After receiving fifty military sticks, Yuan Tiangang limped to the county yazheng hall to participate in the military meeting. Wang Rong glanced at him, did not speak, and then listened to Zhang Yunshu talk about the plan to join the military department.

Zhang Yunshu pointed to Xindu and said: "Xindu City is four zhang high, the city wall is more than ten zhang thick, there is a moat outside, there is a triple palace city inside, the city is twenty-five miles around, known as Jizhou Jiancheng.

Our army is now only 60,000 people, and it is difficult to attack such a large-scale city, and according to the intelligence of the Detective Affairs Department, there are 100,000 soldiers and horses in the city of Xindu, and the number of troops is still increasing.

By the time our army arrives in Xindu, it is estimated that the Ji army will reach 200,000."

Li Sujie was speechless, and he asked in disbelief, "Another 200,000? Are we on a par with 200,000?"

Wang Rong listened to Li Sujie's complaints, and didn't say much, he looked at the map and said, "No matter how many enemy troops there are on the road ahead, we must take Xindu City and destroy the Ji Kingdom. Because of such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it is difficult to come across it in the future. Youguo in the north and Yi in the east are fighting against the Japanese army, and they have no time to take care of anything else. It is certainly possible for the Yu State to the south to move north, but I have urgently requisitioned An Hao's 3rd Division into Hanoi County to block the path of support from the Yu State."

Zhang Yunshu nodded and said: "It is precisely because of this that the military division still recommends that the military commander wave his army south to Xindu, if this opportunity is given up, once the Ji country is relieved, we want to destroy the Ji country again, it will be a few years later."

Wang Rong looked at the people in the hall and said loudly, "Go south to Xindu today, and all the armies will be ready for battle!" At the same time, we should hurry up the replenishment of the army. The Guards Division was upgraded to the Armed Guards, and the Guards Battalion was upgraded to the Guards Division, with a capacity of 15,300 people; The Wolf Cavalry Brigade was upgraded to a jockey division with a capacity of 15,400 people; Jing Saiyi was promoted from brigade to hussar, with a capacity of 15,400 men; The Xiandeng Brigade was upgraded to the Tengxiang Division, with a capacity of 15,300 people; The Trap Brigade was upgraded to a Martial Division, with a total strength of 15,300 men."

The Guards Division became the first unit in the Tang Dynasty to be promoted to the army, and the commander of the Armed Guards was personally served by Wang Rong, and Li Sujie was the military commander.

Wang Rong continued: "It is impossible for our Tang State to have no unified command of the army, in fact, we have gone all the way from the Tang Army to the Tang Army, and the unified command organization has already taken shape. Now, in this Bocheng, the Tang Governor's Mansion was formally established, with Zhang Songqi as the governor, Li Sujie as the governor, Zhang Yunshu and Meng Song as the governors, and the Governor's Mansion under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Command Division and the Wei Command Division, and the Metropolitan Command Division now has the army of the Wuwei Army, and the Wei Command Division has the first to ninth divisions, which will be upgraded to the army one by one in the future. The three generals, Yin He, Song Wenbai, and Song Mingbu, have to work hard."

Wang Rong continued: "Now that the Wuwei army is short of personnel, they recruit prisoners and educate them, and recruit young people from Yongji and Sanzhou for training."

Li Sujie nodded, now it can only be like this. While recruiting too many recruits can lead to a decrease in combat effectiveness, it only takes a few battles to make a recruit a veteran.

When the Tang army inside and outside the city of Xia Bo reorganized the military supplies and prepared to go south, the city of Xindu was also busy.

Zhao Yan walked on the head of the north city wall, his eyes full of sorrow. Just as he was looking out into the wilderness to the north, the sound of a clashing of nails and leaves caught his attention.

I saw more than a dozen generals and colonels boarding the city together and walking towards Zhao Yin. Behind Zhao Yin, Minister Lian Yan introduced, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, these more than a dozen generals are the experienced soldiers of our Ji Kingdom selected by the Holy Lord and the ministers for you. The first is ......."

Without waiting for Lian Yu to finish speaking, Zhao Yan had already walked up quickly, supported the leader who was about to bow down, and said in an excited tone, "General Pang, please get up quickly."

The person who was the leader was Pang Jun, the general of the Ji State, who was fifty-five years old at the time and was already old, but now he was re-invited to help Zhao Yang guard the Xindu.

Zhao Yan looked at the general behind Pang Jun, didn't care about the cold and asked for warmth, and soon talked about the defense of Xindu. Emperor Zhao Huan of Ji is now afraid of the Tang army, he strictly ordered the crown prince Zhao Yan and the generals to only defend and not go out of the city, and arranged the defenders of each city, and called the prince and Lian Yu to take charge of the military power and send troops.

Pang Jun looked at Zhao Yan and Lian Yu and said, "It's July soon, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter. The Tang Army has been fighting outside the country for several years, again

First defeated the Japanese army, and then defeated the general Zheng Tang. They attacked Xindu, completely holding on to the last breath. As long as His Royal Highness and the Minister of State stabilize their minds, calmly dispatch, and hold the Xindu for ten days, the Tang army will not be able to attack for a long time, and its morale will be low, and they will retreat."

Zhao Yan nodded slightly, and raised his eyebrows a little heroic: "As long as we hold on for ten days, when the Tang army loses troops and loses generals, morale is low, and the reinforcements from the peripheral Qinwang arrive, we will go out and defeat the Tang army!"

Three days later, Wang Rong's army had already arrived in the city. Zhao Yan, the prince of Jiguo, took Lian Yu and Pang Jun to the city tower to boost morale!

As soon as Zhao Yan climbed up the city tower, he was stunned when he saw the scene outside the city!

He had never seen such a magnificent scene, at this time the city outside the city of Xindu was crowded with people, flags covering the sun, and horses neighing like dragons. As the largest city in Jizhou, Xindu is an important political, economic and military town, and the city wall is indeed high and thick, but any city is not just defended by the wall, and there must be sufficient troops, especially this kind of big city, the more scattered the troops, the more people are needed!

The Ji army has requisitioned many people back and forth, and has just reached the scale of 200,000 people. However, it was spread in Xindu City, but it still gave Zhao Yang a feeling of thinness.

Zhao Yan looked at the Tang army outside the Xindu City for a while, and soon noticed that something was wrong, he looked back at Lian Yu and Pang Jun and asked, "Prime Minister and old general, I'm afraid this Tang army already has 200,000, right?"

Lian Yu looked at the Tang army outside the city, his face was pale, he really didn't expect Wang Rong to have such ability, and in just a few days, he made up for the Tang army's losses in Xiabo City, and there were even more troops.

Pang Jun squinted his eyes and carefully observed the Tang army, and after a while, his face became much better, he looked at Zhao Yan and Lian Wei, and said, "His Royal Highness the Prince, Your Excellency, don't worry about the Tang army outside the city, they are just bluffing."

Zhao Yan and Lian Yan showed puzzled looks, Pang Jun didn't sell it, he pointed to the Tang army outside the city and said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Prime Minister, please see, the Tang army outside the city is not in array, and the marches of the various armies are very uncoordinated. This shows that these soldiers of the Tang Army are all grass people who have been temporarily recruited, and he is just a farmer who has just put down his farm tools, and he has no combat effectiveness at all, and he is so chaotic that he does not know the military order. If this Wang Rong wants to capture Xindu with this kind of army, it is tantamount to a fool's dream."