Chapter 44—The Soul of a Woman (I)
In the early morning, a little clear glimmer of light was revealed on the falling flowers, and every place on the Demon Spirit Continent presented the most beautiful morning. The rising sunlight is projecting on every part of the Demon Spirit Continent, witnessing the peaceful and picturesque rivers and mountains, but also imprinting a huge crisis. Let some worried people also worry about the irresistible future they are about to face.
At this moment, on the Demon Spirit Continent, the two kingdoms of Feng Qi have now launched the most critical battle in Ruocheng, an important city in the south of the Qi country, and this battle has not started a large-scale battle until now. The Feng State and the Qi State did not dare to fight each other rashly, and the Qi State now had nearly 100,000 troops. The 100,000 troops were divided into two sides, and Ruocheng was garrisoned by nearly 30,000 defenders who had retreated from the eastern pass. Outside Ruocheng, Li Fu, an important general of Qi State, led an elite army, which was in a state of solidarity, and did not dare to rashly enter Ruocheng to launch a counterattack.
Li Fu now commanded the army of the northern part of the Qi Kingdom, stationed under the hills a hundred miles north of Ruocheng. He was there now, too, thinking about the future that Ruocheng was about to face. Recently, Ruocheng has been in an emergency again, and the three-way feudal army has begun to attack Ruocheng, attacking Ruocheng from the east and south directions at the same time. If the city is defended, Zhang Lingyi, the new governor of the south of Qi, mobilizes the defenders to resist the invasion of the feudal state from both directions at the same time. At the same time, he sent people to find Li Fu and asked Li Fu to send troops to help.
Li Fu is very entangled now, and he understands that the troops he has now are not very sufficient. Although it is enough to help, Li Fu now has a concern that the original army of the feudal state was divided into three roads, among which there is an army, which is composed of 50,000 troops composed of one and three halls under the feudal war meeting, and the original one hall and three halls of the feudal war will have deep contradictions, especially when they cooperated to attack Donglinguan in the previous time, it was because of the civil strife in the first and three halls of the feudal war that the Qi State only used 5,000 cavalry, and so successfully counterattacked the 60,000 troops of the feudal state, which made them suffer heavy losses.
More importantly, although the East Linguan was not held in the end. However, the three halls of the Sealing War Society finally fought back, so they paid a huge price, and the Holy Emperor reprimanded the two hall masters, hating that they could not capture the Donglin Pass with 60,000 troops with only 20,000 troops to defend it, and also lost nearly 20,000 elite troops. The Holy Emperor scolded these two hall masters, and when he captured Donglinguan and was about to attack Ruocheng, the Holy Emperor forgave these two old subordinates who had followed him around to establish the foundation since he established the Fengzhan Society, and secretly gave them an important task, secretly ordering them to set off immediately, bypassing Ruocheng, and capturing Jincheng, which now has less than 20,000 troops, through surprise attacks and military superiority. This is also the reason why this 50,000 elite army has now disappeared from the battlefield.
These two hall masters were deeply grateful to the Holy Emperor for their forgiveness, and they immediately led their elite troops to leave the vicinity of Ruocheng, pass through the border of Fengguo Shengcheng, and go straight to Jincheng. This is also the reason why the Holy Emperor is not in a hurry to attack Ruocheng now. They claimed to be an army of 150,000, but now only 100,000 troops were divided into two sides to attack Ruocheng. The news of the "Ling Feng Army" attacking Huicheng from the south once again mobilized 30,000 feudal troops to defend in the south. In fact, now that the Holy Emperor has personally conquered the Qi Kingdom, the army in his hands is only 70,000. Now the rumored news of attacking Ruocheng is just such an offensive gesture.
Now the urgent news from Ruocheng made Li Fu, who was the chief general of the reinforcements, a little worried in his heart, and he really didn't dare to rush to send troops in this situation. The situation of the enemy army is really not very clear now, but if he does not send troops to help, he is not very reasonable in terms of morality and friendship, so Li Fu, who weighed the pros and cons for a long time, finally chose to send 20,000 forward troops, and his most trusted forward general rushed to the aid of Ruocheng, forming a situation of internal and external attack.
Although Yuanjun had been dispatched, Li Fu's mood was still uncertain, and he was really a little puzzled about the current situation. And he doesn't happen to have a counselor around him right now who can help him with advice. In normal times, he is the eldest son of Li Dan of Qi State, and has experienced the most severe tests and training since he was a child. makes his mind more mature than others, and as the eldest son of Prime Minister Li Dan, he has been cultivated and trained since he was a child in accordance with the cultivation and training of taking over Li Dan's position. Li Fu has been trained in this way since he was a child, although what he is good at is martial arts and the ability to lead troops to fight, but this does not prevent him from learning the key skills of officialdom and having the ability to inherit the position of prime minister Li Dan.
