Chi Road is not just a simple road, this road was planned to be used as a march of the army from the beginning of its construction.

Therefore, hundreds of post stations were set up along the road to supply the army with food, grass and drinking water, as well as temporary rest.

The post stations are also set up in places with leeward water, and the large ones can accommodate tens of thousands of people, and the small ones have thousands of people.

Therefore, Li Jing's army is destined to be gradual in batches, because there are too many people, and it is impossible to gather in one place to rest.

The rest place of each army is planned in advance, and the post station officials will also prepare everything to welcome the army into the station, after all, it is November now, and it is marching from the northern border of the Great Sui, and there must be a place to rest at night, and the wilderness cannot survive.

The march is divided into normal march and rapid march, and the army that is drawn from Guanzhong has plenty of time, and it will never march at night, and it will not exhaust all the sharp spirit of the soldiers on the road.

But Li Jing set an example, with his command of 6,000 cavalry, all wearing armor, will march at night, so that the army can adapt to the future dangerous environment in advance, a night march, you need to rest for two or three days, after all, marching with armor, very tired, although the armor made of refined steel is not only several times stronger than before, but also lighter, greatly reducing the burden of the soldiers.

Every soldier who possesses refined ordnance treats his armor and weapons as treasures and wipes them from time to time.

"Good horse, good saddle, good armor, good knife," Yang Yuanqing took off his armor and carefully wiped it in the barracks, as if he was stroking his beloved woman.

Pei Xingyan smiled on the side: "Isn't Da Lang good at using double spears? Why did you switch to a horse lance this time? ”

"Guns, spears, and lances, as far as I am concerned, all kinds of skills and rules have been completed," Yang Yuanqing said arrogantly: "As long as it is a long weapon, I am good at it." ”

After saying that, Yang Yuanqing raised his head and said, "Please take up your position in the army." ”

Pei Xingyan laughed: "Okay, General Yang." ”

The two of them are in charge of the two thousand heavy cavalry under Li Jing, and each of them receives one thousand, why are they the two? Because the heavy cavalry has a special style of play, and both of them have studied the military book and know how to use it, because they have this kind of book at home.

Pei Xingyan is the original form of Pei Yuanqing, the author of "Speaking of the Tang Dynasty" and "The Biography of the Xingtang Dynasty", the reason why Pei Yuanqing is so awesome is because Pei Xingyan himself is very awesome.

This kid is also a big thorn in the Jingshi, quite capable of fighting, and his reputation is not as good as Yu Wenhua and Yang Xuanting, but he also belongs to the best of the generation under the two.

The weapon he makes good use of is not an eight-edged plum blossom bright silver hammer, and his mount is not a jade lion in the night, and the outfit on his body is no different from other armored horses.

The main weapon is a horse lance, and the saddle is hung with a horizontal knife, a short crossbow, a quiver, a gravel (whetstone), a large bow (unknotted cone), a lasso, a round shield, a felt hat, a felt suit, a leg, and 20 pieces of Hu cake and two buckets of rice (about 7 catties).

As for Pei Xingyan's horse, it is naturally a high-tech dragon horse that is difficult to buy, which is the standard configuration of the family.

This heavy cavalry of 2,000 people is a horse lance team, and its ability to charge into battle is quite terrifying.

According to Li Jing, the 30,000-strong infantry corps can rush into battle.

The bonfire in the barracks was constantly added with firewood, and Li Jing did not chat with others, but opened the map to study, and held a branch in his hand, drawing on the ground.

Xiao Shilian walked in from outside, holding a letter in his hand and handing it to Li Jing,

"The Archmaster's letter."

The chief manager, there is only one at the moment, and that is Yuwenshu.

After Li Jing opened the letter and read it, he immediately smiled, put the letter aside, and said:

"The chief doesn't want me to lead the cavalry and respond to his eastern flank, but His Majesty has agreed, so I don't want to listen to his orders."

Yuwen Jingli had already deployed Li Jing's arrangements and sent someone to hand it to the emperor who was still in Luoyang, and the matter was also brought to the court for discussion, and there were few who opposed it, and those who were in favor of it were the majority, so Yang Guang agreed.

But Yu Wenshu was not happy, so he wrote to Li Jing privately, hoping that the other party would stay on the West Road honestly according to the old plan.

Yuwen Jingli frowned and said: "The chief manager has arranged this time, the East Road army is a little complaining, after all, you are obviously distrusting the East Route Army, and Chief Jing (Jing Yuanheng) is the most troublesome, but Chief Wei (Wei Xuan) didn't say anything." ”

Li Jing said with a smile: "The head of Wei is a soldier, the west road and the east road are two completely different geographical situations, my west road is relatively safe, but the east road is due to the mountains and steep terrain, which will lead to the army is extremely scattered, and their cavalry is not much, less than 30,000, there are not many people close to the main force to take care of, with my help, the head of Wei should be happy to see." ”

The Great Sui went on this expedition, with a total of 200,000 cavalry, but only 100,000 were handed over to the 11th Route Vanguard Army, Li Jing took 15,000, Wei Xuan took 28,000, Duan Wenzhen in the north, and 23,000 people, and the rest were in the hands of Yuwenshu and Yu Zhongwen, which was more than 30,000.

War horses eat fine materials, which are mixed with forage, bean feed, millet rice, sorghum, and wheat bran, and they eat better than people, and the war horses are almost idle, so they have to be fed, so the fine materials are definitely not enough to eat, and they must be given priority to the vanguard army.

