The buzzer flew up, and many soldiers subconsciously raised their heads to watch.
Yin Chang also looked up.
In just these two days, he made the most critical choice in his life, from Li Quan's ally to Ding Haijun's subordinate.
He firmly believes that this choice must be the right one, but the specifics will depend on the development of Mingdi after it takes off.
The worry hidden on his face was seen by Zhang Rong, who was standing beside him.
Yin Chang was born into a tycoon in the private salt industry, while Zhang Rong was the leader of the private salt trade. Their friendship had lasted for more than ten years.
Zhang Rong chuckled and said: "Relax! It's just the right time for you to see with your own eyes the majesty of our navy!"
Previously, the Ding Navy defeated the Mongolian army in Shandong and Liaodong. Although the force was terrifying, it was the Mongolian army that took the hit after all. For the forces surrounding the three states of Denglai, this kind of record is surprising, but not terrifying. Among the people who can gather strength in this world, who doesn't have a little courage and a little bit of unruly temperament?
Outstanding heroes such as Li Quan were inspired by the prestige of Ding Haijun to fight, and then decided to cooperate with the Hebei Jin Army to counter Ding Haijun's expansion momentum.
However, as the war progressed, Ding Haijun's South Route Division swept through Mizhou and Juzhou. Now it had penetrated deep into Yizhou and was about to reach Haizhou and bump into the Southern Song Dynasty people. And the main force on the west route is even more terrifying, and it doesn't matter if they capture many cities and military states. Yidu Mansion, which has long been the headquarters of the Shandong Tongjun Division, is such a strong city, equipped with thousands of elite soldiers, and it only lasted one day!
All Li's men were frightened.
How can it be? How did Ding Haijun do it?
Liu Qingfu is a veteran general that everyone is familiar with. He is by no means incompetent, and his subordinates are by no means weak. Not to mention, there were also soldiers sent by Pusan Anzhen to help.
They were defeated so simply that there was no way to explain it!
Li Quan had previously abandoned Weizhou, Zizhou and other places one after another. What he told his subordinates was to induce the main force of the Ding Navy to move forward, and when it was exhausted under Yidu City, he would join forces with the Hebei Jin Army to counterattack. Not only To regain the lost territory, we will also take everyone to the three states of Denglai to eat and drink.
However, Yidu City was lost in one day, and Ding Haijun continued to advance, directly blocking the Beiqing River. So, what is the significance of Li Quan’s previous statement? Isn't that a joke? Who are you trying to fool?
Li Quan's army was composed of many local tycoons who had their own strength. The hometowns of these local tycoons changed hands, and the fighting spirit of their troops was shaken.
Later, there was new news... Pusan Anzhen was going to negotiate with Guo Ning?
What is exported on the battlefield cannot be brought back by talking. Warriors know this truth best.
However, the people of Hebei are outsiders anyway. They can only get more benefits or less benefits, and there will be no loss no matter what.
Who will suffer the loss? Is there any need to ask?
This situation was a terrible blow to Li Quan's prestige.
Li Quan is a very smart man. He knows that this situation must not continue. Only a victory that can turn the world around can save the situation. There is no other way. That's why he made a bold decision to lead his troops to raid the negotiation site between Guo Ning and Pusan Anzhen while his family's prestige was still there.
Of course, this blatantly risky operation itself will cause new doubts.
Li Quan couldn't care less. He chooses to act as quickly as possible, and winning or losing depends on a moment. In this case, even if subordinates have doubts, it will be too late to turn them into actual actions. After the success of this raid, his own prestige will inevitably skyrocket, and the loyalty of his subordinates will be unshakable.
His judgment was not wrong at all, and his decision was worthy of his status as a hero.
While his power was still there, his subordinates really had no choice but to cooperate and take risks.
But Yin Chang had other choices.
Strictly speaking, Yin Chang is not even Li Quan's ally, but a member of the Red Coat Army and Yang An'er's partner. He joined forces with Li Quan to launch an army last year, also based on Yang An'er's call.
Later, Li Quan himself was entrenched in the military states in the northeast of Shandong, and he was like a semi-independent branch of the Red Coat Army. Yin Chang was Li Quan's subordinate in name, but in fact, he was used by Yang An'er to check and balance Li Quan. A chess piece.
