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Chapter 765 Opportunity

The Ding Navy is an army that is more like the Jin Army than the Jin Army. Its strengths are like the evaluation of the Jurchen by the Song Dynasty general Wu Lin in the early years, calling it cavalry, stoicism, heavy armor, and bow and arrow.

However, in the past two years, the proportion of cavalry in the Ding Navy has actually declined.

Controlling the interior of the Northeast and the grasslands behind the Monan Mountains, the number of horses is extremely large.However, the horses raised in the grassland still need to go through a considerable training process to become qualified war horses.The Ding Navy is not like the Mongols, who naturally have tens of thousands of shepherds on hand, and their progress in this area is not fast.

On the other hand, Ding Hai's financial strain is not fake.Since the end of last year, Ding Haijun has been desperately seeking money through various channels. For example, Monan is selling cattle, sheep and livestock, relying on the consumption power of millions of people in Zhongdu City to eat a large amount of sheep.But the money cannot be turned into armaments, because they quickly turned into cattle, and distributed to the military households and shady households in Shandong and Hebei that are constantly being resettled, it seems to be filling a bottomless pit.

The Monan Grassland has spent too much energy on cattle and sheep, and the war horses still rely on the original output of the Northeast.Compared with the number of soldiers in the Ding Navy, which has expanded more than three times, the horses have not been able to keep up at all.

Furthermore, the food and fodder used by the navy to go south this time depended on half a year's savings.Guo Ning wanted to unify the Kingdom of Jin, and he did not come here to plunder grass and valleys. He must not allow the cavalry to chew and eat grain fields, making the people on Nanjing Road hate him for no reason.As a result, the pressure on logistics is too great to estimate.

Therefore, in addition to the two hundred scout cavalry, if we want to organize manpower for scouting the battlefield situation, we have to draw from other troops.Usually the commander-in-chief would mobilize the cavalry of the headquarters first. If Guo Ning said so casually, all the generals present would draw out [-] cavalry from his command, which showed that his ability to control the generals and the army was extremely strong.

Just when the generals and schools were about to go back to mobilize, there was a rush of horseshoes outside the tent of the Chinese army.

Ni Yi has been in the army for a long time, gradually accumulating experience.He heard the familiar soft ringing of the bell from a long distance away: "My lord, this is a team I sent to the south. The leader is Bai Liunu from Caozhou. I immediately used the urgent Luan bell eight hundred miles away." , when there is something important."

"Let them come!"

Ni took a big step and walked outside the tent of the Chinese army, biting his lips and making a whistle.

All the generals in the tent got up one after another to look around, and in a blink of an eye, they saw the guard soldiers outside the tent scattered one after another, five or six cavalry galloped in under the red flag rustling in the wind at the gate.

They were all dressed in common people's clothes, some looked like farmers, some looked like peddlers. When they ran close, some of the sharp-eyed ones saw the head of the cavalry holding a small red flag aloft on the hand of the cavalryman. black sparrow figures.

The scout cavalry pays attention to hiding and walking through the battlefield, and strives to be very strict. Unless the commander specifically requests it before the battle between the two armies, they will not participate in large-scale battles, let alone run with great fanfare.But the scout in front of him immediately hung up the bell, and deliberately took out the iron dragon bird flag representing Zhou Guogong's personal guard in his hand, that was to ensure that there would be no obstacles along the way, which meant that something big was really going on!

All the generals were surprised, when they saw the scout cavalry get off their horses, they all knelt down in front of Guo Ning: "See Duke."

"It's been a lot of hard work running back and forth for several days in this poisonous sun."

Guo Ning went back to the table and took out a plate of wild fruits: "I just got a few fruits, but they are still sweet and sour. Come, share a share and taste something new."

The scout leader named Bai Liunu took the fruit plate, bowed to thank Guo Ning, and then said: "My lord, I led a sentry to Chen Zhou last night, and I caught two tongues on the way. It is Chen Zhou. Defense envoy Lu Ziyu and Caizhou defense envoy Wanyan Fozhu sent urgent messengers to Kaifeng."

According to Guo Ning's military plan, he personally led the troops to attack Kaifeng, and was responsible for stabilizing the rear and expanding the flanks, deterring the Jin army in Hao, Su, Shou, and Si prefectures.

But if Bai Liunu is not mistaken, Chenzhou and Caizhou, which are located to the west of Haozhou and pass through Tang and Deng, can't stand it anymore.Was it because Monk Luo's partial division used troops fiercely, or was it because Shi Qing, Hao Ding, Xia Quan and the others fought extraordinarily aggressively in order to show their merits in front of the new lord?
Guo Ning thought to himself, and asked easily:
"Chen Zhou and Cai Zhou are in a hurry? Master Hui Feng, Shi Qing, Hao Ding, and Xia Quan are moving so fast?"

"Duke, it's not our people who threatened Chenzhou and Caizhou." Bai Liunu took out the robbed letter from his bosom, and offered it with both hands: "It's the Song Army."

"Song Jun? How could there be Song Jun?"

All the generals in the account were puzzled.Someone laughed and said, "Could it be that they are the salt thieves who took the official title of the Song people? They have two or three hundred people to act at every turn, maybe they are more courageous now."

Before this mobilization of troops, the Kaifeng imperial court sent troops to the south to plunder.In Huainan direction of Song Dynasty, which is close to Kaifeng, Xu Jun, the commander in chief of the soldiers stationed in the Jiankang Mansion, fought with Wanyan Xilie's soldiers earlier, and several other captains of the Kaifeng court were also killed by red coats. The line of the army going south was entangled in the people called the Loyalty Army in the Song Dynasty.

In addition, Wanyan Saibu’s troops in the corners of Hao, Su, Shou, and Si were dealt with by Monk Luo. Wanyan’s Yeke’s troops in Tang, Deng and other prefectures had previously gone deep into the Song Dynasty to threaten Zaoyang, Xiangyang, etc. Man, the two families have already started a real fire.

It was precisely because most of the main force of the Kaifeng court fell into entanglement with the Song people that Guo Ning was given the opportunity to make a surprise attack.

From the point of view of the civil and military personnel of the Dinghai Navy, including Guo Ning, once the Kaifeng Mansion is found to be threatened, the Kaifeng court's southward ministries will rush back to help. within the country.

Did the Song people mentioned by the scout cavalry fall from the sky out of thin air?
On the land border between the Song and Jin Dynasties, smuggling merchants and salt dealers were very rampant. In order to add to each other's obstacles, the two families often gave salt dealers private soldiers some low-level military positions.That's why the soldiers suspected that it was Bai Liunu and other scouts who made a mistake.

But after reading the letter asking for help, Guo Ning frowned.

He handed the letter to Han Xuan, and walked back and forth in the Chinese army twice at his own pace.

"The Song Dynasty's Baomo Pavilion waiting system and the Jinghu system made Zhao Fang follow the emperor's will, and led [-] elite troops to the north, breaking Tang and Deng. The two generals in the front were Ma Qian, a soldier of Jingxi Road. Jurisdiction and Zaoyang Army Jiedu Envoy Meng Zongzheng and Deputy Commander Hu Zaixing. These two are famous generals in the Southern Dynasty, and they have captured Yancheng at this moment, and they are advancing towards Kaifeng!"

There was a commotion among the generals in the tent.

And Guo Ning returned to the table, swept away the extra pen and ink, looked at it carefully, and couldn't help laughing: "Okay, okay, it is indeed the Song State that has been confronted with Dajin for a hundred years, and it is worthy of controlling the Song State. The powerful minister Shi Miyuan! This army came so quickly... I actually underestimated them!"

(End of this chapter)