Chapter 295: Pacify (I)

"Send a report to Malin, let his people keep an eye on Yanzi and not let her escape. Notify Yang Ping and the others to meet with Malin's surveillance personnel to join the task of monitoring Yanzi and searching for Princess Changle." The more you think about this, the more strange it became, and Li Ming couldn't help but pay special attention.

After basically putting things in place, Li Ming and the old chef began to go into formal retreat together.

It is said to be retreating, but in fact, it is just to seize the time to practice martial arts in Li Ming's bedroom. The overall situation is settled. There is no major war in various places. The people under his command are enough to deal with it. There is no need to let him do everything personally. Only after the Tang Dynasty is unified can Li Ming play a huge role in the reform of the entire society. Therefore, it makes sense that he chose to start restoring martial arts at this time.

The basic idea of ​​practicing the tenth level of Taiqing Gong is to break it and then establish it. This is just right for Li Ming. It seems that this set of mental methods was specially made for him.

Under the protection and guidance of the old chef, Li Ming started practicing in the bedroom attentively.

With his previous experience and foundation in practicing internal skills, coupled with Li Ming's unique understanding of internal skills, his cultivation progress was very smooth. In just half a month, he passed the initial meridian reorganization stage alone. The meridians that were beaten to pieces in the past were re-unlocked, basically returning to the level of a normal person.

On this basis, he began to practice consolidating and expanding meridians.

At this time, a tragic decisive battle was about to begin on the front line of Nanzhou.

Yuchi Xiong has been fighting with the troops of the Su Kingdom for most of his life, so he knows their fighting style very well. The Soviet state has many dense forests and ridges and few plains, so the troops are mainly jungle infantry. The soldiers are short but extremely flexible. The vine armor they wear is made of repeated soaking oil in the primitive dense forest. It is light and strong, which is very suitable for operations in dense forests. Although Nanzhou is not as dense as in the territory of the Su Kingdom, it is also full of bushes, which gives the Su army a lot of room to play. On the other hand, Li Ming's troops are mainly engaged in plain combat, and pays attention to the impact tactics of large-scale corps. They cannot be used in Nanzhou at all.

Therefore, after the first battle, the experienced Wang Wen immediately set up camps on the spot, unable to stand out, and used strong bows and crossbows to block the opponent's attack, dragging the 400,000 troops of Su State there, making them unable to move forward. Facing Wang Wen, the Su State's troops were at a loss, and they returned from a strong attack many times, but they did not dare to give up the troops in front of them and detoured. Once they were pursued by Wang Wen's troops from behind, they would soon cause the defeat of the entire army. This is the most taboo thing in the battle. Moreover, the rangers in Wang Wen's troops could quickly bypass large areas of bushes and attack them from the side. Therefore, the troops of both sides were stalemate in Nanzhou.

After Yuchi Xiong arrived, he highly praised Wang Wen's tactics in the previous stage. Under the terrain limitations, Wang Wen's choice may be the most correct. At least, he won time for Yuchi Xiong's arrival.

Yuchi Xiong was originally very familiar with fighting in the forest, but it was wiped out in the battle of the Southern Dian Prefecture. Now there are no similar soldiers in Li Ming's troops. Therefore, although Yuchi Xiong is familiar with the opponent's combat methods, he is helpless. Without a suitable army, no one can defeat the Soviet army of up to 400,000 in this place. Therefore, since the day of arrival, Zhang Meng, Yuchi Xiong and Wang Wen got together to study the combat plan. However, no matter what method, it is hard to cook without a suitable army. In the end, they unanimously agreed that they should use their troops' strengths to attract the enemy to the plains to fight.

This kind of combat method of retreating to advance was also a last resort. Wang Wen, who was commanding the entire army, also had many concerns. All Li Ming's troops had never been defeated since they went to war. His army had been driving the enemy forward. Now he wanted to withdraw his troops and give up a large area of ​​land in Nanzhou to the hands of the enemy. I am afraid that Li Ming would not be able to agree. Even though it was just a tactic, the people in various parts of Nanzhou would definitely be greatly poisoned when the enemy was passing through. This result was probably not something Li Ming was willing to see.

Therefore, Wang Wen, the commander-in-chief of the legion, has been hesitating about this plan. He knows Li Ming better than Zhang Meng and Yuchi Xiong. Sacrifice of civilians' lives in exchange for victory in the battle is what Li Ming is most reluctant to do. In the end, even if he can completely eliminate the invading enemy troops, Li Ming will hold him accountable. Therefore, Wang Wen will never do this until he has no choice.

However, although Wang Wen is not willing to adopt the strategy of retreat for the time being, he still needs to prepare for the first time. If he has to adopt this strategy in the end, the people of Nanzhou can suffer less losses.

Therefore, after hesitating for several days, Wang Wen sent a telegram to the Commander-in-Chief and the Prime Minister's Office, requesting that they agree to move the people in Nanzhou.

