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On the last night before the war, Li Jing had dinner with his family. Li's mother lived in the upper corner, and Li Jing's family sat down below, with ten wives and eighteen children, two sisters-in-laws who were recognized as adopted daughter by Li's mother as her adopted daughter, and five sisters who had married women and became mothers.

My sister and brother-in-law, sister and brother-in-law, nephew and nieces are such a prosperous family, with a total of forty or fifty people.

Although this is not the first time Li Jing has gone to war, the meal is still a bit heavy, and Li's mother has been saying many words of delay.

It was not until the lights were held that she returned to the main room. As a result, wives, big and small, came with their children. Among the ten wives, except for Zhang Huier, Xiao Yulou and Megan, and Julie, four of them had not given birth to a child, and the others had already given birth to several. For example, Wang Wanjun's big belly was already the third child, and the sister of Pei's sisters had already given birth to a third child, and two of them had twins, and one of them had five, three sons and two daughters, which made Wang Wanjun a little jealous. Her first two babies were sons, and this fetus was said to be a son again according to an experienced mother. Wang Guiniang was also envious. She was the main child, but she was difficult to get pregnant. She has only given birth to one daughter and has not been moved yet.

Such a large group of children, and they are only three or four years old, Li Jing, who is rarely at home, sometimes can't tell the difference between their rankings. However, although the children are young, each boy has a grade of at least seventh grade on his back. The eldest son produced by Wang Wanjun has even owned a fifth grade official position.

A group of wives were reluctant to let go, and they couldn't bear to let Li Jing leave home to go to war.

On the contrary, Meghan and Julie were very happy. During this period, Li Jing was recalled from the military camp. They stayed at home every day with Li's mother and others, making them unable to sit still. Now the navy was expanded into the fourth army. Both of them have become the leader of the army. They thought about training the fleet all day long, but they would not be willing to greet the husband every day and chat about family matters with the elderly and children. This time Li Jing went on the expedition, and they were still regretting that the Liaohai and the Yellow River were frozen in winter and could not send troops with Li Jing.

On the last night before the war, a group of wives all wanted to accompany Li Jing, but there were too many monks and too little porridge. In the end, Li Jing asked Gui Niang to stay. This made Wang Wanjun a little unhappy and didn't look at her big belly.

However, it was not very intimate that night. The couple just had a good time and chatted with some homely thoughtful conversations. Gui Niang asked Li Jing to rest early.

Before I could sleep for a long time, I was awakened by the pearl bell in the room. It was clear that it was already bright.

After a while, Wan'er had already walked to the door and knocked on the door gently.

The woman who came from the New Lotus Sea and was finally sent to Li Jing as a slave by her parents because of famine, in a blink of an eye it became a mother of a son and a daughter. However, although she was second in the backyard and was the second wife, in fact, this girl was only filial to Li’s mother and respected Gui Niang. She avoided the open and secret struggles between the various rooms in the back house, especially the battle between Wang Wanjun and Xiao Yulou now, and did not get involved in any side.

Early in the morning, she had already washed up and made her two children neatly, and brought them over to pay tribute to Li Jing.

"Please pay tribute to my father."

The eldest son is three years old and the younger daughter is only two years old. As soon as he entered the door, he looked at Li Jing's eyes and looked at him with a sense of strangeness. He walked up to pay his respects according to Wan'er's instructions.

Both children are very cute. Although their mothers are from Silla, they can't see any shadow of Silla. They are made of pink and jade carved. The two children, the boy is ranked fourth in the home, and the girl is ranked seventh in the home, and the boy is ranked seventh in the home, and the boy is ranked next to the king, while the woman is ranked first in the grass.

At this time, Wang Guiniang had already brought her daughter from the wet nurse. The little guy was still sleepy, but he was still very happy to see his brother and sister coming, and even Li Jing, the father, couldn't remember it.

Wang Guiniang caught him and asked him to invite Li Jing seriously to let him go. Li Jing looked at the third-ranked daughter Li Ying and could only shake her head and smile. However, Wang Guiniang looked at her daughter with a trace of loss. Li Jing understood that she was like this because she was unable to give birth to a few more children, and even failed to give birth to a legitimate son for Li Jing. With Li Jing's current status, she did not have a legitimate son, which caused a stream of undercurrent in the backyard. It was precisely because Wang Wanjun had no legitimate son in the family that she gave birth to three sons and the eldest son for Li Jing, which was so aggressive in the backyard.

Wan'er came in, turned around and went to the side to get her clothes and armor, and then brought clean water, toothbrush, toothbrush, and soap.

