Ling Yun rewarded the messenger with a silk, and asked Cheng Yanjin to take him to eat and rest. Wei Zheng looked at him, "Yan zhòng?" ”

"The leader is the old knife handle of Taoshan, the third of the nine brothers who married Jinlan with Murong Lao, and has a high prestige in the green forests of northern Xinjiang."

Ling Yun didn't have much memory of the old knife handle, but some time ago, in order to deal with Zhang Sheng and others, he made up for the history of the Tiger League, so he was no stranger to the nine brothers of Murong Ke who established the Tiger League. It is said that the nine brothers who Murong Ke formed a righteous alliance at the beginning, all of them were heroic figures in the green forests of northern Xinjiang, and the nine brothers were all strong in the early days, each with a mountain team, and finally united together, became brothers, consolidated the alliance, and then united together, conquered the east and west, and knocked down those green forests that refused to unite to the ground, or annexed or united, and finally founded the Tiger League, a powerful green forest alliance that once had more than a thousand mountains. However, there is a good saying, if you can share happiness, you may not be able to share prosperity. The Tiger Alliance expanded rapidly, and Murong Ke's status also rose sharply, originally nine brothers on an equal footing, but in the end Murong Ke became everyone's boss, and the remaining eight became subordinates, and the uneven distribution of interests caused dissatisfaction among the brothers. In the end, at the instigation of the secret envoy of the imperial court, the second master, as the deputy leader of the alliance, was the first to detonate the infighting. Murong Ke died violently, and the deputy leader of the alliance made it difficult to seize power, and there was chaos in the alliance for a while.

Among the nine brothers, after Murong Ke's death, three people stood on his side, and Zhang Sheng and Pei Zeng were on the side of the Murong family, plus the Tuoba horizontal knife that later fell to the Murong family. In fact, there are only three alliance elders on the side of the Murong family, and compared to the four elders of the second master, they are actually at a disadvantage. At that critical time. Both sides are actively trying to win over the old knife handles of the three masters. But the old knife handle did not choose to stand in line anywhere, but left the general rudder with his own battalion of men and horses, went to the peach blossom village to establish the peach blossom village, and set up his own portal. Not long after, the second leader of the shape shì also died suddenly, and in the end, it was the disadvantaged Murong Rose faction that won the final victory, which was much more than many people expected. However, there have been rumors. It is said that the second master died at the hands of the third master, and it is said that the third master, who originally chose neutrality, once received a piece of evidence. The evidence proves that Murong Ke, the big boss, was actually secretly poisoned and poisoned by the envoys of the Sui Dynasty who colluded with the second master, and the third boss hated the second boss for eating inside and out, colluding with outsiders, so he suddenly came to see the second boss single-handedly. At that time, the second master thought that the third master had finally changed his mind. Be on his side. Under the great joy, he was unprepared for a while, but when the banquet was halfway through the day, the old knife suddenly burst out and drew his knife, directly assassinated the second master at the banquet, and approached the other three righteous brothers to disband the people, and then drifted away.

It's just that this rumor is too alarming, just like many people rumored that the old knife handle broke into the Turkic Khan's court single-handedly. Like the legendary incident of cutting off the head of the subordinate who betrayed him, the more lively the story was spread back then. It's just that in the end, no one can prove that it really happened, and the old knife handle has never admitted this matter in public, just like later, the second boss and his faction, which were once very powerful, suddenly dispersed, like a smoke, and the second boss died mysteriously.

However, Ling Yun judged that the truth of the matter might really be like the magical rumors.

For this old knife handle, Ling Yun was a little jealous. He originally thought that after sweeping the Yanshan villages, he would go to Taoshan in person to meet the old knife handle.

But he didn't think about it, before he came to the door, the old knife had already gone out of the mountain, and as soon as he made a move, he issued a hero sticker, summoning so many mountain alliances, to compete with him Yi Lingyun.

This matter is a bit tricky, the prestige of the green forest of the old knife handle is extremely high, although he was one of the nine brothers of the year with Pei Zeng and Zhang Sheng, but among the nine people, there are also high and low, Murong Ke, the second master, and the old knife handle, these three people were the leaders of the three strongest forces in Northern Xinjiang at the beginning. The old knife handle is now echoing, which shows his influence.

The Turks haven't made a move yet, but they have surprised the old rivers and lakes first.

