Horse on the World

Chapter 680 Coping
The atmosphere in the Marshal's Mansion in Dingzhou was extremely depressing. All the officials were cautious when speaking and walking. None of the news from the front was good, which made the Marshal extremely annoyed.Sun Zewu came out of Qingyang and brought back three corpses, while Li Zonghua of the Overwatch Council disappeared in Laoyeling, his life and death were unknown, and his subordinates were wiped out. Mingyan found nothing in Hailing and returned empty-handed.The subsequent news from Bingzhou was even more frustrating. The branch of the Bingzhou Supervisory Council finally confirmed that Yuan Fang and his party had sneaked back to Luoyang with Shang Haibo via Youyan.After discovering the traces of Yuan Fang and his party, the Bingzhou branch tried their best to pursue them, but the branch was short of manpower and not many experts, and Yuan Fang easily repelled the repeated attempts of blocking them. After receiving the call for help from Dingzhou, Xiao Yuanshan, But it was deliberately delayed for a few days, and Yuan Fang finally escaped.

"My lord, I can now confirm that Laoye Ridge is a trap. We found the body of the secret soldier of Luoyang staff there, but whether it was Yuan Fang's hands or not is not confirmed, because this is not in line with Yuan Fang's habit. He will never leave such obvious clues unless he is demonstrating to us!" Ming Yan said.

"I'm more inclined to be under the hands of Zhong Ziqi in the south!" Ji Sichen stood up and said, "Most of the masters around Yuan Fang followed him and escorted Shang Haibo to escape, and he was able to annihilate Li Yuan in one battle at Laoyeling." The dean's elite must be masters. Otherwise, it is impossible for none of them to escape. You must know that Dean Li himself is a rare martial arts master. Zhong Ziqi's subordinates Xu Siyu, Zhou Yu and others have this ability. "

Li Qing knocked on the table, "Okay, since Shang Haibo's situation has been decided, we don't need to discuss it, we can only wait passively, if Shang Haibo really takes refuge in Tianqi, we will discuss countermeasures, and now, The Board of Supervisors will first focus on finding the whereabouts of Dean Li, the focus of the investigation, Zhong Ziqi!"

"Yes!" Mingyan nodded.

"The staff of the Luoyang branch of the Overwatch Council are doing their best to detect Shang Haibo's whereabouts. He is staying there. If there is a chance, they can decide whether to act."

"understand!"

"Has Shang Shuhuan been rescued?" Li Qing asked again.

"My lord, after several days of rescue by Doctor Huan and Master Huan Qiu, he has been pulled back from the death line. However, due to the fire, it is inevitable that Shang Shuhuan will be disabled. He has been disfigured!" flue.

"Shang Shuhuan will stay in your Overwatch Council for the time being!" Li Qingdao: "Shang Haibo's place, we have to take a look first. In addition, we can disclose the news of Shang Shuhuan to the Luoyang branch. If there is a chance, we can pass it on Shang Haibo, tell him who was behind the Shang family incident."

The tragedy of the Shang family in Qingyang was obviously arranged by Yuan Fang, and then planted in Dingzhou, in order to cut off the kindness between Shang Haibo and Dingzhou. Losing his power means that he has no future in politics. One can imagine how he feels when he suddenly falls from a high position with the power over tens of millions of lives, and Shang Shuhuan is the only son of Shang Haibo. Shang Haibo thinks that his only son and his wife were killed by Dingzhou, so he is very likely to vote for Tianqi.Dingzhou is not clear about the accidental birth. Fortunately, Shang Shuhuan survived, which turned the matter around, but the important thing is that Shang Shuhuan's injury is extremely serious, and it is difficult to recover within a year or so, while Shang Hai If Bo had turned to Tianqi in a short period of time, there would be no room for redemption.At that time, even if he knew that his only son was still alive, it was impossible to turn back.

From the previous letters between Tianqi and Qingcheng, Tianqi admired Shang Haibo very much. When Chen Xiyan was seriously ill, Li Qing basically understood what Tianqi wanted.Li Qing knew about the revenge in Shang Haibo's chest. Now in Dingzhou, Shang Haibo had lost his desire to rule the world, but Tianqi could let him have this opportunity again.

