Chapter 25 The Heart of War

Xu Jingxuan is already familiar with military affairs, and he also has all kinds of strategies in his heart, but he is limited by reality and has nowhere to mention. Now that he has a goal, he is extremely fast, and in one night he draws up a conscription plan to prepare for the new recruitment of 50,000 soldiers. Tacheng is an important town in western Xinjiang, where Zheng Guo stored a large number of military ammunition and various military supplies, and now these strategic reserves have been taken out for military expansion.

As for Xu Jingxuan's family, he didn't have time to pick it up in person, so he just begged Qianye to send someone to the royal capital to bring his family over for him. Thinking about it, in front of King Xinzheng, even if it was a small soldier sent by Qianye, the weight was much more important than Xu Jingxuan.

Of course, Qianye will not refuse this little thing. Xu Jingxuan is also a rare talent, with outstanding personal talent, if he hadn't grown up in Yonglu, he might have already begun to attack the gods. It is even more rare that he is still a general, and since he has been guarding the Western Frontier, he has always played classic battles that can be written in textbooks, making the dark race in front of him suffer a lot. It was only because Zheng Guo was busy with infighting and was unable to expand that the opportunity to expand his territory slipped away again and again.

Now that a thousand nights have arrived, and there is unprecedented air superiority, there will be no more missed opportunities. And Xu Jingxuan saw that his ambition that had been buried in his heart for many years finally had the possibility of being realized, and he was also full of spirit and devoted himself to the expansion of armaments.

Three days have passed in a blink of an eye, and the expansion of Tacheng has begun to take shape. The population of Tacheng is not enough to support an army of tens of thousands, but the western border is actually very fertile, with small towns and villages dotting around. The population scattered in Siye is several times that of Tacheng, and these are the places where the abundant military resources come from. Xu Jingxuan was familiar with the situation in Tacheng that he set such a seemingly impossible recruitment target.

However, the army together, it is not a joke, just where the equipment is enough, all kinds of logistics supplies, people eat horses and chews, it is not a small amount, with the output and grain storage of Tacheng, it is absolutely impossible to support so many troops.

Qianye knew this, but he did not oppose the conscription target, and Xu Jingxuan also understood that the future supply of this army would fall on the dark race. Instead, he became even more excited, and thus confirmed the determination of Qianye to fight.

Just when Tacheng was in full swing, a group of uninvited guests arrived.

Hearing the attendant's urgent report, Qianye was stunned and asked, "Forbidden Army, what are they doing here?"

The attendant replied: "The commander of this forbidden army wants to meet you and discuss the handover of Tacheng. ”

Qianye was even more confused, "Handover?"

The attendant's voice was soft, and he hesitated, "Yes, the commander wants to determine when you will hand over Tower City to them. ”

Qianye was a little stunned for a moment, this request was so absurd that he didn't feel angry, and he couldn't think of what the forbidden army commander who didn't know where the origin was. For a moment, Qianye really wanted to meet him and see what was in that man's head, so he had this thought.

However, Qianye immediately put aside this somewhat willful thought, how many major matters are waiting for him to be decided now, Xu Jingxuan is capable, but the key decisions still have to be made one by one, and it is not enough to use his spare time to cultivate the Taixuan Soldier Technique, where is there any spare time to spend on this kind of person?

He then said to his attendants, "Gather all the generals, and I'll be waiting for them in the war room in half an hour." ”

The attendant received the order and flew away. Half an hour is not a long time, and the action will time out if it is a little late.

A moment later, all the generals arrived in the war room, and a few of them were panting and pouting, apparently a little far away, and rushed to full speed after receiving the order. Qianye looked at the time, it had only passed twenty minutes, and he was very satisfied.

"I heard that a forbidden army has arrived outside the city, how many people are there and where are they stationed?"

