After hearing what Song Jingang said, Li Chongjiu smiled and asked back, "General Song must have had a long view. Why don't you tell me and listen?"

Song Jingang said immediately: "Your Majesty, then the general will be ugly. The general thinks that even if Li Tang restrains the current power of our Great Zhao, it will be a foregone conclusion to sweep Shandong. The difference is the speed of collecting Shandong."

Li Chongjiu nodded: "You are right. Li Tang is about to attack Xiao Xian. We must take Shandong before Li Yuan defeats Xiao Xian. Such a large army has no worries and goes westward and returns to protect Luoyang. Therefore, attacking Shandong is easy to decide."

Song Jingang said: "Your Majesty said so much, so the last general knows it. Just as this time, the last general pacified the bandits, and the bandits were intrigue and squabbling with each other, they defeated each other one by one. Among the few princes in Shandong, Qi Gongshun is the strongest. If he can defeat Qi Gongshun, defeat Qingzhou, and earn his contributions in one battle, then the heroes of Shandong will surrender."

Li Chongjiu said: "The ancients said that a word can make a country prosperous. Your insights are rare. What is rare is that you see the same as what Xu Aiqing gave me. It seems that you are indeed the best candidate to attack Shandong this time. I did not choose the wrong person."

Song Jingang lowered his head and said, "Thank you for your praise."

Li Chongjiu said: "Since you have this idea, you will lead your army south to cooperate with Xu Shiji to attack Qingzhou."

"No." Song Jingang clasped his fists and said.

Huoer is silent on the grassland.

The 35,000 army set out from Bailang City and was heading towards Wuhuan Mountain.

Wang Shi, the military camp lieutenant, was lying on the carriage at this moment. The carriage was a member of the Dingling tribe and used to transport grain. The Dingling tribe is also called the Gaoche tribe. Each herdsman in the Dingling tribe has at least four high cars. Wang Shi could only lie on the carriage honestly, and the carriage was so bumped that the stick on his buttocks were damaged and cracked again.

Wang Xin has the heart to hate Guo Xiaoke to death.

"Sir, you can camp." A leader of Ding Ling said to Wang Shi.

In the eyes of the Dingling tribe, Lord Wang, the captain of Zhao Jun, is a high-ranking official with a very status.

Wang Shi, with the help of his servants, climbed out of the car and said, "Just camping in this place. I see that the whole area is empty, aren't you afraid of the Khitan cavalry attacking at night?"

The head of Ding Lingmen smiled and said, "Don't worry, lieutenant, our Ding Lingmen has been like this for hundreds of years. As long as we surround the big chariots into a ring formation, ordinary Khitan cavalry will not be able to attack."

Wang Shi nodded. Among the Liaodong tribes, Ding Ling's strength was the weakest. He was not very respectful to him. However, after hearing the Ding Ling's leader's report to his family, he really scared Wang Shi.

It turned out that the man, Ding Ling's leader, was named Hu Luhong, who was actually a fellow clan of the famous general of the Northern Qi Dynasty. You should know that when Hu Luguang was in the Northern Qi Dynasty, his voice was shocked by Guanxi and suppressed the Turks. Even the Emperor of Northern Zhou said that if this person was there, how could I break through Yecheng?

Although Huluguang was unjustly killed, his clan members did not perish. The Hulu tribe was originally the most brave and war-friendly part of the Gaoche tribe. When the Northern Qi Dynasty expelled the Hulu tribe, many tribe members returned to their hometown in Liaodong. This Huluhong was a famous warrior in the Hulu tribe.

Wang Shi met the soldiers of the Hulu Division of the Dingling clan. He first drove the donkey and mule in the cart to a place, circled them with sheep and horses, and then used high chariots one by one on all sides. The head and tail were connected, and a ring formation was erected.

The chariot array is in the outermost circle. People and war horses are behind the chariot array, while mules and donkeys are locked in the center. Boxes are stacked on all sides of the chariot array, and soldiers are allowed to keep watch. Such chariot arrays are a formation passed down from generation to generation by the Dingling people. Although even the Xi people have the custom of circling cars as formations, their chariot arrays are far less famous than the Dingling tribe.

In this chariot formation, one-third of the food, fodder and supplies were also escorted to this expedition army.

