Chapter Eighty-Seven: Turning Back
Tomorrow will begin to resume two shifts~~~
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After Duan Zhong and Zongzi returned to Tingzhou City, they integrated the 15,000 Dali soldiers who were stationed in Tingzhou City, and after resting for two days, they embarked on the road back, and in these few days, the news of the war between the two Guangxi provinces also continued to reach Duan Chong's ears, after the second prince of Xiao Beiding was captured, the entire military camp of Liangguang suddenly fell into chaos, and General Ying Haiying, who led the soldiers to intercept the work, was very keenly smelled this fighter, Without hesitation, he waved his division and killed the two vast battalions hiding in the dense forest, and without the leader of the second prince of Xiao Beiding, the entire battalion was not commanded at all, and the most basic guerrilla combat could not be fought in the face of General Ying Haiying's troops. Although there is no disadvantage in numbers, the whole army has been scattered, how can it resist, suddenly scattered and defeated, and can no longer assemble into a threatening armed force, so far, the rebellion of the two princes of the Southern Liang Xiao and Beiding has subsided, but the only defect is that the second prince of the Southern Liang has not been able to grasp it, of course, this does not affect the overall situation, and the 30,000 horses under General Ying Haiying can also get out and go to the north to help the Jiangbei camp that is struggling to support.
Duan Zhong and Zongzi rushed back to Tingzhou City in three days, and after resting for two days, they embarked on the way back, and in the two days of rest, they heard the news of the war in the north, and the South Liang and the North Liang finally started a war, after all, this season is already autumn, if you don't fight again, and when the river freezes in winter, then you will have to wait for another year, and once the fight starts, it means that the North Liang must be out of the way, and want to completely defeat the South Liang with the power of a war. After all, the main combat power of this Southern Liang is all concentrated in the Jiangbei camp, as long as the Jiangbei camp is completely defeated, then it will be difficult for the Southern Liang to organize any powerful resistance force, of course, this kind of war is not a day or two can be ended, so if General Ying Haiying will rush north as quickly as possible, maybe he can catch up with the last two most critical battles, maybe he can change the situation of the battle, so this time, Duan Zhong really did Xiao Beiping a big favor, even if he brought the second prince of Xiao Beiding back, With Xiao Beiping's current anxious situation, I am afraid that he has no intention of taking care of it.
The only thing that made Duan Zhong have some doubts was that the Northern Liang launched an attack, which meant that it must be a battle of life, but there were Xiongnu in the northwest of the Northern Liang, and there were hidden murderous opportunities of the three princes of Xiao Li in the territory, and the civil strife was still undecided, how could they dare to start a war? Duan Chong has been extremely closed in the past two months, and at most he can only know the news of the war in Southern Liang, as for the news from the Northern Liang, it can't be transmitted at all, but Duan Chong believes that with the wisdom of Emperor Xiao He of Liang Wu, he must have come up with some good way to temporarily solve the civil strife, otherwise he would not have launched such a large-scale general attack, of course, these things are not what Duan Chong needs to consider at the moment, after all, Dali's current national strength is enough to occupy the territory east of Changsha Mansion, Even if this Northern Liang captures the Southern Liang, it is unlikely that he will want to snatch these territories back from his hands, and Duan Zhong has already helped Xiao Beiping, so there is naturally no need to participate in this war, and as for his brother's ambition to dominate the world, it will be a matter of the future, at least until Duan Zhuang ascends the throne of Dali!
At this moment, General Ying Haiying should have finished clearing the remnants of these two Guang troops and began to retreat, and on this way, he should have obtained the information about the war, and he may directly turn north, anyway, whether it is Qianzhou or Tingzhou, it has become an empty city, and it doesn't make much sense to come back and reorganize, and Duan Zhong integrated the Dali soldiers in Tingzhou City, and there are 14,000 people, which lost five or six hundred people in the war, The remaining deaths were caused by the lack of water and soil during the march and the lack of medicine, the number of such injuries was greatly lower than Duan Chong's estimate, when the army was marching out, Duan Chong's promise to Duan Zhuang was to return with at least 10,000 people, and now I am afraid that Duan Zhuang will steal the fun.
It took another ten days, Duan Chong returned to Qianzhou directly from the Liangguang area, and did not return to Nanliang, after all, Duan Chong's 15,000 soldiers and horses were borrowed from Duan Zhuang and had to be returned, not to mention that Duan Zhuang still had his wife and son here, so he naturally had to give priority to going back to visit, and Nanliang side, since this Li Shishi and others were already in Liangguang, then Ji Wuchang and the others were naturally safe, and this Li Shishi captured the second prince of Xiao Beiding, and he must not dare to be too arrogant in this Nanliang territory, At this moment, Nanliang should have been on alert for the whole country, and the whole people were preparing for war, in order to prevent the infiltration of spies, even the investigation of ordinary cities and counties was extremely strict.
