In mid-June, the food and supplies raised from various places have begun to board the royal palace ships one after another.

The soldiers of the new army were almost ready. A few days before departure, they rewarded the three armies and had wine and meat every day. On the evening of June 14th, Li Xingzhou personally went to the New Army camp, and Di Zhi summoned everyone to line up.

Cheng Guo was also reflected in the training. In just three or four minutes, many soldiers were already standing neatly on the school ground.

The school ground was very large and there were too many people. Li Xingzhou spoke loudly at the top of his voice, and it might not necessarily let everyone know that what he wanted to do was mobilize before the war.

"Dear brothers from the new army, have you eaten and drunk in the past two days?"

"Okay!" A loud voice came from the audience.

Li Xingzhou smiled and nodded: "Don't worry, this is not a slaughter. I took you to war, not to die. Otherwise, even if I die in this capital, I will not go north. Who is not afraid of death?"

"Hahaha..." caused a burst of laughter from the audience.

Li Xingzhou didn't care and continued with a smile: "Last time I suppressed the rebellion in the south, I died thousands of brothers. At that time, most of the people who died were from Luzhou, and many of them were from Luzhou. Many of them had never fought a war. They hurriedly wore armor and knives, and after practicing for a few days, they followed me to the battlefield. As soon as they went to the battlefield, they died there..."

He said, everyone below calmed down.

"At that time, I was wondering whether I was committing a crime? How many lives would be gone under my hands. The bodies could be piled up into small hills. There was no military pay yet. But behind enemy lines, it was good that the people of Luzhou could eat, so how could they get so much money...

Later, we finally had to fight Linyang City. We basically established a victory after capturing that city, but the city wall was three or four meters high. Not to mention fighting, if you climb up, you can fall down and kill someone if you accidentally fall.

That night, I took people up to the hill to investigate the enemy situation. There was a child of fifteen or sixteen who looked at the city wall in the distance and told me that if the fight started, he would be the first to climb the city.

I was surprised and asked him if he was not afraid of death?

He told me that he was afraid, but his father told him that people are not afraid of death, but they are afraid of death as boring.

At that time, I realized that yes, no one wants to fight, they all want to live and work in peace and share the peaceful world with their families.

But the world is always like this, and we must be wary of others. There will always be people who covet your things, from small thieves, robbers, and from Liao and Jin Dynasties. If we don’t fight or fight, we will become the fat piece of meat on the chopping board!”

He said loudly, and the many soldiers listened quietly. In the night, the entire New Army camp calmed down: "Later I thought in my heart that if I could not change the cruel reality, at least I would make everyone live meaningful and die meaningful.

This time I head north, the journey is long and the war is dangerous. I cannot guarantee that each of you can come back alive, but at least I will tell you what the meaning of this battle is.

It’s not that the king is dead and the country is dead, but that he clearly says why he wants to attack Yanshan Mansion!

Because there is no Yanshan Prefecture, waiting for the Jin people to recuperate, maybe next year, or the year after, you can go south from Yanshan Prefecture and Qigou Pass, and go straight to the Central Plains.

At that time, millions of households in Jing Kingdom will suffer, including your family and young people. But now there is only one way to prevent all this, that is, to take down Yanshan Prefecture and guard it under Yanshan Prefecture, so as to ensure the safety of the people in the Central Plains.

At such a critical moment of survival, what the court can rely on and what millions of people can rely on is not the invincible Yang family army, nor the Guanbei army with elite battles, nor the tens of thousands of old imperial guards...

Only you! At this moment, you are the last hope of Jingguo. This is the meaning of this expedition. Without the merits and without a single step to reach the sky, the road ahead may be dangerous or smooth, but no matter what, we can only do our best to do our best and strive to have a clear conscience.

Everyone, do you have confidence in this Northern Expedition?”

"Yes!" The soldiers shouted in unison, their faces flushed. At night, the fire flashed brightly, just like the mood of their assassins.

"Okay, then be prepared and follow me to kill Yanshan Mansion!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

“…”

The high morale made the cold wind and night hot...

Seeing the new army's high morale, Li Xingzhou finally felt relieved.

.........

Xinjun was fine, but when he returned home, he had to face another problem. The three little girls, Ah Jiao, Yue'er and Qiu'er, had red eyes. Although they pretended to be fine, they had obviously cried and didn't want him to worry. He Qian also hurriedly came from her father, holding his hand.

Li Xingzhou felt distressed and could only pull a few little girls to comfort her for another night. There was not much time left.

The army has been prepared and will set off on June 17th.

This day was an auspicious day calculated by De Gong personally requesting the official of the Ministry of Rites. Li Xingzhou didn't believe it, but De Gong believed it without delaying anything, so he agreed.

The troops were sent in two groups. The first route of Di Zhi led 5,000 people, including 3,600 musketeers, 800 gunners, 200 cavalrymen, and the remaining 400 were the logistics support army.

Because the large ship has limited space and cannot bring too many cavalry, it is difficult to cross the sea, so there are only 200 light cavalrymen in Dizhi, which are used as scouts. The main force is musketeers and artillery, and they travel through the sea to transport rivers.

He thought that Di Zhi could bring more people, and the big ship could indeed be brought again, but Di Zhi refused, because more people meant that ammunition and gunpowder would be reduced. Di Zhi wanted more firepower, not more people. Li Xingzhou agreed to the decision he made. Five thousand people, sufficient ammunition supplies, outsiders thought that he and Di Zhi were crazy, even He Zhao, De Gong.

Siege battles are the most difficult to fight and are often protracted. Therefore, military books also say that siege is the worst strategy. Generally, only a few times the enemy's troops will choose to siege the city. As a result, Di has only 5,000 people, which is several times the Liao people. In this way, they dare to go deep into the enemy's back to attack the city. It's not crazy.

The most incredible thing is that Di Zhi is still full of confidence, and he doesn't know whether it is arrogance or ignorance...

Along the way, Li Xingzhou led 10,000 people to the north along the west side of Taihang Mountain, and then directly fought against Weizhou, Anding, and fought against Di Zhi on both sides.

Among the 10,000 people he led, three thousand light and heavy cavalry, most of the remaining ones were fired, and there were only sixteen artillery pieces. It was an artillery squad, because almost all the heavy firepower was concentrated on Di Zhi.

Di Zhi was in the east and he was in the west, fighting on both sides. This was Li Xingzhou's original idea. Yan Shen, as the commander of artillery, followed Di Zhi all the way, and Wei Yubai as the commander of the cavalry, followed Li Xingzhou to the west.

There is also Liu Ji, who has been hiding in his house by him. This time, Li Xingzhou also brought him with him. Xiao Hongqi, a Liao businessman who knows Khitan, Jurchen, and Mongolian, was also transferred back from Yan Kun and was ready to take him north.

In two days, the army was about to set off. Before that, he suddenly thought of a big thing.

The next night, he took Ajiao and Qiu'er, and Yue'er went to Shiyu's room to find her. When Shiyu saw him and three little girls, she blushed and called him a hooligan, but didn't drive him out.
Chapter completed!