Although there has not been any large-scale war between the north and the south in the past few years, Jie has never relaxed against the great enemy of Jin in the south. Especially in terms of military equipment, it has always regarded Jin as the strongest opponent to prepare for war, or to catch up.

When Jie Kingdom was at its peak, it once unified the north and dominated the world. There were countless elite soldiers and generals. The Jin Kingdom, which originally lived in a corner of the river, was not an opponent of the Jie army in terms of combat effectiveness. Only the militia between the Jianghan and the Jianghan army and the Huaisi militia could fight against Jie Kingdom head-on.

After several major military collapses in Jie Kingdom. One of them was naturally that Shi Hu failed to attack south and lost a lot of losses. In the early years, the elite central army of Jie Kingdom lost more than half of its combat power in this battle.

But what really made Jin surpass Jie in one fell swoop was the war between Shikan and the Jin people later, which made Hebei's vitality even more deficient. More than one million people went south across the river, causing a large area of ​​southern Hebei to fall into ruins.

During this process, the Jie Kingdom was still in a fierce internal strife, so that after Shi Hu became the country, he could not get enough money and grain to supplement in the southern Hebei area of ​​Hebei, nor had enough soldiers available, so he had to focus his attention between Youji in the north, in order to restore his strength in the shortest time and fight with the southerners.

The Jin army widely occupied the Central Plains and recruited a large number of refugees. In addition, the military power that was originally scattered in various towns was unified in Xingtai, Luoyang, and its strength developed rapidly. In particular, several elite troops built with great efforts, facing the Jie army's various troops head-on battle, it was simply a powerful army that was destroyed and destroyed, which made the Jie Kingdom afraid to restart the battle.

Although Jie Kingdom has always had many desperate people who are brave and brave to fight for their lives, both in combat power and mechanical rations are far inferior to the Jin army's strong army. Once they face head-on, they will lose. In the long run, you can imagine what kind of corruption it will cause to the morale of the Jie army. In the end, I am afraid that before the battle is fought, I just wait and see the banner of the elite Jin army, and you will run away from it.

Faced with this situation, Jiezhu Shi Hu had to make a vow to lose the power of the country and build a sharp army in a hundred battles, such as the Longxiang Army and the Longteng Army, which sounded majestic, was born because of this.

These elite soldiers were all composed of strong and brave soldiers from all sides of Hebei. In terms of the quality of the troops, they were not inferior to those of the southerners Shengwu, Fenwu and other armies. After they formed the army, they were tempered in small combat formations and had very beautiful results.

Shi Hu was even more happy because of this. He called him the courage of the three armies. He was reluctant to use it frequently in casual wars and wanted to raise him to strengthen his army as a powerful force in the war with the southerners.

Such an elite army would naturally not be assured that any general would hand it to. Shi Hu then organized several elite troops into the Taiwei Mansion as the central army to stay in Xiangguo, and even appointed Aizi Shi Tao as the Taiwei, leading these elite combat powers.

In the past few years, although Shi Hu has been energetic in the north, he also knows that the wars on the border are all small-scale battles, whether fierce or not, which really concern the rise and fall of the country or the war with the Jin people in the south. This time he wants to plot against Henan, and the Longxiang Army, which he regarded as an elite killing weapon, is naturally among the recruitment. He set off from Xiangguo early and rushed to southern Hebei for standby.

The camp of the Longxiang Army was arranged in the shell hills of Qinghe County, and was nearly 300 miles away from the plain where the army really gathered. It was not only because Shi Xuan was disgusted with Shi Tao and was unwilling to place it near the border.

It is also because the Longxiang Army's investment is different from that of Changshi. Even if it does not fight, the daily consumption is amazing. Pingyuan County has always been the front line of confrontation with the southerners, and there are many ruins in its territory. Now it has to raise supplies for the rear army. Even if there is no conflict between Shi Xuan and Shi Tao, it is difficult to fully meet the consumption of the Longxiang Army if it can work together.

As Fangtou, Liyang and other important Jin along the Yellow River were successively lost, either directly occupied by the Jin army, or often invaded by the Jin army navy, although the territory of Jie Kingdom was surrounded by the big river, the benefits that he could enjoy were greatly damaged.

This is a very big disadvantage, which means that whether it is maintaining rule or regulating manpower and goods in the territory, it will cost much higher than that of Jin State in the south, and its efficiency is not satisfactory.

In order to reverse this situation, the Jie Kingdom has also made a lot of efforts in the past few years. They have not established a system and can directly fight against the Jin army in Hejin's naval army, so they can only settle for the second best and operate some tributary waterways of the Yellow River. Linqing City in Qinghe County was established.

Linqing City is surrounded by Qingshui, so it is set up. There are Zhangshui, Weishui convergence, and water and food are well connected. Although it is far less important than Fangtou's location, it is known as the convergence of Qishui, but it can also communicate with many counties and counties in southern Hebei based on this.

After several times of encountering a nail in Fangtou, Jie Kingdom could only settle for the second best and chose this place to build a big city as a place to prepare for the south of the city. If there is any disadvantage of Linqing City, it is that there is no direct waterway to the Yellow River. Although several waterways such as Qingshui finally injected into the Yellow River, the trajectory is curved and winding, and is limited by the excessive drought and flood season.

In order to obtain a strategic town that directly leads to the Yellow River, when the Jin army began to expedition to Guanzhong and the pressure in southern Hebei was slightly slowing down, although Shi Hu did not send troops directly to Henan, he also collected labor service and gathered in Linqing City. Hence, he connected the waterway of the ancient river to the south, and a wide canal that directly leads to the Yellow River was dug.

