Realm of Power

The fat man stood up from his seat with a stern face, and his eyes fell on the hillside outside the tent. The mountainous area where the rainy season had just stopped has begun to have the colors of wild flowers, red, pink, yellow, and purple, as if in The huge flowerbed transformed overnight, along with spring comes the rainy season in the southwest,

Wet weather is the biggest enemy the imperial army has to face,

Should we still fight this battle? Can we still enter Southwest China?

Under the majesty of the Falcon Khan, the leaders of the various ministries in the East Court naturally did not dare to ask, in terms of military strategy and weighing the considerations, is there anyone more powerful than the Falcon Khan? Since King Khan asked everyone to station here, it must have a profound meaning! The Dongting tribes recruited this time are all northern grassland people. With the arrival of the rainy season in the south, the situation of acclimatization has become more and more obvious. The people are fine, but at most they are a little uncomfortable, but the Dongting people's war horses are miserable. , in this humid weather in the south, it’s just like lying down.

Looking at the statistics collected in the past few days, Ruitang Tingna's face turned gray. This is the humid southwest mountainous area, not the dry wilderness in the north. Prairie people cannot adapt here at all. Just the rain that fell during this period has already This made Dongtingjun feel extremely uncomfortable. Not to mention others, even Ruitang Tingna had itchy red spots on her arms. Before entering the southwest, there were already signs of plague in the camp. I heard that more people were sick in the army. It had only been more than ten days. In this situation, no one dares to say what will happen if we stay here for a long time.

"Your Majesty, the Song fleet has left Lichang and is heading straight for Guanglin, the headquarters of the Long family. I believe that it will take less than a few days to reach the city of Guanglin, the headquarters of the Long family. This time I have tens of thousands of people from Dongting going south, and we have spent a lot of money It took such a huge force to defeat the main force of the Long family. Could it be that the Song people were the ones who took advantage in the end just by watching like this? " Ruitang Tingna's fiery temper has not changed at all, and she dares to resist even when facing the emperor!

The fat man turned around nonchalantly and looked at Princess Dongting, who was wearing a colorful prairie robe that covered her entire graceful figure. He smiled and said, "What can I do if I don't look at you? In this rainy season, if I What do you think will happen if we order the troops from Dongting to move into the southwest?”

"Entering the southwest now?"

Ruitang Tingna's face was stunned for a moment, she couldn't help but change color, her white jade-like teeth bit her lips, and she didn't dare to speak anymore, yes, what can the empire do if the Song tribe invades the southwest? Beat the dragon family? It will only help the Song people. Entering the southwest, and being acclimatized, it is really a dilemma.

The situation in front of him was actually somewhat beyond Fatty's control. He did not expect that the spring climate in the southwest would be so humid. It was like living in water vapor all day long. This humid environment was really annoying for prairie people. Old life, sitting on pins and needles, the interior of the prairie armor They are all leather, and the grassland people's treatment of leather is always rough. It is only dried and then tanned. In a dry climate, the irritation to the skin is not obvious. Now in the humid southern mountains, the grassland people are simply stunned. I feel uncomfortable up and down, and I simply don’t want to stay any longer.

We are still just on the edge of the southwest mountainous area. If we really order the Dongting troops to move into the southwest mountainous area, no one dares to say what the consequences will be.

The fat man grinned. "The Long family was already anxious, saying that as long as the empire agreed to a truce, they were willing to cede the entire northwest, Daizhou, and Yanzhou to the empire, and were also willing to spend one million to compensate the empire for the loss of Lanzhi City, and The Long family also said that as long as the empire is willing to cease the war at this time, everything can be discussed, even if it is to cede the north of Guangmu City in the southwest."

"North of Guangmu City!"

Such conditions made Ruitang Tingna take a breath. Judging from the map, the location of Guangmu City is already one-third of the southwest. The northwest, Yanzhou, and Daizhou in the agreement are all fictitious. Yes, the real southwest is north of Guangmu City, and the Long family is actually willing to take it out? It can be seen that the Long family has no regard for anything this time. They are only thinking about how to find the strength to resist the Song army that is about to arrive in Guanglin. They would rather adopt the humiliating method of exchanging land for peace than start from the conflict with the empire. Get out of the war!

"If I order the Dongting Army to go south with all their strength, can they capture Guanglin before the Song people do?"

