Chapter Seventy-One

() On May 27, 174 A.D., as expected by Li Yuxuan and others, Basr attacked the Haas Valley of Atbury with an army of 15,000 men, and it was 5,700 regular troops of Atterbury who defended it. The war was fought extremely fiercely and brutally, and the two sides were in a state of stalemate. The Atterbury side repelled the attacks of Bass's army again and again by virtue of its terrain, and Bass relied on his superiority in strength to attack Atterbury day and night.

For the soldiers and generals on both sides, it was a contest of will and spirit. Bright red blood splatters here, and young lives fall here. This war has abandoned the so-called strategic tactics of a qiē, and only endless killing remains here.

In just three days of the tragic war of attrition, more than half of the casualties of both armies were lost, and nearly 10,000 warriors fell on the battlefield in just three days, whether they were warriors of Atbury or heroes of Basr, they would be permanently left in the valley. But the war is not over, the reinforcements of both sides are still coming from their respective rears, and many lives will be thrown into this "meat grinder" type of war.

But the war didn't just take place north of the Nakhei Plain. Almost at the same time, there was also a war to the south of the Rakuheima Plain.

On June 1, 174 years of the imperial calendar, the commander of the Third Army of the Fengxiang Kingdom, Bramitch, claimed that Jiang He was the culprit who killed Feng Shaojun, and also shouted the slogan of "Qing Jun's side", and called on a patriotic soldier to join his army to crusade against Jiang He, which was a great momentum for a while. But just when his main force had just entered Fengxiang and advanced all the way to Fengcheng, the capital of Fengxiang, the Fourth Army of the Kingdom transferred from the south of Fengxiang blocked its way.

As a result, in addition to the Fifth Corps, which nominally belonged to Fengxiang, the four major corps of the Fengxiang Kingdom faced each other on two different fronts, and the Fengxiang Kingdom, which was so powerful that the countries in the southern part of the continent were shocked a month ago, was in a state of fragmentation. No one knows how this war within Fengxiang will end, but the trend of Fengxiang's kingdom from strength to decline is inevitable.

It was also after Bramic's main force entered Fengxiang's homeland that Li Yuxuan, who had been troubled by the military food problem, received the news of the rebellion of the Third Army, and he was overjoyed, and hurriedly convened a new round of military meetings among his generals.

June 17, 174 in the imperial calendar, sunny. After dozens of days of sailing, the merchant fleet of the "homeland" finally transported 800,000 catties of urgently purchased grain to Bahrain.

June 25, 174 A.D.

On June 30, 174 A.D., the Battle for Haas Valley lasted for a month and four days, culminating in a victory for Basir's side. A total of 48,000 soldiers were put into the two sides, including 14,000 in Atbury and 34,000 in Basel, and 39,000 of them were laid to rest here, and the mortality rate was as high as an astonishing 80%.

On July 3, 174 A.D., the main force of the Atbury Army, which was fighting in Atbury West County, was demoralized when they learned that the Haas Valley had fallen to the side of Basr. Finally lost to Dzungar in the decisive battle, the Ya'an coalition army, and even the king was captured by the other party, and the kingdom of Atbury was already in name only. Over the next week, the combined forces of Dzungar and Ya'an swept across the kingdom of Atbury, reaching the Haas Valley on 11 July.

However, instead of attacking the Bass army in the Haas Valley, the powerful coalition issued a diplomatic message willing to make peace with the Bass Valley, apparently acquiescing in Basr's control of the Haas Valley. During this period, a large number of Atterbury refugees entered the Luoping Plains through the Bollinger Pass, and Bai Yunqi and Xu Zhixin, who were stationed here in charge of defense, were busy with this. Later, according to the statistics of Xu Ruoyu and others, in the eight days after July 3 alone, as many as 130,000 Atterbury refugees poured into the Luoping Plains, a staggering number.

But is there really an end to the war?

June 29, 174 years of the imperial calendar, Luoshui.

It was a dark night with no fingers in sight, and the turbulent river of Luoshui rushed to the sea, and the river slapped against the huge reef on the bank of the river, making a sound like thunder. Since the occupation of the Luoping Plains more than half a year ago, a ferry boat to and from both sides of the Luoshui River, as well as fishermen's fishing boats, have been banned from sailing. The entire Luoshui river on the north bank has not seen a sailing ship for more than half a year.

However, it was such a dark night that a huge fleet took advantage of the cover of night to swim upstream. This is not a fishing fleet, nor is it a merchant fleet, as can be seen from the dense array of arrows on both sides of the hull, this is a fleet of warships that can sail on the sea.

There were thick dark clouds in the sky, and this fleet was two or three hundred meters away from the shore, and only a vague shadow could be seen standing on the shore, and no one would believe that there was a huge fleet sailing on the river there at this moment. But it's not the same if it's a fisherman who deals with the river all year round. Although the sound of the waves crashing against the reef was deafening, they could still tell which sounds were the sound of the river hitting the rocks and which were the sound of paddles paddling.

This fleet advancing in the night is the naval fleet that Li Yuxuan has built with a huge amount of money. And now, the commander of this fleet, "Eagle" Zheng Jing, is sitting in the cabin of the fleet's flagship "Jiamaster", leisurely drinking tea.

Three days earlier, on June 27, a scout from Suger had brought a secret letter from the head of the family, Li Yuxuan. He asked his fleet to move north to Luoshui and reach the small town of Kamo north of the Luoshui River by July 3, with the task of providing river transportation and cover for the "homeland".

After receiving the secret order, Zheng Jing was very excited, this was the first time he participated in a large-scale military operation in the "homeland". After arranging all the matters, Zheng Jing led 14 warships to the north of the Yangtze River overnight, including the flagship of the navy, the "Jiazhu".

The main family will wave the army south, which means that they will start a war with Feng Xiang, and I don't know which is better than Feng Xiang's ironclad infantry or the cavalry of the "homeland". However, with the wisdom and wisdom of the family master, it should not be a problem to defeat Feng Xiang's ironclad infantry regiment.

Like most of the generals and soldiers of the "homeland", Zheng Jing had an almost blind trust and admiration for his family master, Li Yuxuan.