"The officials are wise, I admire them! I am willing to lead my troops, obey the orders of the officials, and serve the country to the death!"

"Okay!" Zhao Ji stretched out his right hand and patted Zhong Shidao on the shoulder.

"Old beloved Qing Zhong, please immediately select five thousand of your elite troops, prepare enough dry food for three days, and with my personal token, leave the west city and rush to the 'Xingzhou' ferry of the Yellow River. There are more than a hundred large ships that I have arranged in advance.

Your troops can take the first ten ships, which is more than enough!"

"Subsequently, I will also go to Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, Guo Cheng, Liu Yanqing, Yao Gu, Zhongshi Zhongzhong, and ask them to recruit elites respectively. After Zhong Lao Aiqing, they will rush out of Xicheng to the Yellow River's 'Xingzhou' ferry, and bring them with them.

Go up to the artillery battalion and engineer demolition company, implement lightning tactics, go down the Yellow River, quickly arrive at the Yellow River ferry outside the east city of Xingqing Prefecture, the capital of the Xia Kingdom, and land at the Yellow River Ferry for a general attack on the enemy capital!"

Zhong Shidao asked doubtfully:

"Officials, at the military meeting yesterday, didn't our army go out in full force tomorrow?"

Zhao Ji said seriously: "War must be judged by the situation. Yesterday, when I and the generals of the Western Army held a military meeting, we found that the Fuzhou Pioneer Army Zhe Keqiu and Zhe Yanzhao had just set out for the battle. At that time, they had not yet reached Jingzhou. The Yellow River ferry outside the city."

"Er Zhe is indeed the best of the two generations of Zhe clan's generals. They are very capable of leading troops in battle. I really made the right choice!"

"Zhe Keqiu and Zhe Yanzhi led their troops as the vanguard of the Northern Expedition, and unexpectedly captured the ferries on both sides of the Yellow River outside Jingzhou City so quickly with a small cost of casualties. This set the stage for our army's subsequent Northern Expedition along the river. Assure."

"The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. If we don't seize the opportunity at this time, we will use a blitzkrieg to attack Huanglong and attack Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Xia Kingdom. When Xia Emperor Li Qianshun orders all the gates of Xingqing Mansion to be built with masonry If we block the city with bricks, block it tightly, and hold on to the city until we wait for the troops of King Qin from the various local tribes in Xixia, then even if I have an artillery battalion and an engineering and demolition company, it will be difficult to blast open the enemy's city gate!"

"What the officials said is absolutely true!" Master Zhong said in admiration:

"Although Wei Chen did not go to the Xia capital in person, Wei Chen heard the confessions of captured Xia army prisoners more than once:

'Xingqingfu, the capital of the Xia Kingdom, is an excellent defensive place. It has the stronghold of Helan Mountain in the west, the natural danger of the Yellow River in the east, the desert in the north, and Xiaoguan in the south.'

'Xingqingfu, the capital of the Xia Kingdom, has a circumference of eighteen miles, and the east-west is twice as long as the north-south. The city wall is three feet and five feet high, and the wall is about eight feet thick, which can be used for horse racing. The city is made of bricks and stones, and is cut all around... ...easy to defend but hard to attack!'”

When Zhong Shidao mentioned this, he seemed to be looking at the ocean and sighing, and then he suddenly became enlightened and said:

"The officials are very good at predicting things. If we don't use blitzkrieg and don't get there before Xia Emperor Li Qianshun orders the gates of his capital to be piled with bricks and stones as thick as the city walls, even if our army has artillery, it will be extremely difficult to blast the Xia capital." The gate of the city!"

Zhao Ji saw that the cultivation method was very good and he could understand it with just a few words, so he asked:

"My beloved, Mr. Zhong, remember the essence of the blitzkrieg - to concentrate a large number of superior troops of our army and launch a sudden surprise attack on the enemy at lightning speed!"

Master Zhong nodded solemnly and said:

"Wei Chen, please remember..."

"Good!" Zhao Ji praised.

He had read a joke. If you want the donkey to run and grind quickly, you can hang a handful of delicious grass in front of the donkey's head so that the donkey can see it but cannot eat it...

And the time traveler Zhao Ji also knows how to draw a big pie.

Of course, Zhao Ji has the confidence and the courage of a great man. If the civil servants and generals under him really work hard, are loyal to the emperor, patriotic, and achieve great achievements, he really will not be stingy about giving real cakes.

At this time, Zhao Ji stretched out his right hand and took Zhong Shidao's big hand covered with calluses from years of holding weapons;

He raised his left forearm, clenched the four fingers of his left hand into a fist, and only the index finger was vertical, pointing to the long sky, and vowed:

"In the battle of conquering Xia, I love you dearly and take the greatest credit!"

"I swear to the sky: After destroying the Xia Kingdom, I will divide the three states of the Xia Kingdom, and I will lead the old Aiqing Zhong from a distance! And I will choose the outstanding ones among my descendants to take up the post. The old Aiqing Zhong will take the lead.

From descendants to descendants, the position of guard general of the three states will be hereditary!"

A "plop" sound.

Upon hearing the holy words, Zhongshi Dao was so frightened that he knelt down in front of Zhao Guanjia.

He knew that Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty had promised that the descendants of the Zhe family would guard Fuzhou for generations, and that the governor of Fuzhou would be inherited by the descendants of the Zhe family. It was just a state in the northwest of the Song Dynasty!

But now, he was promised by the Zhao Guan family in front of him that he could inherit the land of the three states.

Zhong Shidao was very frightened. Zhao Guanjia's words were to test whether he and the Zhong family's descendants were suspected of supporting the military and respecting themselves.

"Wei Chen Shi Dao, thank you for the great love of the officials! However, even if Wei Chen Shi Dao died, he would not dare to accept this great favor from the emperor..."

Zhao Ji helped Zhongshi Dao up and said with a smile:

"Whatever I give you, feel free to accept it!"

"What's more, the Xia Kingdom has not yet been destroyed. Whether Mr. Zhong will accept my grant or refuse it will have to wait until Xia is destroyed."

"Now, I am going to leave this camp and go to Han, Yue, Guo, Liu, Yao, and Xiaozhong to manage Xianggong's tribes. Mobilize them to immediately lead their elite troops and generals today, and follow Lao Aiqing Zhong to quickly board the ferry.

Ship, go down the Yellow River, use blitzkrieg, go straight to Huanglong, and capture the enemy's capital!"
Chapter completed!