On November 10, 2018, the news of Gao Qiu's death in his country finally reached Kaifeng Prefecture!

The source of the news was the Xuanfu Division of Hebei. The cavalry sent by Xuanfu Division found a tomb built by the Liao people for Gao Qiu at the foot of Cangshan Mountain in Weizhou! A large tombstone was erected in front of the tomb, with Chinese characters "Tomb of the Song general Gao Qiu" engraved on it. The cavalry of Xuanfu Division of Hebei dug up the tomb and found a thin-skinned coffin. When they opened it, they found that it was the body of Gao Qiu and Taiwei Gao.

In addition to finding Gao Qiu's body, Ji Yi also reported the latest battle situation and the situation of the containment of the remaining soldiers of Gao Qiu's troops and the training of the Xiangzhou regiment.

After defeating Gao Qiu's troops, Yelu Yanxi's troops did not fight, but "returned to the battlefield" and retreated northward. On November 8th, they retreated across the Hulu River and entered Shenzhou. The next step may continue to retreat to Dingzhou, or they may wait for the Hutuo River and the Yellow River to freeze, and then attack towards Hejian Prefecture and Cangzhou to capture the retreat of Wu Haogu.

But this is not what Zhao Ji is most concerned about. He is now hoping that Yelu Yanxi and Wu Hao will have a battle against each other. It would be better if both sides suffer losses!

Ji Yi, the "explosive casino minister", finally did something that satisfied Zhao Ji this time, which was to start to contain the defeated soldiers of the Lingzhou army as soon as possible. As of November 8, a total of 17800 cavalry (including the main soldiers and auxiliary soldiers) were accommodated, and less than 2,000 infantrymen.

The Xiangzhou regiment training army also accommodated some of Gao Qiu's defeated soldiers, including hundreds of cavalry (mainly the light cavalry and cavalry auxiliary soldiers who remained in Han Xiaozhou's army) and more than 100 infantry soldiers who followed Wu Song, the general of Gao Qiu's troops, to Xiangzhou.

In addition, the more than a thousand effective knights that Ji Yi had given to Gao Qiu were lucky because of his weak combat power. He did not follow Gao Qiu to attack, but was left with Han Xiaozhou, so he broke through with Han Xiaozhou. Since Yelu Yanxi's main goal was Gao Qiu, he did not distribute many troops to chase Xiangzhou regiment training, so these four-legged cavalry were basically intact.

In other words, Han Xiaozhou, who was defeated repeatedly, became stronger and stronger as he was defeated, and he actually had an available cavalry on hand!

In addition to about 3,000 cavalry (the total number including the main soldiers and auxiliary soldiers), the Xiangzhou regiment training army also had about 20,000 infantrymen who were dismantled and unarmed. They were not very elite, but they had been on the battlefield and had seen blood passing by. Many people had run twice... At this time, they are also available soldiers.

Therefore, the "most prodigal" Hebei Road Transportation, Ji Yi once again generously allocated a batch of weapons that had just been transported from Tianjin and JD to the Xiangzhou Army, who urgently needed supplies.

"Now there are 23,000 troops in Xiangzhou, 18,000 troops in Kaifeng's new troops, and there are less than 4,000 soldiers in the Lingzhou army... This is the number of soldiers including auxiliary soldiers. If it can be supplemented and sorted in time, the court will soon have 45,000 to 50,000 troops to fight!"

In Chongzheng Hall, Zhang Shuye, the commander of the military commander of the capital, was counting the available soldiers in the court one by one to the official Zhao Ji and a group of important officials.

There are still 45,000 to 50,000 soldiers to fight, which is pretty good!

"Your Majesty," said Shi Gongbi, the chief censor of the Censor, "Now that the Liao gang has retreated, and the court has tens of thousands of troops to fight. It is better to use it for Tianjin Prefecture..."

What? Used in Tianjin Prefecture?

The suggestion of the Censor Shi Da was startled Zhang Shuye. The so-called "warable soldiers" were for the Liao soldiers, not for the Wu Haogu's army.

However, this cannot be said explicitly. Zhang Shuye hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, what I said is available means that after the revision is completed. Now they have not completed the revision, so they are not available soldiers."

"Then let's make up for it quickly!" Shi Gongbi said.

"This..." Zhang Shuye stuttered, "Hebei is a flat horse, and cavalry is the most important thing. Although the Hebei Xuanfu Department has collected about 5,000 cavalry, there are insufficient war horses and they still need to buy them from Tianjin Prefecture."

"What? Purchase from Tianjin Prefecture?" Shi Gongbi asked, "Didn't the imperial court have a herds prison? Why didn't Ji Yi call horses from the herds prison, but wanted to buy horses from Tianjin?"

“Because, because…”

Zhang Shuye has nothing to say. The current supervisor of Zhiqunmu is Cai Jing's party member Bai Shizhong. He should say whether there is any horse or not.

Bai Shizhong indeed reported: "Your Majesty, since Hexi and Shuofang were restored, the group herders' supervisors set up the Heshuo Four Supervisors to raise horses in Hexi and Shuofang. At the same time, horse supervisors in various parts of the Central Plains were abolished one after another, only Shayuan and Tiansi supervisors were left unaborted, and household horses, horse protection, and horse herding were all abolished. Now the Four Supervisors of Heshuo have been quite effective, with as many as 200,000 horses sheltered, which is enough to cope with the war in Hebei, and there is no need to buy horses from Tianjin again."

Xiangzhou Shuofang and Hexi have been recovering for a while. After spending more than tens of millions of dollars in Zhao Ji, the group herders' prison finally achieved some results, increasing the number of horses in stock to 200,000.

