Chapter 608: Expedition to the Wing Country
Chapter 608: Expedition to the Wing Country
"Count you as acquaintance," Seeing Ni Youbin's weakness, Fang Qing chuckled, and then said with a tense and somewhat serious face: "The marshal's requirements for governing the army are getting stricter and stricter, and in the past, we may not allow it in the future to seek convenience through relationships, so God bless the best people arranged by the marshal to have you and me." Speaking of this, a trace of helplessness flashed in Fang Qing's eyes.
Seeing that Fang Qing said that the method of going through the back door was not advisable, Ni Youbin gradually had a bad feeling, and his face became serious.
"But you are an exception, if you want to go to the Wing Country, I have a good idea, I guarantee that you will go with the army as you wish," Ni Youbin's face changed clearly by Fang Qing, causing Fang Qing to laugh again.
"What's the idea?
"You go and resign from the position of commander now, and then ask in the name of the head of the Ni Family Chamber of Commerce to follow the night army to the Wing Country, and the marshal will definitely not be able to refuse your request at that time!"
"Fart," Ni Youbin complained dissatisfiedly, and then looked at Fang Qing with disdain: "How can you come up with some bad ideas, if I didn't want to be a commander, I would have left the army a long time ago, how could I wait until now?" After two tragic battles, Ni Youbin knew how difficult it was to sit in the position of commander of a thousand commanders, so he would not resign easily.
"In that case, I have no other way, let's wait for the news with peace of mind," Ni Youbin's reaction surprised Fang Qing, looking at the serious look on Ni Youbin's face, Fang Qing couldn't say anything like making fun of it.
"Okay, I'll go back," Thinking that he couldn't get any useful news from Fang Qing, after a brief consideration, Ni Youbin turned around and left directly.
Although he was idle and bored alone, Fang Qing still didn't stay with Ni Youbin much. After all, the requirements for the order of the barracks are very strict now, and Ni Youbin will enter and leave the barracks at will, and if he is caught from above, there must be no good fruit to eat.
Not long after saying goodbye to Fang Qing, returning to the camp, Ni Youbin found Ling Zimo. During Lin Xuanzhong's absence, the two walked very closely. Although the two have different tempers, Ni Youbin knows that Ling Zimo's character is very good, so there is no harm in being friends with Ling Zimo. Based on Lin Xuanzhong's relationship, the two have been getting along very happily recently.
As a newly recruited commander, Ling Zimo already has a certain status in the army. And the brothers who joined the army with him now have certain positions, and there is no need for Ling Zimo to worry about it, and whether they live or die in the future depends on their respective fates.
Now that he has become friends with Ni Youbin, the two talk about Lin Xuanzhong the most when they are together, not the military.
Ling Zimo has always been the kind of person who pursues progress, and Ni Youbin has a great advantage staying with him. Recently, Ni Youbin has been practicing diligently with Ling Zimo as an example, and even his personality has changed because of Ling Zimo.
Now whenever he has free time, Ni Youbin is practicing martial arts while studying military art, and only has very little time to stay with Princess Lan Xin and others.
The sugar-coated sister and brother are taken care of by Princess Lanxin, who is better than Ni Youbin, so there is no need for Ni Youbin to care, usually Ni Youbin only needs to occasionally instruct Sugar Treasure to cultivate. As for Princess Lan Xin, she always needs someone to accompany her when she is idle, and sometimes she disturbs Ni Youbin's practice and causes Ni Youbin some trouble, but it is not a big deal. Under Lin Xuanzhong's encouragement, Ni Youbin just wanted to cultivate hard and try to narrow the gap with Lin Xuanzhong.
Time day by day, three days later, the number of troops was set, Zhao Xu only left the 100,000 recruits recruited recently, and the rest of the people all went to the Wing Country to occupy Fancheng, an important checkpoint in the north of the Wing Country, as soon as possible.
Fancheng is a barrier to the north of the Winged Country, just like the windless city of the Snow Country, if it can occupy Fancheng before the other two armies arrive at Fancheng, then Fancheng will become a military stronghold for the night army in the Winged Country in the future. In the long run, it makes more sense to occupy Fancheng than to just occupy a Shiyan city.
When the number of people who had gone out was announced, everyone was shocked, because no one realized that they were going to send 160,000 troops at once. It can be said that in addition to the 100,000 recruits, the original troops will all go to the Wing Country.
Before, Ni Youbin and Fang Qing were worried that they were not among the people on the expedition, but now the two realized how unnecessary their worries were. But no matter what they thought before, the two of them are still happy now.
The time for the expedition is set for three days later, and in the next three days, there will be some specific arrangements to be made. At the same time, the soldiers below also have to make certain preparations, so there is no need for training.
After the worries in his heart were eliminated, Ni Youbin relaxed his cultivation a little, and stayed with Princess Lan Xin and them in his free time, counting Ling Zimo, a total of seven people.
After many days of cultivation, Bai Ye's injuries had basically healed, and after knowing that Lin Xuanzhong had the strength to defeat the seventh-order martial cultivator, Bai Ye, like Ni Youbin, had been working hard recently, just to narrow the gap with Lin Xuanzhong.
