After leaving Luoshui, the fleet turned eastward, and the speed of going upstream from upstream to downstream was naturally much faster. When we got to the Yangtze River waterway, it seemed a lot more busy, and we had already started to meet merchant ships, and judging from the signs on these merchant ships, sixty-seven out of ten were the ones that carried goods all over the world.
In the shallow water are small boats for fishing. The fishermen living on both sides of the Yangtze River have made a living on this for generations. Even during the war, they had to stay here. Because they can only let the boat go fishing, and they can't do anything else.
When the big ship arrived on the Yangtze River, Fang Jie received an urgent letter from Gyeonggi Province, which was written by Wu Yidao himself. The letter told Fang Jie that there had been an assassination in the camp, and General Li Tai was assassinated and killed. Fortunately, Dao Zun stayed with him, so the assassin couldn't continue to kill.
Also seized a very special item from the assassin, which can make people disappear instantly.
Fang Jie immediately thought of what Sang Sasa told him about the old man in the moon-white Confucian shirt who disappeared in an instant when he was in Niujiatun. There is no doubt that Moon Shadow Hall has more than one such thing in its hands this year. For this era, what Yueyingtang holds is extremely unsettling.
On the same day, Fang Jie also received another military report.
It was Chen Dingnan who sent someone to send it over at the fastest speed through the channel of Xiaoqi School. It was originally going to be sent to Gyeonggi-do, but the messenger knew that Fang Jie was going back to the southwest on the way, so he turned south again. It was about ten days later than the planned schedule, so when Fang Xie saw the letter, his heart immediately became heavy.
"What happened?"
Wu Yinyu couldn't help asking when she saw the difference in his expression, but Li Fangjie, who had already gone fart, didn't even notice it.
"Meng Yuan has marched into the northwest."
Fang Jie took a deep breath, but his chest and abdomen were still a little flustered. It's not that he didn't expect the Mengyuan people to come back, but he didn't expect that it was Quoketai Mengge himself! Meng Yuan Da Khan's personal conquest, it seems that this time he is not just trying to make the Sui mess up.
"When Chen Dingnan got the news, it had been nearly a month since the Mongols entered the customs. After Jin Shixiong marched into Gyeonggi-do from the northwest side of Shandong Province, the northwest was almost a vacuum. Although some small forces were playing private soldiers in their hands, those Private soldiers have almost no effect in front of Mengyuan wolf cavalry."
Fang Jie looked worried: "The northwest is now an undefended place. The reason why the emperor of the Sui Dynasty insisted on maintaining the northwest was because he was worried that one day the Mongols would invade. The northwest is the best battlefield because it is exhausted enough. But the Central Plains can’t, the Central Plains can’t afford that kind of damage.”
Sang Sa said: "But now the Central Plains has endured a lot of wars."
Fang Jie shook his head: "That's different. The chaos in the Central Plains is still under control now, because the people fighting each other are all Han people. They all know that if the damage is too serious, it will be difficult to deal with it even if they win in the future. So no matter how chaotic, It has not yet reached the point of burning the city and massacring the land. It is different when the Meng Yuan people come in. This time, Meng Ge personally brought an army of nearly one million. Such a huge army needs even more supplies! The supplies they brought After all, they are a minority, and they rely on plunder. The northwest is exhausted, and they can't plunder anything in the northwest, so they need to march east as soon as possible. But in the northwest, there is no one standing in front of them."
"Chen Dingnan wants to fight?"
Sang Sasha suddenly thought of this.
"Um."
Fang Jie said: "Chen Dingnan has 150,000 horses in his hands, and he has not yet crossed the Yishui River in Hexi Road. According to the schedule, they should have entered Hedong Road to prevent Gao Kaitai's return from echoing with the troops of Gyeonggi Province. But because The Mongolian people came, Chen Dingnan decided to stay on Hexi Road for the time being."
"A million wolf riders..."
Sang Sasha frowned: "Why do you still have so many troops, Kuoke Taimeng?"
Fang Xie said: "It's not just the wolf cavalry, the civil strife in Mengyuan, although the Quoke Taimeng family won the battle with the Buddhist sect, the wolf cavalry suffered heavy losses. This time Meng Ge brought only 200,000 wolf cavalry, but he The most elite Wangting wolf cavalry in hand. There is also a cavalry called the Black Mountain Army, which I don’t know very well. The rest are herdsmen recruited from various tribes, but those herdsmen are very good at arching and shooting. A horse is a soldier."
"Black Mountain Army..."
Sang Sasha's face changed: "That is the most terrifying army in Meng Yuan. Even the Golden Family has always been afraid of the Black Mountain Army, and they are not allowed to move easily if it is not for the civil strife in Meng Yuan. , if Meng Ge's military strength is already stretched, he will not transfer the Black Mountain Army."
She briefly explained the origin of the Black Mountain Army to Fang Jie, and Fang Jie's expression became more serious after hearing this.
"You can't fight on Hexi Road."
After pondering for a while, Fang made up his mind: "Chen Dingnan's team is mostly recruits who have not experienced battle formation, and the other half are veterans, but they all came all the way from Yunnan Road, and they are already exhausted. Fighting against the odds... There is almost no chance of winning in the face of the army led by Meng Ge himself, because Meng Ge must win this first battle."
"Come on."
Fang Jie turned his head and ordered: "Quickly, tell Chen Dingnan to cross Yishui immediately, go to Hedong Road, and set up defenses along the river. It is not easy for Meng Yuan people to cross Yishui without boats, so let him take all the things he can find on Hexi Road All the ships were destroyed, not one left for the Mongols."
"Ling, Duan Zheng's navy immediately went north to meet Chen Dingnan's troops. After Chen Dingnan's troops crossed Yishui, the navy deployed defenses on the river to assist Chen Dingnan in preventing the Mengyuan people from advancing eastward."
