Chapter 586 (Third Update)
Song Guode Li Mu was like a tiger with wings, and the high-level core added tiger generals, forming a situation in which Wenchen and military generals were in full swing. Please search () to see the most complete! The fastest update
In terms of talent reserves, it seems that only Situ, Wen Jishi, Chu Fuyan, Jian Yuyan, and the domestic generals of Yan State form the core.
In terms of military strength, the Song State had trap camps, crossbow battalions, mechanical legions, and elite cavalry trained by Li Mu in the future. On the Yan side, cavalry is the mainstay, supplemented by infantry, and the Song army seems to be stronger in comparison of the strength of the two armies.
In terms of economy, the Song State itself had strong financial resources, and the chaebols were all over the vassal states, on the contrary, the Yan State built mule and horse markets and opened up discussions, so as to attract merchants from all over the world, and the economic revival was extremely fast.
At the same time, the savings of Zhao and Liang for hundreds of years were looted and abundant capital was accumulated, but in the long run, the financial strength of the Song State will continue to grow with the expansion of the chaebol, but the Yan State will gradually sit on the mountain and eat the empty mountain because of the continuous growth, and the Yan State will also be weaker than the Song State.
From a geographical point of view, the Song State traversed the central part of the north, blocking the connection between the north and the south, and if the Zheng State was captured, the power would extend to the Central Plains, and even expand to the south, with unlimited potential. After Yan annexed Zhao and seized Saiwai, it dominated the north, and its land area far exceeded that of Song.
As long as the Song State refuses to go south, the Yan State will be relegated to the north and have no future for development, unless it wants to go south, unless it starts a war with the Song State.
However, regardless of talent reserves, economic strength, military strength, or geographical location, the Song State was far stronger than the Yan State, so what qualifications did it have to start a war with the Song State.
Lin Shuying and Liu Zhuoya outlined a grand blueprint to Li Mu, intending to tell Li Mu that revenge was just around the corner.
As long as Li Mu cheers up, regroupes, and waits for revenge!
It is a loss that the monarchs and ministers of the Yan Kingdom are not in the military tent, otherwise, they will definitely reprimand Lin Shuying and Liu Zhuoya in person. Yan and Song were both northern superpowers, and both had the opportunity to annex the vassal states in the south and unify the vassal states.
At present, Lin Shuying's monarchs and ministers have degraded the Yan State to worthless, and they don't take the Yan army in their eyes, and in the future, if the Song State is defeated, wouldn't it prove that the two are boastful.
However, when Lin Shuying strongly persuaded Li Mu, the Yan troops were also not idle, performing their duties and not wanting to be left behind.
In the past, the land of Zhao State, which was rich in the north, was full of devastation, and hundreds of thousands of Yan cavalry were scattered all over the country, under the command of the generals, attacking cities and plundering land, and wantonly annexing the territory of Zhao State.
The land of Zhao Kingdom, wolf smoke everywhere, set off a bloody rain, six hundred years of rivers and mountains, wind and rain, at any time there are signs that the building will fall!
It can be expected that in the near future, Zhao will become the second vassal state in the north to be annexed by Yan after Jin.
During this period, Wang Lunyue and Murong Qiyan captured more than 30,000 tiger soldiers, passed through the intestines of the fish, left Luoyan Mountain, and entered the territory of Yangcheng County.
Avoid carrying unnecessary cumbersomeness, thus speeding up the Blue Feather Legion's march,
The two are not executioners, and in non-war times, they will not easily kill prisoners of war, as for the released prisoners of war, they will pass through the fish intestine again and go to the Song Kingdom, even if they have an idea, they can't realize it, leaving the fish intestine, the legion in order to prevent the Song army from crossing the fish intestine, laid dense traps in the mountain road.
Without a map of the traps in the palm of the legion's hands, casually crossing the gut of the fish will only increase casualties.
Fortunately, after persuasion and reasoning, half of the Tiger Ben Army stayed behind and joined the legion, and the other half were scattered in Yangcheng County, preparing to return to their hometown and no longer participate in the war.
After solving the problem of prisoners, the two led their troops to continue northward, and according to the previous agreement with Lin Feng, the most important thing for the Blue Feather Legion was to go to the east of Saiwai and pacify the Donghu tribe.
In this battle, the two planned to use the Donghu cavalry to train the Blue Feather Legion in battle, rapidly increase the actual combat experience of the legion, and strive to make the legion the leader in the Yan army.
Of course, during the march, the two did not forget to pay attention to the situation in Zhao State, and sent out spies in advance on the way to investigate the battle situation of the Yan army in various places, so as to predict the next deployment and plan of the Yan army.
Along the way, spies kept leaving, and spies sent back news.
The two learned that Lin Feng had a strict deployment in the south, and Feng Yi, Bai Yisheng, Heng Bangchang, Li Lin and others all led the legion to be stationed in the south and surrounded the Fengzixiu army in southern Xinjiang.
In the past, the two of them knew the situation of the Fengzixiu legion, but at this moment, the army was surrounded from all sides, their legion lacked food and grass, and the land of Zhao was all in chaos, and it was almost impossible to obtain grain and grass.
As long as it is held on for a long time, the Fengzixiu army will be defeated without a fight and disintegrate itself.
At this point, the two did not pay attention to the situation in southern Xinjiang, and the army quickly headed towards Qingyang County, and Handan City, not far from Qingyang County, was the focus of their attention.
If Handan City is the first to be broken, the rule of Zhao State falls, and Feng Zixiu in southern Xinjiang loses support, it is not impossible that he may defect to the Yan army.
