Chapter 334: Confrontation

At this time, Beiliao could only contact Hengzhou through some dead soldiers who came out of the mountain and bypassed the blockade of the Dongping army, and the Hengzhou garrison repeatedly impacted, and was blocked by the forbidden army led by Tan Xiaopei himself at the exit of Hengzhou, without an inch, but also let Tan Xiaopei seize the opportunity to enter Hengzhou, greatly advancing Tan Xiaopei's schedule. The advance of the two flanks of the Zhenbei Pass defenders and the Blood Qi Army and the breakthrough of the Tianxuan Army in the middle also made considerable progress. However, both sides were on the verge of fought.

Beiliao, who originally wanted to capture Zhenbei Pass, was preemptively attacked by Dongping and defeated Hengzhou, which was a great shame. However, with the inward extension of the battle line, the geographical advantage of the Northern Liao Army gradually emerged, and the Dongping Army had to invest a large number of troops in local governance. Otherwise, the resolute Northern Liao people could rise up at any time, harass the rear of Dongping, attack small forces, and attack supply convoys. Dongping really wanted to adopt a Huairou strategy against the areas occupied by the Northern Liao, but no matter how Huairou was, it had to be under the condition of ensuring the stability of the rule. The Tianxuan Army and the defenders of Zhenbei Pass should be spread out on the ground of Nuoda, and due to the unique geographical location of Hengzhou, in fact, the defense of Hengzhou and Zhenbei Pass is relatively first. It is impossible for the defenders of Zhenbei Pass to be heavily involved in the domination of the occupied areas, otherwise, they may really be attacked by the Northern Liao. At that time, without Dongping in Zhenbei Pass, even if he wanted to withdraw the military forces spread out in Hengzhou, he would not be able to do it. The Blood Qi Army and the Forbidden Army couldn't help much in this regard, they all came with Tan Xiaopei, and their mission was in Danyang. Taking these factors into account, Tan Xiaopei began to shrink his forces after winning some battles in a row and encountering several troubles that began to appear one after another.

Although Northern Liao wants to recapture Hengzhou, it does not have enough troops now. Now they can only watch Dongping try to dig the road from Dongping directly to Hengzhou, but they are powerless to interfere. When the Tianxuan army moved to the three formations of Heng'an and began to arm the three formations guarding the entrance of Hengzhou with Dongping's sergeant construction technology and heavy equipment, the high-level of the Northern Liao army knew that with the passage of time, it would become more and more impossible to recapture Hengzhou. On the other hand, with the end of the war in Zhenzhou and the continuous training and establishment of local garrison battalions and other troops in Zhenzhou, Yunzhou continued to withdraw troops from Zhenzhou. This time, Yunzhou's fast in and out, and the tactics of quickly capturing Zhenzhou surprised the people of the world, but it also added a little worry to the Northern Liao, which borders Yunzhou and has not yet taken control of the ground. The lord of the Northern Liao State had strictly ordered the Western Route Army to pay close attention to the movements in Yunzhou, and Gao Senqi had to return to the Western Front of Northern Liao with the Flying Tiger Battalion to prevent the Yunzhou Army and Zhenbeiguan, which had strong continuous combat capabilities, from attacking on the two routes. In that case, the raid that was now sabotaged by Dongping could really evolve into a dynastic war of life and death. To be honest, although the people of Northern Liao are resolute, they are still quite unconfident in the face of Dongping, especially after Ye Tao's airship team appeared on the battlefield, they are more and more unable to understand how far Dongping's military technology has developed. The equipment is inferior to the people, the morale is not as good as the people, the training is not as good as the people, and even the generals are not as good as the people, not to mention the grain and straw reserve base that has always been relatively weak in Northern Liao.

When everyone was facing all kinds of difficulties, everyone invariably stopped the pace of war. They stopped at the edge of the Line of Actual Control, and after that, naturally, scouts and small groups of troops from the two countries harassed and attacked each other endlessly, turning the entire Line of Actual Control into a "national theater of operations" twice, but large-scale military operations stopped. Whether it is Yunzhou, Zhenzhou or Hengzhou, there is too much lack of magistrates. Yunzhou is okay, there are still a large number of outstanding children of the local family can be recruited, but Zhenzhou is miserable, the land is vast and sparsely populated, many villages have been requisitioned or migrated, they are all poor people who have not read, and only the governor of Zhenzhou can appoint magistrates. For this alone, Rudan was exhausted. Fortunately, there are many students under Huang Xuping, and many people see Huang Xuping's face, so they follow Lu Dan to Zhenzhou, and do some pioneering work under the rule of Yunzhou.

Hengzhou, on the other hand, presents another style. After Xue Yuan took over the post of governor of Hengzhou, he did not even lift the control of Hengzhou, but continued to adopt a relatively high-pressure strategy, he requisitioned a lot of people from the local area to build roads, and also stipulated the planting structure of the fields of the local gentry and wealthy households, and even directly crossed the mediation of this class and the low-level people, taught them more advanced agricultural knowledge, and even directly sent the rations during the grain shortage period to everyone's home. These are all behaviors that greatly offend the local family, but Xue Yuan can't control it so much. Otherwise, he would not be able to manage the entire Hengzhou while rectifying military affairs at the front, even if Qiu Haohui shared a lot of work for him. However, this kind of thing of putting aside the family and facing the people directly, without asking the other party to appreciate much, but really improving the lives of the people, quickly won the understanding and support of many local people. Many people began to secretly discuss the difference between the governor of Hengzhou from Dongping and the previous governors of Northern Liao, and everyone said that Xue Yuan, this guy is disgusting and kind, and he is still very good; And the general stationed in Daning is even more of a strange character, with a gorgeous set of armor......

