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Time has entered December fifteenth. Heavy snow fell from the sky in the east of the river, and the snow was two feet deep, and the world became white.///

When the town ** camp arrived, the horn of the wake-up was blowing on time, and then the coaches of each camp blew the whistle. It was only a quarter of an hour before getting up until the gathering was gathered. When the time came, the drums began to beat Mao.

After the three-way drum sounds, those who have not arrived will be severely punished. After the roster is over, each battalion starts to run early, first carrying a weight for ten kilometers, then return to the battalion for square drills, followed by training for various weapons. Then it is almost time for breakfast and dinner.

The eight towns and three ministries were stationed in front of Tianmen Pass, and the camp was 20 miles long. Although Li Jing's town had only 5,000 people here, there were 19,000 troops, which were directly affiliated with Li Jing. Li Jing did not let these troops go without him, but also had the same strict requirements and would be managed according to the town model.

When the morning is lit, you must strictly abide by it.

As soon as the wake-up call sounded, Li Jing got up immediately. After dressing and washing, he also led a war horse to the schoolyard for inspection. At first, some people from Gao Wenshun's Yunzhou soldiers were unwilling to come out as soon as possible. Li Jing first asked Du Yuhou to announce the military rules to them. The first time was just a verbal report and a written record. When the third time, Li Jing took the people directly to the military rules to the military platform, and personally pulled out his sword and killed the heads of the eleven Yunzhou soldiers. He also reported the heads of the entire battalion. The troops were shocked for a while, and they dared not ignore Li Jing's military rules.

Although the generals of these troops have been granted the title of governor of various states, they are still in the imperial edict to attack the army and are still Li Jing's subordinates.

With Li Jing's town as a role model, Zheng Congxian and Yu Feng also asked for a training rule for the town from Li Jing to imitate. Since then, every morning when the town's head was up, the rest of the army began to sound the whistle together, and then clicked out. Yu Feng and Zheng Congxian and others even brought Li Jing's early content to the full extent, running with loads, military formation drills, and then personal martial arts practice.

When Li Jing arrived at the school site and was just remembering the first drum sound that the snow on the school site had been cleaned up by the soldiers on duty. When the second drum sounded, the soldiers and horses in the town had basically arrived.

Twenty-four thousand soldiers were divided into several parts, five thousand people were separated on the side of the town, and other departments were separated according to the soldiers of each general. On the school ground of the town, there were only 5,000 soldiers, all of them arrived. On the vast snow, all the soldiers of the town had already changed into brand new winter clothes a month ago. Although cotton had already been spread to Hexi and Guanzhong areas in the Western Regions at this time, cotton was still just an ornamental plant in the Central Plains. Although Li Jing had already started planting cotton in Liaodong, it was still in its initial stage and the harvest and use of cotton was still far away.

To avoid the cold, the people were just wearing jackets. Ordinary people who were not rich stuffed some hay into their clothes, and those who were rich made some bird and duck feathers. Even the richest ones were wearing all kinds of fur. Li Jing paid some money for the winter clothes of the soldiers of the town. Everyone had three sets of winter uniforms, each including underwear, shirt, jacket and robe. The warmest thing was that each was given a fur coat and a big cloak, and each was given a leather glove and a leather hat. It can be said that they were armed to the teeth. The same thing, these three sets of equipment were also expensive. However, Li Jing was not stingy. Not only did everyone have it, but each prepared three sets of them.

On such heavy snowy days, everyone in the town also sent a set of blankets sewn with fur. No matter how cold the weather was, the soldiers below were not afraid. Moreover, due to the supply of meat and canned vegetables, although this winter was spent in the wilderness, no one was freezing to death.

However, the other armies did not have such good treatment. The army towns were sending troops outside, so logistics supply transportation was inconvenient. Everyone was counting on Zheng Congxian to provide supplies to everyone. However, although Hedong is rich, there have been mutinies in recent years. You kill me and I will kill you. After finally, Zheng Congxian's leadership is now better. But so many soldiers and horses are stationed here, just a bottomless pit that cannot be filled. Not only do people eat horses, but they also have to pay wages, and they often have to pay rewards.

Zheng Cong-yi's hair is now mostly white. Fortunately, after Li Jing's town arrived, more than 20,000 people had not asked him to supply food and grass, which helped him reduce a lot of burden.

However, until now, many of them have not enough winter clothes to recruit soldiers and horses. In such weather, the soldiers can't even go out of the camp gate.

Li Jing had just returned from walking his horse, but Zhang Hong had already come to him.