Xu Jingxuan got up and said, "This forbidden army has a total of 30,000 people, and it has the most elite first and seventh divisions of the entire forbidden army, and the commander is Lord Xue Yangxue, the deputy commander of the entire forbidden army. He is Xue Guifei's own uncle, and his own military record is also very good, and he has always been regarded as the first fierce general of the forbidden army. ”

"The first fierce general of the forbidden army?" Qianye smiled and asked, "What is his strength?"

Xu Jingxuan replied: "Like his subordinates, his cultivation is level sixteen. However, after Xue Guifei took the throne, I heard that he transferred to the ancestral exercises of King Zheng, and if he really fights, I am afraid that most of his subordinates will lose. ”

Qianye nodded and said, "No wonder the tone is so loud." ”

At this moment, the generals privately rumored that they all knew the handover request put forward by Commander Xue, and his 30,000 troops were stationed less than ten kilometers away from the city, which was clearly a posture that could attack at any time.

The mercenary generals were all unimpressed, if they weren't afraid of the majesty of Qianye, they would have already made a noise and shouted to kill them. Xu Jingxuan looked a little restrained, and at the same time his face was solemn. Even if he had the advantage of city defense, with him and the original 6,000 defenders, he would not be able to stop the 30,000 forbidden troops commanded by Xue.

Seeing that everyone was waiting for him to speak, Qianye said: "Okay, let's talk about the reorganization of the new army first." ”

The reorganization of the new army involves all aspects, and the clothing, food, housing, and transportation of tens of thousands of people are not trivial, and the generals know that a thousand nights of time are precious, so they try to condense their speeches, and by the time the report is finished, an hour has passed.

The attendant at the door kept looking, looking very anxious.

Qianye remained silent, let the attendant in, and asked, "What's the matter?"

The attendant said, "My lord, the envoy of the forbidden army is still waiting outside, and he is already very impatient. ”

Qianye turned to Xu Jingxuan and said, "This is your person?"

Xu Jingxuan hurriedly got up, sweat on his forehead, and said, "Yes." The subordinates have no way to lead the troops, and please punish the adults!"

Qianye said lightly: "Such a courageless person, what are you doing in the army? ”

"My subordinates understand!"

Xu Jingxuan strode to the door, lifted the attendant, threw it to his personal entourage outside the door, and said in a deep voice: "Take it down, get rid of the military, and never be hired!"

The attendant answered loudly, and dragged him out all the way, ignoring the squire's cries.

Waiting for Xu Jingxuan to return to his seat and sit down, Qianye Fang said: "Since it has been brought up, let's deal with this matter." It's not a big deal, it's discussed. Jing Xuan!"

Xu Jingxuan stood up and said, "The subordinates are here!"

"Go and tell them that the 50-kilometer radius around Tacheng is a forbidden area, and they are limited to leave within half an hour, otherwise they don't have to think about leaving. ”

Xu Jingxuan obviously didn't expect Qianye to be so tough, so he showed no mercy, and was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses. He was also determined enough to quickly say yes, and he didn't say a word of nonsense.

Qianye withdrew his gaze from him with considerable satisfaction, and said, "Song Lun, Song Hui, you two set off with the flagship and let all the warships take to the air to prepare for battle. As soon as the half hour arrived, the bombardment of the forbidden army camp began, regardless of whether there was anyone in it or not. ”

Song Lun was stunned and got up to receive the order. Song Hui was bright-eyed and excited.

The group of mercenary generals were all militants, and they couldn't hold back at the moment, and they asked for war one after another, some wanted to copy the back road, and some wanted to attack head-on, and they all wanted to kill the 30,000 forbidden troops, making them cry and laugh for a thousand nights. He didn't have any idea of fighting under the city of Tacheng, but if someone had to find death, he wouldn't be relentless.

Qianye pressed his hands to silence everyone, and then summed up the work of the new army's preparation, arranged a few more words of defense, and let the generals disperse.

Half an hour later, huge shadows swept across the land, and immediately there was a roar outside the city, billowing smoke rising into the sky, and the flames were raging, engulfing the temporary camp of the forbidden army in the blink of an eye.

