Chapter 253 Soldiers Point to the East
In fact, Kong Donglai's calculations are very deep. Once Anyang and Jin are facing each other, Anyang will be uncomfortable, but Jin will also suffer heavy losses, so Jin will not be able to attack Nanyang County. In this way, Nanyang County will gain a little time for peace, and can develop to the north and conquer the city.
When the state of Jin recovers, Nanyang County is estimated to have established a state.
And Anyang is so powerful now, enough to inflict heavy damage on Jin! Jin is also a big country, and it will definitely not give up easily. In this way, the two families must be dog-eat-dog, and they will not let go—at least Kong Donglai thinks so.
This is the thinking of Kong Donglai, the thinking of a politician. Therefore, Kong Donglai didn't pay attention to Nangong Zhi's strategy at all, and prepared to do nothing to defeat the army of Nanyang County.
Of course, in order to prevent Anyang from driving straight in, Kong Donglai apparently agreed with Nangongzhi's strategy and asked Nangongzhi to lead troops to block it. But in secret, Kong Donglai was ready to "actively defeat". He didn't even care about losing part of Nanyang County's land because of this.
It's just that Kong Donglai seemed to worry too much, and Anyang didn't fall into Kong Donglai's scheme—he didn't continue to attack Nanyang County.
After Yan Zhengqing and Wang Jian joined forces, they only took 70,000 to 80,000 rout soldiers from Nanyang County as prisoners. Then, Anyang did a "very interesting" thing, forcing these captives to swear to help guard the border of Anyang! Those who dare not swear, just "fight to death".
Anyway, Anyang has killed more than 100,000 Nanyang soldiers in this war, and the 300,000 army of Nanyang County—about 150,000 soldiers and about 150,000 civilian husbands, only about 50,000 ran away in the end. The rest were either killed in battle or captured, and no one knew exactly how many died in battle and how many were captured. It is easy to cover up the past by killing some people at will.
Under the threat of death, these captives from Nanyang County began to swear to help Anyang guard the border here for one year. After one year, Anyang will release all these captives-this is an exchange condition. Of course, if the situation is good, it will be released early.
In this way, when Kong Donglai was still "hoping" that the Anyang army would continue to attack so that he could go to Jin for help, the Anyang army left about 70,000 prisoners, 10,000 elite soldiers, and 100,000 civilians to guard the border; After swaying around the border of Nanyang County, they charged directly to the east!
To the east, target: Dongwon County! The ultimate goal: Luliang County!
It turns out that Anyang's battle policy is also very clear. After all, Anyang's current strength is limited, and its development in the inland is not enough, and it will cause public anger. It just so happens that there is a Luliang County in the east of Anyang, and a Dongyuan County in the south, and these two counties happen to be isolated, and they happen to be closer to the sea. They are simply the fat on the lips of Anyang County!
Therefore, Anyang's real military strategy is to annex Luliang County first, and then wait for an opportunity to annex Dongyuan County. The isolated Dongyuan County and Luliang County are too tempting.
Therefore, Yan Zhengqing and Wang Jian led 70,000 elite soldiers to attack the east day and night, leaving Yang Yishan to sit at the border.
Airplanes, etc., flew directly back to Anyang City, inspected, replenished supplies and fuel, etc., and brought a large number of bullets, talismans, and pills to the army.
But Kong Donglai said that after waiting for a day, the Anyang army did not come; Kong Donglai thought: Oh, Anyang is resting, and the continuous fighting must be very tiring. But come quickly, as long as you come, even if there are only 10,000 miscellaneous soldiers, I will definitely be "defeated".
But after waiting for two days, the Anyang army still hadn't come; Kong Donglai thought: Anyang is replenishing supplies, the shells should be exhausted, so let's wait.
However, after waiting for three days and still not coming, Kong Donglai finally stopped being paralyzed—this is wrong! Even if he has no military insights, Kong Donglai still understands the term "military aircraft". After two days of delay, Anyang didn't take advantage of the victory to attack, which is unreasonable! Do you have to wait for the enemy to rest before fighting? This is obviously wrong!
At this time, Kong Donglai thought of the coach Nangong Zhi again; Kong Donglai is also a character, but he didn't send anyone to invite him, but took the initiative to ask for advice.
Seeing Kong Donglai, Nangong Zhi didn't wait for Kong Donglai to speak, but said directly: "Anyang has not attacked so far, there is only one possibility, they abandoned us and attacked Dongfang."
Kong Donglai is not an idiot, he just didn't think about it for a while; as soon as Nangong Zhi reminded him, he immediately figured out all the stakes! Although Anyang was the first to attack Songzhou County and then defeated Nanyang County, the fundamental purpose of Anyang was still to the east.
Having figured it out, Kong Donglai immediately stated: "Anyang cannot be allowed to annex Dongfang, otherwise the Li family will occupy the land of the four counties, and the sweep is bound to happen, and we have no hope."
Nangong Zhichang sighed: "I'm afraid it's too late, I'm afraid that the current Luliang County has been occupied by Anyang; what we can do now is to unite with Dongyuan County and work together to preserve the current Dongyuan County and Dongyuan County's military strength. Let’s see what happens next.”
"Then can we storm Anyang to save Dongyuan County?"
Nangong Zhi sneered, "I'm afraid that if we attack Anyang by force, we will lose our troops and generals. We have already lost almost 40% of our military strength, and our army's morale has been broken. Now, the soldiers have no courage to fight and will not have the will to be brave; if we continue to attack Anyang, the loss will be only 100% It will be bigger. At that time, Dongyuan County may turn around and attack us!"
