Chapter 1179: Preparing for War (1)
It can be said that An Xiaoyu's plan is actually not a secret in the Military Commission. The Eastern Wilderness Army has been training on a large scale, and the biggest target is the peninsula that doesn't even have a name. After all, who would have given names to the branches and foothills of the mountains? And this place is a geographical area that the empire can't wait to erase.
There is not even any record of this peninsula in the textbooks, a peninsula that an imperial man could never have known in his lifetime. Who would have thought that in this place, there are actually two alien tribes that have been left here since ancient times?
Not to mention that the people of the empire don't know, even the alien races rarely know, only the eight royal families and the most core higher races know that there are two such races that still live in the easternmost part of the empire. But what's the use of knowing it? Nor can they become alien forces to attack the Empire.
But An Xiaoyu doesn't care, she has to fight this place!
An alien is an alien, and there is nothing to say. Since it is an alien race, it is an existence that must be destroyed in the empire, these alien races have lived in the territory of the empire for a long time, and she is not worried about being afraid of the favor of the Heavenly Dao, the bad luck she carries on her own body is already the greatest, no matter how great the power is?
In this way, An Xiaoyu planned all the actions, and the training of the Eastern Wilderness was going on every day. And An Xiaoyu himself had already gone to the peninsula with the first few great cultivators in the army to carry out reconnaissance, intending to find out the situation on the peninsula, and he was well prepared when he acted.
It's no joke to go to war with an alien race in a place like this. The slightest mistake can lead to heavy losses due to unfamiliarity with the terrain. Aliens have lived in this place for tens of thousands of years or more, and it can be said that they are far more familiar with this land than humans, and any place can be a battlefield or an ambush circle.
In addition, the heavy weapons of the Eastern Wilderness Army are actually not too right, and the environmental requirements near Changshan are relatively high, so it is impossible to use artillery fire to cover all the main peninsulas. Hand-to-hand combat is a must, and in the mountains and forests, the alien side has an absolute advantage.
An Xiaoyu roughly swept the peninsula below, and all the creatures on the peninsula fell into her eyes. She had also heard of the above two races for a long time, one of them was called the Yamakaku clan, and the other was called the Yamate clan. The two races were separated according to the ridge, and each occupied the inevitable and northern side of the movement.
The Yamakaku clan had a large head and a thin body, and their bodies felt like reeds, with white skin and various reddish-brown patterns growing on it, like congealed blood. The more patterns, the higher their age and strength. The round head was covered with long brownish-red hairs, which hung on the face like a lion's mane, revealing a face as rough as a rock, with a nose facing the sky, two nostrils turned outward, large eyes, but no eyelids, and eyes open when sleeping. When the mouth is cracked, the fangs and three tongues inside can be seen.
The most important thing is that there is a single horn on the head of the Mountain Horn Clan, and the single horn presents a red and bright feeling, like a red iron block that glows slightly, with a metallic texture and heat. This is the core of the law of their release of fire, which is extremely lethal.
Because they love heat and light, they live on the south side of the ridge and can see the sun all day long. They rely on hunting and gathering for a living, often going to the sea to stealthily catch fish from the seawater, and after a conflict with the East China Sea Sea tribe, they fight fiercely.
Of course, most of these people in the vicinity of the Sea Clan are also their low-level existences, they do not have complete intelligence, only instinct exists, and if there is no leadership from the nobles, they will only live a chaotic life. It was these low-level beings who clashed with them mainly in Pinsuri, with the occasional large attack led by the nobility.
The Yamate clan is the opposite of the Yamakaku clan, they have a large body and a small head, and they are about the same size as the Yamakaku clan, but they live like a fat bamboo shoot. He has black skin on his body, and his whole body is black except for his hands and face. Even if they weren't black, they had a blue-gray bone mask on their faces, growing out of their flesh, and they couldn't see the expression on their faces at all.
The black skin also has blue-brown patterns, and the more patterns there are, the higher the age and strength. These patterns gradually converge on their hands, and their hands take on a crystal blue, like blue gemstones, emitting a faint light.
These hands of the Yamate clan, as the name suggests, are also the key to their law. They are good at the laws of water, especially the laws of ice, and can even turn their bodies into water vapor and disappear temporarily. Usually with their hands, the Horns do not need to eat, they only need water to live well, and they usually obtain rock materials from other parts of Changshan to build other components of their bodies except water.
It can be said that it is difficult to imagine that these two races, which are so different races, or even those of opposite natures, could live together. However, the cooperation between the two races dates back almost tens of thousands of years. At that time, they were already a symbiotic race that lived together.
On the one hand, it is because the laws of the two complement each other, and they can fully exert greater combat effectiveness. On the one hand, it is also because their IQ is not so high, and they are often coveted by other races, so they can support each other more or less when they are together.
And the reason why they are coveted by other races is the peculiarity of their bodies.
The horn of the Horn Clan, every once in a while, will fall off on its own, and then grow a new horn, otherwise the accumulation of laws will make the horn of the Horn Clan expand rapidly, swell to the point that the body can not support the huge, and finally drag the Horn Clan to death in place.
