Chapter 162 In the City of Xi'an

It is difficult to say whether the confidence of the Northern Army in the Southern Army is a good thing or a bad thing.

Wars are essentially fought by people. Sometimes, a big battle has little chance of winning. But everyone thinks they can win, and most of the time they win. But sometimes, it seems that the advantage is great, and most of them feel that if they can't win, they will definitely lose.

With this kind of confidence suppression of the Southern Army, the Northern Army was able to exert greater combat effectiveness on the battlefield. But at the same time, if you are not careful, this morale is arrogant. If one is not good, it will capsize in the gutter.

Ye Shen sighed and let the generals below pursue him.

He just held down the rear army. His idea was simple, that is, he could afford to lose. He wanted to know what Fu Youde wanted to do. Delaying time? He accompanies him. What he has to do at the moment is not to find Fu Youde's flaws.

Instead, make yourself invincible first.

He immediately ordered to supervise the logistics and transport the supplies from the rear to the camp on the south bank of the Yellow River as much as possible.

For the rainy season, Ye Shen is also prepared.

He thinks about it every day, defeating Fu Youde. stepped on Fu Youde's corpse to prove that he was no worse than the founding general. But every morning, he had to tell himself to be calm. Hold your breath. Now it's Fu Youde who is anxious.

He can strike backwards.

knew that Fu Youde fought with the Northern Army and retreated step by step.

But in the retreat, it did not let the Northern Army take advantage of it.

The decisive battle must be fought with the intention of both sides. Otherwise, it is quite possible. Hundreds of thousands of troops played a game of forward and backward in the area of Zhengzhou.

And the fighter plane that Fu Youde is waiting for is slowly coming.

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Qu Neng has not been idle for a while. He first sent a partial division to take the area west of Xi'an. opened up the connection with Mei Yin's department. Therefore, from Beijing to Sichuan, you can go directly from Guanzhong to Hanzhong, instead of needing, and make a detour to Lanzhou.

And Qu Neng repaired for a period of time, and also launched an attack on Xi'an City.

Qu Neng will not directly attack Xi'an City.

After all, Geng Bingwen's defensive skills, Qu Neng has already learned it, it is called an iron wall, and it does not leak.

However, the advantage is in Qu Neng, and Qu Neng has more choices.

Qu Neng divided his troops and conquered the outer prefectures and counties of Guanzhong, while Qu Neng's main force was crossing the Wei River and wanted to completely block Xi'an from the periphery. And then little by little to shrink the encirclement of Xi'an. When the time comes, Geng Bingwen will be surrounded to death.

Anyway, Qu Neng didn't want to touch Geng Bingwen.

Now the pressure is on Geng Bingwen.

Because of the superiority of logistics, the pace of operations of the Northern Army was much faster than that of the Southern Army.

There are many reasons for this.

The Northern Army's operations are simply firearms, and so many firearms consume a huge amount of gunpowder, so it can be said that as long as the gunpowder is replenished, the army can continue to fight. Under the auspices of He Xi, the Northern Army had a large number of backup troops.

Once the front-line army has losses, the elite will be directly selected from the guards, militias, and even Mongolian mercenaries to replenish the front.

This kind of gunpowder grain and grass replenishment will probably be completed in another month or two. Of course, the specific situation also depends on what the last operation was like. The last time Qu Neng fought, because of Song Sheng's defection, he barely fought.

Many armies have maintained their strength intact, so there is very little time to repair, and it can even be said that if it were not for the large number of troops surrendered, and the newly acquired prefectures and counties that need to be rectified, the repair time could be further compressed.

However, it was different on the side of the Southern Army.

Although now, under the condition that the Yangtze River estuary is infested with naval divisions of the Northern Army, the Nanjing side is working hard to restore and maintain our logistical supply at the front. But it is also far inferior to the Northern Army. This leads to one thing.

That is, for the same losses, it will take about half a year for the Southern Army to return to the situation before the war.

If you lose badly. It will never even be possible to return to the situation before the war.

There is also a problem, that is, the problem of the source of soldiers.

