After Song Zhenzong's birthday banquet, it was almost the end of the year, and the people of Li in the court were happily waiting for the New Year.

Unexpectedly, the sky is not beautiful, and the 800-mile expedited frontier broke everyone's dream.

Above the court, Song Zhenzong's face was gloomy, and the ministers were also angry.

"You have all seen it! The northwest frontier is restless, and the party members have repeatedly violated the border, and this time they actually attacked Yan'an Mansion, killed my people, and plundered my food, which is really angry! Song Zhenzong's face was flushed, his eyes were angry, his thin palm tightly grasped the dragon chair, and his hurried tone conveyed the anger in his heart to everyone.

At this time, although the Li family, the boss of the party department, was nominally a vassal to the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty had no interference with it, and before the New Year, these nomadic tribes might go to the Song Dynasty to get some New Year's goods, of course, you don't expect people to buy them with money. Therefore, for the frontier warriors, the New Year is not a happy thing, but it is very likely to face war.

"Your Majesty, the frontier generals are not good for guarding the territory, causing the people to die in vain, please punish them immediately and severely to set the record straight!" Wang Qinruo's number one general, Ding Wei, immediately jumped out to accuse the border guards.

Kou Zhun couldn't stand it anymore, and immediately continued: "When the border guard Wu Shi Bingwen reported the invasion of enemy thieves, he immediately led his troops to intercept it, and he has died on the battlefield, dare to ask Lord Ding what his intentions are?" ”

"As a border general, it is his duty to die on the battlefield, let the enemy enter, his blame is hard to escape, how can he serve the public if he is not punished?" Ding Wei continued to top the bull.

"Then I have to ask, what was Lord Ding doing when the foreign enemy invaded?" Kou Zhun looked at Ding Wei with disdain.

"Of course, our courtiers are governing the country for the emperor and solving problems!" Ding Weihao said without blushing, decades of officialdom cultivation are not given in vain.

"So, do you have to bother Lord Ding this time to solve your worries?"

"I am a civil servant, how can I do those reckless things. The emperor ordered to severely punish the generals who were ineffective in battle, and urged them to drive out the enemy. Ding Wei turned around and continued to speak to Song Zhenzong.

"Smack, don't quarrel......" Song Zhenzong patted the dragon chair and roared: "When is it, you are still arguing one by one, do you have to wait for the enemy to enter the capital to be happy!" ”

"The emperor is angry, and the ministers are guilty!" Song Zhenzong was still a relatively peaceful person all his life, and when he was rarely angry, this temper startled everyone and scared everyone one by one, and they fell to the ground and trembled.

"Father's anger is calmed, and when his sons and ministers go to solve it, they must make these thieves who killed my people, occupy my land, and plunder my grain pay the price, and use their heads to pay tribute to the souls of the people who died in vain in my Great Song Dynasty!" Zhao Yingfu stood up and said to Song Zhenzong with righteous words.

Song Zhenzong and the ministers listened to Zhao Yingying's words, and they all looked at him in a daze, and they didn't figure out this rhythm for a while, everyone was chatting happily, what did you say that you little kid is here to make a lot of fun, where to stay cool.

Song Zhenzong is worthy of being the emperor, and his psychological quality is better, he reacted first, and said to Zhao Benefit with relief: "Emperor, this is not to say that this is a game, your filial piety father has the emperor's heart, but you are still young, let's listen more and learn more!" ”

"Father, my sons are not young, you see how strong I am. Besides, Erchen has been training with the Royal Field Army all these years, isn't it true that the new army was formed to deal with those barbarians! Erchen felt that this was a plan, to test the combat strength of our new army, and secondly, to avenge the people of our Great Song Dynasty. The sons implore the emperor to allow the sons to personally lead the troops to crusade against the thieves! Zhao Fu knelt heavily on the ground and pleaded.

