Xuanji hurriedly went down to receive the battle report. After scanning it several lines, he suddenly said with a smile: "My lord, good news, Wu Xiaolangjun has captured Fuyuan City. There are 20,000 defenders in the city, except for 13,000 who have been captured."
, and the rest either died or fled. Wu Xiaolangjun is sending a cavalry advance team to escort the prisoners to Yumen Pass, while he is leading his own cavalry to prepare to continue westward and continue to look for fighters."
Haotian asked in surprise: "They are cavalry, how could they capture Fuyuan?"
"The morale of the Uma garrison in Fuyuan City is not high to begin with, and the walls of Fuyuan City are only about two feet high. Wu Xiaolangjun used the stupidest but effective method. Some of the cavalry used bows and arrows to suppress the people at the top of the city.
The defenders and others each carried a bag of loess, and they easily laid out a gentle slope under the city wall. Seeing that there was nothing they could do, the defenders in the city fled out of the city. As a result, they fell into the hands of Lord Wu Xiaolang. Tang Jian and Dou
Guangye's cavalry covered him from both sides and captured most of the enemy immediately." Xuanji said succinctly.
Haotian smiled: "The Uma soldiers are too impatient. The five young men are all cavalry. Even if a road is paved, it will be difficult to capture Fuyuan City. Well, the generals in the city must not be protecting Jinchu
If it sinks with the smoke, it would never be so pustular."
"What my lord said is absolutely true. Fuyuan Guard General is the nephew of Tupuchidan, the leader of Uma Kingdom. His name seems to be Qingkabra." When Xuanji mentioned this name, he felt a little bit awkward.
Luo Xiang said in a deep voice: "My lord, my subordinates think that Wu Xiaolangjun can be sent to garrison Miyun City. They are the rising stars of our Hetao. Both Bian Shuai and Feng Shuai have always thought that they are very talented in the military. They moved to war that year.
Outside the Great Wall, they have proven their military talent, and the battle in Fuyuan further proves that they are not inflexible. What Miyun City needs is an elite team that is extremely aggressive, highly mobile but bold and careful.
I think they fully meet this condition."
Haotian pondered for a moment: "But, infantry is still needed to defend the city?"
"Mifeng City is under our control, and the pressure on Yumen Pass has been greatly reduced. General Situ's Canglang Army can dispatch 20,000 infantry to station in Miyun to make up for the lack of defensive power."
Haotian hesitated for a moment. There were only 50,000 Canglang Legions, including 40,000 infantry. If 20,000 were transferred to Miyun City, then the strength of Yumen Pass would be a bit weak. However, considering that the two can be the horns of each other, Haotian
I think we can still seek Situ Lie's opinion.
"I have no objection, my subordinates. But who will listen to the orders of the two troops transferred?"
Haotian said without hesitation: "Of course I still listen to you. The Longxiang Army is a pure cavalry army and is destined to be impossible to defend the city, so you need to pay more attention here. Don't think that it is none of your business when the 20,000 people arrive in Miyun.
, I tell you that you must take charge of the Yumenguan area."
Situ Lie said quickly: "Lord, don't worry, as long as I, Situ Lie, am still alive, there will definitely be no problem with what you told me."
Many years later, when Tiansha Wang and others recalled Tu Lie, one of the nine founders of the Anguo Company, everyone present was extremely sad when they mentioned his words. This minister was completely promoted by Queen Tianyi.
, and finally lived up to Her Majesty the Queen’s expectations and became an immortal monument on the Western Continent.
"In the next two months, the Blood Killing Army, the Tiger Army, the Qilin Army, the Snow Lion Army and the Canglang Army will have a good fight with the three northwest tribes in the west of Miyun City. Remember, our goal is
Training, but in addition to training, the garrison in Miyun City must not forget their responsibilities. You must exert your combat effectiveness as much as possible. Before we advance into the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun, we must weaken Mandan's war potential as much as possible.
