Realm of Power

"Your Majesty means the south. ..."

Li Yuehua is also a smart person. When he saw the direction that the fat man was pointing, he frowned slightly, as if he had thought of something. Suddenly his pretty face showed a hint of surprise, and he nodded happily and said, "What your Majesty said is, why did I forget it? In order to meet you this time." In the battle of our empire, the Long family used almost all their abilities All the troops that can be mobilized have been drawn to the northern front. In other words, there is now a gap on the southern line of the Long family. As long as we concentrate our strength to launch a fierce attack, we will definitely be able to penetrate into the southwest. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity has always been a grudge against the Long family in the southwest. How could the Southern Song Dynasty let it go! "" You are right. In fact, if I guessed correctly, the Song army is already on the way!" The fat man smiled slightly, picked up a piece of information from the table and handed it to Li Yuehua, holding his hands behind his back and looking at it deeply! Looking at the black sky outside the tent, he said in a solemn voice, "This is A secret letter came from the Song Clan in the south. Just when the Long family was once again deploying troops from their base camp, the leader of the Song Clan, Song Que, had left to personally take charge of the Sancha River. Also disappearing were the Song Clan’s generals. Troops were continuously transported from the southern mountains to the Song fleet at the Sancha River defense line.

"The entire fleet disappeared..."

Li Yuehua's pretty face turned cold, she bit her lips with her white shell-like teeth, took a deep breath and said, "It seems that the Song people really can't wait! In winter and spring, the rivers that have been dry all winter will rise. If The fleet is taking advantage of the high water to sail upstream, and I'm afraid it won't be able to arrive in a short time. I don't understand why it would be faster to send troops directly from the mountains in the south. "

Everyone in Central Asia knows about the conflict between the Song people in the south and the Southwest. When the Long family was appointed to the Southwest, one of its functions was to cooperate with the central court to form military suppression of the southern mountains, and to form a military alliance with the Luzhou Army on the other side. The force of clamping down from left to right,

In the past thirty years, the sphere of influence of the southern mountain people has shrunk significantly. Although the Southern Song clan is still one of the four major first-class families, it has actually gradually faded out of people's sight, especially the neighboring ones. The Long family, taking advantage of its geographical advantage in the south, constantly adopted a policy of land reduction for the mountain people in the south, and pushed the border south many times. For the mountain people's villages they encountered, either Either use force to suppress it, or expel the entire village from the southwest. Especially when Longshan was the chief general of the south, he moved the southwest border southward several times. The biggest one was to push it directly to twenty or thirty miles away, and even in the end A cruel policy was promulgated that mountain people were not allowed to enter within fifty miles. More than a hundred mountain people's villages were burned down. I don't know how many mountain people had to leave their homeland and evacuate south. They dragged their children and daughters all the way south.

The most recent time, Li Yuehua clearly remembered, was a core figure of the younger generation of the Song family. He sneaked into the southwest due to personal vendetta, and was captured alive by the Long family army. In the end, the leader of the Song family, Song Que, personally wrote a letter to plead for mercy. Still unceremoniously beheaded the young man of the Song family, who had high hopes for him, so at this time, the two families were almost about to fight.

The fat man waved his hand, looked at the southwest map hanging on the tent pole, and said, "This map was drawn by the Imperial Intelligence Department pretending to be businessmen along the southwest waterway. It was revised more than a dozen times before it was finally completed. This southwest map has been finalized, and its level of detail is probably not even available in the Long family’s own map.”

The fat man paused for a moment before continuing, "I was confused at first, but after seeing this map, I realized that Song Que is indeed one of the most famous mountain people in the south. His decisiveness and outstanding vision are indeed quite a bit. The fleet sailed in the opposite direction from Sanchakou River On the road, it seems that they are seeking the far away, but in fact they have cleverly bypassed several major defense points that the Long family has worked hard on the southern front for decades, and entered from the weakest waterway in the southwest. As long as the troops are strong, they can reach Guanglin with overwhelming force. It’s not impossible for Chuan! The biggest advantage is that the Long family probably never thought that the Song people would adopt a retrograde attack strategy and attack the southwest through the east-west river! By the time we reacted, the southwest gate had been torn open, and the main force of the Long family was still restrained by us on the front line of Kaishan. What else could we do except stare! As for the reverse flow of the river and wasting time, don't forget that the Song people are all mountain people who endure hardships, and they are extremely hateful to the Long family in the southwest. If tens of thousands of people pull boats up the river, from Sanshan, where the Song people are located, From the Chahe River to the Southwest River, ten days are enough."

