The smoke of cooking in the camp of the righteous army rose everywhere, and with the northern conscription of soldiers and horses going north together with the ghost Cao Zheng, who was originally the head of the ministry in charge of slaughtering cattle, pigs, chickens and sheep, and setting up court banquets in Shuibo Liang Cottage, now he is the chief officer of the army who manages the meals of more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and the burden has become heavier.

Fortunately, he had a group of self-conscious foils under his subordinates, and selected many shrewd and capable peasant sons from the homeless people sheltered in Liangshanbo to be transferred by Cao Zheng. It's just that compared to personally rolling up his arms and sleeves to kill cattle and slaughter sheep, and rejoicing with all the brothers in the village, now Cao Zheng has always been accompanied by three or two officials who know the written accounts, and every day is a huge amount of food and salary expenditure, which also teaches Cao Zheng to cry out in pain.

Today, while the sergeants of the cavalry led the herds of war horses to the nearby streams and rivers to wash, and then led the horses in the camp to fill the manger with bean fodder, the officers of the company and the battalion led the men to boil out the cauldron of corn and coarse grains, and then filled two pieces of cooking cakes, which were fed for the sergeants.

Such food treatment is only enough for the vast majority of young and strong men, but when it comes to the army, the huge amount of expenses of the army all day long, Cao Zheng can no longer take the bold road like the original village manager led a group of men, and the village has to make a big feast? Which part of the brother is going to fight the tooth sacrifice again? Even a lot of wine and meat are enough, and I'm afraid that you won't drink enough? Are you afraid that you won't hold up a pigtail to the sky? However, after Xiao Tang's instructions, now Cao Zheng must also pay attention to careful calculations. It's just that today is an exception, after Cao Zheng thought about it, and now he can be the master of food supply, he still ordered to go down, teach the officials of the various ministries to inform the men to add daily corn and wheat, beans and other crops in addition to military rations, pickles and even pickled meat and meat, and soon the rebels will still have a tough battle to fight, so they must also use their own ways to boost the morale of the brothers!

However, Cao Zheng dared to make a decision, also because the army crossed the Yellow River to open the way, and the huge number of military food supplies in the rear will soon be continuously delivered.

To recover the entire territory of the two roads in Jingdong and then cross the Yellow River in the north, of course, there needs to be huge logistical support in the rear. In addition to the supply of grain, Hou Jian, the gibbon in Shuibo Liang Cottage, who was originally the ministry leader specializing in making cheongsam jackets, was also busy non-stop, and he was led by Xiao Tang and also transferred the military affairs manager under his command, completely in accordance with the Song Dynasty forbidden army's "spring and winter clothes, six silk horses, one or twelve taels, and three thousand clothes money", but this decree must be implemented in a real way, and it is by no means like the current season of the Song Dynasty, the military divisions in the army, the stupid worms in the army, the corruption of the military funds, the deduction of the usual routine, the stripping of sergeants, Hugh said that the cold and summer clothes, and the lack of money for several months is also a common thing. So a bird fight? Inventory the necessary replenishment of flags, jackets and other materials

There are also Tang Long and Du Wei, who supervised and supervised the ordnance and armor workshop, according to the records of the horse infantry army of the expedition, the name of the ordnance is thin, the armor and armor of the armor warehouse, and the armor and armor of the armor and the sword are also ready to be mobilized to the two Dazhai in Jingdong, which has another section of Jingzhu record in the north, and even the reserve war horses that are temporarily used as livestock in the state capital, as well as all kinds of catapult artillery tools of various sizes prepared by the Erlongshan Thunder Ling Zhenduyun, as well as all kinds of firearms led by Wei Dingguo, Shan Tingqi Ershenhuo, and Shengshui Erjiang to be transported north, and they must also be escorted by military horses, and now they have opened a passage on the north bank of the Yellow River, can also be assembled to escort north. As for the errand of transferring and dispatching materials back and forth, it naturally still falls on the two leaders of Yang Lin and Hu Cheng.

