Imperial County Magistrate

Chapter 569
In addition to the [-] Green Dragon Army, the [-] Shenwu Army plus the White Tiger Army and the Xuanwu Army, the Suzaku Army, and others.

Zhao Kang reluctantly gathered a hundred thousand troops and rushed to the frontline battlefield.

In addition, Xu Ning had previously asked Yu Chenggong to lead 10 people and Wu Yu had previously taken away [-] Xuanwu troops.

Zhao Kang now has 23 people at his disposal.

23 compared to Xiao Feiyu, now at least 40 plus the two troublemakers Long Han and Wu Xiong.

It seems that it is not enough, but Zhao Kang doesn't think so.

He has been studying maps during this period, and he can say that he has completely memorized the topography of Yizhou, Bingzhou and other places after Xuzhou.

The rugged terrain along this journey is a natural barrier. Xiao Feiyu's highly capable cavalry is basically unable to move in this place and can only dismount and fight.

Then there is something to play with.

"Master."

Hua Feng, the commander of the Shenwu Army, rode his horse from far away and called out respectfully.

Zhao Kang asked with a smile: "What's wrong with General Hua?"

As the commander of Jingguo's most elite troops, Hua Fengyuan is naturally a rare talent.

He hesitated before saying: "Commander, the general is a little confused. Now that Xuzhou has been captured, why don't we march to Yizhou to join the army stationed there? Instead, we have to go directly to Cangshan to face the enemy. The gap in strength is so big. , I’m afraid we are no match for them.”

Hua Fengyuan's words undoubtedly meant to make others' ambitions destroy his own prestige, so he was very cautious when he spoke.

Zhao Kang said happily: "General Hua, don't worry. I already have a process in my mind on how to fight this battle. Soldiers are more important than having more troops. In the future, wars will not be won by just having more people."

There were some very hilarious things about the previous wars. At that time, they were called righteous wars. Before fighting, we had to tell you why we were fighting and when we were going to fight.

Both sides lead people to rush for a while, whoever has more people wins.

Later, gradually the generals of various countries also learned to be cunning and no longer fought so-called righteous wars.

The intrigue begins, but some things remain constant.

For example, the number of troops was falsely reported. The 3 troops sent out for the expedition were only [-] at most, including the auxiliary troops. To build momentum, they said it was an army of [-].

If it exceeds 40, it is said to be [-] to [-]!

So much so that some generals made a joke. They heard that the enemy had an army of [-], but according to the rules, that was only [-] or [-].

As a result, when the fight started, Caini X discovered that the other party had really brought an army of [-] troops.

Jokes like this have happened often before.

But now, Zhao Kang believes that since firearms have become available, future wars will really not be decided by the number of people.

Hearing what Zhao Kang said, Hua Fengyuan was relieved. He had already seen Zhao Kang's ability in the previous battle to relieve Huajing City.

At least it would have been impossible for him to lead the tens of thousands of people to break through the enemy's encirclement and push them all the way.

Because they suffered heavy losses in Xuzhou City and more than [-] troops perished in the flames, even Xiao Feiyu felt a little panicked and ordered the entire army to be on alert and did not attack rashly.

This gave Zhao Kang time to march.

After a few days, Zhao Kang and his army also felt the scope of the Cangshan Mountains. The Cangshan Mountains behind Xuzhou were a barrier to Bingzhou.

If the enemy crosses this line, Bingzhou, which owns the imperial capital, will basically be meat on the chopping board.

Cangshan is still some distance away from Yizhou, so the messengers were asked to rush to Yizhou eight hundred miles away to report the situation here.Zhao Kang waited for the scout who inquired about the news to come back.

When the scouts brought back the news, only enemy scouts were active around Cangshan, and there were not a large number of enemy troops.

Zhao Kang sneered in his heart: "We have to thank Xiao Feiyu for giving us time."

The surrounding generals were a little puzzled, but Zhao Kang did not explain and directly asked them to call all the captains.

Afterwards, all the commanders of each army arrived, gathering a total of 100 people.

Zhao Kang spread out the map, and everyone was surprised to find that on the map, the entire huge Cangshan Mountains were marked with charcoal circles one after another.

Zhao Kang directly named 30 people and ordered the generals: "The 30 of you will each lead your subordinates to garrison defense at the places marked on the map!"

As generals of Jingguo, Gao Yuan and Hua Fengyuan also knew the terrain of Cangshan Mountain.

Both of them were surprised to find that the places Zhao Kang marked with charcoal were all important areas that the enemy must pass through, and the terrain was extremely difficult and dangerous, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Both of them were shocked, and instantly understood what Zhao Kang was going to do, which was to drive these 3 people into units of one thousand, like nails on the Cangshan Mountain.

Hua Fengyuan said in surprise: "It can still be like this!"

Zhao Kang chuckled: "Thousand-person unit, if 3 people are spread out, Xiao Feiyu will have to pull it out for me in Cangshan Mountain for two months!"

He slapped the table and looked at the thirty captains: "I have emptied all the inventory of Jingguo and prepared [-] arrows for each of your teams. Don't be stingy when you see the enemy! Say hello to them fiercely. These bastards!"

"Two months, hold on for two months, and then the ammunition support from Qianguo will arrive."

"When the time comes, I will lead you to bombard these beasts with artillery!"

After listening to Zhao Kang's words, the generals laughed loudly, and thirty thousand captains knelt down together: "Commander, please rest assured, we will live up to your trust!"

"Go!"

More than thirty people stood up and walked out of the military tent. After a while, everyone was counted, and Zhao Kang arrived at the place where they were going to garrison one by one.

The craftsmen and auxiliary soldiers who accompanied the army also went together to repair the defensive places.

"Sun Fang."

Zhao Kang shouted and began to issue the second military order.

"The end is here!"

Zhao Kang: "Take 2 people and the Thunder Fire Army, along with all the remaining grenade explosives, to the middle reaches of the Fenyang River and blow up the river embankment for me!"

Gao Yuan glared: "The Fenyang River is the largest river in Xuzhou and Bingzhou. Why are you going to blow it up?"

"Of course I'm asking someone to take a bath. Xiao Feiyu doesn't like to play with explosives, so I won't let him play with it!" Zhao Kang laughed sinisterly.

Compared with the Cangshan Mountain area where he was stationed, the terrain of Xuzhou was relatively low. When Zhao Kang looked through the collection of books in Jingguo some time ago, he found that many of those classics recorded that the Fenyang River flooded Xuzhou and Guzhou. event.

Later, the imperial court spent huge sums of money to build river embankments, which saved the two states from flooding.

Hua Fengyuan and others were shocked by Zhao Kang's fantastic idea. After learning that Zhao Kang wanted to divert water from Fenyang River, they couldn't help but exclaimed: "What the commander is thinking, I really can't wait!"

Zhao Kang roared and began to pretend: "There are visible soldiers and invisible soldiers. Visible soldiers are soldiers holding halberds and holding swords, and they are also physical soldiers. Invisible soldiers are the sun, moon, stars, wind, cloud, water and fire. , the aura of mountains and rivers, all things and phenomena can be used as soldiers. You still need to learn more."

The generals nodded as they listened. Although they didn't quite understand, they felt that it really made sense!
(End of this chapter)