The fat man's face was stern, he came to the chair and sat down, blinking his eyes, obviously considering this possibility.

The Song fleet is advancing along the river, and its speed will not be too fast. If the imperial cavalry moves towards Guanglin with all its strength, it may not be much slower than the Song fleet! After a while, the fat man let out a long sigh, "No, no matter how you calculate it, it won't work!" , it is not a problem to enter the southwest and conquer Guanglin. Even in the end, the empire can take the southwest from the hands of the Song people.

The question is, what to do after conquering the southwest?

The Song clan now represents the orthodoxy of Central Bia and controls the direction of the court in Central Bia. Even if the entire Long family is uprooted, no one in Central Bia will say anything. But if it is the empire that occupies these areas, once If you fall into it, the consequences will be disastrous!

Although Fatty has tried his best to coordinate, the shortcomings of the empire's rapid expansion in Central and Bibia are also very obvious.

In just a few months, the empire brought the vast areas of Northwest Wilderness, Northwest, Yanzhou, etc., which are more than a thousand miles in total, into the empire's sphere of influence. This kind of expansion is not that fast even if it is annexed. , in contrast, there is a gap in the empire’s military strength in Central Asia.

In the Battle of the Imperial Wilderness, the Empire deployed about 100,000 troops, and then entered the northwest, Yanzhou, and expanded all the way. In the blink of an eye, they covered thousands of miles of land. The gap in the Empire's military strength was even more obvious. After all, they were far away from the Empire's mainland and were mobilized from the Empire's mainland. It is very difficult to guard for a long time with too many troops, and in a short period of time, it is impossible to recruit troops from the local area.

When we took over Northwest and Yanzhou, we still couldn’t tell

After all, the Central Asians in these two areas either ran away or died, leaving only large open spaces. The required garrison troops were not many, but once they entered Dijing West Road, they felt that they were stretched thin, Berlant Bonnie The total strength of the Wilderness Legion is only that much. How many troops can be left to control three major areas at once?

Now that the southwest is being conquered, where will the empire deploy its troops?

"Even if His Majesty gives the order now, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up with the Song clan and seize Guanglin!" A trace of conflict flashed through Rui Tangtingna's charming eyes. She wanted to say something, but seeing the fat man's solemn and thoughtful look, she finally decided Still didn't say it,

"Your Majesty, a letter from the Imperial Capital!" a guard shouted outside the military tent.

"Come in!" The fat man stood up and said to the outside. A guard came in with a secret letter and handed it to the fat man with both hands. The fat man took it and opened it. His eyes glanced over, and he suddenly showed a dignified look.

"What's wrong?" Ruitang Tingna couldn't help but asked curiously. The so-called letter from the Imperial Capital refers to the letter from the Yelu family.

"The wind is going to blow!" The fat man muttered to himself, curling his lips, and handed the secret letter to Rui Tangtingna. "Let me just say, the Long family is so arrogant, how could they agree to give out the secret letter north of Guangmu City this time?" Boundary, the original reason is here!”

Rui Tangtingna looked confused. She took the secret letter and looked at it. She suddenly felt a chill in her back.

"Come here, bring me the map of Central and South-Biya!" The fat man walked towards the desk with a serious look on his face. Soon, the guard sent in a map of Central and South-Biya. The fat man picked up the map and spread it on the table, looking at it. What are you looking for on the map?

"Is Yelu Qiyeguang too alarmist? If there is such a way, why haven't you heard of it before?" Rui Tangtingna came to the fat man's side and put the letter on the table.

"It can't be false, because Yelvuguda was killed in Yanzhou like this." The fat man shook his head solemnly, expressing his affirmation of the content of the letter. His finger fell on a north-south mountain range on the map. From the map, this The mountain range crosses from the northwest and turns to Daizhou after entering Yanzhou. Like a huge curved barb, it connects the mountains of Yanzhou in the north with another mountain range in the middle. It is so long that it is afraid that It's more than seven or eight hundred miles,

Taking a deep breath, the fat man's fingers finally stopped at the front of the mountain range. That was Daizhou, which happened to be within the sphere of influence of the Fengtai tribe of the Yelu family. Following the trend of the mountain range to the south, it turned out to be the southwest edge.

