Start: Datang Wanli a lonely city

Chapter 517 Windfall and Railway
(There is another chapter transition completed, entering the final battle)
When a long wake-up call reached his ears, Xu Feng bounced off the bed almost immediately, like a conditioned reflex.

Then, compared with the old Wang next door, when the host of the neighbor's house suddenly came back, he quickly put on his clothes on his body.

It was only when he was halfway through the dress that he reacted:

What the hell!Last night, the team had a meeting with Yue Fei, Ma Kuo and other high-ranking officers of the new army. The meeting lasted until more than three o'clock in the middle of the night, and it was already four o'clock when they returned to the army.

In order to sleep a little longer, so as not to be killed suddenly; didn't he tell the guards not to call him in the morning, so that he could sleep until he woke up naturally?
Results?Under the sound of the wake-up call, I woke up reflexively.

Obviously he is in the modern plane, just a greasy electrician in his forties, but he was born in the world of missions and turned into an iron-blooded soldier.

Thinking about such a stupid thing for a while, there is only one thought: sin!
While silently complaining about such a point in his heart, Xu Feng took off his half-dressed clothes, got into the bed that was still warm, closed his eyes, and planned to continue to sleep for a return sleep...

The problem is that after getting into the bed, Xu Feng tossed and turned, but he couldn't fall back to sleep anyway.

So I couldn't help but think of the content of the meeting last night; or to put it another way, it is the meeting that has been held almost every night in the past few days.

The reason why in the last few days, there are meetings every night.

And there is a reason for the opening until midnight.

Today's time is already the thirteenth day of the first month of the second year of Maode, that is to say, if Hu Biao's plan was followed on the first day of February, the Northern Expedition would start.

It was only a little more than half a month before the official start of that great war.

Thanks to years of exercise and an exceptionally good physical fitness, Xu Feng was discharged from the hospital after recovering from the serious injury suffered by Zhu Xianzhen as early as half a month ago.

Then in the first time, Hu Biao sent the troops down.

From that time until today.

Except for the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month, Xu Feng also took a little rest when he gave the soldiers of the new army two days off.

For the rest of the time, he was busy training and adapting his troops.

What needs to be explained is that the new army, which has been expanded once, has been organized into three infantry armies.

Among them, the First Army has the first, second, and third infantry divisions, plus the first cavalry division; the second army has the fourth, fifth, and sixth infantry divisions, plus a second cavalry division.

The last third infantry division is composed of the seventh and eighth infantry divisions, plus the first and second volunteer divisions; each army has a size of 4 people.

After Xu Feng recovered, he assumed the position of commander of the Second Army.

In fact, Xu Feng originally planned to serve as the deputy army commander, and the army commander asked one of his former regiment commanders in the new army to be the commander.

In this way, if they were suddenly teleported away by the system after completing their tasks, it would not cause uncontrolled riots in the troops.

The problem is that Xu Feng's previous regiment leader dared not overwhelm Xu Feng in his official position.

So he could only be demoted and became a deputy commander.

But in general, such an operation is not a big problem; it is nothing more than to give the deputy commander as much support as possible in the later time to increase his prestige.

As for the first and second artillery divisions, there are also three units of the rocket artillery division.

They belong to the new army headquarters, some combat units directly under it...

At this point in time, there are naturally countless things related to the Northern Expedition; all kinds of problems have popped up one by one and need to be solved, at least come up with a response plan.

For example:
First, according to the latest information from Dongchang, Jin Guo's side has carried out the most vigorous mobilization this winter.

Even if the local tycoons and military leaders in the Northland, under this mobilization, only some old and weak were dispatched to deal with it, obviously they did not do their best and waited and watched.

However, with the almost universal mobilization of the Jurchens and the crazy support of some hardcore traitors.

On the side of the Jinren, they still mobilized a real army with at least 60 troops, not what they called it; among them, the pure Jurchen troops looked like [-] to [-].

Facing the threat of complete annihilation, any Jurchen who can ride a horse and shoot a bow will fill the battlefield in this battle.

Even in the winter, they are still conducting related training to fight with firearms troops.

It's a pity that those Jurchens did a great job of keeping secrets in this regard. For a while, even the fans of Xichang didn't know what the Jurchens had come up with to deal with their firearms.

Therefore, this battle was under the expedition of Lao Shi, and they did not dare to be careless at all.

Every day, various possibilities are deduced, and some plans are made in advance.

Second, according to some reliable information sent back by the Zhe family's personnel stationed in Xixia; after the start of the Great Song's Northern Expedition, Xixia will also almost come out with all their strength to attack and disrupt the Song Dynasty.

Xixia, with a population of just over 200 million, originally had a standing army of just over 5.

This time, they will mobilize a terrorist army of 50. Except for the 10 people left behind, the remaining 40 troops will attack Song Dynasty in three ways.

You read it right, it is such a small country that actually mobilized 50 troops.

Regarding this point, it is entirely because of the extremely crazy military system of the Xixia people.

Once they encounter a war, all men over the age of 15 and under the age of 70 in Xixia must be conscripted into the army; and there are still a considerable number of "makui" in their army.

