Chapter 531: The Verge
Chapter 531 is on the verge of breaking out
"It's too much of a deception! It's too much of a deception! "The generalissimo Xie Bo'an of the North Liaodong Road and the Black Mountain Road was walking back and forth in the tent, and he was already the third supreme commander of the East Route Army, the Yulin Army, and the New Army in just one year. The first Zhi was proud and had just taken office, and before he could stand the foothold, he was just formed by the tribal coalition army with high morale and a disgraced face, and after persisting for four months, he really couldn't stand the pressure of testing his nerves all the time in the battle with the tribal coalition army, and found an opportunity to fall off his horse when he went to the front line to supervise the war, and then was sent back to Yanjing to recuperate. The second commander was the nephew of the lord of the Northern Liao, who thought that he had brought a large number of troops, with a full 150,000 or 60,000 troops, how could he quickly exterminate these tribal coalition forces with this partial division of Dongping, and he even shouted the slogan of capturing Tan Weiran alive and making peace with Dongping. The result? After five months of fighting, the tribal alliance has become stronger and stronger, and has changed from relying entirely on morale and blood to fighting bravely and aggressively to having an elite army, although some tactical moves are still rusty, but in terms of orders and prohibitions, it is exemplary. Later, I heard that the tribal elders at that time were in a painful period of transformation of the tribal army, and instructed their subordinates: all orders, those who understand, must be executed, and those who do not understand should be strengthened in the implementation of the understanding...... These words may not be original to them, but they did. In the past few months, the commanders at all levels of the tribal coalition army have gradually grown up under the leadership and education of Tan Weiran and Chi Lei, knowing that in addition to advancing and retreating, in addition to frontal combat and ambush, there are countless other forms of warfare, and they have felt their own growth. This kind of record naturally cannot satisfy the whole of Northern Liao. So, Xie Boan took office.
Xie Bo'an has a calm personality, and after mastering the army, he does not rush forward, but attacks and advances layer by layer, taking advantage of his own military superiority, forcing the tribal alliance to constantly make a choice: either concentrate your forces to fight, or you will retreat...... At one point, he suppressed the stones of the tribal alliance. However, at this time, a depressing thing happened, and a force from Yicheng from Dongping landed on the coast of more than 200 miles southeast of Yanjing, and once captured four or five towns, and there was a situation of holding on and waiting for reinforcements. This can scare the officials of Yanjing, large and small, if Yanjing loses, or in addition to the current two-front battle, and then let Dongping open up all the way, then this battle will not be able to fight. Northern Liao immediately gathered forces to counterattack, and finally made Dongping retreat, and the landing army boarded the ship and returned. Except for plundering the treasury of a few towns that were not rich, it did not cause much damage. But since then, an elite force with a size of about 20,000 people and a strong emphasis on mobility has stayed in this area. And in this army, there are 6,000 of the most elite and skilled soldiers, who were drawn from Xie Boan.
Without such an arrow unit, Xie Boan was depressed for a long time. But after all, his forces have the advantage, and he is still fighting with the tribal alliance around Tianmeng City. In terms of casualty ratio, the tribal alliance has a relatively obvious advantage, but Xie Boan doesn't care, he just wants to see how much blood the tribal alliance can shed, and he believes that if he takes a little more time, he will definitely be able to take Tianmeng City. But at this time, Ye Tao came.
Xie Boan arranged the airship team to prepare for interception, but in fact, it was just the proper meaning of the question. In the past, it was okay to have no airship, but now that there is an airship, you can't let your airspace let the other party come and go at will, right? However, I didn't expect Ye Tao not to leave, and in just one month, he brought in so many troops. The troop movements of Dongping, especially the movements of these great clan soldiers, could not hide the many secret spies of Northern Liao in Dongping, and a large number of elite hedgehogs gathered in the northeast of Northern Liao, so that Xie Bo'an, who was still relatively sure of the war situation, was in danger of collapsing at any time.
