Chapter 268: An Intimate Knife
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Five iron-clad warships from Anyang appeared in the east and bombarded Baize Town. Tens of thousands of elite soldiers were killed or injured.
Afterwards, another five thousand elites landed in Anyang, all of whom were above the foundation-building stage, and everyone wore magic weapon suits—it should be. There are also guns, talismans, etc., which are very powerful in combat. The foundation-building stage masters of the Jin Kingdom with similar cultivation levels are no match for Anyang's foundation-building stage masters alone.
In addition, the armored ships and 5,000 elite coastal assaults wiped out a thousand miles of coast in one fell swoop, causing at least 30,000 casualties; all materials were burned, all salt ponds were destroyed, and all stored salt was filled with water. into the sea. The remaining gold and silver wealth could not be removed in time, and Anyang actually "drives" the common people to rob.
In the end, there were 20 large planes in Anyang that bombarded all the bustling cities within 500 miles of the coast. There is no statistics on the casualties, but it is probably not a small number!
Such an attack, poisoning the area of "a thousand miles from north to south and five hundred miles from east to west", destroying salt pans and bombing cities by the sea can be regarded as a "disaster of subjugation".
There was very little data and the information was vague, but even so, His Majesty the Emperor of Jin was still trembling with anger and gnashing his teeth after seeing the information. "Are you sure Anyang did it?"
The messenger's face was pale, but he reluctantly replied: "Your Majesty, apart from Anyang, I have never heard of anyone with an ironclad warship."
The surrounding ministers also spoke one after another: Yes, Your Majesty, there are ironclad ships, powerful artillery, and powerful aircraft that can bombard the coast for a day regardless of the cost. Except for Anyang, no other forces can produce so many munitions.
How many shells are there for continuous bombardment for a day!
There are also people who are calculating how much gold it would be according to Anyang's external quotation!
So there is only one conclusion - this is really Anyang's attack, which is obviously a retaliatory attack, not a completely strategic attack.
The so-called retaliatory attacks are indiscriminate attacks; while strategic attacks are attacks with military purposes, planning, and follow-up plans.
In this attack in Anyang, retaliation attacks are better than strategic attacks.
After listening to all the reports, a minister immediately stood up: "Your Majesty, we can't back down on this matter, otherwise what is the majesty of the Jin State! Please send another 300,000 troops to make peace in Yangyang!"
But some people disagreed, "Your Majesty, since Anyang dares to fight like this, he must have a guard of honor. Before we act, we should investigate Anyang carefully!"
"Little Anyang, the size of a mung bean, dares to provoke the majesty of our Jin Kingdom. What are you investigating? Just send another 300,000 troops, and you will be able to set foot on Ping'anyang in no time! At that time, that Li Xian will be arrested and interrogated casually. What can't be figured out!"
"It's okay to take the opportunity to attack the already fragmented Xia State. We will send troops together with Qi State. We will occupy the east and Qi State will occupy the west. Xia State will be swallowed up in 20 days!"
"No, you must be careful in everything. The current situation in Anyang is very special, and it is completely beyond our understanding. There is no big mistake in being careful!"
"Coward, the majesty of our Jin Kingdom must be watered with Anyang's blood! This matter should be done sooner rather than later!"
"We must support the north as soon as possible. Since Anyang dared to open up a second battlefield, it shows that they still have the strength to fight, and it shows that our 300,000 troops deep into the North are dangerous!"
"The top priority is to send troops to maintain law and order in the east and rescue the east."
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There was a lot of speculation in the court, but Jin, as the most powerful country in the East, encountered such a provocation for the first time, and it was normal for ministers to quarrel. But none of the ministers objected to sending troops. The focus of the Jin ministers was: to send troops now, or to send troops after investigation;
The emperor of the Jin Kingdom had a hideous expression on his face, which was true for anyone in the position of the Emperor of the Jin Kingdom. As far as Jin's status in the East is concerned, only oneself beats others, and no one else beats itself.
The monarchs and ministers negotiated urgently, and first confirmed the support to the east, and the support was divided into two parties:
First, directly and urgently contact Jin Guodong General Cheng Yunbo, and send troops urgently—your son's life and death are unknown, so go desperately. Cheng Yunbo was allowed to call all the 300,000 Eastern Army, and urgently recruited reserve soldiers, civilian husbands, etc. within 500,000.
Second, hundreds of special envoys were urgently dispatched to notify all the military towns and government offices in the east of the Jin Kingdom, and to integrate all government servants, public security, noble guards, etc., and send them to the eastern coast.
Jin has not engaged in a large-scale war for hundreds of years, and this time it was really stimulated. It was like a sleeping cat whose tail was stepped on all of a sudden, and jumped up with a wow, and it was the kind of baring its teeth and claws.
