Not long after Xia Xue had just unified the south, an urgent report came from Guidi, Lingnan, saying that the barbarians of Qinzhou Xiyuan had rebelled, sacked several counties, killed many local Han people, and arrested Song Chao, the magistrate of Rong County. Because the barbarians live in deep mountains, old forests, and cliffs, the local government has nothing to do with them.

The Angel Kingdom, which had just unified the south, was in ruins, and stability was the top priority, so Xia Xue immediately issued an edict ordering Feng An, the governor of Lingnan, to lead his troops to Qinzhou to quell the chaos.

Feng An, the governor of Lingnan, is in his thirties, with a burly figure, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a beard, and a rough appearance, and is the grandson of the famous "Lingnan Virgin" Mrs. Xian. Feng Ang had a strategy when he was a teenager, brave and good at fighting, and he was famous in Lingnan and everyone knew it.

After receiving the queen's edict, he immediately personally led an army of 50,000 troops into Qinzhou, and after a little repair, he immediately divided the troops into three ways to attack Wulongzhai, an important stronghold of Xiyuanman.

Feng Ang did not expect that the resistance of the Western Plains Barbarians was very tenacious, and the battle between the two sides was unprecedentedly tragic, fighting bloody battles from mountains to forests. During the day, the officers and soldiers entered ten miles, and at night the barbarians attacked and retreated for eight miles, and the battle was stalemate, and countless corpses were piled down at every step.

Wulongzhai mountain is continuous, Dalong Mountain, Erlong Mountain, Sanlong Mountain, Silong Mountain, Wulong Mountain, five mountains are connected, the mountain is majestic, the rock wall is steep, and the shade covers the sun. Thorns and barren roads.

Wulongzhai is not only precipitous, but also vast, 50,000 troops into the mountains, such as scattering stones into the sea, it is difficult to set off the wind and waves, but therefore deep in the jungle guerrilla warfare, step by step killing, everywhere in distress, the number of casualties continues to increase.

Feng Ang personally supervised the first army to attack Dalong Mountain, all the way to the green mountains, strange rocks, the murmuring water under the feet, the scenery is very beautiful. However, the officers and men were like facing a great enemy, and they did not care about appreciating them at all.

At the front is the rattan soldier, holding a large rattan card nearly one person high with both hands, walking forward cautiously, there is no road in front, only a wild grass lodging, as if someone has stepped on the wild path, only one person is allowed to pass, the army is bound to be vulnerable to such a formation. What's more, these half-man-high weeds and bushes hide endless pits, bamboo nails, lassoes, tripping bamboo spears or wooden guns, thorns, and so on.

Feng Ang couldn't help but feel anxious as he looked at the snail-like marching speed. However, he had already suffered the losses of the Nishihara traps, traps, and all kinds of small traps that killed people, and a large number of soldiers were killed or injured because of these traps and traps, so he couldn't force the soldiers to speed up the march.

He looked at the terrain around him, and saw a stream meandering out of the mountain, although the stream was also overgrown with weeds and shrubs on both sides, but it was relatively wide, and it was even more rare to walk in the shallow stream, which could avoid the endless pits, bamboo nails, lassoes, tripping bamboo spears or wooden spears, thorns, and other obstacles in the half-man-high weeds.

Feng An's heart lit up, and he immediately ordered Jun Dui to move down and trace the source along the stream.

This mountain stream is knee-deep, wide enough to row a bamboo raft, and although it twists and turns, and from time to time there are slippery boulders that are washed away by the current, and the army travels much faster than on the road.

The barbarians were able to lay traps in the grass, barley, under the land, and under the rocks, and there was no reason why they would let go of this stream leading to the valley, and Feng Ang did not dare to be careless. The soldiers were still on full alert, in the air, in the dense grass on both sides, and even in the underwater streams, for fear that something would suddenly burst out of it.

The two peaks in front stand side by side, the shape is like a double gate, and the mountain is dangerous. The top of the hill is covered with jungle and lush greenery. Feng Ang immediately ordered the army to stop, and he was about to send some spies to explore the way ahead, in case he was ambushed, when suddenly the branches in front of him shook the trees, and a strange howl sounded, and the officers and soldiers who were caught off guard screamed and fell, and some of them burst out of their brains before they could say a word. The death was horrific.

