In the dark night, several geese flew up from the grass and flew high into the sky. Book Fan Group 2 "Dedede" hooves were rushing, and a cavalry galloped by. After a while, more than a dozen Liao army junction horses chased after him. Although Su Dian tried his best to urge the horse, the mount was hiding after several days of mercenary hiking, and his footsteps became slower and slower, and even began to stagger. The Liao army junction horses behind him were sure that Su Dian was the detective cavalry of the Song army. Seeing that his horse power was exhausted, they shouted loudly, spreading their left and right wings to cover him from the front.

Su Dian turned around and looked at it with a determined look. He opened all the pigeon cage doors tied behind the saddle, pulled out the goose feather knife, and with one knife, four or five pigeon cages fell into the grass. The pigeons had been shocked by the galloping and kept rushing in the cage. As soon as they got the chance, they immediately flapped their wings and flew high. Looking at the pigeons sinking into the distant night sky, Su Dian breathed a sigh of relief and dragged the leather hanging beside the saddle and tied it up, as if someone was lying on the horse's back. He poked the horse's buttocks hard, and the mount screamed and ran hard again in pain. Su Dian's legs exerted force, flew into the grass from the horse's back, and then slowly crawled towards the side. Not long after, more than a dozen Khitan cavalry flew across the grass like flying.

In the dark night sky, the pigeons flew hundreds of miles away and entered the territory of Tangzhou. They gradually slowed down and fell on a pile of pigeons that had previously tamed them. As soon as the pigeon tied with red ropes fell down, they were held up by a pair of hands. Looking at the empty reed tubes on the pigeon's legs, the man was stunned for a moment and frowned.

"Two more scouts were cut off," Gao Gongmao sighed regretfully. He handed the compiled military report to Wu Jie, briefly saying, "It has been two days, and Cao Di still remains unmoved. Zhao Xingde was Yelu Tiege ahead, and Yelu Dashi's pressure was still from Yelu Dashi. He still beat the drum and advanced to Fancheng. He was also a member of the northernmost part of the Song army. Yue Fei's troops had arrived in Caizhou, and the current trend was unknown. It seemed that Yue Fei wanted to persuade Cao Di to send troops to attack Yelu Dashi with him."

"Interesting, I asked Cao Di to bet on his old job," Wu Jie curled his lips, "What exchange did he use?"

"It is indeed a military taboo for generals." Gao Gongmao also shook his head and smiled, "Fortunately, there is only one Yue Fei in Guandong."

Since the dispatch of troops in Xiangyang, there has been constant conflict between Wu Jie and Yue Fei. Wu Jie first asked the State of Song to provide his 30,000 cavalry food, grass and military pay. Yue Fei only said that the matter should be the responsibility of the Ministry of War and he could not make any decisions without authorization. Therefore, Wu Jie asked the State of Song to pay 5 million jin as the cost of borrowing troops. If Yue Fei agreed, he would use the northern prefectures and counties in Xiangyang as collateral. At the same time, if the town ** withdraws from Xiangyang, his subordinates would cooperate with Yue Fei, Zhao Xingde, Cao Di and others to advance eastward to use elite cavalry.

He led the Liao army to regain the population and wealth that was plundered by the Liao Kingdom, and at the same time forced Yelu Dashi to speed up his retreat to the north. This request was still rejected by Yue Fei. The two finally broke down. The Xia army stationed between Dengzhou and Tangzhou, and Yue Fei led 6,000 troops to continue to advance eastward. Han Shizhong was all naval troops. He did not travel east with Yue Fei, but instead changed a small boat and marched north along the Baihe River. After regaining Nanyang, stationed down, waiting for the northern expedition army to support the middle route.

"Zhao Xingde can stir up trouble, and the water stirred the hujie sneered, "A big fish is shocked, let's wait and see if it changes."

His fingers went up the map and saw that on the battlefields in Yingchang, Caizhou and Tangzhou, the Cao Di, Yue Fei and Zhao Xingde of the Song State were part of the Third Regiment, and Cao and Yue were close to each other. The Zhao Xingde's troops were hung a hundred miles away from the north. There were a large number of Liao cavalry marks between the Song troops, and the sun and moon marks representing Yelu Dashi were very obvious. These were all reported by scouts sent by the Eastern Expedition Army to the battlefield. The Wu Jie did not advance in Tangzhou, and it was not entirely to make things difficult for the Song State, but to have other considerations.

On the battlefield, the two armies of Song and Liao were fighting fiercely. There were a large number of scouts and the movements were swift, almost covering the surrounding camps with a tight air. The Central Plains land was flat, and it was extremely difficult for the cavalry to launch sneak attacks. However, the Liao army was not well-founded in the Song territory. It was extremely difficult for the Liao army to take deep roots in the Song territory. It was extremely difficult for the power of the horse to monitor places two hundred miles away at any time. The Xia cavalry could pretend to be the scouts of the Song army, enter the battlefield to investigate the battle situation, and repay the camp with military pigeons. The 20,000 Xia army under Wu Jie's command

The Baiyu Army, the Capture of the Thieves Army, was the cavalry under the Andong Army Division, the Heng Chong Army was the cavalry under the General's Office, and the Jianrui Army was the cavalry under the General's Office. The soldiers had mounts or carriages to travel with each other, and their actions were as fast as ordinary Liao Army. The Wu rank was stationed on the border of Tangzhou, which not only avoided accidental involvement in the battlefield whirlpool of hundreds of thousands of troops, but also watched the opportunity, and used the 20,000 elite soldiers under his command as a bargaining weight to win the greatest benefit for the Xia Kingdom on the scale of the war.

