Led Baili Yan into the inner house, the generals sat quietly on one side, the servants served tea, and everyone talked while drinking:

"Father-in-law, Fang Cai is showing images of Liang County and other places to my father and brother and the generals for reference."

"yes, there's a catch."

At this time, Gongliang Xiu took over and said:

"Nowadays, this hot war is all new tactics, and we are quite unfamiliar, and once the fight starts, we may not be able to cope with it."

"What Brother Gongliang said is extremely true, this hot battle is different from sword fighting, sword fighting is about the number and the rigor of the military formation. Nowadays, the hot war is invisible and rootless, it cares about the defensive line and flexible mobility, responds quickly and the news is accessible, and the slightest delay can lead to the loss of troops and the destruction of the entire army.

But from now on, hot war is becoming the trend of the times, and the more you are afraid, the more you cannot learn the method of hot war, so this battle still has to be fought, even if you pay some casualties, and it is extremely important to train a group of generals. ”

"Well, that's true. Soldiers are wars, and they cannot be diligent unless they fight. ”

At this time, Bai Liyan followed Gongliangxiu's words and said:

"What does King Zhi mean, whether this soldier is out or not."

"Hehe, you, you." Gong Liangxiu smiled helplessly, and then said: "You give King Wei 500,000 old guns, and give me the king no less than 500,000." ”

"It's easy to say, I give Zhiwang the same 500,000 old guns, 4,000 grenade launchers, plus 30,000 651654-type new guns, 500 rear-loading artillery, 300 mortars, 50 rocket launchers, 550,000 helmets, and other arms will not be less than Wei Guo, how about brother."

When the generals heard the news, they looked at each other, as if they were surprised by Bailiyan's conditions. At this time, Gongliang Xiu said:

"It seems that you still have a lot of guns in stock."

"Otherwise, I would have been able to give Wei Yan 700,000 old guns last year."

"In this case, I will present it to my king on the same day, and whether or not to send troops depends on the will of the country. In addition, our army cannot be self-sufficient in baggage and military supplies, and the Xian army needs to bear most of it. ”

"Yes, what else do you want."

"I heard that the supply of grain and grass for the Wei army is difficult, and the transportation cost is very large, so it is not as cheap as buying grain and grass from the Xian army, but there is such a thing."

"Yes, yes, but not all. Those that can be transported are still transported by the Weiguo Cao Operation, which needs long-distance transportation, and those that are not cost-effective will purchase our army's rations and military supplies, and the cost can be traded flexibly. ”

Due to the backward transportation system and the inefficiency of the means of transportation, the transportation of high value-added industrial products such as guns and ammunition still has its necessity, and the cost of low-value-added necessities such as grain, grass and salt, because of the distance and the volume of material flow, is higher than the price of military food in the battlefield of the Xian State, and the biggest cost is manpower and road distance.

The vast majority of the grain and grass transported by man-powered carts and horses were eaten by the men and livestock, and only one-tenth to one-eighth were sent to the front line, so the cost was naturally much higher, and the variety of food was still very monotonous.

Furthermore, the productivity of the small-scale peasant economy requires millions of men and tens of millions of peasant families to ensure the productivity of hundreds of thousands of troops, and these laborers leave the fields and take off production, and the annual economic losses are quite huge.

On the other hand, the Xian army first transported the military supplies by the fleet to the wharf of the large section of the river, and then sent to the rear of the war zone by cars, four-wheeled baggage wagons, horses, and unicorn horses, and the labor cost and logistics cost were much lower.

Of course, if there is no efficient logistics system in the Xian country, in order to maintain the consumption of the war, it can still only be hard and use human and animal power to transport supplies.

However, with the logistics system of the Xian army, it is actually necessary to save a lot of money by spending some money on transportation or purchase, and the economy created by the money saved and manpower is eventually bought into the industrial products of the Xian country, or used for the domestic expenses of the princes.

However, most of the military supplies purchased by the Wei Guo were low-priced rice, flour, pickles, pickles, pickled meat, sauce, a small amount of canned bean curd, and even salt and vegetable oil, etc., and the most popular among the princes was the 20-pound barrel of braised beef concentrated soup, which was packed into a large tin can, and supplied the front line with stewed soup, rice or mixed noodles.

There are many cattle in the south, and beef is much cheaper than pork, and there is an abundant supply of it, and the bottom meat and ground meat of the cattle are boiled into a thick soup, which is not only popular for its mellow taste, but also solves the lack of nutrition and energy.

It is trapped by limited national strength and backward productive forces, no matter how much food is fancy, the princes can't afford it, and beer and drinks are basically limited gifts.

However, the Patriotic Soldiers were indeed barbaric, and if the Battle of Hukou Bay was not a full firearm, the Xian Army would have been defeated or even annihilated.

After the defenders adapted to the explosion of artillery in the early stage and trained in techniques and tactics, they basically did not die on the battlefield, and the desperate fighting was fierce and barbaric.

After basically negotiating with Gongliangxiu on the conditions for sending troops, he still had other plans, so he changed the conversation and asked:

"When will our army go to war after training?"

"It depends on the situation at the end of the year and next year. If the war of Yan State is ended before March next year, the Wei army will repair and supplement the war in Liang State after March, and attack the enemy entrenched in the port of Jinye with a part of our army, and the Zhi army and a part of our army will attack the enemy north of Cuicheng.

In this way, the earliest is July, and the latest is August and September. If the Zhijun starts training in November, there will be at least eight months to prepare and drill, and at most ten months, which is very abundant in terms of time, which is much more abundant than that of Wei Guo and Yan Guo.

