At the same time, the artillery battle on the Wangqin River lasted until the fifth day of the first lunar month, and finally ended with the loss of five submarines and more than 700 casualties among seamen. The Xian army caught two submarines, but the surface artillery losses of the coastal batteries were not small.

As for the other three submarines, two were sunk by the Xian army, and one was sunk for unknown reasons.

Since the intended purpose was not achieved, the armpit fleet attempted to attack the idea of Lincheng Chemical on the way back, but paid the price of sinking two sail warships.

After the naval battle in 653, Bailiyan focused on strengthening the defense of the coastal and shore defense fortresses of Lincheng, Lincheng shrank eleven or twelve miles inland from the coastline, and there were tight fortress batteries on the shore, and the armpit fleet had to hide twenty miles away from the shore to destroy the forts before threatening Lincheng.

However, Bailiyan laid a large number of mines in the waters of Lincheng in the early three years, and without a defense map, it could not safely enter the coastal waters, and there was no way to talk about shelling the fortress forts.

On the twenty-third day of the first month, Bailiyan rushed to Boyuan City from Jinye, because the capital of Jinye was destroyed in the war, the current Boyuan is the capital of the Son of Heaven, but I am afraid that for a long time in the future, Liang Tianzi will probably not consider moving back to Jinye.

On the day of entering the city, Bai Liyan still went to visit her sister Bai Lijuan, brother-in-law Li Dai and nephew Li Yi first.

Sister Bai Lijuan and brother-in-law Li Dai are both old, but fortunately, they don't ask about state affairs, they don't have to worry about it, they live behind closed doors, they don't have any burden in their hearts, and they are still alive.

However, Li Yi is in the prime of life, under the current enemy, the nobles of the whole country are required to recruit troops to prepare for war, as the heir of Jing Shanggong, he will inevitably have to train and prepare for war, but this matter makes his sister Bailijuan very worried.

The arrival of Bailiyan will inevitably attract the attention of all parties, and the Son of Heaven has issued an edict inviting him to meet him, but this time Bailiyan did not push three obstacles and avoid seeing him as he did seven years ago, and his biggest purpose here is to meet the Son of Heaven and make political preparations for this year's strategic defense and next year's strategic counteroffensive.

On the twenty-fifth day of the first month, Baili Yan entered the industry to see the Son of Heaven, but the atmosphere was particularly cold, not that the Son of Heaven intended to make things difficult, but that the situation forced most of the cabinet officials and magnates to go back to their respective fiefdoms to recruit troops and horses to actively prepare for war, and there were not many important people who stayed behind to accompany the capital.

"Foreign minister Bailiyan, see His Majesty the Son of Heaven."

Bailiyan bowed and saluted, but it was just a politeness on the scene. As a mature political figure, this kind of transition is as commonplace as usual, even at this moment, the Son of Heaven on his head, and he is still right.

"Yongxing Hou is exempt, please take a seat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your seat."

Put away the number of gifts, Baili Yanjing sat down, on his right hand side is Xiangguo Jia Zhou, on the left hand side is Boyuan Jun Ji Feng, Antai Hou Ji Kang was not there because he was training in the fiefdom, and the head of the Chengdao faction, Mo Chungzi, was not present. But Crazy Lan had been listening to Bo Yuan's every move before, and knew very well that Mo Qingzi still didn't buy his account.

In Mo Qingzi's view, Xianguo can do what he has today, and he can do it for 30 years for Liang Guo, which is not worth envious. On the contrary, the Xian State was above the Son of Heaven and above the Central Plains, destroying the consistent political pattern for hundreds of years. In short, no matter what Xianguo does, it is your fault, because your name is not right.

For this mentality, Bai Liyan only smiled.

In his view, the thinking of the vast majority of political elites at present is still stuck in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and it is not easy to reverse this political inertia with the rigid dogmatic thinking of respecting the king as the supreme king.

At present, the majority of the rulers and the ruling strata are immersed in the traditional thinking of king-oriented education, which has constrained their vision and depth of governance, and it is unrealistic to fundamentally change their thinking in the short term.

It will take time, and even more so, it will take the continuous political efforts of the Xianguo to allow time and culture to transform the next generation, so he is not in a hurry to force a change in the current political landscape.

