The sharp decrease in the number of Anguo's Central Army is certainly related to the disastrous defeat in Tiantu County in the First World War, and the large number of deserters is also one of the main reasons. Anguo's national power is strong, but its military power is weak. This has almost become the tradition of Anguo, and the world
consensus.
The reason for this is also related to the geographical location of Anguo. It is located in the central and eastern part of the entire Haotian Empire, bordering the imperial capital Shangjing. It can be said that it is not adjacent to foreign countries in the southeast, northwest, and has never been threatened by foreign forces.
, the people's life is comfortable and peaceful, and its location is in the center, extending in all directions, which is very suitable for doing business. After thousands of years of inheritance, the people of An have the personality of businessmen, can endure hardships, and people are willing to go out.
, did not care about traveling south and north all year round, but at the same time he was self-interested, timid and weak in national concepts. As far as the countries at that time were concerned, the cohesion of the An people was the weakest.
In fact, this is easy to understand. There are many businessmen in Anguo, and they have been wandering abroad all year round. They have a very low concept of home. If a person does not have a home in his heart, how can he talk about having a country?
In Anguo, conscription was originally an extremely difficult matter, but now the war is unfavorable on the front, with more than 200,000 casualties. It is natural for deserters to appear on a large scale, including the people who fled Anguo with their families.
There are a lot of people there, and not a few.
As the saying goes, misfortunes never come singly. The invading Huan Army has already caused everyone in Anguo to panic, wondering how to deal with it. But at this moment, the Sichuan Army also invaded Anguo from the south. This was a huge difference between He Fengguo's assumptions.
According to Feng State's understanding of Sichuan State, Sichuan State will not easily mobilize troops and will never take action until the last moment. However, this time it is uncharacteristically true. When its allies have an overall advantage and Feng State has not yet joined the war,
He resolutely sent out troops and invaded Anjing.
There are actually huge differences in the Sichuan Kingdom as to whether it should send troops now. Most of the nobles in the Sichuan Kingdom are opposed to participating in the war so early. First, the current situation is not yet completely clear. If you rashly join the war, you will expose yourself.
Their intentions are not good for themselves; secondly, and the most critical point, these nobles believe that Sichuan is not ready to fight a large-scale war. If they want to join the war, they should wait until after the autumn harvest and the grain and grass stockpiles are sufficient.
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However, the young nobles of the Sichuan Kingdom were of the same opinion and unanimously believed that the country should join the war immediately.15
Their reasons are also very good. No matter whether the current situation is clear or not, even if the Huan army is at a comprehensive disadvantage, can we still ignore it? Since we will send troops sooner or later, why do we have to wait until the end and be so passive?
Secondly, we are currently short of food and grass, but Feng, An and An are not much better off. After the autumn harvest, our own food and grass will be sufficient, but Feng, An and An will also accumulate food and grass? What's more?
One point, now that Anguo has been defeated by the Huan army and is in danger, it is a good time for our own side to seize the spoils. If Anguo is finally defeated by the Huanguo family, and our own side has not sent a single soldier, how can you have the face to ask Huanguo for Anguo?
Territory? I’m afraid they won’t even give you a county or a city.
Here they can be regarded as an emerging force in the Sichuan Kingdom. They are more ambitious, more passionate, and love the Sichuan Kingdom more than the older nobles.
The power of the old nobles is deeply rooted in the Sichuan Kingdom. Sometimes even Sichuan King Xiao Xuan can't do anything to them. This time, he deliberately used the young nobles to suppress the powerful old nobles and promote the young nobles so that the power of the court would not be compromised.
They were all in the hands of the old nobles. In addition, he himself agreed with the views of the Young Nobles. Therefore, Xiao Xuan finally accepted the proposal of the Young Nobles against all opinions, and immediately sent troops to secure the country, forming a north-south pincer attack with the Huan Army.
, put pressure on Yuzhen, the capital of Anguo.
If the Huan Army's combat effectiveness is one, then the Sichuan Army's combat effectiveness is equivalent to one hundred, while Anguo's combat effectiveness is undoubtedly minus one hundred.
With the large-scale attack by the Sichuan Army, the southern part of Anguo suddenly fell to the edge of collapse. A large number of Anjun troops fled without fighting, and their fleeing speed was faster than the people fleeing the famine. The expression "If you don't attack, you will be defeated, and you will be defeated for thousands of miles."
It's no exaggeration to describe it.
The situation of the war took a turn for the worse, and Feng Guo's original plan of sitting back and watching the changes could no longer be carried out. As An Guo's urgent documents arrived in Tang Yin's hands like snow flakes, he summoned the generals overnight to urgently discuss his own strategy and tactics.
The uncharacteristic behavior of Sichuan State surprised all the generals of Feng State, especially Nie Ze. It was he who judged that Sichuan State would not join the war quickly, but in fact, it was completely contrary to his prediction.
Feng Army camp, inside the Chinese army tent. At this time, Tang Yin had not arrived yet, and the generals of Feng State were kneeling and sitting on both sides, talking among themselves, and they all expressed their unoptimism for the war at hand.
