"Since you talk about Beihuan, cousin, you said that our army has a chance of winning?"

Gongliang Xiu's brows tightened, and his face was solemn:

"It has been five years since Jin Xuedi committed a northern offense, and judging from the previous northern offenses, it is as short as two or three years, and as long as seven or eight years. However, this time its troops are very huge, but they have been fighting for five years, and our army is harassing its hinterland, and its national strength is afraid that it will not be able to support it for too long. According to this calculation, next year or the year after next, if the army of the northern invaders cannot take Qianyue Mountain to stabilize its foothold, I am afraid that it will return to the south.

Whether it is the capture of the southern border or the defeat of the coalition forces to the south, I am afraid that the situation of our army will not be better. ”

"But if the alliance of princes annihilates it in the south, and our army captures this place again, this thousands of miles from north to south will not be owned by my Central Plains!"

"It's not that easy." Gongliang Xiu shook his head again and again, and then said: "For hundreds of years since the Jin Xuedi people invaded the north, the coalition army of the Central Plains princes has never completely defeated its main force, all of them are their barbarian kings killed, or they retreat on their own due to lack of food, grass and money, and few coalition forces can defeat them, let alone annihilate them. ”

"Isn't our army sitting here waiting to be killed?"

"Yes, I have discussed this matter a lot with the Soviet division, and the Soviet division is also worried about returning north. Unless we abandon the army and return to the north, hundreds of thousands, or even millions, will not be able to return to the Central Plains in any way, and the grain and grass needed along the way will be counted in millions of stones, and I don't know how many people will die of illness and starvation on the way. ”

"But the Jinxuedi people have unicorn horses, if our army can capture tens of thousands and load them with grain and grass, at least 100,000 people can return to the Central Plains one way."

"What about the rest? Wouldn't this be a treacherous act, and how could they believe in the Central Plains again in the future, but they would help the abuse, which would be extremely unfavorable to the Central Plains and not a long-term solution. Unless you, my brother, the Soviet Army, Gongzi Yan, and the second uncle, there are people who are willing to stay here for the rest of their lives to lead the army to maneuver after the break, no one can be left alone.

Let's take one step at a time, maybe there will be a turnaround. Gongliangxiu's eyes were solemn, and Xiao Suo's face jumped on his face.

A few days later, Mooney was annoyed by the defeat of the navy and dismissed the commander-in-chief, and while his anger was still subsided, the news of the coalition army's breach of the waterfall reached Govins, and he shouted in anger:

"Damn, it's really hateful to fall for their trick of attacking the east and west and diverting the tiger from the mountain!"

"Your Excellency, the commander of the Temir Corps has sent out cavalry, and our forces are crossing the Waterfall River at the Drangi Pass and on the east bank of the West River, and are pursuing the northerners with all our might. They themselves escaped from the barrier of Dranky, and now they would be completely exposed to the hundreds of thousands of troops of our army, and they could completely encircle them in one blow. ”

Norenga's assumption was immediately reprimanded by Mooney:

"This is not the key, the key is that they ran more than 100 miles with horses and baggage in a day and a night, and in just a few days, they have already robbed more than 40,000 Central Plains people, and when our army arrives, their number will increase to 200,000.

There are 200,000 Central Plains people west of IELTS, and their number will soon increase to 300,000, plus 70,000 or 80,000 of Cavins, and Cupigon, and in less than a month, their total population will be at least 600,000.

It's 600,000 people, they will have at least 400,000 strong laborers, and they are slaves who are exploited, enslaved and oppressed by us, they hate us to the core, if they are armed by the northerners, the 400,000 troops under the command of the generals, their combat power is enough to match our 800,000 people, this is the crux of the problem!

Now that the city is under siege, we are pinned down here, and if we continue, we will be slaughtered by them before Your Majesty hangs us! ”

"Simply, kill all the people of the Central Plains, and see how they continue to run rampant!"

Norengal's suggestion was like a shot in the arm for Mooney, and it came at the right time:

"yes, why didn't I think of it, just kill them all!"

