Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏreadx;? The First Army of the Zhenjun Army, the camp, the middle army tent,

The next big battle is not very easy to fight for the first legion, and it is currently besieging Shenchi that are two rebel legions, and their own side is fighting 200,000 with 100,000, and the strength is obviously at a disadvantage.

Shangguan Xiu stood next to the map, his fingers lightly tapped on the table, staring intently at the rebel defense line marked on the map, and asked, "Who is the commander of the rebels?"

Zhao Chen said: "Brother Xiu, the rebel commander's name is Wu Fang, born in Lingwu Academy, and was the champion of the Capture the Flag Competition. Song Sheng disagreed, was impeached by the Inner History Office and colluded with Ningnan, and then really searched for letters with Ningnan in the Wu family, when the first emperor was angry and copied Wu Fang's home, Wu Fang's father was also beheaded, Wu Fang's whereabouts were unknown at that time, now it seems that it should be secretly protected by Tang Yu, and now Tang Yu has rebelled, and Wu Fang has also become a general under Tang Yu,"

"The champion of the Capture the Flag Competition, Lingwu is not simple,"

"At that time, Wu Fang was not yet twenty years old, and he was already a master of the Spirit Sky Realm, more than ten years have passed, Wu Fang's cultivation must have been unfathomable, "Even if he is a person with mediocre qualifications, after more than ten years of hard cultivation, his cultivation can almost break through from the Spirit Sky Realm to the Spirit Disillusionment Realm, not to mention that Wu Fang's qualifications are not mediocre, but he is also a Lingwu wizard with excellent qualifications, and he has Tang Yu as a backer, and the spirit stone is indispensable in his cultivation, and now what realm his cultivation has reached, no one dares to assert,

Shangguan Xiu looked down at the map and said, "This person's arrangement is good,"

The rebels' siege of Shenchi is not that the army of 200,000 is all together, but by points and lines, the rebels have built a total of more than 20 fortresses around Shenchi, and there are trenches and earthen walls between the fortresses and fortresses, and the trenches and earthen walls string together more than 20 fortresses to form a whole.

Of course, it is impossible for such a line of defense to stop the elders of Chi, but it is more than enough to block the supply of Shenchi from the outside world, it is obvious that Wu Fang is not a reckless person, but a commander who was born in a professional class and is proficient in tactics.

Luo Ren smiled: "Speaking of which, this Wu Fang is still my senior brother," Wu Fang is from the Lingwu Academy, and Luo Ren is also from the Lingwu Academy, but Wu Fang is ten years earlier than Luo Ren,

Shangguan Xiu glanced at him and said, "It's a pity that your senior brother didn't do his job properly and ran to join the rebels,"

Luo Ren shrugged his shoulders and said, "This was also forced by Cai Xiao and Song Sheng and others back then,"

Shangguan Xiu frowned: "It sounds like Ah Ren is very sympathetic to Wu Fang's suffering,"

Luo Ren scratched his hair and said with a dry smile: "Brother Xiu, I'm just telling the truth," Luo Ren has always been sympathetic to the rebels, it was like this back then, and it is still like this now,

Shangguan Xiu Zhengse said: "Such a truth, just talk about it in the army, but don't talk nonsense outside the army, if it reaches His Majesty's ears, you will definitely be punished,"

Luo Ren smiled bitterly: "Brother Xiu, I understand,"

Shangguan Xiu turned his words, looked at Zhao Chen, and asked, "Chen, hasn't the battle report of the Tenth Corps been sent back yet?"

The 10th Corps, as the advance force, had already launched a tentative attack on the rebels' defensive line, Zhao Chen calculated the time and said: "If the battle goes well, the battle report should have been sent back long ago,"

The implication is that until now, the 10th Corps has not sent back a battle report, which can only show that the battle did not go well.

