Chapter 515: Confused Battle

A series of events surrounding the airship, handing over the same materials to Danyang, and letting Tan Xiaopei look at it, just followed the routine. In case of emergency, the Governor's Office adjacent to Northern Liao may make temporary mediation, but it must be reported to the Imperial Court and the Northern Xinjiang Economic and Strategic Government...... This is something that Tan Xiaopei has emphasized on several occasions at recent court meetings. As Ye Tao turned the original torrent offensive into a confrontation that was now constantly accumulating strength, some reckless people who didn't understand the taste of it impeached Ye Tao with a heart of disobedience. And Tan Xiaopei flew to Zhongjun Town to visit his grandson, and had a brief discussion with Ye Tao about the battle situation, and emphasized Ye Tao's jurisdiction in the court several times, and finally let everyone see the intimacy, tacit understanding and trust between their strange group of monarchs and ministers.

Nie Rui of the Intelligence Bureau was also quite satisfied with this situation, although there were many tasks on the part of the Intelligence Bureau, Ye Tao sent orders and mission books to him through telegrams, and arranged them through him, rather than asking to know the situation of those informants, but Ye Tao frankly told him about his arrangements in Beiliao, of course, it was limited to him. Only then did Nie Rui know that Kong Xinhua was such a hot figure, and the whole origin of those people around him. From that moment on, the Intelligence Bureau planned no less than 30 operations, large and small, around the cover for Kong Xinhua, and finally succeeded in seeing Kong Xinhua become a celebrity in Northern Liao after two clashes near Yanjing, and became an important link to be able to maintain close contact with the center of Northern Liao. Sometimes, Nie Rui felt that if Ye Tao concentrated on intelligence work, he was afraid that he would be much easier. Although on the surface, the Song family's business name and the Seven Seas Trading Company, Kyushu Trading Company and Ye's Workshop are fighting openly and secretly, and the Song family's business name has faintly become a pioneer in the technological innovation of various civilian products in Chunnan, but Nie Rui knows that in the Song family's workshop, there are twenty technicians from Ye's workshop, and there are no less than 100 craftsmen at all levels. The two Nanyang and Yazhou, which cannot be reached by the forces in Chunnan, have already begun very close cooperation and development. The Song family has many farms in the south, and the large-scale cultivation of tropical crops is much more familiar than the people brought by Ye Tao and Old Man Qi. In the Xiling Dynasty, Sun Boping, the head of the household department who is sensitive and important, has actually been subordinating to Ye Tao for many years, and the Thunder Yin Demon Sect has become an important civil force in Xiling, with religious enthusiasm and careful training, the Thunder Yin Demon Sect can even raise a team of 50,000 people in a short period of time, completely obeying the orders of the high-level priest group of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect. And these high priests ...... Thinking of these people, Nie Rui had a little headache, these people were more able to speak than one another, and each one was more demagogic than the other, but they were all side disciples who were taught by Ye Tao himself. It is conceivable that if it weren't for Ye Tao to take charge of the military and politics of Northern Xinjiang, he really didn't have that mental strength, if he did it himself, it would definitely be more exciting, and Xi Ling, I'm afraid that he would have the surname Ye unconsciously.

And this time the deployment of Northern Liao is also amazing, the timing of Kong Xinhua's appearance, as well as a series of things before and after, are ingenious and accurate, hitting the key point of Northern Liao. Northern Liao is afraid of Dongping's airship, but it is really not a day or two, and it is only appropriate to use airship technology to provoke their nerves. As the boss of the Intelligence Bureau, Nie Rui knew very well that the intelligence instructions from the north were much more professional than those from the imperial court. Moreover, intelligence is not a war, Nie Rui only understood this truth a few years after transferring from the military to the Intelligence Bureau, a lot of intelligence can not be obtained by being willing to sacrifice manpower, and a temporary sacrifice may not be exchanged for success, on the contrary, it may expose the entire network of hidden spies who have been lurking for a long time and support him. However, the mission letter of the Northern Xinjiang Economic Strategy Mansion has always given priority to the preservation of secret spies, listing what it wants to obtain first, what is second, and what it wants to get again, and if the other party does not leave any opportunities in these aspects, then at least what indirect information it hopes to provide for reference. Every time he thoroughly read the mission letter sent by Ye Tao, Nie Rui benefited a lot, and he learned more and more about the intelligence industry. And with Nie Rui's feedback and learning, now when the imperial court focuses on arranging intelligence matters for Chunnan and Xiling, it has also begun to consider long-term interests more, and will not be stalked on some trivial issues.

