.

The commander of the Xin'an Army was Liu Chonghe, who was about 30 years old, came from the Northwest Frontier Army, participated in many battles with the Dangxiang people, and fought bravely, so in just five years, he was promoted to the deputy commander of the Second Army of the Right Wing of the Armed Guard Army.

As a typical military town of the Great Song Dynasty, Xin'an Town is not large, except for the hundreds of forbidden troops stationed here, there are only a few hundred households. On this day, Liu Chonghe was handling military affairs in the camp tent, and the captain of the scout in the army said goodbye, walked in quickly, and saluted with his fists: "General Qiyu, about 300 Khitan cavalry crossed the boundary river and are rushing to Tianjiazhai. ”

"What!" Liu Chonghe was startled, got up and thought about it for a while, and immediately understood the intention of the Khitan people, presumably for the tens of thousands of stone grain and grass that had just been transported to Tianjiazhai a few days ago. Tianjiazhai is only more than 30 miles away from Xin'an Town, only more than 100 forbidden troops and hundreds of Xiang troops are stationed, once it is attacked by the Khitans, the tens of thousands of stone grain and grass are afraid that it will not be guaranteed. This is the grain and grass for their Xin'an army to spend the winter!

Liu Chonghe hurriedly said: "Pass the order, and order the Ma army in the army to quickly support Tianjiazhai with the general, and the infantry army will stay in Xin'an Village." ”

The guards in the tent hurriedly received the order and turned away.

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The Privy Council, at this time sitting in the Privy Council is the current Prime Minister Pang Ji, since the rebellion of Nong Zhigao in the south, the deputy privy envoy Di Qing led the army south to quell the rebellion, Pang Ji took over the Privy Council under the instruction of the official family, on the one hand, it is necessary to deal with the government affairs, on the other hand, it is necessary to deal with the affairs of the Great Song Army.

On this day, Pang Ji was processing the official documents in the signing room, but he received the 800-mile urgent document from the Wu Wei Army, and when he opened it, he was immediately angry, and slapped the table and shouted: "Shame and shame!" What a shame! ”

The document reads: "On the third day of the first month of November, the Khitan 800 Pi Room Army and the horse army crossed the river to the south and set up an ambush outside the Xin'an military town. On the fifth day of November, a new town was broken in Bazhou and slaughtered. On the eighth day of November, in Xiongzhou, the white ditch post was broken, and it was slaughtered. The enemy then crossed the Juma River and returned north. "In just six days, 800 Khitan cavalry, passing through three places, slaughtering three towns, the Song army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and more than 5,000 people were killed and wounded. The most irritating thing is that the more than 10,000 people of the Wuwei Army failed to trap the Khitan 800 cavalry, allowing them to break through the Baigou Post and leave.

Who is Pang Xianggong?! In the early years, he guarded the northwest frontier, and even Di Qing was his general, this person was familiar with military affairs, and after calming down, he knew that this matter was not simple, and he was afraid that it was not related to the Khitan proposal to set up a field in the Xin'an Army in early September, and the official family was not allowed.

The Khitan 800 cavalry ravaged the north, and the people of Pingtou naturally didn't know, but how could Di Yong and Zhao Zongxuan not know, so the two of them gathered at Chen Yan's house with a look of grief and indignation.

Chen Yan has been very comfortable these days, since he worshipped Yan Shu as a teacher, it can be said that he has benefited a lot, not only in terms of knowledge, but also has a further understanding of the affairs of the court, of course, Yan Jidao The little guy looks down on him very much.

"Does it work?" Chen Yan drank tea and said lightly: "The Khitan leather room army is its elite elite, and this time it is the heavy armored cavalry that came south, one person and three horses, not to mention the Wuwei army, even if the family army is here, I am afraid that I can't be trapped." ”

Di Yong and Zhao Zongxuan sighed when they heard this, it is true, what is the use of their grief and anger here, at present, all the land where horses are produced is in the hands of foreign tribes, so that the whole country of the Great Song Dynasty lacks horses, so the horse army in the Great Song Dynasty is pitiful, looking at the entire Great Song Dynasty, there are only a few hundred heavy armored cavalry in the family army. In the era of cold weapons, this heavy armored cavalry was almost equivalent to the tanks of later generations, a thousand heavy armored cavalry could hang tens of thousands of infantry troops, and the light cavalry of the Wuwei Army was estimated to be unable to resist even a charge from the other side.