!" Haotian said decisively.
Xue Sha and the others cheered loudly, but Haotian always felt that something was missing. After looking around, he realized that it was because he didn't have Dugu's unique gangster tone, which made him somewhat uncomfortable. Alas, this old gangster would
It's also a good thing to go further away. The generals in the army have been with him for a long time, and all of them have been infected with his hooligan habits. In the long run, the Hetao army will most likely become a group of ruffians.
Dugu didn't know that Haotian was actually thinking about him. He was currently leading 50,000 soldiers from the White Tiger Legion, the Legion of Honor, and the Rock Legion to wander under the city of Getis.
During the military reorganization of Hetao, Prince Demojia of the Sashan Dynasty led an army of 100,000 to attack Jiayuguan. Although he was killed by Wu Xiaolangjun and abandoned his armor, he still managed to escape with tens of thousands of remnant troops.
But this Liangzi was remembered by Hetao. In fact, the Hetao military did not have any ill feelings towards Sashan, so they did not want to go to war with Sashan.
To be honest, except for the soul-eating commanders Lu Bumi and Sa Shan, who had a hatred for destroying their families, the other generals in the Hetao army included Bian Zhongxing, who had fought against Sa Shan several times, and Chun, who had been stationed at Jiayuguan for a long time.
Sword reward, no interest in attacking Sa Shan.
Shenzhou and Sashan belong to two different cultural systems. The center of Sashan's rule is in the southern part of the Central Continent. It is a country that combines politics and religion. Before the rise of Sani religion, there was no Sashan here. During the Han and Tang Dynasties
, the southern part of the Central Continent has always been the territory of the Parthian Kingdom, and has always been a friendly country with the Shenzhou Dynasty. Even in the Han and Tang Dynasties when the Shenzhou Empire was the most powerful, the Shenzhou army did not step into the territory of the Parthian Kingdom. And every day in the Celestial Dynasty
Whenever a dynasty changes, or a new emperor succeeds to the throne, the Parthian Kingdom and its successor kingdoms will send envoys. In this sense, the Celestial Empire actually has a lot of affection for the Central Continent.
Although Parthia has become Sashan, the Celestial Empire has no intention of restoring itself as a friendly country. According to the usual practice, the two sides should send envoys to each other to become friends again. However, Sashan's ambitions are too great, and Sani religion is essentially
It is a very expansion of the integration of politics and religion. The legendary East is a paradise where gold flows with milk and honey. The kings of the past generations are extremely yearning for the distant East, especially the current Agathaos
, and even more eager to spread the glory of the Great God Sani throughout the entire land of China. Therefore, after the decline of the Qingfeng Empire, Sashan couldn't wait to take action against Qingfeng's traditional sphere of influence, the Thirty-six Kingdoms of the Western Regions and the Luoche Dynasty.
The Hetao military was a little annoyed with Sashan's actions. It's right to expand, and it's right to take advantage of others' troubles and add insult to injury. But you also have to look at your capital. The Celestial Dynasty has been inherited for thousands of years. Although there have been successful foreign invasions, they all ended up in Shenzhouzi.
The resistance of the people has become the ashes of history. Moreover, the Celestial Empire does not seem to be weak to this extent. Not to mention, the Hetao alone is already an indispensable military force in the Eastern Continent. You are so powerful, Sashan
, there are some small city-states to the west, and to the southeast is the Mauryan Dynasty, which also has a long history and is rich and weak. Why do you always think about the Celestial Empire? Are the Bloody Plateau and Jiayuguan really so easy to fight?
There is no deep hatred between Hetao and Sashan. Speaking of which, the two sides collided at Jiayuguan Pass for a few years at most, causing the death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. However, people must die in a war. No one will deny this. As long as you don't
Why should I come to fight you if you have contaminated my territory? The current focus of Hetao is to regain the Sixteen Youyun Provinces first, and then unify the Shenzhou, and use all the strength of the country to wipe out the Jinhua Mitsukoshi and the six tribes outside the Great Wall as well as the Eastern Japanese Dynasty. As for Sashan
, it’s not a feud anyway, the most you can do is kill a few of our passing businessmen by unfair means. Then you send a team of envoys, and everyone can negotiate peacefully, and the two sides confirm friendly relations, and everything is settled, right?
