Chapter 208 You count on me, and I count on you(1/2)
Northeast, outside Jinzhou City.
In Yelu Feiyang's big tent, everyone was eating and drinking.
On the fire outside the tent, delicious beef and mutton were grilled. After grilling, they were served on plates.
While eating meat, drinking the wine bought from Dakang. The generals worked hard and felt that life was very beautiful.
Those who can sit here and eat and drink with Yelu Feiyang are of course the top leaders of the army this time.
In addition to the royal family's son Yelu Anxiang, the Grand Marshal Wuli Zhen, there are more than ten people including the Marshal Zupuguzi, the Grand General Lu Tushigan, the Han family's son Han Mu... and more than ten people.
Originally, the Grand Marshal Wu Li Zhen led Erqian Liuying and others to attack Ningyuan City.
But this time Yelu Feiyang summoned them back, and General Erqin was left with a photo from Ningyuan City, with a group of soldiers from affiliated groups, besieging Ningyuan City and fighting against Li Nanyuan's army.
Erqian's movie is cruel by nature, but he is first-class in leading the army to fight.
He was the one who had been confronting Li Nanyuan before and was fighting each other.
Overall, it must be the Wild Wolf Army that Erqian took advantage of, but Li Nanyuan's Xiong Quwei fought repeatedly and suffered repeated defeats, and the losses were not great every time, so naturally he never gave in.
And after getting familiar with the other party's style, Li Nanyuan took advantage of his familiarity with the Northeast Liaoxi Corridor and successfully ambushed the Xi army of the affiliated tribe and killed 20,000 Xi army in one breath. In their hands, Yin Rui was only escaped by his own risk.
However, Yin Rui did not end up well in the end. After escaping, he was immediately killed by Erqin.
The Xi tribe didn't dare to say a single nonsense, so they could only send another 20,000 troops to the city, leading another outstanding general, Yin Qiang. His characteristics are stability and relatively radical Yin Rui's personalities.
This is also the best way for the Xi clan to stop being criticized by Shi Wei or even punished.
Don’t think about making contributions first, don’t make mistakes first!
Wu Lizhen was originally the general manager in charge of Ningyuan area, and only he could defeat a group of arrogant soldiers and generals who lived in the room.
But when he came back today, there were no hidden dangers.
According to Dakang's strength, unless two or three imperial guards attack with all their strength, they would not be able to take advantage of Shi Wei's cavalry.
Now Dakang is a Xiongqu guard who comes to fight, which at best is to delay Shi Wei's attack on Ningyuan City.
Of course, this is also the reason why Shi Wei did not do his best.
If you really do your best, Jinzhou City may be a little short of it, but Ningyuan City must have been taken down.
Yelu Feiyang is not very interested in meat.
He drank wine and ate fruits that only existed in summer, and said with a smile: "Have you all seen the information? The Japanese are in Jiangnan now, and life is not easy!"
Everyone was happy to eat and drink, but they were even happier to hear this.
Yelu Anxiang said: "I deserve it! Who told them to set us up before? I want us to attract more Dakang army? Now we have done it, but what about them? They still can't stand the mud!"
"yes!"
Zupuguz nodded: "I thought the Japanese bragging themselves were so powerful, but now I know that they are really bad! One hundred thousand elite soldiers just bullied the local army in Fujian, and then when they arrived in Zhejiang, they were trapped by the city. After more than a month of fighting, they didn't even arrive in central Zhejiang!
Their only highlight is that they landed in Jiangsu. This move was indeed very wonderful! It caught Dakang off guard! But who knew that they could not even defeat some of the canal soldiers composed of shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and they could not have been so incompetent! Even the miscellaneous vassals should not be so incompetent, right?"
"Maybe Miao Yan is too powerful in training? Hahaha!" The first fierce general of the Weiwei family, Ze Sashu, smiled disdainfully.
"No matter how many of them are."
