Chapter 782: Bluffing
The Bracada army was actively preparing for the Entagrean army under the command of Trosa, and the side of King Jing Ling** finally escaped from the pursuit of the Entagrean army and fled back to the command of Gru in the Sasio camp, of course, it was not idle.
The two sides joined forces to suspend the offensive against Ghostwind City and wait for the Sasio region.
Gru has no problem with Trosa's strategy of wanting to confront the Entagrean army head-on in the Sasso region, because this is indeed a fairly wise decision, at least in the current situation of insufficient intelligence, rash and rash action is really not a good choice, even so, it is not a bad idea to stay in the Sasio region and wait and see the movements of the Entagrean army, and adapt to the situation.
However, although he was as calm as usual on the surface, and he calmly coped with sudden situations, Gru was actually extremely frustrated at this time.
It had been a long time since he had tasted such failure.
Although his plan has been repeatedly sabotaged due to such and such unexpected circumstances, and the progress has been extremely unsmooth, it can also be called a failure, but that failure Gru does not care.
Because those failures were not caused by his mistakes, including the surprise attack on the forests of Turalone by the Ntagrei army, he foresaw the situation early on, and deliberately waited and watched, without reminding Parson in time, although the situation turned out a little unexpectedly, but in the end, he still benefited a lot from this incident.
But this time it was different, and he didn't know that the Entagri Empire had just appeared and the mobile portal could still be used like this, and he felt that he had completely lost to the Entagri Army in this Ji Feng.
Because he still can't understand the true intention of the Entagri Empire's operation, he can't understand the inconsistencies of the Entagri army, and because of this, he is misled, but he doesn't realize that this is actually just a very accidental coincidence.
In addition to not being able to see through the strategic intentions of his opponent, there was another incident that shocked Gru greatly.
Gru has always believed that the Entagri Empire has reached a limit due to its rapid expansion, and it urgently needs to recuperate, digest the current results, and consolidate its existing strength, and on this premise, he decided that the Entagri Empire does not want to expand its war in the Diya region and wants to fight a decisive battle.
It was precisely because of this that he disdained the Entagri Empire's so-called plan to increase the number of troops in Deya, and believed that the reinforcements sent by the other party actually had another purpose, and launched a sniper operation.
But the current situation has completely overturned these judgments.
The Entagre army actually attacked Diya with great fanfare, and also put on the appearance of an aggressive person who wanted to have a head-on decisive battle with the Jingling Kingdom and the Bracada Kingdom, and took the initiative to attack.
Does the Entagri Empire really have such strength?
Gru was a little unsure.
He developed a serious lack of confidence in his previous judgments, and as a result, he lost the judgment he should have about the current situation.
Now he may have misjudged from the beginning, so Gru felt that this time he had lost, and the defeat was quite complete, and the defeat was speechless.
Gru is not a person who can't face his failure, but this failure really made him feel extremely unhappy.
However, if Gru could know the true thoughts of Jian Chen, who had contributed to all this at this time, I was afraid that he would become even more unhappy.
Because strictly speaking, the decision made by Jian Chen this time was just a trick.
The advent of a new movable magic sigil device and the prospect of solving the food problem have made him re-look at the war in the Diya region from another angle, and as a result, he has a new understanding and makes an extremely bold, even risky, decision.
For a long time, in Diya's war, Jian Chen's biggest headache was how to safely and quickly bring the academic necromancer and the Deya big-eared monster clan to the Entagri Empire.
Previously, his idea was to secretly use a one-way magic portal to quietly pick people up from Yin Wind Fort before the enemy could react, and then try to retreat.
However, this plan was undoubtedly a failure, and the sniper operation jointly launched by the Jing Spirit King** and the Bracada Army made it impossible for Jian Chen to take away the academic necromancer and the Dya Big-Eared Monster Clan without anyone knowing, even if Chen Jian was able to use the last resort, even if he could safely send the movable magic imprint device to Yin Wind Castle without anyone knowing, because the fact that the Entagri Empire had the ability to build a magic portal between the two places had been exposed.
Under such circumstances, Jian Chen felt that it would be unwise for him to insist on only sending a small number of troops into Diya, because the enemy's actions had made one thing quite clear, that is, whether it was the Jingling Kingdom or the Bracada Kingdom, they were not willing to watch the Entagri army retreat from Diya so easily, they hoped to contain the Entagri Empire in the Diya region, and they wanted to expand the war if it was not good.
Of course, the real situation is not like this, the reason why the Jing Spirit Kingdom and the Bracada Kingdom sniped at the Entagri army that secretly escorted the movable magic mark device, the fundamental reason was due to Gru's miscalculation, thinking that this was a great opportunity to intercept Tren, a key person in the Entagri Empire's use of one-way magic portals, and not as Chen Jian thought, he saw through the fact that the Entagri Empire was now strong and powerful, and wanted to drag the Entagri Empire into the quagmire of war in Diya. In order to play the pace of the exhibition of the 1un Entagri Empire.
