After rebirth, I tortured the scum and strived to become the empress

'Is it true that one of them wants to sell me out in exchange for glory and wealth?If it wasn't because one of his own people betrayed him, how could the incident in Huangsha Valley be leaked?No one snitched on her, so how could she, a person who had only been in Wuwei County for a few months, find out? '

It can be seen that Liu Can's words still planted seeds of doubt in his heart.

Therefore, after repeated requests from Liu Tong and others, Liu Su pretended to be annoyed by their repeated requests and angrily asked them to go out...

After all the adopted sons were gone, Liu Su said to his biological son Liu Su:

"Su'er, now write a letter to the Qiang leaders you know well and ask them to send troops to help us deal with Shen Qingjun!"

"Father, now is the time when Qiang cattle and sheep are breeding and giving birth. Without enough benefits, those Qiang leaders may not be willing to come!"

The season when grassland people breed cattle and sheep and give birth is equivalent to the Central Plains people's spring plowing, which is related to the next year's harvest. Therefore, the leaders of the grassland tribes, like the leaders of various forces in the Central Plains, must avoid using troops during the spring plowing season.
They would not summon tribesmen to fight at this time, or they would not send tribesmen to fight without the temptation of huge benefits.

It can be seen from this that Shen Qingjun chose to send troops at this time, which really took advantage of the right time, place and people. Because the Qiang people are located further north, their spring is one month later than Wuwei. Now is the time when cattle and sheep are breeding and giving birth. The Liu family To please them, you have to pay a higher price.

"You write a letter first, and we won't talk until you come! Anyway, she won't be able to conquer the many fortresses of my Liu family in a while. She is writing to them now just to express her attitude!

With this letter, when the situation is critical in the future, writing a letter for help will not seem abrupt!The Qiang people will not be able to see our lies! "Liu Su taught his son.

"Yes, my father is wise." Liu Su wrote a letter.

After writing the letter, Liu Su asked again: "Father, now that my Liu family's raising soldiers in Huangsha Valley has become known to the world, I don't know how father will deal with it."

"How to deal with it?" Liu Su sneered, "No need to deal with it!" Then he said earnestly: "Su'er, you still don't have enough experience! It should be noted that in this world, swords speak, and the world only listens to the words of the winner!"

"Hmph, it doesn't matter that our Liu family is training their troops secretly. As long as Shen Qingjun is defeated or asked to retreat, who in Wuwei will dare to say anything? No one will say anything to my Liu family! Even the imperial court will pretend not to know. ! Maybe he will issue an edict to comfort my Liu family!"

"What my father said is absolutely true, children need to be taught!" Liu Su bowed his head and learned.

Liu Su's letter was quickly sent to the Qiang leader. Sure enough, because the Liu family's promise was too low, no one of the tribal leaders, who were busy directing the breeding of cattle and sheep, paid attention to it.

Soon, more than 20 days passed, and it was more than a month after Shen Qingjun besieged Liujiapu!Mid April.

Yes, it's been a month since Shen Qingjun besieged Liujiabao, but Liujiabao still hasn't been captured...

Because the Liu family's fortress has been built by several generations, there are dozens of large and small fortresses in Tianshui County... forming a city within a city, fort after fort structure. If Shen Qingjun wants to conquer the Liu family, he has to pull out nails one by one in Tianshui County!

However, Shen Qingjun's past month was not fruitless. He still captured other small fortresses in Tianshui County, but the Liu family's main fortress was indeed difficult to capture for a long time...

Because the outer walls of the Liu family's main fort are all made of soil, wood, stone, and bamboo mixed with a certain proportion of sandy clay and clayey sand. It is four feet high and two feet wide. The outer walls are covered with bricks, and double wheels can run on the walls. Horses are more difficult to attack than cities...

In addition, there are [-] elite guards in Liujiabao. Shen Qingjun fully suspects that these [-] guards have also studied in Huangsha Valley or somewhere.

Because they defended the city and cooperated very well with the dispatch. Although their quality was not as good as the elite, they were still a little better than Shen Qingjun's auxiliary troops. Moreover, the Liu family still had a numerical advantage. They could mobilize the entire farmers in Tianshui County to resist Shen Qingjun... …

At this moment, the Liu family can mobilize [-] to [-] people, and Liu Su is also clear-headed and knows that a combined fist is the most powerful, so after actively or passively throwing away some castles, he gathered all his people into the main castle...

Due to the gathering of personnel and the focus on defense rather than attack, although there was only the last fortress left, it became even more difficult to fight...

"My lord, I thought that our army would besiege the Liu family for a month and destroy both its outer city and its inner city. But it was impossible to imagine that there was still a castle in the city and a fortress built inside the castle. Moreover, the remaining main castle had many people. Although it had been captured many times, And was taken back by him again and again..."