It's just that this time the mission book from Ye Tao really gave Nie Rui a headache. Ye Tao hoped that through him, an incident would be arranged on the southeast front, so that the Northern Liao side could obtain the relatively complete wreckage of an active military airship in Dongping, but would not allow the loss of crew. And the reason, Ye Tao also attached his own handwritten letter with the mission book, clarifying the intention of using the airship to consume the national strength of the three countries and divert their attention, Ye Tao clarified that at this stage of the operation, due to the various defects of the airship, in fact, it cannot bear the main force of the operation, and the battle must be solved by the ground in the final analysis. However, compared with Dongping, which can build a relatively large airship team with sufficient financial resources and low cost, for other countries, airships are definitely expensive and sophisticated high-end goods. For every additional airship that the enemy builds, at least one hundred soldiers will have to be provided with the necessary armament, money, and other attacks, and he can guarantee that Dongping will have no problem in air supremacy. Ye Tao didn't need such a earnest explanation, Nie Rui would do it. He's just worried that it's not beautiful to do it too deliberately. So, after some planning, he handed over this series of tasks to a group of people, and asked them to go to the northeast of Northern Liao, meet with Tan Weiran and Chi Lei, and let them arrange such a thing.

Tan Weiran suddenly encountered such a task, and it was also a lawsuit, but fortunately, he knew very well about the combat use of airships, and Chi Lei, as the number one scout in the world, was no stranger to the use of airships. After careful planning, they finally decided to put this task on the part of a recent major offensive. They were in full swing with the Eastern Route Army, and although the Eastern Route Army performed better than they expected, making it difficult for them to spread their territory and give their cavalry units that were not particularly numerous under their command plenty of room to move, but, on the whole, they did a good job. Since the Dongping Water Division brought a part of the infantry army to be able to guard the port pass well, they could concentrate on fighting the enemy in front of them, while the barbarian tribes were closely united around the two, and after obtaining a large number of weapons, the cavalry brigades of the northeastern tribes were built one by one. These tribes witnessed many skillful and heroic battles carried out by Tan Weiran and Chi Lei, who had come to support them through thousands of mountains and rivers, and felt the fine style of these soldiers in peacetime, and they admired Dongping's strength and demeanor more and more, and they were no longer satisfied with sending supplies to the army, but hoped to participate in the front-line operations. Before each cavalry team set out, the clan elders would specially tell them to absolutely obey the command of Tan Weiran and Chi Lei, they were very good at combat, and the bitter hatred for Northern Liao accumulated over many years and generations continued to be brought into play, and they were heroic in every battle. In fact, sometimes Tan Weiran and Chi Lei don't need them to fight so heroically at all, for the Dongping cavalry who are accustomed to the process of light cavalry movement warfare and reconnaissance, finding timing, and fatal blows, they often do not fight in front of the enemy's superior forces, but from the tribal cavalry into the battlefield to the present, they have used a brigade of 1,000 troops several times to resist the entire battalion of the Northern Liaodong Route Army, and the final result is not bad. There was even a time when reinforcements from both sides continued to join the battle group, and a small battle of 1,000 people finally evolved into a fierce battle between nearly 100,000 troops on both sides for two days, and both sides paid a heavy price.

The Eastern Route Army and the Yulin Army are naturally in a dilemma, and they are greatly annoyed by this war of attrition, but the tribes are ecstatic, and their losses are definitely not small, but with a large number of ordnance provided by Dongping, with a very torturous one-month short-term training, and with their strong fighting spirit from bitter hatred, they can actually fight like this with Northern Liao. For them, this is definitely a remarkable achievement. After that operation, the tribal side demanded to undertake more combat missions, and Tan Weiran and Chi Lei, who had the confidence, also began to gradually turn the previous small-scale attacks into mobile warfare interspersed with encirclement, and never gave up the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the enemy in a short period of time, and the battle was in full swing. At this time, they originally planned an airship offensive, preparing to rely on a total of twenty-seven airships that could only be used in a short period of time to carry out a large-scale air attack on the Eastern Route Army and the Yulin Army, and then take advantage of the chaos to launch an attack, at least another 20,000 Northern Liao troops. In such a battle, it is not difficult to let an airship "wreck" and then accidentally fall into the hands of the enemy.

Tan Weiran and Chi Lei are both very scheming guys, except for the necessary people, such as those airship crews and a team of personal soldiers who are responsible for picking them up and returning to the camp, they have not announced this to the army. Although the two of them mobilized four battalions in front and rear around rescuing the crew of the airship and preventing the wreckage of the airship from falling into the hands of the enemy, the battle was very confusing on both sides. Some middle- and low-ranking officers in Dongping couldn't help but sigh that the two adults were still a little rash and impulsive, so that the enemy slipped away at the last moment and fell short; Although they got the wreckage of the airship, another bombing during the transportation caused some damage to the parts of the airship, but they still transported the airship out of the war zone anyway, and sent it directly to Yanjing through a special route...... The commendation that followed made them feel that everything was worth it.