After abandoning all the burdens, Li Jiajun relied on the help of the Khitan horses, and his pace of progress was more than twice as fast as before.

Zhe Congruan, who was wearing a felt suit, looked at the soldiers of the Li family army who were also wearing felt clothes, carrying a backpack, and carrying a spear on their shoulders, and nodded secretly: With preparation on weekdays, it is possible to be extremely flexible in wartime.

In Zhi Congruan's view, Li Zhongyi's basic military literacy is not so outstanding compared to the son of the Zhi family, who has been immersed in military affairs since childhood.

However, the military training system, logistics support system, and operational staff system created by Li Zhongyi, as well as the system of elite sentinels, ensured that Li Jiajun's army marched from victory to victory.

Zhe Congruan, who had fought countless battles with the Dangxiang people and the Khitans, knew very well in his heart that the Khitans or the Dangxiang people had two biggest advantages: one was a huge mobility advantage, and the other was the logistical advantage of not having to rely on long-distance transportation in the rear.

After Li Jiajun had a large number of Khitan horses, the Khitans had obviously lost their absolute superiority in mobility, which would inevitably lead to a result: Li Jiajun's whereabouts were difficult for the Khitans to capture in time.

In addition, according to Ruan's close observation, even if the Li Jiajun marched normally within the country, they would definitely prepare about seven days of pancakes in advance.

This ensured that Li Jiajun did not need to worry about the weakness of difficulty in eating during the march in a short period of time, and could deal with the Khitans more conveniently.

In addition, the endless emergence of new "big killers" in the Li family army not only opened his eyes, but also secretly frightened.

With less than 20,000 people, the Li family's army is already so strong, if it is expanded to 100,000 people, who can be the enemy?

To this day, Zhe Congruan has reason to believe that it is difficult for any elite Khitan army to take advantage of Li Zhongyi in positional warfare.

In fact, many examples of past battles have also proved Ruan's judgment that the reason why the army of the Central Plains regime was repeatedly defeated by the Khitans was mostly because the grain route or water source was cut off.

When he stayed at the small lake of Continental Ze for a short time, because the ships temporarily collected by the sentinel camp were not enough to load all the soldiers and horses, Li Zhongyi made a decisive decision, the people and the strong men boarded the boats, and the soldiers rode along the north bank.

According to the history books, Li Zhongyi's behavior actually fully embodies Mencius's thought that the people are precious.

Faced with the question of folding from Ruan, Li Zhongyi just said lightly: "Minzhuang does not have the slightest combat effectiveness, rather than letting them on land and face the unpredictable Khitan cavalry attack, it is better to put them on the ship, so as not to cause chaos to the army." ”

I see, Zhi Congruan raised his hand and patted his head, what a cunning Li Wuyi, this move can be said to have both face and lining.

Zhe listened to the joyful thanksgiving voices of the people from Ruan's ears, but what he thought in his heart was that God must bless his grandson and be safe.

Zuo Ziguang and Yang Lie walked side by side, he waved the whip in his hand, and said with a smile: "The teacher is worthy of being the top person who buys people's hearts, you look at these people, hehe, it happens to be the reserve army of our family to expand the soldiers and horses." ”

Yang Lie sighed, shook his head, and said, "You, you, the teacher is eccentric, and he is reluctant to punish you fiercely, so that you can continue to talk here." ”

Zuo Ziguang raised his eyebrows, showed a mysterious smile on his face, leaned into Yang Lie's ear, and muttered in a low voice: "If the old man cleans me up, who will snatch all kinds of treasures for our family?" ”

After Yang Lie heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, Zuo Ziguang really lacked talent in leading troops, and at best he was qualified as a commander of any army.

However, when it comes to playing conspiracy, playing with ghosts, and being ruthless, Yang Lie asked himself, he can't catch up with Zuo Ziguang's half foot.

Yang Lie and Zuo Ziguang, this good and evil, the combination of the two apprentices, just constitutes two completely different aspects of Li Zhongyi's personality.

Compassion cannot be in charge of the army, and violence cannot appease the people, in fact, it explains the logic of the outer saint and the inner king: the alternating use of law and Confucianism has always been the magic weapon of the rulers of the past dynasties.

Li Zhongyi never thought that he was a so-called great politician, he was just a mature politician with flesh and blood, some ideals, and a residual sense of privilege.

From a small group to an entire country, we must take appropriate countermeasures according to different situations.

Idealism, in a world based on the law of the jungle, is no different from fantasy, arrogance, and madness!

Yang Lie can fight, Zuo Ziguang can make ghosts, they happen to be a perfect match, they are both Li Zhongyi's indispensable helpers!

After the people boarded the boat one after another, they gave way to the originally muddy and narrow road, and the Li Jiajun, who was advancing on horseback, became more flexible and mobile.

In fact, most of these people who were captured by the Khitans were good at horseback riding. It's just that they have not undergone rigorous training, and it is quite difficult to command and dispatch. Letting them ride horses, not only did not help, but slowed down the progress of the entire army.

In this way, Li Jiajun galloped on the north bank of Zhangshui on horseback, and the people, with the assistance of the slender man, traveled up the river by boat, and marched in unison, and the speed was unusually fast.

With such a large team and such a big movement, it is impossible to escape the ears and eyes of all the Khitan sentries along the way, Li Zhongyi has reason to believe that Yelu Xiuge will definitely get the news, it depends on the time.

