That night, Li Ruoxu did not sleep all night.

"I will attack Hejian the day after tomorrow. I wonder if it will go smoothly? Yue Shuai asked the soldiers to give land. The court has not responded yet. I wonder if it will affect morale. Xianggong Deng borrowed the general trend of the Northern Expedition and forced the states to study for assessment and reject the ignorant students. Will he be too anxious?" Li Ruoxu was thinking about various questions all night. He tossed and turned, simply put on his clothes, stood in front of the window and frowned, his expression was completely different from that of the banquet.

"Many of the Northern Expedition Army were not military households, but farmers from Hebei and Henan."

"Who is not afraid of death on the battlefield? The reason why I joined the army and fought was nothing more than home. General Yue asked for a hundred acres of land for each of the soldiers in the Northern Expedition to grant 100 acres of land, and the commander of the above-mentioned land was to imitate the system of land granting land in Guanxi and encourage the soldiers to die. However, the court gave all the land in Hebei to the merchants who bought Hebei coupons and wanted to take out another tens of millions of land to give land. Wouldn't it be that the merchants' hearts were plundered out? But if there were no Hebei coupons, even the food and salary for the Northern Expedition could not be collected?"

"Increase taxes? It is impossible for academics and government officials to agree easily."

"No wonder Zhao Yuanzhi had to break his family and raise food and money to restore the Central Plains. Before the troops moved, the food and grass would go first!"

"In order to identify the good and bad, Mr. Deng ordered a ban on donating his students. The official schools in the world re-evaluated the students and wrote the Five Classics. Those who missed more than fifteen words were wrong and removed from their school status. Although it was good, Qingliu was greatly encouraged. However, after the government orders had just been put down, the rebound of the prefectures and counties was unexpectedly strong. I thought that the officials of prefectures and counties were occupied by the Qingliu, but now I found that there seemed to be many people who were ignorant and were even full of them. It was these people who used all their means to oppose the re-evaluation of the prefectures and counties and insisted on donating their students to make up for the insufficient taxes. Otherwise, the prefectures and counties would not be able to pay the taxes to the court. Mr. Deng used the Northern Expedition to collect the power of the prefectures and county officials and schools to attack the good intentions of the prefectures and counties. However, some people who formed cliques and made private interests are really difficult to deal with."

"Don't delay the plan of the Northern Expedition"

Li Ruoxu was in the shogunate of the Great General and knew much more than ordinary military generals, but the more he knew, the more he was worried. The more he thought, the more anxious he felt. He opened the windows and let the cold wind blow for a while before he calmed down a little.

Since ancient times, any talented person must have a lot of thoughts and worries.

Li Ruoxu has the talent of the top scholar, so how can he be an exception? Li Ruoxu has always regarded Zhao Xingde as a model. Until now, even though he has a knot in Zhao Xingde, it is still the case. Every time he thinks, if Zhao Yuanzhi encounters this situation, he will be like a river? After just half a thought, Li Ruoxu put this idea away from his mind. He decided to be a real man who is upright and wants her to look at him with admiration. How could he imitate others in everything? In the second half of the night, Li Ruoxu stood in front of the window and dazed, thinking about it, sad, tormented, and anxious. Sometimes he recalled the rare relationship between himself and Zhao Huan, and sometimes he sorted out the overall situation of the current Northern Expedition, bit by bit, and thought a lot. If it weren't for the dawn, he would have been thinking like a tyrant, and he would have been afraid that he would go crazy.

"Huang Bin is a real person, and there will be a big battle tomorrow. He rushed to transport the artillery to the preset artillery base, so he offended Lord Li. I hope you will be more content with it." Zhang Xian looked at Li Ruoxu and smiled bitterly, "I also know that you are not a person who cares about these things, otherwise, you would not volunteer to come to Hejian to fight. It would be great to stay comfortably in the camp of Yue Shuai. The few who accompanied you last night were all good men in the army. Tomorrow, one of them would have to fight. In a word, I don't know how many heroes want to silence their heads and sprinkle blood. No matter how fierce the Liao thieves are, we will fight with them to the end. Therefore, Mr. Li Zhuangyuan should not be too concerned about them."

"This is natural," Li Ruoxu nodded and asked in confusion, " "Is it too hasty to attack the Liao army tomorrow?"

He had been in the shogunate of Yue Shuai. He knew that the front army of Commander Zhang Xian had about 30,000 troops. It took him two or three days to gather in Hejian. The Liao army was almost in Hejian. Unexpectedly, Zhang Xian had decided to attack the Liao army camp." Hurry?" Zhang Xian was silent for a moment, looked at the busy soldiers in the camp, and said in a deep voice, "Yes, there are some." He looked at Li Ruoxu's puzzled face, sighed, and said, "But, the Liao army will stop us here for a day, and the imperial court will be 150,000.

The army's food and salary consumption, plus the transportation costs of hundreds of thousands of people, cost 100,000 a day. Lord Li thought how long the court could last? Even if the court could afford it, two more months, the Liao cavalry became colder and stronger in the cold winter. Our army was not as resistant to the cold as the Liao army, and we would still march northward. The strong city of Youzhou was a hard bone. If the Liao thieves were determined to defend Youzhou, we might not be able to take it easily. If we couldn't take Youzhou, Hebei had become a piece of white land. The army was in the wild for a winter? Still want to attack the city? Fight in the field?"

