Chapter 64: War Clouds Gather

Shanglinli, the grassland of the coalition army station, is also Bayar's outpost to attack Dingzhou, every time Bayar launches an attack is from here, here is a large number of materials, from food to weapons, forage, etc., Bayar has been operating in Shanglin for more than ten years, here, has formed a small military market town, built city walls, houses, although can not be compared with Dingzhou Fuyuan such a fortress, but compared to the grassland tribe that simple wooden fence, here is not a copper wall. The mile-long stone wall is about several meters high, and every hundred steps there is a watchtower with crossbows and other weapons. Due to the gradual decline of Great Chu and the fact that he had not taken the initiative to attack the grassland for decades, Bayar's arrangement here was mainly aimed at the other major parts of the grassland that could pose a threat to him.

It has to be said that the grassland departments have achieved unprecedented development during Bayar's reign, especially in the military has made great progress, Bayar is ambitious, not satisfied with the annual robbery of Da Chu, in his opinion, as long as he is well prepared, during the sleep of the lion of Da Chu, it is not impossible to wave his troops eastward and chase the Central Plains.

So over the years, in addition to maintaining the annual disturbance of Dingzhou, he also vigorously developed foot soldiers, learned siege skills, and recruited those frustrated talents in the Great Chu State for the use of the Bai people, after more than ten years of development, the strength of the Bai people has long been far above the other departments, and no one can shake Bayar's position, although the ministries are still nominally allies, but in fact, as long as Bayar is willing, he can completely unify the departments and establish himself as Khan.

However, Bayar feels that the time is not yet ripe, if the country is forcibly established, then it is likely to form a backlash among the various tribes of the grassland, especially the four major tribes of the yellow, green, blue and red grasslands. It will do all kinds of harm to one's own great cause and no benefit. So now he is still using the bond of interests to tie the various ministries together, he is waiting, waiting for a good time.

Wanyan Bulu's failure in Fuyuan did not make Bayar feel uncomfortable, the grassland departments have been too smooth over the years, and too many people feel that Da Chu is vulnerable, which is a bad sign, even if the lion is asleep, it will not become a little white rabbit. This defeat has made more small tribes see the power of Great Chu, then they will rely more on the most powerful Bai tribe, and their own strength will be stronger, thus leaving the rest of the tribes farther until they are powerless to resist. What's more, Wanyan Bulu didn't gain nothing, at least his early operations were quite successful, and the Xuanfeng battalion was defeated, this is a strong army composed of all good war veterans, they collapsed, and their autumn operations will be missing a hard bone.

Therefore, he did not blame Wan Yan Bulu, and even allocated him 10,000 elites again, and at the same time asked him to start to gather various units in the forest again, preparing to attack again.

Bayar's magnanimity made Wanyan Buru grateful, but also made him more determined to open a passage for the wise Great Khan before Bayar marched into the army. Fuyuan is still his first choice.

The Selective Battalion had been defeated, and the Victorious Battalion was a completely new army, and although the last engagement had proved that this army was very combative, he was not worried, his son was still too boring to take on the task, and he believed that if he had sent Nokia to lead the troops to intercept the Victorious Battalion that day, the result would have been different.

This time it will be a righteous and bright match, there is no trick to play, I don't think about it, I want to defeat the opponent head-on with a dignified division and capture the Fuyuan Fortress. He can be said to be well-prepared this time, with sufficient large-scale attack equipment, strong soldiers and strong horses, if he can't win Fuyuan in this way, then he can be said to have lived to a dog at this age.

"Li Qing of the Changsheng Battalion, a yellow-haired child, a disciple who has risen from his family background, what real skills can he have, compared to a battlefield veteran like Lu Dabing, it must be much inferior." Wanyan Bulu sneered, Da Chu was constantly fighting, and the various families were fighting endlessly, such an important town actually let a doll guard it, no wonder Da Shan Yu said that the lion of Da Chu was asleep.

"Command all departments, march to Fuyuan in three days!" I don't want to be reckless. Leaving 20,000 garrisons in the forest can be guaranteed, not to mention that this is in the grassland headquarters, any Dingzhou army wants to hit the attention of the forest, first of all, it must break through its own 30,000 strong army, if it is not for Wanyan Bulu to feel that 30,000 troops to take Fuyuan is enough, he even wants to bring another 10,000 people to fight.

