Chapter 517: Windfall and Railroad
(There is also a chapter where the transition is completed and the final battle begins)
When a long wake-up call was passed to his ears, Xu Feng almost immediately bounced up from the bed like a conditioned reflex.
Then, compared to the old king next door, when the neighbor's man suddenly came back, he quickly put his clothes on his body.
It was only when he was halfway through that he reacted:
Special! Last night, the team held a meeting with Yue Fei, Ma Kuo and other high-level leaders of the new army, and it lasted until more than three o'clock in the middle of the night, and it was already four o'clock after returning to the unit.
In order to sleep a little more so as not to be suddenly killed; Didn't you tell the guards that you don't need to call him in the morning, so that you can sleep until you wake up naturally?
The result? At the sound of the wake-up call, I woke up reflexively.
Obviously he is in the modern plane, just a greasy electrician in his forties, but he was born in the mission world and was tossed into an iron-blooded soldier.
If you think about such a thing for a while, there is only one thought: create evil!
While silently complaining about such a point in his heart, Xu Feng took off the clothes he had just put on halfway through, got into the quilt that still had residual warmth, closed his eyes, and planned to continue to sleep for a while......
The problem is that after getting into the bed, Xu Feng tossed and turned, but he couldn't sleep again anyway.
So I couldn't help but think of the content of last night's meeting; Or to put it another way, in the last few days, I have been in meetings almost every night.
The reason why in recent days, there have been meetings every night.
And there is a reason why it is in the middle of the night as soon as it opens.
Today's time is already the thirteenth day of the first month of the second year of Maode, that is to say, if according to Hu Biao's plan to start the Northern Expedition on the first day of the second month of February.
It is only a little more than half a month before the official start of that big war.
Thanks to his unusually good physical fitness under the perennial exercise, Xu Feng was discharged from the hospital after the serious injuries suffered by Zhu Xianzhen more than half a month ago.
Then in the first time, he was sent out of the army by Hu Biao.
From that time to today.
In addition to the Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month, when the soldiers of the new army were given two days off, Xu Feng also rested a little.
The rest of the time was spent training and grinding in with his troops.
It should be noted that the new army, which has now been expanded once, has been organized into three infantry corps.
Among them, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Infantry Divisions under the First Army, plus the 1st Cavalry Division; The 2nd Army was subordinate to the 4th, 5th, and 6th Infantry Divisions, plus a 2nd Cavalry Division.
The last infantry, the 3rd Infantry Division, consisted of the 7th and 8th Infantry Divisions, plus the 1st and 2nd Volunteer Divisions; Even if it is an army, it has a scale of 40,000 people.
After Xu Feng recovered, he assumed the position of commander of the Second Army.
In fact, Xu Feng originally planned to serve as the deputy commander, and the commander asked one of his original regiment commanders in the new army to serve as him.
In this way, if they complete the task, they are suddenly teleported away by the system; Nor will it allow the troops, there was an uncontrolled riot.
The problem is that the head of the regiment under Xu Feng's former subordinates said that he would not dare to suppress Xu Feng in his official position.
So he could only be demoted and became a deputy commander.
But in general, such an operation is not a big problem; It's nothing more than to raise this deputy commander as much as possible in the later time to increase his prestige.
As for the 1st and 2nd Artillery Divisions, there are also three divisions, the Rocket Artillery Division.
They belong to the headquarters of the Forces nouvelles, and some combat units directly under them......
At this time, there are naturally a lot of things about the Northern Expedition; All sorts of problems have popped up one by one and need to be solved, at least with a response plan.
For example:
First, according to the latest information from Dongchang, the Jinguo side carried out the greatest mobilization in this winter.
Even if the strong and military leaders in the north are only dispatched to deal with the old and weak under this mobilization, they obviously have not done their best and are waiting.
But with the almost universal mobilization of the Jurchens and the crazy support of some hardcore traitors.
On the Jin side, there is still a real army with at least 600,000 troops, not what it claims; Among them, the pure Jurchen troops have about 130,000 or 40,000.
Faced with the threat of complete annihilation, any Jurchen who could ride a horse and shoot a bow and arrow would now fill the battlefield in this battle.
Even in the winter, they are training to fight firearms units.
It's a pity that those Jurchens did an extremely good job of secrecy in this regard, and for a while, even the fans of the West Factory didn't know what way those Jurchens came up with to deal with their firearms.
Therefore, under the expedition of laborers, they did not dare to be careless at all.
Every day, I deduce all kinds of possibilities and make some predictions in advance.
second, according to some reliable information transmitted back by the personnel planted in Western Xia by the Zhe family; After the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty began, the Western Xia would also almost come out of the nest and attack and disrupt the Great Song Dynasty with all their might.
With a population of just over 2 million, the Standing Army of Western Xia was originally only more than 50,000 people.
This time, they will mobilize a terrorist army of 500,000, and in addition to the 100,000 or so people who remain behind, the remaining 400,000 troops will attack the Great Song Dynasty in three ways.
That's right, it's such a small country that actually mobilized 500,000 troops.
There is nothing more about this because of the military system of the Tangut people that is crazy to the extreme.