The Huan Army has currently invested 400,000 troops. It is reported that the troops invaded by the Sichuan Kingdom in the southern part of Anguo are also upwards of 400,000. Just after the war started, the total strength of the two countries was close to one million. With such a large number of enemy troops, Anguo could not
The army has almost no hope, and Feng Kingdom can only rely on its own strength to deal with it. One can imagine how difficult this battle will be.
Even Jiang Fan, who was usually not very talkative in military meetings, couldn't help but ask Xiao Muqing, "General Xiao, how should our army fight with the Sichuan and Huan armies now?"
After hearing his question, the others stopped talking one after another and focused their eyes on Xiao Muqing. When it comes to who the famous commander of Feng Kingdom should be sent first, Xiao Muqing naturally does his part. His opinions and analysis are also heard by others.
They all take it very seriously.
Xiao Muqing frowned solemnly for a long time, then stretched out two fingers and said, "There are two things to do. First, ask the Yu State for help and ask the Yu State to send troops for reinforcements. Second, break into Chizhou County and liberate Bai Qing's troops."
In the danger of being trapped, the 200,000 Anguo troops will be taken over and commanded by our country. Only by doing these two things can the situation in the north of Anguo be temporarily stabilized. As for the south... then we have to rely on Anguo itself. We are far away from water.
If you can't get close to your thirst, it's beyond the reach of your whip!"
After listening to Xiao Muqing's analysis, everyone present nodded and felt that what he said was reasonable. Shangguan: "That's right!" Wuying continued, "Even if you really hand over the 200,000 Anjun to us, Anjun will still be Anjun."
Not only will it not be able to help our army, it will only hinder our army and become a burden."
"I really don't know how Anren fought this war. The whole country is extremely rich. Even the weapons used by the soldiers below are made of fine steel, and the armor is strong, beautiful and coveted. But once we get to the
On the battlefield, the entire army seemed to have turned into wooden men, allowing themselves to be slaughtered without the ability to fight back. By forming an alliance with Anguo, our country has really suffered eight lifetimes of bad luck..." Shangguan Yuanrang became more and more angry as he spoke, and in the end, he still
The hammer hit the ground hard, making a muffled sound.
"It is precisely because Anguo's combat power is weak that we have to form an alliance with it. This is why it is bitter first and then sweet!" Following the words, Tang Yin strode in from outside the Central Army tent, untied the rope buckle around his neck at the same time, and shook it off.
He took off his outer cloak and threw it to Ah San behind him.
"Your Majesty!" Seeing Tang Yin arrive, everyone immediately shut up, straightened their bodies, knelt down on the ground, and bowed to salute. Then, seeing Yin Rou also coming in, everyone saluted again and said in unison, "Your Highness, Princess."
Tang Yin took Yin Rou and sat in the middle. Then he waved to Ah Si, took a thick stack of documents, threw it on the commander's desk, and said in a deep voice without expression, "Wang An Yueze is now like a hot pot."
The ants sent out twelve letters in a row in one day. Please tell me, next, whether our army will fight or not, and if so, how will we fight?"
"Your Majesty, we must go to war now! Judging from the current war situation, if our army does not join the war, Yuzhen, the capital of Anguo, will be captured by the Sichuan-Huan coalition forces in less than three months!" Xiao Muqing took the lead and said.
"Three months? Mu Qing, you overestimate Anguo. If it can last for another month, I can even take off its head and give it to you."
Shangguan Yuanrang sneered at An Jun's combat prowess. He felt that even if a group of bandits gathered together, their combat prowess would not be worse than that of An Jun.
"Yes!" Tang Yin nodded and said, "If our army does not participate in the war, Anguo will be defeated very quickly..." After a pause, he said, "Since everyone thinks we should participate in the war, how should we fight?"
Wuying said hurriedly, "General Xiao has analyzed it just now. On the one hand, our army must rescue the Yu State and ask the Yu State to send troops to assist. On the other hand, we must rescue the An Army from Meicheng and let us take over temporarily."
Tang Yin listened and nodded, feeling that Xiao Muqing's opinion was quite good. It was necessary to win over the Yu State, and rescuing the 200,000 An army was also his top priority.
Before he could speak, Nie Ze, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "Our army should divide its troops and send a legion into Tiantu County of Anguo to wipe out the Huan army that captured it. Otherwise, if this Huan army is allowed to do so,
If the army goes all the way south and goes straight into the hinterland of Anguo, it will mess up the situation in Anguo even more."
"It makes sense." Tang Yin nodded his head and Nie Ze said, "The Huan Army did not have many troops to besiege Meicheng. Your Majesty only needs to send out the Pingyuan Army to relieve the siege. The Huan Army that invaded Tiantu County is the main force of the enemy. The weak ministers
I want to lead hundreds of armies and fight to the death with them!"
His words may not sound like much to others, but Xiao Muqing found them harsh.
Meicheng was besieged by only a small force of the Huan Army. It was up to the Pingyuan Army to fight, but the main force of the enemy army was to be fought by the Hundred Battles Army. Isn't it obvious that the Pingyuan Army was not as good as his Hundred Battles Army?