Chapter 262: A Hidden Conspiracy
"The war situation on the front line can no longer be said to be bad to describe, it is completely bad and indescribable, you know, just a few days ago, the 150,000 army just suffered a painful defeat under Yueyang City, and directly lost more than 50,000 soldiers at once, heh, and the mediocre second generation who was airborne from the capital still wanted to keep it secret, and wanted to cover up this news."
When Prince Dongxun talked about the war, his mood had long been uncontrollable, if he hadn't taken into account that Shen Baoxu was still lying unconscious on the side, even if it was his temperament, he would have thought about scolding his mother after knowing these things.
No, it's all because of those guys on the front line, the things they do are really bad and unacceptable, even if it's a person like him who has a gentle temperament all day long, it's really unacceptable.
"This, how is this possible? Why did the army suddenly run to Yueyang, isn't it south of the country? Moreover, Yueyang obviously has to be a few days away from us, right? Besides, even if there is a war there, it is a 150,000 army, Your Royal Highness the Prince, don't talk nonsense, the army deployed by the Nanli side with us here together can't piece together half of the 150,000 army, right? “
Captain Hu was shocked when he heard the news, although he and Shen Xu didn't care much about the war on the front line in these days and didn't have the leisure to pay attention to it, but after hearing the news at a glance.
His heart is still a little chaotic.
Obviously, before they left, the army was still safe and sound against the army of the prince of Nanli Zhou, and if the two armies were safe and sound, there were occasional small frictions on weekdays, but the two sides were basically up and down, and no one was willing to take the lead in breaking through that barrier.
However, yet how long has it been?
In half a time, when he learned about the recent situation of the front-line army from the mouth of His Royal Highness the Prince, the army had already lost 50,000.
Captain Hu thinks that the non-commissioned officers of the Dongxun army this time are not weak, and it can even be said that their military literacy can completely assume the nickname of the imperial army, because no matter how long it was during that time, Captain Hu has been personally leading those soldiers and formulating training plans for them.
It's only been a long time, how did things become like this, this huge gap, Captain Su really couldn't accept this reality at this time, and he gasped a few times one after another.
Compared with Captain Hu's reaction after hearing this, Shen Xu's reaction was much calmer, he pursed his lips and frowned, he didn't feel much about this matter, because in his opinion, with his brother's army and without his brother's army, the former is worth his attention, and the latter, what leisure does he have to pay attention to?
If you lose, you lose.
The only reason why Shen Xu had mood swings was because he was wondering, wondering what kind of trick the Nanli army had played, and in the blink of an eye, the 150,000 Dongxun army lost one-third of it at once.
Isn't this what my brother often talks about, the means of the prince of Nanli Zhou?
It's still scary, the famous handsome man of Nanli.
To be honest, Shen Xu has never paid attention to things like wars between these countries, just because what he thinks and what he is willing to care about, except for his brother Shen Baoxu, I am afraid that only the Dongxun Shen family is left.
This sentence can also be said more obviously.
Dongxun can not exist, it can be lost or disappear, but the Shen family absolutely cannot, in Shen Xu's thoughts, the significance of such a family as the Shen family is far more important than the huge empire of Dongxun.
I am afraid that this is the result of a serious child who has been taught by a systematic family.
"That idiot, I don't know who I believed, saying that there is our undercover agent in Yueyang, and it has been opened up and down, as long as our army is in the city, you can sacrifice Yueyang County, and use Yueyang County as a pedal, take the waterway to kill directly to the south and leave the hinterland, and then go straight to Jinling, hehe, what I said is that it is a wild show, in fact, this kind of thing, in Lone's opinion, is completely a trap set by the king of Nanli Zhou for their fools!"
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is still half a point of elegance at this time, he is so angry that he can be said to be angry, if the commander of the Dongxun army on the front line is standing in front of him now, he may just draw his sword and cut it down, without any hesitation at all.
Because it was that guy's stupidity that he mistakenly wasted the military strength of their Dongxun army for a while.
That's 50,000 soldiers!
The number of standing armies in the entire country of the Eastern Xun Empire will not exceed 500,000, and this is still obtained by adding the garrisons and border troops in various places.
In order to prepare for this war, the Dongxun side even pressed all the forbidden troops stationed in the capital, plus some border garrisons, so that they finally managed to make up the number of 150,000 troops, which is already nearly one-third of the number of troops in the Dongxun Empire.
This force, not to mention all the losses on the battlefield of this crusade against Nanli, is like now, with a loss of 50,000 people, which can also be said to be a painful pain for the Dongxun Empire.
Because there are only a few 50,000 people in the standing army of the entire Dongxun Empire?
Yes?
