Standing on the high slope by the Yao River, the wind blows towards you. Zhao Jiaren put down the telescope in his hand and asked the people around him, "Have you seen the pictures of the elephant for everyone?"

"...Report to the Grand Marshal, my troops have been sent." Song Jie replied.

"Report, my troops have also sent it."

At this time, Zhao Jiaren's army and Jiaozhi Kingdom's army were arranged on both sides of Yaojiang. There were many elephant soldiers in the opposite army. Even across the river, the elephant's ears were swinging. The actions that should have looked cute were because the Jiaozhi people applied a lot of fierce patterns on the elephant's body, which looked quite murderous.

Zhao Jiaren had seen elephants and rode elephants. However, he had not seen elephants appear in Fujian Road for many years, and the army mainly composed of local people on Fujian Road was inevitably unfamiliar with it. Even though he ordered the army to be educated before departure, Zhao Jiaren was still a little worried.

Logically, the reports of these officers proved that everyone had worked hard, and Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but provoke a problem, "Report the number! Everyone talked about my troops, how do I know which troops it is?"

After being scolded like this, everyone responded again.

"Report to the Taiwei, the Fourth Battalion has completed its education."

"Report to the Taiwei, the fifth battalion has completed its education."

"Report to the Taiwei, the Sixth Battalion has completed its education."

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After listening to such a report, Zhao Jiaren finally felt much better. And as these people changed their name to "Taiwei", Zhao Jiaren also felt more satisfied.

The Taiwei was the highest official in charge of military affairs in the Qin and Han dynasties, but the Qin Dynasty did not appoint the Taiwei. In the early Song Dynasty, the Taiwei was the title of one of the three divisions and three dukes, but was only used as a promotion order and did not take charge. The Taiwei was under the Taibao. After the military officer system was redefined during the Huizong period, the Taiwei became the leader of the martial rank officials.

Zhao Jiaren is a civil servant, and as a recruiter, he can be called Taiwei. Compared with the title of Gong, Zhao Jiaren likes the title of Taiwei more.

Waiting for the end of each unit's statement, the result of the investigation department sending people to send, "The King of Taiwei and the King of Jiaozhi are also in the opposite array."

"The old man is very tough." Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but praise. At this time, the troops on both sides were lined up, and the reconnaissance troops believed that the Jiaozhi Army opposite had about 20,000 troops, and almost all the troops that could be pulled out to deter them. In line, even if they stood in a crooked manner, hundreds of elephants were placed in front of the array, it looked quite like a strong army.

"Taiwei, how should we fight?" Song Jie next to him asked. It was indeed very similar to formulating a combat plan before the war, but they didn't know much about Jiaozhi and had to speak after seeing the enemy.

"Since I've said something harsh in front of King Chen Riying of Jiaozhi, I'm probably not able to argue if I can't take the initiative to attack the river." Zhao Jiaren said to the commanders, including the people.

"Taiwei, all the commanders and soldiers of the Fifth Battalion are willing to be the vanguard!" The battalion commander of the Fifth Battalion, Lu Debu, immediately made a loud statement.

Since it was decided to solve Jiaozhi as a guild, various regularizations of the troops were underway. For example, the troops were no longer called officers and soldiers, but called commanders and fighters. The officers were called commanders and fighters. This title was an unusual sense of identity. Because "向" means an organization in the Song Dynasty. xx official means a party. It means that there is no organization now, but he has an organization status, and only waits for the official space.

Since someone volunteered so much, Zhao Jiaren smiled and said, "Don't worry about not having any credit. We only have one thousand people. You don't have a chance to be lazy. However, today, after seeing the Jiaozhi people's military formation, everyone will discuss it and wait for the battle tomorrow."

The leader of the Jiaozhi side was indeed the King of Jiaozhi Chen Riying. Seeing Zhao Jiaren's military formation, this brave and capable king was much more at ease. Although the army opposite was rigorous and well-trained, their scale was too small, with only 10,000 people. Fighting more and fighting less has always been the king of war, so why are the battle examples of winning more and winning more? Because there are too few such battle examples, they have to take out big books.

On the first day, the Song army did not cross the river to attack, and King Chen Riying had no intention of attacking. The defense side had a natural advantage. The Jiaozhi army with troops would reduce its advantage when crossing the river. This was just a tactical level. On the strategic level, the Song army worked hard on the expedition and came from afar. The Jiaozhi army had local operations and had the advantage of transportation and assembly on the inside. If the two sides had been confronting the riverside, the Song army would definitely not be able to stand it first. Once the Song army withdrew, Jiaozhi would have lived a safe life for several years.

The general of Jiaozhi proposed a plan to cross the river to attack the Song army camp at night, and Chen Riying rejected this. When the Song army first arrived in Jiaozhi, they must have been mentally prepared. At this time, the sneak attack was probably ineffective. However, the general did not seem to be convinced of the king's point of view. After nightfall, he led his troops to secretly cross the river. In the middle of the night, the king was suddenly woken up, and the servants nervously reported that the general had sneak attacked across the river, but he was surrounded by the Song army and could not escape. The general sent someone to cross the river and asked the king to send troops to help.