When Li Jing was dressed neatly, Wan'er used a comb to comb Li Jing's hair, combed it cleanly, tied it up with a bun, tied it with a headband, then brought a net cover, and finally put on the golden helmet, and then put a piece of Qinglong-style full-body armor for Li Jing.

Wang Wanjun and several wives have also brought their children to pay their respects. Megan and Julie have also been wearing a vermilion bird-style fiery red armor, and they are standing by waiting for Li Jing with their helmets. Wang Wanjun looks at the two Hu wives who are incompatible with the ladies of the back house with their stomachs. They always feel a little contemptuous. If a woman is lucky to marry a good man like her husband, she should be at home to take care of her husband and children, serve her mother-in-law, continue the incense for her husband's family and spread her branches and leaves. But like them, they are not staying at home, but they have to go out to lead troops to fight. They have been married to the Li family for so long, but they have not even made any movement in their stomachs.

The Hu woman is the Hu woman, Wang Wanjun thought to herself. However, her eyes couldn't help but look at the two of them in their heroic armor several times, and a hint of praise flashed in her heart from time to time, and she was so cool and heroic.

In a blink of an eye, she looked at Wan'er's hands flying like a spirit bird. She had already dressed the complicated armor so neatly by herself. This skill was really beautiful. When she looked at Wan'er seriously, Wang Wanjun was already wary of this second wife who was usually down and never got involved in the chaos in the back house. It turned out that this Silla maid was not that simple.

Li Jing said goodbye to a group of children one by one, and then told some things to his wives and concubines, and then said goodbye to his family.

Before leaving the door, when I turned around and waved goodbye to everyone, my eyes inadvertently looked upstairs in the west courtyard. Behind a window, a beautiful figure leaned against the side.

The two eyes collided, and Li Jing saw Yu Youniang wearing neatly, and stared at him silently. For a moment, he felt a little guilty and left with his head down.

Hebei, Yichang Army, Cangzhou.

The Yichang Army was the Henghai Army in the early stage, later it was Cangjing Town, and finally it was called Yichang Army.

In the 13th year of Kaiyuan, Cangzhou established the Henghai Army envoy. He was one of the nine armies under the jurisdiction of An Lushan, the governor of Fanyang. He had 6,000 troops, and was under the jurisdiction of Cang, De and Di. The jurisdiction had changed many times, but for a long time, he was led by Cang, Jing, De and Di, which was approximately south of the Machang River in Hebei, east of the canal, east of the Pujin route in Shandong, north of the Yellow River, and northern Boxing County.

After the Anshi Rebellion, because it was located between the three towns in Hebei, it was the target of competition among the three towns. At the same time, due to the constant melee between the three towns, the Cang, De and Di states were undecided. They belonged to Chengde, Wei Bo, and Ziqing towns one after another.

Before Li Jing rose to control Ziqing Town, the Lulong Army in Youzhou, Cangjing Yichang Army, and Ziqingping Lu Army all established naval troops. Among them, the Ziqing Town Naval Army was the strongest. Li Jing also started his business with the navy.

To this day, Li Jing's navy has a powerful four army of 20,000 troops and hundreds of warships of all sizes. The navy in Youzhou Town was completely defeated and captured by Li Jing. Although the Yichang Army still had a water camp system, the Liaohai was completely controlled by Li Jing, and his navy was also killed in name only because of insufficient military expenditure.

As one of the vassal states in Hebei, compared with the three towns of Heshuo, Yichang Town is too weak. For more than a hundred years, it has been plundered and occupied by the towns in turn. Although it can still maintain a vassal state system, its strength is one of the weakest vassal states in the world. Its total strength is only 6,000 people, including the navy army with only 1,000 people left, with 5,000 troops on land, and a huge vassal state that does not even have a cavalry unit.

Speaking of which, the Yichang Army has three prefectures, Cang, De and Di, and is surrounded by the North China Plain with a flat river, and is close to the Yellow River and the North Canal. It has the advantage of farmland and sea salt transportation, convenient boats and vehicles, convenient transportation, and is located in a key junction with water and land.

But in fact, the Yichang Army was not only weak, but also poor. Cangzhou was the most likely place to cause disaster victims.

Because its territory is close to the sea in the east and the Yellow River in the south, the four towns bordering it are the four extremely powerful vassal states of the Tang Dynasty, Lu Long, Chengde, Wei Bo and Ziqing. Being surrounded by powerful enemies, the Yichang army will never be able to become a climate.

