Chapter 560: Suddenly
From here to the front line of Wei Yan, it is less than two hundred miles. With the march of the army, it will take at most four days to reach it without a hasty march.
Xinxia's intentions are clear.
Zou Guo has already admitted that he asked Yan Guo to borrow for the sake of money. However, the direct consequence was the defeat of Wei, and Xinxia was not damaged by this, so the reason for the queen of Xinxia to send troops to the war was not sufficient.
But this does not prevent her from brushing up on the presence of Xinxia. Both the North and South Continents understood the meaning of her words: as long as the Yan Kingdom dared to attack Xinxia and Xinxia's vassal states again, the queen would definitely send troops.
Of course, King Yan is unhappy, and the only one who has ever dared to threaten others like this is Yan Guo. But now he has no time to teach the new summer who doesn't know the height of the sky, because the wind and snow on the Canglan Plain have stopped, and the horn of attack has sounded again!
After more than half a winter of operation, the Yan State has turned the Canglan Plain into its own solid base camp and reorganized its army here. If the Wei people want to take it back, it is almost an impossible task.
The soldiers had been cowering in the fort for months, and when they returned to battle, the battle was fierce from the start.
But Yan Jun's pace slowed down.
On the one hand, the terrain of the north has changed, from plains to rolling hills, which is really easy to defend and difficult to attack, not to mention that the Wei army has made sufficient defensive preparations here.
On the other hand, one hundred and eighty miles to the east is the Weixia border, and there is a team in Xinxia that is eyeing the border, and it is not known when it will break into the war.
This feeling of being fighting and staring at a third party at the same time is terrible.
King Yan had to change his strategy and levy another 70,000-strong army from the base camp to cross the Canglan Plain and follow the northwest direction. This was not the best route for the Yan people to devise their tactics, as there were too many mountains and swamps to climb along the way, and there were too many monster habitats, but it was far from the threat of New Xia and was unexpected by the Wei State.
In this way, Yan Guo has adopted a two-front combat strategy, and its combat readiness consumption is not as simple as one plus one.
The other countries on the mainland realized how strong the financial resources of the Yan State were, and they were still able to act so willfully and recklessly after a year of the war.
Although he paid a heavy price, Yan Wangbu's surprise on the northwest front caught Wei State by surprise, and when he was about to turn around and set up defenses, he was pierced into the northwest region by Yan State like a bayonet.
Although the eastern front was blocked, the Yan army tore a hole in the west and kept moving troops inside.
At this time, the new summer is even more out of reach. There is still most of the Wei State between it and the Yan army.
So the Xinxia army stopped in Wulin Town and did not move for a long time.
Yan Guo's knife stabbed Wei Guo with blood and pain, and also disrupted its original layout.
Xiao Yan jumped like thunder, and then sent a large army to intercept it.
As a result, the Northwest Battlefield has also become a meat grinder. It is said that in the most tragic battle, corpses were strewn all over the field, murderous, and even caused snow in June.
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In the midst of the attack, another year passed quickly.
The battle for hegemony in Wei continued, and Wei and Yan were like two wrestling bulls, red-eyed in the excitement, throwing their troops, materials and wealth into the bottomless whirlpool regardless of cost and consequences.
Everyone knows that war burns the most money.
Wei Ting has advocated frugality, the monarch has set an example, reducing his own use, not to mention, the palace banquet attended by the ministers during the Chinese New Year has also been changed from the original eighteen delicacies to twelve, and the dishes have also dropped by two grades.
Although the Yan State did not make this adjustment, the royal court had already issued wartime regulations, not only requisitioning tools and materials from the merchants and common people, but also raising the tax burden of the whole people.
When it comes to war, the common people have to pay for it. What's more, if the Yan Kingdom starts a war on the enemy's territory, the consumption is at least several times that of the other party. It is just that no matter how rich it is, considering that this war is likely to be protracted, it is still necessary to start making money carefully.
But anyone with a discerning eye can analyze that the battle situation is still slowly leaning towards the Yan army in the stalemate.
Because, King Yan entered the war.
He is the monarch and part-time national teacher, and it stands to reason that he should shrink to the rear of the safety to command and dispatch, and now he is the first to take the lead, which shows his desire for victory.
This also shows from another side that King Yan is also under great pressure.
This is no longer a time when practitioners can cover the sky with one hand. Yan Wanggui is the monarch of the country, and his every move must also be restrained by the people and nobles, and he wants to throw all the money into a war with no end in sight, and the pressure from the country can be imagined.
The army with the blessing of the national division was like a fierce tiger, and it broke the stalemate that lasted for more than two months at once, and began to press northward, defeating the Wei army one after another.
In this case, of course, the Wei army had no choice but to dispatch the national division.
Wei Yan's struggle for hegemony inevitably affected the northern and southern continents. The supply and demand of a large number of commodities have changed, strategic goods have become the most sought-after goods, and the price of luxury goods has plummeted.
The change in the economic and trade base has brought about the shaking of the superstructure.
In the relatively stable New Xia, the courtiers found that the queen had been in a state of flux lately, and sometimes even in a daze during court discussions.
At the end of the summer of this year, when the cicadas were at their worst, Fu Lingchuan took his three-and-a-half-year-old daughter into the palace to pay homage to the saints.
Her face was as pale as paper.
Fu Lingchuan was taken aback, and subconsciously reached out to help. But before the fingertips touched her sleeve robe, she suddenly reacted:
Not.
Chen Dachang, who was standing behind the queen, was also quick in front of him, stepped forward and grabbed her arm, and said in a tight voice: "Your Majesty!"
The divine light in Feng Miaojun's eyes has disappeared, and his body is even more shaky, and he can't even stand steadily.
At this moment, she seemed to have changed back into that delicate and timid girl, where was she still a profound cultivator, and where was she still the queen of a great country with boundless majesty?
What's going on? I've never heard of her having an old illness. Fu Lingchuan's heart tightened, and seeing her slowly sit down, he said worriedly: "Where is the discomfort?"
Feng Miaojun reluctantly calmed down, pulled out a smile to his daughter and said, "Let's get here here today, I'm not feeling well, can I find you to play in the palace another day?"
The three-and-a-half-year-old nodded obediently. Feng Miaojun said to Fu Lingchuan at this time: "It's okay, just rest." ”
Fu Lingchuan has his own eyesight, and he can stop with a few words of concern, and retire with his daughter.
Feng Miaojun sat for a while, and his face gradually normalized, but his expression was cloudy. Chen Dachang said in a low voice: "The king wants to go back to the dormitory to rest?"
"No, there is no disease. Feng Miaojun seemed to be a little uneasy, and he didn't want to go to bed, "sent a message, and someone kept an eye on the battle report of Wei Northwest, and sent me the news back as soon as possible." ”
Chen Dachang didn't know why, but he still answered.
Feng Miaojun understood that something was wrong.