"Lord Zhang's difficulties are well understood, and his kindness is understood, but it has been too long to agree. The official of the Liao State Mission had already been released the day before yesterday, and if he waited for another twenty years, I am afraid that it would not be my dynasty attacking the Northern Dynasty. ”

Hong Tao did not suspect that Zhang Kai deliberately delayed time so that the Liao State could be prepared, and the officials of the Northern Song Dynasty had the behavior of putting personal interests ahead of national interests, and there were also considerable differences on the issue of the Northern Expedition, but it was not enough to deliberately give their generals to the enemy in order to eliminate dissidents.

The preparation time of the forbidden army is also in line with the analysis of the Shanchuan Inspectorate, they have been defending for decades and have never thought about attacking at all, and suddenly turning defense into offense, there are a lot of things that need to be prepared, and it can be completed within a month, even if it is very fast.

But I really can't wait for a month, the sixth prince Zhao has already gone to sea with the supply fleet, and if he doesn't move, he will betray the prince. Originally, the forbidden army was not included in this battle plan, and whether they joined the battle team or not was very important to the imperial court and the Liao State, but it had nothing to do with himself.

"But once ......" Zhang Qi still didn't give up, before coming to take office, his cousin Zhang Dian chatted with him in Kaifeng for a night, and analyzed the current situation in the DPRK and China, and the state of the country and the country.

The central idea is to persuade yourself not to be a sinner of the country and the family, and try to help Wang Shu win this battle as much as possible, otherwise the black cauldron will not only be the founding marquis, but the entire Zhang family will not be able to escape.

In fact, even if there is no cousin's words, Zhang Kai can calculate the gains and losses, and someone in the court must have other purposes for pushing himself into this position, and he can't shirk it, I can't say that I am afraid that if I eat melons and change someone else, then the reputation of the Zhang family will be over.

Therefore, this battle must be won, even if there are mutual victories and defeats. Now I can't take care of any factions and political differences, I just hope that Wang Shu won't be too presumptuous and treat the war as a child's play, so not only will he be unlucky, but he will also have to pull the Zhang family and the official family to be unlucky together.

"If you don't succeed, you won. This official has something to say to Master Zhang, remember! Don't rush to the rescue of the new army in distress, and the official of the forbidden army will not see it if he is in danger. There is no hatred between us, and there is no hatred between the official and his colleagues in the DPRK and China, who are only doing this to win the war. The tactics of the new army are very different from those of the forbidden army, and we must be the main force in order to give full play to our combat effectiveness, and we must not be distracted at all. At that time, Lord Zhang can send more exploration horses to cross the river, and when he finds a fighter, he will command the cavalry to attack, and if he is not sure, he will not move on the north bank of the Baigou River. It is better not to rush forward more than fifty miles without a chance, but the momentum must be created to confuse the enemy, so that the officer will be grateful. ”

Hong Tao didn't let Zhang Qi persuade him any further, and it was impossible to wait for the forbidden army to go out together to cooperate in the battle. But the reason for this can't be said yet, and he can't even be told that the sixth prince, Zhao Maid, also participated in the war.

In that way, once the new army is besieged and the forbidden army will rush up regardless of life and death, and it is easy to be intercepted and killed by the Liao cavalry, who are good at encircling and sending reinforcements, but it will ruin their own plans.

“…… This official has 3,000 cavalry in his hands, all of which are under the command of the prince! "If it weren't for the fact that I had worked with Wang Shu in the Daimyo Mansion for more than two years and knew a little bit about his style, Zhang Qi would probably have to scold his mother, which is really shameless. But for the sake of the war, we have to take into account the overall situation, so let's take another step.

"Oh, Master Zhang, don't force this official. Don't say that there are 3,000 cavalry, and the 8,000 cavalry under Wang Xuan's jurisdiction is not wanted. The tactics are different, and more is not beautiful. If Lord Zhang also wants to take back the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, he will hand over these 3,000 cavalry troops to Wang Xuan's command. As long as the more than 10,000 cavalry troops crossed the Baigou River, the Khitan soldiers and horses near Xijing did not dare to act rashly, and the official was grateful! ”

Hong Tao, who knew where the 3,000 cavalry in Zhang Wei's hands came from, was the elite of the Anyang Military Road. At present, he is still commanding the soldiers and horses of Zhendingfu Road and Dingzhou Military Road, and Chong E and Li Xian will not take out all the elites in their hands and give them away, this is to give all the troops to themselves.

But the more he placed high hopes like this, the more worried Hong Tao became, if the good intentions were not used, it would be more torturous than malice. If you say don't, offend people immediately; Take it, it's 100% cumbersome.

