"The five brigades of the cavalry army, one stationed in Datong and one stationed in Taiyuan, are now transferred to Zezhou to be ready to enter the territory of Henan at any time, and the remaining two are to be placed in Yulin to guard against possible violations of the covenant by the Mongols, and the remaining one, placed in Liaozhou, to prepare for a sudden eastward march to cut off the road for Liukou to attack Beijing to the north, but then the whole army will have no strength to maneuver. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

In the hall of the command center set up in the entire Qin Palace, Gao Xun, the first senator and commander of the Shanxi Metropolitan Division, was sharing and analyzing military intelligence with Wei Xiaobao, the commander of Tiancewei, of course, most of the time, they were only acting as an executive agency to process and improve the orders issued by Li Jing.

Wei Xiaobao took a copy of the drawings that Tiance Wei had secretly guarded from all over the country, and then summarized the map of the north, and after looking at it a little, he pointed his hand,

"This deployment, although our family does not understand military affairs, but we also know that once something happens, it is difficult for us to reinforce in time as a reserve army, but the lord ordered each army to form its own cavalry battalion as a mobile force, among which Yulin, Tiger Wing, and Shenwu Army each have an independent cavalry brigade, how have these horses been formed recently?"

Wei Xiaobao has been busy collecting military affairs outside of Qin and Jin recently, and the construction situation reported by the various armies is directly transferred to the Senate Department to sort out, so he doesn't know much about this matter, but he secretly returned from the capital, of course, he has to ask about it, so as not to be asked by Li Jing.

Gao Xun knows that he is a transitional figure, and in the future, he may not be able to control the real power, so he has a lot of respect for the commander of Tian Cewei, but everything he knows is endless.

"Back to the commander's words, the cavalry brigades of the three armies on each army, the shortage of each brigade is very large, although the recruitment of men and horses has been completed, but the war horses are not said to be one person and two horses, it is said that the single horse has not been done, taking the Yulin Army guarded by His Royal Highness King Qin as an example, a new brigade, nine regular soldiers, a total of 3,600 men and horses, only more than 1,000 war horses, and most of the rest are even replaced by mules."

"What's the matter, the guards of the Yulin army are all like this, so wouldn't it be more difficult for the rest of the armies?"

Wei Xiaobao was shocked, what's the matter, even the Yulin Army of King Qin's First Army is not fully formed?

Seeing that he was thinking about it, Gao Xun immediately shook his head and said with a wry smile,

"His Royal Highness the King of Qin is sympathetic to the armies, thinking that the Yulin Army as stationed near Taiyuan, has not undertaken external operations in recent days, so most of the time, in the time of training, it is not busy accepting all kinds of equipment first, and the same is true for war horses, but in May and June, 5,100 horses were purchased from the Mongolian departments, and the Yulin Army did not take one, and they were handed over to the army, and the war horses of the Second Cavalry Army were selected and transferred from the Datong Military Town, and the five cavalry armies only had 17,000 war horses and 5,600 mules and horses for the time being. None of them are full. ”

"It's only two or three thousand horses a month, even if it's a year, it's just a cavalry army, this is still a preliminary formation, this kind of shortage, it's too big, in the past, I remember that Senator Lin Chengzu sent an envoy to Hetao, didn't he reach an agreement with Lin Dan Khan?"

Wei Xiaobao summed it up a little and pondered for a while, this situation seems to be a little wrong, the trade route to Mongolia can depart several times a month, how has the situation changed again?

Gao Xun took over the Senate not long ago, but he really knew a little about it, so he smiled bitterly,

"At this time and that time, when we fought with the Jurchens, the Mongols wished that we and the Jin soldiers would lose both, so at the end of May, they directly handed over three thousand war horses, and also sent a whole tribe, but recently, the situation on the steppe seems to be developing towards the favorable side of Lin Dan Khan, you look at the war report just sent, the eight departments of the Hetao, and sent out to attack the Chahar territory, and the capture is not counted, but Lin Dan Khan would rather kill the herdsmen of these tribes than continue to send it to us."

"What?! There is such a thing, why don't you report it to His Royal Highness King Qin? ”

Wei Xiaobao couldn't stay any longer, and immediately picked up the battle report and got up to watch.

“…… Lin Dan Khan waved his army to attack Naturalization, Jin soldiers stayed 300 and Horqin Mongol cavalry 2,000, fought with it, under the sound of three drums, the embarrassment was defeated, and 2,500 herdsmen were captured nearby, Lin Dan Khan took 900 of them who were willing to surrender, and the rest of the people were all killed in the east of the naturalized city, and then, continued to lead the troops eastward, and was fighting with the Inner Mongolia tribes in the Chahar realm......"

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"There is such a thing, it seems that our deal with Lin Dan Khan will be forced to suspend for a while,"

When Li Jing looked at this battle report sent by Wei Xiaobao in a hurry, his heart suddenly burst into his heart, these days, the Qin army traded money and grain pig iron with the Mongolian tribes of Hetao, and exchanged for a number of war horses, but among the agreements reached with Lin Dan Khan, there was one article, Lin Dan Khan used the captured Mongolian tribe herdsmen, and he could also exchange it additionally, but this article was only executed once, and there was no follow-up.

