Chapter 1,306 Departure

But it was impossible for Fan Chunren to deceive the emperor. On the tenth day of the 10th month of Xinmao, the Sixth Route Army's Administration Department received Zhao Xu's edict.

"The boundaries of Lanzhou and Xishi City are connected to the Xihe River, and the army in Tongyuan is newly restored. There is a lot of idle land. Zhao Man has been ordered to recruit archers. He is worried that they will be hard-pressed to get enough. He has been allowed to cultivate people, and they will get a lot of millet. Put it in place."

"The old county of Jiuyuan has many people, abundant water and grass, and the best salt in the world. Zeng Xiaokuan has been ordered to take charge of county affairs and submit the "Huma Law", saying that it is very convenient for Jiuyuan, and begging for implementation. I have followed the report."

"Fan Chunren's plan to restore the Third North Road of the Mountain is your policy. I sincerely comfort you that the ministers are worried about state affairs and will not limit themselves by doing what they want."

"However, it is your official duty to deploy the army and plan the attack by the six-pronged military affairs department."

"Today, the bandits in the West have cut off the vast sea. They are shrinking and vigorous, and they have hundreds of thousands of soldiers. How to defeat them? The imperial court is still worried."

"The army has been away for a long time, and the consumption is not small. Even if we transport military provisions, we can't transport much. Although we can get quite a lot of millet from the Tibetan tribe, it is not very large. We are afraid that the soldiers will starve and flee, which will ruin the national affairs."

"I ordered the sergeants to practice some training and gave them additional rewards, as I have told them before."

"Scatter all the troops on the rear road and defend the fortresses separately. They use meandering as a tactic. This is a good strategy to divide the troops for food and consolidate the north of the mountain. However, the advancing troops should also be left in sufficient numbers."

"Today, Lingzhou has a situation that can be broken. It's freezing cold. We may take advantage of the opportunity to gather our troops and fight quickly. We can complete the victory in one battle. We can slow down the treatment later."

"The six-route metropolitan strategist will implement the plan according to the circumstances, and there will be no obstruction by transshipment. If the supply of grain is insufficient, the roads east of Jingdong can still provide aid, and it is not necessary to build the three roads in the north of the mountain and then conquer."

This is putting pressure on Su You, it’s time to march!

…

In the northern suburbs of Weizhou, Su You was reviewing the troops.

After dealing with the chaos on the front line caused by Liu Changzuo, Su You reallocated his military strength. The new army handed over several key areas to the old army who came to take over the guard, and regrouped into three lines.

The Dun'an army is in Yingli Pass, the He control army is in Xiazhou, and the remaining Ganyi, Zhenguo, Dingguo, and academy troops have all gathered in Yaode City.

Yingliguan is located in the north of the Yellow River, Yaode City is in the middle of Lingzhou River, and only the Hejun Army is located in Xiazhou, 600 miles away.

Liu Changzuo was also repairing in Xiazhou. After a series of big battles, there were only 30,000 people who could ride horses out of the 50,000 people who left Qinggang Gorge. In addition to more than 7,000 people killed in battle, there were more than 10,000 wounded soldiers.

After Zhao Xu's order of commendation came, Su You asked to establish the first heavy cavalry force in the Song Dynasty, based on the cavalry of Liu Changzuo's subordinate Guo Cheng. He used the repair time to order Shen Kuo to urgently repair and restore the captured Xia iron kite armor. The imitation and the horses captured by Wang Zhongzheng created a heavy cavalry team of 3,000 people and two light cavalry troops serving the heavy cavalry, totaling 9,000 people.

The heavy cavalry army was named Xiaorui Army according to Zhao Xu's wishes, and the two auxiliary light cavalry troops were named Baojie and the other used a number readily available in the Western Army, Tiger Wings.

The military ministers were clearly arranged by the black-hearted civil servants in an instant. Zhao Xu was very satisfied with the decision of the Sixth Route Capital Strategy Department - from now on, the Song Dynasty also had a heavy cavalry that could rival the Western Xia Iron Kites and the Liao Iron Lin Army. The political significance is self-evident.

And this was also a reward for Liu Changzuo. The apparently most powerful old-style cavalry force in the Song Dynasty would of course be handed over to the most capable tiger ministers to lead it. This was a high-profile honor that Liu Changzuo could not refuse.

However, in the dark side of Su You's heart, this move put heavy shackles on Liu Changzuo, making his army unable to move faster even if they wanted to.

After the combat mission was issued, the seemingly mighty Xiaorui Army could only follow the new army and eat dust.

If Uncle Gao Guo still can't win like this, then it can only be said that he deserves to be denied the position of envoy.

Sacks are a good thing, and Yaode City has undergone tremendous changes now.

Barbed wire fences were pulled up outside the city, trenches were dug, and bunkers half a man's height were built with sandbags. On several highlands around the city, communication trenches connected to the artillery positions, turning this place into an unassailable bridgehead.

This is the most important attack position in the crusade against Lingzhou. The three new armies plus the cadet army totaled 18,000 people in the former army.

The 20,000 Tibetan cavalry troops exploring the road have already set off under the leadership of Li Wenzhao. Behind the new army are 15,000 fine cavalrymen from Zhongzhen.

