If Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengzong are the second generals of Qin King Li Jing's henchmen, then Zeng Yuanyu and Zhao Li are the sword and shield duo of Qin Fan. In the Qin Domain, there are many such famous partners, such as Lin Wei, Wang Chong, Lin Wu, Zhang Zimian and Cui Anqian's Qin Domain, and the Thirteen Taibao in the new generation, as well as the Qin Domain's Shuangbi, Zhou Dewei and Guo Chongtao, who are also more and more famous in the Shaozhuang faction.

Zhou Dewei and Guo Chongtao are both people from the north, first Shi Shatuo and then returned to the Qin Domain, in recent years, outstanding performance, great achievements, the star shines, in the past New Year's after the whole army, the two generals were promoted to three stars of the lieutenant general, becoming a veritable general in the Qin Domain.

Zhou Dewei is far away, the small word is Yangwu, and he is from Mayi, Shuozhou. Brave and resourceful, long in the clouds, know the side affairs. After returning to Qin, he successively served as the commander of the Jinjia Shengjie Army, the commander of the three armies, and the commander of the Fuyu Xing camp. Now that he has entered the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies after the rank of Lieutenant General, he has replaced Zeng Yuanyu as the former Governor of the Army, Zhou Dewei is tall, dark-skinned, and usually has a very serious expression, even when he is smiling, he is always so stiff-faced. can get Li Jing's trust and dependence, of course, this is his ability. Born in the border area, he has a lot of experience in the border area for a long time, and he can accurately judge the number of enemy troops just by the smoke and dust. What's even more rare is that he is usually very low-key, but he is proficient in all eighteen martial arts, and his martial arts are exquisite, especially his riding and archery skills. If he was only brave, he would not have been valued as much as Li Jing, Zhou Dewei was not only fierce, but he was also very enthusiastic about studying. Military books and history books are all involved. It is a combination of civil and military. A handsome person who can stand alone. And not an ordinary fierce general.

He was very steady when he led the army guards beside Li Jing, but what made him shine the most was in the Battle of the Northeast. He garrisoned the Buyeo defense line with 50,000 men, facing a tribal army that was several times larger, but he held out for two years without falling behind. When the time for the final counterattack came, the soldiers and horses of the Buyeo Xing battalion led by him were also like tigers and leopards, inflicting heavy losses on the tribal army.

At the time of the Northeast counteroffensive, Guo Chongtao also shone brightly on the Western Front. This one once joined Li Keyong's command. With 5,000 soldiers and horses, he was a genius general who captured four states for the Shatuo people. And in a short period of time, he became Li Keyong's deputy marshal. Although the army was defeated by the Qin army and surrendered to Qin, he still proved that he was not in vain.

Guo Chongtao is crazy, but he is crazy and has capital. This Guo Chongtao, who concealed his actual age and falsely reported that he was ten years older, is tall and mighty, and has the spirit of catching dragons and fighting tigers, and he does not have the roughness of ordinary generals, but is very handsome and handsome. Guo Chongtao fights wars and has one characteristic. It's just not moving, and when you move, it's like a mountain of fire. It's fast. The use of soldiers, like his character, is fierce and unrestrained. In the battle of the Northeast, Guo Chongtao also got a lot of reuse, in the early stage, he was awarded the marshal of the Northern Expedition, led the elite cavalry deep into the Khitan grassland, and the Khitan people who fought changed color when they heard it, and the children stopped crying. During the great counteroffensive, he was appointed as the commander of the 13th Army Corps, leading a cavalry corps that was all cavalry, and at the last moment, he fought unrestrainedly, killing almost all the tribal army, chasing and killing thousands of miles, killing tens of thousands, and directly destroying the last little resistance of the tribal army.

After this reorganization, the Qin army eliminated many troops. Without the threat and pressure from the north, the Qin army no longer needed to maintain a huge number of troops and revert to the elite strategy. Most of the troops and generals who were originally included in the army through recruitment, recruitment, surrender, etc., were abolished. Like Zhou Dewei and Guo Chongtao, many old brothers in the north have almost been eliminated. But instead of being eliminated, the two went further. At the same time as entering the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, he became the commander of the army in the southern expedition that was about to begin.

Zhou Dewei was personally worshiped by Li Jing as the commander of the southern capital, stationed in Hejian, and was responsible for commanding the northern corps to Chengde Town. Guo Chongtao was worshiped by Li Jing as the deputy capital of the southern expedition, stationed in Dezhou, commanded the southern corps, and dealt with Weibo Town.

The southern expedition to the two towns of Hebei can be said to have long been listed in the strategic layout plan of the Qin Domain. Whether it is the battle of Daibei or the battle of the northeast, in general, it is still making preliminary peripheral preparations for taking Hebei. Even years ago, Li Jing gave up supporting the new emperor and reached an agreement with Chang'an, which was also preparing for this battle.

Now, everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

The two towns of Chengde and Weibo are already like two ripe fruits hanging on the branches, just waiting for Qin Fan to pick them.

The tribal army outside the pass was conquered, and although there were still many tribes in the grasslands in the north who moved westward, these people Li Jing did not go to conquer them, they were already praying to God and worshiping Buddha, how could they dare to provoke the Qin clan again? They move as far as they are now.

The strongest ally of Hebei Second Town, Shatuo Li Keyong of Taiyuan, has been killed by Li Jing with a knife, and Zhu Wen personally killed Yu Shangyuanyi in Bianzhou. The Hedong Army was bent on avenging Li Keyong's blood hatred at this time, how could he care about Chengde and Wei Bo in Shanghebei? Not to mention that Li Keyong is dead, even if he is still alive, he has been forced to compromise with Yang Fuguang and agree that he will not interfere in Hebei's affairs.

