Li Yanqing mainly took a fancy to Yan Qing's scout talent. Yan Qing was also the scout commander of the navy in Liangshan and followed Ruan Xiaowu. In addition to Yan Qing, Li Yanqing also obtained two of the three-generation children of the Cao family, Cao Xing and Cao Meng.

Cao Xing was riding and shooting, and his bright silver spear was very fierce. Cao Meng was only seventeen years old this year, with a burly figure and infinite strength. He used a pair of 80 kilograms of Hunyuan copper hammers. He was the number one general of the Cao family, but he was not rude. He also studied in the Cao family for several years and was a malleable talent.

In addition, Li Yanqing also wanted to recruit Gao Chong under his command. Gao Chong had joined the army the year before yesterday. He had the background of the Gao family and was currently serving as the Yuhou in the imperial guards' golden spear squad. He had excellent shooting skills. Even the golden spear general Xu Ning was not his opponent and was highly valued by the Taiwei Gao Qiu.

Of course, Li Yanqing alone would not come, but Cao Ping promised to help him bring Gao Chong over. With the friendship between Cao Gao and Gao, Gao Shen would definitely agree. Moreover, Cao Ping has a very high prestige in the military, so even Gao Qiu had to give this face.

The next morning, as Gao Chong came to the military camp, the people Li Yanqing was looking for were basically in place. As for civil servants, Mo Jun served as the record officer, in charge of the six chiefs, and Liu Fang served as the record office to join the army, in charge of the documents and orders.

At noon, Li Yanqing and Liu Xia led the five thousand Hedong Army back. This army has been with Zhong Shidao for many years and is the famous Zhong Family Army in the Western Army. A few years ago, they also participated in the Western Xia Battle and were quite familiar with Li Yanqing. Three of the five generals, Li Yanqing knew them.

Li Yanqing asked the five men to continue to serve as partial generals, but he reorganized the army and divided the five thousand people into ten battalions, each battalion consisting of 500 imperial guards and 500 fang troops. At present, the fang troops have not been in place. Each partial general temporarily commands 500 people, and two commanders Liu Ya and Yang Zaixing each have five battalions.

In addition, the Intelligence Department was established, and Li Yanqing asked Yan Qing and Yang Guang to be the chief and deputy Yu Hou to command the scout camp under the Intelligence Department. However, the military and civil servants of the Intelligence Department have not yet been in place, which is also a headache for Li Yanqing.

As the five thousand troops settled in, the barracks immediately became lively. At this time, the sound of the war drums of "dong!dong!' sounded, and the five thousand troops who were sitting on the grass resting began to line up quickly. In just a moment, the five thousand soldiers formed a large array.

Li Yanqing stood on a big rock and looked at this majestic army. He raised his voice and said slowly: "Brothers, we have met again after three years. From today on, I, Li Yanqing, will lead all brothers. Military law is ruthless, military orders are supreme, and military orders are the most important. Even if there is a cliff ahead, I must jump down. But I will give you fairness. I will treat you equally, and I will clearly distinguish between rewards and punishments. Only military merits are rewarded!"

Li Yanqing looked at the young and passionate faces and continued loudly: "Last time we fought with the Western Xia army side by side, and this time, we will fight against the Khitans in the northern expedition. We not only want to regain Youzhou, which has been lost for a hundred years, but also defeat the enemy and defend the dignity of the Song army. In order to make our hearts clear, everyone shouted to me to expel the Tartars and restore the Han country!"

Li Yanqing raised his arm and shouted: "Expel the Tartars and restore the Han Dynasty!"

Under the leadership of Li Yanqing, five thousand soldiers raised their arms and shouted: "Expel the Tartars and restore the Han Dynasty!"

The blood in each soldier's heart began to boil, and he wanted to go north and fight fiercely with the Liao army immediately. They held their spears tightly, raised their arms and shouted passionately: "Expel the Tartars and restore the Han Dynasty!"

Li Yanqing waved his hand to calm everyone down. At this time, he saw Zhong Shidao and Zhang Shuye standing aside, and then said loudly: "No rules are not established, no square, no camp, no military formation. I will let Commander Liu divide the camp for everyone. Please invite Commander Liu!"

Liu Qi walked up and shouted, "Now start dividing the camps. Five thousand people will be divided into ten battalions. The flag bearers of each battalion raised their flags, and the soldiers stood according to the camp flag."

Ten military flags were raised and the soldiers began to return to their positions quickly.

Li Yanqing quickly walked to Zhong Shidao and Zhang Shuye, and knelt down on one knee to salute, "I am not good at ease, see the general, and see the general Zhang Dutong!"

"President Li asked!"

Zhang Shuye smiled and said, "I just told Mr. Zhong that your army is good. There are several powerful generals in it. Just cavalry and shooting are the first in the Five Army, Yang Zaixing, the first in the Hedong Army, and Gao Chong, the first in the imperial guards."

Zhong Shidao smiled and said, "There is also a little overlord Cao Qilang, Cao Ping's most proud grandson. I have seen it with my own eyes. A pair of sledgehammers are unmatched."