Zhang Hong was wearing a marten robe, a bearskin cloak on his outside, a pair of thick tiger-skin boots on his feet, a pair of big leather gloves hanging around his neck, and a bearskin hat on his head. He was bloated and looked like a big bear coming out for food.

As soon as he saw Li Jing, Zhang Hong couldn't help but sigh: "Why is this place in Hedong so cold? Our Dengzhou is not so cold."

Dengzhou is the coastal area, so it is naturally not so cold. But it is close to the outside of the gate. The wind on the gate keeps blowing here, so it will naturally become cold.

"Today, Mr. Zheng came to me, which means that the soldiers and horses in the towns are here now, and the winter clothes are not ready, so I want us to help solve the problem." Zhang Hong frowned.

Li Jing asked the guards to raise the iron coal ball stove. The coal was dug in Hedong, and the iron coal stove was also built directly in Hedong with the captured Hu people. Although the coal balls tasted bad, they were much cheaper and more cost-effective than burning charcoal.

Li Jing rubbed his hands and let out a breath of breath: "Teacher Yu Gong also found me yesterday. I hope we can help his Zhenwu Army solve the problem of winter clothing. In addition, the 19,000 troops under our command are waiting for us to help solve it."

Zhang Hong frowned and jumped, "Why are we still dependent on us? We are not gods, so how could we not become. In addition to our 5,000 troops, there are still 40,000 troops here. Could it be that we still have to count on us?"

"Who in these troops, our town east army has meat every day and they have brand new winter clothes." Li Jing sighed. Since the gathering of the towns, Zheng Congxian seemed to have no intention of attacking. Chang'an came to urge him to attack several times, but Zheng Congxian kept ruling that the money, food and supplies were incomplete, and refused to send troops. Li Jing also talked to Zheng Congxian several times, but Zheng Congxian believed that the current situation was the best way to deal with Li Ke's people was to siege and not attack.

Their sons were sad, and the Shatu people were even sadder. After this winter, the Shatu people had to reduce the number of more than 20%.

Although Li Jing also agrees with this plan, Li Jing is unwilling to spend all the time with them. Li Jing even thought that the rewards he had already been given, and the subsequent battle seemed to be nothing, but in fact, the final battle was the most difficult battle. Should I lead my troops back to Dengzhou directly?

Li Jing had just warmed up his cold hands, and Zheng Cong-sei sent someone to summon Li Jing to the Central Army camp to discuss matters.

When he arrived at the camp, he saw that all the generals of the town were there. As soon as Zheng Cong-si saw Li Jing, he came over with a very kind smile and took his hand to the seat.

"This is the position of Zheng Gong. What kind of virtue is Li Jing, I, how can I live in it? I will never be able to use it."

"You are the only one who can sit in this position now. General Ji Yu must do everyone a favor this time." Zheng Congyi felt helpless in his smile.

Li Jing insisted on refusing: "If you have any words, the coach can just say it."

Seeing Li Jing insisting, Zheng Congxian was fine. When he went back, he sighed and said slowly: "It's not the problem of food and the soldiers' winter clothes. Now the weather is blocked by heavy snow, and the roads are even more blocked. Now the soldiers' winter clothes cannot be solved, and even our food and grass are about to be broken." Zheng Congxian knew that when Li Jing swept through the four prefectures of Weizhou, he collected and hoarded a lot of food. But it was not easy to seize food from Li Jing. Although Li Jing was a deputy envoy, he had no good idea for him as a regular envoy.

Li Jing was a little embarrassed. He had expected that it was difficult to transport grain from Dengzhou to Jinzhong, so he extorted and robbed a batch of grain in Youzhou and hoarded a batch of grain in Daibei. Li Jing was unwilling to ask him to take out the grain. As for winter clothes, it was even more impossible.

When Zheng Congxian saw that Li Jing refused to speak, he frowned and felt embarrassed. Finally, he looked at Yu Van as if he wanted help. Yu Van said, "It is really difficult to fight in front of him. If Ji Yu can help, please help."

After saying that, Yu Jun said again: "Of course, you don't want your food and clothing in vain. You can price the goods and the army can pay directly."

Hearing this, Li Jing's eyes lit up: "Can you pay for it?"

Zheng Congxian smiled awkwardly: "Now everyone has no money, but you can make up for it first. If you have the shortfalls, you can write an IOU first. After we wipe out the rebels in Shuozhou, all the seizures can be converted to you for recharge."