Fuyuan, the war clouds are already thick, the sentinels of the barbarian army have recently arrived more than ten miles away from Fuyuan, and the scouts who have crossed the mountain wind and the other party have already launched a mutual strangulation on the grassland outside, and there are casualties among each other.

"General, the enemy's scouts are already more and more, and they are getting denser and denser!" Guoshan Feng, who had just explored from the grassland, wore the armor that was still stained with blood, and rushed straight in front of Li Qing, "Wanyan Bulu is going to attack." "There are less than five hundred scouts under the mountain wind now, and now this level of loss makes him feel a little unbearable, at most one day, he lost about thirty scouts, although the other party's loss is not less than theirs, but the other party has more people!

"Probe again, I want to know when Yan Bulu's army will set off, and when will it come to my Fuyuan City? Which tribes were involved in the attack, and how many of them were there? Li Qing said sharply.

Guo Shanfeng glanced at Li Qing with some fear, "General, the losses of my men are too heavy. ”

"Don't tell me this, Captain," Li Qing said coldly: "This battle is about the survival of my Changsheng battalion, even if your scouts die, I will give you more scouts after the war, the more detailed things I want, the better, what are you giving me now, do you still want the Investigation and Statistics Department to teach you how to collect effective intelligence?" Don't your scouts have been trained in the Survey and Statistics Division? ”

The wind over the mountain was cold and sweaty, "Yes, my lord, the last general knows that he is wrong, and the last general will do it immediately." ”

Drove away the mountain wind, Li Qing shook his head, the big war is coming, he is still a little nervous, the mountain wind and his scouts are actually doing a good job these days, at least the scouts who are not reckless can not get close to the Fuyuan fortress, which is quite rare for the mountain wind with only a few hundred subordinates. Li Qing even knew that Li Ermazi, the confidant brother of Guo Shanfeng, had also died the day before yesterday.

In a mess, he decided to go out for a walk and see how prepared for the war was.

The fort has already been repaired, and the fortification of the fortress of Fuyuan is better than in the past, and this time, Li Qing is not ready to simply defend the city, in the early stage, he is ready to go out of the city and rely on the city to fight, and try to delay the opponent's direct attack on the city wall.

Wang Qinian is commanding his subordinates to dig a trench in front of the two forts, the trench is several meters deep is the first line of defense in Fuyuan, about a few meters behind the trench, is a breastwork, at this time has been built more than half, and behind the breastwork, every ten meters, is such a low wall, between the wall, there are several meters of passages, which is convenient for their troops to use when attacking, at the same time, when defending, these passages will also lead directly to hell. There were at least two Eight Bull Crossbows aimed at each passage, and Li Qing could imagine that when Wan Yan Bulu broke through the front defense and rushed in from the passage, the terrifying weapon of the Eight Bull Crossbow would string the enemies that poured in these passages like a sugar gourd.

"Dig faster, dig deeper, wider, if you want to live longer, let the enemy die more, just work harder." Wang Qinian waved the long knife in his hand and roared loudly.

On the other side, Feng Guo's subordinates seemed to be fighting with Wang Qinian, and both sides were desperately digging ditches, and then transporting the excavated soil to the back to build the breast wall. It's a pity that there aren't enough stones, otherwise these breastworks will be better if they are covered with stones, and the ability to resist blows will be better, Li Qing thought regretfully.

In the city, the craftsman battalion is trying its best to create some long-range lethal weapons, and now there are hundreds of catapults and scorpion cannons, some of the original chariots have been repaired, and there are nearly 300 new chariots. All the people in the Fuyuan fortress were mobilized to do some work within their ability, so even the children squatted in the street with a hammer and beat the stones with their hearts, trying to make the stones as round as possible for catapults and scorpion cannons to use.

After a round in the city, Li Qing returned to the General's Mansion with satisfaction, Yang Yidao hurriedly ran to him, handed Li Qing a copy of the official document he had just sent, and after opening it, Li Qing had a smile on his face, Xiao Yuanshan agreed to this plan, and the attack on the forest would be under the full command of the deputy general Lu Dalin, which made Li Qing feel some relief, Lu Dalin is an extremely experienced veteran, and with him in command, the odds of winning have increased a lot. It seems that Xiao Yuanshan has also made up his mind. Weiyuan, Dingyuan's side of Dai Che also began to cooperate, gathered troops, and made a posture of going out of the city for field battles. Now, just wait for Wan Yan Bulu to come.

Come on, come on, come and bleed, I'm waiting for you, I just don't know how much blood you can shed under the Fuwu Fortress.