"What about the deployment of the other party's troops?" asked the division unhurriedly, how many times had the Western Army fought a tough battle with the Western Xia, and he was not afraid of such a tight defense; Yang Zhi immediately replied: "Yeluchun changed the resentment army to the Changsheng army, and Guo Yaoshi was in charge of the Changsheng army. Yelu Dashi is the privy envoy of the Southern Yuan, responsible for the defense of Youzhou, mainly Yelu Dashi's 9,000 Liaoxing troops, but the 15,000 troops of Xiao Gan, the privy envoy of the Northern Yuan, are also stationed in the north and east of Youzhou, and they can rush to the city of Youzhou in half a day, and they can rush to Baigou in one day. Unlike the victorious army, the armies of Yelu Dashi and Xiao Gan were all cavalry. ”

At this point, there was nothing to say among the seed masters, and Lu Yihao couldn't help frowning and asked, "Is the news reliable?"

There are only 10,000 cavalry in the 100,000 Song army, and in the face of more than 20,000 Khitan iron cavalry, the chances of winning are not big; Yang Zhi understood what Lu Yihao meant, and said slowly: "There are still more than 70,000 Xi people, Khitans, Uighurs, and Jurchens in Youzhou City, and it is estimated that half of them are young and middle-aged. ”

The seed master asked Yang Zhi: "If this is the case, are you still ready to enter Youzhou?"

Yang Zhi said with a smile: "Since the Canglang Battalion has arrived in Xiongzhou, how can it retreat without a fight, I am just worried that Captain Tong is too optimistic about the situation, and I didn't expect that there will be a hard battle behind, and the arrogant soldiers will be easy to defeat at that time." ”

The seed master said categorically: "Yang Zhi, I will go to say it to Captain Tong, but I want to tell you the truth, the Wang family army and the general of the seed are thousands of miles to help, and they definitely need to be repaired, if they are suddenly pulled into the battlefield, the effect may not be ideal." ”

Seed Master Zhong and Lu Yihao looked at Seed Master Dao in amazement, this kind of show of weakness can be said to have never appeared in Seed Master Dao's life, Yang Zhi nodded and said: "I understand, General Seed rest assured, the Canglang Battalion is ready to be the vanguard, but I also have a few things that need your old coordination, I need three hundred divine arm bows, one thousand spears, five hundred thunderbolts, and let me pick some people to supplement the troops." ”

The seed master nodded and said, "No problem, the three hundred divine arm bows will be transferred to you tomorrow, and you can go to my seed army to select three hundred veterans to come over." ”

After the talk, Seed Master Dao, Yang Zhi, and Seed Master Zhong went to inspect the camp, but Lu Yihao did not follow; Lu Yihao was interested in the Arabic numerals on the paper next to the sand table, pondered for a moment, and asked Zhu Wu: "Mr. Zhu, what does this mean?"

Zhu Wu said: "This is an Arabic numeral, which is simpler and more convenient than our number, and now we use this number in the Canglang Camp, so that even illiterate people can grasp it." ”

Zhu Wu gave Lu Yihao the comparison table of Arabic numerals and Chinese characters, and Lu Yihao quickly understood it, and praised it: "It turns out that this is Arabic numerals, it is really convenient, I heard that King Yun proposed twice in the forbidden army and the armory, but they were rejected by the Privy Council, which is a pity." ”

Zhu Wu smiled helplessly, if this is what he and Yang Zhi are worried about, the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty is now fighting so much that they don't care about the result, and the front-line soldiers will be impeached if they lose a little battle, and some people will report good news but not bad news, and in the end, the honest people are eliminated, and the remaining people who regard making a fuss as more important than winning the battle, Zhu Wu laughed and said: "Sometimes...... There really should be one more unreasonable person. “

Lu Yihao smiled: "Mr. Zhu is an interesting person! Sometimes he thinks too much. “

Zhu Wu said seriously: "If you don't think about it, you can't do it, you really have to die if you lose the battle." ”

The next morning, Chong Pu sent 300 divine arm bows and 1,000 spears to the Canglang camp, and Perak Lei Xiongzhou only gave 200, saying that Xiongzhou itself needed to be defended, and the number was also tight. Yang Zhi naturally knew what was wrong, and he didn't handle some interpersonal relationships well, so Yang Zhi asked Chong Pu for help and sent five Khitan war horses to the prefect's yamen in exchange for a hundred thunderbolts.

However, Yang Zhi went to the Seed Army to pick up people, but it set off a storm, the Seed Army is a hundred battles of heroes, and the generals in the army naturally do not look down on the Canglang Battalion, which has just been formed for a few months; but Yang Zhi and Yue Fei, who came to pick people, do not seem to look down on the Seed Army, but only select 100 archers and 60 veterans. When Chong Pu and Zhang Jun came back and said, even Lu Yihao was stunned: "They think so highly of themselves?"

Chong Pu shook his head and said: "Yang Zhi said that the veterans he needs must not only be able to fight, but also obey military discipline and make up for the lack of experience in the Canglang Battalion, and he is not ready to start over; ”

The seed master said with a smile: "Yang Zhi's Canglang camp itself is composed of such people, and things are gathered by like, I will notify everywhere, including some eliminated soldiers, you can let Yang Zhi take a look." ”

Wang Ping, He Shu and others have no opinions, do not affect the establishment of the army, let Yang Zhi pick at will, and finally replenish Qi 300 people; at this time, the generals of Xiongzhou got a news, originally prepared to let the Henghai Navy Chengxuan Yang Weizhong take over and know Xiongzhou, as the commander of the left army, but Yang Weizhong did not expect Yang Weizhong to write that Liao is a brotherly state, can resist the Jin army for the Great Song Dynasty, should not attack it, as a result, Song Huizong was furious, the Jingyuan army is still on the march, Yang Weizhong has been demoted to Wu Luo doctor, Gaoyang Guan Road Chief.

Zhu Wudu felt a toothache, and when he was drinking tea with Yang Zhi in Zhangzhou, he said: "I didn't expect the Holy Lord to be so determined this time, it seems that the letter of the general of the Seed Master Dao will not end well." ”

Yang Zhi said with a smile: "Don't worry, General Seed is a chess piece of the Holy Balance, and he will not win it easily, and besides, General Seed is in the middle of the clouds, and he is still in favor of the Northern Expedition in terms of attitude." What we have to think about now is to fight a bloody way on the front line, and those iron boxes and crockpots are ready. ”

"Ready. Zhu Wu replied calmly, after seeing the power of the gunpowder configured by Yang Zhi, Bei Songlin and Wei Dingguo are now wholeheartedly engaged in the development of firearms, so the upper echelons of the Canglang Battalion have the bottom in their hearts, and if they smash all the firearms out when necessary, even if they can't completely destroy the opponent, there is no problem in keeping their lives. A trace of worry flashed in Yang Zhi's eyes and said: "As soon as Tong Guan arrives, he will send people to peep at our army, and these things can't be known, otherwise once Tong Guan orders to be transferred, and we are the front army, then there is really only one left to fight for our lives." ”

Zhu Wu nodded and said: "Understood, the people below don't know what to do, Wei Dingguo found that there is fat water in Xiongzhou, and he is refining the fat water and adding it to the thunderbolt, and when the time comes, it will be said that the thunderbolt is improving its power." ”

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