Chapter 434: The Calm Before the Storm
When Ugong Zhaolie recruited troops from all over the country, Yuan Qi was not idle, he took out a huge amount of wealth and handed it over to the generals led by Wang Yezi and Ma Jun as supervisors, so that thousands of skilled craftsmen who would be supervisors worked overtime to make all kinds of military resources. In order to alleviate www.biquge.info the pressure of the people who will be imprisoned, Yuan Qi also ordered more than 2,000 students from the engineering department of Yenching University to help in the prison when they have no homework. Although the craftsmanship of these students is not necessarily very superb, with their solid foundation, there is no problem in helping the craftsmen who will be in prison.
If you want to let the students who will be supervisors and engineering students build a large number of large-scale weapons of destruction such as red-coat ballistas to play an important role on the battlefield, then the necessary investment is essential. At this time, the strong side is revealed.
After the conscription of 500,000 troops, the money and grain in the treasury were sharply reduced by one-third, and the remaining two-thirds had to maintain the military salaries of these 500,000 recruits for a year.
According to the different economic conditions of the large states, the state pastors of the various states, under the condition of ensuring the normal operation of the state's affairs, handed over a large amount of money and grain to the central government, and the total amount reached a terrifying 200 million yuan, which was almost the same as the stock of the state treasury. This figure is quite large, but it is very much in line with the economic proportion of a strong man, and the amount of money in the central state treasury is comparable to the amount of money saved in other parts of the country, which is the most significant indication of the economic maturity of a strong man. It's just that with the full cooperation of the ministers, and under the Yuan Qi quoting a large number of governing concepts from later generations, the economic situation is really a bit terrifying, and it is almost the same as the prosperity of the rule of Wenjing in the past.
Among the major prefectures, Yizhou, which is known as the land of abundance, and Jizhou, which has abundant money and grain, are the ones that have paid the most money and grain; they are followed by Jingzhou, which has a vast territory, Jiangdong, which is crisscrossed by rivers, and Bingzhou, which has not been subjected to war in the past 10 years; and in the third echelon are Guanzhong, which has been at the beginning of the war, and Liangzhou, which has a strong people's customs. As well as the rapid development of the three states of light, Ming and Tong in the past few years. Jiaozhou was unable to transport the money and grain in time because it was too far away from Yanjing, but Jiaozhou Mu Shixie borrowed money from Yizhou Mu Xu Shu in line with the economic situation in the state by way of borrowing, and Xu Shu transported it to Yanjing on behalf of Shixie, and then Shixie raised money and grain from Jiaozhou and sent it back to Yizhou. Not all of the state pastors in these large states pay all the money and grain in stone. For example, Liangzhou used Liangzhou horses to replace 30% of the money and grain, while Yizhou used refined iron and 100 steel to replace 20% of the money and grain...... The advantage of this is that it can be used locally, saving money and grain after being transported to Yanjing. It is also necessary to send out the procurement link from Yanjing, which virtually saves a lot of costs.
After collecting a large amount of money and food, Yuan Qi distilled the focus of the next step to two aspects. On the one hand, he ordered generals at all levels to step up military training under the coordination and command of Gao Shun, Xu Rong, and other military trainers, with a view to forming combat effectiveness as soon as possible and reaching a tacit understanding with the original elite troops; on the other hand, Yuan Qi issued a death order to the generals, ordering them to expand their military armaments to the standard of one million men fighting at the same time within five months.
If these three points can be perfectly combined, Yuan Qi will have reason to believe that it is not too difficult to wipe out the last resistance to dominate the world and uproot the forces of Unomiya Teruo!
In the next six months, the top and bottom took Yuanqi as the core, closely united, like a huge and sophisticated machine, and began to run vigorously. Even those who no longer care about politics have clearly felt the tension before the war, and the old enemies of Yuan Qi and Unomiya Terulie have finally reached the moment of the real decisive battle. All the soldiers of the two countries are already gearing up, and in the intense preparations for war, they are ready to obey the orders of their respective monarchs at any time and set foot on the battlefield.