The army marched through Jizhou and Shenzhou, and arrived all the way to Cangzhou in the middle of the North Canal. Cangzhou Thorn Shi Tian Long, and Li Yun are in-laws, Li Zhongyi and Li Yun have no friendship, so he didn't plan to socialize with Tian Long, but just took advantage of the time to rest in situ to arrange for people from the baggage camp to go into the city to replenish some salt.

After Tian Long received the report, he immediately ordered people to close the four gates, and summoned the officers and soldiers and the people to go to the city to be on guard.

Soon after, Li Xiang, the deputy commander of the Li family's baggage battalion, led his men to Cangzhou City, and handed Li Zhongyi's printed codex into the city through a sling.

When Li Zhongyi led his troops north, Fan Zhen was not only worried that he could not command the soldiers and horses along the way, thus delaying the main task of fighting against the Khitans, but also afraid that Li Zhongyi would take the opportunity to strengthen his strength, so the edict only gave Li Zhongyi the right to control the forbidden army in Hebei Prefectures, and did not leave the power to let Li Zhongyi meddle in local government affairs or the soldiers of the prefectures and counties where he was stationed.

The garrison forbidden army in Hebei Prefecture, whether it is the salary of soldiers or the power of dispatch, is firmly in the hands of the imperial court, and there are many mountains, in the short term, Fan Zhen is not worried that they will follow Li Zhongyi.

On the contrary, Fan Zhen was very worried about Li Zhongyi, who could fight well, and obtained local political power. It must be known that once the military power is combined with the territory, it is a proper feudal town.

In view of the strange edict did not authorize Li Zhongyi to deal with the affairs of the concubine, this made the magistrates, who were qualified not to bird Li Zhongyi's codex.

Tian Long is Li Jun's in-laws, and his backer is very hard, so after receiving Li Zhongyi's codex, he casually threw it on the bookcase and said coldly: "Want to eat salt?" Cheng, big butler, you take someone to carry fifty catties of high-quality salt and send it to Li Xianggong's army, just say that someone in my field treats the officers and soldiers, and does not charge money. ”

The chief butler arched his hand with an embarrassed face and said, "Master, I'm afraid this is a little inappropriate, right?" The villain heard that Li Zhongyi is not a person to be messed with. ”

Tian Long glared at his eyes and said angrily: "What's wrong, do you still need the consent of your puppet for what I order?" ”

Come on, the chief butler was so frightened that he didn't dare to come out, so he hurriedly ran out, took the salt, and sent it to Li Xiang in a hanging basket from the city tower.

Li Xiang took a lot of effort to understand that Tian Long was deliberately making things difficult for them, and deliberately embarrassed Li Zhongyi.

In the past, when Li Xiang went to various places to raise supplies, although the local officials were not very enthusiastic, they were passable in face, and they could give them at a discount of seven or eight percent on the materials they needed.

Unexpectedly, Tian Heng of Cangzhou actually ate bear heart and leopard gall and bullied Li Zhongyi's head, which made Li Xiang angry.

Although Li Xiang was very angry, he didn't dare to act rashly, he quickly sent someone to report what happened to Cangzhou City to Li Zhongyi.

After Li Zhongyi heard the news, he immediately laughed, turned his head and instructed Song Yunxiang: "Draw up a military order to mobilize the Cangzhou forbidden army, and order them to organize their troops and horses within an hour, and follow me to attack the Xiongnu in the north." ”

Song Yunxiang shook his head frequently while putting down his pen like a fly, and sighed: "I've seen stupidity, but I've never seen such a strange thing." ”

Wonderful, it is also one of the new words exposed from Li Zhongyi's mouth, and after Song Yunxiang understood the connotation, he quickly put it on his lips.

When Song Yunxiang drafted the official document and handed it to Li Zhongyi for sealing, Li Zhongyi found that Song Yunxiang was very good at doing things, and he used the title of the chief of the Hebei Provincial March, and gave up the identity of the minister of the political hall.

Empress Dowager Fu and Fan Zhen were unanimously worried that Li Zhongyi had both a strong army in hand and a territory under actual control, which is a well-known fact.

Song Yunxiang deliberately only highlighted Li Zhongyi's identity as the commander of the northward army, and even if the lawsuit reaches Tokyo in the future, Li Zhongyi will also have a big reason.

"Shiguang, you deserve to be a sword and pen officer, this sentence is very well written, very good." Li Zhongyi smiled slightly and said softly, "Military law is ruthless, don't make mistakes." ”

Song Yunxiang's handwritten military order consciously put aside the Cangzhou assassin Shi Tianlong, and directly issued it to Zhao Heng, the head of the forbidden army stationed in Cangzhou.

As the general manager of the march of Hebei Province, Li Zhongyi is qualified and justifiably calls Zhao Heng. If Zhao Heng did not obey the military order, even if Li Zhongyi beheaded Zhao Heng on the spot, the court would have nothing to say.

After the 100,000 urgent military orders were handed into Cangzhou City by Li Xiang through the hanging basket, Tian Long was immediately dumbfounded.

Tian Long never expected that Li Zhongyi didn't care about it at all, he was the special identity of Li Yun's family, and in this time of chaos, he actually wanted to transfer the forbidden army to which Zhao Heng belonged from Cangzhou City. (To be continued.) )