The next morning, the military camp on the north bank of Wuzhang River began to become lively. The Privy Council dispatched troops overnight. Ten thousand soldiers transferred from the military camps around Bianjing arrived one after another. A large number of soldiers, armor, money and food were also continuously transported to the military camps. A thousand material transport ships transferred from Heyang also set sail and came to Bianjing. A famous poem was in line with the situation, "Suddenly, the spring breeze came, and thousands of pear blossoms bloomed."

As soon as dawn was dawn, Li Yanqing and Liu Qi rushed to the central army tent. Zhong Shidao smiled at them, "I probably don't have time to pay attention to you today. The war horses have been approved. You can go to Moutuogang to choose."

Li Yanqing and Liu Qi looked at each other, and they were overjoyed and bowed together and said, "Abide by the orders of humble duties!"

Zhong Shidao handed them over the horse transfer order sent by Tiansijian, and instructed him: "Thanks to the fact that the Crown Prince has argued, this time the court has approved 3,000 war horses, each of you will bring 1,000 war horses, and another thousand war horses will be brought back for me. I plan to use it for the intelligence battalion and the military forces."

"Where is the cavalry?" Liu Qi couldn't help asking again.

"There are cavalry too. The High Governor of the Privy Council specially transferred three thousand cavalry from Chenzhou. The military order was sent out last night. It is estimated that we will arrive at the military camp as early as tomorrow evening. You will take the auxiliary soldiers to collect the war horses and three days of feed today. The rest of the feed will be delivered by ship."

At this time, Li Yanqing asked again: "Is the Grand Marshal going to select martial scholars today?"

"I really don't have time today. General Zong went there early in the morning. Don't worry, I will never let go of a talent like Wang Gui."

Wang Gui's outstanding performance in Xixia left a deep impression on Zhong Shidao, and his love for Wang Gui is no less than that of Li Yanqing.

Zhong Shidao also instructed the two to leave some soldiers to prepare for receiving armor and supplies. Li Yanqing and Liu Qi left the central army's tent and returned to the camp to prepare.

At present, the cavalry and war horses of Xuanwu Camp and Zhuque Camp are not in place, but the auxiliary soldiers are already in place. The auxiliary soldiers are generally soldiers of the wing army and are mainly responsible for logistics. The cavalry allocated to Zhong Shidao this time are mainly heavy cavalry, with heavy armor and tight protection, so each cavalry also needs one auxiliary soldier to assist.

Since the Khitan occupied Youzhou, they soon mastered the superb iron smelting technology of the Han people. In addition, there were a large number of iron ore in Youzhou and Liaodong, the armor protection of the Liao cavalry has made rapid progress. Half of the hundreds of thousands of cavalry in the Liao Kingdom were heavy armored cavalry. With the support of the Liao Kingdom, the Western Xia heavy cavalry Iron Harrier also had 80,000 during its peak period. The Jin Dynasty cavalry that replaced the Liao Kingdom was famous for its armored cavalry. Because the Song army had few war horses, there were more than 20,000 armored cavalry.

Xuanwu Camp and Zhuque Camp both formed independent troops, with their own warehouses, stables and kitchens, so in addition to a thousand auxiliary soldiers, there were also three hundred logistics soldiers and dozens of grooms. Li Yanqing and Liu Qi even had their own aides. The so-called sparrows were small and had all the internal organs.

As soon as Li Yanqing returned to the camp, his aide Mo Jun quickly walked out of the tent. Mo Jun was the former magistrate Jiang Dadao of Tangyin. After Jiang Dadao's death, Mo Jun turned to Li Yanqing and was temporarily placed in his father's place by Li Yanqing.

This time, Xuanwu Camp became an independent army and needed a civil servant who handled daily chores. Mo Jun naturally entered the military camp and served as the chief officer of Xuanwu Camp to join the army. His subordinates recruited two young civil servants to be responsible for the chores.

Mo Jun is very capable, Jiang Dadao is almost illiterate, and he relies on two aides to support the entire Tangyin County, allowing Jiang Dadao to be the magistrate for nearly seven years.

"Report to the commander, Zhang Sima sent someone over just now and asked us to collect money, grain, soldiers and armor."

"I understand, you go! I'm going to take someone to Moutuogang soon."

"There are war horses?" Mo Jun was surprised.

"I heard that the emperor was angry, so everything came so quickly."

Li Yanqing signed the book and handed it to Mo Jun and said, "I will bring five hundred soldiers to pick up the horses. The remaining soldiers will be called by you. Let Yang Liang assist you and bring back the money, grain, soldiers and armor."

"The humble position has been arranged."

At this time, Li Yanqing remembered something and said to Mo Jun: "Today, Wang Gui and the others are coming. I may not be able to come back until night. Please settle them for me."

"Don't worry! Husband will settle them."

Li Yanqing arranged the tent a little more, and then he took five hundred auxiliary soldiers and Liu Qi to Mutugang.

Moutuogang is thirty miles northwest of Bianjing. There are tens of thousands of acres of grassland distributed under a low hill, surrounded by wooden fences. This is the place where the imperial court's Tiansijian raises horses. It raises more than 20,000 war horses and hundreds of huge warehouses, which store hundreds of thousands of dans of good feed.

Unlike the voluntary transport of money, grain, soldiers and armor to the military camp, Zhong Shidao insists on choosing the war horses themselves. War horses are not like food. A little move will affect the lives of cavalry on the battlefield. Even a little thinner, they will not be able to withstand the weight of cavalry and vests.

At noon, the team arrived at Moutuogang, and there were already officials from Tiansijian waiting here. Several officials hurriedly came up and saluted and said, "Three thousand war horses are ready. The two generals will rest for a while. We will arrange for the soldiers to eat. Then we will send the horses to the two generals for a look."

