The supreme commander of an army often plays a decisive role in the outcome of a war.

It's not just about cultivation and courage, it's also about temperament.

Sometimes a slight hesitation and gentleness can affect a crucial battle, and morale boosting, or even death, depends more on the confidence and charisma that the general gives to his subordinates.

Not only in the outer dynasties, but even in the Great Chu Dynasty, many people have no confidence in Tang Yu, who has been idle at home for many years.

The army of the Great Qin Dynasty was famous for its bravery many years ago, especially during the period when many generals led the army in the Bashan Sword Field, the Great Qin Dynasty was not as strong as it is now, and did not have such a vast territory and rich supplies, even if the population was inferior to that of the other dynasties in the world. This is reflected in the army, that is, the number of troops that can be fed by the strength of the nest, including ordnance, which is much inferior to the three dynasties of Han, Zhao and Wei at that time.

Therefore, in the many battles of the rise of Bashan, the Great Qin army often relied on powerful cultivators, and the number of troops was often absolutely inferior, and the classic battles of thousands of victories and tens of thousands of times appeared many times.

In the thirteenth year of the Great Qin Yuanwu, although the Bashan Sword Field had been annihilated for many years, the number of powerful cultivators in the Great Qin Dynasty still steadily overwhelmed other dynasties, especially Changling, as if they had obtained heavenly luck, and there were countless cultivators with amazing talents.

It is difficult for the world to imagine what kind of performance the Great Qin army will have when the total number of Great Qin troops is not inferior to that of the other party, when the proportion of powerful cultivators is already large.

At least in the battle with the Wu clan, even if the Wu clan took the army of the Great Qin Dynasty by surprise with a crazy all-out attack posture at the beginning and won a huge victory, but in the subsequent battle, when a large number of cultivators from Changling arrived, the Wu clan's army quickly couldn't bear it and retreated into the depths of the wasteland by taking advantage of the cold.

Not many people are optimistic about the Great Chu Dynasty.

The most intuitive reaction was on the long border of Chu and Qin.

Many border cities and bayonets on this side of the Great Qin Dynasty, as well as some towns that could not be reached by armies and carriages, and which could only be reached by the horse gang knowing some secret trails, could welcome a large number of caravans returning from Chu every day.

There were very few caravans returning to Chu from the side of the Great Qin Dynasty.

This is the most intuitive explanation, in the eyes of these caravans and some residents on the border, when the war starts, the war will spread to the territory of Chu, and the army of the Great Chu Dynasty will inevitably not be able to resist the invasion of the Qin army, so it is safer to move the belongings back to the territory behind the army of the Great Qin Dynasty, otherwise when the two armies have fought, I am afraid that there will be no grass and will be affected.

Hongyan Town is one of the northernmost mountain towns of the Great Chu Dynasty in the northern part of Yinshan Mountain.

As the name suggests, this mountain town, which can only be reached by caravans and horses along the secret mountain roads carved out of the cliffs, originated from Red Salt.

Since ancient times, there was no fertile land to cultivate around this mountain town, and the transportation was extremely inconvenient, and the only way to communicate with the outside world was to abandon the horses and climb the mountain by manpower, or to take the kind of sheep's intestine path that was carved out of the mountain wall and hung in the air. The reason why it was able to become one of the settlements of the border people was because of the red brine, which contains a lot of salt in the ground.

These red brine can be used to make salt.

Salt is extremely important to both people and livestock, and there is no other place to produce salt in the hundreds of miles around Hongyan Town, so Hongyan Town has relied on women to pump and carry brine and make salt pans for thousands of years.

Outside herders and farmers arrived here by caravans of air-dried meat and grain, which were exchanged for large quantities of red salt.

Red Salt Town has naturally become an extremely secret trading place, even if it is difficult to reach, but because there is no better place to go within a hundred miles around, so many horse gangs passing through here are likely to arrive here to rest and replenish some supplies even if they have not completed their transactions here, and if the weight is insufficient, they will naturally bring some red salt out. Once the red salt is shipped, it will cost at least twice as much as it would be here.

War is approaching, and even most of the herders have driven their livestock to the alpine pastures in the hinterland of the Yin Mountains, where the caravans have become extremely scarce.

Coming along the Donghu border, Ding Ning, the eldest grandson Qianxue and the ascetic monk who arrived here are naturally absolute outliers.