The Yamate people absorb the essence of the rock and use minerals to condense the body, but the minerals that have been metabolized in the body and carry familiar laws will fall off after renewal, forming a blue ore, and the laws of the water system contained in it are almost close to the pure laws of nature.
These two things are the things that other aliens covet. Whether it is the single horn of the Yamakaku clan or the ore crystal of the Yamate clan, they are rare treasures among the alien races. After taking it away, it can either be made into a weapon, or directly used to improve one's comprehension of the law, and the effect is very significant.
But these two races also need these two things for reproduction, and they can only perform rituals when the volume of the detached unicorn and blue crystals accumulates to a certain number. It is a very old ritual, so old that no race can know the origin of this ritual, or only the heavenly spirits.
The ritual forms of the Yamakaku and Yamate clans are similar, and the ultimate purpose is also the same. That is, these crystals are turned into the purest energy and infused into the body of a female of the right age. It won't be long before a new people will be born.
In other words, the unicorn and ore crystals they shed are not only the result of metabolism, but also the key to their reproduction. It's a long process. If you want to ensure the health and talent of your newborn, you need to accumulate enough energy.
In many cases, the strength of newborns can even directly reach the master realm, while females who do not have enough energy accumulation will eventually produce tribesmen with low strength, and even these newborns who lack energy may not reach the master realm in their lifetime.
As a result, in ancient times and ancient times, there were often battles between the Yamakaku and the Yamate clans, and some races even tried to imprison these two races, using their breeding methods to accumulate these unicorns and ores to train their own masters.
It is probably for this reason that the Yamakaku and Yamate tribes came to live on this peninsula at that time. This kind of place that can only be found across the entire Eastern Desert, except for the race that has lived in the desert in the first place, who cares?
And the desert races that are good at the laws of the wind and the laws of the earth will definitely not be greedy for their treasures. That's why they're completely living here. Although the combat effectiveness is good, he did not participate in the battle, but instead shrank up, and the whole clan fell into a deep sleep.
By the time they woke up, the Great War of All Races had ended, and then the empire found out that there were still two races here that had not been wiped out, and they were still living in the back of the empire? Then gradually they began to understand the history and habits of these two races, and judge the reasons for their existence here.
An Xiaoyu roughly sensed it and said, "The alien races on the island are about 80,000, the Yamate clan is relatively large, accounting for more than 40,000, and the Shanjiao clan occupies more than 30,000. It should be a restriction of the living environment, and the mountain horn people are limited by food. However, because there is not enough reproduction, the descendants of the Mountain Horn Clan are generally more talented and stronger, so their combat effectiveness is stronger. The Yamate clan, on the other hand, is large in number and uneven in overall strength. ”
This time, An Xiaoyu brought a total of four generals, who were the commanders of the four armies under her, because there was no need to call the mecha for this operation, so the mecha commander did not come. At present, the formation of the Eastern Wilderness Army is like this, about more than one million people, excluding logistics, clerks and engineers, and can be called to four armies.
Of course, the four army commanders are all outsiders, and they are not from the Eastern Wilderness at all. Although the Eastern Wilderness Army is composed of Eastern Wilderness people, the high-level generals are all outsiders. Some of them were generals appointed by the Military Commission, and some were old friends recruited by Si Mingyu, so they were directly recruited from other troops.
On the one hand, it is because the Eastern Wilderness Army has just been established, and there is no way to train generals by itself, after all, there is no military academy in the Eastern Wilderness. As for the requirements for the commanders of the army, the Imperial Army has always been the highest, and only the best generals can give full play to the advantages of the troops.
On the other hand, it is also because the development momentum of the Eastern Wilderness Army is too huge, coupled with the slogan that the Eastern Wilderness people are in charge of the affairs of the Eastern Wilderness, which makes the people in the imperial capital jealous. If it weren't for the fact that this team was pulled up by An Xiaoyu, they would have labeled the Eastern Wilderness Army as a split, would they have shouted slogans like this?
Therefore, in order to better manage the Eastern Wilderness Army, and also to restrain the Eastern Wilderness Army and let them not carry out any more crazy actions, the high-level managers have always been outsiders. However, An Xiaoyu also knows this, and the generals who were sent to the Eastern Wilderness Army have no previous convictions or bad deeds.
This is the result of Pei Hu's efforts, he knows that with An Xiaoyu's character, although the requirements for his subordinates are relaxed first, but once it touches the bottom line of the Eastern Wilderness and the empire, An Xiaoyu will never be soft. It can be seen from the incident between Huo Jiapan and Fei Rong at the beginning that they were assigned after a fight, although there was an intention to knock the mountain and shake the tiger in it, it also shows An Xiaoyu's decisiveness and resoluteness.
If the generals sent over have any stinky problems, An Xiaoyu will cut them with a knife, and then the orders of the Military Commission will be gone before anyone arrives, and they will have no way to reason. simply arranged a good general to come to the Eastern Wilderness seriously, but this is not necessarily really harmonious.
Of course, most of the generals sent to An Xiaoyu's side are newly sent generals, and they all have cultivation on their bodies, and the four army commanders are all masters of the master realm. According to the Empire's troop establishment, in addition to the Mecha Army and the garrison of the Four Realms, the garrisons in various parts of the country are numbered according to the unified arrangement of the Imperial Military Commission.
