Chapter 158: Take all the numbers without taking (Part 2)
January is one year
When Fang Xin of the original body picked up Xiao Bing's first child, at the projection, the war continued
For more than ten years, people and things have changed
The native army of King Anchang was full of formations and ordered lines, with the cold light of metal armor and blades at times.
Fang Xin is on a high arrow tower, facing down
Although there were no artillery, rolling stones, wood, boiling water, etc. still caused the attacking chieftains to splatter flesh and blood - the giant wood and rocks slammed down, and screams rose up in succession.
The sound of "puff" shot up and down, and only a "puff" sound was heard. Thousands of arrows were fired up and down, and the sound of breaking through the air was soaring across the sky, stirring up a large area of ​​blood.
However, the chieftain army was extremely tenacious. Under the command, they rushed up to death. Countless people continued to climb to the wall gate and fought hand-to-hand combat with the defenders.
"So strong!" Fang Xin had no choice but to say this in his heart.
The chieftains, facing the high walls, were subjected to rolling stones, wood, boiling water, and arrow rain. They have been killed or injured so far. They have fought for a day but can still maintain their strong morale and are pouring over like a tide.
In ancient times, due to the limitations of the transmission conditions and battlefield environment at that time, after the battle started, it was difficult for the main general to control the battlefield and had to rely on the command of the army. Although it was under the banner, drums and gold were difficult to achieve.
The situation where the command is good, the plan is meticulous, and the attack is determined. Only after the breakthrough of modern communications, in ancient times, if one tenth of the modern regulation can be completed, it will be very powerful - it can be called a famous general.
Seeing that the following orders were so strict, the rolling iron stream rushed up in batches. Although the opponent was not large, with only 50,000 people and a large number of cavalrymen, Fang Xin was indeed very impressed by how he could do this - he could not do it yet!
"But that's all." Fang Xin sneered. After waiting for a while, when the night began to fall, the enemy had to retreat. In the ancient times, even elite soldiers could not fight at night.
Fang Xin came down from the tower, and hundreds of guards followed. Suddenly, a commotion came from the front. After a moment, he was covered in blood and rode over and dismounted: "Sir!"
"It was Yue Mingshi, what's the situation now?" Fang Xin asked.
"Yes, in the three-day attack, our army has lost 6,000, which is almost the same as the enemy thieves. If we continue to fight, we will fight even harder!" Yue Mingshi said with an estimate.
"It's okay. The enemy's 50,000 came, which is already considered a thief soldier. Now the enemy's losses are 6,000, which are all one less. I'm sorry that it has to retreat." Fang Xin said, in fact, according to normal siege battles, the losses of defending the city and siege are 1 to 3, but the chieftains have been elite soldiers who have fought for more than ten years, and now the defenders are mostly recruits with rough training. Even if the new recruits have a good geographical advantage, the losses will be huge.
"Besides, the last time the angels who attacked 1,600 enemy thieves, the court's angels who comforted the army had arrived. They had already announced their grace and rewarded them and brought a lot of rewarded cattle, wine, money and silk. This time they were just handed over." Fang Xin said: "You go down to appease the army and meet together later."
"Yes!" Yue Mingshi had to respond, and Fang Xin watched him leave.
When Fang Xin thought of the angel, he sneered. The person who came this time turned out to be a eunuch.
By the way, this dynasty is not the Ming Dynasty on the earth plane. Eunuchs and other internal ministers were in charge. Taizu had an iron rule that he was not allowed to interfere in politics. Everyone could kill those who were good at it. However, the highest rank of the internal ministers was only eighth rank, which shows that they were inferior.
Generally, the ministers are responsible for the orders of the imperial edicts, but this time, they turned out to be eunuchs, which shows the isolation of the present.
The ministers of Guru were wise and tyrannical, and their sects were everywhere in the court and the country. The young emperor was trapped in the imperial palace and seemed to have to rely on eunuchs. These traces were very obvious, but the more they were, the more they were, the less they were, the less they were.
When I arrived at the yamen, I saw Eunuch Gao again - he was the last time he was awarded the title.
