The mountains and rivers on the north bank of the Hutuo River are now shrouded in a layer of early autumn. The forests on the ground are stained with cloudlessness in the sky.

There was already a hint of solemnity between heaven and earth, and it was the season for military conquests.

On the road from Zhending Prefecture to Dingzhou, the troops and civilians and supplies of the brigade were slowly moving forward. There were shouting and chaotic voices everywhere in the marching team, and the soldiers were slow to move and resentful. The officers who were in charge of the team were a little angry and kept urging, and they were impatient to greet them with a whip. The soldiers were all complaining, and their steps were getting slower and slower.

This army that looks a bit messy no matter how you look, is the Hebei New Army led by the Deputy Envoy of Xuanfu, Dingzhou Road, Zhendingfu Road, and Hebei West Road.

Zhong Fu, who was in charge of the army, looked ashen at this time, and he didn't know how many times he had scolded Wu Haogu.

Wu Haogu is so tricky! He organized the Western Army so well. He trained the Shuofang New Army almost as well as the Three Military Academy, which was also very successful. I thought that the Hebei New Army, which he also sorted out, would not be too unreasonable. However, when Zhong Fu brought a group of model New Army officers from Kaifeng Infantry Academy to the first and second generals on Zhendingfu Road and "assisted" the original officers of the two generals to lead the team, he received a report that the two generals in Zhendingfu were not ordinary bad!

Not only is it incomparable to the Model New Army, but it is not even as good as the Old Western Army. Zhong Fu was from the Western Army and knew very well about the Old Western Army. Most of the Model New Army officers valued by him were children of the Old Western Army, so they naturally compared the Old Western Army with the Hebei Army. After some comparison, the conclusion reached almost made Zhong Fu vomit blood.

But even if he vomited blood, Zhong Fu had no choice. He couldn't let Dingzhou not rescue him, just train and replenish the army, right? So he had to bite the bullet and send troops!

If you lead the army too badly, you have to be even more cautious. So after Zhong Fu led his army away from Zhending Mansion, he immediately began to implement Emperor Genghis's policy of "building a tough village and fighting a stupid battle". He only walked 25 miles a day, but he had to spend a few hours to build a shit camp. He could not be careless at all. He had a vicious supervision from a young military officer from Shaanxi. His chest wall was half a foot shorter and his trenches were a few inches shallow. No matter how old you are in the army, he would not ask if any of your sisters married the Shangguan of the Hebei Army to be his wife, but he would not ask whether he would be able to fight!

Where did the old soldiers of the Hebei Army suffer such hardship? They were neither the Western Army who went to the battlefield every few days, knew that sweating was better than bleeding, and were more powerful than being beaten by the enemy's swords and guns. They were not the military soldiers who had been in the military for five years. They were all young men from the countryside, honest and unscrupulous, and dared not do anything bad to the officers.

They are all veterans, and many of them are still rogues and hobs in the army. They can't fight in war, and they are definitely good at making trouble with Shangguan! Moreover, the number of model army officers brought by Zhong Fu is also small, and they can't stop the scene at all. It's better when they stare at them. When they turn around, the shouting and cursing sounds shook the sky: "Zhi Niang, why are we men from Hebei so angry with the birds of your Western Army? If you have the ability to transfer the Western Army up, you will force us to work hard! You still want to use our lives to exchange for our wealth? We will not fight hard! Let's see what you can do?"

The shouts came one after another, and they were already connected among the teams.

In the middle of the marching team, Zhong Fu's figure was surrounded by dozens of utility soldiers hired by cavalry from Shaanxi. He was wearing a silver armor made of military weapons and wrapped in a red cloak. The cloak was very long and fluttered in the wind, like a huge red flag.

He could hear the shouts that broke out in the army clearly, his face as dark as black. Just as he was about to attack, the personal guards around him suddenly shouted: "Enemy attack! The cavalry of the Northern Barbarians!"

Zhong Fu stood up on the kickstand, looked up and saw more than a dozen horsemen suddenly appearing next to a forest in the distance, all in black clothes and black armor, without placing a flag.

"Maybe it was the Beilu's far-blocking horse!" As soon as the Zhending Army general finished speaking, more cavalry appeared beside the woods, with hundreds or thousands of cavalry appearing.

"Let's array! Welcoming the enemy! If there is any noise, everyone will be killed!"

After Zhong Fu's orders continued, the two generals under his command did not dare to take the order.

"Jingshou," one of the generals also called Zhong Fu as Shuai Xuan, "Please give the reward first!"

Zhong Fu glared at the general, "The enemy cavalry is coming, how can I have time to give rewards? If I don't follow the order, I will kill someone and establish my authority!"

Zhong Fu is now the title of Jiedushi, and Hebei Xuanshuo, and he is deployed on the West Road. Not to mention ordinary soldiers and generals, even the generals of the army, he was found guilty of violating the order in the last battle and was killed.