Li Yang thought of his experience in the past month and sighed: "Hey, we still lack infantry! If we rely solely on auxiliary troops to attack the city, we will not be able to maintain the results even if we can climb the city wall..."

"Yes! It's a pity that General Huang's troops have to defend Huangsha Valley, otherwise the Liu family would be so proud there..." Other generals also regretted.

"Lord, the auxiliary troops have been attacking the city for a month. There have been many casualties and no more troops can be used. In recent days, there have been several small-scale resistances, but they have all been suppressed..." Tang Ze stood up and said , Tangze is the auxiliary general.

"I don't know about this. It's just that there is no hope of defeating the city. However, if the troops stop here and the Liu family can breathe, they will definitely send people to repair the city wall and prepare their troops. Then it will be even harder to attack the city and defeat the enemy!"

Shen Qingjun said, it's not that she doesn't care about her subordinate soldiers, but when fighting a war, she can only work hard, fearing that she will be exhausted again...

"General Tang, you can't just complain. My lord is also in trouble! Our army has been at war with the Liu family for a long time. It's already mid-April. If we still can't capture the Liu family's main fortress, when April is over and the weather is hot, the soldiers will Being sick...is not conducive to fighting..."

At this time, Cheng Yan, a civil servant under Shen Qingjun, said that this person was the Marching Director of the Flying Cavalry Army. He knew that the auxiliary generals were somewhat dissatisfied with their Flying Cavalry Army's behavior of only watching the siege.

"My lord, I have to make it clear that if we delay any longer, our army will be afraid of running out of food and grass, and the morale of the army will be in chaos!" Li Yangdao interjected!
There was no food in the small castles that Shen Qingjun conquered. She and her retainers guessed that the food should be stored in the main castle... because it was impossible for the Liu family to have no food!

"How long will the food be available?" Shen Qingjun asked seriously immediately, food is the top priority!Don't be careless at all.

"The food we have here can still be used for a month... I wonder if the lord wants to collect it on the spot, or will he order the senior staff to transport the food?" Li Yang asked.

"Collect part of it on the spot and send an order to Ling Ying to come over with part of it!" Shen Qingjun thought for a while and said.

On-the-spot collection is actually a collection from nearby small landowners and from ordinary people. Now in April and May, when the harvest is lean, ordinary people are short of food. Shen Qingjun still doesn't want the ordinary people to reach out until the last moment. And it’s not that time yet!
"The last general Xu Zhong asked for orders to attack the city..." Xu Zhong became anxious and stood up to ask for orders!

"No, the flying cavalry army is all cavalry. There is no reason in the world to use cavalry to attack a city..." Shen Qingjun immediately refused.

That's right, in the past month, the only ones attacking the city were the auxiliary army and civilians. The flying cavalry army only used it for a while to launch a sneak attack, and then they were supervising the battle team. This is why the auxiliary army commander Tang Ze was angry. .Good guy, they are fighting life and death, the Flying Cavalry Army is watching from behind without doing anything. At the critical moment, as regular soldiers, their treatment is better than that of the auxiliary troops...

Not only do these people usually have better food than them, they have two horses per person, and they also got the summer clothes not long ago... He knew that Fu Jun was born by a concubine and raised by his stepmother, but the gap is too big, isn't it...

Therefore, when I spoke to Shen Qingjun just now, I was quite dissatisfied. Of course, this dissatisfaction was not directed at Shen Qingjun, but at Xu Zhong. Who was not angry at someone who only ate and was not a partner?

But no matter how dissatisfied Tang Ze was, Shen Qingjun was reluctant to take the Flying Cavalry Army to the city walls as cavalry!There is no reason to use cavalry to attack a city. After all, the power of cavalry is on the horse. Using it to attack a city is like beating a dog with meat and bones. Although the dog hurts, it hurts you...

And since ancient times, the attacking side would have suffered more casualties than the defending side. Even if the cavalry went into battle and could achieve a one-to-one or one-to-two casualty ratio with the Liu family, Shen Qingjun would not do it...

If she really sent cavalry to attack the city, the Liu family would laugh to death... and then use all means to deal with her cavalry, fearing that she would suddenly wake up and withdraw the cavalry.

"General Xu Zhong, please be patient. The cavalry must not move lightly. Even if the expedition against the Liu family is not successful, it cannot be used to attack the city!" Shen Qingjun once again expressed his attitude of absolute forbearance.

"You must know that the cavalry is the basis of my military power. If the cavalry fails, even if we defeat the Liu family, with the Qiang people in the west and the Hu people in the north, how can we hold on to our foundation?"

Even if he refused, he still had to explain his considerations. In fact, he mainly wanted to explain to Tang Ze and other auxiliary generals.

