In the first month of the sixth year of Xiande, the climate in early spring was cold and humid, and after the Lantern Festival, the temperature rose, the ice and snow melted, and the ice on the Bianhe River and Wuzhangqu River in the suburbs of Tokyo quietly melted, and the river resumed unimpeded, but the water level dropped in the dry season, and the passage of large commercial cargo ships was still a little reluctant. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In order to make early preparations, Guo Rong ordered the Inspection Department inside and outside Tokyo to send people to inspect various rivers so that grain, grass and military supplies could continue to be transported. On the sixteenth day of the first month, he sent the direct officers of the inner temple to Hebei to announce the edict, and ordered Zhang Yue to deploy Zhang Yue along the border of Hebei to repair the river as soon as possible, build a camp and prepare a grain warehouse.

Ordered the guards to make Han Tong deploy for the land route, led the horse army Gao Huaide and Li Chuyun, the infantry army Zhang Lingduo and Luo Yanhuan, and led the Longjie and Hujie quadrants to transfer a total of 50,000 horses and step north.

At the same time, Song Yanwu and Wang Huan, the general of the Right Xiaowei, led 30,000 sailors to assemble in Heyin on standby, just waiting for the smooth waterway of Hebei.

Because many river projects were not completed last year, Han Tong led the Guards Division to take the forbidden army by land, and it was necessary to survey along the way, and to repair the embankment in time in case of bad embankments.

As early as three days after Chinese New Year's Eve, when the ice and snow began to melt, Zhang Yue led the Cangzhou town soldiers to expand the camp west of Cangzhou City, and built another camp in Qianning Military City, 50 miles to the north, as a temporary grain store.

However, the waterways of Mo and Yingzhou, which had just been won last year, needed to be dredged, so on the tenth day of the first month, Zhang Yue entrusted the affairs of the town to Yan Liang, the assassin of Cangzhou, and led the judge Li Duoshou and the marching Sima and Yajun to make Dong Zunzhi and Yang Xuanli and other 500 horsemen take a boat to the Wuqiang camp in Shenzhou.

The camp and granary here, Yuan Yan built it last year, Zhang Yue came here just to inspect the way, because this place is too important, from Wuqiang County outside the waterway, to the east through Cangzhou to the south of the Juma River Duliukou, and even to the Sikou Pass, Yijin Pass; Go west to the Fuhu River and turn to Raoyang, passing through Ying, Mo Erzhou can go all the way to the south of Yijin Pass.

Zhang Yue took a boat along the river and went north to Raoyang with a wide waterway, but when he arrived at the Suning Military Village between the Yingzhou River, the fleet ran aground. Last year, he made preparations in this regard, but after Sun Xingyou arrived, he still didn't know if the construction had started, so Zhang Yue had to get off the boat and take the land route to the river.

Along the way, the fields were barren, the villages were ruined, and the people were sparsely populated, and there were manors near the stream, but there were no people in sight. At dusk, when he arrived at the outskirts of Hejian City, he finally found that there were more pedestrians, and Zhang Yue did not send anyone to inform Sun Xingyou, so he led his troops into the city with a guard of honor.

When he arrived two miles outside the city gate, the garrison was actually only a capital head, who ran out in a hurry, and when he saw Zhang Yue's guard of honor, he hurriedly sent someone back to the yagong to report, and stepped forward to greet him and ask about his intentions. Zhang Yue traveled all the way and saw that the river might not have started yet, so he was very dissatisfied, and asked rhetorically: "Can Gao Yanhui, the assassin of Benzhou, be there?" What has Sun Yuanjun been busy with lately? ”

"Sun Yuanjun and Gao Taishou are supervising the work in the river, and only Yan Sima is on duty." Du Tou replied.

"Has work already started? Is it a canal? Zhang Yue was surprised when he heard this, no wonder he didn't see anyone all the way, and there were not even passing boats on the river.

"Exactly! This canal can also lead to Zhuozhou Xincheng County in the north, but it has fallen into disrepair after the Liao army occupies it, and the embankment collapses and stagnates with water. ”

"You can take the soldiers into the city to rest, and go to the construction site to have a look!" Zhang Yue inspected last year, but he paid more attention to the Fuhu River, but the waterway was a little westerly, but it could be connected to Zhenzhou and Dingzhou.

At that moment, Dong Zunzhi and Li Duoshou led the soldiers into the city, Zhang Yue led the way from the capital, and only took Yang Xuanli and other more than 50 horsemen to the bank of the canal from the city to the east for a few miles.

The head of the road did not stop, Zhang Yue led his soldiers to ride a horse and followed along the river bank to the north for more than 20 miles, the sky was almost dark, here is another construction site, far away from the river bank There is also a military camp, to the gate of the camp, I saw a tall and burly middle-aged man in a black face and purple robe, leading a group of subordinate officials to meet out.

"I don't know if Xianggong Zhang is coming, Sun is far away!" The person who came was Sun Xingyou, who arrived last winter and met Zhang Yue once.

"You don't have to be confined to the vulgar etiquette, now that the glacier is thawing in spring, you have to hurry up to repair the river! It is said that if you use a soldier and a sailor to sail a boat, you should build the Fuhu River first, but Sun Yuanjun built the canal first, and the amount of work is too large, so can it be in time? Zhang Yue was not polite, and said it bluntly.

