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Among the Song army, the first one to arrive at the Xiongzhou front was the logistics personnel of the Western Army Command.

Then, in early March, as the selection of the Western Army, 15,000 Jingyuan Army led by Yang Keshi also arrived in Xiongzhou.

A few days later, the main force of Qin Feng's army led by Zhong Shizhong also arrived in Xiongzhou on schedule.

The Huanqing Army and the Fuyan Army led by Liu Yanqing were two days later than the Qin Feng Army and arrived in Xiongzhou within the prescribed time.

After that, more and more guests came to Xiongzhou.

Although Tong Guan and Tong Guan's head of the staff (Liu Li, a direct scholar from Shugu Palace, and Zhao Liangsi, a direct scholar from Longtu Pavilion, continued to stay in the capital, Xuanfu Department, composed of Li Zongzhen, Li Ziqi, Yu Jing and other "Lilikes", took the lead in Zhong Shidao and officially hung the sign of "Xuanfu Department" in Xiongzhou City. They snatched the best house in Xiongzhou City, which was the former residence that received the Liao envoys, as the Xuanfu Department's office and their boarding place.

(After Zhao Ji ascended the throne, Tong Guan and Liang Shicheng were powerful for a while in recent years, and most of the noble ministers of the court came from their second sects. The lower half of the character "Li" was "Mu", so "Mujia" was used to refer to court officials who were sent to Liang Shicheng. The character "Tong" had "List" and "Li" at the top, so "Lilike" was used to refer to court officials who were sent to Tong Guan. Over the years, Tong Guan has indeed attracted many civil servants, and there are actually many famous officials, famous generals, such as Zhan Du, Wang Bing, etc., and of course, they are more mediocre talents who rely on their power to bully others.)

Immediately afterwards, Hebei Transportation Commander Zhan Du, Hebei Transportation Commander Lu Yihao, Li Ye and others also followed one after another.

As for the front army, which should have arrived with the front army, the Shengjie army, it was more than half a month late.

There is a reason why the Shengjie Army arrived so late.

At the beginning, Zhong Shidao ordered Liu Guangshi to take his warrant to order the Shengjie army to go to war.

Liu Guangshi arrived at Huaining Prefecture as scheduled and read out the orders of Master Zhong, which is the command of the commander.

But then the Xuanfu Department also sent a text message to Wang Lin and Jia Ping to win the Jie army.

As for the tasks received by Liu Guangshi, Wang Lin and Jia Ping, they were actually the same, which was to win the Czech army and "successfully defeat the Japanese and head north to Xiongzhou and stand by."

But when Wang Lin and Jia Ping learned that the commander actually ordered the Jiesheng Army first, they immediately called Liu Guangshi to criticize him and ordered Liu Guangshi to take back the order, and they would represent the Xuanfu Department to order another order.

Some people may be puzzled. Isn’t this a waste of farting if you take off your pants?

In fact, this involves the ownership of the Shengjie Army. Zhao Ji and Tong Guan finally separated the Shengjie Army from the Western Army. How could the Western Army's people be involved in the Shengjie Army again?

This also involves the power dispute between the Commander and the Fuxuan Department.

Normally, the command department is the department that leads the army to fight, but does not have the right to dispatch troops, while the Xuanfu Department is the department that controls the command department and does not have the right to command troops.

Take the victory of the Jie Army as an example.

It is the headquarters of the Xuanfu Department, and the headquarters of the commander-in-chief is the headquarters of the Jie Army.

Take the winning of the Jet Army as an example.

The normal procedure should be that the Xuanfu Department will order the commander-in-chief, and the commander-in-chief will order the Victory Jie Army.

If Zhao Ji is added.

It should be that Zhao Ji gave an order to the Xuanfu Department, the Xuanfu Department gave orders to the Commander's Office, and the Commander's Office gave orders to the Shengjie Army.

As a result, Zhao Ji directly ordered Zhong Shidao to establish a commander for the commander, but Xuanfushi did not want Zhong Shidao. Well... it should be said that people who did not want the Western Army (no matter who came to be the commander of the Western Army, the result would be the same) were involved in the victory of the Jie Army, and they were afraid that Zhong Shidao would not obey orders and guard against Zhong Shidao everywhere, so they were so farted by taking off their pants.

To put it bluntly, the emperor does not believe in the commanding general, and the commanding department does not believe in the commanding department. The commanding general does not believe in the commanding department, and the commanding general does not believe in the emperor and the commanding department, who are constantly making small moves, and they are guarding against each other.