This is just a misunderstanding composed of various coincidences and accidents, but of course Chen Jian didn't know about this misunderstanding, so he was very worried.
He was very worried about whether the enemy had seen through the real situation of the Entagri Empire at this time, he was very worried about whether the enemy had understood that the Entagri Empire could not afford to fight a big battle now, and he was even more worried that the enemy would launch further actions because of this, not only fighting against the Entagrui army in the Diya area, so that the Entagrui army could not smoothly withdraw from Diya, but also might burn the war to the long border line of the Entagri Empire, and have a full-scale war with the Entagri Empire.
If this really happened, then Chen Jian Ke would really cry, because even if he could collect the kind of grain he expected from the people, the Ntagrui Empire would not be able to fight a full-scale war now.
However, he is about to start a plan to collect grain from the people, and of course this plan cannot be hidden, so that the fact that the Ntagri Empire is short of food will also be publicly exposed.
This is simply telling the enemy, come and fight me, I'm weak now, don't miss the great opportunity to pass by, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and there will be no such shop in this village
All of this prompted Chen Jian to change his established strategy.
Chen Jian's chosen approach was to retreat and bluff.
He wants to confuse the enemy's sight.
So he not only sent an army of 150,000 to kill Dya without any warning and with great momentum, but also let Moriel, who is famous and the queen of the empire, personally take command.
He asked Morriel to unite the forces of the Entagri Empire in the Dia region, divided his troops into three routes, took the initiative to attack the combined forces of the Kingdom of Jing and the Kingdom of Bracada, and wrote a letter to the Lich King Sandru, intending to have limited cooperation with the dying necromancers.
As long as the people's grain is collected, even if the Ntagrui Empire can't afford to fight a full-scale war, but if it wants to fight a local war, it should still be possible, and Chen Jian is also open-minded, he wants to use this tough attitude to make the enemy unable to figure out the reality of the Ntagrui Empire, and then dare not act rashly.
Even if the war in the Diya region is delayed for a long time because of this, he will not hesitate to do it, for the current Entagri Empire, the local war that has been prolonged for a long time is thousands of times better than the outbreak of a full-scale war.
Avoiding the important is light, which is what it means.
And there are many benefits to doing so.
In this battle of Diya, the results are nothing more than three.
The Entagrean army was victorious, or the Entagre army was defeated, or the stalemate with the enemy formed a long standoff.
Naturally, there is nothing to say about defeat, but if the Ntagri army wins or forms a confrontation with the enemy, it will be of great benefit to the Ntagri Empire if the war is prolonged.
The Entagri army won, the Jing Spirit Kingdom and the Bracada Kingdom will inevitably be damaged in strength, and the battle situation will be stalemate, and the Jing Spirit Kingdom and the Bracada Kingdom will be held back by the Entagre Army in the Diya region.
Either of these outcomes would lead to two other outcomes, one would be for the necromancers to gain valuable respite, and the other would relieve the pressure on the Barbarian Kingdom of Krurod, which was surrounded by the Holy Alliance.
Then this will lead to the result that Jian Chen hoped for, that is, due to the containment of necromancers and barbarians, the Holy Alliance will not be able to go all out against the Ntagri Empire in the short term.
Although the necromancer and the Krurod Barbarian Kingdom are in a completely different position from the Entagri Empire in any aspect, they are friends and foes, but at this time, Chen Jian doesn't mind helping these two enemies at all, because the Entagri Empire needs time to become stronger, before that, let the necromancer and the barbarian be disgusted and disgusting The Holy Alliance, the biggest enemy of the Entagri Empire now, is to harm others and benefit himself, why not.
In a sense, Jian Chen is now using the war in Diya to stir up the situation in the entire Big 6, and he wants to use the war in Diya to drag the Holy Alliance for at least half a year, or more precisely, to drag the Bracada Kingdom, which has shown its amazing strength, and the Jing Spirit Kingdom, which is still fighting for half a year.
As for the Erathia Empire, Jian Chen was not too worried, and from the information fed back from all sides, he judged that the various messes left by Kendall were enough for Catherine to work for a while.
In this situation, Catherine may send a limited number of troops to help the Bracada Kingdom deal with the Krurod Kingdom, or enter the Diya region to participate in the war, but she will never be willing to let the weakened Erathia Empire and the powerful Entagre Empire start a big war again, even if she shows the true situation of the Entagre Empire, because once the war starts, the most likely outcome is that the Entagre Empire and the Erathia Empire will both lose, and others will reap the benefits of the fisherman, although the Holy Alliance has been reorganized, But this kind of thing of making a wedding dress for others, Catherine, who knows how to weigh the stakes, will certainly not do it.
Catherine's purpose is to revive the Erathian Empire, not to defeat the Entagri Empire and rejoin the Holy Alliance, but just a helpless move under the circumstances.
