"Wonderful!" Meng Yu and the goods exchanged praises in unison.

It's still the commander-in-chief who is cunning.

This was clearly to allow Villatuli and Montu to attract the attention of the enemy army, so that the Romans could destroy them first.

There are many people and horses, and the threat is great, and the Romans can imagine who pursues and besieges them.

"By the way, I'm going to spread the news, go north to tell Vera Tuoli and Meng Du that I died in battle, and in the south say that I went north with a large army!" After sitting down, Xu Ding knocked on the table, and suddenly an inspiration came to him, and a good idea came to mind.

Currency and Meng Yu are still a little Meng, just now said that he died in battle, and this said that he went north with a large army.

Isn't that a paradox?

This time, Xu Ding didn't explain, but looked at Meng Yu, looked at the comparison again, and then showed a smile that you realized.

Meng Yu thought for a while and said: "Childe, what do you mean, true and false, false and real, to confuse the Romans and Vera Tuli and Meng Du." ”

"Bingou, that's right, no matter which news it is, releasing it alone will make both of them suspicious, but when the two news are together, when they are summarized, they will be convinced." Xu Ding smiled:

"This person is like this, he doesn't believe in too perfect things, and he has to be like seeing flowers in a fog to produce the best beauty and feel real."

In this era of underdeveloped information, it is not difficult for Xu Ding to deliberately disturb the sight and hearing of all parties.

Meng Yu couldn't help but praise the currency, but Xu Ding was powerful.

In the days that followed, he gave up the city of Kimina to Gobi, and then held Alexandria with all his might, and put the whole city under military control.

Both food and activities are controlled by the military.

But those who violate it will be killed.

Xu Ding's style of changing from the past made the people in the city a little frightened and frightened, and they had a premonition that something big was happening.

Fortunately, the military discipline of Xu Ding's department has not changed, as Macedonians, although they do not recognize the fact that Xu Ding is a descendant of Alexander the Great, they also tacitly do not refuse.

So I don't dare to make trouble.

Then Xu Ding asked people to remove all the flags hanging on the city, and the number of people on duty also decreased sharply.

Rome in Thessaloniki sent spies to spy on Alexandria day and night, but found nothing.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that the Governor is dead in battle, and there is no one on our side to call the shots, let's talk about what we should do." The corps commander of the Ninth Army made a start.

The next faction is roughly divided into two factions, one is to continue to defend the city of Thessaloniki.

Some were more radical and advocated attacking Alexandria.

And for quite good reason.

"You should have heard that the rebels were divided, one army went north, and some stayed in Alexandria, and the leader of the rebels, Alexander Qin, with his remnants of the defeated general, was supposed to save a general named Meng Yu, but also went north.

Now we have only a thousand or so spearmen in front of us, and we should take the initiative to attack and retake Alexandria, or we will all be written into the pillar of shame of the Empire. A radical general stood up and said.

His words were echoed by all the radicals, and then he said: "Our spies have found out that Alexandria is preparing to defend the city, they have restricted the entry and exit of the city, and have limited the supply of food, and are constantly making equipment and supplies to defend the city.

The preparation for fighting the opponent early is not sufficient, and the loss of fighting us late will be even greater. ”

However, the general who advocated the defense of Thessaloniki also stood up and said: "I am afraid that the rebels are deliberately trying to confuse us, they are trying to lure us into attacking the city, so that we can use the strong city to consume our soldiers and horses, so that we can win more with less."

I think we should stay in Thessaloniki and make sure that the provincial capital is not lost.

If you want to fight Alexandria, it is better to wait for the other legions to come and we will besiege Alexandria together, attack together and eat them. ”

The radicals stopped doing it on the spot, and squirted: "You are cowards, the enemy is only about a thousand people, and you don't dare to fight, where are you to the face of my great Roman Empire."

I have to wait for the other legions to come and fight together, shame or shame.