After Duan Zhong returned to Qianzhou City, he did not make any big moves, but just accompanied his wife and son to enjoy the joy of family, and by the way, took a look at the development of the war situation on the mainland, and this time the Northern Liang launched a big war, which was naturally bloody, and it was a battle that was completed in one battle, and the commander of the battle was directly General Meng Chaoda, the supreme general of the Northern Liang, so this war must not be too long-lasting, so only twenty days later, Duan Chong learned the final result of the battle, and the Northern Liang really won the battle as Duan Zhong expected, but it's just a miserable leftover, and the way to win is extremely weird.
Iron cable connected ship, Beiliang actually connected all the warships with iron chains, and then attacked directly in one go, such a battle situation reminded Duan of the battle of Chibi in the Three Kingdoms period in his previous life, this Cao Cao also connected the ships with iron chains, but unfortunately Zhuge Liang was burned back by a fire from the east wind, but in this world, at this time, there is naturally no east wind, and there is no Zhuge Liang, in the face of the surging iron chain warships of the North Liang, if the South Liang retreats, Then the army of the Northern Liang will immediately set foot on the territory of the Southern Liang, there is no doubt that the army of the Southern Liang will not avoid, which is destined to be an extremely tragic battle, hand-to-hand combat, completely fighting for the morale and combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the two armies.
There is no doubt that the Northern Liang army has an absolute advantage in numbers, and even if the Jiangbei battalion occupies a geographical advantage, it still can't make up for the two-fold number gap, and at the end of the war, the capital of the Jiangbei battalion is also out of the way, attacking with suicidal fireboats, causing a lot of trouble to the Northern Liang army, but it has not been able to change the final battle situation, which after nearly half a year of confrontation, the original 200,000 Northern Liang army still has 160,000, and the Southern Liang naval army is less than 80,000, This is a huge gap, and even if you add the 20,000 troops transferred from General Ying Haiying, it is only 100,000, and in the end of the war, both sides of the war are greatly reduced, the original 160,000 Northern Liang army has been sharply reduced to 100,000, and the Southern Liang has only 40,000 soldiers left.
On the Yangtze River, there are countless corpses, and the blood-stained Yangtze River has not been clean for several days, and Yang Lijie, the commander of the Jiangbei camp, knows that under the bloody struggle of the Northern Liang, the Jiangbei camp is difficult to defend, and can only retreat inland to defend.
Although the city of Nanjing is close at hand, but the city is full of grain and grass, full of garrison, 20,000 forbidden troops plus Yang Lijie brought back 20,000 military horses from the Jiangbei camp, plus the iron barrel-like city wall, it is undoubtedly extremely difficult to break through this Nanjing City, not only Nanjing City, but also the surrounding large towns are also heavily garrisoned, this South Liang is more money and grain, so it is not afraid of fighting a protracted war with the North Liang, so for example, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou and other cities, each city has 10,000 or 20,000 horses garrisonedAfter all, this Jiangnan is the lifeblood of Nanliang, and it must be ensured.
Of course, the current situation is still extremely good for Beiliang. Although these important towns can not be captured, but Nanliang's shrinking behavior is obviously to give up a large area of territory, the army of Beiliang can wreak havoc in the vast hinterland of Nanliang, as for this unlucky, naturally the residents of those villages, as the so-called rise and fall of the country, prosperity is the suffering of the people, death is also the suffering of the people, this is the truth, there is no doubt that this Southern Liang has fallen into the verge of destroying the country.
At present, the city of Nanjing is personally controlled by Yang Lijie, while the city of Hangzhou is guarded by the newly arrived General Ying Haiying, and Suzhou and Yangzhou are located in the deeper hinterland. Although the Southern Liang military material reserves are sufficient, but the land of the Southern Liang is also extremely fertile, as long as the army of the Northern Liang implements the strategy of fighting to support the war, it will definitely be able to continue to consume with the Southern Liang, if it goes on like this, the Southern Liang will be defeated.
At this time, Duan Zhong is facing an extremely important choice, to help, or not to help, at the moment, if the Southern Liang wants to hold the territory, it is a very difficult thing, and perhaps it is necessary to hope for Xiao Li of the Huns, but since the Northern Liang dares to launch a large-scale attack, it means that Emperor Xiao He of Liang Wu naturally has a way to solve these two difficulties, so the hope is still very slim.
Xiao Beiping is a good king, but he was born at the wrong time, and he should be trapped in Nanjing City at this moment and feel desperate, and with the friendship between Duan Zhong and Xiao Beiping, maybe Duan Chong should help him, but from Dali's point of view, this kind of thankless thing should certainly not be done, after all, Duan Zhong wants to help Xiao Beiping, or need to use Dali's troops.
So Duan Chong's head hurts,