Smelting and Exploding the Heavens

Chapter 231 The Generals Gather
Fan Zhuoyuan led the troops of the Xiaojie Army directly northward, along the Baihe River, out of Longmen Mountain, and after crossing the Great Wall, entered the grassland. The Yangcheng not far ahead was where the Helubu Horse Farm was located. This is the Guyuan of later generations, a famous scenic spot.

There is a large lake in the area, which is called Swan Lake by the herdsmen. The scenery is excellent and it is suitable for herding horses and sheep.

He Lubu had been waiting outside Yangcheng early on, with his helmet on and armor on, his figure tall and straight, his expression excited.

After Fan Zhuoyuan arrived, he hugged him fiercely.

"General, I've been waiting for you for two full years! Is it finally time to do something big!"

Fan Zhuoyuan said boldly: "That's right, we are going to do a great event with a long history!"

He Lubu nodded vigorously, and after meeting his former colleagues one by one, he led everyone to his horse farm.

Along the way, he introduced his development in the past two years.

For the past two years, he has apparently been mainly herding cattle and sheep for the nobles of the Song Dynasty. At the same time, he has grazed a large number of horses along Swan Lake, of which more than [-] can be used for battle.

Everyone was beside the Swan Lake, and saw a group of prairie herdsmen herding horses for He Lubu.

He Lubu pointed to them and said: "Most of the herdsmen here are gathered here after losing the struggle with various tribes on the grassland. There are Zub people, Shiwei people, and we Khitan and Han people.

They were not from the same tribe, my family and I took them in, so they became our people too. "

Fan Zhuoyuan said: "This is equivalent to establishing a new grassland tribe."

"No! This is all preparation for the great cause of the general! They all survived the cruelest fighting, and all of them are qualified fighters.

I often train them with the method of the Xiaojie army training, and when organized, they are an elite cavalry!
They, including my family, total 670 people and more than 1 horses, all of whom are willing to serve the general! "

He Lubu blew the horn, which is the horn used in the Xiaojie army, and the herdsmen immediately gathered with swords and bows, and quickly formed a basic cavalry charge formation.

Including He Lubu's people who rushed over from nearby, there are indeed more than [-] people.

Fan Zhuoyuan patted He Lubu on the shoulder heavily. Among the gathered herdsmen, there were also many cavalrymen from the Xiaojie army. Seeing Fan Zhuoyuan, they all shouted in surprise.

For a while, those three thousand herdsmen who didn't know Fan Zhuoyuan were talking about it. Naturally, they had all heard of Fan Zhuoyuan's name.

Fan Zhuoyuan said to He Lubu: "Such a team can dominate the grassland."

He Lubu smiled, "If it's only used for grassland hegemony, what's the point! We're waiting for the general to lead us to attack the Jinren!"

Fan Zhuoyuan said: "Very good! I came here to obtain military horses, and then go on an expedition of thousands of miles straight to Liaodong, and invade the Huining Mansion in Shangjing!"

All the generals were shocked, they never expected Fan Zhuoyuan to have such a plan.

Yun Long frowned and said, "But Yandi doesn't care about it?"

Fan Zhuoyuan nodded, "I don't care! I don't care! The main force of the Jin army is here, so the rear must be empty.

They once captured hundreds of thousands of people from the four prefectures of Yunshuo and enslaved many Khitan and Xi people.

As long as an armed force breaks in and lets them see the hope of resistance, more people can be incited to riot!

And the slave riot can conceal our whereabouts, and can continue to harass the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom like a snowball, if it can annihilate one or two remaining Jin troops.

Only in this way can the main force of the Jin army be attracted back from Yanjing, so that they can fight the time difference and finally return to Yandi and regain Yanyun! "

Such a bold and adventurous strategy stunned everyone present.

When discussing the next move after obtaining He Lubu's military horse, everyone's thinking direction was concentrated on Yanyun, Central Plains and other places.

There are various opinions, but as long as the main force of the 15 gold army gathers in Yanyun, and [-] elites lock up Taiyuan City, all of them feel as if a stone is weighing heavily on their hearts.

After all, even if a small army of thousands of soldiers can fight, how can they defeat a 10,000+ gold army?

Besides, they are doomed not to get the support of Song Ting, and they have to rely on themselves for everything. If the savings of the Yingui Sect and the Demon Sect are used up in terms of logistics, it may be difficult to continue.

But at the moment, Fan Zhuoyuan cast his strategic vision directly to Shangjing, the Kingdom of Jin, two thousand miles away, and all the fog of war seemed to be lifted!

Since the Jurchens raised their troops, their total population has never been dominant, and the current population is naturally unlikely to be large.

With an army of 20 going out, the interior must be empty.

And Liaodong is vast and boundless, which is suitable for riding horses. As long as you act properly, although it is a military adventure, the chances of winning the bet are great!

Fan Zhuoyuan said: "He Lubu! Wu Yu! Chang Fu! Gu Huaizhen! Zhang Jin! Fu Yan! Soldiers are precious and fast. We are entering the west of Liaoning from the northeast direction of the grassland!"

