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Just after the Lantern Festival, another spring snow came, and the sky was full of snow, paving the earth white.

At dusk, Yi Feng came out of the palace and returned to the palace in a carriage. Today, the emperor summoned him to the palace, and the day for Yi Feng to leave Beijing has been set, just three days later. Three days later, the marshal of the Northern Expedition and the 100 commanders under his command will go to the front, and the war will officially begin. In fact, it is already the second half of the first month, and it is not the best time to use troops. The best season for the use of troops on the grassland should be when the horses are high and the horses are fattened in autumn. At present, in the second half of the first month, the beginning of spring, the glacier will soon thaw and the rain will fall, and it is very bad to use troops in such a season. In particular, such a big war, the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, as well as millions of people, will also have a great impact on the cultivation in the spring and autumn of this year.

However, war is not reversed by human will, and a full-scale war between the Turks and the Great Sui cannot be fought as soon as a local conflict, and both sides must be prepared. Neither side can really control the tempo, and they can only go with the flow when they get caught up in this torrent. Last fall, both sides were not ready, and now both sides are ready to go.

Yang Jian attached great importance to this war, and in front of Yi Feng, he bluntly said that this would be a fateful battle related to the future national fortunes of the Great Sui.

Although in the strategic discussion of the imperial court, the Eastern Route Army led by Yi Feng assumed the role of a reserve support, but after all, Yi Feng commanded twenty commanders. 100,000 soldiers and horses, Yang Jian still has high hopes for him. For this. Yang Jian also specially transferred four important ministers to Yi Fengxuan today, assisting him in taking charge of the East Road.

Long live the history of Shangzhu and He Ruobi, two famous generals in the DPRK and China, were temporarily appointed by Yang Jian as the deputy marshal of the Eastern Route of the Northern Expedition. Su Xiaoci, the secretary of the military department, was appointed as the marching chief of the Eastern Route Army, and Liu Xingben, the secretary of the imperial history of Taizhi, was appointed as the marching Sima of the Eastern Route Army. Yang Jian even specially pulled out Yang Xiong, the famous general of the clan, King of Qingzhang, and handed over the most elite of the imperial family, the hussars of the three thousand clans of the Hongnong Yang clan, to Yang Xiong, and asked him to go north with Yi Feng to escort the imperial grandson. In addition, Yang Guang also specially selected 3,000 Imperial Forest Soldiers from the Praetorian Guards in the capital to Yi Feng as a guard.

Such treatment, even if it was Yang Guang, the king of Jin who served as the marshal of the Northern Expedition. Didn't get it either. Yang Guang served as the marshal of the Northern Expedition, and the emperor only issued an order to allow Yang Guang to establish left and right guards, and selected 2,000 elites from the Wei Mansion, which was too far from Yi Feng's treatment. In particular, the five thousand clan hussars, although they have been stationed in Hongnong, are the elite troops guarding the ancestral tomb of the imperial Yang clan, even more elite than the guards stationed in Beijing, this is a clan soldier and horse that is almost all served by Hongnong Yang clan as middle and high-level officers, and they are extremely loyal. What especially made Yang Guang envious was that. There is also an ironclad cavalry in the hussars of the sect, a real armored cavalry, a thousand armored cavalry. And in the entire Great Sui Dynasty, there were only three such armored cavalry in total. Each is no more than a thousand. The hussars of the sect have 1,000 horses, and the other two are stationed at the Xuanwu Gate, the north gate of the Daxing Palace in Beijing, and have been stationed at Tongguan, the gateway of Guanzhong.

The armored cavalry was once the most powerful unit developed during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Belonging to the real hoplites, the knights and horses were wrapped in iron. When they launch a swarm charge against enemy arrays on an open battlefield, no one can stop them. This kind of armor is very powerful. But it is also extremely expensive to equip, especially if you need very good horses and good knights. At this time in the Sui Dynasty, the world was unified, and the imperial court only retained three armored horses. Although over the years, these three armored cavalry have rarely had the opportunity to go to the battlefield again, and the armored cavalry of the Beijing division is more often used as a royal honor guard, but no one will underestimate the power of this kind of armored cavalry, and now that the emperor actually handed over such a powerful soldier and horse to Yi Feng, Yang Guang was really depressed in his heart.

Yi Feng didn't like this kind of baby bump too much, although he also admitted that as long as the ironclad cavalry was used properly, it could be used as a strategic arm that could change the situation on the battlefield, but this kind of arm was too expensive. If the cost of one cavalry is five infantry, then the cost of one armored cavalry is definitely five light cavalry. And it's not just a matter of cost, it also requires excellent war horses, as well as strong and excellent cavalry, and such a heavy cavalry that is completely piled up with money is often useless. There are very few times when it can really be used, which leads to the fact that the cost performance of this kind of class is not high. The training time is long, the cost is expensive, and the time that can be used is small, and it is not easy to replenish, so Yi Feng does not like this kind of army that has been almost eliminated too much. He still likes cheap, quick-replenishment troops.