"The mantis stalks the cicada, and the oriole is behind! Long Po is going to play a big game!" The fat man's eyes narrowed into a thin line, and murderous intent lurked in his black pupils.

If it weren't for this letter from Yelu Qiyeguang, we might have encountered an unprepared counterattack! Yelu Qiyeguang mentioned in the secret letter that there is a large mountain range close to the edge of the northwest region, extending from north to southwest for more than a thousand miles, crossing the narrow and interlaced zone between Daizhou, Northwest, and Yanzhou. On the map It is marked as a mountainous area, so usually no one will notice it, but Yelu Qiyeguang once personally confirmed it and confirmed that it is not completely mountainous, and there is a canyon walkway.

When Long defeated the tens of thousands of Long family blood troops, he used this mountain road to secretly enter Yanzhou from the northwest. Finally, divine soldiers suddenly appeared behind Yelu Guda like descending from the sky, defeating Yelu Guda's 100,000 Yelu troops in one fell swoop! Yelu Qiyeguang also mentioned that the Long family proposed a truce to the Yelu family, but Yelu Qiyeguang rejected it. "The Long family had no intention of truce with the Yelu family at all. They only deliberately used the Yelu family's negotiations to make the Fengtai tribe willingly negotiate with the Yelu family." With the Long family united, Long Po will definitely repeat the old drama this time and return to the southwest along this mountain road! "

Long Po is coming back! What does this mean?

Sweep!

Since Long Po's northward march, he fought continuously and absorbed more than three to four hundred thousand young men. Along the way, Long Po used captured grassland army weapons to equip new recruits, and used continuous brutal battles to mature these recruits in a very short period of time. , in the eyes of these recruits, the Chinese and Bian court who abandoned them were worse than dogs. They all hated the emperor who was beaten by the grassland people and fled south. This was an army that was truly loyal to the Long family. For them, the Long family was the sky, and wherever the Long family's military flag was directed, even if it was The grassland people, the Zhongbia court, and even the Zhongbia emperor would cover them up without hesitation.

Fighting to nourish war, blood to strengthen blood, such a power was finally mastered by the Long family. Even if they are not all elites, it is definitely a terrifying power.

Ever since the Long family in the southwest suddenly went to war with the empire, Fatty had always had a doubt in his heart. Long Po's nature has always been to be bold and dare to gamble. If he seizes a chance of victory, he dares to press with all his strength. He is the kind of true With the nature of a gambler, facing the crisis in the Long Family headquarters, he would stay in Daizhou and ignore it. How is this possible? The heads of the Long family in the southwest have all been famous generals, but Long Po was able to rise up in the most adversity of the Long family, seize the perfect opportunity of the turmoil in Central Asia, and push the Long family to the altar in one fell swoop. In the Long family Among all the family heads in the past, he was considered to be extremely talented, even a bit more powerful than the previous head Long Yang. How could such a person commit the taboo of starting a war with both the Prairie Army and the Empire at the same time? And with Long Po's eyesight, how could he not predict the possibility of the Song clan adding insult to injury at a critical moment?

Now everything becomes clear at once,

Long Po, Long Shan, the tacit cooperation between the two, the battle between more than 100,000 Long family troops and the empire, the real winner was decided at the moment Long Po returned to the army,

When Long Po swept from behind the empire with his accumulated 300,000 to 400,000 troops, no matter how strong the empire was, it would inevitably result in a hasty defeat. As long as the empire was defeated, the Song clan would be considered a clown at most, even if they really succeeded. In Guanglin, the only way out was to immediately return to the army and flee, unless Song Que believed that he could fight with hundreds of thousands of Long family troops in the southwest! This is impossible. Song Que is not that stupid. The Long family has been entrenched in the southwest for decades. How can it be compared to the Song family who have only entered the southwest for just half a month? If you don't run, you will die!

On the contrary, after this battle, the Long family defeated the empire and scared away the Song people. Coupled with the astonishing prestige accumulated since their invincible march to the north, it was inevitable for the Long family to expel the Song people into the court, and then became the Zhongbi people. The royal family of Yaxin is just a process That's all, if there is anything unexpected about Long Po's plan, it is that Long Po did not expect that Longshan would fail. If Longshan did not fail, but instead led more than 100,000 Long family troops into the northwest of the empire according to the original plan , confronting the empire in the northwest,

What Long Po launched against the empire was not a blow from behind, but a perfect attack from two sides. A true battle would determine the world!

