As Yan Qing said, just as Yan Qing led 10,000 troops to Yunzhou, the 30,000 Qi army had been reorganized and rushed to Yunzhou along the Wuzhang River.

This time, Liu Yu was determined to wipe out the Liangshan Rebel Army. Not only did he draw the main army from Sizhou, he also took out an elite 10,000 Yun Congjun. Yun Congjun was Liu Yu's guard army, with a total of 30,000 people. He was well-equipped, skilled in training, and treated well. He had the strongest combat effectiveness among all Liu Yu's troops. Yun Congjun has always been by his side and will not be sent out easily. This time, he spent a lot of money to wipe out Zhang Rong's bandit army and took out an even ten,000 Yun Congjun.

But even so, Liu Yu did not believe in his generals, but asked his brother Liu Yi to personally command this 30,000 bandit suppression army.

Thirty thousand troops led nearly 200 supply ships and marched towards Yunzhou. Liu Yu's army was basically infantry. He had been named King of Qi for almost two years, but the Jin Dynasty did not support him. It can be said that there was basically no support. The Jin Dynasty's resources were used to launch the conquest of the northern desert, and even the war horses were only given to Liu Yu hundreds, which was only enough for the generals to ride.

Liu Yu did not provide a large amount of financial resources as rich as Bashu. His territory was the ravaged Central Plains. His population was sharply reduced, with seven households empty. The largest city of Bianjing was only 300,000. The annual tax was pitifully small, and he had to support 20,000 Jin soldiers in Xuzhou. The expenditure of a Jin soldier was four times that of an ordinary Qi army. The heavy burden made Liu Yu not only unable to expand his army, but it was already very difficult to maintain his current army. After two years of hard work, the army barely maintained at around 120,000.

The soldiers were undersupplied and their morale was generally sluggish, but the equipment was pretty good. They were all imperial guards left by the Song army in the past. In fact, his 120,000 troops were the Han army that was surrendered by the Song army, and later changed its name to the Qi army.

Liu Yi was about 40 years old this year. He was originally just a farmer. After his brother became rich, he also ascended to heaven with the chickens and dogs. He was named Duke of Lu and was commanded by the army. If he was fighting with the Song army, Liu Yu would not let him lead the troops to fight, but this time he was going to wipe out the bandit army, so Liu Yu gave this opportunity to Liu Yi.

In Liu Yi's eyes, the bandit army that rebelled in Yunzhou this time was just a group of mobs. Although it was powerful, it was vulnerable. It was purely unexpected that Zhang Jian's army was destroyed. It can only be said that his troops were too small and it did not prove how strong the bandit army was.

It is no wonder that in the past two years, the anti-Jin rebels in Hebei and the Central Plains have been one after another, but they have been easily swept away by Liu Yu and Gao Qingyi, suppressing dozens of rebel armies. Even Liu Yi has successively suppressed Zhao Xiaobo, Yingchuan Prefecture, Ma Jie, Zhengzhou, and Zhang Santotuo from Chenzhou.

Zhang Rong, who had just emerged, was just a slightly huge rebel army. For them, what was more important was that there was no soldiers guarding the Shandong Peninsula. This was a big hidden danger and the army must be filled in as soon as possible.

Therefore, Liu Yi was also named the prefect of Jinan and had to protect the Shandong Peninsula. If they lost the Shandong Peninsula, they would lose half of their financial resources and could not support the expenses of more than 100,000 troops.

That morning, a 30,000 army arrived in Juye County, Jeju, less than 30 miles away from Liangshanpo. General Chen Zhiyuan stepped forward and said to Liu Yi: "Master, our fleet will probably be attacked by bandits when entering Liangshanpo. It is better to transport food, grass and supplies to the ashore!"

Liu Yi's face sank, "How to transport the food and supplies to the ashore? Do you think I don't know anything?"

Chen Zhiyuan cursed in his heart and had to say patiently: "In the past, the army attacked Liangshan was like this. He moved the food and grass ashore about 30 miles away from Liangshanpo, and then took Juye County as the logistics and the army marched towards Yunzhou."

"Which old calendar is you going through? This is not the Liangshan Army. This is a bandit that has gathered for less than a month. Do you think tens of thousands of them can live in Liangshanpo?"

Liu Yi did some homework and specifically checked the subsequent processing of the Liangshan Army. In the third year of Xuanhe, the imperial court burned all the buildings and military camps of the Liangshan Army to white land. No one was allowed within 20 miles of Liangshan Lake, which completely destroyed the foundation of the Liangshan Army.

So he disdained Chen Zhiyuan's suggestions, but Liu Yi would not recklessly drive the fleet into Liangshanpo. He needed to decide on the next move after getting the enemy's situation.