Besides, they may not necessarily come, they have a more important mission, which is to pursue Alexander Qin and the main force of the rebels, so in the end, Alexandria will still be fought by us. ”

"Humph! What is there to be ashamed of, His Excellency the Doge has been killed, and what could be more shameful, is it necessary to lose Thessaloniki for the sake of a small Alexandria in order to gain face for the Empire? The conservative just now continued with a thick ear and a thick neck:

"We will be the best help to the Empire if we do not lose Thessaloniki, and when the other legions have killed Alexander Qin and his main rebel army in the north, they will naturally go south to join us.

It's just a matter of time, why be so urgent, if the siege is not good for the rebels to kill any of us, it will not embarrass the empire even more. ”

"You...... You are cowards! ”

The commander of the Ninth Army saw that everyone was arguing, and he was also quite dissatisfied, and slapped the table and shouted: "Give me peace all the time, when will you be noisy like this."

If you want to go to war like this, you will besiege Alexandria, and trap the rebels inside for me first.

If you don't want to play, keep me in Thessaloniki, whoever has an accident on that side will be responsible. ”

The commander of the Ninth Legion had a cold face, glanced left and right, and it was a domineering side leak.

However, it did not calm everyone's differences, but everyone scolded the cunning fox in their hearts.

This guy obviously doesn't want to take responsibility, so he will come up with such a compromise method with the mud.

And surrounded Alexandria, this TM is no different from not fighting, and it also divides its own strength.

Seeing that everyone went down, the Ninth Army showed a sneer.

One of the two factions just now represents the side of the new emperor and the other side of the Senate.

And he, the commander of the legion, is a neutral, no one supports it, no one opposes it, and of course he will not stand in line to express his position.

Interests are eternal, and the honor and face of the empire are nothing in front of their own interests and family interests.

This is true in both the East and the West, and this is the inferior side of human nature.

Every country has moths and loyal generals, and the difference is only in the social atmosphere.

At this time, the Roman kingdom was still strong, and even during the reign of the new emperor Severus, it was still able to maintain it.

However, the hidden dangers and hidden contradictions of the empire have long been irreconcilable and unresolved.

Historically, as soon as Severus died, the Roman Empire completely rose and fell, from strong to weak, from basic stability to chaos.

Now the reversal of Xu Ding's clone has directly exacerbated the outbreak of contradictions and brought the Roman Empire into turmoil in advance.

Xu Ding and others did not know that the Romans of Thessaloniki had such a controversy.

Soon he received reports from his men that a Roman army had marched over, and then set up camp in the east of the city, and surrounded Alexandria in a semi-encircled position.

Xu Ding took Meng Yu to look at the city from afar, Xu Ding only glanced at it a few times before retracting his gaze and asked the two: "Do you see what you are doing?" ”

The two pondered for a while, and Meng Yu said first: "There are not many enemy troops, not even a legion, and I see that they only care about camping and besieging the city, and they are not prepared to attack the city. ”

Xu Ding looked at the comparison of goods, and the comparison added: "Meng Yu is right, I don't feel that the other party wants to attack the city, I don't have any siege equipment with them, and they are camped very strongly, it seems that they only want to besiege the city and don't want to attack the city."

And it's strange that they're only half-besieged, and they don't mean to seal us off completely.

Attack and not attack, siege and not siege, there is something strange in this! ”

The two waited for Xu Ding to analyze, and they could understand that Alexander Qin's strategy and vision were no worse than his bravery.

On the contrary, he was a man of great insight and resourcefulness.

Look at the problem and hit the nail on the head.

Xu Ding's eyes pointed to the Roman military camp outside the city and the direction of Thessaloniki, which could not see the shadow, and said: "It's very simple, there are differences within our rebel army, and there is a split.

The Romans were also divided internally, and there was a gap between the New Emperor and the Senate. ”

Meng Yu nodded with the goods, and they knew this to some extent.

Both the emperor and the senate want to gain more power, and they are a pair of contradictions, if you are strong, he will be weak, and if you are weak, he will be strong.

Xu Ding then said: "The governor of the Macedonian province was killed by us, these Roman armies have no direct commander, no supreme commander who can suppress everyone, so there are differences of opinion, and the final result you have also seen, some of them want to fight us, but they also want to save some strength, because there will be losses in the siege, and they may not be able to defeat it."