In the blink of an eye, the time has come to the height of summer. After a pouring rain, Yuan Qi came to the military academy in Yanjing alone and stood quietly in front of the towering Monument to the martyrs for a long time. On the monument of martyrs, from the original empty word to the current dense, engraved with the names of many people, and even some people did not even leave their names, only a simple code name. Yuan Qi stretched out his hand and brushed over these names one by one, and the expression on his face gradually became solemn.
The reason why there is today's prosperity is inseparable from these martyrs who will always leave their names on the martyrs' monuments, without the efforts of these people who are not afraid of life and death, and go forward and follow-up, there will be no today, it is these respectable and lovely martyrs who have laid the cornerstone with their own lives, and it is these martyrs who have composed a tragic song of life with their blood, and set the dynasty to the clouds! In Yuan Qi's heart, they will always be the most lovely people!
In his heart, remembering those martyrs who knew or did not know, Yuan Qi's mood could not be calmed for a long time. For the sake of these martyrs who died on the battlefield, for the sake of those people who yearn for peace, and for the long-term peace of future generations, in this battle, Yuan Qi and the dynasty behind him can only win, not lose!
Standing in front of the martyr's monument all night, Yuan Qi returned to his dormitory on the second day when the sun rose. He wanted to leave the last bit of time for his family. Although there is no specific date for the expedition, that day will not be too far away, before that, Yuan Qi wants to accompany his family to live happily for a while. He wants to use his limited time to enjoy endless happiness with his family.
family, let Yuan Qi feel endless warmth, but also brought him endless motivation. The names of the martyrs on the monument and the warmth brought by their families gave birth to thousands of thoughts in Yuan Qi's heart, and in the end, all the thoughts were integrated together and transformed into eight big characters: only to win, not to die!
On the first day of August in the second year of Kaiyuan, Yuan Qi harvested the second child in his life, and the child's mother was Shangguan Mi. This child is a girl, the pink carved jade is very cute, and the appearance is vaguely with Xiao Yuanshi's imagination, as soon as she was born, it is already foreseeable that she will be a beautiful embryo in the future. Yuan Qi immediately canonized this girl as Princess Changle, implying that she can spend her life happily.
However, it was also on this day that Yuan Qi didn't even have time to choose a name for his newborn daughter, so he had to give up his newborn daughter and lead 500,000 elite soldiers on the journey.
"When my father returns, I'm naming you. This was the first thing Yuan Qi said to his daughter.
On August 15 of the second year of Kaiyuan, the troops of several large states in the north gathered in Yecheng, the place of Jizhou, and the main forces of the three major armies of the Northern Army, the Guanzhong Army and the Hebei Army Corps met here, and the 800,000 main forces of the three legions and the 200,000 elite soldiers of the four elite troops were ready to fight in Yecheng.
As usual, when going out on the expedition, Yuan Qi made people put the martyr's monument on the platform, and the dense names on the martyr's monument inspired the unparalleled fighting spirit of 800,000 elite soldiers.
Unlike when he usually went out on the expedition, in order to win the decisive battle this time, Yuan Qi used almost all the elites under his command, the two generals of the Dragon and Tiger, the five tiger generals, the eight good generals, and the ten all-rounders all followed in the army. Only Pang Tonghe, who was in Jingzhou, did not want to be an enemy of Ugong Zhaolie, and Guo Jia, who took the initiative to stay in Yanjing, did not come, and the lineup can be described as unprecedentedly strong. The powerful lineup also inspired the fighting spirit of the soldiers from the side, and the faces of every elite soldier were therefore filled with an unswerving desire for victory, and the heroes of the world gathered here, do they still have to worry about defeat? What's more, for this decisive battle, Yuan Qi used a lot of money to equip each soldier with weapons and equipment with absolute superiority, excellent armor and sharp weapons, which also made the confidence of the soldiers soar to the peak.
