It has been more than two months since he came to southern Xinjiang, and Gu Han is already familiar with the situation here.

At the beginning of the year, due to Chi Yue's countermeasures, the soldiers of the Dasheng Kingdom stationed in Yuncheng and Liaocheng successfully obtained a large amount of grain and grass, and occupied a corner of the enemy's border, and the enemy army was defeated.

Originally, the situation was very favorable to us, but it was a pity that General Shuai Li, the general of Xinyi State, was very cunning and insisted on holding the periphery, so that Dasheng State had no opportunity to take advantage of it.

At this critical moment, General Wen was bitten by a poisonous scorpion in his tent. This kind of poisonous scorpion is very rare in the jungle, and it is used as a poisonous Gu by the barbarians of Xinyi Kingdom, and it is often life-threatening if bitten into it.

This time, it seems to have been injured by a poisonous Gu. can't help but suspect that this is General Li who bribed the people in General Wen's military camp and secretly poisoned him.

General Wen's condition was very serious and he had to return to the DPRK to recuperate. But as soon as he went back, the soldiers of Dasheng Kingdom seemed to have no backbone, and the military spirit was disheartened and panicked.

Taking advantage of the instability of the army's morale, General Li, who had been dormant for a long time, took the initiative to attack, and unexpectedly defeated Dashengguo again and again, and finally held on to a corner of the river, and lost it again.

Yuncheng and Liaocheng once again lacked military food supplies and fell into a precarious situation.

Seeing that General Wen could not come back for a long time, but the emperor sent an idle prince who had never been on the battlefield, didn't he regard the lives of the soldiers as child's play?

It was because of Gu Han's arrival, which was not welcomed by everyone, but only respectful on his face.

When Gu Han first arrived, a group of lieutenants were mostly cheerful and used to rampage, often sneering at his judgments and decisions in person, and they didn't give him face.

Gu Han was not angry, he accepted all the orders, and did not blame all the people who resisted, but was obsessed with listening to the situation of the frontier war, what the morale of the army was, and so on.

Over time, everyone saw that Gu Han was conscientious, so gentle and elegant, tolerant and considerate of everyone, without the slightest bit of the prince's shelf, even more sympathetic to his subordinates than General Wen, and respectful of the corporal, willing to listen to the opinions of the lowliest, which really moved them a little, and gradually the hostility and contempt for him became less obvious, and the people who deliberately contradicted him became fewer and fewer.

It's just that they're still restless. After all, in the past two months, Gu Han has only ordered people to hold on, and he has no intention of taking the initiative to send troops to attack the enemy. Seeing that our two camps occupying the enemy have run out of food, if we don't think of a way to supply the army with food, I am afraid that the consequences will be unimaginable.

Gu Han listened to these people urging him every day, asking him to make a decision as soon as possible, and his heart was also ready to move.

It's just that he is not fully prepared, and if he attacks rashly, I am afraid that he will still not be General Li's opponent.

In fact, in the past two months, he has not had a moment of leisure at all.

The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can win all battles. The first thing Gu Han did was to understand the enemy.

He found Zhou Yu, the deputy general who had been stationed here for a long time, and asked him in detail about the enemy's weapons, as well as the character of General Li and other enemy generals.

Zhou Yu is in charge of our arsenal, and he is good at communicating with people, so he is very familiar with Gu Han's question, so he answered it one by one.

After listening to it for a long time, Gu Han realized that because the enemy often did maritime trade, he borrowed Western weapons and used them, and made a large number of large bows and crossbows that could shoot bows and arrows from a distance of one mile, as well as cannons that could throw stones from two or three miles away.

At this time, Yuncheng and Liaocheng, because the enemy continued to throw boulders with cannons, the city could not be stopped, which had caused countless casualties, and countless tiled houses collapsed and destroyed. Even if there is grain and grass, these two cities are worried about destroying the city.

At the same time, it is almost impossible for us to cross the river. Because if you only reach the heart of the river, you may encounter a cannon attack, and if you get closer, the bow and crossbow that kills people in the invisible wind and lightning will definitely pierce the heart with an arrow, and there is no opportunity to take advantage of it.

Our side was able to occupy Yuncheng and Liaocheng, and it was all due to the luck that the great storm hit when the ice and snow came, and the time and place were favorable, but such luck rarely came once. There is no room for luck in war.

Gu Han knew the severity of the situation on the battlefield, and there was no foolproof plan to win, but he still had the determination to win, racking his brains to think of countermeasures.

Finally, one day, he sent people to Yuncheng to discuss with General Yuncheng Ye, asking him to send a few people to pretend to be deserters and infiltrate the enemy in order to steal the enemy's weapons and make patterns.

General Ye naturally knew what Gu Han meant, and immediately quietly arranged it.

He had long had the intention of imitating the enemy's new weapons, and he had also mentioned this idea to General Wen, and he hit it off with General Wen. However, when General Wen reported this intention to the emperor and asked for the broadcast of silver money in order to realize the mass production of new weapons, the emperor responded angrily.

The emperor has only been fighting in southern Xinjiang for many years, which can be described as a waste of money and labor, and the military salary is constantly being paid, and the silver in the treasury is not much, and the emperor has been stopped by the ministers again and again for his travel, but he is afraid that it will affect the border war and lead to an instant decline in national strength.