Seeing that it was getting late, Liu Yi ordered: "The army rests on the spot and sets off again tomorrow dawn!"

The soldiers of Yun Congjun unloaded simple tents from the ship and built thousands of simple tents on the east bank of the river. This was Yun Congjun's privilege. As for the other 20,000 troops, they could only simply wrap their bodies with a military blanket, and directly sleep with the sky as the quilt and the ground as the bed.

The soldiers were not sleeping yet, and they gathered together to drink water and eat dry food. Dozens of soldiers gnawed dry hard cakes. From a distance, they looked at Yun Congjun soldiers who were burying pots to make rice, and their hearts were filled with speechless anger.

Yun Congjun was much better than theirs, with his monthly salary of eight guan, while they only had three guan.

The diet is completely different. Yuncongjun soldiers have a pound of fine grain every day, and can also eat broth, fresh fish and vegetables, and give enough salt. Even if they march, they can drink thick sauce broth.

Ordinary soldiers only have half a kilogram of coarse grains every day, and then pickled vegetables. Occasionally, there will be a little bacon, and there are basically no other ones. There is not even pickled vegetables when marching, just dry cakes, which are as hard as stones and must be soaked in water for half a day before they can be chewed.

Of course, Yun Congjun will not march with ordinary soldiers in normal times, and everyone is out of sight. This time it is a special situation. Ten thousand Yun Congjun and 20,000 ordinary soldiers are formed together, which makes the treatment differences between the two armies particularly obvious.

Of course, Yun Congjun would not reduce his treatment just because he was with ordinary soldiers, and ordinary soldiers would not benefit from them just because he was with Yun Congjun. What should he do or what should he do.

The voices of cursing came one after another, but there was nothing we could do. Soon, after eating the dry food, everyone fell asleep with anger.

When it was almost dawn, the spy rushed back from Yunzhou and reported to Liu Yi about the situation of Zhang Rong's riot bandits. Zhang Rong had led 20,000 bandit troops to leave Yunzhou and retreat towards Jinan Prefecture.

Liu Yi immediately made a decision, and he led 10,000 Yun Cong Army to station in Yunzhou as a supporter, and ordered Deputy General Chen Zhiyuan to lead 20,000 troops to Jinan Prefecture.

Liu Yi was only half right. Although Liangshanbo had no camps for the army to station, it had enough space for the army to temporarily station. Currently, 10,000 Song troops were stationed on the largest straw sandal island inside Liangshanbo. They set up camp tents and waited patiently for the opportunity to attack.

As the name suggests, the straw sandal island looks like a straw sandal, consisting of two parts, thin in the middle and wide at the end, and is actually more like a gourd.

The entire island is about five miles long and two miles wide. It was once the last garrison of the Liangshan Army, with up to 20,000 troops stationed. At that time, Hu Cheng, the father of Lu Junyi and Hu Qing'er, died on this island.

Although all the buildings on the island were burned to white land, the traces of Liangshan Army's operation here are still visible. The entire island was well-maintained and very suitable for camping. Dozens of large ships were moored in the bay of the island. In addition to the tents, there were also a large amount of thunder and turbulent oil on the ship. In addition, there were dozens of warehouses on the island, which were piled up like a hill. Zhang Rong ordered his subordinates to move the granary of Xucheng to the island.

Yan Qing stood on a large rock in the south and looked at the water. He was immersed in his memories of the past. It was here that his adoptive father went ashore and finally died on the island. He put on his makeup and mingled among the soldiers and escaped. Song Jiang thought he jumped into a lake and ran away like Hu Qing'er.

Many years have passed in a blink of an eye. The adoptive father knew that he had become the youngest fourth-rank general in the court, and was commanded by the commander-in-chief. Yan Qing sighed softly. After the war ended, he would go to Jiangxia to visit his adopted mother and worship his adopted father's tomb.

At this time, five or six young generals came over. This time, they were mainly young generals, all of whom were second and third-level commanders, mostly around twenty years old, and stood out in many battles. The third generation of Zhong Lie, the Xiangzhong family army, was the grandson of Zhong Shi, Wu Baoguo, the son of Wu, and Cao Li, the fourth generation of Cao family.

Of course, they are more common people's children, such as the first general Tianshui and Zhao Wu, who entered Xingqing Prefecture. He performed extremely well in the street battles in Xingqing Prefecture, brave and resourceful, and was promoted from a general to a second-level commander by Li Yanqing.

At this time, Yan Qing felt something and turned around and saw several young generals. He smiled and said, "Can't wait?"
Chapter completed!