Because now, except for Mianyang and Mianzhou, other cities are not suitable for a decisive battle with Yizhique. The other cities are greatly damaged. If the army attacks, they will not be able to withstand it at all.
Even in positional warfare, a solid city is needed as a backing to provide sufficient supplies.
It is winter now, and there is no food to harvest, but there is also a benefit: no food will be left in the ground for Yizhique's men and horses to destroy.
There are sufficient grain warehouses in Daizhou and Mianzhou, and the people are rich and have surplus grain. This is a good time to use it to support the front line.
As soon as Xiao Xian and Shen Mingzhu's orders arrived in Daizhou and Mianzhou, the people knew that they needed food and grass to fight Yizhique, and they immediately enthusiastically took out the surplus food at home, and some people were willing to work as corvees to help transport food.
In addition, there are also young peasant soldiers who actively request to join the army. These peasant soldiers train in their spare time, are busy farming, and go out to fight in wartime.
This is because Daizhou is still just a state after all, and the number of soldiers Shen Mingzhu can recruit is limited, so he adopted this method.
But at the same time, they also developed specialized military households to farm and train troops. Each military household had to produce a retired soldier, so that elite soldiers could be trained.
In addition, there were originally three groups of forces in Mianzhou, the imperial court, hers, Xiao Xian's, and Alta's. However, the imperial court always needed help from her people, so it was mostly their strength, and Alta's had always been friendly.
status, it is also a conditional cooperation with them.
Therefore, Mianzhou is now fully under their command.
At the same time, Yi Zhique had also received the news that Boku's entire army had been annihilated and Boku had been killed. Originally, he wanted to destroy several groups of loyal forces in the court first, then capture Alta to frighten the world, and then go south to capture Mian.
Zhou marched to Daizhou to directly attack Daqin.
Who knew that just when he was so full of ambition, he would receive such bad news!
This was his first major setback since he started his army, and it was completely unexpected.
When he knew that his opponents were Xiao Xian and Shen Mingzhu, he felt a sense of realization in his heart, but he also had some disbelief. Could these two people be so powerful?
To be able to annihilate more than 70,000 people in Boku with less than 20,000 people is simply impossible. There must be something inside.
Maybe 20,000 people is just an approximate number, and there may be more than 100,000 people hidden there, but it's just that they didn't make it public, and they set a trap for Boku.
Yi Zhique felt that only his own warriors could defeat the enemy's 10,000 or 20,000 people until they cried like ghosts and howled like ghosts. They were so frightened that they ran away because their warriors could defeat one against ten against a hundred. They were definitely not the weak ones who were defeated by the Qin Dynasty.
The people have assimilated beyond what the soldiers of the imperial court can compare with.
If he led his troops southward, those weak Qin people would just run away in panic, and they would be frightened out of their wits.
By then, one hundred warriors can slaughter a village, and ten thousand people can capture a city.
What ability can a dog official like Governor Ji have? As long as he spreads the word, they will be frightened and immediately abandon the city and flee. It is impossible to stop the resistance.
Therefore, he can attack the mainland of Da Qin without spending a single soldier.
This was Yi Zhique's estimate, but he underestimated Xiao Xian and Shen Mingzhu, which became his fatal point.
But he hasn't realized it yet. He is now full of confidence and feels that he is a veritable god of the grassland and the lord of the world. Sooner or later, he will fulfill his great wish to unify the world.
