Chapter 553 Wait and see

The turmoil in Xiling and Dongping's intervention naturally aroused the vigilance of Chunnan, but the Dongping army was waiting on the border, otherwise, Chunnan would have launched an offensive long ago. And now, the lord of Chunnan is constantly discussing with his ministers in the middle of the court how to deal with it more appropriately, and what the consequences will be if Chunnan takes the lead in attacking. Chunnan's current military strength has also accumulated to a certain limit, and if he keeps such a huge army for a long time, Chunnan will also be dragged down. After all, the current combat is different from before, and the era when everyone pulled a group of civilians, sent some weapons to round the battle, and relied on personal soldiers and a small number of elite troops to play various complex tactics at most, is gone forever. A highly trained professional army, a strict ratio of arms, sophisticated equipment, effective logistical support, all kinds of large-scale technical weapons, and even the reconnaissance and attack coordination of airships, which are becoming more and more indispensable now, have made the consumption of the same number of troops several times that before. Although Chunnan was wealthy, and now had a relatively strong and united central power, it could not sustain such a large consumption for a long time. Moreover, if the army is well trained and not used, the morale will continue to be depleted, which is also a serious problem.

But the development of events still did not surprise everyone at all. Trade has long ceased altogether, and any activity on the border will cause alarm on the other side's border troops. And around Jinzhou, the monitoring of the forces controlled by King Juxian is even more tense. After all, the armies that were not far apart from each other at least maintained harmony and friendship on the surface, but suddenly became an existence that was difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, and the generals on both sides could not help but be nervous. After several successive frictions, the Jinzhou and Chunnan armies fought first, and Dongping immediately entered a state of combat in an all-round way, although the deployment of different theaters has not yet been completed in place, but Dongping has been preparing for a long time, and they all have the advantage. A large number of troops immediately continued to move south from their original positions, and a full-scale war between the two countries began inadvertently.

The metropolitan governor Ye Tao is still in Xiling, and this matter of controlling the situation can only be taken by Tan Xiaopei himself, the first war zone was handed over to Yu Fuzhong, and the central war zone was handed over to Xue Yuan. However, Tan Xiaopei said that he was in control of the overall situation, but he was very blind to some of the businesses that Ye Tao was very familiar with, such as coordinating the country's military production and other businesses, although he still had a certain understanding of the system of Ye's Workshop, but he did not know much about professional knowledge such as production capacity and logistics. Tan Xiaopei has always been as good as a stream, and immediately urgently promoted Suo Yong and Suo Zheng brothers to enter the core staff team that controls and occupies, Suo Yong is in charge of production and quality, Suo Zheng is in charge of demand research and distribution, etc., there will be no quarrel between the two brothers, and Suo Yong is still Ye Tao's senior brother, although he has been a member of the Ministry of Engineering for several years, but the relationship with the workshop has not been thrown away at all. With these two brothers here, the problem of material production and distribution can basically be solved.

After the war with Chunnan, the most vigorous battle was the Central Theater. Although Tan Xiaopei was not able to command in person, but Chi Yun, Xue Yuan and other young generals performed extremely well, the central theater originally gathered a large number of elite troops, which was used as the main assault direction, Chi Yun was good at attacking, and the overall situation was strong, Xue Yuan was a defensive general, the two alternately dominated, on the one hand, they were advancing steadily, but they were constantly expanding too much, and the follow-up was weak, attracting the enemy to gather to attack, and then in the strong mobile defense, destroy the enemy. In less than a month, two rounds of this trick have been played, and the cooperation between the two has become more and more tacit.