"No way, this is too..." After hearing Fatty's explanation, Rui Tangtingna was dumbfounded. Such tactics are no longer tactics, this is magic. Fatty thought that a Western Continental person should explain the essence of Eastern strategy. It was a very laborious task. He shook his head and sneered, "There is nothing impossible. When Long Po dared to hit Yeluguda in the back, why didn't he? A blow to the empire's back? The people who know the Long family best are the Song people. The reason why Song Que delayed going south in Lichang probably was because he felt something. He refused to let the fleet go before he knew the real movement of Long Po. Those who are going south are ordering the fleet to go south now, just because of pressure. Look, if I guess correctly, Song Que's fleet will not reach Guanglin for five or six days! "

Longyingkou is as its name suggests. Due to the swollen river, the already narrow road suddenly became a real hole.

The battle continued, and the sounds of countless fighting were like the roaring rivers of floods. On the battle line between the two armies, countless swords and sword shadows were like an invisible big hand deliberately suppressing something. The Song Clan Shan in red armor The army is like the heavy armor of the Long family standing still in the red wave,

Let this huge red blood knife of the Song Clan Mountain Army suddenly cut off the earth. Under the impact, countless blood exploded, like broken grass clippings scattered in the wind, and a burst of armor leaves slightly fired. the metallic sound,

Hundreds of Long family heavy infantry with iron helmets and red tassels stood in front, slashing hard with the heavy swords in their hands, like a gate falling in the red tide, cutting off the red tide.

The armor of these Long Family heavy-armored soldiers covers their faces from their faces to their legs below the knees. The melee heavy swords in their hands have been completely dyed red with human blood. The wolf tails on their helmets flutter in the wind, "Kill! Kill! Kill." !" Their voices spread to all directions, making the Song Mountain Army turn pale. They are the real Long Family Guanglin Army under Long Xueshan.

The total number of the Long family's Guanglin army is only 20,000, of which 10,000 are the family leader's personal troops, who have accompanied Long Po to the north, 5,000 are stationed in Guanglin, and the rest are the guards of each army leader. They are real heavy armored soldiers. , even against the heavy cavalry of the Western Continent, it is a powerful unit that cannot be ignored. If the real Guanglin Army is not arranged, how can the other side believe that this is the Guanglin Army!

In front of them, the corpses of the Song tribe's mountain soldiers lying down piled up like a mountain. Every time they swung their swords, hot human blood spattered onto their faces without blinking. Even though they were wearing heavy armor, some of their joints were weak. Their parts were also cut open, and some of their arms were even cut off on the ground, but they still showed no sign of retreating.

Before the battle, everyone was mentally prepared. When faced with the overwhelming sound of killing Guanglin's army, they also tightened their weapons at the same time.

Go forward, rush in, and kill Guanglin's army like thunder. The Shan army's sharp southern machete looks even more ferocious under the gaze of tens of thousands of red eyes. It's like a red wave hitting the Long family army's defense line. Countless people People swarmed out. It was impossible to tell the specific number of people, but they just moved towards the dragon. Yingkou was pouring. At this moment, it didn’t matter what the formation was. The decades of deep hatred made everyone’s eyes bloodshot, like the rolling waves, and bursts of passionate shouts came from their mouths, before rushing to the camp. In a battle, the first priority is morale, not to mention that the opponent is the most elite Guanglin army of the Long family.

The Long Family Army's spear spears moved forward in a row. They looked at the red crowd in front of them and hit them. Almost at the same time, they held their breath for a brief moment. The machetes of the Song Clan Army were already densely slashing on the spear spears.

Countless arrow clusters also shot out from the sky above the heads of both sides, bringing up dazzling white lines, just like countless stars falling in the dark night. Blood spurted down, and the broken limbs were twisted into the air by the cold light, and they opened their eyes. The head with bulging eyes fell into the mud with various expressions of unwillingness.

Hold on, how long can you hold on?

Hold on, what should I do if I can’t hold it anymore? "Long Xueshan looked at the heavy armored men of the Long Family in front of him who were finally overwhelmed by the crowd, and his lips trembled slightly. In this battle, no one will survive! I just want to hold on for a moment longer!