In short, there is no problem in beating others; but if others dare to beat themselves, the state of Jin will be angry. After the messenger went out, the Jin Dynasty court continued to discuss for a long time, and finally made a decision.
His Majesty the Emperor of Jin immediately ordered: "General Zhenwei Chen Zhongping!"
"The minister is here." Chen Zhongping came out. General Zhenwei is roughly equivalent to the deputy general, and his status is one level lower than the "Four Generals of East, West, North, South, and North". But General Zhenwei is also guarding the imperial capital, so he is half a level higher out of thin air.
As the defender of the imperial capital, Chen Zhongping's ability, resourcefulness, etc. are still slightly inferior to those of the four generals; but there is really no problem with loyalty. It is really dangerous, the four generals may run away by themselves, and Chen Zhongping may stick to the imperial capital. For example, now, Chen Zhongping is a military general in the court, the only general who has bright armor and is fully armed - this guy probably hasn't taken off his armor since he went back last night.
Looking at Chen Zhongping's armor, His Majesty the Emperor was very satisfied. "Chen Zhongping listened to the order and temporarily conferred the title of 'Marshal' to command a 100,000-man imperial guard army, dispatch 50,000 guards each from Madou County, Tieluo County, and Huangze County in the north, and ordered the prefects of the three counties to recruit 100,000 men each. The civilians and enough military supplies immediately went north to join the previous 300,000 troops.
If Li Lisong, the coach of the Chinese army, commands properly, you will obey Li Lisong. If Li Lisong's command is appropriate, or Li Lisong has an accident, you will lead the whole army and set foot on Ping'anyang! "
"Yes!" Chen Zhongping received the imperial decree and the seal of temporary commander, turned around and left the palace, ordering troops to go north! This time we must march in a hurry to support the northern army.
Chen Zhongping led 100,000 elite soldiers from the imperial capital, a total of 150,000 ordinary troops drawn from the three northern counties, plus 300,000 civilian husbands, a total of 550,000 people. Known as an army of one million, it surged northward. Of course, when Chen Zhongping traveled more than 2,000 miles and arrived in Anyang, it would be three to five days later, so let's put it aside for the time being.
However, the court of the Jin Kingdom, after Chen Zhongping left, the emperor of the Jin Kingdom immediately ordered the whole country to prepare for war, just in case. In addition, I will transfer Jindan stage and some Nascent Soul stage masters to guard in the east. When necessary, I will get me all the ironclad ships and planes in Anyang. Nascent Soul stage masters already belonged to high-level combat abilities in Yingzhou.
In order to wipe out Anyang's military power in the East China Sea in one fell swoop, the emperor of Jin sent three Nascent Soul masters:
Qiao Pengfei, in the mid-Yuanying period, was appointed as "General Lingyun";
Huang Bingquan, early Yuanying period;
Yang Maohui, at the beginning of the Nascent Soul Stage.
In addition, there are more than 500 Jindan stage masters to assist.
These 500 people can reach one-tenth of the military power of the Jin State. This is the effect of the master. More than 500 people can cross half of the Jin Kingdom and reach the east coast in only six hours.
When the five hundred people arrived on the east coast, Anyang's ironclad ship had already left, leaving only ruins. Qiao Pengfei, who took the lead, even saw many local people taking advantage of the chaos to rob destroyed military towns, treasuries, etc.; of course, there were also some "temporary bandits".
"I will kill all robbers, all gangsters, and all criminals!" Qiao Pengfei, who was full of murderous looks, gave an order, and the more than five hundred Jindan stage masters really said "as if entering a land of no one." Man is the opponent of these masters.
Qiao Pengfei walked and killed all the way, and it took only half a day to initially stabilize the chaotic situation. After that, it is natural to be vigilant, to rectify order, to count losses, and so on.
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In the north, on the Xiandaihe battlefield, another day of war ended; but today, the coalition forces on the south bank of the Xiandai River huddled up for a day.
After the disastrous defeat in the previous two days, the confidence of the soldiers of Jin State, Nanyang County and Dongyuan County began to collapse. The planes and artillery overhead never stopped, and bombs exploded every moment-the soldiers hadn't had a good night's sleep for three whole days.
Yesterday, the State of Jin once again launched a "Great Array of Ten Thousand Swords", which caused huge casualties to Anyang. As a result, Yan Zhengqing, the general of Anyang, was furious, and Yan Zhengqing personally led the elite assault, and slaughtered more than 20,000 weak elites after Jin launched the "Wanjian Grand Formation", and the blood stained the Xiandai River.
