Chapter 38: Red Line or Blue Line, It's a Question (Part II)

"This is not a long-term solution"

After the bow, seeing that everyone was still immersed in excitement, Long Thirteen hurriedly said.

"Big boss, that's ......"

"Lingshi County! According to Xiao Shi, this county is located in the middle of the mountains, although there are two roads from Jiexiu County to get there, but the main post road is the extremely dangerous Sparrow Mouse Valley, and the other road is just a small road stepped out by the people, and it cannot pass the army."

"To the south of Lingshi County, there is another section of the Bird Mouse Valley connected to Huozhou, so as long as the county seat and both ends of the Bird Mouse Valley are guarded, we can hold on to the point where our strength is enough to cover the old and weak to continue to act."

"Moreover, although this Lingshi County is only a county, its status in Shanxi is on a four-legged basis with Jiaokou Fort, Jiaocheng County, and Pingding Prefecture, all of which need to pay pig iron and weapons to the Shanxi Metropolitan Division, the Military Department, and the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and there are also mine supervisors."

"By the way, this is the only place in Shanxi that has been approved by the imperial court to make firearms."

In fact, the geographical location of Lingshi County and the status of the firearms manufacturing institute are what Long Thirteen valued.

"There are caves here to smelt nitrate, there are two kinds of minerals of pyrite and hematite, it is a natural place to make firearms and gunpowder, and it is one of the designated places to supply gunpowder to the Shenji camp in the capital, and Jiaocheng and Qian'an stand on three legs."

He had enough of the pain of not having firearms, because he could not equip and train a heavy cavalry for himself in a short time, so he could only use firearms to deal with heavy cavalry, according to Xiao Shi, that Lingshi County could make tiger squat cannons, although it could not make larger general cannons, but it was quite remarkable.

For a rogue, a lightweight Tiger Squat Cannon is more useful than a General Cannon!

However, Lingshi County is currently guarded by the Wutai Mountain guerrilla Po Ximu, and his men have at least 1,500 paces to ride, can he easily give up the castle?

Nature is impossible.

Long 13 continued, "It is estimated that the news of our takedown of Jiexiu County has not yet reached Lingshi County, so send personnel to Lingshi County for help, pretend to be Fan Yonghe's group training, and ask for help urgently!" ”

At this moment, the emulator box automatically opens.

Of course, this box can only be seen by Long Thirteen, and he doesn't need to communicate with the simulator by speaking and manipulating, just through his mind.

"Dragon Thirteen, are you going to choose the blue line?"

"Yes, although there are many Ming troops in Shanxi at the moment, most of them have been attracted by the three major rebel armies, as long as I use the strategy to take Lingshi County, I can hold here for more than three months."

"This place is not only rich in products, but also the hometown of Wang Dengku and Wang Dayu, the eight families of the Jin merchants, where the brothers are located, and there are a lot of storages, plus the seizure in Jiexiu County, which is enough to support us for more than a year."

"When the time comes, our battalion will either go south to Henan, or rely on Luliang Mountain, Zhongtiao Mountain, and Taihang Mountain to carry out activities in Shanxi, and the Eighth Route Army will be able to do it in the face of more powerful Japanese invaders, and I believe I can do it too."

"Of course, if the enemy is really too large, such as the Guanning Iron Cavalry and the White Pole Soldiers come to encircle and suppress me, I can also take advantage of the opportunity of the Yellow River to freeze in winter and go south to Henan."

"Okay, are you going to choose to dominate?"

"Yes, but if the attack on Lingshi County is unfavorable, I will still go east to Qinzhou and be with Zijin Liang and the other brigades."

"You can't go"

"Oh? Why? ”

"In Jinan, there is a Daimyo Mansion, whose military preparation is called Lu Xiangsheng, and like Sun Chuanting, he recruited a large number of regimental training in Jinan, of course, among them, there are a small number of generals and veterans who have been transferred from the guard."