Once they encountered war, men over the age of 15 and under the age of 70 in the Western Xia must be conscripted into the army; And in their army, there are still a considerable number of 'Ma Kui'.
The so-called 'Ma Kui' is actually some female soldiers with strong bodies.
In addition, they also hired the Uighur tribes of Gaochang and Tubo to temporarily fight for themselves in gold, silver, grain, silk cloth, cattle and horses.
It is precisely this kind of madness, which can even be described as 'desperate', that the Western Xia was able to mobilize so many people.
Considering the sharpness of the Tangut people's bow and horse, the threat in this direction is far greater than at the beginning.
Originally, the plan of dispatching one or two divisions of the new army to unite with the Zhejia family to resist the Western Xia attack was considered, but now I am afraid that it is very unrealistic.
Now the controversy is whether to send the Second Army or the Third Army.
Third, in Hu Biao's preparations for the Northern Expedition, hundreds of kinds of equipment and materials, such as weapons, armor, grain and grass, and medicines, were provided.
Because of the good cooperation of all parts of the Great Song Dynasty, the preparation was quite full and smooth.
However, when it came time to set off, there was an unexpected and headache in logistics.
It was this winter, and the weather was much colder than usual.
If the weather is according to previous years, often at the end of the first lunar month, the waterway from Kaifeng City to Yanjing Gaoliang River, even if the river surface has not completely thawed, only a thin layer of ice remains.
As long as an icebreaker with a reinforced hull and a steam engine is installed to open the way, the impact on the ship will definitely be somewhat, but not too great.
Words of the year? Even now, there is still a thick layer of ice on the river.
Even if the icebreaker can force its way through the ice, the boats that follow it will be in great danger from the impact of large pieces of broken ice in the river.
Anyway, if the weather does not completely warm up in the next half a month, then the Northern Expeditionary Army can only rely on a large number of people and carts, such a means to transport grain and grass.
To know! Between Kaifeng and Yanjing, there is a distance of 1,2300 miles.
People eat horses and chew along the way, and a cart of grain and grass is not good and half of it is consumed halfway through.
In response to this point, Yue Fei and Ma Kuo, the deputy envoys of the Privy Council, put forward a proposal to delay the Northern Expedition for a month or two.
Frankly, such a suggestion is quite practical.
But didn't the task of the system force Hu Biao and others to start in advance?
In short, as the Northern Expedition was about to begin, all kinds of things suddenly became more and more, in order to negotiate some solutions.
Recently, I have been holding meetings every day, and now Xu Feng feels that his brain is all open to 'buzz~'......
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Because of the chaotic thoughts in his head, Xu Feng tossed and turned on the bed for several minutes, not only did he not succeed in falling asleep, but he was very upset with some indescribable distraction.
When I heard a large number of footsteps on the colonel's field outside the field, it should be after the troops under his command began to assemble and then prepare to start the daily five-kilometer weight-bearing cross-country.
Xu Feng simply didn't sleep, and after getting up again, he began to put clothes on his body.
In this process, I didn't forget to put an iron armor on my coat and a backpack full of bricks on my back, which was considered to be ready to carry weights.
A minute later, after pushing open the door of the room and feeling the ecstasy feeling of a cold wind blowing on his body, he immediately muttered a sentence in Xu Feng's mouth:
"Shhh This weather is so cold~"
But even so, Xu Feng, who was dressed relatively thinly, still did not wear a thick bearskin coat.
Just a little movement of the hands and feet, after basically completing the warm-up, it was to take the two guards who had gone out after hearing the movement next door, and began to trot together.
As he continued to run, Xu Feng felt that his body was starting to heat up.
A mere five-kilometer trail run, for Xu Feng, who insists on weight-bearing exercise all year round, such a distance is simply without the slightest pressure.
However, after making a circle and running back to the camp, he was a little surprised to find that he was not the first person in their entire Second Army.
When Xu Feng arrived, there were two companies in front of him, and it seemed that he had already run for a while.
Xu Feng glanced over and found that it was the company led by Han Shizhong and Gao Chong; The surprise in my heart immediately calmed down, and it was normal for the team led by these two people to have such a performance.
Of the above two people, Han Shizhong was assigned to the Fifth Infantry Division, while Gao Chong was assigned to the Second Cavalry Division.
In the previous time, his performance in daily training has always been very good, and he is indeed worthy of being a person who has left a great reputation after a thousand years.
Seeing the two of them, now they are also calm and relaxed, and Xu Feng is also interested; He drank loudly: "Gao Pet, come and live two tricks~"
"Huh~" Gao Chong immediately agreed.
Three minutes later, facing the tip of the spear that was only a dozen centimeters away in front of his throat, and because of the unscientific power in Gao Pet's hand, his arms were sore.
Xu Feng scolded with a smile: "Hun boy, I don't know how to let me, I'm a little old man in my forties, don't you want to lose face?" ”
After hearing this, Gao Pet suddenly became a little embarrassed.
It's just that he also knows that Xu Feng Xianggong is just joking with himself, and he is not really thinking about himself; The reason is simple, in the recent time, there have been no less than 100 exchanges between the two.
