Chapter 14: The Tiger Army
Zhao Fu knew that whether it was the unconventional combat power of himself and Zheng Yuan, or the unconventional combat power of Lin Hanyu and Lin Ji who constantly surpassed themselves by destroying and squeezing their own potential, they were all phenomenal, he thought that this kind of phenomenal combat power would not be available again in this world, but he didn't expect another one to suddenly appear silently. And what made Zhao Fu feel the most strange was that point, why there was no relevant information before.
It's like a mushroom that grows on a rainy day, and it suddenly appears like a bamboo that is several stories high overnight.
"Do you have any information, boy?" Zhao Fu is still concerned about this, if the young man who suddenly appeared has the ability to kill Zhao Xiyuan from the Wan Army, it is also a huge threat to Zhao Fu's army.
"It's a rebel army, and the boy is suspected of being recruited by the rebels." Zhao Qian didn't have much information there, if there was really enough information, Zhao Xiyuan probably wouldn't dare to make such a big show of courage if he had a hundred guts.
So far, the identity of the teenager is still a mystery.
"And where did the rebels come from?" Since you don't know the boy, let's understand the relationship with the boy clearly.
"The Tiger Army, it is said that it was originally an army guarding the middle reaches of the river, and after the chaos in the world, it became independent, and then began to wander around, wanting to occupy a base area." Zhao Qian saw that all the information he knew was said.
The pastureland, located in the middle and upper reaches of the Great River, is lush with pasture and is also an important pasture in the Lan River Empire. At the beginning, Lin Haoyan casually sealed a small country, and then naturally this kind of small country with little strength but very important became the best object of the Zhao family's prestige.
However, at that time, the lord of the pasture land was unwilling to surrender directly, but united with several small surrounding countries to protect himself. Then it was directly leveled by the Zhao family's Zhongzhou Iron Cavalry, but they never expected that the Tiger Ben Army would appear at this time, and they also took a fancy to this place and wanted to make it their own base.
Where is the Zhao family willing, the pasture land is a place that they have worked hard to build, so naturally they are unwilling and impossible to give it up like this.
For this kind of self-provocative behavior, Zhao Xiyuan felt that he was idle, how could he not have some achievements as the founding emperor, so he led 10,000 Zhongzhou iron cavalry and 30,000 infantry auxiliary troops to carry out a royal expedition to satisfy his dream of war.
It's just that what Zhao Xiyuan didn't expect was that it was his dream that led to his demise (so how good it is to be a salted fish without dreams).
"Are you sure they're called Tiger Army?" Zhao Fu asked.
"That's what they said." Zhao Qian replied.
"No, I know about the deployment of the Lanhe Empire's military strength, there is no army related to the name of the animal around the Great River Basin, and even the entire Lanhe Empire does not have an army called the Tiger Ben Army." Zhao Fu shook his head, Tuolin Haoyan's blessing, he was fortunate to see the number of the Lanhe Empire's army, and he was sure that there was no army called the Tiger Army.
What's more, he had in his hands all the talismans of the army of the Lanhe Empire, and there was no Tiger Ben Army among them.
"What's going on?" Zhao Qian was taken aback, he originally thought that the Tiger Ben Army was really a certain army of the Lanhe Empire.
"I'm afraid it's a fake." Zhao Fu could only think of this, although he couldn't think of the benefits of pretending to be an army at all, Lin Sixing, who was far away in the imperial capital now, would not pay them military salaries.
The mysterious boy who suddenly appeared, and the Tiger Ben Army that did not exist in the army of the Lanhe Empire, everything indicates that this matter may not be so simple.
Zhao Fu felt that things had suddenly become complicated, he originally thought that Zhao Xiyuan just died suddenly due to illness or something, which caused the various heirs of the Zhao family to start fighting for power and power, causing internal strife, but he didn't expect that this was internal and external troubles.
"Then now your Zhao family, no, what is the situation in the Zhao country now?" Zhao Fu thought for a moment and asked.
The Zhao family is the core of the Zhao country, but when it comes to the country, the territory is still more suitable for the country.
"It's not good, although the Tiger Ben Army didn't know that the person they killed was Zhao Xiyuan, the dead old man, but recently they also discovered something wrong with Zhao and began to expand on the border...... And those fools are still secretly playing some stupid tricks in Zhongzhou City, and no one has organized an army to resist the onslaught of the Tiger Ben Army on the border. ”
Zhao Qian was angry as he spoke, which is why he was in a hurry to rush back, regardless of whether the Tiger Ben Army was good or bad, if the heirs of the Zhao family who did not have a sense of the overall situation were allowed to continue to mess around, the powerful empire established by the huge Zhao family in Zhongzhou would definitely be divided in the end because of internal contradictions.
Although Zhao Qian was not a staunch lover of peace, he knew that if this continued, it would only cause the originally powerful Lanhe Empire to split into countless small countries, like a brilliant jewel shattered into countless small pieces. A large enough gemstone is certainly a rarity, but if it is just a fragment of a gemstone, no amount of fragments can compare to a complete gemstone. Zhao Qian still understands this truth, a forty and fifty divided Lanhe Empire is obviously very damaging to the development of commerce, and even regression.
"How strong is the Tiger Army?" As soon as Zhao Fu asked, he felt that his question was too stupid.
If that young man really had the kind of combat power described by Zhao Qian, the ordinary army would not be an opponent at all, not to mention that the Zhao family was still tearing each other apart for the position of the next generation of family heads. In this case, I am afraid that Zheng Yuan can come and go freely in the territory of Zhao with his 30,000 Hu Qi, and he does not have to pay the toll.
"The situation in the Zhao State is not very clear, and even several major generals of the Zhongzhou Iron Cavalry have been bought by several different heirs, and they have also begun to centrifuge ......" Zhao Qian scolded, the Zhongzhou Iron Cavalry is an army that the Zhao family has been operating for decades and has been able to control after continuous infiltration. But now it has been split apart because of Zhao Xiyuan's death, and it is difficult to reproduce the glory of the Zhongzhou Iron Cavalry in suppressing the entire Lanhe Empire in the past.
It is precisely because the generals of the Zhongzhou Iron Cavalry are loyal to several different heirs of the Zhao family, which has led to the constant struggle between the internal forces, but the external forces have chosen to preserve their strength, and no one is willing to use the army they rely on to defend against the Tiger Ben Army - anyway, the fire set on the border of Zhao State will not be able to burn into Zhongzhou City.
Everyone thinks so, only Zhao Qian is outside, and he knows very clearly that the fire set by the Tiger Ben Army is burning the foundation of Zhao State - the hearts of the people of Zhao State.
(End of chapter)