Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 1044
Chapter 1053
"Without gunpowder, how can we fight after the spring?" Zhao Xun said, "There are no fewer than 20 enemy cavalry on the outskirts of Stone City. After the spring, this number may become 30 or 50. If the Heda Khanate goes all out Mobilization, they can mobilize up to [-] troops, how can we fight without gunpowder?"

"Gunpowder is indeed very important! But who said that our Anxi army cannot fight without gunpowder?" Liu Ke asked back: "Is gunpowder really important?"

Zhao Xun was stunned when he heard it: "Gunpowder...isn't it important?"

"It's not unimportant, but the most important thing is the issue of food!" Liu Ke said: "The most important thing for our Anxi Army now may not be tens of thousands of barrels of gunpowder, but enough food. You are wrong, wrong That’s right! You’re so wrong! As long as we have enough food, even if the Heda Khanate attacks with all its strength, this general can still defend the first half of the year. With [-] barrels of milk powder, it means that we have enough food to eat The main force of Anxi's army has arrived!"

Zhao Xun was stunned for a while and said, "What is the main force of the Anxi army?"

"Of course it is the main force of the Anxi Army!" Liu Ke said: "You don't think that the one in Stone City is the main force of our Anxi Army? If you think so, you are wrong. It is completely wrong."

"Isn't it?" Zhao Xun said, "But Guo Shiyan, Major General of the 40th Cavalry Division, Ma Yi, Major General of the [-]th Cavalry Division, Chen Ben, Major General of the No. [-]th Infantry Division, and other generals of the Anxi Army are all in Stone City!"

"All the senior generals of our Anxi Army have come to Stone City. But who stipulates that the generals must follow the troops?" Liu Ke said with a leisurely smile: "It is taboo for military strategists to underestimate the enemy. This general is the second apprentice of His Majesty the Emperor. Could it be that you can't even see such a simple truth? Could it be that our Anxi army's supply clerks are full of food? Could it be that Guo Shiyan really couldn't see that Musa had evil intentions?"

"What's going on here?" Zhao Xun was even more puzzled.

"There is a saying that when things go wrong, there must be monsters. Even if you don't know the art of war, it is the most stupid behavior to recruit the enemy. Although the Eighteenth Cavalry Division and Heda had a tentative confrontation, the Heda people were also defeated. Guo Shiyan's troops are in After cleaning the battlefield, they entered the Stone City after two and a half hours. Although this time cannot allow the Heda people to evacuate the Stone City, it is very easy for the Heda people to burn the food in the Stone City!" Liu Ke leisurely said : "However, the Heda people did not burn the food in the city. If such an abnormal situation did not arouse Guo Shiyan's vigilance, I would wonder how he got his graduation certificate from the Royal Military Academy. Especially Musa's vowed Repeatedly ensuring that there is enough grain in the city, this is like superfluous behavior, which makes Guo Shiyan feel that something is wrong. So after receiving the grain from Stone City, Guo Shiyan immediately sent someone to secretly count the grain in the city, and found that all but one of the four granaries was left Except for the grain, the other three houses only have the grain on the top layer, while the bottom is covered with sand. Obviously, this is a trap designed by the Heda people."

As long as it is a conspiracy, it has a very distinctive feature. As long as the conspiracy is discovered, his danger is negligible.But Yangmou is different. Even if you see it, you have to jump in and be led by the nose by the enemy.As a senior general of the Wei State, Guo Shiyan immediately guessed the intention of the Heda people after discovering the abnormality. The Heda people were afraid that the Wei army would be afraid of the cold and would march in summer, but the Heda people were not resistant to cold and heat. If they fought in summer , their combat power will be reduced by at least half.Although the winter is severe, the Heda people will not affect their combat effectiveness.So they have to take advantage of the time of winter.

However, the Wei army would never march against the weather. In order to lure the Wei army to march in winter, a game was specially set up.First of all, it was a false defeat outside the Stone City. In order to lure the enemy to go deep, Jeersey deliberately sacrificed his subordinate Baximi Jingqi.You must know that this nomadic tribe in the Kangnu Mountain area of ​​Southern Beria was very brave and good at fighting. Although Jeersey was a little bit reluctant, he still sacrificed more than [-] fine horses of Basimi.More than [-] troops were sacrificed, plus a city was given away for nothing. If the generals of Wei's army are not stupid, they will definitely save food for the rear of Wei. You must know that transporting food from Wei to Kangju will consume food on the road It's not that ten don't save one, but that hundreds don't save one.

