Outside the city of Yinzhou, the 20,000 army had a phalanx of 1,000 people, and they were arranged in a majestic manner, which was spectacular.

In the middle of the avenue, a man in his forties, a general in a dark green cloak and a few soldiers slowly stopped and looked at both sides. This general has a moderate physique, a square face, two thick eyebrows, three wisps of slight beard, Xu is a handsome horse, his figure is well maintained, and his gestures are also quite majestic. This is the Privy Council's envoy Cao Bin sent by Yang Hao's army to supervise the army envoy Cao Yuguang Cao.

The Northwest Domains have always had greater autonomy than the forbidden army, but whenever they listen to the transfer of troops, the imperial court will not send a supervising military envoy, and Yang Hao is different from the Zheyang family, he was an official in the court, and then he was released, and became a family of his own, on the surface, the imperial court has a greater binding force on him, this time the Zhao official family specially sent a supervising military envoy, and it is not without a reminder: You Yang Hao cannot follow the example of the Zheyang family, you should be under the complete control of the imperial court.

However, the symbolic significance of this action is obviously greater than the actual effect. Since the envoy of the prison army arrived in Yinzhou, Yang Hao only saw him once, and then suddenly became bedridden, Cao Yuguang has been restraining himself, he wants to see if Yang Hao, who suddenly became seriously ill, has the courage to use this to shirk and resist the order.

Now it seems that even if Yang Hao is reluctant, he still doesn't dare to tear his face with the officials, and the soldiers and horses ready to go out are already arrayed in front, just waiting for him, the generalissimo of Hexi Longyou, even if his shelf is bigger, and if it drags on for a longer time, Lord Cao can also calm down: as long as he can send troops, he will have completed his mission.

Just like the warlords of the Central Plains in the early 20th century, as soon as they saw the soldiers wearing ear protection cotton hats and full of mothers, people knew that this was a Fengzhi person. Most of them wore fat leather robes, and many layers of single clothes were wrapped under the robes, and their bodies looked bloated. The leather robes are all prepared by themselves, including sheepskin, cowhide, and various animal skins, and the styles are not the same, which looks a little chaotic.

Today's weather is very good, the wind is not strong, but standing in this cold weather for a long time can not bear it, the soldiers put down their ear protection, some of them also covered their mouths and noses with thick woolen hand towels, led horses, carried bows, stomped their feet from time to time, drove away the cold on their bodies, on the back of the horse, tied a huge burden, which contained leather armor, coverings, salt, jerky, steamed buns and drinking water.

The composition of Yang Hao's army is very complex, among which the Han people, the Dangxiang Qiang people, the Hui people, the Tubo people, and the Khitan people, most of them form a legion of their own, and the banner is quite neat. In addition, there are several military formations composed of warriors from other countries or regions who have wandered here and soldiers of relatively weak races, and their soldiers are more complex, including Xianbei people, Tuyuhun people, Turkic people, Wu'er people, sticky baga people, big cannibals, Persians, Tianzhu people, not only tall, short, fat and thin, different clothes, even the appearance is varied.

Yang Hao came, dozens of people under the banner of Yang Zida were like stars holding the moon, a white horse under his banner, and one person immediately, but wrapped in a fiery red coat, rode out of the city. Cao Yuguang pursed his lips and smiled: "As early as when I was in Beijing, I heard that Yang Dabang was good at being in the limelight, and now it seems that this is really the case, such a dress, for fear that I will not be able to become an arrow target on the battlefield?" ”

Thinking like this in his heart, Lord Cao became more and more respectful on his face, and hurriedly stepped forward and saluted with his fists: "The last general, Cao Yuguang, has seen the handsome." ”

Yang Hao smiled and raised his horsewhip and said: "Haha, General Cao is exempt, this marshal entertained guests from all over the world a few days ago, overworked, and occasionally contracted the cold, so he didn't miss the time to send troops, but he just snubbed the overseer, and I hope General Cao won't be surprised." ”

Cao Yuguang saw that he was a little haggard, although he talked and laughed freely, he was indeed a little thinner than when he first saw him, and he couldn't help but secretly wonder: "I just said that he has been hiding for the past few days to explain the defense of Yinzhou, and give me a dismount, see this situation?" Could it be that he is really sick? ”

Cao Yuguang didn't expect that Yang Hao had already walked three places and visited three important people in the past few days, and he smiled politely: "Yang Shuai said that he was joking, the three armies have been waiting for a long time, since Yang Shuai has arrived, shall we set off?" ”

At this time, he noticed that Yang Hao's soldiers were all on the periphery, and the closest people to him were not guards, there were about twelve or thirteen of these people, all of them were wearing bloated leather robes, and there was a small green flag behind their shoulders, the beard of the older one was already gray, and the younger one was sixteen or seventeen years old, and his physique was also some strong, and some were weak, but he didn't know what role these people played.

