In April, it is the season when the grass grows and flies, the grass business is full of growth, dancing with the breeze, from time to time there are all kinds of small animals running happily in the grass, the eagles and falcons in the air open their sharp eyes, searching for their targets, sometimes swooping down, in the moment of the pasture grass, some of the claws have more small things that can't help but struggle, but more are disappointed in the air again, continue their predatory process.

As Li Qing expected, Bayar really sent his most powerful general Huhe soldiers to the forest, and set up a large camp about fifty miles away from Shanglinli City, and the soldiers pointed directly at Shanglinli, and Lu Dalin, who was standing above the head of Shanglinli City, looked at the flagpole of Huhe's camp faintly visible in the distance, and sneered at the corner of his mouth.

Dingzhou has been prepared for war, Shanglin is also ready, the extension of the enclosure and the main city of Shanglinli, Weibao has constituted a complete defense system, the outermost enclosure has been abandoned, all the armed cantons have shrunk inward, now near the enclosure of the forest, each of which is about 100 armed cantonmen, on the roof of each enclosed house, there are about more than ten strong crossbows.

The small river flowing through the upper forest was forcibly dug up by Lu Dalin, and the small river turned a big bend, and turned a semicircle around the defense system of the upper forest, forming a natural moat, although the small river is often broken in winter, but in spring and summer, the river will rush and roar, and the army attacking the upper forest wants to cross the river, first of all, it must be filled with human lives.

I'm not afraid of you coming! Lu Dalin sneered in his heart.

Hu He had no intention of attacking Shanglinli at all, and now he was laying out the defense drawings of Shanglinli, although it only roughly depicted the defense system of Shanglinli from the appearance, but Hu He only knew that Shanglinli could not be easily defeated by virtue of his years of combat experience. Do you use human life to fill it? Let's not talk about whether it can be laid, even if it can, I am absolutely reluctant to use wolves to fill this bottomless pit.

The last time they attacked Fuyuan Fortress, the barbarians had already seen the power of Fuyuan's new type of fortress, and thousands of people attacked the castle garrisoned by hundreds of people, and they did not completely occupy it at a great price, and finally the enemy took the initiative to give up, and now, Dingzhou has been preparing for this war for a full year, and it is conceivable that in this defense system, how many powerful weapons are aimed at their sons.

"Lu Dalin wants me to attack, but I will never give him this opportunity, if he dares to go out of the city with me to fight, I will be happy to accompany him, but if I want to forcibly attack this kind of fortified city, then I am not sensitive." Hu He smiled lightly and said to his generals.

Nokia, who has had many confrontations with Dingzhou, Huhe's son Anpu, and Bayar's second son Najib, all laughed, "Dashuai must have been confident." Naji smiled and said: "Dashuai, we have troops here, but it doesn't make sense to never send troops, I don't know what the marshal has planned." ”

Hu He nodded and said: "It makes sense, now the soldiers are coming to the city, but if we don't fight for a long time, it's not a good thing for morale, so against the forest, we don't have a big fight, a small fight, but we have to continue every day." Come and see! ”

Everyone gathered around, Hu He pointed to a thick line that was blackened, and said: "This is the direct gallop road leading to Fuyuan in the upper forest, and the ordnance and materials needed in the upper forest are transported from this gallop road, and our target is this gallop road, and a small force will be sent to harass and eliminate anyone who acts on this gallop road every day." ”

Nokia pondered for a moment and said: "Marshal, Shanglin must have been prepared for this war for a long time, and the material reserves must be very rich, and one or two strikes can naturally be effective, but if there are too many times, it will be in vain to waste energy, and the gains outweigh the losses." ”

Hu He smiled slyly, "The blow Chidao naturally can't last, whether it's Shanglin or Fuyuan, troops will be sent to fight with the troops we went out, and it is impossible for our brigade to get into the forest and Fuyuan, but, I hit Chidao, but the drunkard is not drinking, think about it, what is my real goal?" ”

Nokia, Anpu, and Najib all looked at the map, searching for targets that Huhe might be able to hit on the map, and after a while, Nokia's eyes lit up, "Dashuai, it turns out that you want to ......" The finger pointed heavily at one place.

Hu He laughed, "The three of you take turns to lead the attack, each time you bring one to two thousand people, but when you come back, you don't have to be so many, when we have gathered a team of three thousand people, we will strike a thunderous blow here." Hu He punched the tiger case, and everything on it jumped up at once.

"The tiger is handsome and smart!" All three gave a thumbs up.

Huhe wolf rushed out of the forest to contain the tens of thousands of Dingzhou soldiers in the forest, but Bayar's main attack direction was placed on the front line of Dingyuan Weiyuan, Zhenghuang Banner Boyan, Zhenghong Banner Fusen, Zhenglan Banner Sushun, about 80,000 elite soldiers, plus 20,000 elites of Long Xiaojun, a total of 100,000 people pressed to the Dingwei line, under the unified command of Boyan of Zhenghuang Banner, and Bayar sat in the royal court, deployed in the center, and supplied materials, Bayar made up his mind this time, gathered the power of the entire grassland, and strived to occupy Dingzhou under a war, and open up the road to attack the Central Plains.

On the other hand, Dingzhou has adopted the previous strategy, with the three fortresses of Dingyuan, Weiyuan, and Zhenyuan, forming a defensive chain, with 5,000 garrisons in each fortress, and these three fortresses do not need to go out of the fortress to fight, as long as the fortress is not lost, Li Qing's instruction to them is to be like those tenacious reefs in the sea, no matter how big the waves are, they must stand firmly there, so that the barbarian army cannot wave the army straight in.