As for Yang Fuguang, the only one who could save them, he abandoned them early. And now, Yang Fuguang has no spare strength to take care of them, he is now busy raiding Zhu Wen's backyard, he has just captured Shaanxi, and he is attacking the gold merchants.

The second town has already been semi-surrounded by the Qin army, and there are only a few forces around them, Hedong Town, Zhaoyi Town, Heyang Town, Xuanwu Town, Luoyang Town, Hedong, Xuanwu, and Luoyang Towns are impossible to rescue them. At this time, Zhaoyi Town was also caught in the internal military scuffle, and Zhuge Shuang of Heyang himself was also low in strength, so he could only be a wall grass swaying from side to side, let alone support them.

Chengde and Wei Bo, looking at the surroundings, have long been embattled.

Although the world is big, there is no one ally, and they are abandoned by everyone. After holding out for so long, it's not that they are very strong, it's just that Li Jing didn't plan to attack directly in the past. Now, Erzhen is like a wooden stick that has been stripped of thorns, and the Qin army can cut it as much as he wants.

Even when the two towns are isolated now, the Qin army refuses to give them a dignified battle.

"The weather in this part of the Yellow River is cold, and the crops ripen a little later. When it comes to spring ploughing every year. We requisitioned some of our troops. Claiming to be going to the south to crusade, the other side will inevitably gather troops and horses for defense, which will be enough to delay their agricultural time. And when the other party has already assembled troops and horses, it will be convenient for Xie Jia to suspend his troops, and I only need to send a few light cavalry to harass along the border. If we do this repeatedly, the other side will get used to it, and if we mobilize troops and horses in the future, the other side will inevitably think that we are just bluffing. When waiting for the harvest season. At that time, if we really attack, the other side will be caught off guard. At that time, if we attacked the enemy's territory in one fell swoop, we could send people to ride into the enemy territory in small units on the one hand, and on the one hand, we could send people to attack the enemy in small units, and on the other hand, we could send people to steal and cut the enemy's grain, and then send people to spread all kinds of rumors in the enemy's territory. Just wait until the autumn harvest. One more time. The other side ran out of food and money, and at that time our army marched south. A battle is decided. ”

This trick is to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, and the real murder does not see blood.

In essence, fighting a war is actually fighting the economy, and fighting is grain and grass. Once the war machine is in motion, the cost is enormous. Even a super town like the Qin Domain, when it was in the war for many years, it couldn't be supplied. What's more, the second town of Hebei is now completely isolated?

In particular, for the two towns in Hebei, where even the standing army system is not perfect, and the practice is still to immediately recruit a large number of people into the army once the war breaks out, as well as to recruit the people as the husbands of the army, if they are teased by the Qin army several times, their production will be completely delayed, and they will be blocked, and once the agricultural time is delayed, the biggest trouble is the shortage of food. Once the economy cannot keep up and there is a shortage of food, then the opponent can completely surrender without a fight.

Li Jing is such a bully, and the two towns in Hebei hope to have a happy battle and end it early. But Li Jing is not as good as he wants, if you want to fight head-on, Li Jing will have a comprehensive battle. This is a very effective and vicious tactic to exhaust the enemy. The purpose is very clear, to first cross the enemy's economy, and even to make them stop attacking and messing with themselves. At the end of the day, the Qin army seized the most abundant fruits at the lowest cost.

Such a strategy is a conspiracy rather than a conspiracy, and even if the other party finds out, there is nothing to be done. Qin Jun has such confidence and strength, even if others want to learn, they don't have this condition.

In addition to the two corps of Zhou Dewei and Guo Chongtao, Li Jing also specially recruited the Yellow Sea Fleet of the Navy Division and let them enter the Yellow River to join the war. There were only two tasks for the sailors, one was to block the waterway of the Yellow River, blockade Wei Bo's army, and completely cut off any supplies they received from outside the town. The second is that the naval division can threaten the north bank of the Yellow River in Weibo Town at any time along the north bank of the Yellow River, so that they have to station troops in the south to disperse and contain their troops and horses. If necessary, the Marine Corps can also land directly on the north bank of the Yellow River. In the early stage, small groups of troops can also be sent to land from time to time to conduct raids and wars.

Zhou Dewei and Guo Chongtao lived up to Li Jing's expectations, and before the summer harvest, they made several large-scale banners and made a large-scale southern expedition, forcing the two towns to be shocked three times a day, and had to forcibly recruit the people working in the fields to assemble and defend. But every time the Qin army was thundering loudly and raining water. At the end of the day, hundreds of thousands of troops marching south turned into dozens or hundreds of small groups of troops and horses at the level of the capital team to attack and harass on the border.

But they didn't dare to relax, every time they disbanded, the Qin army began to gather troops and horses again, and when they hurriedly gathered men and horses, the other party stopped and disarmed. After several times like this, Chengde and Wei Bo were really completely convinced, the soldiers and horses were tired, the people were panicked, and the key thing was that the agricultural time was also delayed, and every time the soldiers and horses were assembled, a lot of food had to be consumed.

And what made them even more headache was that in Chengde and Weibo Town, for a time, there were all kinds of spy agents of the Qin Domain, assassinating generals and officials, burning official warehouses, spreading rumors, etc., which made the two towns and prefectures chaotic and smoky.

In the second half of the fourth lunar month, the wheat on the Hebei Plain begins to turn yellow. Although there has been a lot of delay, most of the fields have been planted this year. Although there is a lot less care, it will obviously reduce the yield a lot, but after another ten days and a half months, it will be harvested in mid-May, and the two towns of Chengde and Weibo are still a little relieved. I've tossed around a few times this year, and I'm almost bottoming out in the warehouse. Now, just wait for the summer grain to be put into storage. (To be continued......)