On the twenty-eighth day of the first month of the second year of Yonglong, the departure ceremony of the Dingxiangdao army was held outside the Mingde Gate.

Because Emperor Li Zhi was seriously ill and could not preside over the affairs of the court, the crown prince Li Xian was in charge of state affairs, and the ceremony of the expedition was also presided over by Li Xian.

Because Li Zhi did not attend the ceremony, and Wu Zetian did not come to attend the ceremony, Li Xian led almost most of the important ministers of the court to see off the soldiers outside the Mingde Gate.

The ceremony of the expedition is still solemn and warm, and the content of the last expedition ceremony is almost the same, sacrifice to the sky, tell the temple, sacrifice to the gods of mountains and rivers, the etiquette of the ceremony can not be sloppy for half a day, the only difference from the last expedition ceremony, but the person who presided over the ceremony was changed from Li Zhi to Li Xian, and after the energetic Li Xian awarded the festival and Yue that symbolized military power to Pei Xingjian, the general manager of the march of Dingxiang Road, the expedition ceremony was also nearing the end.

With the oath of the soldiers who participated in the ceremony led by Pei Xingjian to end, the assembled army set off in an orderly manner.

Liu Yi, who followed Pei Xingjian to participate in the ceremony, took the lead in running out of the ranks of generals, jumped on the war horse tied to the side, and ran towards his own department, as the head of the former army, Liu Yi's leadership will walk at the front of the entire army, and he must be the first to return to the team.

On this expedition, most of Liu Yi's family, including his mother Zhang, his two brothers and sisters-in-law, Xiaoyun and other maids, came to see him off, and of course, Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er, the two women who were most concerned about Liu Yi, must also come. It's just that this time Liu Yi quietly warned when he was appreciating the lanterns on the Shangyuan Festival that day, especially to tell Princess Taiping that there should be no more things that attracted everyone's attention and were teased by the soldiers like last time, and the two girls also agreed, and they didn't run out this time, and said goodbye to Liu Yi in public, the two just snuggled up to each other, and waved goodbye to Liu Yi with tears in the place where Liu Yi had to pass.

Liu Yi rode to chase the wind, walked at the forefront of the whole team with a group of personal guards, and after passing where Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er stood, he also greeted these two women who were desperately waving to him and shouting loudly, and gave them a very standard military salute of the future, and then sent away, and the soldiers behind him also raised their speed, rolled up the sand and dust in the sky, and quickly galloped to the east.

The army marched east along the Yellow River, exited Tongguan and then turned to Fenshui, marching in the direction of Jinju.

The army marched relatively fast, arriving in Jinju on the fifteenth day after setting out from Chang'an.

The day before arriving in Jinju, the weather suddenly changed, the north wind blew violently, the temperature plummeted, and a spring snow hit. The snow was very heavy, and it was difficult for the army to proceed, and Liu Yi, who was at the front, also received an order from Pei Xingjian, and the army rested in Jinzhou City.

Tens of thousands of troops did not all enter Jinzhou City, but most of them camped outside the city, only some high-ranking generals can enter the city, as the former army commander Liu Yi also led the army to be stationed outside Jinzhou City, and then other teams were camped outside Jinzhou City within a radius of nearly ten miles.

Liu Yi's camp is set up less than a mile outside the south gate of Jinzhou, after arriving at the destination, Liu Yi immediately ordered all the generals under his subordinates to lead the soldiers to camp in the snow, perhaps Liu Yi in the pre-war high-intensity training, so that the soldiers were afraid, after Liu Yi's order was issued, the subordinate generals did not dare to be careless, personally led the soldiers to set up camp, less than an hour, nearly 1,000 military tents required by 6,000 generals were erected outside the south gate of Jinzhou.

After the camp tent was set up, Liu Yi immediately went to his tent to discuss matters and arrange the guard task of the battalion.

After all the summoned officers arrived, Liu Yi paced two steps on the tent with his hands behind his back, majestically swept the faces of these officers under the tent, and said in a very stern tone: "Brothers, although we are still on the march now, but as the front army of the army, we must not be careless at all, no matter where we are camped, we must always be vigilant and strictly guard against any possible situation, without the permission of the general, no unrelated personnel are allowed to enter the camp!" If there is any situation, you must report it immediately, and if there is a mistake, Hugh blames the general for not being merciful!"

Liu Yi's opening remarks with a cold face made all the officers in the tent feel cold, Liu Yi had seen the means of punishing the sergeant during the training before the expedition, that is, no one was merciful, and even Jinghui and Huan Yanfan, who had a good personal relationship with Liu Yi, were punished for making small mistakes, under the intimidation of Liu Yi's various means, no one dared to challenge his authority, and now this warning, no one dares to take it seriously.

Li Jingjia and Hua Dazhi, who have led the army many times, also have to admire Liu Yi, although Liu Yi is young, he is very experienced in acting, especially in leading troops, he is vigorous and resolute, and Pei Xingjian is the same, and his subordinates are not allowed to violate military discipline in the slightest.

Those who have led troops in battle know that discipline is the foundation of an army, and only a well-disciplined army can ensure strong combat effectiveness, and only in combat can it bravely kill the enemy under the effective command of the commander-in-chief, but it is not so easy to subdue his subordinates.

Most of the officers in the tent have participated in battles, and they all like to be subordinate to the generals who are brave in battle and decisive in killing, only such generals will lead them to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and get the commendation of the imperial court from you, Liu Yi is such a hero, his ability has been fully proven in the last battle, Liu Yi said that such a threatening speech did not make them feel afraid.

