As the real master of the three northeastern states, the shepherd has been in Taoguang for all these years, and compared with Xiao Yu's sharpness, he can be called obscure. Although Xiao Yu made a rafter who came out first and became the target of the public, the opposite was the rapid expansion of the northwest forces, and all kinds of families came to vote, and there were many talents under his command.

The shepherds have always looked down on the factions in the northwest before, thinking that the northwest, which is independent of each other, is far inferior to the monolithic northeast, but when it comes to chaos, the shepherds feel that they are stretched, except for one reckless, there are not many people who can take action.

After all, only "chaos" can produce heroes, and if Wei Ban is placed in the northeast, where all seniority is ranked, there will still be Wei Ban who has secretly crossed Yinping and has been down three levels in a row? It is true that there have been many wars in the northwest, but it is precisely these successive wars that have made the generals of the Northwest Youth Zhuang faction grow rapidly, and then easily replace the older generals headed by Xu Lin.

The shepherd stood in the tent of the Chinese army with his hands in his hands, looking at a huge map on the wall.

With Lin Han and Min Xing divided into two ways to attack Xiheyuan, the Northeast Army had to shrink on the whole line, and now a total of 12 villages centered on the three large camps of Qixingzhai, Jiumen Zhai and Jinguang Village have all been returned to the hands of the Northwest Army, and the house leak happened to rain overnight, and Wei Ban, who had been dormant in Xiliangzhou, also began to move, and had several brief battles with the Northeast Army.

Central Shaanxi is an important gateway in and out of the northwest, backed by the West River Plain, looking south to Hanzhong, so Xiao Yu led the army to the south to set up a camp in Shaanxi. Later, the herdsman also marched into the northwest through Shaanxi, so he put his most trusted Zha Mang in Shaanxi, ensuring that once the war was unfavorable, the northeast could calmly withdraw from the northwest through Shaanxi.

Now that Lanyu Chen has 80,000 soldiers under the city of Shaanzhong, he has actually put on a posture of blocking the door and not letting him go, which is really a big appetite!

Carefully calculate the strength of today's Northeast Army, it was 100,000 troops into the northwest, Zha Mang led 20,000 troops to garrison Shaanxi, and the herdsman led 80,000 troops to force Zhongdu, and later Lin Han returned to Hanzhong, Zha Mang and Lin Han fought a battle, lost thousands of soldiers, and the herdsman increased the army by 15,000 for Zha Mang, plus Xiao Yu's attack on the camp, Qixingzhai, Jiumen Zhai, Jinguang Zhai and other large and small wars, the shepherd's strength in his hands has been less than 60,000.

Not far after the shepherd got up, Xu Ji had been kneeling for a while.

The shepherd raised his hand and said, "Get up." ”

Xu Ji got up silently, "Thank you, Lord Xie." ”

The shepherd sighed, "This march into the northwest can be regarded as a knockout of the old foundation of the northwest, but we didn't take advantage of it ourselves, more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and if they didn't say anything, they were gone, and they didn't even make a splash." ”

A veteran who was over the age of sixteen said in a deep voice: "The northwest is a big pocket, after the main force of the Northwest Army returns to the division, let alone 100,000 troops, even if it doubles and 200,000, it may not be able to fill it." Lord, it's time for us to retreat. ”

The shepherd frowned slightly, and said slowly: "I must go, but how to go?"

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The shepherd sees it very accurately, the Northwest Army is indeed worthy of the four words of factions, Xu Lin plus the three major camps are just the four major factions on the surface, and under it, there are all kinds of intricate mountains, such as a group of grassland generals headed by Shi Le under Lin Han, and in the grassland faction, they are divided into the prince faction and the princess faction, and for example, how Xu Lin and Min Xing also cut off the continuous inheritance relationship, the old generals who have gradually retired led by Xu Lin and the young generals who are in the prime of life led by Min Xing, there is also a certain degree of opposition between the two。 There are even young Zhuang generals led by Wei Ban, most of these people have risen to power because of the war in Shuzhou and Huzhou, and they are currently the weakest in the Northwest Army, and they are also the most unpopular because they are scattered among the three major camps, but they have dealings with each other in private, and they are the youngest and have the greatest potential, and they can also be regarded as an independent faction.

It can be said that there will be a large number of factions in the northwest today, which is inseparable from Xiao Yu's encouragement, because Xiao Yu's sudden ascension to the throne can only be said to be dictated by the times, and at that time he did not have enough prestige to control the entire army in the northwest, and even had to rely on Xu Lin, the future of the defeated army, to control the northwest, so he could only consolidate his power through differentiation and checks and balances.

