The Song robbers and cavalry who attacked again had returned to Yan'an Prefecture. This time, because they went too deep and stayed in the enemy's territory for too long, they could not bring back all the people and animals they had captured, but instead dealt with them...

However, they did not return empty-handed, and they could follow the marching team and all the horses were brought back. Among them, there were many Hequliang horses, which could be seen as the Western thieves' military horses. In addition, they also brought back more than 400 heads, all of which were the heads of Western thieves' generals!

In fact, there were more than 400 people killed by them, but Wu Haogu's Hashiko and Wanyan Xieye's Jurchen warriors were both stupid and did not know that there was such a thing as taking the blame. Therefore, the civilians killed by them were the middle-aged men, and they were not cut off to be considered as military meritorious.

Although they were stupid, Wu Haogu, as their chief and profiteer, was a bargaining person. So he immediately went to Yan'an City with Brother Zhao Zhong and Huang Zhisheng, and went to Yan'an City with his entourage and hundreds of people who looked nauseous. Now Wu Haogu's nerves are getting thicker and thicker. When he first arrived at this era, he was afraid of Liangshan heroes. Now he saw hundreds of Western thieves' heads, but he was not afraid. At most, he silently recited in his heart: Bless the truth of heaven!

In the hall of the Fuyan Road Supervisor, Wu Haogu not only met Fuyan Road Supervisor Tao Jiefu and the military supervisor Tong Guan, but also met Wang En, the general manager of the Fuyan Road Military and Horses who had just been transferred from the position of Weizhou to Yan'an.

Wang En is not young, with white hair and hair, but he looks energetic and extremely tall. He looks like a rare tiger general.

He was not a general of the Western Army, but a Kaifeng man. He was born in the squads in front of the palace. He was attracted by the Emperor of Shenzong because of his good cavalry and shooting. He was sent to the Northwest Army and made military achievements. He was promoted to the position of general manager of the military and horse capital. In fact, before Wang Anshi abolished the law of garrison, although the Kaifeng Imperial Army was useless, he did not appear without generals!

After greeting each other, Wang En looked at Wu Haogu, who was not as good as a good general, and frowned slightly, saying, "I thought there would be no good generals in Kaifeng after the deposed Gengshu. I didn't expect to meet Gao Shiyan again this year, Wang Zhengchen and you, Wu Chongdao, are rising stars like you."

Gao Qiu is now an internationally recognized good general! What else can I say if Renduo Baozhong is beaten and surrendered by him?

However, when Mr. Wang mentioned "Wu Chongdao", his tone was always a little disdainful. It seemed that he was a little disagreeable to Wu Haogu, the tyrant merchant, replaces Taiwei Gao to lead troops!

The Kaifeng Imperial Army made the Western Army laugh at for so many years, and finally rose up under the leadership of Taiwei Gao. Although the treacherous ministers framed him, he changed to another real estate developer who bought a house to command...

"Old Grand Marshal Wang has been awarded too much," Wu Haogu didn't care about such an old senior, "How dare you be called a rising star?"

Wang En shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Why are you not a rising star? To be honest, I still have your masterpieces in the awards of Kaifeng Prefecture. There is also my property in Jiehe Market, and I have made a lot of money.

But this is leading troops to fight... can you really do it? This is not a joke! If it doesn't work, let Gao Shiyan come for you. I am the general manager of the military and horses, and I can be the master of this."

This is not very good at speaking, but Wang En, as an old senior in Kaifeng generals (he was old and killed everyone else, so he was an old military strategist), could only be considered his nephew, so he was qualified to say this.

Moreover, Wu Haogu also knew that he had good intentions... Even if Gao Qiu went there, his military merits would still be his own!

However, the situation is different this time, so Gao Qiu can't replace Wu Haogu. Because Wu Haogu's three-time army was adjusted by Wu Haogu's reference to the army/division level marshalling mode of later army, Gao Qiu is afraid that he doesn't know how to command.

In addition, what I have to do in Yinzhou this time is a big project, and Gao Qiu has no such experience.

"That's great!" Wu Haogu did not refuse the old Grand Marshal Wang at all. He said to Tao Jiefu: "It's better to let Gao Shiyan and Su Bochong lead the people of Fuzhou and Yan'an to help the officials."

When Tao Jiefu heard that Wu Haogu wanted to transfer Su Che's son and the current Zhifu served Su Chi, Tao Jiefu was a little embarrassed.

Wu Haogu is clearly trying to create a chance to make meritorious contributions for Su Chi! Su Chi is a civil servant, and he is a serious Jinshi, and now he is at the level of a court official. If he makes meritorious service, the official rank of the fifth and sixth ranks will be a blink of an eye. The civil servant of the fifth and sixth ranks is an important official who can be Xuanma at any time!

Seeing Tao Jiefu in a dilemma, Wu Haogu smiled and said, "Su Bochong has been the magistrate for a long time, good at ease with the people and good at farming. If he led the Yan'an people and military military troops to Yinzhou, he should be able to catch up with the spring next year. Yinzhou was originally mature land, Wuding River, and Mingtang River, and countless fertile land on both sides of the Mingtang River, and no less than one million mu of arable fields. If the cultivation is effective, more than one million stones of food will be harvested next autumn! With this one million and a million stones, the prime minister can deploy 200,000 troops on both sides of the Wuding River for a year. The Western thieves cannot defend Shi, Xia, You, and Hong Zhuzhou.

