Power and Empire Chapter 3085: South of the East Court (4)
"Your Majesty means to say the south..."
Li Yuehua is also a wise man. Seeing the direction the fat man was pointing, she frowned her eyebrows and seemed to think of something. She suddenly showed a daze on her pretty face and nodded happily. "What your Majesty said is, why did I forget it, for In the battle against our empire this time, the Long Family almost drew all the troops that could be mobilized to the northern line. That is to say, the Long Family’s southern line is now a gap. As long as the force is concentrated to launch a fierce attack, it will inevitably be able to enter the southwest. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, how could the Southern Song Clan, who has always had grievances with the Southwest Dragon Family, let it go!"
" You’re right. In fact, if I’m not mistaken, the Song army is on the way!" The fat man smiled slightly, took a piece of information from the table and handed it to Li Yuehua, with his back on his back. Looking deeply at the black sky outside the tent, he said, "This is a secret letter from the Song Clan in the South. Just when the Long Family drew troops from the base camp again, Song Que, the leader of the Song Clan, had already left. After sitting down in the Sancha River, there was also the Song fleet that transported Song troops from the southern mountains to the Sancha River defense line."
"The entire fleet has disappeared..."
Li Yuehua’s pretty face was cold, her white shell-like teeth were on her lips, and she took a deep breath and said, “It seems that the Song people really can’t wait! In winter and spring, the dry river will rise for a whole winter. Water, if the fleet is going retrograde while the water is rising, I am afraid that it will not be able to arrive in a short time. I don't understand that it is not faster to send troops directly from the southern mountains. Why do you want to stay close and seek further?"
Throughout China and Biya, everyone knows the contradiction between the Song people in the south and the southwest. When the Long family was appointed to the southwest, one of the functions of many of them was to cooperate with the Central Court to form military suppression on the southern mountains, and to compete with Luzhou on the other side. Army, forming a force of left and right clamping,
In the last thirty years, the sphere of influence of the southern mountain people has shrunk significantly. Although the southern Song people are still one of the four big and one-tier sects, they have gradually faded out of people’s sight, especially with it. The neighbouring Longjia took advantage of its geographical advantage in the south, and continued to adopt a step-by-step policy of reducing land for the southern mountain people, pushing the sideline south many times. For the mountain people's villages encountered, Either it was suppressed by force, or the entire village was expelled from the southwest, especially in the era when Longshan was the main general of the south. The southwestern sideline was pushed several times to the south. The biggest one was to push it 20 or 30 miles away, even In the end, a cruel policy of prohibiting mountain people from entering within fifty miles was promulgated. More than a hundred of mountain people’s stockades were burned down. I don’t know how many mountain people had to leave their homeland to escape south, dragging their children and women all the way to the south
The most recent time, Li Yuehua clearly remembered that he was a young core figure of the Song family. He was captured by the Long family army because of private enmity. Song Que, the lord of the Song family, personally wrote a letter to plead. , The Long family still unceremoniously decapitated the young Song family who had high hopes, so at this time, the two were almost about to fight.
The fat man shook his hand and looked at the southwest map hung on the tent pillars. He said, "This map was drawn by the Imperial Intelligence Department pretending to be a businessman along the Southwest Waterway. It has been revised a dozen times before and after. It is the finalization of this map of Southwest, the level of detail, I am afraid that there is no map of Long's own."
The fat man’s voice paused, and then he continued, "At first I was confused, but when I saw this map, I realized that Song Que is indeed the leader of the southern mountain people. His decisiveness and excellence are indeed true. For a few moments, the fleet went retrograde from the Sanchakou river, seemingly “to seek the distance, but in fact it cleverly bypassed the several major defensive points that the Long Family had painstakingly managed on the southern route for decades, from the weakest waterway in the southwest. Enter, as long as the troops are strong, you can be as powerful as you can, and it is not impossible to come directly to Sichuan! The biggest advantage is that the Long Family would never have thought that the Song would adopt a retrograde attack strategy and drive into the southwest through the east-west river! When we reacted, the door to the southwest had been torn open, and the main force of the Long Family was still held by us on the front line of Kaishan. What else could we do except stare! As for the time delay due to the retrograde of the river, don’t forget that the Song people are very hard-bearing mountain people, and they hate the Southwest Dragon family even more. If tens of thousands of people are pulling boats along the river, from the third place where the Song people are. From Chahe Road to Southwest River Road, ten days is enough."
