Chapter 524 A Journey of Ten Thousand Miles (7)

Li Ding's statement that the overall situation is going to be bad is not an alarmist statement.

Just think about it. As soon as Zhang Xing left, Li Ding immediately encountered such a large-scale military resistance. And according to him, everything around him was in chaos. Every part of the Demon Guard was actually paralyzed, so there must be something else.

That's why.

And if you listen carefully, you will find that this is obviously an original problem within the Demon Guard, because this time the matter was forcibly torn apart and broke out.

Specifically, there are internal contradictions within the Demon Guards. This is of course reasonable. Contradictions such as geography, economy, belief, and centralization can be imagined with closed eyes. But the problem is that one of the main contradictions is local

The conflict with Da Siming...for a long time, because the various guards were separated geographically

Come, so the actual military and political power is in the hands of the commanders of various places, but there is no doubt about the cultivation of the commander and the orthodoxy of the Immortal Cave, so the influence of the commander also exists objectively.

The opposition will naturally use Da Siming and the Demon Guard Center as an excuse to suppress the various guards.

For example, Zhang Xing's uncle Huang Ping in the Tieshan Guard was just a half example.

Then this kind of contradiction, suddenly encountering the incident of surrender in the form of a commander-in-chief's order, will naturally intensify the contradiction and lead to internal paralysis.

Of course, there is a story about what Li Ding did to Mr. Lu Ye’s family... including what Zhang Xing did to Mr. Liucheng’s family when he was away, and Zhang Xing’s taking away Tieshan Guard Zhu Siming.

This contributes to this problem to a certain extent.

The current Northland is in a state of turmoil, with direct military confrontation in the west; paralysis and riots in the east; and undercurrents in the south.

"Ignore all this, we can't take care of it immediately. The most important thing now is to fight this battle well, right?" Zhang Xing thought for a while and could only give up.

"Yes." Li Ding replied simply.

"Even if you want to take care of it, I'm afraid you have to start taking care of it from this war." Bai Yousi also felt a headache. "What's going on with the war? Are you worried about Liu Wenzhou?"

"I must be worried about Liu Wenzhou. As you said last time, this guy may have something similar to the Fulong Seal on his body. How dare I let Niu Du... Niu Da Leader take action?" Li Ding said seriously. "But.

It’s definitely not just this. The current situation is that Liu Wenzhou is responsible for intimidation, Lan Dawen is responsible for coaxing people’s hearts, and there is Mrs. Lu who is hiding at the back and has no influence at all to provide food..."

"It is said that there are hundreds of thousands of people... Mrs. Lu only controls three or four cities, can she afford it?" I don't know when, Mang Jingang suddenly appeared in the door.

"About that, the flags and camps are clear, there are indeed one hundred thousand." The person who interfaced was Su Jingfang, who had disappeared before. "I'm afraid the entire Daxing Shanxi Road, four cities, two guards, and all the battle groups are here... As for the food, from now on

Logically speaking, it is affordable, because I think they must be

There are considerations, maybe because we feel that the situation behind us is not good. If something happens behind us, we may have to withdraw our troops. As long as they rush through the swamp, these battle groups will fight on their own. Mrs. Lu will not

We will take care of it; or perhaps, there is indeed a plan to outflank it by sea."

"It's okay to outflank the sea route, but is it too shrewd to push the battle groups to fight on their own? You have to use Luo Bocheng and Liucheng as bait so that these people can work in vain, right?" Bai Yousi also asked

.

"That should be the meaning." Li Ding said before Su Jingfang. "The living daughter of Lu Ye Gong in Luobo City is with Mrs. Lu... And, if I guessed correctly, Li Shu and Cui Tuan should also be there.

Opposite, the intelligence said that they were heading in that direction... The only thing strange is that if Cui Suan was on the opposite side, why didn't he reveal the master's cultivation level? Two grandmasters, plus Mrs. Lu who was hiding behind, three grandmasters,

When you are on the defensive, the role of boosting military morale is different."

"Cui Tuan has already gone to the witch land, right?" Bai Yousi thought thoughtfully.

"It's really possible." Zhang Xing finally spoke again. "Cui Suan has lost his temper, but Li Shu might struggle... But it doesn't matter. You decide how to fight this battle."

