Han Xin is now leading his troops stationed on the edge of Lingnan New Road.
On the one hand, they are responsible for guarding the key gates of the new road to prevent people from coming from Lingnan - ordinary people coming over is fine, but the main purpose is to guard against the Baiyue army.
On the one hand, it is also responsible for supervising the maintenance of the remaining roads.
Although the large tribes south of Wuling such as Xiou Luoyue in South Vietnam have not yet been captured, part of the road can already be built, at least the most critical part.
The reason why this part is the most critical is because as long as this section of the road is under the control of the empire, the Central Plains army can easily go straight to the south of the Five Ridges and cross the most critical natural defense line in the Lingnan region-that is, the Five Ridges and Three Rivers.
This is also the main reason why Gu Xun sent him here, otherwise there would be no need to send him to Lingnan.
The war here isn't over yet, but it's not much different than it is.
As long as the Ling Canal is built, supplies from the Central Plains region will continue to be transported to Baiyue. The already crippled Xiou of South Vietnam will not be able to stop Ren Xiao and Zhao Tuo. The remaining Luo Yue will be unable to support himself and will fall sooner or later.
If you want to gain military glory, Lingnan is no longer a good place. Even the Northland, which is only infested by scattered nomadic tribes, is better than here.
After Gu Xun sent Han Xin to guard the main transportation routes, Neishitengdu simply put aside the military burden and focused on managing the internal affairs of Minzhong County and consolidating the rear.
"Han Xin, I really didn't expect you to look like this!"
In the Chinese army's tent at Han Xin's camp, Zhong Limei's voice sounded with laughter.
Han Xin sat in his seat, looking at his friend with a pair of dead eyes indifferently, as if he couldn't hear the other person's laughter at all:
"You don't seem to be any better than me."
"Much better than you, okay." Zhong Limei replied with a smile that never faded.
He was laughing at Han Xin's current state.
In his impression, Han Xin was like a lady who never left the house or walked out of the house. She seemed to never see the sun. Her skin was pale and her expression was sluggish, and she always looked like she had not woken up.
Now Han Xin looks lifeless except for the fact that his eyes are still like dead fish eyes, but his skin is at least eight degrees darker and rougher by more than one level, with redness even in the black!
From a patient with kidney deficiency who could never wake up, he became a coolie who had just escaped from a black coal kiln.
The environment in Lingnan was really bad. When Han Xin came here to lead his troops, he couldn't stay in the camp forever. Naturally, this kind of devastation was unavoidable.
Zhong Limei, who came all the way to find Han Xin, was similar. He was also much rougher, but still much better than Han Xin.
Han Xin ignored the topic - he had always been indifferent to unimportant things, and his appearance was an unimportant matter.
"Why did you come to me?"
"Isn't Lingnan about to start fighting again? I'm here to help you." Zhongli replied cheerfully.
"No matter how lively the war in Lingnan is, it has nothing to do with me." Han Xin rolled his eyes and replied, "If you are lucky, you may pick up some leftovers. If you are not lucky, you can only build roads honestly."
"You were personally sent by the Imperial Preceptor, but as a result, you can only squat in the rear and build roads, and you can't even go to the front line!?" Han Xin's answer was completely beyond Zhong Limei's expectation.
"The reputation of the Imperial Master is not always valid everywhere." Han Xin replied with a dry smile, "Ren Xiao and Zhao Tuo are very ambitious, and they are determined to swallow up all the fat in Lingnan.
inside."
"What's more, the fact that I was sent to guard the key route in and out of Lingnan has already seriously irritated them. Do you still expect them to give me some soup?"
"What do they two want to do?" Zhong Limei immediately understood the meaning of Han Xin's words and asked with a solemn expression.
Han Xin sneered, "It's hard to say now... what they want to do depends on what they can get from this battle in Lingnan."
"If we really let them grab enough profits, I'm afraid they will have the final say south of the Five Ridges."
"How dare they...? After attacking Lingnan, do they think no one can control him?" Zhong Limei was a little unbelievable.
Han Xin was much calmer and replied calmly, "It's normal to have other thoughts after staying in this damn place for a long time. It's too remote and isolated from the world."
"As long as the key points of the Five Ridges and Three Rivers are guarded, Lingnan will once again cut off all ties with the empire."
"If we want to fight back, there is little hope if there are only 200,000 to 300,000 people."