However, in this extremely difficult and difficult area of life in the extreme north of Chudi, the trade exchanges were originally communicated with Donghu and Wushi, and most of the customs and customs were similar. In the eyes of the ordinary people in these areas, the vast majority of ascetic monks have extraordinary magic power because of their practice, especially these ascetic monks in their ordinary practice, whenever they encounter the request of the border people, they will use their precious vitality to remove the pain of these border people, so the ascetic monks are extremely respected Dharma kings in the eyes of these border people. Some border people will spontaneously use their best things to support these ascetic monks.

The older he is, the more he feels like an extraordinary ascetic monk, and in the eyes of these people, he has higher merits, so when this ascetic old monk led Ding Ning and his eldest grandson Qianxue here, he received the highest courtesy.

Not only did the people of Red Salt Town offer snow salt, an extremely pure salt frost crystal, condensed on the top wooden strips deep in the salt well, this snow salt naturally condenses some heaven and earth vitality that is useful to cultivators, and it is sold for an astonishing price in a capital city like Changling. In addition to this, it is said that the old monk is only passing through here, and these people also offer several of the best horses, enough water and food.

As for the guide, he was rejected by the old monk.

Because the old monk himself is the best guide, in his early years of practice, his footprints have traveled to most places in Yinshan, from this area into Chu, or into Qin.

The horses selected by these pious frontier people are accustomed to the sheep intestine trails on the cliffs, and they walk very steadily, but in most places they are actually extremely dangerous, and they are suspended hundreds of feet in the air by several inches, and there are rocks towering below, or you can see the white rapids.

Ding Ning's body fluctuated up and down like waves with the bumps on the horse's back, but his hands were extremely stable and opened a large carved silver box containing snow salt.

His right index and middle fingers reached into the middle of the snow salt, then twisted a piece of paper out of it and looked at it.

Hongyan Town is the only way for him, first, it is a shortcut to quickly enter the Chu realm, and second, it is actually a military intelligence center of the Wu clan, and from the horse gangs that gather from all over the place, there are people from the Wu clan who gather some key military information here.

In order to make the most accurate judgment of the situation, it is necessary to have as complete and as fast as possible sources of information, and it is necessary to take into account the time it takes to travel there and extrapolate the possible changes that may occur in it.

Ding Ning carefully read the dense handwriting on this page, and then turned around and handed it to the eldest grandson Qianxue.

The eldest grandson Qianxue swept it roughly, looked at his back and nodded, "The more you are in the upper position, the more you know, the more you are not optimistic about the side of the Great Chu Dynasty." In just a few days, Yan and Qi had several turmoils, although the previous turmoil and the current turmoil were only deliberately revealed by Zheng Sleeve for people to see, but this let everyone know that she had a long-term layout in Yan and Qi. Although the three dynasties of Chu, Yan, and Qi had an alliance to advance and retreat together, I am afraid that Yan Qi would be afraid of it, even if it sent a large number of cultivators, some of the most powerful cultivators, Emperor Yan and Emperor Qi would have to stay by their side. ”

"Zheng Sleeve is indeed very good at assassination, but this is not the most critical factor in forming such a situation. Ding Ning turned his head to look at her and said: "I also think that Yan and Qi will not send strong assistance, but the most critical reason is because the Great Chu Dynasty is also very strong, from their point of view, this battle of Great Chu is naturally unwinnable, but with the strength of both sides, neither of them has the possibility of completely swallowing each other, so they feel that in the end, both sides will lose a large number of troops, and the Great Chu Dynasty will not be able to consume it, and in the end it will be to cede the land and sue for peace." Cessing a few counties will naturally hurt the vitality of the Great Chu Dynasty, but the same Great Qin will also consume vitality, which is the opportunity for Yan and Qi to rise. ”

Eldest Sun Qianxue frowned, and said very directly: "If everything is according to your expectations now, even if the Jin Ge Army arrives on schedule, it will be very dangerous, because now Daqin has invested too much more power than you imagined before." ”

Ding Ning naturally understood that what she said was that even if he tried his best, it seemed that he might not be able to help Da Chu win this war, but he didn't think so.

He shook his head and said, "The fourth marquis seems to have too much advantage over Tang Wu, a general who has been idle for many years, but in fact, we have a chance. ”