Li Yanqing and Liu Qi looked at each other and found that the other party had prepared the war horses. It seemed that their guess was correct. It was very likely that there were no 20,000 war horses here. Li Yanqing did not expose them and said lightly: "Then it's a blessing for you."

The officials of Tiansijian and the horse farm were very attentive to entertain each soldier, and the reception of Li Yanqing and Liu Qi was even more luxurious. Not only did they serve as the best food, but they also invited two dance gangsters to entertain themselves. When they were having tea, an official took two packets of gold and handed it to Li Yanqing and Liu Qi, "For a little bit of heart, the two generals took it to drink tea!"

Li glanced at the gold he gave him. There were about five ingots, about twenty taels of each. Seeing that Liu Qi had no intention of collecting the gold, he pushed the gold back and said lightly: "We have received the good intentions. If you take the gold back, we also know that you have difficulties, so we don't want to make things difficult for you. But I hope you understand that we are not going to train horses, but to go to Liangshan to suppress bandits. We will face 100,000 Liangshan rioters. The battlefield will be extremely tragic. We can not pick up horses, but every three thousand war horses must be qualified. This is our minimum requirement."

Several officials looked at each other and refused to collect the money. What should I do? Or the leader’s official responded quickly. The other party’s failure to collect the money may not necessarily make things difficult for him. Perhaps he did not want to leave any handle. He hurriedly said: “Please go see the horses. If you are dissatisfied, we will change them immediately!”

The officials of Tiansijian tried every means to prevent the other party from going to the horse farm to pick up horses, but instead they sent horses to pick up horses. This was actually the same as sending horses to the military camp.

Three thousand war horses were prepared in advance and placed in a fence of nearly a thousand acres. Li Yanqing and Liu Qi each brought ten experienced grooms. The grooms ran into the fence to select horses, mainly to pick out the weak and elderly old horses.

Li Yanqing and Liu Qi stood on the hillside and watched the dense war horses in the fence below. It could be seen that the officials of Tiansijian did not want to make things worse, and most of the war horses sent were strong and powerful horses.

"I heard that the backstage of Tiansijian is Liang Shicheng. Once it is investigated, I am afraid that Liang Shicheng will not be able to bear it!" Liu Qi said angrily.

Li Yanqing smiled faintly, "It's really clear that there will be a scapegoat. It's not Liang Shicheng's turn. However, I guess half of the interests in this black hole have been entered into the inner treasury, including military spending. I'm afraid no one will dare to mention the person who really takes away the big head."

"Will that be the case?"

Li Yanqing nodded, "How much money did the Battle of Xixia consume in the war of Xixia? Now we have to suppress bandits on a large scale, and there are also redundant officials, soldiers, and redundant expenses. How can the court's financial resources afford such a huge expense? But Yanfu Palace is still building, and it becomes more and more luxurious. What can we make up for the deficit of the inner treasury? Could General Liu have thought of this?"

Liu Qi said for a while: "Isn't this destroying the Great Wall by yourself?"

"Zhu Xie established Yingfeng Bureau in Jiangnan, plundered people's wealth, forced Fang La to rebel, Yang Jian built Xicheng District in Yunzhou, occupied land, forced Liangshan to rebel, and the Great Wall of the Song Dynasty had long been destroyed."

Li Yanqing sighed a long time and walked quickly towards the horse circle...

Li Yanqing returned to the barracks at dusk. The soldiers brought back a large number of war horses. Li Yanqing asked him to send a thousand war horses to the main camp to the logistics manager Jiang Huan, while he and Liu Qi each brought a thousand war horses back to the barracks.

The war horses entered the Xuanwu Cavalry Battalion, and the military camp became lively. The soldiers ran out to watch the war horses. Although the auxiliary soldiers could not ride horses to fight or train, the horses were usually taken care of by them. Everyone had great interest in war horses.

Mo Jun had already prepared the stables, and he brought the horses to their camp with his groom. At this time, Yang Liang hurried over with two young officers, one was Wang Gui and the other was Niu Gao. Li Yanqing looked back, "Where is A Tang and Brother Wu?"

"Lao Tang went to the intelligence camp. Didn't he agree with you last night?"

Li Yanqing slapped his forehead, "Yes! Yes! I actually forgot, where is that fifth brother?"

"Old Yue was about to leave by the old general Zong."

Li Yanqing was stunned. Yue Fei was actually about to leave by Zong Ze. He suddenly had a wonderful feeling. People were actually pulled by various invisible lines of destiny in the dark. In history, Yue Fei was able to stand out because of Zong Ze's favor. Today, Yue Fei was recruited under Zong Ze's command as soon as he learned martial arts. What is the arrangement of fate?

At this time, Wang Gui said anxiously: "We have been idle for a day, please arrange something for us!"

"You guys come with me!"

Li Yanqing took Wang Gui and Niu Gao into his tent. He asked the two to sit down and said with a smile: "There are 2,300 people in Xuanwu Camp, and the same is true for Zhuque Camp. These are two relatively special troops, directly belonging to Zhong Shishi, which can also be called the Independent Battalion. Because Zhong Shishishi only gave us orders, I am fully responsible for the rest of the army commanders, including Sima Zhang Shuye and Duyu Houzong's old general, they have no right to govern us."

Wang Gui and Niu Gao nodded silently, and they were both surprised. I don’t know why the general Zhong gave the two cavalry troops so much power?

"Since Mr. Zhong gave me the decision to deal with it independently, I plan to set up the army as the fifth battalion, five Dutou, two cavalry battalions, two infantry battalions and one logistics battalion."

Wang Gui was a little puzzled, "Does the commander plan to separate the cavalry and the auxiliary soldiers?"
Chapter completed!