The Sword Dynasty - 562. Chapter 561

The supreme commander of an army often plays a decisive role in the outcome of a war.

This is not only about cultivation and courage, but also about temperament.

Sometimes a slight hesitation and gentleness can affect key battles, boost morale, and even make an army forget its life, which depends more on the confidence and personal charm that the warlord gives his subordinates.

Not only in the foreign dynasties, even in the Da Chu Dynasty, many people have no confidence in Tang Mei, who has been at home for many years.

The army of the Great Qin Dynasty was famous for its bravery many years ago, especially during the period when many generals in the Bashan sword field led the army. It’s not as good as all dynasties in the world. This is reflected in the military, which is the number of troops that can be fed by the power of the nest, including ordnance, compared to the Han, Zhao, and Wei Dynasty at that time.

Therefore, in the many battles in the rise of Bashan, the Daqin army often relied on powerful practitioners, and the number of the army was often absolutely inferior. The classic battles with thousands of victories and tens of thousands appeared many times.

By the 13th year of the Yuanwu reign of the Great Qin Dynasty, although the Bashan sword field had been annihilated for many years, the number of powerful practitioners of the Great Qin Dynasty remained stable and stable. Changling, in particular, seemed to have won the fate of heaven. There are countless practitioners with amazing talents. .

It is hard for the world to imagine how the Daqin army will perform when the total number of Daqin troops is no less than that of the opponent when the proportion of powerful practitioners is already large.

At least in the battle with Wu’s family, even if Wu’s family caught the Daqin dynasty’s army by surprise and won a huge victory with a crazy full offensive attitude, in the subsequent battles, when a large number of practitioners in Changling rushed out. When it arrived, Wu’s army soon couldn’t bear it, and retreated into the depths of the wasteland by the cold.

Not many people are optimistic about the Da Chu Dynasty.

The most intuitive reaction was on the long border between Chu and Qin.

Many border towns, bayonet gates, and some army and carriages on this side of the Great Qin Dynasty could not be reached. Small towns that could only be reached by caravans knowing some secret trails, could welcome a large number of caravans returning from Chu every day.

There were very few caravans returning to Chu from the side of the Great Qin Dynasty.

This is the most intuitive explanation. From the perspective of these caravans and some residents on the border, when the war begins, the flames of war will spread to the territory of Chu, and the army of the Great Chu Dynasty is bound to be unable to withstand the invasion of the Qin army, so they take their homes. It is safer to move back to the territory behind the army of the Great Qin Dynasty. Otherwise, when the two armies are at war, there will be nothing left, and it will be affected.

Hongyan Town is one of the northernmost mountain towns of the Dachu Dynasty in the north of Yinshan Mountain.

As the name suggests, this mountain town cannot be reached by ordinary carts and horses. It can only be reached by caravans that can travel along secret mountain roads dug on the cliffs. It originated from Hongyan.

Since ancient times, there is no fertile land around this mountain town, and the transportation is extremely inconvenient. The only way to communicate with the outside world is to abandon the horses and climb the mountain by manpower, or take the kind of sheep intestine path that is excavated along the side of the mountain wall. The reason why it can become one of the settlements of border people is because the underground contains a lot of red brine.

These red brines can be used to make salt.

Salt is extremely important for both people and livestock. There is no other place where salt can be produced in the hundreds of miles around Hongyan Town. Therefore, Hongyan Town has been relying on women to pump and carry brine and to make salt in salt fields for thousands of years.

Herdsmen and farmers outside arrived here through horse carts transporting air-dried meat and grain to exchange large amounts of red salt.

Hongyan Town has naturally become a very secret trading place. Even if it is difficult to reach, there is no better place to go within a hundred miles around. Therefore, many caravans passing by here are very hidden even if no transaction is completed here. It is possible to arrive here to rest and replenish some supplies. If the load is insufficient, he will naturally bring some red salt out. As long as the red salt is shipped out, it will be at least twice the price here.

The war is approaching, and even most herders have driven their livestock to hide in the alpine pastures in the hinterland of the Yinshan Mountains. Caravans here have become extremely rare.

Coming along the border of Donghu, Ding Ning, Changsun Qianxue, and the old monk who arrived here are naturally absolutely alien.