"It's not like ten days later..."
At this time, even Li Yuehua felt cold in his back. If the information is true, then the Song boat fleet that is going up the river at this moment has actually passed half of the distance. It is indeed retrograde as the emperor said. Although it was too late, it bypassed the six bunker cities set up by the Long Family on the southern route. Because the Long Family has always been accustomed to the upper reaches of the terrain, there is almost no defense against the waterway. Once faced with the Song Dynasty ship The team’s fierce attack must be the collapse of World War I. The Song people can easily kill the Long’s lair at the mouth of the Guangling River. Ten days later, this may be the situation. The Long’s family, who has been entrenched in the southwest for decades, Ten days later, it may be the end of being blocked by a sword
"Look at it, within a few days, the Long Family should be able to react!" The fat man said with a stern expression, categorically,
I don’t need these few days. In fact, the next morning, the emergency news from the river channel has already caused the entire dragon family to fry.
"What the **** is going on?
Longshan’s face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He didn’t believe that when the Long family was fighting the empire, the Song clan would be like putting on their wings, and overnight, they plunged into the southwest river. Li Chang’s entrance is beyond his original expectations.
A general Long’s family who was covered in mud and water, his face was disastrously kneeling in front of Longshan, and his voice whimpered, “Master Longhua was ordered to send a navy fleet to transport supplies downstream. Who knew that he had just left the mouth of Lichangjiang River, suddenly Encountered the oncoming Song boats. These boats are completely different from what we have encountered before. They are amazingly large in terms of height and size. Only the ship's side height is twice as high as our army. The Song family shooters are condescending, and there are also slings. The number of warships was astonishing. Our warships were unprepared and were wounded and sunk. The battle took less than half an hour. Eighteen warships have been damaged and more than a thousand sailors were involved. As a last resort, Master Longhua could only order the fleet to withdraw to the guard. Lichang, please send people to rescue immediately, otherwise Lichang will be breached and the opponent's fleet will go all the way down to the mouth of the Guanglin River without any hindrance. When the time comes, I am afraid that it will be..."
The Long Family General’s voice stopped, but everyone felt even more bitterly cold. The Long Family and the mountain people have been feuding for decades. Most of the generals here have been on the Southern Front. How can they not know how the Long Family treats them? What kind of cruel methods those mountain people are. Once these hateful mountain people rush into the Long Family Base Camp Guang Linchuan, the consequences will be tragic. I am afraid that it will not be much better than when Linhang was attacked by the grassland people. Everyone’s family We are all in Guanglin,
"These shameless mountain people, betrayed their faith, and stabbed a knife in the back regardless of the overall situation." The generals were filled with righteous indignation. Longshan's face was even more gloomy, and his eyes were full of anxiety. The Song clan’s sudden war really made the dragon. The family was caught off guard. If the Song nationality started the war from the southern line, it would be better to say that the Long Family has been operating on the southern line for decades, especially the 30 years that Longshan presided over, and it has turned the entire Long Family South Line into one. Huge military fortress
The six military fortress cities that formed horns with each other completely sealed off the road that the Song people might advance northward. The Long family still has 20,000 people on the southern line. If the Song people want to cross this line, they must invest at least One hundred thousand troops, thirty or forty thousand corpses, according to the current Song clan’s pride in court, I’m afraid I’m not interested in trading such a heavy price for a southern advantage, so Longshan doesn’t think the Song clan will take risks. The war started, but the facts were so cruel. The Song people walked along the waterway and completely bypassed the strategic node of the southern route. It was like a sharp blade that stabbed the dragon’s weak underbelly.
Originally, the Long Family was at best a two-line war, one facing the empire and the other facing the prairie people, but now it has become a three-line war in the blink of an eye
Even the high morale of the Long Family feels the crisis of life and death at this moment. This time, I am afraid that it is not just a battle. Whether it is the Kaishan front line or the waterway, it is impossible to turn back after failure. If I knew this a long time ago, I shouldn't have rushed to war with the Empire!