If the states on the Wuding River are taken down, the prime minister will definitely be able to proclaim the prime minister!"

Xuan Ma worships the minister!

Moreover, Wu Haogu, who said this, was a confidant of the official family and a disciple of Su Dongpo... If he was willing to operate for Tao Jiefu, the right prime minister might not be able to become, but a deputy prime minister or a master of the Privy Council would be sure to be a matter of facts.

Wang En, who was standing beside him, shook his head a little, "Wu Chongdao, you think it's simple to do the farming matter... It's not enough to just take down Yinzhou City. Come here with the map!"

Zhe Yanzhi, who was engaged in the hall, quickly picked up a map of the Wuding River Basin and spread it on the table.

The old general pointed to the Wuding River on the map and said, "The terrain of the middle reaches of the Wuding River is mountainous in Henan and relatively flat in Hebei, with only a few hills. Lands that are suitable for farming and pastorality are all in the flat land of Wuding Hebei, especially the banks of Mingtang River, which are particularly rich, and Shangjun was there in ancient times."

Wuding River and Mingtang River Basin are actually Yulin in later generations, at the junction of the Loess Plateau and the Mu Us Sand. Although it is generally in a relatively arid area, dozens of rivers of all sizes pass through the territory, and the Haizi Lakes are scattered, making it a rare land that is suitable for farming and pastoralism.

Moreover, it is not like the northern Shaanxi Plateau, with ravines and hills and beams intertwined, but there is a large area of ​​plains that are not dangerous to guard.

"To the north of Shangjun is the Hetao prairie with plump water and grass!" Zhao Zhongge, beside Wu Haogu, interrupted at this time, "The Khitan has Heqing in the Hetao area, the Jiedu Division of the Jinsu Second Army, and the Dangxiang people have set up the Heishan Weifu Army. If we grazed on both sides of Mingtangchuan and Wuding Hebei, we would easily be robbed by thieves who went south from the Hetao prairie."

The west of the Wuding River Basin is the Gobi Desert. Once the Song army controls the entire Wuding River Basin, Xixia will definitely destroy the water source in the Gobi Desert to prevent the Song army from crossing the desert to attack Xing and Lingzhou.

Therefore, the Song army did not have to worry that the enemy in the west had hundreds of miles of desert. Without a reliable source of water, the army would not be able to pass through. Moreover, even if there was a source of water, the food consumed in the desert for ten days would put the logistics of the Xixia army in trouble.

However, the Hetao Grassland north of the Wuding River Basin is a breakthrough that cannot be closed!

"Haha, I really have insight!" Wang En touched his beard and smiled, then looked at Brother Zhao Zhong who was interrupting. This is a tiger general!

Wang En asked again: "Do you have a way?"

"Yes!" Brother Zhao Zhong nodded, took out a book from a one-shoulder backpack (this one-shoulder cloth bag is very popular in the Song Dynasty) he carried with him, and placed it on the map platform.

What's this?

Wang En narrowed his old eyes and glanced at the thick white cover of the book with the words "Yinzhou Pacification Strategy".

Brother Zhao Zhong looked through this book "The Strategy for Pacification of Yinzhou" to page 169 (the number of pages is marked with Arabic numerals), and then pointed to a line of titles and said: "This is a Hejian crusade strategy formulated by military command. It is to temporarily expel the Dangxiang tribes in the Hejian land by sending troops to attack, and then cover them with cavalry."

The "Hejiandi" he refers to is the area inside the corner of the Yellow River, which is probably the territory of Ordos City in later generations. Now they live not the Mongols, but the nomadic Dangxiang tribe Dangxiang people have a diverse lifestyle, including Dangxiang aristocratic bureaucrats living in cities, Dangxiang people who farm in valleys or riversides, and Dangxiang people who maintain a relatively primitive nomadic state.

Moreover, not all Dangxiang people were in the Western Xia territory, and there were also many Dangxiang people in the Song and Liao Kingdoms. The fuse of Liao Xingzong and Wei Ming Yuanhao's fight that year was that Yuanhao lured Dangxiang people from the Hetao area in the Liao Kingdom to join.

Regarding these nomadic party stars, Zhao Zhongge proposed a short-term solution to expel and pull them down with cavalry. Recruiting and other things cannot be solved in the short term, and using force is the easiest way to solve them.

As long as you can create an unmanned area with a depth of one or two hundred miles, and then use cavalry to cover it. It will not be easy for the Western thieves to invade Mingtang River, the military farm area in the Wuding River area.

Of course, it is not that simple to successfully carry out the expulsion and obscurity tasks. Without the powerful imperial horse in front of the palace, Brother Zhao Zhong would not dare to make such a plan.

Wang En's eyes were blurred and he could no longer see the small words clearly. Tao Jiefu asked his aide Zhe Yanzhi to read it word by word, and he also listened to it. After listening, Tao Jiefu was already impressed by Wu Haogu.

Whether the Hejian crusades can be carried out is another matter, but Wu Haogu's military command obviously understood the situation of the Hejian Dangxiang tribe and the Hejian grassland in a short time.
Chapter completed!