Returning to the headquarters in Minsk, to the surprise of Shirakawa, Shirakawa had returned.

He had always been very worried about her safety, and when he saw her return safely, he let go of the boulder in his heart.

On the same day, Zichuan Xiu convened and presided over a meeting of the Far Eastern Command to discuss how to deal with the Mongolian Tiyì.

Since the bankruptcy of the mutiny led by Elder Boudin, Shikawa Shu has reorganized the Far East High Command. In addition to Zichuan Xiu, the new command also included Shirakawa, Bran, Roger, Ming Yu and others, and later added the former Far East commander Lin Bing.

These people were all Zichuan Xiu's henchmen, and the newly formed command was completely reduced to a tool for carrying out Zichuan Xiu's orders, which strengthened Zichuan Xiu's control over the Far East and also improved the efficiency of decision-making.

If it had been before, even if they had to buy two rolls of straw paper, the representatives of the snake clan and the dwarf clan would have to chirp for a long time.

After that mutiny, Shikawa Shu found that his previous thoughts were too naïve.

mínzhǔ is only suitable for peacetime, and in times of war, the state only needs a firm and powerful dúcái, not a cumbersome and inefficient mínzhǔ procedure, and it is better to beat them up than to treat them with a lot of prison sāo, such as snakes and dwarves.

Upon learning of the intention of the second tribe of the kingdom to negotiate a separate peace with the Far East, the present congregation was thrilled.

Lin Bing said: "If we can reach peace with Meng Khan, then we only need to deal with Gusta alone. With the strength of the Far East, it was enough to encircle and annihilate the Gusta corps. ”

Zi Chuan Xiu asked: "How are our forces distributed?" Actually, Zi Chuan Xiu had a good idea of the military strength and distribution of the various armies in the Far East, and he asked Shirakawa, who had just returned from the mainland.

Ming Yu spread out his notebook: "My lord, there are currently four main forces in the Far Eastern Army. Roger's First Army defended the fortress of Tran, with a strength of about 80,000 men. He was the forward legion in the confrontation with the Gusta Corps, and he did not experience the Red River Bay fiasco, and his soldiers and equipment were the strongest. The First Army was the sharpest force in the Far East. The Second Army, with a strength of about 70,000 troops, is still being trained in Gaza. The Second Army suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Red River Bay and suffered heavy losses. Although we added a large number of recruits to enter, due to the rush of time, the combat effectiveness of the legion was ......"

Ming Yu paused meaningfully: "It's still debatable. ”

As soon as his words fell, Bai Chuan immediately retorted: "More than four months have passed since the Battle of Red River Bay, and our army has completed the reorganization work and is capable of completing any combat mission entrusted by the adults!"

"That's for the best. Ming Yu didn't raise his head: "My Third Army and the reserve directly under the base camp of my lord are deployed in the Minsk region, with 80,000 people in the Third Army and 60,000 in the Guards. Similar to the Second Army, both of our armies were reorganized after suffering heavy blows, but there were more than 10,000 Xiuzi Battalion soldiers in the reserve as the backbone support, and the combat effectiveness was not weak. The above is the overall combat strength of our army. On the demon side, the thirteenth army of the Mongolian tribe has about 130,000 troops, and the seventh army of Gusta has about 110,000 troops. If they will divide the combined army, the total combat power will be slightly higher than ours. ”

"This one is probably very small. Mon Khan and Gusta are not compatible, they will not help each other. Zichuan Xiu's sharp gaze swept away everyone: "At present, it is a rare opportunity to concentrate all superior forces to annihilate an army. There is not much difference in the combat strength of the two armies, so who are we going to fight? Mon Khan, or Gusta?"

Everyone shouted in unison, "Gusta!"

Shikawa Shu nodded in satisfaction, and as he thought, almost everyone chose to give priority to the annihilation of the Gusta Legion. The legion burned and plundered in the Far East, and formed a blood feud with the Far Easterners, who emotionally hated them. Even from the point of view of interests, the Gusta corps should be dealt with first.

Gusta is the nephew of the Demon God Emperor, and his loyalty to the Demon God Emperor is definitely higher than that of Meng Khan. Eradicating the wings loyal to the Demon God Emperor is also strategically advantageous.