Li Fu's only shortcoming, which is also one of his fatal shortcomings, is that his vision of knowing people is far inferior to that of his father Li Dan, which also leads to the fact that although Li Fu is both civil and military, he still does not have a strategist and a trustworthy general by his side. For a long time, most things have been thought and handled by Li Fu alone, not because he is dictatorial, but because he does not have a trustworthy strategist or military general around him who can entrust big things. Li Fu was worried about this, and his father Li Dan also understood this. So, under the deliberate arrangement of his father, several officers with strong military ability assisted Li Fu as Li Fu's lieutenant generals. So that he would not have to deal with problems alone every time in the military.
Li Fu's strategic vision and sense of the overall situation are actually not weak, his most lethal thing is not only a person who knows people, but also attaches great importance to feelings, and many things are difficult to forget once they have been experienced. Even if it is an ordinary person who gives him a small favor, Li Fu will remember it in his heart. This point is good to say, and bad to say can be fatal.
However, Li Fu's strategic vision is much stronger than that of ordinary people, which is also a point that he must have as a general who commands the party. And he is not a general who is arrogant and arrogant, although there are not many opinions raised, Li Fu has basically adopted them and made good use of them. In addition, Li Fu also knows how to be sympathetic to the soldiers, which also makes the officers and men of the three armies use their lives and work together.
30,000 reinforcements have been dispatched, but Li Fu's mood is still heavy, and he can't tell which link went wrong. So, one morning, Li Fu did not go to supervise the training of the soldiers as usual, he stayed alone in his camp, thinking hard about what made him feel that something was wrong.
"General, there are two young people from outside the camp, according to what they said, there is something important to discuss with you" While Li Fu was still thinking hard there, a guard's voice suddenly came from outside the tent, and Li Fu couldn't help but turn back to reality from his imagination and memories. As soon as he heard that someone had come to him to discuss the situation of the battle, he nodded slightly and said in a low voice: "Bring them in, and then make a good pot of tea, I want to hear their opinions."
"Yes"
So, at such a time close to noon, the camp of this Qi army stationed more than 100 miles outside Ruocheng unexpectedly greeted two different people. Walking in front was a girl in a brown deerskin blouse, which looked a little thin and tightened the girl's delicate and looming body. The girl looked to be only sixteen or seventeen years old, and her expression was a little solemn. Led by the guards, she walked in briskly from outside the camp.
This girl has a delicate complexion, a clear face, and looks beautiful. Such a rare beauty really caught the attention of the soldiers who were training there. Truly. It is rare to see such a beautiful woman in ordinary soldiers. Therefore, they were all very curious about this, but then they saw that the two guards walking on this young girl's strong were none other than the personal guards of their general Li Fu. These two guards are not something that ordinary soldiers can afford to provoke, so at most, these soldiers have the mentality of taking a look, and they don't dare to exist at all, for fear that someone will see something unusual from their appearance. You must know that Li Fu is extremely strict in governing the army,
And it is precisely for this reason that the girl who followed a little behind, the footsteps were close to the back of the girl in front of him with long hair flowing down her head, but this was a young boy. The young man was dressed in a pale blue gown like water, and his face was expressionless, giving people a sense of respect. And he, like a follower who followed the girl in front of him to this place, didn't look left or right along the way, and his eyes only occasionally swept over the girl in front of him.
When they came to the gate of Li Fu's camp, the two guards in front of him stepped forward and shouted in a low voice: "General, the comer has arrived!"
"Bring them in!" Li Fu's voice came from the camp, and the two guards brought the man and woman who still looked very young into Li Fu's camp. Immediately, they pushed open the tent doors of the camp and left, guarding both sides of the camp to ensure that no one eavesdropped on the conversation.
Entering the camp, they saw a middle-aged general in gold armor with his hands behind their backs in front of him. The girl in a deerskin tight robe stepped forward and bowed, and whispered, "Xiaomin Luo Yinying, I have seen General Li Fu!"
This girl is none other than Luo Yinying, the girl who entered the Qi Kingdom Royal Academy with Feng Yuchong and Gao Hanyue, and is also Feng Yuchong's sister Ying'er. Luo Yinying's past since she was a child was also very bumpy, she originally lived in an environment without a father since she was a child, and she depended on her mother for her life. The surrounding villagers all respect her and stay away, and some people have even been sneering at her, ridiculing her as an illegitimate child, Luo Yinying has suffered from white eyes and unfair treatment since she was a child. Such a childhood experience led to Luo Yinying's actually somewhat withdrawn and arrogant personality.