At this time, the atmosphere is not cold, but it is not hot, the reason why it is not cold is that the strength of the Xianguo is on the table, even if it is cold, it has to be hot, and it is not hot because the strength of the Xianguo is unacceptable to the Son of Heaven, and the refusal to recover the lost land of the Liang State also makes the Son of Heaven very unhappy.

"Yongxing Hou is not just here to talk about the love of sisters and brothers." If the Son of Heaven has a point, he is actually very clear in his heart.

Bai Liyan did not deny his intentions, he said slowly:

"Cuicheng and Jinye are determined to presumably have conveyed the opinion of Taiwei Gu to His Majesty, and will not make preparations for attack for the time being."

"The widow already knows, since Yongxing Hou thinks that the fighter plane is not good, innocent casualties are inevitable, and the widow thinks that this method is feasible."

Although he agrees with it, it is not the case in the heart of the Son of Heaven.

The Liang army was on the front line for more than half a year, with 200,000 casualties, the capital was destroyed in one fell swoop, and countless manpower, material and financial resources were consumed.

However, Bai Liyan personally led his troops to fight so fiercely, not only did he not solve the problem, but he did not intend to solve the problem, and the Son of Heaven was obviously annoyed in his heart.

The Son of Heaven's mind goes without saying, and Bailiyan also knows it, but since he doesn't put it on his face, he has no intention of picking up this rancid tofu. The next moment he said:

"Ben Hou is here, one is Ben Hou's sister, the second is Liang National Defense, and the third is the alliance of princes. Now that the war has dragged on into its fourth year, all the princes, except for the eldest grandson, have been cultivating for many years. According to the interrogation of the armpit prisoners of war, the armpit people also suffered heavy casualties. Although their casualties were much smaller than those of our Central Plains, they also caused great distress to them, and I believe that as long as the fierce battle continues, the defeat of the armpit will be within five years. ”

As soon as these words came out, there was a lot of discussion in the hall, and Xiangguo Jia Zhou said:

"How can Yongxing Hou see that he can be defeated in five years."

"Jia Xiangguo asked a very good question." Bai Liyan pretended to approve, and then said: "First, our Xianguo has been producing weapons and munitions day and night, and there will be more than three or two million guns in five years. Second, the hundred craftsmen of our Xianguo country are ahead of it in the infantry army, and our Central Plains manpower is superior to it, plus it is a local battle, fighting for attrition, and the armpit is invincible to our army.

Third, the armpit eyes are not invincible gods, nor are they immortal, it has been proved that our Central Plains human race can easily kill them, as long as this is clear, our army has the certainty of victory.

Finally, the armpit is tired of global activities, and has been trapped in expeditions and huge casualties for a long time, and its national strength will inevitably be in trouble, and it will not be able to win a quick victory for a long time, and it will decline after a long war. And my plains are vast enough to fight a protracted war.

With these four points, our human race will surely win the final victory. ”

In fact, Bai Liyan did not mention one point, through the monitoring of the armpit prisoners of war, they have been attacking the white continent for more than 40 years, with about 600,000 casualties, but less than 50,000 killed.

The rest of the injuries were defined as repeated injuries and mutilations, but they wiped out tens of millions of whites, in exchange for a hundred-to-one difference.

Now that the war has been going on for three years, there are more than 100,000 armpit corpses and prisoners of war counted by various countries alone, and it is not known how many others have been wounded, repeatedly wounded, or disabled to escape, sunk in the sea to feed fish, or died in their own camps.

And the biggest fatal wound lies in their social structure and social ethics. [Note 1]

Because of human stem cells and their bud cells, axillary people have achieved relative immortality, so their family organization is very large, from the ancestors, down to the great-great-grandson Huisun, and some even more than ten generations in the same house.

Many of these families have joined the army, and one or two casualties may not be a big problem, but if more than half of the direct males of a family with the same surname and lineage are killed or wounded, this is a big problem.

The first is what to do with their spouses, and the second is that if they want to live forever, they can only constantly rely on human flesh and blood to obtain stem cells.

