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Chapter 1483 Conquering the Empire (29)

Zhou Wen also sighed and said: "The royal blood of the Augustus Empire is too strange. The former emperor's weak body was able to give birth to more than a dozen children with lush branches and leaves.

"The first emperor's dozen or so princes and princesses, there were five or six pairs of the same age, and the oldest prince was only nineteen or twenty years old, and the youngest was born before his death.

"But these princes and princesses, who are almost still young children, began to learn how to arrange long-term plans, how to put on a mask to be a human being, and how to frame others quietly.

Like the seventh prince who we thought was already a puppet, he was able to win over a group of people under Kate's nose without being discovered by Kate. It is really more terrifying than the old fox. These royal people are all not human! "

Zhao Hu nodded speechlessly.

When Zhao Hu returned to the Governor's Mansion, a cipher began to report the latest information to Zhao Hu.

"My lord, the crown prince's imperial capital has dispatched three legions with [-]% of the imperial capital's strength to mobilize. After some battles, the imperial capital has not only indeed controlled the scope of the imperial capital during the unified empire period, but also doubled its area outward. , it can be said that the imperial capital is already within the crown prince's sphere of influence."

"Action so fast? It seems that the combat effectiveness of the legion trained by the marshal is still very good. It seems that after the battle report spreads all over the world, the prestige of the imperial capital will be raised to a higher level." Peter sighed, stroking his beard.

"How about their losses?" Zhao Hu asked aloud.

"The imperial capital lost less than one division, and the entire army of other warlords collapsed."

The secret guard's words made everyone present couldn't help exclaiming for a while. The imperial capital is about to move, and the surrounding warlords have already made preparations, but I didn't expect that both sides were well prepared, and the strength of the troops was not far behind. It's great!

Hearing this, Zhao Hu looked at the officers under him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

The biggest difference between myself and the imperial capital does not lie in my status, let alone in equipment, materials and money, but in the ranks of officers on both sides!
Of course, the officers on my side were promoted through military exploits. However, my troops have never experienced many battles with more than 10 people. It is still suitable for an officer at the level of a brigade commander. , they are not qualified.

You must know that in the unified empire before, there were thousands of officers above the rank of major general alone, and tens of thousands of school officers.Although the empire is now torn apart, there are at least hundreds of generals and thousands of school officers in the imperial capital, and there is also a military academy in the imperial capital that can continuously provide alternate officers.

As for the generals in the imperial capital, these warlords were not appointed by themselves, or picked up by their fate, they all climbed up step by step in strict accordance with the promotion regulations of the imperial army.It can be said that, except for a few people who became generals by relying on the powerful and being promoted by the powerful, the others are all people with outstanding military exploits.

There may be no difference in a small war, but when it comes to a big battle, as long as the difference in combat effectiveness between the two sides is not large, a large number of school officers and high-quality generals can determine the outcome of the war.

Thinking of this, Zhao Hu couldn't help asking: "Who are the commanders of the Imperial Capital Army in this battle?"

The secret guard replied: "General Huck, the head of the First Army, General Chen Jun of the Second Army, General Wen Te of the Third Army, and the remaining army is mostly composed of the Imperial Guard and the City Guard. This time it is this army. The imperial guards stay in the imperial capital. The post of head of the imperial guards will be taken by the Crown Prince himself."

Hearing these names, the officers under Zhao Hu's command were a little dazed. Most of them, who were born in the southeast peninsula, were very clear about the matter of the imperial marshal and the prime minister, but they were blind to the imperial general. Never heard of it.

No wonder they are not well-informed, this is a strange problem of the empire, that is to say, the empire has no famous generals.

The empire's habit is that after a certain general makes great achievements, he is immediately promoted to rewards and then transferred back to the Marshal's Mansion in the imperial capital. He will never be given the opportunity to make a second great achievement.

As for whether this will weaken the combat capability of the troops?The empire doesn't care. What the imperial army pursues is that all soldiers and mid-level and low-level officers are elite, and generals are just average.

And the Empire, a big country with hundreds of legions and a total force of more than 3000 million troops in its most powerful period, is not afraid of causing turmoil by suppressing general-level officers so that they cannot make meritorious deeds.

And because the empire relies on this trick and the imperial military rank system to prevent the emergence of warlords, so even if it is beaten to the ground by the enemy, the empire will at most choose a general with great merit to lead the battle. If it fails, replace it with another, and if it succeeds, it will be recalled imperial capital.

"The commander of the First Army and the Third Army have heard of it, but the commander of the Second Army, General Chen Jun, has never heard of it. What is his background?" Peter, the chief civil officer who can be said to know the empire best, Said aloud very winkingly.

