Although the rainy season has passed, the Hetao army stayed on the north bank of the Xijiang River for a full half a month. Apart from the daily adaptability training, there was no combat movement at all. The two handsome generals Dugu Yuming and Xuesha in the Hetao except arriving every day
Looking at the scenery on the bank of the Xijiang River is like being in the camp facing endless deductions. This attitude made Cheng Guochi and others who were bent on fighting anxious.
"What are they waiting for?" Privately, Cheng Guochi said to Zhu Chiya and others more than once.
Zhu Chiya shook his head: "Who knows? Every day I see a large amount of combat materials being transported to the military camp, but there is no movement."
Fang Qinshan asked curiously: "What kind of supplies are they? It shouldn't be grain and grass. We have plenty of grain on Dahu Road. They don't need to transport it from Jiangbei."
Cheng Guochi and Zhu Chiya both shook their heads. Hetao policed these things very strictly. They didn't have the warrant to kill or Dugu, and they didn't even have the qualifications to intervene.
"Hetao, they don't trust us at all!" Fang Qinshan said in a low voice.
Cheng Guochi glanced at him and said sternly: "Shut up! The Dahu Road now is no longer the Dahu Road it used to be. You thought there were only a few of us and we could say whatever we wanted. If it spread, it would definitely
It’s no small trouble.”
Fang Qinshan stopped talking and sat aside with his head raised. Cheng Guochi snorted and said after a long time: "I don't know what the commander-in-chief was thinking at the beginning."
In fact, it's not that Hetao doesn't trust the Dingnan Army, it's just that it involves military secrets, and Blood Killing and others must be very cautious. However, it is indeed strange that the army is hoarded here and does not move. At least Chu Lianfeng and Li Xiaomo have come forward.
I have come to greet him several times, but there is no response from Xue Sha and Dugu.
While waiting like this, news suddenly came that the Hetao cavalry had passed through the defense line of the Great Wall and entered the outside of the Great Wall.
Xin Ke led the 100,000 cavalrymen of the Blue Dragon Army, and sent troops from Shanhaiguan to the north, burning, killing and looting all the way. The troops were directed towards Lidebao, the capital of the Haixi Kingdom. This was the largest army of the Celestial Dynasty since Emperor Honglie's army left the fortress nearly sixty years ago.
It was the first time I set foot on the land of Haixi. However, Emperor Chenglie's personal expedition that year had caused the half-million-strong army to be wiped out due to the collusion between the three northeastern kingdoms and the Goryeo Dynasty. But this time, Xinke led only one hundred thousand cavalry. After all,
No one can tell what the outcome will be.
Haixi is currently at war with the Sushenshiwei and other barbaric peoples in the country. They never expected that at this time, a group of Hetao cavalry would suddenly come out. Caught off guard, the local garrison lost consecutive battles, and Li Debao also lost
Precarious.
At the same time, Fengjing's cavalry suddenly rushed into the outside of the fortress from Yumen Pass. Together with Wu Xiaolangjun's Longxiang Legion, 150,000 cavalry were raging across the prairie like locusts. Wherever they passed, the green grassland was everywhere.
The pastures turned into nothingness, livestock carcasses were everywhere, countless herdsmen were either massacred or expelled, and the southern part of Tieying Qiumen was suddenly engulfed in war.
The grass in this season is not easy to ignite, but if you pour butter, mutton oil and fat on the tents, carpets and beddings of the herdsmen tribes along the way, and let them burn to their heart's content, the surrounding grass that is longer than a person's waist will soon burn.
It will be dried, and in the thick smoke, blown by the wind, it will spit out hot flames and extend into the distance.
Now is the time when the water and grass are plentiful. Even in the internal battles of the nomads, few people will set fire to the grasslands that the herdsmen rely on for survival. This kind of attack method is not only reducing the opponent's war potential.
, but to fundamentally cut off the lives of the people from the other side.
However, this is the result that Feng Jing wants, destroying the pastures of the nomads as much as possible, slaughtering their cattle and sheep, and burning the bedding and blankets that they rely on for survival during the winter, so that they will either starve to death or die in this cold winter.
freeze to death.
A war between two feuding nations can only end with the complete surrender of one party or the annihilation of the clan. When China was weak, the nomadic people had gained too much from China, and now it is time to spit it out with profits.
