Chapter 317 The Eve of the Great War (2)
When Qianfu left Yanping in the seventh year and went all the way north into the grassland, Su Yeqing never imagined that returning to Daqi would be five years later.
She never imagined that when she came back, she would be in such an identity and in such a way.
When Changting said goodbye and separated from Zhao Ning, Hu Honglian and others, she was mentally prepared not to return, but at that time she thought that as long as she could come back, Yanping would still be Yanping.
Friends and relatives will greet her in the familiar pavilion, and everyone will wash the dust for her in the teahouse, and then continue to live together in a familiar place.
Time is like water, and the imagination of the quiet years is replaced by the scene of real war. Goodbye Yanping, the once prosperous and majestic city is only broken and bloody, and everything that was familiar before has changed.
The teahouse collapsed, and the old people were no more.
As a tribal chief with 10,000 warriors, Su Yeqing had a noble status, and almost no one stopped her when Yanping walked through the streets.
Seeing other tribal warriors, like crazy wolves, breaking into a house with green eyes, wantonly looting property, scooping the people, and tearing up beautiful things little by little, Su Yeqing's mood was as heavy as a mountain.
Many times she almost couldn't help it, she wanted to behead those steppe warriors who did evil, to save the lives of the suffering Daqi civilians, and to take her subordinates to fight for their lives against the steppe warriors in the city.
But she couldn't.
Her current identity is a steppe person, a rising upstart in the Khitan tribe, and an uncrowned king who leads more than 10,000 people who control the strings on the surface, and can actually control more than 30,000 grassland warriors.
She has a bigger mission on her, and she has more to do. For the sake of the overall situation of the national war, she must endure humiliation and suppress her emotions and emotions.
When he left Yanping and continued south, Su Yeqing gritted his teeth and swore to Mingyue that the tears shed in Yanping these days would be repaid by the grassland people a hundred times more than ten thousand times.
After separating from Yanping again, the Daqi that Su Yeqing saw along the way was both familiar and unfamiliar.
Familiar because this is Daqi, as a Qi person, she has been in the grassland for too long, and what she has been thinking about for the past five years is to return to the city of Daqi, see the fields of Daqi, look at the clothes of Daqi, and see the scenery of Daqi.
She saw it all now.
The strangeness is because of the repeated military disasters, although there was no shortage of various grievances in the previous Daqi, but it was generally orderly, and now, there are many dead bodies on the roadside, deserted villages, and trampled and destroyed farmland.
The previous Great Qi was not considered a heavenly kingdom, but the Great Qi in front of him has indeed become purgatory.
After arriving in Zhending, Su Yeqing received a military order to guard the place, maintain order, and raise food and grass for the army.
At the beginning of the war, Xiaoye had more than 10,000 felt tents, and he was a well-deserved magnate, but Su Yeqing was not a Khitan nobleman, and he had no relationship with the Khitan "royal court", so he could not become the descendant and main force of the Xian King.
Xiaoyebu's role in the war is no different from that of a handyman, either raising food or escorting supplies, attacking the city and plundering the land has nothing to do with her, and it is naturally not her turn to share the spoils.
Unless the main force fighting in the front is seriously damaged, Xiaoye will basically not have the opportunity to go to the battlefield and fight seriously with the Great Qi Wang Division. Military merit cannot be achieved, nor can the fate of the marginal forces be changed.
Of course, being in the rear does not necessarily mean that there is no war at all.
Although the Beihu army occupied the city, its strength was limited and it was impossible to penetrate deep into the countryside, and after all, they were aliens, and the Qi people had a strong sense of resistance.
From landlords and tyrants to green forest bandits, there is no shortage of people who are not convinced, and it often happens that they gather people to resist and attack small groups of soldiers in Beihu.
At this time, it is necessary for the existence of Xiaoye to come forward to suppress and eliminate all kinds of resistance forces and maintain the control of the Beihu army over the locality.
"The subordinates have inquired, and after five days, Charahan will set out from Zhending and attack Jindi in two ways, with 60,000 troops attacking Chengtian Pass on the north road and 100,000 troops attacking Jingcheng Pass on the south road. At the same time, the 70,000 soldiers and horses of Daizhou will also attack south. ”
At the station of the Xiaoye Division, the tribal cultivator who had just returned from escorting the grain and grass to the granary in front of him, the commander Xu Liuli, reported to Su Yeqing what he had discovered.
These military information are not particularly important, and for the small leaf department that raises food for the army, as long as you pay attention, you can always catch the clues.
It is very important to say that it is very important, if the schedule of the army's expedition and the deployment of troops are discovered by the enemy army as early as possible, the enemy army will be able to make targeted arrangements in advance, and even set up ambushes and attacks.
The scale of the small leaf department has grown over the years, and in addition to annexing small tribes, it has also come into contact with many medium and large tribes.
With Fan Yi, a grassland giant, contributing all kinds of rare treasures and opening the way with gold and silver, under Su Yeqing's intentional friendship, those who have no conflict of interest get along well.
Prairie people are bold after all, and it is not difficult to make friends.
Because of this, although Xiaoye is not within the scope of the main force of the Beihu army, it does not mean that they are ignorant of the movements of the main force. In addition to the regular military intelligence reports and task assignments, there are many news channels in the Xiaoye Department.
This time, Xu Liuli escorted the grain to the granary, and after making an errand, he invited a familiar friend, drank a meal, and knew what he wanted to know.
