At midnight the next day, after cooking, I felt the order to set off.
The army will continue to march north!
By this time, Fang Jue was no longer afraid of any surprises.
Unless all the troops and horses from the south of Beiliang, hundreds of thousands of them, are placed in front of him, there is no need for Fang Jue to run away.
He wants to go north, continue to go north, and even provoke alone.
Luo Yang, come and face me if you have the guts!
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"This thing has been given to you for more than a month, and it hasn't been researched yet?"
Luo Yang was a little irritable. He dared to raise troops because he thought he could win. Another factor was firearms.
The musket gave him confidence, and he felt that as long as he successfully imitated it, he could defeat the troops of the Beiliang court, and from now on the world would only exist in Daxia and Beiliang.
As a famous general with forward-looking vision, Luo Yang fell in love with the musket at first sight and felt that this thing should be a magical weapon.
So when heading north, Luo Yang gave one of the two muskets he had obtained to the most capable Beiliang craftsman he had recruited.
Let them study it.
After taking it apart, every part can be carefully looked at, recorded, and drawn...
Then it got stuck here.
The next step should be imitation.
They also tried it and even came up with the first finished product very quickly.
Because there was a traitor, Luo Yang also knew how to use a musket, and then he tried the gun excitedly.
Fortunately, he was quite cautious and did not take action himself.
After two shots, the man who tested the gun died because the explosion caused a shrapnel that ruptured the unlucky guy's neck artery.
Counterfeit muskets are indeed very attractive, but quality issues cannot be avoided.
They couldn't find any materials that could be used to forge the muskets, so they were all replaced by iron materials, which led to this result.
For one month in a row, the results have not improved.
Only then did Luo Yang understand the disdain Young Master Daxia had for him when they first met.
He thought it could be easily copied, but it turned out that Beiliang did not have the industrial capabilities.
"Luo Shuai, we have tried our best. This is a divine weapon. It is not easy to imitate its appearance. The soul of the weapon is missing, so naturally it cannot be as brave as the original." The craftsman in charge explained this way.
Luo Yang didn't believe in immortals at first, so he muttered when he heard this: "Is it really the iron from heaven that can be used to forge this artifact?"
He was very reluctant, but he had no choice. If there was a problem with the craftsmanship, he could blame the craftsman, but it was hard to blame the craftsman for a problem with the materials.
"Forget it, but the drawings and craftsmanship must be retained. Once a suitable material is found in the future, it must be copied!"
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"Ha ha."
On the march, Fang Jue received a message from a spy from Beiliang Xuanjian Division and smiled from ear to ear.
"Why is the general laughing?" everyone asked.
Fang Jue handed them the secret message: "Luo Yang got the musket. He wanted to imitate it, and he killed the traitor as soon as he tried the gun."
"What?" Wei Feng was shocked when he heard that Luo Yang had obtained the musket, but he immediately laughed after hearing it.
"Traitor? General, are you talking about the traitor who lurked in our imperial army, stole the musket outside Suzhou and threw himself into Beiliang?" Lin Beidao.
"It was him who was blown up by Luo Yang's crude imitation musket. I laughed to death." Fang Jue laughed so hard that he leaned forward and backward on the horse, holding on to the reins to keep from falling off.
"Hahaha..." Everyone laughed in unison.
"You really deserve it!"
"Luo Yang prides himself on being smarter than others, but he never thought that such an unexpected thing would happen, haha."
"This is the great general's divine weapon. How could an ordinary person like Luo Yang imitate it? Wouldn't he be punished by God?"
"It's a pity. It would have been better if Luo Yang himself was the one testing the gun. Then we would have saved work."
Amid laughter, the army has arrived outside Linzhou.
At nightfall, the army was stationed in a plain. I felt that the terrain here was low, so I looked at the map.
I discovered that a large river that should have existed on the map seemed to have dried up in the summer and was no longer visible in the winter, and the wide river bed was revealed.
"Send the order immediately and set up camp on Banpo!" Fang Jue wanted to change positions.
Just as he was about to give the order, Wei Ran came: "General, I have seen the terrain map. This should be the main channel of the Linjiang River..."
Before Wei Ran finished speaking, Fang Jue said: "You and I have thought of a place, send the order quickly, set up camp immediately and stay away from the river!"
A burst of fireworks rose into the sky, and the whole army was on alert. The soldiers who were just about to go to sleep also got up, immediately put on their clothes and ran out of the camp.