Li Yanqing said: "It is not enough to have a neat lineup alone. You have to win battles, otherwise you will be a fancy!"

"This is right. How powerful the 250,000 army looks, but it was defeated by the 40,000 newly recruited army in one battle. It is a typical paper-made tiger. If you have to be good at fighting and winning battles, you are the real elite army."

Speaking of this, Zhong Shidao said to Li Yanqing again: "I went to meet the saint this morning. The saint agreed to give me Liu Wei and the new Hebei army he recruited, but Tong Guan was only willing to give it to Liu Wei, but he refused to give it to the army. He said that he had insufficient army, and he angered the emperor and scolded him fiercely, saying that he did not learn from the lessons of failure and was arrogant. If he dared to disobey, he would let Tan Zhen be the envoy of the Propaganda. Tong Guan had to agree obediently. Only the emperor could control such a person."

"How many people are there?"

"There are about 18,000 people. Liu Wei is training them in Zhending Mansion. The imperial edict has already rushed to Hebei. He will lead his army south to Daming Mansion to meet us, and the Xiang army on Jingdong Road will join Daming Mansion together."

"Are we going north?" Li Yanqing heard what Mr. Zhong said.

Zhong Shidao nodded, "The Jin envoys came yesterday. They proposed to jointly attack Yanjing with us. The emperor was a little anxious and was afraid that they would conquer Yanjing first, so he asked us to go north in three days, and Tong Guan also rushed to Xiangzhou today."

Li Yanqing hurriedly said, "But we are not yet complete civil servants."

"I know, everyone is short of civil servants. I have told the emperor about this. Cai Xiangguo suggested that he choose a group of students from the Imperial Academy to supplement the army, and the emperor agreed."

At this time, Liu Qi ran over to report: "Report to the rule, the army has been allocated."

"I got it, I'll go there right away."

Zhong Shidao glanced at the army that had already lined up and said to Li Yanqing: "Give me the list of appointed generals and the list of military personnel. I will report it to the Ministry of War today. Time is very tight. You must make the army take shape within three days!"

"Abide by the orders!"

Zhong Shidao and Zhang Shuye left, and Li Yanqing returned to the team. Liu Qi had already assigned ten generals to each battalion according to Li Yanqing's formation chart. Each general stood in the first place in the team. Wang Gui was the first battalion, Niu Gao was the second battalion, Cao Xing was the third battalion, Zhang Wenxiao was the fourth battalion, Quartz was the fifth battalion, Gao Chong was the sixth battalion, Cao Meng was the seventh battalion, Zhang Wensheng was the eighth battalion, Yang Tao was the ninth battalion, and the last tenth battalion was also the original Hedong Army's side general Wang Fan.

In addition, the Intelligence Department, Scout Battalion, Personal Barracks, Firearms Battalion, and Logistics Battalion have not been established yet. Li Yanqing is preparing to pick 50 elite soldiers from each battalion to form the Scout Battalion and Personal Barracks. The Firearms Battalion and Logistics Battalion can only go to Daming Mansion and select from the Xiang Army.

"Everyone can go to train and disband!"

The 10th battalion troops were taken away by their respective generals. The main reason behind them was that they had to be familiar with their respective subordinates. It would take at least half a day. Li Yanqing did not interfere, so that they could show their magical powers to subdue their subordinates.

At this time, Yang Zaixing came up and said to Li Yanqing: "How do you plan to distribute war horses?"

Li Yanqing pondered for a moment and said, "One thousand war horses are too few. I plan to hand over 500 war horses to the first battalion and form a cavalry battalion. The other 500 war horses to the scout camp and my personal military battalion. We will continue to replenish after we seize the enemy war horses."

Li Yanqing called Liu Qi again and said to the two of them: "The general told me just now that the emperor has decided to go north in advance, and we will set out north in three days."

Liu Qi and Yang Zaixing looked at each other, and Liu Qi said in surprise: "It's only been three days, it's too hasty, and there are still many things that have not been done!"

"I can only use the march to carry out the tacit understanding between the soldiers."

Liu Qi thought that he was about to set out in three days, and the pressure on his shoulder suddenly became heavier.

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"Bang!" In the big tent, a teacup was smashed to pieces. Tong Guan cursed angrily, "What is he doing? He wants to get the wind and rain, so I asked Tong Guan to hold his stinky feet. I have worked hard for ten years and weaving it. I am about to be done, but he actually wants to take it away for nothing! Do I think Tong Guan is a puppet clay sculpture?"

Today in the imperial study, Tong Guan was scolded by Emperor Zhao Ji for Liu Wei's incident, which made him extremely angry. But it would be fine if he only recruited 20,000 troops from Hebei. However, Cai Jing encouraged the emperor behind the scenes and asked the emperor to reinterpret the will of Emperor Shenzong, and changed the most critical conditions, so that Zhong Shidao also had the opportunity to be king, which made Tong Guan go crazy. He planned this matter for ten years and made a wedding dress for Zhong Shidao at the last moment. How could he accept it?

The anger that had been depressed for many days in his heart was finally ignited by the incident of Liu Wei.