Guo Shiyan certainly could not be the leader of the entire Anxi Army. After receiving Guo Shiyan's secret letter, Liu Ke quickly realized that this was an opportunity to solve the Heda Khanate in one fell swoop.As a general who knows soldiers, Liu Ke also knows that the problem of the Western Regions is actually the same as that of the Northern Han Kingdom in Mobei. It is very easy for Wei Guo to defeat the Northern Han Kingdom. Migration, Wei Guo will definitely gain nothing.Even if you can occupy thousands of miles of land in one summer, when the cold winter comes, the Wei army must retreat. However, after the Wei army retreats, Mobei will still be Mobei, and Beihan will still be Beihan.

The situation in the Western Regions is the same. Once the Heda Khanate evades and does not fight, their strength will not be damaged, and the Wei State in the Western Regions will never be able to talk about real occupation.However, the Heda people are a nomadic people, and it is common for them to move their entire clan. They only need to move three thousand miles westward, and at that time, the Anxi Army's soldiers will lose their vigor.If the Anxi Army enters the core area of ​​​​the Kanda Khanate, it will fall into a real quagmire.An early decisive battle was actually what Liu Ke wanted.

Therefore, Liu Ke pretended to be in the trap and ordered the military order to carry only half a month's dry food, but he put down the gunpowder in Shule, and instead carried 45 barrels of milk powder.There are [-] barrels of milk powder weighing [-] catties per barrel, which is about [-] to [-] catties per person.Thirty catties of dry food can feed a soldier for half a month, thirty catties of dried meat can last for [-] days, and thirty catties of milk powder can last a soldier for ninety days.

In order to gain a more certain victory, Liu Ke used the caravan and fellows of the Central Asia Development Company to pretend to be the elite of the Anxi Army, while the real elite continued to station in Shule City pretending to be the caravan of the Central Asia Development Company.In the great chaos in the Western Regions, less than a hundred Han people in Shule were killed, and few of these people who had lived in the enemy country for a long time could remain pure.If it is said that the nearly 3 people in Shule City do not have the eyes and ears of the Heda people, he would not believe it if Liu Ke was killed.So I just did a full set of acting, Liu Ke even concealed it from Zhao Xun, because Zhao Xunna's concubine in Kucha was actually discovered by Liu Ke, it was actually a secret work, and Liu Ke can be sure that Zhao Xun The concubine who was trained should be the highest-level spy who had contact with the top Anxi army.So in order to use this secret operation to deliver false news to the Kanda Khanate.

"So, you already knew she was a spy?" Zhao Xun didn't expect that he would actually accept a spy. As his bedside person, he must have leaked a lot of secrets of Wei.Although this was an unintentional mistake, Zhao Xun thought more about it. If Ran Ming knew that he was so confused, his future would be ruined.

Liu Ke said: "Actually, I didn't know it very early, but accidentally she tried to seduce this general. Is this general a person who is greedy for beauty, but after meeting her, I almost couldn't control it. I only found out afterwards that she actually I gave this general an aphrodisiac. So after this incident, the general became alert and sent someone to observe her secretly. It turned out that she often secretly contacted a Lite spice merchant outside your house, so the general guessed that she must It's a meticulous work. So it's..."

When Zhao Xun heard this, for a moment, Zhao Xun gritted his teeth!He is angry!Not angry at my concubine's betrayal, but angry at being used as a spear by Liu Ke!Although some of his concubines were secret agents, the anger only lasted for a short time, and Zhao Xun regained his composure.Of course he is very clear.Liu Ke's strategic idea will not be a temporary idea, it must be arranged for a long time, since it has been planned for a long time, even if it is hidden from everyone, it will not be hidden from Ran Ming.

"It's annoying!" In an instant, Zhao Xun thought that even though he had gone through so many things, his position in Liu Ke's heart, not to mention being tied with rising stars such as Guo Shiyan, was not as good as compared to Li Xian and others. ——His political acumen is higher than his military acumen!

Zhao Xun said anxiously: "However, there are people from the Central Asia Development Company in this stone city. How can it be compared to the elite of our Anxi army? If the Khan Khanate launches an attack, how can we resist?"

"Attack? Do they dare? Even if they dare, do you really think that the people of the Central Asia Development Company are powerless people?" Liu Ke said: "Zhao Changshi, don't you know that our country Wei is the most powerful?" The people who don't want to die are actually not soldiers of our Great Wei, but businessmen of Wei State."

