Lu Yao was secretly thinking about it for a while, and Mai Zeming had already completed the final preparations. With a simple wave of his hand, the weather-hardened border general led his men on the journey. With the torch of the soldiers, Lu Yao noticed that Song He was standing beside Mai Zeming, and Hu Xiu's unusually large size was also eye-catching.

Compared to the importance of the Battle of Wating, the strength of Mai Zeming's subordinates was really a little thin. Therefore, Lu Yao selected 500 people with a complete system from the first batch of people to cross the river and allocated them to him, including Song He and Hu Xiu. These two came to prominence in today's battle, Lu Yao attached great importance to Song He, and even promoted him to his military position on the spot, and also specially ordered Hu Xiu's great achievements to be recorded. But the brutal battlefield is different from the stories in the storybook, and no one can immediately rise to the top just because of the performance of a battle. The war continues, and Song Hyuk and Hu Xiu also need to continue to prove themselves.

The strength of the Pingbei Military Government has expanded rapidly, and the officers of the lineage who have followed Lu Yao for a long time generally lack the experience of leading the army alone, and what they need is training; And the soldiers who have recently joined the military not only need to show their abilities, but also need to prove their loyalty and reliability. In any case, those who can finally occupy a high position in the military system and enjoy glory and wealth must be the warriors who are loyal to General Pingbei and have overcome all hardships and hardships.

Because of this, as a high-ranking general, Mai Zeming did not hesitate to lead a thousand men and horses to complete dangerous tasks, and was even ready to face the angry counterattack of the Shile thief. He knew very well that only by completing this task could he be accepted by the Pingbei Military Government and become a real member of this rising political and military group.

This is also because Lu Yao has always been fair, which is enough to win Mai Zeming's trust. For example, in such a river-crossing battle, Guo Huan, one of Lu Yao's old descendants, was ordered to lead the partial division to intercept the reinforcements from the upper reaches of the thieves and wait for the opportunity to seize Jindu, which was not inferior to Mai Zeming in terms of difficulty and danger. And Lu Yao went to the former enemy in person, and the first batch of leading troops set foot on the Central Plains. The main generals are so brave, what else do the subordinates have to say.

Guo Huan is really reliable, and Mai Zeming is also very smart. The partial generals of the left and right armies of the Liao army all understand the principle of working together from top to bottom, which is very good. It's a pity...... Lu Yao saw the figures of the soldiers disappear into the thick night, frowned slightly, and couldn't help but sigh again.

It happened that a strong wind blew from the river, causing Lu Yao's cloak to flip and move, muffling his sighs; The guards also stood a little away, guarding against the surroundings, not noticing the anxious look between Lu Yao's eyebrows. They don't understand that although the big war is coming, General Pingbei's heart has many twists and turns, and he is not as calm as he appears on the outside.

Youzhou is vast and sparsely populated, and the main force of the Pingbei Military Government for field attack and defense totals more than 30,000 people. Among them, the two armies of Pingshuo Woye were led by Xue Tong and Liu Yao, guarding Daidi and Bashang grassland, which were the key to the strong soldiers and horses, and there was no room for mistakes, so the two armies continued to sit in the local area and did not go south. The soldiers and horses brought by Lu Yao were mainly the two armies of Yingyang and Dingbian that belonged directly to Lu Yao himself, the Liao army of Shen Jin, and the Heng Navy of Chen Pei, and a number of servant cavalry of the Xianbei Duan Department, with a strength of about 18,000 cavalry.

In the past, Wang Jun led 20,000 horsemen from Youzhou Hu Jin to the south, and defeated the hundreds of thousands of troops of the king of Chengdu. Lu Yao was naturally convinced that the troops he led were stronger than the soldiers and horses of King Peng Zu. But Shi Lewang Mi and other robbers are a hundred times more powerful than the king of Chengdu? As long as people with normal intelligence do not think that they can easily win.

Therefore, Lu Yao had already made corresponding plans, preparing to use the elite of Youzhou as the backbone when he went south to fight, supplemented by the huge strength of the Jizhou army under Li Yun's department. In this way, in the process of fighting against the Shile King Mi Thief, no matter how much combat power or number he has, he will not be at a disadvantage.

