When the news reached Lang Sang Mansion, Zhou Shixiong frowned. It was a bit unreasonable to be broken by the enemy so easily. Zheng Zhuang organized a large army to attack the Vietnamese and North Korea without any intention of hiding it from others in advance. The Vietnamese and North Korea had long known that the enemy would attack. Under this premise, the three border towns did not increase their troops or strengthen their defense. They easily gave up on the city and retreated. It was so strange.

In fact, this can only be blamed for Zhou Shixiong for not having a deep understanding of Jiaozhi. Whether it is the Li Dynasty or the Northern Vietnamese, the peasant soldiers were usually farmed farmers, and they took weapons to fight in wartime. Even the defenders on the border, as long as a very small number of them were professional soldiers, most of them had to go to the fields to farm. Although Zheng Zhuang did not conceal his intention to send troops, the soldiers and generals of the Northern Vietnamese did not believe that he really dared to start a war in the spring plowing season. Therefore, most of the defenders in the three passes were planting rice seedlings. When the enemy arrived at the city, they realized how determined the Qingdu King was. Unfortunately, everything was too late.

"My husband, will it be too few if the heavy lifting is only five thousand soldiers?" Zhou Er was ordered to go to war and has led 5,000 elite soldiers to Shenglong Mansion. Li Xiaobin's night-delay camp is responsible for coordination. Zhu Ying read the battle report and felt that there were too few people coming from Lang Sang Mansion, so it was necessary to increase his troops.

"Baoer, even if you pull up the 20,000 troops of Lang Sang Mansion, it will not be of much help to the battle situation. The most important thing now is to figure out the combat intentions of King Qingdu. Only by knowing yourself and your enemy can you formulate targeted tactics." The three battle reports cannot tell how many enemy troops are siegeing the city. Some say tens of thousands, some say boundless, and some say that the enemy is like countless ants.

Zhou Shixiong really wanted to introduce these guys who wrote war reports to write novels, and they were so good at using words. These three war reports full of adjectives and lyrical descriptions could not give Zhou Shixiong too much information. The only thing that can be confirmed is that the enemy took action and the Northern Vietnam lost.

"Nanding Prefecture is full of mountains, and there are only a few roads for the army to pass. As long as the road is held in the past few days, it is useless for the Li Chao to send more people to come." Zhu Ying still did her homework. At least she knew that there were many mountains in Nanding Prefecture, and the terrain was very beneficial to the defense.

"That's it, but if you break through Biancun Town, the Li Dynasty army can enter Heping Prefecture and pass through Zhanhua. Gaoyang advances to Hexi Prefecture. As long as you break through Hedong City, the important town of Hexi Prefecture, there is no danger to defend Shenglong Prefecture." Opening the Jiaozhi map sent by Ma San, Zhou Shixiong drew a line from Biancun Town to Gaoyang Town, and clicked a few times in Hedong City. This is the last barrier to defend against the Li Dynasty army attacking Shenglong Prefecture.

"My husband, wouldn't it be more beneficial to us if Zheng Zhuang divided his troops to advance?" Zhu Ying looked at the map and confirmed that his idea was correct.

"It depends on the purpose of the division of troops. If the purpose of this army is to attract firepower and cover the two troops below to attack Ningping and Nanding cities, I think Zheng Zai will inevitably fall into the trap." Ningping and Nanding City are the two largest cities in Nanding Prefecture. Once occupied by Zheng Zhuang, Nanding Prefecture will fall into the hands of Zheng Zhuang. Taking Nanding Prefecture, the Li Dynasty army will have a springboard to attack Shenglong Prefecture. At that time, Zheng Zhuang can choose to go north to attack Henan Prefecture, or attack Taiping Prefecture in the east, and erode several small prefectures in southern Vietnam. No matter what Zheng Zhuang will do, the premise is to take Nanding Prefecture, and what Zheng Zai has to do is to prevent this from happening, otherwise the consequences will be very bad.

Zhou Shixiong could not draw troops from Lang Sang Mansion again. Before he completely grasped Lang Sang Mansion, he had to ensure that there were 5,000 troops stationed in Lang Sang City to avoid civil strife in foreign enemies before the Qing Dynasty. However, Zhou Shixiong would not have seen Zheng Zhuang erode the southern part of the Vietnamese North Korea, and immediately wrote several letters to Zheng Zai, Zheng Lisheng, Van Gandhi and Chen Rien, telling them his guesses, hoping to attract the attention of the senior officials of the Vietnamese North Korea.

Zhou Shixiong's original intention was that he did not want Zheng Zhuang to annex the Northern Vietnamese Dynasty. The few people who received the letter each had their own ideas. Zheng Zai knew that Ji Hongchang, a inferior man, had some ability to use military force, but he was not an embroidered pillow. After reading the letter, he threw it away and did not mention it in the military discussion.

Zheng Lisheng didn't understand military affairs at all. He just wrote a reply to Ji Hongchang to cope with etiquette. The letter only said that he would be united more closely. As for whether the south would be occupied by Zheng Zhuang, it had nothing to do with him.

Chen Rien did not reply at all, but asked the servants who sent the letter to Ji Hongchang to bring a slogan message, "I have tried my best, but in the end, it's up to God's will." It seems that he is not planning to pay attention to this war, and I don't know if he is open-minded or something else.

Only Van Gandhi attached great importance to Ji Hongchang's statement and replied to a thick letter to discuss future war changes and countermeasures with Ji Hongchang. One of the things mentioned by Van Gandhi caught Zhou Shixiong's attention. Van Gandhi said that as far as he knew, the guards of Biancun Town ordered the withdrawal of troops without seeing the enemy's traces, and directly withdrew the city of Pingfu, and took away all the troops and horses from the towns along the way, as if they were to wait for the enemy in the city.