Cao Yuguang came here, Cao Bin once taught him face-to-face: although Yang Hao is not like the Zhe family, the Yang family, and the Li family, he is a candidate who has already built a government with the Song State in the northwest, but there are faint signs of breaking away from the control of the imperial court, he is a decoration in the prison army, don't think that he can contain Yang Hao, he came this time, see more and talk less, obey Yang Hao's arrangement in everything, his only mission is to find out the details of Yang Hao's strength, and these unusual phenomena immediately aroused his vigilance.

Yang Hao lifted the reins of the horse and shouted the order: "Come on, pass on the general's order, take Wang Rufeng's department as the vanguard, lead the army to move forward for twenty miles, explore the way scout, and guide the front." Mu Si's department is the front battalion of the marshal, the side of the wolf is the left battalion, Han Jian's department is the right battalion, Gai Bang'er has the rear battalion, Li Conglong's department is transferred with the marshal of the Chinese army, and the three armies are opened! ”

After Yang Hao finished speaking, the Chinese army immediately responded, and the team began to start slowly, and the people around him who planted the green flag behind their shoulders quickly dispersed, and rode to each phalanx, shouting to the generals of the department in the languages of different nationalities. Cao Yuguang didn't care about it on his face, but he kept watching from the sidelines, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly when he saw this scene, it turned out that the role of these people was actually here, and they were actually interpreters in the army.

Those phalanxes were neat and tidy, although they showed that the training time was still short, but there was also a bit of momentum, Yang Hao's order, the twenty phalanxes immediately became chaotic, this phalanx turned to the left, raised the flag, and the people and horses of the phalanx in front of them were still looking left and right, asking for news. The soldiers of the phalanx had already walked a long way from their horses, and the phalanx behind them was still standing upright, listening to the interpreter convey to them in detail the instructions of the commander.

Cao Jianjun couldn't help but laugh "poof", quickly covered his mouth, and secretly glanced at Yang Hao from the corner of his eye, but seeing that Yang Hao's face was red and white for a while, he looked angry and annoyed, and hurriedly made a look of indifference.

After two pillars of incense, each phalanx finally gathered under the banner of the generals of the department and set off on the road. According to the information obtained by Cao Jianjun wandering in the streets and alleys of Yinzhou in the past few days, Yang Hao originally had 10,000 horses, which was all his capital, but in the first battle of attacking Yinzhou, the losses were lost, and the casualties were more than half.

Rao is like this, after the defeat of Yinzhou City, Yang Hao's command has less than 3,000 capable soldiers. Now in less than half a year, Yang Hao's army has expanded to 30,000, from 3,000 to 30,000, there is only one veteran among ten people, and any army has been replaced, forming such a large scale in such a short period of time, whether it can be effectively commanded is a big problem, not to mention that these soldiers have almost all the nationalities in the Western Regions, and their living habits and language communication are all big problems. Cao Jianjun couldn't help but secretly feel contempt in his heart.

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ "Madam, the army of the Great Marshal has gone far away!" ”

Standing at the top of the city and looking into the distance, Yang Hao's army had disappeared at the end of the mountain, Fan Siqi immediately turned around and reported loudly to the city tower.

A few people immediately walked out of the city tower, the two civil officials were Xiao Yan and Xu Xuan, and the other four were all dressed in drapes, with swords under their ribs, looking like a few young and handsome young generals, with red lips and white teeth, and a heroic posture. It is Luo Dong'er, Tang Yanyan, Mu Qingxuan, Ding Yuluo, who are in armor, and although they have no chance with handsomeness, there is no shortage of heroic sweet wine girls.

Yang Hao's expedition must leave an elite army to defend the city, which was expected by Cao Jianjun's army. He has found out that the total number of troops left in Yinzhou City is 10,000, which is mainly an army based on the elite of the 3,000 descendants.