And to the south of Chunnan, Yazhou's fleet was active along the coast of Chunnan all day long, which made Chunnan's side very annoying. I want to ignore it, but I am afraid of harassment from Yazhou, and the fleet dominated by the Tianwen ship, relying on powerful artillery, has caused huge losses to several ports in Chunnan. Chunnan's fleet is now the most advanced but the Huya ship, which has imported technology from Dongping to sweep it by itself, and the improved version of the Huya ship, the Huya ship with ballista and the divine arm bow as its main weapons, but it is not the opponent of the Tianjiao ship at all, and it can't even enter the range of those ballistae on the Huya ship, and it is always sunk at a considerable distance. The Yazhou side has started a new brain since it occupied this advantage, whether to advance the landing operation, and then transport all the artillery to the land for use, anyway, Chunnan has no sea control at all, and the sea is already at the mercy of Dongping, as long as it is enough to maintain a fast fleet of a certain size, other combat forces can be completely brought to the ground. Artillery can play a very obvious role in positional warfare and siege warfare, although the consumption of gunpowder and ammunition will be terrible, but the effect is much greater than the use of fire oil bombs and stone bullets. The fire oil bomb has power but no kinetic energy, and the kinetic energy of the stone bullet is okay, but it is almost not powerful, but the shooting of the artillery is both, and the shooting itself is full of power, which can cause great psychological pressure on the attacked party. Although Tan Xiaopei had not yet decided whether to approve of this battle plan, the Yazhou side had already begun to prepare gunpowder and artillery shells, and the fast fleet was also established as soon as possible, constantly cruising along the coast of Chunnan, destroying all enemy targets that might cause damage to the fleet. Chunnan does not have to rely on foreign trade to obtain strategic resources that it does not have, and the actual damage caused by this coastal harassment is not very large, but it is really embarrassing. Just thirty years ago, Chunnan could also exchange the technology of the Cangshui Ship and the Lianshui Ship with Dongping, and they had a huge advantage in navigation, but now, time has passed, and Chunnan has to ask Dongping's fleet if he wants to have a ship with a larger tonnage to sail in the sea. Thirty years ago, those high-spirited pipe belts are now all the characters that can be counted by the Chunnan Water Master, and they have personally experienced the changes from prosperity to extinction, which is more and more unbearable. Although Chunnan did not place the importance of the naval division in high regard, it was only second only to the army on the ground, and there was also a quarrel among the generals about what methods to take to prevent the pervasive attacks of Dongping on the coast. The coastline of Chunnan was so long that even if they all knew that Dongping's Yazhou troops would eventually have to land, they still couldn't imagine where to wait for this landing in order to effectively stop Dongping's invasion.

But Chunnan is not completely at a disadvantage, in the canal war zone, several veterans of Chunnan joined forces and fought steadily, making Tan Weiming miserable. The number of troops attached to the Canal Theater is not very strong, and it is mainly responsible for the supply coordination of the whole army. However, before the local administration was stabilized in the early stage, it was really difficult to find a perfect solution to the harassment and sabotage of the enemy. Chunnan was led by 35,000 cavalry led by 57-year-old Chen Jinkang as the main trunk, and constantly attacked at night. And every time Chen Jinkang launched an attack, the sixty-two-year-old Pang Yao, the fifty-four-year-old Ding Han, and the fifty-one-year-old Chen Cheng each led their troops and horses to launch a fairly large-scale attack at different times and places, even if they knew that the most critical blow of the other party still came from Chen Jinkang, but Tan Weiming could not help but divide his troops and rescue all the way. And although they are veterans, the battlefield wisdom and creativity shown by these people are far better than other generals in Chunnan, and they are not clichéd at all. After Chen Jinkang captured a mooring ground, although Dongping set fire to the airship that could not take off and destroyed it, Chen Jinkang still seized two complete sets of light boxes. They quickly copied a series of various light boxes, and also began to guide the airship for night attacks. And at night, air supremacy is completely unreliable, and no one can conduct an air battle. Tan Weiming did not have any omissions in command and disposal, and it can even be said that the command ability he showed was quite strong, while organizing a large number of material transportation and facility construction, and on the other hand, he had to constantly deal with the enemy's attacks and disturbances, and minimized the loss of materials and personnel as much as possible, and he also organized an endless stream of ambushes and counterattacks of different scales, and there were really a lot of Chunnan troops that were eliminated before and after, but the Canal Theater fell into this stalemate and began to gradually affect the progress of the Central Theater.

However, everyone has nothing to complain about, and the most tense situation now is not the Canal Theater or the Central Theater, but Xiling. Ye Tao and Dai Yun only had more than 10,000 direct troops in their hands, and the troops of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect were also extremely limited. After the Lei Yin Demon Sect and the army of Zhenzhou converged, they cemented together with Daoming Sect, attacking and defending each other, although they contained hundreds of thousands of Daoming Sect's military strength, but if they wanted to quickly break through the area controlled by Daoming Sect, it was impossible to give Ye Tao direct support. Although Dai Yun led the army to open the passage, contact various families, and gather military strength, it is really difficult to say what the final result will be. Ye Tao, Tan Weixin, and Dai Yun took an army of more than 10,000 to coordinate the Xiling Forbidden Army in their early 100,000s and the directly subordinate troops loyal to the royal family, but they had to face the family army and the alliance army of Daomingzong, which were indeed hostile to the Yin family, and the combined army was afraid that there would be more than 800,000. Every man must give full play to his strength, and every army and every battle must not be wasted...... This is the true portrayal of the situation that Ye Tao and the others need to face.

