Chapter 292: The Prairie Wind Rises
The construction in the territory is naturally always out of sight, and for Li Wenyuan and Xue Renyue, new problems arise every day, and there are new things every day. But for Zhuang Fudi, who was far away in Lingwu County on the eastern front, the problem he had to face day after day was the same one: how to use these forces in his hands to deal with the increasing number of Liang Shidu's army.
In the investigation of the military lords, it has been learned that although most of the troops on the opposite side are strong men randomly pulled by Liang Shidu from the people, and their combat effectiveness is very worrying, but among these militias, there are still the elites of Liang Shidu's army, and colleagues also hide the army supported by Liu Wuzhou. These two elites are hidden in these militias, like a poisonous snake swimming in the shadows. Once you are the slightest mistaken, you will be bitten by a poisonous snake on the throat and die. As a high-achieving student of the military academy, Zhuang Fudi naturally would not accept such a humiliating defeat, so even if he returned alive, he would be caught by Zhang Juntai as a trick and laugh at himself for a long time. Therefore, Zhuang Fudi ordered his soldiers day after day to constantly explore the specific deployment of the Liang Division on the opposite side. In short, no matter what, we must find out the location of these elites, and after having these elite locations, the hundreds of thousands of troops brought by the Liang division will no longer pose any threat.
So under Zhuang Fudi's order, all the military lords in the army had to go out more than a dozen times a day. However, a large amount of information was handed over to Zhuang Fudi's side, and according to common sense, this information should be passed through in the hands of the military lord himself, and after being summarized and sorted, some useless false information and misrecorded information should be eliminated, and then the useful report will be made to Zhuang Fudi to know. But now the situation is special, all the military lords are spying on the intelligence of the Liang division army on the opposite side, so the matter of sorting out and summarizing the intelligence can only fall on Zhuang Fudi's head. This makes Zhuang Fudi busy every day. However, thanks to the work of sorting out intelligence, the deployment positions of the elite troops on the opposite side that I found in the intelligence every day will appear in Zhuang Fudi's mind for the first time, and be thoroughly remembered. So after looking through the information for a few days, Zhuang Fudi had a headache to find that the locations of these elite camps were different every day, as if they were deliberately wandering among the hundreds of thousands of militiamen, just like his own military tyrants playing a game of hide and seek.
Later, in an accident, a staff officer who helped Zhuang Fudi sort out this information found a strange place, that is, Liang Shidu, these elite troops would march covertly every night and night, and would not stop marching until the golden rooster reported dawn, and there was no clear destination, only one direction and time to march. Zhuang Fudi was overjoyed to get this information, although he still couldn't predict the specific location of the elite troops on the opposite side, but it was probably no longer a problem to predict. With these predicted positions, Zhuang Fudi began to calmly mobilize the army, stationed in advance in the place where the elites of the Liang division may appear next, and then made some subtle adjustments to the positions after finding out the specific locations of those elites.
In fact, Li Wenyuan did not give a clear deadline for this eastward expansion. In terms of Zhuang Fudi's character, what he wants to do most must be to lead his army to confront the Liang Shidu army on the opposite side indefinitely. Anyway, there are less than 50,000 people on his side, and the consumption of grain and grass is simply not worth mentioning compared to the hundreds of thousands of Liang Shidu troops on the other side. In this era, the importance of grain and grass is beyond doubt. The daily food of hundreds of thousands of people is really an astronomical amount, and Zhuang Fudi originally wanted to wait for the time when the army on the opposite side ran out of food before launching an attack to solve the Liang division. The military owl brought back a bad news that made Zhuang Fudi want to scold: in order to ensure the victory of this battle to defend the Western Regions Army, Liang Shidu ruthlessly activated the three official warehouses of the Sui Dynasty in his territory. The grain in these three official warehouses is enough for these hundreds of thousands of people to eat for another three to five months.
Zhuang Fudi's plan to delay was already unable to be implemented, and there were too many uncertainties in the raid at this time, so for a while, the Western Regions County led by Zhuang Fudi was in a bit of a dilemma in Lingwu County, so he could only rely on the idea set before, temporarily guarding the county town of Lingwu County, and putting a defensive posture inside Lingwu County, waiting for the Liang Shidu army on the opposite side to take the initiative to attack.
However, Liang Shidu did not dare to rashly order the army to attack, although there were hundreds of thousands of militia under his command, but Liang Shidu still knew what kind of real combat effectiveness it was, so it was already unexpected for Liang Shidu to form the current situation to confront the Western Regions Army and win a moment and a half of respite. So the Western Regions Army did not continue to attack, and the Liang Division Army did not attack, and the two sides launched a strange confrontation in Lingwu County.
Although no war broke out in Lingwu County, the grassland rebels led by Tong Lifushi on the grassland had already waged several fierce battles with the grassland army of Tuoba Shishu. The battlefield was separated by hundreds of miles because both sides were cavalry. However, it is clear that the quality of the army led by Philip is obviously not as heroic as the army led by Tuoba Shi Shu to protect the royal court. Therefore, at this time, the situation of war on the steppe was that Tuoba Shishu's army pursued the army of Tong Lifushi and fled in all directions across the grassland.
However, although they were fleeing, the army of Philip did not panic in the slightest. Still maintaining a relatively neat formation, under the command of Liversher, they kept turning in, and got the order of Tuoba Shishu to destroy the rebels in front of Livershe, and the royal court guards were behind, and they had been closely chasing after Liversheth's army, which made Liverfisheth overjoyed, he was still having a headache before how to lure this royal court guards into the place he wanted them to enter, but as far as the current situation was concerned, he didn't have to think about anything, just gallop in front of him and lead the way.
So the two armies ran on the steppe one after the other. The army led by Liversh, who was running in front, suddenly grabbed the reins of his horse, turned his head and took a position to face the chasing royal court guards, at this time, even if he found a three-year-old child, he knew that there must be some problems, and as the commander of the royal court guards, he could naturally think of this. But the horses did not stop at once with a single command, so the whole army came forward for nearly a mile before the momentum of the march was stopped.
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