A kilometer away from the camp, a tall man was so angry that he shouted: "Grandma, you are too deceitful! Let go of me, Lao Tzu will fight with them!"

This big man was extremely strong, and the dozen or so forbidden army officers around him hugged their legs and hugged their waists, and they were all dragged forward step by step by him. The officers used their strength to hold him back, and shouted, "My lord, don't do it, don't do it!"

The big man roared angrily: "What about the brothers who remain in the camp?"

"It's too late, I can't save it!"

The big man was stunned for a moment, suddenly stomped his feet, and said, "It's my incompetence, it's my greed, and I've hurt them!"

The officers breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly persuaded: "Your Excellency, we just want to give that man a dismount, who would have thought that he would be so vicious that he would directly send a warship to bombard the camp!"

"We don't even have a single warship, and it's helpless to retreat first. ”

"My lord, stay in the green mountains, and I'm not afraid of running out of firewood. Why bother to see the same thing as that man and compete for a short time?"

Dahan was silent, and after a while, he sighed and said: "That's it, it's all my fault, just leave, why do you have to leave hundreds of brothers behind, thinking of ambushing?"

At this time, the entire camp was engulfed in flames, and even a war general could not escape under the bombardment in this sea of fire. More than a dozen floating warships in the sky gradually stopped their artillery fire and kept circling, apparently checking to see if there were any fish that had slipped through the net.

On the battle patrol, Song Hui pointed outward and said, "Those people still don't leave, sure enough, the thief's heart is not dead!"

Song Lun hesitated for a moment and said, "They have already left the camp, and they have done as the adults ordered." ”

Song Hui shook her head, "That's not what I said. Since you've already humiliated them for the first time, it doesn't matter if you have one more time. The important thing is not that they are disobedient, but that they are not convinced. Looking at it like this, it is obviously unconvincing, so it is necessary to let them remember it for a long time in the future. ”

Song Lun said vigilantly: "What are you going to do? ”

"The adults didn't say that they would forget it when they were not convinced!"

Song Hui pushed Song Lun back with a word, then stretched out his hand to draw a line, and said to the captain: "The secondary artillery salvo will bombard this position." Then advance thirty meters to start the second salvo, and so on. ”

The captain was experienced, and at a glance he understood what his intentions were, and he returned to the bridge to make arrangements.

After a few moments, the battle patrol began to turn around, moving sideways in the air in an elegant manner, and the secondary gun on one side slowly lowered the muzzle of the gun, aimed at the line drawn by Song Hui, and began a volley.

The gunners were all well-trained and had excellent accuracy, and more than 10 explosion points were almost connected in a straight line, and the smoke and flames were tens of meters high, and the momentum was extremely amazing.

This artillery line was only a hundred meters away from the foothold of the forbidden army commander, and the roar shook the ears of the officers, and their faces turned pale. With fear on their faces, they looked at the rising wall of smoke, and for the first time in their lives, they felt the power of the giant ship's guns up close.

The battle patrol slowly adjusted its attitude, and one by one the secondary guns were ready for firing. Before the dust of the first gun line had fallen, the naval guns roared again, this time thirty meters closer.

The high-powered naval guns were within a 100-meter killing range, and the gun line was close to thirty meters, and the feelings of the forbidden officers were too strong. Approaching a thirty-meter artillery line, the deterrent meaning is much stronger.

An officer couldn't help but tremble when he saw the battle patrol slowly moving sideways, froze, and adjusted the muzzle of the gun, and couldn't help but tremble: "Your Excellency, Commander, they are going to blow us up, or we should withdraw first!"

Commander Xue said angrily: "I want to see if they have the courage to kill the court officials!"

Before he could finish speaking, the third round of shelling had begun. This time, the artillery line was only fifty meters away from everyone, and the dusty gray stone that was raised rained down made everyone dusty, and the aftermath of the Force explosion was so violent that it could hurt people.

Seeing the battleship moving sideways, and the muzzle of the gun slowly aimed at everyone, the commander finally gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go!"