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Kaiping Fort is twenty-five miles away from the Zhenrong Army, while Sanchuan Village is thirty-five miles away from the Zhenrong Army, a total of seventy miles away. Even if it is marching in full force, Zhao Qin will probably take two hours, not to mention that the Beiwei Army has been marching in a hurry for five days, both in body and mind. Both in body and mind are already very tired and have reached the warning line.

Although Zhao Qian was anxious, he could only ascend the throne Liu Jizong and the others. Don’t be too stupid.

While rushing to the road, Zhao Xun followed Zhao Qian. Looking at Zhao Qian's face with dust and anxious expression, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Prince, there are some things in the army. Maybe the prince doesn't know that the reason why Liu Jizong's troops were divided into four groups was a helpless move!"

Zhao Xun turned his head and glanced at Zhao Xun, with a cold look, and Zhao Xun felt a little chilling. "What do you want to say?"

Zhao Xun hesitated and said, "Li Yuanhao, the Western Xia thief chief, is afraid that many soldiers in the army will be beaten into the water. It is good to put the whole army together, but who will serve as the vanguard? Who will serve as the central army? Who will serve as the rear army? The vanguard is naturally the greatest chance to win the first prize. Although the central army is a little bit short, it is a steady victory. But the rear army is not the case. Not only does it have no credit, but it also has to accept the soldiers who have left behind. They also need to pull the baggage forward and do hard work along the way. Liu Dujian and the three of them are all the chief officers, and no one can do anything to each other. The other is the newly recruited foreign soldiers. Although the leader is only a custodian, they are all obeying the commander and not the announcement of Liu Jizong."

When Zhao Xun heard this, his brows frowned. What he noticed most was not the compromise made by Liu Jizong for military merits, and his troops were divided into four groups. It was Zhao Xun's words of the foreign soldiers to listen to the tune or not.

Zhao Jin also commanded the British soldiers on Guangnan West Road. The British soldiers were indeed lazy, but their combat effectiveness was not bad. The most important thing was that the price was low. In terms of military discipline, not to mention the imperial guards, even the local tyrants who were not regular soldiers were on the front line. However, there was no incident under Zhao Jin's command that the British soldiers listened to the command and did not listen to Xuan. On the one hand, Zhao Jin had an overwhelming advantage in the number of imperial soldiers in the number of imperial soldiers. On the other hand, Zhao Jin was obeying the command and Xuan.

But now Zhao Qin suddenly realized that the number of foreign soldiers seemed to be too large.

There are currently about 200,000 official troops in Shaanxi, and in addition to this, there are 70,000 foreign soldiers. Although the official army has an overwhelming numerical advantage over the foreign soldiers, Zhao Qian knew that the foreign soldiers were basically in the border area. The official army had about 150,000 on the border line. In this way, the ratio of the foreign soldiers and the official troops was not that huge. It was just two to one, and Li Yuanhao's many big victories could not help but change the inferiority and fear of the foreign soldiers on the border to the Northern Song Dynasty officers and soldiers.

These marginal foreign soldiers are basically all three races: Dangxiang, Qiang, and Tubo, and the soldiers of the Xixia are actually also these three races. So they think that since the Xixia army can defeat the Song army so easily, even if they are not as powerful as the Xixia army, they will not be too weak, and their fear of the Song army will naturally not be too great.

In addition, the foreign soldiers were rebellious in nature and were not easy to discipline. It was not strange that the generals of the Northern Song Dynasty were unable to discipline the foreign soldiers.

But Zhao Qian thought deeply that Shaanxi is very enthusiastic about the foreign soldiers now. Xia Qian and Fan Zhongyan are representatives. They wrote to the court many times, proposing to use foreign soldiers instead of the Eastern soldiers.

The Eastern Army is the soldiers of the Imperial Army. The soldiers in Shaanxi were treated very well, especially in wartime. Not long ago, around June, Prime Minister Zhang Shixun wrote to Emperor Renzong of Song, saying that the imperial army in Shaanxi was very hard and in great emotion, and was afraid that no one would take care of him at home. Emperor Renzong of Song took out 100,000 pieces of silk from the treasury and rewarded them to the families of the Imperial Army in Bianliang City.

Moreover, the treatment of the imperial guards in Shaanxi is also very high. Zhao Qian reads this passage in the official document: "Each person pays 500 yuan in materials, two stones and five dou of food per month, six pieces of silk for spring and winter clothes, one twelve taels of cotton, and three thousand yuan for clothes."

In other words, each of the imperial guards has 500 coins of copper coins and 2 stones and 5 dou of food each month. In spring and winter, each has six pieces of cloth and twelve taels of cotton, and a thousand three thousand pieces of clothing.

This is just normal. In addition, there are special funds every year for the Cold Food Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Winter Solstice and other festivals, that is, rewards. Each reward is almost the same as a reward. There are various subsidies during wars. An imperial guard costs about fifty cents a year in Shaanxi, while an ordinary family in Bianliang City earns only about four cents a month. Assuming that 10% of tax payments, it takes about 11 ordinary families to raise an imperial guard soldier.

Moreover, this is a metropolis like Bianliang City, and its income is even lower in other places. It is estimated that fifteen or sixteen households, or even more households, can support an imperial soldier.

The pressure to raise soldiers is imaginable.

What about the foreign soldiers? The foreign soldiers only give salaries to the leader and need to start a war to send troops, so they give some special money, pickles and cloth. How is a foreign soldiers treated a archer during the battle? "The archer's daily eclipse of rice is two liters, the horse is broken for five cents, and the grass is seven cents."

As for food, two liters a day, only two dou for ten days, and only six dou for thirty days. What about the imperial guards? Two stones and five dou for one month. They also need to pay every month. The foreign soldiers only need to pay during wartime, and basically bring their own weapons.

Not to mention the imperial guards during wartime, even the salary of the imperial guards in daily life, it is enough for one imperial guard to support the foreign soldiers to support the five foreign soldiers!

In this way, Xia Shu and Fan Zhongyan could not write to the court for too long, and then increase the number of foreign soldiers and put forward their opinions. However, now Zhao Shu suddenly realized that things seemed to be slowly reaching extremes.

When Zhao Qian was worried about the country and the people, Zhao Qian did not expect anything from Xiaogou, and an attack occurred.

Wang Bing led about 2,500 people from the headquarters to pursue Li Yuanhao, but when he reached Xiaogou Village, the Xixia army suddenly rushed over.

However, Wang Bing's troops were confused by the panic and escape traces deliberately caused by the Western Xia army along the way. By the time Wang Bing received the urgent report from the horse probe, it was already a little too late.

Wang Bing had no choice but to order the army to form a formation on the riverside between Xiaogou and Xiaogou Village. Wang Bing was not stupid either. He thought that he could reduce the area of ​​attack with his back against Xiaogou Village. Although Xiaogou Village had a passage, the passage in the rural areas was naturally as narrow as ever. Even if the Xixia army crossed Xiaogou Village to attack the Song army formation, its troops could not be expanded. He could only launch an attack from the north and south. In this way, it would be equivalent to turning the Xixia army into two units, which would be easier to deal with.
Chapter completed!