Now, in fact, it is Qiu Haohui who is leading the troops at the front to actively engage in friction with the Northern Liao army, constantly adjusting various combat plans to keep himself from suffering. Qiu Haohui is not very good at this kind of work, after all, compared to those veterans who have been in the army for decades, he is far inferior to Xue Yuan in the details of this kind of thing, but Qiu Haohui at this time has played his characteristics as a general who is good at learning, in any aspect, as long as he suffers a loss, he will definitely not do it again. When the situation reached Yunzhou, Ye Tao was very similar to sending him a sentence: you can't use the same move twice against the Saint Seiya......

Compared with Zhenzhou and Hengzhou, which were in a hurry, Yunzhou initially solved the problem of official shortage because it accepted a group of original "Xiuyuan disciples" to become officials. Compared with Zhenzhou, which only followed Yunzhou's strategy for a few years, and Hengzhou, which followed the traditional system inherent in Dongping, the governance of Yunzhou was quite cumbersome, with clear functions and powers of various institutions, and cross-cooperation between them was also carried out very well, but this cumbersome governance required a larger bureaucratic system to carry out.

In terms of military affairs, Yunzhou is even more abundant. Although after the battle in Zhenzhou, the casualty figure was quite considerable, and it took a considerable amount of time for the new recruits to meet the qualification standards, but at this moment Yunzhou has this time. From the beginning of the war to the defeat of Jiang Xujing and the capture of Zhenzhou, in less than two months, Xiling's only response was to urgently transfer troops from Zhongzhou to supplement Taizhou and form a new defense line. And when Xiling entangled the army and prepared to counterattack Zhenzhou, he happened to encounter Chunnan's force, Liankejian City, and almost reached the Da Nan Pass. Xiling had no choice but to let the troops preparing to go north go south. The Dongping army is still doing all kinds of actions at Xunshan Pass, so that on the central axis from south to north, the military strength must also be arranged in the middle position. Otherwise, if there is another problem here in Xunshan Pass, Rao is Xiling is strong national strength will also make a disgrace.

Xiling's south is tight and the north is loose, and there is no way to acquiesce in Yunzhou's occupation of Zhenzhou. Chunnan has been bullied by Xiling for many years, and Xiling has cut off one piece of land after another from the land piecemeal, and even Tong Bingwen used Chunnan to withdraw troops back to China when he failed to attack Dongping, which is a huge shame for Chunnan. And Xiling's battle against Chunnan does not seem to be like the battle against Dongping, which only points the front of the troops to the opponent's strategic points and troops, and does not involve anything else. The Xiling army was afraid that Dongping would adopt the same strategy to retaliate, but they had no such scruples about Chunnan. The feud between the two countries is so deep.

And this time, Chen Xujing not only had hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers in his hands that had been prepared for a long time, sufficient supplies and high morale, but also the strong containment of the ally Dongping. When the troops were dispatched in Yunzhou, Chen Xujing was in ecstasy. He didn't expect that Yunzhou would not move, and he would be shocked to defeat the Zhenbei Military Division in such a short period of time. Although Yunzhou immediately relieved the pressure on Xiling, in the two months that Xiling was worried about at both ends and could not fully take care of it, Chen Xujing's army really fought several beautiful battles.

However, this southern front is different from the beautiful tactics fought by the Zhenzhou side by relying on the strong mobility of the cavalry and the terrifying speed of the cavalry of all the Yunzhou armies. The generals under Chen Xujing had already been angry, and after pulling out towns one after another, there had been a looting of the city, but Chen Xujing did not care. After decades of occupation and domination, Xiling has long since turned these places into its own territory. Those remnants who are committed to Chunnan are old and dead, and those who are educated by the family "We are Chunnan people", who want to see through but can't wait for Chunnan's army to counterattack, but instead watch Chunnan retreat one after another, and the second generation whose borders are getting farther and farther away from them, many people hate the Chunnan army more than those Xiling people who migrated over because of disappointment and anger, not only do not help, but also often report to the enemy. It is true that it was Chunnan's fault that led to this tragic situation, but Chen Xujing could not take this kind of detailed situation into account at the first time, what he had to do was to attack and attack again.

When Chen Xujing learned that Yunzhou had taken Zhenzhou and had gradually returned to defense except for a part of the troops guarding Xiling, he had already made full use of the two months to capture a series of strategic key points such as Fujiang, Zening, Wayaoji, Liyang, and Ciyang. As long as he takes Aiyang, the southern important town of Xiling, then the Great South Pass will be exposed in front of Chen Xujing's eyes. He really had to rely on his life to build a victory in the Great South Pass, but even this kind of sacrifice had already been prepared in the hearts of everyone from top to bottom in Chunnan. The nickname of "Great Difficulty" in Da Nanguan is not for nothing.