After Zhou Kong's little lotus left, Jiang Jie stepped forward and asked Bai Liyan

"Master Hou, doesn't the last general Guan Zhou's expression seem wrong?"

"Oh, what's going on with you and Little Lotus Seed."

Bai Liyan answered the question, Jiang Jie was puzzled

"Not really."

"Then don't hurry."

Bai Liyan stretched out her hand and patted Jiang Jie's shoulder, a bright smile jumped on her face, Jiang Jie suddenly realized, and was busy saying the word "powerful".

"Master Hou is really powerful, I have to call Mrs. Eight in the future."

"you, don't scream yet, beware she cuts you. Keep your mouth tight for me, and if you leak the wind, beware of punishing you for a year. ”

"No!"

Zhou Kong has a strong temperament, and she is not easy to show weakness in front of others, and it is not easy for her to be sincere and emotional. This matter was publicized everywhere, but it made her feel ugly.

In late September, Ye Xin and Mo Yunfeng withdrew the main force from the outer pass of the Giant Gorge to show their sincerity, leaving only 40,000 people to continue to garrison, and at the same time building a soil plug outside the Giant Gorge Pass to strengthen the defense and prevent the divine power from escaping from the west of the Giant Gorge Pass.

On the Eastern Front, Guan Longxiang and Zhao Xun agreed to peace talks after consultation, and sent Shen Duchi back to Dongping to hand over the conditions of the Xian army to Shentong.

"That's all for the Xianjun?"

"Back to the Heavenly King, that's all. They will let it go only if our army agrees. ”

Shen Duchi said carefully, Shentong put the letter on the case and stood up, pacing back and forth in place, his right hand kept twisting the long gray beard under his chin, and his heart was inexplicably restless.

"General Shen will rest in the gate for a day, and after this Heavenly King has considered it in detail, he will reply."

"No, the last will retire."

Raising his hand to give a slight salute, Shen Duchi withdrew from the hall, and when he left, his supernatural powers were summoned left and right

"Someone."

"What does the King of Heaven command?"

"Immediately go to Guanwai and summon Lu Ting back to see me."

"No."

Shen communicated with Shen Duchi, and ordered someone to recall Lu Ting to teach him face-to-face.

Shen Duchi returned to the station, and found that most of the horses were missing, so he asked the general for questioning

"What about the horses of our army, why are there so many of them?"

"General Shen, the forage in the army is exhausted, and the general can only take Danqiong to feed the horses soon after he leaves."

"Then why don't you let the county cut the hay and send it." Shen Duchi asked, worried that it was a conspiracy of the supernatural powers.

At this time, the protector said again

"It is rumored that the Heavenly King is training the people, so if it is not for the urgent military resources now, all the transfers have been stopped."

Shen Duchi was surprised when he heard the news, and asked again

"Is the message exact?"

"Not exactly, just speculation."

"What's the proof?"

"The subordinates found that after the general left, the Dongpingguan military depot transferred a large number of weapons, although they were all bronze weapons and light bows, but it was enough to train 25,000 or 6,000 people, in addition, the supply has been interrupted, and the scouts who returned from Juxia Pass also said that the number of people who transferred supplies along the way was greatly reduced, according to this calculation, although the armaments stored in various parts of Wanchuan County were inferior, there was no problem at all with arming 70,000 or 80,000 people.

Besides, before we fled into Wanchuan, we were coerced by more than 80,000 people, plus the people's husbands, strong men and people's army in the county, not to mention 200,000 people. Drag on for a month or two, not to mention being able to practice and become angry, and driving out is enough to surprise the salty army. ”

The escort general said in detail, and Shen Duchi began to suspect that the supernatural peace talks were fake, and that the other plans were true. After a moment's thought, he said carefully

"You don't have to do justice in this matter, and don't send someone to inquire, so as not to inquire behind the back of someone with ulterior motives and invite death."

"The subordinates understand. What about our horses? ”

"Just watch the people, and as for the horses, since they are fed in turn, when the horses are brought back after they have eaten, they will release the other horses in the camp, and don't let them all go."

Shen Duchi had no intention of tearing his face with the supernatural powers immediately, and now he was trapped in the pass, and the horses were far less important than the team, even if the supernatural powers took the horses away, they were not as strong as holding the military power in their hands. There is no need to confront the supernatural powers because of the horses.

It was a little late, and Lu Ting hurried back to the east plane to see the supernatural powers

"The end will see the Heavenly King."

"General Lu is exempt."

"Thank you." Lu Ting put away the number of gifts and hurriedly asked, "What are the instructions of the Heavenly King to summon the last general to return to the pass?" ”

"One hundred and fifty miles to the northwest, what is the movement of the Xian army?"

"There is nothing abnormal, and Sangnan County has not increased its troops southward, but according to the detailed report, Zhao Xun is still using troops against Sangnan, and it is very difficult for King Shengyan to use troops."

"Alas......"

The supernatural power sighed, full of depression. Lu Ting was puzzled and asked carefully

"Why does the King of Heaven sigh, our army still has a county in hand, as long as it is managed, it can still be defended."

"Having said that, the general trend has gone, and there is nothing to be done about it. Not to mention, General Lu was summoned here today to discuss important matters. I trained a new army in Sichuan, and General Lu immediately selected more than 1,000 elite soldiers from your subordinates to take over and familiarize myself with the personnel and soldiers. ”

"The new army, the new army where it came." Lu Ting asked.

"It is a new army composed of young and strong people, with about 70,000 people and 190,000 old and weak, and the king of heaven ordered them to settle the fields to relieve the grain and grass needed by the new army."

"But even if you plant wheat now, you have to harvest it at the end of winter and early next year, and more than half of the summer seeds have been abandoned due to the war, and less than 30% of the sowing land in Sichuan is still sow, so how can we persist until next summer's harvest."

