Chapter Twenty-Five: My Changes
Operational planning is an indispensable and important part of war.
In addition to unexpected encounters, each battle generates a battle plan.
Regardless of the size of the battle or the number of troops dispatched, the military leaders who started the war always had to come up with a plan to tell their troops a clear purpose for the battle.
Attack, hold, occupy, or retreat, every battle plan is the goal to be achieved by means of battle!
In general, the core purpose of the battle is to destroy the opponent and save yourself.
Every few years, the Qingfeng Dynasty was always overwhelmed by the attacks of the two aliens in the Western Regions and Saibei.
In order to break the unfavorable situation of always being beaten passively, His Majesty the Emperor proposed a battle plan that almost frightened the courage of all the courtiers: to block the attack of one enemy with a small number of troops, put the enemy of the other side in, and concentrate all the elite troops of the dynasty to encircle and annihilate it.
A battle plan involving the national fortunes of the Qingfeng Dynasty was drawn up in this way, and the ultimate purpose of this battle plan was to eliminate the living force of the Golden Wolf Dynasty, so that he would not have the ability to gather such a huge military force to herd horses south in the next few decades or hundreds of years.
The land of Saibei is bitter cold, the survival resources are extremely scarce, in addition to grazing horses, cattle and sheep, there is very little land for planting crops, there are too few places suitable for herdsmen to live, the living environment is too poor, the mortality rate of newborns is too high, and it is not easy for the population to increase, and the Golden Wolf Dynasty wants to raise an army of 100,000 again without the contribution of a hundred and ten years!
This is also one of the main reasons why the Qingfeng Dynasty is targeting the Golden Wolf Dynasty.
Kill one enemy at a certain price, and it will be much easier to concentrate on dealing with another enemy in the future, and the emperor is tired of being beaten by two opponents, so even if he takes too much risk, he must push the battle plan into the execution stage!
A complete country, a mature emperor who has been in power for many years without any obvious mistakes, suddenly begins to take risks like an adventurer, and for this reason, it is actually helpless to gamble on the fortunes of the country to operate such a huge military plan!
The Zahu Alliance and the Golden Wolf Dynasty are like poisonous sores that grow on the Qingfeng Dynasty, although they are not fatal, they are painful and unbearable!
The only way to cure this poisonous sore is to uproot it and completely remove it from the flesh!
This type of treatment can be heart-wrenching, but as long as you get through the pain, you can solve the problem once and for all!
This time, His Majesty the Emperor is ready to shed blood, not only the blood of the enemy, but also his own!
After the war began, the entire dynasty began to operate at full capacity to serve the war, whether it was the important ministers of the court or the officials, everyone was doing their duty to the best of their ability.
All the people are busy, my second and third brothers have already set off to the front line to raise food, grass and ordnance for the army, and contribute to the upcoming big war, but I am the most idle person in the capital!
I was sitting by the window of the study on the second floor of the Tingyu Pavilion, holding in my hand the most precious cultivation secret in our royal vault, the Qingyu Technique, and I was thinking, but I was actually in a daze, and my brain was blank and my eyes were out of focus!
Although I don't want to cultivate, it's not that I don't want to understand what cultivation is all about, the green jade recipe is our royal secret, no one is allowed to look at it except the emperor's concubine, I have never studied it carefully before, and now I have nothing to do, so I have a trace of curiosity to see what is going on on the way to cultivating immortals.
After reading through this recipe by heart, I felt a little weird, there seemed to be a lot of things wrong with this formula, as for what was wrong with me, I couldn't say it, because I had never practiced any formula, and I didn't intend to do it, so I couldn't express my inner feelings in words!
It's like a very discerning swordsman facing a piece of porcelain that is quite poorly made, knowing that this work is a fake but can't tell what's wrong!
I could even feel the contempt that came from the deepest part of my soul, as if I was holding not a Royal Treasure but a pile of garbage, a pile of garbage that could be thrown away!
I smiled wryly and shook my head, putting this ridiculous idea behind me, and got up and went out into the garden.
Since returning from the ghost market, I have found that my temperament has changed a lot, I used to like to be lively, like good food and wine, and I also like to go out with the beautiful and unspeakable Nie Mingzhu, and have an affair with her.
Nowadays, I have a much more indifferent temperament, I like to be alone, I have lost interest in many things I liked to do before, and sometimes even Nie Mingzhu forgets it.
For this reason, I have been cleaned up many times by that little girl, and each time she will punish me a little and then scold me for being a person without conscience.
I've always thought that I'm a good person, so I still have a little conscience, I feel sad when I see someone sad, I secretly rejoice when I see my parents in good health, and I never kill anyone who gambles with others.
Now that I have been scolded by Nie Mingzhu a lot, I am horrified to find that the part of my body that represents human nature seems to be slowly fading, and the whole world is slowly becoming transparent in my eyes.
The spiritual sense in my mind has also become much sharper, so that I can feel all the changes that have taken place in the surrounding environment, for example, during the time when I walked out of the Listening Rain Pavilion and entered the garden, there were eleven autumn chrysanthemums in full bloom, one hundred and sixty-three dead leaves fell from the trees in the woods, three marmots were swallowed by three different kinds of long snakes under the soil, Lao Zhangtou, the gardener who was in charge of taking care of the imperial garden, was hiding in his hut and drinking, and even in the distance, two little palace ladies were together discussing which guard was more handsome, and the fat on the little belly was very nerve-wracking...... It's all in full view.
The sun in the autumn sky has lost its summer scorching heat and is starting to warm up.
I stood in the sun, looked up and closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and opened my arms to enjoy the warmth of the sun.
I stood motionless in the garden, my mind gradually empty, and I did not realize that I was absorbing the essence and yang qi contained in the sunlight into my body, following some kind of law and natural flow, nor did I realize that time was passing quickly.
When the sun set and the moon rose, the essence of the moon contained in the cold moonlight was absorbed by my body in the same way, and my body seemed to have a slight change under the nourishment of the essence of the sun and moon.
Three days and nights have passed since this stop, and if it weren't for Nie Mingzhu's angry inrush into the Imperial Garden to settle accounts with me, I think I could have stood there until I was old.