The three-strong towns in Hebei, plus the current Yicheng Army and Siqu Town, Lulong Town originally occupied Yanshan Mountain in the north, leaned on Taihang Mountain in the west, and relied on Shanhaiguan, Lulongshe, and the army all closed these passes, which were extremely stable and occupied the highest situation in Hebei.

The Yiwu Army was separated from the Chengde Army and controlled the Feihu and Boyin, the important road connecting the Datong Basin, still has a very dangerous position.

Although the territory of the Chengde Army became smaller and smaller after several rebellions, the towns, Zhao, Shen and Yidi, they controlled were the most important places in Hebei, connecting north and south, and according to Jingxing, they could directly lead to Taiyuan in Hedong, and even pass through Puyang and enter Guanzhong through Hedong.

Weibo Town guards the gateway of Hebei, with the Yellow River in front and the Zhang River in the back. It guards the gateway of Hebei south, and has Taihang Xing Road that can communicate with the land of Shangdang Zelu.

It can be said that the three towns in Hebei were able to be in power for more than a hundred years, and each town occupied an extremely dangerous terrain, united with each other, completely blocking the imperial troops in Hedong and Henan. Now that Huang Chao entered Henan, the three towns in Hebei immediately began to attack from all directions.

The Yichang Army, which was located in Hebei and the weakest, immediately became the target of Chengde Army.

Li Jing wanted to go south from Hebei. If he only went south through Hebei, instead of attacking Hebei, then by means of Cang, Di and De, it is naturally the best route. However, now that the Chengde army has entered the Yichang army, Li Jing faces the primary issue of competing with the Chengde army for Yichang first.

For this reason, Li Jing transferred 80,000 troops south this time and dispatched the cavalry troops that were most conducive to fighting on the North China Plain.

There are 16 armies of 80,000 troops, of which there are twelve armies of cavalry.

Among the four old elite cavalry units of the Golden Armor Shengjie Army, the Silver Armor Shengjie Army, the Black Flag Army, and the Control He Army, the Silver Armor Shengjie Army was stationed in Dengzhou and the Control He Army was stationed in Liaoyang. The remaining two ace cavalry units of the Golden Armor Shengjie Army and the Black Flag Army were all heading south this time.

In addition, Li Jing mobilized all the eight newly formed cavalry units this time to move south.

The Wu Cavalry Army, the Tun Cavalry Army, the Knight Cavalry Army, the Rangers, the Flying Cavalry Army, the Brigade Cavalry Army, the Yun Cavalry Army, the Feather Cavalry Army, and the 40,000 cavalrymen of the Eighth Army all went south.

The sixteenth army went south and the cavalry occupied the tenth army.

Since Li Jing invaded Liaodong, Li Jing has a large number of horses and pastures. With sufficient war horses and sufficient cavalry candidates, Li Jing began to form a large-scale cavalry unit. From the original 75,000 combat troops to the current 180,000 combat troops, of which the navy has expanded four times, three times, and eight armies have expanded three times, and the infantry has expanded ten armies this time, but in fact it has only doubled.

The Central Plains battlefield, especially the Hebei and Henan battlefields. The huge plains are most suitable for large-scale cavalry combat. Therefore, in terms of all military and armor allocation and officer training, Li Jing has made every effort to lean towards the cavalry. Even recruiting new troops, those who seem to be able to fight, cavalry and shoot, are first selected by the cavalry. Others such as going to the martial arts lecture hall to train and train, and the graduation assignment of students from various military academies are also first satisfied with the cavalry.

It can be said that the cavalry unit is a treasure. Not only is the military rank of an officer generally one or two ranks higher than other ranks of troops. Even the newly recruited recruits were at least awarded the rank of the top rank of the corps.

From less than 80,000 combat troops to 180,000 combat troops, and even as many as 60,000 cavalry troops, even though Li Jing's territory continues to expand, the news of industry, commerce and trade is rising, and maintaining this cavalry unit made Li Jing grit his teeth and persevere.

For the cavalry of the 12th Army, each cavalry must be equipped with two war horses, and in addition, a baggage battalion consisting of tens of thousands of camels, mules, donkeys and slow horses.

Among the cavalry of the 12th Army, the main ones are light cavalry, among which the newly built Eighth Army are all light cavalry. However, the remaining four armies are not all light cavalry, such as the Black Flag soldiers. Although they only fought a few battles, the system has been expanding in recent years. To this day, the Black Flag Army has 5,000 cavalry, of which two heavy cavalry are 2,000 cavalry. This is a real armored cavalry. Each soldier is equipped with the latest full-body plate armor, and even the war horses are equipped with the latest full-body vests. The people and horses are all covered by plate armor and armed to the teeth. The equipment is also equipped with horse lances, long spears, two long weapons, and four auxiliary weapons, such as short spears, sabers, round shields, and hand crossbows. Their full-body armor is heavier than the plate armor of infantry, but it is lighter than the original equipment, and its protective power has not decreased.

