West Hammer.

When they first arrived in this cold place, all the soldiers were very adaptable, and some of them were already unaccustomed to the water and soil.

Imperial Doctor Gao said: "If this continues, I'm afraid that the situation will get worse and worse." ”

Shui Qian Yan said: "Back then, the Zhenxi Army could endure the water and soil dissuitability, and finally became a strong general, why can't we?" ”

Imperial Doctor Gao persuaded again: "That's what I said, but the Zhenxi army has been trained in strong pressure, but your army is all new." ”

Shui Qian Yan hooked his lips and smiled: "Master, don't jump to conclusions about this matter, my army is no worse than his." ”

Shuikenyan still lowered his head and studied the map, carefully checking every place, for fear that he would miss it.

Suddenly, someone came to report: "General, we have found a foreign enemy unit, which seems to be a scout." ”

The king of Zhendong on the side immediately said, "Then have you sent someone to catch up?" ”

The man said, "It's just that these scouts seem to be just coming to see and not getting too close." We were not familiar with the terrain and did not catch up with them, for fear of falling into their trap. ”

"Well done." Shuiqian smiled.

Then he said to the king of Zhendong: "There should be no problem with this map, and we will not do anything else these days, we must have a copy of this map, and remember it clearly, and there can be no mistakes." ”

King Zhendong took the map and looked at it, it was indeed very detailed.

At the same time, he was suspicious, and frowned again and asked, "Are you sure you're not mistaken?" ”

Shui Qian Yan smiled: "Whether it is wrong or not, let them memorize this map first, and when they are familiar with it, we will go and check these locations one by one to see if there are any discrepancies." ”

King Zhendong nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll order them to go down and let everyone copy a copy by hand." ”

Suddenly, another person reported: "General, something is wrong. Enemy troops appeared on the snowy mountain, and the number seemed to be coming to seize the camp! ”

King Zhendong couldn't help but be taken aback and immediately ordered: "Immediately guard to the death, and be ready to attack at any time!" ”

Shui Cangyan smiled faintly, stopped him and said, "Let's find out the situation first." ”

Then he asked the soldiers, "Have you seen a man's head on that snowy mountain?" ”

"I didn't see that many people, but generals, the number of their flags is enough to prove that the number of people is huge."

The water cage smoke hooked his lips and smiled, looked at the other flags hanging in the camp tent, and said: "Look at these flags, if one person takes two, will there not be two people in the eyes of the foreign enemy?" ”

The man was stunned and touched his head.

Shui Xuanyan smiled again: "This is Luo Xuanming's commonly used trick - all the grass and trees are soldiers." ”

Hearing this, King Zhendong couldn't help but ask, "How do you know that this is a common trick used by Luo Xuanming?" You don't know him! ”

"Knowing myself and knowing that I have won all battles, how can I not know him? I already knew him well before I came. There is no need to ask more about this matter, and the most important thing for us now is to quickly get the soldiers accustomed to the water and soil here, and then make a good layout. ”

King Zhendong said again: "But I'm still not at ease, what if it's not what you think?" If they were really so numerous, wouldn't we suffer a loss if they suddenly attacked? ”

"Their real purpose is not to raid, but to lure us out. The area around is full of snowy mountains. It's low-lying, and there's a good chance we'll be led into one of the canyons, and they'll cause another avalanche that will wipe us all out. ”

Hearing this, the king of Zhendong stopped talking.

Shui Qian Yan said, "That's why I want the soldiers to have a map." As long as you have this map in your heart, you will know where you go, where you go in and out. Even if we encounter this situation in the future, we will be able to move forward and retreat freely, and we will not be embarrassed to be trapped here. ”

Immediately, she said: "This place is not as inland, it is cold and snowy here, not to mention freezing overnight, even if it is frozen for half a day, I am afraid that it will lose several soldiers." As long as our hands and feet are frozen and we have nothing to keep warm, it is not impossible that they will annihilate us all. ”

When King Zhendong heard this, he frowned and asked, "Then according to your words, how can we resist it?" Do you want to hide within this high wall all the time and not go out? ”

Thinking back to the big events that were going to happen this year, she knew that there would be a famine in the Western Regions this year, because the output of the Western Regions this year was very small.

Originally, as soon as the troops of the King of Zhenxi left, it was the best time for the Western Regions to raid.

However, the weather was not good this year, and the harvest near the Western Regions was not good, so they did not grab anything good.

In the same year, many soldiers in the Western Regions starved to death.

Thinking of this, Shuiqian Yan said, "Wait a little longer, wait another seven days." When the time comes, I will write a letter to the imperial court, asking Yun Youcheng to come and help us with food and horses. ”

King Zhendong was puzzled and asked, "We have enough food and horses, why do we have to prepare food and horses so much in advance this time?" ”

"Let Yun Youcheng bring the food and horses not for war, but as a gift for reconciliation between the two sides."