Armpit people raise a large number of humans in captivity in their native land, but they will not kill them directly, but keep them for blood, but the land resources in the northern hemisphere only account for less than 20% of the world's land area, so the blood resources obtained from this kind of breeding are limited, and human beings are sensitive to diseases, resulting in a high mortality rate in a poor medical and health environment, which in turn exacerbates the blood supply.

Therefore, the blood obtained by the armpit in captivity in the native land is only supplied to the elite, the social elite, and the dependencies.

The lower-class ordinary armpit people either spent financial resources to buy them, or joined the army to plunder, and the record of war exploits could share this resource, so it gave birth to a fanaticism for war against humans.

At the same time, in order to prevent the other side from obtaining more human resources, the 15 countries will carry out exterminating slaughter of human beings outside their own occupied areas, so as to weaken the human stem cell resources in the hands of the other country.

In other words, the victory or defeat of the war inside the armpit depends largely on the total supply of human blood.

Thinking about it in a different way, it should be more accurate to say that it is the strong physiological functions of axillary people that make them misunderstood, resulting in their slow development in the medical field, or even almost no development.

Because of their self-healing ability and invulnerability, early medicine was a relatively uninvetable field technology for them, at least for their early civilizations.

At the same time, they also found that human flesh and blood can solve the medical problems that plague them, such as speeding up wound healing, restoring physiological functions, and even achieving immortality, at this time it is the human beings, not themselves, who determine the continuation of their society.

Relatively low-level, if a civil war breaks out between them, the biggest medical treatment is to drink human blood and obtain human stem cells.

Therefore, when the cost of acquiring human resources is relatively low, they can afford to lose tens of thousands of people in battle, but if the cost of acquiring human resources exceeds the cost of them, they have to weigh whether the cost is worth it.

Bai Liyan believes that in the past three years or so, the losses of the armpit people are by no means more than the more than 100,000 people counted on the books of the princes, and should be more. And there will be more in the future, and the human casualties will be relatively reduced after a large number of guns and artillery are equipped and tactical experience is improved.

Under the influence of one another, they will one day be unable to hold back.

As mentioned earlier, their social formation is more than ten generations in the same house, and if there are a large number of casualties and disabilities in the family, it will have a huge impact on their society.

More importantly, the axillary dwarves, the dwarves are the elite of their society, and the communicators are an important organic organization of the society, and the large losses and deaths of these two types of axillary people are affected by the pregnancy cycle, growth cycle, and genetic probability, and cannot be made up for in the short term, because the birth probability of dwarves and communicators is too low, which is also a loss that they cannot afford.

Based on all the information so far, Bai Liyan's attitude towards defeating the armpit is becoming more and more optimistic, at least he is more sure that he will repel the first invasion.

As for the repulsion of the invasion after the repulsion, it depends on the coproduction and use of the captured Xianguo technology by the armpit people.

Therefore, the current strategic planning determines the direction of the war situation in the next five to ten years, and at the same time, if mankind pays too much price in the next ten years, it will affect the speed of human reproduction and the accumulation of human resources in the next 30 or even 50 years.

Taking a step back, this invasion is just the beginning, and if a large number of people die in the war, humanity may not be spared in the ensuing war of attrition.

The above conclusions Bai Liyan weighed in private for nearly a month, and did not tell anyone, and at this moment, he did not say anything about the Son of Heaven.

Note: Longevity technology will inevitably bring about problems of family ethics and social ethics.

As a species with biological ability as the main technology, the axillary family obtains human stem cells and obtains longevity technology, but at the same time, it must also face a large number of people of different generations living in a family and a society, which will bring ethical problems that human society does not have.

For example, your great-grandfather, grandfather, father, yourself, your son, your grandson, your great-grandson, or even great-great-grandson have been in the same house for more than ten generations, but half of them are fighting on the front line and then die in battle, and the result is devastating for the organization of the whole family, and at the same time it brings about the problem of spouses.

So while everyone pursues immortality, immortality is not so beautiful, most obviously because of the issue of rights.

Obviously, there is no son, grandson, great-grandson, great-grandson, and great-grandson, and he hopes that his great-grandfather will always be the emperor, and he will never die, and he will never be able to be the emperor. These are all practical social and ethical issues.

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