News came from the Cao Kingdom, and the black crystal iron was shocked to the world!
"Understood, I'm ordering the General Staff to convene an emergency meeting immediately." Ding Kui was fully mentally prepared, and he expected that this news should have been conveyed long ago.
It's not that Cao, Meng and other countries deliberately concealed it, but they only recently got the real evidence.
Meng's troops assisting Cao arrived at the Diyanhu war zone in February this year. Our country's leading troops arrived a month late, giving Qi time to mobilize its troops to respond to changes in the war zone.
He Lianyu once again became the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, commanding millions of troops from Cao, Meng and Ji to launch a war around the two states near Diyan Lake.
But this time the female general met her opponent. A mysterious figure served as the commander-in-chief of the Qi Army. With only six legions, she was able to match the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces.
It was difficult for a coach-level figure to hide his identity. After the Three Kingdoms' efforts to inquire, they finally obtained this person's information.
His name is Zhu Ke, he is thirty-one years old, and he was originally from the Tongbei Empire. After being recommended by Ji Yu, he changed his nationality, swore allegiance to Qi Wan, and became a Qi national.
When Ji Yu introduced Zhu Ke to Qi Shao, he said: "Zhu Ke has great plans and weapons in his heart. He has unparalleled strategies in the Tongbei Empire, but there is no room to show his strengths. Today, your country is invaded by the three kingdoms.
, only Zhu can defeat the enemy and ensure that the interests of our two countries are not violated."
This is a very high evaluation, which is equivalent to saying that only Zhu Ke can fight against Helianyu, and only Zhu Ke can defeat the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces.
The Qi State did not ignore Ji Yu's strong recommendation. The prince of the Tongbei Empire knew the importance of Diyan Lake, so Zhu Ke must have extraordinary abilities, so the Qi State Commander-in-Chief Mansion sent a group of people to inspect Zhu Ke.
Zhu Ke did not let Ji Yu down. He impressed the Qi State inspection team in terms of military theory, military chess deductions, and battle case analysis, and deduced the main attack direction of the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces from tens of thousands of true and false intelligence.
Such outstanding abilities were unanimously recognized by the monarchs and ministers of the Qi State, and Zhu Ke was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Diyan Lake War Zone, commanding six legions to fight against the enemy.
In March and April, He Lianyu and Zhu Ke had their first confrontation.
The feint of the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces was discovered by the Qi Kingdom Magician Reconnaissance Team. Zhu Ke led the main force to attack the bait sent by He Lianyu, allowing Helianyu's main force to capture an empty city. Then the Qi Army cut off the food route of the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces.
, the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces were forced to withdraw from the newly occupied empty city.
This battle demonstrated Zhu Ke's ability to command magicians. He reviewed the information of all the magicians who accompanied him, reorganized the magician team according to the characteristics of each magician, and formed multiple magic scout teams to firmly control the enemy's every move.
A move.
It is not that no one has used magicians as scouts in the past, but no commander has used magicians for reconnaissance on such a large scale as Zhu Ke. He organized nearly half of his magicians into the magic scout team to maximize the magicians' air superiority, and even
Even at night, we monitored the enemy's movements around the clock.
He Lianyu was not convinced after losing to an unknown figure, so he sent someone to write a letter of challenge to Zhu Ke, and agreed to fight to the death in Duanshui County.
In terms of military strength and the number of magicians, the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms have obvious advantages. She chose Duanshui County, a strategic location that Qi State cannot lose, just to force Zhu Kegang to face it and use the resources of the three kingdoms to fight a war of attrition.
As a result, Zhu Ke once again chose to give up tactically, evacuated all troops in Duanshui County, and personally led the main force to counterattack Renchang City, the capital of Guangyin Prefecture.
Because he used special black-armored troops in this attack, the defenders arranged by He Lianyu in advance were retreating steadily, and they were unable to withstand the attack.
However, this time He Lianyu was extremely calm and arranged for 300,000 Cao troops to be divided into various cities in Duanshui County. He led 200,000 Meng troops and 200,000 own troops to sneak back to the coalition's grain-harvesting areas, waiting for Qi troops to encircle them.
After arriving at Renchang City, she sent 100,000 troops to march quickly to Renchang City.
Zhu Ke's attention was not on Renchang City. When he discovered that the coalition forces had sent reinforcements, he immediately sent troops to set up an ambush and defeated 100,000 of his own troops halfway.
He Lianyu was also ruthless. He knew that his army was in ambush but did not send troops to rescue him. He waited until Zhu Ke took advantage of the victory to pursue him and killed him near the important grain garrison area before leading his troops to fight out. Zhu Ke did not dare to fight, so he gathered his troops and retreated to Qi State.
And ordered the remaining troops to counterattack Duanshui County.
Even though there were only 200,000 Qi troops left behind, there were troops who had been stationed in Duanshui County among them. They laid many traps when they evacuated Duanshui County. They used those traps in the early stages of the counterattack to successfully recapture five or six cities.
The main force of the Qi army fought and retreated under the command of Zhu Ke, holding back the main force of the coalition forces commanded by He Lianyu. The special black-armored troops rushed back to Duanshui County as quickly as possible, and cooperated with the remaining troops to forcibly capture the Duanshui County city.
However, Cao's troops who were scattered and guarding the city suddenly abandoned the city and rushed to the county city as quickly as possible, surrounding tens of thousands of Qi troops and black-armored troops. He Lianyu appeared outside the county city with a large number of magicians.
At this time, Zhu Ke realized that He Lianyu's target was the special black-armored army. He quickly ordered all the magicians to rush to Duanshui County to cooperate with the remaining troops to assist the county's defenders to break out.