Once Shang Haibo joins Tianqi, it means that the strategic layout that Dingzhou has always implemented will be peeped by the opponent and will have to be changed passively. Apart from the general strategic direction, Shang Haibo basically has all the military secrets and internal policies in Dingzhou. They are all familiar, and these will cause great losses to Dingzhou.

"Send orders to Guo Shanfeng to put pressure on them in Qinzhou. Wang Qinian also don't let Zhang Aimin reorganize the Minzhou army in a hurry." Li Qing made up his mind.

"My lord, in this way, the war may be triggered in advance!" Lu Yiming was a little worried, "We are currently stretched out financially, and we need a lot of money to rebuild the whole state, and if there is a war, money will flow out like water."

Li Qing shook his head, "That's all we can do. We are recovering, and the opponent is also recovering. The opponent is sitting in the fertile land of the Central Plains. If he wins Shang Haibo, his ability to recover will be faster than ours. income, otherwise, the longer it takes, the more unfavorable it will be for us.”

Yan Nanfei stood up: "My lord is right. We have an army that is the most powerful in the world. Once a battle starts, as long as we continue to win in the war, we can force the opponent to follow our pace. But there are One thing to consider is the attitude of King Ning of the South."

"If King Ning is not honest, then it is enough to let Deng Peng aggressively attack and plunder along the coast, and contain him." Li Qingdao: "Yang Yidao's central army has been formed, and the skeleton of Chen Zeyue's reserve army has been set up. Within a year, let his reserve corps be fully formed and have a certain combat power. Let Chen Zeyue get ready, and at this time next year, he will go to war."

"Yes, my lord!"

"No matter how the opponent changes, we must insist on being the main player." Li Qing punched the big case hard, "As long as we maintain an overwhelming advantage in the military, then everything else is nothing. I told Shanfeng, let him teach Tianqi a lesson in Xingzhou, and let him know what happened to me for no reason."

On the eighth day of July, in the Qinling Mountains of Xingzhou, the situation suddenly became tense.The Dingzhou Central Plains Field Army Group, which was entrenched in Qinzhou and watched covetously, suddenly dispatched a large number of troops to approach the Qinling line of defense in Xingzhou.

General Guo Shanfeng, commander of the Dingzhou Central Plains Field Army Group, approached the Xiaoaihe area of ​​the Qinling defense line with his one-armed one-armed Guan Xinglong's [-] elite horizontal swordsmen as the vanguard.

Although Zhou Tong of Xingzhou has been watching Qinzhou's movements, the scale of Guo Shanfeng's troop move this time is far beyond his expectations. According to the judgment of the Luoyang government and the public, Dingzhou should be recuperating in the past few years stage, it is impossible to have large-scale military operations.At most, it is just a small friction at some borders.Although the battle in Weizhou reminded Zhou Tong that a small-scale friction could escalate into a large-scale war at any time.

Zhou Tong, noticing this, moved to deploy troops to the Qinling defense line, but his troop deployment had not been fully completed, and he acted brazenly after passing the mountain wind, and the first blow hit his weak threat - the Xiaoaihe defense line .

When Hengdao Division was transferred to Guo Shanfeng's command, he was promoted from the original battalion to division.Guan Xinglong was named General Hussars and commanded the division.The entire army expanded to more than ten thousand people, and Li Feng's Yizhou Battalion cavalry was transferred to the Hengdao Division as an attachment to the Hengdao Division's cavalry battalion.The Hengdao Division approaching Xiaoaihe now has three battalions under its command. The original Hengdao battalion was commanded by General Weiyuan Wang Peng, and the other infantry battalion was also commanded by Li Guo, the former Yizhou Army's subordinate. The cavalry battalion was commanded by Li Feng. Belt, it can be said that the soldiers are strong and the combat effectiveness is extremely strong.

