Chapter 322: Crisis is coming, killing and stealing treasures are coming
"Ah."
Cao Yongxiang nodded and said, "Hongmei, in order to improve the efficiency of our Western Army, we will split into two groups."
"You take the White Tiger Legion and 30,000 naval officers and soldiers and go south along the Wuding River to Mizhi to join the commander-in-chief, and then launch an offensive against Qingjian, Yanchuan, Anding, Yanchuan and other places."
"I will lead the cavalry soldiers of the Qinglong Legion to continue advancing towards the Xiaoli River, Dali River, and Huaining River, and finally meet up with you in the Qingjian River basin."
"Then our Fuxing Army will begin to sweep southwards, and strive to capture the entire northern region of Qin within three months."
Cao Yongxiang is the commander-in-chief of this Western Army, and even Hongmei has to listen to him.
“This is a good suggestion. It can maximize the results and save our precious time.
Hongmei agreed and said, "Then it's settled. Tomorrow at 3:30 pm, we will divide our forces and set out immediately. Don't keep the commander-in-chief waiting for too long, lest we delay the southward sweep after the two armies reunite!"
The two men further perfected the action plan of dividing the troops, and then dispersed, each summoning soldiers from the Azure Dragon Legion, the White Tiger Legion, and the Black Tortoise Second Battalion, and began intensive preparations for another expedition.
The Renaissance Army's manpower is a little tight now, but as long as we wait until a month later, after this round of new recruits are trained and selected, and there are enough troops to garrison the places, their five main combat corps will be completely freed up, and the speed of conquering cities and territories will soar.
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"The Western Army's cultivation resources are running out?"
Sitting in the garrison hall of Shangping Pass which had just been captured by the soldiers of the Fuxing Army, Li Dingguo frowned slightly.
He also had not expected that in order to have enough troops to guard the local area, this round of selection and training of new recruits, which would recruit a large number of boys and girls under the age of eighteen from the entire Yansui Town, would create such great pressure on the transportation of materials by the logistics department.
This is not only a problem of transportation capacity of the logistics department, but also because the amount of cultivation resources such as spiritual rice and beans of various levels regularly produced in the family's current spiritual plantations, as well as the output of spiritual herbs in various spiritual herb ranches, has reached a limit.
Originally, the current size of the Renaissance Army's 600,000 combat troops had almost reached the critical point of its current supply of cultivation resources.
Now, in order to liberate the combat effectiveness of the five main combat corps, they have to recruit another 300,000 new warriors and are about to face this extremely difficult problem.
If it weren't for the fact that the Eastern and Western armies had adopted a war-to-war model since entering the Pass, which had solved a large part of the problem of supply of cultivation resources on their own, the thorny problem of insufficient cultivation resources would probably have broken out in full swing.
This bad news made Li Dingguo finally realize that the expansion of the Fuxing Army's military strength had reached its current limit.
For a long time to come, it will be impossible to increase the number of combat troops.
He finally understood the real reason why the number of official combat soldiers and warriors among the major forces of the Ming Dynasty was mostly less than 100,000.
There is no other reason. Supporting tens of thousands of warriors and soldiers for many years consumes too many various training resources.
"It seems that we must find a way to get a few large spiritual sites in the Qin territory within the pass as soon as possible."
"The festival is not going to work. Only by opening up new sources of income can we completely solve this thorny problem and avoid affecting the morale of the soldiers."
"At the very least, we must ensure that the 300,000 warrior recruits we have recently recruited do not have to worry about a shortage of training resources in the future."
He was really helpless. He had only added 300,000 new warriors and formed two large garrison legions, but this most difficult situation had occurred.
"Doesn't the Wang family, where Wang Dengku is, have several large ancient spiritual plant gardens deep in the Qinling Mountains?"
"I have already learned the approximate location through the interrogation of the boatmen and sailors by the Military Intelligence Department. I might as well take the golden eagle there myself and get them into my hands."
"By the way, we can also go and see if we can subdue the group of top-level spiritual birds, the seven-colored peacocks, entrenched in the large spiritual land deep in the Qinling Mountains, so as to completely solve the problem of our army's future information concealment on the battlefield."
Now that his own Renaissance Army was about to face the problem of insufficient circulation of cultivation resources, Li Dingguo could not afford to delay any longer.
If it is not resolved quickly, the Fuxing Army will not be able to continue to grow in strength for a long time to come. It will be far inferior to the regular forces of the Later Jin Tartars. How can it fight against the other side head-on in the future?