Therefore, they simply besieged and did not attack, and in addition they did not have many men, so they were semi-surrounded, first, so that they could gather forces so that they would not be broken one by one, and second, they wanted to surrender without a fight, hoping that we would abandon the city and leave, so that they would pick up a great success.

As for those who didn't want to fight us, they stayed in the city of Thessaloniki, guarding the provincial capital, and this part was still the majority. ”

Meng Yu and the goods are better understood.

That's what happened.

"But commander, it's not a way to go on like this, if they don't attack, we can't kill or weaken them, once those two guys in the north are solved by the Romans, and the pursuing army moves south, we can't run if we want to." Compare with worrying mention.

Xu Ding said passionately: "Run, why run, have confidence, not only do we not have to run, but we also want to capture Thessaloniki, we have to create brilliance again, all the way through." ”

Shop around is eager to ask what to hit.

Now that the number of troops in the city is not enough to 2,000, it is really unattainable to defeat two Roman legions and take the fortified city of Thessaloniki.

"Don't think about it so much, I have a secret weapon, everyone train the soldiers well, I hope that in half a month, our less than 2,000 soldiers will be elite." Xu Ding patted the two of them on the shoulder, and then went down the city wall.

In the days that followed, no matter what the Roman army outside the city did, as long as it did not attack the city, it would be ignored.

Of course, he did not forget to send people north to inquire for news, especially the news of the Roman pursuit of the army, and if this army turned south, he would have to take a countermeasure.

Because in the battle with the Flako department, more than 200 war horses were captured, and Xu Ding's cavalry department was directly expanded to six or seven hundred.

He directly transferred all the original Mengyu troops into it as cavalry and carried out various training for cavalry.

And the Barners Department also began to change from spearmen, and also practiced various subjects, and switched to the Roman elite all-round department.

Of course, the process is very hard and a little unsatisfactory.

After all, it's not very long.

However, Xu Ding was not stingy, the grain and meat were allowed to be eaten openly, and the priority was guaranteed, and all the livestock in the city were bought to supplement everyone's nutrition and physical strength.

With a two-pronged approach, more than 1,000 soldiers trained very hard, and finally transformed from slaves or gladiators to professional soldiers.

During this time, the Roman army outside the city also tacitly did not harass, and was also waiting for the situation of the war in the north.

Taking advantage of this gap, Xu Ding temporarily let the twelve trustees clone and slipped back to Dahan.

Back in Dahan, Xu Ding finished processing the official documents, and then asked people to take him to the fields in a carriage to take a look, it was the height of summer, and the fields were full of well-growing crops and abundant fruits.

After inspecting this year's agriculture and asking the old farmers, he got basic feedback, and Xu Ding returned while the sunset was still in the sky.

Before the car entered the city, it was blocked in its way.

"Why did you stop, Fuhu!" Xu Dingzheng pretended to be asleep, felt the carriage stop, and asked.

Dian Wei outside the car did not reply, until the sound of footsteps approached.

When it was almost over, there was a long-lost black voice.

"Master! The disciple came back to see the master, but the disciple had not completed all the tasks assigned by the master, so he was ashamed and did not dare to enter the city, so he had to be cheeky and ask the master for his guilt first. ”

Xu Ding opened his eyes at dusk, with a smile on his face, but then said with a straight face: "Since you know that you dare to return to the island without completing the task, it seems that you don't want to get married." ”

Fa Zheng showed a bitter color, and then looked at Dian Wei, who looked up at the sky, ignored it, and did not help.

Fa Zheng had no choice but to say: "The master has a life, the disciple does not dare to disobey, this time I came back mainly to miss the master, the master has to work so many things in the world, it is really hard, now I hear the master's voice like a bell, swallowing mountains and rivers, the disciple knows that the master is more powerful and healthy than before, and the younger brother is finally relieved." ”

"Come on! Your sycophant is sour, no wonder you haven't been able to complete the task for a long time when you go to the Northeast, and the feeling is that you are not attentive to work, get out of here. Xu Ding's long sword lifted the curtain, and when he saw Fa Zheng, who had darkened a lot, he didn't have a good airway.

