Chapter 41: The Southern Expedition

Since then, Ru Yi rarely comes to Mu Mansion, but Xiao Zichen always uses the Yan sisters as an excuse to arrive every night. After a long time, Nian Yi was a little annoyed, and he was quite dissatisfied with his words.

However, this girl has a lot of eyes, and when she came, she brought Nian Yi some rouge gouache, bracelets and anklets and other gadgets that were special products of the Chamber of Commerce, and coaxed Nian Yi to be commensurate with her sisters.

Later, Xiao Zichen even dared to go to the barracks, bringing some snacks every time, pulling Mu Yi's arm, the elder brother was long and the elder brother was short, but when he was in the camp with Mu Yi, he dared to take off his cloak, for fear of being discovered by the enemy.

After a long time, the soldiers in the battalion thought that Mu Yi had found a small one outside, and they didn't dare to take it home, so they could only spend the Spring Festival in the camp tent. People who don't know the truth have sighed, it seems that even this great general can't avoid being afraid of guilt.

Mu Yi didn't realize it, he just thought that Xiao Zichen was "simple" and good to him, and he also liked this "sister" very much. Naturally, the people under his command did not dare to chew the root of their tongues in front of him, ruining the general's "good deeds". The two of them just got along.

Mu Yi was an elm pimple, but Ru Yi had already noticed Xiao Zichen's thoughts, and for some reason, he felt a little sour.

On this day, the two were chatting in the shop, and Ru Yi couldn't help but ask, "Sister Zichen, I have something I want to ask you." ”

"Sister Yi, you want to ask me about Mu Yi. Xiao Zichen Bingxue was smart and immediately guessed.

Ru Yi was a little unnatural, and said vaguely: "Well, sister, sister just wants to ask you, do you really like him?"

Xiao Zichen was silent for a moment and shook his head: "Sister, didn't you say that you don't like him, wouldn't it be better for me to fulfill it?"

"I," Jouy said, "I just don't want him to be miserable, he takes feelings very seriously, and you don't love him but keep being close to him, I'm really afraid that both of you will be hurt." ”

"I'm sorry, I'm a little selfish. Xiao Zichen's eyes were red, "But I have to take revenge, I must take revenge!" Mu Yi agreed to me for the sake of your face, I know." I'm afraid, I'm afraid that he will regret it in the future, after all, this is not a trivial matter, and it will even be in danger of his life! I have to make him fall in love with me and give everything for me!"

"You're stupid, is it worth it?" Ruy frowned and sighed, "He's already promised you, and besides, maybe there's another chance." ”

"It's worth it! It's the best way to do it. We women, if we want to cling to the big people in the DPRK, what else do we have besides our own bodies? Mu Yi is at least a person who can be entrusted for life, it is better than being toyed with by those old guys. ”

Ruy was silent, and then said quietly, "But is this fair to him?"

"I will treat him well, as a wife. Besides, love doesn't love either. Xiao Zichen burst into tears, "As long as he can avenge me, it would be good for him to marry a few more, even if he divorced me, I would have no complaints." If he has an accident over this, I'll go with him too!"

"Then you can do it yourself. Jouy also felt speechless, "I will also try my best to help you, you are really similar to me." ”

"What?" Xiao Zichen wondered.

"Oh, nothing, I mean you're really unlucky, I'll definitely try my best to help you, and I'm sure Mu Yi will help you too." ”。

"Thank you, Sister Yi. You are the best person in the world right now. Xiao Zichen couldn't help but hug Ru Yi and sobbed softly.

Stroking Xiao Zichen's back, Ru Yi couldn't help but think: "Then who is the best person for me in this world now?" Mu Yi still" After thinking about it, he couldn't help but sigh softly, and his heart was confused for a while.

In the 136th year of the Great Xia calendar, the Xia Kingdom recovered from the plundering of Tochar, and also used the royal captives of Tocharian in exchange for a large number of cow wool skins and gold, silver and jade, and the national strength increased greatly.

