Chapter 1019

The sudden situation in the northwest made Fang Xie really restless. Although he issued three military orders in succession, Fang Xie was not a God. He didn't know the specific situation in the northwest. The news sent by Chen Dingnan from the northwest was at least a month ago. Today, a month later, Fang Xie has no way to know whether Chen Dingnan has fought with the Mongolian Yuan people.

Order the ship to move forward at full speed and turn north at Yong'an canal.

Fang Xie unfolds the map on the table, and his fingers will stop on all roads in the northwest cities.

"If the Mongolian Yuan people really entered the pass with millions of troops, their cattle and sheep must be an extremely large number. The Mongolian Yuan people lack food and feed on cattle and sheep. After entering the pass, they can't spread the army as on the grassland, so the speed is slower than the light and simple infantry. This is the only good news."

He pondered a little: "Entering the pass from langrushan, passing fan Gu to the East, and then walking more than a hundred miles is Shuyang County, where there are many mountain roads, and the people of Mengyuan will go for a while. Mengge must know that the northwest of the Sui Dynasty was poor and could not find food supplies, so the cattle and sheep he carried should at least be enough to support his army for two or three months. When Chen Dingnan got the news, it was not long before the wolf rode into the pass, and he said Send someone to report to me immediately. Although we use the contact information of Xiaoqi school, there is no contact point of our Xiaoqi school in Hexi Road and Hedong Road, so we can't use carrier pigeons... "

Heize, a thousand households of Xiaoqi school who followed the ship, said, "Lord, although there is no contact point of our Xiaoqi school, there are branches of goods connecting the sky on Hexi Road and Hedong road. The news should be that these routes are much faster than people and horses."

Fang Xie nodded: "so, according to the time, I guess... Mengge's army should have just left Shandong road. Their team is too large, and the speed of cattle and sheep is slow. Shuyang County will go for at least 20 days. It should not be Hexi Road yet, and it should be in time for the military order to be sent."

Kurosawa said, "General Chen will not go to war without his Lord's general."

Fang Xie frowned slightly and didn't answer.

Because he knows Chen Dingnan's personality, Chen Dingnan is a direct and sharp man, and he hates foreign enemies very much, so he may not take the initiative to stop in front of the Mongolian Yuan army. Now Fang Xie's biggest worry is not Chen Dingnan's command ability, but that most of Chen Dingnan's headquarters are transferred back from Yunnan Road. After walking so far, the soldiers' physical strength is very weak from southwest to northwest It consumes a lot and morale is tired. It's not a good thing to go to war with the Mongolian Yuan people rashly under such circumstances.

"Even if the reinforcements from the Gyeonggi camp set out immediately to the northwest, Cui Zhongzhen wanted to mobilize food and grass supplies. Coupled with the majority of soldiers, it would take at least more than a month and a half to get to Hedong road."

Fang Xie shook his head: "the war situation is changing rapidly..."

Heize comforted: "Lord, you don't have to worry too much. General Chen can be alone when he is in Yunnan Road. He can control the harsh and complex terrain and human conditions. Now the situation in the northwest is much simpler than that in Yunnan Road. Now general Chen has to face only war or no war. He will consider it clearly after leading the army for so long."

Fang Xie gave a sound and turned to Xie Fuyao: "I want you and Mr. Yanqing to go to the northwest."

Xie Fu shook his head and said, "OK."

He looked at Yanqing again: "Sir, I've just arrived. I'd like to invite you to travel. The journey is long and tiring. How hard you are."

Yan Qing smiled and said, "don't think I can't beat you when I'm old. He won't beat me. Since it's the Great Khan of Meng Yuan, there must be experts around him. We'd better hurry over as soon as possible. In case the two armies have a confrontation, Meng Wei won't send experts to assassinate Chen Dingnan."

"Thank you, sir"

Fang Xie gave a fist salute.

Regardless of his current status, his background as a disciple of the Academy of martial arts cannot be changed. Besides, Yan Qing took good care of him when he was in the Academy. Fang Xie didn't pretend to respect him. If Yan Qing and another professor Qiu Yu didn't take better care of him when he was in the Academy, he was afraid that Fang Xie's life would be harder.

"When Mr. Chen arrived in the northwest, he told Chen Dingnan not to attack easily. If only he had known the news earlier. The best place to snipe the Mengyuan army is Shandong Road, where the terrain is dangerous, and only fangucheng can stop the wolf for a while. There are many mountains and dangerous passes in Shuyang County, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack. But now the wolf rider is afraid to pass through Shandong Road, Shannan The road is an inverted triangle shape. The area between Shandong Road and Hexi Road is not very wide. Even if the wolf rides slowly, it will pass in more than 20 days at most. "

"Hexi Road is peaceful and smooth..."

Fang Xie said, "that's the most unsuitable place to fight with wolves. If the troops are more than the enemy or equivalent, even if the morale is better, they can form an array to stop. However, the number of wolves is seven or eight times that of Chen Dingnan. Even if the array is formed, it's meaningless. Mengge can easily complete the encirclement by relying on the advantage of quantity. Once trapped by wolves, the infantry will be in a difficult situation."