"What did Your Majesty say?" Seeing Dong Liushui, the deputy who hurriedly ran into the military tent with a copper herald, Xie Boan hurriedly asked. The messenger box, ever since passwords became popular, has become a mere formality. Dong Liushui must have translated the military order before he came in to find him.
"Your Majesty will give us another 30,000 troops. But...... The rest is only encouragement. Winter Flowing Water sighed.
Xie Boan also let out a long sigh. Thirty thousand...... This is 30,000 troops pieced together, can the combat effectiveness be reliable? Although the Dongping side is also under the command of Ye Tao, is that a concept? What is newly added in Ye Tao's hands is the elite of the elite, and the clan soldiers of the major families are not raised to play, they are all the faces of the various families.
"Let the two generals, Yan Dan and Jiao Lumin, come to see me." Xie Boan didn't say anything, he walked briskly back and forth in the military tent, as if he had decided something, and his originally anxious expression was relieved. Dong Liushui felt a little strange, but he still responded loudly and quickly passed it through.
Yan Dan and Jiao Lumin have just returned from the front line to where Xie Boan's Chinese army is located, and the two of them are in command of the central and western routes respectively, and they are fulfilling their duties, so they can be said to be Xie Boan's right-hand men. Xie Boan has always been very satisfied with these two generals belonging to the Yulin Army and the Eastern Route Army. You know, these two people are not his direct ...... But obeying his military orders is never compromised.
Yan Dan and Jiao Lumin soon came to the Chinese military tent, and they were both called up again after they fell asleep, but they knew that the military situation was urgent, but they had no complaints.
Yan Dan arched his hand and asked, "Dashuai, summon us and others, what are your orders?" ”
"See for yourself." Xie Boan handed the general order to the two of them. A lot of words of encouragement really have no effect on generals like them who lead their troops to rush to the front line. The only useful thing is to see that there are 30,000 reinforcements.
Jiao Lumin shook his head: "Dashuai, 30,000 people...... This...... It doesn't seem to be enough. Our current style of play is still very effective, but Ye Tao has made it impossible to carry out our original tactics. If you want to face the ground head-on, if it is also 30,000, the winning rate on our side is less than 30%. ”
Xie Boan smiled bitterly and said, "Why don't I know? However, there is no way, the Yunzhou army is advancing day by day, and General Gao is also fighting very hard. The Western Route Army could not mobilize troops to support the Eastern Route, and we could only rely on ourselves. Xie Boan paused and said, "We still maintain our superiority in troops, and we still have a two-to-one advantage...... If we continue to fight like we are now, I am afraid that there will be no good results. I want to ask you...... In three days, apart from the feints left behind on the front line, how many troops can you pull out and assemble into the army? ”
As soon as Xie Bo'an said this, the two were dumbfounded, but Yan Dan immediately reacted, and Xie Boan began to adjust his combat methods. He finally decided to conduct a strategic decisive battle with the two armies of the tribe, prepared to gather troops, and forced his attack all the way.
At this time, Ye Tao was playing chess with Tan Weiran and Chi Lei in the large room on the top floor of the top floor that Tianmeng City had specially set aside for him.
"It's been a long time since I've been so leisurely, but I didn't expect it to be at this time, it seems that my father said that you can always make yourself comfortable, and it's really true." Although they were playing chess, they were still using marching chess to deduce the situation around Tianmeng City, although those data were virtual, but with their current understanding of the strength of the two sides, the data they set was not much different from the actual situation.
"Since you're here, and it looks like you can't leave for a short time, it's naturally more comfortable." Ye Tao has no opinion on Tan Weiran or even the conversationist's evaluation of himself. "Isn't Your Majesty himself now?"
Tan Weiran smiled and didn't say anything. Tan Xiaopei himself sometimes complains, and now he is less and less like a soldier. Of course, no one will take his words too seriously, talk about Xiaopei, but he doesn't need to be a soldier at all, he needs to be a strong and steady monarch now, unlike a soldier, that's right.