Of course, Great Xia will not put all the Tocharian royal family back. Several of Su Litan's younger sons and younger brothers were left behind in Tianjing City as protons, and the two countries signed a pact of non-aggression, finally ending the threat to the western frontier of Bactria .

Emperor Xia had great ambitions, and seeing that the threat from the west was no longer there, he planned to continue the southern expedition. In the autumn of this year, taking advantage of the strength of the army, Xia Yuxuan ordered Xia Wenyuan to be the main commander, Li Baili and Sima Shu as the deputy commanders, and Mu Yi as the supervisor of the army, to march south against 500,000 mountains, intending to occupy 500,000 mountains and continue to go south and invade Yanling Kingdom.

In this southern expedition, except for Liu Yuanshan's Zhiwei army, which had no combat effectiveness, stayed in Jingzhou. The rest of the armies poured out to prepare to take the 500,000 mountain countries in one fell swoop, and the momentum was rare for a thousand years.

Mu Yi, as the supervisor of the southern expedition, was also Xia Yuxuan's final decision against public opinion. In fact, he wanted Mu Yi to be the coach more, and felt that Mu Yi was full of scheming and had a great appetite for him.

However, Mu Yi's qualifications are insufficient, and the other generals are not convinced, especially Xia Wenyuan, the general who protects the country, is still a member of the royal family, so he can't help but listen to his opinions. In the end, Emperor Xia thought of this compromise solution. Although the overseer cannot command the whole army, he has the power to oversee the army, not the commander, but more like the commander.

Mu Yi himself, but he complained bitterly. His Heavenly Hunting Army, which was established less than a year ago, had only 100,000 people. He became this prison army, but he offended the other three generals. Coach Xia Wenyuan has long been dissatisfied with him, this time he is really restricted everywhere, and the future is unpredictable.

After going back and discussing with Yue Ting for a long time, there was no good way, so I could only try to live in peace with the other three generals and act carefully. Besides, Anan is still in southern Xinjiang, and it is no problem to save his life.

Mu Yi returned to the house to settle various matters, and asked Ru Yi and Xiao Zichen to help take care of the affairs of Mu Mansion. In this southern expedition, he had to take Nian Yi to help her return to the Lingguo, and Yue Ting was his military advisor and wanted to go with him. The current Mu Mansion is not the small Baron's Mansion at the beginning, and it can't be left unattended.

Yue Ting in the mansion also had a sad face when he heard that he was going to march south so soon. The Yan sisters have been following Nian Yi all the time, and they don't spend much time with him, but their attitude towards him has changed a lot. Yue Ting was planning to strike while the iron was hot and find a way to include the second daughter in his name, but now he had to go out with the army, so he could only lament that God would not give him a chance.

Over the past year, Yue Ting has been responsible for building firearms such as repeater crossbows and fire thunder, and now it is also on a small scale, which can equip more than 20,000 people. Mu Yi has never disclosed the secret of the repeater, and is ready to use it as a killer weapon in the future. The weapons that Rue sold to the second prince were only standard weapons and some firearms.

After hastily arranging the affairs of the family, Mu Yi followed the army south, and millions of troops marched in a spectacular manner. The 500,000 countries in the mountains also received information early and deployed their troops in the territory of Wu and Zhao, intending to fight to the death with the Xia army on Luoyan Mountain.

The Xia army was still divided into two routes, Xia Wenyuan and Sima Shu attacked Jintang City for the left army, and Li Baili and Mu Yi went to attack Yushan City for the right army.

When Mu Yi arrived at Yushan City, he saw that this Yushan City had already been repaired, and it looked the same as last time, but he always felt that something was wrong. Last time, the city was instantly breached by Daxia's flint carts, and it was impossible for Zhao Guo not to want to deal with it.

Li Baili was also a little suspicious, but after sending people to check around, he didn't find any problems. He concluded that Zhao Guo hadn't thought of any good way, but only thickened the thickness of the city wall. Then he ordered the flint convoy to be launched towards Yushan Castle.

