Turbulent Times Chapter 1503: Another field of war
Fengyang City.
"Master Fang, there have been no messengers from Huangshizhai for two days." An aide said to Fang Yanzao who was stationed in Fengyang City.
Fang Yanzao frowned tightly, his face became ugly, and he couldn't help cursing: "You Junda, this trash, brought 30,000 elite soldiers and returned in a disastrous defeat that day, now there is no one on Cheng Yaojin's side If you respond, I'm afraid there will be more bad luck than good luck"
A general next to him quickly asked: "Master Fang, what should we do now?"
Fang Yanzao said: "What else can we do? We only have more than 30,000 horses in our city. We can defend the city with such a small number of people, but if we go to Huangshizhai and rescue Cheng Yaojin and the others, we are afraid that we will get trapped as many people as possible. .”
Just as he was saying this, a spy with a flag on his back rushed in, knelt on one knee and said loudly: "Master Fang, Li Xuanba of the Far Eastern Army led more than 20,000 cavalry to kill Fengyang City." Come, it is less than fifty miles away from Fengyang City."
The faces of all the Wagang generals in Fengyang City changed drastically upon hearing this.
Fang Yanzao lost his voice: "Cheng Yaojin was defeated by the Far East Army so quickly."
As soon as I finished speaking, spies rushed in to report: "Master Fang, I just got the news that the Far East Army is divided into two groups, and nearly ten thousand people have cut off the supply of food, grass and supplies between us and General Manager Xu's army. , 30,000 people came straight to us."
"Master Fang, more than 10,000 soldiers from the Far Eastern Army dare to attack us, and we have nearly 40,000 troops defending the city. What's more, they fought with Cheng Yaojin and You Junda in Huangshizhai for several days. We are tired soldiers from afar, we dare not fight outside the city, are we guarding the city, afraid that the Far Eastern Army will fail to break through the city." Seeing Fang Yanzao's panicked look, a general frowned and said sharply.
Fang Yanzao's face changed a lot, after a while, he sighed, and said with a sad face: "Even if Fengyang City is defended, so what, Director Xu and they have no food supply, what should we do."
The general smiled and said: "Master Fang, don't worry, Director Xu has long expected that the Far Eastern Army may cut off the food road, and he has already prepared for it. The food road is not limited to our Fengyang City."
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There is never only one battlefield in war, but an all-round contest. It's not just a matter of military power, but also national power, financial power, people's support, weather, location, harmony and so on!
Especially in the war of siege!
First of all, before breaking through the city, you have to invest a lot of money and food to support your soldiers.
Just like the current battle, if any force wants to break through a military stronghold in the Far East within three days, it must have at least 50,000 troops.
As for the dispatch of an army of more than 50,000, the money and food that people eat and eat is a very large expense, which is absolutely unaffordable for ordinary people or forces.
This is also one of the reasons why the Turkic people who have been looting for so many years do not like to go south to attack the city of Da Sui unless they have to.
What's more, with the war, the commercial roads will naturally be cut off, and a large number of laborers will be recruited to transport food and grass, which will delay a large number of farmers from farming, and cause some crops to be barren and left unattended. The food harvest of the faction has been greatly reduced.
It can be said that every grain eaten by the army in every war is picked out of the mouths of the people.
So, in addition to protecting one's own country against foreign invaders, ordinary people generally will not support wars of sending troops to attack other countries.
Because, in the end, it will not benefit them at all, and they will only be hurt. Of course, careerists, politicians, and the world
Family clans and financial groups will achieve their goals through war.
This point, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, is absolutely the same, and it is naturally the same for the Wagang Army today. Li Mi is this despicable careerist, and the people under the Wagang Army are actually victims.
Because the Far Eastern Army is by no means an invader, and no invader has ever treated the people so well, so they mention liberators.
On the contrary, the property looted by the Turks can be divided into layers, and the ordinary herdsmen of the tribe can also get some benefits. This is also the direct reason why they like to go south to hit grass valley.
Therefore, as early as ten days ago, the Xiaoyu Theater under Wang Junlin's command, the Wulin Association, the Military Intelligence Office and other forces were ordered by Wang Junlin to send a large number of people to sneak into the states, counties, counties, towns, and villages under the Wagang Army. , They opened up another war in a special field.
This war is actually a struggle in the field of ideology, but the Wagang Army has no idea that this war has begun, and they are not prepared at all, so they are destined to lose this war. This is a war without smoke in this field If they lose, the consequences are unpredictable. Maybe the Wagang Army regime may collapse overnight.
Few people know that Wang Junlin's center of gravity is not in Huangshizhai, nor in Fengyang City and Xiaohe Town base area, and even Cheng Yaojin and Xu Shiji are just incidental important targets.
Wang Junlin's focus is to defeat the Wagang Army from the inside out through the struggle in the ideological field.
So, on the whole, this is a war of defeat without fighting.
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Before Xu Shiji left Fengyang City, he actually made full preparations, even arranging for people to protect Fang Yanzao.
Because Xu Shiji knew that the Far Eastern Army had organizations like the Special Operations Brigade and the Military Intelligence Office, and it also had a group of violent masters like the Martial Arts Guild under its command.
