Excavation of the Huayuankou and Huanghukou sections of the Huangyan River was not entirely Zhan Ying's idea.
In Li Tielan's military book, there are records of such inhumane strategies and tactics.
At that time, the two armies of the heavens marched very quickly. Before the human armies could fully react, they had already defeated Niangzi Pass and Shanhaiguan Pass, and their fronts were directed towards the heart of the Central Plains.
At that time, in order to buy time for the Central Plains defense line, Li Tielan formulated the strategy of digging up the Huangyan River embankment.
However, this tactic was not implemented that year.
The main reason is the strong opposition of the evil god.
In the end, Li Tielan compromised and gave up the embankment digging plan.
The price paid for abandoning this plan was that almost all of the imperial court's most elite 26 million armored troops were buried in Mount Huang and Jiuhua.
In the end, Li Tielan relied on the natural barrier of the Yangtze River to stop the attack from the heavens and dragged the war into winter.
If the evil god hadn't stopped Li Tielan from digging the embankment back then, the most elite armored regiment in the world would have had enough time to build defenses, instead of rushing into battle and almost being annihilated.
As for the tens of millions of innocent people in the middle and lower reaches of the Huangyan River that the evil god cared about back then, these people were not saved.
After the Heavenly Army crossed the Huangyan River easily, they divided their troops into more than a hundred groups and slaughtered villages and cities everywhere.
Almost all of the nearly 60 million people in Lu, Central Plains, and Jinzhong were massacred by heavenly warriors.
It was also the time of May and June, when the wheat in the Central Plains was ripe for harvest.
Tianjie easily took over and obtained a large amount of food and grass.
This is one of the reasons why the Heaven Realm can persist in the human world for sixty-seven years.
Zhan Ying will not make the mistake that Li Tielan made when he was soft-hearted.
As long as he takes office, as long as he is in power, no one at that time can change the embankment digging plan he will implement.
Sacrificing 10 million people can save 60 million people. Zhan Ying feels that this deal is a good deal no matter how it is done.
However, he also knew that once the Huangyan River was dug, no matter who it was, no matter what the outcome of the catastrophe, this person would be infamy for eternity.
A chamberlain rushed over and asked Zhao Shiyu and Zhan Ying to go to the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
As soon as they arrived at the entrance of Taihe Hall, Xuan Ying and Li Ziye had already walked out.
Saw Zhan Ying.
Li Ziyepi smiled and said: "Xiao Yingzi, your official position has been reduced. Go in and listen to the appointment."
Zhan Ying's heart sank.
If you listen to the title in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and it's in the middle of the night, then the official position His Majesty the Emperor gives you will definitely not be the Grand Marshal of the World's Arms. The Grand Marshal is the commander-in-chief of the three armies. Those who need Si Tianjian choose a good time and auspicious day.
, His Majesty the Emperor led hundreds of civil and military officials to offer sacrifices in the Ancestral Temple, and then His Majesty the Emperor personally read out the edict. Zhan Ying knelt in front of the Ancestral Temple to receive the dragon flag, golden sword, jade seal, and tiger
Fu, Wang Jie.
It is definitely not as simple as hastily reading out the imperial edict in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
Arriving at the Hall of Supreme Harmony, hundreds of civil and military officials stood on both sides, and on a high dragon chair, the real dragon emperor, dressed in a five-clawed golden dragon robe, sat.
An elderly eunuch held the imperial edict in his hand and came out of the classroom and said: "Zhan Ying receives the edict."
Zhan Ying knelt down on one knee and said, "Zhan Ying is here."
The old eunuch opened the imperial edict, and a high-pitched voice sounded in the temple.
"By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict. Now a catastrophe has come, and this is the autumn of life and death for the world. Fortunately, the descendant of the former military god Princess Li Tielan has come to the world..."
The following few hundred words were eloquent, first praising Princess Li Tielan, and then praising Zhan Ying.
Finally, the old eunuch said: "The heavenly army invaded northern Liaoning, and Zhan Ying was appointed as the general manager of the march in northern Liaoning. He was in charge of all military and political matters including the twenty-six states in northern Liaoning, the four countries in eastern Liaoning, and the barbarians on the grasslands.