When he saw Fang Xin, although this Eunuch Gao looked a little pale, he was watching the sequelae of the battle. Someone had been supervising his every move. He knew that he had watched the battle and vomited several times. At this time, he smiled and said, "I have seen the Lord of the Lord!"
The imperial edict has been announced, and he is no longer an angel. A mere eunuch from the ninth rank, would naturally be respectful to Fang Xin, who is a third rank.
Fang Xin did not be humble and went forward to help him, saying, "Eunuch Gao came on behalf of the emperor. How can you do this? Please come in and have someone to serve tea!"
Since Eunuch Gao came, he has been treated with courtesy, which has flattered Eunuch Gao. Although it was not the first time, he kept saying: "I dare not, how dare I do this?"
After a few refusals, I sat down at the first position of Fang Xin below.
The eunuchs are all people around the emperor, and the emperor in the deep palace is more willing to believe them, and their energy should not be underestimated.
"I heard that the barbarians were fierce in the palace. When I saw them today, I still did this." After saying a few words, the eunuch said with a pale face, his hands trembling while drinking tea, which shows that the scene was shocking these days.
Fang Xin looked heavy and said, "Yes, the enemy thief is fierce. I will tell the truth. If there is no city wall, the situation will be in danger!"
There are too many words in the memorials, but in reality, after watching the bloody war for several days, the ferocity and strength of the barbarians had penetrated into the heart of Eunuch Gao, and he immediately responded: "Yes, that's the case."
After thinking about it, hesitated and asked: "But why did the lord take the initiative?"
Over the past year, Fang Xin has repeatedly sent people to attack and plunder nearby Tusi villages, killing them when they see them, beheading their heads and rewarding them, burning their village fields and ruining their land, and plundering their cattle, sheep and horses to serve as their army.
The biggest time was that last month, one thousand troops were sent to kill 1,200 barbarians, regardless of men, women, young and old, they reported their merits and asked the court to issue orders to reward and check them. This also led to this siege - in the past year, nearly 10,000 barbarians were killed, so how could they not retaliate? You must know that the entire barbarians combined only have about 600,000 people.
The other party said that although the city's troops remained at about 40,000, and this time, three thousand blood was replaced, the overall quality of the soldiers has improved a lot through training, combat, and killing.
Fang Xin's method and principle are very simple - anyone who surrenders to Fang Xin and obeys Fang Xin in everything has been tested by war and can be promoted by three points (even Fang Xin cannot be promoted for no reason, because a group must have rules). On the contrary, it is still promoted according to the credit, and it is reduced by three points. There is no need to let them continue to die very clearly. This is enough, and they will become marginalized sooner or later.
Just this simple principle.
Fang Xin sighed and said, "Eunuch Gao is the one around the emperor. How dare I hide this? You can see all the generals of this fu, but you can understand his deep hatred in the sea of ​​blood?"
Seeing that Eunuch Gao was still a little puzzled, Fang Xin said, "Yue Mingshi, the general, his father and brother were killed in battle with the Man Si, and Fan Jiebiao was even more alone, leaving only one living mouth in the family, so he hated the Man Si very much. Such people accounted for most of the army, and even if they were originally pacified, they could not be suppressed!"
Fang Xin said again: "Besides, the salary is not enough. If you don't fight against revenge, you won't plunder, and you won't be able to defend the enemy!"
It means that the court's salary is less than half. If they are not allowed to take revenge and plunder, how can they resist the enemy?
After hearing this, Eunuch Gao thought about something.
Seeing his expression, Fang Xin was secretly happy and said, "Three towns and five guards have enough troops, with 80,000, but the salary is less than half. He can only resist and cannot attack. The Western thieves are becoming increasingly cruel and tens of thousands of refugees are not at ease. The peacemaker is preparing to submit a request to the court to station the army and go out to build a fort, and push them out layer by layer to curb the thief. This can not only appease the people, but also solve some food and salary."
Fang Xin's policy was actually more about targeting the Han-barbarian relations in Anchang Province. Wang Anchang was wise, integrated military and political affairs, and organized government agencies. He set up counties and counties to manage the Han people and farming. Although suppression was inevitable at the beginning, after more than ten years, many Han people fell into poverty gradually surrendered.
