Reborn literary talent

Chapter 428 Controlling the Southwest
In the scorching sun of early spring, there is still a lingering chill of severe winter.

The sound of whining horns resounded within a radius of a hundred miles. Tens of thousands of officers and soldiers clashed densely. The shouts and killings on the interlaced city walls of the two sides were endless. Defense, very tragic.

Fu Cai silently looked at the military flag fluttering in the sky above Yingcheng, and Zhang Wu, whose big character 'Zhao' signaled in the wind, was hunting...

Since the great battle a year and a half ago, the two warring parties have completely changed their offensive and defensive postures.The Xia army is like a swarm of locusts, constantly nibbling into the depths of the million mountains. The densely packed fortresses and camp cities go deep into the million mountains, squeezing the living space of the Tianming religion and the southwestern tribes.

Because of the mistake at the beginning, the Tianming Sect and the Southwestern tribes were busy fighting among themselves, and they did not expect Xia Jun to be so brutal.

By the time they realized it was already too late, Xia Jun's piers and camps were everywhere. There was a piers every ten miles, and there must be camps within a hundred miles, forming strongholds that were closely connected. .

With the help of warlocks, these piers and camp cities were quickly built, not only tall but also with thick walls.What's even more frightening is that there are almost no dead angles, and it is difficult to conquer if less than [-] people attack.

Moreover, these military fortresses are formed in a forest, all of which are connected and disposed of by military law, and cut off the external passages of the Tianming Sect and the southwestern tribes.

This is the deadliest!
You must know that although there are a lot of resources in the millions of mountains, even mines are not rare, but both Tianmingjiao and the southwest tribes are short of craftsmen. The weapons and food of Tianmingjiao and the southwest tribes rely partly on plunder. , but most of them still rely on transactions.

With huge profits, there are naturally many businessmen who do not hesitate to sell salt, iron, grain, etc. in order to make huge profits.

But now Wencai directly blocked the external passages of the Million Mountains, making the land of hundreds of miles from Shuipingguan to the Southwest Army camp a place of death.Even the various pier forts and camp cities are all allocated for military use, and no one other than the army is allowed to enter or leave.

As long as there are merchants coming in and out, they will be arrested immediately, all the goods they carry will be confiscated, all the personnel will be tortured, and they will be asked about their origin.

In the past year and a half, the Southwest Army has arrested and beheaded countless prohibited businessmen, and also completely blocked the external channels of the Tianming Sect and the Southwest tribes.

As long as we are human, we need to eat.

However, the environment in the million-dollar mountain is not good for growing food at all, even if it is barely grown, it will not be able to feed tens of millions of people.Except for the relatively peaceful first six months, in the following year, the Tianming Sect and the various tribes in the southwest attacked all the piers and camps like crazy.

During this year, from time to time, pier forts and camp cities were breached, but more pier forts and camp cities took root in the millions of mountains, and continued to erode deeper.

The further back, the more crazy the Tianming Sect and the Southwestern tribes became, and they wanted to drive Xia Jun out of the Million Mountains at all costs...

Today, the Southwest Army has lost nearly [-] soldiers in the past year and a half, and the casualties are not small, but what they got in return is a completely new Southwest Army, more than [-] enemy soldiers killed in battle, and hundreds of thousands starved to death. The people of all ethnic groups in the Southwest.

If it continues, within a few years, the population of the Southwestern tribes will drop by at least half.

For such a cold-blooded and crazy plan for Wen Cai, the people of all ethnic groups in the Southwest regard Wen Cai as the most terrifying and vicious devil, and there are not a few officials in the court who impeach Wen Cai for this.

Some of them are impeachment for the sake of impeachment, but some people are really shocked by the cruel methods of Wencai.

Especially those officials who didn't deal with Wencai, they were impeached to death!

It's a pity that none of their impeachments had much effect, and the most important thing is that the emperor has not returned to Beijing.

Officials who have reached the level of literary talent can no longer be disposed of at will, and there are too many aspects of interference.Therefore, before the emperor returned to Beijing, it was impossible for the imperial court to deal with one of the important officials at will.

Especially Wen Cai, a general who is related to the stability of the entire Southwest.

Several academicians in the cabinet have to continue to appease Wencai.

For the imperial court, the southwest is only a small problem, the real big problem is still in the north, on the grassland...

Especially since the emperor had not returned to Beijing after nearly two years of personal conquest, the entire imperial court gradually began to feel a little bit strenuous.Not only in terms of logistics, but also in terms of people's hearts and stability!
The northern prairie is much harder to chew than imagined.

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The horns sounded repeatedly, and the army's offensive became more and more intense.

The criss-crossing corpses, regardless of enemy or friend, are on the edge of the city wall, below... overlapping, the blood of the soldiers fighting together spewed out, and from time to time some people fell down with horrific screams and fell into bloody flesh. cake.

Especially the large number of archers and crossbowmen in the Xia army caused a lot of casualties to the Tianming Sect army.

Fu Cai looked at the camp city in front of him. It is said that this is not called a camp city, but a bastion.

The specifics have not changed much, that is, the fortress has changed from a convex polygon to a concave polygon.

But such a small change allowed the defenders inside to shoot wildly from two to three directions.With Xia Jun's preparedness, a large number of Tianming Cult soldiers were shot to the ground before they even approached the bastion, causing heavy casualties.

Even a famous general like Fu Cai has no better way to deal with this situation.

"Sun Tzu's Art of War: Mou Gong": The first is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and the next is to attack the city!Facing the siege, even Fu Cai had all kinds of schemes in one thought, but he had no good way to face the Xia army who couldn't defend.

He could see that this was Wen Cai's conspiracy to drain the blood of the Tianming Sect and the Southwestern tribes with a series of fortresses and camps.But even if everyone could see Wencai's vicious heart, they were of no avail.

This is the horror of Yangmou, even if you see everything, you can only obediently follow the other party's plan.

Fu Cai closed his eyes, even if he was hard-hearted, he couldn't bear to continue watching.Every attack and defense was exchanged for the blood of a large number of soldiers from the Tianming Sect and the southwestern tribes. What was exchanged was only a small amount of Xia Jun, and more of the mud and ordinary minerals that can be seen everywhere.

The large formations and restrictions on the pier fortresses and camp cities have caused the blood of all the tribes in the Southwest to bleed...

Wen Cai can be said to have brought Xia Jun's advantages to the limit.

"What a terrible Xia Jun, what a terrible Zhao Shuai!" Fu Cai felt a little disheartened for a moment, he no longer had the lofty ambitions of the past, and what was left was the loneliness of "the hero is not free". .

(End of this chapter)