For the emperor

The suppression of the bandits went smoothly.

The unwritten rule of the Cang Kingdom is that there is no turning back when the bow is opened, and it is a very taboo thing to let the army go back. However, where bandits are active in the Zangliang Mountains, the Northwest Army needs to turn back three hundred miles.If the Northwest Army does this, it is likely that within a few days, the court's reprimand order will come down.

Because of the issue of accountability afterwards, it was rare for Cang Tiansu, who promised to pay for everyone, to change into a general's uniform, step out of the barracks, and go into battle in person, instead of huddling in the main tent and busy with stabbing people in the back.

Not far from the exit of the mountain road that must pass through from the Cang Kingdom to the place where the army is stationed, a group of rogues with less than a hundred people gathered was picked out by soldiers with red eyes and excited faces searching the mountain.

Cang Tiansu looked at nearly a thousand grain carts lined up neatly in the open space, and at the group of rogues who had been arrested, and thought to himself, Zhao Liu is really stingy.

He originally thought that Zhao Liu, who had successfully robbed the food and grass after discovering the traces of the mission through untold hardships, would keep the big head for himself, but he didn't expect that the other party would simply donate a little to him to last until the next court. Even the scapegoat only found so little of the food that the envoys brought.

Just these dozens of scattered, pitiful, ragged envoys watching their own bandits robbing hundreds of people?Brother, at least you have to leave some room for the nonsense behind me.

Cang Tiansu sighed with a headache, and waved his hand to signal Duan Yu to take the nearly a hundred people down and deal with it himself.He knew the reason why Zhao Liu withheld most of the food. Who let himself, as the boss, not pay enough monthly salary?

Fortunately, the old man of the bandit sect found himself pleasing to the eye for no reason, and gave him a lot of support both openly and secretly.Only by relying on the pirate digital army to pay for it themselves can the intelligence network operate normally.

Encountered such a good opportunity to make up for the shortfall this time, Zhao Liu naturally would not let it go in vain.

Anyway, when the food and grass were gone, it was the court's turn to cry and cry, and there was not even a single coin of responsibility between Cang Tiansu, the obvious direct victim.

According to the unanimous confession of these rogues, they found such a large amount of food and grass here this morning. Everyone pointed out that they dared to vouch for the four gods of "Water, Fire, Wind and Thunder" that everyone in the Wuji Continent believed in, and robbed the mission. It's definitely not what they did.

The soldiers who were still filled with righteous indignation and clamored to catch the rogues and would not make it easier for them looked at me and I looked at you, but no one could speak.

These dozens of rogues, dragging their families, old and young, were standing in a row in a mess in the open space, some were on crutches, some were coughing loudly due to the cold, and there was a man and a woman. Changing a crying baby's diaper.

And most of them are empty-handed.

The soldiers of the Northwest Army silently looked at the only weapon in the hands of more than a dozen of them - the long sharpened wooden stick. No matter what, they couldn't believe the nonsense that Master Liu swore yesterday that "a large number of rogues ambushed, and a team of hundreds of people" .

As a result, most of them believed the rhetoric of these rogues, thinking that it was really the Liu family who put on small shoes for the Northwest Army and deliberately threw food and grass here.

"Forget it, let them go, their life is like this, why should we kill them all?" Xu Fu was the first to break the silence, he had been winking at Cang Tiansu just now to indicate that this matter is still up to him. It would be better for the general to show up, but Cang Tiansu obviously didn't want to do this, so he just followed him with his eyes and simply pretended not to see it.

Xu Comp had no choice, he guessed and chased Li Renqiang, but he didn't expect General Li to be immersed in his own thoughts, and he didn't even intend to turn Noble's head to his side.

General Xu had no choice but to grit his teeth and stomp his feet, and bit the bullet to express his opinion.No one objected, after tossing for a long time, such a farce was actually staged.

Cang Tiansu sighed, turned and left first.Li Renqiang squeezed out Duan Yu, who was habitually following behind him, and sneered, "You did this, didn't you?"

Cang Tiansu didn't look back, and looked straight ahead, without the usual smile on his face: "I only found out about the mission yesterday at noon. time."

Li Renqiang rolled his eyes, knowing in his heart that this incident cannot be blamed on him at all. Even if the general did play a lot of tricks in handling the envoy's problem, at most he could only say that he was following the trend rather than adding fuel to the flames.

After solving the problem of eating, the generals of the Northwest Army, large and small, were in the mood to get together to discuss the next predicament.

As early as the last wave of 8 people attacked and almost wiped out the entire army, the emperor of Qi State was furious. He originally planned to take advantage of the fire to loot, and take advantage of Cang Kingdom's own dogs biting dogs. Unexpectedly, the soldiers of his country have been hungry for ten and a half days Months of opponents can not beat.

While Cangguo's army was still staying, Qiguo deployed 50 heavy troops on the outskirts of the plain, because he was afraid that another sneak attack would only provide rations for the hungry Northwest Army soldiers. Save your energy and wait for the Northwest Army to go to die.

