On the eighth day of the 10th month of the first year of Jianzhong Jingguo of the Song Dynasty, Wu Haogu was officially appointed as the three-zhi capital Yuhou. There were more than the two-zhi capital Yuhou that Zhao Ji had planned to give him at the beginning. The reason for this was that Wu Haogu asked Zhao Ji for 20,000 troops and increased the total force under his command to 30,000.

So many people are almost enough to have a "army". However, considering that the 20,000 of them have no formal organization and are all useful, and the military commanders are a bit over. Therefore, Zhao Ji only added a temporary organization of "Yulong Inner Guard" and asked Wu Haogu to become the three-director Yuhou.

The three-directed capital Yuhousi, two engineers commanded by the camp, and one cavalry commanded by the camp, are now placed in the martial arts field in Moutuogang. The city wall, which has been blasted by the tunnels for countless times, has now been completely flattened. Instead, there are more than 300 tents of large and small sizes.

An army has been stationed here. Of course, it is not the main force of the three straight people. If an army of more than 30,000 people is set up, it will be boundless. There are only more than 300 tents, but it cannot be tolerated no matter what. Therefore, the 20,000 soldiers of the palace will go directly to Yan'an and temporarily handed over to Gao Qiu and Wang Bing for jurisdiction.

There are only two or three thousand people gathered at Moutuogang. Half of the more than 1,000 engineers directly belonged to the Yuhou Section of the Sanzhidu were "First Commander of Engineers" composed of craftsmen and small workers drawn from various places by Huang Silang; the other half were Zhou Daxia and Zhu Xingshu's miners, who were incorporated into the "First Commander of Engineers".

There are more than 1,000 people brought from Murong Mu from Jiehe Market. Among them, there are 200 young knights drawn from the fake legion, 400 knight entourage recruited in Jiehe Market, and more than 400 volunteered to join the army to gain fame and fortune. Some of these effects are knights who can be incorporated into the palace, some are heroes who can be used as dragon warriors, and some are students who graduated from the Yuntai Academy of Sciences to serve as Wu Haogu's aides in the army.

There are also some miscellaneous people, such as the girls, musicians, chefs, and servants who followed the army, all of whom were arranged by Bai Feifei for Wu Haogu, and there were also as many as two or three hundred.

Hongxingshou of Xiefang Tower is really kind to Wu Haogu now, and he is actually willing to follow Wu Haogu to serve the Northwest Army.

The reason why Bai Feifei even arranged a group of girls, musicians, cooks, and servants was actually the old rule of the Song army. A group of generals who led the army were all the ones who could enjoy it. Who didn’t lead a group of people who served to the forefront?

Before, when Gao Qiu led his troops to the northwest, he also brought many beauties who served him. However, Gao Qiu would not show these people generously for the Ming Dynasty, and did not take them to the battlefield in Huangzhou.

On the eighth night of the October 19th, when night falls.

Wu Haogu was in the capital office of Moutuogang, and the lights were brightly lit and the melodious sound of silk and bamboo were heard.

This is Tao Jiefu, a compassionate envoy of Wu Haogu and Tong Guan, who were entertaining the visiting Fuyan Road, and the magistrate of Yan'an Prefecture.

Tao Jiefu came to Beijing to report his work. The calendar used by the Northern Song Dynasty was similar to the lunar calendar in later generations. October was already early winter. In the cold northwest, this season was not a good day for war. The battle of the five-way battle against Xia in the fourth year of Yuanfeng was because the date of sending troops was too late. Gao Zunyu, who sent troops at the latest, did not set off from the Hongde Fort in Huanzhou until October 13. Therefore, it was not long before the battle was fought, and many of them were starved to death and froze to death after the defeat.

This time, the Song army learned a lesson and postponed the attack on the entire East Road to March next year, and sent troops comfortably when spring was in full bloom.

Moreover, because of the previous battle of Haoya River, the Western thieves seemed to be afraid of the Song army and adopted a contraction and defense attitude on both the east and west lines.

Therefore, Tao Jiefu, one of the commanders of the Song army on the Eastern Front, was able to confidently abandon the military and government affairs of Fuyan Road and traveled thousands of miles to Kaifeng Mansion.

Before the time for entry was reached by the Hemensi, Tao Jiefu simply ran to the military camp of Mutugang Wu Haogu. On the one hand, he wanted to find out the truth; on the other hand, he also contacted the emperor's favorite minister.

After a rough exploration of Wu Haogu’s military camp, Tao Jiefu was a little disappointed. In addition to the small number of young knights in line training, the huge military camp was filled with a loose scene, and there were many gorgeous female family members coming and going.

Wu Haogu himself was in the Yuhou Yai office, which was placed in a magnificent mansion with deep courtyard walls. This place did not look like a military camp, but seemed to be a palace (it was originally the palace that Zhao Ji lented to Wu Haogu for temporary residence). Inside and out, there were also various colors and people.

It's completely like the style of the Kaifeng Prefecture Imperial Guard who is so bad!

Wu Haogu, Du Yuhou, who commanded the three armies, did not look like a domineering general. He was just a handsome young man with two beards. He was far inferior to the Tong Guan who was with him.