Yelu Feiyang said, "I'm asking you to come back from Marshal. I have something to discuss with you."
Wu Li Zhen put down the lamb chops in his hand and said, "Please tell me the third prince."
Everyone also stopped eating and looked at him seriously.
"If the normal situation is calculated now, Ningyuan City should be able to be captured in one month, right?" Yelu Feiyang said.
"Well, it's almost the same." Wu Lizhen said, "If you pay any attention, half a month should be fine. But if this is the case, it will cause great harm to us and those small tribes... Hey, the people of Dakang are indeed tenacious enough! I originally thought that Ningyuan's scale and defense level were not as good as Jinzhou City, but now 70,000 people have been killed or injured. After more than a month of fighting, they have not yet captured it!"
Speaking of this, Wu Lizhen didn't feel any respect.
Han Mu next to him nodded slightly, "Yes! Needless to say, Jinzhou City, how much time and how much force did we spend to push the three major cities to completely capture it?
Especially this Jinzhou Zuowei City, a defender with only about 10,000 people, how much did we spend? A total of 50,000 people!!
Among them, more than 30,000 people were killed in battle, and ten thousand people were seriously injured and unable to go to the battlefield again. Only more than 6,000 were slightly injured! If you fight a few more times in such a battle, who can withstand it?"
After all, Zuo Aicheng did not block the fierce attack of Shi Wei's coalition forces.
After killing more than 40,000 vassals, Shi Wei's elite guards suddenly came out, led by Zesass himself, and 20,000 people launched a crazy attack.
The defenders of Jinzhou Zuowei City, who were already used to the strength of the previous ones, were suddenly stunned.
Although they fought to the death to repel three consecutive rounds of attacks, they still couldn't withstand it in the fifth round and finally the city was broken.
However, none of this group of people surrendered. Except for more than 2,000 people who died in battle in the city, more than 1,000 people left escaped from the mountainside behind through secret passages.
When the Wei army discovered the mechanism, they were no longer able to chase after it. They could only see a mountain of mountains and no one could be found.
After such a battle, more than 7,000 people were killed or injured by Shi Wei's army, which is the heaviest loss in the battle to occupy the western Liaoning Corridor.
Jinzhou City has been attacked for about a month now, but the deaths and injuries of more than 100,000 people were almost all vassals.
Of course, the Wei army in Shi had tried it, and they also followed this method of disrupting the rhythm and raided it.
I don’t know that Zhang Tie is really more stable than Tie.
It was obvious that the defense of that piece of city wall seemed to be shaking, but he actually hid a thousand elites without moving.
Before the attacking Shi Wei's elite soldiers could cheer, they were first attacked by these thousand elite soldiers with dense javelins, and then advanced wildly from both sides with spears.
The elite soldiers of Shi Wei, who were exhausted and unable to defend, were completely lost in a blink of an eye. More than 2,000 corpses were directly thrown off the city wall by the Dakang army, which really made the generals of Shi Wei cry without tears.
Since then, they have stopped doing such thankless things and have continued to use their lives to pile up.
And Yelu Feiyang issued an order to prohibit Zesashit from raiding the city, which made the No. 1 strong general in the Shiwei family angry for three consecutive days.
Come back to your eyes.
Yelu Feiyang continued, "We can conquer Ningyuan in one month and capture Jinzhou City in two months at the latest. In this way, our goal has been achieved, but is this the best result for us?"
Yelu Anxiang didn't understand. After thinking about it, he decided to ask: "Brother, what do you think?"
Yelu Feiyang did not answer at first, but looked at everyone, "Can you express your opinions, how can we get the greatest benefit?"
"It's simple!"
Yelu Anxiang was not a fool, so he said first: "We also learn from the Japanese and don't move for the time being! After the Dakang army goes to encircle and suppress them and kills them to the death, we will start to gain something again! Anyway, Ningyuan and Jinzhou are already the meat on my plate, and they can't even escape!"