Originally, the imperial court couldn't even supply the normal war, but they didn't care about it, and what new tricks they wanted to do would be equivalent to a whole year's military salary for the soldiers in southern Xinjiang! Do they care so much about the lives and deaths of the people and the rise and fall of the court?

His intentions were raised to the level of persecuting the peace of his family and country, and General Wen no longer dared to speak about it, offending Long Yan.

At this time, I didn't want Gu Han to come here, so I had such a novel thought, which can be said to be the same as what the hero sees.

It's just that General Ye couldn't help muttering in his heart while arranging it with great interest, can this young prince really do this?

Did he ask the emperor for funding, or did he fund it himself?

If it is the former, I am afraid that the result will be no different from General Wen, if it is the latter, he is a prince who has never asked about political affairs, and his family can have millions of taels, can he afford these 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of taels?

However, suspicion is suspicion, the spy that Gu Han needed was quickly selected by General Ye, and sneaked out of the city in the middle of the night when he couldn't see his fingers.

The five spies defected to the enemy camp and were detained, only that they could not endure the torture of not having three meals in Yuncheng and their lives were in danger, knowing that everyone would definitely die, so it was better to abandon the darkness and defect to the Xinyi country.

The sergeant gave this to General Lai, who could not think of the intentions of these people if they were deliberately sent spies by the other side, so he asked people to take them in and observe them slowly.

As a result, after these five people entered the enemy camp, they trained and dispatched troops all day, which was very ordinary, and there was nothing abnormal. After a month, they gradually relaxed their guard.

One of the spies was named Qu Si, who was eloquent and clever, and made several military exploits one after another, and soon won the trust of the battalion commander and brigade commander, and also became friends with the brigade commander, and often accompanied the brigade commander to eat and chat with him.

Qu Si intentionally or unintentionally mentioned the new weapons of Xinyi Kingdom, and the brigade commander was proud, his neck and face flushed in drunkenness, and he couldn't help but talk about the origin of the weapons that had been passed down by everyone.

"It is said that a Western sergeant came to Xinyi one year and sold me the method of making these two new weapons to the king of the previous dynasty, and demanded a large reward for him. The king was very pleased, and sure enough, he spent 10,000 taels of gold, got the blueprints in the man's hand, and could not wait to order people to build countless weapons, and the army was rapidly raised. ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but sigh: "You say that the king of today is still wise, at least more prescient than the monarch of the great country, and he is willing to believe in this cutting-edge thing, and is willing to put the grand plan in his heart into action." Although the king of the previous dynasty mistakenly believed in people, he actually called his younger brother to control most of the troops, and did not want his younger brother to be restless, so he intended to rebel and rebel, and replaced him, and even did not hesitate to kill his half-brother in order to ascend the throne, which can be described as extremely ruthless. But now it seems that although the current king has made mistakes, it can be regarded as a retribution......"

The commander who was drinking with him saw that the brigade commander was drunk, and began to talk nonsense that should not be said, and hurriedly reminded him: "Brigade commander, are you drunk and confused?" If we speak ill of the king of the dynasty in private, if someone takes the handle and says it, our lives will be lost! ”

As he spoke, he looked around and listened intently, lest there would be malicious spied on outside the tent.

Qu Si also heard a little about these things, and knew that the king of Xinyi was the half-brother of the king of the previous dynasty as the brigade commander said. also knew that he acted ruthlessly, not only usurped the throne, but also ambushed the master and killed his brother, wanting to occupy his sister-in-law, but because his sister-in-law had a strong temperament, she did not succeed later, as for the details, it was unknown to him, an outsider.

Although this thing sounds like a relish and a lot of wine, Qu Si is not here to listen to people gossip about some gossip, he does not forget his purpose, he laughed twice, and asked: "We still don't want to mix things in the court, it's useless to say it, I just heard my eldest brother talk about the person who came to sell new weapons from the West, but he was very interested, I don't know who that person's surname is, is it still in Xinyi Country?" ”

The chief felt that this was very common, so he stopped stopping it. Just didn't want to, but the brigade commander laughed, and said excitedly: "Brother, you are asking the right person!" If it weren't for the fact that I was sure that someone had seen him with my own eyes, and I really believed the words of a group of people in the court who were sloppy and deliberately hid this person, I thought that he would have returned to his own country a long time ago. ”

I heard that someone had actually seen the Westerner with his own eyes, and Qu Sitong on the table looked at him in unison, all of whom showed surprise.

The Brigadier was pleased with the effect of his words.

If it were normal, he would never have said this to humanity, and he would not have caused trouble for himself. He only mentioned this to his wife, who was just a market woman, and laughed at it and didn't take it to heart.

At this time, because of the strength of the wine, he didn't care about it, and simply under the joint questioning of the two, he told the matter vividly, so as to win the admiration of people for a while.

He mysteriously approached the two and said, "Do you think that man is really a Westerner who came on a merchant ship from a sea country thousands of miles away, as the rumors say?" I'll tell you, not at all! ”

Then, he brought a face closer to Qu Si, "He is a capable person in your Dasheng Kingdom, his name is Wan Jun, have you heard of this name?" ”