"Princess, you seem to be happy today?" After the seven of them walked together, they kept talking about how much they were looking forward to going to Stone Rock City. When Ni Youbin noticed many times that when they mentioned Lin Xuanzhong, Princess Lan Xin's face was full of joy, and finally couldn't help but joke.
"Aren't you happy?" As a result, Princess Lan Xin's very normal rhetorical question made Ni Youbin's behavior become self-deprecating.
"I'm very happy," Ni Youbin responded embarrassedly after a long time.
"Then you still ask me?" Princess Lan Xin turned her head and didn't want to deal with Ni Youbin, not because Ni Youbin's question just now was out of place, but because she felt that Ni Youbin, who had been dedicated to cultivation recently, had become more and more boring.
Princess Lan Xin's tone was a little abnormal, and Ni Youbin, who wanted to say a few more words to relieve his embarrassment, reluctantly chose to be silent.
"I don't know how Brother Lin is doing over there?" The next time, Tangbao had already started a new topic.
"There is no army stationed on the border of the Wing Country, and the strength of the local cities is not strong, presumably no one will dare to fight against the army, in my opinion, Brother Lin should be all the best there," it was Fang Qing who answered, according to Fang Qing's thoughts, it was not difficult to collect grain, or it could be said that there was no risk at all.
"I think Fang Qing is right, those border towns themselves are not strong, and they can't unite, they will never dare to spontaneously resist the army. Besides, if there is really an unexpected situation, a month has passed, and General Yan should have already sent back the news, "It is Bai Ye who answers, and Bai Ye's statement is more reasonable and convincing."
"Brother Bai is right, Brother Lin will definitely be fine," Princess Lan Xin nodded and directly adopted Bai Ye's reasoning results.
"Okay, I'll be able to see Brother Lin again soon," after Princess Lan Xin expressed her opinion very affirmatively, Sugar Treasure who had just started shouted happily, very happy that he was about to go out with the army, and the sugar coat on the side also showed a smile of joy.
Ling Zimo, who had never had a chance to speak, through a brief observation, it was not difficult to see Lin Xuanzhong's status in the hearts of the people next to him. Thinking about Lin Xuanzhong's extraordinary, Ling Zimo was not very surprised.
In the process of getting acquainted with Ni Youbin before, Ling Zimo had already heard of Lin Xuanzhong's identity. Now that I think about Lin Xuanzhong's ability to enter the army as an ordinary martial artist and become a general in less than a year, I am afraid that it is not just as simple as being talented in cultivation.
In Ling Zimo's opinion, maybe Lin Xuanzhong has another identity, but it doesn't matter what Lin Xuanzhong's identity background is, what matters is Lin Xuanzhong's personality. Thinking about Lin Xuanzhong's conduct, Ling Zimo was just very happy to know Lin Xuanzhong.
After some small talk, one by one they were even more eager to go on the expedition. At the same time, Shiyancheng, after receiving Zhao Xu's order to march into Fancheng, Yan Nantian had already ordered to send troops.
The three armies did not move, the grain and grass went first, and Yan Nantian wanted to transport the grain and grass to the key location outside Fancheng shortly after the main force of the night army set off, and then set up camp and waited for the main force to arrive. In the past few days, the third grain collection team led by Zhu Zizai has returned, and they have encountered a little trouble in Star City and Luocheng, but overall it is going well.
Now the grain and grass collected from the six cities is enough for their hundreds of thousands of troops to eat for three months, and if those gold and silver artifacts and jade are used to buy grain and grass, they can be extended for another three months. After half a year, there will be grain and grass harvests in all parts of the Night Country and Snow Country, and the operation of the army will naturally not be a problem in the future.
In terms of transporting food, there are only 15,000 soldiers, and there are not many troops, but Yan Nantian is not worried, according to the current situation in the Wing Country, there are no forces in the north that can threaten them. Not surprisingly, Yan Nantian could smoothly escort the grain and grass to a place fifty miles away from Fancheng within the designated time, and when they got there, all they had to do was set up camp and wait for the main force to arrive.
During the grain transportation period, Yan Nantian also had another task assigned by Zhao Xu, sparing no effort to explore the information of various parts of the Wing Country, and the movements of the troops of the Fei and Yang countries stationed in the Wing Country need to be paid special attention to. Not surprisingly, they already knew about the night army's requisition of food in the Wing Country. It is conceivable that if they analyzed the night army's intention to requisition food, they would definitely guess that the night army might officially occupy the Wing Country.
Next, when they received the news that the night army's grain and grass team had marched towards Fancheng, they would undoubtedly confirm some of their speculations, and when the time came, how those two armies would react was exactly what Yan Nantian needed to pay attention to.
As for the Yidu, Yan Nantian didn't think much about it, as a defeated general, the monarch of the Wing Country would definitely have the intention of attacking the Night Army, especially because of the existence of the armies of Nafei and Yang, it was a problem for them to even defend the wing, let alone dare to send an army.
In terms of Yiguo, what Yan Nantian really needs to understand is the attitude of the City Lord of Fancheng. If they are willing to switch on and off to meet the night army, it is naturally best to save the trouble of the night army attacking Fancheng. If they were unwilling, then Yan Nantian would only have to wait for the army to come before making plans.