"Then, Ming Yu, you will be responsible for the next negotiations with Meng Khan. The bottom line is clear, we can allow the Mongolian people to garrison troops in the Far East, so let him be stationed in the southwest camp where Ling Buxu was originally stationed. But the Mongol army could not cross the pre-designated area, and could not plunder and kill people in the Far East. We can buy food and weapons from the Mongols with gold, which is beneficial to both sides, and he should agree. Mon Khan has a bad idea, and it is unlikely that he will join forces with Gusta. Of course, you also have to guard against him, because Meng Khan is a monster who can change his face! The Third Army is specially monitoring the Mongolian people, so we must not slacken our efforts, and we must be prepared for the other party to turn its face at any time. ”

"Yes, sir. ”

"Lord Lin Bing," Zi Chuanxiu turned to Lin Bing, he had more respect for this senior of the Far Eastern Army than the others, and his tone was more polite: "I'm sorry for you to take a trip and convey this order to Roger's army." You have to look at Roger, that guy is a reckless man, and he can't let him mess with the overall plan of our army! I'm not here, and he can only listen to your words. The First Army will be handed over to you, and if Roger does not listen to you, you may not hesitate to whip him. ”

Lin Bing stood up gracefully and saluted dignifiedly: "Lord Xiuchuan is serious. Although General Roger is usually a little impulsive, he is very calm at critical times. Of course, if you don't feel at ease, I'll take a trip. ”

"Thank you, Lord Lin Bing! Everyone, you don't have to wait for Meng Khan's reply, Roger is fighting with Gusta at the Tran front, this battle, the Second Army and the general reserve of the base camp are dispatched! Within ten days, the participating troops must be assembled in the Tran region, the soldiers are very fast, while Gusta does not know that we and Meng Khan have privately negotiated peace, we must act quickly!"

Zi Chuanxiu slammed the table hard, and his eyes were domineering: "The three-way army is surrounded, and Gusta must not be allowed to run away." ”

"Yes. The generals of the congregation stood up in unison, and the gods were excited.

The Far East has been at a stalemate with Gusta for a long time, and now, the time has finally come to solve this problem!

The generals rushed out of the conference room. When everyone left, Shirakawa Xiu deliberately stopped Shirakawa.

For some reason, Zichuan Xiu's eyes were a little dodgy.

"You went back this time, but did you get to the Blue City?"

Shirakawa was very calm: "Yes. I went to the Blue City and met her as well. Allow me, my lord, to report back to you. Shirakawa told the experience in Blue City in great detail and hid nothing.

When she heard that Liufeng Shuangjian yì he supported the soldiers, Zi Chuanxiu's reaction was just to raise her eyebrows, and said with a smile: "She thinks too simply. ”

"My lord, if you have such intentions, there is a great chance! I will follow you, and the whole army of the Far East will follow you without hesitation. Zichuan Yun was able to succeed back then, I don't believe that your strength is not as good as his. ”

Zi Chuan Xiu smiled gently: "It's a pity, I'm not Zi Chuan Yun." Such a path is not for me. Shirakawa, let's not mention this kind of thing in the future. After all, we are still officers of the Zichuan family, so we have to be a little scruples. ”

Shirakawa nodded and replied, "Yes, my lord." Also, His Highness has a message for me to convey to you. ”

She stared at Zi Chuanxiu intently, her eyes unblinking: "She said: 'The Lancang Covenant, the wind and frost have not been forgotten. Please also ask him not to forget jì, when rì made a promise, come back to me safely. ’”

Shikawa Xiu didn't say anything.

After a long time, he got up and gently opened the window.

The cool summer breeze blew in, and the stars shone on the gentle eyes of the handsome young man. Looking up at the stars, you can imagine that under the starlight in the distant night sky, there is another person who looks up at the same starry sky as himself. She is thinking and waiting for herself, and this longing and waiting will not fade away with time and distance.

"No more loneliness in this life. "People who have experienced waking up in the middle of the night, tears wetting their clothes, and loneliness gnawing their hearts like insects can truly understand the preciousness of this sentence.

His relationship with the wind and frost has gone beyond the ordinary love between men and women. The same lonely prodigal son, the same experience of being excluded and unexpected, the same otherworldly wisdom, the loneliness that no one can understand.

Flowing wind and frost is not only his beloved lover, but also the confidant of his soul, to be able to meet and love her in the mortal world, that is a gift from God.

With a hint of sadness between his eyebrows, Zi Chuan Xiu finally turned around and made eye contact with Bai Chuan, Zi Chuan Xiu was shocked: Why did the girl's bright eyes become so sad?

"I'm sorry. He didn't know why he said that.

Looking at the young man in front of him, Bai Chuan smiled, his smile was a little pale: "My lord, why are you saying such a thing? No matter your talent and identity, Her Royal Highness Liufeng is impeccable, I am very happy that you have found a good girl like her." ”

Her smile and tone of voice were calm, but for some reason, there seemed to be something inscrutable in her smile.

The sound of cicadas outside kept coming, and the two looked at each other silently, and time seemed to freeze at this moment.

