In April of the first year of Tianyou's reign, spring was full and the mountains were full of vitality. Li Xiaoxi was riding on a tall war horse, constantly looking at the steep canyon, silently thinking about where to hide troops in the mountains and forests on both sides. The war horse was produced from
The Tieli tribe of Liaodong has a tan horse body, a dark upright mane, and four pure white horse hooves, which makes it look extremely majestic.
The sergeants of the large group passed under his horse and meandered forward along the valley.
Nowadays, Li Xiaoxi can be said to be very proud of himself. After continuously achieving great feats in Cangzhou Nanyuan and Weizhou City, his troops finally gained recognition from the Lulong military system and received a designation - Youyan Security Army. Even though it is just one word,
Poor, this means that he and his subordinates have been transferred from non-staff to staff, and officially have their names in the General Administration of Military Staff.
For Li Xiaoxi himself, this means that he has finally entered the ranks of Lulong's senior officers and has a formal official position - Commander of the Youyan Security Army. Compared with the reserve officer level, his rank has been determined
He is a guerrilla general, which is only half a block lower than the guerrilla general rank of the field army chief.
From now on, he can hold his chest high and calmly accept others respectfully calling him "General Li"!
After nearly ten years of living in exile, Li Xiaoxi is becoming more and more satisfied with his current life. In addition to his promotion in official positions, his wealth is also rapidly accumulating. After two years of working, Li Xiaoxi is experiencing domestic abuse.
In addition to a three-story house in Youzhou City, he also purchased a 200-acre farm in Lu County, more than 20 miles east of Youzhou, and climbed up to Yingzhou through Zhao Zaili's network.
Governor Zhou Zhiyu's family began to make a living by herding horses on nearly 20 hectares of pasture under the outer circle of Wulu Mountain in Dongyi.
In addition to the above-mentioned industries, Li Xiaoxi also opened an account at Youyan United Bank, with a deposit of 5,000 yuan! According to Li Xiaoxi's own calculation, he planned to unite the officers of the security department. Compare Yingzhou Social Development Welfare Foundation, Youyan Culture and Art
Foundation, the Hebei Red Cross Society, is also setting up a foundation. Well, he has already thought of a name. It is called the Northeast Road Expansion Foundation. It will also engage in the business of opening roads, including Liaodong and Hebei, and Yingzhou, Bilaoshizi.
The Fund, the Youyan Fund, and the Hebei Federation are all going to get bigger!
In addition to attracting all the officers at battalion level and above, including Zhang Jingshao and Ji Wenyun under his command, he also has to win over Zhao Zaili, Zhang Long and Mao Zhang from the Liaodong Security Army.
If you bring them in, it will be better.
If you want to become a director, each person must pay 2,000 guan first! If you want to become a vice-chairman, each person must pay 3,000 guan! If you want to become the chairman...well, that is a position reserved for yourself, you cannot give this one away.
Already...
After this battle is over, we will immediately prepare for the Northeast Expansion Foundation. When it is unveiled, the ceremony must be open and honorable, and it must be higher than the Hebei Red Cross!
Li Xiaoxi couldn't help but smile again when she thought of this battle.
After the news that the emperor moved the capital to Luoyang came out, the world was shocked. The Liang King's intention to usurp was already known to everyone. At this time, the whole country was indignant. Yang Xingmi from Huainan, who had just reached an alliance with Xuanwu, suddenly mobilized his troops to the north, and there was a hint of danger.
The trend of crusade. Even Wang Jian of Xichuan, who was closest to Xuanwu, became ambiguous and quietly began to repair the plank road out of Sichuan.
The vassal towns in Shannan and Jiangnan that had surrendered to Xuanwu in the past began to have their minds wandering, and they stopped uniting with each other. It is said that Zhao Kuangning, the envoy of Jingxiang Festival, and Zhao Kuangming, the brothers who stayed in Jingnan, hated the move of King Liang very much.
