Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 718 Bloodstained Military Report

   The team of more than 1,000 people finally set off slowly.

Li Xin once brought an army of tens of thousands of people, but he only brought more than a thousand people. For him, he didn't have to worry about it. Besides, he was a lazy person and never thought about doing it himself, so he was very happy to take these things. The command of the Imperial Army was handed over to Ye Mao.

   This trip to Jimen Pass is the beginning of the young master Ye Mao taking over the Ye family in an all-round way. Taking this opportunity to familiarize him with the feeling of leading troops is also a reasonable thing.

   At this time, it was the end of summer, but the weather was still very hot. The group got up early and hurryed all the way, and rested near noon. When the sun was not too strong in the afternoon, they continued their journey and slowly moved towards Jimen Pass.

Half a month later, they were already more than 700 miles away from the capital. In the afternoon, Li Xin was just about to lie down to rest for a while, take a nap, and the young man in armor rushed into Li Xin with a military newspaper. The handsome tent, bowed his head and clasped his fist: "General, there is a battle report from Yunzhou City!"

Li Xin was originally drowsy, but was completely drowsy by these words. He sat up on the marching bed, stretched out his hand to take the battle report in Ye Mao's hand, opened his mouth and asked, "It came from Yunzhou City, Or did it come from the capital?"

Geographically, their current location is undoubtedly closer to Yunzhou City, but according to the rules, Yunzhou City must send the battle report to the capital first, there is no reason to send them the army that escorts materials first .

   Ye Mao lowered his head and said, "It was sent from the capital."

  Li Xin nodded and made some calculations in his heart.

  According to the expedited speed of four hundred miles, at least four or five days have passed since the battle report of Yunzhou City.

   He opened the envelope, took out the paper inside, unfolded it, looked at it, and put it on the table.

   Ye Mao lowered his head and said, "General, what's going on in Yunzhou City?"

   Lord Jingan threw the letter to him.

   "See for yourself."

   Ye Maocai took the letter, and after reading it in detail, the big man's expression was a little complicated.

   "Chongjia army is victorious."

The content of the military newspaper is very simple. About ten days ago, a small ethnic group in the Yuwen Qigui tribe closest to Yunzhou City among the Yuwen tribes led people to loot a large village in the hinterland of Yunzhou City. , killed hundreds of people not to mention, but also stole countless food. After this incident, Chong Xuantong, who was stationed in Yunzhou City, was furious and immediately sent people to Yuwen Qigui's department to question him, but Yuwen was stopped by Yuwen. Beggars flatly denied it, and the two sides were very stiff.

Six days ago, the Yunzhou army finally couldn't hold back and led the army to attack Yuwen Qigui's group. The two sides collided head-on on the grassland. In the end, the Yunzhou army led by Xuantong's eldest son Zhongfa won a big victory. The casualties were heavy, and the young and strong were killed and injured thousands of people. They had to concede defeat to Yunzhou City and the Dajin court.

  After this battle, Chong Xuantong wrote to the imperial court, asking how to deal with Yuwen Qigui.

   Seeing that Ye Mao had read the battle report, Li Xin asked lightly, "Do you see anything?"

   Young Master frowned and thought for a while, then said, "Chong's army is really powerful."

  The Marquis of Jing'an narrowed his eyes and said solemnly, "They fought on the grassland."

No matter what time it was, even when Ye Sheng was leading the army forty years ago, Da Jin was not very able to fight with Bei Zhou in the open space. They were no longer good at horseback riding and archery, and secondly, they had to defend the city and defend the ground, which limited their performance somewhat, so they were forced out of Jimen Pass by Ye Sheng.

But forty years later, they did not say that they had recovered their heyday fighting strength when they went south, but at least they had recovered to seven or eight. At this time, the Zhongjia Army was fighting against them on the open grassland, not the city. between…

   The strangest thing is that the Chongjia Army also won...

Li Xin stretched out his finger and pointed to the seemingly inconspicuous military newspaper, and said slowly: "Either Yuwen's ministries have become weak to a certain extent, or the strength of the Chong's army is far beyond our imagination, otherwise... "

   Before Li Xin could speak, the young master Ye Mao, who was standing beside him, took over the words and continued: "Otherwise, many people in the family would have died."

  Li Xin looked at Ye Mao with some satisfaction, and smiled: "You will think about things now, it's not easy."

   Ye Mao sighed: "I may not know the other things, but the things on the battle formation were taught to me by my grandfather since I was a child, so I can guess a little."

   "This battle report looks good, but it doesn't write about the casualties of the headquarters. It only says a big victory. There must be something tricky in it."

   "But the Zhongjia Army should not lie about the military situation, so most of them really won, but...the victory was tragic."

Li Xin patted his thigh rhythmically, and said lightly: "What's worse, this beautiful-looking military newspaper has already been sent to the capital, and it was seen by His Majesty and those officials. Since they have seen this, most of the wars between us and the Yuwen ministries cannot be avoided."

The breeders haven't made a world-shattering achievement for decades, so they are eager to make contributions, and it is not difficult to understand that they even broke their teeth and swallowed blood. After seeing what happened behind the Yunzhou Army, and after reading this battle report, the imperial court would soon urge the Zhenbei Army to use troops against Yuwen's troops.

Having said that, the Marquis of Jing An glanced at the battle report that looked snow-white, but was actually stained red with blood, with a mocking smile on his face: "Writing a military report without writing about our army's casualties, it's also a loss for them to grow the family's army. Can do it."

   "What's even more bizarre is that the court did not pick any faults in this regard."

   Ye Mao held the junior salute, stood beside Li Xin with his hands down, lowered his head and asked, "What does the general mean?"

   "What can I mean?"

  Li Xin said helplessly: "Since they have come up with this military report and the imperial court has believed it, then we have to believe it, no matter what, the Yunzhou City side has really won the battle."

   "And after arriving at Jimen Pass, let's make a long-term discussion."

   After saying that, Li Xin walked out of the tent, looked up at the sky, and found that it was already late, and the weather was not so hot. He turned back to Ye Mao and said solemnly: "Go on, send the order, and the army will start moving north."

  Ye Mao bowed his body and clasped his fists, shouting in a deep voice, "The commander will obey!"

The Marquis of Jing'an patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I received a letter from Senior Brother Ye a few days ago, he has left Jimen Pass, and if we go another one or two hundred miles north, we should be able to meet He is."

   Hearing Li Xin mention his father, Ye Mao's body shook slightly and lowered his head.

   "The last general... Got it."

   (end of this chapter)