"This ......" Song Zhenzong looked at the ministers and said, "What do you Aiqing think about this?" ”

Seeing that Wang Qinruo was about to come out to make trouble again, Kou Zhun stood up first and said, "Your Majesty, the old minister agrees with His Royal Highness the Prince's opinion. First, as the prince of my Great Song Dynasty, he should protect my Great Song Dynasty. Second, the new army has been training for almost two years, and it is time for everyone to see their combat effectiveness. Third, this new army was formed and trained by His Royal Highness the Prince, and I believe that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince knows them best. Based on these factors, the old minister thought that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince could make this trip, but for the sake of safety, the old minister felt that he should also mobilize some border troops to assist. ”

"Well...... Kou Lao has a certain point, so let's do it! Order His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to lead the royal field army to expel the enemy, mobilize the army of Yan'an Mansion to regulate its control, and quickly prepare grain and grass for the household department, and then set off with troops! ”

Wang Qinruo looked at Song Zhenzong and also leaned towards Kou Zhun's meaning, thinking about it, no matter what happened to him, he didn't have anything to do, how could he love it!

"Erchen takes orders!" Zhao Ying received the military order and went straight to the infantry barracks, and asked Xiao Shunzi to go to the cavalry camp to give the order to come to the round.

"Tom, tom, tom......" The sound of the drum was hurriedly remembered at the foot of the flat-topped mountain, and a group of soldiers rushed out of the barracks in a hurry, and in a moment, nearly 20,000 people lined up in a neat queue on the camp, and the audience was silent.

"Salute!" When the commander saw Zhao coming and shouted the order.

"Boom!" As the salute of the crowd rang out.

Zhao Yingfu came to the general stage and looked at everyone's expressions, very satisfied. He said loudly to everyone: "Soldiers, these days, everyone has worked hard to train, and they have worked hard!" But I want to ask you here, what are you training so hard for? ”

"Expel the enemy, protect the family and defend the country......," the soldiers kept shouting.

"Very good, it seems that you have not forgotten our oath, we soldiers should protect our family and defend the country, and return the peace of our people! However, at this moment, the people of Yan'an Mansion in the Great Song Dynasty are busy running for their lives under the enemy's butcher's knife. As soon as I received an urgent report from the border pass, more than a dozen tribes led by the Huyan Department of the Party were leading nearly 20,000 thieves to invade our Great Song Dynasty, occupy our Great Song Yan'an Mansion, kill our people, and plunder our grain. As my Great Song soldiers, tell me, what should I do? What to do??? Zhao Yingfu yelled at everyone with a red face.

"Kill! Kill! Kill ......," the soldiers raised their arms and shouted.

"Kill! This prince wants them to pay with blood! This time, the crown prince specially played the emperor and led you to the expedition to avenge my people. This is your first battle, the emperor and the people all over the world are watching you, don't let the prince drop the chain at the critical moment! ”

"Please rest assured, Your Highness! We will swear to kill the enemy and serve the court! Chong Shiheng took the lead and shouted.

"Swear to kill the enemy and serve the ...... court"

"Now the prince has ordered that Shiheng is the commander of the left army, and he will lead the infantry regiment with the prince as the main battle camp. In addition, he ordered Zhi Weizheng to be the commander of the right army, and led the cavalry battalion of the headquarters as the vanguard, and the battalion could be pulled! ”

"Yes!" The generals received the order, and one by one they were busy preparing to pull out the camp.

While the soldiers below were packing up their equipment, Zhao Ying invited senior generals of various armies to study the war situation together.

"It is reported that nearly 20,000 enemies are now stranded in Yan'an Mansion, all of them are cavalry, and they are robbing grain from all over the country and planning to transport the people they have captured out of our Great Song Dynasty. The garrison of the border army of Yan'an Mansion was killed in battle, and the rest of the defenders stood in the city, not daring to go out of the city to fight, but the people outside the city were killed. Zhao benefited from passing the border emergency report to the generals to browse.

"It's right!" Zhao Yingfu saw that everyone understood the situation and began to arrange tasks by name.

"The last general!" Zhi Weizheng came out of the column and replied loudly.

"This king ordered you to lead your troops to contain the enemy and reduce the losses of the common people, and you must not act recklessly. Your mission is mainly to contain them, do not let the enemy withdraw from the border, and then annihilate them in one fell swoop when our army arrives, before you must entangle them, and this king will let the special combat team assist you. ”

"The last general obeys!" After answering, he returned to his place.

"Jintai, Li Canghai!"

"The minister is here!" The husband and wife replied in unison.

