Lord: Start with a book of Water Margin

Chapter 681: First Meeting with the Red Jackets

When the new emperor Zhao Huan ascended the throne, he naturally wanted to make great efforts.

By spending his luck to search, he finally contacted the world of [Zhao Gou of the Southern Song Dynasty], the world of [Sichuan and Shaanxi Army], and the world of [Dali Xuanren Miaoxiang Kingdom], and formed an alliance with them.

As a result, the world of [Liang Guo Zhao Zhen] had more and more enemies.

In the past few days, Zhao Zhen has sent people to explore the three newly added realms. The largest one is the world of [Zhi Shi Lang Wang Bo], which is half mountainous and half flat. The world of [Chang Jiao Long] is pure mountainous, and the world of [Bi Mingwei, Bai Xuanwei] is a farmland.

The three boundaries, from east to west, are large tracts of farmland across the river from Yanggu, and then there are mountains, farmland, and mountains.

The three places combined have long exceeded the area of ​​a county.

There are not many people here now, less than 50,000 in total. It is temporarily assigned to Yanggu for governance. It is called governance, but in fact it is just occasional inspection. No mineral deposits have been found in this land, and there are not many wild animals.

On this day, Zhao Zhen was discussing with Wu Yong and others which world to invade. Before they could come up with a result, they found that Liang State was chosen as the invaded world again.

world log
[Red Jacket Army General Guo San] is invading the world, please [Liang State Zhao Zhen] prepare the world for response.

Zhao Zhen then realized that he was still deceived by Gao, Cao, and Lu. It turned out that the Three Kingdoms did not have only one hostile world. The world of [Yellow Turban Bandits], the world of [White Lotus Sect], and the world of [Wang Huangcao Army] were just the main enemies of the Three Kingdoms. There were more ordinary enemy countries, such as [Red Coat Army], [Fan Chong Red Eyebrow Army], [Yuyuan Army], [Xu Hongru], [Tang Saier], and so on.

Although it was not a direct enemy of Liang, it can be seen that [Zhao Zhen of Liang] was an ally of the Three Kingdoms. Just as the first enemy of [Zhao Zhen of Liang] was [Zhao Huan of Song], and its allies were [Zhao Gou of Southern Song], [Sichuan and Shaanxi Army], and [Xuanren Miaoxiang Kingdom of Dali], Zhao Zhen can also be seen here.

But the allies of the three countries never appeared.

Isn't it that the enemy's ally is the enemy, but the ally of the ally is not an ally?

Zhao Zhen looked at the row of enemy country names that suddenly appeared and didn't know how to start for a moment.

Wu Yong saw that Zhao Zhen was distracted, so he called out softly, "Lord?"

Zhao Zhen came to his senses and told Wu Yong about his discovery.

Wu Yong listened and laughed, "My Lord, countries are just exchanges of interests. We were still hesitating about who to fight in the world of Zhao Huan of Song, the world of Yellow Turban Bandits, the world of White Lotus Sect, and the world of Wang Huangcao Army. But now it's all right. Whoever invades Liang, we will fight."

Zhao Zhen naturally understood that what Wu Yong said was just to comfort himself.

Actively choosing to invade is better than passively accepting it.

Zhao Zhen said: "[Red Coat Army Fang Guo San], I have never heard of Fang Guo San, but I know the [Red Coat Army]. This group of people is active in Shandong, fighting back and forth between Song, Jin, and Mongolia. There are many leaders, good and bad. This guy must be one of them."

Wu Yong said: "How does the king plan to arrange it?"

Zhao Zhen said, "Didn't we learn from Gao Rui and the other two that going to the battlefield generated in the enemy world will not be as good as a direct collision without the advantage of terrain. The battlefield will be chosen to be in the area west of Yanggu."

"There is the Tuhai River in between. We can ask the naval forces [Huying] and [River Patrol] to patrol the Tuhai River. We don't have to worry about the enemy entering Yanggu. The existing stronghold in Diaowuyu, Changbai Mountain, plus the original stronghold of [Changjiaolong], is also enough to deal with it." Liu Hui Niang was surprised and said, "Your Majesty, is this too radical?"