"That's either ten days later or..."

At this time, even Li Yuehua felt a cold feeling on his back. If the intelligence was true, then the Song fleet going up the river at this moment had actually passed half of the distance. It was indeed as the emperor said. Although it would be delayed to go upstream, time, but they bypassed the six fortresses set up by the Long family on the southern line, because the Long family has always been accustomed to the terrain upstream, Therefore, there is almost no defense against the waterway. Once faced with the fierce attack of the Song clan's large fleet, the situation will inevitably be a collapse of the First World War. The Song clan can easily kill the Guangling River mouth, the home of the Long family. Ten days later, this may be the case. In this situation, the Long family, which has been entrenched in the southwest for decades, may end up being blocked by a sword in ten days.

"Just watch, within the next few days, the Long family should have a reaction!" The fat man said with a stern expression, decisively,

Not only in the past few days, in fact, the urgent news from the river the next morning had already made the entire Long family army panic.

"What the hell is going on?

Longshan's face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. He couldn't believe that just when the Long family was fighting the empire, the Song people would suddenly fly to the entrance of the southwest river as if they had wings. Chang, this was beyond his original expectation.

A Long family general, covered in mud and water, was kneeling in front of Longshan with a miserable look on his face, and said in a whimpering voice, "Master Longhua was ordered to send a navy fleet to transport supplies downstream. Who knew that just after leaving the mouth of the Lichang River, he suddenly encountered an oncoming attack? The coming Song ships opened the way. These Song ships are completely different from those we have encountered before. They are astonishingly large regardless of their height and volume. Only the height of the ship's side is twice that of our army. The Song shooters Due to the condescending position and the staggering number of catapults, our warships were caught off guard and were damaged and sunk. In less than half an hour of fighting, eighteen warships and more than a thousand sailors were damaged. As a last resort, Mr. Longhua We can only order the fleet to withdraw and defend Lichang, and ask the army to send rescuers immediately. Otherwise, if Lichang is breached and there is no obstacle to the opponent's fleet's arrows, they will go all the way down to the mouth of Guanglin River. By then, I'm afraid... "

The Long family general's voice stopped, but everyone felt even more chilled. The Long family had been feuding with the mountain people for decades. Most of the generals here had been on the southern front. How could they not know how the Long family treated those mountain people? What a cruel method. Once these hatred-filled mountain people rush into Guang Linchuan, the headquarters of the Long family, the consequences will probably not be much worse than when Linhang was conquered by the prairie people. Everyone's family members are In Guanglin,

"These shameless mountain people have betrayed their faith and stabbed someone in the back regardless of the overall situation." The generals were filled with indignation. Longshan's face became even more gloomy, and his eyes showed anxiety. The Song clan's sudden war really shocked Longshan. The family was caught off guard. If the Song clan started the war from the southern front, it would be better to say that the Long family has been operating on the southern front for decades, especially the thirty years under Longshan's leadership, which turned the entire Long family's southern front into a huge military fortress

The six military fortress cities that formed an angle with each other completely blocked the way the Song people could move north. The Long family still had 20,000 people on the southern line. If the Song people wanted to cross this line, they would have to invest at least 100,000. The military strength is only 30,000 to 40,000 corpses. According to the current pride of the Song people in the court, I am afraid that There was no interest in exchanging such a heavy price for an advantage on the southern route, so Longshan did not think that the Song people would risk a war, but the fact was so cruel. The Song people advanced along the waterway, completely bypassing the strategic nodes on the southern route. Like a sharp blade, it stabbed hard at the Long family's weakness.

Originally, the Long family could only fight on two fronts, one facing the empire and the other facing the prairie people, but now it has become a three-front war in the blink of an eye.

Even the Long family, which has high morale, feels the crisis of life and death at this moment. This time, I am afraid it is not just a battle. Whether it is the front line of Mount Kaishan or the waterway, it is a situation where failure will not make it over. Knowing this, we shouldn't have been in a hurry to start a war with the empire in the first place!