This was a very unfavorable thing for the other party. He understood that if King Anchang really digested these Han people, not only did his strength increase greatly, but his dragon energy was also affected by the Han energy. This was the beginning of the dragon. It was not allowed in both mysticism and reality.
Although King Anchang learned some Chineseization, he had a shallow foundation and could not effectively build a city. Therefore, King Anchang could send cavalry to attack Da Chu, and he had a city to resist on his own side. In fact, Fang Xin could also attack counterattack, and the enemy could not even effectively defend. How could he set up defenses everywhere?
Although this kind of attack is not very effective, and every time he goes to fight, he loses 30% of it, and only kills dozens or hundreds of enemy civilians, and few kills enemy soldiers, the destructive effect of this harassment on people's hearts and production cannot be explained by dozens or hundreds of head poles.
With such continuous attacks and killing, the elite of our army became stronger, and the opposition between the Han and the barbarians increased to a certain extent. Even if Wang Yingming of Anchang tried to suppress, it would be difficult to alleviate the hatred and confrontation of the Han barbarians, and could not stop the barbarians from venting their anger at the Han people. There were hundreds of thousands of Han people in the occupied areas. Fang Xin's judgment was that under such a policy, at least one-third of them died and one-third of them fled to the pass.
In this way, not only can Anchang's productivity be destroyed, but also can gain tens of thousands of hatred Han people. This is the basis for military use.
However, of course, there is no need to say these considerations to Eunuch Gao.
As long as he let the court know, he could barely suppress those military towns, make some counterattacks, and defend them, but don't expect a successful counterattack within a few years - that's enough.
Fang Xin had no intention of counterattacking within five years. If he could successfully counterattack within five years and recover one and two nearby counties, he would be very satisfied.
After hearing this, Eunuch Gao said in contemplation: "This family can only repay the emperor truthfully. Any decree and judgment cannot be heard or done by a family."
Fang Xin smiled: "Of course this!"
He estimated that under this situation, especially after his policy, the number of people flowing over increased by 100,000, and the court had to agree with the military camp policy, which was almost inevitable.
The beginning of the military camp was the beginning of Fang Xin’s real gain of strength.
At this moment, Fang Xin sent someone to rectify the banquet. Of course, it was a simple banquet. After all, tomorrow, Eunuch Gao would return to Beijing to submit the order. Without much time, the group generals came and met with each other.
Not much time, Yue Mingshi led the generals to come one after another, bowed to Fang Xin in the center, and bowed to his father-in-law. All the generals were covered in iron armor and jingled. Although they had been cleaned, they still smelled of blood.
As soon as they fought, the generals were naturally full of murderous aura, and unconsciously carried a rebellious aura, and even saluted Eunuch Gao, even if these were seen by Eunuch Gao.
When they were drinking at the banquet, these people shouted loudly and even said bluntly. This is actually a different perspective. From a good point of view, this is just the true nature of a soldier, but from a malicious perspective, this definition of arrogance is inevitable.
The preconceived Eunuch Gao naturally became more and more like this the more he looked at it.
When Fang Xin saw this, he smiled and gave Eunuch Gao a glass. When he talked to the generals who had drunk wine and were a bit unrestrained, he deliberately showed a little hesitation to show his concern for these arrogant soldiers and generals.
In this way, only by returning to report secretly can he maximize his interests - of course, you should not go too far, and don't let the court think that he is incompetent.
These plays were just silent, but the generals didn't know at all. When the banquet ended and everyone left, Fang Xin swept to a few seats in the distance and showed a satisfied look - there, Wu Jie, who had accumulated several achievements and was promoted to the seventh-rank Yizheng School Captain, also had some young officers who could be trained in the army for investigation and contact.
Thinking of more than 20 people who have arrived in this continent and started to organize intelligence and commercial networks, Fang Xin smiled even more - these two networks will be almost available in three years.
"Sir, don't have to send him far away, so I'll go there." Fang Xin delivered him to the door and heard Eunuch Gao say this.
Chapter completed!