Chapter 162 Anxi encounters obstacles, Anbei sits and watches
After two days of recuperation, Su Ce and the second prince Zhao Zaixiao left Huyi, entered Fengzhou, followed Jialing, visited the seven prefectures along the river, passed Yizhou, took a boat tour along the river, and experienced thirteen prefectures, which lasted seven months.
Arrive in Hangzhou at the end of the month.
Suzhou Yangshan, Qinzhi Yuhangshan, and the Zhechong Prefecture shared by Suzhou and Hangzhou are placed here. However, Zhechong Prefecture was added in the first two years, and Yuhang Zhechong Prefecture was split into two Zhechong Prefectures in Suzhou and Hangzhou.
This is the Zhechong Mansion belonging to the Annan Protectorate. Su Ce is here just to revisit his old place. Because Su Ce's family moved to Chang'an, Su Ce's current military status is listed in the Zhechong Mansion in Chang'an.
Chang'an Zhechong Mansion does not have a residence, because the military status of all nobles is under the name of Chang'an Zhechong Mansion.
Zhe Chong Mansion is still there, but Su Ce can no longer find his old friend. He came here in good spirits and returned home in confusion.
After walking for another two days, Su Ce and his wife Wang Lan returned to the place where they grew up, Dahu Village outside Hangzhou, the familiar small village in the south of the Yangtze River, the big lake, terraced fields, thatched huts, yellow dogs, cooking smoke... familiar but unfamiliar.
The Su family moved away, leaving Wang Lan's natal Wang family still here.
The second prince, Zhao Zaixiao, did not follow him this time. He went to Jinling City to catch up with the fourth prince.
When Su Ce and his party arrived at Dahu Village, the peace of the small lakeside village was broken.
Although Daqian's navy trains in Taihu Lake all year round, and the people of Dahuzhuang often see the army, there are many infantry navy in the south, but cavalry is very rare.
Luo Yang arrived at Dahu Village earlier than Su Ce and his party. The Wang family, young and old, had been waiting at the entrance of the village for a long time.
Su Ce saw his father-in-law Wang Feng, his eldest uncle Wang Anjiang, and his second uncle Wang Anhe from a distance. At this time, there was no Jingyang county uncle in Daqian, and there was no military leader of the Northern Army. There was only Su who brought his daughter-in-law back to her parents' home.
Policy.
To be honest, Su Ce was a little afraid of his father-in-law, who made him kidnap his little girl.
"I've met my father-in-law!" Su Ce had a flattering smile on his face. He had no choice but to see his father-in-law, who was born half-short.
"Wonderful son-in-law, do you remember having me as your father-in-law? My Lan'er has been away from home for four years. Those who know say that the journey is too far, but those who don't know think that my Lan'er has eloped with that heartless man!" Mr. Wang doesn't care what Su Ce is.
Identity, no matter how hard it is, it's my father-in-law who teaches a stupid son-in-law a lesson.
"Grandpa!" Wang Lan opened the curtain on the carriage and saw her father at a glance. The father in his memory did not have so many gray hairs. Wang Lan quickly got out of the car and threw herself into her father's arms.
"Where is my good granddaughter?" Mr. Wang asked angrily, looking at the empty carriage.
"My son-in-law came out this time to inspect various Zhechong mansions. The road was bumpy, so he was too tired to take it with him." Su Ce lowered his head and answered his father-in-law in a soft voice.
"Huh!" Mr. Wang glanced sideways at Su Ce, snorted angrily, and quickly wiped the tears on his daughter's face. These were not tears, they were clearly the heart of the old father.
"Grandpa, my sister and brother-in-law haven't been back for a long time. Let's go home first!" My uncle Wang Anjiang said to resolve the embarrassment at this time.
When they arrived at the Wang family, although the Su family left their property to the Wang family, the Wang family did not rely on their son-in-law's influence and remained a small family. Su Ce knew that this was because he did not want to cause trouble to himself.
Even the eldest uncle and second uncle who were studying did not become officials. Instead, they converted the former Su family's residence into a private school, and the two of them became teachers.
This is sacrificing his son's future, and the purpose is not to cause trouble to Su Ce. This kind of kindness is also the reason why Su Ce has to be dwarfed in front of Mr. Wang.
