"The Xikun Army extends northward along the Weizhou and Zhuguan lines to the Qinling Mountains. The general's judgment is correct. They want to fight on multiple fronts."
A map of the border is hung in the military tent, and the military flags with the character of Gu are hung on the walls on both sides.
Holding a long sword in hand, Gu Huaijiang rowed from Weizhou to Zhuguan, all the way north, and the situation of each city emerged in his mind. How many people, how much food and grass, how many soldiers...
After so many years of marching and fighting, these situations are familiar to him, and he has a bottom line in his mind, "The chances of winning this battle for the Xikun army lie in the sudden surprise and the superiority in numbers. First, we have long been prepared to deal with it properly. As for the second , as the defending side, we have a small number and a slight disadvantage, which does not hinder the overall situation of the battle."
Everyone nodded and said yes, "According to the current situation, there is nothing unusual about this battle except for the large number of cities and soldiers involved."
Lao Jin slapped the table, "Exactly! We have never fought a dangerous battle with the great general? What is this, hahaha!"
Gu Huaijiang didn't say anything, his eyes were patrolling the border cities over and over again.
Gu Shubai and Gu Jiuge stood aside wearing battle armor, and disagreed with Lao Jin's point of view.
Before setting off, Gu Huaijiang told them that this is the first battle of the ages, and it is rare to see it in a hundred years. How can it be so simple
"Everyone."
Gu Huaijiang turned around, everyone's laughter stopped abruptly, waiting for his instructions.
His eyes flicked over everyone, "Everyone has been passively beaten for so many years, so as long as you can push back the Xikun army, you will be satisfied, right?"
The smiles faded from everyone's faces, and the four words of being beaten passively were a shame for a soldier.
But Gu Huaijiang was right, they were being beaten passively all the time, when Xikun invaded the Dongling border, driving them out would be a victory!
Lao Jin wondered: "But didn't the general say that our Dongling is a state of etiquette, and we will never invade other people's territories? His Majesty also meant the same thing, so he knew that the envoys from Xikun were not kind, so he still treated them All good, so…”
So none of them thought about what else to do besides passive defense.
Gu Huaijiang smiled, Lao Jin is a militant, and has always been critical of Emperor Ning's way of governing the country, "peace is the most important thing, today is different. What is the most important thing for me, Dongling, but Xikun has been bullying too much, and has repeatedly attacked us. The border of Dongling. I, Gu Huaijiang, am a Confucian general, not easy to kill, so I was forced to fight back to invade the territory of Xikun, understand?"
What, he wants to enter Xikun territory? !
The tent suddenly became excited. They have been guarding the border with Gu Huaijiang for so many years, and they have never seen what the border city of Xikun looks like. They have long wanted to see it!
From the premise, Gu Huaijiang would have to scold them badly, saying that they are soldiers who defend the country and are not bandits and bandits who invade other countries, how can they be robbed by force
This time Gu Huaijiang proposed it himself, they were too excited to believe it.
Yan Huashi was the most steady among the generals. After being overjoyed, he quickly calmed down, "General, you have always disagreed with the invasion of Xikun, saying that we would be no different from the barbarians of Xikun if we did so. Why did you suddenly Changed your mind?"
This is what everyone in the account wants to ask.
Gu Huaijiang was silent for a moment, recalling the past, his thoughts flew far, far away.
"I went out with my father when I was seventeen. At that time, I was just like Yan Zheng and the others. I hid outside the big tent and eavesdropped on what was being discussed inside. I thought the adults inside didn't know."
Everyone's eyes turned to the outside of the tent, Yan Huashi strode out of the tent, and sure enough, he saw Yan Zheng hiding outside the tent.
"You! You brat!"
"Father! I'm young and I'm not qualified to enter the big tent, but the general won't expose me when he finds out. You don't understand what he means!"
Yan Huashi was taken aback for a moment, Yan Zheng took the opportunity to tease her and ran away.
He reluctantly returned to the tent, Gu Huaijiang laughed, and Lao Jin patted him on the shoulder, "Old Yan, don't bother with him, which one of us didn't come here like this?"
Thinking back to the age when he was young, a group of middle-aged generals were filled with emotion, but it seemed that Gu Shubai's fate was too good, and he was destined to be qualified to stand in the big tent since he was born.
Gu Huaijiang changed the subject, "Seventeen years old, more than 30 years have passed, and I have lost only a handful of battles! But the Xikun army still tramples on my Dongling land every year, why?! Because they know that we We can only defend, not counterattack. We know that we are a state of etiquette, but Xikun people only think that we dare not!"
Everyone was silent. What Gu Huaijiang said was an objective fact, but it also violated Dong Ling's ethos and His Majesty's way of governing the country.
"Your Majesty made an exception and conferred the ranks of Jiuge and Hanmo as a fourth-rank general. I just remembered that I am not young. The war at the border has been fought so endlessly year after year, and it is our younger generations who are suffering. For them , I also want to completely strangle Xikun's eastward invasion in my lifetime!"
In the past two years, there has been unrest in the court, His Majesty and him have been poisoned one after another, the two princes are divorced, Yin Shuo is plotting against Guhou's residence everywhere...
Gu Shubai almost died under their schemes.
At this age, he didn't want to send his sons to the battlefield one by one when he was living in the mansion.
Instead of this, it is better to go all out now and defeat Xikun so that their army will never dare to invade again!
"Father!"
Gu Shubai took a step forward, "The boy is the major general of the Gu family army, and he shoulders the responsibility, so we can't push it all to the father!"
Gu Jiuge and Gu Hanmo also took a step forward, and the generals stood up.
Gu Huaijiang chuckled, "So didn't I call you all here? Our father and son fought side by side. Of course, not only for you, but also for Yan Zheng, for Huo Yin...for the descendants of all the soldiers of the Gu family army, and will never be together again in the future." Infested by war!"
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Yan Zheng: Dad, you are so stupid!