No matter how you say it, Yang An'er is also the leader of the rebel bandits who are powerful throughout Shandong. This political method is absolutely indispensable.
But since Yang An'er died, the Red Coat Army regime fell into pieces. Why should Yin Chang follow Li Quan all the way to the dark side?
The Red Coat Army and the Jurchens had been hostile to each other for so many years, and when Yin Chang was in charge of the Binzhou Army, he only made concessions with the Jurchens. But as soon as Li Quan saw that the situation was not right, he went directly to the Hebei Xuanfu envoy of the Jurchens and brought tens of thousands of troops to fight alongside him... How could this be called Yin Changqing's shame?
He really couldn't accept it!
Even if you have to join a powerful force, can you only choose to leave Anzhen? Aren't Geng Ge, Shi Poli and others living a good life under Guo Ning, the military governor of Dinghai Navy?
These two people were both Yang An'er's former subordinates and held high positions in the Ding Navy. In the past year, Yin Chang often exchanged secret letters with them and listened to them talk about various developments in the three prefectures of Denglai.
Since the beginning of this year, he has also met several times with Zhang Rong, Guo Ning's right-hand man. Zhang Rong did not deliberately win over each other. The topics discussed by the two parties never had anything to do with military affairs. They only used Ding Haijun's maritime trade routes to secretly reach some cooperation in the salt industry.
All these contacts accumulated over time, but the balance in Yin Chang's heart continued to waver.
As the situation continued to deteriorate, Li Quan was always ambitious and unwilling to succumb to Guo Ning, so his ideas became more and more beautiful, and his planned strategies became more and more dangerous.
Yin Chang saw all this.
At the same time, Zhang Rong was sent to Binzhou by the Dinghai Navy Recorder's Department and came to see him again, prompting Yin Chang to make a decision that was completely different from Li Quan's.
Compared with Li Quan, who was born in Yidu and Weizhou, Yin Chang is a local ghost near Binzhou. Once he makes up his mind, there are too many things to do.
When Li Quan led his troops across the Beiqing River and worked hard to sneak through the complex terrain, he had lost the qualification to be regarded as an opponent by Guo Ning.
Pusan Anzhen turned her head and looked around.
To his surprise, Mingdi flew up and fell again. There were no special changes around the Tieling Platform. And thousands of elites under Li Quan trudged hard in the muddy water, shouting and coming like a tide. The long knives they all held high reflected the sunlight, like white waves rising from the top of a wave.
They were getting closer and closer, and some of the soldiers at the front had already stepped onto solid ground, and their speed suddenly accelerated.
Pusan Anzhen saw Li Quan's figure. From a distance, she seemed to be able to feel Li Quan's stubborn and fierce eyes. He saw some people running among the enemy troops, preparing their bows and arrows.
There are still about two miles between the two sides, so arrows can't be shot for the time being, but it doesn't hurt to be prepared in advance. So the soldiers guarding around the platform took their shields and lined up shoulder to shoulder.
"Ahem..." Pusan Anzhen felt his throat was a little dry. He asked Guo Ning: "Where is the prestige? Where is the prestige?"
"There." Guo Ning pointed.
The direction indicated by Guo Ning was on the other side of the Beiqing River, in the direction of Anding Town, where Li Quan's troops had set up camp. In addition to the elite troops who follow Li Quan, there are tens of thousands of his men, as well as old and small camps housing the family members of the army, all there.
Li Quan's troops marched in the reed swamps yesterday, covering a difficult journey of twenty or thirty miles. But that was in order to avoid the eyes and ears of Pusan Anzhen's sentries, so he deliberately made a big circle. The straight-line distance between the camp and Tieling Platform is actually only about five or six miles, which is not very far.
But it's not close. Even if Pusan Anzhen tried his best to look out, he could only see a continuous gray fortress, like a silhouette.
At this time, behind the continuous silhouette, undulating waves suddenly appeared.
The scale of this wave was more than ten times greater than what Li Quan was facing! It was more than ten times more violent!
In an instant, waves surged into the silhouette, reverberating wildly. The entire camp under Li Quan's command was stirred into flames and chaos.
(End of chapter)