However, the emperor was able to pull out these two elite troops, a full six thousand tigers, and he was still very happy. Six thousand tigers, including 1,000 heavy cavalry, 1,000 light cavalry, and 4,000 infantry, added a lot of strength to him. Previously, the emperor gave Youzhou Mansion one hundred and eight military towns, including eighteen upper towns, thirty-six middle towns, and fifty-four lower towns, according to the number of soldiers in Shangzhen 1,000, 800 in the town, and 500 in the lower town, in fact, the one hundred and eight towns in Youzhou Governor's Mansion had a total of 73,800 troops. It turned out that Yan Rong's uncut Youzhou Mansion had fifty towns, and now Youzhou Mansion includes thirty-two prefectures and ten governors' mansions, and the number of more than 70,000 soldiers has not increased much. Moreover, Yi Feng also learned from the guò intelligence department during this time that in addition to his own Huaihuang army, there are 50,000 soldiers and horses in the current Youzhou Mansion. However, in fact, the town garrison soldiers belonged to the border army, and the combat strength of the government soldiers in Gyeonggi in the Central Plains was much lower, and most of them were incorporated from criminals and the original township soldiers and local regiments in various places, not only the combat effectiveness was low, but there were also many vacancies, especially in the Yidinghengying Prefectures, there was a huge shortage of personnel. The actual total number of soldiers in each state capital may be about 30,000, and they are all concentrated in the border states near Xuanping. Among these 30,000 people, the logistics and heavy auxiliary troops also account for about 40 percent, and the remaining less than 20,000 soldiers are estimated to be 10,000 soldiers.

In the formation of 50,000 border troops and horses, the real combat soldiers are 10,000, which sounds very mysterious. But that's just the way it is. After the founding of the Great Sui Dynasty, although there were often wars. It can be mostly concentrated in the northwest Longyou and Hedong area. The political center of the Great Sui was in Guanzhong, and the military center of gravity had always been concentrated on the Guanlong line. The second is Hedong. Hundreds of elite government soldiers, hundreds of thousands of horses, are all arranged in the Guanlong River East Heluo line, for the remote northeast Youzhou line, this is already a very remote and remote frontier of the empire, is the exile of criminals to fill the army. And last year's Eastern Crusade was a heavy blow to the northeast region, which was getting weaker and weaker, and at least half of the 300,000 troops submerged in Liaodong came from the prefectures of Youzhou. This greatly reduced the strength of the border army in Youzhou towns, and the vitality was greatly damaged, and it has not yet recovered half a point.

However, this situation is not bad news for Yi Feng, at least the border army in the towns of Youzhou is weak, which is still very helpful for him to control Youzhou.

Originally, the prefectures of Youzhou were subordinate to the governor's office of the state, and the state has always been the northern center of the Great Sui, and Taiyuan is the central town of the north. And the state sent elite troops. The empire has also been heavily garrisoned, so it turns out that the border army of Youzhou is a little weaker, but there are elite soldiers in Bingzhou, but it is not a big problem. But now Youzhou Mansion is separated from the state capital. The annexed states and Youzhou are not subordinate to each other, and the soldiers of the annexed states cannot pass too much, which makes the newly established Youzhou Grand Governor's Office appear militarily weak.

Fortunately, Yi Feng himself still has a nostalgic army. Although it is said that his Huaihuang army of more than 100,000 people is actually just a paper number, it has not really been formed. But at least there's a good framework. Even if we exclude the three armies that actually serve as the urban management team, the public security team, the police-inspection force, the highway patrol team, the militia team, and other miscellaneous functions, Yi Feng also has four field armies that have actually fought several actual battles. There are tens of thousands of people in three steps and one cavalry. After more than half a year of training, at least it will not be worse than the original border army in Youzhou.

Sitting in the carriage, he had even thought it out.

After returning to the north, the three town garrison armies continued to garrison the towns and forts of Huaihuang, and then he pulled out one of the four field armies to take over the garrison of Youzhou, and the remaining three field armies were stationed in Yanzhou between Youzhou and Wuzhou. In this way, even if Feizhou is Qu Tutong as the chief assassin of the history, but the two northern and southern customs cities of Youzhou and Wuzhou, Daning Pass and Jundu Pass, are all controlled by Yi Feng, and in fact, Yi Feng can also control this important channel. It makes the three states of Youfei and Wu as a whole, and occupies a favorable shape militarily and is invincible.