In addition, Penglai, Fusang, the forty-seven foreign tribes in Northern Xinjiang, as well as the East China Sea Fleet and the Bohai Sea Fleet were all under the control of Zhanying.
I hope you and others will lead the 30 million soldiers in northern Liaoning to fight bloody battles to repel the invading enemies and protect..."
Zhan Ying didn't hear what he said next.
He was extremely speechless.
I came to the capital with full confidence to be the general marshal of the world's troops.
I originally thought that I was Li Tielan's successor, and with Xuan Ying and Li Ziye coming forward, the matter was already certain.
How could I have imagined that in the end, I did have the military power, but not as a generalissimo, but as some kind of general manager of the Liaobei Road march?
When did the imperial court establish Liaobei Road?
The Han people in northern Liaoning are indeed very powerful, but these men have long been incorporated into the regular army and are now stationed at Shanhaiguan.
Those left outside the customs are nothing more than the old, weak, sick and disabled.
Now that Shanhaiguan has been closed, the land in northern Liaoning has become the back garden of the Tianjie Cavalry.
There is indeed a military alliance formed by some rebels on the line between Changbai Mountain and Beishui River.
But the number of those people is frightening. They are said to number 15 million.
In fact, almost half of them are women’s soldiers and children’s soldiers.
Also, let yourself control the forty-seven alien races in Northern Xinjiang, Fusang, Penglai, East China Sea Fleet, Bohai Sea Fleet...
What the hell is this?
Who among the foreign races in Northern Xinjiang doesn’t know that they only take orders from the Demonic Cult of the Western Regions?
Penglai and Fusang hang alone overseas.
Fortunately, Penglai is not far from northern Liaoning, but Penglai has a small population. It only has a population of one million at full count. In the past ten years, it has been recruited by the imperial court, leaving only hundreds of thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled.
Fusang has a larger population, but Fusang is too far away.
Even if the God-Emperor of Fuso could listen to himself and send soldiers to northern Liaoning to assist in the battle, how many people could he send?
Fuso had already sent five million soldiers to the Central Plains ten years ago. I heard that they had even captured savages from the mountains to serve as soldiers, so it was impossible to provide any more fresh blood.
As for the two fleets in the East China Sea and Bohai Sea...
It would be damning if he could listen to his own orders.
Even if he really obeyed his orders, he was not good at water warfare. He couldn't let the hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the two fleets leave the battleships and come to fight the enemy on land.
The fall of northern Liaoning is a foregone conclusion. The most urgent task now is how to transfer the soldiers, people, food and materials from northern Liaoning.
Instead of sending himself into northern Liaoning to fight with the heavenly army.
All day long today, the topics discussed in the court were whether he should do what he should do and whether he was qualified to be the general marshal of the world's soldiers and horses.
Suddenly he was stabbed to the north of Liaoning, which made Zhan Ying instantly realize that this decision was not issued by His Majesty the Emperor, but from the mountain peak in the southwest border.
Soldiers have the duty to obey orders.
In front of all the civil and military officials, His Majesty the Emperor announced that he was the Commander-in-Chief of the Liaobei Road March. He had to take over this hot potato even if he didn't want to.
Zhan Ying could only accept the order and thank him.
Then he said: "Your Majesty, the general has a request."
The emperor said: "Speak."
Zhan Ying said: "The general has just taken charge of a large army, but he is afraid that he will not be able to do what he wants, so he wants to transfer a few generals from Yumen Pass to northern Liaoning to assist the general."
The emperor said: "A commander with a hundred thousand soldiers is not enough."
Zhan Ying shook his head and said: "They are all centurions and ten-centurions, but there are no commanders with hundreds of thousands of soldiers."
The emperor agreed to Zhan Ying's request.
He originally thought that Zhan Ying wanted Qu Jiuyuan, so he couldn't say that he was a commander of 100,000 soldiers. Since it was just a few tens of captains and centurions, there was no problem.