If the people who are worried about Ye Tao know how Ye Tao, Tan Weixin, and Dai Yun face such a situation with a relaxed attitude, I am afraid they will feel a little incredible. Ye Tao has never had the habit of complaining, and in the face of such pressure, he is not in a hurry to pace back and forth in the command post. Every morning, he would participate in the Xiling Dynasty meeting with Tan Weixin to discuss the current battle situation, and most of the rest of the time, he stayed in a luxurious garden just across the street from the Xiling Palace. This is also where Ye Tao's command post is located. He believed that Dai Yun would definitely be able to open up the situation with a limited number of troops, and he also believed that according to the previous deployment, the troops scattered to carry out different tasks would also complete the tasks and do an excellent job. Small victories can eventually add up to big enough victories to crush the enemy completely. Every day, in addition to constantly reviewing the messages from all sides, learning about the progress of all parties, and occasionally giving some instructions, he spent most of his time chatting and playing chess with Tan Weixin. The anxious Wenchen generals on Xiling's side often settled down because they saw Ye Tao and Tan Weixin's leisurely posture.

"Xin'er, the children are really happy in Yunzhou." A lengthy message arrived, and it took all the messages from morning to noon, and this message was completely plain. The content in it does not need to be kept secret, it is mainly about what those children did in Yunzhou, and it is fun to write and make people feel fun to watch.

"What's the matter?" Tan Weixin smiled, now her body is countless times better than when she first met Ye Tao, although she is still easily fatigued, it is naturally impossible to compare with Dai Yun or her sister Tan Weiying in terms of physical fitness, but she usually lives and behaves, and she can't tell that she is a patient at all. And the mood naturally improved with the body.

The second child was relieved of the little girl of the Huang family. I'm afraid that the little county lord of Xiling will have to become our daughter-in-law. Ye Tao picked up the content of the gossip and said it first. They never interfere with the communication between the children, but just find ways to create conditions for them and guide the children to become better and better people.

The little girl of the Huang family can always remind people of Dai Qiuyan back then. It seems that since she first saw Ip Manji, she fell in love with this brother who always had bits and pieces of fun gadgets on his body, and at that time, in order to keep this little girl from crying, Ip Manji gave a small porcelain cat that had just been made to the little girl of the Huang family. The little girl often ran to find Ip Manji, and Ip Manji couldn't help it when she was in Yunzhou, but once she arrived in Danyang, she came almost every day. Ip Man is not so idle, he spends a lot of time in the studio, doing experiments, making fun little things, and constantly honing his craft. The little girl's patience was surprisingly good, and she always stood aside and watched quietly, watching the clumps of dirt, pieces of wood and stone gradually change into all kinds of fun little things. The little girl can even hold back her curiosity and never disturb Ip Man's work, even if there is any problem, she will wait until Ip Manji is free to ask. At the beginning, Ye Wenji also felt very annoying, but the little girl was not noisy at all after all. And while he waited for the small kiln in the studio to bear fruit, for the hot metal to cool down, and for the moist materials to dry slowly, it was not bad for a cute little girl to talk. And this time, when the little girl of the Huang family continued to watch Ip Manji work in Yejiabao, Ip Manji asked the little girl to help get a tool for the first time...... Then, I started teaching the little girl pottery. It is said that at that time, in the studio, when Ip Manji said softly to the little girl: "Help me take the No. 4 wrench", the little girl was stunned for half a minute before she went in surprise. This little girl, who has an extremely quiet temperament, couldn't help but ask this and that when she was learning pottery, and according to the attendants present at the time, Ip Man was still very fond of the little girl. Ip Man Ji Ip Man Xuan brothers are both this virtue, they will not snub anyone, but it is not so easy for them to really treat people as friends and relatives.

What attracted Ip Man was the patience and calmness of the little girl of the Huang family. What attracted Ye Wenxuan was Yinying's sincerity, generosity and studiousness. Yin Ying has received the education of the Yin family since she was a child, although she is only so big, but she already has a good hand, and she is good at drawing. After she arrived in Yunzhou, she was dizzying, but she carefully made all kinds of records, recording the things she asked from various people around her. Then, if there is something you don't understand, ask again and again. The lady's attendant who followed her reminded her several times that it was useless to figure out these things. But Yinying said that she was really happy to understand this, and this has nothing to do with whether it is useful or not. This made Ye Wenxuan very impressed, Ye Tao told them that people always have to do something less useful. Instilling such an education from an early age also makes the children living in Yejiabao different from the children in other places.

"It's early...... It's a little bigger. Tan Weixin took the message, stacked it thickly, and read it slowly. But she was obviously a little dissatisfied with Ye Tao's assertion just now.

"In accordance with ...... The rules here, 12 or 13 years old to get married, right? Or, at least, both families have a plan. Ye Tao smiled and said, "The little girl of the Huang family is fine. If it's really Yinying who wants to come to our house...... It doesn't matter what happens to us, but externally, it takes years just to prepare the dowry. It's troublesome. ”

"What are you going to do?" It's hard to say whether Weixin's tone is vigilant or playful, maybe there are some of both.

