Wu Xi and Ren Shi'an went to the Tuntian Army, Li Shan was invited by Yang Zhongwu to be a thousand-commander, the incorporation of Han Jing's first army played a leading role, and the Liukou army in Gongzhou accepted Zhao'an, including many young people who retreated from Kaide Mansion and Caozhou asked to join the army, one by one, not to kill the enemy, but because there was a way to live, after all, the Tuntian Army is also a kind of life, with the background of the army, it is better than wandering around.

It's just that Xu Wen and Yang Zhongwu both understood what Yang Zhi meant, and the two armies expanded to 8,000 men and never moved again, and nearly 10,000 people were handed over to Lu Yi, who came to be in charge of transferring people; now there is no way to farm, or mainly to repair the castles around Bianliang, Lu Yi handed over the people to Xue Guang, and specially explained the difference between the prisoners and the defeated soldiers who originally repaired the castle for this group of people, not only in terms of treatment, but also in military training.

Xue Guang is full of promises, he is in charge of Kaifeng Mansion, and he is in charge of these things, how can he not care about making things go wrong, Xue Guang said with a smile: "Lord Lu, don't worry, I will take care of the importance and grasp the heat." ”

Lu Yi knew Xue Guang's personality and said with a smile: "I don't have anything to worry about, naturally someone will look for you if something happens." ”

Zhao Kai received the edict of Song Huizong in Taiyuan, and was overjoyed, the expansion of the Gyeonggi Road actually gave the Dingbei Army a chance to expand its power, especially for the command of Hebei, Zhao Gou withdrew, and Wumashan was wiped out by the Jin Army, which was almost the only branch of the Dingbei Army.

After Li Gang took office in Yingtianfu, Yang Zhi took Li Guang as the pacification envoy of Beifu on Gyeonggi Road, and was responsible for the pacification of Kaide Mansion, Huazhou, and Caozhou. At present, the only one who is really in the hands of Gyeonggi Road is Huazhou, Fan Shiyan is the nephew of Fan Zhongyan, who is about the same age as Yang Zhi, and he has done quite well to assist Zhao Ding Tuntian in Yingchang Mansion, and this is a trial.

Yang Zhi divided the work very clearly, Wang Yan and others had the responsibility of defending the land, and Li Guang was responsible for pacifying the people, handling all kinds of chores, and allocating materials. Quan Bangyan took over the prefect of Huaining Prefecture, Liu Qi knew Zhengzhou, and Huaining and Yingchang Prefecture did not set up soldiers and horses to govern the bell, in order to make it easier for Chongbin to control the overall situation; Gongzhou was merged into Kaifeng Prefecture, and Xu Wen and Yang Zhongwu had already controlled the local situation, so they served as the training envoys of the Gongzhou regiment.

The last time Wanyan Zongwang went south was actually to consolidate the Shandong battlefield, once Hebei and Shandong were stable, it would be a storm when the Jin army went south again, but the situation on the side of Ying Tianfu was still not satisfactory; It's just that Yang Zhi is secretly worried about Li Gang's prospects in Yingtianfu, a rat poop can spoil a pot of soup, and Li Gang agrees to leave these hidden dangers, which will cause harm to Li Gang himself sooner or later.

Yang Zhi discussed with Wang Yan, Lu Yihao and others, that is, to preemptively recover Kaidefu and Caozhou and other places, and now Yang Zhi's concentrated army, including Xu Wen's 8,000 people, Yang Zhongwu's 8,000 people, Yang Jin's 12,000 people, Wang Yan's 15,000 people, Xue Guang's 5,000 people, a total of 48,000 troops as Wang Yan's backup. Although the war would not start immediately, the training of the army would take time, so Yang Zhi could only take precautions and order Wang Yan and others to start formulating a battle plan.

However, what needs to be dealt with more at the moment is to raise horses, Yang Yizhong has found a dilemma after the cavalry arrived in Henan, that is, the problem of the horse farm, although the war horses brought over and captured are good, but they can only solve the immediate problem, if you want to have cavalry for a long time, in addition to the Dingbei Army to bring a large number of herdsmen and soldiers who can raise horses, you also need a suitable place for grazing. Yang Yizhong mentioned it to Yang Zhi several times, and Yang Zhi did his homework, and specially discussed with Liang Xun, Lu Yihao, Xu Jingheng and others, and put forward one of his own ideas, which is to raise horses in the Kaifeng area.

Yang Zhi's selected places are Zhongmu County in Zhengzhou and Xiangfu County in Kaifeng, Guangshaping in the west of Zhongmu County, and Changpi Guangye in the south of the Bianhe River in Xiangfu County. Xu Jingheng looked at Yang Zhi in surprise, he naturally knew the significance of Yang Zhi's actions, compared with the previous dynasties, the biggest difference between the Song army and the previous dynasties in terms of transportation was that due to the lack of horses, they had to rely on donkeys, mules, oxen and camels that were not very efficient; in the first year of Kangding, Song Renzong prepared to attack Western Xia and mobilized 50,000 donkeys.

Lu Yihao said: "During the reign of Taizong, the government purchased horses at a high price, and only in Jingshi and the surrounding areas, it got 170,000 good horses. During the Zhenzong period, the number of official horses in the army once reached 200,000, but in the Xuanhe period, the Western Army expanded sixfold and owned the Hehuang region, where horses were raised, and the number of official horses dropped to 150,000. ”

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were 10 pastoral supervisors in Hebei, with a population of 580,000 households, and in the Xuanhe period, the population was 1.23 million households, and the land was still so much, and the population more than doubled. When the Guangping Supervisor in Xing and Zhao Sanzhou was abolished, the local officials cheered and took back 15,000 mu of private land; Han Jiang said that the land in western Beijing did not produce horses, which made people laugh and cry. ”

Xu Jingheng somewhat understood, why these three people were able to set up a good team, thinking similarly, if Lu Yihao and Liang Xun had not considered these problems, it would be impossible for the two of them to say these numbers so fluently; but the three of them coincidentally considered these problems, I am afraid that it was the uncertainty of the war situation, that the war between Song and Jin would be a long-term war, and the Dingbei Army might stay in Bianliang for a long time.

Yang Zhi smiled and asked: "Emperor Shenzong and Wang Anshi have both thought of a way, why did they fail? The main reason is that the policy is wavering, and the establishment of pastoral supervisors near Kaifeng can easily form a situation of competing for land with the imperial relatives and nobles, and finally suggested to Minzhong that spending money to buy horses is better than raising horses, which leads to the gradual abandonment of pastures.

Now this problem does not exist, a large number of magnates and people have gone south, and the vacant land on Gyeonggi Road has increased, and secondly, our purpose is not to expand the war horses indefinitely, as long as we plan well, we should be able to find a suitable area. At present, we are at war with the Western Xia and Jin countries, and we can't expect to purchase war horses without accidents, we must be self-reliant, and entrusting war horses in the hands of the enemy is simply playing with fire and self-immolation. ”