He Xi established a new military system. In the second-line army, that is, the guard army, among the militia groups, there is also a clear regionality. However, the 13 armies were organized and trained, but there was no problem in this regard, and they even deliberately disrupted the region.

to determine the attributes of these armies of the Central Army.

Therefore, these armies have losses, and the supply of troops can be replenished wherever they are. Moreover, because the forbidden army far exceeds the salary of the local army, there are many people who have thought of entering the forbidden army.

So the replenishment is very fast, and many people are waiting for the front-line forbidden army to have a shortage.

This also has to admit that the martial style in the north has always been stronger than in the south, and for northerners, it has never been a problem to seek wealth and wealth in the military. Everyone will only envy and will not despise. Now most of the Qin land is in the hands of the Northern Army, and the Qin people are also a good source of soldiers.

It was very easy for the Northern Army to replenish its troops.

But the Southern Army was different.

It's not that the South has run out of manpower. In terms of population alone, Nanjing's population is now more than double that of Beijing. It is not that the people in the south are weak, after all, in many cases, whether the army can fight or not has little to do with the people's customs. It's all trained.

After all, before Qi Jiguang, no one knew that Zhejiang soldiers could actually shock the world.

The problem lies in the health system.

In He Xi's military reform, the system of guards has been diluted. Even many health centers have been abolished. For example, the health center near Beijing. And Xu Da and Fu Youde's military reform has too many compromises to the guard system.

Reform will be carried out on the basis of maintaining the health center.

There's a problem here.

According to the army's system of supplementing military households after the death of father and son, once a front-line soldier dies in battle, this family must continue to send out to fill this position.

This plan, in fact, is not suitable for a brutal war.

It's like now, after a big defeat, it needs to be replenished immediately, and many troops in Guanzhong, they are requisitioned from other places. They had no right to replenish their forces in the area, and they had to send people back to their guards and requisition them.

That's it.

How many strong men can an ordinary military family have, if one dies, pull another one. If this kind of war continues, won't it be a recipe for extinction? Even if you pick wool, you can't find a family to pick it.

Each army has its own affiliation, and the general has the right to temporarily incorporate civilian households into military households. But this is an extraordinary move, but any extraordinary move will cause a lot of trouble.

Of course, in times of crisis, there is nothing to care about. But the problem is that there are no specific rules for temporary supplements. It's easy to evolve into going to the street to catch strong men. And once it becomes a military household in the guard, the lessons of the past are in front of you.

That's not a dead person, it's very likely that the father died and the son succeeded, and the family died.

It is only natural that the people's grievances are boiling.

After all, how can it be compared with the supplementary regulations for personnel that He Xi had formulated a long time ago.

As a result, the southern army was even worse than the northern army in terms of personnel recovery and replenishment.

This disparity in all aspects has created the current situation. Qu Neng had recovered from the last battle, and even strengthened to a certain extent compared to before, but Geng Bingwen's troops were not much better than the previous retreat to Xi'an.

Facing Qu Neng's offensive.

Geng Bingwen did not think of taking the initiative to attack and break the encirclement of the Northern Army on the periphery.

Since the encirclement cannot be broken, then sit in Xi'an and wait for the northern army to lock up from the periphery little by little. Then you can only wait for death.

Geng Bingwen naturally wouldn't do this.

There was only one way for him. That's the breakout.

Abandon Xi'an and retreat to Lantian.

Defending Lantian means guarding the Wuguan Road, and also guarding the Wuguan Railway that has just been built, although the steam engine in Nanjing has not yet been built and can only run horse-drawn carriages, but it has also brought revolutionary changes to the logistics of the Southern Army.

With your back here, you can take root in Guanzhong.

At least, so that the Northern Army can not be complete

Take the pass, so as not to threaten the Nanyang Xiangyang area through Wuguan Road. At the same time, it can also contain a considerable number of troops of the Northern Army. If there is a day of counteroffensive in Nanjing, it will also be a bridgehead in the counterattack.

Geng Bingwen doesn't want to be so embarrassed, but what else can be done now? It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.

This is also a way to go. It can be regarded as a relatively good choice among all the options.