At the beginning, Xu Feng Xianggong couldn't even accept his ten moves.
But under the humble advice of Xu Feng, who constantly put down his face, and under his very flattered patient guidance, the other party's level improved quickly.
Now, if you play well, you can already play twenty or thirty moves without losing the wind, and you will lose outside fifty moves.
The reason for this is that Xu Feng has already laid an excellent foundation of marksmanship in the primary training ground of the system.
Now after being dialed by a famous person like Gao Pet, the speed of horizontal growth is very amazing.
After resting for about ten minutes and gasping for the chaotic breath; Xu Feng was facing Han Shizhong, who was smirking at the side with a gold-backed mountain knife in his hand, and shouted out a sentence in his mouth:
"Han Powu, look at the gun~"
As he spoke, a horse lance in his hand was already stabbed out like a poisonous snake, and in a blink of an eye, it was hit with Han Shizhong's 'Ping Pong~'.
And at the same time, several people in the Xuange Battalion team were also doing some of the same things.
For example, Hu Biao is in the backyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and a bald man of some age and from is having a lively discussion.
Although the other party used a Qi Mei stick in his hand, under the touch bypass, Hu Biao still made some gains in using a gun.
As for why these bald heads appeared in Hu Biao's Prime Minister's Mansion, it is not much strange to think about it a little.
The masters also understand the icing on the cake, so since there was 'Thirteen Stick Monks to Save the Tang King' in the past, and now there is a 'Eighteen Stick Monks to Help Hu Xianggong', which is very reasonable.
After all, in the eyes of the vast majority of the current Great Song Dynasty, Hu Xianggong will also experience a scene of 'yellow robes' in the future, and it is definitely very cost-effective to have a good relationship in advance.
To be more precise, since Hu Biao issued an official document recruiting heroes from all over the world and joining the volunteers.
In addition to the Great Song Dynasty, some martial arts heroes have come to take refuge with family heirloom weapons; Among them, there are also some bald heads and Fangshi.
No matter what kind of psychology they based on, they joined the new army, and Hu Biao and the others got an unexpected benefit.
That is, against these people, after promising official positions and heavy rewards, they have learned a lot of martial arts.
Even if many of these martial arts are now just a temporary record of swallowing dates; But after returning to the modern plane, as long as you digest it in the training ground, your personal martial arts will be greatly improved.
If there is anything dissatisfied, it is that this world belongs to a historical task after all, and the bald heads do not know any legendary 'seventy-two stunts', and there are no other magical skills, otherwise this trip can be regarded as making a lot of money.
Therefore, in addition to the above Xu Feng and Hu Biao, in the current cold morning.
Corn and a legendary man of the Yang family of Tianbo Mansion, a 'Nine Rings Jin Feng Ding Song Knife' in his hand have a back and forth.
The warehouse management is in the hands of a man named He Xian, who was taught archery by hand.
He Xian may not be well-known in history, but he has a father, He Guan, who was known as the first marksman of the Great Song Dynasty decades ago.
This son's one-handed archery skills are not as good as Lao Tzu's.
But the level of archery is not comparable to the instructors of shooting halls in modern planes.
Even those coaches who claim to have won the championship in such and such an international competition definitely do not have such a level.
The warehouse manager has been instructed for only two months, and his understanding and actual level of archery have been greatly improved.
In short, under the guidance of these first-class players in the Great Song Dynasty, every netizen has made amazing gains in martial arts.
Even the concubine, a girl, has recently found a top-level instructor in the use of katana.
Specifically, the island country next door is still in the Heian period, and the famous Genji family was defeated two years ago because of the rebellion against the island court.
The head of the family, Yoshitsuna Minamoto, or Kamo Jiro, was exiled to Satoshima, and most of his other sons committed suicide.
But one of the sons, Yuan Yiyue, came to the Great Song Dynasty; Just after being collected by the concubine, he became a knife instructor.
A mere lost dog ronin-like figure, now he has the honor to teach the nobles of the Celestial Empire the sword technique, and this thing feels a great honor to do his best to teach the Genji family's actual combat sword technique.
The only regret for the concubine is that after these traversers shake up and have enough power and influence in this mission, the system leaves them too little time to operate.
Otherwise, believe it or not, she sent someone to the island country and wiped out those so-called famous knives.
In the future, when I go to the battlefield, I will also have a lot of knives on my waist pole and behind my back, and I will throw them away when I cut them off, anyway, I don't think there is any pity when the things of the little devil's house are thrown away......
Of course, not everyone on the team is obsessed with learning martial arts.
At least after learning marksmanship from someone for a while, Wolf Qing put more energy into the compilation of some technical materials.
At this moment, although he didn't sleep for another night, his eyes were as red as rabbits.
But the whole person's spirit is in extreme excitement.
Because after three or four nights of continuous work, he had already written a theory of railroad laying, locomotive construction, simple drawings, etc.
In the future, as long as there is a railway that can connect the north and the south, and there is an epoch-making advanced gunpowder weapon.
The court of the Great Song Dynasty may be replaced, and someone else will be the emperor or the commander.
But the days when the civilization was destroyed and sunk by the foreign race every once in a while will become a thing of the past.
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