The fragments of the past are like a quietly flowing stream, quietly flowing past them, loyalty and suffering, following in suffering, and sharing the experience of suffering written with sweat and tears.

When she is abandoned by the world and everyone leaves her, no matter the wind and rain, no matter the smile and tears, she is the only one who can accompany you until the end. How many eventful years, wind and rain, she accompanied herself through.

When the yīn haze cleared, the world smiled at herself, but she had quietly hidden in her own yīn shadow, obscure.

Looking at the girl's pure and flawless eyes, Zi Chuanxiu's nose was sour, and he hated his selfishness: what was his reward for this girl who had entrusted his life to him? First Zi Chuanning, and then Liufeng Shuang, he always turned a blind eye to the wisp of tenderness in the girl's eyes, and his gaze did not stop at her in the slightest.

Under Zi Chuanxiu's gaze, Bai Chuan turned his face away, and at that moment, no one knew what the expression on the girl's face was.

When she turned her face, she had regained her usual calm and composure, and she changed the subject: "My lord, there is another very important matter to report to you. It is likely that the demons have forced their way across the Vanie River into the northwest. ”

"What's going on?"

Bai Chuan reported to Zichuan Xiu the propaganda he heard about the demons on the way back, and also told Lin Bing's analysis by the way.

Zi Chuanxiu nodded: "I agree with Lord Lin Bing's statement. Minghui's guy is simply a flying rat, it's not difficult to defeat him, but to annihilate and capture him - I didn't have the ability to do this back then, I don't believe that the general of the demon clan can be more capable than her. But even if the exaggeration of the demons is excluded, I believe that the demon army has indeed entered the northwest. ”

"My lord, what are we going to do!"

Bai Chuan's anxiety was in the shape of Yan Sè, and Zi Chuanxiu had to comfort her: "Bai Chuan, people have things that can be done, and there are things that can't be done. For the northwest, we are too far away to reach the whip. Instead of being anxious, let's do what we can first, and we hope in Stirling, in Dilin and Flowing Wind and Frost. After all, they are much closer to the northwest than we are, and they will not sit idly by and watch the northwest fall into the hands of the enemy. ”

On July 1, 784, when Shirakawa was on his way back from Blue City to the Far East, the demons who had been defeated by Dìdū made a comeback.

In the town of Fokk upstream of Dìdū, the demon army defeated the weak human defenders, built a pontoon bridge across the Vagne River overnight, and built temporary xìng arrow towers and fortresses on both sides of the river, pulled up iron chains across the river on both banks, set up hidden stakes in the river, and heavily guarded the banks of the pontoon bridge.

The dìdū sailors were dispatched overnight to launch a counterattack. In the early morning fog, a formation of thirty-five large war ships attacked the demon cross-river pontoon, but without the cooperation of the army, it was difficult for the surface fleet to compete with the shore-based fortifications.

Under the stormy bombardment of arrow towers and catapults on both sides, the Dìdū naval division lost eleven ships and more than 400 sailors, and had to withdraw from the battle.

Repelling the counterattack of the Zichuan family, the large army of the demons passed through the guò pontoon bridge, and the cháo watered across the Vanie River.

During the day of July 2, 80,000 demon soldiers of the Third Army of the Demon Race crossed the river, and at night, the Second Army and the Sixth Army crossed the river.

The demon soldiers hurried away with torches held high overnight, and the torch procession was like a long dragon covering both sides of the Vagne River, and even the defenders at the head of Dìdū City could see it clearly.

At the head of the pontoon bridge, the generals of the demon clan were also looking at the swarthy dìdū castle tower on the horizon.

"Yu Linyun, our army has all crossed the river. Duke Yelma, the commander of the Third Army of the Kingdom, came over and said to Yun Qianxue in a loud voice.

Standing at the head of the bridge, the white-robed Yulin General Yun Qianxue withdrew his gaze looking at dìdū: "Sir, you have worked hard. ”

The nobles of the kingdom nodded carelessly, stepped on the makeshift bridge piles uninhibitedly, and spat out a mouthful of phlegm into the river: "If you want to cross the river overnight, who gave the stinky order! Exhaust me half to death!"

Yun Qianxue smiled. Since Emperor Lu, he has seen too many arrogant and domineering kingdom generals. Although Yerma is arrogant, his loyalty to the kingdom is impeccable. His rudeness is not malicious.

Facing the eldest among the Protoss legion leaders, Yun Qianxue's attitude was very respectful: "Sir, according to His Majesty's will, the newly formed Northwest Army is mainly composed of the Yulin Army under Xia, the Third Army of Lord Lord, and the Fourth Army of Lord Yagomi, and we will be responsible for occupying the northwest and encircling Dìdū from the flanks and rear. ”

"Your Majesty made a big fuss. Yerma said bluntly: "The Zichuan family doesn't have many troops in the northwest anymore, but Dìdū still has Di Lin, so we should leave more troops to come down and watch him." ”

Yun Qianxue nodded, rarely, he and Yerma had the same opinion, the terrible Di Lin was indeed the great enemy of the Protoss.