There is no shortage of good things in the descendants of Chalahan, so naturally they will not take the Xiaoye Department in their eyes, but the other tribal chieftains and generals who are not the main force of the lineage have no reason not to be close to the Xiaoye Department that sends them food, wine and meat.
If the relationship is a little closer, they will be able to get rare wine and food from the people of Xiaoye and enjoy a few meals.
For the grassland people, the delicacies of Daqi are the best taste in the world, and for the soldiers who are busy fighting, the temptation of good wine can be imagined.
Even if the middle and high-level don't care, there is no reason why the centurions and ten-necks of the tribe don't care.
Su Yeqing had found all kinds of information before, and there was nowhere to send it, the Qi army in Hebei couldn't stop the Beihu army at all, and it was useless to have military information, and now Charahan was going to attack Jindi, and the situation was naturally different.
"Send someone to the stronghold. ”
After confirming the reliability of the information, Su Yeqing wrote a note, sealed it in the wax pill, and called two Yuan Shen Realm cultivators to let the other party quickly pass on the military situation.
In the years when Zhao Ning walked the world, the stronghold of Yipinlou has expanded to various places, and it must be an important town, and the strength of Yipinlou here is not small.
After Su Yeqing arrived, he got in touch with Yipinlou as soon as possible, and he was familiar with the road.
Because before the fall of Yanping, Zhao Ning had an accurate judgment on the development of the battle situation, and the cultivators of Yipinlou in Hebei had already made preparations before the arrival of the Beihu army, and they did not lose their troops in the war.
"Sister, do you say that after our information is sent, can we really help Gongzi and the army?" Xu Liuli blinked her big eyes and looked at Su Yeqing motionlessly, her clear eyes full of expectation.
Su Yeqing bowed slightly, "Naturally, I can help." ”
"Then with this information, how many enemies can the army kill, can we make the army repel the invasion of Chalahan?" Xu Liuli continued to ask with hope.
Su Yeqing couldn't cry or laugh, "You little girl, you think about war too simply."
"The offensive of more than 200,000 troops in Chalahan can be repelled casually, and our news can make Gongzi prepare and make some arrangements, which is already very remarkable. ”
Xu Liuli was suddenly a little deflated, puffed out her cheeks and said, "Isn't that useless?"
Su Yeqing's face was solemn, and he solemnly said: "How can it be useless? If the army can kill a few fewer soldiers, it will have a little more certainty of defeating the enemy." In the bloody battle on the battlefield, which one is not standing up to the sky?
"Even if only one piece of news can be saved, it's worth it!
"If one piece of news can make a pass fortress stay for one more day, then ten pieces of news and a hundred pieces of news, will it be able to change the local battle situation?
Xu Liuli nodded again and again when she heard it at first, and finally opened her cherry mouth, "If you want to find out hundreds of pieces of news, we have to work very hard!"
Su Yeqing said with a straight face: "For the victory of the national war, in order to expel the barbarian thieves, to keep the people of the Central Plains from being separated, so that tens of millions of people do not have to be reduced to roadside bones, don't say that if we inquire about hundreds of news, even if we work hard, what do we need to hesitate?"
Hearing these words, Xu Liuli's heart was shocked, and his face showed the glory of his important mission, key responsibilities, and extraordinary status, clenched his small fist, and nodded solemnly:
"My sister is right, I understand. I will work harder in the future!"
Looking at the sister in front of her who was still young, but had a pure heart, good talent, and excellent popularity, Su Yeqing felt satisfied for a while, and continued: "The family and the country are in trouble, as a son and daughter of Daqi, I should work hard to serve the country, and I will not regret it.
"Now that the enemy is strong, Gongzi is still waiting for our news to dispatch troops and arrange troops, you and I must not slack off, but we must not be in a hurry, expose flaws, be discovered by the enemy, and hinder the overall situation.
"Go down and rest, take care of your spirits, I have an errand for you tomorrow." ”
"Ruri understood. Liuli retired. ”
Xu Liuli got up, and before exiting the tent, she suddenly turned around, made a grimace at Su Yeqing, and said playfully: "Sister also rests early, if she gets sick, I'm afraid that my son will be sad!"
After saying that, before Su Yeqing got angry, he opened the tent and ran away.
Su Yeqing stared at Xu Liuli and disappeared angrily, and then he didn't know what to think, shook his head and smiled.
When she left Yanping, she was only a sixteen-year-old girl, although she was intelligent, her shoulders were still thin, and when she first arrived on the grassland, she often hugged her knees in the middle of the night and cried secretly.
Now five years have passed, she is already a great cultivator of the Wang Ji Realm, tens of thousands of warriors under her command, the lord of one side of the grassland, and the banner of thousands of cultivators of the Rank Building, who needs to teach the leader of her subordinates and the provider of information for the army. Influencer of the situation of the national war.
Time flies, more than a thousand days and nights pass by in the snap of a finger, and the traces left by the years in her life have deeply precipitated and changed her appearance.
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After dealing with the affairs at hand, it is already after the third watch.
Putting down the brush, Su Yeqing got up and came to the outside of the tent, and inspected the camp according to the usual practice, and found nothing abnormal, so he planned to rest with confidence.
Back in front of the big tent, the guards lifted the tent, but Su Yeqing paused and turned his head to look west.
In the darkness of the night, there were only overlapping tents and torches scattered everywhere.
Under the crooked moon, everything is lonely.
Su Yeqing lowered her head slightly, retracted her gaze, and entered the tent.