"Awesome!"

After learning that Yan Rong led an army of 300,000 to urgently march eastward, and that the sailors led by Yuan Jingshan and Zheng Xiaoru would attack the two counties of Jiaodong, Wang Ze stood in front of the huge map and pondered for a long time.

Originally, he thought that the Sui Empire mobilized a million troops to attack the Liaoshui line this time, so the offensive in other places should just be an attack, after all, the million-person offensive was concentrated on the Liaodong line, and the troops in other places could not keep up, but now it seems that the Sui Empire's ambitions are far more than that.

Because of the prosperity of the Xia Kingdom's foreign maritime trade, even the sea trade between the Sui Empire and the Xia Kingdom was gradually expanding, so the high-level officials of the Sui Empire could obtain a lot of information within the Xia Kingdom through those maritime merchants who often traveled to and from the Xia Kingdom.

In this way, Yang Jian must know that as long as he expelled the forces of the Xia State in the two counties of Jiaodong, he could completely use the two counties as a base, and then attack Hanyang County, Lelang County, which is located on the Korean Peninsula, and even the southern part of Liaodong, which is relatively close, from the waterway.

In this way, the Sui army can not only greatly threaten the security of the hinterland of the Xia State from the other direction, but also greatly affect the safety of the East China Sea sea route of the Xia State, and the Xia State can no longer freely transport military resources from the East China Sea to Liaodong, so it is too important to analyze the Changguang County and Weihai County of the Jiaodong Peninsula.

"If it doesn't work, Changguang County, we can give up for the time being, and concentrate the main force of our army in Weihai County to ensure that this place will not be lost!"

In order to resist the offensive of millions of Sui troops in Liaodong, the Xia State did not deploy too many troops in the second county of Jiaodong, and now hundreds of thousands of Sui troops suddenly launched an attack there, and the Xia army did not have time to send troops to support for a while, and now only hopes that the local defenders can continue to hold out for a few days.

On the contrary, on the naval side, the First Fleet could attack the Sui naval division that was heading north from the mouth of the Yangtze River by sea, so that after the naval army eliminated the Sui naval division, there was hope of holding the two counties by land, no matter how closely the checkpoint was held, after all, the road leading from the peninsula to the two counties was too difficult.

"Your Majesty, don't give up Changguang County easily!"

Suddenly, a voice raised his voice and objected, Wang Ze took a look at it and saw that it was actually the Taoist priest Zhou Gai who led the Haotian Daomen doctors, he was the son of Zhou Cheng and Cheng Xueying, and it could be regarded as a son inheriting his father's business, because it was Wang Dong's cousin, and the relationship with Wang Ze was quite close on weekdays.

In addition to Zhou Gai's opposition to giving up Changguang County, even Zhu Ming and Cheng Biao, who served as his personal guards, also advised: "Your Majesty, Changguang County must not be given up until it is absolutely necessary!" ”

"Why can't you give up?"

Over the years, as Wang Ze's prestige has become more and more heavy, there are fewer and fewer people who dare to oppose Wang Ze's opinions, and at this time, he suddenly saw that the three juniors did not agree with his decision, Wang Ze also wanted to hear the opinions of these young people, after all, they represented the future of Xia Guo.

It was Zhou Gai who stepped forward first and said: "Your Majesty, although this Changguang County is located in the barren land of Jiaodong, after all, it is the place where my Xia Kingdom started, this significance is very important, the key is that I want to say that the Haotian Great Temple on Zhifu Island in Changguang County is not only the first temple of my Haotian Daomen, but also one of the roots of Haotian Daomen!"

Now tens of millions of people in Xia Kingdom, more than 10 million believers in Haotian Daomen, once Changguang County is lost, the temple on Zhifu Island is seriously damaged, then the blow to the people of our Xia Kingdom will be great, so Changguang County must not give up! ”

"What about the opinions of the two of you?" After listening to Zhou Gai's opinion, Wang Ze looked at Zhu Ming and Cheng Biao, these two people are not only the sons of Zhu Bofu and Cheng Hu, but also his son-in-law, and they are all juniors who are very close to him.

Although it may not be their turn to inherit their father's position as king, Wang Ze still hopes that both of them will become talents.

"Your Majesty, our opinions were all said by Brother Zhou before, but we thought that although most of the people of Xia Kingdom are from Sanqi and even all over the Central Plains, the people from Changguang County occupy a large number of high-level positions, if Changguang County is lost, it will still be a big blow to the people of Xia Kingdom, and it is very likely to cause the confidence of the people in the country to lose!"

"Not bad! What you say is a bit biased, but it makes sense! ”

Wang Ze was slightly surprised in his heart, although these juniors are still young, they are also very well analyzed, so it seems that Changguang County must still try to keep it as much as possible, at least to keep the safety of the Haotian Great Temple on Zhifu Island.

"Immediately send the Eighth Army Huan Taiyu to lead his troops to support Changguang County, and increase the number of garrisons on Zhifu Island! Let the Third Army send a division to ensure the safety of the Haotian Great Temple! ”

Wang Ze finally made a decision after some thought, in the past, the Eighth Army only had more than 30,000 people, but now in order to cope with the large-scale attack of the Sui army, each infantry army has been expanded to about 50,000 people, so that the garrisons of Changguang County and Weihai County also have more than 100,000 people, which should be able to ensure the safety of the local area.

