Chapter 381
April 25th, Shanhai City.
Cobra, the chief of military intelligence, reported the latest military situation to Ouyang Shuo.
When Cobra took office, it coincided with the unification of the Lianzhou Basin, and took advantage of the situation to make an adjustment to the Military Intelligence Department.
The first group of military intelligence is responsible for the intelligence collection in the direction of Shiwandashan and Chiyou City, and the second group of military intelligence is responsible for the boundary of Xunzhou where the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is located.
The Special Operations Group is responsible for the highest level of intelligence collection in the Military Intelligence Department. For example, the task of breaking into the interior of Chiyou City and the headquarters of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was carried out by the special operations team.
In this way, the Special Operations Group can be regarded as rectifying its name in the Military Intelligence Department, and its status is higher than that of the first and second groups.
If the Military Intelligence Department and others withdraw from Lianzhou County, they will truly specialize in the collection of military intelligence.
Ouyang Shuo handed over the monitoring of the existing player territories, mountain tribes, and grassland tribes in Lianzhou County to the Black Snake Guard Headquarters.
Before the establishment of the Security Department, Ouyang Shuo could only use the Black Snake Guard.
With the appointment of Cobra and the addition of a large number of former Rattlesnake members, the strength of the Military Intelligence Division has greatly increased, and the ability to collect intelligence has risen several steps.
Cobra's meeting with Ouyang Shuo was mainly to report the latest developments of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and Chiyou City.
In four months, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising Army was like locusts, threatening to sweep across the entire Xunzhou territory with an irresistible force.
The territory of Xunzhou has been completely occupied by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
After occupying Xunzhou, the rebels began to build their capital and named it Tianjing.
Historically, the rapid rise and decline of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has a lot to do with the extravagance and corruption of the high-level rebel army, especially the king Hong Xiuquan.
After the Taiping Army entered Nanjing, they immediately built a large-scale construction project to expand the Liangjiang Governor's Yamen into the Heavenly King's Mansion, demolished a large number of private houses, and employed tens of thousands of male and female laborers. In 1854, it was rebuilt on the original site, with palaces and gardens around more than ten miles away, resplendent and magnificent.
The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.
The construction of the East Prince's Mansion is also extremely skillful and pleasing to the eye. As for clothes such as crown shoes, ceremonial guards and horses, etc., they are all extremely luxurious. In addition, the king of heaven continued to select folk beautiful women to enter the palace.
It is reported that Hong Xiuquan's harem has no less than a thousand beauties.
According to Gaia's arrangement, other people in the core group of the rebel army have no historical memory, but the leader of the rebel army has a complete past life memory.
If it is said that Gaia is cheating on the leaders of the rebel army, arranging for them to be "reborn".
Therefore, drawing lessons from previous lives, when Hong Xiuquan led the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he would definitely not make major mistakes in a short period of time. Instead, he would work hard to build an ideal Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
After Tianjing was established as the capital, the rebel army began to expand outward again.
Learning from the lessons of the previous life, Hong Xiuquan did not arbitrarily become a king. Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai, Xiao Chaogui and others all appeared as generals.
Hong Xiuquan sits in Tianjing and takes command from the center. The rebel army raised four armies from east, west, south, north, all with a strength of more than 20,000, known as an army of 100,000, and planned to occupy the entire territory of GX in one fell swoop.
To the west, Xiao Chaogui and Feng Yunshan led troops to attack Zhen'an.
In the north, Shi Dakai and Li Kaifang led their troops to attack Guilin.
In the east, Yang Xiuqing and Lin Fengxiang led the troops to attack Wuzhou.
In the south, two young generals Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng led their troops to attack Lianzhou.
The armies of the four routes, the west route army and the north route army were in full swing, and the players' territories were beaten to the point of being helpless, either surrendering or being annihilated.
The rebel army is like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger.
The lords in GX have formed an alliance with a tragic name called [Death Alliance]. Unfortunately, in the face of the menacing rebel army, they were still retreating steadily.
The fall of Zhen'an and Guilin is only a matter of time.
The Eastern Route Army encountered stubborn resistance from Chi You's army.
Since the establishment of Chiyou City, Chiyou has led his troops to occupy the entire territory of Wuzhou. When the rebel army wanted to invade Wuzhou, they naturally kicked the iron plate.
Chi You's army is all elite mountain barbarians.
The rebel army led by Yang Xiuqing naturally had no problem dealing with ordinary player lords, but if they encountered the army of mountain barbarians, they would immediately show their prototypes.
Apart from the morale and the ability of the generals, the hastily formed uprising army was no different from a peasant army, especially in terms of weapons and equipment, it was far behind.
The East Route Army was blocked, but Yang Xiuqing was not discouraged, so he set up the East Day Camp on the border between Wuzhou and Xunzhou. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yang Xiuqing and Lin Fengxiang began to train the army and rectify military discipline.
Chi You City was limited by its population, and did not take the initiative to initiate provocations.
On the east side, the stalemate came down like this.
The same stalemate, and the Southern Route Army.
In mid-April, Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng led an army of 20,000 to attack Lianzhou in high spirits. As soon as I arrived at the mouth of the canyon, I couldn't help being dumbfounded when I saw the huge fortress built at the mouth of the canyon.
