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Winter turned to spring, and Lin Haoming's days on duty soon passed.
During this period, Lin Haoming met with Yang Kangkai several times and wrote down his thoughts on the reform of the military system and gave it to him.
After Yang Kangkai considered it, he planned to recruit new troops and start trying it out. If it is feasible, he would promote it.
Just a few days after the beginning of spring, the Kingdom of Western God in the north was ready to move. After Yang Kangkai considered it, he actually dispatched Hong Chenyi as the warlord and at the same time dispatched 50,000 troops to the north to aid Ziwu Pass, and Lin Haoming followed as his deputy.
The army carried a lot of food, grass and weapons and moved very slowly. It took a month to arrive at Ziwu Pass. However, before that, Lin Haoming, as a pioneer, led 10,000 horses to go first and arrived at Ziwu Pass in half the time. However, after waiting Hong Chenyi's large force arrived, but the battle at Ziwu Pass had not yet begun.
The governor of Ziwu Pass was named Lu Huaizhong, who was also a general. Like Yang Xicheng, he was known for his good defense. However, Lu Huaizhong was somewhat headstrong and arrogant. He was especially taboo about Lin Haoming who came over. When Lin Haoming arrived, although he also participated in the discussion, he He didn't assign any specific tasks, just letting Lin Haoming rest.
Lin Haoming was also prepared for this matter. In fact, Lu Huaizhong was cautious. When he first arrived, he checked for a long time before being allowed to enter Ziwu Pass.
After Lin Haoming arrived at Ziwu Pass, he also received more news. The Western Divine Kingdom army was still hoarding its troops and had no intention of dispatching immediately. However, many scouts were sent out, forcing Lu Huaizhong to send many people to encircle and suppress the other side's scouts. Although a few people were caught alive, no news came out.
During this period, Lin Haoming proposed to take the initiative, but Lu Huaizhong rejected it directly, so Lin Haoming simply stopped talking.
By the time Hong Chenyi arrived, the weather had become very warm. Logically speaking, it was the most time to dispatch the army, but there was still no movement.
Two months passed like this, and summer had already begun. Even Lin Haoming began to doubt whether the other party was bluffing.
News came from the capital that almost all the new soldiers had been recruited. One hundred thousand people had begun basic training. Yang Kangkai even had the intention of sending Lin Haoming back.
Just when Lin Haoming felt that if things continued like this, it would be better to go back and train troops, suddenly the other party really took action.
An army of half a million people surged toward Ziwu Pass, and Governor Lu Huaizhong immediately felt like he was facing a formidable enemy.
A few days later, the army was already in formation in front of Ziwu Pass. It looked dark. Although there were not half a million people, there were still half of them.
After the formation, the enemy began to attack Ziwu Pass, but it was obviously just a sheep attack. They tested the situation of Ziwu Pass, attacked at noon, and began to rest in the afternoon, and were busy preparing some siege equipment.
In this way, after two or three days of fighting, Ziwu Pass was waiting for the opponent to launch a more powerful attack, and the news came that the Beishenguo Pass on Yelang Mountain had been breached.
Although when I first discussed this matter with Yang Kangkai, I suggested that the other party might use such a method, I didn’t expect that the other party would actually use it, and it was very beautiful. He deliberately pretended to attack Ziwu Pass. Qibing really and Beishen Kingdom People should be in harmony with each other internally and externally.
Normally speaking, people from the Northern God Kingdom would not open the city gate to let the Western God Kingdom army come over, but with so many people coming, even if the Dongzhou Continent is not the core of this world, there are still thirty or fifty people who will come over, so like this Things are difficult to predict.
The eastern territories of the Northern God Kingdom and the Southern God Kingdom meet, and there has been no war for many years because of mutual quarrels. The border between Ziwu Pass and Yelang Mountain and the Western God Kingdom is not dangerous to defend, but because the two countries can join forces here, Therefore, the Western Divine Kingdom rarely used troops against the Southern Divine Kingdom here. This sudden attack really surprised many people.
Lin Haoming predicted that the Northern God Kingdom would definitely ask for help from here. There are two passes in Yelang Mountain, the Front Pass and the Back Pass. Now that the Front Pass has been broken, the Back Pass has become particularly important, and the army in front of them has also withdrawn, but The withdrawal of so many Western Divine Kingdom troops made Lu Huaizhong, who had received the request for help, dare not act rashly for fear of being surrounded and seeking reinforcements.
Lu Huaizhong also called all the generals over to discuss matters. This time, Lu Huaizhong took the initiative to ask Hong Chenyi and Lin Haoming, but neither of them spoke.
Hong Chenyi really had no choice, and Lin Haoming couldn't have done it because the other party had deliberately ignored him before, but because the situation had changed now, because there were too many unknowns. For example, in addition to knowing that the leader of the army was still Mo Yiqi, but Gu Li was attacking Yelang Mountain Lin Haoming had never heard of Gu Licai at all. Lin Haoming doubted that Gu Licai was a descendant like himself. Without knowing the depth of the other party, Lin Haoming really didn't plan to take action immediately.
In the end, Lu Huaizhong saw that everyone had no good solution, so he could only send more scouts to keep an eye on them. He did not respond for the time being, but just kept the army ready at any time.
After leaving the meeting hall, Hong Chenyi pulled Lin Haoming aside in confusion and asked in a low voice: "Brother Mian, what's going on this time, you don't even speak? It's not like you did it. It's true that Lu Huaizhong was afraid of us before. Seizing power, they somewhat ignored us, but the current situation is not good, and Lu Huaizhong has also put down his airs."
Lin Haoming confessed innocently: "My General Hong, have you heard of Gu Licai before today?"
"This... I really haven't heard of it. After the defeat of the Western Divine Kingdom last year, I heard that the pseudo-emperor ordered the recruitment of talents. I'm afraid they were recruited at that time, right?"
"Now that you have said it, it can be shown that this person is definitely not a simple person. Since you don't know the other person clearly, it is not good to act rashly." Lin Haoming explained.
"But we have to send troops." Hong Chenyi said.
Lin Haoming shook his head and said: "Yelang Mountain is not a place in our Southern God Kingdom. So what if we are broken through? It would be better if we even break through, because we are afraid that the opponent will not be able to move after laying down the back mountain pass."
"What do you mean?" Hong Chenyi asked.
"Behind Yelang Mountain is a large area of fertile soil in the Kingdom of Northern God. More than 20% of the food in the Kingdom of Northern God comes from this fertile soil. Logically speaking, it is a good place to occupy it. However, because of this fertile soil, there is no danger to defend it. Once you really get in, , the other side is really afraid of us outflanking us from behind, instead of the fact that we are afraid of the other side encircling the point for reinforcements now. After all, the other side's army is divided into two sides, and they are not far from each other. Once a part of us is held back, we will be easily surrounded and eaten by the main force, and even fewer people will go out. There is no need to wait for the main force, so now we have to wait for the situation to change more clearly before taking any action." Lin Haoming affirmed.
"But what if we really occupy Houshan Pass and then stop moving? In this case, the West God Kingdom will cut off the interaction between our two countries here in the future, and our territory may be compressed a lot at once." Hong Chenyi was very worried. road.
Lin Haoming felt that Hong Chenyi had really grown a lot, and he could see this, so he risked his displeasure and said: "In fact, it is a waste to guard the three hundred miles of Ziwu Pass. If it were me, I would simply give up Ziwu Pass. Retreat to the Silver Sand River."
