The soldiers and horses brought by Xiao Gan, Yelu Dashi and others are claimed to be 100,000, but in fact there are only 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers who can fight, including 20,000 cavalry, more than 30,000 infantry, and the rest are auxiliaries, miscellaneous soldiers who escort grain and grass.

And the Jin soldiers in Shangjing are the elite soldiers and horses of the Jin State, there are 80,000 cavalry, or there are Khitan soldiers and 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers from various subject countries, the contrast between the two aspects of strength is obvious, Xiao Gan knows very well in his heart, expecting such an army to take back Shangjing is undoubtedly a fool's dream.

Therefore, at the military meeting held by Xiao Ming, he was not interested in the plan to capture Shangjing at all, only Yelu Dashi wanted to hear about Xiao Ming's attack plan, this person was a scheming person, and he wanted to understand Xiao Ming's ability from this.

But Xiao Ming couldn't come up with any attack plan at all, he also wanted to hear what people said, such a result can be imagined, Yelu Dashi was disappointed in him, and Xiao Ming was also very disappointed in the two, and then announced that the army would enter Anping City first, write to Emperor Tianzuo, and make arrangements for attacking Shangjing after the general raised food and grass.

More than 100,000 troops entered Anping City, and the small city was immediately overcrowded, and more than 10,000 warriors of the Wuhuai tribe temporarily returned to the tribe first, these people could not be included in the battle sequence of the Liao Army's Southern Courtyard at present, and Xiao Gan's people had to obey Xiao Ming's arrangement and temporarily stationed in Anping City.

What Xiao Ming is doing now has already puzzled Yelu Dashi and the others, he has been with a group of Han businessmen all day long, and has gotten a lot of strange things from them.

In addition to the daily tea and salt, Xiao Ming got a large amount of iron armor, and he collected a lot of horses from the vicinity of Anping, which were filled with autumn fat, and handed them over to the Han merchants, from whom they exchanged a large number of iron armor with the word "Taiping".

The people of the entire Wuhuai tribe seem to be very happy with Xiao Ming's operation, and before the winter, the Wuhuai Department basically did not hand over horses to the Great Liao Court, one is due to the tense war with the Jin State, the entire administrative organs of the Liao State are paralyzed, and on the other hand, the Jin people occupy Shangjing and block all the roads north of the Warren River.

The people of the Wuhuai tribe do not pay horses, which is equivalent to not paying taxes, so it is natural to exchange these things for wealth, Xiao Ming exchanged the five hundred catties of gold and five thousand catties of silver for iron armor, and these iron armors were all equipped by the warriors of the Wuhuai tribe, Xiao Ming handed them all over to Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi's army.

So in a short period of time, the protection of this southern army quickly went up a notch, at least 20,000 cavalrymen had a set of front and rear cuirasses and iron helmets, and the iron armor they replaced was all old style, all of which were black iron tools built by craftsmen with the army, and it was okay to use all of them to equip the southern infantry.

For Xiao Ming's approach, Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi can only be grateful, you must know that Yelu Chunxian originally incorporated Gao Yongchang's Bohai Navy, those soldiers are like called Huazi, they have no clothes and no food, and the tax in the entire Nanjing area is only two million taels a year, and they have always been very short of money.

Now Xiao Ming doesn't let them spend a penny, and changes the soldiers and horses of the Southern Academy to equipment, which is of course a rare good thing, of course Xiao Ming will not do a loss-making business, on the one hand, he is very generous to the below, but on the other hand, he began to cry poor to Emperor Tianzuo, and asked for money several times.

"The soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of the minister gathered in Anping for training, but the grain and grass could not be sustained, and the military supply was extremely large...... It is quite difficult to raise military supplies, and I hope that Your Majesty will be selected for the lessons, military armor and horse harness, food and grass, and be served...... Wait for ......! ”

Xiao Ming said pitiful, I don't know what the effect is, anyway, if you don't give money, don't want me to fight, on the one hand, I will let Xue Bingchang's Yaxing Gang make a big business of his own Xuzhou Iron Works through the business road, and on the other hand, I will use your money to buy an army of the Southern Academy.

