Due to the civil strife in the Central Plains, the vassal states were unable to allocate more manpower to send supplies to Qianyue Mountain, and the supply of 350,000 Yuke and 200,000 Song troops was seriously difficult, so they had to give up their existing territory, shorten the distance of supply lines, stretch the logistics supply of Jin Xuedi, and at the same time urge Weiguo and other countries in the West Sea to send troops as soon as possible.

However, the defense of the country was delayed, and only 100,000 homeless miscellaneous soldiers who did not even have armor and had no combat training were sent to the front line to die, and the reason was also very high-sounding, and the outside must first be settled inside, and the Black Turban rebels must be suppressed first, and the Central Plains can be stabilized before troops can be drawn south.

In fact, since the beginning of this year, the expansion of the Black Turban Army in various places has tended to stagnate, and there is still a continuous war in the Changsun Kingdom, and its sinister intentions can be described as vicious. It was intended to take advantage of the relaxed war situation in the Central Plains to make a moral posture of focusing on the overall situation, and induce various countries to transfer troops south to fight with Jin Xuedi.

However, Yuke is an armed force that "does not know what to do", and its political literacy is extremely poor, and it is often no different from hooligans and villains.

That night, not long after the lights went out in the Wei Mansion, Baili Yan and Wei Xian had just had the joy of fish and water, and the maid hurriedly knocked on the door of the house

"My lord, someone from the inner house has come."

"Got it."

lit the candle, Bai Liyan picked up the sweat towel at the head of the bed to wipe the sweat from her forehead, and was quite disappointed. Chunrou got up and got out of bed to get his clothes and change them

"The king must be in a hurry, and you must not neglect it."

"My husband knows, it's a pity that I didn't let you taste it all tonight, and it was cheaper Chunfang."

"As long as adults have me in their hearts, Chunrou will be satisfied."

Chunfang is like a frosted eggplant, and after a good night's sleep, she sleeps like a water lily and can't wake up.

Hurriedly dressed and came to the atrium, Jiang Jie was already waiting outside the courtyard

"My lord, the king is urgently summoned, and I want you to enter the palace immediately."

"Who's Coming?"

"Jiang Hao."

"Something must have happened to him, where is the other person"

"I've already returned to the palace."

Jiang Hao was a secret agent of King Xian, and after the rebellion of Gongsun Yue, he served as the chief of the secret agent, and rarely appeared again after that. The last time I saw Jiang Hao was two months ago, when he inspected the Yongxing City Ordnance Division, and this sudden visit was probably not a good thing.

rode straight to Zhentai Gate, and the forbidden army let him go without hindrance. In the Guangyuan Palace, he saw the cloudy King Xian, and paced in place uneasily

"The minister has seen the king, but I don't know what emergency military situation the king urgently summoned late at night."

"Yes, Wei Qing."

King Xian's expression was in a trance, as if the sky was falling, and Baili Yan immediately thought that it couldn't be something big in Xijun

"King, could it be that something happened to Xijun"

King Xian was silent for a moment, his eyes full of gloom

"Wei Qing, see for yourself"

King Xian handed over a yellowed bamboo stick, the front of the bamboo stick was engraved with the word Yuke, and the back was engraved with the word "Wei Xian". Bailiyan suddenly felt inexplicable

"What does this mean, my lord?"

"This is the Imperial Speed Order, doesn't Wei Qing know"

Bai Liyan shook his head in confusion, he had never heard Sai Qian talk about the "Imperial Order" and such a thing.

"I don't know what it means"

"The marshal sent a letter at dusk, rumored that Jin Xuedi had explored the chaos in the Central Plains, this time it was to raise a large army to the Northern Expedition, and the war in the Central Plains countries was eroded, and it was difficult to draw troops south, so he issued a royal speed order to draw famous generals from various countries to the south. I Xianguo didn't believe that General Wei was selected by the royal guest, and the widow urgently summoned Wei Qing into the palace, which was to discuss the matter with Wei Qing. ”

"Hey, there's such a thing, it's really unheard of, isn't it a drain from the kettle?"

The "Imperial Speed Order" is a major peculiar phenomenon at the moment, it is a forced conscription order for the generals of the vassal states to go south, and the consequences of not going will be very serious. The last time the imperial speed order was issued was one hundred and twenty years ago, when the Central Plains was in turmoil, and the vassal states had no time to look south, which led to the breakthrough of the defense line of Qianyue Mountain, and once invaded the territory of Xu and Song.

There is a huge gap between the Central Plains Army and Jin Xuedi in terms of quality and equipment, and the Central Plains coalition army can often only win by many, and when the troops cannot make up for the gap in technology and resources, the royal guest will issue an imperial speed order to forcibly recruit elite generals from various countries to go south to outwit them.

The vassal states are not fools, and the battle on the southern front will eventually become a meat grinder for all countries to sell each other, and no one will use the well-equipped main army to send them into a meat grinder that has no return, only to end up with an elite after the war and be besieged by other countries.

As a result, it exacerbated the internal contradictions and disadvantages of the coalition forces, and in the end they could only blindly win by more, and the Yuke headquarters also acquiesced to this unspoken rule. The root cause is that Liang Tianzi has lost his suppression of the vassal states, and it is difficult to restrain the vassal states from doing so.

The issuance of the Imperial Speed Order usually means that it is already difficult to win with the advantage of numbers in extreme disadvantage, and the Imperial Speed Order will be issued, and the elite of famous generals from various countries will be dispatched to help in the battle.

But the problem is that there was no Black Turban Army before, and there was no problem with civil strife in the Central Plains, and the vassal states still had to abide by the most basic political bottom line.

