Chapter 317: A dilemma

Jia Qingyun's statement made Ni Sigui secretly complain, he was not as impulsive as Jia Qingyun, but after thinking about it, and now, even Jiang Xujing himself has set an example and dealt with his own soldiers and horses in the same way, although everyone still wants to fight, but after Jiang Xujing's words, everyone can only rot that bit of selfishness in their stomachs.

What is the Yunzhou Army? It is a first-class professional army in the world, and it is not far superior to the so-called blood qi army of the world's first army, and it is far more numerous than that. In the eyes of many people in Xiling, the Blood Qi Army was smashed out by a group of extremely poor and boring Dongping wealthy clans with countless amounts of money, and the Yunzhou Armies started from the training of the 50th Battalion, from the selection of equipment to the training, it was the way of the conventional professional army, and there was nothing wrong with treating the Yunzhou Armies as the yardstick of Dongping's military strength after a few years. The significance of defeating the Yunzhou army in the official battle, from this point of view, is more than using human lives to kill the blood Qi army. And if you can win, the benefits you can get are self-evident.

Jia Qingyun frowned, sighed and said, "Obey the orders of the marshal." ”

Seeing that Jia Qingyun was still a little emotional, Jiang Xujing sighed: "One general is incompetent, and he is tired of the three armies...... This time, the Yunzhou army was mobilized, and judging from their situation, it was obvious that they had been preparing for a long time, but our side had nothing to gain. And those troops that were originally on the side of the Northern Liao are said to march continuously and then directly into battle, what a terrible ability this is. No matter what, I don't dare to underestimate Ye Tao. You are also relieved, this time, it is I who am sorry for the soldiers, so I made this decision, this battle is certain, I will definitely tear off this old face and ask the court to pay compensation, ensure that those casualties and soldiers are properly arranged, and ensure that those or soldiers can get rich rewards. ”

Jia Qingyun has been following Jiang Xujing for many years, and he is a little unbearable to see Jiang Xujing's behavior that is almost equivalent to begging for his cooperation. He hurriedly said: "Great commander, the last general will never dare to complain, it's just ...... Seeing so many soldiers going to die, I can't bear it. Since the marshal said that he would make proper arrangements, the soldiers had no worries, so they would naturally fight to the death. ”

What Jia Qingyun said is also reasonable, the Zhenbei Military Division does not need Yunzhou and other places in Dongping, and it is not even comparable to the richer south, and can always afford to raise a large number of professional troops. In the past, the Zhenbei Military Division had to bear the responsibility of fighting in the entire north, and it had to maintain a relatively large number of troops, so the salaries of soldiers and low-level non-commissioned officers and officers have always been very low. If the amount of pension is large, coupled with a certain amount of encouragement, it is very easy for those soldiers to fight desperately to win a future for their own family.

Jiang Xujing nodded and said, "That's very good." He told the two of them about the preparations for the battle before letting them leave.

However, what happened in the next few days made Jiang Xujing extremely depressed. The Yunzhou army actually changed the soaring march of the previous few days, and began to advance slowly and step by step. However, the scouts on the Yunzhou side came forward more and more, and there were not many troops in both armies, and they only sent scouts and small teams of cavalry to search and kill. Since the two armies of Frost Wolf and Silver Wing were light cavalry that integrated reconnaissance and combat, this kind of work was much more handy than the scout cavalry team led by the scout chief post under Jiang Xujing. Similarly, in this way, the four elite cavalry teams originally sent by Jiang Xujing to attack the rear of the Yunzhou army were also a little embarrassing: it was difficult for them to shuttle back and forth through the scouts of both sides, and the buffer zone where skirmishes broke out from time to time.

There was a cavalry team that was seen by a group of scouts of the Frostwolf Army and quickly retreated, originally preparing to pass through the buffer zone overnight, but what they didn't expect was that they were surrounded and killed by the superior forces of two battalions just after passing the buffer zone, although there was cover of night, but in the end only more than 30 people escaped.

Even more unfortunate was a team that had quietly passed the buffer zone, they had already approached a baggage battalion that was transporting a batch of fire oil bombs, ballistas, and parts that were easily worn out on the Divine Arm Bow, but just as they were preparing to set up an ambush to attack, they unexpectedly encountered a battalion of auxiliaries from the Invalides Farm Ranch. This battalion had just been approved to go to the front line to participate in the battle, as an important supplement to the main battle troops, and they were so excited that they didn't care that when they set off, Suo Zheng had reminded them not to cross the convoy of the baggage battalion too quickly, and to cross the sequence, it would be troublesome to reorganize an unofficial unit like them, and they didn't pay attention to the reminder that it would be troublesome to reorganize an unofficial unit like them, and they ran into this baggage team that day. Of course, it may also be because the beef meal and beef jerky produced by the Invalids Ranch are better and easier to carry than the standard military rations, and they bring a lot of ...... They claim to be able to fight for a month without food supplies.