Lichang is the entrance to the Lichang River that crosses the southwest. It is also a heavily garrisoned city. It is also the headquarters of the Long Family Navy. Although the Long Family Navy has no reputation, it is a force that suppresses the Song people in the south. The navy of the fleet still has dozens of ships Small and medium-sized warships that can operate in rivers, with more than 3,000 sailors. When there is no war, this Long family navy is also responsible for the task of waterway transportation. Because of the war with the empire, the main force of the Long family has been away for a long time, which consumes a lot of money. , the navy was ordered to go downstream to purchase food supplies

At this time, Lichang City was already a mess with rocks flying everywhere and flames shooting into the sky.

A Long family soldier hiding behind the crenellations of the city wall, his face was as pale as paper, and his body was leaning against the stone crenellations. Even though he was wearing armor, he could not feel the slightest sense of security. He was near the river. In a corner of the city wall, firelight mixed with black smoke Rising up, countless huge fireballs flew out from the tall hulls on the river, like countless light spots exploding on the city wall. Some fireballs crossed the city wall and hit the houses behind the city wall, immediately rising into the sky. Black smoke, under the strong wind, the fire spread Yan, almost half of the entire city of Lichang was ignited, and the sky was completely shrouded in black and red colors. The city was full of people running for their lives. No one dared to put out the fire. It was completely chaotic. In the past, when there were attacks, people would A large number of city residents came to help. At this moment, he was completely hit by fireballs that were as numerous as meteors outside the city. No one dared to come. These countless fireballs leaped over his head and hit the eaves of the house with a bang. Countless sparks scattered and flew down, as if they were floating in the wind. The scene of red dots is simply like hell.

"Asshole, the other party just wants to set the whole city on fire."

Long Hua, the commander-in-chief of the Long family navy, punched the handrail of the fortress in great annoyance. The situation was worse than he expected. It can even be said that if he had not experienced it personally, he would never believe such a scene and would not know. Where did the Song people learn this? This method of using the warship as a fort actually prepared so many fireballs, which seemed to directly wipe out Lichang City with fire. It can be seen that the opponent was definitely prepared, otherwise there would be so many fireballs. It can't be created in a short time, dragon Hua didn't know that this fireball tactic was actually inspired by the Song people after seeing the sharpness of the Imperial Navy's Thor artillery battle in Qinglong Bay. They made it out of a large number of unwanted wild vines in the southern mountains and poured oil on it. ignited, shot with a sling , the vines are soft and elastic. Under normal circumstances, they will fall apart only when they hit the target. Sparks spread everywhere. In the Sanchakou River, the Song people used this fireball to burn the ships collected by the Yelu Army along the way, and finally let Yelu's army didn't even dare to go down the river.

The Long family army who encountered vine fire for the first time had no idea what it was. Even experienced warriors have a biological instinct to fear fireballs. Moreover, the power of these vine fireballs is quite powerful. The rolling fireball often rolls forward after landing until it hits the target. Some Long family soldiers huddled behind the city wall, seemingly safe, but they were immediately infected by these rolling fireballs. The vine balls exploded, and the flames were blown upside down by the wind, igniting people all at once. The human body is like a bunch of sparks hitting it, and the body is covered in flames and screams.

Raging flames spread in Lichang City, "Woo!" The desolate sound of horns representing a deadly battle came from the direction of the city,

"Father, is it too much to fight like this?" On a warship of the Song clan, a young man wearing mountain people's vine armor said hesitantly to a middle-aged man next to him, "Although you use vines to Vine fire can reduce the number of damages to our army, but the entire Lichang City will probably be destroyed as well."

"What do you know? How can a junior like you understand the wisdom of the head of the family?" The middle-aged man wearing the animal head and shoulder armor glared at him fiercely and said, "Lichang City enters the southwest waterway. The gate is the headquarters of the Long family navy. If it is burned down, even if the Long family wants to repair it, it will be difficult to repair it. And with Lichang City in front, who dares to stop it? Blocking the fleet forward is not only to reduce the losses of our army, but also to reduce the resistance encountered after entering the southwest waterway. Only by making these southwest people feel afraid will the obstacles our army encounters be minimized. Otherwise, The cities are being conquered along the river, and the Long family’s headquarters is Guang Linchuan. I don’t know how many more people we have to fill in from the mountains!” 8