Chapter Eighty-Seven: A Growing Rift

Not long after the independent fleet under Su Yi had just won a great victory in the Battle of Anbo Port, the army units of the Su family army secretly gathered two guards infantry brigades, two marine brigades, twenty field infantry brigades and sixty-four supplementary regiments to Wuyang City, the capital of Weinan Province of the Purple Moon Empire, and launched a large-scale counterattack against the Salad Imperial Army attacking Wuyang City.

In fact, this counterattack against the Salad Imperial Army, He Yunfei, the commander of the Su Army's army unit, has been planning for a long time, He Yunfei hopes to use this counterattack to change the current situation of the Purple Moon Empire, and the Su Army can also take the opportunity to seize some territory.

And the reason why He Yunfei chose the army of the Sharad Empire to fight back was because the Sharad Empire had already gained huge benefits from the Cangyu Empire and the Liuyun Empire, and once the army of the Sharad Empire suffered too much loss in the territory of the Purple Moon Empire, the Salad Empire was likely to withdraw its troops from the territory of the Purple Moon Empire.

Under the command of He Yunfei, about 800,000 army troops of the Su family army and 900,000 troops of the Ziyue Empire launched a fierce attack on the five infantry regiments of the Shalad Empire entrenched near Wuyang City on December 10, 3011 in the Tang calendar.

Millions of troops on both sides fought fiercely for fifteen days in the surrounding area of Wuyang City, and the battle was extremely tragic, and finally ended in the defeat of the army units of the Sharad Empire, and then the troops of the Su army pursued the victory and directly drove the army of the Sharad Empire out of Weinan Province.

In the fifteen-day battle of Wuyang City, the casualties of the army units of the Sharad Empire were close to 700,000, the Su family army suffered about 120,000 casualties, and the army casualties of the Purple Moon Empire were more than 500,000.

Because of the failure of the Battle of Wuyang City, the Salad Empire finally chose to withdraw from the Purple Moon Empire, and the Salad Empire's army units in the northern region of the Purple Moon Empire were all withdrawn to the territory of the Cangyu Empire at the end of January of 3012 in the Tang calendar.

After the retreat of the Salad Empire's army, the northern region of the Purple Moon Empire, except for a small part recovered by the Royal Army of the Purple Moon Empire, almost more than 80% of it was occupied by the Su army, especially the four provinces adjacent to the Cangyu Empire, which were basically captured by the Su army.

In order to fight for territory, the Su family army and the royal army of the Purple Moon Empire even broke out in many places, making the rift between the Su family army and the Purple Moon Empire bigger and bigger.

In the palace of Suisheng City, the capital of the Purple Moon Empire, Empress Ouyang Xue asked Prime Minister Guo Xian in a deep voice, "What did that Su Yi say?" Dingnan Province, Luochuan Province, Lianshan Province and Shaanjiang Province were almost all seized by the Su family's army, does Su Yi have to give us an explanation for this! ”

Dingnan Province, Luochuan Province, Lianshan Province, and Shaanjiang Province are the four provinces adjacent to the Cangyu Empire within the Purple Moon Empire.

Prime Minister Guo Xian said with a solemn face: "Your Majesty, Su Jiajun explained that the reason why he occupied Dingnan Province, Luochuan Province, Lianshan Province and Shaanjiang Province was to prevent another invasion of the Salad Empire. ”

As soon as Prime Minister Guo Xian's words fell, Minister of War Yuan Lin said angrily: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister, what Su Jiajun said to guard against the invasion of the Salad Empire is definitely an excuse, and now Su Yi has completely exposed his wolf ambitions, and our Purple Moon Empire must take immediate action against Su Jiajun!" ”

At this time, the Minister of the Navy Liu Yongcheng said with a wry smile: "This is really a tiger at the front door, a wolf at the back door, now even the millions of army troops of the Sharad Empire are not the opponents of the Su family's army, once our Purple Moon Empire and the Su family army really tear their faces, then the situation of our Purple Moon Empire will be even more difficult, don't forget that on the front line of resisting the Jisk Imperial army and the Orenza Imperial army, the Su family army is also the main force." ”

The Minister of War Yuan Lin immediately said: "That can't always be appeased and nurtured by the Su Family, according to the information obtained by the intelligence department, the Su Family's Army has started a new round of expansion in the territory of Dingnan Province, Luochuan Province, Lianshan Province and Shaanjiang Province, and the Su Family's Army has also directly absorbed the hundreds of thousands of captured officers and soldiers of our Purple Moon Empire's Royal Army, and then let the Su Family's army expand so unscrupulously, even if our Purple Moon Empire can finally drive out the armies of Jisk and Orenza, But at that time, the surname of the Purple Moon Empire was not necessarily what it was. ”

Prime Minister Guo Xian sighed and said: "Your Majesty, it seems that Su Yi has come to help our Purple Moon Empire resist the invasion of Sharad, Gisk, and Orenza this time, but the problem is that the strength of the Su family army is expanding too fast, and our Purple Moon Empire is now trying to restrain it, and it is already very difficult, once the contradiction between the two sides intensifies, the consequences may not be what our Purple Moon Empire can bear." ”

Empress Ouyang Xue frowned and asked, "Most of the soldiers in the Su family's army are from our Purple Moon Empire, can't we think of a way from this aspect?" ”

Prime Minister Guo Xian said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, the salary of the Su family army is very high, and an ordinary army soldier has five silver dollars every month, and these five silver dollars are actually issued, and the pension is even more ridiculously high, so the Su family army can continue to dig the foot of the wall in our Purple Moon Empire's Royal Army, and just by virtue of this, it will be difficult for our Purple Moon Empire to join the Su family army to be pulled back." ”

The finances of the Purple Moon Empire have been in deficit before the war, because of the war, the finances of the Purple Moon Empire are even more than enough to make ends meet, and the naval officers and soldiers of the Purple Moon Empire have not been paid for almost half a year, and the officers and soldiers of the army have not received a penny of military pay since the war between the Purple Moon Empire and the Orenza Empire broke out.

The army of the Purple Moon Empire has already suffered millions of casualties in this war, but the families of the fallen soldiers who can get pensions are simply rare, and the Purple Moon Empire only issued a pension of thirty silver dollars to a small number of the families of the fallen soldiers for its own propaganda needs.

As for the current pension standard of the Su Jiajun, if an ordinary soldier dies in battle, the family will first receive a one-time pension of 300 silver dollars, and the family of the deceased soldier can also receive some subsidies from the Su Jiajun every month in the future, and the subsidies are tentatively set for the parents, wives and children of the fallen soldiers, and each person can receive 100 catties of rice and 30 cans of canned meat every month.

Navy Minister Liu Yongcheng sighed and said: "Your Majesty, the Su family army is different from the three kingdoms of Sharad, Gisk, and Orenza, Su Yi is a Tang man after all, not to mention that the Su family army is very strong, not to mention the army of the Su family army, just the fleet of the Su family army makes many people in our Purple Moon Empire rush to it." ”

Empress Ouyang Xue gritted her teeth and asked, "Then what should we do now?" You can't really let the Su family army go and devour our Purple Moon Empire's territory little by little! ”