The commanders of the Yinzhou garrison were Li Guangcen, the deputy envoy of the festival, Ke Zhenxi, the regimental training envoy, and Mu Enmukui, two commanders. In fact, the only general who really defended the city was Ke Zhenevil, and the others were all heroines, Mu Qingxuan's ability to defend the city was still above Naifu, Tianjiu was good at attacking and ambushing, Tang Yanyan and Ding Yuluo were good at logistics scheduling, and Luo Dong'er was under the cultivation and training of Xiao Xuan and Yelu Xiuge, and the ability to command and dispatch soldiers and horses in a city and control the overall situation still exists.

Using the city defense measures built by Yang Jiye, all the leaders who are ready to hold Yinzhou and contain Li Guangrui are these people who appeared at the head of Yinzhou at this moment: the military generals are Ke Zhenwei, Mu Qingxuan, Tang Yanyan, Ding Yuluo, and Tianjiu, and the civil officials are Xiao Yan, Xu Xuan, Fan Siqi, and Lin Pengyu. Luo Donger is in charge of the overall situation. In this battle, the female generals of the Yang Sect accounted for half of them.

Luo Dong'er glanced into the distance, and said calmly: "Lord Xu, Lord Xiao, continue to move all the cottages, castles, and tribal residents within a radius of 100 miles from Yinzhou to Yinzhou City. ”

Xu Xuan and Xiao Yan arched their hands and said, "Obey." ”

"Ke Tuanlian, Mrs., please continue to train the people, this time it will not be drawn according to the households, but all men under the age of 50 and over 15 years old, and who are physically strong, will receive urban defense training."

"Yes!"

"Lord Fan, Lord Lin, medicinal herbs, grain, gunpowder balls, poison gas bombs, and arrows should be abundantly stocked, and the more rolling logs and stones, the better, and allocate soldiers and people every day, collect all the vehicles in the city to go out of the city to carry stones and cut down trees, and within thirty miles outside the city of Yinzhou, do not leave a single hugging tree or a hugging stone."

"Yes."

"Flames, jade falls, sweet wine, you must patrol the cities every day these days, train the soldiers, be familiar with all the facilities of the city defense, and deploy all kinds of city defense materials to the nearest cities."

Tang Yanyan and Ding Yuluo also responded solemnly: "Yes! ”

At this time, a female soldier quickly ran to Luo Dong'er, clasped her fists and said, "Madam, Sanniang received a secret letter, asking Madame to return to the Shuai's Mansion for discussion." ”

Luo Dong'er bowed his head and said, "Got it." ”

She said to the Wenwu beside the attendant: "Okay, everyone go and get busy, if there is anything, report to me in time." After that, the female soldier hurriedly walked towards the city, and from beginning to end, she never glanced at the place where Yang Hao left.

She remembered how Empress Xiao was unclothed, patrolling the city and the three armies day and night, and stabilizing the morale of the army with heavy rewards and punishments; She remembered how the Khitan Emperor was poisoned by arrows, and when he was dying several times, and when the imperial doctor in the palace rescued him all night, Empress Xiao was calm and calm in the face of danger, and gave the whole city of soldiers and people infinite courage and confidence. She remembered how Empress Xiao ruthlessly beheaded his entire family in cold blood when the drunken punk was playing lip and tongue on the streets, spreading the news of the emperor's death.

Xiao Niangniang can defend the capital for the sake of the Khitan community, and I, Luo Dong'er, can defend this Yinzhou City for Yang Lang, no matter what kind of jackal, tiger and leopard he comes from, I want to keep the home!

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ Mingtang River, ten miles before Shuanglong Ridge, is a undulating mountain ridge, this mountain is called the Cricket Ridge.

A horse flew in the distance, and immediately attracted the attention of several dark sentinels lying on the mountain, they picked up the winding crossbow, aimed at the galloping figure, and when he reached the bottom of the ridge, he saw his appearance clearly, and several dark sentinels carefully observed behind him, and saw that no one was following, so they stood up a person, beckoned to the man, and raised his mouth and shouted: "Old spray, here." ”

The man under the ridge came with a horse and said breathlessly, "The marshal has already sent troops." ”

The secret sentinels on the ridge stood up one after another, and the person who was shouting just now said with joy: "The commander has sent troops?" Okay, you go and report to the general, these days are lying here, the bones are itching, and the commander has sent out the army, so we are about to get out. ”

The old spray took the sheepskin bag from his waist, pulled off the stopper, drank it to his heart's content, and led the horse down the mountain, and then flew on the horse, and continued to run forward.