In this great world, because a super-large spiritual vein has taken root in the Liaodong region, the Later Jin clan is able to recruit millions of warriors and soldiers from its tens of millions of people.
Huang Taiji recruited almost all the Tatar soldiers who were capable of becoming warriors into the combat camps of each flag.
In addition, there was no shortage of spiritual beasts and war horses, and spiritual grass pastures, so they were able to support about three million soldiers all year round, and brought into play the war potential of the Later Jin clan without any reservation.
It was precisely because of this that Huang Taiji was able to frequently lead a million-strong army to go on expeditions and even invade the Ming Dynasty.
If Li Dingguo wants to completely defeat the Later Jin Tartars in the future, the army must reach a size of at least two million and the navy must also reach a million soldiers.
Then we have to find a way to train all these soldiers into elite combat forces, so that we can be sure to use both land and sea forces to completely defeat the Later Jin clan.
In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to control more large-scale spiritual lands and make the training resources of one's own soldiers self-sufficient.
Otherwise, wanting to completely defeat the Later Jin clan would be a joke and simply unrealistic.
Now, just by gritting his teeth and adding 300,000 new warriors, the problem of insufficient training resources was about to break out, which Li Dingguo could not tolerate in any way.
Once the great development of his own Fuxing Army encountered a bottleneck and came to a standstill, while the Later Jin Tartars were advancing steadily in great strides, how could Li Dingguo bear it?
"Anyway, with the current first round of sweeping battles, it doesn't matter if I leave the army for ten days or half a month."
"This Renaissance Army has already formed its own routine combat and attack mode. With the ability of Hongmei and Cao Yongxiang and other legion commanders, they can easily handle it."
"The southern army will cross the Yellow River, turn to the Wuding River and go upstream to reach Suide Prefecture. The journey alone will take ten days to half a month."
"In this way, my temporary departure will not have any adverse impact on the upcoming battle situation."
When Li Dingguo thought about this, he made a decision. While the southern army was on the road, he would ride on a golden eagle to the depths of the Qinling Mountains and seize the several large ancient spiritual orchards hidden by the Wang family in the Qinling Mountains.
Then set up a protective formation and occupy it completely.
To be on the safe side, they need to go to Lingshi City and destroy the Wang family's lair, so that they have no time to attack the ancient spiritual garden in Qinling Mountains.
Li Dingguo first wrote a letter to Cao Yongxiang, Xiao Douya and Hongmei respectively, and sent the letters away by spirit pigeons, telling the three of them his decision.
In order to avoid that they would not be able to contact him within half a month, making it difficult to make some military action decisions, and then delaying military intelligence. Then he called Wu Hongai and Huang Zhanglong, and told them that he would be temporarily away from the army for about half a month, and asked them to act according to the plan.
After finishing the work, I will go north along the Wuding River in time to join the army.
Li Dingguo immediately went to the logistics department and took out some magic cores that were going to be used to set up several level 3 top-grade protective formations, and stored them in the Human Emperor Cauldron that he carried with him.
He then called the golden eagle, explained his decision to it, flew onto the eagle's back, and activated the protective magic circle of the special saddle.
"Chirp..."
The golden eagle had not flown high and far for a long time. It let out an excited cry, flapped its huge wings, and quickly reached a height of thousands of feet. It flew straight south over the Yellow River and headed straight for Tongguan.
According to existing intelligence, several ancient plantations of the Wang family are located deep in the Qinling Mountains, 3,000 miles away from Tongguan towards Chang'an City.
With the golden eagle's keen eyesight, it is not difficult to find the destination from high in the sky as long as it knows the approximate location.
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"Master, we have finally left Yansui Town and reunited with you."
"Yes! Patriarch, we two never thought that we would be trapped in a border town for nearly two months. We almost missed the important matter of the Patriarch."
At the foot of a big mountain 300 miles east of Yansui Town, Kang Asheng and Kang Younian, the third manager of the Kang family, looked at the two big goshawks descending from the sky and said to Kang Siding who had just jumped off the back of a big goshawk.
After the army led by Cao Yongxiang and Hongmei left, they finally found an opportunity and quietly left the Yansui town.
Kang Asheng and Kang Younian were trapped in the Yansui town for more than a month. It's hard to describe how miserable their life was.
In order to avoid repeated screening by the Military Intelligence Department and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Fusion Army, the two of them had to conscientiously play the role of a kind father and a filial son tofu vendors.