Jie Kingdom has always been dissatisfied with the people's strength, especially when Shi Hu was planning this matter, he was still ashamed and angry. If he could manage the old land in Yecheng and connect with the Liyang Fortress, why should he retreat in one fell swoop? Choosing to do so would be like admitting his weakness and not daring to restore Hejin under the eyes of the Jin army in Fangtou.

Therefore, this canal, which is temporarily named Xingguo Canal, which is more than 200 miles long, has also made rapid progress. It does not avoid winter and summer, and has worked day and night, and was completed at the beginning of this year. Although this has also made the already dilapidated situation in southern Hebei even more deserted, and nearly nine out of ten households are empty, the Jie Kingdom finally obtained another hub city that directly enters the river.

The achievements of Linqing City and Xingguo Canal were also one of the confidences of Shi Hu's courage to attack Henan's confidant this time. From the gathering of troops here, the military oppression formed by the Jin army in Fangtou can be minimized, which is equivalent to opening up a new battlefield.

Or in Fangtou, Li Yang and Yecheng originally formed a stable strategic triangle, but as Shi Kan, the fool, was defeated in Yecheng, Fangtou was occupied by the Jin army, Li Yang directly exposed his troops. If Shi Hu wanted to regain this strategic support, he could only expand the original structure and move it eastward for hundreds of miles to choose a fulcrum, which is Linqing.

The shell hill stationed by the Longxiang Army led by Shi Tao is located more than 20 miles south of the newly built Dayi in Linqing. It is a vast mound that is more than ten feet above the flat ground. The formation of this mound is made up of soil from the excavation of Xingguo Canal. The soil is deep in color and dark red. I wonder if there are many people living in southern Hebei who are dying in the excavation of river canals.

As one of the newly established powerhouses of Jie Kingdom, the Longxiang Army has a total of 6,000 people. Shi Tao led the south this time to only more than 3,000 people.

It’s not that Shi Hu was reluctant to apply his troops to plan major issues, but after several years of reorganization, the Longxiang Army was still unable to fill the amount. The reason was that it lacked enough fine armored equipment, so that the camp was clearly full of brave soldiers, but it was unable to reorganize them into an army.

However, although the real combat power of the army in this route was only more than 3,000, the camp area was extremely wide, even exceeding the size of tens of thousands of people. More than half of the land on the vast shell hills were enclosed by the camp.

This is not a bluff. Although the Longxiang Army had only more than 3,000 troops, it drove away and followed the auxiliary soldiers and the hard-working subordinates, but there were more than 20,000!

The auxiliary soldiers of more than 20,000 people were hard-working and followed the Longxiang Army to set off. In addition to basic affairs such as raising horses, camping, cooking, carrying armor, and resisting spears, they were also responsible for spreading them as cannon fodder on both wings, rushing and invading in front of the formation, creating a more suitable battlefield for the army behind them.

Especially after injuries occurred on the battlefield of the Longxiang Army, these soldiers had to pay any price to snatch back the armor and weapons left on the battlefield. For Jie Kingdom, human lives were the least valuable, including these Longxiang Army soldiers. As long as there were enough armor and weapons to replace them, they could replenish the brave soldiers at any time.

But once too many armor and equipment are lost on the battlefield, even if they win, they will be ineffective, and even the soldiers in the Longxiang Army will be punished, and those auxiliary soldiers will be punished for the entire team of abuse and killing.

It can also be seen that Shi Hu really cherishes these elite troops built by his family as much as he wants. He refuses to use them for battle casually, and does not care about his soldiers. After all, no matter how much battle is, damage to the armored horses is inevitable. Moreover, once the Longxiang Army is dispatched, it is painful enough for the people in the camp to eat horses and chew them.

"If you want to ask me to send troops, what reward will your Lord give?"

In the Longxiang Army camp on the shell hill, Shi Tao sat in his position, looking down at the Shi Xuan envoy who was crawling on the ground, and said with a smile.

Although he was born from a mother, Shi Tao's appearance was a little different from Shi Xuan. He was twenty-seven or eight years old and looked more heroic. Except for the sinister look between his eyebrows, his eyes were quite similar to his brother, both of his facial features and the short beards that were properly trimmed under the jaws, and they all looked much more handsome than Shi Xuan, and they didn't look like Hu.

Shi Hu spoiled this son, which shows that although he advocated the heroic spirit of the Hu people on the surface and hated the Jin people, he still had basic aesthetic views, and his nature would inevitably be revealed when facing his son.

Zhao Sheng crawled on the ground, and after hearing this, he said tremblingly: "My Highness attacked the scrub and had already seized this Henan key. He was already in control of great achievements. Therefore, he sent slaves to the north to invite the king, because of his deep love and love for the king, and he was willing to share the special achievements with the king..."

"The eunuch slave is treacherous!"

Although Shi Tao had a handsome appearance, his personality was exactly the same as his brothers. He was equally cruel and domineering. When he heard Zhao Sheng say this, he jumped up from the mat, picked up his sword and whipped it on Zhao Sheng. Seeing Zhao Sheng hugging his head to avoid begging for mercy, he suddenly laughed strangely and said, "I heard that eunuchs are neither yin nor yang, and have fat and white skin. What a woman, is it true or false?"

"Why do you have to ask? There is a consecrated slave who is not here to be expected!"
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