"Where are the scouts?" Fang Jue asked.
The army began to move things, and then the scout camp came.
"Let me ask you, did the scouts find any local scouts near Linjiang today?" Fang Jue said.
"Back to the general, I saw them, but after they saw us setting up camp, they ran away without making any move."
Fang Jue asked: "Why not retaliate?"
"This... this is a very common thing. Our army has gone deep into Beiliang. Naturally, we may encounter scouts at any time. As long as we don't find the army, we will not report it directly to the general."
"Who suggested setting up camp here?" Fang Jue asked again.
"We discussed it together, but we neglected it at the time." Several generals came and realized the problem.
The river is wide and flat, which is really suitable for camping. Generally, if you check that there are no traps hidden by enemies, you will set up camp.
"Where's the bridge over the river?"
"I just didn't see the bridge. I didn't realize until now that this is the Linjiang River bed."
In Linzhou in winter, heavy snow covers many things. Although the terrain is roughly the same, it is no longer easy to identify at a glance.
If he hadn't looked at the map carefully, Fang Jue wouldn't have known that this was the Linjiang River bed.
Then he immediately became alert.
Because Linjiang leads to black water and is an important waterway in Beiliang, this river has almost never dried up, but at this time the riverbed was exposed.
All the bridges were knocked down without a trace, and the mud on the river bed had long since dried up and been covered in heavy snow, so no one realized that this was a river.
Fang Jue's face was cold and blue: "What a Luo Yang, we have already planned to get here. Even if we are not stationed on the river bed, we will have to fight with our backs after crossing the river."
Naturally, Luo Yang couldn't have been so clever and planned to intercept the water in Linjiang River just to hope that the water would flood the Daxia soldiers and horses.
As long as Daxia's army heading north crosses the river and Luo Yang orders people to open the floodgates and release the water, the army will have no way out.
At that time, the soldiers and horses in the direction of Linzhou will only need to station troops on the other side of the river to build fortifications and resist them. Daxia's soldiers and horses will be dragged to death!
"Be prepared for a rainy day and use your troops first. This Luo Yang is truly the third best general in the world." Several generals were amazed and had to accept some things.
It would be hard for them to imagine that the war could be fought like this.
"After their scouts go back and report the news of our camp, the upstream gate will be opened immediately... We don't have much time, so we need to take everything away quickly," Fang Jue reminded.
"General, should we cross the river to Linzhou, or return to Hanzhou?" someone asked.
Sun Yi: "Needless to say, of course we have to withdraw. It is clear that there is an ambush ahead."
"When they release the water, they won't be able to get through."
"Once the army passes, how will it cross the river when it comes back? And once it goes deep, we will be alone. We will be easily annihilated."
It is a taboo for military strategists to fight alone, especially when there is a big river behind them without even a bridge.
The officers started arguing, and Fang Jue was also thinking.
Going north is an excellent fighter plane, and there is a high probability that there will not be many defenders in the direction of Linzhou.
But once it goes north, the army becomes alone. After the Linjiang River rises, the army marching north to fight against the rebels will be trapped in Linzhou.
Once Luo Yang becomes determined and calls for an army to destroy Fang Jue's tribe, something big will really happen.
Unless, before Luoyang gets the chance, Linzhou is captured and the main road between Linzhou and Beiliang is blocked...
Bailong Snow Mountain...
Fang Jue narrowed his eyes.
"The letter that came last time said that Luo Yang is still in Mozhou, and he will never arrive in Linzhou in a short time. After we take Linzhou, there will be more than this way." Fang Jue said.
"General, what do you mean, keep moving forward and cross the river before the water is released?" Wei Ran frowned, and he didn't know whether this move was right or wrong.
Only Wei Feng supported Fang Jue: "General, even if there are tens of thousands of troops in front of us, our army will not be timid to fight!"
"Even so, can we still be afraid of the people from Beiliang?" Lin Bei was also fearless.
"The Emperor passed by this river back then, making Beiliang doubt his life, and brought Beiliang into the territory of Great Xia. Why should I be afraid?" Sun Yi also set an example.
"First let the cavalry go to the north to occupy the main road, and then the army will quickly attack and cross the river quickly!"
Since we set up camp not long ago, we still have time to go there.
Shortly after Fang Jue gave the order, the entire army crossed the river, and the scouts sent out to explore the front quickly returned. This chapter has been completed!