An extremely fierce breakout battle broke out in Duanshui County. The Qi army completely ignored the defense of the city and wanted to break out of the heavy siege outside the city. He Lianyu strictly ordered Cao Jun to leave the black-armored troops behind, no matter what the price.
The breakout battle started at night and lasted until the next night. Both sides invested a total of more than 300,000 troops, almost 2,000 magicians fought in the air, and no less than ten master-level experts participated in the battle.
In the end, one-third of the besieged Qi Army escaped, half of the black-armored troops of a division escaped, and more than half of the Qi Army responding outside were killed or wounded. In order to rescue the black-armored troops, the Qi Army paid a total of more than 70,000 casualties.
Cao's army also suffered a lot of losses, even greater than Qi's army. A total of more than 80,000 people permanently withdrew from the battle, and half of the city in Duanshui County was lost.
"So the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms seized equipment made of black crystal iron in that battle, which proves that there is black crystal iron ore in Diyan Lake." Ding Kui heard this and basically understood the situation.
Fei Ze continued to report: "He Lianyu led the magicians of the Three Kingdoms to participate in the Battle of Duanshui County. The seizures by Cao's army were not hidden from Ji and Meng. Afterwards, King Meng and King Ji requested to share the black crystal iron equipment equally, but King Cao has not yet
Agree."
Ding Kui slapped the table and said: "Shaodianguo must get a share of the pie!"
"We've only been settled for a few days, and you want to make trouble again." Jiang Xi immediately came out and poured cold water on me.
"We are so far apart, how can we separate ourselves?" Kong Ren felt that Ding Kui was whimsical, "There are more than one million troops fighting in the Diyan Lake area. How many troops do you want to send to participate in the peace? Which side do you want to help? Both the left and right will be offended.
People are not something we can participate in now."
Jiang Zhi pulled out a map of Cao State from somewhere, spread it out in front of everyone, and said: "Diyan Lake is too far away from us. Our army took more than two months to arrive. Our army can't be much faster. Even if we come from
We will set off tomorrow and arrive at the war zone probably in September. With the abilities of He Lianyu and Zhu Ke, we don’t know how the war situation will change. It’s best for us to wait and see.”
No one in the staff supported Ding Kui's suggestion.
Ding Kui pinched his chin and said: "I'm talking about black crystal iron ore. Judging from the investment of Qi State and Tongbei Empire, the Diyan Lake mining area is not small. It won't be dug out in three to five years. We can't watch other countries carve it up." Black crystal iron ore.
The Qi State has the support of the Tongbei Empire and the command of a general, so it will not be defeated by the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces so quickly. They will have to fight for at least a year. We can use this time to prepare and send at least one legion to the Diyan Lake Theater.
As for which side to stand on, this can be handled flexibly, and someone must contact both sides. Now that the secret of Diyan Lake has been made public, all countries in the Shenyuan Continent want to reach out, and the water in the pool has become muddy."
"Black crystal iron is a good thing, but there must be a lot of people coveting it. How can we compete with other countries because of the civil strife in our country? Let's wait until the chaos is settled before we intervene in the Diyanhu war zone." Jiang Xi does not think the value of black crystal iron is Greater than unifying the Shaodian Kingdom.
"There is no harm in contacting other countries. Our active participation in this matter shows that we are the masters of Shaodian Country and establishing our right to speak in foreign affairs is worthy of our efforts."
Ding Kui and He Lianyu had a plan for a long time, but it was not appropriate to say it at this time, otherwise some things would not be explained and the secrets between him and the Siren Emperor would be easily exposed.
"Military preparations can be carried out. We should study the terrain and climate of Cao State, study the route to Diyan Lake, study the characteristics of the troops participating in the war, study the characteristics of the generals participating in the war, etc. We need to trouble Mr. Fei to collect information." Kong Ren was first persuaded. .
"No problem, the relevant work is already being done." Fei Ze is very experienced and had already ordered Shaodian to try to contact the Intelligence Department Cao Guotang. The Security Bureau also sent additional personnel to the Cao Guo Branch, and the two intelligence organizations took action together.
"But we don't have anyone available for diplomacy, so we must be cautious in handling matters in this area."
Jiang Xi's worry is not unreasonable. There is no small matter in diplomacy. A little carelessness will cause unmanageable disputes. All the officials in charge of foreign affairs are in Zhenjing City, and there is no experienced person in Nanjing City.
"It doesn't matter, I'll do it! I'll take part in this matter myself. Anyway, I met Lu Xi and He Lianyu in Shouyang City, so there's no need to talk about Jiguo. Later, Ji Yu visited Juyang City again, and with my eldest brother's relationship , I have no contact with the only people from Qi State and Cao State on Shenyuan Continent, so it won’t be too difficult to do so." Ding Kui took on this important task himself.
Only he knows the overall plan best, and he doesn't feel comfortable leaving it to others, so he can only do it himself.
Jiang Xi had no objection to this, but reminded Ding Kui to ask Mu Heng more. People in the Senate were good at diplomacy and could give some advice.
The next day, at the court meeting in Nanjing City, Shao Dianluan, the governor of the country, appointed Ding Kui as the diplomatic ambassador, with full authority to represent the small court in contacting various countries in the Shenyuan Continent. At the same time, he ordered the establishment of a Honglu Pavilion in Nanjing City to specifically receive foreign envoys.
As soon as this news came out, Zhenjing City and Xingbang City immediately expressed strong opposition, especially Zhenjing City. Shaodian sent people to inform representatives of various post offices that Nanjing City was not qualified to represent Shaodian State, and Zhenjing City did not welcome any private contacts. People from Nanjing City.
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