Li Ding nodded and wanted to say something, but nothing came out for a long time, and he didn't know why he was in a daze at this time.

Summer is hot, but for Northland, it is the best scenery of the year. The so-called sky is blue and the ground is green, but the top of the mountain is pure white, occasionally mixed with white clouds, making it difficult to see the boundary between heaven and earth. In addition,

The snow on the top of the mountain and abundant rainfall have made the rivers wide, the swamps rich, and the vegetation denser. Everywhere is lush and lush, with deers and eagles flying.

At this time, the Northland Allied Forces, tens of thousands of people, were stationed for dozens of miles in a swampy Luyeze at the southern end of Galloping Horse City. It was inevitable that all the deer, rabbits, fish and birds in the surrounding area would suffer... There was no way, the old grain shipped from the north could be eaten.

But who wants to eat it?

After the Lian Gang broke through the warehouses of the Wei Dynasty, they all knew that they would use the new grain as military rations.

In fact, during the twenty days when the coalition forces gradually gathered together, the most common dispute in the camp was the competition for prey and camps, and camps were often divided into three, six or nine grades based on whether they were convenient for hunting.

Of course, everything is under control, especially the actual commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, the former Anche Guard Commander Lan Dawen, who has always had great prestige. He is the last one to sleep, only eats the most ordinary old grains, and has to jump in the air several times every day.

Each time, make sure you have a brief look at all the battle groups within three days, and conduct a roll call every morning and hold a military meeting in the evening to resolve conflicts and discuss military strategies.

It can be considered to be handled in an orderly manner.

And on this day, at noon, the well-organized Lan Dawen suddenly put aside the complicated military affairs, just like when he was a little deacon in the Demon Guard, and personally drove a car under the scorching sun, and drove in with skillful driving skills.

A warband's camp.

In the camp, the flag with the word "Yuwen" fluttered in the wind.

This is not surprising. This kind of compound surname with obvious shamanistic color is a common surname in the North. It is very likely that the ancestor of the leader of this war group escaped from there, or it is less likely that the entire mixed-race tribe

The whole group is transformed into a war group. This kind of war group is relatively united internally, and the whole war group may even have the same surname.

This is not the case with Yuwen Wanchou's battle group, but he is Madam Lu's confidant, so Lan Dawen and Madam Lu put these two important figures in this camp.

"I already understand what Mr. Lan means." Behind the table under the shade of the tree, Li Shu looked at the roast venison in front of him, which was served by Yuwen Wanchou, the leader of the regiment, with an expressionless face. "You just want me to go again.

Can you please advise Mr. Cui? With one more Grandmaster, the morale of the army will be boosted, and then you will have more confidence when marching to the south?"

"There is no need for him to take action personally. As long as he comes over from Galloping Horse City to show his master's cultivation and boost the morale of the army." Lan Dawen sincerely requested, without even taking a second look at the roasted venison. "If we really fight, we can't pass.

Let’s talk about Lu Ye Ze.”

Li Shu sighed, and his expression finally became lively, but it looked a little weird: "Mr. Lan, the stance of us homeless dogs is firmer than that of you northerners. I will definitely bring this to you and try my best to persuade him!"

"What are you advising?!" At this moment, Cui Xuanchen, who had lowered his head and ate two bites of venison, with oil on his unruly beard, suddenly threw away the venison in his hand and had a fit on the spot. "I tell you, leave quickly and cross the sea with your uncle.

Go to the Witchland... You can't stay in the Northland for a moment, and you want to persuade him to come and die?!"

"Xuanchen..." Li Shu tried to persuade him, but stopped.

Lan Dawen instinctively went to Yuwen Wanchou, but the other party's entourage was having a seizure, so he couldn't speak directly. At this time, it was best for Yuwen Wanchou to speak, softly or hard. However, when he looked back, he found that the leader of the Yuwen regiment

While grilling meat with your back to yourself, your head

He didn't even raise his head, but looked very serious and helpless, so he turned around and frowned in person: "Cui Silang just say what you want to say, why bother to get angry? You have such a temperament, whether you are in Beidi or Wudi, you are just fooling around.

If you come out, you will be stabbed by others."

Cui Xuanchen hesitated, then immediately raised his head and said: "Then let me tell you directly... Lan Gong, may I ask how many masters we have here?"

