Chapter 158: The Fighting Ceases
On November 28, the third year of the new calendar, the Broken Wolf Country mobilized more than eighty percent of the country's troops, hit it and passed through Shitu Town and Coal City, and the Yuanyan coalition army also gathered all its forces to do a good job of defense.
When the Yuanyan coalition army captured Luoyun Town, Shitu Town and Coal City, both sides lost a lot of troops, so from the current point of view, Broken Wolf City still has a strength advantage, but the Yuanyan coalition army held the wall and flattened the gap.
From the point of view of siege weapons, the Wolf Breaker Army mobilized the resources of the whole country and put all the previous and temporary construction into the battle; On the side of the Yuanyan coalition army, because Qiu Chen transported a large number of tools to defend the city from the Yan country, as well as a forest of shirts as a backup, the two sides are also equal in this regard on the whole.
In addition, from the perspective of gunpowder, the Yuanyan coalition army has gunpowder, in fact, the Broken Wolf Country also has it, but their gunpowder has not been fully developed, before the war, there was no mass production at all, but after the outbreak of the war, a large amount of gunpowder was developed in the Broken Wolf country.
Although the Yuanyan coalition army had produced a large amount of gunpowder before, the gunpowder was often consumed the most every time the city was attacked, so up to now, the amount of gunpowder left was not very large.
That is to say, in this regard, the gap between the two sides is not large. However, one thing is that there are many mutation masters on the side of the Broken Wolf Country, although some have been injured or captured, there are still more than ten or twenty mutation masters, which is a very terrifying force.
However, the energy storage pills on the side of the Yuanyan Alliance have been exhausted, and they no longer have the strength to fight head-on with the mutation masters of the Broken Wolf Country.
It's just that the only thing that is fortunate is that the Broken Wolf Country can't guess whether the Yuanyan coalition still has an energy storage pill, so it won't attack easily.
In the month that followed, the two sides fought fiercely between the towns of Shitu and Coal City, and the two sides fought at least 30 battles, large and small, and Shitu Town changed hands several times.
In the early days, the Broken Wolf Army bypassed Shitu Town and attacked Coal City, but failed many times and was attacked by the Yuanyan coalition army guarding Shitu Town.
In the middle of the period, the Broken Wolf Army changed its strategy and concentrated its forces on Shitu Town, and after several days of continuous attacks, it was successfully captured, but the city walls were already very badly damaged.
At this time, there were vague signs of counterattack in the Broken Wolf Country, but when they attacked Coal City many times later, they still failed to take it, and they were even beaten back by the adjusted Yuanyan Coalition Army, and finally lost Shitu Town again.
In the later stage, Broken Wolf captured Shitu Town again, but it was recaptured by the Yuanyan coalition army soon after, and the main battlefield of the two sides has been going on in Shitu Town.
Eventually, the town of Shitu was reduced to ruins, and the inhabitants of it had migrated to either the Mortal Kingdom or the Broken Wolf Kingdom at the beginning of the war.
Until December 29 of the new calendar, the Yuanyan coalition army and the wolf breaking army had suffered heavy losses and suffered great losses.
More than seventy percent of the soldiers were killed or wounded. Probably because the New Year Festival is approaching, both sides have invariably stopped the actions of the war, but they have not relaxed their defense and vigilance at any time.
In the past month, Lin Yue and Qiu Chen have also been stepping up the construction of the Mortal Kingdom and striving to expand all aspects of the Mortal Kingdom, but due to the small population of the Mortal Kingdom itself, it is difficult to carry out the work in many aspects.
In this case, the government council of the country proposed two solutions, the first is to relocate some residents from the Yuan country and the Yan country, and the people who migrated can enjoy some aspects of treatment; The second is to poach people in the country of broken wolves, and through various propaganda, the residents of the country of broken wolves will be disappointed in the power of broken wolves, so as to migrate to the side of the mortal country.
Both methods have worked, but in a short period of time, they have only increased the population of the country by about 6 percent, so this is a long-term operation.
On the other hand, since the Broken Wolf Country lost a large amount of territory, there have been varying degrees of chaos and people's hearts shaken in the country.
