Chapter 309: A Different Mind
Niulan Mountain, which is about 100 miles away from Fufeng, still has traces of war everywhere, walking in the meantime, you will find that the grass is hidden from time to time, there are still some broken knives left in it, the end of the war is not long ago, but those weeds with extremely vigorous vitality, even if they have been trampled on almost not in shape, but in the blink of an eye, they have raised their branches and stems, and bloomed green. Hide the murderous weapons in their raging lives.
The closer you get to the camp on Niulanshan, the more obvious the traces of the war become, with half-burnt trees standing in ruins, and digging in a mess on the ground, with half-man-deep trenches coming and going, stretching from a distance to the camp at the foot of the mountain. Since last year, the Niulanshan camp has been operated, after more than half a year, the current Niulanshan camp has become a strong fortress, nearly ten meters high, one meter wide rammed city wall will wrap the entire camp, one by one protruding arrow towers, placed a bed crossbow shining with cold light, rows of gun-wielding soldiers stand solemnly, although the sun in the sky is extremely hot, but these soldiers are motionless without squinting.
Niulanshan Camp, in fact, the city wall that should be called Niulanshan Fortress is not as square as the general city, from the outside, he is more like a strange thing lying under Niulanshan, looking ugly, but in the war, he is extremely practical, from the appearance of the extremely ugly Niulanshan Fortress, when dealing with the attacking enemy, there is no dead end. Those inexplicably protruding arrow towers cover all the dead spots under range.
The high and distant garrison of the Niulanshan camp was not a momentary idea, but after a long period of thinking, the camp was set up here, and then the camp was built into a fortress, and a new city was built with the fortress as the center. And use this place as a base for advancing into Donghu.
Now, this new city is beginning to take shape.
From the beginning of spring to the present, after July, the Niulanshan camp is under the attack of the Donghu people, little by little slowly from small to large, from a simple camp, gradually into a strong fortress today. On the rammed earth walls, you can still see the gaps or depressions smashed by trebuchets, the fluttering flags are new but also broken, and the roofs of some arrow towers have been torn off, and some craftsmen are lying in them, carefully repairing.
The entire Niulanshan camp was peaceful, and since Naha and Yan Haibo brought nearly 4,000 soldiers to the Niulanshan camp, the Donghu people had never come again. Sun Xiao sent countless sentinels to penetrate deep into the area controlled by the Donghu people, and found that Suo Ke, who was stationed in Yulin, was gathering troops, and it was obvious that in the near future, Suo Ke would inevitably launch a larger-scale attack on the Niulanshan camp, and he would not tolerate the existence of the Niulanshan camp.
But now, Sun Xiao can't take care of this. At this moment, in the conference hall in the big camp, the main seat was not Sun Xiao, who was ordered by Gao Yuan to preside over the Fufeng military, but Zhang Shubao, the general of the left army of Liaoxi County and the son of the county guard.
In the conference hall, below Zhang Shubao, Sun Xiao, Zheng Xiaoyang, Naha, Yan Haibo, Meng Chong, Xu Yuan were sitting in one row, and the generals under Zhang Shubao's left army were sitting in a row on the other side.
Zhang Shubao's mood is very complicated now, from the heart, at the beginning, he did regard Gao Yuan as a person who could be used, but as Gao Yuan grew up step by step, he regarded it as a partner who could conspire with great things, and when Gao Yuan entrusted Fufeng's command to him when he was leaving, he regarded Gao Yuan as a friend who could be deeply made.
When Gao Yuan won a great victory in Yuyang, became an official and became a general, and became a beautiful character comparable to his father Liaoxi County Shou, he was happy, jealous, lost, and disappointed. Happily, once Gao Yuan comes back, he will get a strong backup, with Gao Yuan's support, he will have the absolute upper hand in the battle with his brother for the successor of Liaoxi County, but the jealousy is that Gao Yuan is like an eagle soaring for nine days, throwing him farther and farther, before, when Gao Yuan was only a county lieutenant, he was the general of the Liaoxi Left Army, and now, Gao Yuan can stand side by side with his father, but he is still the general of the Liaoxi Left Army, and Zhang Shubao knows that if he was not born in the Zhang family, I'm afraid that I can't compare to Gao Yuan. And the loss and disappointment are because Gao Yuan entrusted the Fufeng soldiers to himself when he left, if Gao Yuan died, he would have no trouble getting the more than 1,000 elite soldiers he left in Fufeng.
But Takato is alive and alive better.
He finally adjusted his mentality, and decided to treat Gao Yuan as a great backup, and when the Niulanshan camp was attacked by the Donghu people, he did not hesitate to lead the left army under his command to help the wind to help the war, for which he did not hesitate to blame his father.
He came, and he helped the Fufeng soldiers successfully keep the Donghu people out of the Fufeng Gate.
Fate makes people, at this time, but it is reported that Gao Yuan, who has become the general of Zhengdong, was actually assassinated in Jicheng, life and death are unknown, looking at the current strength of more than 6,000 people Fufeng soldiers, Zhang Shubao's heart is warm again, if such an army falls into his own hands, then even his father, above the military strength, will have to succumb to himself.
What's more, the main generals under Gao Yuan's command, except for the infantry who did not return, the rest have all returned, these people are well aware of Gao Yuan's training method, with them, they can copy Gao Yuan's powerful training method, and hone their subordinates into a victorious division.
In charge of the power of Liaoxi, he waved his troops to Donghu and destroyed it in one fell swoop, and Zhang Shubao's name will be famous all over the world.
Every time he thinks of this, Zhang Shubao feels his blood boiling.