The so-called 'Ma Kui' are actually some strong female soldiers.

In addition, they also used gold and silver, grain, silk cloth, cattle and horses as rewards, and hired Gaochang Uyghur and Tubo tribes to fight for themselves temporarily.

It is precisely this kind of crazy mobilization method that can even be described as "all or nothing" that Xixia can mobilize so many people.

Considering that the Xixia people have sharp bows and horses, the threat from this direction is far greater than the initial one.

Originally, the plan of dispatching one or two divisions of the new army to unite with the Zhe family to withstand Xixia's attack was probably a little unrealistic now.

Now the controversy among the people is whether to send the second army or the third army to go there.

Third, in Hu Biao's preparations for the Northern Expedition, hundreds of types of equipment and materials such as weapons, armor, grain, medicine, etc. were used.

Because of the good cooperation from all parts of the Song Dynasty, the preparation was quite sufficient and smooth.

However, when it was time to set off, there was an unexpected logistical problem that caused quite a headache.

That is this winter, the weather is far colder than before.

If the weather in previous years was followed, at the end of the first month of the lunar calendar, the waterway from Kaifeng City to the Gaoliang River in Yanjing, even if the river surface had not completely thawed, there was only a thin layer of ice left.

As long as an icebreaker with a reinforced hull and a steam engine is installed to open the way, there will definitely be some impact on the sailing, but it will not be too great.

This year?There is still a thick layer of ice on the river.

Even if the icebreaker can forcibly smash through the ice, the tank boats following behind will be in great danger under the impact of large pieces of ice in the river.

Anyway, if the weather does not completely warm up in the next half month, then the Northern Expeditionary Army can only rely on a large number of civilian men and carts to transport food and grass.

To know!There is a distance of [-] to [-] miles between Kaifeng and Yanjing.

People ate horse chews along the way, and half of the cartload of grain and grass might have been consumed halfway.

Aiming at this point, Yue Fei and Ma Kuo, the deputy envoys of the Privy Council, proposed to delay the Northern Expedition for a month or two.

Frankly speaking, such a suggestion is quite practical.

But isn't the task of the system forcing Hu Biao and others to do it in advance?

In short, as the Northern Expedition is about to start, the day is getting closer, and all kinds of things suddenly become more and more, in order to discuss some solutions.

Recently, I have been meeting every day and non-stop. Now Xufeng feels that his head is full of 'buzz~'...

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Because of the chaotic thoughts in his head, Xu Feng tossed and turned on the bed for several minutes. Not only did he fail to fall asleep, but he became very disturbed in an indescribable way.

When I heard a lot of footsteps on the field outside the field, it should be that the troops under me started to assemble, and then they were about to start the daily five-kilometer cross-country with heavy loads.

Xu Feng didn't sleep at all, and after getting up again, he began to put clothes on his body.

In this process, I didn't forget to wear an iron armor on the coat and a backpack full of bricks on my back, so I was ready to bear the weight.

One minute later, after pushing open the door of the room and feeling the ecstasy of a gust of cold wind blowing on his body, Xu Feng immediately muttered something like this:
"Hiss! The weather is so fucking cold~"

But even so, Xu Feng was dressed relatively lightly, and still didn't put on a thick bearskin coat.

It was just a little movement of hands and feet, and after the basic warm-up was completed, they started to trot together with the two guards who went out after hearing the movement next door.

Under the continuous running, Xu Feng felt his body began to heat up.

A mere five-kilometer cross-country run, for Xufeng who insists on weight-bearing exercises all year round, such a distance is almost without the slightest pressure.

However, after circling around and running back to the camp, he was a little surprised to find that he was not the first member of their entire second army to run there.

After Xu Feng arrived, there were two companies in front of him, and they seemed to have been running for a while.

Xu Feng glanced over and found that it was the company led by Han Shizhong and Gao Chong; the surprise in his heart immediately calmed down. It is normal for the team led by these two to have such a performance.

Of the above two, Han Shizhong was assigned to the Fifth Infantry Division, while Gao Chong was assigned to the Second Cavalry Division.

In the previous time, his performance in daily training has always been very good, and he really deserves to be a person who has left a great reputation after a thousand years.

Seeing the two of them looking calm and relaxed now, Xu Feng was also in high spirits; he yelled: "Gao Chong, here are two tricks~"

"Here~" Gao Chong immediately agreed.

Three minutes later, he was facing the spear point that was only a dozen centimeters away from his throat, and his arms were tingling and numb because of the unscientific strength in Gao Chong's hands.

Xu Feng laughed and cursed: "You bastard, you don't know how to let me go, I'm a little old man in his forties, don't you want to lose face?"

After hearing the words, Gao Chong suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

It's just that he also knows that Mr. Xu Feng was only joking with him, and he didn't really think about himself; the reason is very simple, in the recent time, the two of them have exchanged ideas no less than a hundred times.

In the beginning, Mr. Xu Feng couldn't even catch ten moves.

However, under Mr. Xu Feng's humbly asking for advice without losing face, and under his flattering and patient guidance, the other party's level has improved rapidly.

