Volume 10 Chapter 252
Chapter 252
Everyone didn't quite understand what he meant by "easy to deal with". (Bar) Lingshuang asked first, "What does the king mean..."
Tang Yin said, "Divide the troops into multiple routes and attack the cities, towns, and villages of Canglin County separately. Capture all the people in Canglin and detain them near our military camp!"
Xiao Muqing's eyes suddenly lit up, and he muttered while thinking, "Among the people in the county, there will definitely be the family of Hu An's garrison. Knowing that their family members have fallen into our hands, the morale of the garrison will be in chaos. At that time, there will even be a large number of garrison troops coming out of the city to rescue. We can wait for them to tire themselves out. Come one, kill one, come a group, kill a group! Haha, your majesty is wise, this plan is very good!"
Ziying frowned and said, "Your Majesty, there are more than ten cities, more than twenty towns, more than a hundred villages, and millions of people in the entire Canglin County. Even if our army is mobilized, it may not be possible to capture them all. Moreover, if the whole army is out, the camp will be full of people. Empty, what if the enemy army sneaks out of the city to camp? Besides, even if we successfully capture all the people in Canglin, how can our army settle them? How to provide food and drink for so many people? "
Tang Yin didn't think about Ziying's series of questions, and said with a smile: "Huan's garrison has only 50,000 people. We are not afraid of them sneaking out of the city, but we are afraid that they will shrink. When we capture the people of Zhen, we can leave Yuanrang to guard the camp. As for how to settle the captured people, we can build another camp next to our military camp, which is used to detain the people. The food and drink supply will be simpler. It will come from our army's food and grass. If it is not enough, we can ask the An and Huan armies in the rear. The more than 10,000 captives were not given to the An and Huan countries for free!"
Ziying thought about it and smiled. It seems that the king made this decision after careful consideration, not on a whim, so he was relieved.
He nodded and said, "I think your opinion is very feasible. However, our army can start with the villages and towns near Juan to see how effective it is. If it works, it won't be too late for our army to expand its scope."
Tang Yin snapped his fingers and said, "As you think." As he spoke, he looked at Lingshuang beside him and asked, "What do you think, sister?"
Lingshuang came back to her senses and didn't know what to say for a while.
Tang Yin and his generals talked too fast, and their thoughts turned too fast. From beginning to end, the generals present couldn't get a word in. Now Tang Yin suddenly asked for her opinion, Lingshuang shook her head with a wry smile and said, "Everything will be decided by my brother."
"Well, this matter is settled. The Fengyu army will divide into multiple routes and act separately. Start with the villages and towns around Juan!" Tang Yin turned around and waved to Ah San and Ah Si, saying, "Bring the map!"
Soon, Ah San handed over the map of the Juan area. Tang Yin unfolded it and took a look, then stood up, walked to the center of the tent, spread the map on the ground, and sat on the ground.
Seeing this, the Feng Army generals stood up very experiencedly and gathered around, while the Jade Army generals did not react and stood still.
Tang Yin looked up and frowned and asked, "Brothers of the Jade Army are standing so far away, can they see the map clearly?"
The Jade generals looked at each other in bewilderment. How could the monarch and the ministers mix together and become one?
Ling Shuang had fought with the Feng Army and understood the habits of Tang Yin and the Feng Army. When fighting outside, Tang Yin did not have the airs of a monarch at all. Even when he deployed troops, he would often arrange himself at the forefront of the charge.
She took the initiative to walk to Tang Yin and sat side by side with him. At the same time, she waved to the Jade Generals and said softly, "Come here, generals!"
The Jade Generals dared not disobey Lingshuang's words. They walked forward cautiously, stood up together with the Wind Generals, and gathered around Tang Yin and Lingshuang.
Tang Yin ignored the others, lowered his head, looked at the map carefully, and kept gesturing on it with his fingers. After thinking for a while, he drew a circular mark on the map with his fingernails and said, "With this as the boundary, the villages and towns within this boundary will be attacked by infantry, and the villages and towns outside this boundary will be attacked by cavalry." Speaking of this, he asked Lingshuang, "Sister Wang, how many cavalrymen are there in the Jade Army?"
Cavalry is the most expensive type of soldier, and the Jade Kingdom does not have many. There are two legions with 200,000 people, and no more than 20,000 cavalrymen. She said, "Let's get them together. There are about 20,000 available."
"Yes! Your army has 20,000, and our army also has 20,000, a total of 40,000..." He muttered while looking at the map, pointing to the eight villages and towns outside the trace, and said, "Eight villages and towns, the cavalry of the Feng and Yu armies will attack four each. These four will be attacked by our cavalry, and these four will be attacked by your cavalry."
Lingshuang collected her mind, listened, watched, and pondered, and when Tang Yin finished speaking, she nodded and said "OK".
Afterwards, Tang Yin distributed the villages and towns within the circular trace. He assigned some towns with more garrisons and larger areas to the Feng Army, and mostly assigned some villages and towns with weaker strength to the Jade Army.