However, in this extremely difficult area of life in the extreme north of Chu, the business exchanges were originally exchanged with Donghu and Wushi, and the customs were mostly similar. In the eyes of ordinary people in these areas, the vast majority of ascetic monks possess extraordinary powers because of their practice. In their usual practice, these ascetic monks will use their precious vitality to get rid of them when they are requested by the border residents. In the eyes of these border residents, ascetic monks are extremely respected Dharma kings. Some border residents will spontaneously use their best things to support these ascetic monks.

The older the older, the more extraordinary the ascetic monk, and in these people’s eyes, the higher the merit, so when the old ascetic monk led Ding Ning and the eldest grandson Qianxue to this place, Received the highest courtesy.

The people in Hongyan Town not only offered snow salt–a kind of extremely pure salt frost crystals, condensed on the top wooden slats in the depths of the salt well. This snow salt naturally condenses with some vitality of the world that is useful for practitioners. There are amazing selling prices in capitals like Changling. In addition, it was heard that the old monk was only here, and these people also offered some of the best horses, enough water and food.

As for the guide, he was rejected by the old monk.

Because the old monk himself is the best guide, in his early years of spiritual practice, his footprints had traveled throughout most of the Yinshan Mountains, from this area to Chu or Qin.

The horses selected by these pious frontiers are commonplace for the gut-gut trails on the cliffs, and they walk extremely stable, but most places are extremely dangerous. A few inches beside them are hundreds of feet in the air, and there are rocks standing under them, or you can see white. Torrents of water.

Ding Ning’s body moved up and down like waves with the bumps of the horse’s back, but his hands were extremely stable and opened a large carved silver box containing snow salt.

His right index finger and middle finger pierced into the center of the snow salt, then twisted out a piece of paper from it, and looked at it.

For him, Red Salt Town is the only way to go. First, it is a shortcut to quickly enter the Chu Realm. Second, it is actually a military intelligence center of Wu Clan. From the caravan that gathers everywhere, there are Wu Clan’s. People, bring together some key military information here.

In order to make the most accurate judgments of the situation, it is necessary to have as complete and as fast intelligence sources as possible, and it is necessary to count the journey time of this information to this place, and calculate the possible changes in it.

Ding Ning carefully read the dense handwriting on this page, then turned and handed it to Changsun Qianxue.

Changsun Qianxue scanned it roughly, and looked at his back and nodded, “The more superior, the more he knows, the less he is optimistic about the Da Chu Dynasty. In just a few days, Yan and Qi There have been several riots. Although the previous great turmoil and these unclimate turmoil are only shown by Zheng Xiu deliberately, this has let everyone know that she has a long-term layout in Yan and Qi. Although Chu and Yan The three dynasties of Qi have a covenant to advance and retreat, but I am afraid that Yan and Qi will be jealous. Even if they send a large number of practitioners, some of the most powerful practitioners, Emperor Yan and Emperor Qi will stay with them.”

“Zheng Xiu is indeed very good at assassination, but this is not the most critical factor in the formation of such a situation.” Ding Ning turned his head and glanced at her, and said: “I also think that Yan and Qi will not send strong assistance. It is just the most critical. The reason is that the Da Chu Dynasty was also very strong. From their point of view, Da Chu could not win this battle. However, with the strength of the two sides, no one could completely swallow the other side in one bite, so they felt that In the end, both sides lost a large number of troops, and the Da Chu dynasty was not exhausted. In the end, it was to cede land and seek peace. Ceding a few counties would naturally greatly damage the vitality of the Da Chu dynasty, but Da Qin would also consume a lot of vitality. This is the opportunity for Yan and Qi to rise.”

Changsun Qianxue frowned, and said directly: “If everything is as you expect now, even if the Jin Ge army arrives on schedule, it will be dangerous, because Daqin is putting in far more power than you thought before.”

Ding Ning naturally understood that she said that even if he tried his best, it seemed that he might not be able to help Da Chu win the war, but he did not think so.

He shook his head and said, “Sihou seems to have a great advantage over Tang Mo, a general who has been idle for many years, but in fact we have a chance.”