At that time, the Mulan Fortress was still one and a half months away from completion. But the outer walls of the fortress have been built, and all that remains is the construction of the inner buildings and defense facilities.
The rebel army, who didn't even bring basic siege equipment, had no way to deal with the towering fortress. In desperation, Li Xiucheng could only lead his troops to set up camp ten miles away from the fortress and set up the Southern Camp.
In view of the current situation, General Bai Qi has already visited Mulan Fortress to sit in person. The third and fourth divisions of the Longxiang Army have also entered the fortress.
If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom does not come, that's all. If they dare to invade, they will definitely suffer.
After listening to Cobra's report, Ouyang Shuo remained silent.
With the strength of the Longxiang Legion, it would not be too difficult to break through the South Route Army, take Tianjing, and then defeat the entire uprising army if they came out in full force and took advantage of the opportunity of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to attack from all sides.
The crux of the question is, is now really the best time?
Because of the setting of the wilderness, land is not the most important resource for the lord, but the population and various resources are the most precious wealth.
This is also a territorial war, which is the biggest difference from a real war.
If it was just to plunder the land, Ouyang Shuo could use the Dragon Army to wipe out the crowd with an invincible army. Not to mention GX, even Lingnan could win in one fell swoop.
The question is, what happens after you win it?
Taking over a vast and sparsely populated land is really harmful.
Therefore, territorial wars are a great test of a lord's ability to grasp the timing.
The war is launched early, and the "fruit" is not yet ripe, so it is not worthwhile; the war is launched late, and the enemy has already taken advantage of the situation to become bigger.
The emergence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was an excellent opportunity for Ouyang Shuo.
If he allows them to attack GX and manage GX to make GX's cake bigger and stronger, and finally pick the fruit, it is undoubtedly the best choice.
This is another major strategic layout proposed by Ouyang Shuo following the strategy of "raising Gu" in the Lianzhou Basin, which he called the "raising wolf" strategy.
Compared with raising Gu, the difficulty of raising wolves is not to be eaten by wolves.
With the development momentum of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it is a foregone conclusion that they will win Zhen'an and Guilin, and they will even continue to expand outward, entering the boundaries of YN and GZ.
By that time, can the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom be suppressed with the Dragon Army alone?
It is estimated that it is choking enough.
As a result, there will be a trend of being too big to drop.
However, if he attacked now, Ouyang Shuo would not be reconciled. Now that we win the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, [Death Alliance] and Chi You City will all benefit from it.
Next, it will not be an easy task to clean up the 【Death Alliance】.
There is no need to doubt that if they see an opportunity, the [Death Alliance] will definitely seek help from the [Yanhuang League] like Duanren County before, and collude together.
Ouyang Shuo didn't want to fight so hard every time.
He hoped that he could occupy the entire territory of GX with a devastating momentum.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is undoubtedly a good pawn.
Therefore, to realize Ouyang Shuo's strategic goal, the difficulty lies in that it must not only condone the expansion of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but also ensure that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom does not escape control, and at the same time guard against Chiyou City.
Don't underestimate Chiyou City.
According to Cobra's report, the standing army in Chiyou City alone has reached 30,000. If necessary, they can temporarily recruit 20,000 to 30,000 troops from various tribes.
The Shanman tribe of Shiwan Dashan have all moved to Wuzhou.
Not only that, other lands, sporadic mountain man, including Ximan, also began to gather in Wuzhou. Wuzhou has become the base camp and holy land of the barbarians.
If Chiyou City is not contained, it will also become a huge hidden danger.
There was news that Chi You, with the support of various ministries, was preparing to establish the Jiuli Kingdom in Wuzhou.
Once the country is established, the will of the barbarians will be condensed and sublimated again.
At that time, even if Jiuli Kingdom is conquered, it is still unknown whether the people of Jiuli Kingdom can be tamed like the mountain barbarian tribe.
The situation facing Shanhai City is really not optimistic.
Ouyang Shuo will never forget that he is the number one mortal enemy in Chi You's eyes.
How to deal with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and Chiyou City, Ouyang Shuo was caught in a dilemma.
Fortunately, he is not fighting alone.
After the cobra left, Ouyang Shuo immediately sent a message to Mulanyue, asking her to inform Bai Qi that tomorrow he will come to the base camp through the teleportation formation in Mulan City, and has important military affairs to discuss.
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April twenty-sixth.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, Bai Qi returned to Shanhai City through the teleportation array of Mulan Mansion.
Ouyang Shuo summoned Du Ruhui, Director of Military Affairs, and Zhao Kuo, Director of Operations, together with General Bai Qi, to discuss the matter of the Northern Expedition. Cobra, director of military intelligence, was allowed to attend the military meeting.
Under Ouyang Shuo's instruction, Cobra reported yesterday's information again.
After the report was completed, Cobra left directly.
The following military meeting was extremely confidential and only four people from Ouyang Shuo could participate.
Zhao Kuo has not shown any talent since he became the director of operations. After listening to Cobra's report, his eyes brightened.
He knew that the opportunity to show himself had come!