Turbulent Times Chapter 1688: Nie Xiaoyu has been in retreat for half a year

The next step is to select the available generals and officials to give them important tasks, select and kill all the loyalists to Liang Guo, and then disrupt the organization, select the backbone from the three legions of the Da'an Empire, and reorganize the surrendered army .

This time lasted for three days, and Qin Qiong took a total of 100,000 soldiers to the next county of Liang State.

The 100,000 surrendered troops are led by Qin Qiong himself, coupled with the skillful rectification method of the Da'an Empire, as long as the Da'an Empire does not suffer a big defeat, they will not suffer backlash.

After all, all the people or factors that may have backfired have been killed.

Of course, it is impossible for these people to have a sense of belonging to the Da'an Empire in such a short period of time, let alone have any loyalty to His Majesty Wang Junlin, the Emperor of Da'an.

On February 27th, Qin Qiong led all the troops of the Violent Bear Army and the Huaibei Army, and some of the Steel Saber Army, a total of 120,000 horses, plus 100,000 descended troops, a total of 220,000 people, rushed to the Jiujiang County of Liang State.

Part of the Steel Knife Legion will stay to cooperate with the civil service system that will arrive in Da'an Kingdom later, and begin to consolidate the occupied Xin'an County.

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Nanhai County easily fell into the hands of Yuchi Jingde of the Tiger Army. Yuchi Jingde left five thousand troops to cooperate with the officials who arrived later to consolidate Nanhai County. The more than 10,000 Liang troops who surrendered in Hainan County, which was simply being rectified, continued to rush north without stopping, and took Xiongping County of Liang State.

Yuchi Jingde knew that once he took Xiongping County again, he would be able to drive directly to Baling City, the capital of Liang Kingdom.

However, Xiongping County is no less defenseless than Nanhai County. Xiongping County has gathered nearly 100,000 people from Liang Kingdom. In addition, Xiongping County is mostly mountainous and the gorge is deep. For Xiong Pingguan.

Liang Jun gathered 30,000 horses at Xiongping Pass. Not to mention, the main reason is that the pass is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Although Yuchi Jingde has made a lot of preparations in advance, it is not easy to win .

As a matter of fact, Yuchi Jingde had already collected a lot of information on such a grand pass before taking the sea route to attack Nanhai County, even including the detailed terrain of Xiongping Pass, the deployment of troops inside the pass, how many means of defending the city, etc. Inquire clearly. However, there were only 5,000 defenders in the pass at that time, but now there are 30,000 defenders.

But it was precisely because of the existence of Xiong Pingguan that in Wang Junlin's overall plan, Yuchi Jingde was strengthened with a thousand special forces experts.

Xiong Ping Pass was difficult to attack, mainly because in addition to the lofty main pass city, many military forts and forts were built on both sides, and there were two protruding mountain ridges on both sides.

Anyone with a little experience in siege can see that the key to breaking the city lies on these two protruding mountain beams. And General Xiong Ping obviously realized this, and there were 3,000 elite soldiers stationed on each of the two mountain ridges.

In order not to affect the attack on the main pass, Yuchi Jingde first concentrated his forces to take down the five military strongholds and two military forts on both sides. At this time, the power of the Da'an Empire's siege equipment was revealed. Giant catapults, gunpowder kits, grenade bombs, giant nest vehicles, giant crossbow guns, engineers demolishing walls, etc., all kinds of means were used one by one. In five days, all the military forts and military villages on both sides fell into the hands of the tiger army.

On the sixth day, the Tiger Legion began to concentrate its forces to attack the main pass, but at the same time, a thousand soldiers from the special brigade led by Zhang Tiangang crossed the mountains and went around to the back of Xiongping Pass.

On the first day, the Tiger Legion suffered 500 casualties and failed to reach the city wall of Xiongping Pass.

On the second day, the Tiger Legion used gunpowder to blow up half of the city wall, but due to the special terrain here, it still did not collapse. Unless all the explosives brought by the Tiger Legion this time were concentrated, it would be possible to blow up and collapse the city wall in one fell swoop. . But there are still many fortresses to attack later, how could Yuchi Jingde be willing to set fire?

The medicine is all used here.

On the third day, in the middle of the night, a thousand soldiers from the special brigade climbed up the mountain ridges on both sides from behind. The sound of killing suddenly shook the sky above the mountain ridge.

For the 3,000 men on the two mountain ridges, General Xiong Ping is quite confident, because these 3,000 men are the real elite under his command, and they are in their familiar environment and occupy a favorable location.

In short, although Da'an's army is formidable, General Xiong Ping does not think that the opponent can successfully attack.

However, these 3,000 people are facing 1,000 special forces masters who can equal ten by one, or even tens by one, so the result will definitely exceed his expectations. In just half an hour, two The crucial mountain ridge fell into the hands of the Da'an Empire. One hundred and twelve soldiers of the special brigade lost in this battle.

Once the two mountain ridges fall, it means that the advantage of Xiong Pingguan will be greatly reduced, and the morale of the defenders will also be fatal.

On the fourth day, the Tiger Legion aggressively attacked the city. On the two mountain ridges on both sides, Yuchi Jingde deployed 5,000 men each, and kept shooting with steel string bows in his hands. The defenders had no way to defend the city at all, and they still chose vigorous throwers to bombard with grenades.

In this way, Liang Jun fought hard for most of the day, and more than two-thirds of them died in battle. People supervised the battle, but they couldn't prevent the soldiers from escaping from the city wall. Even the guard's personal soldiers were killed by the retreating soldiers.

