In the Battle of Xining that year, the army of the Li Dynasty besieged Yongzhou, and Su Xuan, who was the governor of Yongzhou at the time, resolutely led the army and people of the city to resist. Although it was finally broken by the Li Dynasty's army, it gave the other state cities enough time to defend themselves.

That year, Wuding was still a city defense battalion, a small soldier, and he experienced that war. At the moment when Yongzhou City was about to fall, Zhizhou Su Mu asked Su Ding and others to break through with a new army, but he fell in Yongzhou forever.

You remember that Su Mian told them at that time that no matter what, they must remember that Yongzhou City is the state city of the Great Song Dynasty. Under no circumstances should we allow foreign enemies to invade and occupy us. And those who are officials and generals must live and die together with the city they protect.

Although they took on any responsibility to cover the people's breakthrough, and finally broke through and successfully picked up a life. Wu Ding, who survived, has always felt guilty about Su Mian and those brothers who gave them the hope of life.

Although the trauma of the war over the years has passed for a long time, Wuding has never forgotten the scene of the bloody battle that year. In today's Yongzhou City, most of the people moved in later, and there are not many real aborigines left.

With the later recovery of Yongzhou City by the imperial army, Wuding, who had repeatedly made military exploits, gave up better promotion opportunities and resolutely ended the war. served as the commander of the city defense battalion in Yongzhou, guarding the state city that his brothers had sworn to protect.

Originally, a few years ago, the situation in Yongzhou recovered well, and Wuding looked at the state city that was prospering day by day, and his heart was undoubtedly happy. But people are like this, they will always forget something that should not be forgotten as time goes on.

It is said that the boy does not flick when he has tears, and returns to Zhao Xiaoxi, who is in the yamen of the state capital. Looking at Wuding, who had finished telling the history of that year, he was already in tears, and he also felt uncomfortable in his heart.

I remembered that there was a saying in my previous life called 'Don't let heroes shed blood and tears'. It is undoubtedly just right for Wu Ding. Liu Bin, the acting governor who is qualified to stay, also looks a little sad at the moment, and he can't do anything about this kind of thing.

At this moment, Zhao Xiaoxi suddenly said: "Wuding, have you ever thought about avenging Su Zhizhou and them?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Wu Ding and Liu Bin were stunned for a moment, and waited for Zhao Xiaoxi to say it again. Wu Ding immediately got up and said, "Yes." Wei Mo will dream of looking for Li Chao to take revenge on those dogs. Even if I was an ordinary creep, I would like to. ”

Listening to Wu Ding's resolute words, Zhao Xiaoxi suddenly said solemnly: "Wu Ding, come forward and listen to the order!" ”

Wu Ding, who didn't know why, quickly collected his emotions and walked to Zhao Xiaoxi, and bowed down respectfully with his fists. At this time, Zhao Xiaoxi said: "The original city defense battalion of Yongzhou commanded Wuding, and was promoted to the commander of the Yongzhou Army, responsible for the formation of the Yongzhou Army."

First, military expenses and salaries. It is provided by the Qiongzhou Royal Palace. Commander Wu, what you need to do is to train a team of 3,000 warriors within half a year. The corresponding weapons and equipment will be sent to the Yongzhou military camp in half a month.

After the king's general order was issued, he followed the road of the Li Dynasty and entered the Li Dynasty to avenge the soldiers and civilians killed in Yongzhou that year. The Yongzhou Army was formed into a separate army and was directly subordinate to the Qiongzhou Palace. Can you do it? ”

From a battalion commander, he became a commander of an army. Wu Ding's position was naturally upgraded by several levels. But when he heard that he was going to attack the Li Dynasty, Wu Ding was stunned, but he said excitedly: "Back to the prince, the last general will definitely do his best!" ”

Seeing that Liu Bin didn't seem to react, Zhao Xiaoxi gave him another look at the holy decree before saying: "This time, this king has promoted the military and political affairs of the Guangnan West Road in order to prepare to send troops to the Li Dynasty. It's just a matter of confidentiality. It has not been announced to the public.

This Wudu head, this king admires his loyalty to the country, and the organization of the Yongzhou army is also intended to let him avenge the soul of the year. As for the Yongzhou City Defense Battalion, Lord Liu will set it up by himself one day, and this king will also send someone to help you at that time. ”

After listening to these words. Wu Ding really understood that the imperial court was really going to raise troops against the Li Dynasty. And this prince is the commander of this command. Although he didn't know much about Zhao Xiaoxi, he knew that this prince was a rare prince of the court who was both civil and military.

Since he wants to recruit Wuding, Zhao Xiaoxi will not be too stingy. Give him the rank of military commander and envoy, and you can also get an additional 3,000 soldiers who can fight. And Zhao Xiaoxi believes that the fame of the Yongzhou army will definitely be able to deter the Li Dynasty monarchs and ministers in the future.

After saying these words, Zhao Xiaoxi confiscated the dirty silver from the Bing Cao Si Yamen, as well as the dirty silver copied from Qin Zhizhou's house. All of them were handed over to Liu Bin to deal with on his behalf, and they were also used as military expenses for conscription.

In order to make the Yongzhou army truly an elite army that dares to fight, Zhao Xiaoxi also sent thirty martial guard instructors to Wuding. As for the city defense camp in Yongzhou, Zhao Xiaoxi asked Wuding to choose a credible person to take charge.

In short, accompanied Zhao Xiaoxi into the city, dismissed the official position of the Lord Zhizhou, and transferred him to the imperial court for the triage of the three divisions. Cut off the head of the soldier Cao, and purge a large number of yacha who are angry with the people.

