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Chapter 724 Chapter 724 The Confused Feng Kezhi
Liu Guozhu nodded, and then looked to the west: "The regiment leader said that he wants to continue to advance 30 kilometers to the west, and stabilize the defense line after arriving at Cangjian Gorge."

"Okay, after Cangjian Gorge passes, isn't it Jiange?" The driver was slightly taken aback when he heard the place name, and then a smile appeared on his face.

With this advance approaching the Jiange, the top management of the Dahua Empire is probably not thinking about whether Wangchun City can be recaptured, but about the country itself.

You must know that Jiange is one of the three states where the founding emperor of the Dahua Empire started his family. The ancestral graves of the founding emperor's grandfather and grandmother are still buried here, and Zhao Kai absolutely dare not lose them.

If this place is really breached by Tang Jun, then Zhao Kai can be said to have lost his ancestral foundation, which is absolutely unacceptable to Zhao Kai: what he values ​​most is face, so he absolutely does not want to lose face like this I recognized it by pinching my nose.

So he forgot that he had ordered the troops to counterattack and recapture Wangchun City, and strictly ordered Feng Kezhi to guard Cangjian Gorge and not retreat a step.

In addition, he personally appointed a frontline commander, Prince Zhao Jie, who is also a member of the royal family, to personally rush to Jiange to supervise the battle.

This move made the Ministry of War and General Feng Kezhi very dissatisfied. It was tantamount to saying that the emperor was dictating and interfering with the use of troops by the frontline generals, which was a taboo for military strategists.

However, a series of failures before made it impossible for Shen Chuan of the Ministry of War and Feng Kezhi, the general of the empire, to stop Zhao Kai, who was insanely micromanipulating.So the front line suddenly became chaotic.

On the one hand, in order to save the defeat as much as possible, Feng Kezhi is personally dispatching troops, hoping to reorganize an effective defense, stabilize the front, and then look for an opportunity to counterattack and regain Wangchun City.

On the other hand, Prince Zhao Jie, who hastily left for the Jiange, took the emperor's order to oversee the entire Southeast War and had the power to mobilize troops.

At the same time, Ding Hong, the front-line commander who was ordered to gather the rout and take over the mess left by Han Zhiyuan, was commanding and responding to the Tang army's attack according to the actual situation.

In fact, it was the little-known Ding Hong who really played a role. He was the commander who directly faced the Tang army's attack.

Compared with Han Zhiyuan, this elder brother is actually not very capable. If he is asked to manage step by step in the rear and worry about logistics, he is still very competent.

Let him lead troops to directly confront the most ferocious Tang army in the world. This big brother is definitely a typical example of the kind of more than enough energy.

What he did the most these days was to send telegrams to Feng Kezhi to ask for countermeasures. At the same time, he kept amplifying the pressure on the front line ten times and cried to Feng Kezhi in order to get more support.

There was no way, after all, ever since Han Zhiyuan died in Wangchun City, the situation of the battle had taken a turn for the worse, and the Dahua army had been losing ground.If Ding Hong didn't make the matter serious, how could he explain it to the people above?
Therefore, the news that Feng Kezhi, who was far away in the imperial capital, heard was basically where the Tang army had taken down, the defenders had surrendered without a fight, how many oil shells had been lost, requests for support, and so on.

The general's countermeasures based on such news were basically conservative and ordered the troops to retreat.

No way, Feng Kezhi is at least a sensible person. He knows that there is a delay between his order and the battle situation on the front line, so he can only order the troops to retreat first, stabilize their position in a relatively safe position, and then plan other things.

But during this retreat, Ding Hong withdrew his line of defense from the west of Wangchun City to a position with his back against the Cangjian Gorge.

This is a position that can no longer be retreated - even Ding Hong knows that if he runs away again and loses the city of Jiange, not to mention the black hat on his head, even his neck may be lost.

So he changed his normal routine and began to ask for a counterattack. Anyway, no matter how much the troops lost or how badly they fought, he couldn't care about it anymore.

As a result, the Dahua army who had finally fled all the way to Cangjian Gorge had some capital, but was lost by Ding Hong, the big brother, most of it.

It wasn't until this time that Feng Kezhi, who was in charge of the imperial capital's remote control command, realized that the general Redman was quite powerful.

Before he actually experienced it himself, he had only heard of Tang Guoyou's so-called five tiger generals: Redman who is good at fast break, Tiger who is good at defense, and Bolton and Straw who are famous in Dawn. Si, and Admiral Bernard.

But how powerful these people are, he actually has no concept: Feng Kezhi didn't know until Redman rushed all the way to kill Han Zhiyuan and turned the southeastern part of the Dahua Empire upside down. How much gold does the admiral have.

It was at this time that he realized what kind of monster Qian Jinhang had been fighting with for so many days!After all, Redman is so good, and Tiger who is placed with him is obviously not a rookie.

Then Feng Kezhi suddenly realized that what Qian Jinhang, who was fighting on the front line, had been reporting to him all along was that the Tang army was not defeated, but was retreating on purpose, and that the very difficult battle of Xi Cong might be true. of!