"It's nothing, you see, after beating Xiling and Chunnan, I should be able to rest no matter how I recruit him. You should be able to rest for a long time. There is just the opportunity to build a few more gardens, and then it will be a dowry for the sons and daughters. The garden is still very interesting. In addition, since we are now the richest people in the world, there is so much money that there is no place to use it, and we can't use it. Otherwise, there will be saliva when you look back. This is something that needs to be thought through. Ye Tao said with great ease.

Ye Tao and Tan Weixin have long been deeply integrated into this era. I can't say that I don't have any adaptation to all kinds of things in this era, but I just feel that it always makes sense anyway. In terms of children's affairs, Ye Tao has no intention of confronting the times, especially in the current situation, it seems that there is no need to confront anything. The children and their children got along very well, which made Ye Tao, Tan Weixin, Tan Weiying and Dai Yun a little happy to see it. Why didn't Tan Xiaopei directly agree to Xiling when he asked for a kiss, so that his grandson and Yinying could settle down like that, but let the children cultivate their own feelings, partly because no matter how Tan Xiaopei is, he can't become a politician with a heart like stone. If Yinying marries into the Tan family, it is true that both the Yin family and the Tan family can feel at ease, and they will not worry about what will happen in the future, but Yinying doesn't know what will happen. Talking about Weiming, talking about Weiran's wife and their family, they all have deep roots and very strict rules. Tan Weiming is a serious and square person, Tan Weiran's status and status, plus he has been leading the army outside, he can completely ignore the faces of the elders in his wife's family, but if Yinying enters any family in the future, this daughter-in-law is not very good. And now, the relationship between Yin Ying and Ye Wenxuan has gradually become harmonious, which is a situation that everyone can accept. With the status of the Ye family and the relationship with the Tan family, if Yinying marries Ye Wenxuan a few years later, it will not be much different from marrying into the Tan family. And the atmosphere of the Ye family is very relaxed, and the life is superior, as long as the Yin family is not really in the brain, they will always hope that Yinying can achieve their goals and have a comfortable life. Ye Manxuan is first-class in terms of posture, character, and talent.

"Let's talk about this later, I haven't seen that little girl a few times, and it looks very good on paperwork. After all, it is the upbringing of the Xiling royal family, so it is not far off. Xiling has many sensible people, and he will not send a little girl who is not easy to get along with at this time. The Yin family...... It's different from the Chang family. Tan Weixin said with a smile. The last sentence is pure ridicule. Chunnan Changjia sent Chang Ling, which can be called the biggest failure in many years. Chang Ling is not there, and the two countries are purely concerned about interests, and perhaps they can say that the alliance will last longer, and there will be no hostility and bad feelings. Even if it is to attack Chunnan, Dongping may make better preparations, and maybe give Chunnan a few more years. But Chang Ling offended almost the entire high-level of Dongping, and the Dongping government and the opposition, even those who supported Chang Ling when someone proposed a plan to merge the two countries and let Tan Weiya succeed to the throne, really didn't have any good feelings for this person. If you want to come to Chunnan, there will not be many people who like Changling. There is a big difference between a successful affinity and a failed affinity.

"Lord Jinglue, Her Royal Highness the Princess, new military information." Feng Hao hurriedly rushed to the palace where Ye Tao and Tan Weixin were playing chess with the telegram, and it seemed that something terrible had happened.

Ye Tao took the message and glanced at it, and nodded. "Let's go, let's call a meeting."

"What's going on?"

"The Taizhou side fought fiercely, and it seems that it will not help us in the short term. But Dai Yun has good news. Ye Tao handed the message to Tan Weixin.

"Well, right now, that's good news." Tan Weixin felt a little headache.

The combined forces of Dai Yun and Fu Sinian have now gathered about 70,000 troops that can be used for sports warfare, and those clans have left a considerable amount of troops to defend, and Dai Yun has now mastered almost half of the state's territory. And when they urgently rescued the Xiong family's lair in the valley and was being besieged, they found that the Xiong family had gathered nearly 50,000 troops and was preparing for a counterattack. With Dai Yun and Fu Sinian added in and tossed, the siege of the Xiong family was naturally lifted. The Xiong family, who was already loyal to the Yin family, except for leaving 15,000 people to protect the lair, the rest of the army was handed over to Dai Yun's command. The army in Dai Yun's hands immediately exceeded 100,000. However, how many families have hidden their hands like this? To be able to afford so many clan soldiers, that is definitely a problem...... However, now does not seem to be the time to pursue it.