Hearing this, King Zhendong was even more shocked: "What? Do you want to reconcile? Even if they want to reconcile, it should be them who send horses and food, and they should pay tribute to our Celestial Empire. Why should we go the other way around and send horses and food? ”

"Do you know why the Western Regions keep fighting with us? Do you know why, more than ten years have passed, and the Western Regions still hasn't been captured? Do you know what is the biggest contradiction within the Celestial Empire right now? ”

King Zhendong was a little confused by his series of questions, and after thinking about it, he said, "Then what do you think are the reasons for these?" ”

"First, although the terrain of the Western Regions is dangerous, there are icebergs and snowfields, and they produce iceberg snow lotus, and the rest of the crops are almost impossible to survive. Even if they are edible, they are only a small number of crops. ”

"Every year they come to the border to get a lot of carbon, but they don't use that much to heat their homes, they use more carbon fires to make some temperatures suitable for crops to survive."

"King Zhendong must not have imagined how bleak that scene was, as the king of the Western Regions, he saw his people suffering so much, so he naturally wanted to seize the border land and occupy the thin land where our side could survive."

"So in fact, we can reach the conditions of reconciliation, and the people of the Western Regions are our people, and most of them are deserters. Even after these decades, they still want to return to Lin'an City or other places in the interior. ”

"So we should be more sure that as long as there is enough food and horses, we can gain their trust. With further persuasion, the problems of the Western Regions can be completely solved. ”

"Now the Celestial Empire is worried about internal and external troubles, internal power and ministers are plotting, and the regime is unstable. Outside, there is the rise of the unsubordinate forces in the southeast, the northwest, and the king of Zhendong, do you think these things can be underestimated? ”

"If these things can be resolved, I won't have been sending you four county kings to guard it for more than ten years. There is only one way to completely solve these problems, and that is Guotai and Min'an. There is no other way to solve it except to compare the heart to the heart. ”

After listening to her tirade, King Zhendong couldn't help but laugh and said, "You, you are too benevolent and benevolent." You are a female doll who has never seen much of the world, so naturally you don't understand the sinister nature of people's hearts. Even if we satisfy them, I think they will rebel sooner or later. The only way to solve this problem once and for all is to kill them and eradicate the roots. ”

Shui Qian Yan was not at all surprised by his answer, but after a moment she retorted, "Why do we have to fight with soldiers and iron horses to win this so-called victory? In the same way, human beings are human beings, and sometimes there is no need to cause unnecessary wars if they can be avoided. ”

"Besides, the soldiers I brought over, I had better hope that they are all unharmed and return to Lin'an City. And not the death of the dead here, the wounded wounded. That's a recipe for everything, and I don't want that. ”

After listening to her speech, King Zhendong smiled again: "As the saying goes, the benevolent are not soldiers. Since you have become a general, you should know that one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, this is an immutable law since ancient times. If everybody thinks like you, that's fine. ”

"But if you're the only one who thinks so. Tens of thousands of soldiers will die with you, and since ancient times, they have all been out of power with real guns and swords, don't you know? ”

Shui Cageyan nodded and said, "Yes, I know very well, but it is precisely because I know these things too well that I want to prevent some unnecessary wars." ”

King Zhendong was about to refute the water cage smoke again, and hurriedly interrupted and said: "King Zhendong, let's not bother with this kind of thing anymore, we have to talk about specific things." Let's wait for seven days, and we'll just have to have a copy of the map and memorize it. ”

King Zhendong also nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go down and order." ”

Suddenly, someone came to report: "Oh no, General." They seem to be here for real, and now we really see countless heads from the snow-capped mountains, and it seems that there are more and more of them. ”

Hearing the news, King Zhendong was stunned for a moment, and looked at the water cage smoke with a nervous face.

But only one sentence came from her mouth: "Bluff." ”

The king of Zhendong was still not at ease, and the water cage smoke also saw it, so he said: "I'll go and prove to you now that he is not bluffing." ”

Then she went out, and the slayer eagle in the tent stood on her shoulder.

Water cage smoke on a white cloth with a cinnabar pen to write four words: bluff.

Then he tied it to a log stick, and let the claws of the Killer Eagle grasp the stick, and the water cage smoke whistled, and the Killer Eagle flew to the top of the snowy mountain with a hula.

King Zhendong didn't know why he asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Shui Cangyan hooked his lips and smiled, and said: "I am a soldier who surrenders without a fight, I believe that when they see these four words, they will retreat in a while." ”

"You're too confident, even if they were really bluffing, I don't think they would have quit immediately. They must have come here to raid us and bring something back. ”

Shuilongyan nodded in agreement, and then said, "Indeed, when the Extinction Eagle comes back, I will write another letter." ”

"What are you going to write?"