On August 16 of the second year of Kaiyuan, on the second day of the Yuan Qi priest's expedition, Pang Tong, who was guarding Jingzhou, also issued a declaration of war to Ugong Teruri in Chaisang on the border between Jingzhou and Jiangdong, and the southern army composed of Jingzhou and Jiangdong poured out, with a total of 400,000 troops making a pre-war declaration, echoing the three major northern armies led by Yuan Qi. One south and one north firmly pressed Unomiya Terulie in the Central Plains.
Although the lineup of the Southern Army is not as strong as the three major army corps in the north, the lineup led by famous generals such as Zhou Yu and Lu Meng is not to be underestimated. Supplemented by dozens of generals and strategists from Jingzhou, Yizhou, Jiangdong and other places, plus an army of 400,000 with high morale, it quickly set off a storm in the south, causing many officials of Wei counties to fall into panic. What's more, the military commander of the Southern Army is Pang Tong, the name of the phoenix, who in the world does not know? Now Wolong is in the north to assist in the Yuan body, but the phoenix chick has held up another wave in the south, which can really be described as a perfect combination and complements each other.
On August 17 of the second year of Kaiyuan, Xu Shu of the Southwest Army also echoed. He gathered the main force of 300,000 troops of the Southwest Army, and the 100,000 barbarian troops in Nanzhong led by Meng Shu and Mrs. Zhurong, marched in the direction of the Central Plains, and finally settled down in Hanzhong. He Yuanqi and Pang Tong formed a joint encirclement trend, blocking the way for Ugong Terulie to withdraw from the Central Plains. The military layout of the three encirclements has thus taken shape.
However, Wai San Que Yi is not the layout that Yuan Qi wants most. He knew that Unomiya Terulie was powerful, and as long as he left a slight gap, he could escape from the battlefield and then flee overseas. In order to make a comeback. In order to completely trap Unomiya Terulie and avoid another wave in the future, Yuan Qi also ordered a blockade of the sea area east of Qingzhou.
August 21, the second year of Kaiyuan. Under the command of Sun Ce, the navy blockaded the coastal area. At the same time, Sun Quan, who was sitting in Jiangdong, also asked the veteran generals Cheng Pu and Huang Gai to lead 50,000 naval troops to join Sun Ce, completely controlling all the outlets to the sea in the East China Sea, and cutting off the last possible escape route for Ugong Terulie.
From August 15 to August 21 of the second year of Kaiyuan, in just six days, more than two million soldiers completed the encirclement with lightning speed, and the momentum compressed Ugong Terulie in the Central Plains, leaving him the slightest room for stretching, and perfectly outlined the strategic depth planned by Yuanqi. The incessant creation of chaos in the Central Plains region laid a solid foundation for the Fourth Route Army to gain time and create opportunities to complete the encirclement in one fell swoop.
In Yuan Qi's strategic concept, he wanted to use the three major armies in the north as the main force to consume most of Umiya Terulie's forces in the frontal battlefield, supplemented by the southern army corps, to further distract Umiya Teruretsu's attention, and the southwest army and the naval army under the command of Sun Ce only played a diversion role, and at the same time did a good job of defending the east and west sides, disturbing Umiya Terulie's ears and eyes, and preventing him from using troops in the southwest or escaping to the East China Sea. When the time was ripe and the fighters appeared, the four-way army attacked at the same time, uprooting Unomiya Terulie's forces in the Central Plains, and completely destroying the last secession force that hindered unification today.
At the same time, more than two million soldiers were mobilized, and Yuan Qi's generosity shook the world, and for a while, the wind and clouds changed color!
Xuchang, in the palace of the king of Wei. Unomiya Terulie couldn't sit still. In the face of the four-way invasion of two million elite soldiers, no one can not change their face, even if they are a generation of heroes Ugong Zhaolie, they can't either.
Unomiya Terulie was naturally unwilling to be left alone, even though he knew that he did not have any advantage, he still made the decision to resist. Most of the newly recruited 800,000 troops have been trained into the army, and the replenishment of the backbone is also tending to be completed, which more or less gives Ugong Terulie some more confidence in his heart. As a result, one after another orders were conveyed from the Wei Palace, and the conscription orders flew like snowflakes to all parts of the Central Plains.