"Sir, the Yulin Army has set up a position in the northwest of Dìdū and cut off reinforcements from the northwest to Dìdū. You and Lord Agomi will lead your army into the northwest, and you will be responsible for conquering the northwest—what do you think?"

Yerma glanced at Yun Qianxue in surprise. The northwest is rich and famous all over the world, and no matter who wins the northwest, in addition to military exploits, the benefits will definitely be indispensable. The various legions regarded the march to the northwest as a beautiful mission, and the generals broke their heads in front of the Demon God Emperor.

As the general of the Northwest Expedition under His Majesty's order, Yun Qianxue took the initiative to give up the Meicha march to the northwest and stayed to monitor Di Lin. Everyone knows that fighting against Dilin is the most dangerous task. For that legendary demon, the demon army avoids it like a tiger.

For a long time, Yerma didn't have a lot of respect for Yun Qianxue. In the eyes of the veteran warriors of the demon clan, most of the sons of nobles have no real material, and he must have married Princess Cardin in exchange for the position of legion commander.

But now, Yerma is going to change his mind about the clouds. Not discouraged by defeat, not relentless from danger, not afraid of strong enemies, not greedy for fame and fortune, such an outstanding figure appeared among the young generation of Senea generals, which made the old general very pleased that there were successors.

The old general looked at Yun Qianxue's eyes, already with appreciation, and his tone was much more relaxed: "Yu Linyun, you are alone in the northwest of the town, it is inevitable that you will be weak, I will leave ten teams to help you, and the Yulin Army may as well send two regiments to accompany me to the west." Rest assured, your troops will never be put on the front line to fight, and it is guaranteed that not a single soldier will be lost. ”

Yerma hinted very clearly that these two regiments were equivalent to Yun Qianxue's representatives, and they didn't need to fight when they went to the northwest, and they were waiting to share the spoils.

Yun Qianxue smiled: "Sir, I have good intentions." But you are also a habitual soldier, and you know that the soldiers and horses are still easy to bring out by yourself. You don't have to worry here, we echo the Dak camp from afar, His Excellency Ling Buxu has entered the Dak camp, he is a very clever person, with him to take care of him, there will be no problems. Sir, go to the northwest and deal with the remnants of the Zichuan family, I believe that with the divine power of you and Lord Yagomi, it will be effortless, but Your Majesty personally advised, please pay attention to the ......"

Yun Qianxue's god sè changed to Yan sù: "A qiē military operation ends at the border of the Zichuan family, and the army of the god clan should not approach the border of the Liufeng family, and do not provoke the border troops of the Liufeng family. We sent a messenger to Storm, but she didn't answer us, which is very suspicious. ”

"If the wind and frost send troops to the territory of the Zichuan family and encounter my god army, what should we do?"

"Retreat, forbearance! Order the whole army, when you see the banner of the Liufeng family, you must immediately retreat, and do not clash with them. ”

"This is the first time I have received such an order in 60 years of fighting. The white-haired old general roared in a low voice, "What the hell is your majesty thinking? Don't you want the dignity of our Protoss army?"

Seeing the old general's face turn iron-blue, Yun Qianxue slowed down: "Sir, such an order may be difficult for you to accept, but please understand, this is by no means to say that our Protoss is afraid of the Wind and Frost - on the contrary, our Protoss is fearless! But before the Zichuan family is eliminated, we should not provoke the Wind and Frost." The resistance of the Zichuan family was much more fierce than expected, and the Protoss dispatched seven legions, but they still couldn't take the dìdū, at this time, if Yuanjing and Heqiu participated in the war, they would deal with three at a time, and the Protoss army would not be able to free up, it would be very troublesome. ”

Yerma gasped heavily: "I understand. Yu Linyun, don't worry, I'm not an unreasonable person. I will resolutely carry out His Majesty's orders and not take the initiative to provoke the wind and frost. But, what if the Flowing Wind Army takes the initiative to attack our army?"

"If it is a general conflict and friction, our army should try to back down as much as possible. If Liufeng Shuang really attacks in a big way," Yun Qianxue waved his hand suddenly: "Resolutely fight back!" Let the Liufeng family know the strength of the Protoss Army!"

Hearing this order, Yerma smiled, happy as a child who had just gotten his favorite toy: "Understood! Yu Linyun, don't worry, the Northwest Route Army will never fall into the prestige of the Protoss!"