Chapter 44: Battle Clouds

Yelu Bodhisattva led the Liao army to head south first, and a group of Liao army followed closely behind and headed straight to the south.

The Liao army was full of excitement, with red faces, and light flashing in its eyes, as if victory was in sight. For hundreds of years, the Liao Kingdom has suppressed the Song Dynasty and made the Song Dynasty unable to fight back. As long as the Liao army was dispatched, it would be acquitted. In addition to obtaining the gold, silver, silk, tea, and spices from the Song Dynasty, it could also plunder the Song Dynasty women to provide for their lust.

Although there is no way to take the strong city of the Song Dynasty, the capture is still quite rich. The Liao army can make a fortune and enjoy it endlessly, and there are many benefits. This time, the Liao army went south in the most popular ice and snow. Once it faced the Song army, the Liao army had a huge advantage. It is conceivable that the benefits are too many. It is impossible to make the Liao army not excited.

Teams of Liao troops drove out, like a long dragon, nowhere to be seen, rolling south, splashing large patches of ice and snow, and the ground was trembling!

In Xiongzhou, Zhou Wei took the information from Zheng Tai and Wu Ji, frowned, pondered endlessly, and muttered: "Is this trustworthy?"

Lin Hong analyzed: "General, Liaogou has not violated the territory for several years. It is not that Liaogou doesn't want to come, but is waiting for an opportunity. Now that we have destroyed the tribute hall, the Liao Kingdom is not angry, and we must find our face. It is very likely that Liaogou will go south."

"The reason is this. The question is, when will the Liaogou go south?" Zhou Wei nodded: "I believe that Lord Zheng and Brother Wu have received reliable information, but they also don't know when the Liaogou will go south. To be honest, the Liaogou's combat power should be the strongest in the snowy season. Now, with heavy snow, the Liaogou is likely to act."

With a brief pause, his thick eyebrows raised, as if he had made up his mind: "No matter what, we must be prepared. Send orders, send news to the generals everywhere, and inform them that they should prepare for war early. We must send more people and inquire hard. Liaogou can conceal the news when mobilizing the army. Once the army takes action, even if thousands of troops move together, there will be a lot of noise, and it will not be concealed if it wants to."

This makes sense. When mobilizing the army, you can also use some tricks and deceive your opponents. However, once the army moves, there will be thousands of troops, and the noise is very big, and it is difficult to hide it anymore, unless you encounter a stupid opponent.

"Brother Wu sent thousands of swords to kill the enemy and quickly equip them so that the brothers can get familiar with them. Don't go to the battlefield and not familiar with the swords to kill the enemy, that's a laughing stock." Zhou Wei finally ordered.

All the generals took the order and went to work hard.

"Brother Wu, if Liaogou comes to attack Xiongzhou now, the sword you created will show off your skills! Hehe, with such a powerful weapon in hand, why am I afraid of Liaogou?" Zhou Wei waved his hand and was powerful: "Liaogou, come on! Come on!"

After returning, Wu Ji was practicing hard with the soldiers in the snow and ice. They were all wearing thin shirts, but they were sweating profusely. They practiced very seriously, and no one was lazy.

Since Wu Ji analyzed to them that when Liaogou's strongest combat power was in the snow and ice, the soldiers were determined to practice hard and never lose to Liaogou.

"You can't lose to Liaogou!"

"Never lose to Liaogou!"

The soldiers let out shocking roars, with a rainbow of momentum, and were working hard.

Huangfu Song was supervising on the side, listening to the roars of the soldiers, and was very satisfied. Although he was still a long way from training, at least his energy was good. With this desperate spirit, would it be better to go to the battlefield?

"Get it out!"

The sound of horse hooves sounded, and a horse galloped over. A big man jumped off his horse and hurried in. It was Qi Dabao. When he saw Huangfu Song, he was busy greeting: "Mr. Huangfu, I want to see Commander Wu. If there is an urgent matter, hurry up! hurry up! must be quick!"

