Chapter 33: The First Year
Although the black-robed military master controlled his emotions well, he couldn't help but sigh. Beiting's biggest enemy will never be Lin Haoyan, Lin Haoyan can be anyone's enemy, but it is difficult to pose too direct a threat to anyone. The real threat to Beiting can only be Zhao Fu.
The black-robed military advisor patiently described to Ahu Yu the deeds of Zhao Fu jumping off the wall of Lanting unscathed, and also told the legend of the Moon Worship Tower, and once again emphasized that there are rumors that the Moon Worship Hero is Zhao Fu.
After hearing this, Ahuyu laughed even more rampantly: "Strategist, are you really old and confused? ”
You're a fool! How could I have chosen such a person as you in the first place! The military advisor wrapped in black robes trembled with anger.
"If he just jumped off Lanting City, I would believe him, there are countless heroes in the world, and there are not one or two people with miraculous skills, but if you want to pull up the Moon Worship Tower? Hehe, if he can really do it, is he still human? Military advisors, the Han people are cunning, this must be them in the limelight to scare us, hehe, it's a pity that they miscalculated this time. Ahuyu looked proud, as if he had uncovered a big lie.
The black-robed military advisor smiled bitterly, thinking to himself that it was my fault? It's better not to know than to know. The black-robed military advisor could only accept Ahuyu's "very wise" opinion and retreated.
Zhao Fu handed over the 2,000 iron arm army to Lin Hanyu and rushed to the front line to supervise the battle, and now the two countries have officially submitted the war letter and entered the stage of a full-scale war.
The main towns mainly garrisoned by the Northwest Army are Lanting City, Xijing City, Shangchuan City, and Warren City from west to east, and are called the Northwest Four Cities, and only Lanting City and Wallen City want to communicate directly with the Beiting Territory. Wallen City is a huge fortress built during the Jinzhan Empire before Lanting City was built, and it is also the northernmost city of the Han people at that time. There is not only the meaning of Western peeping, but also the deterrence of Beizhen, of course, there is also the most important purpose is to weaken the people's psychological thoughts of the Marigold Empire of the previous dynasty.
At this time, the most fierce battle was in the surrounding area of Valen City, although Zhao Fu said that the battlefield would not be carried out in the territory, but the offensive of the Hu people was very fierce, and the formation looked like the Northern Hu wanted to occupy the Lanhe Empire.
Beihu very vividly showed the world that the best defense is to attack, under the pressure of the army, the Northwest Army can only rely on the pass fortress for passive defense, there is no extra troops out of the city to meet the battle.
For the first time, Zhao Fu saw what a real war was, and every day different battle reports drifted into the temporary general's mansion set up in the Valen City Lord's Mansion like snowflakes, and all kinds of chaotic messages swarmed in, and often after reading it, the conclusion was very simple: the enemy was attacking fiercely, but because of our stubborn resistance, we were safe.
Sick of it! Zhao Fu carefully read the battle report for several days in a row, and found that the results were all in a broad sense, which was nothing more than boasting about the enemy and then boasting about himself. Zhao Fu was angry and didn't read the rest of the battle report, and directly slapped it all over the ground.
This is not the war he wants! Zhao Fu quietly slipped out of the Temporary General's Mansion and came to the city wall of Valen City, which was slightly lower than Lan Ting, but even so, he could see the camp tent set up by the Hu people not far away, and even the smoke of the cooking.
Is this war? Zhao Fu doesn't think that sitting on the general's mansion every day and reading the war report is war, isn't war a life-and-death competition with a long knife? Zhao Fu suddenly felt very aggrieved, why couldn't he, as a general in the northwest, go into battle to kill the enemy?
"Someone! Come! He stood on the wall and shouted, and soon a group of soldiers on the night watch came.
"Who are you?" The leading soldiers also knew that the people who could still appear on the city wall at this point in time were either high-ranking officials or enemy spies, and the enemy spies obviously would not shout like Zhao Fu.
"Northwest General, Zhao Fu." Zhao Fu said coldly.
"Huh?" The leading soldier was surprised, but replied very mechanically, "Please prove the accident." ”
", I want a fart proof!" Zhao Fu roared: "Do you think I have to bring a certificate when I slip out of the General's Mansion?" Do you have to fight to believe that I'm a general? ”
"That...... Although I am willing to believe that you are the general, but this is a military ......regulation" The leading soldier was a little helpless, I heard that the newly crowned Northwest General is still a young man, if this is the case, then it should be the one in front of him.
"Okay, okay, then let me ask you, why didn't you go out and attack at such a good opportunity?" Zhao Fu pointed to the tent of the Hu people not far away.
"Sneak attack?" The leading soldier scratched his head, and then looked in the direction of Zhao Fu's finger, indeed, in addition to the cooking smoke, he could faintly see the loose shaking of the torches, presumably the soldiers of Beihu.
That's right, it must be a good idea to sneak attack and rob the camp at this time, although it is only a leader, but even he thinks that this idea is feasible, the Hu people seem to have a very loose defense, if they send someone to quietly touch it at this time, maybe it will be a big victory!
"But there is no order from above...... "The leader was a little dull.
