279. Chapter 277: The Great Empire
Haoyue City, after the battle lasted for a whole afternoon, it finally stopped, in this battle, the Haotian coalition army lost more than 70,000 people, which was the biggest loss since Du Long took charge of the army!
After receiving the statistical results of the Ring Spirit Beauty, Du Long was silent, the battle outside the south gate alone, he lost more than 40,000 people, which was even greater than the total loss of the siege battle in the entire Haoyue City!
This really responds to the words of the beauty of the ring, mercy is not in charge of the army, mercy to the enemy is cruelty to his own soldiers!
Of course, the result of this battle still ended in a great victory for the Haotian coalition army, and the entire Haotian million coalition army, with only a loss of more than 70,000 people, took Haoyue City, a city garrisoned by 400,000 troops!
Haoyue City originally had more than 400,000 defenders, only the Zheng brothers led thousands of people to flee to the south bank of the Hans River, and after breaking through from Haoyue City, his 50,000 horses were chased and killed by the steppe iron cavalry!
In the end, more than 20,000 people fell, and most of the rest died on the way to the pursuit, and they only brought out a few thousand men and horses, threw away their armor, jumped into the Hans River in embarrassment, and swam to the south bank hundreds of meters away, and escaped!
This battle has added a strong stroke to the history of war in the Star Continent, and has become an example for military training colleges from all over the world to learn from!
For this battle, there are two different arguments in the military training academies of various countries on the mainland, one of which is that Du Long's battle before the start of the war is the key factor in achieving the greatest results with the minimum loss in this battle!
There is also a theory that the key to achieving the greatest results in this battle with the minimum losses is the mysterious weapon in Du Long's hand that can break through the city wall!
In short, no matter what kind of argument it is, everyone in the Star Continent admires Du Long's heart-to-heart battle before the war!
He deliberately went to the outside of Haoyue City to argue with Zheng Kaiyuan, the main general of the Blue Moon Empire, and finally used an extremely simple fact that all the military cultivation students of all countries in the mainland understood, and he was able to successfully defeat the military hearts of the two major legions of the Blue Moon Empire, Zhiyuan and Pang Tong, and this move once again made all the forces on the mainland fall under the influence of Du Long's ingenuity!
If it is said that in the past, when Du Long was in the Haotian Royal Academy, he relied on his unique understanding of all the battlefield terrains to defeat one military cultivation master after another just on paper, then his performance in actual combat was definitely surpassed!
For a time, the youngest commander of the Star Continent, the most brilliant battle results, the most dazzling talent of the God of War, etc., countless auras were placed on Du Long's head without hesitation!
Regarding his feat of killing two spirit level masters in an instant in front of the two armies, there were various rumors on the mainland, and everyone was puzzled by this, or they couldn't believe it!
If this is true, could it be said that Du Long, who is only twenty years old, is already a master of spiritual strength? This is also incredible?!......
After getting the news that Haoyue City was also lost, many towns in the east of the original Haoyue Kingdom no longer had the slightest heart to resist, and surrendered one after another, for them, under the rule of the Haotian Empire, it may be better than under the high-pressure rule of the Blue Moon Empire!
Ephemeral, February 28, 1010!
Haohai City, a border town on the coast of the East China Sea of the Haoyue Kingdom and the customs of the Haotian Empire, the second legion of the 200,000 original Haoyue Kingdom took the initiative to surrender to the Haotian million coalition army!
At this point, the vast area north of the Hans River, including the original Qingyun Grassland, Haoyue Kingdom and other places, all fell, and finally broke away from the control of the Blue Moon Empire and became the southern part of the Haotian Empire!
The Haotian Empire has since become the largest empire in the Star Continent, and for a time, it has been powerful all over the world!
This empire, which was once invaded by the Blue Moon Empire and did not dare to fight back, has no one dared to underestimate it ever since!
Having just conquered a large territory, Du Long was not in a hurry to continue to use troops against the Blue Moon Empire, but sent an application to the Haotian Empire, requesting the empire to send government officials to the newly conquered territory, so that all aspects of the land after the Great War could be back on track as soon as possible!
For Du Long, who is so acquainted, the emperor is full of praise, if he wants to monopolize the military and political power in the war zone at this time, absolutely no one dares to say half a word easily!
It is precisely because of this incident that the emperor's wariness of Du Long has been dispelled a lot, and he has rewarded meritorious soldiers in the imperial capital, one of which is to give the Qingyun Grassland to Du Long, the commander with the greatest merit, and become a piece of his territory!
According to the convention, meritorious soldiers should have their own territory, and with Du Long's merits, getting such a big territory as Qingyun Grassland is not too much for Du Long!
In fact, the emperor has another meaning for doing this, although the Qingyun Grassland is large, it is the world of the grassland people, and it is difficult for him to send political officials to them.
In addition, in the Qingyun grassland, except for the holy city of Hassan, there is no decent city at all, and at most it can only be regarded as a relatively densely populated area, which is caused by the nomadic habits of the grassland people.
Since they can't control the Qingyun Grassland well, it is better to give it to Du Long as a territory, and with his relationship with the King of the Grassland, how to collect the taxes in the territory depends on their own will.
As a result, Du Long had such a large piece of territory out of thin air!
In Haoyue City, when the holy decree of Emperor Haotian was issued, the Prairie King and other generals also returned victoriously from the east, and they all gathered in Haoyue City, just receiving the emperor's will to reward the generals.
As soon as he heard that Qingyun Grassland had become Du Long's territory, the Grassland King not only did not have any displeasure, but seemed excited!