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Sitting on the horse, Feng Jing thought with a smile. Looking up, the end of the sky was full of thick black smoke, and a large grassland was set alight by the Hetao cavalry. I believe that with the help of the strong wind, at least another
It will stretch for dozens of miles. These are the lifeblood of the nomadic people.
Chu Lianfeng didn't understand what the Hetao army on the north bank of the Xijiang River was waiting for, nor did Li Xiaomo, but Xue Sha and Dugu knew it quite well.
Time, it will take some time for the Hetao, so the vegetation after the rainy season will become even more yellow, and the reeds on the riverside and the jungles of Mitsukoshi will all wither and turn yellow because of the departure of the rainy season.
Hetao is waiting for the fruits of the tung trees to become more mature. The southern Yunnan area and Jinhua Mitsukoshi are very similar in this regard. In their dense primitive jungles, tung trees and other trees with extremely high oil content account for a large proportion of the trees.
In large proportion, this is also the largest tung oil producing area in the Eastern Continent. In late autumn, as long as a fire is set, at least several hills can be burned.
At the same time, the Hetao is also waiting for the wind. After September, the south wind from the ocean will gradually weaken and be replaced by the north wind from the prairie outside the Great Wall. Although it is not obvious in September, and the north wind blows down
On the south bank of the Xijiang River, the power was already quite weak, but wind was better than no wind.
There is no shortage of food on Dahu Road. Even after the tragic massacre, there is still no shortage of food on Dahu Road. The mature and prudent Ouyang Jingzhong has long stocked up a large amount of food in Hongzhou City. The amount of food is so large that
It can fully support the consumption of Hetao's million-strong army for half a year. However, this war cannot last for half a year. At least, Xuesha and Dugu both agree that the war will end in two months, or at most three months.
The strategic materials that are continuously transported to the Hetao Military Camp are not food or arrows, but tung oil, kerosene, and countless fire-kindling materials.
If it weren't for Haotian's order to destroy Jinhua Mitsukoshi by any means, even with his lonely audacity and bloodthirsty nature, he would not dare to use fire attack. Because with the fire, the entire Jinhua
The entire Mitsukoshi area was destroyed.
Xue Sha and others do not feel sorry for those monkeys of Mitsukoshi. What they feel sorry for is these primitive jungles and the rich species and rare and exotic animals in them.
I'm afraid no one would believe that the Hetao general, who was always known for his killing and bloodthirsty, would actually pay such attention to the ecological environment and those rare and exotic animals, even more than human life. Unfortunately, this is the fact.
In order to reduce the damage to the soldiers, in order to resolve the Jinhua Mitsukoshi war as soon as possible, in order to kill the chickens and scare the monkeys to warn those with evil intentions in the empire, and for the great shame of a two-legged sheep in a day of snow, the monarch of Hetao, that young emperor,
Such an order was finally issued. The hero of one nation often becomes the devil of another nation. Without the scabbard of his sword, the young king finally waved his sword with abandon, which was enough to turn the world into disgrace.
"My lord is going to come in person to pay homage to the woman who died tragically that day, and all the mistresses will be accompanying her," Dugu said unhurriedly.
Xue Killer didn't even raise his head, but said lightly: "You mean, we should take action?"
Dugu nodded.
Xue Sha finally raised his head. The expression on his face was quite dull, and his eyes were full of softness. Looking at Dugu's determined expression, Xue Sha finally agreed: "Okay!"
No one thought that with such a good word, a bloody storm would begin.
In mid-September of 625 in the Chinese calendar, nearly a million troops in the Hetao River suddenly launched a fierce attack on a thousand-mile defense line from the mouth of the Xijiang River in the east to southern Yunnan in the west. At the same time, the Goryeo Navy cruising in the South China Sea also acted at the same time.
For a time, Jinhua Mitsukoshi was in turmoil and war was raging.
This time it was a real war.
This attack in Hetao was neither a cavalry assault nor an infantry sweep, but rather arson all the way.
The place where the fire will be set first is still on the South Yunnan Road, and Wubi Cangxiong's Snow Wolf Legion serves as the vanguard. Since the cavalry is of little use in this place, Wubi Cangxiong simply orders all the soldiers to dismount, with 50,000 cavalry and Mushan's infantry
Cooperating with each other, one on the left and one on the right went south from Yingyi Prefecture.