The main force is to fight Pyongyang, and the siege must be infantry, but the problem is that the most elite armored cavalry of Goguryeo is bound to defend Pyongyang, and the heavy cavalry is used for charging into battle.

Therefore, the main force of Yuwen Shu and Yu Zhongwen includes nearly 40,000 elite siege infantry legions, as well as 20,000 light cavalry legions and 10,000 heavy cavalry legions.

The 10,000 heavy cavalry regiment is to charge the formation, and the light cavalry regiment is to attack, cover, sneak attack, reconnaissance, outflanking, flanking, and detour, mainly using its mobility.

The heavy infantry corps of more than 40,000 people is the elite of the elite, basically from the left and right guards, equipped with the best shields, strong bows, crossbows, armor-piercing arrows, as well as stone-throwing vehicles, ballistas and other siege equipment.

Among them, there is also a 10,000-person Modao team and a 10,000-person bow and arrow team, and these two corps are matched to specialize in heavy cavalry.

That's why the army of more than 200,000 people on the east and west roads is only to cover their 70,000 troops, because the combination of these 70,000 troops is suitable for the battle of the large corps in any situation, and they are all strong and strong guards.

The only shortcoming of such a large army is that during the march, because it is a hoplite, all the ordnance, armor, grain, and grass on the march are loaded and transported on a military cart, and the march is not armoured.

Therefore, Li Jing saw the problem, and would rather offend people than ensure that the army could reach Pyongyang smoothly, and when the army opened up in the plains around Pyongyang, he would not care.

"Manager Wei, shouldn't we write a letter and ask which generals he will send to cover the main force, and we will cooperate at that time," Han Xiaoji said.

Li Jing said with a smile: "Letter, I sent someone to send it out when I was in Beijing, and the next post station should be able to wait for a reply." ”

Earlier, Yang Ming had arranged five people, Su Lie, Pei Xingyan, Liang Shidu, Luo Yi, and Qin Shubao.

Among them, Su Lie and Pei Xingyan were originally the long history of the left and right Xiaowei's cavalry, and Luo Yi and Liang Shi both joined the army for the left and right Xiaowei's leopard cavalry army, which had already been decided, but in the end, under the deliberate manipulation of someone, it was changed again.

Xiao Cavalry (belongs to the left and right Yiwei), Leopard Riding (belongs to the left and right Xiaowei), Xiongqu (belongs to the left and right Wuwei), Yulin (belongs to the left and right Tun Wei), Shooting (belongs to the left and right imperial guards), and Fei (ci) Fei (belongs to the left and right waiting guards), which are the six main military numbers.

Yu Wenshu definitely didn't want Su Lie to be under his tent, so he kicked Su Lie to Xue Shixiong, who now belongs to the Xue Shixiong Department of the Eastern Route Army.

It is equivalent to Yu Wenshu did not change your position, but changed your place of work for you, after all, their military positions are requested by the prince and approved by the emperor, and they can't be changed, but he doesn't want to use it, so he will change you to another place.

Yu Wenshu is the general manager of the marching army, and he has this right to control the armies.

And Luo Yi and Liang Shi have also changed, Luo Yi will follow Duan Wenzhen to fight Fuyu City, and Liang Shi will be a general under Yu Zhongwen, responsible for commanding 4,000 platoons of soldiers, that is, the shield spear infantry at the front, with a great probability of death.

As for Qin Shubao, people have the backer of Laihu'er, Yuwenshu doesn't want to offend Laihu'er at this time, so he is still in Zuo Yiwei, but the six sons who are the most fierce in Laihu'er are now under Wei Xuan's tent, commanding five thousand light horses.

Laihu'er doesn't want to take all his sons with him, otherwise if something happens, it will be a big deal to break the incense.

Three days later, Li Jing received a reply from Wei Xuan, and after reading the letter, Li Jing was overjoyed.

Wei Xuan is still a powerful person, and he also takes the overall situation into account, he knows that the best person who can work together with Li Jing is the prince's person, so he classified Su Lie's 3,000 light cavalry and the 5,000 light cavalry as the main flank cover, and was specifically responsible for cooperating with Li Jing.

And the 30,000 army led by Wei Xuan himself will also try to get as close to the main marching route as possible to be ready for support at any time.

On December 15, Wei Yunqi, who was in Zhuo County, received a military intelligence report that Goguryeo had two large armies crossing the Liao River, all the way to Xi, and all the way to the western Liaoning corridor, approaching Linyu Pass.

These two roads are the marching roads for the Great Sui to enter Goguryeo in the future, and they have already taken precautions, and they plan to fight with you first on your march.

"Geometry?" Wei Yunqi asked the Ranger Scout.

The scout said: "It is difficult to investigate deeply, Xi Yi has at least 3,000 cavalry, at most, I don't know, it is even more difficult to explore the sea road, our army scouts have suffered serious losses, and there is no detailed military report to bring back." ”

"Send another 1,000 scouts to investigate in two ways, and you must reconnoiter the deployment of the enemy's troops, and it is best to see the number," Wei Yunqi said.

The scout said "yes" and was ordered to leave.

Wei Baoluan on the side frowned and said, "I will immediately report to Your Majesty and report the military situation." ”

Wei Yunqi nodded, looked at a general beside him, and said in a deep voice:

"Immediately convene the generals of all departments to discuss in the military room, and those who do not arrive for no reason will be beheaded!"

(End of chapter)