Jiangnan
Tongu Academy
Li Qingfeng slapped his palm on the table, and with a bang, the table immediately shattered into ashes. The faces of the people sitting below changed color, and they trembled involuntarily. This is the first time Li Qingfeng has lost such a big temper since he entered the academy, obviously this time he was really angry.
"Raising wolves is nothing more than that!"
Li Qingfeng said furiously.
An old man below sighed: "I said at the time that Luo Tu is unreliable... Now that the academy has put all its efforts into cultivating him, and his cultivation level has already strengthened everyone here, it will be difficult to control him. Now he evades and does not fight, and leads his troops to the east for six hundred miles, evading the imperial court's iron armored army and instead robbing Liuzhou... a big worry in his heart."
"Shut up!"
Li Qingfeng glared at the old man: "It's useless to complain about this now? I just didn't expect this person to be so timid. He has swallowed so many people's cultivation, enough to fight Yang Jian, but he doesn't have the guts at all." I was the one who lost my eye, I will naturally apologize for this incident when the master comes back!"
"Now… "
Another old man tentatively asked: "I can only ask you to come forward, right?"
Li Qingfeng shook his head: "Master has gone wandering, where can I find it? Besides, I said a long time ago that after the establishment of this academy, I no longer take care of the affairs of the academy. How we maintain it is ours." Well, Master is a guide and has led the academy on the road for hundreds of years, so do you still have to rely on Master for everything?"
"Speaking of..."
The old man said with some emotion: "Now is indeed the most difficult time in the hundreds of years since the establishment of the academy. The reason why our ancestors were invincible is that there were so many difficult people before? The Dazheng Kingdom is ours. The ancestors held it up with one hand, but it didn't take much effort to destroy Dazheng. In fact, the root of this disaster was already buried when Yang Jian was chosen. The ancestors should not have chosen their Yang family to stand in the front !"
Li Qingfeng sighed and said: "At the beginning, the Yang family also had a place in the academy. At that time, when the ancestors discussed which family to support, they chose for a long time but did not choose a suitable one. It happened that Yang Jian's father was seriously ill at that time. If he dies, Yang Jian will inherit the position of Patriarch... At that time, the ancestors meant that since no one else could be chosen, Yang Jian would be a good choice. After the death of the old Patriarch of the Yang family, the Yang family would have no place in the academy. .”
"The people present at the time agreed unanimously, because they all felt that Yang Jian was young and could be bullied, and the Yang family was not a big family that was too powerful to be controlled, so they let the Yang family stand in front of the stage. Thinking about it now, Yang Jian's Before his death, my father must have told him everything about the Tonggu Academy, so after Yang Jian knew that he could not refuse the academy's request, he began to arrange how to get rid of the academy."
An old man said: "Yang Jian was lucky to meet Wan Xingchen."
Another person said: "Now is not the time to talk about this, let's discuss how to face Yang Jian. The Iron Armored Army has no opponents on the battlefield, and we have no ability to kill Yang Jian... I don't know where I went. Can't think of a way, the Iron Armored Army is about to hit outside the gate of the academy."
"Now the troops are assembled, but there is no suitable leader."
An old man said: "Originally what we valued was Luo Tu's ambition and his ability to lead troops. Now it's difficult to choose someone who can beat the imperial court in a hurry."
"The third child of the Jin family."
One of them's eyes lit up: "Since the old lady of the Jin family was beheaded by Wan Xingchen with a sword, the Jin family is no longer qualified to enter the academy to discuss matters, but the Jin family has always been under the control of the academy. The boss of the Jin family is cowardly and not suitable for going out. That's why Jin Shixiong was chosen to go to Beijing back then. But the youngest of the Jin family was the most talented of the three brothers, and because he was not born to the old lady, he was always neglected. If he was invited to lead the army at this time, It is also a way for him to get rid of the control of the Jin family, and he may not refuse."
"Um."
