40. The efforts of one person and the belief of a group of people
"...This is really, how should I put it, why do we always encounter such weird things."
"Perhaps someone's desperate efforts may have caused the current situation~"
"I always feel like you know something, Tamago-chan."
"Hmm~ Even I can only know things that I know, but I can't know things that I don't know."
"Humph~ Such words can no longer deceive me, so do you know Tamago-chan, or do you not?"
"have no idea."
"Wow! What a simple answer."
"Because, so, I just don't know."
Still lying on Ta's beautiful beach, feeling the cool sea breeze blowing by with the salty smell, listening to the gentle sound of the waves lapping on the beach, and having a comfortable sleep under the warm but not hot sunshine.
nap.
I always feel as if I really don't live in a troubled world, but in a modern city that has become increasingly blurred.
Of course, judging from Li Shushi's current leisure style - private beach, high-end BMW, countless Smith bodyguards, and a bunch of beautiful girls around him - this must be a treatment that only the super wealthy can enjoy, even if it is ordinary anyway
Rich, rich and handsome people also want to experience the joy of "making dumplings" with ordinary people. Maybe their attraction on the beach is not as attractive as those young sportsmen who have not yet entered the society. After all, no matter how mature the charm is here
You will also lose to eight-pack abs.
In particular, the place Li Shushi occupies is the Jinshitan area, which is quite famous in the north in another dimension. It is very impressive to think that the place that will be developed into various high-end residential areas and tourist resorts in the future is now completely owned by him.
Feeling.
Although the current appearance of this place seems to be unsightly except for the beach, at least for those girls who are accustomed to city life, it is really not very attractive.
However, Li Shushi's good mood only ends here, or his current leisurely life can only end here. It is not because the battle between Yuan and Cao in the south has been decided. In fact, the gap between the two sides now seems to be larger than the other.
The history of a plane is much smaller. It has to be said that the appearance of Liu Xie has indeed caused a huge change in the battle situation. The young emperor with natural legal advantages only needs to walk around in front of the formation,
It can make many soldiers of Yuan Shaojun on the opposite side waver.
In fact, how can those old ministers who have followed Yuan Shao in his struggle really have much respect for the emperor who was established by Dong Zhuo and is now enshrined by Cao Cao. After all, the imperial power of the Han Dynasty has experienced nearly four hundred years.
Over the years, the majesty of the Han Emperor could not be removed overnight. After all, if Liu Xie was really hurt, even if he was not criticized at the time, he would definitely be stabbed in the spine to death by future generations.
This is the power of imperial power, or to be more precise, this is the power of legal authority.
What really worried Li Shushi was naturally the group of troublesome guys who suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the Guanzhong area.
There are two pieces of information in hand, one comes from Huangfu Song in Chang'an City, and the other comes from Huang Zhong who is moving to Guanzhong. They were both sent when the mutation first occurred. In the absence of electronic communication,
In this era, there is obviously a huge lag - even if the birds used to deliver messages have worked hard enough, the geographical distance from Xi'an to Dalian in a straight line of more than two thousand kilometers is still not a small number.
Of course, if there is no major interference, the message delivery time of less than a week can be considered a leading technology in this era.
Fortunately, although the enemy army was also an inhuman force that appeared out of nowhere, they did not need to worry about the pressure of logistical supplies, but they also no longer had the habit of hunting. This allowed the birds delivering the message to reach Li Shushi smoothly, or
To be more precise, it was Su Xiaoluoli's place. Otherwise, it would be very difficult to convey the message in this way.
Compared with the way of delivering the news, what Li Shushi was more worried about was naturally the battle report that was delivered——
Although it only lasted one night and could only be regarded as a tentative attack at best, it caused extremely shocking battle losses to the Chang'an defenders. After rough statistics afterwards, the cumulative battle losses of the soldiers and civilians in Chang'an City actually exceeded 30,000.
people!
Although the battle losses among the soldiers were only one-tenth, even in a brief briefing, Huangfu Song also emphasized that the enemy's "crossbow arrows were so powerful and penetrating that they were rarely seen in the world."