The secret guard said helplessly: "Because all the military records of the empire were destroyed, I don't know his details. I only know that he was compiled by the Marshal's Office."

"Doesn't this mean that there is no information at all? Because except for the Imperial Guard and City Guard systems, all the generals are organized by the Marshal's Mansion." Peter shook his head and said.

Hearing this, the secret guard immediately knelt down and pleaded guilty.

Zhao Hu waved his hand and said: "Pay more attention to this general. One general can be tied with two generals to become the commander of the army, and the number is still the second, which is enough to show that this person is not simple."

After Zhou Wen and the secret guard took orders, Zhao Hu asked, "How is Kate?"

"The vigilance is still maintained, and the troops are frequently mobilized, but there is no order to prepare for war." The secret guard said.

"What the hell is this Kate doing, wasting so much time going back and forth, our troops have been waiting for him to arrive!"

The military officers present vented their dissatisfaction.

Knowing that Kate had gathered a province's manpower and material resources to punish Zhao Hujun, and that Zhao Hujun had given up halfway in unifying the military in the east of the province, he immediately took aim at Kate.

You must know that during this period of time, they are forcibly suppressing the killing intent caused by the battle, but waiting for Kate to not come to the door is really annoying and discouraging.

Zhou Wen said suddenly: "My lord, everyone, although the secret guards didn't find out when Kate would launch an attack, they discovered a situation under the close monitoring of the secret guards.

"One is that when Kate gave orders, she consciously simplified them, and more often, she directly recruited her cronies to whisper and then let her cronies deliver the orders, fearing that outsiders would hear them. The strange thing is that only Kate and his cronies existed. Kate also uses whispers.

"What's more, there are guards around Kate who are guarding around the clock. Even when she is sleeping, there are people guarding the bed.

"Through these, we can conclude that Kate has learned of the existence of a spy system such as the secret guards in the Lord, otherwise it cannot explain Kate's being so careful on any occasion."

When they heard that Zhao Hujun's most important method had been discovered, everyone's heart skipped a beat. It would be very difficult to inquire about information like this.

Moreover, once the other party knew Zhao Hujun's method of inquiring information, they could pretend to be mysterious and secretively discuss a wrong military action, which would be enough to make Zhao Hujun unable to bear it.

Or deliberately pretending to accidentally say the name of a senior Zhao Hujun official is enough to make Zhao Hujun's senior officials suspicious, not sure whether this person is an undercover agent or the other party's conspiracy.

In this way, not to mention relying on intelligence analysis to take advantage, it is good luck not to be profited by others using fake news.

"How did Kate know the existence of our secret guards?" Zhao Hu asked with a frown.

Although everyone in Zhao Hu's army knew that Zhao Hu had a mysterious intelligence team in his hands, no one was as careful as Kate.

It is generally known that the enemy has a very powerful intelligence collection system. At most, it is to strictly prevent leaks and track down internal traitors. It will not behave like Kate at all.

Kate's actions made it clear that she knew that this group of spies could be invisible and elusive!Without definite news, Kate would never be so cautious.

Zhou Wen glanced at everyone, and came forward and whispered: "My lord, Kate's actions show that he doesn't really understand the ability of the secret guard. From this, we can be sure that the person who leaked the secret either has a half-knowledge about the secret guard, or Deliberately not telling the truth.

The first [-]% is a traitor and [-]% is Kate sent someone to inquire about it, and the latter one said that the person who leaked the secret was a very ambitious super traitor, otherwise he would not have given half of the information. "

It seemed very rude for Zhou Wen to whisper to Zhao Hu at this high-level meeting, but everyone, including Peter, did not have any dissatisfaction.

After all these years, they have known for a long time that Zhou Wen is a character who only cares about Zhao Hu's thoughts. If Zhou Wen only has this problem, even if Zhao Hu favors Zhou Wen, bad-minded guys still dare to use all kinds of obvious and dark methods to get Zhou Wen down. .

But everyone knew that Zhou Wen was the most powerful master in Zhao Hu's army, and he had never heard of anyone in Zhao Hu's sphere of influence who could compete with Zhou Wen.

With strong military strength and a disinterested character, plus Zhou Wen was one of the first five people to follow Zhao Hu, and he had a very good relationship with the other four people, so good that they advanced and retreated together.And the other four are also powerful forces within Zhao Hu's forces. All five of them are in the same spirit, provoking one is provoking five, so it's not a big issue of life and death, and no one wants to provoke Zhou Wen at all.

(End of this chapter)