Under the edict of Ugong Zhaolie, the Taihe River guarding Qingzhou raised 200,000 troops, and the naval army led by the general Sun Ce across the sea, waiting for an opportunity to regain control of the coastal sea; the Wei army camp guarding the border between the Central Plains and Jizhou was reinforced again, and the 200,000 army was sent into the camp, and the 100,000 army of the old department of Ugong Ren converged to build the first line of defense against the Yuan Qi; at the same time, Ugong Zhaolie personally led an army of 300,000, as well as the two reorganized elite troops of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the Tiger Guard, with Xun You, Cheng Yu and other strategists, Yue Xi, Yugong Xiu and other generals, set out to Yugong Ren's camp, preparing to fight to the death with Yuan Qi at the junction of the Central Plains and Jizhou.
In addition, except for Yugong Pi, who was in charge of Xuchang, the rest of the children of the Yugong family were assigned to all sides, and they built defense lines in the west of Yanzhou and the south of Yuzhou to resist the approach of Xu Shu of the Southwest Army and Pang Tong of the Southern Army. Before leaving, Ugong Terulie made a clear order to the children of these families who were sent abroad, not asking them to kill the enemy and repel the army, but only asking them to be able to defend the territory and defend well, and not to let them attack the hinterland of the Central Plains. Ugong Terulie knew in his heart that the two million army seemed to be menacing, but in fact, the most threatening was the three major armies in the north under the personal command of Yuan Qi, and the decisive battle would definitely be carried out on the battlefield between the north and the Central Plains, so Ugong Terulie clearly issued an order to the commander who went to several other battlefields, and as long as he could delay the intrusion of several other armies, it would be a credit.
The battle between spear and shield officially began. Yuan Qihe's strength was like a sharp spear, stabbing at the vital points of Ugong Wei from all directions, while Ugong Terulie and his Wei state could only be forced to act as a shield, supporting the defense line on all sides, and protecting the hinterland of the Central Plains layer by layer.
The one who holds the spear swallows the mountains and rivers with anger, and moves forward, although there are thousands of people who go to me; the one who holds the shield, the old man holds the weight, and is not discouraged, let you run rampant and domineering, and I will stand still. Yuan Qi and Unomiya Terulie, a pair of natural rivals, after several ups and downs, several clutches, finally went to the opposite, and the former alliance and cooperation, under the momentum of their own sabre-rattling, has long dissipated into nothingness.
Perhaps at first, the ambition of the two was the same, and they both worked hard to revitalize the country, but with the advancement of time and the baptism of the years, both of them have deviated from the path they originally wanted to take. Ugong Terulie in order to realize the ambition in his heart, and finally embarked on the road of self-reliance, becoming a generation of heroes, and Yuan Qi did not go on according to the original idea, under the influence of various factors, and finally intentionally or unintentionally embarked on the road of hegemony in the world, since fate gave him this responsibility, then he will cherish this opportunity, complete the great cause of dominating the world, and leave future generations a long and peaceful and prosperous era.
Yuan Qi and Ugong Teriya two people, and even every soldier behind them know in their hearts that this battle will be related to the general trend of the world, and the losing side may no longer have the opportunity to dominate the world, now, there is only one chance, and if you lose, you will lose forever, and no one wants to bear such a defeat, so both sides have taken out the most high momentum in their lives since Yuan Qi and Ugong Teriya below, and are making final preparations for the upcoming war.
Ten days later, Unomiya Teruleu led an army of 300,000 to Umiya Ren's camp, and completed the return to the division with the other 300,000 troops who were already in place in the camp. 600,000 Wei soldiers set up dozens of military camps, stretching for 30 miles before and after.
At the same time, Yuan Qi also led his troops to the battlefield, and stopped at Dunqiu, which was fifty miles away from the Ugong Zhaolie military camp, and set up five large camps in five directions in the southeast, northwest, and north, and each camp was refined into five parts, front and back, left and right, and twenty-five camps, large and small.
The big war is on the verge of breaking out!