Chapter 342: The Essence of the East China Sea Kingdom

Chen Xian actually has a very accurate positioning of Yang Miaozhen, she is an excellent cavalry general, with heroic and fearless, as well as a godlike battlefield intuition, coupled with an extremely excellent sense of battle.

This kind of person has made the right choice many times when he hasn't even figured out whether it's really anything to do.

Such a talent is naturally invincible when used in cavalry generals who have extremely high requirements for grasping the timing, but in the confrontation between infantry and mixed regiments, it is somewhat insufficient.

I don't know what's going on, although she keeps suffering, but Yang Miaozhen refuses to back down, just like a fool who is angered, she has to fight with Wanyan Pingtao in the field that she is not good at.

But the final result was a big surprise, and in the end, Wanyan Pingtao couldn't bear the loss, took the initiative to withdraw from the battle, and the whole army retreated, allowing Yang Miaozhen to build a circular earthen wall, completely surround the first fortress that blocked his way.

It turned out that in this battle of repeated contention, although Wanyan Pingtao had more advantages, Wanyan Pingtao, as the attacker, was not much lower than Yang Miaozhen's casualty rate.

Today's Donghai Kingdom has Hebei, Shandong, Liaodong, and Goryeo, with a total population of more than 20 million! (Before the Mongol invasion of Jin, the entire Jin country had a population of 53 million (this data comes from the Cambridge History of China), of which more than 13 million were distributed in Henan, about 10 million in Hebei, nearly 10 million in Shandong, and the remaining 20 million in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Liaodong and other places.

After the Mengjin War, Hebei suffered the most damage, less than half of the 10 million people remained, Shandong because of the existence of Chen Xian, most of the population was preserved, there are currently six or seven million people left, and there are more than 4 million people left on the Goryeo Peninsula after the war, plus the population that Chen Xian introduced from the Jin State in these years, the total population of the entire Donghai Kingdom is about 20 million.

For the Donghai Kingdom at this time, the death of 108,000 troops could not hurt his muscles and bones at all, but the people under the rule of Wanyan Pingtao were less than 1 million, of which there were only more than 200,000 young and strong, Wanyan Pingtao collected 100,000 troops, and it had reached the limit of breaking the string, and 20,000 or 30,000 casualties could make him suffer a lot of injuries, how could he dare to fight with Yang Miaozhen for casualties?

Yang Miaozhen also saw this point, so he would suffer losses and consume with him.

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After surrounding this fortress, Yang Miaozhen mobilized cement from the rear, and built a simple small fortress in each of the four directions of the encirclement, and stationed one battalion of infantry and two battalions of militia in the four small forts to guard the forts in the encirclement.

After settling down, Yang Miaozhen pulled out the camp and drove to the next fortress.

After Yang Miaozhen used this stupid method to see Yan Pingtao's third fortress and went deep into the depths of the fortress belt, she began to feel uncomfortable.

Because Wanyan Pingtao's light cavalry relied on the cover and supplies of the fortress, they began to haunt Yang Miaozhen and hit his grain road.

Because of the existence of the fortress, Yang Miaozhen's army could not find a single grain in the enemy's territory, and the army's military supplies needed to be dispatched from the rear.

In order to prevent Wanyan Pingtao from completely cutting off the grain route, Yang Miaozhen dispatched a whole cuirassier division and a light cavalry division to escort the transportation of grain and grass.

Before entering the fortress belt of the Northern Jin Kingdom, such an escort force was enough, but after entering the fortress area, Wanyan Pingtao relied on the supply and cover of the fortress, and was able to organize a larger grain interception team, without fear that Yang Miaozhen would use grain and grass as bait to ambush him in turn, which made Yang Miaozhen's logistical pressure suddenly become very great.

Wanyan Pingtao even turned this grain road into a bait, organized tens of thousands of cavalry, and swallowed Yang Miaozhen's several grain guards in a row, causing her unbearable losses.

In desperation, Yang Miaozhen could only stop the attack and retreat to camp in front of the second besieged fortress.

When Tuo Lei arrived in Liaodong, he saw such a situation.

After he met with Yan Pingtao, he asked a few generals who had participated in the previous battle and the many battles after that, and after asking in detail about the battle, he was happy and a little sad in his heart.

I am happy because they see the same thing as the heroes of Wanyan Pingtao, and they have also established the Han cavalry that does not wear armor and uses cavalry and muskets, since the light cavalry established by Wanyan Pingtao is so powerful, then the Han cavalry they established should also have a great future.

Sadly, the Mongols established the Han cavalry without armor and using mounted guns and muskets, on the one hand, to make changes to the Chen army, and on the other hand, because the Han people were not distressed when they died.

After meeting with the generals of the Northern Jin Kingdom, Tuo Lei ordered someone to write a letter to his father Khan and send it back.

But he did not expect that this letter, his father Khan did not see......

Temujin did not receive the letter from Tuolei, but Yang Miaozhen's letter was delivered to Chen Xian safely.

After reading Yang Miaozhen's letter, Chen Xian's heart did not have too many waves, these years, because of the diffusion of technology, this era has been changed beyond recognition, and the Northern Jin Kingdom established a Cossack-style light cavalry under his pressure, although Chen Xian did not expect it, but it was not strange at all.

For Yang Miaozhen's inquiry about how to crack the fortress, Chen Xian has a ready-made method, that is, the trench, using the vertical and horizontal trench system, on the one hand, to block the fortress, on the other hand, to advance the battle line to the city wall of the fortress, and finally, the warrior jumped up from the trench, climbed over the wall of the fortress as fast as possible, and attacked the fortress......

But Chen Xian didn't want to take out this plan, you know, now his East China Sea Kingdom is the biggest beneficiary of the fortress, once this plan appears on the battlefield, it will be almost ironclad for his enemies to learn it, and then what? Waiting for someone else to use this method against their own bastion band?

In fact, Yang Miaozhen's practice of besieging the fortress with a wall and a simple fortress is itself a method of dealing with the fortress in modern times, and it has greatly weakened the role of the fortress.

In fact, if Yang Miaozhen had been more patient, she could have besieged three or more fortresses at the same time on the periphery, and then advanced inward in the form of a plane, then his logistical supply would be under the protection of her own simple fortresses, and her security would have been greatly improved.

But even such a stupid method, Chen Xian didn't want to say it, he gave Yang Miaozhen an even more stupid idea, they ordered Yang Miaozhen to withdraw from the battlefield, return to the edge of the fortress belt in the north of Shenzhou, start directly from the fortress belt in the north of Shenzhou, use the fortress to advance north, and use his own fortress belt to lay out a supply line and control belt......

This method is actually to use one's own strong national strength to crush the opponent, although it is stupid and slow, but it is extremely stable, and the key is that no one else can learn it.

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