However, the increase in quantity does not mean the quality increases, because the civil servants in charge of the herds supervision basically do not know how to raise horses and are not interested in learning. Therefore, the method of raising horses in the fourth magistrate of Heshuo is to simply grazing on the grassland, hiring some horses that were originally Dangxiang people, and casually stock a group of Dangxiang horses and Buzhu horses purchased by Tong Guan.

They don’t talk about bloodlines or interfere with horses’ free love. They can do whatever they want, so the chance of getting a good horse is only a few percent.

Moreover, for the sake of immediate political achievements, officials in the horse supervision tend to castrate stronger foals - castration when stallions are young can make them grow taller.

Because of this reason, the best stallions produced in Heshuo Fourth Prison have become eunuch horses, horse breeds, etc., which is conceivable.

However, even if the practice of castrating strong horses was adopted, the Heshuo Fourth Superintendent could provide four or five thousand barely available war horses every year, basically supplementing the Shuofang Army, Shaanxi Army and Hedong Army. Now, it is time to call a large number of war horses from the Heshuo Fourth Superintendent to supplement the Hebei Army. It is easy to imagine how difficult it is.

But no matter how difficult it is, it is better than buying a horse from Tianjin Mansion?

Tianjin Prefecture is now the territory of Wu Haogu!

Zhao Ji nodded and said, "This is why Ji Yi stopped buying horses from Tianjin Prefecture. All the horses in the Hebei army were supplied by herdsmen... In addition, weapons and ships were not allowed to be purchased from Tianjin Prefecture.

He paused, "Before the Hebei Army's preparation is completed, the troops will not move for the time being."

Fortunately, okay... Zhang Shuye breathed a sigh of relief. The Hebei Army should prepare slowly. It would be better to prepare for thirty or fifty years. Be prepared for Wu Hao and Gu Lao to die and the world will be peaceful.

Let’s forget it! Just the horse of Heshuo Fourth Prison, Ji Yi, and the half-baked knight in Han Xiaozhou’s hands will die if he goes!

Uncle Zhang had known that Wu Haogu had a young knight of one or two thousand people, all of whom were raised since childhood. They were very powerful and loyal to Wu Haogu... Although Wu Haogu had many soldiers and horses under his command, there were not many people who were truly devoted to it.

But if tens of thousands of imperial troops were defeated by two thousand martial arts furniture, haha, then they would be the ministers of the dragon.

So it’s better not to fight if you are not sure!

"Ji Yi submitted a secret memorial to me," Zhao Ji said carefully at this time, "It is recommended to be named King of Beiping for Wu Haogu as soon as possible, and to a vote of the heroes of the Northern Expedition under his command, and to be named Duke and Marquis! What do you think?"

Ji Yi is really good!

Now it is the turn of the ministers in the hall to relax collectively. Shouting and beating and killing is a matter of attitude, and real fighting and killing is an IQ problem.

Everyone is a loyal minister of the Song Dynasty, but he is not ready to change the emperor... And it's so great to be a son today. Feng Heng and Yu are generous, and everyone is corruption at all. At most, Haizhou is elderly care. If you want to change the emperor, you have no conscience!

Moreover, Wu Haogu had his Yuntai system, each of whom was more sophisticated than a monkey, more diligent than a cow, and more fierce than a tiger. Can you do anything in the palace?

However, it is one thing to agree with Ji Yi, and it is another thing to say it.

Because of Ji Yi's suggestion, it seems a bit suspicious of raising tigers to indulge the enemy. It doesn't matter now, but you will definitely be unlucky in the future.

"Since all the ministers are nothing to say," Zhao Ji frowned, "Then I'll ask Ji Yi to come to the court and I'll ask him in person!"

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"Brother Gao! You're dead so miserable! Woo... I will definitely launch a large army to attack Liaojing, rob your body, and then report to the emperor to bury you with great glory. I also want the emperor to posthumously titled you as the title of king!"

"Master Gao, you died so miserably!"

"Master Gao..."

At the same time, in the Jiedu Fort of Tianjin Prefecture (formerly Xuanfusi Fortress), the Jiedushi Governor of Youzhou, the Hailu Maritime Market Order, and the sentenced Wu Haogu of Tianjin Prefecture, had taken off his official uniform and dressed in a marijuana. He took off his main generals, civil officials, and veterans in Tianjin, and knelt together in the mourning hall set up for Gao Qiu and cried bitterly.

It turned out that Gao Qiu's brother Gao Lian had arrived in Tianjin Prefecture, bringing the bad news of Gao Qiu's death to fight to Wu Haogu. Wu Haogu almost fainted from crying at that time. After he took a breath, he threw military affairs and government affairs aside and began to die for the heroic sacrifice of Taiwei Gao.

It was said that it was a big funeral, but because there was no corpse, there could only be a mourning hall to sacrifice. While the charity was far away, Wu Haogu also claimed that he would go directly to Liaojing to grab Gao Qiu's body (in fact, Yelu Yanxi did not take the dead on the way, but buried Gao Taiwei after finding a coffin), and also bury Gao Qiu in a grand manner.

I believe that Taiwei Gao should be relieved to have such good brothers?

However, Gao Lian, who was kneeling beside Gao Qiu, looked a little ugly. He was a little sad for his brother, but not all. Because on the way to Tianjin Prefecture, Gao Lian finally figured out why his brother wanted him to go to Tianjin Prefecture instead of returning to Kaifeng Prefecture when he died.

Is it really to bring a message to Wu Haogu?

I'm afraid it's not! Gao Lian is Zhao Ji, the trader of Gao Qiu's selling his country and seeking honor! How embarrassing would he go to Kaifeng Prefecture? What should Zhao Ji do if he kills people or saves his life?
Chapter completed!