If Handan City is held for a long time, the Yan army's attempt to use the momentum of thunder and a quick victory will be completely defeated, and the war against Zhao may become a protracted war, and Yan will inevitably consume more energy and financial resources.
In short, the battle of Handan City was a very important part of the war between Yan and Zhao, and it played a vital role in the next deployment of Yan.
It took seven or eight days for the Blue Feather Legion to pass through Yangcheng County, repair the pontoon bridges damaged by the war, and reach Qingyang County in the north.
Along the way, many people dragged their families and moved one after another, some planned to go to the Song State, and some were ready to go to the Yan State.
At the same time, the spies came back with more accurate news, since Qingyang County changed hands, Lin Xiaoshuai Lin Legion and Xinzhao troops directly pointed at Handan City.
At present, the army is about to successfully seize Mengcheng County, which is close to the west of Qingyang County, and send troops to Langxi County, with only 70,000 Beijing division guards among the opponents, no good generals, and no Zhao Mu, who has a minister.
Not to mention the devastating trend, but it is also easy.
Knowing the battle situation in Handan City, the two calculated that Handan City had fallen, and Lin Xiao continued to lead the army to advance westward, and next, it was time to annex the western front of Zhao State on the whole line.
On the two lines of southern Xinjiang and Handan City, if no accident happens, the victory of Yan State will be an ironclad thing. Therefore, what Yan really should spend time solving at present is not the troops of Zhao State, but the Xiongnu and Donghu tribes outside the Saiwai.
Only by completely solving the princely tribes of the Xiongnu, Borchi and Donghu, the Yan army can have no worries and go south to fight the arrogance of the Song State.
When the legion went straight to the north and passed through Qingyang County, it received news that the battle in Mengcheng County had become in full swing, sweeping through several counties on all sides.
In the Handan Palace, Zhao Mu turned into a frightened bird a few days ago, panicking all day long, not knowing how to solve it, and was about to arrive at the soldiers under Handan City.
The two couldn't help but chuckle, Li Mu led the army and couldn't escape, Yu Qianhang and Xu Wenhao suddenly disappeared without a trace when Handan City was in chaos, Zhao Mu really didn't dare to imagine how to deal with the Yan cavalry next.
More than a month later, Wang Lunyue and the two led their troops to Zhenyuan Pass.
At this moment, the troops stationed in Zhenyuanguan not only expected the 50,000 blade soldiers led by Lin Feng, but also hundreds of thousands of Yanguo cavalry such as Zhang Yu, Hou Mingfeng, Feng Shihu, and others who went south from the north.
The army of the Yan Kingdom gathered, and Zhenyuan Pass temporarily served as a fortress of the Yan army in the northwest region.
When they first arrived, Zhenyuan Pass, the two were ready to meet Lin Feng for a short time and went directly to the eastern front of Saiwai.
However, the unexpected change in the situation suddenly caught the two of them off guard, and they didn't know what was going on, causing all the legions that were supposed to be fighting outside the Seychelles to appear at Zhenyuan Pass.
After asking, Lin Feng later understood that the battle situation was changing very quickly, especially the Yan army went south and north, back and forth, delaying for more than two months, resulting in earth-shaking changes in the grassland as early as the appearance of the Yan army, and the Yan army failed to make preparations in time to avoid unnecessary casualties, and the various legions went south to gather in the Zhenyuanguan area.
According to Lin Feng's narration, Kaichun, Hou Mingfeng, and Feng Shihu led the ironclad cavalry into the grassland, hoping to divide the grassland in half, the western front was solved by Zhang Yu leading the light cavalry, and the eastern line was solved by Li Rao, who was stationed at the mouth of the tiger, and Wang Lunyue, who was about to arrive on the eastern front.
After waiting for Feng's two troops to successfully divide the Saiwai, the two troops advanced to the east and west lines respectively to assist the friendly forces in leveling the Saiwai.
However, it is not clear what the situation is, after the beginning of spring, when Hou Feng and the two led the iron cavalry to the Donghu royal court, I don't know if it was Borchi pulling the line, and the Xiongnu in the west actually took advantage of the freezing of the spring to migrate to the east of the grassland and arrived at the lush water and grass area of Malanpo.
Before the Xiongnu retreated to the west, Malanpo was an important grassland for the Xiongnu, and then it was occupied by Borchi.
At the same time, Borchi personally wrote a letter to the two princes in power in Donghu, Tallin and Tamu, hoping that when the Yan army went north, Donghu would unite regardless of previous suspicions, and in addition, he would turn war with the Xiongnu into a jade silk.
Borchi took the initiative to make peace and unite with the two princes, and the two princes did not hesitate and directly agreed to Borchi's request and led the tribe to move to Malanpo.
It is no wonder that Tallinn, Ta Mu will not hesitate to agree, just because at the end of last autumn, the Yan army attacked on two fronts, severely damaged the four princes of the Xiongnu, Tuoba Che, and defeated the death row troops under the command of Borchi, which can be said to have severely damaged the two major tribes outside the Saiwai in one fell swoop.
If it weren't for the early arrival of the heavy snow last winter, which led to the great victory of the Yan troops had to withdraw, many tribes in the steppe might have been wiped out of the territory last winter.
Before the beginning of spring, the grassland has not yet thawed, Borchi proposed to unite the grassland forces to fight against the Yan army, and the news spread, and the grassland tribes took action, ready to unite and huddle together for warmth.
The eldest prince Tallinn sent his right-hand man Zhuo Lige to recruit displaced people from various tribes in the steppe and work overtime to form cavalry.
The second prince, Ta Mu, began to collect grain and grass in various tribes, preparing to reserve it, and if the Yan army insisted on going north, he would have a protracted battle with the Yan army in the grassland.
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