Shuanglongling should have been an empty city now. After the successful surprise attack on Shuanglong Ridge, the poor and crazy Ai Yihai brought all the people here back to Yinzhou City, and took the small tribes near Shuanglong City as trophies, and moved to Yinzhou City with both soft and hard methods. This place is not a traffic hub, it is sparsely populated, plus it is icy and snowy, when Ssangyong City is still there, there are not many people who come here, since the people who fought here were wiped out, this has become a dead city, but now this dead city is full of people.

Mu En, Mu Kui, and Ai Yihai all the consulates cleared out the unruly tribes on the periphery of Yinzhou, which was not only to show force and deter Zhuyi, but also to train troops and raise war, in addition to this, there was also a role, every time they came out to bring back the people and horses, they would unknowingly lose a battalion, and this battalion of men and horses with the captured cattle, sheep, and grain, they rushed to Shuanglong City to assemble.

In this way, they transported the men and horses and enough baggage to Shuanglongling, and there were secret agents from the imperial court and Xiazhou in Yinzhou City, and they gathered under the noses of these secret agents, sent troops, and returned with goods and slaves, and these secret agents did not want to find anything unusual.

The city of Ssangyong is in full swing at the moment, and the soldiers' daily task is to eat and drink enough, recuperate and prepare for war, and at the same time make their own jerky, cheese, milk skins, milk wine, and make vehicles, climbing plows and other means of transportation that carry various supplies through the swamps and deserts. Their commanders were three people: Mu En, Mu Kui, and Ai Yihai.

All three are experts at trekking, lurking, diverting, and attacking in treacherous environments. Yang Hao also handed over the Mo Sword Formation and the Heavy Cavalry Formation that he had built with a lot of money. The three fierce generals of Mu En, Mu Kui, and Ai Yihai, coupled with the invincible Mo Sword Array and Heavy Cavalry Formation that are not suitable for use, are useless firewood, and they are used appropriately, which is a three-pointed and two-edged knife that subdues demons and subdues demons.

Most of the cities in the Western Regions are not grandiose, but Xiazhou City is an exception. This city is the capital of the Great Xia country built by the Xiongnu king Helian Bobo when the five Hu Chaohua, the Huns thought that they could "dominate the world, the king of all nations", so the city was named "Tongwan City", the city of Xiazhou was built very strong, the city wall was built with steamed soil, its city soil was white and strong, after that year, the Tang Emperor Li Siyuan attacked Xiazhou, sent troops to dig tunnels, because this steamed soil was more than cement, even one was not dug up.

Long-distance attack, attacking such a strong city, originally in the allocation of troops is not needed such an armament, but Xiazhou is mainly cavalry, the northwest king Li Guangrui's combat style is similar to the Khitans, that is, attack, attack, continuous attack, with sharp attacks to make up for the lack of defense, and at the same time, with Li Guangrui's transcendent position in the Western Regions, the armed forces that can threaten Xiazhou have not been there for nearly a hundred years since Li Siyuan, so Yang Hao expected that he would leave elite soldiers to defend the city, However, these elite soldiers may not all be stationed in Xiazhou City, if the enemy is really found, with the combat style of the Xiazhou army, their first thought is to attack, defeat the enemy, defeat the enemy, and the siege of Xiazhou will be solved. Then if you want to quickly defeat and crush these men and horses guarding the periphery of Xiazhou, and quickly reach the city of Xiazhou, his Mo Dao Array and Heavy Cavalry Formation will be very useful.

Mu En was looking at the large stove pits dug out of the camp in front of him, and the dried meat next to the stove pits was piled up, and it was being moved to grind into powder. Milk skins, milk wine, cheese, etc., are being sorted into leather bags and purks.

Hearing the scout's return, Mu En laughed, looked back and looked in the direction of Yinzhou City. The smoke from the stove pit drifted over, making him stand like he was in the fog, as soon as the north wind blew, the fog quickly dissipated in front of his eyes, Mu En pointed forward and said loudly: "Always pay attention to the news from Yinzhou, as soon as the news from Madame arrives, we will immediately send troops!" ”

※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ Guanguan once said: "Subscription is the duty, and voting is the love." "The author writes the book, the reader reads the book, you subscribe, you have done your duty, extra, the customs have to be extraordinarily admitted, so sometimes I have to ask for a ticket or something to let the enthusiastic book friends urge me to open my mouth, for no other reason, just because in addition to the subscription, the reader does not owe the author anything, who the vote is for, it is the reader's freedom, you like to vote for whomever you like. I can ask for a vote, but it's a matter of confidence whether you vote for me or not, so I'm always a little bit cowardly.

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