When Meng Li, Cao Yukun, Zhou Shun, and Lin Ping arrived at the handsome tent, they saw that Ji Qingchen was discussing something with Bai Xiangcheng, and when they saw the four Ji Qingchen, they said with a smile, "Sit down, the four of you will talk first, and you may have to be in the same boat in the future." ”

"No!" Meng Li, Cao Yukun, Zhou Shun, and Lin Ping received the order, although they didn't know the meaning of Ji Qingchen's words, they began to greet each other in a low voice after saluting each other. It wasn't until Ji Qingchen and Bai Xiangcheng finished discussing the matter that Bai Xiangcheng strode away from the tent before Ji Qingchen asked Meng Li, "Meng Li, let you lead a cavalry of 100,000 people, and face 60,000 Beirong elite cavalry, what are your chances of winning?" ”

"I wonder if these 100,000 cavalry are new soldiers or veterans?" Meng Li asked, his answer was very cautious, but he didn't impulsively say that he would have a chance of winning without asking questions like ordinary generals.

"Newly recruited soldiers, you still need to train them yourself." Ji Qingchen said.

"If His Royal Highness can give the last general half a year of training time, after half a year, if the 100,000 cavalry of the new army are against 60,000 Beirong elite cavalry, the last general will have a forty percent chance of winning." Meng Li replied, the implication was that it would take less than half a year for him to lead such a cavalry to fight against Beirong, and he would have no chance of winning.

The conversation between the two was heard in the ears of Cao Yukun, Zhou Shun, and Lin Ping, and they were also very surprised, let Meng Li command 100,000 cavalry, and let them talk to Meng Li, could it be that they would be arranged to serve in this new army? Now the nine of them except Li Changzheng are all in the Black Eagle Cavalry in Baixiang City, and one person can only lead 10,000 cavalry, if they go to the newly formed cavalry, it is no problem to command 20,000 or 30,000 cavalry in their capacity!

Thinking like this, the three of them couldn't help but move their eyes to Ji Qingchen.

"What, you guys have an idea?" Ji Qingchen asked Cao Yukun and the others.

"There is an idea of the humble position, that is, I don't know if His Royal Highness Lu Dao can agree, if His Royal Highness agrees, the humble position has the ability to train a 20,000-strong cavalry within two months, and it can fight against 20,000 Beirong elite cavalry." Cao Yukun said worriedly, a little afraid of Ji Qingchen's appearance, and didn't dare to look at Ji Qingchen's eyes.

"Tell me, this king will hear what the solution is." Ji Qingchen said with a smile.

He knows Wang Yin, Liu Qingqing and others very well, except for Bai Xiangcheng who can suppress them, he is the only one who can make this group of gentlemen afraid in Caozhou City.

"Do you want to ask where we are going to train these 100,000 new troops?" Cao Yukun asked.

"Shangzhou." Ji Qingchen replied.

"If His Highness can hand over all the criminals over the age of sixteen and under the age of forty in the Shangzhou Prison to the lowly position, the lowly position has the ability to train a strong cavalry for His Highness within two months, and the combat effectiveness will definitely have the strength to fight against the 20,000 cavalry of Beirong." Cao Yukun said, his eyes full of anticipation.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, not to mention Lin Ping and Zhou Shun, who had been thinking about him for a long time, were a little surprised by Cao Yukun's bold and reckless ideas, that is, Meng Li, who had always been calm and did not express his emotions easily, frowned a little. Training criminals in the prison into a cavalry is unprecedented!

It's not necessarily a no-go, but it's not necessarily a no-go.

It depends on how bold the implementer is and how ruthless the trainer is.

"How many death row prisoners are there in Shangzhou? How many are there in Xingzhou? How much is Yunzhou? Ji Qingchen asked, "Can the number of death row prisoners in these three states reach 100,000?" ”

"I don't think so, at most 40,000." Meng Li replied.

"Forty thousand is enough." Ji Qingchen muttered to himself, and said to Cao Yukun, "This king promised you, this king will take Yunzhou." The death row prisoners of Shangzhou and Xingzhou are all given to you, and after two months, this king will see a 40,000 cavalry dead soldiers who do not belong to the Beirong elite cavalry, if you can't complete the task, you won't come to see this king. ”

"No!" Cao Yukun commanded.

"You can do it now! By the way, your 40,000 people will form an army alone, and they do not belong to Meng Li's command, as for the name of this cavalry, you can choose a better one yourself, and the money, food, weapons, armor and war horses needed for this cavalry you formed will be asked for by Shangzhou, and they will provide it to you. Ji Qingchen said.

"Your Highness, rest assured, Cao Yukun will not disappoint Your Highness!" Cao Yukun took the order and strode away from the tent.

As soon as Cao Yukun left, Shuai Zhangzhong was left with Ji Qingchen, Meng Li, Lin Ping, and Zhou Shun.

"This king has just reached an agreement with the Shangzhou Wei clan, they are willing to provide all the weapons and materials needed by the 100,000 cavalry, and will also help you recruit soldiers, so that you can train a cavalry of 100,000 people in order to fight against the 60,000 Beirong elite cavalry that Haoge has already killed in Shangzhou, but their request is that they want to let Ji Zhao be the supervisor in your army, just to share half of your military achievements." Speaking of this, Ji Qingchen, who had paused, continued, "Can you tell me what you think?" ”

"Is it the King of Wilder?" Zhou Shun asked.

"Yes, it's the son of the late prince, the current King Ji Zhao of Huaide County." Ji Qingchen said, his eyes moved to Meng Li, because Meng Li was the guard of Ji Chengqian, the late prince of Dayan, and now Ji Zhao's son Ji Chengqian was in his cavalry to supervise the army, and he wanted to see how Meng Li would react.