Southern Yunnan has been an inhabited area of ethnic minorities since ancient times. According to statistics, there are as many as sixty or seventy ethnic minorities on the South Yunnan Road. However, there are only five of them with the largest population and the most prosperity. Of course, there are only four now. After the Keshui tribe suffered a tragic defeat that day,
, had been expelled from the major clans in southern Yunnan, and then rebelled in Hetao. As a result, the angry Haotian ordered them all to be dragged to Niantian Holy Capital to build a city. Now, Shuizheng's head is probably staring up at the blue sky in a daze among the white bones.
The ethnic minorities in southern Yunnan took advantage of the high mountains and deep forests and the remoteness of the place to refuse to obey the king at all. When the empire was not weak, they would definitely add insult to injury and take advantage of the situation. Once the empire became strong, they would immediately submit to the emperor. This cycle continued from the king to the world.
The dynasty began and lasted for thousands of years,
For thousands of years, because southern Yunnan has always been a barbaric land with no value at all in the hearts of scholars from the Central Plains, the Central Plains dynasty's management of southern Yunnan has been a mere formality. Local chieftains and tribal chiefs of ethnic minorities have little regard for this place.
It has a deep-rooted influence.
However, southern Yunnan is not entirely populated by ethnic minorities. In the two prefectures of Yingyi in the north, they are mainly Chinese people. When the Song family ran this place, they even expelled all the ethnic minorities here to the southern region. However, the Song family was defeated.
After that, the ethnic minorities in southern Yunnan came back and enslaved and massacred the Chinese people in Yingyi and Yizhou. Now that the Hetao army was marching south, these Chinese people who had been oppressed before were naturally excited. They ate their pots of pulp one by one and supported the Hetao army.
The forest trees that had dried up for a month were deliberately set on fire by the Hetao, and smoke billowed into the sky. As the fire burned, strong winds soon started blowing under the movement of airflow. The wind helped the fire, and the fire became stronger.
With increased power, the entire mountainous area of southern Yunnan was suddenly engulfed in a sea of flames.
Mu Shan stared at the raging fire in front of him. Although it was no less than a hundred meters away, the power of the fire still made the Hetao general feel a faint pain. In front of his eyes, towering ancient trees that were hundreds or even thousands of years old were accompanied by beeping, popping, and popping sounds.
The sound turned into a dead tree and finally turned into ashes. Countless animals fled from the woods in embarrassment. Their furs were either burned out or burning. The mournful chirping of various birds came from the air. They
Not only did he lose his home, he also lost his companions.
The mountainous areas of southern Yunnan are crisscrossed by high mountains and deep ravines. This is an extension of the Bloody Plateau. The snow water flowing from the Bloody Plateau intersects through the jungles of southern Yunnan, forming rivers. The fire spreads downwards, and only those encountered
Only with such river flows could the fire be stopped. However, the Loop quickly crossed these rivers and then ignited the primitive jungle of another mountain range.
"General Mu, General Wubi Cangxiong has ordered the soldiers who stayed on Luoxe Road to block the border between southern Yunnan and Luoxe. As long as ethnic minorities from southern Yunnan rush out from here, they will be killed." Wei Yinshan, the infantry commander of the Panshi Army
Said one step forward.
Mu Shan nodded and said nothing. Wubi Cangxiong is a new recruit. He is eager to make contributions and will work hard. He will not disappoint anyone.
"Be careful when setting fires. As you did before, sending an advance team deep into the jungle to set fires is a very dangerous thing. If you are not careful, you will be surrounded by fires." Mu Shan said after thinking for a moment.
Wei Yinshan's forehead was dripping with cold sweat, and he quickly raised his hands and said: "Yes, General, we were indeed negligent at the beginning."
Anxious to burn down the spreading mountains as soon as possible, Wei Yinshan and other generals simply sent dozens of advance teams to bypass the burning mountains and go directly deep into the interior of southern Yunnan to set fire to the mountains. Although this improved efficiency, it also
It also brought great risks to the soldiers of these advance teams. If they were not careful, they would be killed in the sea of fire. As expected, Wei Yinshan's men alone lost more than 200 people. Some of them were accidentally set on fire.
They were eventually burned to death in fires. Some were captured and killed by local ethnic minorities.
"The four ethnic groups in southern Yunnan only have a small area, but they also want to rebel against the country and stand on their own?" Mu Shan snorted coldly. Mu Shan had never had a good impression of the ethnic minorities in southern Yunnan. In his opinion, these people were just a bunch of people who couldn't be fed.