"Everyone!" Zhang Shubao pondered what he was about to say several times in his heart before he spoke, although he said it to everyone, but his eyes were only looking at Sun Xiao and the others, and he understood that when Gao Yuan was not there, Sun Xiao was the backbone of these people. In the past, we all had great hopes for General Gao's return, but today I received a letter from my father, in which he explained in detail the cause of this incident, and it took great effort for my father to find out the truth."
Hearing Zhang Shubao's words, Sun Xiao and the others all raised their heads and stared at Zhang Shubao intently.
"The mastermind of the assassination of General Gao this time is very likely to be Zhou Yuan, the Tai Lieutenant of Dayan, while Imperial Historian Ning Zecheng acted as an accomplice." Zhang Shubao said word by word.
Everyone in the room was in an uproar, not only Sun Xiao and the others, but even the generals under General Zuo's account were stunned and couldn't believe it.
Zhang Shubao raised the letter in his hand, "If you don't believe it, my father's letter is here, you can take a look."
No one moved, Sun Xiao looked at Zhang Shubao and said, "General Zhang, what the hell is going on?"
Zhang Shubao smiled bitterly, "General Gao suffered from the pond fish this time, Zhou Yuan and Ning Zecheng wanted to deal with Minister Ye Tiannan, but General Gao became the introduction of their actions, according to the news obtained by my father, they assassinated General Gao, and then blamed Minister Ye Tiannan, you also know that there are some contradictions between Minister Ye Tiannan and General Gao."
Sun Xiao pondered for a moment, "General Zhang, in the letter from the county guard, did you confirm that the county captain Gao had been killed?"
Zhang Shubao shook his head: "No, but on that day, the Jicheng fire burned down nearly a thousand rooms, and the number of casualties was as high as 10,000, and General Gao was at the center of the fire at that time, and more importantly, it was Zhou Yuan, the captain of the Taichao Dynasty, and Ning Zecheng, the imperial historian. The two joined forces, and my father said that General Gao's hope of survival was basically impossible."
Sun Xiao lowered his head, his hand clinked, for him, being the Imperial Lieutenant and the Imperial Doctor was too far away, so far away that he couldn't imagine it at all. Back then, a state minister Ye Tiannan forced Gao Yuan to watch his beloved woman leave, and now, it is the other two people whose power and strength are not inferior to Ye Tiannan's joining forces.
The others were also dejected and silent. What should they do? What should I do if I help the wind? Everyone was a little surprised for a while. And Meng Chong and Xu Yuan were a little overwhelmed.
Zhang Shubao took a deep breath, stood up, and looked at Sun Xiao and the others, "Brother Gao is my friend, brother, he died young, the most painful person is me, but now, we can't miss the right thing because of sadness, Brother Gao's life, all the time is to defeat Donghu and recover Liaodong, now, although he is gone, we can't forget his ambition, his unfinished career, when we inherit it, defeat Donghu and recover Liaodong, otherwise, we can't comfort Brother Gao's spirit in the sky."
The generals of Fufeng turned their heads to look at Sun Xiao together, Sun Xiao stood up, but his face was full of anger, "General Zhang, if Captain Gao really goes, then Zhou Yuan and Ning Zecheng are the mortal enemies of my Fufeng soldiers, I don't care if we recover Donghu or not, but we will definitely go and kill Zhou Yuan and Ning Zecheng."
As soon as these words came out, Yan Haibo also stood up, "Brother Sun is right, kill Jicheng, slaughter these two bastards, and dig up their black hearts to pay tribute to Gao County Lieutenant."
Zhang Shubao's heart jumped, Sun Xiao and Yan Haibo, but the elders of the Fufeng Soldiers, swept their eyes and saw where Meng Chong and Xu Yuan were still sitting, and did not echo Sun Xiao, let go of their hearts.
"I understand the intentions of the two, but if you really want to take revenge, you can't be in a hurry, it's not that I poured cold water on you, with the current strength of the Fengfeng soldiers, let alone kill the two of them, but you can't even enter Jicheng, let alone you, even if you add all our soldiers and generals in Liaoxi, it's not enough for them to see, if you really want to take revenge, then you have to think long-term, you have to strengthen your strength first, and then you can slowly figure it out."
"How do you give a method of Xu Xu Tu?" Sun Xiao said impatiently: "I don't have any kung fu to wait, I don't believe that these two bastards don't have a time to relax, as long as we have this mind, a bow, an arrow, we can kill them."
Zhang Shubao looked at Sun Xiao, "General Sun, do you want to be an assassin?" Who are Taiwei and Dr. Ning that week, they are all hugging each other when they travel, and they are heavily guarded, how do you start? Even if you are lucky and succeed, how do you get out? This is the courage of the horseman."
"As long as you can kill them and avenge the county lieutenant, how can you care so much!" Sun Xiao said proudly: "Take my life, exchange their life, it's worth it."
Zhang Shubao took a deep breath, "General Sun, when General Gao was leaving, he entrusted you to me, if you despise yourself so much, wouldn't you even lose this bit of General Gao's foundation?" General Gao has worked hard to create this foundation, and you just watched him turn into a cloud of smoke?"
Zhang Shubao patiently persuaded Sun Xiao, because he understood that if Sun Xiao could not be convincingly brought under his command, then he would not be able to master this Fengfu army.
Listening to Zhang Shubao's words, Sun Xiao was suddenly a little stunned.
The door was pushed open with a bang, and a group of people appeared at the door, "Who said that this foundation created by General Gao would turn into a cloud of smoke, and General Gao will come back soon."
Everyone in the house looked back together, at the gate, Cao Tianci stood at the door with a smile on his face, behind him, Cao Tiancheng and Wu Kai were also smiling. Zhang Shubao's heart sank suddenly. (To be continued......)