"That's it?!" Di Yong looked at Chen Yan and asked.

Chen Yan put down the teacup and said slowly: "I don't understand politics, but I don't understand military affairs either!" I understand that this field has to be opened so that it can increase tax revenue. ”

"That's it?"

"With money, we can build a horse army and train our own heavy cavalry."

"Where did the high-grade war horses come from, the Khitans will not sell them to our high-grade war horses."

Chen Yan gritted his teeth and smiled: "Two brothers, you are really gentlemen!" I also know with my toes that the Khitans will not let our Great Song buy high-quality war horses, so there is no trick? The bright ones can't work, we can play the dark ones! ”

Di Yong had been to Xin'an, Xiongzhou, and Cangzhou in his early years, and he knew the situation there very well, so as soon as Chen Yan said it, he understood, and said, "Smuggling horses? It's possible, but it's too risky. ”

"Silly!" Chen Yan said angrily: "Dry hair by land? Won't take the sea route, from, uh, Shandong to Liaodong, this route is short, and safe, smuggling a few hundred horses at a time should not be a problem. No matter how bad it is, we can go from Shandong to Goryeo, after all, it is still a subject country of our Great Song Dynasty! ”

I have to say that Chen Yan's proposal is very imaginative, but it is very tempting, and Di Yong and Zhao Zongxuan are both in deep thought.

Chen Yan drank tea leisurely, in fact, he was as sad and angry as them, but he was really helpless, although the Khitan people in the north had been declining in recent years, but in terms of military affairs, there was no problem in beating the Great Song Dynasty and the party. Don't look at the Great Song Dynasty has a forbidden army of 800,000, but with this combat effectiveness, Chen Yan can only be hehe. Nowadays, the Great Song Dynasty really has combat effectiveness, in addition to the tens of thousands of border troops in the northwest, there are only the four armies near the capital, such as Zhuri, Tianwu, Longwei, and Shenwei, and the combat effectiveness of the border army in the north and the forbidden army stationed in other places is really average. Otherwise, the leader of such a minority as Nong Zhigao would dare to rebel?

Zhao Zongxuan raised his eyes and looked at him, and said, "Then my strategy is written like this?" ”

There was such a big thing in the north, as an examination school, the official family made an order to let each of the seven children of the clan who entered the palace to study write a strategy to analyze the current situation.

"That's your business." Chen Yan didn't care, he wasn't one of the top thinkers in the TV series in the book, he had anti-heaven thinking, he could think of this, he already felt that he was great, what else did he want? !

Zhao Zongxuan and Di Yong glanced at each other, at this moment they felt that their third brother was really talented, this matter of buying war horses by sea and land sounded a little ridiculous at first glance, but after thinking about it seriously, it was somewhat feasible, first, the Great Song Dynasty had a naval army in Wendeng, and secondly, I am afraid that it would not work to go to Liaodong, but it is definitely feasible to go to Goryeo.

Chen Yan looked at his elder brother and said impatiently: "Let's say here that these are all on paper, first, the war in the south is not over, second, there is no money, three, one of the three of us is a guard in front of the palace, one is a disciple of the clan, and the other is a scholar who doesn't even have a reputation, what's the use of worrying about this here?" All back, all back, is it possible that you still want to eat here with me? ”

"Third brother, you are not kind."

Chen Yan scoffed at this: "Be kind and eat it!?" Hurry up and leave, or I'll let Qiaoxi prepare dinner. ”

Gu Qiaoxi's cooking skills are almost comparable to Chen Yan's now, stir-frying or anything is trivial, if it weren't for Chen Yan always teaching her to rub oil when cooking, and even snorting once in the kitchen, it is estimated that Gu Qiaoxi's current skills would have surpassed him a long time ago. Because of this, the number of times Di Yong and Zhao Zongxuan came to eat greatly increased, which made Chen Yan quite dissatisfied.