The soldiers raised their rattan shields, but instead of bows and arrows or pike spears, they shot at stones at least the size of a bowl, and the rattan plates smashed to pieces in less than two blows. The soldiers could not see a single enemy, and blindly fired a burst of arrows, which could not withstand the rain of stones falling from the sky, so they took refuge in the grass on both sides.

Pits, bamboo nails, lassoes, thorns, and other objects had already been laid in the grass, and the officers and men who blindly broke under their feet and could not see were again killed and wounded everywhere in a burst of screams. The barbarians have inexhaustible trees and stones. They used tree trunks as bowstrings and stones as arrows, destroying the withered and decayed, and the officers and soldiers left behind a large number of dead bodies and began to retreat out of the mountain.

The formation was in chaos, and Feng Ang couldn't stop it, especially a stone with a big bowl mouth flew over his shoulder, the strong wind blew his face and hurt, and a pro-soldier behind him was smashed into Xiong's mouth by a strong stone, Xiong's bones were shattered, and he fell to the ground just convulsions, and blood from his mouth and nose sprayed wildly. Even a veteran of the battlefield like Feng An, who was not afraid of death, was also cold, so he had to grit his teeth, drink the rear formation, change the front formation, and flee outside the mountain......

Xia Xue couldn't help but be taken aback after hearing the miserable battle report of Lingnan Governor Feng An, to be honest, Xia Xue didn't take this little Xiyuan Man in her eyes at first, but now after seeing the battle report of Lingnan Governor Feng An, she also realized the seriousness of the problem, realized the complexity of this quelling of the rebellion, and also realized that Xiyuan Barbarian was not so easy to deal with, and could not use conventional methods to quell the chaos.

The Angel Kingdom has just unified the south, "stability" is the overriding matter, for the local rebellion that is difficult to suppress, it also involves some minority issues, and it will affect the social stability of the entire Angel Country, after careful consideration, Xia Xue decided to personally go to Lingnan Qinzhou to solve this unusual rebellion.

Hearing that the number of barbarian rebellions this time was not very large, and the mountains and forests were deep, and more people were needed to search the mountains and block the intersections, Xia Xue decided to only use the local corps of Lingnan Guidi under the command of Feng An, the governor of Lingnan. Most of the soldiers of these local regiments are from Lingnan Guidi, and they are more adapted to the local climate and environment, and this time they need more manpower to quell the rebellion in the mountains and jungles, just a large number of ordinary soldiers. In addition, firearms may not be very powerful in that damp and cloudy mountain jungle, and artillery cannot be transported to the strange peaks and mountains, and to completely solve the Xiyuan barbarian rebellion, it cannot be solved by force alone, the situation is very complicated, and it is necessary to rethink the countermeasures.

After thinking about it for many days, Xia Xue decided not to use the Angel Firearms Legion based on firearms this time, nor did she use the Angel Main Battle Legion mainly based on cold weapons, and used these elite troops to quell the chaos in the mountains and forests with the feeling of cannons fighting mosquitoes.

"Kill chickens with a knife", the Angel Firearms Legion and the Angel Main Battle Legion will stay in Minzhou to guard Kyoto.

Xia Xue arranged for his uncle Gao Shilian to preside over the national government affairs in the angel country of Kyoto-Minzhou, and Li Jing to preside over military defense, because Ouyang Yong was sent to the north to do some confidential things, so this time he went to Guidi and only brought Ouyang Qian and Dugu Jun, the commander of the black-clothed guards, the black-clothed guards are Xia Xue's personal guards, in addition to the escort tasks, they often go to handle many reconnaissance affairs and confidential matters, the team members are carefully selected elite talents, and the most important thing is that they are absolutely loyal to Xia Xue.

A few days later, Xia Xue and his entourage first rushed to Yongzhou, the capital of Lingnan Guidi.

