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In the northern country outside the Guan, although it is icy and snowy, and the air is turned into ice, there is still a significant and strong New Year's flavor in the city of Fuyu.

In the fortress of Buyeo City, the lanterns are lit up, and the red lanterns have begun to be hung high, and everything is cleaned up. In the camp marshal's mansion in the inner city of Buyeo, plum blossoms are gently swaying and rustling in the snow. The dark green pine trees stand proudly, and a few bamboos in the distance are also lush and green, which makes Major General Guo Chongtao feel very comfortable in the bearskin upholstered chair behind the glass floor-to-ceiling windows of the warm pavilion terrace.

From here, Guo Chongtao can take in most of the Buyeo City, the sturdy and tall city wall is lined with arrow towers, and the corner towers are towering. Behind the female wall between the corner towers of the arrow tower, there is also a door squatting obliquely pointing at the flying thunder cannon in the distance outside the city, and behind the wall inside the city wall, there is an even taller general cannon.

Under the hunting flag, the entire Buyeo City is impregnable.

Like most of the generals at this time, Major General Guo Chongtao, the general of the Qin Domain, was very tall, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, powerful Kongwu, a horse on his arms, a man on his fist, a Han ruler nine feet tall, a bow of 300 catties, a horse lance riding and shooting, and proficient in everything. If he hadn't originally joined Li Kexiu and Li Keyong, he would have been able to occupy a higher position in the Qin army.

Guo Chongtao has the same courage as other generals, but he still has a rare culture among many generals in the feudal towns at this time. He was skilled in bowing and horses, and at the same time he was familiar with military books. In addition to Aiwu, the rest of his life is to like to read. He has read almost all kinds of military books and strategies, even those military regulations issued by the Qin military in recent years. All kinds of drill codes. It's the same. Pity. Once served as a general under Li Ke and was forced to surrender to Qin, this experience is like an indelible stain, and because he is a little arrogant, it is a kind of arrogance in the eyes of many generals, so he is not very gregarious in the army, although he is appreciated and reused by Li Jing, the king of Qin, but in the Qin army. Although he once served as the commander of the Northern Expedition, he was only a county marquis, and he only got the rank of major general in this military trial.

Although this new military rank does not affect other official titles, the highest military rank is now Li Jing's rank of general, and Lin Wei, Zhang Zimian, etc., who were also the commanders of the corps, were awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and even Li Jing's three mothers-in-law of the army, Liu Yunniang, Meghan and Julie were all awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and among the corps commanders, only Liu Xunhe and Li Cunxiao were awarded the rank of major general. Even Gongsun Lan was awarded the rank of major general.

On the other hand, of course. Among the new military ranks, from brigadier general to general, only about 30 people have been awarded, and it is very difficult for him to obtain the rank of major general, which has established his core position among the generals of the Qin domain.

Guo Chongtao was born in the family of the border generals in Daibei and was the eldest son in that family. Their family can be regarded as generals, although apart from him, there have been no high-ranking generals.

After joining Li Jing's command, Guo Chongtao's life began to be smooth sailing. When Li Keyong was under him, although Li Keyong was also very important to him and made him a deputy marshal, compared to Qin Fan, Sha Tuo's power was still too small. One of the army commanders in the Qin Domain was already stronger than some of the commanders of the feudal towns.

Especially after he served as the commander of the Northern Expedition, his career became smoother.

This time he entered the Bohai Sea again, and he temporarily served as a deputy in Zhou Dewei's Buyeo camp, and he entered a comfortable state of relaxation. He ate and slept well, and every day after dinner, he added a new hobby, sipping red wine with the staff officers of the camp and watching the performances of the Kabuki and Maiki of those tribes in the northeast such as Bohai. He had nothing to worry about, the affairs of the Buyeo camp were busy with Zhou Dewei, and the battle outside was as smooth as the Qin army expected.

The four-way army has surrounded the tribal alliance, and then tens of thousands of newly transferred Tibetan cavalry are constantly pressing in, clearing the strongholds on the outskirts of the coalition army and forcing them out of the hole.

The tribal coalition has not yet begun to retreat and break through, but the current situation is bound to force the tribal coalition to break through at the least.

Guo Chongtao knows his responsibilities, he is not here to take a vacation, nor is he here to sit on the cold bench. The King of Qin had already told him to come to Buyeo in order to prepare for him to lead his legions to chase after the tribal army began to break through, so that they could drive the tribal soldiers.

The young staff officers under his command still didn't know this, and they felt quite disappointed, and felt that they had been made a cold bench. In order to achieve this goal, the General Staff specially reorganized a regiment, this new regiment under the command of Guo Chongtao, half of the soldiers of the ten armies were transferred from the original iron cavalry corps, and some were newly recruited cavalry, these cavalry were composed of dozens of Fan tribes mainly composed of the ten major tribes of Goguryeo, Tatar, Tatar, Uighur, Shatuo, Tiele, Tuyuhun, Sogdian, Dangxiang, and Murowei, especially the Tenth Army of the tribe mainly formed by the northern Fancai.

This new legion, contrary to the norm, did not break them up and mix them up, but reorganized them according to the tribes, ten tribes, ten tribal armies, and formed a 50,000-strong cavalry army. Many officers who were transferred to this new regiment thought that this was a demotion, after all, this was an almost complete cavalry regiment, and there were very few Han Chinese, so how could it not look like an important regiment, but more like a cannon fodder regiment. However, Guo Chongtao knew that the formation of the Fan Cavalry Corps this time was only a special establishment under special circumstances, and it would definitely be disbanded after the war. The purpose of this formation is to control Hu at a critical time.

