In a small pavilion, Han Gao welcomed Li Bing's arrival with wine, and he said to Li Bing: "A total of 20,000 troops can be gathered in the two states of Zhejiang Province, all of them are militia soldiers, they are not well trained, and they are barely able to defend the city, but they are not good in field combat, at present, these 20,000 soldiers are mainly deployed in Xiuning County, Xin'an County, Wucheng County and Jiangning County, but what we are really worried about is Wucheng County and Jiangning County, from the current information we have, the other party should be preparing to attack these two points." ”

"What information do you have?" Li Bing asked.

"Liu Shining has just deployed 20,000 troops in Xuanzhou."

Han Gao took out a map from his arms and spread it out on the table, "The general will know it at a glance!" ”

Li Bing stepped forward to take a closer look, Han Gao pointed to the map and said: "Xuanzhou is actually bordered by the hinterland of Jiangnan, the border of Xuanzhou is less than 100 miles away from Jiangning County and Taihu Lake, the army can directly enter the hinterland of Jiangnan, and can be quickly replenished, basically there is no need to consider the preparation of logistics grain and grass, and the two lines in the south have to go hundreds of miles of mountain roads, and the logistics supply is quite inconvenient, so we can basically assert that Liu Shining must take the two lines in the north." ”

Li Bing pondered for a moment and asked, "Is there an intelligence spy from Liu Shining in Runzhou?" ”

"There must be, although we don't know where they are hiding, but Liu Shining has been plotting to seize Jiangnan for many years, how can he not arrange intelligence spies?"

Li Bing nodded, "So, he will know soon when we arrive." ”

"Perhaps!"

Han Gao was a little puzzled, "What does the general mean?" ”

Li Bing said lightly: "I'm thinking, will he take advantage of our unstable foothold to catch us off guard?" ”

Han Gao was taken aback, "This ..... It's unlikely! ”

Li Bing smiled and said, "This is normal in the military, if it were me, I would do it!" ”

"And what is the general's plan?"

"Let me think about it for a moment."

At this time, a personal soldier stepped forward and reported: "General Li, Liu Dongzhu has urgent matters to see!" ”

"Ask him to come here!"

Soon, the leader Liu Wu hurriedly walked over, holding two pigeon letters in his hand, he stepped forward and saluted: "General Li, I just received two express letters, one is from His Royal Highness the King of Jin to the general. ”

When Li Bing heard that there was a letter from King Jin to him, he hurriedly asked, "Where is the letter?" ”

Liu Wu handed him a pigeon letter, and Li Bing hurriedly took a closer look.

Liu Wu said to Han Gao again: "Han Thorn History, His Royal Highness the King of Jin has asked our ships to go to Jiangxia to transport war horses, I may need to modify the ships briefly, can you help?" ”

Han Gao said: "This requirement is not high, there is a shipbuilding workshop in Runzhou, and I will send someone to arrange it." ”

At this time, Li Bing said to Han Gao: "Han Tingshi, I may have to take over the Runzhou Navy immediately, and the Navy will then carry out the task and escort the fleet to Jiangxia." ”

Han Gao nodded, "My father has already told me about this matter, as long as the general has a tiger talisman, I can organize the handover immediately." ”

Li Bing was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "There is another matter, I also have to ask the assassin Shi for help." ”

"General, please!"

Li Bing pointed at Liu Wudao: "According to the original plan, we have 3,000 troops to go to Mingzhou with Liu Dongzhu's fleet and establish a supply camp in Mingzhou. ”

Han Gao thought for a while and said: "The troops brought by General Li are all heroic and warlike elites, they should stay to deal with the enemy, and we will do this kind of thing to establish a large camp in Mingzhou, in fact, the camp tent is in Yuezhou, and there are 50,000 stone of grain in the warehouse in Mingzhou, I will arrange this matter!" General Li was fully responsible for dealing with Liu Shining's sneak attack. ”

Li Bing got up and thanked: "Thank you Han Tingshi for your help!" ”

Han Gao nodded, "If the general doesn't have anything else to do, we'll go to the naval camp now!" ”

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Twenty years ago, Guo Song escorted the salt tax back to Chang'an from Yangzhou, and it was Luo Ziyu who led the army to escort him, Luo Ziyu was more than thirty years old at that time, and he is now more than fifty years old, and his official position is only the captain of the fifth grade.

The Runzhou Navy was originally just a local militia army, after ten years of development, the number of warships increased to 300, and the strength reached 6,000 people, but the status was not high, and it was still the Runzhou Local Army, in the final analysis, because the Southern Tang Dynasty did not attach importance to the navy.