, are planning to raise an army; Liang Wang's iron man - Du Hong, the military governor of Wuchang Army, and Ma Yinze, the military governor of Wu'an Army, received secret orders from the King of Liang to closely monitor the Zhao brothers; as for Lei Yanwei, the military commander of Wu Zhen Army, this guy is a
The fence-sitters are sitting back and watching the struggle between the two sides.
This information came from the increasingly mature Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, and Li Xiaoxi, who had already ascended to the position of general, also received relevant information. In view of this, King Yan Li Chengzhong issued an order to the General Administration of Military Staff to mobilize troops for combat. To this end, Marquis Yu
The company has formulated relevant strategies and implemented them in April.
This strategy proposed three operational purposes: first, to mobilize troops on the outside and actively seek combat methods to draw Xuanwu's attention to specific battlefields and prevent King Liang, who had successfully hijacked the emperor, from concentrating his troops on Hebei;
The second is to mobilize units from all armies to participate in the war, gain combat experience through actual combat, and enhance the military's actual combat capabilities; the third is to cooperate with the armies of allies and allies to further strengthen alliances with allies through fighting side by side.
In order to achieve this series of combat objectives, the General Administration of Military Staff selected two battlefields, Hedong and Qingqing. Among them, the Hedong battlefield is located in the Shangdang and Jincheng basins of the Qinshui River Basin, which is the Zelu prefecture of Hedong Road; the Qingqing battlefield
It was selected to be south of Jishui, with Bochang at its back and Qizhou and Zizhou in the south.
These two battlefields are oriented east and west, threatening Henan with the force of horns. In addition, the Hedong Army and the Ping Lu Army responded and cooperated, which was enough to make Xuanwu tired of dealing with it. In this way, Xuanwu Army could be relieved to the greatest extent from defending from the middle.
The pressure of two states crossing the Yellow River north.
After listening to the strategic report of the General Administration of Military Staff, Li Chengzhong was thoughtful, and a strange smile gradually appeared on his face, making the staff officers at all levels of the General Administration look at each other. However, their worries were unnecessary, and Li Chengzhong's smile was not
To deny this strategy, on the contrary, he readily approved it, but gave this strategy a code name.
The codename of the strategy is - Battle of Two Rivers!
The first batch of troops transferred to Hedong to participate in the round battle were the second and third battalions of infantry in the left wing of the Yingzhou Army, the bow and arrow battalion and the cavalry battalion in the right wing of the Mozhou Army, the first battalion of spearmen, the first battalion of sword and shield soldiers, and the first battalion of sword and shield soldiers.
A battalion of archers and a battalion of cavalry totaled 2,000 people. The General Administration of Military Staff established the Shangdang Camp. Zhao Yuanping, the civilized envoy of the Mozhou Army, was appointed as the general manager of the camp, the commander of the left wing of the Yingzhou Army, and Omari, a Khitan man, was appointed as the camp supervisor and concurrently.
Sima.
At the same time, Han Yanhui of the United Front Work Department issued a recruitment order to Li Xiaoxi on behalf of Yu Housi of the General Administration of Military Staff, and hired 1,500 Youyan security troops to fight with him for three months at a price of 18,000 guan, which was included in the Shangdang's operational control.
In order to win the first battle of the Situation War, Li Xiaoxi personally led his own army, the Youyan Security Army Youzhou Brigade, as the first group to leave the border and clear the way for Shangdang to camp.
The Youzhou Brigade headed west from Fukou Xing, entered Taihang, and trekked for two days in the valley between Gushan Mountain and Yuanbao Mountain, and finally arrived at Dongyang Pass, which is under the control of Hedong. Dongyang Pass guards the west exit of Fukou Xing, and is an important town in Hedong.
Although the city is small, it is garrisoned by 600 sergeants. Luzhou is the territory of Hedong General Li Siyuan, and the Dongyang Pass guard is Li Siyuan's confidant and Li Siyuan's adopted son. Of course, his surname is Li.