"What is the morale of our 13th Army officers and men now?" Guo Chongtao spoke.

The legion marching staff sighed: "You know, many of the cavalry originally served in various legions such as the Iron Cavalry, but now they were suddenly transferred back to reorganize an army with their own clansmen, and finally formed the thirteenth legion with ten major tribal armies, those tribal knights were very uneasy, thinking that this was not a good omen, they thought that the King of Qin did not trust them, so they pulled them out of the army. Especially now that they have formed the 13th Army Corps, they have only been placed in Buyeo, and they have been practicing and practicing all day long, and they are not very uneasy at all. Now there are all kinds of rumors in the army, and rumors are flying all over the sky. ”

"Things are not what they think, from Fu'an to Da'an's seven-hundred-mile defense line, the newly formed Ninth Army Corps has just attacked. They are all tribal horsemen drawn from various tribes. And even many of them are new recruits. comparatively. The Ninth Army is only a second-line army, we are a real field elite army, they can all be valued, could it be that King Qin will let an elite like us not use it? Do all the people in the propaganda department eat dry rice? Let them get moving, guide public opinion in the army, and raise the morale of the officers and men. Good steel has to be used on the edge of a knife, and we're here now because it's not yet time for us to use it. It would be good to clear the strongholds on the periphery of the coalition forces and hand them over to the Ninth Army Corps, and now we are not needed, and we will be killed with a knife? Get everyone ready, soon we will receive the battle order, and when the time comes, it will be time to see what they are capable of. ”

"In fact, it's no wonder that everyone is worried, this time the officer ranks, the tribal soldiers are generally one or two levels lower than the Han army, until now. The highest rank among the tribal generals is only colonel, and there is not even a general. ”

"Is this strange?" Guo Chongtao glanced at his mouth. "As a dignified army commander, I'm only a major general now. Don't be unconvinced, it's normal for General Han to be higher than General Fan, but it's not normal if General Fan is higher than General Han. What's more, as we all know, the Han generals have basically undergone further training in military academies and lecture halls, and the length of service and seniority in the army are obviously much higher than those of the generals. Things are good now, at least relatively fair, and if they want to be absolutely fair, it's impossible. King Qin has treated the feudal people well now, and told them that if they want to change to Jin Doudou, then they are ready, and when they are dispatched, they can earn more meritorious service. ”

Guo Chongtao said a few words, and then cut to the point: "Brother Zhiwu, do you have something to say?" ”

Guo Zhenhai, the marching staff officer of the Thirteenth Army Corps, straightened up from his chair, "General An Shi, according to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Department, there are some intriguing situations in the enemy's territory on our Western Front, and I think it is necessary to report to you. ”

"Oh, what's the situation?" Guo Chongtao raised his head and asked attentively.

"Some people in the Bohai region occupied by the Western Front are attacking the tribal coalition army, and there are even powerful nobles and wealthy businessmen in the Bohai region plotting and directing behind the scenes, and many of the strongholds of the tribal alliance army have been uprooted, not only patrols have been attacked, but even the hundred-man teams stationed in some strongholds have sometimes been attacked by the whole team. It is reported that even some high-ranking generals of the coalition forces have been attacked! ”

Guo Chongtao was taken aback, "Is there such a thing? What is the reason? ”

Guo Zhenhai smiled and said eloquently: "You know, since the tribal alliance invaded the Bohai Sea, it has always practiced the practice of fighting to nourish the war, and the looting of the occupied areas in the Bohai Sea is very serious. Moreover, they continued to forcibly recruit strong men, and even raped women from time to time, and they even forcibly took many young Bohai women away and brought them back to the barracks to be used as military prostitutes. At the beginning, the coalition forces still had a bottom limit, and they did not have to go fishing, but since we cut off their retreat last year, we also cut off the transportation of grain and grass in their front-line rear, so the food and salary of the tribal army was a little tight, and they began to increase their plundering efforts. Judging from our intelligence, in the past few years since the tribe invaded the Bohai Sea, at least 200,000 of the 2 million Bohai people in the areas they occupied have starved to death, and hundreds of thousands of Bohai young men have been conscripted into strong soldiers. Especially after the winter of this year, many villages were forcibly requisitioned and plundered because of their young men and young women, delaying production, planting and hunting, and as a result, the only little food was forcibly requisitioned, so the famine came early, and in many serious places, the whole village died of hunger, so that a large number of no-man's land appeared. ”

Originally, some Bohai nobles also tried to join the coalition army, who would have thought that the tribal alliance army showed no mercy to them, and many Bohai nobles and heroes were even worse than ordinary people, their family property was seized, men were executed, and women were abandoned in the military prostitute camp. Now the eyes of the coalition forces are on the nobles in the occupied areas, and they still have a lot of food hidden. For the coalition army, these Bohai nobles are like those voles that have accumulated a rat hole in winter, and they can get a lot of grain and grass if they pick up the vole hole. The nobles themselves could not be protected, and of course they had to rebel. ”

Guo Chongtao smiled, he didn't think things would be so simple. If they had only been oppressed, the Bohai people would have rebelled as early as the invasion of the coalition forces. But now that such a large-scale outbreak of resistance has suddenly erupted and made such a momentum, he has a lot of reason to believe that there must be a third force mixed in here, and there is no doubt that this third force must have the shadow of the Qin army. Based on his understanding of Qin Jun, Li Jingmen of the Supervision Department is specialized in foreign intelligence and is responsible for many external tasks such as incitement and subversion. He believed that the vigorous aristocratic resistance movement in the Bohai Kingdom must have the credit of Lijingmen.

It seemed that the net was getting closer and closer, and he smiled. (To be continued......)