Across the Xiaoai River, the two battalions of Li Feng and Wang Peng set up camp and confronted the Xingzhou Army on the opposite side. Super athletic ability, to the upper reaches of the Xiaoai River.

Standing by the Xiaoai River, Guan Xinglong looked at the quietly flowing Xiaoai River, smiled and said to Li Feng and Wang Peng beside him: "The enemy camp is too close to the Xiaoai River, because they have spotted the Xiaoai River. The water is not strong, and the banks are very steep, even in the rainy season, it is impossible to flood them, this time, I will let them learn a lot."

"General, you want to cut off the flow and build a dam to flood the opponent's camp!" Li Feng suddenly realized, "But general, if you cut off the flow and build a dam, there will be too much movement, and the other party will soon find out. As long as they withdraw their troops in time and give up the Xiaoai River defense District, we can only waste our efforts!"

Guan Xinglong laughed loudly, "So what if we find out? Li Feng, we are here, do we want them to withdraw as soon as they want? Li Guo is going to build his dam, we should fight or fight in any way, and stick to the opponent. As long as Xiao Ai The water level in the river is low, and the morale of the troops on the other side must be weakened. Maybe we don’t need to release the water, and we will fight through. If the opponent retreats in a hurry, can they outrun us? He will completely kill himself.”

Li Feng suddenly realized, "It turned out that the general built the dam himself and made two preparations. One is to disturb the morale of his army so that he will collapse without fighting, and the other is if the opponent does not retreat after a deadly battle, we will flood him with water."

"Not bad!" Guan Xinglong smiled.

"Once they find out that we are building a dam upstream, the other party may send troops to attack Li Guo. Li Feng, you lead a team of cavalry to move upriver quietly. If the opponent crosses the river to attack Li Guo, you take advantage of the situation to attack. Wang Peng, starting tomorrow, You, Hengdao Battalion, set up floating frames and prepare for a strong attack."

"Of order, General!" The two clasped their fists solemnly.

On the other side of the Xiaoai River is the commander of Zhou Tong's general Zhou Zuxun. After Zhou Tong retreated to Xingzhou, under the strong military pressure of the Guoshanfeng Department, he began to build the Qinling line of defense on the front line of the Qinling Mountains. The Xiaoai River is one of the important defense areas. .There are more than [-] Xingzhou troops stationed there.However, due to the rush of time, the entire Qinling defense area did not have time to build strong permanent fortifications. Instead, wooden piles were laid first, then sealed with giant logs, and gravel and mud bags were filled in them to form city walls and fortresses.After these simple fortifications began to take shape and the troops moved in, Zhou Tongzai began to wrap the city walls with blue bricks or stone strips to reinforce them. However, this was a huge military project and the cost was extremely high. Bricks and stones have to be transported from far away places, which is civilian labor, which has caused the entire Xingzhou to complain. Due to the pressure of funds and lack of manpower for spring sowing, the progress of this project is extremely slow. When the army pressed the border, less than a third of the entire defense line was completed, and Xiaoaihe was only about a quarter completed.
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I have one thing to say. It’s the Chinese New Year. I don’t think the update in January will be normal. Today is still two chapters. I have to go out to do errands tomorrow. I don’t know if I can update it. If you come back early at night, try to finish it. .There has been quite a lot of debate these days, and the shooter is also quite distressed. He is considering opening a single chapter to talk about his own thoughts, and to communicate.In fact, all these foreshadowings have been laid ahead. How could the three carriages in Dingzhou and the mighty Qingfeng monk Haibo sink?Well, as the author of Ma Ta, I would like to say that it may be better for everyone not to regard Qingfeng as Li Qing's woman, but as his political partner who depends on each other.This was originally the baseline setting of Ma Tiao, and it was mentioned in related works a long time ago.As for the fact that after Qingfeng resigned, the investigation officer fell drastically, let me explain it in a single chapter!Of course, it's just my personal consideration, the beholder sees benevolence, and the wise sees wisdom!Individual book friends, please refrain from personal attacks! (These are odds and are not included in the fee!)

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