Li Qingfeng nodded: "Jin Shiduo is a suitable candidate, and Jin Shixiong is still in Jiangbei. If Jin Shixiong can lead the troops to the south and attack from the north and the south, he may not be able to defeat Yang Jian. Now our headache is that the armored saber is invulnerable , Ordinary soldiers are not opponents at all. But... there is no way to break him!"
"What good plan does the dean have?"
Someone asked eagerly.
Li Qingfeng said: "The armored army is invincible and invulnerable. It is indeed invincible on the battlefield, but they have a fatal weakness. As long as they are well utilized, they may not be able to turn defeat into victory."
He glanced at everyone and said, "Slow down!"
Li Qingfeng stood up and said while pacing: "The biggest weakness of the Iron Armored Army is that they are too slow. Although those soldiers are too strong and burly, they can still move normally even wearing thick iron armor, but their speed is slower than ordinary heavy armor. The infantry can’t come much faster. And because their armor is too heavy, they can’t ride on horses. Even if they take a boat, a boat that usually carries 500 people, if it carries soldiers from the armored army, it can transport up to 200 people.”
He thought for a while and said, "This slow word can make a fuss."
"It's not that easy."
Another person said: "If it's so easy, how could Luo Tu not think of it? Luo Tu has at least 200,000 troops under his command, and they are elite soldiers trained by Luo Yao in the southwest. Weapons. When I was in Wucheng a while ago, Luo Tu asked people to gather all the crossbows to form a defense. Although a group of armored troops were destroyed, as long as the formation of the armored troops was loose, the lethality of the heavy crossbows would be limited."
"Where's the catapult?"
someone asked.
"The catapult is not appropriate, it is not as good as the ballista. The catapult is too big, the assembly is too slow, and the movement is too slow. After the assembly is complete, it can be launched. If the formation of the Iron Armored Army is loose enough, it will not be very lethal. You must know that the Iron Armored Army You don’t need to rely on formation to win, these few fights, the Iron Armored Army is walking on its own, it’s not forming an formation at all.”
"Send someone to Jin's house first."
Li Qingfeng was silent for a while and said: "There is no army in this world that is absolutely invincible, and they will definitely think of a way."
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Liuzhou
Located six hundred miles east of Xianluo City, Liuzhou is a large city with hundreds of years of history. Before the Great Zheng Kingdom, when the world was chaotic and divided, there were people who established a country in Liuzhou, although this country was destroyed by other forces in less than three years. Yes, but that's precisely because Liuzhou's geographical location is very dangerous.
Break through Liuzhou, and you can go straight to Jiangdu.
At that time, the world was in chaos. At least six or seven people in the north of the Yangtze River declared themselves emperors, and there were even more in the south and south of the Yangtze River, a total of twenty. Small countries stand side by side and fight year after year. Later, under the support of Tonggu Academy, Dazheng rose and unified the north of the Yangtze River. The south of the Yangtze River was unified by Chen Guo, and since then, the north-south confrontation has lasted for hundreds of years.
Dazheng made sixteen southern expeditions, and Chen Guo made fourteen northern expeditions, but no one could do anything to them. In fact, the root cause is still because of Tonggu Academy. Zheng Guo was supported by Tonggu Academy, and so was Chen Guo. The academy would like to see the situation where the two powers stand side by side, so naturally they would not allow one of them to annex the other. Therefore, whether it is Zheng Guo's Southern Expedition or Chen Guo's Northern Expedition, there is no way to win in the end.
This is the academy's favorite situation. Behind the scenes, they can easily control the entire world in the north and south of the Yangtze River. But after the founding of the Sui Dynasty, this situation changed. Wan Xingchen was so powerful that the academy lost control of the Yang family. In addition, Emperor Taizong of the Sui Dynasty was an unborn emperor, and Li Xiao, a famous general through the ages, wiped out the Kingdom of Chen in one go. Since then, the Academy has had to look a lot more disciplined.
After the Great Sui eradicated the Shang Dynasty, the power of the Yang family reached its peak.
The influence of the Academy on the Sui Kingdom could not shake the rule of the Yang family, so the Academy has been patiently waiting for the opportunity. This opportunity is Li Xiaozong.