It's impossible to
To block the arrows fired by the enemy's crossbow, even a leather shield wrapped in skin cannot block the thick and giant crossbow arrows shot by the crossbow. Only a skin shield wrapped in copper and iron has better defense.
ability.
As for ordinary people, almost all the houses close to the fighting area were affected. Many arrows shot through the roof tiles. As for the window panes and other places, it was even more difficult to block the intrusion of crossbow arrows, and the coverage exceeded imagination.
This has further aggravated the occurrence of casualties.
"Even though today's Chang'an City obviously does not have as strong a defense as it did in the former Han Dynasty, after several repairs by Emperor Ling until now, it has reached the leading level in the country. Under such circumstances, the enemy's crossbows can still reach this level.
The lethality, the continuous rain-like firing speed and coverage ability are probably the most troublesome parts."
This is the conclusion reached by the military generals headed by Xiaoqiang and the counselors headed by Cheng Yu, and they believe that another important reason why the enemy achieved such huge results in this tentative engagement
It lies in——
"Black clothes and black armor, standing in a dark place, there is no way to organize a counterattack. Even if you organize soldiers to fight back, you don't know how effective it will be. If the enemy's offensive does not weaken because of this, the blow to morale will probably be greater.
big."
Because the information they have is limited, and of course because the amount of information that birds can convey is not much, Li Shushi and others who are thousands of miles away cannot have a good grasp of the entire war.
The only thing that can be known is that the opponent is very strong and cannot be taken lightly.
As a result, vacations and other activities will naturally not be able to continue, and even the construction of the military port will be greatly affected. However, compared with the military port that will not see any profits in the short term, Guanzhong is obviously the future strategic rear area of the Bingzhou Army.
Whether in the short or long term, it is an extremely important strategic core area. Once it is lost, the impact on the Bingzhou Army will be unprecedentedly huge.
Originally, Li Shushi did not plan to return to the Central Plains so early. Unfortunately, the plan did not change as quickly as it did, and it was really elusive.
Just when Li Shushi was preparing to return, Huang Zhong, the head coach of the "Mobile Corps" who stayed in Bingzhou, had already taken the lead. Zhang Liao, as the vanguard, led his 5,000 men and deputy generals Hua Xiong and Fang.
Yue has crossed the Yellow River, crossed Tongguan, and arrived at Zheng County in Jingzhao.
This area is now in Huaxian County, Weinan City, Shaanxi Province. It is about 1,780 miles away from Chang'an, and there are official roads that can be borrowed for the rest of the journey. Under such circumstances, Zhang Liao's troops now have a lot of people.
The ride is so luxurious that it only takes one day to get to Chang'an.
The reason why Zhang Liao was able to enter the Guanzhong area so quickly was because the Bingzhou army adopted a wait-and-see attitude towards the warring Yuan and Cao sides. This also gave Huang Zhong, who stayed in Jinyang, more control over the dispatch of his troops.
room.
Compared with Li Shushi, a guy with a modern soul, Huang Zhong obviously paid more attention to things like celestial phenomena. Therefore, when several masters, including Sima Yi, reminded him that there was something wrong with the celestial phenomena, he naturally acted in the spirit of "I would rather believe it."
Is there any
After discussing with Zhang Liao, who also stayed behind, Zhang Liao led the leading troops to go first and stationed the troops at Taolinsai, which is the gateway to Guanzhong. Monitor what may happen in Guanzhong at any time.
Unexpected.
It is precisely because of this that it is guaranteed that Zhang Liao can respond as soon as a change occurs.
He didn't even need Huang Zhong's order. He took action as soon as he detected the incident. At this time, it was less than two days before the incident happened in Chang'an. Jinyang had just received the news, and Li Shushi
Still on vacation.
However, when Zhang Liao arrived in Zheng County, he found that his behavior seemed a bit reckless...
"What?! Say it again!!"
"Yes. From what I can see below, the company camp is probably more than 800 miles away. From Xinfeng to the northern foot of Lishan Mountain, from the southern foot of Lishan Mountain along the Qinling Mountains to Shangxian County, you can see enemy camps as far as the eye can see along the way.