Shangguan Xiu looked at the map for a while, turned around and walked to the inner end of the Zhongjun tent, and lay down on a chaise longue, Luo Ren and Zhao Chen came over, the former said: "Brother Xiu, I heard that there have been a lot of Western Regions slaves in Xijing recently, and they all look very weird, speaking of which, I haven't seen the Western Regions slaves up close," he also saw the Western Regions slaves working in the fields from a distance when he passed by Shah, as for how many heads and arms the Western Regions slaves had, he couldn't see them clearly at all,

Zhao Chen smiled: "Actually, it's the same as us, it's just that we're born a little darker,"

"It's not a little darker, it's a lot darker," Shangguan Xiu corrected,

"Yan Hui is very smart, he set up a slave workshop in Xijing, I heard that it is now a day of money, and even Qingyuan plans to introduce slaves into the factory, so that the factory under the forge can be expanded on a large scale, and there is no need to worry about the lack of manpower,"

As he spoke, Zhao Chen was also carefully observing Shangguan Xiu's expression, after all, the large-scale containment of foreigners has always been something that Shangguan Xiu strongly opposes, Qingyuan wants to introduce the slaves of the Western Regions into the forge factory, and I don't know if Shangguan Xiu will agree.

Fortunately, Shangguan Xiu did not show displeasure after hearing this, Zhao Chen felt a little relieved, and continued: "It's just that the brains of the Western Regions slaves are too stupid, under normal circumstances, it only takes one month to train workers, but the training of Western Regions slaves has no progress in three or five days, and it is estimated that it will take at least three months to train them to be able to work in the factory,"

In this matter, Zhao Chen blamed the people of the Western Regions, the reason why the people of the Western Regions learn slowly is that the living environment is different, what they learn in the factory, not to mention that they have not been exposed to it before, they have never even seen it, how can they learn it all at once, and then there is the most important point, the language barrier, this is too bad, training the people of the Western Regions is naturally far more difficult than training the wind people,

Shangguan Xiu shrugged his shoulders and said lightly: "Since Qingyuan wants to introduce slaves from the Western Regions, he has to be prepared to spend several times more effort, how can there be so many things that have the best of both worlds,"

"Brother Xiu is right," Zhao Chen nodded, and said: "But the slaves in the Western Regions are good at doing manual work, and we are much more capable of doing it, with great strength, and enough endurance, many people in Xijing have seen that Yanzi has made real money in the slave business, and now they are looking for a way to grab the slave business,"

Even if Shuratang can set up a card at Huya Pass to prevent other merchants from bringing slaves from the Western Regions into the customs, but businessmen can also avoid Huya Pass and enter the country of Fengguo through other ways, as long as they enter the country, and then want to punish these merchants, there is no way to follow, you can't just allow you Shuratang to do slave business, others can't do it, this is a typical only allow the state officials to set fires, and the people are not allowed to light lamps, and the ministers in the court will also be impeached,

Shangguan Xiu knocked on his forehead and said, "It seems that we have to make a decree,"

"Brother Xiu means ......"

"A person who kills another person's slave indiscriminately may be regarded as destroying another person's property and shall be liable to compensate for the loss, and if the circumstances are heinous, shall pay a fine,"

Zhao Chen and Luo Ren looked at each other, no one spoke, this decree was announced, it was tantamount to completely establishing the status of slaves in the country of wind, slaves can not be regarded as a person, but just an object, killing a slave, the heaviest punishment is to pay a fine,

The two of them can also understand why Shangguan Xiu wants to issue such a decree, he wants to legally position the slaves in the lower class, so that the intermarriage between the Feng people and the slaves of the Western Regions can be effectively prevented, >

De jure speaking, the slave of the Western Regions is not even as good as a beast, so who is willing to marry a person who is not as good as a beast, even if he (she) is willing, his (her) family will not agree, no family can afford to lose such a person,

The Wind Country has just banned the nobles, but under the commoners, there is another slave class, Luo Ren and Zhao Chen's hearts are not very good, but they can't do anything about it, the above official character, either the Western Regions slaves are not allowed to enter the Wind Country, since it is allowed, then in legal terms, the Western Regions slaves are not recognized as people, this is the biggest concession he can make,

"Now limited by the conditions, the introduction of slaves from the Western Regions is really a helpless move, but sooner or later the war will end, and at that time, I will let the imperial court issue a decree to expel all the slaves from the Western Regions from the country of wind, and save the people of the wind from being messed up with their bloodlines, otherwise, you and I will become sinners and be scolded by future generations," As he spoke, Shangguan Xiu took the tea from Wu Yufei's hand, took a sip, and said: "It sounds a little cruel, and if you unload the mill, you will kill the donkey, but, Ah Ren, Morning, think about how your hearts will feel if your descendants are all black?"