"General Lu doesn't need to worry about this matter, this Heavenly King has his own arrangements. All you need to do is immediately send your generals to take over the training of the new army, and you must train it within two months to make it workable. ”

"I'm afraid it's a little tighter in two months, at least half a year."

"It's only two months, three months at most, and there's no more time at the moment." The supernatural power said sharply, and his tone was unquestionable.

"Alright, I'll do my best."

After a detailed explanation, Lu Ting rushed back to the camp overnight and sent a military attache to take over the new army.

The next day, Shen Duchi came to the office on time and met with Shentong on the reply to the peace talks, and Shentong handed over the draft reply letter to Shen Duchi, and said in a serious voice

"General Shen, here you must persuade the Xian army to agree to the request of this Heavenly King, and if there is anything wrong, let people return to sue me immediately."

"The last will obey."

"In addition, our army is about to go north, and we need a lot of baggage for transport, and there is not enough horses, this Heavenly King hopes that General Shen can transfer 5,000 horses from the army for our army's transfer, what does General Shen think?"

"Heavenly King, there are many strong men in the county, why don't our army use military horses instead of people in the north."

"The horse transport capacity is huge, it is several times the manpower, if you use human transportation, let alone tens of thousands of people, so many people need grain and grass all the way north, and there are more than 100,000 people to transport grain to them, so 200,000 people go all the way north, if the Xian army goes back on its word and cuts me off before and after, how is it good. Why, General Shen disagreed? ”

Shentong's tone was cold, Shen Duchi was apprehensive in his heart, and he thought about it and refused without an excuse, so he had to nod

"The last general understands, and the last general immediately orders someone to select weak horses to transport supplies."

"In that case, General Shen will do it immediately."

"No!"

Leaving the office, Shen Duchi did not return to the garrison to select horses, but went directly out of the customs and rushed to the Xianjun camp.

Zhao Xun handed over all the peace talks to Guan Longxiang and Xu Jin, and Shen Duchi arrived at Xu Jin's camp that night on a fast horse.

"General Xu, Mr. Guan Long, you are polite."

"General Shen is exempt." Xu Jin said, and then asked, "Can there be a reply to the conditions proposed by our army." ”

"The supernatural handwriting letter ordered me to hand it over to the Xianjun, please take a look at it."

Shen Duchi transferred the letter of divine communication, Xu Jin took it and handed it to Guan Longxiang for a look, the content was as expected, the divine power basically agreed to almost all the harsh conditions of the Xian army, and at the same time proposed that it was necessary to send someone north to contact Shengyan to respond, and Wanchuan's takeover must be after all the rebels entered Shengyan's territory.

After reading the letter and transferring it to Xu Jin, Guan Longxiang asked Shen Duchi

"The supernatural power should ask our army to accept all of them, and General Shen immediately returned to inform the supernatural power that only two people and three people are allowed to go north to the Shengyan territory, and each round trip must be agreed by our army, otherwise life and death do not matter."

"I see. However, something is very strange, and I suspect that the supernatural powers have other schemes. ”

"Oh, what's going on?"

"The supernatural powers may have trained a new army, and they have cheated thousands of horses from my command, similar to the intention of reorganizing the cavalry."

"Forming a new army? Is the message exact. ”

Guan Longxiang asked, and Shen Duchi affirmed

"Pretty much exactly."

"How many centaurs?"

"Seventy or eighty thousand."

"So much!" Xu Jin was taken aback when he heard the news, and hurriedly said, "The cavalry can be trained to be good at fighting for less than one or two years, and it will take three or five years at most, and the infantry army will also take half a year to a year. Moreover, there are not many grains and herbs in Wanchuan County, and it is not as cost-effective to take away 780,000 people to practice, it is better to cultivate grain fields and harvest 780,000 mu more wheat. ”

After speaking, Guan Longxiang guessed

"Or rather, the supernatural powers deceived the horses into using them for the purpose of arriving the land."

"That's not enough to make up for seventy or eighty thousand laborers." Xu Jin denied.

Horses can cultivate about two-thirds of the land of cattle, twice as much as a man, 5,000 horses can cultivate 100,000 mu of land at best, and 80,000 strong men can only cultivate 700,000 to 800,000 mu in a season without animal power, and if they do not stop crop rotation, they can also plant 15.6 million mu in half a year. 5,000 horses are not enough to replace the labor of 80,000 people, and no matter how Guan Longxiang and Xu Jin calculate, they can't calculate the equivalent labor of the two.

But if we want to say what role the rabble of 70,000 or 80,000 can play, in addition to increasing the chaos on the battlefield, it is expected that 780,000 people will be trained into tigers and wolves within two months, not to mention the inferior equipment, except that the weapons are not equipped with armor, and two months is simply not enough to turn the peasants into well-trained soldiers.

When he was puzzled, Guan Longxiang had an idea

"Isn't it a miraculous power, if you want to pull the strong men in the middle of the river, you can't do it!"

"No, it won't." Shen Duchi denied, "Shentong also told me this morning that he was worried that the Xian army would deceive halfway, and the marching army would not be too long, and there would be more than 200,000 people with 150,000 or 60,000 people plus the people needed for transportation, and he would definitely not take this risk." ”

"This is what the supernatural powers told you personally?" Guan Longxiang asked.

"I said it myself."

"Shhh...... If he deceives me, he will take away more than 200,000 people at that time, and the strong labor force in the river will be empty, but how can I think he has other plans. ”

The agreement only agreed to allow Shentong to lead his troops north, but did not clearly state how many people would be released, and Guan Longxiang judged that Shentong was trying to pull away all the strong men, so that the people of Wanchuan would be exhausted and rotten in the hands of the Xian army.

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