Or it could be said that rough men in the military are sharp. Although they don't understand the things in the court, they are extremely keen on danger. Su Ce is in the military, and if his two uncles become officials, if a civil servant gets the handle, Su Ce will
It was difficult to make a plan, so the two uncles and father-in-law discussed it and built a private school. It was said that they were from a good family.
The Wang family became full of laughter because of Wang Lan's return. Su Ce wanted to play with his childhood friends in Dahu Village, but he always felt uncomfortable. Maybe life would eventually smooth everything out, and Su Ce no longer had this desire.
In the Wang family, my heart flew to the north.
"Luo Yang, please tell the second prince of Jinling that it's winter, so don't leave now. We'll set out in the spring next year. Send a message to Chang'an's house, saying that the new year will be spent at Wang's house!" Su Ce gave Luo Yang instructions and left.
Lived like a salted fish.
Now, the commanders of the other five armies are handing over their power, and some are causing chaos. Su Ce is hiding out and having a good time when he leaves Chang'an. If he stays in Chang'an, it will inevitably put too much pressure on the other five armies.
In the hands of the old commander, the strength of the Northern Army has increased too much. Now in the military, the Northern Army alone accounts for 40% of the power, and the remaining 60%, the three frontier armies and the northern and southern Yaling Guards each account for 10%.
The replacement of old and new in the other five armies will inevitably lead to turmoil. If Su Ce still stays in the north, the saint will not worry, and the three provinces, six departments, nine temples and five prisons will also not worry. After all, that is 40% of the army. Su Ce cannot stay in Chang'an, so
You can't even stay in the north.
If there is such a threat to the Sage's imperial power, the Sage will definitely have to eliminate and defeat it. However, the Northern Army lacks Li Sizhe and Su Ce, and without Su Ce, there will be Li Ce and Liu Ce. They cannot move.
As for the other three armies of the border army, they don’t want the leader of the Northern Army to stay in Chang’an. The three armies all need a fair platform. Chang’an was the territory of the Sixteenth Guards of Nanya.
Not to mention the army, the army leader can only be from the royal family.
It's not even the twelfth lunar month, the ice on the canal has just frozen, and Su Ce has to return to Chang'an. The prince can't move!
The prince was worried, but Su Ce was not in a hurry to return to Chang'an. The Anbei line also sent 150,000 troops to support him. The saint asked Su Ce to return to Chang'an. As long as the saint did not hand over the authority of the Northern Expedition to the Anbei line,
Then Su Ce would not enter Chang'an for a day.
Winter is cold, but not as cold as Su Ce.
It's not that the prince's army will be unable to attack in winter, but that it will be unable to attack in June.
The prince led his army out of the border in April, and three armies penetrated directly into the hinterland of Rus. In May, the combined army confronted the Jiuhu and Rus coalition forces. At this time, Rus's Jiuhu had 400,000 troops, including 300,000 Rus and 100,000 Jiuhu.
It is also the last elite, and the prince's account only has 100,000 old soldiers from Anxi, 50,000 mausoleum guards and 3,000 brigades.
The prince led his army to camp fifty miles north at the northern foot of Langyan Mountain, waiting for the winter before fighting again. However, what they had to face at this time was no longer the 400,000-strong army of Ross Jiuhu. The cold in the north was the main enemy of the army.
If it weren't for the saint taking advantage of the fact that the Anbei army leader was away, the Duke of Chu was sent a secret edict from the saint to close the gate of the Duke's mansion, and then he forced the Anbei Protectorate to send 150,000 troops. However, the 150,000 army just left the third pass and sat down.
The northern foothills of Langyan Mountain are not to the north.
Although they did not fight Jiuhu Luosi as the saint intended, the prince's army still had a safe way out.
Otherwise, the prince would have been besieged by a large army. Defeating a large number with a small number is certainly a supreme achievement, but those who are good at fighting have no outstanding military exploits. The original plan for Anbei was to overwhelm 300,000 elites and 200,000 auxiliary troops, and decide the outcome in one battle.
, but the prince overestimated the combat power of Anxi's lineage.
The Anxi lineage's power in the Western Regions has never been due to the bravery of the soldiers, but the heavy crossbows set up on the camel city and the flat terrain of the Western Regions.