Tong Guan was pacing back and forth in the tent with a blue face. He could not tolerate this matter. He would rather let Zhong Shidao defeat him again than let Zhong Shidao take away the title he had planned for ten years.

At this time, Tong Guan’s aide Yang Lin whispered: “I have a plan to let Master Zhong be restrained.”

Tong Guan stopped suddenly and turned around and said, "What strategy, please tell me?"

"I heard that Zhong Shidao's troops were insufficient, so the official transferred the wing troops from both Jingdong routes to supplement him. Is there any such thing?"

Tong Guan nodded, "This is indeed the case!"

"That's simple. The Xiang army of Jingdong and the two routes was formed after the Taiwei destroyed the Liangshan army. As long as the Taiwei ordered it and it would be difficult for Zhong Shidao to integrate the Xiang army of Jingdong and the two routes, wouldn't his Northern Expedition be tripped?"

Tong Guan pondered for a moment and said, "I'm just afraid that this Xiang army will come from various states on Jingdong Road, and the people will be uneven and will be easily defeated by Zhong Shidao."

"Has the Grand Marshal forgot Qiu Zhaohe?"

Tong Guan suddenly realized that Qiu Zhaohe was his old subordinate. He was currently the military envoy of Yunzhou and was in charge of the 10,000 wing troops in Yunzhou. Qiu Zhaohe was threading needles and threads among various wing troops in Jingdong. Zhong Shidao could not imagine successfully taking the 30,000 wing troops on Jingdong Road to his command.

"Your method is very good and can be implemented, but this is not enough."

"So the Grand Marshal had made arrangements long ago?"

Tong Guan smiled sinisterly, "Zong Shidao thought the Hedong Army was his Zong family army, but he was wrong. At least half of the generals in the Hedong Army had changed their surname to Tong."

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In the afternoon, the Beidaying became lively again. More than a hundred young Taixue scholars entered the military camp. They had their own lives and even had their own lives. They all took the initiative to participate in the Northern Expedition with enthusiasm for serving the country. They would temporarily serve as various civilian officials to make up for the shortcomings of civilian officials of the Eastern Army.

Since the Eastern Route Army was not controlled by Tong Guan, it was actually a completely independent Northern Expedition army. As an independent army, civil servants also played an important role, including material storage management and allocation division, soldier military registration management and reward records, combat map drawing, sorting out various documents and war reports, sorting out various intelligences, and even small as soldiers' home letters writing, all of which require civilian officials to complete.

Li Yanqing brought back ten young scholars, all of whom were over 20 years old, from Hedong, Hebei and Kaifeng Prefecture. In the big tent, Li Yanqing was sending a speech to the ten scholars. "First of all, I want to welcome you to serve in the Right Army. As a senior of the Imperial Academy, I want to give you three tips. First, don't regard yourself as superior or different. Civilian positions are also a kind of soldiers, but the division of labor is different. Second, practice some martial arts appropriately. Once surrounded by the enemy, you may have a chance to survive. Third, strictly abide by military discipline and laws. Military laws are not only targeted by soldiers, but also against everyone in the military camp. Don't think that you are a civil servant, you can sneak out to have a glass of wine or go for a brothel. Once discovered, you will be beheaded and displayed in public. I am not an exaggeration. Please remember the above loyal words!"

Ten scholars bowed together, "We remember!"

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "Then go and change your military uniform! Your superiors will come to you later."

Among the ten people, Mo Jun wanted to take away the most people. He had six Caos under him, each of whom needed a chief officer, followed by the Intelligence Department, three staff members, and at least one of them joined the military in the Records Office. It would be enough to have only one person as Liu Fang's assistant.

At this time, Zhang Hu walked in, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "I am in charge of the rule of law!"

Zhang Hu has been following Li Yanqing for a long time and is very smart and capable. Li Yanqing originally planned to promote him to a general who is not allowed to give up this idea for the time being because of the shortage of places.

"Get up!"

Li Yanqing asked him to get up and said slowly to him: "I have been thinking about it for a long time and decided to appoint you as the Intelligence Department to join the army!"

Zhang Hu remained calm and bowed and said, "There are orders for the rule of law, and he should comply with the low-level officials, but he was afraid that the low-level officials would have shallow knowledge and delay military intelligence."

Li Yanqing smiled and said, "You have read a book for a few years and it is no problem to understand intelligence. But joining the army is more important than knowledge, but to be cautious, smart and meticulous. This is exactly your advantage. I believe you are fully competent."

"Abide by the orders!"

Li Yanqing nodded and asked again: "As the Intelligence Department joining the army, what do you think the first thing the Intelligence Department should do once it is running?"

Zhang Hu pondered for a moment and said, "Bizhi believes that the first thing is to find a very detailed map of Hebei and Youzhou!"

Li Yanqing laughed, took out a large volume of map from behind, and handed it to him, "Take it! Study it carefully. There are three young scholars outside, they will be your subordinates, take them away! In addition, Yu Hou, the chief and deputy of the scout camp, are Yan Qing and Yang Guang, you should also communicate with them and consider how to operate the Intelligence Department. If you have any questions, please ask me anytime."

"Abide by the orders!"
Chapter completed!