Luo Ziyu has great respect for Guo Song, not only because they have an old one, but more importantly, a few years ago, Zhu Zhu attacked Jiangnan on a large scale, Guo Song sent people to secretly send more than 20 iron fire mines, and made miraculous achievements, blowing up several troop carriers, so that Zhu Zhu did not dare to cross the river easily, Guo Song then launched an offensive at Mengjin Pass, forcing Zhu Zhu to finally have to withdraw his troops back to Luoyang.

Now there are still more than a dozen iron fire mines in the barracks, which are guarded by a hundred firearms battalion soldiers, and the guards are extremely tight, and if there is any sign of wanting to snatch the iron fire mines, they will destroy the iron fire mines immediately.

Fortunately, everyone has been safe and sound all these years, and Han Yun has never mastered the idea of iron fire and thunder.

At the gate of the naval camp, Luo Ziyu led more than a dozen captains and generals to wait for Li Bing's arrival, of course they knew Li Bing's prestige, and together with Yao Jin, he was known as the right-hand man of King Jin.

Luo Ziyu stepped forward and bowed, "Welcome General Li to the Runzhou Water Army!" ”

Now the Runzhou Navy and the Jin Army are still friendly forces, and the two armies have not yet merged, although Luo Ziyu has a lower rank, he has not bowed to his superiors.

Li Bing cupped his fists and smiled back: "King Jin has always remembered General Luo, saying that General Luo was his old friend when he was in Yangzhou, and I really hope to see General Luo again!" ”

Luo Ziyu was moved in her heart, "I didn't expect His Royal Highness King Jin to remember me, a veteran." ”

"General Luo is too modest, King Jin attaches great importance to the naval army, and you will not be the army of Weimo in the future."

At this time, Han Gao smiled and said, "Let's go into the barracks and talk!" ”

Everyone surrounded Li Bing and entered the barracks, the naval camp was different from other barracks, half was on land, half was in the water, and the water covered a huge area, there were barracks around it, and there was a water gate for ships to enter and exit.

The naval camp is located in a water inlet, with a surface area of thousands of acres, which can accommodate thousands of warships, but now there are only 320 warships, and there are 80 warships of more than 1,000 stones.

Although Zhu Zhu and Li Na both have huge fleets, as long as they are mainly cargo ships, there are not many warships, which are not as good as the Runzhou naval army.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, a simple ceremony was held for the transfer of military power, the transfer of military power was not Luo Ziyu to hand over the military power, but the Runzhou Thorn History Han Gao handed over the military power, the water army is a local army, its nature is the local regiment training army, Han Gao as the Runzhou Thorn History, officially handed over this water army to the imperial court, becoming the direct army of the imperial court.

Li Bing read out the decree of the Empress Dowager, renamed the Runzhou Navy as the First Naval Army of the Tang Dynasty, which was directly led by the regent of the Prison State, and Li Bing then read out the military order of the regent Guo Song, and named Luo Ziyu as the governor of the First Naval Army, and added the title of General Yunlu, and gave Jiangning County Bo, and the other generals of the Navy were promoted to one level, and the soldiers enjoyed the treatment of first-class soldiers.

Luo Ziyu couldn't hold back the excitement in her heart, and led the generals to kneel down on one knee to receive the order, "Minister Luo Ziyu thanks the Queen Mother for her grace, thank His Royal Highness the Regent for his love, and Weichen will resolutely obey all the military orders of His Royal Highness the Regent!" ”

When the news came out, the camp was full of jubilation, the first-class soldiers of the Jin army were treated the highest, and the monthly salary was three taels of silver in peacetime, and it was doubled when entering the war, although only one or two silver were received per month, but the other silver was stored in the form of land, and after ten years, fifty percent of the land was added, and two generations were exempted from taxes.

This condition is very tempting, for example, in the Jiangnan area, the price per mu of Shangtian is five yuan, and after ten years, the soldier will have two hundred and forty taels of silver land to store, which can be exchanged for fifty acres of Shangtian, and then add fifty percent, that is, he can finally get seventy-five acres of Shangtian, which is not only the soldier himself is exempt from tax for life, but his son can also be exempted from taxes, and this treatment is of course very popular with the soldiers.

In fact, every soldier can get more than 100 acres of land when he retires, and these lands are the private property of soldiers.

Just when the soldiers in the barracks were jubilant, in the camp of the Chinese army, Li Bing began to deploy the first action of the navy, escorting the big ship to Jiangxia to transport war horses.