Therefore, Fang Yanzao, the principal of Fengyang City, is currently under extremely tight security. A large group of bodyguards stay close to him at twelve hours a day. Full of guards.
Of course, it is impossible for these guards to stay awake all the time. They are divided into two shifts to guard Fang Yanzao in turn.
On this day, one of the guard leaders returned to the residence and saw a beautiful young woman with a beautiful little silver snake hanging from her ear.
The leader of the guard is not weak. Although he was horrified by the strange scene in front of him, his reaction was extremely fast. When the weapon in his hand was unsheathed, he had already retreated quickly.
However, as soon as he moved, his face changed drastically, and then his body limp and fell to the ground.
This beautiful woman is naturally Shen Guoer, the commander of the Military Intelligence Office of the Far Eastern Army, Wang Junlin's eyes and ears, and the real high-level of the Far Eastern Army.
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The next day, the guard leader went to change shifts as usual, and went to serve as a guard beside Fang Yanzao.
In the middle of the night that night, Zhang Tiangang led a special warfare brigade to attack Fengyang City at night.
At the same time, thousands of men in black appeared in Fengyang City, setting fire to create chaos, and kidnapping the family of General Wagang.
Soon, nearly 10,000 ordinary people in Fengyang City took to the streets. They were instigated by someone, and they expressed various demands to the Wagang Army, which eventually developed into a violent conflict with the Wagang Army.
In short, the city is in chaos.
During this process, Fang Yanzao commanded indiscriminately and issued several orders one after another, which gave the Far Eastern Army a lot of convenience in capturing Fengyang City at night.
Half an hour later, the West City Gate was captured by Zhang Tiangang's special operations team and opened from the inside.
Li Xuanba, who had been preparing outside the city for a long time, led an army of more than 20,000 Violent Bear Battalions to rush in through the wide-open west gate.
The Wagang army in the city still has 30,000 to 40,000 horses, and 10,000 of them are the elite of the Wagang inner battalion. At the beginning, they resisted very tenaciously.
But at that time, after Fang Yanzao escaped from the east gate with some troops, the situation took a turn for the worse.
After the news spread, the Wagang Army's will to resist in the city disappeared, and a large-scale defeat began.
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On the second day, in the early hours of the morning, Xu Shiji, who led the army to attack Xiaohedao Mountain Pass, received the news that the grain road supplied to the army by Fengyang City had been robbed.
Although Xu Shiji was very upset that the food road was robbed, after all, he had anticipated it in advance and prepared with both hands, so he was not depressed.
But at noon, he received the news that the Far Eastern Army had arrived at Fengyang City, which made his face sink, because the appearance of the Far Eastern Army at Fengyang City meant that Cheng Yaojin was at Huangshizhai Completely defeated.
Thinking that I have left 30,000 to 40,000 horses in Fengyang City, and I have all kinds of preparations, how can Fengyang City be able to guard for a month!
And as long as Fengyang City is there, at least the task of attracting the main force of the Far Eastern Army will be achieved. In this way, he can continue to follow the main line of the plan, continue to attack Xiaohedao Mountain Pass, cut off the retreat route of the Far Eastern Army, and wait for Li Mi. Mobilize hundreds of thousands of Wagang troops to besiege and kill Wang Junlin.
But then in the afternoon, Xu Shiji received another news that Fengyang City had fallen again.
Xu Shiji was stunned by this news, and felt flustered for the first time.
The fall of Fengyang City was no longer a matter of him cutting off the retreat of the Far East Army, but a matter of the 50,000 troops he led would most likely be cut off by Wang Junlin and the main force of the Violent Bear Battalion.
Just when Xu Shiji was thinking about withdrawing his troops with an ugly face, he received an urgent letter from Li Mi from the Wagang General Village, and he chose to suspend the retreat again, preparing to continue attacking Xiaohedao Mountain Pass.
After Li Mi and Xu Shiji made a huge battle plan, they have been paying attention to the battles at Fengyang City, Huangshizhai, and the entrance of the small river these days. The intelligence was sent to Li Mi by the spies led by Xie Yingdeng immediately.
When Li Mi received the news that You Junda had led 30,000 troops to a disastrous defeat, he found that the development of the war had seriously deviated from their previous battle plan. Feeling more and more uneasy, he decisively led the 150,000 people who had gathered to rush to Fengyang City ahead of time.
Since the army led by Li Mi will soon besiege and kill Fengyang City, where more than 20,000 Far Eastern troops are stationed, Xu Shiji decided to continue attacking Xiaohedao Mountain Pass according to the established plan.
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Fang Yanzao ignored the dissuasion of the generals of the Wagang Army below, and resolutely chose to lead more than 10,000 Wagang remnants to escape and take a road to the west.
As a result, when passing through a valley with steep mountains on both sides, regardless of the opposition of the generals under his command, he was forced to rest in the valley under the pretext of taking shelter from the wind. , bows and arrows, and grenades killed nearly half of them.
The other half of the remnant soldiers fled to the two sides of the valley in a panic, and were wiped out by Li Shanfei's remaining 3,000 cavalry who had been waiting there. Fang Yanzao knelt at Li Shanfei's feet begging for mercy, expressing his willingness to serve Qin An king.
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