Zhao Zhen said, "We suffered because we didn't know much about the [Floating Continent]. Now that we know about it, we will naturally give it a try. More importantly, the more soldiers we send into the foggy battlefield, the more luck we consume. We have a general understanding of the [Long-legged Dragon] world and the [Zhi Shi Lang Wang Bo] world, and we can allocate the corresponding soldiers. We know nothing about the [Bi Mingwei, Bai Xuanwei] world, and we sent 10,000 soldiers. We only wanted to defend, so we wasted a lot of luck."

"If we fight on the border, for us who are invaded, no matter how many people come, I can transfer soldiers from here, which makes us more flexible."

Gao Rui said that there were invasions on the Gao border all year round, except during the cold winter. It never stopped. Either this world invaded, or this world attacked.

At most, we had to fight against five worlds in one day.

Where to defend and where to attack, it took many years of fighting to form the current situation.

It is not that you can live in peace without invading others. In some worlds where resources are scarce, people rely on plundering to survive, so they naturally want to fight for a good place to gain a foothold.

During the three-day preparation period, Zhao Zhen issued a transfer order, transferring Shi Wengong, the brave cavalry of his own army [White Horse and Silver Spear], as the commander, Xu Ning, the [Golden Spearman], as the deputy commander, and Zhu Wu as the military advisor, to lead [General Nanli] Shi Bao, [Little Weichi] Sun Xin, [Peach Blossom Man] Su Yi, [Flower Arm] Jin Zhuang, [Moyun Golden Wings] Ou Peng, [Fire Eyed Suanni] Deng Fei, as well as [Desperate Sanlang] Shi Xiu, [Sick Guansuo] Yang Xiong, Zhang Xianzhou, Li Fengshan of the Infantry Guoyi Battalion, [Little Yang Youji] Pang Wanchun, [Tiger Shooting Warrior] Lei Jiong, [Bear Shooting Warrior] Ji Ji of the Shooting Sound Battalion, and 20,000 soldiers to set up camp in Diaowu Valley.

He also ordered Puzhou's [Dragon Slayer] Sun An and Bozhou's [Vanguard] Wang Jin to deploy their troops on the adjacent borders and prepare to engage in battle and provide rescue.

Dai Zong, Li San and others from the reconnaissance camp delivered messages along the way.

Three days later, Zhao Zhen was anxiously waiting for news in Qingcheng Palace.

Through the world prompts, Zhao Zhen already knew that the world of [Red Coat Army Guo San] was bordering the Liang State.

After all, it was the first encounter, so Zhao Zhen was naturally worried. The ceremonial guards, cavalry and infantry were all ready in their respective camps, so that if there was any change in the front, Zhao Zhen could lead the troops to rescue.

Diaowo Valley is a deep and dangerous valley, connected to high mountains on three sides, except for the northwest corner where there is a valley mouth more than ten feet wide from east to west. When Wang Bo occupied this place, he built a stone gate. The stone gate extends to both sides along the mountain, with a stone wall two feet high and about two miles long. There is a [Qianlong Stream] in the southwest of the valley, and there is no shortage of water in the valley.

The remaining wooden buildings, earthen houses, warehouses, animal pens, etc., form a ready-made dock fortress.

When they attacked Wang Bo, the damaged city walls had been repaired. If they were to defend, even with an army of 100,000, they might not be able to capture the city after a month of fierce attack.

On the city wall, Shi Wengong looked from afar and saw a group of soldiers in red battle jackets walking towards them.

Shi Wengong asked hesitantly, "Military Advisor, this group of people is not limited to the three to five thousand people in front of us, right?"

Zhu Wu also looked ahead and said to Shi Wengong, "These are indeed the only people we can see right now."

Xu Ning said: "I counted them carefully, there are only about 3,000 of them, and the cavalry is less than a battalion."

Several people looked at each other, and Shi Bao shouted: "With only these people, the cavalry here can disperse them in one round."

(End of this chapter)