"It's just the meaning of the two palaces," Gao Gongmao looked worried, "It's just that we can consolidate the line in Xianghan, Luoyang. This."

"Don't worry," Wu Jie patted Gao Gongmao's shoulder and smiled, "After the opportunity, you will be outside, and the king's orders will not be accepted. The so-called "threatening person" who steals the hook, and the thief of the country will be the princes. The more important military and national affairs are, the more unreproached the winner."

In the Central Plains, clusters of wild grasses fly in the wind, like golden waves in the sun. Among the crazy-growing wild grasses, there may be a cluster of crops growing like wild grasses. After the Liao army invaded the south, the people of Henan were displaced and large areas of fields were abandoned. It turned out that some Song people were still surviving on the battlefield where the Song and Liao armies confronted each other. As nearly 200,000 troops gathered here, the Liao army recruited and signed troops, and the Song army also needed civilians. The people were either expropriated or fled farther away with their families. They were dozens of miles in a radius, and in a very short time, they became almost deserted, with only the two armies of the Song and Liao armies operating.

The north was destroyed, and the granaries along the way were unable to support the army. Most of the military supplies of Cao Di, Yue Fei and Zhao Xingde's troops depended on the Ministry of War to recruit civil servants through the prefectures and transported them to a long distance. There were a shortage of large animals in the south. In order to supply more than 200,000 troops, the northern expedition was more than 400,000 civil servants. For every bucket of grain provided by the army, two buckets were consumed on the road. This was not the manpower and food consumed by the temporary support of the prefectures along the way. Many people were destroyed because of their families. The students from the county school of the prefectures wrote more than once to express their opinions, and listed this temporary support as one of the eight evil policies of the court.

After the Song army camp, a group of civilians who transported grain happened to arrive. These food and grass should have been supplied to Cao Di's troops. However, when the town arrived at the battlefield, the people were exhausted and the food and grass were almost exhausted. Because Cao Di's troops had sufficient food and grass, and the food and grass were still transported soon. Li Ruoxue, the Ministry of War who escorted this batch of food and grass, took his own initiative and handed over all the five thousand stones of food and grass to the town. Yue Fei, as the commander-in-chief and envoy of the first army, was not personally responsible for handing over the military supplies. General Zhang Xian checked the food and grass, and checked it correctly, and laughed and said, "Mr. Li is working hard." He escorted the official letter in front of Li Ruoxue, but presented it to Yue Fei for review first.

Yue Fei nodded and sighed, "The people in the southeast are exhausted."

He returned the grain bill to Li Ruoxu, sighed again, and turned his eyes to the villagers who transported the grain. They all looked withered and thin, sitting in groups on the ground, drinking the vegetable porridge mixed with bran ash. The taste of this vegetable porridge was extremely bitter, but it seemed that it was a rare delicacy for them. After drinking it, some people still stretched out their tongues and licked the bottom of the bowl again. After eating the most sumptuous meal of the day, some people lay down on the ground, saving little energy.

Li Ruoxu moved and said, "Your Majesty Yue's words are benevolent."

Yue Fei shook his head and said to the generals, "As military men, our clothes and food in our mouths all come from people's fat and paste. Those who work in the fields work all day and earn money and food are only enough to support their families. The people not only pay all the surplus, but also endure hunger and sell their children, but only hope that we can work hard to defeat the enemy and live a peaceful life." He stood up, pointed to the Liao army camp opposite, and said passionately, "In the peaceful years, the soldiers practiced martial arts and lived a pampered life. Now it is the interpersonal use. How can everyone spend food and money, fear the enemy and avoid war, and sit and see the Hu people rampant!"

Li Ruoxu listened quietly, his eyes flashed, and his fists were tightly pinched. Everyone was even more excited. Zhang Xianhu's eyes widened and shouted loudly, "Please allow me to go out of the camp to challenge the Liao army. If I cannot defeat, Xian is willing to accept military law!" General Dong Xian also said, "I am willing to fight, please let the Yue Shuai beg me!" The two of them took the lead, and the other generals also shouted loudly, and some even pulled out their swords and asked to go out to fight.

"No need!" Yue Fei stood up suddenly, "I informed me of Cao Jie, Fei You are the leader of the front line, invite Liao soldiers to fight against him, and ask Cao Jie to command the army as the back line!" He took out three arrows and held them in both hands, and said to the generals with a stern face, "Everyone fights to defeat the enemy to the death. If you cannot defeat, Fei You are such an arrow!" As soon as he finished speaking, the arrow shaft "bang" sounded, and it was broken into six pieces. The generals also swore arrows one after another, and if they could not defeat the Liao army, they would fight to the end.

"Ruoxu wants to follow Yue Xianggong and fight to the death with the Liao thieves!"

Li Ruoxu stood up suddenly and asked the personal soldiers beside him for an arrow, and broke it into two sections. Yue Fei's tiger eyes looked over. Before he could speak, Zhang Xian moved his mind slightly, and his palm had already slapped Li Ruoxu's shoulder, and laughed and said, "What a top scholar, I will follow my camp to fight together today, and I will protect you!" "Thank you, General Zhang." Li Ruoxu bowed, "Ruoxu has also followed Wang Jiedu to fight in the battle formation, which is not the first time." Zhang Xian opened his mouth in surprise and smiled and said, "Okay, okay, okay!"

When the military order was passed, the camp of the town immediately started moving. The cavalry were busy installing saddles on the war horses. In the long-handled axe camp, the soldiers were busy wearing armor and wiping weapons. In the musket camp, the officers shouted "Check the medicine bag!" "Check the fire note!" "Bring the fire note!" "Remember to bring the fire note!" "Remember to bring the fire note!"
Chapter completed!