Generally, the empire is divided into five divisions, southeast, northwest, and middle, and the central part is composed of the imperial capital and the four guard provinces, which are considered to be very independent in the military system of the empire. Therefore, at the beginning, Wei Jingchang was just the commander of an imperial capital garrison, and he was able to stir up the storm everywhere in the empire and make so many things.
There are four provinces, each with twenty-five provinces, and according to the different provinces, the size of the garrison also varies, at least one army is a standing army, and some even reach three corps. After this general expansion of the empire, the ranks of the various provinces increased, and the number of standing armies in each province averaged three to four in the east.
According to the numbering, the four armies of the Eastern Wilderness Army were numbered from the Eastern Ninety-third Army to the Eastern Ninety-sixth Army. The commander of An Xiaoyu's command is also the commander of the East Ninety-third Army to the East Ninety-sixth Army. These four army commanders are now by An Xiaoyu's side, lurking over the peninsula under An Xiaoyu's shroud.
An Xiaoyu asked, "What do you think?" ”
Feng Feng, the commander of the 94th Army, was the old department of Xuanshan Province in the past, and later the military families of Xuanshan Province fell, and he was reassigned. Because of his growing up, he is very good at mountain warfare. Therefore, when you are in the culture of Ann Xiaoyu, you should be the first to speak and express your own opinions.
"Obviously, the peninsula is an easy and difficult to defend existence, the peninsula is surrounded by the sea on three sides, one side is against the high mountains, and in the middle of the stretch from the long mountain to the gentle part of the peninsula, most of it is steep cliffs, and only a narrow mountain road can stop over the ridge in the direction of the long mountain, and the altitude is very high."
"If you want to attack a place like this, the first thing you have to do is find a way to the peninsula. We now have about three ways to get a soldier in. ”
"One way is to go directly to the mountain from the eastern wilderness to the top of the mountain, and then go to the peninsula through the path. The advantage of this path is that there are very few alien guards around, as long as we can get rid of those guards, we can completely break into it without knowing it. ”
"But the shortcomings are also obvious, the lack of a way to retreat, once you can't fight, the soldiers have no possibility of retreating, once you retreat, people can't retreat much, not to mention, they may fall off the cliff, or they have to fight to the death, and the alien race to fight to the death."
"The second way is to ask for help from the Changshan Army, which has been operating in this area for a long time and has a large number of patrol ships at hand. We can borrow the ships of the Changshan Army, go to the gentle area of the peninsula through the sea area, and rush to the peninsula under the cover of artillery fire. ”
"The advantage of this method is that it can advance and retreat, and it is very flexible to move through ships, and you can choose to attack from all directions, and if you can't fight, you can retreat. In addition, there is a large amount of artillery support, which can effectively reduce the casualties during login. ”
"But there are also many disadvantages, because the target of the ship is too large, so it is easy to be detected, so it can make the alien race ready to let go in advance. And with the help of ships, I don't know if the East China Sea Sea Clan will make a move, and accidents may occur when they go ashore and retreat. Moreover, by borrowing the strength of the Changshan Army, the merits and prestige of our Eastern Wilderness Army are destined to be diminished a lot. ”
"The third way is to directly airdrop, and the same target is obviously easy to find. But the transport aircraft were faster and were able to catch up with the pre-war preparations of the alien race with speed. However, the masters of the Yamate clan can fly, and when the time comes, we will face the attack of the Yamate clan, and the law of the water system is a natural advantage here, and the airdrop is easy to destroy. ”
"On the other hand, if you drop it by air, it will be difficult to carry some heavy weapons, and it is difficult to achieve deterrence against masters by airborne weapons alone. It will also be more difficult to retreat, and it is easy to be directly intercepted by the Yamate clan. After all, the transport plane in our hands is a real transport plane, and the maneuverability is too poor. ”
An Xiaoyu nodded when she heard this, looked at the other three army commanders, and asked, "Do the others have any good plans?" ”
The others shook their heads, and Shen Ying, the commander of the Eastern Ninety-third Army, said: "What Commander Feng just said is already very detailed, in such an offensive war, the first problem is to enter the battlefield, and the second is to arrange the battlefield. Commander Feng is unique in mountain warfare, and we are all convinced. ”
An Xiaoyu asked again: "Then with your thoughts, which plan should be adopted?" ”
Shen Ying said: "I think we should use the strength of the Changshan Army, although the ships are easy to be spotted when they appear on the sea, but even if the alien race is ready to fight, we can take the initiative through the bombardment of artillery fire." The most important thing is to be safe and reliable, even if the credit is shared, the Changshan Army is just two boats. As for the East China Sea Aquarium, we can be prepared to use the discharge device to clean up the sea surface in advance. ”
However, the commander of the 95th Army, Guan Wei, said: "Although what Commander Shen said is a serious remark of the old man, I believe that this is the first large-scale battle of the Eastern Wilderness Army, which is planted to boost morale and determine the fighting style. There is something wrong with being timid, and it should be resolved quickly! ”