However, the Thirty-six Kingdoms of the Western Regions and the Luoche Dynasty are the traditional territory of the Celestial Dynasty. Even if the Thirty-six Kingdoms of the Western Regions have now rebelled and established themselves, the Luoche Dynasty has become a vassal state of Qingfeng, but this is after all the territory of the Celestial Dynasty.
Regardless of the consideration, Shenzhou must make a strong counterattack. However, Hetao does not want a full-scale war with Sashan this time, but just wants to teach Sashan a little lesson and let them retreat. In the words of Marshal Dugu
To put it simply, we just want to express our attitude. Although the attitude was expressed not by a few envoys but by 200,000 soldiers. Considering that the scale here is difficult to grasp, and the main purpose here is to capture cities and territories, Haotian
Dugu was specially arranged here. There was originally another candidate for blood killing, but the bloody smell of blood killing was too strong. Maybe the first thing he would do as soon as he entered Sashan was to massacre. Although Dugu was better at killing than blood.
Killings are the same, but what makes him better than blood-killing is that he has no shame at all. He is always a ruthless person and is a rogue.
Rogues are best suited to handle these things.
Moreover, although the army led by Dugu has poor mobility and weak cavalry, Dugu himself is Qingfeng's first-class infantry combat general. Even if the infantry led by him faces the most powerful armored heavy cavalry in the Mandan, it will be difficult for him to do so.
Don't be afraid. He should not be able to defeat Sashan's camel soldiers and heavy cavalry.
Uncle Dugu was not in a good mood right now. He carried his Yan Ling Dao and faced the chilly northwest wind. He almost bared his teeth and shouted loudly: "Zhou Jilong, Long Zhishan, and Jiang Shenzhou, you guys
The infantry must run faster! Long Zheng, slow down your cavalry! Slow down! You can’t lose touch with the infantry! You are running so damn fast, believe it or not, sir, I will turn you all into infantry?”
The messenger quickly conveyed Dugu's order through the command flag.
"Where have Mu Shan's 50,000 soldiers arrived now?" Dugu Gan roared for a while, then suddenly remembered that the 50,000 Rock Legion soldiers led by Mu Shan had not yet appeared, and he couldn't help but frown and asked.
"General Mushan should be able to meet us in half a day. They went south from the Bloody Plateau on poor roads and at a slow speed. Moreover, they had to pass through the territory of the caravan and pass through the Sashan territory alone. In order to prevent the Sashan cavalry from attacking
General Mu had to slow down due to the surprise attack," Marching Commander Shi Li Donggao said quickly.
After Li Donggao returned to Hetao and was enlightened by Xuanji, he finally became a little wiser. According to the regulations of Hetao, all the history of the marching army was managed by Xuanji, while Chu Xiangcheng was responsible for the scribes who stayed in Hetao.
Although Xuanji is as aggressive and iron-blooded as the Hetao military, he has a literary background and is known for being elegant and modest in the Hetao military. In front of this knowledgeable and approachable superior, Even the pedantic Chen Han, Li Donggao and the aloof and idiosyncratic Meng Xiaoting all admired him.
Xuanji naturally knew the virtues of his military colleagues. When these guys were drinking, they would brag about where they had chopped off which general and how many heads they had. How could these military generals talk about them all day long? Do the sour scholars who believe in benevolence, righteousness and morality have the same view? Li Donggao's luck is pretty good. His predecessor, a rotten scholar who failed to pass the imperial examination for more than thirty years, was nagging in Dugu's ears all day long about virtue. To govern a country with benevolence and teach people to have fraternity towards the barbarians outside the Great Wall, Dugu was so angry that after a battle, he directly added the name of this rotten scholar to Haotian's battle report. Needless to say, Dugu He was conveniently thrown on the battlefield as a death squad.