"Lu Xiangsheng has been training in the Daimyo Mansion for a year, and he has 3,000 elite infantry riders under his command, and after learning that the thieves have entered Shanxi, they have entered Luzhou from Fukou, one of the eight Taihang provinces."

"And in the north, the non-mud and other departments have all entered Liaozhou, and behind it, in addition to You Shilu of the Shenwu Right Guard, there are also Guerrillas as fierce as a tiger in Pingding Prefecture."

"Mianshan, in addition to going up the mountain from Pingyao and Qixian, you can only go up from Zhaocheng and Hongdong in the south, and it is impossible to go directly to the front, unless you give up all the old and weak and baggage."

"And the whole Liaozhou is close to the Taihang Mountain, there is no mouth and Hebei connection, if you want to cross the Taihang Mountain, you can only go to the north of the distant Jingcheng, and the south of Shexian near the mouth of the Fukou Mountain"

"As a result, there seem to be many thieves, and there are a total of twenty-two after the convergence of the mud and Zijin Liang, close to 100,000 horses, but whether it is Liaozhou or Qinzhou, it is a remote and barren land, and it is impossible to feed so many people."

"What's more, once so many people enter these two states, the countryside will not be able to farm, and there will be no food supply for the next year"

"And in the south of Qinzhou, Luzhou has Luzhou Wei, Shenyang Zhongwei, Zezhou has Ningshanwei, and the Three Davids, even if it is rotten, it can take out 5,000 men and horses, plus Lu Xiangsheng, fierce as a tiger, Wang Pu, Mianshan, Taihang Mountain, it will be tightly sandwiched in the barren Qinzhou and unable to move......"

"But these people eventually went south, didn't they?"

"Yes, the variable is in Li Zicheng, but remember, this is an alienated late Ming Dynasty, and it's hard to say whether Li Zicheng can take Liaozhou City now."

"So, even if you take Lingshi County, you can take a geographical advantage to defend, but for the Ming army, the north and south ends of the Sparrow Mouse Valley can also trap you in it."

“......”

"Have you figured it out? Is it loyal to the country or dominant? ”

A countdown to the simulator began, and Long Thirteen squinted at it, only to see that he was only given 60 seconds of time.

said secretly: "The eldest husband has a trip in the world, what is happier than being in the wind and clouds and crisscrossing the world?" ”

Then he said: "I have decided, I will dominate!" ”

"Good"

"The emulator is restarting ......"

"Simulator restart is 60% complete"

"Simulator restart 80% complete"

"Emulator reboot complete!"

"You've chosen the Blue Line, and your ninth mission is coming"

"Defeat Po Ximu and take Lingshi County, since you chose the blue line plot, now adjust your agility and luck to 80"

"Right now, your assignments are:"

"Brawnness is 88, Commander is 85, Agility is 80, Luck is 80, Intelligence is 80"

"By the way, I might as well reveal one thing to you, your exclusive skill 'Insight' Level 3 requires 85 wisdom to have, and after obtaining this skill, you can gain insight into the hostility of any person"

"What if it's a red-line plot?"

"Your Brawn will be increased to 90, your Intelligence will be increased to 85, and you will have the third level of Insight"

“......”

......

Lingshi County.

The guerrilla general Po Ximu looked at the "Jiexiu County Regiment Training" who was kneeling on one knee, and circled around him several times without making up his mind.

According to the man's account, a large group of thieves came near Jiexiu County, numbering several thousand, including at least three hundred cavalry and several thousand young and strong, and stopped when they arrived near the north gate of Jiexiu County.

Po Ximu is a family of Shanxi military generals, or a local, his name contains Lian Po and Li Mu, two famous generals of Zhao in his previous life, showing his father's expectations for him.

Before he was thirty years old, he obviously did not live up to his family's expectations, and at the age of fifteen, he entered the county martial arts school and became a martial artist, although he was far less noble than Wen Xiucai, but after all, he was a Xiucai, right?

