Chapter 35: Siege Network (3)
The meeting was adjourned for the time being, and the ministers were ordered to leave. With {dream} little ◢.1a Hao Kang went straight to the old lady's bedroom, saying that it was a dormitory, but it was actually a very ordinary house. It's just that the guards are ten times tighter than the houses of ordinary large families.
Seeing his younger brothers and sisters surrounding his mother, who was still pale, Hao Kang stepped forward and grabbed his mother's arm, and said in a tone as energetic as possible: "Mother, those pickled materials of the Kipchak Khanate have frightened you. I will go and destroy them. ”
Bao Xiwan looked at her son, her pale face showed a worried look, she held her son's hand, and asked uneasily: "Kang'er, are you going to war?" ”
"I didn't need to go into battle for those pickled spills yet, I just sent my men and horses to kill them. It's just that I'm busy these days, so I probably can't come to say hello. Hao Kang still said in a cheerful tone. There are more than 100,000 enemies, and I am afraid that the flames of war will still have to burn under the city of Kyiv. But none of this matters, the most important thing now is to appease the mother.
"Big brother, are you going to war?" Hao Kang's youngest sister grabbed Hao Kang's sleeve and asked in a milky voice.
Reaching out and gently pressing his sister's shoulder, Hao Kang smiled: "It's not about fighting, it's just going to kill the bad guys." It's okay. ”
After speaking, Hao Kang said to the second brother: "You are not allowed to go anywhere these days, just stay with your mother." Do you hear that? ”
"Brother, I'm going to help you kill the bad guys." The second brother expressed his attitude to Hao Kang with full sincerity.
"You little kid......" Hao Kang said to his younger brother, and after the words came out, he saw the second brother's face with a hurt expression. This made Hao Kang smile, "You are not old yet, and you will not be able to fight in a few years." Listen to me, stay with your mother, and don't go anywhere. If you stay with your mother, I will be relieved. Mother is also relieved. ”
Children are not sensible, but they know what war is all about. Seeing that her son, who was not yet twenty years old, was already an adult, Bao Xiweak didn't want Hao Kang to worry, she called her little daughter to her side, gently hugged her and said, "You let your eldest brother do things, and when your eldest brother wins the battle, I will tell you about the war." ”
"Mother, I also want to go to war." The second child said with the stubbornness of the child.
Hao Kang also came over at this age, and he was very dissatisfied with the immaturity of his second brother. He saluted Bao Xiweak and said loudly: "Mother, I'm going." After speaking, he turned around and strode out of Bao Xi's weak dormitory.
Back in the conference hall, Hao Kang thought about it again and again, and finally sat down on the main seat. This was his father's position and his mother's position, and now Hao Kang finally had the opportunity to sit on it. After sitting down, Hao Kang didn't feel any difference between this chair and his chair, and the hard wood was no different. It's just that the perspective of looking at the left and right civil and military forces is different, and no matter which column it is, it is clearly presented in front of you.
No one in the civil and military circles cared about Hao Kang's position change, and even if he had ideas, no one said it. The minister in charge of the army immediately reported the number of troops left behind in the Yuan State at this time, "The eldest prince, the king is exhausted." 100,000 people were taken away. Now there are only 8,000 serious government soldiers left. ”
This number made Hao Kang feel uneasy. The enemy has more than 100,000 soldiers, and Kyiv's elite soldiers are only 8,000, which is too big.
The minister of the Ministry of War continued: "Under our military service system, we can still find seven or eight thousand retired veterans. ”
"Can't some people find it?" Hao Kang is more concerned about the number of seven or eight thousand.
The minister of the Ministry of War hurriedly explained: "The veterans south of Kyiv can definitely be called, but we are not sure how many veterans there are south of Kyiv." ”
There are 7,000 veterans, and the total is only 15,000. Hao Kang was still uneasy in his heart. The Yuan State learned the system of the Great Song Dynasty and did not build city walls. The war relied on field warfare as much as possible, and as a last resort, fortifications were built outside the city to fend off the enemy. The Great Song army numbered about 600,000, and the front was north of Yinshan. The newspaper told about the hundreds of thousands of aliens they killed every year, and they were not worried at all that any alien race could kill the core area of the Great Song Dynasty. But the situation on Yuanguo's side was very different, and his brows couldn't help frowning. Fifteen thousand people, presumably only able to defend Kyiv.
Shang Shu of the Ministry of Civil Affairs saw Hao Kang's expression and immediately spoke, "Great Prince, we can recruit reserves. ”
"How many people can there be?" Hao Kang hurriedly asked.
"It's hard to say...... Ministry of Civil Affairs replied embarrassedly.