When the owner is weak, he will pounce on you and bite you twice. However, for thousands of years, the Chinese dynasty has never really taught these barbarians a lesson because of their own face and the majesty of the heavenly dynasty. Because of this,
They were even more arrogant and arrogant. However, they did not expect that a monster regime like Hetao would arise on the mainland of China. From the lord to the ordinary soldiers, everyone was tough and decisive. They originally thought that it would last forever.
The army that was not coming finally came, and it was so brutal.
"General, Blood Commander's order." Mu Shan was deep in thought, and a soldier said, holding a secret letter of fire lacquer in both hands.
Mu Shan took it with one hand and casually looked at the intact paint, then tore off the seal and took a rough look at it. A smile suddenly appeared on the corner of Mu Shan's mouth.
The four tribes in southern Yunnan are quite powerful, with an army of at least 300,000 men. Therefore, we must not take it lightly. We can mobilize the Snow Wolf Legion as the vanguard.
Mu Shan casually crumpled the letter into a ball, and then threw it into the raging fire in front of him. He had considered the bloody killing quite comprehensively. Although he was still sitting on Dahu Road, he still had considerable knowledge of the southern Yunnan area where he had stayed.
I understand it well, so I wrote to give you some advice.
However, Mu Shan is not a fool. Maybe when he was first included in the Hetao army, he was still a little impulsive and irritable, but after being stationed on the Bloody Plateau for so many years, Mu Shan has become quite calm and cautious. He has already done this.
Thinking about it, otherwise Wubi Cangxiong, who is eager to show his military power, would not be allowed to take the initiative to attack the Yingzhou area. After all, Yingzhou is the territory of the Tan tribe, and Sha Dan has always been the leader of the four tribes in southern Yunnan. He will never tolerate provocation from outsiders.
For one's own dignity, of course, this outsider cannot be too strong, as is the case with the current Luozhe Dynasty.
"Come here, remind General Wubi Cangxiong that he should be careful not to take it lightly if the Tang clan counterattacks." Mu Shan said casually. The life and death of the Luo soldiers had nothing to do with him, but if he didn't remind him, he would be bound to do it when the time came.
He would be accused of sitting back and watching the destruction of friendly forces. However, how much Ubi Cangxiong could listen to such a reminder was not his concern.
However, Wubi Cangxiong didn't take Mu Shan's reminder to heart at all. The Luxue King who had just surrendered was very able to adapt to his current role, or he was very discerning and could distinguish the situation clearly. The fate of Dongwa
This king, who once had lofty ambitions, had been deeply warned, making him clearly aware of the consequences if he really went against Hetao. Therefore, when he actually surrendered to Hetao, he resolutely
He put aside his previous status and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the Hetao camp. He also hoped to use his current victory to prove his strength to Haotian. Therefore, regardless of the fact that he was leading cavalry, he resolutely advanced into the mountains of southern Yunnan.
After hearing this, Mu Shan just said coldly: "Let him go." He had completed the task of reminding him to be careful. As for how the newly returned commander of the Snow Wolf Legion would perform, that was up to him.
Things. From the bottom of his heart, Mushan even hoped that Wubi Cangxiong could make a mistake.
However, even Mu Shan, who had been mentally prepared, did not expect that Wu Bicangxiong would be defeated so quickly. At noon the next day, Lizhou's local snake, Sha Dan, the leader of the Tan tribe, faced the snow that the lone army was deep into.
The Wolves launched a counterattack.
Using three thousand soldiers to lure the enemy deep, and then using the dense mountains and forests in southern Yunnan as cover, and taking advantage of the Snow Wolf Legion's lack of familiarity with the land, they quickly mobilized 50,000 elite soldiers from the tribe. In a place called Tongtian Road in the north of Lizhou,
Ambushed two cavalry corps of the Snow Wolf Legion.
Sha Dan just sent people to block both ends of the Tongtiandao Canyon with rolling stones, and then did not engage in a head-on battle with the 20,000 cavalry in the canyon. He directly threw countless dead trees down, and then used a torch to block the 20,000 cavalry from the Snow Wolf Legion.
More than 20,000 war horses were all burned to death. It is sad to say that the intention of Hetao was to burn down southern Yunnan and eradicate the four ethnic groups in southern Yunnan. However, no one expected that Sha Dan would use the same method and bring a murderer to Hetao.