Hearing this, the generals and staff members standing around the map couldn't help laughing, and one of the generals grinned and said, "Brother Xiu, if that's the case, it's really shameless to go to see the ancestors and ancestors,"

"Therefore, we have to take precautions, and if we can avoid causing trouble to future generations, we should try to avoid it," Shangguan Xiu stood up, walked behind the handsome case, picked up the pen, and repaired the book to Tang Ling,

He said that he was going to issue a new decree, but he didn't just talk about it, but he really did it.

After Shangguan Xiu finished writing the letter, a spy with a dark flag walked in from outside, Zhao Chen took the letter sent by his subordinates, looked down, and then said to Shangguan Xiu: "Brother Xiu, it's the battle report of the Tenth Corps,"

Shangguan Xiu folded the written letter and handed it to Zhao Chen, asking him to send someone back to Xijing immediately, and then, he took the battle report and took a closer look.

The 10th Corps successfully broke through the rebels' defensive line, but they were soon attacked by the rebels on both sides of the defensive line, the rebels seemed to have been ready to be breached, and I don't know how many times the drill had been performed, when attacking, skillful and ferocious, the 10th Corps could not be used in the long defensive line at all, and was defeated and retreated by the rebels who attacked the fortresses on both sides, and finally the commander of the 10th Corps decisively ordered the whole army to withdraw from the rebel defensive line, and the battle also ended with the retreat of the 10th Corps.

After seeing the defeat, Shangguan Xiu walked to the map, looked down at the rebels' defense line, and fell into deep thought,

The rebels' defense line seems to be long, a whole circle around the Shenchi, in fact, the rebels' defense center of gravity is on the more than 20 fortresses, one is the enemy, and the eight sides come to help, this battle is far from being as easy to fight as imagined.

The people in the Chinese army tent circulated the battle report one after another, and the relaxed atmosphere just now also became solemn, the generals and staff frowned one by one, and Shangguan Xiu, looked down at the map, speechless for a long time, Luo Ren muttered: "The enemy's defense line is too long, no matter which section of the defense line our army wants to break, it is very easy, but the next problem falls on our head, the enemy army relies on more than 20 fortresses, can attack, retreat can defend, and our soldiers are in the defense line, the battle formation is difficult to unfold,"

"What if the enemy fortresses are broken one by one," one of the generals asked.

"More than 20 fortresses, broken one by one, how many casualties our army has to pay, how many months will this battle take, our army does not have so much time," the reason why the first army can attack the rebels on the periphery of Shenchi with peace of mind is to rely on the fourth army that rushed directly to Beijing to contain it, but the fourth army can contain the rebels for a few days, and the fourth army is facing the real main force of the rebels, once the fourth army is repulsed, the rebels will be killed from their backs, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Send the Ninth Corps to attack a fortress and see how well the rebel fortress is defended," Shangguan Xiu raised his hand and nodded at the mark of a fortress on the map,

"Yes, Brother Xiu," Luo Ren agreed, and sent someone to convey the military order,

That evening, the retreating 10th Corps returned to camp,

In this battle, the 10th Corps took the initiative to retreat, not defeated, the casualties were not large, but they were forced to retreat by the rebels, and the soldiers felt disgraced.

Shangguan Xiu did not punish him, but also appeased him and asked him to go back to rest, the commander of the 10th Corps had just left, and a gendarme came in to report: "Your Highness, Cai Huang asks to see,"