Yin Mountain lies in the north, like a natural barrier, shielding the northern grassland behind the mountain, since ancient times it is the natural boundary between the farming area and the nomadic area, the mountains and mountains overlap, the wind and sand are scattered, the ravines are deep, the forest and grass are dense, the terrain is complex, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, you can go east and go south, and you can enter and lose land; Retreat can be based on risk defense, stick to self-protection. The mountainous area itself is a mixed zone of agriculture and animal husbandry, and there are mountain pastures of different sizes scattered in the middle and western sections of the mountains, and the rich dryland pastures are the famous natural grazing grounds in the mountains, and there are dryland agriculture in the mountain basins with better conditions, and the yield is relatively stable.

In the town of Kulun at the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain in Dezhou, Liao, which belongs to the Shiju territory of the Xue Tebu, there is a well-known merchant named Guangfengtang. It has been here for almost ten years, dealing in tea, cloth, salt, sugar and other groceries demanded by many herdsmen, and its handicraft workshops include mills, mills, and wineries.

The tenants and clans here became the consumers of Guangfengtang, they cultivated a market here, and after its development and growth, the scope of business expanded day by day, in addition to agriculture, commerce, industry and animal husbandry, but also involved in the financial field, opened pawnshops, and issued money. The peasants used oil and grain, and the herdsmen sold their livestock and furs to Guangfengtang, without taking cash, and only relied on money to circulate within a hundred miles of its operation, and those with assets or good credit could also take out mortgages. Now several patriarchs of the Xue tribe have become his debtors, and after the Jurchen invasion, these patriarchs and chieftains simply did not redeem, and gave their land to Guangfengtang, and they were ready to run away, so that in two years, Guangfengtang became the actual owner here, and the original tribesmen became his tenants.

Due to the inconvenience of transportation in Kulun Town, the transportation relied on camels, so Guangfengtang organized a huge camel team, with 3,000 camels alone. They are, after all, outsiders, in order to ensure their own safety. He recruited some Ding Zhuang and formed a guard team of more than 300 people. Recently, the world has become more chaotic, and in order to protect their land and property, they have hired a large number of 3,000 horsemen. Drove into the town of Cullen. And at the same time. In the process of moving the turbidity wheel from Xiazhou, a team of the Eastern Army of the Great Song River encountered a storm while crossing the desert and disappeared into the vast sea of sand without a trace. Not a trace was left

"General Zhao, I've changed after many years!" The chief treasurer of Guangfeng Hall ordered people to take the team to the prepared camp, and the leader of the general army let him into the hall, and said with his hands in retreat.

"Brother Qiao, you're welcome. It's better to call me Brother Yong like before! The leader took off his cloak and threw it into his chair with a smile.

"Okay, okay, when I came out of the mansion, you still followed the prince everywhere, and in the blink of an eye, you, the naughty boy, have become the general who leads the troops!" Qiao Kun looked the leader up and down and said with emotion, this Zhao Yong was a little guy next to the prince back then, but he was trained by the prince to become a general.

"What about me, weren't you the little steward of the Fuzhong Planning Division at that time, holding the account book every morning for the prince to review? Now look at the rich man who has become a rich man, if it weren't for the prince saying let's come to you. I'm still dead! Zhao Yong patted Qiao Kun on the shoulder and said without seeing anything at all, Qiao Kun was originally a steward in Xiangyi Mansion, he was sent to Liu Song's caravan that year, and a year later he was ordered by the prince to leave the caravan and stay in the Liao State to build Guangfeng Hall, where he married a wife and had children and never returned to Xiangyi. After years of no news, it has faded out of everyone's sight, and few people can remember that there was such a person in the house.

"Alas, it's not all about the support of the government. Otherwise, how can I afford it! Qiao Kun shook his head and sighed, the transactions he did in the past few years were all at a loss. Just to leave a rich impression on people, and to make some money is all used for 'public relations', there has been a slight surplus in the past two years, but the situation has changed abruptly, and the Jurchens have come to kill, "After many years, the prince is good now, I miss it tightly!" After a few words of greeting, Qiao Kun asked about the recent situation of the prince.

"The life of the prince is not very good, since returning to the northwest in May, he has not slept a night, it took three months from Fengzhou to Lingzhou, tidying up this mess, hundreds of thousands of homeless people eat and drink, hundreds of thousands of troops of food, training, all need to worry about the prince, and this year's harvest and accumulation are only enough to eat for half a year, the prince can be said to rack his brains to stabilize the situation, and now he has just freed up his hands and is busy with the army, I heard that the Jurchens arrived in Xijing Road, so I sent me here again, Before leaving, the prince asked me to tell you that your parents are fine, so you don't have to worry, and the day of going home will not be too far away! Zhao Yong said with a wry smile.