"It seems that we want to sweep all the way through, and it is impossible to break each one. A big war is inevitable. Ling Yun sighed. In order to deal with the Turkic attack, and in order to create the Huaihuang Market as much as possible, Ling Yun's actions were a little too hasty, and finally caused an adverse reaction.

"Since he is the head of the old knife handle, he was also one of the nine founding elders of the LTTE, and he remained neutral when the LTTE was infighting, maybe we can talk to them. It doesn't have to be a war, maybe an alliance. Wei Zheng built yì road on the side, and he had heard a lot of legends about the rivers and lakes of the old knife handle, during this time in Huaihuang. In his opinion, the current Huaihuang army is empty, the training time is too short, the ordnance is insufficient, and the training is even less sufficient, and it is not a wise move to start a war with the green forests of Daqingshan at this time, especially when they have to guard against the attack of the Eastern Turks that may come at any time.

Ling Yun shook his head, at this time, he went to talk to the old knife to make peace, but I was afraid that it would not have any effect. Everyone is a person of the green forest, and once there is a suspicion, it is not easy to dispel it. Besides, maybe the old knife handles were just forced to fight because Ling Yun was too aggressive and defensive because they were too aggressive. But who can be sure that they may not have the intention of taking the opportunity to annex Huaihuang?

"Even if we want to talk, we have to finish this battle first, and then we can only win this battle, and we have to win it beautifully, to be qualified for peace talks and alliances." If the strength of the other side is not suppressed, peace talks will only be seen as weakness and fear, and will only further arouse the other side's desire to annex them. If we want to hold peace talks, we must first subdue them, and only then can we truly hold the initiative in peace talks, and only then can we merge them. Otherwise, even if they reluctantly negotiate an alliance for a while, they can't be ordered, and such an alliance will only end up being a problem for the henchmen rather than a future help.

"But the Turks will come at any time, and only Erlong City and Salt Lake City of our thirteen new cities have preliminarily built city defenses, and the other eleven new cities have not even built city walls. Other than that. The training time of the soldiers and horses is also too short, except for the pro-army and the soldiers in the outer battalion who barely have the strength to fight, the soldiers in the outer towns and the garrison have no combat effectiveness at all. Gao Jia was also admonishing on the side.

"I know all of this. But we have to fight, otherwise even if we succeed in a temporary compromise today, we will have endless troubles in the future, and if we don't even dare to fight these green forests, how can we talk about fighting against the Turks? ”

Hearing Ling Yun's resolute attitude, everyone could only stop objecting.

"Does Saburo have a way to win?" Wei Zheng asked. Since Ling Yun wants to fight, then as Ling Yun's staff. He had no choice but to start discussing how to fight this battle.

Ling Yun took a sip from the teacup, moistened his lips, and then said, "Our soldiers and horses are not well trained. The defense of the city is not good, and there is actually no advantage in fighting a defensive battle, on the contrary, there are more than a dozen cities that lack defense. It will only put us in a situation of extreme passivity. Therefore. In this battle, I think, if you want to fight, you should take the initiative to attack and replace defense with offense. ”

"Offense instead of defense?" An experienced general like Gao Jia couldn't help but inhale, this was really bold enough. More than a dozen cities that have only half of the city walls repaired, and at this time, Ling Yun has to take the initiative to fight, I have to say that it is very bold. "In case we strike. What if the enemy sends a detachment of divisions behind us and directly kills these defenseless new cities? ”

You have a good plan. If they have a wall ladder and you defend instead of attacking, will they not drag your large army head-on, and then send a partial division to attack the completely defenseless cities behind you?

Ling Yun waved his hand at Wei Chi Gong and asked him to take out a military map of Huaihuang and put it away.

Ling Yun's finger pointed to the west of Huaihuang, "Look, we have four cities in the southwest: Erlong City, Wild Fox City, Salt Lake City, and Baiyun City, then Huaihuang Sanlian City, and then the cities in the east. This time, our opponents are mainly the people of Daqing Mountain in the west and the Zhulvlin farther away, and they want to attack us, and the four cities of Erlong, Wild Fox, Salt Lake, and Baiyun are the first to bear the brunt. Even if they wanted to go around, they wouldn't be able to go around these four castles, because they were all built on several roads that had to be passed to Huaihuang. In other words, there aren't many cities we really want to protect. ”