The situation in the entire Yongzhou City seems to have stabilized a lot all at once. However, in view of Liu Bin's limited ability, Zhao Xiaoxi finally proposed that Su Xuan's son, who is now serving as the governor of other state cities, be transferred back to Yongzhou as the governor.

In any case, Su Ziyuan, who served here for a period of time, has a lot of prestige in Yongzhou City. As the son of the late Zhizhou Su Mian, his progress in officialdom is actually slowly fading.

No one will always remember that he was Su Mian's son. But in the upcoming counteroffensive battle, Zhao Xiaoxi hopes that he will go back and forth to Yongzhou to serve as the governor. took over his father's banner, for Yongzhou and for himself, and washed away the blood feud of the year.

Su Ziyuan, who received the imperial decree, also felt very strange about the sudden transfer to the governor of Yongzhou. For him, Yongzhou is undoubtedly a familiar but distressing place for him. The reason is simple, in this city, countless of his relatives were lost overnight.

Until the captain of the royal palace guard who came to announce the decree, he said a little mysteriously: "Su Zhizhou, this time it was recommended by the prince to let you be the governor of Yongzhou." The reason is that the imperial court is about to raise troops against the Li Dynasty, and the prince wants to give you and the people of Yongzhou a chance to take revenge. ”

As soon as he heard this, Su Ziyuan didn't say a word, and quickly handed over the work to the successor Zhizhou. also took a family old and young to drive Yongzhou to take office. For him, his father's death was both an honor and a shame.

learned that the new Zhizhou sent by the imperial court was the son of the old man of Chenghuang Su, and some elderly Yongzhou people also raised their hands to applaud. At that time, Su Ziyuan served as the general judge of Yongzhou, and also did a lot of work for the reconstruction of Yongzhou, and had a certain popular foundation.

Although he has only served as the governor for a short period of time, Liu Bin knows very well that he is only a shallow learner, and he is indeed not suitable to serve as the governor of the capital of the road. But he also knew that with the battle of the Li Dynasty, he should be able to go further.

After talking with Su Ziyuan for a period of time, Zhao Xiaoxi soon left Yongzhou with great fanfare under the send-off of the hundreds of officials and people in Yongzhou. And the elite of the guard he left behind began to enter the intensive preparations.

When Li Chao felt that something seemed wrong with the neighbor opposite, he couldn't find any information. Under the surveillance of the armed guards and the Buyi Pavilion, most of the spies sent by the Li Dynasty to Guangnan to inquire about the news died unexpectedly.

Without the support of intelligence, Li Chao naturally became more and more worried. But along the coast of the Li Dynasty, pirates began to attack and harass. The princes and ministers of the Li Dynasty also began to be attracted by the state of affairs in the coastal towns.

This time, the pirates were naturally all under Zhao Xiaoxi, and those former pirates who were not suitable for joining the navy pretended. What they wanted to do was to create chaos in the coastal towns of the Li Dynasty and make the officers and soldiers of the Li Dynasty exhausted.

At this moment, in all the cities on Guangnan West Road, the city defense battalions have become training barracks. Batches of newly recruited recruits entered a long and arduous training. At the end of each batch of recruits' trial training, they will be engaged in the operation of clearing out the bandits in the territory.

has always been worried about the Li Dynasty of the Great Song Dynasty training the city defense army like this, what kind of intentions did it have. After learning about these city defense battalions, after they were trained, they did not advance into the Li Dynasty as they feared, but went to find trouble with those bandits.

Everyone knows that in the mountains and forests on the border between the two countries, the number of bandits is indeed very large. Even in the territory of the Li Dynasty, there were many bandits who occupied the mountains as kings. The officers and troops of the Li Dynasty also seemed a little powerless in the face of them.

Time is passing day by day, month by month. And after learning that the city defense battalion on Guangnan West Road has completed a round of intensive training. Zhao Xiaoxi immediately ordered to start transporting large quantities of food and weapons to the wartime logistics bases in Qiongzhou and Yongzhou.

Secondly, Yue Laosan's navy has also completed the trial training of three gunboats, and it is time to pull it out and show its edge. A 3,000-man musket corps composed of naval officers and men was also assembled on Qiongzhou Island at this moment.

Together with the navy, they will be tasked with launching an attack on the Li Dynasty from the sea. The Qiongzhou army trained by Zhao Wu had already arrived in Yongzhou City, and formally formed a second army attacking by land with the Yongzhou army trained by Wuding.

The commander of the attack from the direction of Dali was Duan Yu, their son of the king. The strategic layout has been completed, and at any time, waiting for Zhao Xiaoxi's order, the three-way army will gather in the Li Dynasty to destroy and annex this small border country.

But before that, Zhao Xiaoxi knew that there must be a good reason and a good excuse to go to war. Those Li Chao pirates who had been kept in the Qiongzhou prison also had time to use them.

A letter of questioning stamped with the seal of the king of Qiongzhou was quickly delivered to the emperor of the Li Dynasty. Looking at this letter of questioning, Li Renzong, who was also ambitious, was at an energetic age, so he was naturally annoyed by Zhao Xiaoxi's questioning tone.

Very unceremoniously, the envoy sent by the Qiongzhou Royal Mansion was beaten out of the Li Dynasty court. Looking at the threat of the envoy of the Qiongzhou palace before leaving, the ministers of the Li Dynasty all felt that the Great Song Dynasty had not been able to do anything to them. What does a prince dare to do?

Just half a day after the envoys sent by the Qiongzhou royal palace left the capital of the Li Dynasty. A merchant of the Li Dynasty, with a very jealous heart, sent a bunch of boxes to the Li Dynasty that he didn't know what they were.

Opening the box and looking at the hideous heads, the monarchs and ministers of the Li Dynasty were all startled. By the time the merchant handed the letter to him, there was only one large print written in blood. War! (To be continued......)