Up to now, if you play well, you can fight twenty or thirty strokes without losing the wind, and you will lose after fifty strokes.

The reason is that Xu Feng has already laid the foundation of marksmanship very well in the system's primary training ground.

Now after being taught by a famous person like Gao Chong, the speed of level growth is amazing.

After resting for about ten minutes, Xu Feng calmed down his chaotic breath; Xu Feng yelled at Han Shizhong who was smirking with a gold-backed machete in his hand:
"Han Powu, look at the gun~"

While speaking, the horse spear in his hand was already stabbed like a poisonous snake, and in a blink of an eye, he and Han Shizhong hit each other with a "ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping~".

At the same time, many members of the Xuan Ge Battalion were doing the same thing.

Hu Biao, for example, is in the backyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and a bald man of some age, from China, is having a lively discussion between the two.

Although the opponent was using an eyebrow-level stick, Hu Biao was still able to use the gun by analogy, which was very rewarding.

As for why these bald heads appeared in Hu Biao's prime minister's mansion, it's not too strange to think about it a little bit.

The masters also understand the principle of icing on the cake, so since there was a "thirteen stick monks to save the king of Tang" in the past; now there is an "eighteen stick monks to help Hu Xianggong", it is very reasonable, isn't it?

After all, in the eyes of most people in the current Song Dynasty, Hu Xianggong will also experience a scene of "adding a yellow robe" in the future, and it is definitely very cost-effective to establish a good relationship in advance.

To be more precise, since Hu Biao published the official document of recruiting heroes from all over the world to join the Volunteer Division.

Except for Da Song Ziwen's heroes who had some martial arts skills, they all came to seek refuge with their family weapons; there were also some bald-headed and alchemists among them.

No matter what kind of psychology they are based on, they joined the new army, and Hu Biao and others got an unexpected benefit.

That is, after promising official positions and rewards to these people, they have learned a lot of martial arts.

Even if many of the martial arts are just memorized temporarily like swallowing jujubes; but after returning to the modern plane, as long as they digest it in the training ground, the personal martial arts may have a considerable improvement.

If there is any dissatisfaction, it is that this world is a historical mission after all, and the bald people don't know the legendary '72 stunts', and they don't have any other magical skills, otherwise this trip can be regarded as a big profit up.

Therefore, in addition to Xu Feng and Hu Biao mentioned above, on such a cold morning.

Corn and a man from the direct descendant of the Yang family in Tianbo Mansion, according to legend, fought back and forth with a 'Nine-ring Jinfeng Dingsong Dao' in his hand.

The warehouse manager was taught archery in the hands of a man named He Xian.

He Xian may not be well-known in history, but he has a father, He Guan, who was known as the number one marksman in the Song Dynasty decades ago.

Although this son's archery skills are not as good as Lao Tzu's.

But the level of archery is not comparable to that of the coaches of the shooting halls in the modern plane.

Even those coaches who claim to have won the championship in a certain international competition absolutely do not have such a level.

The warehouse manager has only been instructing for two months, and his understanding and actual level of archery have been greatly improved.

In short, under the guidance of these top-notch masters at least in the Song Dynasty, every netizen has achieved amazing gains in martial arts.

Even the imperial concubine has recently found a top coach in the use of samurai swords.

Specifically, the island country next door is still in the Heian era. The famous Minamoto family was defeated just two years ago because they rebelled against the imperial court of the island country.

The head of the family, Minamoto Yoshizuna, or Kamojiro, was exiled to Sado Island, and most of his other sons committed suicide.

But one of the sons, Yuan Yiyue, came to the Song Dynasty after going around; just after being gathered by the imperial concubine, he became a swordsmanship instructor.

Feeling a great honor, a person like a rogue dog who lost his family was fortunate enough to teach sword skills to the nobles of the Celestial Dynasty. Of course, he did his best to teach the actual combat sword skills of the Genji family.

The only regret for the imperial concubine was that the system left too little time for them to operate after they trembled and gained enough power and influence in this mission.

Otherwise, believe it or not, she sent someone to the island country to take away those so-called famous knives in one go.

From now on, when going to the battlefield, there will be a lot of knives on the waist pole and behind the back, and I will throw one away when I cut it off. Anyway, I don’t think it’s a pity to throw away the things of the little devil’s house...

Of course, not everyone in the team is obsessed with learning martial arts.

At least Lang Qing devoted more energy to compiling some technical materials after learning marksmanship from others for a while.

At this moment, although he has not slept for another night, his eyes are as red as a rabbit.

But the spirit of the whole person is in extreme excitement.

Because after three or four nights of continuous work, he had already written out a theory of railway laying and locomotive manufacturing, simple drawings, etc.

From now on, on this piece of land, as long as there is a railway that can connect the north and the south, as well as epoch-making advanced gunpowder weapons.

The court of the Song Dynasty may be changed, and another person may be the emperor, or the commander.

However, the days when foreign tribes invaded continuously every once in a while, leading to the destruction of civilization, and the days when Huahualu sank, will completely become history.

(End of this chapter)