Early the next morning, Han Tong first went to the front line of Waqiao Pass to mobilize troops, and will cooperate with Yuan Yan on the west road, and the main force is scheduled to officially leave Yijin Pass on the 18th, while Yuan Yan and Zhang Yue need to rush back to the station immediately to deploy troops, and attack one day in advance, and the time is very tight. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, Zhang Yue by Wu Qiang by boat to take the waterway, because the war will start, the overwhelming grain fleet is crowded with the river, the waterway is very busy, until the evening of the 14th to return to Cangzhou, back to the government overnight to summon the town will be the staff of the council, Li Duoshou will be from the expedition, Han Hui returned to serve under the account of Han Tong, the town has no competent candidate to stay for a while, so he ordered the state assassin Shi Yanliang to take charge of the affairs of the town, and Gongsun Qi to stay in the town to assist in the defense.

And Dong Zunzhi and Li Duoshou have already led their troops to the Hukouwan camp and are training with the sailors transferred from Dengzhou. Zhang Zangying, who was transferred from Puzhou, had already led 2,500 troops to Nigu Village, and after Hantong transferred the forbidden army to change the defense, he would join with Xue Wenqian, Gao Zhongyi, Pang Congduo and other 20,000 soldiers, and then assemble at Nigukou and go to sea.

Zhang Yue only stayed in the government office for one night, arranged the affairs of the town and the logistics of the transfer, then led his own soldiers to take a warship, pulled up the full sail and sailed at full speed with the wind, when the night came to Hukou Bay, the military port was brightly lit everywhere, and the black shadows of thousands of warships were heavy, almost filling the small military port.

Zhang Yue's warship has 800 materials, which is much smaller than the Dengzhou warship, and the patrol boat sailors guide the way to slowly approach the dock and land, the residents of the fishing village here have all moved away, the larger houses are directly used as barracks, and the smaller houses are demolished, and the vacant land is set up according to the terrain to build two camps.

The generals who were staying in the barracks heard the news and ran out to greet them together, Zhang Yue waved his hand with a serious face and didn't say much, returned to the barracks of the Chinese army, and immediately summoned the generals at the level of the military envoy to discuss the matter. At present, the strength of this bay is 5,000 people from the Ya Army of Henghai Town and the Changlu Army, of which the Ya Army is a cavalry led by Dong Zunzhi, and the Changlu Army is an infantry, and its combat strength is slightly weaker.

In addition, there are 10,000 Pinglu troops, of which two armies of Dengzhou soldiers are led by Wang Lixin, the defense envoy of Dengzhou, and one army of Laizhou soldiers is led by Zhai Tonghu, the defense envoy of Laizhou. The soldiers of the Pinglu Jiedu Ya Nei Army commanded An Shouzhong personally came from Qingzhou, and they were also cavalry, and their combat power was very good.

The sound of the waves in the bay outside was endless, and four lamps and candles were lit in the barracks, illuminating the shadows of the twenty or thirty generals on both sides of the sitting, and the generals sat upright with their waists straight, looking at Zhang Yue in a purple robe from time to time.

Li Duoshou silently took out the map and hung it on the wooden shelf next to him, turned around and took out two thin silks from the small wooden box he brought over and handed them to Zhang Yue, and whispered: "This is the information sent by Le Pingyang and Zhuang Shao when the lord went to Wuqiang a few days ago, please take a look!" ”

"Oh?" Zhang Yue was surprised for a while, Le Pingyang went to Weizhou and Fanyang to do activities, and now he should have entered Youzhou City. In the first month, Zhuang Shao got Zhang Yue's instructions and went to the Lutai army from Waqiao Pass, and now there is finally news.

Illuminated by four lamps and candles, the light in the barracks that is not spacious is still not strong, Zhang Yue beckoned Li Duoshou to come over with a candlestick, and first looked at Le Pingyang's information by candlelight.

Dai Zongqi, the assassin of Weizhou, and Song Mingli, the assassin of Xuanzhou in Fanyang, have promised to launch a mutiny as soon as the Zhou army arrives, kill the Khitan eunuch sent by the Liao State and cooperate with the Zhou army. With this premise, Yuan Yan's march should be much smoother, but Li Chuyun fought with Yuan Yan, and he didn't cheapen others in vain.

