The word Wu Wang is a signal to the world.
After Fang Jie returned to Changchun Garden, he summoned his subordinates to discuss matters, which was different from the Tai Chi Hall. This time, all the people summoned were the trusted generals of the Black Banner Army.
"I received the news early in the morning."
Chen Xiaoru handed over a military newspaper with both hands: "This is sent back by General Cui from the Northwest. The Mongolian Yuan people have been attacking non-stop since these days, but because they are not used to fighting across the river on foot, they don't have suitable equipment. Due to the blockade of our navy, the situation is stable. However, when General Cui sent someone to send the news, the Mengyuan people began to attack again. General Cui estimated that the Mengyuan people’s food and grass were already in a hurry, so they couldn’t wait any longer.”
Dugu Wenxiu nodded: "The Northwest is exhausted, and the Mongolian people can't plunder food and grass. If the cattle and sheep they carry are not acclimated to the soil and get sick, as long as they start to die, it will be a disaster. Meng Lie has led troops for many years, so he naturally knows that this time can't be done." If you hesitate any longer, you will either fight desperately, or you will have to retreat."
"Our men and horses are not short of food and grass."
Wu Yidao said: "The fleet of Huotong Tianxia has been transporting grain from Liyin warehouse to the northwest. If there is any problem, it can also transport grain to the northwest from Chang'an City. The four granaries in Chang'an City, the grain stored is considered to be food. It can’t be eaten in a hundred years. However, if you transport grain to the northwest by land, the consumption along the way is not a small sum.”
Fang Jie hummed: "If the fleet of Huotong Tianxia cannot be dispatched, it can only transport food by land. The soldiers fighting on the front line cannot go to war with the enemy hungry. Lord Hou will dispatch it later. , I arranged for people to send grain to the northwest immediately after sorting out the grain and grass.”
"Here."
Wu Yidao responded: "Master's personal conquest, do you want to go to the northwest or to the Lingmen Pass?"
"Spirit gate."
Fang Jie pointed to the map and said: "In the northwest, even if Meng Lie's troops are defeated directly, Meng Yuan's defeated soldiers are all cavalry, and they can flee all the way to Langru Mountain. It is not so easy to chase. Meng Ge's side It is different. First, Meng Ge is the great Khan of Meng Yuan. If he can be killed, the army of Meng Yuan will be in chaos. By then, it will be too late for those people to grab the seat of the Great Khan, so there is no desire to fight. Second, Meng Ge is alone Going deep, even if you want to escape back, it’s not that easy.”
"Chen Xiaoru."
Fang Jie looked at Chen Xiaoru and said: "Send people to Cui Zhongzheng and Chen Dingnan's headquarters in the northwest, and tell them to let the soldiers spread the news, saying that Meng Yuan Dahan Meng Ge was defeated at Lingmen Pass, and his life and death are unknown. She made himself a Khan and killed the other Wang Ting generals."
Chen Xiaoru said: "This subordinate will send someone there."
Dugu Wenxiu couldn't help but praised: "Whether the enemy in the Northwest believes this news or not, their hearts will be confused. For the war situation in the Northwest, as long as the enemy is in chaos, it is a good thing. Brother Meng wants to break into the Central Plains in one go this time. He made a big taboo. He thought that he could divide our troops into two routes without anyone noticing and copying our rear, but he forgot that the lone army went deep and had no support. Moreover, the distance between his men and Meng Lie's men was too far, the information was blocked, and rumors Once it spreads, you can’t stop it.”
"You can also send people to divide."
Wu Yidao thought for a while and said: "Brother Meng insists on going eastward, not all the generals under him may be convinced, and some of them must be dissatisfied. Such people can be used, as long as they send someone who can secretly contact and send some valuables. Let them persuade Meng Lie to retreat..."
"Meng Lie is Meng Ge's most trusted general, so he may not retreat."
Dugu Wenxiu said.