Changguang County and Weihai County are separated from the peninsula by numerous mountains, and the dense primeval jungle between the mountains also isolates the two counties from the peninsula, and only the coastal and local places can allow the army to pass safely, such a steep terrain is also a source of confidence for Wang Ze to be able to hold the two counties.

After sending troops to support the second county of Jiaodong, Wang Ze set his sights on the Liaoshui front.

After all, the Sui army and the Turks have concentrated more than a million troops here, although the Xia army has long made all preparations, but now the war still cannot tolerate the slightest negligence, even if the Western Turkic coalition army on the grassland is now put aside by Wang Ze.

After the Sui army concentrated more than 700,000 troops on the Liaoshui line, the infantry army completely surpassed the strength of the Xia State, and the Sui army was also well-armoured, and the various combat equipment was also quite complete, so the offensive for more than ten days in a row was very sharp.

In order to combat the raging offensive of the Sui army and deplete their morale, under the order of Wang Ze, the first and second armies of the Xia army under the command of the main generals Huang Rui and Peng Cong respectively carried out a major counterattack against Yang Siren's troops opposite Liaodong City.

More than 100,000 elite Xia soldiers quietly sneaked across the ice of Liaoshui at night, gradually approaching the Sui army camp, and then launched a large-scale counterattack against Yang Siren's troops at dawn, and for a time the entire west bank of Liaoshui was in chaos.

Although the Xia army retreated to the east bank of Liaoshui after only half a day of attacking because of the threat of cavalry that soon came to support the Sui army, their counterattack still brought at least tens of thousands of casualties to Yang Siren's troops, and the most important thing for Yang Siren was that almost all of the siege equipment that he had built with great difficulty was completely destroyed.

This large-scale counterattack of the Xia army also made the Sui army see the strong combat effectiveness of the other party, and for a time the Sui army did not have the rampant nature of the past, and at night it relied on the wall to strictly defend it, and the west bank of Liaoshui was full of patrolling Sui soldiers and cavalry day and night.

Even if Yang Jian immediately asked the 100,000 troops who had originally stayed in Yan County as a reserve to the front line to support Yang Siren's department, the battle between the Sui army and the Xia army still made no progress, and the war fell into a stalemate for a while.

The ancient cold weapon warfare consumed a lot of materials, if it was just tens of thousands or more than 100,000 troops fighting for several months, it was nothing, with the strong national strength of the Sui Empire, it was completely possible to supply materials, but the war of millions of troops must end as soon as possible, otherwise the country would rarely be able to withstand such a long-term and huge material consumption.

The Sui army and the Xia army entered a state of confrontation, which is nothing for the Xia country, although now the Xia country is all in a state of thousands of miles of ice and snow, but it can't stand the wealth of the Xia country, and a large number of materials are generally transported from the rear to the front line under the sleigh pulled by 100,000 reindeer.

The soldiers of the Xia Army on the front line can even eat canned fruits transported from the South Seas, canned whale meat and canned fish from Whale Island, canned pork from the South Seas, and canned beef and mutton from the North.

In this way, those reindeer with an honest face even made many Xia soldiers like it, not only no one mentioned the slaughter of reindeer as meat, but even many soldiers proposed legislation to protect these reindeer that had made outstanding contributions.

The soldiers' proposal was expected to be approved, but after this war, the reindeer changed from just for food and domestication to a more popular winter transportation force in the Xia Kingdom, at least before the circulation of steam locomotives, the role of reindeer was irreplaceable.

Relatively nourishing Xia State soldiers, the Sui army on the opposite side faced too many troubles!

Originally, the road traffic from the interior of the Sui Empire to Zhuo County was not good, but now the weather is cold and snowy, and millions of Sui troops need a lot of grain and grass, all of which require millions of requisitioned people to use board trucks to transport them from the rear to the front line.

Because of the heavy snow, the roads were impassable, and the officials along the way continued to abuse, so a large number of people who were not prepared for winter froze and starved to death.

After all, the emperor personally supervised Zhuo County, so in order to ensure the completion of their tasks, officials from all over the country forcibly recruited young and strong women along the way to assist in transporting grain and grass, and the lives of the people of the Sui Empire were disrupted.

Originally, there were many bandits and bandits within the Sui Empire, and at this time, taking advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the Sui army to conquer Liaodong, it was even more aggressively expanded, and the unbearable people from all directions came to defect one after another, coupled with the provocation of people at home and abroad of the Sui Emperor, several large-scale turmoil broke out.

However, at this time, the mechanism of the Sui Empire was still operating normally, and these scattered riots of the people were quickly quelled by the county soldiers of the counties of the Sui Empire, but the well-intentioned people within the Sui Empire began to notice these changes, and their own small abacus also began to fight.

Yang Jian is not ignorant of some undercurrents within the empire, but he believes that his power and power can overwhelm all conspiracies, although the military aristocracy of Guanlong Xianbei is a whole externally, but the internal power struggle is even more bloody.

In recent years, Yang Jian has tried his best to suppress the Han forces in the south of the Yangtze River, and on the other hand, because of the restoration of sinicization, he has vigorously relied on the Kwantung Han scholar group, so the Guanlong Xianbei military aristocratic group, which was originally at the core of power, will of course not be satisfied, and some small actions are understandable.

Although he can understand the mentality of these people, it does not mean that Yang Jian will forgive these people, Yang Jian plans to purge the internal elite group after defeating the Xia army on the opposite side and capturing Liaodong, not only to fight against the heretical strength that does not obey him, but also to pave the way for his successor.