"Let's divide it, Zhou Shun has no opinion, anyway, as long as you follow His Highness, are you afraid that you will lose the opportunity to make meritorious contributions?" Zhou Shun said. What he said was the truth, because they knew that Ji Qingchen's ambition was not only to destroy a Beirong, but also Xishu, the Eastern Wilderness, the Lingnan Yi tribe, and even the departure from the country, if you want to destroy so many countries, you need a strong army, as long as you have a cavalry in your hand, are you afraid that there will be no chance to make meritorious service at that time?

"Yes, Lin Ping has no opinion." Lin Ping said.

"If the Metropolitan Governor agrees to the Wei family, Meng Li will have no opinion, but the King of Huaide County has come to the army to supervise the army, and he is not allowed to interfere in military affairs, and he cannot dictate the command of the last general." Meng Li said.

"Don't worry about this, this king thinks Ji Zhao has a sense of proportion, if it doesn't work, you don't pay attention to him, what he wants is military merit, what we want is a cavalry, just take what you need." Ji Qingchen said.

He was very satisfied with Meng Li's reaction to Ji Zhao, and Meng Li was afraid that Ji Zhao would dictate his command, which showed that Meng Li had no feelings for Ji Zhao.

"Since His Royal Highness said so, the last general received the order, it cannot be said that in two months, he can train an army that is enough to fight against 60,000 Beirong elite cavalry, and these 100,000 people can be used to prevent Beirong from going south to Xingzhou, Mengli can still do it." Meng Li said confidently.

"With your words, this king can rest assured, this king didn't give it to you, let Zhou Shun and Lin Ping be your deputies!" Ji Qingchen said, "This king hopes that the three of you will do something after you arrive in Shangzhou, and don't let the Shangzhou Wei clan underestimate our Northern Liao Metropolitan Governor's Mansion." ”

"No!" Meng Li, Lin Ping, and Zhou Shun took the order and strode away from the tent.

As soon as the three of them left, Bai Xiangcheng walked into the handsome tent, "Your Highness, the Black Eagle Rider, the Dragon Horse Rider and the Devil Rider are ready to go, I don't know when the road will start?" ”

"Let's go in the evening!" Ji Qingchen said, "You said that with the agreement reached between this king and the Wei clan, these 100,000 cavalry were newly formed, plus Cao Yukun's 40,000 elite cavalry, how many of these 360,000 elite cavalry will be left after the battle with Beirong?" ”

"There are probably less than 200,000 left!" Bai Xiangcheng said in a low voice.

"Do you want to lose half of the men?" Ji Qingchen asked, feeling a little unwilling, Dayan is not Beirong, it is not a young man who can get on a horse and kill the enemy, it takes a long time to train and train, and it costs a lot of money to train a cavalry. In this battle, nearly 200,000 cavalry will be lost, which will require how much money, manpower and material resources Da Yan will pay, and how much time will it take to cultivate such a cavalry!

"Your Highness, if we lose 200,000 troops, it will be enough to annihilate the 200,000 Beirong cavalry that entered the pass!" Bai Xiangcheng said.

"You are greedy, this king does not dare to expect to annihilate so many Beirong cavalry, as long as you cut off the heads of Hakesu and Meng Buge, and then destroy 100,000 Beirong elite cavalry, this king will be content." Ji Qingchen said with a smile.

"Your Highness values Haksu and Meng Buge so much? Can the two of them defeat 100,000 Beirong elite horsemen? Bai Xiangcheng was puzzled.

"There are a lot of people in Beirong who can fight, but there are too few brave and resourceful people, Meng Buge and Hakesu are both wise and resourceful characters, if this battle cuts off the heads of the two of them, it will be more polite to our Dayan than to destroy 100,000 Beirong elite horsemen." Ji Qingchen said, "However, it's not bad to leave these two people to Mo Dahan, doesn't it mean that the position of the Great Khan of Beirong was originally Meng Buge, but it was taken away by Mo Dahan?" If these two tricky figures were left to Modahan, the king would be happy to see Beijon fall apart internally. ”

"Your Highness said this, has he already come up with a strategy to break the enemy?" Bai Xiangcheng asked.

"Didn't Brother Xiang Cheng also come up with a countermeasure?" Ji Qingchen said with a smile. Bai Xiangcheng glanced at Ji Qingchen, the two looked at each other, with a look of understanding, and then laughed loudly.

At night, the gate of Caozhou City opened. I saw that Ji Qingchen, the guardian of the eight hundred Xiao cavalry battalion and the four hundred white cavalry battalion, came out of Caozhou City, and there was a soldier behind them, but this infantry was each equipped with a war horse, and the war horse was very heavy, but let the infantry be equipped with a war horse, which was a very luxurious configuration, and it was not common in the entire Dayan, and this was a heavy infantry formed by Xiang Ziyu.

When this team left Caozhou City, they disappeared in the darkness and disappeared outside Caozhou City. The horses in the three cavalry battalions outside Caozhou neighed all night, and the next day the 220,000 troops of the Dragon Horseman, the Black Eagle Horseman, and the Devil Rider also disappeared, leaving only an empty camp with a few yellowed flags fluttering.

When his cavalry was only 400 miles away from Caozhou City, he received news from the scouts that the 220,000 cavalry in Caozhou City had disappeared overnight, so he ordered the army to stop marching and camp in place.

He summoned the generals to discuss the military situation in the big tent of the Chinese army.