Chapter 228 Border
As soon as Shen Hao came back from the notice meeting of the yamen of the governor, he saw Wang Yiming rushing to come up as soon as he entered the gate of Qianhu Station.
He waved his hand and went back to the public hall before asking, "What's the matter?"
"Sir, I'm replying to the news from the bottom of Hai."
Wang Yiming didn't know Zhang Lie, but only knew that there was a top-secret mission in Haixia. A few days ago, so many spies were disguised and waiting to meet with someone. The news was not until today.
Open the copper strip, and the meaning is briefly shocked: I received a secret code fifty miles away from Xiaochuan, and there were two people in total. The direction of the journey was Xiaochuan's thousands of miles of bamboo sea.
Then there are two more sloppy portraits of human faces behind the copper strip, which can probably be seen who they are. One is Zhang Lie, and the other is the mysterious man Ma San who also came from Feilong before.
Ma San and Zhang Lie were walking together? It seems that they should have gotten together after getting off Hai. Is this a test of Zhang Lie? Or is it just worried that the goods will go on a business trip, so they followed along?
"Have the border troops coordinated?"
"They have already coordinated and they were not willing to cooperate, but later they saw the note from the Jingxi Punishment Office, and their attitudes were different. They were very positive. They followed our previous arrangements and only left a seemingly overlooked hole. They also agreed to temporarily use the military teleportation array of the beach stone to dispatch personnel."
Shen Hao nodded and was very satisfied with Wang Yiming's coordination results. This "Jingxi" operation also scared the border army. The involvement in it has not ended yet, and it has just begun. At this time, he naturally dared not offend the Jingxi Punishment Office. Otherwise, it would be strange if the border army's virtues could cooperate with the case so readily.
"You go and prepare, let the brothers who are above the third level of Qi cultivation be prepared, and use the highest combat readiness to wait for my orders."
"yes!"
Shen Hao turned around and left the public office and found Wu Changhe. After a long conversation, Wu Changhe's expression improved a little, but this time Wu Changhe refused Shen Hao's request to transfer elite troops from 100,000 households, saying that it would be impossible to transfer personnel, but the premise was that Shen Hao had to tell the secret plan he had taken. Otherwise, unless there was a forced order from the tutor's yamen, he would not have transferred personnel to Shen Hao.
This was much beyond Shen Hao's expectations. He thought that he would get Wu Changhe's support by giving some credit to Wu Changhe, but now it seems that this Qianhu official is extremely dissatisfied with him. He would rather not have the credit than be led away again.
Finally, Shen Hao had to order a small flag from each of the four black flag camps, and together with the seventy elites from the black flag camp of Qianhusou, they drove to Haixia.
In this operation, Shen Hao will take Wang Yiming with him.
Of course, without the elite assistance of Qianhu's personal guards, Shen Hao could only be more careful. Not only did he give everyone the highest combat readiness, but he also persuaded the army below Hai to draw a vanguard battalion of 1,000 people as a helping Shen Hao complete the deployment.
This person is quite favorable, and Shen Hao remembered the generous side general Wu Kai of the border army. Later, Shen Hao learned that Wu Kai and Jiang Cheng were old acquaintances. Wu Kai had worked under his command when Jiang Cheng was in the army.
The vanguard battalion that came to assist was not an ordinary border army organization. During wartime, they were sharp-sword soldiers, and their use was to advance, break, harass, temptation, coercion, and pursuit. They were elites who had to show their momentum and effect when they went up.
There are not many monks among these people, but they are all martial artists who practice martial arts. They are proficient in joint attack techniques and are good at the use of various talismans and magic weapons. They are equipped with a complete set of systematic and practically tested weapons and equipment.
To put it bluntly, the two hundred soldiers from the Black Flag Camp brought by Shen Hao must have been wiped out by these thousand vanguard battalions without running away.
If the army soldiers who were in a state of being able to achieve cultivation or crush the power of magic weapons, they could kill a large number of them instantly, the result would be: either run away or die.
I won’t talk about whether the border troops are slack and corpse-positioning. These things have not been settled yet. But just talking about the situation of the border troops in the south.
The area bordering the barbarians to the south is actually not wide, because further west is the Evil Sea and east is the Treasure Sea. The corners of the two seas are the Ten Thousand Miles of Bamboo Sea and an empty and narrow area, which is called the Bamboo Road.
The terrain of the Wanli Bamboo Sea is difficult to move, and there are smoke and smog. There are ferocious beasts entrenched in it, so it is difficult for even monks to move in it. Therefore, the defense focus of the border troops in the south has always been on the bamboo path.
There is also a well-known pass on the bamboo road: the Kundao Pass.
There is a poem that says:
The sea of bamboos in the sea of thousands of miles,
The shirt is stained with blood from bones.
I hope I will always think of when I will return,
The soul of a letter from home is at peace.
In all the battles with the barbarians in the south, the Kunqu Pass was the first to be hit. Countless men of the Jingwu Dynasty sacrificed their lives here and used their corpses and will to join the enemy's blood to build the current heroic pass.
The border army does not belong to the four major fronts, and is a separate system. Middle and higher-level officers will be rotated every four years. Moreover, the backbone of the border army is drawn and rubbed together from the four major fronts. It has the tactical qualities of the four major fronts and has the most solid practical experience.
The middle and upper-level officers who were rotated by the border army will fill in the four fronts in batches and always maintain a high combat awareness of the entire army system.
The "Jingxi" operation led by the Jingxi Pacification Envoy's Office has affected the border troops. Without any war, the status of the army has already declined, and the army is also very nervous when it comes to major events such as "investment and enemy".
After receiving Wang Yiming's request for assistance, he realized that this was a secret mission supported by the Jingxi Fushiyamen. The border army was quick to move and immediately arranged two thousand households to force the border of Xiaochuan area near the thousands of miles of bamboo sea, and arranged manpower patrols.
These are all Shen Hao's arrangements. The area next to the Wanli Bamboo Sea on the Xiaochuan area is too wide, and it is difficult to know exactly where the delivery location of Ma San's instructions are. But now most areas are martial law by border troops, but a section of deliberately left behind has been ignored. In this way, if the barbarians in the south want to cross the border from the Bamboo Sea to trade, they can only come in from this place.
Arriving at the bottom of Hai, after all the troops were ordered, they then directly teleported from the teleportation array specially provided by the army to Tanshi. Then they came from Tanshi to carriages and horses, and walked all the way. When approaching Xiaochuan, they detoured and approached the Wanli Bamboo Sea.
Time was very tight. Shen Hao kept stopping for a moment, and just happened to finish the ambush before the spy heard from him that Zhang Lie had entered the border of the bamboo sea.
Everyone was covered with a Qi-retaining Talisman on their bodies, hidden in the grass or the forest. There was also a layer of illusion magic array outside to block their sight and spy on them. More than a thousand people were waiting quietly like ghosts.
Shen Chushi.
The message was sent back from a distance, and Zhang Lie was seen, and there were more than two people along the way, but a group of thirteen people! He had already left the road and abandoned his horse and walked towards him on foot.
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