"I'm your boss!" Zhao Fu wailed weakly.
At this time, footsteps were heard again not far away.
"What's the noise?"
"Ahh I've seen Commander Xia! The leader who was still talking to Zhao Fu hurriedly saluted.
The person who came was Xia Yingyang, and when he saw that he actually bumped into Zhao Fu on the city wall, he couldn't help but be stunned, and then saluted Zhao Fu, "I've seen the general." ”
The leader of the troops naturally recognized Xia Yingyang, and when Zhao Fu didn't come yet, the highest military commander here was Xia Yingyang, although there were still many officials in Warren City whose official positions were not smaller than the commander or even greater than the commander. But when it comes to fighting, Xia Yingyang is still more proficient, this point is that Zhao Fu has not changed since he came, Zhao Fu is the nominal supreme governor, and Xia Yingyang is the actual supreme chief.
After seeing Xia Ying Yang saluting the young man in front of him and calling him a general, the leader hurriedly followed and saluted Zhao Fu.
"What's the noise? The City Lord's Mansion is boring? "Xia Yingyang is more accustomed to calling the City Lord's Mansion, after all, the so-called General's Mansion is just a sign at the door, Xia Yingyang has been here for more than a month, and he doesn't plan to change it if he is used to it, and there is no one in the northwest who can make Xia Yingyang forcibly change anything.
"Hello Uncle Xia," Zhao Fu greeted first, "I'm wondering why don't you send someone to attack at night?" ”
Xia Yingyang looked at Zhao Fu meaningfully, "You have a good brain, although you still owe a little." ”
"Isn't there already an arrangement?" Zhao Fu was a little excited, the war is to see blood, otherwise even if the war report is written on red paper, it is just a war report, at most it will be used to fool Lin Haoyan.
"The night attack was prepared for a long time, but not now." Xia Yingyang looked at the tent of the Hu people not far away, "When the time comes, I will naturally go." ”
"If there is no time, then naturally you shouldn't go......" Xia Yingyang said a few words, as if he remembered something.
"Oh...... In that case, rest assured. Zhao Fu thought about it, it was true, he was too anxious, looking at the Hu people's position, it was not as simple as wanting to repel the Northwest Army and hold the North Garden. It is also written in the war letters of both sides that the Lanhe Empire wants to annex Beihu into the territory, while Beiting wants to annex the entire Lanhe Empire.
Although the Hu people can bypass Valen, that would be equivalent to cutting off their own supply lines, and it would be very unwise to get the fortified city of Valen stuck in the supply line. And Lan Ting is more difficult to attack than Valen, and the position is still west. Therefore, if the Hu people want to go south, the best choice is to take Valen first, and then include Xijing Shangchuan in it, as for Lanting, which is still in the northwest, it can be completely isolated.
The location of Lanting City is said to be ingenious and ingenious, it can both send troops to the west and march to Beihu, but once the role of defensive warfare is not as good as that of Waren, the reason why the wall of Lanting City is higher than Warren is purely the same as Jingliang City, which comes from the comparison psychology of the first His Majesty Lin Fengyi.
Therefore, in the future, more and more Beihu soldiers and horses will definitely gather under the city of Valen, and if the strategy of night attack is used too early, Beihu will be on guard after that, and it will no longer be so convenient.
Thinking about this, Zhao Fu returned to the General's Mansion in a somewhat happy mood, but found that there were two stacks of war reports on his table, one stack was the battle report that he had read that had been stamped, and the other was the battle report that had not been read and therefore was not stamped.
There was no one else in the house, just two guards standing outside.
"Which of you did this?" Zhao Fu summoned two guards.
"I did it......" At this time, a guard came out of the ranks.
"Oh? Do you read? Zhao Fu was a little curious.
"Learned a little."
"Read it to me." Zhao Fu casually picked out a battle report.
"Yes! To the great general, there was no fighting on the Eastern Front, and occasionally enemy cavalry was infested and killed. The guard read it well.
"This." Zhao Fu picked up another one.
"General Chengda, Shangjing lives in the southeast of the northwest, there is nothing to do so far, and he has recruited new soldiers to supplement the source of troops in accordance with the general's order, and it is expected that he will be able to add another 100,000 elite soldiers to the Northwest Army after three months!"
Zhao Fu was very satisfied with the guard's literacy ability.
"Do you know what that means?"
"Yes, there is no accident in the east, Shangjing is recruiting." The guard gave the gist briefly.
"Good! It's up to you. Zhao Fu is very satisfied, with such a person by his side, he can be much easier! There is no need to trouble Feng Yu to rush over from Lanting.
Zhao Fu immediately appointed this guard as a staff general of the General's Mansion, who was responsible for collecting, sorting out, and then reporting the battle situation in various places.
"By the way, what's your name?" Zhao Fu asked.
"Liu Anyuan." The guard replied respectfully.
"Okay, Liu joins the army, you will work under me in the future, and the first task given to you is to prepare a letter for me to Feng Yu of Lanting City, telling him not to use Valen."
"Yes!" Liu Anyuan looked a little excited, and went to write the letter with joy. From a guard in the original City Lord's Mansion to a member of the Great General's Mansion all of a sudden, it is a matter of everyone.