Hearing that this was the way, Li Jing smiled. After thinking for a while, Li Jing finally agreed. In fact, he couldn't refuse to agree, otherwise the soldiers and horses of the seven towns would offend them. "I can agree, I can immediately transfer a batch of food, including canned food, corn, sorghum, etc., which can barely be dealt with. But it takes some time to wear these winter clothes."

Li Jing’s 20,000 towns** each gave three sets. If each person took out two sets to help the emergency first, the winter clothing problem of the 40,000 coalition forces could be barely solved.

"Master, I still say the same thing. If I continue to waste this, we will be the first thing that cannot bear. I thought that after the food and grass arrived, we could conquer Shuozhou in the wind and rain. Otherwise, if we could hold on for a while, I was afraid that we would not be able to hold on for a long time. At least, if the battle could not end before the chun, my town would have to return to Dengzhou. Liaonan sent several urgent reports, saying that the Khitan had defeated the Goguryeo people in Jili Prefecture, and they had already threatened the territory of the town, and we had to go back."

Zheng Congqi was a little dissatisfied when he heard Li Jing's almost threatening words, but in the end he said that he swallowed it back. The generals had been sending troops for half a year, and it was too long to say that Li Jing was leaving, and other towns might also leave. Once they left, the two troops of Hedong and Zhenwu were very good at dealing with the Shatuo people.

"Okay, Li Zhenguo will solve the problem of food and winter clothes first, and then we will join forces to attack and wipe out the Shatuo rebels in one fell swoop!" Zheng Congzi stared at Li Jing and said.

Li Jing knew that he meant that he had to solve the problem of food and winter clothes before he was willing to send troops. Li Jing just smiled at this, "That's it!"

This battle must be fought, and Li Jing didn't want to drag it all the time. What he said about the Khitan and Goguryeo in Liaodong was also true. On the other hand, in the latest letter from his teacher Cui Yunyan, Cui Yunqing mentioned to him that Wang Jingwu had joined forces with the thieves. Wang Jingwu occupied Qizhou, Wang Xianzhi, and Huang Chao occupied Jizhou. They were very powerful. The bandit suppression army in Ziqing led several troops to attack by Kang Chenghui, but they were all ineffective. Now Song Wei is a little unable to sit still. Cui Yunqing has proposed to Song Wei to transfer Li Jing's town to quell the rebellion. Cui Yunqing didn't know that Li Jing had been promoted to the governor of the town, and Dengzhou was also demarcated from Ziqing Town.

No matter what, no matter how hard Li Jing is in Daibei, he can't swallow this land. Instead of doing this, it's better to return to Dengzhou and southern Liaoning as soon as possible while his goal is basically achieved. As for Zheng Cong-qi's request, Li Jing doesn't feel that he is completely at a loss. The accounts owed by each army can be recovered as long as they defeat Li Keyong and his son.

After the meeting, Li Jing immediately asked Zhang Hong to start mobilizing the food and grass they had hoarded to Taiyuan, and gathered the other two sets of winter clothes of the soldiers to distribute them to the soldiers of other towns.

"The longer this battle is dragged down, the less cost-effective it will be for us. Now we suffer some losses for the time being and can recover it when we look back. My goal is to end this battle before we start the chun and return home."

After receiving Li Jing's instructions, Zhang Hong stopped talking about anything else and began to mobilize all his strength to collect the food and clothing.

By the end of December, Zheng Congxian had received the clothes and food transferred from Li Jing, and all the clothes and food problems of the coalition forces had been solved.

On New Year's Eve, the entire army spent a lively New Year in the military camp, and was rewarded with wine and meat.

Early the next morning, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zheng Congxi finally ordered the entire army to take advantage of the New Year's time to set sail and advance towards Shuozhou.

This time, the eight towns were divided into two routes under the suggestion of Li Jing. The first route was led by Zheng Congxuan himself, and the seven towns of Hedong Army, Zhenwu Army, Tiande Army, Xiasui Army, Heyang Army, Zhongwu Army, and Yicheng Army had a total of 40,000 troops and horses from Xinzhou to attack the Lilu Army City on the Shuolan border, and then from Loufan Pass to Shuozhou to attack Xincheng.

On the other side, Li Jing led the 5,000 cavalry of the headquarters, plus the 9,000 cavalry of the three foreign troops, and the 10,000 infantry of the Gao brothers and the Fu brothers also entered Xinzhou, then entered Daizhou, and seized Yanmen Pass.

In addition, Li Jing's other troops headed south from Yunzhou and directly attacked Huanghuagang on the border of Shuoyun and two states.
Chapter completed!