"Then why?"

"Why did you delay the attack on Hejian until now?"

Li Ruoxu looked at Zhang Xian silently. Although he had a transcendent status, he could not openly criticize the former military commander.

"The Liao army built camps and set up artillery. Can six or seven thousand cavalrymen capture Hejian City?"

A sneer appeared on Zhang Xian's lips: "We must use artillery against the Liao army's artillery. No matter how slowly the artillery team comes up, we will wait. To overcome the enemy's artillery, I must have enough people to fill it in, otherwise, the dead will be in vain. Tomorrow, if the Liao army fights this battle with us, at least 3,000 people will die in battle, and 6,000 injured. The doctors who care for the wounded soldiers here, the golden sore medicine, and the horses and carts, are not enough."

Not far away, a group of soldiers took off their military robes outside and dug out artillery towers in sweat.

"Since Zhang followed Yue Shuai, he has been putting his life and death aside." Zhang Xian sighed and said in a deep voice: "However, since the artillery is a thing of war, it has become a dirty job, hard work and tiring job. No one wants to endure it like this, but if anyone saves enough strength and rushes up rashly, he will be able to be smashed to pieces by the cannons on the other side. You can only fight thousands of people and tens of thousands of people to fight to the death if you deserve to die.

The bullet rushed over and then killed enough money back! Do you understand?" He patted Li Ruoxu on the shoulder and said, "Mr. Li, you are the top leader and the pillar of the country. War is the business of a martial artist like Zhang. You will not be short of you before the battle. When the war is going to fight tomorrow, you will be by my side. However, you must be clever and you will not be able to get the cannon. I don't want Mr. Yue and Mr. Zhao to settle the score together!"

Li Ruoxu was just a first-timer and couldn't get involved in everything, so Zhang Xian had no intention of letting him go into battle.

Therefore, Zhang Xian reminded Li Ruoxu to be careful to stay in the front army camp and not to walk around like yesterday.

The war was about to come, and Zhang Xian was busy with military affairs, so he only stayed with Li Ruoxu for a short time before leaving.

Li Ruoxu looked at his back, and many soldiers in the camp cheered to Zhang Xian, and a feeling of regret arose in his heart.

The soldiers were sweating profusely, most of them were wearing military robes, revealing their tanned backs because of their years of work.

In the eyes of some people, they are landless refugees and insignificant guards.

But in Li Ruoxu's eyes, they were all good men who fought for the country.

Unfortunately, these heroes cheered happily today. Some people were looking forward to a piece of land or looking forward to making military achievements. However, according to Zhang Xian, nearly 10,000 people were destined to be killed or injured tomorrow, and perhaps one of these people. Li Ruoxu suddenly started the Hebei coupons, which were rising prices in the Zhengxin Hall in Yangzhou. Do those merchants who bought the coupons want to get that every inch of land in Hebei was actually exchanged for the lives and blood of the soldiers of the Northern Expedition? Wouldn't the court happily promised to grant land?

Li Ruoxu shook his head and temporarily put aside his complaints to the court. On this day, he consciously stayed in the camp without causing any extra trouble for the busy former military staff. Li Ruoxu looked from afar as the bright sun rose and set, illuminating the wide battlefield.

"Did you see the Khitans' artillery building?" Zhou Ding finished his military affairs and came to accompany Li Ruoxu again.

Li Ruoxu followed the direction pointed by Zhou Ding and saw a big road leading to Hejian City surrounded by two rivers. About two miles away from the city, the Liao army built two camps, with sun and moon flags erected on the camps, and the surrounding fields were burned into scorched earth. Because of the distance, the Liao army's camps looked very short and small, only rivers, hills, shadows, and smoke from time to time were seen, not as continuous as the camps when the two armies fought. This was also

It is because of artillery, a laid-mounted artillery base, assuming that more than a dozen iron barrel cannons are enough to make thousands of archers shoot arrows. The attack and defense of both sides mainly rely on artillery killing and wounding. The cavalry is the sharp knife that seizes artillery base, while the infantry is the strong shield to protect artillery base. Unconsciously, artillery has become the center of the battlefield, changing the appearance of the entire battlefield. Li Ruoxu was shocked and understood that Zhang Xian's respect for Yue Shuai still brought Zhao Yuanzhi and Yue Shuai together.

"Where is the Liao army's artillery base?" He narrowed his eyes and tried hard to argue.

The Liao army's camp was not obvious among the ups and downs of yellow-brown hills, so it was not easy to find the main artillery tower at a glance.

"Where are there!" Zhou Ding pointed his finger at the middle of the narrowest distance between the two rivers.

The expression on his face was very serious. "In order to test these places, we have lost many brothers." Zhou Ding pointed to the zhongyāng cannon building that was higher than other camps. If you look closely, you can find that it covers a large area and is enough to arrange dozens or hundreds of cannons. "Did you see it? I will take this place tomorrow, and I don't know how many brothers will be filled in." His face was slightly dark and his tone was quiet.

The golden sunlight shines on the two sparkling rivers, as if two golden ribbons surround the Hejian City, and the scenery is particularly magnificent.

The sunset was extremely beautiful, but when he thought of the casualties of this battle, Li Ruoxu's heart suddenly dissipated a lot.

He couldn't help but wonder if Zhang Xian said this on purpose, but he was actually scared by him. He was so embarrassed.
Chapter completed!