"Tsk..." Kong Donglai stood there for a long time, then suddenly bowed slightly with a solemn expression: "General Nangong, this battle was my fault. It was my fault that the 300,000 troops fell into the sand!"
An inexplicable vigilance flashed in the depths of Nangong Zhi's eyes, but on the surface he was "flattered" and quickly supported Kong Donglai with both hands, "Master Kong is joking, Nangong bears the direct responsibility for the failure of this war."
"Haha, Nanyang County has to trouble the general a lot in the future." Kong Donglai seemed very happy and magnanimous; after a hearty smile, he changed the subject and said, "Nangong, now I only have 50,000 remnants here. The 50,000 elite soldiers who arrived will be handed over to you. We must keep Dongyuan County. Even if it is for ourselves, we must keep Dongyuan County.
certainly……"
Speaking of this, Kong Donglai's expression flashed fiercely: "If there is a chance, take Dongyuan County!"
If there is a chance: if Dongyuan County suffers heavy losses and cannot stop Anyang's attack, then we will occupy Dongyuan County, and Anyang cannot be cheap.
"Understood!" Nangong Zhi responded, and went out to rectify the army.
After Nangong Zhi left, Kong Donglai's expression seemed to change several times, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
And at a height unknown to Nangong Zhi, Kong Donglai and others, at an altitude of 5,000 meters, there was an aircraft floating quietly. There are more than three invisibility techniques operating on the surface of the aircraft at all times, and fourteen invisibility techniques operate in turn to ensure that there will be no problems. This makes the aircraft sometimes disappear completely, and sometimes it floats hidden in the white clouds. This aircraft does nothing but monitor the movement of the Nanyang County border defense forces.
At this moment, Nanyang County had just started to reorganize the army, and the aircraft immediately floated above the Anyang border defense, shot an arrow, and sent the information to the ground.
Yang Yishan, who was sitting here, received the message very quickly, and immediately ordered: "All artillery, aim at the border defense of Nanyang County, attack!"
It is said to be all artillery, but now here in Anyang Frontier Defense, there are only two types of artillery, 105mm and 150mm, with a range of more than five kilometers. But even so, it was terrifying. After supplementation, the total number of artillery shells exceeded a hundred, and the unsuspecting Nanyang County exploded again. It's a sunny day, shells are falling from the sky, it's scary for my wife.
As for Kong Donglai, trembling with anger, but also somewhat frightened, he could only order to retreat backwards, exchanging space for time, retreating ten miles, that is, about five kilometers.
But after retreating back, Kong Donglai still decided to save Dongyuan County; if Li Xian swallowed Dongyuan County without hesitation, the surname of Daxia would be "Li". This is absolutely not allowed to happen! Absolutely not allowed!
And Nangong Zhi is worthy of being a handsome talent. He actually used this shelling to make the lazy soldiers tense up. In the afternoon, one hundred thousand "elite soldiers" set foot on the road to the east.
And before the army set off, several waves of messengers flew to Dongyuan County to contact and cooperate in advance.
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Besides, in the east, the war has been going on for two days. After the army of Dongyuan County entered Luliang County, they began to station and did not move, as if they were going to swallow Luliang County in one go.
Two days ago, Yuan Zhong, the governor of Dongyuan County and the younger brother of Yuan Yong, the former Taiwei of the Great Xia Kingdom, stood on the city wall of Nanliang Mansion, the seat of Lvliang County, in high spirits. Zeng sighed: As long as Luliang County is completely swallowed, the Yuan family will have the capital to fight for hegemony.
But only one day later, in the early morning, more than 300 planes, large and small, flew over Nanliang Mansion and dropped tens of thousands of bombs. The bombing did not end for a whole morning.
The sudden outbreak of war stunned Yuan Zhong, and then he flew into a rage - Li Xian, you bastard, my Yuan family did not attack you, we just wanted to occupy Luliang County.
But no matter how he got angry, it was already too late; at noon, Yuan Zhong received continuous and irregular intelligence from the front:
The first letter: To the northwest, about 100,000 soldiers from Anyang rushed out of the line of defense. With the cooperation of aircraft and artillery, the unsuspecting defenders of Dongyuan County were directly defeated, and now they have retreated to the second line of defense; and the second line of defense It is also in jeopardy.
The person in charge of the battle in Anyang is Beichen Yuqing.
The second letter: An army of 100,000 in the southwest and Anyang also launched an attack, and the troops were divided into two groups, all the way directly to Nanliang Mansion, led by Wang Jian; , directly block the Xiandai River, and cut off the connection between Luliang County and Dongyuan County.
The third letter: The five ironclad warships that have been swimming in the East China Sea suddenly went retrograde for more than 50 miles from the mouth of the Xiandai River, and the muzzle threatened a radius of 50 miles around the mouth of the Xiandai River!
At this point, Yuan Zhong finally realized the reality, Anyang's real purpose has always been Luliang County! After Luliang County, it must be Dongyuan County. Only after taking these two places, Anyang will develop inland with confidence.
This is a different war situation in Anyang than in the past; because of the sea transportation and the ironclad ships, Anyang pays more attention to the development of the seaside rather than the inland.
Yuan Zhong looked up to the sky and sighed, finally fully understood the law of Anyang's development - the ocean, but it was too late.