Qi Da Bao's gallbladder is very good, and there are few times when he is so anxious. Huangfu Song knew that there must be something big, otherwise he would not have been so anxious. He hurriedly said, "Hero, wait a moment, I'll go and ask Commander Wu." He turned around and left quickly.

Wu Ji was practicing chopping and killing with Li Mingchu. A knife was in his hand, and the sword was shining, which was very terrifying.

Li Mingchu's body was stronger than Wu Ji. He slashed his sword and did not fall at all. He slashed and teased, "Commander Wu, although you have made amazing progress, your body was too poor. No matter how fast you progress, you would not catch up with me in such a short time. Look!"

He held the hilt of the knife tightly with both hands, and a knife slashed down like thunder and lightning, which was very powerful.

"Good come!" Wu Ji roared and waved the sword to meet him. The two swords intersected and made a crisp collision sound. Wu Ji's arms were numb, and the sword almost escaped.

Li Mingchu grinned his teeth and kept shaking his hands, complaining: "Commander Wu, you are really not big, you are very strong. My hands, my hands! I almost broke you!"

"Make you underestimate me! Make you underestimate me!"

Wu Ji saw Li Mingchu's pain in his eyes and couldn't help but feel very proud. It took only a few hours to become weak and able to beat Li Mingchu, a normal person. Although Li Mingchu is not a master, this is a huge progress after all, and hard work pays off. As long as you continue to train hard, it is only a matter of time to become strong.

"Come again!" Wu Ji held the knife in both hands, and called Zhan again.

"Not coming! Nothing coming!" Li Mingchu was timid.

"Commander Wu, slow!" Huangfu Song came over quickly: "Qi Dabao is here. If you have an urgent matter, I am very anxious."

"Qi Dabao?" Wu Ji put away his knife and asked, "Did he say what happened?"

"I didn't say this, but from his anxious look, we can guess that this matter is not a minor matter." Huangfu Song urged: "Go and see him quickly."

"Okay!" Wu Ji and Qi Dabao had known each other for some time. They understood his personality. Without such a big deal, he would not have been so anxious and strided away.

When he arrived at the camp gate, Qi Dabao was standing in the snow with a horse with a look of anxiety. When he saw Wu Ji coming, he hurriedly came up quickly. Without allowing Wu Ji to speak, Qi Dabao said rushing to say: "Commander Wu, the news of the great things, Liaogou set out from Zhuozhou this morning! Fifty thousand people came straight to Xiongzhou!"

"Let's set off this morning?" Wu Ji raised his head and looked at the sky. The sky was dark and the snow was flying. It was almost noon. The Liao army set off in the morning, and Qi Dabaobao received information. The intelligence reconnaissance capabilities of Qiyun Club were quite amazing.

"Commander Wu, our Qiyun Club has been operating in the northern part of the country for many years, which is nothing." Qi Dabao understood why Wu Ji was surprised and said proudly.

"Awesome! Awesome!" Wu Ji had to praise and asked, "Is there any detailed information?"

"Yelu Ming led a 50,000 army straight to Xiongzhou, and his goal was to capture Xiongzhou." Qi Dabao began to say in detail: "Liaogou was very disturbed this time. He dispatched nearly 100,000 troops, 50,000 troops heading straight to Xiongzhou. The remaining armies rushed to other cities in order to restrain these garrisons and prevent them from reinforced by Xiongzhou. I think that converts will be attacked by Liaogou, and Commander Wu must make plans early."

Among all the cities in the north, Xiongzhou is the most critical. Capturing Xiongzhou is equivalent to opening up a channel to enter the Central Plains, concentrating the strongest forces to attack Xiongzhou, and the remaining troops restrain the reinforcements of the Song Dynasty. Such an arrangement would be better.

Rebirth is the closest city to Xiongzhou. Every time the Liao army goes south to Xiongzhou, it will be attacked by the Liao army. This time is no exception. It is inevitable that the Liao army will attack, and we should prepare for defense early.