Moving the people is an extremely huge task. It is definitely a great obstacle to let the people born and raised from their homes and go to other places. Moreover, the cost of resettlement and relocation of the people is huge, and the time and energy is also very large. At present, the officials under Li Ming are very tight and cannot arrange extra people to deal with this matter. Therefore, Wang Wen's telegram was put on hold for several days in the hands of the Saint Wang and Gao Wei. The two also communicated their opinions many times through the telegram, but they could not make the final decision.

Li Ming is currently in seclusion and has told Gao Wei not to disturb him if there is no big deal. All things can be decided by Gao Wei. Although that is the case, this matter is too important. How can Gao Wei dare to take the initiative? Outside Li Ming's bedroom, Gao Wei had to make up his mind to break in several times, but in the end he took his steps back. Gao Wei also understood that Li Ming should be at the most critical moment now, otherwise he would not hand over all state affairs to him. If he rashly went in and disturbed him, there would probably be some unexpected situation. By then, it would be too late to regret it.

However, the situation on the front line changed rapidly, and a little delay would lead to a loss of opportunity. As the cold winter was coming, it would be even more troublesome if it was delayed. Therefore, after repeated consultations between Gao Wei and the Saint Wang and others, they finally gritted their teeth and made up their minds and pulled out 30,000 people from the Huzhou garrison to specifically use the relocation work of the people in Nanzhou.

Nanzhou is sparsely populated, with large bushes everywhere, and relatively closed. The power of the Medical God Cult here is not very strong, so it is definitely not going well in mobilization work. The more ignorant and poor the area, the more attached it is to the homeland. Gao Wei once traveled around the world before he lived in seclusion and knew the most about this. At present, he had to move as many people as possible into Huzhou. Fortunately, the Huzhou Railway is under construction, and migrant workers are not enough.

At this moment in Zhongzhou, soldiers trained in mountain combat drawn from different troops are gathering on the border of Youzhou, preparing to start the operation to conquer Youzhou.

Li Jiao controlled six states at the most. In the battle of Mingyang City, Li Ming occupied two important places, Zezhou and Zhongzhou. Now, there is only a little resistance left in Youzhou, located in the western part of Zhongzhou. According to the investigation of the intelligence department, there are currently 80,000 defensive soldiers in Youzhou, all of whom are locals who are good at fighting in the mountains. This is undoubtedly another test for Li Ming's troops.

In order to ensure the victory of the Youzhou battle, Zhuo Junhao was leading the 100,000 troops carefully selected by him to the border of Youzhou. Youzhou is mountainous, so whether it is heavy armored cavalry, rangers or heavy infantry, there is no advantage there. Only the more than 10,000 trained mountain soldiers currently on standby on the border can bring certain pressure to Youzhou. Therefore, in order to conquer Youzhou, Zhuo Junhao mobilized 100,000 troops to try to make up for the shortcomings in the army with his superior force.

This time he brought 10,000 heavy armored cavalry, 10,000 rangers and 60,000 heavy infantry, and 20,000 stone-cattering soldiers and 2,000 stone-cattering aircraft. On the Youzhou border, the 50,000 logistics troops had been recruited and were on standby. It can be said that in order to conquer Youzhou, Zhuo Junhao had drained all the extra troops in Zhongzhou.

Lenghen in Yuzhou was very smooth. With the army approaching, the officials in various parts of Yuzhou quickly surrendered to him. As long as the government surrendered, the people would be able to handle it. Li Ming's reputation was very high in the eyes of the people. Therefore, Yuzhou was calm after Lenghen's army. Except for the change of the loyalty of the officials, there was no change. Lenghen didn't care about changing the local officials. At present, the reserve officials trained from Biquan Island have been completely used in Zhongzhou. There are no extra officials to replace them. For the time being, only the original people are used.

After conquering Yuzhou, Lenghen's army entered the territory of Dingzhou. In this place, Linjiazhuang had a great influence. With Lin Lingfeng's efforts, officials from all over the country took the initiative to express their loyalty. In this way, Lenghen's army stopped in Dingzhou, waiting for further instructions from the commander.

Li Ming didn't care about all this. These days, he was completely immersed in a new understanding. After guidance from the old chef like this, Li Ming suddenly felt that what he had learned before was so superficial, and the martial arts he had known before was so ridiculous. Under the old chef's constant teaching, Li Ming then felt that the profoundness of martial arts was a state completely different from conventional theory, and a problem that cannot be explained by conventional theory. Only by understanding it by oneself can he grasp the key points. Therefore, Li Ming

It was like discovering a new world, immersed in it day and night, which made him feel for the first time that martial arts has such a mysterious space besides everything in the world. It is a world completely different from the world and cannot be understood by ordinary people no matter what. At this point, Li Ming truly knew why the old chef was willing to be a kitchen handyman for the rest of his life. For a master who understands this realm, everything in the world has become no longer important. No matter it is an emperor, general, or a peddler, there is no difference.