Sure enough, the walls of Yushan Castle were much stronger than before, and more than 20 flint carts attacked for half an hour before the entire city collapsed. Li Baili immediately ordered the army to attack, although Mu Yi felt that there was something wrong, but he couldn't say anything, so he had to lead the army to slowly follow behind the Zhennan army. Li Baili was quite dissatisfied when he saw this, but Mu Yi was a prisoner, and he couldn't say anything.

After tens of thousands of pioneers of the Zhennan Army rushed into Yushan City, they found that something was wrong, although the city was full of broken walls, but it was rare to see the corpse of Zhao Jun. The vanguard general knew that there was fraud and immediately ordered the whole army to retreat.

At this moment, a deafening explosion came from under Yushan Castle. The entire city was shattered in an instant, not only the tens of thousands of vanguard troops in the city were shattered, but the Zhennan army that was marching outside the city was also hit by the rubble, and for a time the blood flowed under the Yushan City, and the Great Xia army suffered heavy losses.

Although Mu Yi was in the distance, he was also knocked to the ground by this huge explosion. The army was dizzy, their ears were buzzing, their brains were blank, and many of them fainted directly. After a full quarter of an hour, he slowly struggled to his feet.

Li Baili was old and frail, and finally Mu Yi poured some water before he woke up slowly, but after seeing the tragic situation of the Zhennan Army, a mouthful of old blood spurted out, and he fell unconscious again. Mu Yi had to send a military doctor to treat Li Baili and reorganize the remaining army by himself in case of accidents.

When he finished counting the number of people, he couldn't help but gasp. In addition to the bones of more than 30,000 people in the vanguard army, there were 100,000 Xia soldiers who were stoned to death at the foot of the mountain outside the city, and more than 300,000 wounded who lost their combat effectiveness. It was not the explosion itself that caused great damage to the Xia army, but the huge landslide caused by it.

Seeing that the Xia army had lost nearly half of it, Mu Yi didn't dare to act rashly, and after collecting the remnants of the army, he was stationed at the foot of the mountain. Fortunately, the Zhao army did not immediately rush down the mountain to attack the Xia army. Otherwise, during the time of dizziness, the Xia army would have been wiped out.

Two days later, Mu Yi received a battle report from Jintangcheng. The situation is basically the same as that of Yushan City, but Xia Wenyuan is more careful, after the city is broken, he only sent 20,000 people to check it first, and the damage is not very serious. After the explosion, he sent troops up the mountain to check, only to see that the place where Jintang City was originally located had become a big pit, and there was no movement of the Wu army and other allied forces on all sides.

Xia Wenyuan discussed with Sima Shuyi, thinking that the danger of Jintang City had been broken, and there was no barrier in Wu State, so the enemy army must be afraid of the power of the flint cart and retreated to the territory of Song State early. The bombing of Jintang City was just to reduce the strength of the Xia army as much as possible.

Xia Wenyuan ordered the vanguard army to cross the big pit and reconnoiter everywhere, but there was still no movement of the enemy army, so he ordered the army to open and occupy Wu. Unexpectedly, after the army drove into the pit, before they could climb up, the enemy suddenly killed. The vanguard army on the edge of the pit was no more than 20,000 men, and it was wiped out in an instant by 500,000 enemy troops.

Subsequently, 500,000 mountain coalition troops poured oil and fired rockets into the pit, and the Xia army in the pit cried and shouted. Xia Wenyuan hurriedly ordered a retreat, but when he withdrew from the big pit, the Xia army suffered nearly 300,000 casualties.

In addition to the letter reporting the military situation, there was also a letter written by Xia Wenyuan to Mu Yi and Li Baili, in which they asked the two of them to go to the camp under Jintang City to discuss countermeasures together.

At this time, Li Baili was so angry that he was still unconscious, and his life was still difficult to protect, let alone discuss countermeasures. Mu Yi had to order a few of his generals to defend the camp and ride to Xia Wenyuan's tent by himself.

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