If necessary and timely, Zhi Guolang will conduct training together with the wounded camp to become proficient in basic treatment equipment and treatment methods. ”

"Who owned the seizures after the war, as far as I know, Liang captured a lot of them in the first war last year. This time the battle of Yan will be more lucrative than the battle of Liang. ”

"Hehe......"

Baili Yanjing spontaneously laughed and shook his head again and again, Gongliang Xiu knew what he was laughing at:

"My Zhiguo is not as rich as your Xianguo, with a big waist and a round waist, hundreds of thousands of guns and hundreds of cannons are captured on the battlefield, but they are exchanged for their lives, you Xianguo is not short of steel and guns, so you won't even have to divide these."

"Since my brother has spoken, I naturally can't refuse. As has been customary, the alliance leader deserves half of the majority. However, the current situation is special, and whoever is captured by the princes will belong to whom, but they must take out 20% and all the heavy artillery to the royal guests.

We don't want arms, but after you capture the arms, you still have to send them to our country for transformation before they can be used, and the ammunition and related equipment also need to be provided by our country, and I need to inform Brother Gongliang about this. ”

"I know that the structure of the armpit gun is not conducive to the firing of your guns and ammunition, and you can't use good gunpowder bullets."

"Exactly, but enough."

No matter how small the mosquito is, it is also meat, although the weapons of the armpit people are heavy, clumsy in operation, and the design is not suitable for human use, but it is no longer a burning stick in the hand, and having a guy and not having a guy are completely different things, and the armpit heavy machine gun and heavy artillery, as well as the rear loading guns of other calibers, are fat meat for the princes.

In addition to the 15.5 millimeter machine gun rounds, these guns and artillery factories have opened additional production lines for small-scale imitations, plus captured shells, which are barely enough, at least with basic means of self-defense.

Before the war, Bailiyan ignored the seizure, so much so that in the first battle of the Liang State, many of the captures eventually fell into the hands of the Liang army.

Now that we have calculated that if this battle is completed, I am afraid that no less than one million armpit guns will be captured before and after, and the guns in the theater base will be at least 30 percent or more of the number of equipment, and other artillery and ammunition materials will probably be measured in millions of tons.

Bailiyan really doesn't like these things, after all, the concept and design basis are completely inconsistent with human human-machine functions, and there are many restrictions on use, but it is not useless.

Armpit weapons need gas tanks, and some field facilities are equipped with high-power steam engines, industrial boilers, and alcohol internal combustion engines, because of the different concepts and technical paths, although these power devices have low energy efficiency conversion, the output power is quite amazing, and it is quite useful to get back to generate electricity or provide mechanical kinetic energy.

After negotiating the terms with Gongliangxiu, he held a banquet in the mansion at noon, and did not forget to continue to bargain at the banquet, trying to strive for more benefits.

Although today's Zhiguo has no real threat to Xianguo, after the domestic gas is spread out and used, Xianguo has invested in the development of oil fields and refineries and chemical plants in Zhiguo, and assumed more than half of the source of oil, and Zhiguo can also get some refined oil and economic benefits from it, and sometimes he still has to buy Zhiguo's account and make some compromises and concessions.

On November 19, after March preparations, the coalition forces launched high-intensity operations one after another to counterattack the enemy of Yan. Nearly 1,000 artillery pieces, including two howitzer brigades, seven heavy artillery brigades, and hundreds of vehicle-mounted rocket launchers, were dispatched to carry out day and night artillery bombardment on the western front of Rongcheng, and launched an all-out attack on the 24th.

The battle of the southern front began the next day, and by December 15, the two counties of Jinyang and Suzhong were recovered, and by the first month of 659, the war had subsided. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the offensive resumed again, still pushing the offensive on the western front, pressing the armpit and compressing the eyes to the east.

There are few landing sites in the granite belt along the western front of the Rongcheng territory, so as to avoid the probability of a landing raid on the western front and behind the west, and at the same time, the landing sites on the eastern front are concentrated, and if the eastern front is advanced, the port and landing site will inevitably become a key contention area, and the resistance and casualties of the coalition forces will be greater.

Giving them a way to retreat and forcing them to shrink their defenses to the landing site, so as to increase the probability of their retreat at sea, loosen their morale and determination, and expand the results of the battle.

At the same time, at the end of November and the beginning of December, more than 550,000 members of the Zhi Army went to the two counties of Ganfu and Chunan to receive reorganization and intensive training, and the offensive of the first month began at the same time.

Due to the slow transmission of information, Oka in Meiyang County did not learn of the dramatic change in Rongcheng until the end of the year, and the bad news did not stop there.

The Yulin Army of the Xian Army inflicted huge losses on the eastern front of Changsun, killing and wounding more than 2,000 of them in eight months, and more than 700 officers, attacking transport and supply lines, harassing the rear arsenals, and killing a colonel.

In February 659, the coalition launched an offensive on all fronts, and again dispatched torpedo boats, attacking ships near the harbor, sinking and damaging 32 ships. At the same time, Cross, who was entrenched on the outskirts of Jinye Cuicheng, received an order from Oka to look for an opportunity to launch an offensive against the frontal coalition forces, in order to force the coalition forces to withdraw troops from Rongcheng and relieve the pressure on Yarka, and at the same time promised to send a front army reinforcement as soon as possible.

In the same month, Cross launched a strong attack on Cuicheng Jinye, but was heavily shelled by two howitzer brigades of the Xian army.

In fierce fighting until the end of February, Cross was unable to break through the first line of defense, resulting in heavy casualties. This is the first time since the start of the war that axillary casualties far exceed those of humans.

The counteroffensive in Rongcheng dragged on until March, and the coalition forces paid heavy casualties and recovered all nine counties except for the port of the main city of Rongcheng.

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