Xiao Ming's abacus crackled, but these people under him were confused, anyway, it was Xiao Ming who was in charge, and the others didn't bother to bother, so these people stayed in Anping City, eating and drinking, and didn't even have normal training.

Xiao Biyang, the leader of the Wuhuai tribe, his daughter is now the queen of the Great Liao Kingdom, his identity has also risen with the tide, and has formed alliances with several large tribes, the entire Hanwo grassland is now free of the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom, the grass sea and deep forest next to the grassland are rich in products, whether it is grazing or hunting, the whole tribe is developing rapidly, and many small tribes around have come to attach themselves to the Wuhuai Department.

The tribal population is growing rapidly, and many small tribes are even directly incorporated into the Wuhuai Department, with their own tribal elders to distribute power, and each area is so rich, and the Khitan people live a happy nomadic life.

Xiao Biyang attaches more importance to Xiao Ming, his son Aguru sticks to Xiao Ming every day, Xiao Ming is annoyed, and finally lied to this kid that Xijing is prosperous and fun, and let people send Aguru to wash his sister's palace, and Xiao Biyang gave Xiao Ming a lot of gold ore mines, it seems that on Xu Lizhuo's gold mine map, the gold mines marked must exist, but only Xiao Biyang knows where it is.

On this day, people shouted horses neighing very lively, Anping City came a lot of people and horses, these people were sent by the Xijing Emperor, the cattle and sheep outside the city rushed like clouds, Tianzuo Emperor actually gave Xiao Ming 500,000 cattle and sheep, 50,000 taels of gold, 1 million taels of silver, 200,000 horses of cloth in the Western Regions, 50,000 quintals of liquor, a guard of honor in the armor, and at the same time sealed the head of Xiao Ming's Liaodong Road marching road, and asked him to recover Shangjing within three months.

This crying poor and crying out the result, and at the same time, the pressure is not small, Emperor Tianzuo actually made such a big move, and almost took out half of the wealth of the treasury and handed it over to Xiao Ming, with only one purpose, that is, to recover Shangjing, it seems that Xiaoming has no way to grind foreign workers anymore, no matter how he says it, he has to do something.

Xiao Ming has been secretly carrying out such a thing as the overall plan, and he selected some people from the Khitan ironclad warriors of the Wuhuai Department, such as Hanlu, who were all people who had experienced the Battle of Anping, and sent them to the Southern Courtyard military horses led by Yelu Dashi to start training the entire army.

This kind of training is actually very simple, that is, grinding plate tactics, but the quality of this group of resentful troops is obviously not as good as that of the Wuhuai warriors, at least in terms of obeying orders.

After watching the results of the training of the other party a few times, Xiao Ming sneered a few times in front of Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi, and threw down a sentence: "If the soldier does not obey the order, he will be responsible!" The words threw away their sleeves, making Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi red-faced.

Touch your conscience and ask, Xiao Ming treats the people of the Southern Academy really well, after everyone comes to Anping, they have food and drink, their lives are nourishing, and they also pay military salaries, but they only ask you to train to look good, but it makes a mess. Xiao Gan is just a civil servant, Yelu Dashi thinks that he is still a general, how can he stand Xiao Ming's cynicism.

Since then, Yelu Dashi threw himself into the barracks, and began to grasp the training of the army with all his might, the Han soldiers and horses are different from the Khitans, the Khitan people are all soldiers, the usual grazing and hunting is training, and you can go into battle with a knife in wartime, but it is not a professional army, the southern courtyard is a semi-professional army, and the military salary of the soldier eats military rations, and it is natural to fight when fighting, if this is not done well, then there is nothing to say, and it is normal for the head to be driven away.

Sure enough, after being severely rectified by Yelu Dashi, a few heads were also cut off, and a number of people were driven away, the status quo of the soldiers and horses in the southern courtyard was greatly improved, at least the order could be forbidden, and the spiritual outlook of the whole army was also improved.

Half a month later, Xiao Ming and others came to a team of people, these people are all Han people, there are not many people, the leader of the team is Yang Zhen's son, less than 18 years old Yang Qizhong, he brought five hundred tiger guards from the Xuzhou Tiger Guard Battalion, these people were secretly called by Xiao Ming, on the one hand, there is no escort around him is always unreliable, on the other hand, this batch of tiger guards Xiao Ming also has a special purpose.

