Yelu Nei Thorn knew that there were still 3,000 cattle and sheep in Tianxiong Temple, plus the grain that Yang Zhi was asking for from the Song Kingdom, all of which were prepared for winter, and the situation of the resentful army was not to the point of exhaustion, so he said: "I will arrange three teams of men and horses to take turns to hunt in Xing'an Mountains, and strive to hunt 2,000 prey and pickle them, but Yang Zhi, I heard that you are going to select 200 people in the army to join the escort team, will it be done immediately?"

Yang Zhi nodded and said: "This is the arrangement of Master Tianxin, the Xianzhou generation has been famine for many years, and I am afraid that someone will rob when the materials are delivered, and the establishment of the escort team is to ensure the supply of materials." ”

Nu Yeren, Xiao Baigao, and Tie Ying didn't think so, Yang Zhi didn't look like a businessman no matter how he looked at it, the escort team was just a statement that allowed Yang Zhi to gradually have military power, Xiao Baigao sneered and said: "Now there are only more than 5,000 people in the resentful army, and we have not recruited 2,000 people in each team, how can anyone give the escort team." ”

Yelu Neithorn said coldly: "General Xiao, the army was recruited by the imperial court, not your private. ”

Yang Zhi smiled and said: "That's it, I heard that there are still some soldiers who have been punished, I will now select some of them, and then."

Recruit a part of Xianzhou, but only 200 people, how can you recruit all the people. ”

Nu Yeren and the others could only nod in agreement, what Yang Zhi said was a solution, but since Yang Zhi knew that there were soldiers who were punished, it showed that Yang Zhi still understood the situation of the resentful army. After everyone was polite, Yelu Nei Thorn asked Nu Yeren to take Yang Zhi to the quarry on the side of Lushan Mountain, where all the soldiers who were punished worked there; Yang Zhi asked Zhang Nu to lead all the men and horses with him, since he came to Xianzhou, he had to be familiar with the situation in this area.

Lushan is Youzhou Zhenshan, and Qingzhou Yishan, Yongzhou Wushan, Jizhou Huoshan, Yangzhou Huiji Mountain are equally famous, Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji's eldest son Yelu is good at reading, has purchased tens of thousands of books, placed the top of Wulu Mountain, built Wanghai Hall; in the first year of Datong, Liao Shizong Yelu Ruan's father Yelu Beiling returned, buried in Lushan, set up Xianzhou in the southeast of Shandong, moved more than 300 households in Tokyo to Xianzhou.

In order to defend Xianzhou, Yelu Mago is now constantly mining large stones into the city, and the people who work are divided into three parts, the local people and prisoners, the homeless people who are trying to eat for a mouthful, and the soldiers who are punished in the army. The arrival of Yang Zhi and Nu Yeren caused a small commotion, and after reading the warrant presented by Nu Yeren, Cao Yongyi, the general judge in charge of the stone field, hurriedly came over, asked about the situation, and discussed with Nu Yeren: "General Nu Yeren, now one person has a position to work, if you transfer people again, there will be no way to do this work." ”

Cao Yongyi knew that Nu Yeren was just for the sake of the envoy, and he could discuss, as for Yang Zhi, another commander who came to select people, he was directly ignored by Cao Yongyi, and a Song man who came to take refuge wanted to do something. Cao Yongyi was embarrassed, Nu Yeren looked at Yang Zhi in embarrassment, Yang Zhi swept a quarry, there were more than 800 people working, but there was a lack of vehicles, there was no shortage of cattle and horses in Liao, if it was transported by ox carts and carriages, it would save a lot of people, so he smiled and said: "Since this lord said, I will select fifty people first, can you gather the brothers in the army first." ”

Cao Yongyi and Nu Yeren's faces changed, and they were a little hesitant, and Yang Zhi understood that the officials in Xianzhou also made the same mistake as Gao Yu, letting the soldiers who did not take money work, and greedy for money; Yang Zhi did not ramble anymore, this was the first thing he did when he went to Xianzhou, if it was easy for people to get mixed up, there would be no need to think about the rest of the matter. Yang Zhi took out the waist card given by his mother, Yang Zhi asked Zhang Nu, this waist card of the palace tent army can not only walk at night in Wujing, but also order officers at the same level in the Jingzhou army, tribal army, and subordinate army, and give priority to being the main general when fighting.

Although Nu Yeren was an officer of the same rank as Yang Zhi, after seeing the waist card, he had to go to gather the soldiers in the quarry, Cao Yongyi walked to the other side with a toothache, and Nu Yeren actually gathered almost 600 people, more than half of the number of people who stood to work. Yang Zhi didn't say much, but asked Zhang Nu to come forward and ask if he was willing to go to the escort team, and those who were willing to go stayed and prepared to accept the selection, and those who didn't want to go went back to work.

Almost everyone is willing to go to the escort team, even if the escort team is not a regular army, but in any case it is better than working in the quarry, Yang Zhi just selected a hundred people and left, saying that he would come and select fifty to a hundred people in a few days. The number of resentful troops was reduced from 28,000 to 5,000, the proportion of officers was extremely high, and one-third of the people who were punished in the quarry were officers.

What Nu Yeren wondered about was not Yang Zhi's step-by-step method, but Yang Zhi's criteria for selecting people, Yang Zhi selected almost two kinds of people, one was a strong man who occasionally made mistakes, and the other was a thorn in a fight. In the Liao army, this is the practice of selecting dead soldiers, that is, attacking and charging in front, and breaking off the back when retreating, those who occasionally make mistakes obey military orders, and the thorns in the fight do not care about life and death.

Yang Zhi did not return to the camp, but went directly to Xianzhou City, and posted a notice in Xianzhou City, recruiting 20 exiles from Liaodong and Bohai;

Facing the two supreme commanders of Xianzhou, Yang Zhi said lightly: "If the resentful army just wants to live a chaotic life without fighting in Xianzhou, what is the purpose of reorganizing the resentful army? Even if we don't provoke the Jin people, what if the Jin people come over after the beginning of spring next year? At this point, we can't hesitate, we can't fight, and we can't say anything about it, the morale of the army will be exhausted, and even if we want to, we may not be able to fight at that time." ”

Yelu Ma Ge is also a veteran general in the army, he personally killed the rebel general Yelu Zhangnu, I know that Yang Zhi is telling the real truth, when he fights, he will succeed in ten thousand bones, and the people in the army are changed one after another, and the Liao army can hardly fight now, that is, there are too many old fritters in the army, and there are countless casualties among the soldiers who really dare to dedicate themselves, and there are too few people who can become steel in a hundred battles. Jeremago said quietly, "Tell me about your plan." ”

Yang Zhi whispered: "I always think that it is not the homeless people and horse thieves who rob the grain in front of the mountain, but the people of Jinguo. For the resentful army, it is a blessing that there are grain cattle and sheep transported in winter, and the Jin people should not sit idly by, so it is inevitable to protect the grain, if the Jin people's spirit can be frustrated on the grain road, then the morale of the resentful army can slowly rise. As for horse warfare, I don't think the Jurchens can be much stronger than the Liao army, and the Liao army can win in morale and tactics. ”

Yelu Ma Ge praised: "Yang Zhi, I hope you are not talking on paper. If the time comes, the army of Xianzhou needs to be dispatched, and it will be notified. ”