This was the hottest time of the Three Jins. There was no cloud and the sun was scorching. The scorching sun in June (lunar calendar) emitted light and heat, sprinkled between the deep valleys of the mountains and forests in northern Shanxi without any obstruction. The heat was steaming, making people feel as if they were between a stove. However, no matter how hot the weather was, they did not have the hearts of the soldiers of the Tiance army who had just left Xinkou Village and marched towards Yanmen Mountain along the Hutuo River.

Between this mountainous land in northern Shanxi, a long dragon of gray-purple, composed of countless brave men walking in line was rolling forward. The uniforms of the military academy in the Song Dynasty were mostly purple, and if they were discolored or were not dyed well, they would appear gray-purple.

Before this gray-purple dragon, there were thousands of knights wearing crimson crotch shirts, and four relatively neat columns were also listed, surrounded by a white general's tooth flag and a fiery red flag with five black characters "General Tiance" and moving forward in a mighty manner.

Under the flag recognized by the "General Tiance" was the "crazy King" Zhao Kai. Since he arrived in Taiyuan, Zhao Kai changed to the flag recognition and no longer used the flag recognition of "Prince of Yun Zhao Kai", but instead launched the flag "General Tiance".

At the same time, Zhao Kai began to gradually promote the sorting and adaptation of the Hedong army, and expanded the Tiance Army with tens of thousands of people.

When Zhao Kai advanced to the Pingding Army, although the main force of the eight thousand knights (including horse-riding infantry) led by him came from the original Tiance Army, it also stuffed the essence from the rest of the army. In fact, it was a "concentrated" army, with everyone having horses and many knights, and the proportion of generals and school leaders was extremely high. Almost 80% of the warriors under his command who could fight and fight.

After arriving at Zhending Prefecture, Liu Wei, Liu Ziyu and his son joined Zhao Kai's team with 2,000 elite troops (mainly equipment soldiers). After arriving at the pacification army, they absorbed 2,000 people from Ji Yiji (Ji Taiwei also expanded his army in the pacification army city, with about 5,000 or 6,000 people, and the rest went to Zhending Prefecture and Dingzhou). After entering Taiyuan, they naturally took over Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Bing's more than 10,000 people (the elite troops of which were 3,000 victories in the Jie Army). Then, while attracting heroes from Hedong, Zhao Kai transferred more than 10,000 new soldiers from Xiangzhou.

By early June, Zhao Kai's army in Hedong had reached as many as 60,000!

The 60,000 people are now combined to form a new Tiance Army. One army is definitely more than 60,000, so the Tiance Army is divided into Tiance Front Army, Tiance Back Army, Tiance Left Army, Tiance Central Army, Tiance Right Army, and Tiance Imperial Tent Army, each of which has more than 10,000 people.

The organization of these six armies has been standardized, and all have become a combined force of infantry, cavalry, and supplies. Only the mixture of infantry, cavalry, and supplies can be blocked alone!

Otherwise, although the troops that have concentrated a large number of knights can fight, wouldn’t the remaining troops become “cheerleaders”?

Moreover, the concentrated elite troops can fight, but they can’t help but consume it!

If Wanyan Zonghan had not been frightened by the reputation of the "800,000 Imperial Guards" and the "lost connection between the Eastern Route Army", and willing to take out five thousand real Jurchens' lives to consume Zhao Kai, Zhao Kai would have lost!

Even if the Crazy King himself dared not play the game for the second time.

So after entering Taiyuan, Zhao Kai began to discuss the reorganization of the army with Wang Bing, Han Shizhong, Yelu Yuji, Liu Yan, Yang Weizhong, Chen Ji and others. Of course, it makes sense to discuss with them.

Among these six people, Chen Jiben is Sima, who is in charge of this kind of matter. Moreover, he was a Jinshi, and he had been cut off by Zhao Kai, and he was also Zhao Kai's Yuan Cong confidant... When Zhao Kai got on the yellow robe, he was either Taizai or Yuanshu!

Therefore, it is quite useful to talk to those military leaders who have been restricted by the law of using literature to control martial arts for half their lives - in the process of reorganizing the army, someone will inevitably lose his military power!

Chen Ji has to settle this matter... Qianli is just for money! How about using military power to replace the prefect, how about the prefect?

Still want to make progress?

No problem, let’s arrange a good or bad next to the king!

Have a son to raise?

OK, I’m a “leader” for the king, and my future is bright!

In short, a series of behind-the-scenes transactions were handled by Chen Ji.

Wang Bing, the former deputy general manager of Hedong military and horses, was named the Right Commander by Zhao Kai. Like He Guan, he became a "great god" who did not directly lead troops. However, his son Wang Xun and Zhao Kai had a good relationship and worked in the Imperial City Office in his early years, so he did not have to worry about not having soldiers.

Yelu Yuji, Liu Yan and Yang Weizhong were sent to military senators, the New Army Command (responsible for recruiting and training new recruits), and the horse farm command (responsible for establishing and managing the horse farm), and in fact, they no longer led troops.

The Khitan (actually there are Han people and Xi people) brought by Yu Ji, the Han people from Yan brought by Liu Yan and Guo Tiannu, are now led by Liu Bodhisattva and Dong Jingang.