But it was not Qian Jinhang, who was far away in Xi Cong, who made Feng Kezhi feel like a man on his back, but what Tang Jun's real combat intention was.

Before, the Tang army stormed the defense line, and after breaking through the border defense line of the Dahua army, they stormed southward from the central region. As long as you are not a fool, you can see that the Tang army is planning to cut off Qian Jinhang's back, and surround Qian Jinhang. One hundred thousand troops.

This is also the result that Shen Chuan, Feng Kezhi, and even Cyric's advisers were most worried about: Tang Jun encircled the Dahua army near Xicong, ate up Qian Jinhang's troops, and turned around to attack the southeastern region of Dahua.

After all, nearly one million Dahua troops were wiped out, which really made Dahua very passive: but waiting for Datang's troops to eat up Qian Jinhang's troops, and then turning back and marching westward, in fact, a lot of time has been wasted.

From Dahua's point of view, Qin's troops could have arrived at that time, and the situation seemed passive, but it might not be impossible to fight.

But now Redman's troops have changed their direction of attack. Although there is also a troop attacking south, the westward troop is advancing very fast.

This made Feng Kezhi uncertain about Tang Jun's context: he didn't know whether Tang Jun wanted to break through Cangjian Gorge and capture the entire southeast region where Jiange plotted against Dahua, or whether he was planning to trouble Qian Jinhang.

So he hesitated, unable to make a correct judgment, and was influenced by Zhao Kai, a master of micromanagement, and began to worry about gains and losses.

In a swordsman's duel, a moment of hesitation will cost his life. In a war between two countries, the hesitation of the commander will also affect the outcome on the battlefield.

"Is it Cangjian Gorge... Jiange City, or Tengyun... Nanfengkou?" Looking at the map in front of him, Feng Kezhi narrowed his eyes and muttered.

At this moment, he was really envious of that opponent named Redman. Being able to command such a powerful army on the battlefield was definitely the lifelong dream of all generals.

It's a pity that dreams are dreams after all. Tang's troops are indeed powerful, and Tang Mo is the only one who may command and mobilize them.

Feng Kezhi took a breath, and saw Shen Chuan who had just walked in with a pale face.The Minister of the Ministry of War has been extremely depressed for the past two days.

The emperor Zhao Kai was always in a state of explosion. Every day when he went to court, Shen Chuan, the Minister of the Ministry of War, would be pulled out alone to criticize him.

The atmosphere in the court hall was very solemn, and the danger of the Jiange also made the Ministry of War unable to hold its head up in front of other court leaders.

Everyone was very worried about the safety of the southeast region of the empire. Even if they were just pretending, they had to show it to His Majesty the Emperor—at least, they had to show that everyone valued the emperor's ancestral tomb.

"How is it?" Looking at the depressed Shen Chuan, Feng Kezhi asked with a little bit of gloating.He was specially approved not to go to the court to attend the court meeting because of the tension of the war, so he was glad that he didn't have to look at the stinky face of His Majesty the Emperor.

But before he was happy, he saw His Majesty the Emperor who was the first to walk into the room, but didn't speak, just walked to the map and looked up.

"I have seen Your Majesty!" Feng Kezhi immediately stepped forward, knelt down, bowed his head to pay respects to Zhao Kai, and said, "I don't know that Your Majesty is coming, but I am far away from welcoming you. Please forgive me."

"Get up!" Zhao Kai ordered without looking back, "Tell me about the situation at Jiange..."

His tone was not very friendly, it was obviously a little emotional - Zhao Kai was very annoyed by the terrible performance of the army these days.

In the past, the Ministry of War was the one that asked for the most money. The reforms and the purchase of new equipment, as well as the establishment of factories and the laying of railways, cost money like water.

How did the military assure him at that time?What Feng Kezhi and Shen Chuan said at that time was that only in this way can Dahua's army win the next war.

Now that the next war is coming, how can Zhao Kai be satisfied if he fights like this?He spent a lot of money!In order to strengthen the army, he hasn't expanded the harem for two years, and hasn't repaired the garden for more than three years!

Feng Kezhi heard Zhao Kai's dissatisfaction, and immediately explained: "Your Majesty, please rest assured! I have already organized troops to build the defense line of Zangjianxia! Across a big river, it is as difficult as going to heaven for the Tang army to attack Jiange!"

"Hmph!" Zhao Kai snorted coldly: "A few months ago, you also said that it would be as difficult for the Tang army to break through the border defense line!"

"Your Majesty..." Feng Kezhi still wanted to explain.

Zhao Kai waved his hand: "Defend Jiange at all costs! This is the bottom line! If it really doesn't work... let Qian Jinhang give up Xi Cong."

This is the first time that Zhao Kai has allowed Dahua's frontline troops to retreat since the start of the war, which shows the importance of Jiange in Zhao Kai's mind.

"In this way, Qian Jinhang's troops can even withdraw and threaten the Tang army from the flank. With his hundreds of thousands of troops, the Tang army will definitely retreat from the direction of Jiange." Feng Kezhi was overjoyed, bowed his head and generously sent his Flattery: "Your Majesty is wise and wise, I... I am not as good as myself."

(End of this chapter)