After hearing the report, King Chen Riying was furious. Jiaozhi was not as good as the Song Dynasty. The military leaders of the Song Dynasty had to be directly led by the state. Jiaozhi was basically a group of nobles and wealthy families leading their own troops to follow the king to send troops at critical moments. This was also impossible. The Song Dynasty court could afford to support those troops, and the Jiaozhi royal family did not have the financial resources in this regard. Once these nobles made contributions, they would ask the king for rewards.

Now the nobles act without permission, and if they want to rescue, they have to use their own direct troops. But the king knows that the middle of the night's rescue is not much different from delivering meat to the door. But if they don't go to rescue, the nobles will be dissatisfied immediately. In a dilemma, the king could only send a boat to the river to prepare for a response, and ordered the nobles to be called over for a meeting.

The nobles all fell asleep. When they rushed to come, the king told everyone what happened. When these people heard this, they didn't know what to say. During the day, the king publicly opposed crossing the river to attack the Song army in the middle of the night, and at this time he had the confidence to speak. This is the benefit of doing business. If something really happens, it will be easier to get the recognition of everyone.

After knowing the situation, there are only two choices left, whether to save or not. In this dark night, it is still unknown whether it can cross the river safely, let alone face the shocked Song army after crossing the river. Every nobleman dared to say he would go to save him. They all looked at the king with a gaze, hoping that the strongest among all the nobles could come up with a solution.

There are two types of kings who dare to go into battle personally, one is a real slut, and the other is a real courage. King Chen Riying belongs to the latter. The nobles cannot be said to be wrong with the idea, but King Chen Riying is also a mortal, and he personally does not have the ability to surpass humans. He is about to lose the reckless nobleman and his subordinates, so he cannot send more people to die.

However, this is really hard to say, because the king cannot be a mortal. Since his status is beyond ordinary people, he must have abilities beyond ordinary people. Otherwise, he will not be able to have enough appeal. At least King Chen Riying thinks so.

So an awkward silence appeared in the big tent. Chen Riying knew in her heart what he had to say to prove his ability. If she continued to be so silent, she would only damage his image. Chen Riying had to say: "We send troops to rescue!"

Hearing this, the nobles were relieved. Even though they knew that the rescue was actually very useful, there was a huge difference between not being successful in rescue and not sending troops to rescue.

Perhaps God also agreed with King Chen Riying. Not long after the order was issued, there was a noise outside. Not long after, the leader of the fleet who went to pick him up came to report in panting. "Your Majesty, we were ordered to pick him up, but only a dozen people were received."

The nobles were even more moved when they heard that the king had sent a ship to him before. King Chen Riying asked with a stern face: "Where are people?"

"Everyone is outside." The leader of the fleet was the king's direct subordinate, and he replied with his head down.

The king stood up and walked outside. The nobles waited for the king to go out and quickly got up and followed him out. Then they saw the torches outside, and more than a dozen people were lying on the ground. The group of people had large blood stains on their clothes. They saw that they were venting more and inhaling less, and they were about to die.

"How could he be injured like this?" Chen Riying's voice was puzzled. He had just come out to scold the defeated generals, but he didn't expect that these people would be beaten like this.

The leader of the fleet quickly lowered his head and reported, "I don't know what weapons the Song army used, and they could hurt people from afar. When we went to pick them up, we barely received so many people. The Song army was still standing by the river and attacking us, and we all injured seven or eight people."

When Jiaozhi learned that the Song army had some strange weapons, they couldn't even discuss it. In the end, the upper level of Jiaozhi could only make a decision to take a look tomorrow.

Before dawn the next day, the camp on Zhao Jiaren was already lively. Get up, gather, order to have a meal. Just when the sky was dawn, the commanders and soldiers arrived at the Yaojiang River.

Facing the gathered commander, Zhao Jiaren said loudly: "The Jiaozhi people failed to attack yesterday because they had no discipline. They had to have discipline when fighting. When the Xiliu Camp was invincible, they were invincible, because the emperor had to obey discipline when he arrived at the military camp. This did not matter who was face, it was everyone's life and our victory! Obey orders and obey commands, do you understand!"

"I understand!" the commanders replied in unison. There were more than 300 Jiaozhi Army who came to attack. Except for a dozen people who barely escaped, the others were either beaten to death or captured. With these lessons in front of them, the commanders thought they could not do anything randomly. There were 20,000 Jiaozhi Army opposite.

Zhao Jiaren no longer talked nonsense. He had made all the preparations for this war before. If this battle failed, it would be Zhao Jiaren's mistake in judgment. Even if he was asked to do it again, he could not do more in preparation for the war. Since it reached this level, what Zhao Jiaren could emphasize was "obey discipline and obey command" and "don't underestimate the enemy."
Chapter completed!