Joy of Life: I am a Han Dynasty succubus, and I rebel from the beginning

Chapter 30, North Shangyu Kingdom, Liu Hong's Happy Freeloading

After all, Northern Qi was a great country that inherited most of the wealth of the Northern Wei Empire.

If it was just a simple Dingzhou camp, we would be able to defeat Northern Qi.

Emperor Qing would have already led his troops north, so how could he have endured for so long?

In order to win this battle, Emperor Qing specially gathered 400,000 troops at the border.

The Dingzhou camp had 80,000 soldiers, serving as the left wing to contain the 100,000 soldiers of the Northern Qi Nanling camp.

The Taiyuan Road Camp was the central army, commanding an army of 200,000, fighting a life-and-death battle with the 150,000-strong army of the Nanjing Camp of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

The Cangzhou camp had 120,000 soldiers and served as the right wing, responsible for suppressing the Dongyi City, which had always been a troublemaker.

After all, Dongyi City is a famous commercial city, a gathering place for masters from all over the world, and a grandmaster is in charge.

Liu Hong threw a token.

"The entire army moves up to Beihai Lake."

Moss looked embarrassed and hesitated.

"Commander, although Dingzhou is close to Beihai Lake, we have never fought a naval battle. We are good at fighting the Hu people."

Liu Hong doesn't need to explain this time.

Fatty Lu laughed out loud and cheered.

"Haha... Have you forgotten that the commander and we are all pirates? When we have equal forces in a naval battle, we won't be afraid of others."

Only then did Moss feel relieved.

In the direction of Beihai Lake, it is actually close to the junction of Taiyuan Road and Dingzhou.

There is a small vassal state of about one state in the upper reaches. The State of Yu has an army of 20,000, so it seems to be an unwise choice to move the army.

However, Liu Hong would rather gather troops farther away in the direction of Qianlong Bay and bear the pressure from the troops of the Yu State.

They were also unwilling to choose the border direction close to Zuozhang and Xihu.

Let’s not talk about how much suppression the infantry has on the cavalry.

The Hu people were in a panic and raised their troops to oppress, so the two groups of Hu people united.

It is possible that the Dingzhou camp will suffer a great loss, not to mention Liu Hong's tens of thousands of troops.

"Report! Taiyuan Road Camp has officially launched an attack on Qi. Dingzhou Camp has received an order to quickly set out to capture Northern Qi's Nanling County!"

The messenger came hurriedly with a letter in his hand.

Liu Hong took a quick glance.

The commander of the Dingzhou camp, Qin Linglu, is a member of the Qin family's side branch and is also a member of the camp close to the second prince.

The letter was written very tactfully, asking Liu Hong to pay attention to the movements of the Hu people.

In fact, they wanted Liu Hong to contain the Hu people so as to buy time for the Dingzhou camp to achieve success.

Liu Hong chuckled and burned the letter directly in the candlelight without showing it to everyone.

Qin Linglu is a very literary guy, and he hints without saying it explicitly.

If something went wrong and Liu Hong's entire army was wiped out, he would not be in any trouble.

"What a huge gamble!"

Liu Hong sighed.

Prepared to resist and disobey military orders, we went our own way and stationed near Beihai Lake and Yu State.

If Qianlong Bay is captured, Liu Hong will be the hero of this battle.

If he fails...Emperor Qing will chop off Liu Hong's head.

So who cares what Qinling Road thinks?

The army quickly mobilized, carrying baggage and weapons, and headed north to set up camp.

During the journey, people were starving everywhere. Except for the Danzhou bandits who were a little uncomfortable, other generals were used to it.

Isn’t that what borders are all about?

It would be better if there was no war.

When a war breaks out, conscription is forced and then food is collected.

It's hot summer now. How can we manage large crops relying solely on women and children? There will definitely be a poor harvest next year.

Therefore, Emperor Qing’s thinking is really not comparable to that of normal people.

Everyone started fighting after autumn and winter, when the food was ripe.

He did the opposite and started the war directly in the summer. Although the Northern Qi army was already prepared, it had not had time to collect food.

During the march, all officers above the rank of corporal in the team, in battalion units, listened to Liu Hong's lectures every day, which helped them understand tactics and strategic thinking.