Therefore, the broken wolf also retreated from the front line, and together with the heavenly wolf, he started all aspects of reform in the broken wolf country.
After the month-long battle of Shitu Town, Po Wolf also realized that the possibility of recapturing the coal city was almost gone, so he decisively chose to give up, and continued to carry out reforms and internal affairs in the country.
In terms of the army, Broken Wolf also carried out a major reform, gradually abolishing the previous way of using money to hire soldiers and maintain the army, and instead used a sense of honor and military merit to manage the army.
Previously, in order to consolidate their core power, the Wolf Breaking Forces have always firmly tied their main power to their hands, and have not issued any military merits.
Therefore, those who have made outstanding contributions on the battlefield only have a large amount of monetary rewards, and there is not much promotion.
And now, in order to solve the contradiction between the army and the domestic finances, the broken wolf has to issue military merits and begin to release some of the power in his hands.
"On the other hand, that's probably a good thing!" In the discussion with the broken wolf, Sky Wolf sighed and said: "We paid too much attention to the core members of our previous gang before, and felt that even if the country was established, the real managers could only be the people of our wolf-breaking forces, and the others would always be managed, now that I think about it, this is actually no different from the so-called feudal court system." The broken wolf closed his eyes, and also sighed and said: "Time has changed, we are no longer the simple broken wolf gang at the beginning, I also have to reflect on what a country's leader really wants to do!" "The Broken Wolf Kingdom needs time to reorganize its own country, and the Mortal Kingdom also needs time to seek development, so both sides have invariably quieted down, bounded by the ruined Shitu Town, and the two countries have developed separately.
Although the Broken Wolf Country has lost the coal city in the north, it does not mean that they have completely lost energy, and they also have coal mines in other places to mine.
Of course, having lost most of its coal sources, the Broken Wolf Nation must also reduce its spending on all aspects. Because the construction of the Fan country has just begun, many materials also need to be replenished and improved by the transportation of the Yuan and Yan countries, and once the transportation of the Yuan and Yan countries is lost, the Fan country will also not be able to develop.
Therefore, although both sides have suspended the struggle to develop their own internal affairs, all kinds of small actions have emerged one after another, and the Broken Wolf Country has been trying to cut off the transportation lines of the Mortal Kingdom, so that the development of the Mortal Kingdom cannot keep up.
However, it will be a little difficult for the Broken Wolf Country to send troops to the rear of the Mortal Kingdom to intercept the transportation lines of the two countries, because the Mortal Kingdom has pulled up a long blockade line on the side of the Broken Wolf Country, and it will be very difficult for the Broken Wolf Country to bypass it.
But the Broken Wolf Country also has their own methods, they contact a force located between the Yuan Kingdom and the Fan Kingdom, and bribe them to harass the transportation lines of the Yuan and Yan countries.
This force is not very numerous, and it has cooperated with the Broken Wolf Country long ago, and it is considered half of the subsidiary force of the Broken Wolf Country, but it is too far away, so it is not counted in the territory of the Broken Wolf Country.
The leader of this force, Lin Yue also knew, was Xiao Yuan, who destroyed Yancheng and killed Liu Yunshuang and Lin Yue in his previous life.
This guy, who was regarded as a mortal enemy by Lin Yue in his previous life, is now just the leader of a small force.
Xiao Yuan's current forces are only about 10,000 people, and the number of soldiers is almost 1,000, after getting news and benefits from the Broken Wolf Country, Xiao Yuan has been leading his soldiers to cut off the transportation lines of the Yuanyan Alliance, and even let him succeed several times.
Xiao Yuan can be said to be a more difficult guy, whether it is in his previous life or in this life, Lin Yue gave him this evaluation.
In his previous life, Xiao Yuan was the same as now, he was originally just a small force leader, but with the help of the Broken Wolf Country, he quickly developed after that, attacking everywhere as one of the minions of the Broken Wolf Country, and finally destroyed the Yan Country.
And in this life, although Xiao Yuan has already established a relationship with the Broken Wolf Country, because the Broken Wolf Country has not yet developed rapidly, Xiao Yuan is still only a small force leader!
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