After Ye Tao decided to stay in Tianmeng City, he took out the toolbox and customized a full set of comfortable beds, tables and chairs for himself based on local materials. Coupled with the wind turbines that were later transported from Yicheng, Ye Tao's room soon became a standard for comfortable living. Of course, for most people, it's just a hot eye, the clan leaders take it for granted that Ye Tao enjoys the highest quality of life, Tan Weiran and Chi Lei have to go to the front line to command the troops, but they have no opinion, every time they go back to Tianmeng City, they will come here, drink tea and play chess with Ye Tao, and dissipate the tension and depression caused by the war. Although the battle was in full swing, since several commanders were in such a good situation, and the whole army was also infected, the atmosphere was actually so relaxed, which also surprised Tan Weiran and Chi Lei. Ye Tao's value as a coach is fully reflected in this item alone.
"Xie Boan's courage will not be smaller than mine, how do you know that he will not dare to come like this?" According to the recent mobilization of the Northern Liao military, it simulated the situation that the entire Northern Liao army concentrated on one road, stormed Tianmeng City, and abandoned the garrison in other directions. In this way, the situation of constantly breaking the raid war and movement warfare by taking advantage of the rapid movement of the tribal alliance army and the Dongping army and the strong combat power of individual soldiers was broken at once. "Lost the teacher and lost the land...... Of course, it is very ugly in the report to the lord of Northern Liao, but this is really effective. It is true that he has vacated a large area of land and a small garrison, but do we dare to take it? ”
Chi Lei and Tan Weiran were stunned for a moment. Needless to say, Chi Lei, the number one scout in the world, still has such and such doubts about frontal combat, and he doesn't think it's cost-effective, and he won't estimate that he will be put in a dangerous situation unless it is necessary. Fighting a battle with inferior forces is such a dangerous and uncost-effective situation.
"So what do we do? Tianmeng City has not finished tossing the city wall now, so there is no way to defend it. Tan Weiran scratched his head, looking helpless.
"It's okay, defensive operations...... Seems like I'm a little more familiar than you guys. Don't forget, I started by defending the city. Ye Tao smiled and said, "At the beginning, I did a good job in White Rock City." ”
"You're not kidding?" Chi Lei asked with a painful grunt.
"Of course not...... In fact, this battle must be fought early and late. Conquering the hearts of the tribes, very simply, is to prove our strength, this time, it's the opportunity. We have calculated the combat power, and in terms of pure combat power, we are not at a disadvantage. So, let's fight. After winning the war, the overall situation of this road has been decided, and we can cooperate with the frontal battlefield to march into Yanjing. I believe that Northern Liao will not be able to cobble together many troops to stop us. True, the losses may not be small, but it depends on our command, organization and preparation......"
Tan Weiran suddenly came back to his senses and asked, "You come to command?" If I let my father know, I will be the first to be beaten......"
Ye Tao smiled and said, "If you win, it's fine." ”
Seeing that Tan Weiran and Ye Tao were still full of doubts, Ye Tao stood up, sighed and said, "Since I'm here now, let me make this decision." Whether it's to show strength or decide the outcome of the battle, this battle, we're going to fight. We have to let Beiliao know that we are the one who decides the battle, and we ...... It is still the side that decides the fate of Northern Liao, not the other way around. ”
Hearing Ye Tao say this, Tan Weiran and Chi Lei finally nodded. Ye Tao's last words still moved them, yes, they are the one who wants to destroy Northern Liao as a country, they must have such determination.
"Of course, there are still off-board moves, and you don't have to worry about the main direction of attack. Wait a moment to send out the telegram of my decision, Dai Yun will naturally strengthen the frontal offensive when he sees it, lest we have to face a similar situation after a battle. We still have this tacit understanding. In addition, since Xie Boan dared to abandon unimportant areas to concentrate troops...... Then, in Yanjing, you should also get some trouble for him. Although we dare not say that we can affect the situation of the Northern Liao Dynasty now, the direction of Yanjing's remarks is indeed on our side. ”