Among these four castles, Erlong and Salt Lake have already repaired the city walls and ditches, although the Wild Fox City has not been built, but the two forts have been built, and the weakest defense is actually only the White Horse Fort in the northwest. Ling Yun's plan was to divide the 3,000 soldiers in the tent, 3,000 soldiers from the outer battalion and 8,000 soldiers from the outside town into two parts, one part would take the initiative to attack with him, and this part was not much in the essence, so he planned to select 2,000 soldiers from the tent and 2,000 from the outer battalion, and then bring the newly built 1,000 longbow battalion, a total of 5,000 men and horses as the attack force. Then the remaining 1,000 soldiers in the tent, plus 3,000 soldiers from other towns, formed the Southwest Army and garrisoned it in Wild Fox City. The Northwest Army was formed with 1,000 soldiers from outside the battalion and 3,000 soldiers from other towns, and was stationed in Baiyun City. There were 1,000 soldiers left in Huaihuang City.

The whole plan focuses on defending the four cities on the first line in the west, especially the two cities of Wild Fox and Baiyun. If Ling Yun takes the initiative to attack and can't defeat the enemy, and this line of defense is broken through, then there will only be a weak defense line in Huaihuang City in the rear.

It's just that Ling Yun didn't think that the old sword-armed Daqingshan allies would be able to break through his defensive line.

"There are more than 10,000 people in the Old Knife Commander's Alliance, and there are many people rushing to come, maybe it will exceed 20,000. San Lang brought 5,000 men and horses to battle, would it be too few? He Lanhong asked worriedly. He is still accustomed to copycat play, bullying more and less and bullying the weak. When I saw that the number of the other party was several times that of myself, I was a little worried in my heart.

"Fighting a war is not about numbers, the more people with old knives, the more miscellaneous they are, and the easier it is to defeat. A patchwork of people like this can also fight a tailwind battle, and once lost, it is likely to be a rout. Although we have few soldiers, I have brought the army inside the tent and the army outside the town, which is our elite. Of the 5,000 men, there were 1,400 cavalry, and among the 3,600 infantry, there were 1,600 longbowmen, and as long as they were properly commanded, there was no problem in defeating them. ”

Ling Yun was very confident in this battle, but he actually knew that the so-called copycat soldiers and horses, although many times it sounded huge and there were many people. But in most cases, a cottage may claim to be 3,000 people, but among them, there may only be 1,000 young and strong people, and only 500 people who have really been in battle with weapons and armor may be 500, and among these 500 people, only 300 may be really elite. Therefore, for copycat soldiers and horses, directly divide the total number by ten, and the final result is their real warrior, this algorithm will never be wrong. It's like a big force like the original Tiger League, with a population of more than 100,000 and more than 20,000 people, but the real bandit veterans are only two or three thousand.

The old knife handle gathered more than 100 cottages and tens of thousands of horses, Ling Yun thought about it, a thousand brave soldiers were already good. Most of the others are just filling up the scene and making a strong noise. They play a big role in fighting a tailwind battle. The real tough battle is only afraid that they will be more harmful than useful. Especially this kind of people and horses gathered in various cottages, many heads on the hills, and a unified and effective command system, basically don't think about it. When they fight, it's better to call it a brawl.

And Ling Yun's inner army and outer battalion soldiers, although they are not sufficiently trained, have been upgraded from gangster thugs to army soldiers, even the most inferior army soldiers, are by no means what gangster thugs can deal with. A gangster may be able to beat two rookie recruits in the army, but a new recruit can definitely beat three gangster thugs, and if it is a team of recruits, it can defeat hundreds of gangster thugs. If there are 5,000 soldiers, several times as many gangsters, they are no match either. This is the difference between gang thugs and army soldiers, maybe the gang members are stronger when they fight alone, but when it comes to fighting in military formations, then they are completely amateurs.

With one's own bravery, how useful is it in front of the military array? No matter how high your martial arts are, no matter how beautiful your knife is, but a row of spears will stab you, and you will have holes all over your body. A rain of arrows will make you a hedgehog.

"I'll write an order immediately, Gao Hussar, you immediately take a team of people back to Huaihuang to give me an order, and transfer the four thousand soldiers who went out to fight in the fastest time. The soldiers are very fast, and it is best for us to defeat them before they come, so that the cities will not be affected. ”

(Do you have a monthly pass, vote for Muzi.) This time, the network cable at home has been broken for a whole week, and the egg hurts a lot, and I will try to update it in the future! (To be continued......)