He didn't even dare to have the slightest abnormal behavior, and somehow he relied on his perfect level of invisibility, breath-holding and concealment techniques to safely evade the searches again and again.
During this period in the Yansui Town, spies from various forces were captured from time to time, which made Kang Asheng and Kang Younian feel frightened.
Although the two were both level five warriors, they were no match for the tens of thousands of elite troops who also had level five masters.
Once discovered by the enemy, it would be difficult to escape even if you wanted to, as the enemy is monitoring you with several level five spirit birds, and you would most likely be surrounded and killed by the enemy's army.
Now, the enemy army has finally left. The thousands of warrior recruits responsible for guarding the city cannot possibly guard the entire Yansui Town City tightly.
In addition, the city defense formation would not be activated during the day, which finally gave the two of them a suitable opportunity to sneak out of the city.
The two men then met up with the family's two level five spirit birds, the Goshawks, who were waiting deep in a mountain three hundred miles to the east. They asked one of the Goshawks to take a letter that had been prepared long ago and send an urgent message to the head of the Kang family, Kang Siding, who was staying in the Kang family's old nest in Pingyuan Prefecture.
The two waited for a few more days and finally saw Kang Siding coming in person to meet them.
"Master, we have already found out that Li Dingguo has already moved south along the Jialu River and has just led his army to capture Wubao City on the east bank of the Yellow River."
Just after meeting up with the head of the family, Kang Siding, Kang Younian reported with gritted teeth, "We should lead the large fleet downstream now. We are almost reaching the Shangpingguan Fortress."
"If we are fast enough, we can definitely find him at Shangping Pass."
He had been living a life of luxury, but recently he had been in trouble. Not only did he have to disguise himself every day, but even the food he ate was just vegetables and tofu!
This forced him to pick up the tofu-making skills he had learned before, and he had to get up early and go to the streets to sell tofu every day.
Although he had learned a lot of information during this period, it was inevitable that his old body would suffer.
It can be said that Kang Younian wished he could kill the culprit Li Dingguo in one fell swoop.
He went on to say, "There is always a loophole in a hundred precautions. It is impossible for Li Dingguo to stay in the army all day. I don't believe that the three of us will not find an opportunity to take action when the time comes."
"We have two big goshawks here, so it's not very difficult to monitor him. We just need to pay attention."
"When the time comes, if the three of us join forces, plus these two level five peak spirit birds, the Great Goshawks, I don't believe we won't be able to kill Li Dingguo and his personal spirit bird, the Great Golden Eagle."
Kang Younian has already thought of an action plan these days, and all he needs to do is put it into action.
"Well, Uncle Younian, you have a good plan."
There was a gleam in Kang Siding's eyes, with a hint of excitement. He nodded and agreed to Kang Younian's plan.
Thinking that he was about to obtain another innate divine weapon, even though he was extremely cunning, he couldn't wait.
He was even basically certain that the innate divine weapon on Li Dingguo's body was most likely stronger than his own innate divine weapon, the Treasure Plate.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain the rapid rise of Li Dingguo and the Fuxing Army he founded.
Others may not know, but he and Cao Bianjiao, the geniuses and evildoers who have innate magical weapons in their bodies, can easily guess some of Li Dingguo's secrets based on their own circumstances.
This is indeed the case. Kang Siding and Cao Bianjiao were not wrong in their guesses. The rapid rise of Li Dingguo and the Fuxing Army had a lot to do with their own natal artifact, the Human Emperor Tripod.
Without the Imperial Tripod, no matter how wicked Li Dingguo was, it would have been impossible for him to develop the Fuxing Army he founded to such a scale in just three years.
For Kang Siding, the richest man in the three northwestern provinces who has everything he needs, the only things that have great appeal to him are innate divine artifacts and innate spiritual roots, which are so precious that they cannot be surpassed.
As for other things, such as money, beautiful women, glory and wealth, they come just by waving his hand, and he can enjoy them for eight lifetimes.
"Without further delay, we must set off immediately and find a suitable opportunity as soon as possible to hunt down Li Dingguo and seize his good fortune for our own use."
Kang Siding is a man of swift and decisive actions. He will not waste his precious time. His top priority is to achieve his goal as soon as possible.
A moment later, two top-level spiritual birds, the goshawks, soared into the sky, carrying the Kang family's master and servants and three level five warriors, and flew towards the Yellow River in the southeast direction, and soon disappeared into the horizon.
(End of this chapter)