The first reason for doing this is to take care of the Jade Army, and the second is that the harder the battle, the more spoils will be captured, and Tang Yin does not want to miss the opportunity to plunder. Lingshuang had no objection to his distribution, and nodded repeatedly, agreeing to all of them.
At Tang Yin's suggestion, the Fengyu coalition temporarily changed its tactics, giving up the strong attack on Juan and instead attacking the villages and towns around Juan. Killing people was secondary, and plundering people was the primary goal.
At the command of the two monarchs, the Fengyu coalition moved together, and each corps was divided into small units, attacking from all sides, launching a full-scale attack on the villages and towns around Juan.
Even though Zhen State adopted the system of universal military service, the number of garrisons in each village and town was not large, with the largest number being no more than a thousand people, and the smallest number being only a dozen or even a few people. Even a garrison of more than a thousand people could not withstand the attack of a corps.
Under the attack of the Fengyu coalition forces, the villages and towns around Juan were in chaos. Wherever the two armies passed, they basically became a dead place. Not only were all the valuables in the villages and towns swept away, but even the people were gone, even the farm animals and chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, dogs and other animals were gone.
The efficiency of the Feng Army was very high. A camp was quickly built behind the coalition army camp. Its area was roughly the same as the military camp. The walls were high and solid, and tents were built inside. This camp was also used to accommodate the people of Zhen State who were escorted back.
On the first day after the new camp was built, it was quiet and peaceful. On the second day, it became lively. Hundreds of people from the Zhen Kingdom were forcibly detained by the Fengyu coalition forces, and the livestock and animals were also thrown in. These livestock and animals were not taken back by the Fengyu coalition forces. Most of them were brought by the people of the Zhen Kingdom at the cost of their lives.
In the era when farming was popular, livestock for farming was more valuable than human life. Even in ancient China, the life of a working ox was worth several human lives. All working oxen had household registration. Even if they died, they had to report to the government. Privately killing working oxen was a capital crime, and eating beef was also a felony.
The next day, Tang Yin was bored in the tent. When he was strolling outside, he happened to meet Liu Quan, the commander of the fifth corps of the Pingyuan Army, who was counting the troops. He went up and asked, and found out that Liu Quan was going to lead his army to attack Luofang Town north of Hu An.
Tang Yin smiled secretly, it is better to come at the right time than to come early! He said to Liu Quan, "That's perfect. I will go with you."
Liu Quan was shocked. The king wanted to go with him. If there was an accident, he would lose his head even if he had ten heads!
He shook his head like a rattle, and was thinking about how to refuse without making the king angry. Tang Yin had already raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why? General Liu, do you think I will hold you back?"
"No, no, no! I have no such intention!" Liu Quan was frightened and took two steps back, and bowed hurriedly.
"If that's not the case, then there's no need to say anything else. General Liu, please count the troops quickly!" Tang Yin put his hands behind his back and pouted at him calmly.
Alas! No wonder my eyelids kept twitching when I got up this morning. Liu Quan sighed inwardly, and continued to count the troops despite his gritted teeth.
Tang Yin was going to fight with the army in person, and Ah San and Ah Si would naturally follow him. In addition, Cheng Jin and Jiang Fan would also go with him.
After leaving the military camp, on the way to Luofang Town, Liu Quan explained the intelligence of the town to Tang Yin in detail.
According to the investigation of the Sky Eye and the Ground Network, Luofang Town has a thousand defenders and a population of about 15,000, mostly elderly people, women and children. Adult men have either been recruited to Xitang or have joined the defenders in Juan.
At noon, the Feng Army arrived at Luofang Town.
In terms of scale, Luofang Town is a large town with many houses inside and adobe defensive walls outside, but they are intermittent. This thing is OK for preventing bandits, but it is useless for the regular army.
Obviously, the defenders of Luofang Town also heard the news of the enemy's massive attack. Thousands of defenders have gathered behind the adobe wall, ready to fight.
Liu Quan stepped forward and watched for a while, then retreated to Tang Yin and asked, "My king, can our army attack now?"
Tang Yin smiled and said, "General Liu, you are the commander-in-chief. You have full authority to decide how to command the brothers to fight. You don't need to ask me again."
"Yes! My king!" Liu Quan was relieved after hearing what he said. He waved his hand and called a soldier under his command to go to the front to shout to the Zhen army and persuade them to surrender.
The soldier agreed, ran out of the camp, and came to a place about a hundred steps away from the adobe wall. He shouted loudly: "Brothers of the Zhen army, listen carefully, we are the Fifth Corps of the Fengguo Plain Army. As long as you are willing to lay down your weapons and surrender, our army will never hurt your lives. If you resist stubbornly, you will seek your own death..."
Before he finished shouting, he suddenly heard the sound of breaking wind, and then a flash of lightning broke through the sky and rushed straight to the Feng army soldier.