.Although there was no smoke and it looked dead quiet, you could see soldiers patrolling back and forth. They looked a little clumsy, but they didn't give people the feeling of being weak."
"General, large-scale enemy camps have also been discovered in Gaoling and other places on the north bank of the Weishui River. They are also as far as the eye can see."
"...So based on your experience, can you estimate the number of enemy troops?"
"Because there is no smoke as a reference, I can't be completely sure, but a conservative estimate is that there are probably 100,000 people!"
"One hundred thousand... Where did these enemies come from?!"
Zhang Liao really took a breath at this time. One hundred thousand, that is a number of one hundred thousand. Just thinking about it will make his scalp numb. Although it is not that he has never seen an enemy army of this size before.
, or in other words, such an endless number of people is already beyond human imagination, but the biggest problem now is not the number of enemy troops, but that he only has a mere 5,000 troops at his disposal.
Perhaps these five thousand men and horses can play a considerable role in most battles, but when the number of enemies on the opposite side has reached a scale of one hundred thousand, the five thousand men will just be like a splash in the sea.
will be completely annihilated.
What makes Zhang Liao even more helpless is that except for Chang'an City, it is still unclear whether the enemy has captured the rest of Xinfeng, Baling, Duling, Lantian, Gaoling, and even the Weishui River not far from Zheng County in the east of Chang'an.
Xiagui County on the north coast has fallen
The opponents - those scouts obviously couldn't really get close to those cities to investigate. In fact, the endless tents outside the city had already put them off, not to mention the inhumanity of those who didn't need to eat, which was enough to make the living feel fearful and panicked.
So as long as you see the thick smoke rising from a few cities, you can basically be sure of the result.
It is said that for ordinary people, it is too difficult for a small city to be preserved under the attack of this endless army. Even Zhang Liao, who heard the scout's report, did not think that those cities could be preserved.
Keep supporting it.
Even if the enemy hasn't fallen yet, it will happen sooner or later as long as the enemy forces use more force.
Not to mention that their opponents were a group of inhumans who came from nowhere. Even if they were an army of ordinary people, 100,000 people. With a large group of black people all over the mountains and plains, even if they stood still and let Zhang Liao's troops kill them, they would be exhausted.
I don't know if it can solve the problem.
Zhang Liao felt depressed. Hua Xiong and Fang Yue who were traveling with him were also not much better. The three of them sat together for a long time but couldn't come up with an idea. Logically speaking, the three of them are not generals without the ability to make decisions. But the current situation is really
Make them overwhelmed.
"No, we can't go on like this!"
The impatient Hua Xiong slammed the helmet in his hand to the ground, and his figure had already turned around in the camp countless times. They had been wandering here for a day and a half, although they still had not received the message from Jin.
The order came from Yang, but at night you could still hear the sound of the enemy mobilizing troops, and naturally you could also feel the tremors coming from the earth.
Every sound seemed to hit their hearts, causing them to toss and turn.
Chang'an City needs reinforcements now, at least let them feel the possibility of reinforcements coming to rescue them. Strengthen their determination to defend the city, otherwise the lonely city cannot be defended for a long time is definitely not an outdated teaching left by the old man, but the most accurate one for people's hearts.
grasp.
"But what can we do? We can't cause much trouble to the enemy at all. Instead, we may be buried here, which will further damage the morale of the troops."
In fact, Fang Yue also knew that this would not work, but when there was no other way, he would rather seek stability. In other words, since the initial defeat at the Xiliang Army, this general born in Hanoi has become a cautious general.
Of course, you might be exaggerating to say that he was a frightened coward. But he never showed radical emotions when he joined the state army.
"I don't know if you have noticed..."
Although Zhang Liao's tone was very hesitant when he spoke, as if he couldn't stand it, but when he noticed that the attention of the two people had been attracted by him, he pretended to listen attentively, but his eyes suddenly burst out with "planned knowledge"
light.
"These enemies who come from nowhere seem to have a habit."
"General Zhang, what you mean is that... they won't send troops during the day, but will only make a big show of attacking at night?"
Before Zhang Liao could finish speaking, Hua Xiong frowned, but judging from Zhang Liao's raised eyebrows, Hua Xiong's thoughts coincided with Zhang Liao's.