It wouldn't be a big deal if you hand over the 30,000 troops to this person?

At this time, Wu Haogu was also looking at Tao Jiefu. Cai Jing's confidant (Wu Haogu wrongly accused him, he was Zhang Feng) was a thin middle-aged man, wearing a scarlet official uniform and a soft hat with a squid head. He just sat there casually, and naturally had a sense of awesomeness that had led the army for many years.

He is now Tao Jiefu is the initiator of this Northwest War. He proposed the plan to win over Renduo Baozhong and fight against the east by the west.

In addition, he did not put forward unrealistic goals, but used the capture of the states along the Wuding River to use military farming as the goal to end the war.

The goal is realistic and should be achieved!

After three rounds of wine, Tao Jiefu's brows were already frowning. "The morale of the two elites who were transferred to Yan'an was a little low. Everyone was looking forward to Wu Xuanzan taking office as soon as possible. I wonder when Wu Xuanzan can set off west?"

Wu Haogu was raising his glass to drink, as if he was still thinking about the time to set off. Tong Guan smiled and said with a smile: "It's almost time. You can always go to Yan'an before the end of November. You will definitely not be able to miss the war in March next year."

Wu Haogu put down his wine glass and said, "This time I go west, I will bring a lot of equipment and nitrate powder and sulfur powder to prepare gunpowder... Now the military weapon surveillance is stepping up the production, and it will be completed soon and we can set off at that time."

"Nitr powder, sulfur powder?" Tao Jiefu was a little confused, "Is there no inventory in the military weapon surveillance?"

In fact, Wu Haogu asked for a lot of things from the military weapon supervisor, not only nitrate powder and sulfur powder, but also 10,000 long spears, 10,000 corps armor, 10,000 straight swords, and other miscellaneous equipment. In addition to nitrate powder and sulfur powder, other equipment and equipment are used to arm 20,000 house soldiers. Half of these house soldiers will be organized as war soldiers into the Yulong Inner Guard and Yulong Mengshizhi, and the rest will be used as palace soldiers, either directly under the jurisdiction of each, or directly under the Duyu Houshi.

It is not so easy to sort out so many troops. Although Wu Haogu would become a big military strategist, he has no experience in leading troops to fight and has never learned it.

So he was still waiting for Brother Zhao Zhong to arrive. Brother Zhao Zhong will become the commander of the newly established Yulong Nei Weizhi, and is also Wu Haogu's "Chief of Staff". How to organize the chaotic 30,000 troops depends entirely on his ability.

In addition, Wu Haogu also hopes that Brother Zhao Zhong, Murong Mu and Huang Zhisheng can organize a staff team for him. He is actually an outsider who knows a little about military knowledge in later generations. It is impossible to issue very specific orders, so I can only give a rough idea.

If there was no high-level staff team, the 30,000 army would definitely be messed up by Wu Haogu!

Fortunately, the Jiehe Yuntai Academy and the previous Military Academy have trained many military talents, and Huang Zhisheng has also collected a group of high-level construction craftsmen. If these people can be sorted into a staff group that can execute Wu Haogu's orders, then he will be able to lead troops to fight in the future.

Even if Wu Dalang can't think of a genius plan, as long as there is a genius executor, he can still win an epic victory.

"Master," Tong Guan said at this time and explained to Wu Haogu, "The amount of nitrate powder Wu Xuanzan asked for is tens of thousands of kilograms of sulfur powder, and it also needs... pure and high-purity good things."

"Oh? What's the use?"

"It can be used to explode the city wall..." Tong Guan informed Tao Jiefu of the blasting siege method he had seen with his own eyes.

After six or seven experiments and wasting tens of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder, Wu Haogu, Huang Silang and Zhu Xingshu finally found a relatively ideal blasting method, which is the multi-channel multi-pharmacy chamber blasting method. The multi-channel multi-pharmacy chamber blasting method will cause insufficient combustion. It is better to dig multiple tunnels and medicine chambers, ignite the fire at the same time, and blast continuously. In addition, the effect of directly placing gunpowder in the coffin is not good, so it is better to divide it into multiple oil paper bags and put it in layers of wooden barrels.

"Can you really explode the city wall?" A hint of joy flashed across Tao Jiefu's face, and he looked at Wu Haogu and Tong Guan and asked again.

"Can it explode!" Tong Guan nodded with his beard. "We have seen it several times with our own eyes, and it exploded!"

Wu Haogu also said: "It can indeed explode! Let the attack on the cities of the provinces along the Wuding River be left to the officials to take charge."

Attacking the city is the most troublesome, but Wu Haogu is very sure now. In contrast, it is indeed a field battle.

Tao Jiefu smiled and nodded, "Okay! Then I'll praise you."

He said this, but he was thinking in his heart: It would be a pity to have this ability to only use it in the states on the Wuding River. It should be used in Lingzhou and Xingzhou! In the fourth year of Yuanfeng, if gunpowder could be used to break up the city of Lingzhou, the Western thieves would have been destroyed for many years!
Chapter completed!