What to do? There is only one trick, and the thickness of the face is pushed back. Get up and give Zhang Qi a big salute, make a sad and angry expression, the two legs can't help but bend, if you don't agree, I dare to kneel down for you!

“…… That's it! Today, I salute the Song Dynasty warriors with tea instead of wine, and when I return to the dynasty in victory, I will definitely lead the horse and kick to accompany the prince into the court! "In the face of such a clever tongue and a face-slapping thing, Zhang Ji can't tell the truth even if he has a stomach.

He really didn't hate Wang Xu, but hated the partisanship in the court. Such a loyal minister who can fight is forced to dare not trust any of his colleagues, even the forbidden army of the imperial court does not dare to take it.

The incident of the party sending assassins to Weiqiao Town to assassinate is still vivid, Wang Shu did not take the opportunity to make a fuss, and the court also went down the slope and did not pursue it. But as long as there are a few officials who know about this matter, how can the assassins get the bow and crossbow of the new army without the help of the ghosts, and they can also accurately touch Wang Xu's whereabouts.

If you encounter this kind of treatment, I am afraid that you will no longer dare to believe in the forbidden army, lest you go to the battlefield and be sold by your own people before fighting the enemy, and you will die without a face to enter the ancestral grave.

Zhang Kai left, led people back to the Daimyo Mansion Road to arrange armaments, and he really handed over the 3,000 cavalry troops on the Anyang Military Road to Wang Shao, and granted the old general the right to act cheaply in wartime.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Shao personally came over to ask what was going on, and there were more than 3,000 new forces to make the old man feel surprised and tremble, and he was reluctant to use it.

"With Zhang Shuaisi and the old general here, the Great Song Dynasty will win this battle, but you have to eat and sleep in the open at a great age." Hong Tao didn't expect that he would exchange 3,000 cavalry for Wang Shao in a few words, and he was only grateful to Zhang Ji.

This is a qualified official, and of course Wang Shao. The cavalry of the forbidden army led by him will be the only backup of the new army, not to protect the grain routes, but to harvest.

The new army rushed and fought fiercely in front, and there was no time to clean up the battlefield and pursue the routed soldiers, so this job was handed over to Wang Shao. After Xijin Mansion was conquered by the new army, he would lead his team to sweep along the path of the new army to the north again, creating a false impression to the enemy, and he could not settle down to besiege Xijin Province, and at the same time, he could kill and injure more of the enemy's living forces.

It is not easy to do this work, because it is necessary for the generals to control the rhythm of the march, neither too close nor too far from the new army, and also to be able to detect fighters in time, give full play to the speed advantage of the cavalry troops, and quickly resolve the battle, withdraw after the battle, and not give the enemy a chance to fight a head-on battle.

Wang Shao's experience, vision and familiarity with cavalry are all top existences in the Great Song Dynasty, but he is old and has not been on the battlefield for so many years, Hong Tao is worried that he will suddenly face a high-intensity combat body that may not be able to bear it.

"Although Lian Po is old and good, he should have gone a few years ago, and now he has returned it to you, as long as he can break the enemy and die, what does it matter. Hugh is verbose, since it is available, act according to the plan, let the old man see Jin Qing's true ability to break 60,000 from 3,000! ”

The older people are, the more afraid they are of being told that they are old, especially the generals, and if they can't fight, they will become waste. Wang Shao definitely didn't want to be a burden to others, and he also had the intention of competing with Hong Tao, or he didn't believe that the 3,000 new army could completely annihilate the 60,000 Western Xia army, and no one would believe it if he didn't see it with his own eyes.

After several years of baptism of conquest in Liangzhou, Hong Tao really didn't dare to blow another 3,000 to 60,000, and he roughly had a full understanding of the fighting methods and combat effectiveness of the nomads at this time, and it was really not too difficult to break 30,000 to 100,000 at a time.

The only thing that is not sure is what the upper limit of the enemy is, if the Liao ** team continues to gather, and the Northern Song Dynasty forbidden army is unwilling to fight, and would rather risk the blame of seeing death and not saving himself, he is likely to die if he can't even rush to the mouth of the Haihe River and really die for his country.

But there is no other way to solve the problem quickly, every time I encounter danger, I will warn myself not to risk it in the future, but danger is always around me like maggots on tarsal bones. As the saying goes, character determines fate, and Hong Tao's contradictory personality may be the root cause.

"That's it, let's get started!" The time is the agreed time for the three new armies to cross the river, and the surprise attack and night battle can increase the success rate by another 30%. With Hong Tao's order, the box convoy bypassed Bazhou City and assembled at the pre-selected river crossing site.