"Businessman?" Zhao Xun said incredulously, "How is this possible?"

"Why is it impossible?" Liu Ke said: "The businessmen of our country of Wei have already rushed in front of our army. They can go crazy for money. You can inquire about it. Or the Zhongnan Development Company, or the Nanyang Development Company, which one of them has few lives in their hands? Especially the people of the Central Asia Development Company, the Western Region is much worse than Nanyang, if they can survive, which one dare not kill?"

Zhao Xun said: "Since General Liu has already made a plan, why did he send more than a thousand soldiers to die?"

Liu Ke said: "If not like this, how can you fool the people?"

In fact, Liu Ke was good at everything, but his mind was too small, and Niu Zijie didn't give him face very much. This time, Liu Ke used a trick to tell the soldiers of the army that this mission was a narrow escape.As for the members of the Soldiers Committee, everyone has the awareness to sacrifice their lives for the country, so when Liu Ke announced that he would select brave men from the entire army, Niu Zijie and other members of the Soldiers Committee enthusiastically signed up. The key members were all sent to death by Liu Ke.

At this time, the situation in Stone City has entered a delicate balance.For Yu Wenying, Wei Jun has a very strong fear, so Yu Wenying is both excited and worried about the acquisition of the Heda Khanate.He wanted to take revenge for himself with the hands of the Heda Khanate, but it was a pity that the Heda Khanate was not a fool. They all knew that the Wei army was very good at defense, so they did not launch an attack when the main force of the Heda Khanate did not arrive.

Tens of thousands of allied forces of the Yuwen Kingdom and the Heda Khanate surrounded Stone City, but the three hostile parties remained peaceful throughout the winter.The Heda Khanate thought that the Wei army would fall into a food crisis, but they didn’t know that Wei’s Anxi army not only had a lot of milk powder, but also a kind of compressed noodle cake and compressed beef, which had been steamed, baked, peeled, stacked, pressed, and preserved. After more than a dozen processes, it can be made into easy-to-carry meat pies and noodle cakes, a large piece of compressed beef, a large piece of compressed noodle cake, and a bag of tea. When you are hungry, you can directly cut off a small piece of beef A small piece of bread, soaked in a bowl of tea soup, basically pasta, meat and various trace elements are all there, enough to ensure the nutritional needs of marching and fighting.

This kind of compressed dry ration, due to the taste, cost and other reasons, naturally cannot become the mainstream daily military ration, but when Qingqi raids, or when Liu Ke adopts such a plan, compressed dry ration has become the best way to confuse people. arms.Liu Ke's tricks, in fact, have another intention. As the saying goes, a friend in adversity is a friend in adversity. When Wei Guo'an and the Western Army were facing a fatal crisis, with the idiot character of the countries in the Western Regions, as long as they saw the power of Heda Khan, Countries such as Bornona (Dawan) and Kangju State, which are currently controlled by the Heda Khanate, will definitely help the Heda people deal with the Wei army.At that time, Chuzhou in the Great Wei Dynasty will be able to add two counties.

In Shule City, Niu Zijie met Shule City Guard.To his surprise, it was not the original city guard Zhao De who was guarding Shule City at this time, but his acquaintance and fellow villager, Ye Xian, the deputy commander of the No. 30 Eighth Division of the Infantry.

When Niu Zijie told Ye Xian the news of the great changes in Stone City, Ye Xian didn't show surprise, but drank tea slowly. At this moment, Niu Zijie seemed to understand something. -
Niu Zijie also lamented that he was really too stupid to be used by others, but what he regretted was that they killed or accidentally lost more than 70 brothers along the way, and these people didn't have to die in the first place. But they all died.

Ye Xian told Niu Zijie directly: "There will never be a food crisis in Stone City. The weather is freezing. Although General Liu has reduced the food supply, once the war starts, he will definitely supply the entire army. There will never be food shortages. , lack of physical strength and defeat in the war.”

In this incident, Niu Zijie finally realized the fact that among the disciples that Ran Ming recruited at first, there was not a single character who was easy to get along with.In terms of bravery, how many people in the world can be as powerful as the famous General Modao?In terms of insidiousness and cunning, who can compare to Liu Ke?