Lichang is the entrance to the Lichang River that crosses the southwest. It is also a heavily guarded city and the base camp of the Longjia navy army. Although the Longjia navy army has no reputation, it is a repressive force. The navy of the Southern Song fleet still has dozens of small and medium warships that can operate in the river. There are more than 3,000 sailors. When there is no war, this Longjia navy is also responsible for water transportation. The task, because of the war with the empire, the main force of the Long Family has been out for a long time, and the consumption is huge. Before the navy was ordered
Buy food materials downstream
At this time, Lichang City is already full of rocks flying across the sky, and the flames are blasting into the sky
A soldier of the Long family hiding behind the crevice of the city wall, his face was pale like paper, and his body leaned firmly against the crevice of the stone. Even if he was wearing armor, he could not feel the slightest sense of security. At the corner of the city wall near the river channel, fire light mixed with black smoke rising up, countless huge fireballs flying out of the tall ship hull on the river, like countless points of light exploding on the city wall, some fireballs crossed the city wall and hit behind the city wall The house in the city was immediately filled with billowing black smoke. Under the fierce wind, the fire spread, and the entire Lichang city was almost half lit. The sky was completely covered by black and red colors, and the city was full of running and fleeing. No one dared to fight the fire at all. It was completely messy. In the past, there were attacks and a large number of residents in the city came to help. At this moment, no one dared to come as many fireballs as the meteors out of the city. There are countless fireballs leaping over my head, smashing against the roof of the house, and countless sparks scattered and flying down, like red dots floating in the wind, it is like hell.
"Asshole, the other party just wants a fire to ignite the whole city"
Long Hua, the head of the Long’s water army, punched the handrail of the fort in great annoyance. The situation was worse than he expected. It can even be said that if he hadn’t experienced it personally, he would never believe such a scene. I don’t know where the Song people learned this method of using warships as a fort, and they prepared so many fireballs. It meant that they would wipe out Lichang City directly with fire. It can be seen that the opponent absolutely It was prepared, otherwise so many fireballs could not be created in a short time. Longhua didn’t know that this fireball tactic was actually the result of the Song clan’s sharp shooting of the Thunder God’s artillery battle by the Imperial Navy in Qinglong Bay. Inspired, it is woven from a large number of wild vines that no one wants in the southern mountains. It is splashed with oil and fired. The vines are soft and flexible. Under normal circumstances, they will fall apart only when they hit the target. Mars Spreading everywhere, in the Sanchakou river, the Song people used this fireball to burn the ships collected by the Yelu Army along the way, and finally made the Yelu Army dare not even go down the river
The Dragon's Army who encountered vine fire for the first time didn’t understand what this was~ IndoMTL.com~ Even a warrior who had experienced many battles had biological instinctive fear in the face of fireballs, not to mention these vine fireballs. The power of the fireball is quite powerful. The tumbling fireball will often roll forward after landing until it hits the target. Some dragon soldiers curled up behind the city wall, seemingly safe, but they were immediately contaminated by these rolling fireballs. The vine ball exploded, the flame was blown upside down by the wind, and it ignited the person at once. The body of the person behind the crenellation was like a bunch of sparks hitting, and the flames wailed out
blazing flames are spreading in Lichang City, "Woo!" Desolation represents the sound of the horns of a deadly battle coming from the direction of the city,
"Father, is it too much for the Patriarch to fight like this?" On a battleship of the Song clan, a young man wearing mountain vine armor hesitantly said to a middle-aged man next to him " Although the use of vine fire can reduce the number of damages to our army, the entire Lichang city is probably going to be over."
"What do you know, how can the wisdom of the Patriarch be understood by a junior like you?" The middle-aged man wearing a beast head and shoulder armor gave him a fierce look and said, "Leaving the city is entering The gate of the Southwest Waterway is the headquarters of the Long Family's naval forces. It is burned by a fire. Even if the Long Family wants to repair it, it is difficult to do. Moreover, with Lichang City in front, who dares to stop it? The fleet is moving forward not only to reduce the loss of our army, but also to reduce the resistance encountered after entering the southwestern waterway. Only by making these Southwesterners feel scared, will the obstacles encountered by our army be minimized, otherwise it will be reduced. Such cities are smashed down the river, and the dragon family’s base camp in Guanglinchuan is going to be hit. I don’t know how many people need to be filled in by my mountain people!"