Chapter 057: Blackmail Coalition Forces
Seeing the soldiers densely scattered outside Da Urn Town, Yi Fei's scalp was a little numb, there were so many people, how could he bring them!
Since he was a child, Yi Fei has basically never been an official, and in school, he has never even worked as a class cadre, and 100,000 people came all of a sudden, which really made his scalp tingle.
The previous tactic was guerrilla warfare, in which troops were dispersed into the forests of various parts of Togi Province to fight guerrilla warfare against the enemy.
However, the scale of guerrilla warfare in Dugi Province is comparable to that of regular battles in other places, with the enemy's 600,000 hedgehog army and 300,000 troops in Dugi Province.
The combat strength of the people's army is not good, and the training is insufficient, so let them fight with recruits who have never been on the battlefield, and the huge losses are not acceptable to Yi Fei.
Yi Fei found Du Ji and talked about his concerns, he planned to leave these soldiers in Dawen Town and polish them for a while.
The chief of staff made fun of Yi Fei, saying that he had just received the troops and wanted to preserve his strength. Yi Fei is unceremonious, this legion was originally given to me by you, and I don't want it.
Besides, Da Weng Town is the main target of the enemy, there are more than 200,000 enemy troops in it, and they must be guarded by troops anyway, or you will change a group of people to come over, and it will be easier for me to carry out my plan.
The chief of staff was extremely depressed, didn't this guy know that he was joking?
After some planning, the strategy against enemy reinforcements came out. The so-called soldiers and horses have not moved, grain and grass go first, this one, where to put it is an iron law.
The enemy's reinforcement vanguard was able to enter Togi-do within three days, and the work of clearing the field of the fortified walls had not yet begun. Yi Fei intended. Make a fuss with trapped enemy troops.
A day later, the joint command of the Eight-Nation Coalition received a clear telegram from Du Ji, the governor of Dugi Province: The coalition forces in Daweng Town have run out of food, and the Tang Empire is in the spirit of humanitarianism. Unwilling to let these soldiers starve to death, I hope that the coalition headquarters will order them to lay down their arms and surrender, and send them food, and the Togi army will guarantee their lives.
The information that Du Ji learned was all told to him by Yi Fei, and what Yi Fei knew was only approximate. The coalition headquarters is very clear.
The three legions were driven into the town of Dawen by the Toki army, and in addition to the Miyamoto army bringing some food, the Yamada army had already begun to kill horses to satisfy hunger before the Miyamoto army entered.
The Austrian ~ army was suddenly attacked, and it can be said that they fled into the town of Daweng. Basically, little rations were carried. According to the report of the town of Daweng, the existing grain can only last for two days.
Even if the reinforcements of the coalition army did not delay for a moment, and the Dugi army did not stop them, it would take at least five days to reach Daweng Town as quickly as possible. The soldiers inside were too hungry to walk.
If Du Ji did not do what he asked, the Dugi army would only need to hold back the reinforcements for two days. The officers and soldiers trapped in Daweng Town may have to kill their comrades to eat in order to ensure that they will not starve to death.
The coalition command could not afford it. More than 200,000 soldiers starved to death were so responsible that the situation could only be reported. After urgent consultations, the heads of several countries unanimously decided to agree that the officers and soldiers of Daweng Town laid down their arms and surrendered.
The military operations of the coalition forces had to be temporarily stopped. Send food to your own people first. After telegraph consultations, the coalition forces invited the ambassador of a neutral country to act as an intermediary. An observation mission was sent to ensure that the Togi Army would not use them to feed their own soldiers. Divert for other purposes.
Of course, the Toriki army will not be so merciful, and for the invaders, they also have to consider their belly, and the coalition army is also conditional on sending food to its own soldiers who have surrendered, and it is necessary to compensate the Toriki army.
Du Ji claimed that in the recent series of military operations, the Tugi army also suffered heavy losses. The coalition forces must also have 2 million taels of silver, 2,000 tons of food, 30,000 rifles, 2,000 heavy machine guns, 5,000 light machine guns, and 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition. 500 mortars with 50,000 shells, 300 artillery pieces of various kinds, 30,000 shells.
When the officers of the coalition headquarters saw Du Ji's conditions, they were so angry that they were thunderous, but there was nothing they could do, who let their army not do anything.
Three reinforcements, 400,000 troops, and two mechanized divisions, lying on their stomachs in Liuxian Town, could not move. More than 200,000 people were "imprisoned" in Daweng Town, and they were beaten to the point that they had no power to fight back, and even if they did not surrender, they would have no effect.
As for the other 100,000, it has long been the number on the Dugi Army's success. If Du Ji did not send a report in a clear code and poked out the situation in Daweng Town, the coalition forces would have abandoned the officers and soldiers of Daweng Town.
This time, the 600,000-strong army attacked Dugi Province, and there was no plan to rescue Daweng Town. The coalition command had already killed them in battle.
However, Du Ji revealed the existence of more than 200,000 people in a telegram, and no one dared to bear the charge of giving up more than 200,000 soldiers.
As an enemy opponent, Du Ji was very relaxed, even if he killed all the officers and soldiers in Da Weng Town, what shrouded his head was the aura of a hero.
Destroying the aggressor, that is a matter of course, killing so many at once, he can be elevated to a national hero.
Du Ji didn't want to be a hero, but he took the survival of these captives as a condition, and extorted a batch of money and food and a large number of weapons and ammunition from the coalition army, and the coalition army had to accept it.
The military operations of the coalition forces had to be suspended and began to mobilize grain and grass, and the intelligence was soon put on the table of Du Ji. The chief manager smiled, and now what is lacking in Dugi Dao is time.
Two days later, Du Ji received a request for cooperation from the coalition forces, asking Dugi Province to advance a part of the grain and grass to Daweng Town. After the allied army's grain and grass arrived, it could be doubled.
This request made Du Ji even happier and agreed without hesitation. The longer the coalition forces took to raise grain and grass, the more fully the work of clearing the fortified walls of Togi Province would be.
The large-scale relocation of millions of people is not a trivial matter, except for Yi Fei's newly formed regiment that has not moved, the other two main regiments in Dugi Province have been scattered and sent to various places to help the people transfer.
Before the allied army's food arrives, there is no need to worry about the enemy's attack, and with the help of the army, the work of clearing the field can be done more thoroughly.
Yi Fei's side was not idle, and he pulled all the one hundred and eight generals in the base, and the 100,000 army was handed over to them.
A division arranged twenty-four people, eight men in each regiment, and after the assignment, there were only two people in a battalion, but they were only responsible for training and ideological work, and they were not very busy.
These people did not replace the original officers at all levels, and the positions given to them by Yi Fei were all instructors, and they were not afraid of affecting the unity of the army.
The remaining thirty-six people were Huang Wenchang and five other captains, each with five subordinates, who acted as Yi Fei's mobile force