But this idea was frustrated not long ago: although the integration of the two armies seemed intimate to outsiders, in fact, there was a sudden turbulent undercurrent inside, so that he had to stop in Jizhou for more than a month and sit back and watch the situation in Luoyang and the Central Plains become more and more dangerous. And this situation is not because of the tactics of foreign enemies, but because of the reckless actions of some old subordinates who have followed Lu Yao for a long time.

After the army moved south into Jizhou, Shen Jin, the commander of the Duliao Army, may have been carried away by the recent spring breeze of adding officials to the knighthood, or he wanted to show his knowledge to participate in the core decision-making of the Pingbei Military Government, so he even connected several companions and proposed strategies against the Jizhou Army at several military meetings. He believes that this southward operation can not only expand Youzhou's influence on the imperial court, but also take the opportunity to expand its strength and expand its territory, especially should take advantage of the opportunity of the two armies of Youzhou and Jizhou to join hands and serve Lu Yao as the commander-in-chief, consciously consume the strength of the Jizhou army, and choose the opportunity to reorganize and annex it.

Such words fell on Lu Yao's ears, and he suddenly disliked it: At the moment of the great enemy, it is the time to be in the same boat, but a few warriors do not prepare to fight, but instead think about those flies and dogs, which is really unreasonable. What's more, the strategy of dealing with the Jizhou army is a secret among the secrets of the military government, how can it be discussed so unscrupulously in front of the public?

At first, although Lu Yao was unhappy because of this, he didn't take it too seriously, he just smiled.

He is a person who misses the old love, and Shen Jin is a subordinate who has been born and died with him several times, even if he has not performed particularly well after leaving the state, Lu Yao still regards him as the commander of the army, relying on him like an arm. It is not intolerable for such important subordinates to make some small mistakes, so Lu Yao only secretly asked Zhu Sheng to check who was with Shen Jin, and planned to find an opportunity to scold them and make them restrain a little. Unexpectedly, Zhu Sheng soon reported a major event, it turned out that Shen Jin had gathered many people to conspire, intending to kidnap the Jizhou Army General and School led by Li Yun, and instigated the Youzhou Army to forcibly occupy Jizhou!

Shen Jin himself is a rough general, and he can't read a basket of big characters, Lu Yao can't understand where he has the confidence to make decisions for the future of the military government. But Lu Yao knew that Shen Jin's brutal nature made him quite prestigious among the grassroots soldiers, and if he dared to act like this, he must have quite a lot of support. And this can't help but arouse Lu Yao's resolute vigilance.

From a certain point of view, whether the group of people led by Shen Jin is bold or clever, they are all thinking about Lu Yao and planning for the growth of the Pingbei Military Government, but Lu Yao doesn't think so. He stood up in the army and made contributions to the field, and the army was his greatest and only reliance. In Lu Yao's view, no matter how strong an army is, it is just a tool in itself, and the tool must obey the master's orders, and must not make its own decisions! Lu Yao will not be the feudal town that was coerced by professional soldiers in later generations, and he can't tolerate what Shen Jin did, because it has touched the bottom line...... touched the scale of "if a person has a fool, he will kill".

After learning of this situation, Lu Yao immediately summoned several officers involved in the conspiracy to verify it, and immediately adjusted the original battle plan, and instead stationed the Sanwei army, distributing troops in the name of purging the remnants of Shile, and at the same time transferred the duties of several people without a trace. In this river-crossing operation, the main generals of the left and right armies of the Liao Army were sent out in advance, and each was entrusted with important tasks.

In the past half a month, Lu Yao has been calculating the enemy's strategy on the one hand, and on the other hand, he has been planning from time to time to solve the troubles within the military government. It wasn't until half an hour ago that it was determined that the generals and colonels of the Liao Army had always respected the orders of the military government, and everything related was properly arranged, that he sent someone to cross the river to give an order, and urgently summoned Shen Jin to meet him.

may be that an unprecedented war is coming, and the painstaking and planning he has paid for this has made Lu Yao a little delirious; Or maybe it's because with the improvement of each other's power and status, the relationship between himself and his old comrades has gradually changed, and it is no longer as simple as in the past, which makes him feel a little melancholy; He closed his eyes and did not move for a long time, only quietly listening to the cool breeze on the river, blowing the big flag in front of the Chinese army's tent.