This time 50,000 people were lost, and if news came from the front again in the near future that that fool had lost the remaining 100,000 people, well, then the Dongxun Empire would simply rest for the next 100 years.
Part of the army of the Dongxun Empire was in the hands of kings with different surnames in various places, and the other part was in charge of fighting against the barbarians on the border.
The geographical location of the Dongxun Empire is very embarrassing, on the northern border they have a group of northern barbarians there often harass and invade their territory, over the years the two sides have broken out I don't know how many times the war, the most serious one is like before, the northern barbarians simply killed directly under the capital of the Dongxun Empire, if it weren't for the timely assistance of the main battle legion of the South Empire, then maybe there would be some unexpected ending.
Although in recent years, the northern border army of the Dongxun Empire has also been in a stalemate with the northern barbarians, especially when Shen Baoxu was still serving in the northern border army at that time, for a while, at that time, the northern barbarians were even repeatedly defeated by the Dongxun border army, where did they dare to think of anything to harass and invade.
But even so, the 60,000 border troops of the northern border army of the Dongxun Empire must not have any scheduling, because in the previous decades, the number of border troops deployed by the Dongxun Empire on the northern border has always been more than 100,000 border troops, that is, because the situation has improved a little over the years, so some soldiers have been transferred back one after another, but the current 60,000 northern border troops must not have any scheduling.
In addition to the northern barbarians, since the founding of the Eastern Xun Empire a hundred years ago, in their south, there is also a group of opposing forces fighting against the Eastern Xun Empire, and the two sides have been fighting for much longer than the northern barbarians and the Eastern Xun Empire.
Because the Baiyue people lived in the southeastern continent as early as a thousand years ago, they are also native-born aborigines, but in the past 100 years, the establishment of the Dongxun Empire has made them Baiyue people, and the Dongxun Empire slowly have some differences of interest, and then, the two sides broke out very simply The war, of course, in the early days of the war, the Baiyue people were the upper hand.
Although it is said that there is a geographical advantage, you must know that in the very beginning of the Dongxun Empire, their army was a hundred battle veterans who had just survived victoriously from one battle after another, and the place where these hundred battle veterans fought was also this land.
Therefore, in the early days of the two sides, the Baiyue tribe quickly fell into the disadvantage, and the war with Dongxun was also defeated one after another, and finally retreated to a wild area where birds don't, and the Dongxun Empire gave up the pursuit of the Baiyue tribe because the supply line was too far away to keep up, which can be regarded as giving the Baiyue tribe a chance to breathe.
After decades of development, the Baiyue people slowly recovered, and then for the Dongxun Empire, whose military strength was much worse and weaker and weaker, the Baiyue people naturally did not hesitate to choose to provoke a war with the evil neighbor of the Dongxun Empire.
So, in an instant, the war between the Baiyue clan and the Dongxun Empire ignited again, and this time the war caused the Dongxun Empire to fall into disadvantage.
Because in the Dongxun Empire at that time, the soldiers did not participate in any wars, although they were said to have been trained, but after all, they had never seen blood, and they had not experienced a real war, so when they faced the menacing Baiyue people, the situation of being overwhelmed by one side appeared.
Fortunately, it was not long before the Dongxun Empire, relying on the superiority of numbers and weapons, reluctantly retreated to a checkpoint, where it maintained its defensive line and began a war with the Baiyue that has been in conflict for decades to this day.
Yes, to this day, at that checkpoint, every few days, the Baiyue people would go to war with the southern border army of the Dongxun Empire.
is different from the northern border army, the southern border army because of the checkpoints, so although the war has not been very smooth in the past few decades, there has not been a thing to let the barbarians kill the capital, and the southern border army has not appeared a fierce general similar to Shen Baoxu in recent years, so naturally, the number of the southern border army is still 100,000 to this day.
The number of border troops in the north and south added up to 160,000, plus the garrisons of some counties in Dongxun that were still under the jurisdiction of the Dongxun Imperial Court, roughly calculated that there were nearly 70,000 or 80,000, so if you add it up, it is already the number of troops that occupy 240,000.
The establishment of the Dongxun forbidden army is 100,000, and after adding the forbidden army, there are only 340,000 troops, and as for the remaining army, it is naturally in the hands of those kings with different surnames in various parts of Dongxun.
Because of their development over the years, each of them has some military power in their hands, and if they are added together, roughly speaking, there are 100,000 people for conservative purposes.
And the number of all the armies up and down the Dongxun Empire is almost these numbers.
Therefore, from this point of view, the number of troops that can be grasped and mobilized in the hands of the Taihao Fuxi clan is actually only 1780,000.
But look at how many troops have been dispatched here in Dongxun to deal with the Nanli Empire this time?