"The prince is working so hard, and he is still thinking about small family matters," Qiao Kun said to Nan Shi with tears in his eyes.

"Okay, let's leave the sycophant until I see the prince and then shoot it, let's get me something to eat first!" Zhao Yong said with a grin.

"You stinky boy, you didn't have anything good to say when you first met, waiting for me to tell someone to do it, why did the prince get you to me!" Qiao Kun said with a smile and a smile, and ordered someone to prepare the banquet, "Brother Yong, I see how there are Han and Han mixed Chen in your team, as well as Khitan people and party members, not people who are loyal to the brave army, right?" He sat down again, poured tea for Zhao Yong and said.

"Hehe, Brother Qiao is right, among the three thousand people, only the officers and my personal army are loyal and brave soldiers, Han people account for half, and the rest are Tibetan people, and these people, including me, are now 'dead', in the future, in front of outsiders, Brother Qiao can no longer call me by my original name, now my name is Han Quansheng!" Zhao Yong patted his chest and said.

"Why are you all 'dead'?" Qiao Kun said in surprise.

"Yes, we people now have no name, no home, no past, only the legion!" Zhao Yong put away the joke and said.

When Zhao Ta was negotiating with the Western Xia, in order to gain the initiative, he organized the captured Western Xia soldiers into an army to intimidate the Western Xia, and he didn't think so much about it at that time. But later, he remembered that according to the original agreement with Jin, Jin attacked Liaozhongjing, and Song captured Yanjing. For Xijing, whoever fights down is whoever!

Now it is the Song Dynasty that has been dragged by the rebellion of Fang La, unable to fulfill the contract, and the Jin State has captured Zhongjing, if it does not send troops at this time, it will let the Jin State take the lead, Yunzhou is self-evident for Hedong, and even the importance of the Central Plains, but the Great Song Dynasty has not yet officially declared war with the Liao State, and it is still a 'brother' country, and he will definitely end up in the name of breaking the covenant if he rashly sends troops to attack Yunzhou at this time, and he will end up in the name of breaking the covenant, and at the same time he has not completed the preparations for a large-scale war.

But now time waits for no one, and the prelude to the Jin State's attack on Liaoxi Jingdao has begun, but Zhao Ta can neither justifiably send troops to attack Liao at this moment, nor can he openly play the banner of aiding Liao to resist Jin. After thinking about it, Zhao Ta thought of the 'Volunteers', the 'International Column', and the jihadists and mercenaries who are still active in various places today, he could secretly send an army into Liao, not seeking to defeat the Jin State and occupy Yunzhou, but only to delay the attack speed of the Jin army, delay the time of the destruction of the Liao State, and wait until the day when the Song and Liao countries officially declared war.

Following this line of thought, Zhao Ta thought of the French Foreign Legion in his previous life, this army was brave and good at fighting, and had always been the vanguard of French armed intervention, and its organizational form and management method were in line with his own thoughts, so Zhao Ta decided to form his own 'Foreign Legion', and its basis was the batch of surrendered troops that Zhao Yong brought to Xiazhou when he left Lingzhou and returned to Beijing.

After Zhao Yong led the army to Xiazhou, he secretly began to recruit and select volunteers according to the instructions of the prince. Regardless of name, nationality, race, and past conditions, as well as generous treatment, it was secretly spread from various channels, and it attracted many people who wanted to change the status quo and hide the past. As a result, there are many people who apply to join, including fugitives, military officers, charlatans, bandits, and high-spirited scholars, most of whom have experience in 'fighting'.

Zhao Yong selected 10,000 people from them and organized them into a legion. In the Volunteer Corps, in order to say goodbye to the past and be loyal to the Corps wholeheartedly, no matter who is hired, they will change their surname and lose their nationality. Once the status is changed, it can only be changed after seven years of service, even the Song people are no exception, and all the soldiers of the regiment have become 'blacks' with neither past nor name, and the only place where they can be accepted is the regiment.

Of course, Zhao Ta couldn't give up the leadership of this army, and what was unconvincing was that the commander of this stateless army turned out to be the prince of the Great Song Dynasty. At the same time as the formation of the Corps, a number of officers of the Loyal and Brave Army also retired 'due to injury and illness', secretly joined the Corps, and became commanders at all levels of the Corps.

After the recruitment was completed, Zhao Yong organized the legion into four brigades and a column directly under the legion according to the orders of the prince, with 2,000 people per brigade and four battalions. Subsequently, this unit was taken to an oasis in the sand sea for high-intensity closed training in the name of the newly formed Hedong Prefecture Army, and was 'brainwashed'

After half a year of training, this army accepted the first task, accepted the 'hiring' of Guangfengtang to go to the Liao State, an unwarranted desert storm completely wiped them out of the original world realm, and started a new life, Zhao Yong brought the advance team of this army!

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