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Chapter 491: The Beginning of the War

The order is done quickly, after all, it is to ask for military supplies, of course, as much as possible, to ask for more, the list opened by the military camp here is 2,000 pairs of bows, 100,000 arrows, and 1,000 catties of oil......

There is also a greasy here, but whenever a bill is issued to ask for military supplies, each battalion is generally asking for a sky-high price, obviously a battalion is only 3,000 people, and a mouth dares to ask for 2,000 bows, not to mention anything else, if they are really satisfied, the Great Song Dynasty has a hundred gold mountains and silver mountains that cannot afford to serve them. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info So someone asks for a price all over the sky, and someone pays it back, you want 2,000 pairs, and the military department is not polite, if you can verify the next 500, it is already very face-saving.

One by one, a list was sent, and a doctor asked Shen Ao if he wanted to open a list and send it over, anyway, it was public money and food, don't do it in vain, no one is polite.

Shen Ao raised his head and looked at Fang Liang, and said with a faint gaze: "I am deeply favored by the emperor, this kind of oil rubbing thing is not willing to do, it is very immoral to do so, it will be criticized by future generations in the future, life is in the world, virtue is very important, and you can't let a momentary greed ruin your reputation." After a pause, he said: "But if I don't write a list, it will be out of the mud and not stained, so many brothers have eaten with me, they have written a list, but I don't write a word, it will inevitably make everyone uneasy, feel that the things they are asking for are hot, come to someone, bring pen, ink, paper and inkstone." ”

The doctor's face was strange, and Shen Ao wrote in the list: "Ten pairs of scarves, ten pairs of cranes, three horse-drawn carriages, five pairs of feather fans, and twenty boys." ”

"Send it over, and tell those old men in the military department that the brothers are working hard in front, all for the country and the court, please don't delay, send things as soon as possible." After writing, Shen Ao clapped his hands and said.

The doctor looked at the list, put it away strangely, didn't say anything, nodded and said, "Yes." ”

At this time, a scout came to report breathlessly, Shen Ao called him in, and the scout said hoarsely: "My lord, the Tianyi Sect bandits have come out of Huazhou and Weicheng, and there are 30,000 people, rushing to the south. ”

"Thirty thousand? What does that mean? What about Wu Pen, where is he, is there any message from him? Shen Ao frowned, he originally wanted to rely on Wu Bi to confuse the Tianyi Sect, at least he could buy some time, but he didn't expect that the Tianyi Sect would be the first to make a move at this time, at least one thing can be explained, there must have been something wrong with the Tianyi Sect.

"Nope."

Shen Ao had done a lot of homework in order to confuse the Tianyi Sect before, on the one hand, he had recruited a lot of Xiang troops to strengthen his momentum, and on the other hand, he had also released words to mobilize the border army. With the situation of Tianyi Sect at this time, he actually made the first move, so at least one thing can prove that Tianyi Sect has already figured out its hole cards.

Shen Ao tried his best to make himself look indifferent, and said, "Okay, you go down to rest first, come here, beat the drum and raise the account." ”

The actions of Tianyi Sect and Bianjing City came too suddenly, one was to force Shen Ao to send troops, the other was to press the border, and there were only more than 10,000 people in the entire Bocheng Ma Jun Si Forbidden Army, although there were still many Xiang troops on the nearby front line echoing each other, but if you really want to count on them, you can't count on them.

After discussing with the battalion officers and doctors for a while, Shen Ao almost had a clear understanding, at least it could prove that someone in Bianjing City confided the news to the Tianyi Sect, and it was important military information, allowing the Tianyi Sect to see through the deployment of Bo Cheng's side, making them unscrupulous.

It's just that now that the other party has figured himself out, Shen Ao doesn't know anything about the Tianyi Sect, so he has to send many scouts to closely monitor the situation on the Tianyi Sect's side. The news soon came back, and the Tianyi Sect divided its troops into four routes, respectively to Sujuo, Fengqiu, Changheng and Bocheng, which were all portals to Bianjing, no matter where they broke through, once there was a mistake in one of the defensive lines, the consequences would be serious.

In particular, Bocheng is located in the center of the four important strongholds, and is an important hub that echoes left and right, and if something goes wrong here, then the defenders in various places may be broken by each of them.

Tianyi taught a lot of people, and he took the initiative, but at this time it made Shen Ao dumbfounded, he thought he was a chess player, but who knew that he was halfway through the chess, but now this game of chess is not what he imagined.

Things have come to the point where it is certain to hold on, the question is where should the limited forces be kept? If you concentrate on defending Bocheng, then do you still want the horned places of sour dates, sealed hills, and Changheng? If the enemy bypasses Bocheng and takes Bianjing directly, or only sends a few hundred men to appear under Bianjing, the political consequences will be extremely serious.

But once the troops are divided, what will be the consequences? In the periphery of the entire Bianjing, the only army that can really fight is the forbidden army, of course the front division of the palace and the infantry division can't be counted on, the original strength of the horse military division is also strong, at least there should be more than 40,000 people on the books, but after deducting the empty salary and the defeat of Gao Yu, the real number is only 12,000, divide these people, as long as one place is broken, then the whole line will be passive.