Zhou Shixiong felt that there was something wrong with thinking. Heping Prefecture is vast and is the largest mansion in the southern part of the North Vietnamese Dynasty. Because he often fights against the Li Dynasty, the soldiers of the government are brave and invincible. How could he make a move to retreat and wait for the enemy? If Heping Prefecture is unable to resist the Li Dynasty army with its troops head-on, then how can we explain the reinforcements that are constantly heading to Heping Prefecture? Doesn’t Heping Prefecture know that there are reinforcements?

The distance is too far, so Zhou Shixiong cannot obtain first-hand information. He can only pray in his heart to God for blessing and not to surrender to the enemy at the last minute. If Heping Mansion secretly surrenders to Zheng Zhuang, Shenglong Mansion will definitely not be able to defend it.

In order to relieve the boredom in his heart, Zhou Shixiong rode out of the city and inspected the newly built military camp in the back mountain of Langshan City. This military camp was specially built by Zhou Shixiong to place an elephant chariot. The tall fence completely surrounded the camp and blocked any intent to peek. Before the chariot was about to show up, it is necessary to keep it more confidential.

"Master, please refer to Yu Jiaao, Cheng Tiger, Cheng Leopard." In order to find a good officer for the future chariot battalion, Zhou Shixiong took great pains. Considering that the main method of killing enemies by chariots was a crossbow, Yu Jiaao, the sharpshooter, naturally entered Zhou Shixiong's vision. The brothers Cheng Tiger and Cheng Leopard were appointed as Yu Jiaao's deputy. With the two brothers' good at sword and shield fighting, they were very suitable for infantry combat with chariots.

"Get up, Yuying Manages, how are you mastering the use of chariots?" At this stage, only craftsmen who developed chariots are most familiar with chariots. The two hundred auxiliary soldiers who were picked out from the auxiliary barracks to assist in the experiment were all called by Zhou Hou to go to the night without a purchase, because their archery skills were very good and more suitable for chariots.

Now the 300 soldiers who are learning to drive and use chariots in the camp are all new recruits. This group of people will be the first batch of regular troops of the chariot battalion. Whether the chariot battalion can play a role in the future depends on their performance.

"Sir, the training of getting on and off the car while marching is completed, and the mobile shooting is still being trained. It is estimated that it will take at least one month." Zhou Shixiong compiled a booklet for the Chariot Battalion, detailing how to use the chariot to fight. However, the knowledge in the book has become actual combat power, which still requires a long time of training. Yu Jiaao is now training recruits according to the plan.

"How is the training of the sporting chariots working together?" As the name suggests, it means that infantry and chariot soldiers are working together to fight. This idea is learned from Germans. The theory is that they copied the sporting chariots and the sporting chariots and the sporting chariots and the sporting chariots and the sporting chariots and the sporting chariots and the sporting chariots are fine here. The only troublesome thing is that no one knows whether the new tactics will work, and Zhou Shixiong doesn't know.

"Sir, training is not difficult, but I don't understand what the use of doing this is." He is worthy of being a student of Zhou Shixiong, and he dares to think and say.

"After your training is completed, I will conduct a group confrontation, and you will know why." Zhou Shixiong himself was not sure. He is not a professional soldier. Most of these things are based on imagination. The specific effects need to be verified through actual combat. Now he can only fool these guys.

Walking into the barracks, ten tall chariots stood in a corner of the barracks, and a group of soldiers were constantly climbing up and down. In the center of the schoolyard, a chariot was moving at a constant speed, followed by a hundred soldiers doing various formation training. Seeing that the situation was not bad, Zhou Shixiong nodded with a smile, "No."

A roar suddenly came from a distance. Zhou Shixiong looked over and found a stream of black smoke rising into the air, followed by a few elephants. This was training the elephant to be familiar with the explosion, otherwise he would be frightened by the sound of cannons when he went to the battlefield, and the elephant would easily go crazy.

After walking around, Zhou Shixiong returned to the city with satisfaction. He was looking forward to the first practical exercise. Only after passing this final test could Zhou Shixiong be sure to establish a built-in chariot army and build a new type of army around the chariots.

On April 13, Zhou Shixiong received the second battle report. The Lang Son army led by Zhou Er completed the initial battle and defeated the army on the eastern front of Li Chao in Nanding City. It is said that the battle was commanded by Zheng Zhuang himself, but unfortunately there is no evidence to prove this statement.

The battle report recorded the attack routes of the three armies in detail, and the troops were basically clear. The army on the eastern front that attacked Nanding City was less than 50,000, and the actual force was only about 30,000. The middle army that attacked Ningping City had only about 30,000, and less than half of the main soldiers. The two armies combined were only 80,000, which was far from the claimed 200,000.

The Li Chao North Army had already occupied the three towns of Zhanhua, Dongjiang and Gaoyang that were abandoned by Heping Prefecture. According to the news that Zhou Er heard, the Eastern Army had a force of 50,000 troops, and the main force was 15,000 troops of Guangnan Prefecture. Zhou Er specifically mentioned that after occupying the three towns of Heping Prefecture, the Eastern Army did not continue to march towards Hexi Prefecture, but instead strengthened these three towns. It seemed that they wanted to station in Heping Prefecture.

As for the battle in Nanding City, I didn't say much, but just briefly introduced the process. The Eastern Route Army of Li Chao besieged Nanding City for five days and failed to surrender and launched an attack. After three days of fierce battle, the Eastern Route Army of Li Chao left behind five thousand bodies and slowly evacuated to join the occupied Ningping City and the Central Route Army. It seems that the battle situation is developing in a positive direction. This national war initiated by Zheng Zhuang, the King of Qing Capital, seemed to be facing the dilemma of failure.
Chapter completed!