"Sit down, sir!" After saying that, Shen Qingjun said to Xu Zhong. She knew that Xu Zhong was provoked by Tang Ze to stand up and ask for his life.
But don’t blame Xu Zhong for being impulsive!
A soldier!Wouldn't you still be a soldier if you weren't impulsive to war?Xu Zhong is not the commander-in-chief who plans the overall situation, he is just the general who charges into battle, and what he wants is blood!
"Yes, lord." Xu Zhong clasped his fists in salute and then sat down. In fact, he regretted it as soon as he stood up to ask for orders.

Why is he so unexcited? Isn't he just listening to a few gossips?Isn't it just that the war is stalemate?Why is he so restless!I can't stand it!

He even thought that if Shen Qingjun agreed to his request, he would not hesitate to go back on his promise. Fortunately, Shen Qingjun was still conscious.

After watching Xu Zhong sit down, Shen Qingjun thought: "It seems that after the war, the number of infantry must be increased. At least the number of the enemy troops must be 5000. Moreover, I have three armies under my name, but the enemy troops only have 5000." The crowd is not full and it doesn’t look good either! '

"General Tang, please sit down, sir! I have seen your hard work these days. After the war, how about letting the general be the battalion commander?"

Tang Ze also needs to be appeased, so he should be appointed as the next battalion commander of the trapped army. He has been credited for his hard work in the recent siege of the city!
'It's not easy to be the master!All aspects must be taken into consideration. '

"Thank you, Lord!" Tang Ze happily thanked Shen Qingjun after hearing Shen Qingjun's promise.

Although Shen Qingjun asked him, a general in charge of 2 auxiliary troops, to be a battalion commander of 3000 regular troops, which seemed to be demoted, the actual situation was that he was promoted.

After all, the main army and the auxiliary army are incomparable in every aspect. The treatment of the main army and the auxiliary army can be seen from the gap between him and Xu Zhong.

As the saying goes: "It would be better to serve as a main army with three thousand generals than as an auxiliary army with ten thousand soldiers!"

In fact, there is a reason for his dissatisfaction with Xu Zhong. The retainers who were arranged by the Shen family to be with Shen Qingjun thought that their talents were comparable to those of Xu Zhong and Huang Gong. In the past, when everyone worked together under the old lord, their status was also inferior. almost,

As a result, one of them arrived at the lord's side half a year earlier than him, and the other was the first to ask for orders to assist the lord!As a result...one is the commander-in-chief of the flying cavalry army, and the other is the commander-in-chief of the trapped army!
Hey, opportunities are the most important thing in a person's life!He was just half a year late, a step too late!

"Is there anything you can do to help our army win quickly?" Shen Qingjun didn't care what Tang Ze was thinking and asked again.

In fact, she was still very anxious. Why was she anxious? Apart from the weather and food...

Another key reason is that Li Chen is ready to return to Yujing City!Of course, we are still handing over...

Two days ago, she received a message from Shen's mother. Emperor Shaowu had decided to establish a prince on the day of Beginning of Autumn. Shen Qingjun, as a feudal official and Duke of Wei, must attend the national ceremony of establishing a prince... …

This year, the beginning of autumn falls on June 23. In other words, it would take eight or nine days to get from Wuwei to Yujing City even at a fast pace, and it is impossible for Shen Qingjun to really arrive on June 23. Wouldn't that be conspicuous and hated by others?

It must be done three to five days in advance...

Therefore, Shen Qingjun must leave for Yujing City at the end of May or the beginning of June...

In fact, she had considered this before launching the army, but she did not expect Li Chen to return to Beijing so quickly. After all, when she was preparing to send the army, the good news had only been received for more than a month...

According to normal circumstances, Li Chen should continue to command the army at the border to chase the dead and expand the results. This will take three or four months!Then it will take a month or two for the army to return and take over... one by one, five or six months will pass.

In this way, even if Emperor Shao Wu wants to establish a prince, he should do it at the beginning of winter, that is, in late September!There was absolutely enough time to attack the Liu family.

In the Wei Dynasty, when establishing a prince, he would choose a day from the four seasons of Beginning of Spring, Beginning of Summer, Beginning of Autumn and Beginning of Winter.

And even if the Liu family wants to delay, they can't delay for long, because she didn't plan to capture the Liu Family Fort before sending troops, but placed the breakthrough point in Huangsha Valley!

Before Huangshagu was discovered, it was the secret hand of the Liu family. After being discovered, it became the weak point of the Liu family!

But now the date for Li Chen to become the crown prince has been advanced by a full season, but it is very tight...

No matter why Li Chen gave up on expanding his victory and rushed back to the capital, Shen Qingjun had to be present on the day of the Crown Prince Ceremony in Beginning of Autumn, so she only had forty days at most to attack the Liu family...

'Hey, man's calculation is not as good as God's calculation!The plan can’t keep up with the plan! ’ Shen Qingjun sighed in his heart.