At present, the Black Turban Army is raging, and its territory is almost larger than that of Sun Guo, and now it is tantamount to pulling out elite generals from various countries overnight, which is tantamount to drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle to help the abuse.

Xianguo unfortunately drew Baili Yan and named it to go south to Qianyue Mountain.

"Since the situation is urgent, why don't you see the red cloud beacon fire?" Baili Yan said.

"The Red Cloud Beacon Tower only reports the conclusive military situation, and the letter only says that Jin Xue Dibei's offense is very large, so the news is not conclusive, and the royal guest is planning for the worst."

"The Black Turban Army is in turmoil and the guests are standing by, and now the countries are in trouble at home and abroad, but they know that it is really hateful to reach out to countries to ask for this and that."

Bailiyan became more and more disgusted with the royal guest at this time, although he had worshiped under the Saiqian Sect, but such a tossing method, who can afford it, where can it not be hated.

At this time, King Xian said

"The widow really doesn't want General Wei to take this risk, after all, it's nine deaths. The burden of my Xianguo is all tied to Wei Qing, how can a widow let Wei Qing go to the soup. ”

Hearing this, Bai Liyan suddenly understood that the fact that the royal guest did not issue the imperial speed order in an extraordinary situation, and it must be that there was some disadvantage of the imperial speed order. Looking at it now, it must have been some kind of political deal between the royal guest and the monarchs of the vassal states, otherwise the countries would have jointly boycotted the imperial speed order, and the royal guest would have no choice.

Since the vassal states can agree, it means that the royal guest must have a way to break the joint resistance of the vassal states, but there are drawbacks, and they are political drawbacks, and this political measure cannot be repeated many times

Most areas of Qianyue Mountain have a high altitude, and every time a war starts, only millions of people die in transportation, which are caused by altitude sickness, lack of oxygen and extreme cold, and the areas that can be used for people to live and build cities are grasslands with relatively low altitudes, so the focus of the battle in Qianyue Mountain is the relatively medium altitude area where the population has settled for a long time.

Since ancient times, it was easy for the Central Plains Army to attack from north to south, but logistically difficult, while Jin Xuedi attacked from south to north, but logistically convenient. The Central Plains Army went south to fight, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is nine deaths and one life.

"King, I'm going to draw one of the ministers in Xianguo" Bai Liyan couldn't help asking, extremely resistant in her heart.

"Since ancient times, there have been several famous generals, all of whom are wise and brave and worthy of great responsibilities. If it is just a wise man who gives advice, there are many talents under the command of Yuke, and there is no shortage of one or two strategists to eat. The widow only heard from the first king that the defense line of Qianyue Mountain was not very guarded against thousands of miles from east to west, and it was not a person with great wisdom and bravery, so it can be seen that Wei Qing is quite important in the eyes of the royal guest. ”

"There's no room for anything?"

"We must leave within ten days, and we must arrive at the city within three months."

"What if it's a delay?"

King Xian's face was expressionless and silent, Bai Liyan was almost certain at this time that since the imperial speed order could be implemented by various countries, there must be both advantages and disadvantages. The severity of the punishment brought about by the malpractice may be a sanction that even the lord of the country cannot bear.

After a while, King Xian sat back on the couch and avoided talking about what Bai Liyan mentioned, but just said

"If Wei Qing asks for something, as long as the few people have it, Wei Qing can take it."

"The minister didn't dare, the minister only asked how many people he could lead to the south this time"

"Since it's a speedy order, you don't need to bring your own people. But Wei Qing is very important to the widow in my Xianguo, how can the widow let Wei Qing go alone, but now that the Liang State is going to withdraw its troops, the widow is really sending more people to the south, so the widow can only give Wei Qing 30,000 elite soldiers. ”

"There are only 30,000 people" Bai Liyan was surprised, "Jin Xuedi knows that the number of troops is 800,000, and the Central Plains coalition army needs at least 1.2 million people to barely resist Jin Xuedi's northward advance on a frontal front of thousands of miles.

Jin Xuedi has always been offensive and defensive, launching attacks on the plateau grassland with a frontal width of thousands of miles, and the distribution of a million defenders on the defense line of thousands of miles is simply full of holes, so a wide front is extremely beneficial to the attacker, and a long defense line will dilute a large number of troops of the defender, which is extremely unfavorable to the defending side.

Constrained by logistics, climate, productivity, and transportation efficiency, the Central Plains Army could neither cultivate land on a large scale and efficiently on the plateau, nor could it get rid of the shackles of logistics, and advanced southward on a large scale.

Jin Xuedi benefited from the convenience of the Posong River, and could supply materials down the river only to the south of the war zone, and then use the unique animal resource "unicorn horse" to transport more than 2,000 miles to the north, so as long as Jin Xuedi occupied the supply station of the coalition army, it would eventually become the front springboard for Jin Xuedi to attack the coalition army.

On the contrary, if the coalition forces want to transport grain and grass materials to the Qianyue Mountain Plateau, there is no big river leading to the plateau that can be transported by boats and boats, so they can only rely on men and men and use animal power to transport tens of millions of stone of grain and grass materials to the front line, stretching tens of thousands of miles of transportation lines, and at the peak they need to support 1.5 million coalition troops, consuming tens of millions of people and millions of animal power, and more than sixty percent of the grain and grass are consumed in transportation.

Every time he fought in the south, it was enough to make the Central Plains vassal states unable to breathe for ten or twenty years, and even the list of annihilators was numerous. Therefore, the defense line of Qianyue Mountain has been a sharp sword hanging over the head of the Central Plains since ancient times, and there is a possibility of falling and dying at any time.

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