The Liao Kingdom must win back its face. The Song Kingdom cannot move the border away and let the Liao Kingdom plunder. Both sides have to continue to increase their troops and gradually expand the scale of the war.

The state of Song has no worries about military strength, and hundreds of thousands of troops can be mobilized at any time. But the problem is that a large number of troops may not be a good thing. At least one command problem will stump countless famous generals.

Not all famous generals are Han Xin, and the more they can get better.

In ancient times, when communication conditions were extremely poor, it was very difficult to command hundreds of thousands of troops by banners, gongs, drums, and messengers. However, it was very easy to collide and cause chaos.

At least Yang Yanzhao and Mu Guiying do not have the ability of Han Xin, let alone Luo Tianming, so he can only control the total force below 200,000. This is the limit. No matter how many there are, it is useless. If you can't command, you can only have some idle parts.

Faced with this situation, Luo Tianming did not think about how to defeat the enemy, but was thinking about how Han Xin sorted out the million-strong army in an orderly manner? What could be done in the Han Dynasty for a thousand years, but why could not be done in the Song Dynasty?

He can't find the answer to this question for the time being. Perhaps one day he can travel to the end of the Qin and early Han dynasties, and can directly ask Han Xin and learn from him.

Back to the present, how should we solve the problem when facing the Liao army's army's obscurity?

This time, the Liao army sent 150,000 troops, which consumed a lot in all aspects. If the Song army was defeated, the Liao army would regain the capital. I wonder what it would harm the northern region.

Although Luo Tianming disliked the emperors and civil officials of the Song Dynasty, he still had a sense of compassion for the people and could not be indifferent to the people when they were suffering.

Having no choice but to take all his skills to solve the military disaster.

When it comes to military strategy, Luo Tian is not as clear as Yang Yanzhao and Mu Guiying, but he also has his strengths, which is his outstanding martial arts.

His method was to gather all the good martial arts guys among the generals to form an elite unit with super strong combat power and to use a fatal blow to the Liao army at critical moments.

After the last martial arts competition, Yang Yanzhao knew all the people with higher martial arts skills in the army, so it was not difficult to draw them out.

In addition, a group of strong and brave men from the strokes will be selected, and the elite will be selected.

However, since he is an elite, his treatment cannot be the same as that of ordinary soldiers. Therefore, Yang Yanzhao applied for a large sum of money and grain from the emperor, specifically to reward this elite.

Although the emperor was far away in Bianliang, he was also frightened by the Liao army. As long as he could defeat the Liao army, he would agree.

Now Yang Yanzhao doesn’t want more military power, but just wants a sum of money and food. Is it a big deal? Of course, he approved it immediately.

With this money and grain, it will be much easier for Luo Tianming to recruit elite troops.

In the ancient army, don’t talk about family and country feelings. A big-headed soldier who has no culture will not listen to that.

They worked hard to join the army just to get promoted and make money, and even if they were not good, they wanted to let their families live a good life.

Therefore, a large amount of money and food were scattered, which immediately attracted a large number of strong men to sign up.

As for the danger that Luo Tianming repeatedly emphasized, these people didn't care at all.

It has to be said that ancient people and modern people have essential differences in their life issues.

Most modern people attach great importance to human life. Whether it is their own or others' lives, they will think it is an extraordinary event.

However, in ancient times, death was common. Not to mention the battle formation, in the countryside, infection with wind and cold will kill people, breaking a little skin will kill people, clan fight will kill people, and not having enough food will kill people, let alone the terrifying death rate of babies, which is even more scary.

Therefore, ancient people had long been used to not taking their lives seriously. As long as death was valuable, they did not mind taking the initiative to die.

Luo Tianming formed this army and the military pay was too high, and the pension for death in battle was very attractive. Even if he was injured and disabled, he naturally attracted countless people to rush forward.

With enough people willing to participate, Luo Tianming can also choose the best ones, as long as he is strong enough and can obey orders.

Soon, a team of only three thousand people was pulled up and trained to form an army.

This army is not only strong in soldiers, but also well-equipped, with weapons, armor, horses, bows, arrows, food and grass all the best. There is no need to fight in actual combat, just looking at their appearance, you will know that this army is very powerful.

The emperor and civil officials also discovered this and did not want this particularly elite unit to fall into the hands of military generals. They hurriedly added an imperial edict, giving the unit a special name called "Xuanwu Camp", and sent a special military supervisor.

Since the Xuanwu Camp was held in his hands by the emperor, Luo Tianming was even more rude and asked for another batch of vests to build the entire army into heavy cavalry.

At this time, the Mongols had no shadow, and their Manguda tactics were also no shadow, so the heavy armored cavalry still had enough deterrence.

However, the State of Song was short of horses, and it was even rarer to carry a horse with heavy armor and a cavalry.

As a last resort, Luo Tianming had to follow the example of modern tanks, strengthening the iron armor in front of the soldiers, lowering the rear, and even replacing leather armor, thus reducing the overall weight.

The same is true for vests. Except for the breastplate that is a whole iron plate, other parts are mainly decorated with iron pieces on leather armor.

This can reduce the weight of the armor by more than one-third, but the protection is not much reduced, which is relatively affordable.

Although only one third of the weight is reduced, the weight of 300 kilograms becomes 200 kilograms, which will cause a lot lighter load on horses.

Carrying a heavy object of 300 kilograms, it is difficult for the horse to run. Even if it runs, it will be exhausted if it doesn’t run far.

But 200 kilograms are different, and they are enough to exert the combat effectiveness of cavalry.

It’s not enough to have equipment alone. Luo Tianming also personally led the Xuanwu Camp to train, teach martial arts step by step, strictly follow the military rules, talk to them, chat with them, and care about their lives.

The ancient people's thinking was relatively simple. As Yang Yanzhao's only son, Luo Tianming was very moved by the fact that he could eat and live with them, the lower-level cannon fodder, and even cared for them as brothers, making these people feel at heart and willing to die for him.

Although there is still a lot of gap between the strong army in Luo Tianming's heart, the battle situation can no longer allow Xuanwu Camp to train slowly, so Luo Tianming can only take them to the battlefield.

In order not to allow the Liao army to bypass the city and harass the rear, Yang Yanzhao had to lead the Song army out of the city to fight in the field.

In this battle, the Song army confronted the Liao army head-on, and there was no room for conspiracy and tricks, so the two sides could only fight head-on.

The Song army was mainly infantry, while the Liao army was mainly cavalry; the total strength of the Song army reached 200,000, and the 150,000 troops of the Liao army were not all here, but they also concentrated a hundred thousand troops.
Chapter completed!