Li Yuanshan rebelled in the northwest and attracted Mongolian and Yuan people into the customs, and the world began to be chaotic. People in Tonggu Academy almost cheered when they heard about it. They have been aggrieved for more than a hundred years, and finally waited for the opportunity to show the Yang family some color.
However, the people in Tonggu Academy did not expect that the situation would get out of control after the chaos. Li Yuanshan was defeated in the northwest and Jin Shixiong took his place. Luo Yao raised the flag in the southwest, although he was defeated and died in the end, he was replaced by Luo Tu. Pang Ba, who was fostered by the academy, was eliminated before he could formally enter the hegemony, so the academy had no choice but to choose Luo Tu to resist Yang Jian.
But after changing his name to Tu, this man simply abandoned the academy and led his troops to Liuzhou. After breaking Liuzhou City, he became a fisherman, watching the fight between snipe and clam.
Ye Jinnan has been feeling a bit stuck in his heart these days. How glorious was it when he followed Luo Yao? Wherever the Yong army went, it was like a broken bamboo, and no one could stop it. But now, since Luo Yao's death, Yong Jun has been getting worse day by day. He once suggested that Luo Tu lead his troops back to the southwest. With the foundation of the southwest, he would soon be able to raise an army of one million again. But Luo Tu didn't accept his suggestion, instead he brought troops to Liuzhou.
"My lord."
Ye Jinnan glanced at Tu standing on the city wall, and said cautiously: "Now that the army has been repaired for half a month, where should we advance?"
"Into the army?"
Tu glanced at Ye Jinnan, then shook his head and smiled: "We won't go there either, Liuzhou is very good, it can be used as a temporary place to stay."
"But… "
Ye Jinnan said: "The people at the academy won't let it go, will they?"
"I didn't go too far just because I wanted to see the attitude of the academy."
Tu thought of the master Li Qingfeng said, and couldn't help feeling a little chilly in his heart. He was right, he abandoned the academy but did not leave too far, precisely because he was worried that the legendary master would come back and cause trouble for him. If that master is really the only existence in the world, even if his current cultivation base is strong enough, it may be difficult to resist. That's why he settled down in Liuzhou. He wanted to wait. If that master came, he would immediately lead his troops back to fight the imperial court. If he can't wait for that master, he doesn't have to worry about the academy anymore.
Tu looked out of the city and said in a daze: "I want to see what the academy has to hide. If the academy can still defeat Yang Jian without my academy, then you and I will never be free again, so we will use the academy If the academy doesn't have the ability to defeat Yang Jian... I don't need to worry about anything."
"I'm taking a gamble on whether the academy can sanction me. If not... then why should I worry about it? Is Yang Jian's armored army really invincible?"
"Ye Jinnan, do you know how the foreigners on the other side of the sea fight?"
he asks.
Ye Jinnan shook his head: "I'm not sure, I just heard that it's not quite the same as the Central Plains."
"Yeah... It's different. Foreigners don't know how to practice, so they came up with such a powerful thing. I knew the existence of that thing a long time ago, but I didn't make the decision before, so I didn't try to introduce it. Look at the power of that thing. The way to deal with the armored army is the artillery... And, I'm about to have artillery."
Hearing this sentence, Ye Jinnan's expression changed: "This subordinate doesn't know what kind of contact the prince has with foreigners."
"Don't say you don't know, I'm afraid foreigners don't know who they are doing business with!"
Tu couldn't help laughing loudly: "Foreigners always thought that they were trading with people from the Mu Mansion, but in fact I sent them. The people in the Mu Mansion pride themselves on their righteousness, so when Yang Shunhui goes to Mu Mansion in Dongjiang, the man Handing over Mu Ping to him is a loophole. If you don’t take advantage of it, you will be sorry for the timing. Now, the people in the Mu Mansion and Yang Shunhui are probably already suspicious of each other. The people in the Mu Mansion think that it is Yang Shunhui who is trading with foreigners, Yang Shunhui I thought it was someone from the Mu family..."
"Ha ha."
Tu Da laughed and said, "Who would have thought it would be me?"