"Master Fang, there has been no messenger from Huangshi Village for two days." A staff member said to Fang Yanzao who was stationed in Fengyang City.
Fang Yanzao frowned tightly, his face became ugly, and he couldn't help but cursed: "You Junda is a loser. He led 30,000 elite soldiers and returned with a disastrous defeat on the same day. Now Cheng Yaojin has no one to take care of him. I'm afraid
"It's more bad than good"
A military general next to him quickly asked: "Master Fang, what should we do now?"
Fang Yanzao said: "What else can we do? There are only more than 30,000 troops in our city now. This number of people can defend the city, but if we go to Huangshi Village to rescue Cheng Yaojin and the others, we will be trapped as much as possible."
Just as he was saying this, a spy with a flag on his back rushed in, knelt down on one knee and said loudly: "Master Qi Fang, Li Xuanba of the Far Eastern Army led more than 20,000 cavalry to attack Fengyang City.
It was less than fifty miles away from Fengyang City."
The faces of all the Wagang generals in Fengyang City changed drastically when they heard this.
Fang Yanzao lost his voice and said: "Cheng Yaojin was defeated at the hands of the Far Eastern Army so quickly."
As soon as he finished speaking, another spy rushed in and reported: "Master Qi Zifang, I just got the news that the Far East Army is divided into two groups. There are nearly ten thousand people who have cut off the supply of food, grass and baggage between us and General Manager Xu's army. Thirty thousand
People are coming straight to us."
"Sir Fang, the Far Eastern Army dares to attack us with more than 10,000 people. We have nearly 40,000 troops defending the city. What's more, they fought with Cheng Yaojin and You Junda in Huangshi Village for several days, and then came all the way.
We are tired soldiers. We dare not fight in the field when we go out of the city. How can we defend the city because we are afraid that the Far Eastern Army will be able to break through the city?" Seeing Fang Yanzao's panicked expression, a military general frowned and said sternly.
Fang Yanzao's expression changed several times. After a while, he sighed and said with a sad face: "So what if we defend Fengyang City? General Manager Xu and the others have no food and grass supply. What should we do?"
The general smiled and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Fang. General Manager Xu has long expected that the Far Eastern Army might cut off the food route, and has been prepared for this. We have more than one food route in Fengyang City."
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War is never just one battlefield, it is an all-round contest. It is not just a matter of military strength, but also national strength, financial resources, people's hearts, weather, location, people and so on!
Especially during the war of siege and fortification!
First of all, you need to invest a lot of money and food to feed your warriors before conquering the city.
Just like the battle before us, if any force wants to break through a military stronghold in the Far East within three days, it will need at least 50,000 troops.
When an army of more than 50,000 is dispatched, the cost of food and money for people to eat is a very large expense, which most people or forces cannot afford.
This is one of the reasons why the Turks, who have been plundering for so many years, do not like to go south to attack Sui cities unless they have to.
What's more, when wars occur, trade routes are naturally cut off, and a large number of laborers are recruited to transport grain and grass, which delays a large number of farmers from farming, leaving some crop fields deserted and unattended. This will inevitably reduce the food supply of a country or regional power.
Harvests were greatly reduced.
It can be said that every grain of food eaten by the army in every war was plucked from the mouths of the people.
Therefore, apart from wars to protect one's own country against foreign invaders, ordinary people generally will not support wars involving sending troops to attack other countries.
Because, in the end, it will not benefit them at all, but they will only be harmed. Of course, careerists or politicians, aristocratic families, financial groups, etc. will achieve their own goals through war.
This is no exception at all times and at home and abroad, and it is naturally the same for the Wagang Army today. Li Mi is this despicable careerist, and the people under the Wagang Army are actually the victims.
Because the Far East Army is by no means an aggressor, and no invader has ever treated the people so well, they call them liberators.
On the contrary, the property plundered by the Turks can still be divided among the layers, and the ordinary herders of the tribe can also get some benefits. This is the direct reason why they like to go south to thresh the valleys.
Therefore, as early as ten days ago, Wang Junlin's Xiaoyu Theater, Wulin Guild, Military Intelligence Bureau and other forces, on Wang Junlin's orders, sent a large number of people to sneak into the states, counties, towns, villages under the rule of Wagang Army. They opened up
Another war in a special field.
This war is actually a struggle in the ideological field, but the Wagang Army has no idea that this war has started and is not prepared at all, so they are destined to lose this war. If they lose the war without gunpowder in this field,
, the consequences are unpredictable, and the Wagang military regime may collapse overnight.
Few people know that Wang Junlin's focus is not actually in Huangshi Village, nor in the base areas of Fengyang City and Xiaohe Town. Even Cheng Yaojin and Xu Shiji are just important targets incidentally.
Wang Junlin's focus is to defeat the Wagang Army from the inside out through the struggle in the ideological field.
Therefore, on the whole, this is a war in which the enemy is defeated without fighting.
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Before Xu Shiji left Fengyang City, he actually made full preparations, even arranging for people to protect Fang Yanzao.
Because Xu Shiji knew that the Far Eastern Army had institutions like the Special Forces Brigade and the Military Intelligence Bureau, and had a group of violent masters like the Martial Arts Guild under his command, it was very likely that he would carry out beheading and assassination operations.
