As soon as Shen Hao walked into Qianhu Residence early in the morning, he saw Wang Yiming standing at the door of his mansion with an eager look on his face, holding a copper bar.
"grown ups."
Shen Hao nodded without responding. After opening the door and going in, he said, "What's the matter?"
"Sir, the inspector from the south has just arrived with an urgent report." Wang Yiming dared not speak until he saw Shen Hao asking, and at the same time handed over the copper bar in his hand.
Southern Inspector? That is military affairs!
Shen Hao took it over. The ban on it was intact and had not been opened. And there is a transfer mark. It was first sent by the southern supervisor to the commander's Yamen, and then the commander's Yamen forwarded it to the Jingxi Town Fushi Yamen, and finally the Jingxi Town Fushi Yamen transferred it to him.
There will definitely be a delay in time, but it won't be too long. At most, it will be one to two days slower than the commanding officer's time.
No need to guess, this is already the preferential treatment Shen Hao has received. If it weren't for the Southern Inspector's confidence that he had strengthened before, this information would not have been forwarded to him. This information was sent to him because of his merit and familiarity with the Southern Inspector. He probably wanted to hear from him. Views.
It is said that the southern supervisor who replaced Shen Hao now did a good job and was very honest. He continued the strategy that Shen Hao had set before and did not change it without authorization. He was very stable.
Some fragmentary front-line battle reports had been sent back one after another before. This was the intelligence system established by Shen Hao after the supervisory envoy was reused. It was specifically rooted in the military. Its timeliness has been closely related to the military's own intelligence system and the military's own intelligence system. The intelligence systems of civilian officials overseeing the military are almost the same, at least in terms of response speed.
After Shen Hao returned, the war in the south had not stopped. In other words, Zuo Yuliang had been squeezing the war deeper into the barbarian territory step by step according to a unique pace from beginning to end.
Now if you look at the topographic map of the entire barbarian region, you will find that the barbarians have been forked by a trident-shaped military front of the Jingjiu Dynasty. The most affected place is Baektu Gorge, which has been squeezed due to the addition of Jianchuan. It's awesome, the war of attrition in the Flesh Mill is getting more intense.
And as Zuo Yuliang continued to add 12,000 troops to Baektu Gorge, Baektu Gorge now had a troop situation ready for a decisive battle. At this time, everyone discovered that Zuo Yuliang's Chinese army had actually moved more than half of the troops to Baektu Gorge bit by bit under the guise of carrying out flesh-and-blood mill tactics in Baektu Gorge. .
Shen Wanlin's three military strongholds in Jianchuan now also entered the Baektu Gorge from the flanks with some newly added cavalry, and mainly harassed them, wreaking havoc on grain fields, houses, and warehouses in the Baektu Gorge area, and using war horses He has the endurance advantage to run long distances, but he just doesn't want to fight against the barbarian wolf cavalry.
On the one hand, they are squeezed for huge profits and on the other hand, they are harassed wantonly. Moreover, the back of Baitou Gorge is still the most important food production area for the barbarians. If this is destroyed, then the subsequent battle will be equivalent to losing 30 to 40% of the chance of winning.
Looking back at Zuo Yuliang's Chinese army staying in Wuhu, although the military camp is still there and the flags are fluttering, it is actually half empty. One after another, one after another comes forward, one after another, and one after another returns. Withdrawal and repair, the dense and complicated troop dispatch blinded almost everyone's eyes. It was not until Baektu Gorge moved forward to overwhelm the 100,000 troops that everyone suddenly realized Zuo Yuliang's plan.
Just five days ago, in the early morning of June 19th, Zuo Yuliang even secretly left Wuhu in person to show up at the Baektu Gorge military formation. With a wave of his command flag, he launched the first full-scale attack on Baektu Gorge. .
Because of the sudden pressure of the entire army and the miscalculation of the strength of the Jingjiu Dynasty, the barbarian defense forces on the opposite side were unable to mount an effective resistance.
Especially at the level of cultivation, Zuo Yuliang appeared in the Baektu Gorge military formation and personally commanded it. You can imagine how many masters came from the Jingying Mansion.
According to the information sent by the supervisory envoy, there were eight Xuanhai realm monks who appeared in the military formation that day, including the fourth elder of Guishan monastery whom Shen Hao had met once, Wushan master Lin Dashan, and super sect Wan Xuan Tianqing, the fifth elder of Juanshu Mountain.
The news that came back said: Commander Zuo came to the military formation in person, the morale of the army was like a rainbow, and the sound of war drums shook the fields... At about the beginning of the 19th century, hundreds of Jingying Prefecture masters came out of the formation and charged straight into the barbarian formation. Then they opened a fighting arena with the barbarian body cultivators who came out to fight. At the same time, Commander Zuo waved his order, and the entire army rushed into the enemy in three directions to start the battle...
At about the same time, the masters from Jingying Mansion who had set up another fighting arena sixty percent ago returned, while most of the barbarian monks were slaughtered and the rest were scattered. The victory was more than half in hand.
Just after noon, the main frontline of the barbarians retreated significantly and showed signs of decline. Commander Zuo ordered the monks from Jingying Mansion to attack again and sweep across the barbarian army formation in front, and then directly opened up the situation to complete the interweaving of the three defense lines.
The unexpected incident occurred just before Shi arrived. A large group of barbarian reinforcements suddenly appeared in the south, sweeping across in a cutting motion. They were accompanied by a large number of high-level monks to assist, so that the battle situation immediately fell into trouble. Three groups advanced into the barbarian army formation. The protruding part was divided into one strand, and the other two strands were also locked in a bitter battle.
Different from the barbarians that the Baekdu Gorge soldiers were most familiar with before, the barbarians who came to reinforce from the south this time were the Bear Clan in the lead, and the Monkey Clan as the supplement. The Monkey Clan even sent a large number of horse cavalry to come over and kill someone by surprise from the flank. .
At this point, more than half of the results achieved by the Jingjiu Dynasty for most of the previous day were wiped out by the barbarian raids, but the dominant position remained.
At the beginning of the Youchu period, the main force of the barbarians gathered the reinforcements and took the initiative to retreat, abandoning the Baektu Gorge military camp where they had been facing off for more than half a year, and reestablished their position in a small town sixty miles away. And Zuo Shuai also gathered his troops to calm down and reorganize...
Shen Hao frowned and put down the copper bar. He waved away Wang Yiming, who was unaware, and sat alone on the chair in silence for a long time.
He had already mentally anticipated the battle at Baektu Gorge. The Jingjiuchao side has been in a good situation since the two great victories in Jianchuan. Not only the frontal pressure was put on them, but also the flanks were put under enough pressure. In terms of the chance of victory, Shen Hao always felt that the Jingjiuchao side had a better chance of winning.
Moreover, Zuo Yuliang's trick of secretly plotting against Chen Cang was very clever. Under normal circumstances, there would be no way for the barbarians on the opposite side to survive. But no one expected that Zuo Yuliang's planned ruthless move would actually run into something unexpected. The Shuangyue Clan and the Hongtu Clan, which had not been in contact with each other, actually merged. So much so that Baekdu Gorge, which should have been defeated in one battle, was only half defeated.
This situation of underachievement is not good.
On the one hand, this will definitely delay the decisive battle in Baekdu Gorge again.
On the other hand, judging from the current battle situation, the barbarians are probably forced to complete the integration, and the establishment of the royal court should be in sight. By then, this will improve the morale of the barbarians.
Finally, the victory of this battle will also have a great impact on the "big test" of the royal family.
