On that day, Li Xingzhou was preparing to stay in Pingzhou City.

Gu Lichuan gave up his bedroom to him. At the forefront of the war, he had to settle for everything. The conditions were very difficult. Only the Pingzhou governor could live alone in a room, and it was not much better. Two low walls were piled up with blue bricks against the wall, with wooden boards on it, and three feet above the ground would be considered a bed.

The north is not as good as the south. If the conditions in the south are difficult, you can sleep with a few boards on the ground. However, you can't stand the cold air on these places, especially in autumn and winter.

After entering the city, Gu Lichuan asked nervously if he could keep everything simple and consider safety.

Li Xingzhou understood why he was nervous. He was the crown prince and the emperor of Jingguo in the future. But this was just superficial. The deeper level was that he was afraid that he would be a fool who pretended to understand and wanted to be face-saving. He would pay attention to the difficult border.

"Then let's keep everything simple. General Gu, please arrange it. Do what you want. You have more experience in border affairs, so don't worry about me." Li Xingzhou said casually. This is why he trusted Wei Chaoren. Pingzhou was the most dangerous and most complicated area in the war between Jin and Jingguo. Since Wei Chaoren sent Gu Lichuan, he must have thought about it and affirmed Gu Lichuan's ability.

"Thank you, your subordinates!" Gu Lichuan's obscure face was gone, and he quickly knelt down to thank him, "Then I will go down and arrange everything first, and send someone to guide you."

Li Xingzhou nodded, Gu Lichuan retreated, and soon changed to a literati with a panic-looking face and aged about forty to come to receive them.

"What kind of person is Gu Lichuan?" Li Xingzhou asked Wei Chaoren beside him in a low voice on the way.

Wei Chaoren replied: "Your Highness, he is from Bazhou, his parents are both herdsmen, and there are many brothers in his family and cannot support him. Later, he joined the army and became a scout in the army. He was promoted step by step. He is very flexible and experienced. The most important thing is to know how to solve problems."

"Oh, how do you say this?" Li Xingzhou asked curiously.

"Seven or eight years ago, he was still a capitalist. At that time, our country's border was still in the Bazhou area. He had confronted Liao Kingdom for decades and often had friction. Yigu Lichuan took more than 100 people out for patrol. As a result, he was too in-depth and had bad luck. He ran into the Liao people on patrol. After losing more than a dozen people, he was trapped on a hill to defend.

There were 200 or 300 people in the Liao people, and they were almost as strong as one battalion of troops. They trapped them on a hill and defended them to death. The news was too late. They were hungry for seven or eight days, and they were all skinny. Fortunately, it took a few rains in the evening to hold on. The Liao people did not dare to attack, but they seemed to have made up their minds to waste them to death.

In the end, they felt that they had to fight to break through. As a result, before breaking through, Gu Lichuan ordered the killing of the only five remaining war horses, so that everyone could have a full meal. The order at that time caused an uproar.

First, there are few horses in our country. Killing war horses is a violation of military law. At the least, it is a fetter, and at the worst, it is a loss of heads. Second, a few horses have grass on the mountain and have the strength to fight with the Liao people. The cavalry is the most powerful." When Wei Chaoren said this, they stopped and arrived at Pingzhou Prefecture. The middle-aged scholar introduced them to the various parts of the government office in fear and fear, and it was obvious that he was a person who had never seen the world.

Li Xingzhou nodded slightly, then gestured to Wei Chaoren and continued.

"Some 100 people who went out later came back alive, some died at the hands of the Liao people, and some were lost.

I asked him if he knew that he had violated military law and why he wanted to kill war horses, haha..." Wei Chaoren paused for a moment and showed a smile of praise: "He told me that keeping a horse is just for thoughts. Everyone wants those horses to escape. In this way, people are unhappy and no one wants to fight the Khitans. Killing the horse will stop thinking. Everyone fights with him and can fill his stomach, so they don't have to fight with the Liao people weakly."

Li Xingzhou nodded, and a feeling of praise arose. Indeed, there were five horses there and several powerful enemies waiting at the foot of the mountain, and people's hearts could not be united.

Only when hope is cut off will the soldiers in despair fight with the Liao people. Otherwise, once the fight starts, the cavalry may run away timidly and others will have no fighting spirit.

"It's true that he is a problem-solving person."

"So at that time, the magistrate of Bazhou felt that there was a reason for the incident, but the death penalty could not be avoided. He suggested that he be tattooed and sent to the state. I saved him, and punished him to remove his head, stayed by his side as a personal soldier, and trained him at all times."

Li Xingzhou agreed, "The border is not elsewhere. It is an extraordinary place. If it is an extraordinary person, it is necessary to use such a person."

Seven or eight years have passed, and Gulichuan is now the governor of Pingzhou and the envoy of Pingzhou's regiment, and is fully responsible for the military and political affairs of Pingzhou. In this confrontation with the Jin Kingdom, one or two hours later, it is Shanhaiguan, the first pass in the world. The most important strategic location for the Jin Kingdom to confront the Jin Kingdom.

It can be seen that Wei Chaoren trusts him very much.

The document might be too nervous, talking in a mess, stuttering, and there is no order. Li Xingzhou simply waved his hand and told him to go back to Gulichuan's house without introducing it.

When he returned to the house, someone brought clean water, no tea, and used a large porcelain bowl, not a cup. He and Wei Chaoren had long been dry and dry. Besides, he was not a person, and Wei Chaoren had been fighting in border wars all year round. He drank a lot of gulp.

Afterwards, while resting, Wei Chaoren told him why he couldn't leave today.

The most elite in the army are usually scouts. Scouts must not only be good at riding skills, but also have good brains and rich experience, and will hide themselves.

Therefore, unlike their army stationed in the capital, the border has been tense and confrontational areas for a long time, scouts are always released at any time. The most elite soldiers are often stationed outside, in some important roads or outdoor camps where the other party can observe the enemy's movements at all times, and return to the city immediately if there is any situation.

So this is why Gu Lichuan said that it would take at least one day to recall elite troops.

Li Xingzhou had fought many wars, but he heard them with relish. He heard these things for the first time.

Then someone sent some steamed buns that tasted very hard. Nowadays, people call cooked cakes, including water and two bundles of dried meat, dried pork and mutton, which are hard and salty. Soak them in water before eating, otherwise they will hurt their teeth.

The hot dishes are a large bowl of stewed vegetables, and three or four kinds of vegetables are stewed together. The best one is a large bowl of hot and bumpy stewed rabbit meat. The servant who delivered the food explained that it was the scout who went out to catch them in the morning, and they were lucky.

This table is already the best thing that can be collected from the border, and I am not qualified to be picky.

Military rations are important to have enough amounts, so they will naturally not be used well. Even if there is fine grain, they will be used to exchange for more coarse grains. Therefore, the steamed buns taste very rough and are not difficult to swallow with clean water.

The two of them were hungry for a long time and they were eating voraciously.
Chapter completed!