Dian Wei and the others turned their heads and laughed, but Fa Zheng was a flower blooming on his face, and hurriedly said, "It's Master!" ”

I don't know how long I haven't been in a carriage with Xu Ding.

Fa Zheng remembers that it was about ten years ago, when he set off from Luoyang, there were only a few people around Xu Ding, and he sat in the same carriage with Sister Diao Chan and Master at that time, how happy he was at that time.

I miss it.

"What do you think? Laughing so silly! Xu Ding knocked the stupid Fa Zheng with his sword bag, and felt that this kid would become a fool if he was free-ranged.

Fa Zheng came back to his senses and said, "Master, we haven't been in a carriage together for a long time, does Master remember how he abducted me from Luoyang at that time?" ”

After saying that, Fa Zheng was hit with a chestnut burst.

It hurt so much that he hurriedly touched it, and Master Xindao's hand became darker and darker, and he came without even saying hello.

"Humph! What do you call me to abduct and take you away, it is you who begged the teacher with a shy face to take you out of the bitter sea of the capital, and so far the teacher has burned a lot of brain cells, wasting four poems in vain. Xu Ding glanced at Fa Zheng, who was rubbing his head, wanted to laugh and held back again, and closed his eyes seriously.

Fa Zhengxin said, it's obviously four and a half songs, and where are you wasting it, you have received a lot of fame, and you have directly become famous all over the world, and your skills are astonishing.

However, Fa Zheng thinks about it now, and he also feels that he is lucky, if it weren't for this, how would he go to Donglai, how could he worship under Xu Ding's door.

There would be no today's achievements.

And their Legalists will not have the good life they have now.

Look at the current Guanzhong, it is chaotic, the population is withering, wars are frequent, and turmoil is unstable.

If there was no Xu Ding, their Legalists probably didn't know if they were still there, and whether they would be tossed by Dong Zhuo.

Thinking of these Fa Zheng didn't feel pain, as if he had healed the critical blow just now.

He looked at Xu Ding, and when he looked at it, he found that he hadn't seen him for a few years, and Xu Ding had added a few gray hairs to the scriptures.

The face is quietly as white as before, but more resolute and solemn.

"Master! How did you get gray hair! ”

Xu Dingcai is only in his twenties, and he is not yet thirty, and he actually grew a few gray hairs unconsciously, Fa Zheng asked in surprise.

Xu Ding opened his eyes, his eyes became a little softer, he reached out and touched Fa Zheng's head, rubbed the place where he started just now, and sighed: "Your master is about to enter middle age, everyone is old, can you not grow hair?" But after a while, your kid has grown so big, does it still hurt? ”

Fa Zheng shook his head, now he thought he was no longer the original young child, nor was he an obscure young man.

Although he is not very old, he is a year and a half older than when he met Xu Ding himself at the beginning of the year.

Life experience and experience are richer than at that time of Xu Ding, and people are more calm.

"Beating is kissing, scolding is love, the disciple hasn't listened to the master's teachings for a long time."

"Get out! Your master, I am not good Longyang! ”

"Hey, hey, hey......"

"Laughing fart, I really became a fool......"

There were still discordant voices from time to time in the carriage, but Dian Wei, who was leading the way in front, followed with a simple smirk.

Fa Zheng Yijing hadn't been in a carriage with Xu Ding for a long time, and he hadn't heard the lord scolding anyone.

The territory is getting more and more fighting, and there are more and more people, although Xu Ding has married many wives and given birth to many children, and there are often laughter.

But it's really rare to hear him scold.

If this person is like this, he will not listen to his scolding for a long time, and he will miss it very much.

After entering the city, entering the mansion, and coming to the study, Xu Dingcai asked: "It's not good to ask you on the road, but now I can talk about the situation in the northeast." ”

Fa Zheng got up and bowed to Xu Ding: "Report to Master, the situation in the northeast is basically settled, most of the territory of Buyeo has been eaten away by us, and most of the army has been wiped out or captured by us.

