Chapter 556: King Yan's Aftermath
Xiang Wang Yuan also said during the New Xia Court Meeting: "The heavens are not beautiful, the Yan army battle line cannot advance further, the wisest choice is to retract the fortress and wait for the spring to fight again." ”
There is no danger to defend on the plain, and the Yan army wants to have a peaceful winter, and the best way is to retreat back to the fortress of Toulon Mountain. In this way, although it is necessary to retreat more than 100 miles, it can safely survive the winter if it holds the pass.
This time, even Fu Lingchuan agreed with his point of view, but Feng Miaojun shook his head with a solemn expression: "I'm afraid that all the secretaries are wrong." If King Yan was so conservative, he should have retreated as early as autumn. ”
Everyone responded verbally, but they didn't think so.
However, no new battle reports were delivered soon after, confirming Feng Miaojun's inference:
King Yan did not listen to the words of the hundred officials, and forced the army to settle in the frontline cities that had been captured, waiting for the spring of the next year to fight again.
The queen was expecting it.
Regarding King Yan's move, the high-level leaders of various countries could only give a thumbs up and sigh: "Rich, capricious!"
The army stays on the front line of enemy territory for three months, which is not a simple sleep behind closed gates. A troop of 100,000 people, food and drink for people, and forage for livestock are astronomical every day, not to mention other consumption.
Wei was fully prepared for this battle for hegemony, and military exercises about the war were carried out at least a thousand times, and the route of the Yan army was already well understood. After the start of the war, the cities on the route of the Yan army were all implemented the policy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness, striving to leave not a grain of grain for the enemy. This autumn, the two armies also fought a battle for harvest on the edge of a wheat field.
Of course, the little grain that was stolen could not be eaten for a few days, so all the materials consumed by the Yan army in Wei were basically transported from their own country. Experienced generals know that the longer the battle line is stretched, the smaller the amount of food that will be sent to the front in the end. The Red General of Xinxia once made an estimation that even if the grain was transferred from the nearest Xidi across the border and transported to the front line, as the front line advanced northward, it would be more and more difficult to supply logistical food. If you count the grain and grass eaten by the grain escort team along the way, the obstruction and burning of the Wei army, and the damage to the materials caused by the wind and snow, one of the ten grains and grass escorted on the road can be safely delivered to the front line in the end.
At least ten to one high attrition, not to mention the Wei army's invasion and robbery of the Yan army by virtue of its home combat advantage, and so on. King Yan dared to give such an order, relying on nothing more than the powerful material and financial resources of Yan State.
The lord has money, and the lord can afford it, how can it be dropped?
On the plain where the north wind is howling, forty days have passed quickly, and it has officially entered the coldest wax moon of the year.
In this kind of weather, even the cultivators didn't bother to move, and the armies of the two countries facing each other on the plain suffered even more, so they had to close the city gates to avoid the bitter cold.
In this situation, it is undoubtedly the logistics team of Yan State that suffers even more, and I don't know how much baggage has been lost on the way. In the city of the Yan army on the front line, food began to be in short supply.
The Weiyan front line ushered in a short truce in the wind and snow.
At this time, more than nine months have passed since Yun Jie last left Usel. Even though the front line was calm, Yun Jie did not cross the border and quietly came to her.
As a national teacher, he cannot leave his post without permission during extraordinary times.
Time flies, and they seem to have spent the last New Year together. Feng Miaojun sighed faintly, and Princess Hanyue, who was grabbing her to eat tea, said dissatisfiedly: "Are you thinking about men again?"
"As a princess, you speak so vulgarly. Feng Miaojun was helpless, "How do you teach children?"
Princess Hanyue sneered: "Feng Xian doesn't dislike me, don't worry about it, Lord Queen." Feng Miaojun's face is still eighteen-year-old beauty, no need to put on makeup, the skin is white with a thin layer of redness, so tender that you can pinch out the water with a slight pinch. She has red phoenix eyes and long eyelashes, and she can hook away all the souls in the blink of a blink.
Princess Hanyue couldn't help but stroke her cheeks, and said jealously: "Cultivators are good, you see that the lines in the corners of my eyes are about to come out." ”
Feng Miaojun looked at her well-maintained white face and smiled: "You are only twenty-seven." ”
At this time, Miao Hansheng slipped in and begged for a pastry, and after eating, he was going to lead the people to have a snowball fight. Feng Miaojun grabbed him and admonished: "Add two more pieces of clothing, it's very cold outside." ”
It's so hot here, Miao Hansheng's forehead is about to sweat. If his mother said so, he would still dare to disobey the yang and the yin, but although the queen loved him, the majesty taught him not to dare to disobey.
So he nodded obediently and ran out of the coat handed over by his subordinates.
Princess Hanyue watched her staring at the child's back for a long time, and then said leisurely: "If you like it, why don't you secretly give birth to one and raise it outside first?"
Feng Miaojun was taken aback: "What?"
Princess Hanyue snorted at the door: "Child." It's a pity that Feng Xian has already ...... Otherwise, after you are born, you can be handed over to me as a child to raise first. "Not anymore.
Feng Miaojun rolled his eyes: "You will be whimsical!"
Princess Hanyue ate a date: "Why is it whimsical? You, Yun, and him are so beautiful, what a pity not to have a child?"
"Wei Yan started the war, how long do you think Xinxia can stay out of the matter?" Feng Miaojun snorted, "At this moment, how can you have the energy to have children?"
Princess Hanyue was even more disdainful: "Then what did you two do a few years ago?"
Feng Miaojun closed her mouth and felt unreasonable to a woman who only had the word "child" in her head.
At this moment, Chen Dachang rushed over and said with a serious face: "There is a change in the front line of Yanwei!"
Feng Miaojun took the battle report, unfolded it and looked at it twice, and her eyebrows couldn't help frowning.
Princess Hanyue looked at her face and said in a low voice, "What's the matter, something happened?"
"There was a Yan army that went around behind the Wei people, and fought with its companions on the front line inside and out, capturing several cities. Feng Miaojun shook his head, "The scale is not small, with a preliminary estimate of more than 30,000 people." How?"
Not to mention the topography and water of the plains, how could the Yan army bypass the front line and raid the rear camp of the Wei people? Then it would have to take a long detour, a full 700 miles away, not to mention whether the Yan army could bypass it, and no Wei people would have seen them along the way and reported it?
This was a time of war, and all the scouts were active in the front and rear.
"No wonder King Yan is trying to keep the army on the front line, it turns out that he has prepared this backhand. Feng Miaojun muttered, "In this kind of weather, the Wei people didn't expect the Yan army to dare to attack, and it succeeded. I am afraid that the situation on the front line will be reversed. ”
As it turned out, the Queen's sixth sense worked.
Soon after, more detailed military information arrived, and the situation was grim.