choke element

Chapter 460 Preparation

After the Hebei army returned to Jingzhou, they suddenly stepped up on the training.

Servant Anzhen thought he had a high status and rarely entered the army, but during this month, he was stationed in the barracks almost all the time, patrolling each battalion every day, and personally watching the soldiers drill.

Pu San Anzhen is both civil and military, with a graceful bearing. In his mansion in Zhongdu, there is a "Baomo Hall" dedicated to collecting stele rubbings; Stele extension.Those are all things he loves so much, Pu San Anzhen spends every day pondering stele rubbings and practicing calligraphy.

This habit was taught by Emperor Zhangzong to his servant San Anzhen when he was the grandson of the emperor.Emperor Zhangzong is the uncle of Pu San Anzhen, and he always did this with the meaning of nostalgia for Mingchang's rule of the world.

But at this moment, all the calligraphy, stele rubbings, and Pu San Anzhen were left behind.Instead, there are swords, guns and armor, and they are constantly urging to increase troops, train troops, build city defenses, enrich arms, and collect food and fodder.

Among Pu San Anzhen's subordinates, there are quite a few Jurchen generals, and many of them have hereditary positions.To those Meng'an Moukes, Pu San Anzhen has always been very polite, but this month, he suddenly became much stricter.

Once, when he came out to patrol the camp, he found that the soldiers were not trained enough, and the generals were not supervised, so that the archers secretly switched to inferior bows to save effort during the drill. Even so, they could only achieve the archery posture Beautiful, but many arrows miss.

Servant Anzhen was furious, and immediately called Qianhu, who was in charge, to prosecute and scold him, and ordered him to make corrections.Those thousands of households inevitably debated a few words and talked about practical difficulties, such as insufficient food and salary, and the short period of time for forming an army. Afterwards, they may not have paid attention to their servant San Anzhen's instructions.

Everyone was born in Meng'an Mouke, and they were relatives and family members in their bones. This kind of loose and lazy state was not too much.

However, this time, Pu San An Zhen's decisiveness was beyond imagination.He immediately asked his own soldiers to drag the accused Qianhu out, beat him to death on the spot with a hundred army sticks.

Immediately afterwards, he specially summoned all the generals and declared that the military law was strict, he only looked at the result, not the process, and if he was a little slack, he would not let him be killed immediately.He wasn't joking, but the next day, when he patrolled the camp the next day, he really found an excuse and killed two more hereditary Meng'an and fifteen hereditary Muke officers!
This time, not to mention the earthquake in Hebei, even in Zhongdu, there were Jurchen nobles who wrote to inquire about the situation and begged for mercy.The generals such as Wanyan Yanlun, Wanyan Beida, Ulethu, Heshilie Puladu, Wanyan Yinshuke, Pu Sanliujia, etc. were all terrified. Really angry.

If you want to slack off, the identity of the Jurchen cannot be used as a talisman, and she will lose her head at any time.

At present, the whole army must cheer up and go all out to train.The soldiers who followed Pu San Anzhen to the south before were also further eliminated the old and the weak, and practiced non-stop every day.

Wulin Dayu, who had just joined Pusan ​​Anzhen's command not long ago, was given special attention by Pusan ​​Anzhen because of his performance in Binzhou.

On this day, Wu Linda and his troops came back from Hejian Mansion.

The team of soldiers and horses he led was left after the collapse of the Hebei East Road Bing and Horse Capital General Manager's Mansion last year.At that time, Gao Xi, a Bohai native who temporarily led the Hebei army, knew nothing about soldiers, so he gathered tens of thousands of people in Hejian Mansion without arranging specific offensive and defensive countermeasures. All the supplies belonged to the Mongols.

But this is a good thing for Pu San Anzhen, there are so many stragglers wandering all over the mountains and plains, after he arrived in Hebei, it was very easy for him to recruit troops.Wu Lin replied that until now, he could gather thousands of soldiers and hundreds of horses from the grass.

Wu Lin answered and took the Yi army, first went to Xianzhou for food, waited for the people's hearts to settle down, and then crossed the Jiaohe River and entered Jingzhou.Because he knew that Pu San Anzhen was not in Jingzhou City, he did not enter the city, but bypassed the city and arrived at the camp on the edge of the Cao River.

Pu Sanliu's family came forward and told him that he had chosen the plain of Linshui for the army to set up camp.

Wu Lin replied that he could have directly handed over Yi Jun to his servant to stay at home and go to rest on his own.However, he handled things carefully, and still dutifully called all the ministries of the Yi army to make detailed arrangements, and arranged the specific arrangements one by one.

Some went to build barracks, some patrolled and guarded, some gathered horses, and some carried grain and fodder for cooking.When thousands of soldiers and soldiers took their positions in an orderly manner, he stepped on his bridle and walked slowly, inspected the entire barracks allocated to the soldiers, and then took a look at which department was stationed on the east and west sides, and which general was in command. .