Now south of the Yellow River, all the officials sent by the state capital under the leadership of Xiao Tang to recover the rule are also busy, working hard to recruit people, count the amount of military funds and other matters. No matter what amount of money it is, it will undoubtedly be an astronomical amount, but the rich accumulation of money, food, and military assets that the Jin army looted when they ransacked Bianliang in Tokyo before, and the wealth accumulated in the capital of the world's most prosperous and wealthy country that has been looted is also because Zhao Ji and Zhao Huan, the two faint monarchs, only hoped to return to Bianjing safely, so they begged their grandfather to tell their grandmother to burn high incense, and promised that all of them would be taken over by Xiao Tang in the name of resisting Jin and resisting capture, and now the huge wealth and money and grain that are enough for the enemy country can also be transported out as military funds. An endless stream of northward transportation was then transferred to the Hebei front

And Xiao Tang made this arrangement, and many of the leaders under his command also knew very well that it was originally a base for the development and growth of Shuibo Liangshan, and it must have moved to the north soon as the war progressed, and as for the next place as the center of the strategic development of his own forces, it could almost be concluded that it was the Hebei Daimyo Mansion where the soldiers were now headed.

The sentinels reported that during these days, the garrison on the side of the Daimyo's Mansion had been tightened and tightened, and the Jin army had forcibly detained the Han people in the counties, towns, villages and squares under his rule by order of the soldiers and horses, not only did they intend to use it as a hard labor to dig up the earth and stack stones to strengthen the city, but now the arrangement also seems to have the intention of clearing the wilderness, intending to arrange it into the most heavily guarded formation for a long time. The soldiers and horses that were originally stationed in various places around the daimyo also gathered and contracted, gathering the main force of the war and the castle of the daimyo's mansion. For a long time, with the Daimyo Mansion as the center, the nearby Hebei Prefecture Mansion has been panicked, and these days, the surrounding areas are about to come with a murderous atmosphere, which is far stronger than in the past

And Xiao Tang heard a report from the leader of the sentry cavalry that Chen Xizhen, who had divided his troops to the north before, seemed to be leading the rest of his troops to assist the soldiers and horses of the Jin army, who were better at field battles on the vast plains than attacking and defending cities, to defend the Daimyo's mansion.

Xiao Tang and even Lu Junyi, Yan Qing, Suo Chao and other leaders from the Daimyo Mansion are also very aware of this former Song Dynasty companion capital, and it is also the famous city of Hebei under the rule of the first soldier's important place The inner city is six miles long from north to south, one mile and five miles wide from east to west, and the outer defense line is even more than forty-eight miles, and outside the triple city wall surrounding the inner city, the outer city wall is symmetrical from north to south, and the northeast and southeast corners are regular and incomplete one corner, and the northwest and southwest are irregular, and they are specially set up for defense needs. The north side is obviously outward, and the two front and rear gates of the Daimyo's Mansion are adjacent to the Wei River, which originates from the South Canal of the Taihang Mountains in Shanxi Province and is formerly known as the Yongji Canal of the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty.

However, only Xiao Tang himself knows that he also knows very well that the famous city of the Daimyofu is precisely because there are three rivers in the territory, namely the Zhanghe River, the Wei River and the Majia River, which run through the whole territory, and the distance from the Yellow River is too close, and it is located in the Huangzhang overflow area, so the city was destroyed by the flood, and finally in the Ming Dynasty Jianwen was when the Yan King Zhu Di waved his army south and was about to make a big deal with his nephew Zhu Yunwen, and was submerged by a major flood, and it was still buried under the sand of the Yellow River in later generations

As far as the present is concerned, it is precisely because the east of the city outside the Daimyo's Mansion faces the Konoi River, and if a few naval armies are ordered to take the river road to move over, and the city gate is enough to enter the range of the crossbow throwing stone in 1401 AD, it is precisely because of the Zhanghe River and the Wei River that are very close to the east of the ancient city of the Daimyo's Mansion that the water level is higher than the city wall, and the silt is more than a zhang deep, which is also the key reason why the entire city is in the flood The holy water of the flooded castle battle method will be arranged, just taking advantage of the terrain and water conditions around the Daimyo's Mansion, and the strategy may be able to succeed after further deliberation. However, this thought only flashed in Xiao Tang's mind, such as opening canals to inject water, flooding the city, and other tactics such as mixing rivers and dragons to irrigate Taiyuan City in the original Water Margin, Hugh said that together with the people in the city, they would also suffer from the scourge of poisoning, and Xiao Tang did not want the famous city in Chinese history to be destroyed in advance

What's more, the arrangement of dispatching a few sailors to guard the river to the two city gates east of the Daimyo's Mansion was only the first step to take advantage of the famous city here to feint and lure the enemy.