Even Han Shizhong is also a hand: "My lord, it seems that there are hundreds of thousands of people in this Gyeonggi, but after removing the Gongwei Gyeonggi, we have no troops available now, and the top priority is to mobilize the border army." ”

Shen Ao thought about it, shook his head with a wry smile: "As soon as the border army moves, the Xixia people will take the opportunity to enter, and even if they want to mobilize, the distant water will not be able to save the near fire, and we have to rely on ourselves for this matter." ”

Everyone discussed for a while, but they couldn't figure it out, Shen Ao immediately decided: "So far, we can only divide the troops, otherwise once the bandit army breaks through the sour dates, Fengqiu and other places, we will be alone, Deng Jian, the former military camp officer." ”

Immediately someone came out: "The end will be." ”

"You immediately lead your troops to garrison the sour dates."

"Huang Ting, the post-barracks officer."

"The end will be."

"Lead the troops to garrison Fengqiu."

"Xiong Ping, the battalion officer of the left military camp."

"The end will be."

"Lead the department to Changheng."

"The rest of the middle and right military camps are stationed in Bocheng with me, and they are co-defended with the local army, and they cannot be moved lightly without my order."

Everyone was arguing endlessly before, but at this time, Shen Aoli ignored everyone's opinion, but everyone had nothing to say, and said: "Obey!" ”

The order went down, and the battalions went to arrange one after another, and Shen Ao gave several orders in a row, one was to urge the logistics on the side of the military headquarters, and on the other hand, he ordered the troops in various places, so that they were ready to meet the attack at various passes and ferries. In addition, he had to meet with the people sent by the Xiang army from all over the country, and on the one hand appeased them, and on the other hand, ordered them to hold firm and not make any mistakes. I didn't get a good night's sleep for a few days and nights, even when I raised my cup to drink tea, my arm felt sore, and I couldn't feel strong.

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On the empty ridge, after a burst of rain washing, the air is scattered with a striking earthy fragrance, the green seedlings in the ridge have been trampled to the end, the winding team is in a serpentine shape and stretches to the end of the sky, one by one wearing linen clothes, stepping on straw sandals, wearing yellow heads and holding various weapons with various weapons slowly advancing with the team, there are also many still wearing Fan Yang hats, wearing officers and soldiers' armor, but the Fan Yang hat has a ji hair, which looks a little weird.

From time to time, someone would pass by the procession on horseback, or the herald would hold a fairy talisman, or a scout would go to report the news. On the left side of the ridge is a hill, this hill has no grass, bare, it seems to be very discordant, dozens of knights composed of horses rushed up the hillside, these people are wearing Taoist robes, the color of the clothing is red or black, for one, it is the old Xu Shenfu, Xu Shenfu is wearing a purple cloud crown today, the waist is tied with a belt, the spirit of the horse stopped on the slope, the Taoist people behind also have to rein in the horse, the frightened horses have rolled their hooves, raised the sound of the mud tearing the rhythm into a piece.

Xu Shenfu stopped on this slope and looked at the end of the team, looking high-spirited, and then looked at the sky that stretched out, shaking the white beard under his chin, and said in a deep voice: "The scout said that in three days, you can enter Gyeonggi Province, heaven and earth will protect you, and our heavenly army will be victorious." ”

A person came over slowly, this person was wearing a black Taoist robe, but his face was full of beards, and his eyes were comparable to copper bells. The man was so strong that he was pressed against the horse, and the horse was a little overwhelmed, and he was panting for breath.

Xu Shenfu glanced at him, this person's name is Wang Meng, he is the number one general under the Tianyi Sect, a few months ago, he led a group of Tianyi Sect disciples to break down the forbidden army of the Ma Jun Division, let Gao Yu return, and almost put the entire Ma Jun Division in. Not only that, when Xu Shenfu got into trouble, the local Xiang army hesitated, and Wang Meng at that time was just a miscellaneous capital in the Xiang army, but he played a great role in the critical time, with dozens of people, broke into the Xiang military camp on Gyeonggi North Road with a knife to force the local generals to obey Xu Shenfu's moderation.

For this Wang Meng, Xu Shenfu naturally favors it, this expedition, Wang Meng naturally became Xu Shenfu's right-hand man, Wang Meng's xingzi was a little rude, listened to Xu Shenfu's words, and said angrily: "Xianshang, as long as the news over there in Bianjing is accurate, stepping on Bocheng and sealing the mound is just around the corner. ”

Xu Shenfu shook his spirits and said confidently: "Since this news is said by the secretary of the Ministry of War, the news must be accurate." ”

Wang Meng said grinningly: "Why do the immortals believe in the book of the military department, maybe this is their trick or not." ”

Xu Shenfu smiled indifferently, looked at the marching team stretching down the hillside, gently calmed the restless horse sitting down, and said slowly: "No one knows better than the deity those things in Bianjing, what else can't these people do in order to fight for power and profit?" ”

The oncoming wind blew across his face, making Xu Shenfu's temples and white beard flutter, his eyes stretched far away, and he said categorically: "This is the Zhao family that the sky is going to die, I can replace it." ”