Wu Yiyi shook his head: "Dugu, you didn't think about it from Meng Lie's position. If rumors of Meng Ge's death spread, wouldn't Meng Lie feel flustered? If Meng Ge really died, So what is Meng Lie most anxious to do?"
"Rush back to the royal court to snatch Khan's position!"
Dugu Wenxiu's eyes lit up.
Wu Yiyi smiled and said: "Meng Lie doesn't know whether Brother Meng is really dead or fake, and he doesn't know whether the Black Mountain Army's amnesty is really rebellious or fake. But he will definitely think about it. What if these things are true? If it is true, then the two most promising candidates for Khan's position are the Montenegrin Army General Gai She who holds 300,000 elite cavalry, and the other is Meng Lie. And he has the direct lineage of the Jin family, as long as he returns to the royal court with his troops, he will succeed to the Khan throne much more smoothly than Gai She."
Dugu Wenxiu's mind immediately came alive: "That's right, even if Meng Lie suspects that the news is false, he still has to make preparations. He is in the northwest, and he can return to the grassland much faster than Gai She, which is the biggest advantage. Even if He was worried that Brother Meng would not dare to rush back to the royal court to snatch Khan's throne if he was not dead, so he would definitely send troops back to Langrushan Valley to guard in order to prevent Gai She from going back first. Even if it's just Meng Lie's division of troops, it would be a good thing for us."
Fang Jie said with a smile: "As long as this kind of thinking is moved, you can't help it. If it weren't for this kind of thing, Meng Lie would have no chance to become a profuse sweat. Now that he has the opportunity, he will not let it go. As long as Meng Lie Lie Huibing, even if we don't send a single soldier and watch Meng Ge retreat, he will not be able to retreat. Meng Lie will send troops to block the Langrushan Canyon, so that the fake news of Da Khan's death will become true. "
"Yes."
Dugu Wenxiu said: "Once Meng Lie goes back, there is no turning back. He must make people believe that Brother Meng is dead, so he must not let Brother Meng go back."
"Go."
Fang Jie waved his hand: "Everyone gets busy, now there is only the biggest enemy left to deal with, and then we can move our troops to the east. The war in the eastern border does not allow us to waste too much time, even if What does it matter if it is Meng Yuan Da Khan? This is on our family's territory, and the life of any Han person is heavier than him."
"Song Zihui."
Fang Jie looked at Song Zihui, who was sitting at the back, who had been afraid to speak, and said, "I have an errand, and I need you to do it alone."
Song Zihui stood up quickly: "My lord, please tell me."
Fang Jie said: "Gao Kaitai's troops have no fewer than 100,000 troops, most of which I have merged into the Black Banner Army, there are still 20,000 troops that have not been placed yet, I will transfer 3,000 cavalry from the Black Banner Army to you, You go to the Ministry of War to ask for food, supplies, whatever you want, and then leave Beijing quickly. I don’t care where to fight, or how to fight, I just want you to lead the troops all the way west and give you enough rights. However, within three months, you must rush to Qingfeng Mountain in Xiting County, which is the only way for Meng Ge to return to the grassland, you strangle it to death!"
"Here!"
Song Zihui answered loudly, his voice trembling.
He has only just joined the Black Banner Army, and he is able to lead an army alone. How much trust is this worth
"Go."
Fang Jie smiled and said, "Wait for me at Qingfeng Mountain, and I'll see how famous you are in Western Xinjiang."
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Dongjiang
Six hundred miles to the southeast from where Mu Mansion is located, there is Shili Gorge, and three hundred miles to the east from Shili Gorge is Phoenix Terrace. Fenghuangtai is the easternmost border town in the Eastern Frontier of the Great Sui Dynasty, and it has always been of great significance. Now, Phoenix Terrace has even more significance.
The Black Banner Army of Nalan Dingdong is stationed at Phoenix Terrace, which is already an isolated city. Under the continuous attacks of foreigners, many places in Eastern Xinjiang have been occupied. The Phoenix Terrace is like a huge nail embedded in the lost ground, nailed to the logistics supply line of the foreign team.