"But if the enemy does not attack, it does not mean that the enemy does not have the ability to attack..."
Fang Yue instinctively wanted to question it, but in the end, her voice became inaudible.
"But this is our only chance. Otherwise, with such a huge gap, it would be very difficult for the senior generals in Chang'an to deal with it. Therefore, we must send out troops to fight, fight hard, and defeat their sharpness, in order to appease Chang'an, and even
If the people in Guanzhong are protected, then Chang'an can be defended.
Moreover, you need to know that the Guanzhong area is the most important strategic rear area of our army in the future. The main reason why the Lord has been unwilling to face Yuan Shao and Cao Cao at the same time is because it is difficult to start a long-term tug-of-war with the enemy with the power of merging the two states.
Only then did the lord make up his mind to restore and consolidate Guanzhong, hoping to reach the prosperous Guanzhong where the morale of the former Han Dynasty was. In addition, the lord’s strategy of expanding to the west was only for the sake of mere interests, but in fact it was also about the Qiang.
The human problem has detonated outside the country, and we must not let it penetrate further into Xiliang. Such a huge strategic plan was sabotaged by unknown enemy forces just when it had just begun to improve. This is not only the biggest provocation to us, but also our completion.
Obstacles to the great cause of unifying the world. Do we really want to watch so many years of hard work go to waste? Do you want us to miss the whole world because we missed the great opportunity of Yuan Cao's fight?"
"General Zhang..."
"General Hua, will you be willing?"
"How is it possible? I still want my children and grandchildren to live a good life. The old Ye family has suffered enough in the North over the past few decades. I don't want my children and grandchildren to go to such a dangerous place.
Let others graze!”
"What about you, General Fang? Do you think this can really satisfy you now?"
"This...actually, it's not bad like this now. Anyway, it's better than what I used to do."
"But without my lord, how could your general, General, be where he is today!"
"I……"
"Of course, I didn't force General Fang to agree with what I just said. This kind of narrow escape is entirely voluntary. If you are forced to go to the battlefield unwillingly, I'm afraid you won't be able to exert even 10% of your strength."
"It's just that there are many thieves and we are outnumbered. General Zhang's method is too risky. It's better to hold on for a few days and wait until reinforcements from all directions gather before making plans."
"You have selfish thoughts, but you don't care about my lord's important affairs. No matter what, I must go to battle in person today to let the enemy know that there is a man named Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan in Bingzhou!"
After saying that, regardless of the expression on Fang Yue's face, he called his personal guards to prepare war horses and armor for him.
"Well, Zhang Wenyuan, you are so unreasonable. Are you planning to put me, Hua Xiong, in a position of disloyalty and injustice? Even if Xiong really has any selfish motives, he can't give in at this time, right?
Not to mention that when it comes to courage, I, Hua Xiong, consider myself to be as good as anyone else!"
"Haha, since Boying is willing to help, I have a little more confidence in victory!"
"It doesn't matter where the thieves come from, as long as they dare to stand in front of my lord, let you and I drive them away!"
Pan Sen: "Those Things That Rabbit That Year", perhaps as a well-known person on Bilibili said, such a film will never cause quarrels - because the protagonist is from China, and the plot of the entire film
The rhythm is not coherent enough, and it is not rich enough. Even if you leave out the ed part, it is not that outstanding even among instant noodles. But...
But why the house is full of sand and why the paper towels around me are constantly decreasing? It is probably because the difficulties I have experienced and am experiencing now are so small and simple compared with that scene. Rabbit deserves it.
He is the protagonist of this drama, and he is the protagonist who possesses a cheating artifact. But since he has overcome all those difficulties and made it to this day, what reason do he have to be discouraged.
So, no matter what, this is also the most ambitious instant noodle show. He can tell you that even if you are a rabbit, as long as you still have a strong dream in your heart and are willing to pay for it, you will at least have a chance to realize your dream.
On the way, instead of lamenting your own powerlessness on the sidelines...
Finally, I recommend ed, "Chasing Dreams" sung by the band, which is a perfect match for those stories, and is the finishing touch that sublimates the whole story. (To be continued...)