But the chaos caused by the encounter between this auxiliary barracks and the baggage battalion on the road saved this part of the baggage battalion, you must know that once the fight starts, as long as even one car is ignited, the chain reaction caused is enough for everyone to be reimbursed. When the auxiliary battalion simply camped and waited for the baggage battalion to pass first, it was very bored to reconnoiter the surroundings, but accidentally discovered Jiang Xujing's scout of the elite cavalry. If it were other troops, they might have carefully scouted the number of enemies first, but this auxiliary barracks was afraid that it would not be able to catch a fight, and it did not let go of the extra snacks that were sent to the door before the official battle, and did not even make any arrangements, and directly attacked the col with a very horse thief group fighting tactic. After defeating the enemy, they dispersed into small teams to search and kill, while hailing the troops they encountered along the way. The veteran soldiers in the auxiliary barracks could often meet people they knew, and under the call of friends, they actually launched a large-scale search and killing of the remnants of the cavalry. In the end, two airships were even dispatched to provide air guidance, although for the time being, they could only rely on the telescope to look at each other's gestures in the air and the ground, but they had already begun to exert the power of "air and ground integration". And in the end, after a total of more than 7,000 troops were put into the search and killing of the elite cavalry team, the elite cavalry force was completely wiped out, and no one escaped. For the Yunzhou army, the most important thing about investing so much experience in such a thorough search and killing is not for the sake of prestige or military secrecy, but purely for fun......

But these are just the state of Yunzhou's accumulation of combat power. Ye Tao ordered the whole army to advance slowly and steadily, which directly put Jiang Xujing in a dilemma. It is true that the Yunzhou side cannot drag on the war indefinitely, but if it drags on for ten days and a half months, this progress is still much better than originally expected. These days, the army has changed from accurately calculating the amount of supplies, and basically only a small amount of food and other daily consumables can be left between two supplies, to now each battalion has at least ten days of supply margins......

Although Ye Tao had already decided to fight a battle in which the total number of troops was much less than that of the other party, he was never willing to take too many risks. He not only first made peace with the army of the North Route led by Dai Shijin, but also ordered those troops whose combat effectiveness reached a certain standard to be gradually transferred to the front to prepare for battle. The three battalions of the Invalids Farm Ranch will all be equipped with the battle troops, and the supply lines in the rear will be handed over to a few garrison battalions temporarily transferred to be responsible for security. In this way, coupled with the seriously overorganized tribal army brought in by Golan, although this lineup is a little strange, at least the total strength will not be compared with the part that Jiang Xujing, the commander of the Zhenbei Army, can mobilize, at least it is less than one to two, which is enough. Everyone is already saying that Ye Tao really thinks too highly of Jiang Xujing's combat effectiveness.

Moreover, after a heavy infantry battalion of the former army arrived at a place where he could see Guiyi City, Ye Tao actually set up camp and nailed it there, as if he was preparing to wait until the whole army was assembled and went down in one go. In the few days when Ye Tao slowed down his advance, Jiang Xujing was very uncomfortable, and it was only because the longer the time passed, the more complicated the composition of the Zhenbei Military Division was more complex than the Yunzhou army, and the possibility of chaos in the army 10,000 times was greater, and even more because the consumption of the 300,000 army was really a number that could drive people crazy. And in this preparation for the war, he would rather overdraft the future grain and grass than reduce the ration to make everyone aware of some kind of crisis.

And Ye Tao set up camp like this, which suddenly made Jiang Xujing feel a dilemma, whether to launch an attack now, or wait a little longer to see if Ye Tao would attack Guiyi first and create the opportunity he wanted. Within the army of the Zhenbei Military Division, there was a general belief that an offensive should be launched immediately. What everyone saw was that Ye Tao's follow-up troops arrived every day, although there was only one battalion every day, but no one knew how many battalions would come in the end. Taking advantage of the current high morale and the superiority of troops, it would be good to go down in one go. On the other hand, because the Yunzhou army led by Ye Tao seems to be too well-equipped, the scout cavalry that patrols around the camp every day, and the dazzling armor on the sergeant who stands straight at the gate of the camp, everyone can publish it in their eyes. Every day, from the Yunzhou barracks, there will be ballistas and other large equipment launched for maintenance and calibration...... These have also begun to spread in the army of the Zhenbei Military Division, and after a long time, it will definitely affect morale.

However, if a full-scale attack is launched now, Jiang Xujing is really not fully confident that he will be able to go down in one go. Without the containment of Guiyi City, even if all the Protectors are pulled out and used together, maybe the combat power will not be reduced, but if there is one less combat direction, there will be a lot less tricks that can be conjured. And a one-time collision of an army of more than 100,000 against an army of nearly 300,000? Heroic bar...... Jiang Xujing didn't want to gamble so heroically.