Later, Xuanji was always worried that Li Donggao would follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, but fortunately, after God knew about it, he said a few words to Dugu in private. Dugu had no control over his sister, so although Li Donggao still Just as annoying as his predecessor, but still managed to save his head.
Xuanji was different from the tough guys in the military who only knew about killing and revenge. He had a long-term vision. When all the Hetao army returned and completed the military reform, Xuanji had clearly realized that the rise of Hetao was unstoppable and a huge A bloodthirsty, tough, tough, and terrifying new empire has taken shape. If Haotian was only prepared to be a border minister before, now Haotian obviously has some ambitions to dominate the world. And with the strength of Hetao, as long as he takes back Youyun Sixteen Prefectures, even though Xuanji had considered various unfavorable factors, he still did not think that the Qingfeng royal family and the three major aristocratic families could sustain the attack of Hetao for two years.
We can conquer the world immediately, but we cannot rule the world immediately. Based on the current situation of the military and political parties in Hetao, it is destined not to follow the path of Yanwu, Xingwen, and Confucianism. It will definitely be a powerful empire with warlike iron blood flowing from its bones. But it is easy to be strong. Therefore, blind rigidity cannot guarantee the longevity of the regime, and enlightenment with culture and virtue is indispensable. In Xuanji's vision, a powerful empire should be a combination of rigidity and softness, with equal emphasis on foreign Confucianism, internal Confucianism, France, farmers, merchants, and soldiers. Although this vision It's very vague, but at least there is such a hope. Although Li Donggao and others are a bit pedantic, they are old people who fought with Dugu and other military generals after all. If they enter politics in the future, they will definitely be able to reduce the resistance of the military, and now Training also helped to cultivate their abilities. After Xuanji's careful enlightenment, Li Donggao and others finally understood Xuanji's good intentions and restrained themselves to some extent. When facing Dugu and others, they began to Combining his own theoretical knowledge with the actual situation, he embarked on the path of integrating theory with practice before Confucianism governed the country and brought peace to the world.
Dugu frowned slightly. Mu Shan is a general who can fight tough battles, similar to Zhou Jilong and others under his command. Although he is better than Zhu Xigao and others, there is still a gap compared with Lu Zhen. With Mu Shan also had the experience of fighting side by side, and Dugu knew Mu Shan's strengths very well. Thinking of this, Dugu shouted in a deep voice: "Let Mu Shan go more safely, and don't let Sa Shan take advantage of it. The small school in Wengche is weak, and some time ago it was still If you come all the way to our Hetao to pay homage to the mountain, you probably don’t have the guts to challenge us. However, you should be careful and don’t forget that Hebijiali, the leader of Sashan’s army, was easily wiped out by the Scarlet Clan.”
"Vulgar! Do you still worship the mountain? Do you think you are still a bandit on Yizhou Road?" Li Donggao secretly despised him, but he quickly wrote down Dugu's words and continued to ask: "Commander Du, let's march at the current speed.
, we will be able to reach the city of Getdis at noon tomorrow morning."
From Jiayuguan to Getis City, if the infantry marched at full speed, the distance of 180 miles would actually take less than two days. However, Dugu conducted military exercises along the way, and the speed naturally dropped a lot. Coming from Jiayuguan,
Most of the way along the way was the Gobi desert. Although there were many oases in it, Dugu was not familiar with the terrain and did not dare to move forward at full speed, so it had already taken five full days.
"Don't worry, we have plenty of time. Li Donggao, you are the commander of the march. You must clearly remember the route we took along the way and the water sources we passed, and mark them on the map. Although we don't want to go into full-scale war with Sa Shan, but
With this map, we can at least give them a proper hammering."