Although the Wei Jun founded by Ran Ming and the Wei Jun founded by Ran Min belong to the same camp, they are obviously different in essence.The Wei army created by Ran Min has very high requirements on the command art of generals, so there are obvious differences in combat effectiveness.However, the Wei Army founded by Ran Ming paid great attention to the teamwork ability of the soldiers, but weakened the role of the generals.

Some people even claimed that if a pig is issued a leading flag, it can lead the soldiers of the Wei army to victory.At this time, in Shule City, there were more than 17 elite infantry and cavalry in the No. 19, No. 37, and 38, 39, and 92 infantry divisions of the Wei State Cavalry Division. Among them, the highest rank is Major General Ye Xian, deputy division commander.Although Ye Xian is one of Ran Ming's 25 disciples, he is very old-fashioned and not good at words. Although he is ranked [-], he has just achieved the position of major general and deputy division commander. There are too many, let alone compared with Chen Yong, Qin Chong, Zu Yan, Guo Yue, even compared with Xiong Jian who is not well ranked in the same category, he still has a huge gap.

Although Ye Xian's position is not high and he doesn't have astonishing military exploits, but it is exactly what he said, a good fighter has no great military exploits, so he loses the place to use his skills.But this time, Liu Ke let this little junior in command to become the temporary main coach, but he didn't see it for the sake of his fellow disciples.In fact, Liu Ke also has very ambitious ambitions. In fact, he is not convinced by Chen Yong. You must know that in the state of Wei, Chen Yong is the most well-deserved number one in commanding troops and resources. General Shi Yue, and Zhennan General Zhang Wen, in fact, the strength of the three of them commanded by them is comparable to that of Chen Yong. Guang, Zhang Ai, General of Wei, and Xie Ai, General of Zhenxi, are all far away from him.But Liu Ke despised Chen Yong very much. If he had so many troops in his hands, even if he couldn't destroy the Gupta Empire, he would at least swallow half of the Gupta Empire. However, Chen Yong stopped.

In Wei Guo, before Ran Ming ascended the throne, his disciples could unite and work together, but after Ran Ming ascended the throne, his disciples also began to establish their own factions.Of course, the largest faction is the naval faction headed by Chen Yong, Qin Chong, Zu Yan, and Guo Yue as the backbone. This faction is the most powerful and has amazing financial resources.The second is Lin Heishan as the head, Han Deguang and Du Rong as the backbone of the Imperial Guard Department, and the third is the new cutting-edge department headed by Xiong Jian, Modao Army, and Orphan Army.And Liu Ke also began to establish his Anxi military system.

Liu Ke has great ambitions. He wants to be crowned king. Anbei’s great general, Ji Wei, has already been crowned king. If the Zhennan Army, Annan Army, and Zhengnan Army join forces to pacify Indochina Peninsula, then Ran Ming will confer Zhang Wen as Zhennan Wang, Shi Yue is the king of Pingnan, and Su Lin, the general of Zhenguo, is the king of Jingnan.Ran Ming will establish Jingnan Wangfu and Jinlin (in present-day Thailand, located in present-day Ratchaburi Province) in Chenla Khmer (later Ho Chi Minh City, southern Vietnam) in the Indochina Peninsula. The Chinese historical book "Funan Foreign Objects" contains: "Jinlin a The name is Jin Chen, and it takes more than two thousand miles to go to Funan. The land produces silver, and the people are so fond of hunting elephants, they can ride on horses when they are born, and their teeth are taken when they die.") Establish Pingnan Wangfu.Vatican (today's southern Bangladesh) established Zhennan Wangfu.

Maybe three or five years later, there will be four living kings with different surnames in the Wei Kingdom. If Chen Yong conquered the Gupta Empire, he would also be qualified to be a king based on his achievements. In time, the powerful force that wiped out the Kanda Khanate occupied Tuluohuo.As one of Ran Ming's five great disciples, Liu Ke has naturally seen Ran Ming's big secret sand table. The Sumer area (the middle and lower reaches). Mesopotamia is where Babylon was located, and it is in the territory of the present-day Iraq (Iraq) Republic).

If Liu Ke completes Ran Ming's plan, it is also possible to become a king, and if he fails, he will be named an Anxi king.

The most exciting thing about the war between Wei State and Heda Khanate in Kangju State this time is Kangju State. As long as Wei State and Heda Khanate are both defeated, Kangju State can take the opportunity to resume its rule.King Kang Ju felt that as the decisive battle approached, his mood became more excited.At this time, King Kang Ju wanted to gather troops and horses, ready to take advantage of it.

(End of this chapter)