"Then I will immediately transfer troops and kill all the Central Plains villages in Posong Province!"

"Wait!" Mooney stopped: "You can't kill them all, only the Central Plains people on the periphery, and you can't kill the people in the hinterland." There are no less than 100 large and small mines in the hinterland, as well as craftsmen and maintenance teams, if they are all killed, the officials and masters of Posong Province will immediately settle accounts with us. Immediately notify all the legions, and all the men of the Central Plains on the periphery, regardless of their age, will be executed, and not one will be left behind! ”

"Yes, Your Excellency!"

At Mooney's behest, Norenga led his cavalry south by starry night, and two days later began to slaughter the village.

At the same time, Bailiyan blew up the pontoon bridge again along the waterfall river, and encountered Jin Xuedi's army at the mouth of the downstream river, only to lose his army again. Its water army is like seeing a ghost, and if they don't wait to see the shadow of the coalition army, they just turn around and run, as fast as they can.

The Allied ships followed him until they reached the mouth of the Bedmis River and turned southward, reaching Pavins a few days later, bleeding and smothering the river with corpses.

"My lord, it can't be that Parvins is lost!" Jiang Jie asked nervously, feeling uneasy in his heart.

"Unlikely." Bai Liyan denied that he had already guessed that the Jin Xuedi people were slaughtering the city upstream: "It must be the Jin Xuedi people who slaughtered the village in the upper reaches of Bedmis, and the corpses of the villagers were thrown into the river, or killed when they fled to the river." ”

"These beasts, beasts, and beasts, can't be crushed and burned to the ashes to destroy the Nine Clans!"

Bai Liyan paced back and forth, and said heavily:

"Remember, war is cruel and opportunities are fair. In the past two years, our army has killed and wounded no less than 400,000 people, and its massacre of our Central Plains people is also aimed at destroying the living force of our army. It is cruel and inhumane, but remember that a weak country has no diplomacy, and the power in this world is the way, and if a soldier cannot protect himself, he can protect the territory and the people. From now on, if the enemy is cruel, our army will be a hundred times more vicious.

Pass on my orders, speed up, and make sure to reach Govinns tonight. ”

"Yes, my lord!"

The massacre of the Central Plains people surprised Bailiyan, and at the same time underestimated the ferocity of the Jinxuedi people.

The economic output of the Central Plains people is huge, and their commander-in-chief does not hesitate to offend the powerful interest groups to slaughter the Central Plains people in order to cut off the vital forces of the coalition forces, which has both his resolute courage and his murderous nature. This also means that the coalition forces are forcing them into a corner, and they have run out of tricks to the point where they can only take the people out of anger.

Of course, the coalition forces also slaughtered the city, but compared with the initiative to slaughter the city, the slaughter of the people by the Jin Xuedi people was more like a futile struggle under a hundred skills, and its defeat was revealed.

Hurrying and hurrying, the fleet still arrived in Patins in the second half of the night, and the large number of corpses in the river also aroused the anger of the defenders and the Central Plains people, at least before the Jin Xuedi people started the massacre, the new Central Plains people were not firm, but the slaughter of the people had a counterproductive effect.

In Bailiyan's opinion, Jin Xuedi should not have thrown the body into the river for the defenders of Govins to see. Perhaps he wanted to emulate the coalition army's massacre of the city and throw the corpse into the river. But the situation is different, and the mood is very different.

The people of Jin Xuedi are pampered and indulgent, and the sudden disaster of blood and light is a devastating blow to their psychology and has a great deterrent effect.

On the contrary, a slave who has been subjected to enslavement, oppression, and exploitation for a long time will have a completely different mental and psychological state after escaping from heaven after his ascension, and he will hate the ferocity of the enemy. As the so-called poor dagger sees, the rabbit is in a hurry and still bites, not to mention the division of the tiger and wolf in the Central Plains.