But how could the master soldiers in Hebei know that they were powerful? If they couldn't see the cash, someone would immediately start to swear. Zhong Fu was waiting for this opportunity and immediately winked the guards around him. These people were all old soldiers who were dismissed by the Western Army, very fierce. After getting Zhong Fu's eyes, he immediately got off his horse, pulled out his straight sword, and ran along the queue. Seeing someone taking the lead in swearing, he pulled out without hesitation, first beat him up, and then dragged him to Zhong Fu.

"All be killed!"

Zhong Fu didn't even look at it. With just a command, dozens of hobs in the army were pressed to the ground and chopped their heads. Then they were picked with long spears and held them in the queue to show them.

Now all the old fried dough sticks in the Hebei Army knew that they were amazing. No one in the team dared to shout, and the slaughter in the army suddenly became stronger before.

Zhong Fu ordered calmly: "Send the order and give the reward after completing the line. Each person and one canopy!"

He, a commander who has been in the Northwest for many years, is skilled in playing the trick of using kindness and power. He knows that veterans are difficult to train and are not very useful. Ordinary military sticks, whips, arrows, and other things cannot be cured. So he directly used the most cruel means to kill people!

Of course, the right time must be chosen by using murder to rectify military discipline. Otherwise, a mutiny or a whistleblower would be a big deal.

So Zhong Fu was reluctant to speak out all the way, just waiting for the light cavalry of the Liao Han Army guards to appear. With a little pressure from foreign enemies, killing people to establish authority will not easily cause mutiny.

In addition, Zhong Fu had long seen that the Liao cavalry that appeared nearby were all light cavalry, which should belong to the Han army's personal guards. The Han army of Liao did not have armored cavalry, so they had no ability to attack the old soldiers under Zhong Fu's command. Moreover, they did not have the need to fight with the Song army. They were robbers after plundering, and safely withdrawing to their original territory is the best strategy. Why bother fighting with the Song army to death?

Besides, the battlefield that really decides the outcome is not Dingzhou Road, but Xijin Prefecture, and Wuqing County! If Yelu Yanxi cannot stop Wuhaogu's fortress line from approaching and even capturing Xijin Prefecture along the Sanggan River and Lianggu River, no matter how many victories his Liao army won on Dingzhou Road, it would be useless. Not to mention capturing Dingzhou, what would happen if he was allowed to enter Daming Prefecture? As long as Wuhaogu takes Yanjing, Yelu Yanxi can only retreat in shame.

So Zhong Fu had already planned it and went all the way to "build a tough village and fight a stupid war" along the way, sending the Liao people away and knocking them down.

Anyway, the official family also gave "Planning for the Camp". He, Zhong Fu, was loyal to the executive family's instructions, who can say that it is wrong?

Seeing that the soldiers listed an arrow formation that could completely encircle the auxiliary soldiers, the civilians and the baggage convoy. Zhong Fu ordered again calmly, "The whole army slowly moves forward, and then go fifteen miles to set up a hard camp!"

"Here!"

...

"It's a bit more!"

The horse man looked at the more than 10,000 Song troops listed with arrow formations from afar and nodded slightly. The chaotic team just now could complete the rectification in such a short time, which shows that the generals leading the troops were not too weak.

"They walk slowly. They walk twenty or thirty miles a day, but they have to spend half a day setting up camp. The camp is built with a fortress, which is completely a way to fight with a turtle."

The person who talked to Ma Renwang was Han Qixian, the governor of the Xiaowu Army. He was from the Han family in Yutian and a descendant of Han Kuangmei, the fifth son of Han Zhigu. He was a Jinshi during the Qiantong period and was less than 30 years old this year. Although he passed the Jinshi, it did not prevent him from taking office and becoming the chief of the Xiaowu Army in the Han army of the Eighth Camp of Nanjing Road.

The Xiaowu Army is actually a light cavalry, responsible for daily patrols on the border between Yan and Song dynasties. The tactics and tactics are the same as the light cavalry of the Khitans, and they pay attention to "light but not tidy, wandering but not decisive", not cavalry used to fight decisive battles.

"It's hard to deal with a turtle with a head-shrinking turtle!" The horse man looked at the slowly moving Song Jun, but his tone showed solemnity.

"Why is it difficult to deal with?" Han Qixian smiled, "using the light cavalry and infantry to block the front and back, so that they can't advance or retreat. Those who have been trapped for ten or eight days should have their food."

"Haha." Ma Renwang just smiled, "So what if I can get trapped here? Wuqing County can't get trapped!"

The key to winning the "building a hard village and fighting a stupid battle" is the logistics line! As long as the logistics can be maintained, it is difficult to break the hard village with the ability of nomadic and fishermen in the north. However, how to maintain the logistics line is a problem.

"Leave it behind," Han Qixian frowned, "Wuqing County..."

Ma Renwang shook his head, "I can't beat him! I can only establish my authority in Dingzhou... Your people slowly retreat northward, giving them the illusion that we will return with a full load."

"Where to retreat?"

"Of course it's Dingzhou Third Residence." Ma Renwang smiled, "Dingzhou Third Residence, they will always recover it, right? Otherwise, the entire Dingzhou Road will be under our overlook!"

"Okay! Someone understands it, and the custodial guides the Song people's turtle formation to the third entrance to Dingbei!"
Chapter completed!