Qingshui City, the eastern front camp of the Northern Army of the Xia Army, the 150,000 army led by Li Qing, the king of Yan, is garrisoning here, there were originally 200,000 troops under Li De, but there were 50,000 troops who had lost 50,000 troops in the fierce attack on the Song army's defensive line, of course, although the Song army was in a holding position, it was not easy, and it lost more than 100,000 soldiers and horses before and after, but the Song army mobilized 200,000 reinforcements from Jingdong and the two roads had arrived enough to make up for the losses, and Li Qing, the king of Yan, did not let the follow-up soldiers and horses reinforce for a long time.
"Lord Wang, the north is cloudy, and it looks like it will snow in the next two days."
Yan Shu said to Li Qing after walking to the Marshal of the Chinese Army's mansion; "The last general went to the canal to take a look, the river has begun to freeze, fortunately we have made sufficient preparations beforehand, otherwise the brothers would have to spend the winter in the wilderness."
When the war was easy, Li Qing commanded the Xia army and the people to begin to expand Qingshui Town, expanding a town of several thousand people to a military town that could accommodate 400,000 troops, all the buildings in Qingshui City were built for the war, the city was divided in great detail, there were grain and grass camps, military camps, weapons workshops, firearms workshops, training grounds, and so on, all the life and military facilities were readily available, of course, until now the outer city walls of Qingshui City have not been built, only six or seven meters high, but this is already quite good.
"Winter has come, have the brothers' winter clothes been distributed?"
asked Li Qing to Yan Shu.
"Don't worry, the prince has already been distributed, and there is enough firewood in storage, but the grain and grass are not enough, and we only have two months of grain now."
Yan Shu said to Li Qing.
"This king has just received a battle report, Li Hu'er has led the army to take Luoyang and Yanshi and other places, the entire east of Yanshi City is under the control of my Great Xia Empire, our army has entered the western part of the Central Plains, and Li Hu'er has also captured a large number of grain and grass baggage in Luoyang City."
Li Qing said to Yan Shu; "But Luoyang is too far away from us, if we transfer grain from Luoyang, the consumption along the way is huge, and it is always far away and can't quench the thirst of the near, it seems that this king has to think of a way."
Yan Shu nodded and said; "In fact, the prince is not only us, the situation on the side of the Western Route Army is not good, where there are 500,000 troops, the daily consumption of grain and grass is huge, and now there is only one month's grain storage, and now it is the cold winter season, where to get so much grain and grass."
Li Qing said with a solemn face; "This is indeed a big problem, our rear grain and grass have all been exhausted, if we forcibly collect grain from the people, it will inevitably cause turmoil, and there is no need to fight this battle in the rear, it seems that the king's plan will be implemented in a hurry."
"What plan is planned," Yan Shu asked Li Qing puzzled.
"You'll know when the time comes."
Li Qing said with a smile; "This king has already issued an order to order the Marquis of Anwu Ding, the Eastern Capital Protector and the Eastern Capital Protector Yang Shousu to come to Qingshui City."
"Lord Wang, you transferred 100,000 Anton troops south."
Yan Shu said excitedly.
"Without this king, Yang Shousu was transferred alone, he will bring more than a thousand guards at most, it is estimated that he should arrive in the next two days, and he will be ready to greet him when the time comes."
Li Qing said to Yan Shu with a weird smile.
"Yes, the last general commands" Three days later, there was heavy snow in the sky, and an iron horse came from the north, and the person who came was Yang Shousu, the Marquis of Wuding, and Li Qing, the king of Yan, personally led Yan Shu, Zhao Ge, and the city's Chinese military officials out of the northern city to meet them; Yang Shousu saw a group of people waiting in front of the city gate from a distance to get off his horse immediately, and walked towards the city gate, after seeing Li Qing, the king of Yan, Yang Shousu immediately saluted and said: "The old minister sees His Royal Highness the King of Yan." ” "Lord Yang, please get up, it's cold outside, let's go into the city to talk."
Li Qing took Yang Shousu's hand and said.
"Lord Wang, please" In the Shuai Mansion, after everyone sat down, Li Qing took out a tiger talisman from his handsome case and handed it to Yang Shousu and said: "Lord Yang, this is the tiger talisman of the 150,000 garrison of Qing Shui, Lord Yang, please take it, the 150,000 army will be handed over to Lord Yang from today on." ” "Your Highness, you are," Yang Shousu said with some puzzlement.
Li Qing said: "Now the situation is critical, our army's food and grass are already urgent, this king wants to go north to discuss countermeasures with the eldest brother, fourth brother and fifth brother, this Daimyo's defense line is not at ease to anyone, so it can only be handed over to you temporarily; After the military situation is discussed, the king will send the fourth brother to meet with the adults, and it will be a matter of ten days at most. ” "Well, in that case, the old man will take over the Tiger Talisman for the time being."
Yang Shousu said without shirking.
"By the way, Lord Yang, where is the 100,000 Anton Army that this king asked you to transfer is now garrisoned?"
"According to His Royal Highness's military order, all 100,000 troops are stationed in Cangzhou to standby."
That night, Li Qingda held a banquet for Yang Shousu to wash the dust; The next morning, the snow had not stopped, Li Qing led hundreds of iron horsemen north to Qinghe to meet the rest of the three kings, Qinghe was about the same distance from Julu and Qingshui, and it was most appropriate to choose to meet here, but no one knew what Li Qing thought before the meeting.
Li Qing ran wildly in the wind and snow for two days and one night and finally came to Qinghe City, at this time Li Bingchang, Li Ke, Li Hao and others had been waiting for two days, and the three of them saw Li Qing covered in wind and snow, Li Bingchang said; "Sixth brother, hurry up and take a hot shower and change clothes, don't freeze in this cold weather."
"Don't worry, big brother, I'm fine, just take care of the brothers who came with me."
Li Qing said indifferently.
"The brothers' food, clothing, shelter and transportation have been arranged, you should also hurry up and rest, we are not short of this day, what is the matter, we are discussing it tomorrow."
Li Ke also said.
"Okay then," Li Qing could only agree.
Li Qing washed up and changed his clothes, put good wine and meat on the four brothers for a meal of eating and drinking, and went back to rest, now that their brothers have grown up, there are only a handful of days to be together like today, and due to the problem of interests, there are still contradictions between them, but because they are fighting abroad at this time, they have not shown it.
In the early morning of the next day, the four brothers gathered together, and Li De, the youngest but the supreme commander of the entire Northern Army, said; "Three elder brothers, now our war with the Great Song Dynasty has reached a critical moment, and our northern army is facing a huge crisis, our eastern army still has two months of grain reserves, and the western front army has another month of grain reserves, so this grain and grass problem must be solved as soon as possible, otherwise our army will be defeated without a fight."
"We all know what you said, and now it's how to solve the whole problem."
Li Bingchang said; "At the beginning of the war, we made rapid progress, but this fight is a little bit tasteless, first the third led the army to break into the Central Plains, Lianke, Bianliang, Yingtianfu and two places, and now it is in Jianghuai and the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army to fight, the big one is a happy ah, now Li Huer has led the army to break through Hangu to capture Luoyang and enter the Central Plains, if it goes on like this, there will be no credit for our brothers."
"And according to reliable reports, Zhao Yan has reached an understanding with Xiao Yuanshan, and Zhao Yan has handed over the entire northern area of Jingdong East Road to Xiao Yuanshan to defend, so that Zhao Yan can continue to draw a large number of troops from Jingdong Road to the northern defense line," Li Hao said.
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