"This battle will be the final assessment of your special combat team, send all the team members out to strangle the small units of the enemy to grab food, and at the same time assist the cavalry battalion in intelligence reconnaissance and the task of containing the enemy. Their outstanding performance will enter the final special combat team, and this king will give them the title of 'Divine Dragon Commando' on the Holy Lord! ”

"Yes!"

"Chong Shiheng" Zhao Ying nodded at the husband and wife, and then turned around and shouted to Chong Shiheng.

"The last general!" Chong Shiheng saluted and replied loudly.

"This king ordered you to command the rest of the infantry and go into battle with this king, and in view of the situation of this battle, all the troops equipped with large bed crossbows. All departments go and prepare, and they can be pulled out in the early hours of tomorrow morning! ”

"Order!" The generals saluted and walked away quickly.

As the saying goes, soldiers and horses go first before they move grain and grass. This time, because Zhao Fu, the only prince and crown prince, personally went on the expedition, the emperor and the ministers attached great importance to it, and the efficiency of this household department was much higher. Zhao Yingfu is still arranging combat missions here, and the grain and grass over there have already been on the road, so he finally didn't lag behind.

This is not close to Yan'an, about 1,000 kilometers away. Fortunately, Zhao Ying paid great attention to the training of long-distance marches in view of the inconvenient transportation of the Song Dynasty, otherwise by the time the army arrived, the enemy would have disappeared.

To say that this is true that he has indeed obtained the essence of cavalry, and after Zhao Ying's training, he has used light cavalry to a great extent. Coupled with the help of his brother Zhi Weichang and the famous Di Qing, the light cavalry he led at this time also had equipment, tactics and fighting spirit; Quite a raise.

Zhi Weizheng listened to Zhao Yingying's instructions, and also felt that the time was urgent, it was too late, and those guys would definitely run away as soon as they slapped the horse's buttocks. In order to rush to Yan'an Mansion as soon as possible, it took a lot of effort that day, not to mention, he really came up with a crooked idea. The cavalry was largely influenced by war horses, and in order to increase the speed of the march, Zhao also took great pains to match one man and two horses.

Zhi Wei was looking at the soldier in front of him, his heart was full of pride and was deeply shocked. He thought that the crown prince was so young, so he was just having fun, and everyone just accompanied the prince to read and make him happy. Unexpectedly, this new army really trained him, and these murderous soldiers in front of him seemed to surpass the Zhejia army that he had always been proud of.

"Everyone also knows that the enemy is committing our Great Song Dynasty, and the common people are suffering. The sooner we arrive, the sooner we can save them. In order to increase the speed, General Ben deliberately thought of a way, this time you each have two horses, two people in a group, one person sleeps, one person leads the horse, two people take turns, and when you sleep, you tie yourself to the horse. Got it? "Zhe Weizheng proudly showed his ideas to everyone.

"Understood!" The crowd replied in unison. Then, under the arrangement of the leaders of each squad, preparations for the march began.

After this toss, the speed of this march has really been improved a lot. The cavalry battalion only took four days and four nights to rush to the territory of Yan'an Prefecture, which would not be able to survive if other armies did not have a month.

"Leader Huyan, this time we can make a lot of money, we can't transport this grain quickly, it's really right to follow the leader!" The leader of a small tribe who followed Hu Yanyi on the expedition said to him flatteringly.

"Hahaha...... I told you a long time ago, this Song Dynasty is rich and cowardly, we just need to solve those guys in the frontier, these grains, treasures and women in front of us, we can take as much as we want! Let's grass this time, it can be said that we have a lot of harvest, this time let's eat and drink together, come and come, eat and drink well! Hu Yanyi laughed and said to the small leaders.

"Come and salute Tou Yan for a cup, thank you for bringing you to make a fortune!" Everyone raised their glasses and drank that was a hi.

"Leaders, we have been here for a long time, everyone has almost grabbed everything, and the reinforcements from the Great Song Dynasty will arrive in a while, so we don't need to confront them head-on. After everyone goes back, gather the troops scattered around the looting as soon as possible, and let's go home for a good winter! Hahaha......" Hu Yanzhuo's rough laughter shook the tent.

"Yo! It's time to go home for the New Year! Cheers, hahahaha......"