Attached to Dai Zongqi and Song Mingli's letter of surrender, Zhang Yue looked at it and threw it aside, and later sent someone to send it to the emperor. Another report from Zhuang Shao not only contains a report on the military affairs of Lutai and the assassin of Fangzhou, Shi Wuhong, who is willing to surrender to Cheng, but also attaches the situation of the troops stationed in Ping, Ji, Tan, Jing and other prefectures, as well as a very urgent military situation.

Pingzhou Qian Silk envoy Yang Gon invited Emperor Liao, transferred 20,000 cavalry from the Liaoxi Road outside the Guan, and arrived in early February, will come to the aid of Xiao Siwen in Youzhou. And Wu Hong's investment integrity that should be attached is also confirmed, and it seems that there will be no mistake.

"What day did you receive it? How do you reply? After reading the information, Zhang Yue calculated that after the 20,000 cavalry from Liaoxi arrived in Pingzhou to assemble with Yang Gon at the beginning of this month, I am afraid that they are now marching to Youzhou.

"On the morning of the tenth day of the second lunar month, that is, the day the lord set off, Zhuang Shao sent someone to send it from the sea to Nigu Village, and there was no problem with confidentiality. The official seal of the lowly lord replied, and ordered Zhuang Shao and Wu Hong to find a way, if Yang Gon led his troops to pass by Yutian in Jizhou, try to drag it first. In addition, Zhang Zangying has been notified and ordered to be the commander of the vanguard capital, and he will rush to the Lutai army first, and he has reported that he will go to sea on the 13th, and he can arrive on the same day by sea, and it has been three days so far, and no military information has been transmitted. ”

Zhang Yue nodded in approval, frowned, and said, "It should be so!" If you can't delay it, then do your best, we have waited too long for the forbidden army to go north, if you are prepared for the speed, the Liao army will not be much faster than us. ”

The reason why the army was chosen to use troops in the spring was beneficial to the Great Zhou, but on the contrary, it was unfavorable to the Liao State. Because the Central Plains farming nationalities are very dependent on logistics, the spring is in the green and yellow, but if there is grain in stock, it can fight for a long time until the summer harvest, and the army along the border of Hebei can transfer grain nearby, which makes up for this shortcoming.

The Liao country is located in the cold zone of the north, mainly nomads, early spring is the time when cattle, sheep and horses lose fat in winter, and a large number of reserves of pasture grass and cattle and sheep are consumed by grazing in winter, at this time, the loss of national strength is heavier with soldiers, and there is more grain and grass to continue in midsummer and late autumn, which is two months later than the summer harvest season in the Central Plains, so the nomads use soldiers, generally in autumn and winter.

"Did you hear that? Time is very urgent, there are 20,000 garrisons on Pingzhou Road, so Yang Gon supports Youzhou, and the number of troops left behind is about 30,000, we must first solve Yang Gon's department, and then seize several passes in Yanshan in the east of Youzhou, so as to create opportunities for the main force to capture Youzhou. Zhang Yue first set the purpose of the battle, and then the deployment of troops and the discussion of tactics.

"The envoy of the chapter! In the past few days, the weather has been good, the wind and waves in Bohai Bay are calm, and our march along the coastline is very safe. As long as there is no strong wind at sea in the next five days, we can immediately send our horse army north after landing at the mouth of the Jihe River to find out the enemy's situation and then make plans. "An Shouzhong is about twenty or thirty years old, and he has been in Cangzhou for four or five days, so he already has an understanding of the preparations for war.

"Nope! War horses can be brought to Nigu Village first, and a part of them should be brought when crossing the sea, and the grain and grass, baggage weapons and camping equipment should be carried first, because we have to fight at any time after landing, and the war horses are brought together to consume the grain and grass too quickly. ”

Although the Lutai Army is called Fangzhou, it is only a small military city, and Wu Hongying secretly surrendered, but Zhang Yue still does not know the combat power and grain and grass reserves of the Lutai Army, so he naturally cannot rely too much on these unstable factors in the early stage.