Fan Zhuoyuan marched over the past few days and turned over the military map brought from the original world, so he decided on such a strategy.

He called everyone, squatted on the ground and simply drew a rough topographic map of Yanshan Mountain, grassland, western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning on the mud.

Pointing to a canyon among the mountains in the northeast, he said: "There is a river here, called Huangshui, which is the earliest birthplace of your Khitan people. It is called one of the six rivers in China in Lu's Spring and Autumn and Huainanzi.

From here, crossing the Daxing'an Mountains, you can enter the Huntong River, and go straight to the heart of Liaodong, which is where the Shangjing of the Kingdom of Jin is located!Although the journey is more than [-] miles, it is flat and flat, and you can quickly enter Liaodong with pure cavalry maneuvers!

As long as they pass through the Daxing'an Mountains, they will be Xianping Prefecture, Xinzhou, and Longzhou. They are all densely populated places. They will not worry about not being able to grab supplies, and they can also disrupt the Jin Kingdom's position and incite a large number of slaves to help. "

Huangshui is the Xilamulun River of the later generations, the Huntong River is the Songhua River, and Huining Mansion, the capital of the Kingdom of Jin, is near the HLJ Harbin of the later generations.

Everyone was surprised to see Fan Zhuoyuan marked all the key points on the map.

Feiyue asked in surprise, "General Fan, are you familiar with the landforms of western and eastern Liaoning?"

Fan Zhuoyuan thought in his heart: "The military maps that have been accurately surveyed and drawn by future generations will not lie to me."

He Lubu looked at the map and said: "General, go to the northeast of the grassland, these locations are the pastoral areas of the various tribes of Zub, and it is inevitable to fight with the Zub tribes when passing through there.

Why don't we go directly across Yanshan Mountain and take Chifeng into Liaodi? Although the road through the mountains is dangerous, unnecessary battles can be avoided. "

Fan Zhuoyuan shook his head and said, "I know what you mean, I've thought about this route, it's feasible to go directly through Yanshan Mountain to Chifeng and then eastward.

However, there are many Jin people's settlements on the way, so entering this way may arouse the Jin army's vigilance and return to help.

So I decided to go around hundreds of miles and walk through Huangshui Canyon. If there are people blocking the road, hehe, this is even better!The source of soldiers given away for nothing, why not?
With these [-] elites and more than [-] war horses, and you have enough armor and equipment, are you still afraid of some primitive nomadic tribes?

Once you meet the grassland tribes, it's an opportunity to supply supplies on the spot, so you can easily recruit them in, and after entering the Huining Mansion, you are about to use them to plunder everywhere!

This battle is an expedition, we have no retreat, no supplies, no sources of troops, so what we are fighting is a reckless and lawless one! "

"Although the general's strategy is risky, the feasibility is quite high, but it is very important. We are not rogues, and some tough battles may have to be fought. With 6000 troops, can we do it?

What's more, it's the end of summer now, and it's already autumn after the journey of three thousand miles to reach Liaodong. Even so, the climate in Liaodong may be very cold. Once snow starts, it will be extremely unfavorable to us. "

The speaker's voice is quite magnetic, unhurried, and appears quite stable.

Fan Zhuoyuan turned his head to look. The man was wearing a Hu suit and took off his hat to salute. It was a typical Khitan nobleman's attire.

He Lubu hurriedly got up and introduced: "General, this nobleman is from our Liao Kingdom... No, he was the Taibao who was the guardian of the Daliao Emperor in the past. He once served as the Zhongshuling. His Chinese name is Xiao Zhonggong."

Fan Zhuoyuan was not familiar with this person, Xiao Zhonggong bowed and introduced himself: "I fled to Xixia with Emperor Tianzuo, and was betrayed by Xixia, Your Majesty died, and I was captured by Wanyan Loushi.

Originally, he had been an official in the Kingdom of Jin, and later followed Yan Zonghan to attack Yandi and served as a counselor.After Yan Zonghan was defeated, he left the Jin army and came to the grassland. Why did the generals save him so that he could settle down here.

I got to see General Fan today, and I sincerely admire him. I am willing to go to Beijing with General Fan to save my people! "

In history, this person has been an official to the prime minister of the Jin Kingdom, and even became a king, and his abilities and wrists are all top-notch.

In the official history, before the shame of Jingkang, Song Ting once intended to instigate this person to rebel in the Jin Kingdom, but unfortunately, the Liao people looked down on Song Ting even more, and even hated Song Ting for abandoning the Tanyuan alliance and stabbing the Liao Kingdom.

Therefore, not only was he not incited to rebel, but he also informed the Kingdom of Jin about this, and the Kingdom of Jin launched a full-scale attack on the Song Dynasty in the south, thus creating the shame of Jingkang.

Fan Zhuoyuan said: "Sir, since you have served in Jin Kingdom, why do you want to flee again?"

"Jin and I have the hatred of destroying the country, and we don't want to serve Jin unless we have no choice."

"Nanjing was also captured by Fan at the beginning, so I have a hatred for destroying the country with my husband, sir, don't you hate it?"

