Chapter 735

As soon as Shen Hao entered the Qianhu Office early in the morning, he saw Wang Yiming eagerly waiting at the door of his office holding a copper bar.

"grown ups."

Shen Hao nodded but did not respond, he opened the door and walked in before saying, "What's the matter?"

"My lord, there is an urgent report from the Southern Inspectorate just arrived." Wang Yiming dared not speak until he saw Shen Hao interfering, and at the same time handed over the copper bar in his hand.

Southern Overseer? That's military affairs!

Shen Hao took it over, and the above blockade was complete and had not been opened. And there is a sign of transfer, which was sent to the Commander's Yamen by the Southern Supervisor, then the Commander's Yamen was transferred to the Jingxi Governor's Yamen, and finally the Jingxi Governor's Yamen was transferred to him.

There will definitely be a delay in time, but it won't be too long, at most it will be one or two days slower than the commander's yamen's first-hand time.

No need to guess, this is already the preferential treatment Shen Hao has received. If it weren't for the confidence of the Southern Inspectorate that he had strengthened before, this information would not have been forwarded to him. This was sent for his credit and familiarity with the Southern Inspectorate. It should be to listen to him. Views.

But now the Southern Inspector who replaced Shen Hao is said to have done a good job and was very honest. He continued the strategy that Shen Hao had set before and did not change it without authorization, and he was very stable.

Before that, some fragmentary front-line battle reports were sent back one after another. This is the intelligence system established by Shen Hao after the inspector was reused. It is specially rooted in the army. The intelligence system of civilian officials supervising the army is almost the same, at least there is almost no difference in response speed.

After returning from Shen Hao, the military incident in the south has not stopped, or Zuo Yuliang has been pressing the flames of war to the depths of the barbarian area step by step according to a unique pace from the beginning to the 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 Jingjiu dynasty soldier front shaped like a trident. The most severely affected place is Baitou Gorge, which has been squeezed because of Jianchuan's joining. Very powerful, the war of attrition in the Flesh Mill is getting more and more intense.

And as Zuo Yuliang continued to increase troops to Baitou Gorge by 10,000 to 20,000, now Baitou Gorge has already seen a decisive battle of troops. It was only at this time that everyone discovered that Zuo Yuliang's central army had actually moved more than half of it to Baitou Gorge bit by bit under the guise of refueling the flesh and blood mill in Baitou Gorge. .

The three Jianchuan military strongholds under Shen Wanlin's command have now also invaded some of the newly added cavalry from the flanks to Baitou Gorge, and mainly harassed them, wantonly destroying grain fields, houses, and warehouses in the Baitou Gorge area, and using war horses The endurance advantage of long-distance raids, but they just don't confront the barbarian wolf cavalry.

While squeezing huge profits, they harassed wantonly, and the back of Baitou Gorge is still the most important food production area for the barbarians. If it is smashed, the subsequent battle will be equivalent to directly losing 30% to 40% of the chance of winning.

On the other hand, looking at Zuo Yuliang's central army staying in Wuhu Lake, although the army stronghold is still there, the banners are actually half empty, and they come one after another, step forward one after another, and return one after another. Withdrawal and repair, the intensive and complicated deployment of troops blinded almost everyone's eyes. It was not until Baitou Gorge overwhelmed the 100,000 troops in one fell swoop that everyone suddenly understood Zuo Yuliang's plan.

Just five days ago, that is, in the early morning of June 19th, Zuo Yuliang even secretly left Wuhu Lake to appear in the Baitouxia army formation, waved the flag, and launched the first full-army attack on Baitouxia .

Because of the sudden pressure of the entire army this time, and the miscalculation of the strength of the Jingjiu side, it was difficult for the barbarian defense forces on the opposite side to support effective resistance.

Especially at the level of cultivation, Zuo Yuliang appeared in the Baitouxia Army Formation and personally commanded it. One can imagine how many masters from Jingying Mansion came.

According to the information sent by the Supervisory Envoy, there were eight Xuanhai Realm cultivators who appeared in the army that day, including the fourth elder of Guishan Seminary that Shen Hao had met once, Lin Dashan, the real person of Wushan, and the super sect Wan Wan. Xuan Tianqing, the fifth elder of Juanshu Mountain.

The news sent back reads: Zuo Shuai came to the army in person, the morale of the army was like a rainbow, and the sound of war drums shook the four fields. Physical training opened up a battlefield to fight. At the same time, the commander-in-chief Zuo waved his flag, and the whole army crashed into the enemy in three ways to start the battle.

At about the same time, it is estimated that 60% of the masters from the Jingying Mansion who had gone out to build another arena returned, while most of the barbarian monks were slaughtered, and the rest were scattered. Then the victory is more than half in hand.

Just after noon, the frontal barbarian main front obviously retreated, showing signs of decline. Zuo Shuai ordered the monks of Jingying Mansion to sweep the front barbarian army in a second attack, and then directly opened the situation to complete the interspersed situation of three lines of defense.

The misfortune happened when the time had just arrived, and suddenly a large group of barbarian reinforcements appeared in the south, sweeping across in a cutting trend, accompanied by a large number of high-level monks to assist, so that the battle situation immediately fell into a dilemma, and three groups advanced into the barbarian army formation The protruding part was divided into one strand, and the remaining two strands also fell into a bitter struggle.

Unlike the barbarians that the soldiers of Baitouxia were most familiar with before, the barbarians who came from the south this time were led by the bears, supplemented by the monkeys, and even the monkeys came with a large number of horses and cavalry, and killed a man caught off guard from the flank. .

At this point, more than half of the achievements of Tianjing's old dynasty were wiped out by the barbarian raids, but the dominant position is still there.

In the early days of You, the main force of the barbarians took the initiative to retreat after joining the reinforcements, abandoning the Baitouxia military stronghold that had been confronted for more than half a year, and re-camped in a small town sixty miles away. And Zuo Shuai also gathered the army to rectify

Shen Hao frowned and put down the copper bar, waved his hands away Wang Yiming who didn't know it, and sat alone on the chair in silence for a long time.

He had psychologically anticipated the battle at Baitou Gorge. Jingjiuchao's side has been in a good situation since the two victories in Jianchuan, not only the frontal pressure was put on, but also the flanks were given enough pressure. In terms of chances of winning, Shen Hao always felt that Jingjiuchao's side had a better chance of winning.

Moreover, Zuo Yuliang's trick of darkening Chen Cang was very clever. Under normal circumstances, it really didn't leave a way for the barbarians on the other side to survive. But no one expected that Zuo Yuliang's ruthless move would actually encounter an accident. The Shuangyue clan and the Hongtu clan, which had never been in contact with each other, would merge together. So much so that Baitou Gorge, which was supposed to win in one battle, is now only half defeated.

This unfulfilled situation is not good.

On the one hand, this will definitely delay the decisive battle of Baitou Gorge again.

On the other hand, judging from the battle situation this time, the barbarians are likely to be 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.

In the end, the victory of this battle also had a great impact on the "big test" of the royal family.