Su You was wearing a double-breasted gray woolen winter military uniform without epaulets and collar. Standing next to him were Chinese Army Commander Gao Zunyu and Army Supervisor Li Ruoyu. Looking at the four troops in the audience with high morale, neat appearance and armed to the teeth, Su You felt in his heart

A well-earned sense of pride.

Before the four square formations, three large and one small, they were the commanders of the troops. Their military ranks had been promoted to deputy commander by Zhao Xu, and Gao Zunyu was promoted to associate commander.

After the commander, there is the artillery team.

This is the absolute firepower of the three new armies. Each army has five thunderbolt cannons, and in front of the academy's square formation, there are as many as fifteen.

Behind the artillery cart, there is a sea of ​​gray, with only the red tassels on the helmets of the soldiers, like clusters of burning flames, indicating that this is the top military force of a country born with the virtue of fire.

Every soldier is surrounded by a majestic horse. The equipment on the horse includes sleeping bags, engineer shovels, magic guns, dry food bags, feed bags, hand-thrown thunderbolts, copper kettles and small rice cookers.

Soldiers wear armed belts with a row of leather bags on them, which contain emergency medical kits, tool kits, magazines, bullet belts, and even hygiene kits.

On the periphery of the team were as many as three thousand four-wheeled vans. The wheels of the vans were specially modified and were three times wider than those in Bianjing City to better adapt to the road conditions of Xixia.

The car was fully loaded with baggage, tents, fuel, ammunition and other supplies. These items were urgently transported from Ningxia City within ten days.

With the help of Zhengzhou Institute of Technology and the Sitong Financial Planning Team, Bi Zhongyou successfully completed the demanding tasks set by the Six-Road Transport Department.

Behind the army, there is a dry sea of ​​more than three hundred miles waiting to be conquered.

The sergeant stood tall in the cold wind, with the military flag flying high.

Su You stood on the high platform and solemnly took a tips bag from Li Ruoyu's hand.

He opened the brocade bag and pulled out a piece of white silk. The blood stains on it had already turned purple and black.

Su You raised the white silk and said, "This is a letter written in blood! Eighty years ago, the border commander who defended the isolated city wrote an urgent request to the imperial court!"

"Eighty years ago, in the fifth year of Xianping, Li Jiqian rebelled against the Song Dynasty!"

"Qingyuan's army fell, and the Xia people gathered in large numbers, cutting off Lingzhou's salary road, leaving Lingzhou alone with no help."

"Leading the Shunzhou regiment to train envoys, I learned that Lingzhou and the capital deployed Pei Ji. He was bleeding and stained. He was in urgent need of help!"

"At that time, all the princes in the court either considered that Lingzhou should be abandoned or that Lingzhou should be saved. They discussed it for two full months, but still there was no decision!"

"Pei Zhongpugong used ten thousand people to fight against hundreds of thousands of powerful enemies. He held on for two months, but reinforcements never arrived. In the end, he ran out of arrows and food, and died heroically after the city fell!"

"The sad news reached Bianjing, and the superiors were stunned for a long time and deeply regretted it."

Taking a deep breath, Su You shouted sternly: "It is rumored that after Li Jiqian captured Lingzhou, he once climbed to the top of the city, burst into tears, and then looked up to the sky and laughed!"

"Since then, the Western bandits have become my nightmare in the Song Dynasty!"

"If you lose Lingzhou, you will lose the gateway to Monan! In just ten years, Hetao will fall into the hands of the enemy! The Western Bandits can attack Jingyuan, surround Qing, and shock Guanzhong!"

"The Song Dynasty spent eighty years trying to understand this critical situation! It spent countless money and gifts! It also cost countless people and soldiers their lives!"

"In exchange! It is Xixia that seizes 200,000 gu coins from the Song Dynasty every year! It is Xijiang's warnings year after year, it is the soldiers who guard hard and die, it is the people who are broken and homeless, and it is His Majesty who laments in the middle of the night and is worried and sleepless!

"

"Whether Lingzhou should be saved at that time, today, the bloody history has already told us the answer! And those mediocre people who harmed the country have already been nailed to the pillar of shame in history!"

"But I, the heroic spirit of the Song Dynasty, are still three hundred miles away from the dry sea, still at the top of the cold Lingzhou City, longing for reinforcements from the Song Dynasty day and night!"

Su You tied the blood letter to the ring of the hunting army flag, turned around again, looked at the desolate snowy Gobi in the north, tears filled his eyes: "Today, the reinforcements have finally arrived!"

"Today, we are going to regain our homeland of China and wipe away the humiliation and smell of the past eighty years!"

"Today, we are going to wipe out the Western bandits and make them pay the due price for their eighty years of rebellion and the deaths and injuries of millions of civilians and soldiers!"

"Today, we are going to welcome back Duke Pei Zhongpu and the 10,000 soldiers and soldiers who died in Lingzhou! Return their shrines to the Emperor Zhaozhong Ancestral Hall and enjoy the glory they deserve!"

"We arrived eighty years late, but today, we are finally here!"

Su You suddenly hit his chest with his right hand and gave a new army military salute to the north: "The heroic spirit is not far away, bless me with success! The Emperor Song Dynasty will be victorious!"

"The heroic spirit is not far away. May I succeed! Emperor Song will be victorious!"

The morale of the soldiers had reached its peak. They stood up on their horses, shouted loudly, and got ready to go.

Gao Zunyu drew out his sword and raised it toward the north: "Go to war!"

The armies lined up and rolled towards the north.
Chapter completed!