The troops of foreigners are constantly being attacked by the Black Banner Army.
However, foreigners still can't win the Phoenix Terrace. With Fenghuang Terrace as the center, within a radius of 50 miles are the defense lines of the Black Banner Army. The foreigners couldn't defeat them, so they had to take a detour. But the Black Banner Army has cavalry and a firearms battalion, which can completely compete with the foreigners. Moreover, the Black Banner Army is very well-informed. As long as the foreigners' supply team passes by, the Black Banner Army will inevitably harass them. If you can grab it, you can grab it, if you can't grab it, you can burn it.
Even though Grand Duke Hurons, who was in charge of commanding the vanguard army of foreigners, was vicious, he had nothing to do with the Black Banner Army.
"Report!"
A soldier of the Black Banner Army hurried to the outside of Nalan Dingdong's room and said anxiously, "General, a few people came from Shilixia, they said they were members of the Red Eyebrow Army, and they had an emergency situation."
Nalan Dingdong hurriedly let people in. Two Black Banner Army soldiers helped a wounded man in. His clothes were torn and bloodstained everywhere. There were two feathered arrows stuck in his back. It wasn't that his leather armor was thick and tough enough, these two arrows could pass through his body.
"General Nalan, save our chief!"
The man was dying, and his voice was extremely weak.
"What happened?"
Nalan Dingdong asked.
The man panted and said, "Our Red Eyebrow Army's food and grass are in short supply, so the chief planned to take us to Phoenix Terrace to copy the foreigner's supply team. When we reached Shili Gorge, we were ambushed by the enemy. After a hard fight, I am still trapped in the Shili Gorge, and I have run out of food...General, I beg you to send troops to rescue quickly, if you don't save, the tens of thousands of brothers in the Red Eyebrow Army will die."
"Who set up an ambush?"
Nalan Dingdong asked.
"have no idea."
The man shook his head with difficulty: "But they are definitely not foreigners. The team didn't put on a flag, and they couldn't tell which team they were from by looking at their attire. They should have changed their clothes on purpose."
Nalan Dingdong's face turned aside, and he walked behind the man and looked: "This feather arrow...is a standard feather arrow made by the Great Sui Workshop. There are not many teams with such feather arrows in Dongjiang. They can have troops. There are tens of thousands of troops surrounding your Red Eyebrow Army, let alone many more."
He was silent for a while and said: "Come here, order 10,000 Qingqi to follow me!"
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Shilixia
The Red Eyebrow Army had run out of food and arrows. After they entered the canyon, they were blocked on both sides, and the ambush soldiers on the cliff kept pushing down boulders, and the red eyebrow army suffered heavy casualties. Although the Red Eyebrow Army is full of people from the Green Forest Road, and many of them are well-cultivated, they simply can't use it in this dangerous place.
The enemy came prepared and did not charge directly, but kept attacking the Red Eyebrow Army in the canyon with stones and feather arrows. The Red Eyebrow Army was in an unobstructed place, and the soldiers lost at an extremely fast rate. If it wasn't for the leader of the Red Eyebrow Army leading the people to rush forward, killing through several obstacles of the enemy in one breath and finding a place to rest, the entire army might have been wiped out by this time.
"Big boss!"
A general of the red-browed army said eagerly: "It's not a solution to go on like this. If the people who went out to ask for help can't come back, we will be in trouble. Why don't you take your brothers and charge again, as long as you rush out of the valley, and then go Not too far away is Changping City. Changping City is guarded by troops from the Mu Mansion, we can ask for help!"
He didn't notice that their young chief had a look of pain on his face.
"No...you can't go to Changping City."
The young chief shook his head, his tone was sad: "Why is this? Why did you attack my Red Eyebrow Army?"
He looked sad, with pain in his eyes.
"Why?"
His general asked.
The big leader didn't answer, holding a feather arrow picked up from the ground in his hand. His eyes fell on Yujian, and the corners of his mouth were trembling. At this moment, his whole body was as cold as falling into an ice cave.