However, Master can rest assured that there will be no Buyeo Kingdom within this year, because Qin Xiao and Mad Bumu, who have been encouraging the Buyeo King behind the scenes, fled west to the prairie.

The two should have given up the Buyeo Kingdom of the Fuyu King and the Yuqiu Tai. ”

Xu Ding didn't doubt Fazheng's words, he knew Fazheng's ability, and since he said that it was basically done, then Fuyu Guo would have no way to run.

So he asked: "Who is Qin Xiao and Crazy Bumu, can you find out!" ”

Fa Zhengdao: "According to the captives of the Buyeo Kingdom, the two of them are the descendants of the Qin Ying clan after the Qin family, and this Qin Xiao is a descendant of the Ying clan, and he should be his subordinates, or the descendants of a certain family or general in Great Qin back then."

I guess that the names of the two are pseudonyms, and the accurate information of the two cannot be found at all, which is the most regrettable thing for the disciples, otherwise it will always be a disaster to keep the two of them. ”

Xu Ding nodded and said with a smile: "Why do you say that the two of you are a disaster, since they went to the peninsula to the northeast to contact foreign tribes, it means that they have not found suitable support and borrowers in the hinterland of the Han Dynasty, so they can only go sideways."

Are you still afraid that they will not succeed? ”

Fa Zheng said: "Master, if you meet the disciples head-on, you are not afraid of the two of them, in terms of strength, the master has countless fierce generals and strategists, the support of the loyal and reliable people, and all kinds of advanced weapons.

Even if the disciple doesn't do his best, he can win the two.

But I'm afraid that the two of them will continue to find other people to make trouble, I heard that there has always been a group of people living there in Shuofang and the Northland, and my Han calls it Qin Hu. ”

"Qin Hu!" At the mention of these two words, Xu Ding also frowned slightly.

There is too little information about Qin Hu, about this special group of people, some say that they are actually pre-Qin Hu people, who have been living in Shuofang and the northern area of nomadism, so they are collectively called Qin Hu.

Some people say that they are actually the Mengjia army of the Great Qin Empire guarding the frontier and defending against the Xiongnu in the north.

Because they were unwilling to surrender to the Han Dynasty, they were nomadic in the places where they were originally guarded, and they were extremely closed to the outside world, not dealing with the Han people, nor with the Huns or other miscellaneous people.

Over time, this army slowly changed from more to less, and slowly disappeared from people's sight.

Even because of its special features, the history books are reluctant to write more.

So that no information has been handed down, so the two legends are confused, and very few people know about them.

If Xu Ding hadn't consciously sent someone to secretly investigate and record the northwest, he wouldn't have known that there was such a special ethnic group.

Therefore, if the legend of Qin Hu is the latter, Qin Xiaobao, as a descendant of Great Qin, may not go there, and it is very likely that he will get their support.

This will be a huge obstacle to Xu Ding's unification and annexation of Liangzhou in the future and the stabilization of the western region.

"So Master, we can't take it lightly, we should still send more people to find out the news of Qin Hu in depth, if we can intercept Qin Xiao and Crazy Bumu, it will be even better." Fa Zheng suggested.

Xu Dingdao: "Don't worry, we will let Tianmy Network do it in this regard, and you can continue to talk about the situation in the Northeast." ”

Fa Zheng continued: "The situation in the Northeast has basically been reported back by war, and the master is more or less clear, so I will talk about the situation in the Northeast in the past two years.

First of all, the new Japanese army suffered about 100,000 casualties, and a few days ago, the new Japanese army still maintained about 20,000 in the northeast, and the accumulated 400,000 Japanese people who migrated to the past have built 56 cities, 8 fortresses, 12 military camps, 800,000 acres of land reclaimed, and two rivers dredged.

There are 60 miles of straight roads, more than 300 miles of mountain roads, and 16,666 people who have been naturalized and become Han ......"