For the ten commanders under his command, Yi Feng planned to let them command the soldiers and horses of the original Youzhou, and each commander commanded 5,000 troops, of course, there were actually only 30,000 people, so they could only command 3,000 troops per commander, as for the fact that there were thousands of auxiliary soldiers among these 3,000 people, and there were more than 1,000 real soldiers, he didn't bother to care. If they have the ability, they will be like Li Jing, recruit troops by themselves, and recruit the number of soldiers.

The two soldiers and horses that the emperor pulled out for him were used as guard troops, and what he could really rely on was the Huaihuang Army, especially the four field armies that had already begun to appear. The barrel of a gun comes out of power, and a big fist is the last word.

The carriage drove slowly all the way, turning into the second street, at this time it was nearly dusk, although the Lantern Festival has passed, but the Lantern Festival lanterns have always been rewarded for three days in a row, and the three nights of Jinwu can't help it, and the curfew is not closed. This street is the main road leading to the East Market, and there are many pedestrians who go to the East City to enjoy the lanterns, which makes the road become embraced, so that the carriage has to slow down and slow down, and the majestic horse pulling the cart can only walk step by step like an old cow at this time, and from time to time there are three steps and a stop and five steps.

The horse stopped again, there was a sound of quarrel in front, Yi Feng lifted the corner of the curtain and looked, two luxury four-wheeled carriages obviously sold by King Qingzhang and Yi Feng stopped in the middle of the road, and two coachmen in green clothes were scolding at each other, accusing each other, and at a glance they knew that it was because of the collision between the two cars that supported the road and passed by, and then the quarrel occurred. Although the two carriages collided together, it was not a big deal, it was obviously only a slight collision, but the two coachmen both scolded, and the doors of the carriages were closed, but the passengers in the two carriages did not show up, but the onlookers gathered in circles and circles, completely blocking the already closed street.

Watching the excitement is always a hobby of the Chinese people, although there is a lamp market in the East City, but when you encounter this thing halfway, you are all around one by one, and you are happy to watch.

Seeing this, Yi Feng shook his head and said to Li Mi next to the carriage: "The Dharma Master will deal with it, don't let them block the road because of such a trivial matter." ”

As Yi Feng's secretary, Li Mi has been following Yi Feng's side recently, nodded immediately, jumped off the horse and walked over there, pushed away the crowd of onlookers, and shouted at the two coachmen: "What's the noise!" As he shouted, he took out a waist card and held it up, "Hurry up and leave, don't block the car of His Royal Highness the Imperial Grandson!" ”

As soon as the name of His Royal Highness Taisun came out, the people who gathered around to see the excitement were also shocked, and they hurriedly turned their heads to see, and sure enough, they saw a group of heavily armored and majestic guards and knights guarding a four-wheeled carriage pulled by four snow-white horses. The two arguing coachmen looked over the other side, and then they stopped arguing, and turned in unison and got into their carriage.

Just when Li Mi thought that the two were about to give way, there was a sudden change, and the murderous machine suddenly appeared.

"Kill!"

The next moment, the two coachmen shouted at the same time, and then they saw a black crossbow suddenly stretched out from the carriage of the two four-wheeled carriages, which had been closed silently.

"Woohoo!"

The sound of breaking the air continued to sound, and a crossbow nail slashed like a meteor, shooting suddenly towards Yi Feng's carriage.

Many people didn't have time to react to this sudden change, and when the crossbow arrows were fired, the guards and knights of the imperial grandson had already drawn their swords and raised their shields, shouting: "There are assassins, protect Your Highness!" ”

The knights approached the carriage and reacted quickly, swinging their swords and shields to block the bolts.

There was a chaotic sound of clanging bells, and several crossbow nails were blocked, but there were still several crossbow nails that fell on the carriage through the gap that was too late to enclose, making a chaotic sound of bells.

"Ahh

It was only then that the people around them finally came to their senses and understood what had happened.

Oh my God, someone is assassinating His Royal Highness the Emperor in the street. At the thought of encountering this shattering event, many people were already pale with fright, and even sat on the ground with their butts trembling, and they couldn't get up at all.

Li Mi was shot in the shoulder socket by a crossbow spike, and the huge force knocked him to the ground, and the great pain hit him, causing Li Mi to scream in pain.

The horse neighed, and the white horse pulling the cart of the four majestic horses was already full of crossbow nails like hedgehogs in a short moment, neighing in pain, and falling to the ground unwillingly. The flag guards who wanted to cover Yi Feng's drive to evacuate this place couldn't help but lose their color, and their horses were killed, and the carriage couldn't go. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)