As dusk fell, Wang Shi dragged his body around. He had two hundred Goguryeo military households under his command, all of whom had prisoners of war who attacked Goguryeo. After being in the Han area for a long time, they no longer wanted to go back to Goguryeo. Now they are using them as husbands and will not serve as combat soldiers, but as auxiliary soldiers to join the army and do some carts and feed horses.

Wang Shi looked at it for a while and found that these Goguryeo auxiliary soldiers were doing their own thing, and they didn't think they could discipline him, which made him feel bored. Wang Shi thought that as a military camp lieutenant, he had no chance to make military achievements at all. It seemed that he would live his life in obscurity in Songmo Protectorate.

The autumn wind is stern on the grassland.

After the weather suddenly became colder after nightfall, many soldiers put on felt shirts on their bodies and sat around the fire to burn the fire.

At this time, Hu Luhong came over and said to Wang Shiyan: "Sir, something is wrong tonight."

"Why is something wrong?" Wang Shi asked back.

"Look at our army has been deep into the Huoershen grassland for three days, but not even a Khitan reconnaissance cavalry has discovered. I see if the Khitans gathered to ambush us. Especially tonight, the moon is very bright, and it would be a good opportunity for the Khitans to ambush us."

Wang Shi looked up at the sky. It turned out that the moon was bright and there was almost no need to ignite the fire around him.

After hearing what Hu Luhong said, Wang Shi immediately got up seriously and asked: "How many soldiers are there in the Dingling Division in the chariot formation?"

"One thousand five hundred people, Lord Cui led another thousand five hundred people to follow the Protector's Army near the Central Army. Our army was escorting food and grass. When crossing the river, there were some behind the palaces. But it didn't matter. The Xi army had two thousand cavalry teams, just a few miles away."

After hearing this, Wang Shi said: "Then it is to strengthen the vigilance tonight, and the additional personnel will be sent to the vigil."

Hu Luhong said: "But it is already very hard to marching and transporting grain during the day. If you send twice the staff, the tribesmen will complain."

"It's okay, tell them who are watching tonight, and each person will give you ten dollars."

"Okay." Hu Luhong agreed immediately, afraid that Wang Shi would repent, and immediately ordered someone to go on orders and arranged for people to serve the night. After hearing that the soldiers of Ding Ling's army had ten dollars tonight, they seemed to have a drop of water into the boiling oil pan. Everyone was happy at the moment, and everyone was regretful if it was not the night's turn.

For Dingling people, ten coins can be exchanged for one foot of coarse cloth, a small piece of coarse salt or a tea brick at the Liaodong market. This can be obtained in just one night.

Seeing Ding Ling's soldiers being grateful, Wang Shi suddenly became happy. The servant next to him asked quietly: "Young Master, where did we get the money to reward these Ding Ling people?"

"If the Khitans come to attack tonight, we will defend them, why don't we be afraid there will be no reward?"

"But Master. What if the Khitans don't come tonight?"

Wang Shi was stunned and said, "I didn't expect this. Forget it, I owe it first. There is always a way. Are living people still afraid of suffocating to death by peeing?" After hearing Wang Shi's irresponsible words, the two servants immediately showed a crying look without tears.

At midnight, the night wind is cooler.

The grassland is even quieter.

At this time, a sudden rapid sound of horse hooves came from the east. The night wind blew from the west. When I heard the sound of horse hooves, it means that the Khitan cavalry was very close.

"Not good. It's the Khitan outpost!" shouted on the watchtower.

After hearing this, Wang Shi immediately jumped up from the pile of horse materials, drew his sword and glared with his eyes: "Where are the Khitans?"

The two masters immediately ran over and persuaded him, "Young master, it's the Khitan whistle horse, not the Khitan army."

"No, I'll go and have a look." Wang Shi was about to take action.

"Young Master, wait a moment, we will put on your armor first."

"Please." Wang Shi cursed. At that moment, the two servants took a pair of fish scale armor from the armor bed and put it on Wang Shi with all their strength. The fish scale armor was personally given to Wang Shi by Emperor Yang E, and it was treasured in the arsenal. It was the most solid.

At this time, the sound of horse hooves increased again. Looking at the people on the building, he said, "No, there were Khitans in the north, and there were a lot of torches."