As an outstanding child in the royal family, Yelu Anxiang is not only good at studying.
If he could only read books to death, Yelu Feiyang would not have asked him to come with him.
Yelu Anxiang spent most of his daily life studying, learning how to allocate and coordinate the forces of various tribes, and he made very few statements on strategy.
But when he said this, everyone thought he was very informative.
It is concise and concise, and can not only cheat the Japanese, but also consume Dakang's military power, and it will not delay your own affairs.
"But in this way, Jiangnan was beaten to pieces. After we captured Jiangnan, wouldn't we face a mess?" Chen Wu, who was in charge of logistics, said cautiously: "If Jiangnan takes ten or eight years to recover, then if we have the opportunity to plunder Jiangnan, what we get is far from enough!"
"This is also impossible. There will be gains and losses." Han Mu shook his head. He agreed with Yelu Anxiang's idea. "At present, the Japanese and Dakang fought to the death, which is most in line with our Wei's interests. After all, it will take three to five years for us to build the Liaoxi Corridor!
Don’t forget that the merchants in the Liaohe and Linghe areas will continue to do business in the future. If the Japanese gain great benefits and actively expand their naval forces in the future, thereby controlling the Bohai and Huanghai areas, we and Dakang will have to agree to any business we have to do with their consent, what should we do?”
Although Jinzhou City and Ningyuan City are fighting so hard now, the merchants who were originally going to do business are unscathed near Linghe, which is west of Jinzhou City before, within a radius of hundreds of miles.
Oh, it cannot be said that it is unscathed.
Yelu Feiyang has collected "consolation money" from them twice in a row.
The first time was 8.3 million taels of silver, and the second time was about 10 million taels, and the merchants suffered a lot of losses.
Fortunately, their property and life were not threatened, and even the Shiwei cavalry were wandering around to prevent any vassal tribe from coming to fight Qiufeng.
There is no good intention in Shiwei people, even Yelu Feiyang is the case.
Not killing them or plundering them is purely to gain greater benefits from them in the future.
After plundering the Liaoxi Corridor, as long as they continue to do business, these profit-oriented merchants will continue to travel between Shiwei and Dakang, bringing various scarce supplies to Shiwei, so that all kinds of supplies will not be interrupted because Shiwei occupied the Liaoxi Corridor in Dakang, and commerce will not be able to be carried out.
Han Mu mentioned this, Yelu Feiyang sighed slightly and nodded, "The merchants have to continue to comfort me... Hey, we are fighting to the death here, but in the end, there are always people who want to pull the hindrance. These short-sighted pig heads will always make them pay the price in the future!"
Everyone present understood what he said.
It was the second time that the 10 million taels of "comfort money" was levied.
Originally, Yelu Feiyang said that after the first levy, it would never be entrusted again. When the merchants were of great use, they could not fish out of the waters.
Unfortunately, after fighting for two or three months, the Wei army and the coalition forces suffered heavy losses, with almost 200,000 overall casualties. Many nobles in Shiwei and prominently complained about it.
Yelu Feiyang knew what they wanted. They were not concerned about the lives and deaths of these untouchable soldiers, but why they fought for so long but had no benefits to the country. The first time they were paid two million taels of 8 million taels was actually given to them, but a few months later, they were not satisfied again.
Every time Shi Wei sent troops, he was to plunder.
Now Yelu Feiyang is almost building the entire Liaoxi Corridor, but he has not yet respected them more, which makes them dissatisfied.
In addition, the army of the vassal tribe suffered heavy casualties and needed more money to provide pensions, so there was no way, and Yelu Feiyang had to pay the "comfort money" for the second time, which was more than the first time.
Then Yelu Feiyang sent them a total of four million taels of silver, which calmed the nobles.
Prince Wei, who is the most promising person to ascend the throne, has to be threatened by them. How could Yelu Feiyang not be angry?
To be continued...