Volume 1 Chapter 719: Border Warfare

Chapter 719 Border Warfare

The more than 300 cavalrymen I met in the morning, together with the more than 30 people killed last night, all came from a county west of Yue State. The army was hastily formed, and the quality was mixed, with good and bad soldiers. Because of the looting, more than 30 bad soldiers were killed by him, but the other soldiers did not have too many bad deeds. It was inevitable that they were arrogant and domineering, but they were not guilty of death. It was just because the generals were greedy and issued a wrong order, adding hundreds of souls to the dead. It is a bit sad to say it, so Zhang was afraid that he would not make things difficult for the remaining cavalry and let them go back.

This was a nationwide mobilization of troops, with a total number of 1.6 million. The northern soldiers met in the capital and set off to the south in batches. The southern soldiers gathered and reorganized nearby and headed to the front line.

As for where the front line is, why the troops were mobilized, and why it was difficult to go to Jing, the answer is very simple, the Wu soldiers came.

The terrain of the continent is very irregular. Yue borders Qi to the south, and Wu and the sea to the south of Qi. However, Yue also has an estuary and borders Wu.

To put it simply, the southeast of the continent is like a diagonal line, and below the diagonal line is the sea. The diagonal line is occupied by many countries, and the country that occupies the most is Wu.

Wu has the longest coastline. The entire Wu is like a crescent moon attached to the seashore. On one side is the sea, and on the other side is the Death Mountains, one of the two strange places on the continent. The sea and the mountains sandwich a narrow Wu, with a road at each end, leading to Qi and Yue respectively.

The border between Wu and Yue is a pass. A five-mile long and five-mile wide passage is split near the sea of ​​the Death Mountains. On both sides of the passage, Yue and Wu have heavy troops stationed.

Wu is the country with the most wars on the continent. There have been civil unrest for many years. It is divided into thirteen forces, all of which are named Wu. For the convenience of distinction, they are named Shang Wu, Xing Wu, etc. The one bordering Yue is Bai Wu.

Wu was in constant war, and cultivators fought in chaos. As the thirteen major forces gradually unified various places, cultivators also formed thirteen major cultivation sects, and each cultivation sect was the pillar of a country. The pillar of Bai Wu was the Bai Lian Sword Sect. Outsiders were used to calling it, so they directly called it the Bai Wu Sword Sect.

Yue bordered many countries, but the only countries that were constantly at war were the northern barbarians and the southern Bai Wu. The northern barbarians and Song were great enemies, so they rarely sent troops to Yue. Later, when monsters and beasts were causing chaos, they stopped the war directly. For hundreds of years since then, the border defense of the entire Yue was Bai Wu. There were no less than 600,000 troops stationed on the border.

Just to guard a mountain road that was five miles long and five miles wide, 600,000 troops were stationed, which showed how fierce the Bai Wu army was.

In the thirteen Wu in the south, men began to receive combat training from childhood. After adulthood, they experienced wars. Those who survived were all elite soldiers in the army. The whole country was full of such soldiers, and the soldiers of Yue could not compete at all.

The court of Yue State had a clear idea. If they couldn't win, they would use human lives to fill the gap. They used soldiers several times more than the Bai Wu army to guard the pass. Who would have thought that Bai Wu looked down on Yue State at all, and just used Yue State soldiers to train, sending all the new soldiers here to hone their skills, and trained them into brave soldiers to fight against Lie Wu and Jin Wu in the west. This situation existed for a long time, until this year, when the Western Lie Wu and Jin Wu joined forces to attack and defeated Bai Wu. They fought 70 battles in a row and broke 70 cities in a row, reducing Bai Wu's territory by one third.

The Wu people were fearless in fighting. Soldiers fought with soldiers, and cultivators fought with cultivators. The 70 consecutive defeats dealt a huge blow to the Bailian Sword School and Bai Wu. Finally, they had to invite two sword masters from the Bailian Sword School. It was all thanks to these two masters who fought hard and finally stopped Bai Wu's defeat. A stalemate was formed again with Lie Wu and Jin Wu.

With Bai Wu's soldiers, it was impossible to defeat the coalition forces of the two countries and regain lost territory in a short period of time. However, if the lost territory is not recovered, not only will the national fortune deteriorate, but the number of soldiers will also be greatly reduced. So a minister suggested that they should attack Yue State, occupy its territory, collect its elite soldiers, develop and expand as soon as possible, use the surrendered soldiers of Yue State to contain the armies of Lie Wu and Jin Wu, and then gather the elite soldiers of Bai Wu to attack, and recover as much lost territory as possible.

The king adopted this suggestion and expanded the war between Yue and Wu. At the beginning, there were several major battles, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. Bai Wu saw that this would not work. Wouldn't it be a fight on both sides and losses on both sides? Invite the sword cultivators of the White Lotus Sword Sect to help defeat the enemy.

The cultivators of the White Lotus Sword Sect have the pride of cultivators and are unwilling to bully ordinary people. They sent a dozen people at random, thinking that they would retreat if they met the cultivators of Yue State. However, the demon sect in the south of Yue State was hidden, and the small sects did not dare to compete with it. These dozen low-level sword cultivators became the supreme existence at the border, and by the way, they determined the outcome of the war between Yue and Wu.

In addition to those who died in battle and fled, the number of captured soldiers of Yue State reached 400,000. The whole court was shocked by the result, so the Jingnan Army was established. The Dai Viet Dynasty gathered 1.6 million troops to take back the captives and the pass.

But they didn't expect that there were too many soldiers and bandits, which disturbed the people along the way. Zhang Pa happened to meet them along the way. So he had to go to the barracks to see if there were other bastards who were also doing evil. In addition, he also had to go to the pass.