These heavy cavalry not only retained the ability to charge heavily, but also had the ability to fight melee. They also equipped them with sharper weapons, each soldier equipped with ten thunders.

The thunder of the sky is a melon-style grenade, one per pound, and it explodes in a time-delayed five seconds after ignition, with a lethality range of one and a half meters, and it will break the attack.

The infantry were equipped with another type of thunder fire, which was two pounds per thunder fire. The thunder fire was a wooden grenade, which also had a five-second delay explosion. It could be thrown ten feet away with the handle, and the killing range was three feet.

Although the effects of the thunder and thunder fire in Li Jing's opinion are far inferior to those of later grenades, in this era, it has been the result of years of research by the Ordnance Department. Throwing a grenade under his feet can also blow people to death.

The cavalry of the eight newly built armies can be regarded as archers and cavalrymen, all equipped with bows and crossbows. The combat requirements of archers are cavalry shooting, flanking breakthroughs, encirclements, pursuits, etc., and they do not require them to engage in direct combat against melee combat.

The main thing is to shoot down the horse, but it can also perform horse riding and shooting, but the hit rate of riding and shooting is much worse. However, if the number is sufficient, it is still a very sharp force.

Li Jing was very satisfied with this. A cavalry unit not only needs good war horses, but also good cavalry. Most of these cavalry are Han people from Liaodong, Hebei and other places, and there are also a large number of Hufan soldiers. If not, several cavalry units would never be able to pull them out to the south now.

Although there are a large number of foreign soldiers in the cavalry, Li Jing is not very satisfied, but at this stage, it is not possible to have these foreign soldiers. Li Jing can only sort it step by step, and after his Han cavalry is trained, they will replace these foreign soldiers.

Overall, Li Jing was very satisfied with his new Eighth Army cavalry.

Regarding the military leaders of the Eighth Army, Li Jing finally sent all his disciples. He had eleven disciples, Li Rang became the Minister of Revenue, and there were ten left. This time Li Jing promoted them all to military leaders and unified the cavalry.

Among them, Liu Xun was appointed as the commander of the Jinjia Shengjie Army, and Li Cunxiao was appointed as the commander of the Black Flag Army.

Wang Yanzhang served as the commander of the Yu Cavalry, Gao Si succeeded as the commander of the Yun Cavalry, Fu Cun served as the commander of the brigade cavalry, Yang Shihou served as the commander of the Flying Cavalry, Wang Tan served as the commander of the Evergreen Cavalry, Li Si'an served as the commander of the QQ, Gao Jichang served as the commander of the tun Cavalry, and Dong Zhang served as the commander of the Wu Cavalry.

The cavalry of the ten armies went south were all led by Li Jing's disciples.

The remaining six armies are infantry, Tiger Ben, Dragon Xiang, Eagle Yang, Leopard Cavalry, Flying Bear, and Tianlang. After the latest mobilization, Zhang Chengzong was also appointed as the leader of the Tiger Ben Army, Liu Shouqian was appointed as the leader of the Long Xiang Army, Li Wei was appointed as the leader of the Yingyang Army, Qiu Shengong was appointed as the leader of the Leopard Cavalry, Xuan Cheng was appointed as the leader of the Feixiong Army, and Zhou Dewei was appointed as the leader of the Tianlang Army.

The sixteen main forces heading south, all of whom were Li Jing's confidants, were Li Jing's confidants. Through these old subordinates, Li Jing completely controlled the troops of the various troops who went to the expedition this time. Most of the army leaders in the army were promoted by Li Jing and became higher positions such as the General Staff, the Governor's Office of the Five Army, the Governor's Office of the Five Provinces, and other higher positions.

He handed over the military power to the most trusted young and powerful faction, and Li Jing formed a camp of attack, transferred Jingxiang, Gaiyu, Guo Cheng'an, Li Zhen, Zhao Yuanyu, Zeng Yuanyu, Zhou Shunli, Wang Pu and other generals and advisers to the camp, and took on important positions in the camp, and followed the army south.

On February 6, Li Jing presented military talismans to the generals, and after celebrating flags and worshiping the sky, 80,000 troops officially sent troops south.
Chapter completed!