Chapter 437: The Ambition of the Black Barbarians
Wu Yong and Huang Wenyan are also old people around Su Qi'an, they know too well that Su Qi'an left Kyoto, returned to Xizhou, and was finally forced to go south to Jiaozhou.
All of this is inseparable from Xizhou Mu Tangfeng's father and son, especially the Xizhou Incident, which led to a fire in Su Qi'an's backyard, and the subordinates who followed him suffered heavy casualties.
Such a feud, Su Qi'an is impossible to forget, and it is impossible to resolve it, and the grievances between the two sides can only be endless.
Even if Su Qi'an didn't go to Tang Feng to settle accounts, Tang Feng's father and son would retaliate against him.
Su Qi'an went south to Jiaozhou for three years, but Tang Feng and they never relaxed their attention, and this invasion of the Black Lu barbarians was a kind of temptation.
If Su Qi'an doesn't react, next time, I'm afraid it will be a little bit of entanglement, and the combat power of the Heilu barbarians is still very strong in the end.
This time, if this group of black barbarians can gather and go south, Tang Feng must have made a lot of efforts.
Huang Wenyan and Wu Yong's eyes flashed, and then they asked, "Sir, what should I do next?"
Su Qi'an said with a smile, "Naturally, I will go to Xiacang, and I will meet our old acquaintance who has not seen each other for a few years."
The two of them understood, followed what Su Qi'an said, and then turned around and left, Su Qi'an was going to go to the warehouse, so naturally he had to make preparations along the way to protect Su Qi'an's safety.
With the departure of the two, Xie Cang and Tong Zhan, who stayed by Su Qi'an's side, also took their own actions.
Looking at the empty room, Su Qi'an suddenly said, "Miss Wang Yan, show up, I have something to talk to you about."
Not long after the words fell, in the room, Wang Yan dressed in black appeared.
Su Qi'an said, "Miss Wang, now that His Royal Highness the Ninth has returned to Beijing, and I have also arrived in Jiaozhou, the members of the communication company have also been greatly improved, thank you Miss Wang for your help."
"Su has a reluctant request, I hope that Miss Wang can return to Beijing to protect His Royal Highness the Nine."
Hearing Su Qi'an say this, Wang Yan's indifferent face showed a hint of strangeness, and she sighed.
"You and His Royal Highness the Ninth really have a tacit understanding, the entrusted thing turned out to be the same, hum, when this girl is an item, you can go wherever you want me to go?"
Su Qi'an shook her head and explained, "Miss Wang misunderstood..."
Before he finished speaking, he was stopped by Wang Yan, "Okay, no need to explain, this girl knows what you mean, I'm sorry, this girl has reached an agreement with His Royal Highness Nine to protect your safety, as for His Royal Highness Nine, you don't have to worry about it."
"Although His Royal Highness the Ninth will encounter some trouble in Kyoto, the identity is there, and it is not so easy to move her."
"Okay, you still have to worry about the current war, as for this girl, it's not your turn to take care of it, it's nothing, this girl will withdraw first."
Under Su Qi'an's gaze, Wang Yan's figure quickly disappeared, and seeing this scene, Su Qi'an could only smile bitterly and shake his head.
And on the roof of the room, Wang Yan's figure appeared, with a little puzzlement on her face, and muttered softly, "One is His Royal Highness the Ninth Highness, and the other is the Marquis of Daliang, no matter how you say it, they are all people with status, in the matter of children's affection, such a mother-in-law, I don't know what Feng Ling likes about this Su Qi'an, harm, emotional matters are really troublesome."
After Su Qi'an returned to Jiaozhou, as Huang Wenyan and Wu Yong began to act, the entire Jiaozhou soldiers began to assemble as soon as possible.
Su Qi'an didn't stay long in Sanshan Town, east of Jiaozhou, only for a day or two, and after a simple rest, everyone set off towards Xiacang County.
The news of Su Qi'an's return was not widely announced, and his whereabouts along the way were very secretive, except for the henchmen around him, no one else was known.
In this quiet hurry, the group arrived at Shimokura County after the third day.
As soon as I stepped into the boundary of Shimokura-gun, I could clearly feel that the atmosphere in the air was very tense.
There are several times more checkpoints along the way than usual, and whoever they are has to go through the strictest scrutiny.
When they saw the familiar people sitting in the carriage and the soldiers who were censoring, they all showed shocked expressions on their faces, and if they hadn't said hello in advance, the soldiers at these checkpoints would have to be shocked.
Su Qi'an's status in their hearts can be said to be the first, even if they are not Su Qi'an's direct Dongshan Army, but
The local Jiaozhou soldiers, but being able to meet Su Qi'an already made them quite excited.
Seeing Su Qi'an leave, the excitement on the faces of the soldiers at these checkpoints did not dissipate for a long time.
They knew that their marquis had returned, and there was hope for the war in Xiacang.
On the way to Xiacang County, the military report about the battle in Xiacang had already been sent to Su Qi'an.
This time with the Heilu barbarians, the situation is more severe, the battle loss ratio between the two sides is almost one to one, if it is not for the follow-up troops to arrive in time, Xiacang County may be taken.
It can be seen that this time the Heilu barbarians are far more comparable than the batch of Heilu that Tang Feng kept in captivity.
After all, this time it was the real main force of the barbarian tribe that had its own territory and a high degree of independence.
