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King Xu Xian distributed hot and cold weapons to each of the newly formed teams of Niu Gao. Each team had eight rifles, the team leader had a pistol, a light machine gun, a mortar, and four grenades. Different cold weapons were selected according to personal preference, mainly machetes, but there were also those who were good at using spears or other unpopular weapons.

The newly recruited troops have already undergone recruit formation training and obedience-first training. The use of cold and hot weapons requires even more rigorous training, but all the troops lack the test of actual combat experience. Only after the baptism and tempering of blood and fire can they be truly called soldiers.

After Xu Xian arranged for his personnel to conduct a unified inventory, he inadvertently found that the number of combat-capable soldiers in Panlong Town had reached more than 63, with a strength of 2 battalions, including 4 artillery battalions, 6000 cavalry battalions, and more than 20 logistics and baggage support personnel, divided into 3 battalions, who were mainly responsible for transportation and logistics. In addition, nearly people were engaged in farming, mining, smelting and other matters.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing. Now Xu Xian only needs to wait for Yue Fei's reconnaissance team to send back specific information, and then he can send troops to attack Beijing Damingfu.

Xu Xian had held a pre-war meeting with Niu Gao, Niu Tong, and other key personnel such as the commanders of each camp, emphasizing that the first priority was to concentrate troops to attack and kill the Jin army's vitality, without fighting for the gain or loss of a city or a place. If necessary, the city and camps could be abandoned. If there was time, the supplies would be distributed to the people, and if there was not time, the supplies would be burned to ashes, leaving not a single bit for the Jin army to continue to grow its strength.

A few days later, Yue Fei sent someone to report back that Wanyan Zongwang, a general of the Jin Dynasty, had led more than 4 troops and stationed them in Yuancheng County in the north of Daming Prefecture, and Wanyan Loushi had led 2 troops and stationed them in Xiangzhou. The Northern Song Dynasty's Beijing City had been surrounded by the Jin people and the city could be captured at any time. The Jin people were looting people and materials everywhere to support the war, and Zhao Gou, the generalissimo of the Northern Song Dynasty, had abandoned the city and fled from Beijing Daming Prefecture.

As soon as Xu Xian received Yue Fei's message, he immediately ordered Niu Gao's troops to serve as the vanguard, leading twenty battalions of more than 6,000 troops, three of which were cavalry, and each man carried ten days of rations. He himself led thirty battalions of the central army, each with more than 9,000 cavalry, and set off immediately. Niu Tong led 3,100 battalions of troops to escort baggage and food and followed immediately.

Along the way from Panlong Town to Beijing Damingfu, the Jin army was very short of manpower. Niu Gao's troops were invincible all the way, and by the time Xu Xian's central army caught up, they were basically left with only receiving all kinds of supplies and deciding whether to send troops to stay behind to implement effective occupation. They could only advance about 30 to 40 kilometers per day.

The Jin army, which was once known as "the Jurchens numbering tens of thousands and being invincible in the world", has now grown to more than 100,000 cavalry. Its national strength is increasing day by day, and its military power is steadily improving.

For more than twenty years, the Jurchens fought wars year after year and expanded rapidly, successively destroying the Liao Dynasty and the Western Xia Dynasty, and occupying most of the land north of the Yellow River in the Northern Song Dynasty. The territory they ruled was very wide, and the composition of the residents under their rule was extremely complex. There were not only Khitans, remnants of the Bohai Kingdom, and Han people, but also other surrendered ethnic groups in the northeast.

The original central management system of tribal alliance autonomy was no longer sufficient to cope with such a huge empire, so the rulers of the Jin Dynasty took the initiative to start the reform of the internal system of the Great Jin Dynasty.

Therefore, the territories of Liao, Song, and Western Xia occupied by the Jin army did not reach the level of truly effective occupation.