Therefore, Fang Yanzao, the head of Fengyang City, is now extremely well-guarded. A large group of bodyguards are with him twelve hours a day. Even when he is doing things with women or going to the toilet, he is surrounded by layers of guards.
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Of course, these guards couldn't stay awake all the time. They were divided into two shifts and took turns guarding Fang Yanzao.
On this day, one of the guard leaders returned to his residence and saw a beautiful young woman with a beautiful little silver snake hanging from her ear.
The leader of the guard was not weak in strength. Although he was horrified by the strange scene in front of him, his reaction was also very fast. While the weapon in his hand was already unsheathed, he had already retreated backwards.
However, as soon as he moved, his expression changed drastically, and then his body fell limply to the ground.
This beautiful woman is naturally Shen Guoer, the commander-in-chief of the Military Intelligence Office of the Far Eastern Army, Wang Junlin's eyes and ears, and the real top executive of the Far Eastern Army.
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The next day, the guard leader went to change shifts as normal and went to guard Fang Yanzao.
Late that night, Zhang Tiangang led a special operations brigade to attack Fengyang City at night.
At the same time, thousands of men in black appeared in Fengyang City, setting fires and causing chaos everywhere, and kidnapped General Wagang's family.
Soon, nearly 10,000 ordinary people in Fengyang City took to the streets. They did not know who inspired them to express various demands to the Wagang Army. In the end, it developed into a violent conflict with the Wagang Army.
In short, the city was in chaos.
During this process, Fang Yanzao gave random orders and issued several orders, which made it easier for the Far Eastern Army to seize Fengyang City at night. Half an hour later, the west city gate was captured by Zhang Tiangang's special operations brigade and opened from the inside.
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Li Xuanba, who had been preparing outside the city for a long time, led more than 20,000 troops from the Storm Bear Battalion and rushed in through the wide-open West City Gate.
There are still 30,000 to 40,000 Wagang troops in the city, and 10,000 of them are the elite of the Wagang inner camp. The initial resistance was very tenacious.
But then, as Fang Yanzao escaped from the east city gate with some of his troops, the situation took a turn for the worse.
After the news spread, the Wagang Army's will to resist in the city suddenly disappeared, and a large-scale rout began.
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In the early morning of the next day, Xu Shiji, who led the army to attack Xiaohe Road Pass, received the news that the food supply road supplied to the army by Fengyang City had been robbed.
Although Xu Shiji was unhappy about the robbery of the grain road, he had anticipated it in advance and was prepared with both hands, so he was not depressed.
But at noon, he received the news that the Far Eastern Army had arrived at Fengyang City. This made his face sink, because the Far Eastern Army's appearance in Fengyang City meant that Cheng Yaojin was completely defeated at Huangshizhai.
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Thinking that he had left thirty or forty thousand troops in Fengyang City and had all kinds of preparations, how could Fengyang City be able to defend it for a month?
As long as Fengyang City is there, it has at least achieved the task of attracting the main force of the Far Eastern Army. In this way, he can continue to attack Xiaohedao Pass according to the main line of the plan, cut off the Far Eastern Army's retreat, and wait for Li Mi to mobilize Wagang.
Hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded and killed King Junlin.
But then in the afternoon, Xu Shiji received news again that Fengyang City had been lost again.
Xu Shiji was shocked by this news and felt panicked for the first time.
The fall of Fengyang City was no longer a matter of him cutting off the Far Eastern Army's retreat, but a matter of the 50,000 men he led probably being cut off by the main force of the Storm Bear Battalion led by Wang Junlin.
Just when Xu Shiji was considering withdrawing his troops with an ugly face, he received an urgent message from Li Mi from Wagang Headquarters. He chose to suspend his retreat and prepared to continue the attack on Xiaohedao Pass.
After Li Mi and Xu Shiji made a huge battle plan, they have been paying attention to the battles in Fengyang City, Huangshi Village, and the entrance of the small river these days. The intelligence was sent to Li Mi as soon as possible by the spies led by Xie Yingdeng.
When Li Mi received the news that You Junda led 30,000 troops to a disastrous defeat, he found that the development of the war had seriously deviated from their previous battle plan. Coupled with his previous experience of fighting against Wang Junlin several times, his heart became more and more
Feeling uneasy, he decisively led the 150,000 people who had gathered to attack Fengyang City in advance.
Since Li Mi's army would soon besiege Fengyang City where more than 20,000 Far Eastern troops were stationed, Xu Shiji decided to continue to attack Xiaohedao Pass according to the established plan.
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Ignoring the dissuasion of the Wagang generals below, Fang Yanzao resolutely chose to lead more than 10,000 Wagang remnants to escape via a road to the west.
As a result, when passing through a valley with steep mountains on both sides, despite the objections of his generals, he was forced to rest in the valley on the grounds of shelter from the wind. Four thousand Far Eastern soldiers led by Li Shanfei, who had been ambushed in the valley on both sides, were attacked with rocks, rolling logs, bows and arrows.
Grenade kills nearly half.
The other half of the remnant soldiers fled to both ends of the valley in panic, and were completely wiped out by the charge of more than 3,000 remaining cavalrymen from Li Shanfei, who had been waiting there for a long time. Fang Yanzao knelt at Li Shanfei's feet and begged for his life, expressing his willingness to be loyal to King Qin An.