"I'm afraid that Tang Xiao's behind-the-scenes guidance this time is not as easy as imagined, if so, you can start from this aspect." Su Qi'an sat in the carriage and muttered secretly.
With the arrival of Su Qi'an, at this time, on the opposite side of Xiacang County, less than 20 miles away, there were a large number of tents, and they were camping.
There were patrol soldiers all around, and in front of the big tent, there were several dangerous passes, which had long been occupied by the black barbarians.
It is precisely by relying on these passes that the Heilu barbarians will brazenly cross the cliff and invade Xiacang County.
And the follow-up army, by building a bridge on the cliff, a steady stream of coming, at a glance, the black barbarians are dense, there is no end in sight. Look at the book
Among the large tents in the patches, the big tent in the middle is particularly conspicuous, which is the main tent of the Heilu barbarians.
In the main tent, there were many figures, and looking at it, in addition to Tang Xiao, there were also six black barbarians.
These six people are about forty or fifty, and they look a little old, but their bodies are very strong, with a pair of flashing eyes, and they have a deep shrewdness.
These six people were the leaders of the 670,000 Heilu army, and they were also the six most prestigious tribal chiefs in the 27 Barbarian Tribal Alliance.
Even if Tang Xiao sees them, he has to put away his rebelliousness
This invasion of Xiacang County in Jiaozhou, in the final analysis, still depends on these barbarian Heilu.
When it comes to the specific war, he can't interfere at all, and he doesn't even have the right to command.
Whoever makes these barbarians in front of them and the captive Heilu in their hands are two different things at all.
To put it bluntly, these barbarians and Xizhou are opponents, although there are no major wars in peacetime, but there are a lot of small frictions.
This time they were able to make a move, or Tang Feng made a lot of effort and paid a big price.
Promise that once they can invade Jiaozhou, how much territory they can take, these territories will belong to them.
And promised that when they attacked, they could provide certain weapons and equipment support, which could ensure that Xizhou would not send troops to intervene in this war.
It is under such conditions that the 27 tribes of the barbarians will gather for the first time, gather all their forces, and make up their minds to invade Jiaozhou.
Don't look at their combat strength, but after all, their territory is too small, so they occupy the clan land, and the clan land area is only the size of two counties in Jiaozhou at best.
Moreover, the clan territory borders the two states of the west and Jiaojiao, and there are constant frictions every year, and various small wars break out.
Therefore, they have to garrison troops on the border of the two states all the year round to defend, and compared with the natives of Jiaozhou, their days are miserable.
The territory is small, the population is small, and they have to garrison a large number of troops on the border between the two states, which makes it difficult for them to develop.
And this time, if they can capture Jiaozhou, not to mention taking Jiaozhou, as long as they take one or two counties, their living space will be greatly increased, and if they occupy some fertile land, they will be able to gain a foothold under the attack of the two states.
When the time comes, after defeating the so-called priest alliance in Jiaozhou and taking their land, a three-legged situation will be formed within the territory of the two states.
This is the ultimate goal of the Twenty-Seven Barbarian Tribes, and now that they finally encountered this opportunity, they naturally readily agreed.
But they are not fools, they will not swarm them all, but wait patiently, waiting for a merger
Opportunity.
And this opportunity was quickly waited for by them, Su Qi'an and Xie Cang actually left Jiaozhou, this news made them quite shocked and excited.
Sneaking in a large number of spies, I finally got a shocking good news.
Xie Cang and they have fought each other, the strength of the Split Mountain Army, they know it too well, and it is not a wise move to fight with them.
This time it was good, not only did they wait for Xie Cang to leave, but even Su Qi'an left together.
What is Su Qi'an's identity, they have long figured out who is in power behind Jiaozhou, and now these two important figures in Jiaozhou have left.
This was not a God-given opportunity, and without hesitation, two or three days after the two of them left the boundary of Jiaozhou, the Heilu barbarians, who had secretly assembled, brazenly launched an attack on Xiacang.
At first, the attack was very smooth, both in terms of strength and combat power, it was more than enough to deal with only 5,000 defenders in Xiakura.
I thought that I would be able to take it down in two or three days at most, but the subsequent arrival of other Jiaozhou soldiers suddenly made the six tribal chiefs realize that something was wrong.
These follow-up support Jiaozhou soldiers are completely different from the ones they fought before, they are not weak chickens at all, and their strength is on par with them.
Moreover, in terms of tactical play, it is quite bold and risky, not passive defense at all, can be used flexibly according to changes in the battlefield, and is good at mobile combat.
Even if they don't have many troops, they can't hinder their flexible mobility, and they can penetrate in depth at every turn, divide and encircle, and even fight a counterattack on the way to retreat.
This time, the barbarian Heilu was stunned, where had they ever seen this kind of posture, if they hadn't crossed the cliff in advance and gained a firm foothold, I am afraid they would have been beaten back long ago.
This is not the previous Jiaozhou soldiers at all, after paying a certain number of casualties and Mingjin withdrawing the troops, they sent out a detailed work, and finally knew that the so-called Jiaozhou soldiers in front of them were actually expanded from the Dongshan Army under Su Qi'an.
At this time, the six tribal chiefs were shocked, a Dongshan army of no more than 10,000 was expanded to 20,000, not to mention, and it was able to maintain its previous combat strength, which was incredible.