"Of course there are two..."

"If there are two people, why fight? There are four! There are probably five! There will be a great master soon, and maybe we can invite another great master to condense the elixirs into dozens of elixirs. It's amazing.

Experienced masters can gather three hundred people even if they leave the army and the local area. What will you do?

What are we going to fight for? Even if we fight today, reinforcements will come back and they will be beaten back. What are we going to fight for?" Cui Xuanchen was furious, but in the end he calmed down. "Only three masters, at least three masters, can hold on... Lan

Sir, do we have three masters?"

"If Cui Gong asks sincerely, then including Mrs. Lu, there are still three of them." Lan Dawen tried his best to answer.

"This is the problem." Cui Xuanchen stood up directly and pointed to the surrounding camps unceremoniously. "What are these people doing here? Is it right to fight? Who are they fighting with? Is it a gang? Why are they fighting with a gang?

Guarding the hometown, right?

Whose country is it? There are four cities and two guards behind it. Does it mean that three cities belong to her, Mrs. Lu? Then I dare to ask why a hundred thousand people are here to fight for her, but she did not appear in front of the battle to boost morale, but asked me

Is my uncle, a fleeing outsider, doing this?"

At this point, Cui Xuanchen directly forced himself in front of the other party and reminded him sternly: "Mr. Lan! The reason is very simple. If she, Mrs. Lu, doesn't come, no matter whether my uncle comes or not, there is no hope for Beidi! As long as she comes, it will be clear.

Ma wants to fight to the death with the gang, and then everyone can unite as one, and only then can she have a three-point hope! Let others work for her, while she hides behind and waits for a price, there is no such logic in the world! "

Lan Dawen remained silent.

Yuwen Wanchou looked at the venison on the fire pit in front of him and said nothing.

After a moment of pause, Li Shu broke the silence with a sigh: "Mr. Lan, the situation is worse than you thought. It seems that the gangs are now strict in governing the country, making the situation in the North unstable. There are opportunities to take advantage of them, but there are opportunities.

By then, even this opportunity is fleeting. Zhang Xing's reinforcements will arrive as soon as possible... Assuming that they support fifteen battalions, they will arrive in the second half of the year. By then, they will have stabilized the situation in Luobo City, and then

What should we do when the backup comes to support us?"

"But our army of 100,000 is here..." Lan Dawen actually blushed.

"There is something wrong with this army." Cui Xuanchen said seriously. "Lan Gong, don't think that the camp system of the gang is very similar to your war group system. They are the same thing... Zhang Xing is indeed using the Beidi system.

He was hooked up, but he knew the problem with this system from the beginning, that is, the battalion and generals are integrated, and it is easy to

Yi disobeys the command and does his own thing, so as long as he wins a battle, King Xiongtian will ask him to replace a group of people in the name of reward and punishment. The people from this battalion will be promoted to that battalion, and the people from that battalion will join this battalion and change.

Seven or eight times, during the war at the beginning of last year, did Mr. Lan know what happened?"

Lan Dawen's face tightened, but he couldn't help but ask: "What's the matter?"

"Dengzhou, Cheng Dalang, who was born into a wealthy family on the edge of Qi County, had hundreds of knights raised in his own manor before joining the gang. Because he married our daughter Cui, he was deprived of military power and went to another place... In just half a year, he

He went to pick up the defeated soldiers of the gang, but he met his old battalion on the way. His former domestic guards actually turned out to be because of him.

Cui's son-in-law suspected that he was rebellious and drew a sword on him in public." Cui Xuanchen said quietly. "After this incident, Cheng Dalang continued to argue, and he was still careful, but in fact he had no thoughts of being outside the gang, and he was single-minded.

Working in the gang... Leader Yuwen, you were there at the time, have you heard about this?"

Yuwen Wanchiu didn't even look back, and continued to fiddle with a new piece of barbecue with a dull expression: "I've heard of it."

Li Shu also took another look at Cui Xuanchen.

"Lan Gong, do you think your army is the same as other people's army?" Cui Xuanchen continued to sigh. "For an army like yours, it is not a good thing to have too many people. When they advance, they will rush in, and when they retreat, they will rush in.
To be continued...