Liu Hong's control over the army has been improved to several levels.

This set of operations was learned in modern military academies. After all, it is true that Liu Hong has been instilled with the memories of Emperor Gaozu of Han, but the problem is that he is also a time traveler.

Outside the city of Yu State, Liu Hong's army officially settled down and continued to resume training.

In the past, we would do a small exercise every three days, but now it has become a small exercise every day and a big exercise every three days.
The State of Yu was a vassal state that remained after the collapse of the Northern Wei Empire.

On the surface, he was loyal to the Kingdom of Qing, but in reality, he was still inclined towards the Kingdom of Qi, whose cultural customs were closer to his.

If Northern Qi really needed some vassal states as a buffer zone, the people of Yu would have been eager to return to Qi.
On the walls of Yu State, many soldiers were sweating coldly on their hands and feet.

The State of Qing sent troops to attack Qi again, but the State of Yu had no intention of resisting at all.

In their eyes, the defeat of a few tens of thousands of people by Qing Kingdom this time is nothing. If you anger them, they will mobilize more than 100,000 people to fight you next time.

Liu Hong nonchalantly raised his whip and summoned the captain of his personal guard.

"Yang Du told the ruler and his ministers of the Yu Kingdom to send us food, otherwise we will attack the city directly."

Many generals looked at Yang Du with envy.

I didn't expect this kid to be so lucky that he could show off in front of the king and his ministers.

No matter how small the State of Yu was, it had kings, princes, generals and ministers.

As for angering the State of Yu, did they send troops in anger?

Are you kidding me? Is Dingzhou Camp just a decoration? If the left wing commander Qin Linglu heard this news, his face would probably be broken with laughter.

Yang Du held his head high and chest puffed out, eager to try. He rushed to the foot of the city wall of Yu State with hundreds of his personal guards and shouted loudly.

"We are the army of Qing. As a vassal state, why don't you open the city gates and let us in and deliver food!"

This statement is too arrogant.

Yu Hou's face turned blue and red, and he almost wanted to order the arrows to be shot.

The prime minister tried to dissuade him earnestly.

Finally, Yu Hou sighed and handed over the power to the prime minister. He returned to the harem, out of sight, out of mind.

It would definitely be impossible to open the city gate and let Liu Hong and others in.

However, the prime minister of the State of Yu still sent thousands of pigs, sheep, ducks and geese, as well as tens of thousands of stones of grain.

The national treasury was emptied by half in an instant.

Liu Hong nodded slightly, thanking Yu Guo for being so considerate.

There have been frequent training these days, and we originally planned to bring three months' worth of food, but in the end we could only last one and a half months.

Now Yu State has become my supply base, which is pretty good!

Threaten and bribe more to drop meat.

Not to mention curing the night blindness of the soldiers in his army, alleviating the symptoms in a few weeks would also have a miraculous effect on the subsequent war.

Fortunately, I didn’t listen to the Qinling Road, otherwise I would have gone to the Xihu border of Zuozhang.

Liu Hong did not dare to train his soldiers too much. He could only save enough food, eat bran and vegetables, and guard against the attack of the Hu people.

In the direction of Dingzhou camp, Qinling Road looked gloomy.

The six commanders under his command didn't even dare to make a sound, for fear of angering Qin Linglu.

Liu Hong refused to go to the Western Hu border of Zuozhang, and instead went to the State of Yu to eat and drink freely, living a happy life.

The Qinling Road is different, the original supply site is gone.

In order to guard against the invasion of the Hu people, he could only send a commander to lead the troops.

And they were afraid that these 10,000 people would be swallowed up by the Hu people, as the army from Qinling Road was almost nearby.

If the Second Prince had not sent a message saying that Liu Hong was summoned by His Majesty and subsequently promoted to commander, there must have been some secret execution.

Otherwise, Qinling Road would directly send several military criminal officers to strip Liu Hong of his military power, tie him up and send him to his own tent.

There is only one leader in the army!
Qinling Road has now come to deeply understand this point.

He had no control over Liu Hong's army at all.

"Is there any movement from Xihu?"

After a long silence, Qin Linglu slowly spoke.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and quickly spoke.

"General, the Western Hu sent 20,000 Hu people to roam the border, seemingly afraid that we would attack."

(End of this chapter)