In the end, after the Tiger Army paid more than a thousand casualties, it took most of a day to finally reach the top of Xiongping Pass through the ladder.

At this point, Xiong Pingguan, the throat that prevents the army from Da'an Country South Road from entering the hinterland of Liang State, is in hand.

There are dead bodies everywhere above and below the city. On the troop transport road at the top of the city, the fallen corpses are pierced with dense arrows, as if they were stabbed one by one. The appearance was also horrible, some were smashed into human form by rolling wood and rocks, some were scorched black by kerosene, and the one whose head was in a different place and glaring like life was shocking.

Xiong Ping, the guard with disheveled hair, was surrounded by a group of soldiers from the Tiger Legion. This guard, who was loyal to Liang Emperor Xiao Ju, would not surrender until his death.

Yuchi Jingde admired this person very much in his heart. In addition, he hadn't made a move for a long time, so he ignored the deployment and forcefully dissuaded him. Jingde chopped off his head with a knife.

Xiongping Pass fell, and Yuchi Jingde led the Tiger Legion and 20,000 surrendered troops to drive straight in, attacking the hinterland of Xiongping County with a devastating force.

At the same time, Xu Shiji, the army of the North Road, led the Wagang Battalion to capture the entire territory of Berkshire.

The news of the annihilation of the 200,000 troops on the East Road reached Mingyue Mansion. His confidants were killed by several subordinates, they opened the city gate from the inside, and under the cooperation of the inside and the outside, Mingyue Mansion was also captured by the seal battalion led by Huang Shaoqiu, and they harvested a large amount of food and 30,000 surrendered troops.

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With the secret assistance of the Ministry of National Security and the Military Intelligence Office, on the fourth day of March, Qin Qiong led the main force of the Violent Bear Army, the Steel Sword Army, and the East Route Army of the Huaibei Army. After more than half a month, they easily captured most of Jiujiang County. Nearly half of the counties directly opened their doors and surrendered.

On March 10th, Xu Shiji of the North Route Army led the Wagang Army and the Seal Army led by Huang Shaoqiu joined forces in Wu'an County. Together, they attacked Wu'an County. It took more than 20 days to capture Wu'an The entire county.

So far, out of the thirty-four counties and one hundred and forty-seven counties in Liang State, eight counties and forty-seven counties have been captured by the Da'an Empire. Lost nearly a quarter of its territory

. And it took less than two months to send troops from the Da'an Empire.

Da'an's army was so swift and fierce, and its own army was failing successively, it really frightened Xiao Ju and Liang Guo's civil and military officials at all levels.

I thought their territory was not much smaller than that of Da'an, and the number of troops was even larger than that of Da'an. No matter what, they would be able to block the offensive!

People are always used to overestimating themselves. Xiao Ju always thought that he had established a huge territory early on. He had the blood of the Nanliang royal family and was the chosen one. And in his plan, even if Wang Junlin does not come to beat him this year, he will send troops to the Northern Expedition after destroying Shen Faxing in Hangzhou and Lin Shihong in Yuzhang, destroying Wang Junlin and Li Shimin, and then unify the world.

As a result, more than a month ago, they were still dreaming of unifying the world, but now they are about to destroy the country.

I really don't know if I don't hit it, but I'm startled when I hit it.

Actually, it doesn't mean that Xiao Ju's army is weak. The army is poor.

It's just that the Da'an army is too strong, and the Da'an Empire is too strong. This kind of strength is no longer the strength of individual soldiers, or even the strength of a simple army.

This is the crushing of the advanced regime system, professional army, and powerful military technology on the backward system, army model, and traditional weapons and equipment.

Additionally, Wang Junlin took advantage of the cheating and recruited so many strong people over the years, almost getting most of the talented people in the Sui and Tang Dynasties into his own bowl.

In this case, Liang Guo lost a quarter of its territory in more than a month, and the army lost nearly half of their total strength, a total of more than 300,000. After careful calculation, it is actually inevitable factor is inside.

In other words, it would be strange if Da'an's army lost to Liang's troops.

In fact, from the very beginning, Wang Junlin never worried that the Liang Kingdom would not be destroyed, and the importance of Xiao Gun in Wang Junlin's heart was far incomparable to that of Li Yuan and Li Shimin.

This can be seen from the fact that Wang Junlin personally led a group of troops to fight Hedong when they fought against Li Yuan and Li Shimin and his son the year before last.

So, the focus of Wang Junlin's attention recently is not how to fight Liang Guo. With so many territories, especially when the army captured counties and counties so quickly, how can these places be brought under normal governance as soon as possible.

Even though Fan Yang Academy had put in full effort to recruit a large number of students, canceled the winter and summer vacations, stepped up time for training, and thus prepared a large number of backup officials, but it still felt that it was not enough.

This requires the use of some surrendered Liang Guo officials, but these people cannot be abused, they must be carefully selected and screened, and such things are not easy to do.

After enough people are assigned, the process of completely transforming the governance model of Liang State into that of Da'an State is actually quite complicated and requires many people to do a lot of work, which will definitely involve the personal interests of different groups Benefits, overtly and secretly, will encounter a lot of resistance.

Fortunately, Wang Junlin has capable ministers such as Du Ruhui, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Pei Shiju and Yu Shiji under his command, and has trained a large number of capable officials over the years. Although the process will definitely not be so smooth, it will continue to push forward There must be no problem.

In addition, what Wang Junlin pays attention to recently is that Nie Xiaoyu has been in retreat on Snake Island for almost half a year, and he doesn't know what he has fiddled with the body of the No. 1 Killer King.

Finally on the first day of March, Wang Junlin went out to sea by boat and came to Snake Island.

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