"King Harujie, why are you so happy when you hear that Qingyun Grassland has become my Du Long's territory?!" Du Long asked the Grassland King with some confusion.
"Haha! Marshal Du Long doesn't know, as a federal state, what he is most afraid of is to be arranged to be a difficult lord, once he speaks ill of us to the emperor all day long, causing the emperor's suspicion, then our life will be sad!" The king of the grassland directly said his thoughts: "With this king's understanding of the marshal, I believe you must not be the kind of lord with a small belly!"
"Hehe, that's hard to say!King Halujie, you must pay taxes to the master on time and in accordance with the amount, otherwise, be careful that I will also give you small shoes to wear in front of the emperor every day!" After Du Long understood what the Prairie King meant, he immediately made a joke.
"Hahaha!" After hearing this, the surrounding generals burst into laughter.
After the grassland king laughed a few times with everyone, he immediately said: "As long as Marshal Du Long will always be the lord of our grassland people, I promise that the taxes that should be paid in the future will definitely be handed over to you on time and on time!"
Generally speaking, in a territory, the relationship between the chief official and the lord is always contradictory, and the reason is that the tax contradiction is at work, and the administrative officer always wants to delay the payment of taxes to the lord, and the lord is always collecting!
"Haha! It's not a secret, the lord of the Blue Moon Empire was too dark-hearted, not only to collect the taxes we should have paid, but also to collect all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, alas! We grassland people are almost unable to live!" The grassland king did not hide the reason behind it.
Du Long asked suspiciously, "Can't you report this matter to the Emperor of the Blue Moon Empire?!"
"Hmph! Report to the dog emperor of the Blue Moon Empire, it will be like your family being robbed, and then running to the thief's den to report to the thief leader, you said that without the secret support of the dog emperor, which lord has such a dog guts?!" The grassland king snorted disdainfully: "If we are not forced to be in a hurry, how can we grassland people follow the adults to resist the tyranny of the Blue Moon Empire?!"
"I see!" Du Long suddenly replied.
"Marshal Dulong, I don't know where our next strategic focus will turn, you have to get to the bottom first, and in the next time, we can also prepare in that direction!"
"Well, the area north of the Hans River has just been included in the pocket of the Haotian Empire, and it can be described as a hundred ruins waiting to be rebuilt, and it will take time to reorganize the government affairs in this area and redraw the defense line in the theater! Therefore, I have a rough draft here, let's get to the bottom of it first! Save this time, you don't know what you should do!" Du Long nodded.
Seeing that he was about to explain his business, the generals sat up straight, and the smiles on their faces also converged.
Du Long glanced at the generals who had recovered their seriousness, nodded with satisfaction, and began to explain according to the plan of the Ring Spirit Beauty: "First of all, let's divide the war zone with the Hans River as the boundary, and the first war zone is naturally the Qingyun Grassland!"
As soon as he heard Du Long talk about his own territory, the Prairie King's eyes lit up, and he looked at him with blazing eyes, waiting for the following!
Du Long nodded at him and continued: "I have decided to assign Hans City to King Halujie! The Grassland Legion will take Hans City as the core, arrange defensive lines along the river shore, and send cavalry every day to carefully monitor the movements of the Blue Moon Empire people on the other side of the river!"
Also, the Qingyun Grassland is destined to become an important grain and grass base and war horse breeding base of the Haotian Empire in the future, and King Halujie will not only pay attention to defense, but also pay attention to the construction of a new slave city, and set aside a piece of land for the slaves of the original Blue Moon Empire to cultivate!"
"This king understands! Thank you Lord Marshal for your trust in handing over Hans City to us steppe people to take care of! We will definitely fully cooperate with Lord Marshal's plan and fully cooperate with the construction of the new slave city!" replied the King of the Prairie gratefully.
"Very good! King Harujie, since I have talked about the issue of the new slave city, I have decided to name this new city again, because of the existence of the Guide Legion, I have decided to name this slave city - Guide City!
From now on, the Guide Legion of the Qingyun Grassland will cooperate with the Grassland Army, and see if the Blue Moon Empire dares to have the slightest ill-intentioned ambition for the Qingyun Grassland?!" Du Long said with a glint in his eyes.
"Marshal Xie is gracious, Kang Tuo is willing to swear allegiance to the marshal with all the soldiers of the Guide Legion!" Kang Tuo said with a grateful face.
"Fei Ye, Fei Ye!" Du Long hurriedly waved his hand and said, "General Kang Tuo must remember one thing, the object of your allegiance to the death is His Majesty the Emperor of the Haotian Empire, not Du Long!"
"The last general understands! I belong to the German Legion, and I will be fully loyal to His Majesty the Emperor of the Haotian Empire!" Kang Tuo changed his words in time, and Qin Hanfan, the commander of the Xindunwu Legion on the side, nodded secretly, this general from the imperial family obviously agreed with Du Long's approach.
Subsequently, Du Long began to continue to explain the next key tasks, the grassland direction is dominated by the grassland army and the Guide army, and the riverbank area south of Haoyue City is mainly defended by the Jinglin, Xindunwu, Zhongwu, and Zhenwei regiments.
The area around the customs is still dominated by the 400,000 troops of the Wei family, as well as the 200,000 Haoyue Second Army of Haohai City, which has been newly subjugated!
With this defensive layout as the center of gravity, the three major theaters of war will rectify the major cities and towns in their jurisdictions, and reorganize the newly recruited surrendered troops in each of them, so as to achieve results and get on the right track within half a year!