Dugu Jun, the young and handsome black-clothed guard commander of the Angel Army, reported to Xia Xue: "

Those places in the Western Plains are all deep mountains, old forests, cliffs, and they are all barbaric tribes. If a stranger who doesn't know the root of the problem breaks in, even if he doesn't die in their hands, he will have to die in the canyon of poisonous miasma or starve to death in the primeval jungle like a ghost. Wanting to send a scout to find out the news is tantamount to a fool's dream. If 100,000 troops were sent in that kind of place, more than half of the non-combat attrition would have to be achieved in a month, and the rest of the people would not be able to maintain even 30% of their usual combat effectiveness, and in addition, there would be no place where 1,800 people could concentrate to fight and charge, and the military would not be able to give full play to its group combat superiority. ”

Song Xuan, the prefect of Yongzhou, who looked elegant and had three long beards, also stepped forward and said: "Xiyuan Barbarian can really be a soldier in battle, even if you add Han people, bandits and robbers and escaped military criminals, there are only more than 40,000 people, they are mainly stationed in the three cities of Qilin, Yunzhong, and Wulongzhai, and each city is only tens of thousands of people, but the terrain there is dangerous, and one man is the pass, and ten thousand people are not open, which is why the little Xiyuan Barbarian dares to go against the imperial court."

He once consulted the county records and made a detailed understanding of the Tusi tribes in Lingnan Guidi. It is said that Xiyuanman is a descendant of the ancient Qiang people, and they are one village of 100 people, living in the Qinzhou area for generations. The barbarians of the Western Plains are wild and untamable, never obey the indoctrination, and even if they surrender, they often steal the border and harass them, invading the surrounding counties, and for more than 100 years, all dynasties have used troops against them. The city in the clouds where they are entrenched is a castle built by the Jin Dynasty to resist the northern Hu soldiers in the mountains, and it is surrounded by cliffs, which is extremely dangerous. The Qilin City, the old nest of the Xiyuan Barbarians, stands on the cliffs on all sides, it is steep and difficult to climb, there is only one rugged sheep intestine path within a radius of more than 30 miles to enter and exit, the officers and soldiers are difficult, but the Xiyuan Barbarians can walk on the flat ground, shuttling back and forth in the grass and thorns, and people are unpredictable. During the Sui Dynasty, the imperial court sent an army of 150,000 troops, but it was here that they were blocked, fought for five years, and returned in vain. ”

When Xia Xue heard this, she gasped, thirty miles away, the 150,000 army couldn't get it for five years, what kind of dangerous path should it be?

Xia Xue stood up and paced back and forth in the room: Fighting the Western Plains is different from fighting with the cavalry corps of the northern grassland, and also different from the battle of suppressing the Japanese in Funing, Fujian, no matter how many the army of the government is, it is difficult to rely on it.

The soldiers talk about winning with the right and the odd, and if they want to deal with the Xiyuan barbarians, they have to go off the front and get out of the way.

At this time, it was reported outside, and Feng An, the governor of Lingnan, asked to see him.

"Please come in", Xia Xue was looking at the sand table and looked up when she heard a voice.

Feng An, the governor of Lingnan, entered the mansion, knelt down on one knee, clenched his fists over his head, and said ashamedly: "Your Majesty, the last general is ashamed, gathering 50,000 troops, but Wulongzhai has not been able to attack for a long time, and it is entrusted by His Majesty." ”

Xia Xue said casually: "Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, barbarian warfare, fighting for more than 100 years, the famous generals don't know how many mortals, the army doesn't know how many tens of thousands, if they all win the battle, I won't be here today." ”

She walked over and helped Feng Ang up: "Failure is not a shame, the common characteristic of successful people is that they are not afraid of losing." General Feng, please get up, we will discuss the matter of quelling the rebellion later, and I believe that we will definitely achieve the final victory! ”

Seeing that the queen was understated, Feng An, the governor of Lingnan, was grateful in his heart, he stood up and asked first: "I began to underestimate the enemy, although the Xiyuan Barbarians are primitive and backward, they are not so easy to deal with. I wonder if the queen has any good strategies to quell the chaos? ”

"I still need to know more about the situation before I can formulate a specific plan to quell the rebellion, and now we will go to Qinzhou, the front line of the rebellion." Xia Xue is not the kind of person who makes decisions casually without having the details.