Li Dutou had already received the order and opened the door. Because Li Xiaoxi's troops and civilians had more than 2,000 people and could not be stationed in Guancheng, he simply let the Youzhou Brigade enter through the east gate and exit through the west gate, and stationed directly at a place west of Guancheng.
It is located on a hillside. The process of clearing the customs for the Youzhou Brigade was not complicated, but it made the Hedong soldiers guarding the customs red-eyed. Nearly a hundred vehicles followed the Youzhou Brigade through the gate, and military armor and baggage were piled on the vehicles.
As high as a hill.
Li Dutou accompanied Li Xiaoxi to supervise the troops to clear the customs. His eyes widened when he saw these carts loaded with baggage. Especially the dozens of carts at the back, which contained bags of grain, carts of pickles, and strings of pickles.
Dried meat on skewers... Oh my god! What's on the last ten carts? Live sheep, live chickens and live ducks...
Li Xiaoxi was still shouting at the side: "Be careful, be careful... Oh, be gentle, don't press, they are all alive! Remember to feed me after a while, I have just been away for two days, I have lost weight, and there is no fat left.
How can I eat at night?"
Li Dutou was completely speechless. After stationed at Dongyang Pass for a year, he had already known about Lulong's wealth from the merchants who passed the pass, but he never expected that people were so wealthy... He couldn't eat the thin live sheep, chickens and ducks.
Go down? How can this be called the situation of Hedong Army, which still maintains three meals a day?
In the evening, the Youzhou Brigade finally settled down on the hillside. With the help of civilian husbands, the sergeants set up a simple stove and started to light a fire for cooking.
Li Du, who was in Dongyang Pass, looked at the smoke rising from the kitchen in the distance. Under the encouragement of his subordinates, he finally gritted his teeth and came to the Youzhou Brigade camp and asked to see General Li.
Li Xiaoxi is personally directing the guards to make "beggar's chicken". This method is to remove the feathers and guts of a live chicken, stuff the chicken belly with a sauce packet, and wrap it with lotus leaves to tie it tightly - Li Xiaoxi even brought a special
Bury a bag of lotus leaves into a hole dug in advance. Then light a fire where the chicken is buried. After about an hour, dig out the chicken and eat it. The process is not complicated, but it is very time-consuming, but this method is really
Li Xiaoxi learned it immediately after she tasted it for the first time. Of course, this method became popular in Hebei. In addition to being delicious, the more important thing is that it was created by Li Chengzhong. It is an eternal truth.
When Li Dutou asked to see him, it happened to be the time when the "Beggar's Chicken" was fully cooked. Li Xiaoxi was letting his guards dig out the fragrant whole chicken. The "Beggar's Chicken" was served with roasted lamb legs and dried meat stewed in oil.
Soup, warm noodles, and a bowl of pickled vegetables, the fresh aroma hit the faces of several Hedong officers such as Li Dutou, making them salivate to the point of swallowing.
"Come on, come on, Li Dutou, I'm about to have a meal with my brothers, so you guys can sit down together! Jiulang, tell the outside and bring some bread and pickles, um, get another leg of lamb,
I want to entertain distinguished guests."
Li Dutou and several Hedong officers were immediately overjoyed and sat down around Li Xiaoxi. After a while, a folding stool was placed in front of everyone, with the stool as a table and food spread on it. Several people looked at Li Xiaoxi eagerly, waiting for Li Xiaoxi
Invite to have a meal.
Li Xiaoxi said: "Please use it, everyone, no need to be polite." He picked up the small wooden bowl first, took a few sips of the broth happily, and then finished the aftertaste. He put the wooden bowl down and was about to speak when he saw a few Hedong officers.
His mouth was already full of food, and Li Dutou's cheeks were so stretched out that they suddenly seemed a little fatter. (To be continued...)