However, as time goes by, Xiao Yu's prestige has become increasingly heavy, and he has begun to regain the rights that should belong to him, successively supporting Lan Yu, Lin Han, Xiao Jin, Qu Cang and others is the first step, and then it is natural that Xu Lin is the second step, getting rid of the dependence on the grassland Zhutaiji is the third step, the southern expedition to Shuzhou and Huzhou is the fourth step, and breaking up the opposing factions in the northwest and the grassland to set up three major camps is the fifth step.

At the same time, Xiao Yu firmly believed in the truth that blocking was better than sparse, rather than strictly preventing the stubborn generals from forming factions in private, it was better to add fuel to the fire, and constantly divide between these factions, so that they could not form an iron plate, so after the establishment of the three major camps, Xiao Yu completely broke up the original so-called Xiliang faction, and later after Xiao Jin's actions, and Wei Ban took over as the governor of the Xiliang army, completely destroyed the foundation of the Xiliang faction. Now the Shaanxi Central Camp, which has inherited most of the strength of the Xiliang faction, can no longer be compared with the original Xiliang faction in terms of cohesion and fundamental strength.

Today's Xiao Yu is no longer the titular king of the Northwest, but the veritable king of the Northwest.

The three major camps are not in the northwest, and there is a big difference.

Whether there is Xiao Yu in the northwest or not, the difference is also very big.

At the beginning, Xiao Yu was unconscious, and the camp of the Sword Pavilion and the camp of the generals were not in the northwest, so he was easily raised by the shepherds and approached the middle capital.

Now, Xiao Yu is back in power, and all the three major camps have returned to the division.

Then Xiao Yu wants to let the shepherd get up and have no return.

Xu Lin has been in business for more than ten years, and has built countless fortresses on the Xihe Plain, according to the distribution of three lines, one pier ten miles, facing each other continuously, the side beacons are connected, every time there is a war, the wolf smoke rises in turn. The stockade is a hundred miles, in which the soldiers are stationed, if there is an enemy situation, they are connected and moved. All the forts are dotted around, like a spider web, enveloping the entire Xiheyuan. Now that the shepherds are advancing to the West River Plain, without sufficient troops to garrison them, all these forts have fallen into the hands of the herdsmen.

However, the herdsmen also fell into an embarrassing situation, these forts were built according to the scale of 200,000 defenders, and the Northeast Army of the herdsmen could not occupy all the forts, so they could only choose larger villages to control, which made the entire fort system fragmented and could not play a role in application at all. And even so, the division of troops was serious, so that Xiao Yu had the opportunity to attack the herdsmen at night to raise the Chinese army.

After the fall of Qixingzhai, Jiumenzhai and Jinguangzhai, the herdsmen shrank all their forces to Danxia Village. At this time, Xiao Yu and Lan Yu's eyes were focused on Danxia Village.

Since the shepherd got up and plunged into the big pocket of Xiheyuan, the number one Tianzi, how could he easily let him go? At the very least, he had to take off dozens of catties of meat from the body of the Northeast Army.

After Xiao Yu received the war reports from Lin Han, Minxing and Lan Yu one after another, he issued an edict through the Dadu Governor's Mansion to set up the fourth major camp, the Xiliang Xing Battalion, and the former Xiliang Military Governor Wei Ban took the Xiliang Xing Camp as the seal officer, and oversaw all important military affairs in Xiliang Prefecture. From now on, the Xiliangxing Battalion will go to Xiheyuan to crusade against the enemy army in the northeast.

Xiao Yu walked out of the health fasting and came to the courtyard, squinting his eyes when he was hung down by the whistling spring breeze.

Although he is the co-master of the northwest, but the people below are close and estranged, the Jiangling camp is his descendant, and the Jiange camp is half, as for the camp in Shaanxi, as long as it does not endanger the overall situation, he will not feel distressed no matter how many people die, at most it is painful.

Although Min Xing has always behaved decently, in the final analysis, he has no relationship with Xiao Yu. Zha recklessly entered Shaanxi, and the Min bank gave up his hand to Shaanxizhong in order to preserve his strength, and with this alone, Xiao Yu could abolish his military power. It's just because Xu Lin has just been set aside, if he scraps Min Xing again, it will be easy for people to be unstable, and it is in chaos, so Xiao Yu did not act rashly. I think that Minxing also understands this, so he dares to act so boldly. As long as he makes up for his mistakes afterwards, in terms of the status of Min Xing, Xiao Yu is not easy to do too much.

Xiao Yu sneered: "Since you dare to fool this king, don't blame this king for borrowing a knife to kill people." ”

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Under the city of Shaanxi, Lan Yu closed the secret order sent by the central capital and sighed slightly.

Then he said to his side, "Siege." ”