Liu Bodhisattva is Liu Yan's consul, so Liu Yan is not completely losing his military power.

Yang Weizhong's adopted son Kang Anguo (Yang Weizhong's original name is Kang Jiong) took charge of the army on behalf of his father and became the chief general.

Only Yelu Yu saw that this surrendered general really lost his military power.

Although the four veterans, Wang Bing, Yelu Yuji, Liu Yan and Yang Weizhong, no longer led troops directly, they had very rich military experience, familiar with the military systems and tactics of the Song, Liao, Xixia and even Jin, and were also familiar with various infantry and cavalry tactics.

So they and Chen Ji, who is very good at talking about war on paper, formed the staff team of the assistant Zhao Kai.

Han Shizhong is Zhao Kai's number one general and is most familiar with the current situation of Zhao Kai's army. Of course, he also has to participate in a major plan such as reorganization of the army.

With the joint planning of these six people, in June, Zhao Kai's Tiance Six Army finally formed a new military system and conducted some training camps for a while... Why don't the elites dare to say that, but if they sharpen their guns in the face of battle, they will be shining even if they don't wake up!

At least it looks a bit like it!

Since it is a bit similar, of course we have to send troops to scare people.

Not to scare the Jin people, the main force of the Jin people had long retreated from the ground in Hedong, leaving only a small number of former Song troops who surrendered in the Battle of Hedong, guarding Yanmen in Daizhou, the two counties of Qianqi, and confronting Zhao Kai, which was regarded as guarding the gateway for the Jin soldiers to enter Hedong again.

When Zhao Kai first entered Taiyuan, he had to promote the clearance of fields and inspections of land on the one hand, and to rectify and expand the army on the other hand, but he really had no spare energy to attack Yanmen, which was in a timely manner.

Now... the land for clearing the fields has gradually entered the "deep water zone" - because some of the gentry landlords who were driven away by the Jin soldiers have begun to return to Taiyuan and Fenzhou. Some of them want to take back the land, so they have a conflict with the field camp officials sent by Zhao Kai, and many places have killed people again!

Those who were beaten and killed were either "comfort awards to Jinshi" or their children. Everyone has a family background of poetry and rituals. If it were to be peaceful in the Song Dynasty, wouldn't the lawsuit be fought to the emperor?

Of course no one dares to go to Kaifeng Prefecture to beat the Dengwengu, but there are still many filial sons carrying the bodies and Confucius' tablets to Taiyuan.

Zhao Kai was unwilling to give in and could not give in to them.

Because Zhao Kai could not rely on the taxes of some prefectures and counties in Hebei to support his army - now he has 60,000 troops in Hedong and 30,000 troops in Hebei, with a total of 90,000 troops! This does not include the Song army on the ground of the prefecture army that was "contracted".

For so many troops, the expenses of food and wages alone can reach millions of coins a year! If you still have to "reward to fight a war", it is not too much to lose 10 million a year - this is still the expense of local defense wars. If you want to go out for an expedition, you have to include the huge expenses of logistics transfer, and it is normal to double the expenses!

Therefore, the original way of "collecting taxes and making money" first, then "spending money to hire soldiers" and finally "rewards and wars" is simply unfamiliar to Zhao Kai!

If his military and political group exists, he must rob the land of the literati and officials and then distribute it to the soldiers.

However, Zhao Kai has actually occupied millions of acres of land in Taiyuan and Fenzhou... There is no need to make it too bloody.

Therefore, after discussing with the generals and advisers below, there was a "armed parade" of tens of thousands.

Use "restoring the Jin thieves again" and "recovering Daizhou" to shock people!

In Yanmen, there were not many Jin soldiers in the complex era, and they were all "pseudo-army". Of course, they did not dare to resist Zhao Kai's tens of thousands of troops.

So this battle is undoubtedly victorious!

But at this time, Zhao Kai seemed worried and frowned slightly. Even if he heard tens of thousands of troops sing "Manjianghong" with high morale while marching, he could not reveal even a trace of joy.

Because five days ago, two days before sending troops to Yanmen, Zhao Kai received a secret report from the Xiangzhou Marshal's Office - he learned about the news of the defeat of the "Wannian New Dike"!

At the same time, there were false news that the Jin thieves opened the Yellow River embankment and flooded Kaifeng Prefecture.

However, when the arrows entered Yanmen north, they were already on the string, so Zhao Kai ordered the news to block the news and sent troops according to the original plan.

And in the next five days... the situation became even more worrying, because no news came from Kaifeng Prefecture!

Could it be that Kaifeng Prefecture is really washed away by the flood?

Just when Zhao Kai was restless, Chen Ji's voice suddenly rang in his ears: "King... someone from Taiyuan is here!"

A native of Taiyuan?

Zhao Kai suddenly woke up from his thoughts, and heard the rushing sound of horse hooves coming far and closer. When he quickly turned around, he saw a large line of knights flying along the edge of the official road. The leader was a white-haired old man with dark skin and sparse beard... It was clearly Tong Guan!

"Tong Guan!" Zhao Kai said in a lost voice, "I think the lonely family seems to have seen Tong Guan! Have you seen him?"

Chen Ji rubbed his eyes and looked closely. His face suddenly changed: "It's him, Taishi Tong... Why did he come to Daizhou? Could it be..."

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