This group of tiger guards is equipped with the latest saber of Taiping Iron Factory, no one has two black crossbows, a black god bow crossbow, a marble crossbow, and the armor on the body has also developed from the front chest to the back, and the front and back two pieces of steel armor are locked with buckles, the steel armor is hard and thin, and the weight is moderate, in addition to the arms, even the shoulders are protected.

Yang Qizhong followed himself is also his own meaning, he wants to exercise this little guy, he fought a few small battles in the Song Dynasty can not be said to be through the battle formation, Xiao Ming let him see what the large army looks like when fighting, at the same time, Yang Qizhong has been reading military books since he was a child, and Xiao Ming also wants a staff officer.

A few days later, the general manager of the march on the Liaodong Road, the general of the expedition, Xiao Ming, the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan, was promoted in the army, and ordered the army to pull out, this time it was not to go north, it was to the east, and the target was located in Tokyo in the east, which is now Shenyang, the generals were puzzled, but no one dared to ask questions.

The first few times Xiao Ming held a military meeting, he made a few suggestions, the generals of the Southern Courtyard had a lot of questions, and Xiao Ming didn't bother to explain, but his words slowed down and were mean, and he was sarcastic and sarcastic, and it turned out that Xiao Ming's judgment and suggestions were correct, smart people like Xiao Gan and Yelu Dashi could understand at once, and others were not stupid, at least they knew, the current Lord Xiao seemed to be very energetic, and he was always correct, the chief manager likes to lose his temper and sarcastically ask people, whoever asks questions stupidly will sarcastically mock whom, As a result, everyone communicates underground when they have problems, and no one dares to raise them in person.

Xiao Ming is very satisfied with this situation, he deliberately wants to make himself mysterious, anyway, you people don't understand, besides, don't blow up your hair with me, make me unhappy, don't give you military salary, see what you do?

There was also a group of men and horses who followed the army, that was the tribal warriors of the Wuhuai tribe, they spontaneously followed Xiao Ming, the number of this team was about 15,000 and all cavalry, Xiao Ming organized it into three battalions, each battalion of 5,000 people, named the Wuhuai Army.

The army drove down along the river and the Liaohe Plain, directly threatening Tokyo, Jin Guo did not have many soldiers and horses in this area, so he could only wait for the battle, Pegasus reported to Shangjing and Wuguo City, Jin Taizu Wanyan Aguda is currently in Wuguo City, and received a report that 100,000 people and horses of Liao Guo entered Tokyo.

Ah Guta sneered for a while, and said to the underground people: "If they want to fight, simply give up Tokyo to them, we will gather the soldiers and horses, and then lead them out and annihilate them, don't worry too much"

But Xiao Ming's actions once again made the Jin people confused, after Xiao Ming's troops left the Liaohe Plain, they actually went south, occupied the Jinzhou line of Tokyo Road, and entrenched themselves. In this operation, even Xiao Gan, Yelu Dashi and others were confused.

But it didn't take long for the army to find a large underground granary in Jinzhou, which originally belonged to the jurisdiction of Bohai County, and the granary was built underground, with a stock of 450,000 quintals, which was originally the official grain of Tokyo Province.

No one knows how Xiao Ming knew that there were 450,000 loads of grain here, and Xiao Ming didn't say anything about it, only Xiao Ming himself knew that the source of the news turned out to be a few bandits, and the person who received the bandits and robbers was Qian Baguang, for which Lao Qian was rewarded by Xiao Ming and rewarded him with two jars of lamb and wine.

Xiao Ming was even more desperate this time, he actually stopped at the front line of Jinzhou, time flew by in a blink of an eye, it was already October, the weather was getting cooler, and then in late October, finally a fleet came from the sea, under the banner of the Great Song Dynasty, this is a team of merchant ships from Hangzhou.

The Liao soldiers were still very panicked at the Song ship that appeared, but when Xiao Ming signaled that it was a merchant ship that came to do business with him, everyone was calm, Xiao Ming arranged for personnel to move the goods on the ship one by one, and then the merchant ship of the Song Dynasty turned around and left, and it was only a day before and after.