"Lord, it seems that Lin Dan Khan is also on guard against us, otherwise, he is sitting on the eight departments of the Han Department and the Hetao, and there are no more than 100,000 under his command, so he will continue to slaughter the herdsmen."

Wei Xiaobao could only try to analyze according to the situation at hand, and after getting the result, he felt a little panicked, that is, the biggest source of war horses now, once the eight divisions of the Hetao were stuck, the cavalry construction of the entire Qin army would inevitably suffer heavy losses.

"It's okay, Lin Dan Khan, this person, is very short-sighted, no wonder he was chased around by Huang Taiji, this person, half of the river, he wants to try to demolish the bridge, but unfortunately I am not so easy to handle, Gansu Xingdu Division, has issued a document, asking for trade with the Huangjiao tribe in Qinghai in the west, the quality of the war horses over there is even better than the southern war horses, and these people, the appetite is not as big as Lin Dan Khan, as long as three stone of grain, or a little salt, tea, you can change one, every month, a thousand war horses can still be guaranteed."

Li Jing sneered in his heart, what kind of calculation did Lin Dan Khan make, how could he not know, it was nothing more than to limit the total size of his cavalry, worried that he had been supplemented by the elite cavalry of the three sides of Shaanxi, and if he was supplemented by the herdsmen of the Mongolian tribes, it would be possible to establish a main cavalry force that could compete with him.

"Lin Dan Khan is not the object of a long-term alliance, he really thinks that he can continue to march east into Chahar after regaining the Naturalization City from the Tartars? I expected that the Tartar soldiers would definitely send troops to the west to help, and when the time came, even if only 5,000 gold soldiers were dispatched, Lin Dan Khan's so-called 100,000 troops could be beaten everywhere, and only when the Tartars hurt him, he would know that we were the best allies. ”

As he spoke, he called his relatives left and right to follow him,

"Tell me to go down, stop all transactions with Lin Dan Khan for the time being, and when the Tartars hurt him, he will come to find the Lone King again."

"His Royal Highness King Qin, these days, won't our cavalry and war horses be short for some time? Moreover, merchants from all over the country have made sufficient preparations for the trade of the Monan Loop, and all kinds of materials are hoarded, once this trade route is stopped, won't it make them suffer huge losses? ”

Wei Xiaobao's status was not low, and now he is in charge of the three thousand spies in charge of Tiance Guard, and he is in contact with military affairs every day, and his vision has gradually grown, and he has his own set of mature methods for seeing things.

After Li Jing glanced at him with satisfaction, he still felt that there was something insufficient, how could these people under his command have vision and courage, but they didn't have the creative initiative to find a solution, so he said,

"Lin Dan Khan is nothing more than the leader of the Han Division, nominally as the Great Khan of the entire Mongolia, but I know that the 30,000 households on the left wing of the Hetao he left are not very obedient to him, and most of the money and grain traded in the past are occupied by the Han Department itself, and these materials are not distributed to the tribes below at all."

"What does His Royal Highness King Qin mean is to tell us to launch an internal line to tell these tribes to trade with us privately?"

Wei Xiaobao suddenly realized, but immediately asked suspiciously,

"Although we have Mongolian cavalry in our army to lead the way, we are afraid that these Mongolian tribes will not dare to turn their backs on Lin Dan Khan and trade with us privately!"

"This is not afraid at all, if it weren't for the strength we have at hand now, otherwise the Lone King would like to send troops to directly sweep the Hetao and control this horse-producing land, if you have been to Monan, you will know, not to mention that there are herds of wild horses here, but it takes time to find three or five thousand horses, it is still simple, they only lack people, and they lack food, besides, these small tribes, can An not be moved? Who wants their tribe to be crushed by the Han tribe all the time? ”

Li Jing has never been worried about these problems, anyway, the Mongols are short of food, not horses, between the eight departments of the Hetao and the Han tribe, don't look at it as a family now, but secretly, I don't know how many filthy things are hidden, just talking about this crusade, the Han department asked the eight departments to send 10,000 troops, and as a result, they were taken and naturalized, and the 30,000 households on the left wing did not get a cent of benefits, these are the complaints and disagreements, as long as a little provocation, it is enough.

"Order, go down, and the people who are familiar with the eight departments in the army will go north with a message, but there is one thing, you must be reliable people, and leave their families as hostages to prevent them from never returning."

"His Royal Highness King Qin just rest assured, I will definitely do these things, as long as the eight departments are willing to move, we have money and food to bring them over, but should we add fire to it? What about causing a conflict between them and the Han Division? ”

Wei Xiaobao is worthy of being a secret agent, and one thing can be contacted more immediately, but what Li Jing wants now is to insert the Han Department as a unified Hetao tribe to contain Horqin and other Mongolian tribes, so that the Tartars are alone, so he shook his head and said,

"Only do this, don't make extra trouble!" (To be continued.) )