The north is bitterly cold and far away from the hinterland of the Central Plains. Ordnance has always been in short supply. When the baggage is not enough to overwhelm the enemy, we can only rely on the bravery of the sergeants. The Anbei line is unique among the Sixth Army. It relies on more than just occupying 40% of the army.
The number of soldiers and the bravery of the Northern Army are fundamental.
The northern land is bitterly cold, and behind those enemy soldiers who have grown up in the bitter cold are their peers who died young. Therefore, each army has its own strengths. The soldiers from the Anxi line and the soldiers from the Anbei line have combat experience and growth.
There is no room for emphasis at all. Now that there is no spare power to attack and he is unwilling to retreat, Prince Zhao Zaicheng is in a dilemma. As for Qi Guogong's Anxi lineage, the water far away cannot quench their thirst at this time, and the main army is still thousands of miles away in the Western Regions.
The saint also had a headache. The old commander Li Sizhe retired to seclusion, the new commander Su Ce left Chang'an, and the Chu State Gongxiang City closed the palace. The only action of the entire Anbei line was to send 150,000 troops to be ready to rescue the prince after the defeat. As for the others
, although it was Zepao, when the Anxi line devoted its troops to the main attack direction of the Anbei line, the old grievances between the two armies a hundred years ago were revived.
Exterminating Jiuhu is the obsession of the Anbei people. Langyan Mountain is also the limit of Daqian's northward expansion. The land further north is frozen for six months of the year. How could the Daqian people do this in such a bad land?
Looks good.
For hundreds of years, the soldiers of the Anbei line have sacrificed their lives to finally come to an end, but in the end, the Anxi line was asked to send troops. After such a disrespectful thing happened, the military morale of the Anbei line had already been shaken.
Even Su Ce, whose military heart is now in the Anbei lineage, cannot make the Anbei lineage help the Anxi lineage with one heart and one mind.
The human heart is the most complex.
Nowadays, the soldiers of the Anxi line are eager to suffer the hardships of the Anxi line, so how can they sincerely help Anxi achieve supreme feats?
Su Ce and the helpless second prince only walked twenty miles a day, or even five miles a day.
This was not because Su Ce ignored the saint's will, but because the road ahead was blocked and the convoy was not allowed to pass.
Falling stones blocked the road, dead trees blown down by the cold wind, and icy roads...
There were always bad road conditions waiting for Su Ce every day. The second prince wrote more and more anxious secret letters with blisters on his lips, but the road was impassable and there was nothing he could do if he was anxious.
Although a discerning person could tell at a glance that someone was causing trouble, the official road was not damaged, but there were always more things on the road that made the carriage move faster.
As for who placed these things, the second prince Zhao Zaixiao asked Su Ce more than once, but Su Ce could only spread his hands to express his ignorance and helplessness.
As for Su Ce, he couldn't say that it was because he signaled the sword department to cause trouble in front of him.
Once Su Ce failed to obtain the authority for the Northern Expedition, he would have no choice but to return to Chang'an slowly.
At this time, in Chang'an City, Xiang Cheng, the newly promoted Duke of Chu State, was in his bedroom reading the essentials of the military formation. He saw the butler coming in a hurry. Xiang Cheng was lying on the bed with his hands and feet quickly, and stuffed two wooden balls under his armpits as usual.
, and then lay down on the bed, the housekeeper carefully covered him with a quilt, and then applied the modified bluish-purple wax rouge used by women on the lips of Gong Xiangcheng of Chu State.
The gray-haired imperial physician came in to check his pulse. He could faintly smell the delicate fragrance of woman's rouge on the tip of his nose. He looked at the face of Gong Xiangcheng of the state of Chu. The face smeared with beeswax was sallow, like gold paper, and he was about to die soon. He felt it with his fingers.
His pulse was fast and slow. He knew that Duke Chu was pretending to be sick, but he still gave the doctor's orders against his will.
Who in Chang'an City today doesn't know that General Xungui of the Anbei lineage is wrestling with the saint. He, a small imperial physician, should not get involved in the affairs, otherwise it will be diagnosed that the Duke of Chu is fine, and he will be the one who is sick.