Then at the age of twenty-five, he was in the Wuju people, so he had the qualifications to inherit the Guguan Qianhu that was almost hereditary to his family, and at this time, the Guguan and the Fallen Horse Pass, Bauhinia Pass were known as the three passes of the right wing of the barrier Jingshi, and the Guancheng guard would be a double establishment of a thousand households and a thousand generals.

In the past, it was naturally a thousand households, but since the rise of the battalion system, it has been allowed to replace half of the military strength with battalion soldiers, so although it is only a thousand generals, it is actually similar to the garrison.

At the beginning of this year, he was a high school martial artist, and together with Xu Yanqi, he entered the first martial arts hall examination of the Ming Dynasty, although he failed to rank among the top three, he still entered the top ten and was promoted to Wutai Mountain guerrilla.

At present, the thieves in Shanxi are surging, and it is the time for these martial artists to show their skills, not to mention that the thieves at the moment seem to be many people, but Po Ximu also knows that they are not worried about the rest except for the cavalry, as long as they are not too careless, it is a meritorious feat to walk one by one.

At this time, the news that the thieves had broken through Wu City had already reached him, and he was still thinking like this:

"I didn't expect to be able to capture Wucheng by lighting the lamp, and I also repelled Cao Wenzhao, why is this one so powerful?" , When he invited the locals who were familiar with the affairs of Gu Jishan to ask, he learned that there were still thousands of villages on the mountains of Wucheng, of course, a small group of thieves like Xue Rengui, the government did not pay attention to it at all.

However, Po Ximu, who had suppressed bandits near Guguan, knew, "Things are not so simple, there used to be a bandit near Guguan, Dazhai was rooted in Taihang Mountain, and there were only more than 100 people under his command, but they climbed the mountain and waded through the water like walking on the ground, once they entered the mountain, the weak officers and soldiers could not catch up with them at all."

"On the contrary, they fought an ambush from time to time, so the official army was suppressed for ten years and was not finally exterminated, and finally after he took office, he still bought off a person next to the thief chieftain, and the inside and outside should be combined before the final annihilation, otherwise, I don't know how long it will be."

"This group of thieves came from Wu City?" , he asked.

The man nodded, "Mostly, there are no other big bandits near Fenzhou right now."

"Who's in the name? How many horse troops, how many infantry troops? ”

"Playing the banner of the word 'dragon', it is said that it is a lamp, Mr. Lian has checked the newspaper, it should be the third master of the lamp, Dragon Thirteen, it is strange to say, this person has no nickname, but he is extremely brave, and has successively fought with Hu Dawei, Zhou Yuji, Zhang Guoqin, Sun Chuanting, and killed Zhang Guoqin"

"There are about three hundred elite cavalry, about a thousand infantry troops, and the rest are the ravines and bait in their camp, there are several thousand, and it is said that these ravines and bait of theirs are almost completely lost after the first city is laid, and then another batch is formed in the city that is laid."

"This batch was obviously made up in Wucheng"

In this section, as a guerrilla general, how could Po Ximu not know, he nodded, just now he also checked the token and document submitted by the person, the token was issued by the Ministry of War, and it had the words "Emperor Ming Military Department Yamen" on it, which should not be faked.

At present, although group exercises have been held in various places, the position of Lian Zong is still controlled by the imperial court, and there are regulations on how many tokens, order flags, documents, and customs defense are issued by each Lian Zong, and Po Ximu also knows.

"Although this dragon thirteen is very brave, it is estimated that Sun Chuanting and others fell for his plan to lure the enemy."

"Once I fight in the field, I will win!"

"The general should think deeply," said a white-faced bearded man sitting beside him gloomily.

That person's name is Liu Xi, and he belongs to the mine supervisor who came to Lingshi County to govern the mining site here, because the gunpowder in Lingshi County is prepared for the Shenji Battalion in the capital, and the great eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor generally serves as the commander of the Shenji Battalion, so there is also a mine supervisor here.

In wartime, the mine supervisor immediately became a prison army.

When Po Ximu heard this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.