Wu Ji immediately sent an order to stop training, restore his strength, and prepare for the fight.

Training is very hard and requires a lot of physical strength. If you keep training until the Liao army arrives, you will be asking for trouble and you must first recover the physical strength of the soldiers. It will take nearly two days to get back from Zhuozhou to Xiongzhou.

As soon as the order was passed, the soldiers returned to the camp to rest and had to fight the Liao army in the most full state.

"But send news to General Zhou?" Xiongzhou is the key. If Xiongzhou is not protected, the Central Plains will be in danger, and Wu Ji has to care.

"Don't worry, Commander Wu, we have someone to deliver a letter to General Zhou." Qi Dabao nodded quickly.

"That's good! That's good!" Commander Wu smiled with relief. Qiyun Club, which has great intelligence capabilities, is much more convenient: "Let's go to see Lord Zheng and discuss how to fight this battle."

"That's certain." Huangfu Song immediately agreed.

Wu Ji, Qi Dabao, Huangfu Song went straight to the county government office. Zheng Tai was working in business. When he saw the three people coming together, he knew that the matter was extraordinary. He hurriedly put down his official duties, welcomed the three people in, served tea, and went straight to the topic: "There must be something important for all three people coming together, so please come."

"Mr. Zheng, Liao Gou is here. A total of 100,000 will be dispatched, 50,000 will be sent straight to Xiongzhou. We will be attacked if we return." Wu Jiyan was shocked and explained the whole story.

"Okay! It's so good!" Zheng Tai-Tai-Ying was not afraid, but was happy, as if he was eager to die in the Liao army: "The Conversion Army is no longer He Wanquanshi's Conversion Army. It is strong and powerful, and it just happens to try his skills with the Liao dog."

When He Wanquan was in charge of the Converted Army, it was a group of refugees and had no combat power. It was too early for the Converted Army to say that the troops were strong and horses were strong, at least there were no horses. It was not that Wu Ji did not want war horses, but because the Song Dynasty lacked war horses, the Converted Army had only a dozen war horses, and most of them were inferior horses, and they were used for communication.

More importantly, the training of the Converted Army has not met Wu Ji's requirements, and it is still some time before the training is actually completed. Of course, things are changing, and the Liao army's attack cannot wait for Wu Ji to train the army before coming back.

Despite this, the Converted Army was much stronger than when He Wanquan was in charge. Needless to say, the equipment was armed to the teeth and was better than any border Song army. Its military discipline, training, combat strength, and perseverance all had a qualitative leap.

"Commander Wu was still thinking that after the training was completed, he would pull his brothers to the Liao realm to make a big fuss, let the brothers kill people, smell the bloody smell, and experience it. Now it seems that there is no need. Let's wait for Liao Gou to come and die!" Huangfu Song was the most happy. In order to enter the Liao realm, he was studying the data.

"Commander Wu, how are you going to fight?" Zheng Tai asked.

Speaking of this war, Wu Ji hasn't done it yet, which is quite tricky. Fortunately, there is a first time in everything. Not doing it does not mean that he will not do it. He pondered: "There is a saying that soldiers come to block the enemy and water comes to garrison. We are talking about how to fight here. It is all about the war on paper. We have to wait until the Liao Gou arrives and then it depends on the situation. However, one thing is certain, with the 500 soldiers in my hands, it is unlikely that we can defend our return."

"This is easy to deal with. There are still many heroes in our Qiyun Club. I can call them up immediately." Qi Dabao immediately took over the conversation.

The heroes of Qiyun Club are all skilled in riding and shooting. They are not under the Liao army. With their help, it will be much easier to defend the city.

"I will send an order to gather the people in the city together, pick some young men and women to help you reinforce. The military and civilians will work together to fight against the Liao dog!" Zheng Tai was full of confidence: "In this way, we can keep the return!"
Chapter completed!