"Time is a bit tight, but a certain Mo, win two states to the north of this piece of water network of fox lake have been checked, this section of the canal is also very important, after dredging can be diverted in Leshou, all the way to the new city, all the way to the silt pass. The amount of water in the Fuhu River is very large, there are only five places to be repaired, which can be accommodated, and there are more than 20 blockages in the two waterways here, and it is difficult to do it first, and then it is easy, mainly because the local population is small, and the young and strong people are insufficient, and the grain and tools and instruments used to repair the river have to be used from Wuqiang. Sun Xingyou said with a sad face.

This place was only recovered last winter, and it is in a state of ruin, Zhang Yue can also understand, and can only see later if he can find a way from the neighboring Cangzhou and Jizhou. It is estimated that a war will break out in February, Zhang Yue was a little worried, so he asked: "The border of Nianguan is surprisingly quiet, I haven't received any news, has there been any movement of the Liao army in Youzhou recently?" ”

"There is gossip, it is nothing more than a small folk rumor that the Zhou army is going to go on a northern expedition, and there are reinforcements coming from Liaodong and Datong Mansion, which is not true, and there is no important information. It's windy outside this camp, so please come with me into the camp. Sun Xingyou didn't seem to plan to return to the city at night, and the soldiers in the barracks were still on duty, and there was no movement.

After entering the big tent of the Chinese army, Sun Xingyou led Zhang Yue to sit down and called a maid to come in and serve tea. Zhang Yue frowned secretly, this Sun Xingyou is really greedy for enjoyment, and he also takes a maidservant to serve him when he supervises the project outside, but he can't say anything.

Sun Xingyou found a scroll in the trunk cage in a corner of the tent, untied the tightly tied hemp rope and unfolded it on the table, it was actually a map of Hebei, and the big word "Youzhou" on it attracted Zhang Yue's attention.

"This map was drawn by a certain person in Yizhou back then, I heard that Zhang Xianggong is good at this, I'm afraid I won't be able to enter the eyes of the Fang family, right?" Sun Xingyou said with a smile, but he didn't show a trace, and he patted a fart just right.

"As long as the rivers and mountains are clearly marked, they are generally usable, and the year is idle, and I have sorted out a map, but I have made a sand table but I haven't brought it." Zhang Yue smiled slightly, but his map sand table was in the custody of Li Duoshou.

"Huh...... A certain first talk about Youzhou, now people say that Youzhou is a general name, in the Tang Dynasty south of Yanshan, north of the Juma River divided into You, Ji, Ping, Tan, Fu five states, as for the east of Yingzhou, the west of Wei, Ying, Dai Zhuzhou belongs to the Liao State Xijing Datong Mansion, I am afraid it is not a matter of this war, I will not say it for the time being.

After the Liao army got this piece of Hebei, the two states of Ji and Tan were merged into Youzhou, called Nanjing and Xijin Mansion, and there was a Nanjing Road Transit Envoy, which was resident by the Privy Council of the Southern Court, and the current king of the Southern Court was Xiao Siwen; The area from Yanzhou to the Longmen Gate of the Great Wall and the grassland outside the Guanhai were all incorporated into Fengshengzhou, which belonged to Xijing Road; And because of the iron and salt production in Pingzhou, there are more Han households, and the Qianbo envoy of Pingzhou Road is still Yelu Dilu, which is Yang Gon. Therefore, our main strategic goal is to take Nanjing, Fengshengzhou, and Pingzhou. ”

"Sun Yuanjun is talking about administrative divisions, and what he wants to know is the deployment of troops." Zhang Yue nodded, he knew a little about this. But Zhang Yue didn't know much about the internal situation of the Liao State, so he asked Sun Xingyou immediately, and the martial artists were always interested in talking about this matter.

"The foundation of the army lies in logistics, and we can't help but talk about administration first!" Sun Xingyou smiled bitterly and said: "Because these three regions are larger, they each have set up a division of jurisdiction, under which there are official institutions such as Shilie, Wari, Moli, and Zhasa. So you can estimate that there are about 30,000 or 40,000 troops stationed in the Han Dynasty. If you add Xiao Siwen and Yang Gon's headquarters, the garrison will not exceed 60,000 at most, and if you go to the Han soldiers, the Khitan Liao army may only have 30,000. ”

"This is a daily situation, there should be an increase in troops during wartime, from last winter to now, how can the Linhuang Mansion in Beijing react." Zhang Yue thought about it, but there was no accurate information yet.

Although as early as last year, when he returned to Cangzhou after the war, Zhang Yue sent Le Pingyang and Zhuang Shao north to Youzhou to spy on the logistics of the Liao army's customs defense forces, and if possible, even plotted against the Han army in Youzhou. However, there are heavy troops stationed on both sides of the Juma River, and it is more troublesome to pass on the information back, and it may not be possible to contact it until the army enters the country.

In fact, it is also possible to enter Cangzhou by sea from Bohai Bay, but Zhang Yue's tenure in Cangzhou was too short, and the preparation for the naval division at sea was insufficient, and the warships without more than 2,000 materials could only go to the inland river. Even if there is a small-scale sailor, it can have a great detour initiative.

However, in Bohai Bay, the weather is calm in the general season, and the requirements for ships are not high, thinking of this, Zhang Yue can't sit still. The Cangzhou town army is equipped with a certain number of warships, and there is no problem in inland river operations, so I don't know how to cross the sea and fight at the sea, and I secretly decided in my heart at the moment that after this inspection, I must make preparations in this regard as soon as possible when I go back.

PS: The writing didn't go well, and I wrote a chapter very late, so I had to lengthen it, and I will make up for the second update tomorrow.