A total of 150,000 troops!
This is already the maximum number of troops that the Dongxun Imperial Court can dispatch, and now it's good, because of that idiot, the 150,000 army was broken by 50,000 at once, and after losing these 50,000 soldiers, the Dongxun Empire still did not achieve any substantial results in this battle.
In other words, because of that idiot, the Dongxun Empire lost the lives of 50,000 soldiers in vain.
And looking at this sign, that idiot can't do anything else in the days to come.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, if the battle on the front line is really like this, why, why don't you send a letter to the capital, those officials in the capital should make some preparations in advance after learning about this matter, this is 50,000 generals, this is not a trivial matter."
Captain Hu quickly thought of some not very good consequences, and he hurriedly said to Prince Dongxun as if he was admonishing.
And the anger of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was also stunned at first after Captain Su said these words, and then reacted quickly, he frowned, swallowed his saliva and couldn't help but say
"It's not that I didn't report this matter back to the capital, but that there was no reaction to this matter in the capital, just like they didn't care about the development of this matter at all, I always felt that there was some conspiracy in this matter."
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not a vulgar person, he has written twice, once informing the capital that Shen Baoxu was assassinated by the assassins of the Tiansha Organization, but he did not get a reply, and then the capital just hastily changed a stupid trouser to replace Shen Baoxu as the military master, in addition, the Dongxun officials in the capital never mentioned anything about Shen Baoxu.
In the second letter, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had already written all about the crisis of the war on the front line and the dangerous decisions of the stupid military lord, and he begged Prime Minister Shin Tsui-zhi in his private name.
But what about the reply you get?
Just like a stone sinking into the sea, he didn't get any news about the capital here.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he already has some bad intentions for this in his heart.
Because other people don't say it, the king of Nanjiang has been staying in the palace in the capital all along.
And His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has never had a good impression of the King of Nanjiang, plus the King of Nanjiang has not known how many courtiers he has secretly raised over the years, and how many dead soldiers he has secretly raised, and the most important thing is that the relationship between the Tiansha Organization and the King of Nanjiang has always been intimate.
In this way, does it make sense?
After Taihao Fuxi fell into a coma, the king of Nanjiang secretly actively planned to promote the war between Dongxun and Nanli, and after Shen Baoxu and their obstructive young people left, he quickly relied on his influence in the court over the years to attract a large number of officials, and ordered the members of the Tiansha organization to assassinate Shen Baoxu.
Not to mention anything else, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is convinced of this, because the status of the King of Nanjiang in the Tiansha Organization is completely capable of doing this.
Assassinating Shen Baoxu, he then played a trick to replace the commander of the front-line army with a stupid scapegoat, so that he could take over and defeat Dongxun's army on the front.
And he continued to corrupt the civil and military officials in the capital in the capital, and drew them into his command as much as possible.
And why did King Nanjiang do this, do you still need to think about it?
The prince is uncomfortable, and he wants to sit as an emperor to have fun, is this reason not enough?
And this reason also happens to be in line with the character and motive of King Nanjiang, just because he is the most likely person to do this kind of thing.
For this reason, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince even guessed something even more terrible.
That is, could the bizarre assassination that his father, Emperor Taihao Fuxi, encountered at the beginning, be planned by the King of Nanjiang himself?
The assassination itself is a suspicious thing, the assassin left the murderer Nanli in the palace, which can be said to be a huge suspicion, this matter should have been investigated carefully in the eyes of His Royal Highness the Prince, and then make a conclusion, but the contradiction between the DPRK and China on this matter is too serious, resulting in the conclusion of the coffin without much investigation in this matter, and immediately agreed to the alliance with the Xikun Dynasty to provoke a war with the South Empire.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn't think of this assassination on King Nanjiang, because he always felt that although King Nanjiang had crossed the line in what he had done over the years, he wouldn't have made such a move to plot to kill the king, right?
But with the arrival of one thing after another, His Royal Highness Rao is crown prince can't help but guess the source of everything to the king of Nanjiang.
"Ahem, ahem, ahem, water, I want, I want water."
It was when the three of them were thinking about something in their hearts here that suddenly, Shen Baoxu, who was originally unconscious in bed, heard the sound of asking for water.
It's good now, Shen Baoxu's words directly lit up the three of them, and for a while, the three of them were stunned, and their eyes looked at Shen Baoxu on the bed with a shocked look.
After a long time, Captain Hu reacted the fastest, and then hurriedly brought a glass of water and fed Shen Baoxu to drink.
It didn't take long for Shen Baoxu to slowly open his eyes, look at Captain Hu with a tired look, and said
"I'm here, what's wrong."