Then there was frenzied shelling, bombing, and machine gun fire, so that the coalition forces on the south bank had to retreat again and again, and now they have retreated more than 10 miles from the river bank.
Back to this position, the artillery can't hit; only the plane above the head is still not here to "deliver the express". Airplanes are unstoppable, all you can do is to warn them, and then use a few Jindan stage masters to fly high into the sky to threaten them. In this way, the aircraft dare not fly too low, and the bombing is not very accurate.
But having said that, even after attrition, the coalition forces still have as many as 400,000 troops, and their positions stretch for more than 40 miles. It doesn't make much sense whether the bombs are dropped accurately or not. Anyway, the planes in Anyang dropped bombs at high altitude, turned around and ran away.
After a long time, there are still empty planes flying over, just to scare people. Now, as long as many soldiers hear the sound of an airplane, their first reaction is to hug their heads and squat down. Some clever ones will fix shields, armor, etc. on top of their heads. Then everyone discovered that the plane was here to scare people; however, such false intimidation had a more serious impact on morale.
During the day, Li Lisong, the coach of the Jin State, wanted to launch an attack several times, but he was unable to launch an attack after all-the soldiers were too tired, and there was no good way to avoid the slaughter of Anyang military fire.
In fact, the best way Li Lisong thinks is to rush over in one go, or divide his troops, etc.; but I'm sorry, with the two "pig teammates" of Nanyang County and Kaiping County holding back, Li Lisong is really worried-don't be alone. When charging there, the two pig teammates took the initiative to retreat. Didn't something similar happen before?
The soldiers of Anyang County have never crossed the Xiandai River to fight. The soldiers of Nanyang County and Dongyuan County are very lucky. But Li Lisong saw it—Anyang seemed capable, but he was unwilling to cross the Xiandai River to fight!
From a military point of view, it must be a conspiracy to have the ability but not cross the Xiandai River-this is an obvious thing. Since it's a war, if you don't pick the fruits of victory that are within reach, you are obviously plotting a bigger fruit of victory.
In order not to let Anyang's schemes and plans succeed, the best and only way is to dispatch 400,000 troops to defeat the 90,000 troops in the north of Anyang at any cost. Also paid a heavy price.
Especially the second Wanjian large formation attack almost tore apart Anyang's defense line; however, because of the burden of pig teammates, Li Lisong not only had no chance to completely break through Anyang's defense line, but was attacked once by Yan Zhengqing, and 20,000 cast Wanjian The elites of the formation were slaughtered. At that time, Nanyang County and Dongyuan County were "struggling to block" Yan Zhengqing's surprise attack, and "it was too late" to help.
Before this battle, Li Lisong told Kong Donglai, Nangong Zhi, and Yuan Jinjiang several times. Nangongzhi and Yuan Jinjiang were moved. They are generals after all. Although they have different positions, their vision is similar to Li Lisong's.
But Kong Donglai and Yuan Yong disagreed—they were thinking from the standpoint of politicians, not military strategists. Naturally, this question is biased. Finally, the current situation was formed.
But for the sake of the state of Jin and Anyang's various technologies, Li Lisong had to suppress his anger and carefully calculate how to obtain technologies from Anyang again and again. As for the two pig teammates, Li Lisong had already made up his mind - he would never be relentless when it was time to betray.
Every time he thinks of the scene of "Anyang massacres the weak soldiers who cast the ten thousand sword formation, and the soldiers from the two counties stand by and watch", Li Lisong's heart boils with anger.
It's just that Li Lisong didn't know, he was planning here, and Kong Donglai and Yuan Yong were also planning. The letter sent by Yan Zhengqing, Marshal of Anyang, made the two of them feel excited!
As long as you cooperate with me Anyang, I guarantee that:
First, let bygones be bygones.
Second, machine tool technology is open. And machine tool technology can be used to produce: artillery, guns, internal combustion engines, weapons and armor, etc.
Third, occupy the land of the Jin State and make a name for yourself-how vast is the Jin State. And originally, your two families are close to the state of Jin, even if you don't fight against the state of Jin, sooner or later you will be annexed by the state of Jin; in this case, why don't you act first to be strong!
Fourth, if all of you can defeat Jin, think about it, Qi and Liu in the south will definitely send troops to attack Jin.
Fifth, our Anyang has been fighting with the Jin State forever, so you don't have to be afraid that I, Anyang, will run away.
There are not many words in the letter, but the explanations are very clear, including temptations, prospects, military deployments and strategies. What Kong Dong saw was his heart skipping a beat. It was finally decided to recruit Li Lisong, Marshal of Jin State, to "discuss the matter".
The masters and elites around have quietly changed their outfits, and their swords are in their hands!