For more than ten days, he was immersed in this mysterious realm and could not extricate himself. This surprised the old chef. To be honest, the tenth level of mental method did not involve the issue of martial arts realm. All this was taught by the old chef himself. As a person like him, he was actually very lonely. There were very few masters who reached his realm. Even if there were such masters, such as Yang Ping, there was no talk of them. Therefore, he really hoped that Li Ming could reach the realm of having a common language with him as soon as possible. During the practice, he often consciously taught Li Ming this profound martial arts realm. Unexpectedly, Li Ming could quickly understand his ideas, which surprised him and was also ecstatic.

Half a month passed quickly. Li Ming passed the initial hurdle and began to sprint towards the final stage of the tenth center method. After understanding the realm explained by the old chef, he was of great help to him. Now he has broken away from the traditional sense of cultivation, combining physical cultivation and consciousness cultivation, and moving forward in unison, making his progress amazing.

Outside the bedroom, more than 2,000 personal guards took turns on duty, setting up a three-talent formation around the bedroom, closely guarding the safety of the bedroom. Although it has been nearly a month, they have no complaints in the cold wind. It is their duty to protect Li Ming. As long as Li Ming doesn't have any trouble, they can do anything.

During this period, the situation in the Tang Dynasty changed a lot. First, after receiving the new task from the commander, Leng Hen led the army to continue to march towards the southwest, entering those prefectures that they didn't know and had never contacted before. Those places were areas directly under the emperor. Therefore, after seeing Leng Hen's boundless army and the imperial edicts in Leng Hen's hand, no one was determined to resist. In just half a month, Leng Hen successfully took back the control of the two states.

On Zhuo Junhao's side, he had led 120,000 combat troops and 50,000 logistics troops into Youzhou. With the opening of the more than 10,000 mountain soldiers who had been trained in actual combat, they first eliminated the 5,000 soldiers set up by Li Jiao in the border mountainous area, and then crossed a mountain in Youzhou and headed towards the Supporting Army in Youzhou.

The immigration work in Nanzhou is also in a difficult situation. In many places, soldiers forcibly burned the houses of those people and escorted them away. This is done entirely to speed up the progress of immigration and allow Wang Wen and others to solve the Soviet troops as soon as possible. As both sides who had been in stalemate in Nanzhou for two months, it was very sad. Wang Wen's troops were a little easier. His supplies could be supplied from Huzhou and Nanguo City, but the Soviet troops were more difficult to get. The borders of the two countries were covered with dense forests, and the roads in the forest were very difficult. It was very difficult to transport supplies from Suzhou to Nanzhou. The stock of the Southern Dian Prefecture was not enough. Nanzhou was not a rich place. There was no decent city in the area they occupied. Therefore, in recent times, the generals of the Soviet countries always wanted to eliminate Wang Wen's troops as soon as possible to advance into the prosperous hinterland of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Ming's management agencies have all moved to Nanguo City. The huge organization in the Tang Dynasty has given them many places to work. Since Li Ming has not yet come out of seclusion, the organizational settings are still as they are now. Zhang Yao and Man'er also followed the relocated officials to the imperial city and temporarily lived in the harem under the arrangement of Xiao Fugui. In the Tang Dynasty, women were not allowed to rule, but Li Ming's subordinates did not care about that. Zhang Yao and Man'er were the administrative directors. When Li Ming was away, they were the supreme leaders who issued orders.

After they arrived, they sat in the hall every morning to deal with the problems reported by the Prime Minister's Office, the Command and other departments. This made Little Fugui, who grew up in the palace, restless. He couldn't stand the matter of women in power. However, as Li Ming's confidant, he would not have run to Li Song to complain. On the contrary, he was still using his privileges of the yellow sect manager everywhere to prevent the news from reaching Li Song. If Li Song knew that there were two women who were in power in the hall now, he would not know what trouble would be born.

For Zhang Yao and Man'er, this period was the most sad. Li Ming's bedroom was next to them and could reach it in just a few steps. However, in order not to affect Li Ming's practice, they forced to resist the urge to rush in. Every night, they would linger outside Li Ming's bedroom in the cold wind until late at night. The next morning, the two had to get up early to deal with the heavy government affairs. Although Li Ming had instructed that the affairs of each department could be decided by themselves, the Saint King, who was used to the way of handling government affairs on the island, still had to push some difficult-to-decide things to Zhang Yao and the others.

After starting to retreat for a month and a half, Li Ming finally made a difficult breakthrough in the tenth level of Taiqing Gong, and successfully restored the meridians in his body to its original state. Due to the previous foundation, he only took three days to break through the first level of Taiqing Gong, and the long-lost internal breath reappeared in his body.

At this point, Li Ming had already begun to enter the normal path of cultivation. According to the old chef, Li Ming was asked to continue practicing the second central method immediately. For him, nothing is more important than martial arts. As a teacher, he met a martial arts genius like Li Ming, and had long forgotten everything outside. For him, he wished that Li Ming would stay here forever, successfully break through the entire realm of Taiqing Gong, and then let him out of seclusion.
Chapter completed!