Xiao Zhonggong said: "The general is originally from Yan, and he used to be a citizen of our Liao land. If the general is still a general of the Song court, I would rather live in seclusion than come out to see him.

However, the general was expelled by the Song court, and this time he led the heroes of Yan to fight for the people of Yan, not for the Song Dynasty. Since they were all old friends of the Liao Kingdom, Xiao is willing to contribute! "

Fan Zhuoyuan nodded and said: "Okay! This general really lacks a counselor who is good at governing and making suggestions. Since Mr. is willing to accompany you, Fan is very honored!"

Xiao Zhonggong bowed down again and again, which means that he is willing to formally serve Fan Zhuoyuan, the fledgling army.

Fan Zhuoyuan pointed to the map and said: "Mr. Cai has doubts about the combat power of my [-] soldiers and horses. To be honest, if we let these [-] soldiers and horses fight with the same number as the main force of the Jin army, I will not have much confidence.

However, during this [-]-mile expedition, I am confident that I will gradually forge them on the road and become a powerful army no less than when they annihilated Wanyan Loushi's troops head-on!

As for the climate issue, I have also thought about it, so after arriving in Liaodong, I need to complete the strategic goal within one month, lure and annihilate the main force of the Jin army staying behind, destroy the local countryside, and let the Jin army stationed in Yandi return to help. Time difference to attack Yandi! "

After gathering everyone, He Lubu led them to the place where he hid his armor and weapons.

It was a cave in Yanshan Mountain, which was burned by He Lubu for three days and three nights in the early years, then sprinkled with plant ash and lime, covered with wormwood, and often lit wormwood to smoke insects, so the environment was very dry. Good for storing materials.

Hiding weapons and armor privately, originally doing so in the Song Dynasty, would inevitably be punished by the nine clans.

However, this area is at the junction of Song and Jin, and it is mainly in the administrative area that is difficult for Jin to take care of.

Ordinarily, the Song army would not dare to go out of the Great Wall at all, and all the people coming and going were businessmen and herdsmen.

With the help of Chang Fu, Zhang Jin and other civil and military generals, He Lubu collected a large number of weapons and armor in the form of profit export.

Of course, it is mainly weapons, iron armor and the like are relatively rare, and most of them are leather armor.

The weapons are basically war knives, spears, bows and arrows, and shields. There are not so many types, but they are all practical. They are all wrapped in oilcloth and stored in a dry area. They are well maintained and have no rust or insects.

There are only about 200 iron armors here, and more than [-] pairs of leather armors.

Iron armor is too difficult to obtain, this thing is very sensitive, and it is difficult to process and manufacture.

Leather armor is good to say, nomads can make it, and they can get it in large quantities on the grassland.

Other than that, they are all paper armor, which was made by Fan Zhuoyuan's method when he was stationed in Juyongguan, and the armor of the Song Dynasty was short and could not be transported to the front line in time.

The appearance of paper armor can be traced back to the middle Tang Dynasty, and related explanations are also recorded in the general summary of Wu Jing.

Well-made paper armor is very strong in defense, no worse than iron armor. Even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it can resist firecracker attacks, and it is even lighter.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, some local officials in Quanzhou were willing to exchange [-] iron armors for [-] paper armors for warships and navy.

The disadvantage of paper armor is that it is easily damaged. Basically, after a battle is fought, a large number of paper armor needs to be replaced.

Therefore, paper armor is mostly made in the style of piercing armor, so that only the corresponding pieces of paper armor need to be replaced.

In the past two years, He Lubu has been doing many things secretly. Iron armor is too sensitive, but paper armor can be manufactured secretly as long as there is a legal paper factory.

Four to five thousand armors have been accumulated here, plus leather armor and iron armor, everyone in the army can wear armor!
In addition, there is a large amount of gunpowder placed in a cave with a cooler environment next to it, stored in clay pots, and hundreds of thunderbolts are even made!

He Lubu saw that Fan Zhuoyuan was very satisfied with the equipment, and said with a smile: "I am not the only one responsible for the equipment here. The paper mill was opened by Brother Gu, the craftsmen were found by Brother Chang, and the transportation was carried out by Brother Zhang Jin quietly dispatched by his subordinates.

In addition, members of the Yingui faction also provided intelligence support and bribed the guards at the relevant gates, so it took two years to handle it so smoothly. "

Although these things were quietly arranged by Fan Zhuoyuan with a few casual words two years ago, everyone accomplished them beyond his expectations.

Originally, Fan Zhuoyuan thought it would be good to have a few thousand veterans at most, but he had to find another way to grab weapons and equipment.

Looking at it now, the foundation of starting a business is here, which is definitely enough!It is definitely enough for a golden man to eat a pot!

Fan Zhuoyuan said: "Okay! Thank you brothers for your hard work! Sect Master Yun, thanks to your heart!
There are no other problems at the moment, and the preparations will start today, the various ministries will be reorganized, and the military horses and equipment will be allocated!
He Lubu, you lead people to prepare food for five days, we go to the north, wherever we fight, where we grab, because the food is in the enemy's hands! "

(End of this chapter)