The carriage was walking slowly on the street. There was thick snow on the street. Thousands of soldiers were working hard to shovel the snow. On both sides of the road were children jumping up and down, making snowmen, having snowball fights, and laughing.
At this time, a snowball suddenly flew toward Chen Qing's car window. Before it could get close to the car window, his guard had quick eyes and quick hands. With a wave of his spear, the snowball was shattered in the air.
A group of children were so frightened that they turned and ran away, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Chen Qing smiled and shook his head, wondering if his children were also having snowball fights at home!
Returning to the official room, Chen Qing sat by the brazier to warm himself up. Wei Ji reported at the door: "Your Highness, Minister Lu Wei has been waiting for a long time to see you!"
Chen Qing nodded, "Let him in!"
Lu Wei walked in quickly and saluted, "See you, Your Highness!"
Chen Qing saw his serious expression and asked, "What happened?"
"Just now the county government sent people to look for me. Their people collected a body outside the city that froze to death last night and found a letter on his body. It was a letter I wrote to my brother Lu Fan."
Chen Qing was startled, "Is that corpse Lu Jiao?"
"should be!"
"How could he freeze to death?"
"I heard from the county government that the body was found at the entrance of a brothel. They examined it and found that there were no external injuries. It was just that it was frozen to death."
Chen Qing nodded, "You go and deal with it! Find a cemetery for him to bury, and don't hold him accountable. This is his fate."
Lu Wei sighed and turned to leave.
Chen Qing asked: "How did his mother arrange it?"
"His elder brother Lu Fan supports him!"
"Send three thousand gu to his mother, which is considered as funeral money for his father. I will pay for it!"
Lu Wei shook his head and said: "Your Highness does not need to spend any money. My grandfather has a thousand acres of land and family property in his hometown, and the support money for my third grandmother will be spent from it."
"I understand, go and deal with it!"
Lu Wei turned around and hurried away.
In the afternoon, two large men nearly two meters tall appeared outside Yongwang's Mansion. Soldiers on duty stopped them and refused to allow them to approach.
The leading man bowed and said: "I am Yin Balu, a Mongol merchant, and this is my brother Yin Erhan. We have brought the information that His Highness King Yong wants. He has already met us twice!"
The general on duty recognized them and said: "Wait a moment, let us report."
The general ran in, and after a while, Chao Qing came out and said: "You two, please come in, His Highness has summoned you!"
After the soldiers searched the two of them strictly, they were allowed into the government office and went all the way to Chen Qing's official room.
The two came in and knelt down to salute, "See His Highness King Yong!"
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said, "I haven't seen you for a long time. When did you come to Jingzhao?"
"Reporting to Your Highness, we just arrived yesterday!"
"How is business?" Chen Qing asked with a smile.
"Thanks to His Highness, we are now in business for ourselves."
These two people had always been officials and businessmen of the Mengwu tribe, and the money they earned was used to buy weapons for the Mengwu tribe to fight against the Jin Kingdom. Unexpectedly, they started their own business.
"What's going on? Your khan doesn't trust you?"
Yinbalu said sadly: "The Tata tribe and the Kle tribe joined forces with Jin Guo Marshal Wanyan Wushu to attack the Mengwu tribe. The old Khan was shot by an arrow and unfortunately passed away. Most of the land population of the Mengwu tribe is the Tata tribe."
And the division of the Kelie tribe, the remaining tribes were divided into more than a dozen small tribes. They surrendered to the Jin Kingdom and were spared. We two brothers have no allegiance and can only do business on our own."
Chen Qing nodded. The other party did not say it clearly, but the implication was that the Mengwu tribe would also join in the harassment of the border of the Yong Kingdom. This was expected by him and not surprising.
"The guards just said that you have important information, what is it?"
"Reporting to Your Highness, there is news about the Hetao area!"
The Hetao area is Fengzhou. The top of the zigzag bend of the Yellow River was originally under the jurisdiction of Lingxia Road. However, it was occupied by the grassland nomadic tribes since last autumn. The nomadic cavalry used it as a base, seriously threatening the security of Lingzhou.
Chen Qing also knew some news about Fengzhou, but he wanted to know more, so he asked: "Tell me about your news!"
"Reporting to your highness, we collected a batch of medicinal materials from Fengzhou and headed south. We encountered a large number of cavalry, tens of thousands of them, from all tribes, and even a small number of Jurchen cavalry. Not long after we went south, it started to snow in the north.
Now, these troops should still be in Fengzhou, and they may take action next spring."
This information is indeed very important. Chen Qing knows that Fengzhou has 20,000 permanent troops, 10,000 Kelie cavalry and 10,000 Tata cavalry. What Yinbalu saw should be an increase in troops.
"I understand, thank you both for the information!"
Chen Qing asked Chao Qing to send them out and write a note asking the official shop to purchase their goods. The two brothers thanked him profusely and left.
Chen Qing came to the sand table in the staff room. This was the sand table in the Lingxia Road and Yinshan areas in the north. It was completed two years ago. He placed the sand table here, which meant that he would use troops against Fengzhou.
The Jin Kingdom has withdrawn from Hebei, but still occupies Yanshan Prefecture. The Jin Kingdom also needs time to adjust. In order to prevent them from attacking Yanshan Road, they adopted the strategy of besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao, using nomadic cavalry to invade Lingxia Road. At present, the Jin Kingdom has completed its attack on the Yanshan Road.
With the integration of the tribes in the grassland and the lack of resistance within the grassland, a large-scale attack on Lingzhou next spring will be inevitable.
The intelligence from the Yinbalu brothers also confirmed their guess. In the spring of next year, the nomadic cavalry will attack Lingzhou in a large scale to plunder the wealth of the population.
It must be said that Jin Guo's move was very effective and disrupted Chen Qing's plan to attack Yanshan Mansion in the spring of next year.
But Chen Qing would not allow the nomadic cavalry to occupy Fengzhou for a long time. In any case, he would send troops to recapture the lost Hetao.
Early the next morning, Chen Qing came to the Bashang Military Camp and summoned Yang Zaixing and other important generals. The generals gathered around Chen Qing and came to the school field to inspect the training of soldiers.
The shouts of killing in the school field were loud, and the drums were beating like thunder, 'Boom! Boom! Boom!' The two armies were fighting fiercely. They were holding more than ten kilograms of bladeless epees. They couldn't kill each other, but it didn't matter. The rule was that two armies fought fiercely.
After an hour, the team with the fewest players lying down wins.
Yang Zaixing said: “This year’s training is still focused on actual combat training, mainly training infantry and cavalry cooperation, and multi-arms joint operations, including crossbowmen, throwers, firearms and tanks, and heavy armored corps joint operations.
, trained for a whole year and achieved outstanding results, but they also suffered heavy accidental injuries during the training, resulting in the unfortunate death of more than 500 brothers, and all of them received death compensation according to combat."
"Which part of soldier training has the highest casualties?"
"It was mainly firearms training and city siege training. We used barrels of fire and thunder in actual combat and asked the soldiers to learn to avoid it. However, more than 300 soldiers were killed by the explosion, and another 200 soldiers fell into the city and died while training to climb the city.
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Chen Qing nodded and said to the generals: "I have told everyone before that we will go north to Lingzhou next spring to fight against the grassland nomadic army. In one month, our army will go north. I hope you will do well.
Three things, first, maintain high morale; second, try to give the soldiers a holiday and let them go home to visit; third, strengthen the training of the cavalry."