"Even so, the emperor will not spare them!" Zhong Limei replied immediately.
Ying Zheng hated betrayal the most. If Ren Xiao and Zhao Tuo really dared to separate themselves and establish themselves, he would not hesitate to attack Lingnan again.
Han Xin shrugged, "I didn't say they must rebel."
"They are not fools. It is impossible for them to really go against the empire. They are just a little cautious now."
"Well..." Zhong Limei shook his head and stopped worrying about the loyalty of Ren Xiao and Zhao Tuo. He is now an 'imperial traitor' and it's not his place to worry about such things. "In this case, you are like
If you stick it like a nail here, I'm afraid it will become a thorn in their side."
"They can't do anything until the Lingnan war is over." Han Xin didn't care at all.
"What about after the war is over?"
"By then, the pass will be almost completed." Han Xin replied, "I have 20,000 people under my command to guard the pass. If he can capture it within three months, I will change my surname to yours."
"Of course, the most critical issue for them is not how to defeat me, but how to solve the problem of food and drink."
Although Lingnan is suffering from hardships, after all, it is a vast land with abundant resources, covering an area that can cover almost half of the empire. It would be nonsense to say that it cannot support hundreds of thousands of people.
But after two or three years of hard work, the possibility of achieving self-sufficiency here is zero.
Prior to this, the entire Lingnan region needed supplies from the imperial court to survive, and all supplies had to be transported from the passes guarded by Han Xin.
Logistics supplies were in Han Xin's hands, and he was not worried about Ren Xiao and Zhao Tuo falling out.
Of course, he has to guard against the other party's small actions, such as assassination operations against him and infiltration and corruption of his officers.
In short, it is to prevent oneself from being attacked from within.
However, Han Xin is very confident in this regard and has nothing to say.
"Hmm...then how can I help?" Zhongli didn't see that Han Xin knew what he was doing, so he didn't ask any more questions and told him the purpose of coming here, which was to help Han Xin.
"You..." This question seemed to stump Han Xin. His lifeless eyes blinked a few times before he reluctantly replied, "How about you help me train my troops?"
The people under Han Xin were not new soldiers, but veterans who had experienced the first Lingnan War and survived. However, training soldiers was like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat, and you can't stop for a moment.
He has no battle to fight now, so he can only ask Zhong Limei to help train his troops.
He had dragged his family all the way here, so he couldn't let Zhongli make the trip in vain.
Zhong Limei also knew that his trip was destined to be in vain. Fortunately, his purpose was not just to help Han Xin, but to do anything to kill time.
"Okay, just train troops."
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It's night, in the East China Sea, outside the foggy area.
In the pitch-black ocean, the mirage was brightly lit, and the entire deck was shrouded in bright yellow firelight.
A large number of manpower was transferred to the three Yunpo Crossbows to prepare for launch.
This kind of crossbow machine looks like it contains a lot of black technology. In fact, it does have a lot of black technology. However, it does not operate fully automatically, and it is not even semi-automatic.
Each launch requires manual aiming, and the aiming process requires a large number of hands to assist in steering. The reset after shooting also requires external assistance.
All in all, the entire process requires a lot of manpower.
While the deck was in full swing, the highest point of the mirage, the Toad Palace, was also busy.
The Moon Goddess took the sisters Ehuang and Nvying directly to the top of the Toad Palace. In front of them was the stargazer modified according to the drawings provided by Donghuang Taiyi.
The entire instrument looks both simple and complicated. The material used looks like metal but lacks the luster that metal should have. It looks like wood but lacks the unique texture of wood.
To put it simply, the main structure of the stargazer is several overlapping hollow rings of different sizes surrounding the same center, and a base that is nothing special.
The complicated part is that the placement of these rings and the overlapping angles seem to be very particular and cannot be moved at will. At the same time, there are also very special lines with unknown purposes engraved on them.
"Ready to begin."
The Moon Goddess gave instructions to the two sisters, Emperor E and Nvying, and the latter immediately walked to both sides of the stargazer, one on the left and the other on the right.
The Moon God walked to the base below the stargazer.
On the periphery, Xinghun and other remaining senior officials of the Yin-Yang family gathered here, ready to watch the excitement.
Each of their astrology skills was more and more half-assed than the other, and they were just here to have fun and join in the fun. The Moon God didn't bother to chase them away, so he just let them go.