Half a year has passed, in the autumn, Chen Jian can breathe a sigh of relief, Negan's great reclamation continues, the Tuntian plan in the Ofer area is also in full swing, Tula Leone's production is also very rich, this year's autumn harvest as long as God is not nervous, the gratifying harvest can also be expected, as long as this half a year is carried through, the food problem will be alleviated to the greatest extent, other problems will be properly solved, and the strength of the Entagri Empire will go to a higher level.
When the time comes, who will the Entagri Empire be afraid of?
In the worst case, the Entagri Empire can also use this military operation in Dya to deter the Jing Spirit Kingdom and the Bracada Kingdom for a certain period of time, and buy enough time for the academic necromancer and the overpopulating Diya Big-eared Monster Clan to move safely before withdrawing their troops.
Of course, this result is not very good, but it can always minimize some losses, and it can also be regarded as a kind of calculation.
But then again, although Chen Jian's plan has many benefits, there are also many problems, and the biggest problem is naturally food.
Although Moriel had already sent 150,000 troops to enter Diya, in fact, when this decision was made, Chen Jian was still unsure whether the people really had a large amount of food as Temple said, and then how much he could collect.
However, Chen Jian has confidence in Tempe, Tempe is very self-aware, and she also knows the severity, she understands what she is good at and what she is not good at, so she does not ask about political affairs at all on weekdays, let alone give Chen Jian any advice on political affairs, this time she made an exception and put forward her own views on the food issue, although she said it lightly, but Chen Jian understood that Temple must have put in a lot of effort, with her own xing, she dared to say it, then she must have quite confidence and certainty.
It is precisely because of this that Jian Chen dared to make such an extremely risky decision as Bing Diya on the premise of Temp's suggestion.
However, of course, Jian Chen also started to act immediately, this matter is not a joke, once something goes wrong, the Engegree Army will stir up the situation in the big 6 in Diya, not to mention stirring up the situation of the big 6, it is possible to lose without a fight.
With Moryl personally in charge of Diya's side, Jian Chen didn't need to be too much to devote almost all of his efforts to the implementation of the food problem.
In order not to attract the attention of the enemy at this time, Chen Jian gave the early investigation work to Tian, and with the efforts of Robert and others, Tian has now spread its tentacles to all corners of the big 6, and it is even more ubiquitous in Negan, among which the peripheral personnel, the three sects and nine streams are all-encompassing, and it is easy to use them to find out the news of the people, and it is secretive.
Soon, all kinds of reports were reported from all over Negan like snowflakes, and after being summarized, they were transmitted to the Heavenly Headquarters in New Mig Fort, and then a team under the command of Robert himself summarized these reports again, and made a detailed report, which was sent to Chen Jian.
After reading this report, Chen Jian smiled, because the content of the report made him understand that he had made the right bet this time.
Temple's judgment was correct, and Negan folk did have a large amount of private grain stockpiles.
However, it takes a lot of effort to collect these grains, and it is also very methodical.
Chen Jian knew very well that if this matter was not done well, even if the grain was harvested, the situation would only unfold in the direction he did not want.
Therefore, he must not only collect this grain as soon as possible for the use of the country, but also be careful not to cause panic in the country because of this incident, and at the same time, he must not let the enemy know the true situation of the Entagri Empire because of this incident, at least, he must also make the enemy suspicious and worried, unable to make accurate judgments in time.
After thinking about it, Jian Chen felt that this matter really couldn't be handled by the official first, and after careful consideration, he finally came up with a plan.
He had people quietly find the patriarch of one of Negan's largest dngxue people's group, and it is worth mentioning that this dngxue people's patriarch is also an imperial councilor.
The name of the patriarch of the Dngxue people is called Demak.
Demak is now quite famous in the Ntagri Empire, and the reason why this is so is not because he is the patriarch of Negan's largest dngxue ethnic group, nor because he is a councilor of the Ntagrui Empire, but because when Chen Jian pacified Negan, the patriarch of the Dngxue people was very wise to raise his clan to support Chen Jian early, and after the war, he opened the clan's treasury and donated a sum of money to the Harmondale Race Alliance at that time. This approach is undoubtedly quite remarkable.
It is precisely because of this incident that Demark became one of the earliest parliamentarians of all ethnic groups, and once became the spokesperson of Negan dngxue people in the alliance, and now although due to Chen Jian's reform, the alliance has become an empire, the number of councilors has increased a lot, and there are many dngxue councilors, but his position is still unshakable.
His Majesty the Great Emperor summoned him, and after becoming an imperial councilor, in order to facilitate the convenience of Demak, who had been living in MiG City, of course, he didn't say a word, and immediately followed the secret envoy sent by Chen Jian to the New Mig Fort in the middle of the night that day.
He stayed in Jian Chen's study for a long time, and after he came out, on the way home, the face of the patriarch of the dngxue people was full of smiles, and his big mouth barely grinned at the back of his head.