In addition, the dispatching department competes for military power with the commanding department.

In short, the upper class of the Song army was full of contradictions.

Not only the upper class, but also the lower class of the Song army, especially the Shengjie army, which was highly expected by Zhao Ji and Tong Guan.

The continual expeditions of Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La were successively exterminated, especially after traveling to the wealthy Jiangnan, the Shengjie Army made a big move from top to bottom.

In addition, in order to win over the Shengjie Army, Zhao Ji and Tong Guan gave the Shengjie Army soldiers extremely generous rewards.

So much so that all the soldiers of the Shengjie Army were rich.

Those who are so desperate that Zhao Ji and Tong Guan also asked Shengjie Army to station in the prosperous Huaining Prefecture.

This led to the fact that the soldiers of the Shengjie Army either started to trade in Huaining Mansion, got married in Huaining Mansion, or lingered in the restaurants, brothels, and gambling houses of Huaining Mansion to squander their wealth.

In short, the soldiers of the Shengjie Army were unwilling to leave the prosperous Huaining Prefecture and go north to fight.

The military orders were changed every day (under the pressure of Wang Lin and Jia Ping, Liu Guangshi finally took back the command from the commander in public, and Wang Lin and Jia Ping re-issue the same order on behalf of the Xuanfu Department).

In addition, Wang Lin and Jia Ping, who wanted to show off the Xuanfu Department, had their blind promises but could not be fulfilled.

In addition, when the Shengjie Army was unwilling to go to war, Wang Lin and Jia Ping were furious and came to Liu Guangguo. Xin Yongzong asked them to "cut off a few donkey heads" to kill them to warn them. General Xin Er immediately took a few thorned officers to behead them on the spot, and ordered the gate to play with police, and wanted to use those thorned heads to perform the power of the Xuanfu Division.

As a result, the Shengjie Army mutiny almost killed Wang Lin and Jia Ping, and burned the temple. In fact, the Shengjie Army's thorns were just to scare Wang Lin and Jia Ping who were holding chicken feathers as swords. The ultimate goal was to leave Huaining Prefecture and go north to fight.

Later, when Liu Guangshi saw that things were not good, he rode alone to find Zhong Shizhong to borrow Ma Zheng and a cavalry to suppress the mutiny, and then escorted Shengjie Army to Xiongzhou to join the war.

After following the Shengjie Army, the Xihe Army led by Yao Pingzhong arrived in Xiongzhou. They were only a few days later than the Shengjie Army, ahead of the Command and the remaining troops of the Jingyuan Army, which should have arrived earlier than the Xihe Army.

There is no mistake in Master Zhong, but Yao Pingzhong, who is competitive in everything, deliberately marched urgently and surpassed Master Zhong.

At the dusk on March 29, which was the deadline for the imperial court to stipulate that the Western Army must arrive at the Xiongzhou front line, Zhong Shidao led the commander and the Jingyuan army to Xiongzhou.

At this point, all the Western Army arrived at the Xiongzhou front line.

In addition, the Second Dragon Army led by Song Jiang also arrived at the Xiongzhou frontline as scheduled.

In early April of the fourth year of Xuanhe, Tong Guan set out north.

Before leaving, Zhao Ji called Tong Guan to his side and taught three strategies for patroling the border: if the Yan people were happy and took them, they restored their old territory; Yelu Chun took the money to call him a vassal, which was the second; if the Yan people had not returned, they would patrol the border, which was the second.

It is not difficult to see from the three border patrols that Zhao Ji gave to Tong Guan that Zhao Ji did not want to use war to recover Yanjing. He wanted to peacefully recover Yanjing through political and diplomatic means. If things really are not done, he would just keep his troops in motion. In other words, Zhao Ji did not want to fight, he just wanted to make a profit.

Subsequently, Zhao Ji appointed Cai You as the deputy envoy and led the army with Tong Guan. In fact, Zhao Ji sent Cai You as the role of military supervisor.

Cai You soon left the capital with a team of men and headed north.

As soon as Cai You and his party arrived at Chenqiaoyi, something unpleasant happened to Cai You.

At dusk that day, two flag soldiers suddenly ran away.

The two banners with the words "Shaoshi, Jiedushi" and "President Xuanfu Deputy Envoy" were actually abducted by these two flag-holding soldiers.

The officers and soldiers were talking in private, saying that this was an ominous sign.
Chapter completed!