"Therefore, instead of defending the enemy in the most unfavorable place, it's better to give up the northwest and deploy troops to the east of Yishui. Wolves have no boats and boats. If they want to cross the river, they can only build a floating bridge. Duanzheng's navy is now in the area of Cheng County of Yong'an canal. If they take the waterway, they can meet Chen Dingnan in no more than 25 days. At that time, they will deploy defense on the East Bank of Yishui. With the help of the Navy, the Mongolians thought about it The river is not that easy. "

Yan Qing nodded: "I've written it down. You can rest assured that we two rushed to the northwest, faster than the Navy."

Two people are light and simple, and their speed must be much faster than that of the army.

Fang Xie clapped his fist and saluted again: "thank you, sir."

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northwest

Fan Gu

This is a very wide place, lit a lot of candles to drive away part of the darkness, but it still looks a little gloomy and scary because of the open space. Broken and fallen columns can be seen everywhere, with thick steel bars exposed inside. The dust on the ground is so thick that it can sink your feet in. It feels like stepping on a layer of snow.

With yellow hair and ugly face, the boy squatted on the ground and looked at a body with only traces left. The bones have turned into dust, but the ground can vaguely see what kind of posture the man was before he died.

"Master, how long have these people died?"

"I don't know"

Mr. Jiu shook his head: "maybe thousands of years, maybe tens of thousands of years."

"Tens of thousands of years!"

Startled, the boy turned to look at other places: "what killed them in such a deep underground? Hungry? Or did someone find here and kill them?"

"I don't know"

Mr. Jiu shook his head again.

Even though he has lived here for a long time, he still can't understand it. If he hadn't found it by chance, he didn't know how long it would be dusty. When he came to fan Gu, the simple and honest man named Su Tu Gou and his charming wife named Du Hongxian had not come. At that time, he was still a very young child.

He vaguely remembered that his parents had brought him from a distance, and there was no trace of where he came from. He didn't even remember why his parents brought him to such a cold and remote place. He himself has speculated countless times. The most reasonable explanation is that maybe he has some relatives working in fan gubian army, and his parents brought him to take refuge.

Then his parents died of a terrible disease. He remembered that his parents had a fever at the beginning, and then his whole body festered. He was driven away by his parents because they were afraid that their children would also be infected. He didn't know where his parents died.

Because of his parents, he didn't go to fan Gu at all.

He continued his journey alone to avoid all kinds of beasts. You know, the hungry northwest wolf even dares to jump into the village to commit murder. What he feels most fortunate now is that he survived when he was so young. Later, when he was eating a wild rat raw in a forest, he was seen by a passing practitioner.

Then he was taken away and entered fangucheng.

On the day they entered fan Gu, he felt like a young beast entering the crowd. Fear filled his heart and made his muscles tense all over his body.

At that time, the shop was still empty and no one stopped it. The man took him to live in Fangu City, taught him accomplishments, and told him that their sect was called Yueying hall, which was once the most powerful sect in the Central Plains and ruled the whole Jianghu. Later, the moon shadow hall was defeated by a man named Wan Xingchen, and then the moon shadow hall had to choose to leave. Leaving the most prosperous central plains, the surviving disciples went far away and chose the most remote place to live in seclusion.

But every few years, they gather in Chang'an City from all over the country to pay tribute to the dead ancestors and prepare for the comeback of the moon shadow hall. It is said that the disciples of the moon shadow hall have been like this for many years, but they have not been able to reproduce the glory of the moon shadow hall.

Mr. Jiu was very young at that time. When he didn't practice, he began to understand the world again. He liked to sit on the street and watch people come and go. But because he is really humble, people won't pay attention to him even if they see him. By the time he was a teenager, his accomplishments had already surpassed those of the practitioner who taught him.

That year, his master planned to take him to the important gathering of the moon shadow hall in Chang'an city. Because his cultivation was already strong, his master was ready to let him challenge Tianjun. But he felt that he was not strong enough, and he felt that challenging the great emperor was meaningless. In his opinion, if you want to do it, you should be the nine heavenly kings.

He and his master often quarrel over this matter, so they often ignore anyone for a few days.

Later, one day, as usual, when he was sitting on the street watching people coming and going, he saw three strange people enter fan Gu. A skinny man in a dirty fur coat is described as obscene. A gorgeous woman in a long red dress. This is a very strange thing for two people to be together, but the strangest thing is... The woman still leads a young man in her hand, a very beautiful young man.

It seems that he is several years younger than himself. However, because he was so beautiful, pedestrians couldn't help looking at him more. Of course, it's also because the people with him are more eye-catching.

Mr. Jiu also kept looking at the boy and felt that he was too far from him. Although he is not ugly, the boy is obviously more likable.

It seemed that he felt his sight, and the beautiful young man looked at him, and then stretched out his middle finger towards him. Up to now, Mr. Jiu didn't understand what that meant.

"I should have asked him what that meant..."

Mr. Jiu, trapped in his memory, murmured. The boy turned and asked, "master, what are you talking about?"

Mr. Jiu was slightly stunned, and then smiled with self mockery: "nothing, just thought of an old friend in the city, a past."

"Master, how did you find this place?"

Asked the boy.

Mr. Jiu found a place to sit down and scan the place. It's very big here. He has been living here for a few years, so he knows it's much bigger than fangucheng on the ground. It's like a huge underground palace, but I don't know when it was built.

"That day... I almost died..."

He said.

His eyes are a little erratic.