And Li Yifeng and other officers who went out for the first time who had not participated in the battle were afraid of Liu Yi's words, especially Li Yifeng, a lieutenant who consciously had a good relationship with Liu Yi, he still had a trace of luck when he joined the army, thinking that if he made a mistake, Liu Yi might open the net, but it turned out that he was wrong, he was punished by Liu Yi for violating military regulations several times, and at first complained about Liu Yi, but after seeing that Liu Yi also dealt with other soldiers in the same way, he had nothing to say.

Li Yifeng was recommended by Liu Yi this time to go out with the army, and he was also assigned to Liu Yi's army as a lieutenant, and he hoped that this time he could follow Liu Yi to kill the enemy on the battlefield and make meritorious contributions, so as to seek promotion.

Liu Yi saw that everyone responded in unison, no one looked dissatisfied, and he was very satisfied, and then ordered some other people in detail, and ordered everyone to disperse.

Liu Yi knew that Pei Xingjian, who was nearly ten miles behind the army he led, might have just entered the city at this moment and had not yet settled down, so he was going to enter the city in another hour or two to report the situation to Pei Xingjian.

After the officers dispersed, Liu Yi also lit a fire in the tent, and was fascinated by a combat map drawn by himself in combination with the existing map, plus the situation in the Yinshan area that he had detected during the last expedition, and he was thinking about how this battle would begin.

While Liu Yi was pondering on the map, a lieutenant in charge of guarding the gate of the camp quickly ran to Liu Yi's tent and reported loudly: "General, General Pei Da has sent someone to pass the word, and he will come to our army's camp in a moment!"

"Oh!" Liu Yi was shocked, immediately picked up the military hat that was resting on the case, and shouted loudly: "Immediately order General Yang, General Zhang and his subordinate generals to greet General Pei..."

When Liu Yi and his subordinates who came one after another braved the heavy snow to greet him outside the tent gate, Pei Xingjian had already led his subordinates to come in from the big camp gate.

Liu Yi saluted with the generals and reported loudly: "Qi Qi Marshal, the last general, Liu Yi, the former commander of the army, led the generals under his command to greet the marshal here!"

Pei Xingjian returned the salute, jumped off the horse, pointed to the tent in the camp, and said to Liu Yi with a smile: "General Liu, is the movement quite fast, your camp has been erected before the commander has entered Jinzhou City, not bad!"

Liu Yi, who was praised by Pei Xingjian, did not show any smug expression, and still reported loudly: "Great commander, swift action is the foundation of an army's victory, and the last general will not dare to slack off at any time!"

"Okay, go to your tent, this snow doesn't seem to stop all of a sudden," Pei Xingjian glanced at the generals under Liu Yi a few times, "You all go to your own business, you don't have to come with Ben Shuai!"

"Yes, Dashuai!" Yang Yuanyan, Zhang Qianqiao and other generals all dispersed after saluting.

Pei Xingjian, accompanied by Liu Yi, entered Liu Yi's tent, and everyone else stayed outside the tent.

Liu Yi personally untied the cloak full of snowflakes for Pei Xingjian, handed it to the guards outside the tent, and asked Pei Xingjian: "Dashuai, you haven't entered the city yet?" ”

"The speed of the Chinese army is not as fast as your department, after getting the report that you sent someone over, this commander will also stop by your camp to take a look, and then enter the city later!" Pei Xingjian smiled and reached out to the charcoal stove to make a fire.

Liu Yi stood beside Pei Xingjian and asked again: "Dashuai, such bad weather will definitely delay the army's journey, if it snows heavily for several days, it will inevitably bring a lot of trouble to the march of my army and the subsequent attack!"

There is heavy snow in Jinzhou, presumably there will be more snow in Bingzhou, Shengzhou, and Youzhou in the north, and there will be a lot of trouble along the way, if there is any cold spring, and there will be a few more snowfalls on the grassland of Anbei, then the time when our army was scheduled to start attacking must be delayed, and the Youzhou border army, which marched north one step ahead of the army from Chang'an, and the men and horses of Cao Huaishun, who was stationed in Shan Yu Duhufu, and Cao Huaishun, the deputy general and the general of the Right Military Guard, must linger in the area of Shan Yu Duhufu for a long time, which will bring disadvantages to the later attack of our army.

Pei Xingjian straightened up, walked to the map hanging in front of Liu Yi's account, looked at it seriously, and said after a while: "Yi'an, after our army rests in Jinzhou for three days, no matter what the weather conditions, we must continue to march north, and strive to reach Shengzhou before the end of February, and launch an attack on the Turkic rebels in mid-March!"

"Teacher, what is the attack mission of my department?" Liu Yi asked softly. Because it is still far away from the area of Shan Yu Duhufu, the situation of the Turks is changing at any time, Pei Xingjian has not yet summoned the generals to arrange specific war arrangements, and the specific arrangements should be arranged after arriving in the Shuozhou area, but Liu Yi wants to know what tasks Pei Xingjian wants his troops to perform.

"The task of your department is to rush to the area of Nuo Zhenshui with an extremely fast travel speed, and go straight to Ashina's lair!" Pei Xingjian pointed to a place name marked with Golden Tooth Mountain on the map, "This is the place where Ashina Fu Nian built a tooth tent, we have to attack the tooth tent when the Turks did not expect it, this commander will hand over this task to you, and the rest of the troops will attack the area where the Turkic tribes are distributed from several directions, but before the military order is issued, this situation must not be disclosed to anyone!"

"The Admiral understands!" Hearing Pei Xingjian say this, Liu Yi was overjoyed!

(To be continued)