This is because with the weakening of the imperial court, the Yi army became more and more arrogant and difficult to control. Although Wu Lin promised to be gentle, he had to prevent them from suddenly agitating and causing trouble in the army.

After he rode his horse into the Chinese army, he saw a dozen or so Jurchen warriors with braided hair and pierced ears in front of the Chinese army's tent, wearing heavy armor, wielding their broadswords in a slashing posture.Judging by their expressions, each of them was exhausted, some were sweating through their heavy armor, some were crying, but even though their teeth were gritted, they still persisted.

Wu Lin replied and followed their eyes to look outside, and it turned out that there were several detached corpses lying not far from the front of the tent.Thinking about it, that was the result of being lazy during training, no wonder these people worked so hard.

He didn't care about this kind of nonsense, he got off his horse with a stirrup and went straight into the tent.

The lights in the tent have been lit.

Several staff members and lieutenants gathered around Anzhen like stars.And servant San Anzhen leaned over to look at the documents placed on the table by the light.Pu San Anzhen has lost weight obviously, her eyes are still sharp, but she looks a bit tired.

Wu Lin replied and performed the Jurchen salute: "I have seen the envoy."

Pu San Anzhen waved his hand and told all his subordinates to withdraw: "Wanyan Yanlun, tell those soldiers under your subordinates to get out too! I will go to patrol the camp in the future, if I catch you slack, only There is a dead end!"

Wanyan Yanlun threw himself on the ground to thank him, bowed his body and went out, repeatedly urging his subordinates to leave.

"What is the envoy looking at?"

Wu Lin answered and asked questions.

"News from Shandong East Road." Pu San Anzhen threw the document into Wu Linda's arms: "Look at it."

"That Guo Ning has already entered Yidu, and assigned Yin Chang as the envoy of the Xingde Army, and Jing'an Min as the envoy of the Anhua Army. It took them only one month to re-approve the household registration and establishment of Shandong East Road. Baojia, set up military and civilian settlements, and took over the warehouses. In the past few days, Dinghai has also been expanding its army and training... The so-called six generals under his command have expanded to nearly 4 field soldiers. According to the spies, finally It may expand to 6 people! This, this..."

Wu Lin replied that he knew exactly what Pu San Anzhen was worried about.

Pu San Anzhen's subordinates are already under the court of Zhongdu, and they are one of the few powerful soldiers.But just last month, facing the intimidation of 1 people from the Ding Navy, this army was almost embarrassed, which shows that it is really difficult for the two sides to compete.

If the Ding Navy really has 4 or [-] elites, then it will not be a matter of competition.This means that the Ding Navy has truly controlled Shandong East Road, and has economic and military power several times greater than that of the Hebei Army!
Although Pu San Anzhen tried her best to restore Hebei's strength, she really didn't have such a speed.The two sides are not at the same level at all, and they are no longer opponents who can talk on an equal footing!

"I really don't understand, this Guo Ning is just a brave man... He was born as a pawn in Changzhou, he has never read a book since he was a child, and he can't write well... How can he do this? There is no such thing as Makes sense! It shouldn't be like this!"

Servant Anzhen looked up to the sky and sighed.

Wu Lin replied that he had no idea about this, earlier he had suspected that Guo Ning, who was called the leader, was actually a puppet for the Khitan to assassinate Chu Cai.It was this Khitan who hid behind Han'er, intending to make troubles and fight against Jin and Liao.

But Guo Ning went to Liaodong before, and he killed brother Yeluliu, king of Liao, in the first battle... This doesn't seem like a way to fight against the Jin Dynasty and restore the Liao Dynasty?

He had no choice but to forcefully persuade: "Xuanshi, the territory and population of Shandong East Road have their limits, and the power of the Ding Navy cannot continue to expand. As long as we manage Hebei well, we will always be able to match it. It is nothing more than the few in front of us." Moon, it is more difficult, you have to be vain and obedient to it."

"These few months?"

Pu San Anzhen's expression became more and more gloomy, he sneered and said, "It's really a good thing that it will take a few months! I don't know, can we still spend the New Year's Eve safely!"

"Why did the emissary make such a statement?"

Wu Lin was taken aback when he replied, and then his whole body turned cold: "Could it be that..."

"Look at it!" Pu San Anzhen threw another document into Wu Lin's embrace.

He leaned back, looked at the dark roof, and said in a deep voice, "We must hurry up and prepare. Our actions are not fast enough... we need to be faster!"

Wu Lin replied and turned over the documents page by page, and remained silent.After a while, he got up suddenly, closed the tent door, and ran to the back tent to see if there were any servants serving him.

"Envoy, there are a few words that I don't know whether to say or not."

(End of this chapter)