Chapter 823 Return to Yanhui Mountain Camp

A few days later, Yunzheng and the others finally arrived at Yanhuishan Camp.

Before they arrived, Yu Shizhong had already led his troops back to the Yanhuishan camp, and other ministries that had received orders from Yun Zheng were also gathering at the Yanhuishan camp.

After not being here for such a long time, Yanhuishan camp has completely changed.

The current Yanhui Mountain Camp is already a complete camp.

Not only does it have a vast training ground, but it also has permanent barracks. If a solid city wall is built, it can be regarded as a permanent military fortress.

Fifty miles away in the northwest and northeast of the Yanhui Mountain Camp, there are two temporary camps, mainly for training the Guiyi Army.

Yun Zheng saw Wang Qi, who had returned from injury, at a glance among the welcoming crowd.

"Have you recovered from your injuries?"

Yunzheng stepped forward to say hello to Wang Qi.

"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. The general's injury has healed!"

As he spoke, Wang Qi beat his chest again to show that he was very strong now.

"it is good!"

Yunzheng nodded and smiled, and said to everyone: "Don't stay here anymore, let's take us around the camp first! I think the changes in this camp are quite big."

"Yes!"

The generals take orders.

Yun Zheng, led by Yu Shizhong and others, inspected the Yanhui Mountain camp while understanding the situation here.

Currently, Yanhuishan Camp has 15,000 cavalry, 10,000 heavy infantry, 3,000 blood-coated soldiers, and 5,000 field soldiers.

These field soldiers do not need to farm. They are mainly responsible for repairing and building equipment, and occasionally are responsible for escorting grain and grass supplies.

The temporary camps in the northwest and northeast were each stationed with 20,000 Guiyi troops.

Now, with the passage over Langya Pass being opened, the supplies for Yanhui Mountain Camp mainly come from two directions.

One is the supplies transported via Shuofang and Langya Mountain Pass.

Additional supplies were delivered via Gubian and Weibian.

In addition, there are 20,000 reserve troops led by Zhou Mi in the new city more than two hundred miles due north of Gubian.

However, in this cold winter, the construction progress of the two newly built cities is very slow.

Zhenbei City, where Zhou Mi led the reserve army to garrison, is still in its infancy. It is only surrounded by a half-foot-high city wall based on blue bricks and rammed earth. The city is almost empty, with only the garrison tents.

And Jiqing, which is close to the Modong Corridor, does not even have a three-foot-high city wall.

The reason is, on the one hand, the cold weather here has greatly slowed down the construction progress, and on the other hand, it is also because the materials for building the city cannot keep up with the progress of the city building.

However, as the weather gets warmer, as long as there is a sufficient supply of blue bricks and a large number of captives as coolies, Zhenbei should be able to build a two-foot-high city wall according to Yun Zheng's requirements before winter this year.

Once the city wall is built, it can be slowly built later.

As for the gathering, we can only take our time.

"Let's do it step by step! Building the city cannot be completed overnight."

Yunzheng smiled, feeling helpless.

Green bricks are easy to solve. It's just a matter of building more kilns in more places and pulling in more peat to bake green bricks.

But the cement output cannot increase, which is indeed a big problem.

More people can indeed increase output, but if you want to achieve a huge increase in output, you still have to rely on technological innovation.

Fortunately, some people are already working on improving these technologies.

After listening to Yun Zheng's words, the generals also laughed.

Everyone understands the truth.

But who doesn’t want to build these two cities sooner?

Once these two cities are built, they can form the first solid line of defense in the entire Shuobei together with Yanhuishan Camp.

This is something that will benefit the present generation and benefit the future.

"How is the training of the Guiyi Army going?"

At this time, Yun Zheng asked Fu Tianyan again.

Fu Tianyan rode on the horse and clasped his fists at Yun Zheng: "Don't worry, Your Highness! Although the Guiyi Army is not as elite as the soldiers and horses of the Yanhui Mountain Camp, I am confident that the Guiyi Army's combat power is not weaker than the enemy's!"

Fu Tianyan's face showed strong confidence.

The three generals Gao He, Huo Gu and Zuo Ren also looked confident.

Although the Guiyi Army has only formed an army recently, they are all selected and strong soldiers.

In this cold winter, they are working hard to train the rebel army.

The combat effectiveness of the Guiyi Army was not as good as that of Yu Shizhong and Wang Qi's troops, not because the soldiers themselves were incompetent, but because of the gap in equipment.

Take armor as an example, half of the Guiyi army still mainly wear leather armor.

As for weapons, only a small number of people obtained weapons forged from patterned steel.

They basically don't have heavy shields like those equipped by the King's Arms.

“It’s good to have this confidence!”

Yunzheng smiled with satisfaction, "The Guiyi Army is the absolute main force in this battle! If the Guiyi Army doesn't fight well, the four of you will all go to pick up horse manure for me!"

"Yes!"

The four people took the order in unison, and there seemed to be a flame burning in everyone's eyes.

Fu Tianyan glanced at Yun Zheng, and then said tentatively: "Your Highness, the armor and weapons of the Guiyi Army are still a bit short. The war is about to begin. Can we replenish some ordnance?"

"no!"

Yun Zheng refused without thinking, "Previously, General Dugu of the Northwest Protectorate sent a letter to Dingbei to ask for ordnance, but I always asked him to handle it on his own! I will give you five thousand more horses if I am exhausted!"

The production of weapons and armor is limited.

He had already replenished some ordnance to various ministries before.

The total number of existing weapons and armors in Dingbei's armory is less than 2,000.

He couldn't conjure weapons out of thin air, so where could he get so many weapons?

"Thank you, Your Highness!"

Fu Tianyan was overjoyed.

What the hell!

The war is about to begin, what can you get?

Five thousand war horses is quite a lot.

With a little deduction, you can barely get 5,000 cavalry.

In addition to the 5,000 cavalry he already had, the Guiyi Army had 10,000 cavalry.

Of course, their 10,000 cavalrymen were too weak to compare with the Beifu Army's cavalry of one person and two horses, let alone the Blood-Shirt Army.

"Okay, don't think about asking me to replenish your weapons."

Yun Zheng looked at Fu Tianyan with a smile, "You can go to the battlefield and seize it! As long as you fight bravely, the enemy's weapons will all be yours!"

"Yes!"

Fu Tianyan agreed with a smile.

After walking around in a circle, Yunzheng and the others finally arrived at the meeting hall of the camp.

After the generals sat down in order, Yun Zheng asked: "What's going on over there in Dayue Kingdom?"

Yu Shizhong took over the conversation: "Dayue Kingdom is preparing for war with all its strength. Feng Yu has sent people to investigate many times. It is roughly estimated that Dayue Kingdom has accumulated nearly 100,000 troops on the border near the Northwest Protectorate!"

"An army of one hundred thousand?"

Shen Luoyan exclaimed, "Does Dayue Kingdom still have so many troops? I'm afraid three to four percent of their one hundred thousand army are civilians, right?"

If Dayue Kingdom mobilizes the whole country's strength, it should still be possible to produce a hundred thousand capable soldiers.

But Dayue Kingdom cannot only guard their side!

In the direction of ghosts, Dayue Kingdom must also be on guard.

If all the troops were concentrated on their southeastern border, wouldn't the ghost side be able to defend it?

Isn't Dayue Kingdom afraid of them raiding in from the direction of Guifang?

"Probably not!"

Yu Shizhong shook his head gently: "Relying on the Dayue Kingdom alone, they will definitely not be able to get such a strong military force! General Dugu and others judge that the Dayue Kingdom should have formed an alliance with the tribes in Moxi..."