The massacre of cities is not only a strategy, but also a psychological and economic warfare. The Mongol army slaughtered countless cities and killed more than 100 million people, such as ploughing the court sweeping the caves across Europe and the Middle East, but in the end, two khans were killed and planted in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it took half a century to take the Southern Song Dynasty.

Because the slaughter of the people contained the strength of the Jinxuedi people, the siege intensity of the city in the past two days has been significantly weakened.

Due to the lack of preparation and the great cost of the city, the Jinxuedi had not yet erected the stone machines outside the city, but they had several slightly larger trebuchets and dozens of bed crossbows to attack the west and south walls, and two mammoth war elephants were killed by gunpowder and oil, and their corpses were stenched and fell under the city gates.

"Brother Sikong, what about the casualties in the city?"

"The casualties were not large, about seven or eight thousand, both military and civilian. The Jinxuedi people relied on bows and crossbows more than our army, and they were extremely rampant in arrays outside the city to fire arrows, which made it difficult for our army to fight back before they landed in the city.

And when the Jin Xuedi people found out that our army had set fire to and threw gunpowder before they ascended the city, they sent the infantry army to the city to make a feint and lure our army to show their heads, and they fired arrows outside the city, which was very hateful. ”

"That's natural, there are pros and cons. Our army did not have enough bows and crossbows to defend the city, and they relied on gunpowder and grease, so they could not attack it from a distance. But this time I will send you six hundred crossbows from the ship, and you may line up in the city to collect them for me. ”

Hearing the news, six hundred bed crossbows were allocated in one go, and Sikong Nan was really relieved:

"It's great that this was taken from General Derangi Gongliang."

"Exactly, most of them are reformed from bowstrings that have broken and turned into heavenly crossbows, although the string power is not as good as before, but it can also shoot one hundred and fifty paces away, which is no worse than Jin Xuedi's bed crossbow."

"But in this way, if our army is based on this place for a long time, and the confrontation is consumed for a long time, I am afraid that no matter how sufficient the food and grass are, it will be difficult to hold on for too long."

Bai Liyan stretched out two fingers in his right hand at this time and said:

"Can you hold on for two months?"

"According to the current situation, there is plenty of food and grass, and if there is a bed and crossbow to help the battle, it will not be a problem to hold on to March and May."

"Don't be too happy, Jin Xuedi's people will attack from the water and land at the same time, and it will inevitably suffer heavy casualties if they defend for March and May, so they will transfer all the troops of Lu Gao, Bai He, and Fang Liang to you, but your naval army will transfer 10,000 to the ship, so it should be more than enough to hold on for three months."

"Three months? Does the general have other plans? ”

"You have also seen that the Jin Xuedi people slaughtered the village here, our army swept more than 200,000 people in the Central Plains of Posong Province before and after, and at this time the Gongliang Army is advancing westward, I am afraid that it will take away more than 100,000 people, so the Central Plains people in the periphery of Posong Province are less than 150,000, plus the Jin Xuedi people slaughtered the village, our army is no longer profitable.

Therefore, the general planned to lead the navy westward into Sondia, which has no less than 1.23 million people of three or four generations in the Central Plains, but now that his navy has been defeated and lost, and even his family funds have been wiped out, it is no longer a matter of concern. Our army will go west this time, and the road will be unimpeded, but while plundering its ships and destroying its transportation, it will sweep away the people of the Central Plains for our use, and take the opportunity to burn the flames of war to its hinterland, forcing it to disarm its troops again, and make them exhausted. ”

"How do the Gongliang Army and Xishan respond."

"I have already discussed this plan with Gong Liangwen, otherwise I would not have dared to go behind enemy lines easily. As for the West Mountain, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, there are still 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of craftsmen, young and strong, and women, which are enough to hold on.

The battle of the waterfall was not intended to be a quick victory, and most of the grain and grass had been transferred to the valley, and there was still more than four months to be used in the valley. I'm going to say it's March, and if it goes well, I'll be back in two months, and the situation will change dramatically. ”

(End of chapter)