Cang Tiansu had received three pieces of information on this matter a few days earlier, one from Zhao Liu, one from the military camp, and one from the intelligence network Duan De left to the two younger generations.

The current situation is completely self-inflicted by the people of Cang Kingdom.

In the past, even the generals of Qi knew that the best way was to give up some small and medium-sized towns and lay heavy troops to focus on defending the big cities, but no one could tell the emperor to let him generously hand over the territory, even if it was in a remote area. Land, for the sake of the hearts of the people, Emperor Qi naturally couldn't give up his territory for no reason.

If the Northwest Army hadn't stayed in one place for such a long time, Qi Guo would not have the energy to arrange so many manpower. Before the crisis really came, he could only grit his teeth and bloom everywhere, guarding the strongholds in various villages and towns, waiting for the people of Cangguo Break each one.

Cang Tiansu understood Emperor Qi's thoughts quite well, he was neither willing to give up his small head, nor his big head, he looked forward and backward, full of doubts, finally lost the opportunity, and could only be passively beaten.

If Qi State had a truly patriotic general like Duan De who dared to stand up and put forward the correct solution, and was willing to bear the notoriety for it, Qi State would not be in the current situation.

Just like Pingye City, the previous generations of coaches all understood what was the best way to avoid future troubles, but after all, no one dared to issue that order.

Zhao Liu put his life on the line and deployed people in various teahouses in Cangguo, just to change the direction of public opinion and try to get more people to accept the Northwest Army's massacre of the city.For more than half a year, the human resources of Pirate Sect's subordinates have been operating non-stop. Under the background that massacring the city is the only way to solve the predicament, they have only won the support of less than a quarter of the people, which shows the great resistance to this matter .

The principles of heaven and morality, benevolence, trustworthiness and propriety are always mountains that cannot be overcome.

Cang Tiansu looked at the generals of the three factions who were about to quarrel, thinking quietly.

Xu Chen's faction believed that the soldiers should be divided at the end of the plain, and they would spread out a few groups of people, even if the opponent also divided into several groups to pursue, it was better than the current situation.

Xu Chen explained the reason. On the battlefield, there are not many people who can be used. Due to the influence of the field where the two armies are facing each other, it is impossible to mobilize all the soldiers. They are exchanging lives for lives at a ratio close to one to one.

If 2 people fight against 10 people, because the army is easy to mobilize, if the tactics are flexible and clever, there is still a certain winning rate, which is much better than 10 people recklessly fighting for 50.

Li Renqiang's subordinates believed that the division of troops was easy to be defeated one by one.According to Li Renqiang's idea, the generals and soldiers can be sent to form a vanguard force, Qingqi bypasses the heavy encirclement in front, goes deep into the enemy's rear, and burns their grain storage areas.

At the same time, the army should stay in place and defend. As long as they can survive the first few days of the attack, when the opposing soldiers find out that there is not enough food and grass, their morale will be low. The lack of food for 50 people is comparable to the lack of food for 10 people, which may cause mutiny. much higher sex.

Both factions have their own thinking, and both of their proposals are feasible, and it is impossible to say which one is better.

Seeing that they couldn't convince each other, the two factions looked at Cang Tiansu's peaceful and contented appearance, and after looking at each other, they simply kept silent and just waited for him to make a decision.

Cang Tiansu saw that the discussion was almost over, leaned forward slightly, and pointed to the large map spread on the table: "I mean, we will divide our troops into two groups, split here to the two wings, and 2 people will surround the mountains It is heading north, and there is a good defense point more than ten miles away, so far, Qi Guo has not reached out there."

When he said this, he paused for a while, looked at the faces of everyone, and saw that everyone understood what he meant, and then continued: "The other 8 people marched southeast, bypassed the encirclement, and turned north sharply. Attack the city, ford when encountering water, follow this route, these places are empty of troops at this time, and within half a month, we should be able to completely get out of trouble."

Li Renqiang and Xu Compensation looked at each other, and said first: "That is to say, we must find a way to lure the enemy's main energy to the 2 people in the first group."

The obvious bait and abandonment, but what he couldn't figure out was, where did this little doll of the Cang family come from to be so confident that the enemy would really not choose to divide his troops to pursue him, but would foolishly use everyone Go after these 2 people?

"According to what General Li said earlier, we first sent people to burn down the granaries, and each of the 8 people brought enough food for a month, gave up their luggage, and waited for them to be out of trouble. Then the generals broke up the 8 people into pieces. The area you are about to attack The places are all well-known and rich places in Qi State, I think, even with the scattered supplies from small villages, it is enough to feed 2 to [-] people."

Xu Xi took over the words: "But even if the other party has no food, 2 people only rely on a thousand carts of food and grass, it seems that it is not enough to attract all 50 soldiers?"

Cang Tiansu didn't raise his eyelids, and answered the wrong question: "These 2 people are led by General Duan."

All the generals were taken aback, and turned to look at Duan Yu who was standing next to Cang Tiansu. Seeing that there was no fluctuation on his face, it seemed that the two of them had discussed it a long time ago.