Following the look of the Moon God, Ehuang Nvying took action at the same time, folding her hands to form a seal to output her true energy, and the pure energy of water, blue, ice and white was instantly poured into the stargazer.
The stargazer that received the 'energy' also immediately changed. The lines engraved on it glowed with a faint luster, gradually filling all parts of the entire instrument.
Right below the stargazer, the Moon Goddess had already knelt down. She didn't move much. She just stretched out a hand and pressed it on the base of the stargazer, inputting a weak infuriating energy into it.
I don’t know which of her movements stimulated the stargazer. The stargazer, which had been motionless, finally started to move.
Those hollow rings began to rotate around the center at different angles at high speed, and even the faint light lingering on them shimmered, as if they had turned into layers of dim light balls.
Moon God raised his head and looked quietly at the layers of dazzling light, and spots of light seemed to flash in his eyes.
Soon, the rotation speed of the ring slowed down, and the shimmering light connected by points and surfaces under the high-speed movement also dispersed and returned to isolated light traces.
As the rotation speed of the ring continues to decrease, the light emitted from the stargazer's notch becomes brighter and brighter, but it is still far from being dazzling.
After a moment, the ring stopped completely, and then the light marks on it suddenly lit up, projecting a series of light rays, forming overlapping light spots, or light spots, in the spherical area surrounded by the ring.
After the light spots in the spherical area stabilized, the light marks on the ring began to weaken, and the projected light dissipated, but the light spots formed by the overlapping impact of the light rays remained.
In the remaining dim light, against the background of the dark night, the light points were like stars, forming a complex star map together, just like the scene in the Jiugong Star Observation Hall of the Divine Capital, the headquarters of the Yin Yang Family.
On the top of the fuso sacred tree in the distance, Gu Xun crossed his arms and looked at the situation on the top of the Toad Palace from a distance.
"interesting……"
Gu Xun had to admit that although the Yin Yang family was engaged in magic and ghosts all day long, they were indeed the best in the field of metaphysics.
Of course, this stargazer is not particularly fantasy.
All the changes it had just now were essentially caused by the infusion of Qi from the outside world, including the star map that is now presented as if it relies on the three-dimensional virtual display function.
It's all just anger.
It's just that the use of true energy is very strange and goes beyond the scope of martial arts.
This is due to the special structure of the stargazer and the special material of the stargazer.
There have always been some strange and special materials in the world during the Qin Dynasty that were unheard of before Guxun. Such materials generally showed strange reactions to true energy.
Famous swords in sword manuals generally use this kind of material, and thus have corresponding special effects.
For example, the famous Taoist sword Xue Ji, such as Gao Jianli's Shui Han - of course, the materials of the Seven Swords are also very special, even more special than those in this world.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! But what is really worth paying attention to right now is not the stargazer - although it is very special, as an instrument, it is enough to know that it can work.
What Gu Xun is more interested in is, can the Moon God achieve her goal?
Gu Xun is also proficient in astrology, and the distance between the Fuso Sacred Tree and the Toad Palace is non-existent to him. He can clearly see the star map in the stargazer and obtain his own results.
The good news is that it is possible to use astrology to identify mirages hidden in the fog.
The bad news is that it is difficult to intuitively express the location of the mirage to the outside world.
Astrology is not about making a wish to God. You ask a question and it gives you a clear answer. All you get is a vague feeling, similar to inspiration or divine revelation.
If the information you want to know is very specific, such as names of people, places, or times, then it is basically equivalent to getting the answer directly.
But if the information itself is somewhat abstract or vague, it's hard to tell.
For example, the location of the mirage that Luna obtained at this time - the location was in her mind, very clear and definite, but she was not sure of its position relative to the mirage. At most, she could only point out a general direction and how far away it was.
Can't even tell clearly.
If the weapons on the ship were artillery, they could try to cover it up with a covering attack, but they only have crossbows.
The crossbow arrows used by Poyun Crossbow are very large, but their killing range is far inferior to that of cannons, and the probability of being blinded is zero.
Luna feels a little uncomfortable.
She got the answer, but it was not a standard answer, and there was a high probability that she would not get points for it...
Unwilling to give up and having no other choice, Luna could only continue to watch the stars and spy on life, trying to further locate the mirage and get a more accurate 'answer'.