Bai Wu raised troops, and the unlucky people of Yue were the ones. Zhang Pa certainly couldn't stand it. He would personally rescue the lost 3,000 children, not to mention the lives of hundreds of thousands or millions of soldiers. How could he not care? Buddha asked, if I don't go to hell, who will? Answer: Zhang Pa went, he had the courage to go to hell.

There were a total of 81 horses in their group. Including Zhang Pa, there were 65 horses, and 16 horses were left. Except for one horse pretending to pull a small carriage, the rest did not need reins or control, and automatically followed the carriage.

Who wouldn't be jealous of this team? Even if you don't know much about horses, you will still give a thumbs up to such a brave and majestic dragon. But it's a pity that all the riders are children, which makes people sigh again and again.

When they left the city gate, the people and the soldiers who defended the city were jealous. When they reached the military camp fifteen miles away, they were directly surrounded by the knights.

The people blocking them were not ordinary soldiers, they were all officers. At first there was one, then two, and gradually more and more people gathered, forcing Zhang to stop him because he wanted to buy a horse. Seeing that, Zhang was afraid that if he didn't sell it, they would rob him.

Zhang was afraid of ignoring them, so he took a look inside the camp. The soldiers were either lining up or packing their tents, preparing to break camp and go south. There were more than 6,000 people in total. Because not long after joining forces, the general's orders could not be executed smoothly and things were not done uniformly, which showed their combat power.

This place is in the Ninghe River Basin. Zhang Ping still remembers that he went west after leaving Yuewu Pass and arrived at Ninghe River two days later. Not long after going south along the Ninghe River, he reached the mouth of the sea, and upstream along the Ninghe River, there was the city wall here.

After thinking about it for a while while riding on the horse, judging from the unhurried actions of the camp, the situation in the south should not be too tense.

When he didn't speak, an officer became angry, stretched out his hand to grab him, and shouted: "Sell the horse!"

Zhang Feng didn't say anything, so the dragon horse raised its hoof and kicked the man in the chest. He didn't use any force and only touched lightly. The officer flew three meters upside down and fell to the ground.

This kick made all the officers angry, and some of them drew their swords and wanted to cut them. Zhang Ai rolled his eyes at them and whispered: "Get out of here." In a tent that was about to be folded, there was a wooden frame on which hung the general he had seen in the morning. His back was scarred and covered with blood. It's a mark of whipping. But I didn't see the soldiers being punished.

He scolded the officer, and of course the officer was angry. At that time, someone wanted to kill someone with a knife. At this time, a small school ran out of the military camp and shouted with the command flag: "The general has ordered that all generals return to the camp to take charge of their own soldiers. They will not leave the camp before it is time." A group of officers received the general's order, glared at Zhang Wei, and then turned back to the camp. .

Zhang Wen was very curious. He had heard of the army setting out in the afternoon for the first time in his life. This general was interesting.

When all the officers were gone, the colonel said again: "By order of the general, civilian horses are being recruited into the army. Please leave your name and place of residence, sir. We will report it to the Ming Dynasty. The government will provide funds to buy these horses, and the money will be delivered to your door."

Zhang was afraid of Yile, but he was still ruthless as a general, so he just forced Bailang to keep all the horses with nothing. His people were trying to spend some money, but not only did the old guy not give me any money, he also put the label of the imperial court on me and oppressed me. Damn it. He came to the camp to see if there were any poor people like the four women in the morning. Unexpectedly, instead of seeing the poor people, a group of greedy people emerged. Alas, this is the soldier, this is the soldier of the common people today.

In the past few years when the Ninh River was flooded, he killed many corrupt officials, but now the sergeants are using force. What on earth is the Dai Viet Emperor doing all day long? Can't you manage your subordinates? Sighing and shaking his head, he waved his hand and the horse team set off, moving slowly along the road.

Seeing that Zhang was afraid of ignoring him and treating the military orders as if they were nothing, the primary school officer shouted hurriedly: "Disobeying military orders in wartime is the same as treason. Come and stop them." He had already prepared and shouted from the camp gate. Hula ran out a hundred strong soldiers, each holding a sword and a spear in front of the road.

Zhang Wen did not want to get angry with these bandits, so he raised his hand and pointed at the general hanging on the wooden frame in the military camp and said: "Go and ask him why he was whipped."

When the principal heard this, his expression changed slightly. Others couldn't understand what this meant, but he understood it very well. In the early morning, the military commander took 300 men out of the camp to look for the fleeing soldiers. In the morning, he brought 200 men back and said that the rest of the soldiers were dead. The general was furious. He was worried that killing the general before the battle would be detrimental to the war, so he spared his life. However, he was ordered to be flogged for ten days, but he was not beaten to death, just to make him suffer every day.

This order came from the primary school. Hearing what Zhang Wen said, the primary school suspected that he had killed more than a hundred soldiers.

He just passed the order and knew that the general's men were killed, but he didn't know the details. Otherwise, there would be no doubt that it was Zhang Ain who did it. He was accompanied by a bunch of children and a bunch of horses. How could he admit his mistake with such an obvious mark?

The general knew these things, and he also knew that Zhang Ai and a group of children were outside the camp. However, he did not believe what the general said, and he did not believe that a young man could kill hundreds of soldiers in a moment, so he sent people out to seize horses and kill people by the way.

There were sergeants blocking the road in front of him, all of them with fierce faces and murderous intent. Dozens of children were frightened, and they were either timid or hiding. Some children were shouting loudly. Zhang was afraid to look back at them and said clearly one word: "Nothing in this world can make anyone stop." You are afraid, remember, there is nothing to be afraid of!" The children looked at him in confusion. The people in front were all holding knives. Isn't that scary?