"Order, Daying in Gyeonggi-do divides 100,000 troops, with Cui Zhongzhen as the main general rushing to assist Hadong. Daying in Gyeonggi-do does not attack for now, stop fighting Gao Kaitai."
Fang Jie issued three military orders in a row, and the Xiao cavalry school wrote them down and handed them to Fang Xie. Fang Jie took off the Fang seal that he carried with him and stamped them on the military orders.
"Remember, pass the military order as quickly as possible, and there is no room for loss!"
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Fifty miles south of Chang'an City
With a bang, a cup fell to the ground and shattered, and the fragments stirred up and splashed everywhere. Furious, Gao Kaitai's face was livid, and he looked at the man in the moon-white Confucian shirt sitting on the chair and roared loudly: "This is different from what you told me before! You only said that you would hire someone from the Buddhist sect to do it!" Helper, never mention Meng Ge's personal conquest! Now that millions of wolves have entered the pass, what should I do!"
"you?"
The middle-aged man in Confucian shirt said with a smile: "You can do whatever you want. Didn't the fourth brother tell you clearly when he came last time? If you want my Yueyingtang to help, you will naturally have to pay something. It didn’t come to the point where you paid anything, but it gave you a great help.”
This man, with a gloomy face and a flirtatious thing between his brows, looks very strange and disgusting. He was the one who killed the head of the family surnamed Liu. If anyone saw how the head of the family surnamed Liu died, they would definitely feel even more disgusted.
"Now that the Mengyuan wolf is riding into the customs, and the Kuoketai Mengge is personally marching, a million troops have passed through the Shandong Road and the South Mountain Road, and will soon reach the Hexi Road. The hundreds of thousands of troops dispatched by the Black Banner Army are on the Hexi Road , ready to take your way back and give you a fatal blow. Now that it’s all over, the Mongolian wolf has arrived, how can the hundreds of thousands of black flag troops still have the intention to deal with you?"
He pointed to Gao Kaitai: "Shouldn't you say thank you?"
"Thanks?!"
The furious Gao Kaitai kicked over the table in front of him: "The wolf rides into the customs, and the people will suffer! At that time, I, Gao Kaitai, will be the sinners of the people in the Central Plains! Even if it is decades or hundreds of years later, people will only feel pain when they mention me. scold!"
"You think too much."
Mr. Wu shook his head, and squinted at Gao Kaitai with narrow eyes with many layers of eyelids: "You are not the first to do this matter of attracting Mongolian Yuan people to the customs, but Li Yuanshan was the first to do it. Even if there is anything left in the history books, the most important thing is Li Yuanshan, not you. Besides, it has only been a few years now, will anyone still scold Li Yuanshan? People have long forgotten Li Yuanshan."
"Why don't you think so..."
Mr. Wu gestured and said: "You will be the emperor in the future, and the whole world will be yours. When you sit on that chair that symbolizes supreme power, who would dare to scold you? Even if someone secretly Scolding you, but you succeeded, isn't that the most important thing?"
Gao Kaitai opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say: "In short, it's not good! If only people from the Buddhist sect come in, I can still accept it. After all, it's mostly a matter of the world. But if a million wolves enter the pass, then It is not a matter of Jianghu, but a matter of the world! Don’t try to lie to me anymore, you are still saying that I will be the emperor in the future! I’m afraid that when the time comes, you people from Moon Shadow Hall will welcome Quoke Tymongo!"
"So… "
Mr. Five shrugged his shoulders: "Now, what else can you do?"
He glanced at Gao Kaitai with some contempt: "With your current strength, yes, you can stand together, but are you worthy of fighting for world hegemony? Without the support of my Moon Shadow Hall, you are nothing. It will be wiped out by Fang Xie's Black Banner Army. At that time, why do you still care about morality?"
"In front of you, there are actually only two paths."
Mr. Wu stretched out a finger: "First, continue to cooperate with Yueyingtang. Yueyingtang can give you a guarantee. Even if the wolf riders enter the customs, they will not compete with you for this world. They have their goals and achieve their goals. After that, you will naturally retreat. Moon Shadow Hall will spare no effort to support you as God, it’s okay if you don’t believe it, because you can choose the second path... You will no longer cooperate with Moon Shadow Hall, and then you will die.”
He leaned back without saying anything, waiting for Gao Kaitai's reply.
Gao Kaitai's breathing was particularly heavy, and the blood vessels on his temples were bulging. His fists were clenched extremely tightly, and the veins on the back of his hands were exposed.
Glaring at Mr. Wu, Gao Kaitai seemed to have murderous intent in his breath.
"That's right!"
Gao Kaitai suddenly said loudly: "I, Gao Kaitai, want to be the emperor! I want to be the most powerful man in the world! However, I also have my own bottom line. It's not that I can sell anything and agree to it for this goal! What's more, I want to be the most powerful man in the world! These people are here, even if I become the emperor, I will not sit still! In order to achieve this goal, I will do whatever it takes, provided that I don’t become a sinner of history!"
He patted his chest hard: "I fought against Meng Yuan's wolf cavalry in the northwest! Now Meng Ge is here to grab the world I want, so I won't agree! You can kill me now, as long as I don't die , you won’t walk with the Mengyuan people!”
Mr. Wu's expression kept changing, and he looked at Gao Kaitai in silence for a long time.
"Master Jiu will give you an answer."
Mr. Wu stood up and gave Gao Kaitai a cold look: "Don't talk about the bottom line with me. The so-called bottom line is just that the benefits for you are not enough. What you want, you can say it yourself after Master Jiu comes. If Master Jiu promises you, but I want to see how much your bottom line is worth."
"spit."
Before he left, he spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm, so disdainful.