Cang Tiansu's order was very interesting, at least several generals put down their worries after hearing this, and began to think carefully about the twists and turns in the middle.

Everyone in the military camp knew that the commander seldom participated in the private banquets of the generals, and he didn't have a deep friendship with everyone, except for Major General Duan, who was as good as the same person. In the past few years, the two have never been separated for a moment.

In order to give an explanation to the [-] soldiers who were about to be pushed out to die, and also to deter and suppress them, it was necessary to choose a highly prestigious general to command.

When everyone first heard Cang Tiansu's plan, they all thought that either Xu Compensation was going to die or Li Renqiang was going to take on this drudgery.In the barracks, only these two senior and prestigious generals are qualified for this position. Strictly speaking, Duan Yu is far from qualified.

What's more, no one wants to send someone close to this kind of thing that obviously has no return.Whether it is the intelligence network and liaison personnel left behind by General Duan, or the five thousand soldiers he trained, he recognizes that it is not Cang Tiansu, but Duan Yu, the only son of the Duan family.

This is also specially arranged by Duan De in order to prevent the Cang family from killing the donkey.With such a trick, at least in the next ten years, Duan Yu will not face the danger of being killed by a rabbit.

Without the only child of the Duan family, the eldest prince of the Cang Kingdom could not command Duan De's men at all.Regardless of friendship, in terms of usefulness alone, Duan Yu's effect on Cang Tiansu is far greater than that of any general in the army.If he does this now, he will undoubtedly cut off his own arm, and the loss will be huge.

After a moment of silence in the military tent, Zhu Erda was the first to nod in agreement: "A large amount of food and grass plus Major General Duan, I think it's almost enough." He is Xu Zhi's direct army, so naturally he doesn't want to see the commander go to die in vain, Since someone is willing to be taken advantage of, why not do it?

"That's enough!" Li Renqiang spat viciously, jumped up against the case, pointed at Cang Tiansu and cursed angrily, "The surname Cang, how did you agree to the general at the beginning? His bones are not cold yet, and you have the face to send his son away?" To die?!"

"Uncle Li!" Duan Yu hurried forward, trying to pull him aside, but he couldn't move him at all, so he could only whisper, "It's not what you think, after listening to Susu..."

"He's going to sell you out, and you're still talking for him?!" Li Renqiang finished scolding loudly, and then Xu Complement sneered, "What are you talking about, General Li? Could it be that the commander has to consider this kind of thing when he arranges people?" ? Naturally, whoever is more suitable will be sent."

Li Renqiang laughed out of anger, and said: "No, it's not you who died, you are naturally in the mood to stand up and make sarcastic remarks."

Xu Xi opened his mouth to refute, but Cang Tiansu stopped him: "Everyone sit down, I haven't finished my sentence yet."

Li Renqiang had already calmed down after being shocked by Xu Yuan, snorted, and cupped his hands at Cang Tiansu: "Master General, I think that instead of sending Major General Duan, it is better for me to take over this glorious and difficult task, even if I don't I have had a deep friendship with you for four years, and I have not listened to you on weekdays, and I am loyal, and you can't stop me from being loyal to my country."

Cang Tiansu smiled, pretending not to understand the sarcasm in his words: "I will go with Ayu - the current coach of the army, the only son of the former coach, plus the only source of food and grass they can get now , I think it should be almost the same.”

This is true, after Cang Tiansu put himself on top, the two ends of the balance were almost balanced.

When Duan De was there, the two countries had been fighting each other. Both countries had victories and losses.But since Cang Tiansu entered the power center of the Northwest Army, the Cang Kingdom began to launch large-scale foreign wars. Over the past year, an unknown number of people from the Qi Kingdom died by the roadside, and no one collected their bones.

In addition to the matter of Pingye City, the order to massacre the city was given by Duan De, but the massacre of the city was done by heaven.The Qi people hate Cang Tiansu much more than they hate Duan De.

Because of the successive defeats, the emperor of Qi State desperately needs a beautiful victory to win back the hearts of the people. Instead of besieging the 8 horses who will be trapped in Qi State and die sooner or later, it is better to kill the backbone of the opponent in one fell swoop. enjoyable.

Cang Tian Suxuan's defensive location is also very delicate, it is already close to the edge of the encirclement, if Qi's army does not press on, once the 2 people disperse, they may take the opportunity to slip away at any time.

Maybe swallowing 8 people is more beneficial to the current situation of the Qi State, and it can also bring a devastating blow to the Northwest Army, but the Qi State general who is in charge of dispatching the army also understands that when the hard bones are gnawed away, the court will definitely send relatives and nobles To divide the military merits, no general will dominate the family. At that time, the first son of the emperor of Cangguo will probably not be able to let himself do it.

With the lives of millions of people nearby on the one hand, and the bright future and the glory of the rest of his life on the other, Cang Tiansu is betting on the character of the other party.

Not paying attention to everyone's expressions at this time, he stretched out his hand and stroked the rough map paper carefully, with a gentle smile on his lips.

The nanny is right, the politician is indeed the dirtiest and most desirable profession.