The main force of the Dingzhou Army, the 30,000 Qi Nian Division, arranged the second line of defense in Shahe Town, this line of defense is the key to the real invasion of Dingzhou by the barbarians, Shahe Town has become a military fortress, although there is no fortress here, but 30,000 elite troops are like a mountain blocking the road of the barbarians attacking Dingzhou City.

The rebuilt Whirlwind Battalion and Changsheng Battalion are mobile forces, under the personal command of Li Qing, and will be put into operation at any time depending on the situation on the battlefield.

In Shahe Town, the last meeting before the war was being held, and the generals of Dingzhou gathered here, Jiang Kui, the general of the Whirlwind Battalion, Wang Yan, the general of the Changsheng Battalion, Guan Xinglong, the one-armed general of Dingyuan, Zhao Li, the general of Zhenyuan, Huang Wei, the general of Weiyuan, and a number of senior generals of the Qinian Division, Li Qing's temporary meeting hall was packed.

"Everyone!" Li Qingsao looked at the generals below: "This time the grassland barbarians have done their best, wanting to complete their work and fight to the death with my Dingzhou, this day, you must have waited for a long time!" ”

The generals laughed loudly, the atmosphere was very relaxed, which made Li Qing very satisfied, the grassland and Dingzhou in terms of strength comparison, or the grassland has the upper hand, Dingwei line, Li Qing tried his best to maintain 50,000 troops, this is still in the case of Dingzhou City is almost empty, the huge Dingzhou City only left Feng Guo's Rock Battalion a battalion of 5,000 troops to defend.

But Dingzhou has a huge advantage, that is, to fight according to the city, the so-called siege battle, five times the siege, ten times the attack, although the three fortresses are only 5,000 troops, but with the level of the barbarian siege, there is almost no possibility of taking it, not to mention that when they attack these fortresses, they must always have one eye to stare at the Dingzhou army in Shahe Town. If they put aside these three fortresses and go straight to Shahe Town, they would have to worry about these three fortresses attacking their logistics and attacking their grain routes.

"Although the brute army is fierce, we have a home advantage, not to mention, time is on our side." Li Qing pressed his hands and motioned to the generals to remain calm, "In the past two years, we have continued to suppress the grassland, constantly driving the barbarians on the border of Dingzhou to the depths of the grassland, and imposing a strict material embargo on the grassland, so Bayar is under great pressure on logistics, and the longer this battle lasts, the more the balance of victory will tilt towards our Dingzhou." I'm here today to make one more announcement to you. ”

Li Qing sold a pass, looked at the generals, and paused for a moment before saying: "Everyone must be very strange, this time the deployment of military forces, where is the mountain moving division of General Guoshanfeng?" ”

Except for a very small number of core figures in Dingzhou, the general of the mountain wind is indeed a secret, some time ago, the dragon appeared, and he dug a piece of Huhe's meat fiercely in the grass, and in the blink of an eye, he didn't know where he went.

"General Guoshan Feng led his mountain-moving division to the west to cross the Murowei, and the people of the United Murowei will launch a powerful attack from behind the butt of the grassland, and when we start this force, the backyard of the grassland barbarians will also be on fire, and we will attack from both sides, and the grassland barbarians will be completely pacified this year!" Li Qing slashed down with his big hand and said loudly.

Boom, the tent suddenly became chaotic, the generals were surprised and delighted, Bayar pressed almost all the grassland elite to the border of Dingzhou, the hinterland of the grassland, the rear must be empty, if there is a strong force at this time in the rear of the barbarians, it will inevitably make the other party take care of one or the other, so that a big victory can be expected.

"Of course, it is impossible for the general of the mountain wind to cross the west to Murowei and the attack of the Murowei people in a short period of time, so in the early stage of the war, it is up to all of us here to resist the strong attack of the barbarians, drag them to the death, and constantly wear down their strength and sharpness. Guan Xinglong! ”

The one-armed Guan Xinglong stood up: "Handsome! ”

"Your Dingyuan fortress is the first to bear the brunt of this great battle, can you have the confidence to defend it?" Li Qing asked.

Guan Xinglong smiled, "Marshal, the general at the end of the field battle really didn't dare to pack the ticket, but he just held the fortress, and the five thousand defenders in Dingyuan were more than enough." ”

"Very good, everyone, all you have to do is to defend your fortress, and ensure that your grain routes are unblocked, and there is no shortage of material supplies, which will be served by the Whirlwind Battalion and the Changsheng Battalion, Jiang Shen General, Wang Shen General!"

Jiang Kui and Wang Yan stood up at the same time.

"Your second battalion will be our mobile force in Dingzhou, ready to support any danger at any time, and also clear out small groups of barbarians who invade the rear."

"Yes, Dashuai!"

"Each will stay in his place, just do your part, then we can expect victory."

When the military discussion was over, the generals got on their horses and rushed back to their posts, Li Qing turned to Shang Haibo beside him and said: "Mr. Shang, Dingzhou City will be handed over to you and Lord Lu, all the logistics of Dingzhou, and the resettlement of the people who moved later, there are thousands of things, you have to worry more." ”

Shang Haibo said with a smile: "Don't worry about commanding the battle, there is me in the military in the rear, and there is an old way in the civil affairs, so I will definitely let the marshal fight comfortably on the front line." The two of us are just waiting for good news. ”

Li Qing smiled, "I'm afraid that this battle will take a lot of time, but I hope that when the Chinese New Year is over this year, we can end this war beautifully!" ”

(To be continued)