"Don't worry." Wang Shi took his helmet and ran to the vicinity of the watchtower. At this time, Hu Luhong also ran over and said, "Sir, you are really a Khitan cavalry."

Wang Shi laughed loudly when he heard this, "It's a good thing. I'm afraid they won't come, my military achievements will fall on them."

Seeing Wang Shi's calm and comfortable look, Hu Luhong couldn't help but admire him. He thought that the Zhao people had been fighting all over the world in the past few years, and even the Turks were afraid. Just by the courage of the captain, it could explain many problems. Thinking about it, I have been in the army for many years, so my courage is far inferior to that of this.

Although Hu Luhong may not be inferior to Wang Shi, he said at this moment: "Sir, the lieutenant is really brave, then everything here will be subject to the lieutenant's orders."

"Okay!" Wang Shixian had a shameless face and agreed without hesitation.

Hu Luhong didn't know that Wang Shi's courage was a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers. In fact, it was the first time Wang Shi went to the battlefield and had no experience in commanding combat. If Hu Luhong knew the truth, he would have fainted.

"Please tell me, how should we deal with it?"

Wang Shi was stunned. What should we do first? Wang Shi was stunned at this moment, but fortunately, his two servants followed Wang Junkuo for many years and were soldiers who had been through the battlefield. Wang Shi wouldn't, they would.

The two of them immediately whispered beside Wang Shi. Wang Shi nodded and said, "Yes, that's it."

Wang Shi said immediately: "First order people to light white smoke on the watchtower and tell other troops that we have been attacked here, so we can quickly get up to reinforce."

"There are also to ask the coachman and servant to carry the same trotters and gather together with the mules and donkeys in the sheep and horse pen, and tell them that when the Khitans attack, those who shouted loudly and those who walked around would be killed."

"Where are the rest? They all picked up bows and arrows. Once the Khitan cavalry attacked, they would greet them with the bows and arrows. They would shoot them in the chariot formation. When the enemy cavalry retreated, they would not attack."

Wang Shiyi ordered it one by one and was in order, and immediately covered Huluhong again. Now the white smoke that could be seen at night was burning on the watchtower. Although the Goguryeo military households were all afraid of hearing the attack of the Khitan cavalry, they all held wooden sticks under the military orders, gathered together and did not dare to walk.

Wang Shi walked around, but saw more than fifty soldiers still under custody of Ding Ling's soldiers. He asked Hu Luhong: "What's going on? Why don't they get weapons?"

Hu Luhong said: "I don't know that General Guo is harsh in his army. He will kill people before a war. In order to clarify the military discipline, these are soldiers who committed crimes or thorns in each battalion. They are now sent here to be detained. They are probably going to be executed before the decisive battle and warn the entire army."

Wang Shiqi said: "There is still this matter."

Wang Shi thought to himself and walked up to the more than fifty soldiers and said, "Listen, you should die if you commit a crime, but you are lucky. Now that the Khitans are attacking the chariot camp, as long as you can defend the chariot camp, you will be punished for your death. You can also get rewards and military merits. If you have eggs, please stand up for someone. You can do whatever you want, whether you die or live."

After hearing what Wang Shi said, these soldiers stepped forward without hesitation and said, "We are not afraid of death, are we still afraid of the Khitans? Just give this life to the lieutenant."

Hu Luhong hurriedly stepped forward and whispered: "No, the lieutenant is against General Guo's intention."

Wang Shi said with a straight look: "Is this your decision or I the decision? If you say something more, I will take you down."

Seeing that Wang Shi was holding the chicken feathers so quickly, Hu Luhong could only be speechless at the moment, and he told him to hand over all the power just now.

When the two servants saw Wang Shi's words, they received fifty fierce and desperate soldiers. They were all surprised and thought, "This young master is really a god." These fifty people probably followed the general even if they went up the sword mountain and the sea of ​​fire."

Wang Shi immediately drew his sword and shouted: "Let the Khitan thieves see the true nature of our Great Zhao men."

More than fifty soldiers shouted at each other, and then the soldiers of the Dingling clan shouted at the general's bravery.

The Khitan cavalry that were gathering in the outer circle were shocked and suspicious when they saw the sudden burst of cheers in the chariot formation. According to the principle, the Zhao army, who was attacked at night, shouldn't they panic?
Chapter completed!