Chapter 1688 Nie Xiaoyu has been in retreat for half a year
The next step is to select the available generals who will be demoted and given important responsibilities, screen out all the die-hard loyalists to the Liang Kingdom and kill them all, then disrupt the organization, select the backbones from the three legions of the Da'an Empire, and reorganize the demoted troops.
This lasted for three days, and a full hundred thousand surrender troops were taken by Qin Qiong to continue marching to the next county in the Liang Kingdom.
The 100,000 surrendered troops were personally commanded by Qin Qiong, and coupled with the skilled rectification methods of the Da'an Empire, as long as the Da'an Empire did not suffer a major defeat, there would be no backlash.
After all, all the people or factors that might backfire have been killed.
Of course, it is impossible for these people to have a sense of belonging to the Da'an Empire in such a short period of time, let alone to have any loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor of Da'an, Wang Junlin.
On February 27, Qin Qiong commanded all the troops of the Violent Bear Army and the Huaibei Army, as well as part of the Steel Sword Army, a total of 120,000 people, plus the 100,000 surrendered troops, a total of 220,000 people, and rushed to Jiujiang, Liang State.
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Some members of the Steel Sword Legion will stay behind to cooperate with the civil service system that will arrive in Da'an later, and begin to consolidate the occupied Xin'an County.
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Nanhai County easily fell into the hands of Tiger Legion Yuchi Jingde. Yuchi Jingde left 5,000 troops to cooperate with the officials who arrived later to consolidate Nanhai County. He led the main force of the Tiger Legion and a thousand special force masters, plus simple rectification
More than 10,000 Liang troops who had just surrendered in Hainan County continued to rush north without stopping, directly taking Liang Guo's Xiong Ping County.
Yuchi Jingde knew that once he captured Xiongping County again, he could march straight in and rush directly to Baling City, the capital of the Liang Kingdom.
However, Xiongping County was no more defenseless than Nanhai County. Xiongping County had gathered nearly 100,000 troops from the Liang Kingdom. In addition, Xiongping County was mostly mountainous and had deep gorges. They had to pass a pass called Xiongping Pass on their way forward.
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Liang Jun gathered 30,000 troops at Xiongping Pass. Not only did the pass have a dangerous terrain, it was easy to defend but difficult to attack. Although Yuchi Jingde had made a lot of preparations in advance, it was not easy to win.
In fact, before taking the sea route to attack Nanhai County, Yuchi Jingde had already collected a lot of information about Xiongping Pass, including the detailed terrain of Xiongping Pass, the deployment of troops in the pass, how many means of defending the city, etc.
It is clear. However, there were only 5,000 defenders in the pass at that time, but now there are 30,000 defenders.
But it was precisely because of the existence of Xiong Pingguan that in Wang Junlin's overall plan, a thousand special forces masters were strengthened to Yuchi Jingde.
It was difficult to attack Xiong Ping Pass, mainly because in addition to the high-altitude main pass city wall, many military villages and military forts were built on both sides, as well as two protruding ridges on both sides.
Anyone with a little experience in siege can see that the key to defeating the city lies on these two protruding mountain ridges. The guard of Xiong Pingguan obviously also realized this. There were three troops stationed on each of these two mountain ridges.
Thousands of elite soldiers.
In order not to affect the attack on the main pass, Yuchi Jingde first concentrated his forces to capture the five military villages and two military forts on both sides. At this time, the power of the Daan Empire's siege equipment was revealed, such as giant trebuchets, gunpowder charges,
Grenades, giant nest vehicles, giant crossbows and guns, engineers demolishing walls, etc., all kinds of means were used one by one. Within five days, all the military forts and military strongholds on both sides fell into the hands of the Tiger Legion.
On the sixth day, the Tiger Legion began to concentrate its forces to attack the main pass, but at the same time, a thousand soldiers from the special brigade, led by Zhang Tiangang, crossed the mountains and circled behind Xiongping Pass.
On the first day, the Tiger Legion suffered 500 casualties and failed to climb the Xiongpingguan city wall.
On the second day, the Tiger Legion used gunpowder to blow up half of the city wall. However, due to the special terrain here, it still did not collapse. Unless all the explosive quota brought by the Tiger Legion this time was concentrated, it would be possible to blow up the wall in one fell swoop. But what happened later?
There are still many cities to attack. How could Yuchi Jingde be willing to use all the gunpowder here?
On the third day, late at night, a thousand soldiers from the Special Forces Brigade climbed up the mountain ridges on both sides from behind. Suddenly, the sound of killing on the mountain ridges was loud.
Regarding the three thousand men and horses on the two mountain ridges, General Xiong Pingguan was relatively confident, because these three thousand men were the real elites under his command, and they were in a familiar environment and occupied a favorable location.
In short, although Da'an's army is powerful, General Xiong Ping does not believe that the opponent can successfully attack.
However, these three thousand people faced a thousand special force masters who could defeat ten or even dozens, so the result was bound to be beyond his expectation. In just half an hour, two crucial
The mountain ridge fell into the hands of the Da'an Empire. In this battle, the soldiers of the special brigade lost 112 people.
Once the two mountain ridges were lost, it would mean that Xiong Pingguan's advantage would be greatly reduced, and it would also be a fatal blow to the morale of the defenders.
On the fourth day, the Tiger Army launched a massive attack on the city. On the two ridges on both sides, Yuchi Jingde deployed 5,000 men on each side. He fired continuously with steel string bows in his hands. The overwhelming rain of arrows suppressed the defenders on the top of the main gate.
There was no way to defend the city, and they chose to bombard it with heavy throwing of hand grenades.
In this way, Liang Jun defended for most of the day, and more than two-thirds of them died in the battle. The defense line of Liang Jun's soldiers, who could only be beaten and waited to death, finally collapsed. Even though General Xiong Ping personally led his own soldiers to kill several people to supervise the battle,
But it couldn't stop the soldiers from escaping from the city wall. Even the defender's own soldiers were killed by the retreating soldiers. If it weren't for the defender's prestige and personal martial arts skills, the retreating soldiers would have killed him as well.
In the end, after suffering more than a thousand casualties, the Tiger Legion spent most of the day climbing to the top of Xiongpingguan City via a ladder.
At this point, Xiong Pingguan, the choke point that blocked Da'an State's South Road army from entering the hinterland of Liang State, was obtained.
There are dead bodies everywhere on and below the city. On the troop transport road at the head of the city, the fallen corpses are all stabbed with dense arrows, as if they were stabbed one by one. And below the gate, the death conditions of the Tiger Legion soldiers who died in battle are also horrific.
, some were smashed by rolling logs and stones, and some were burnt black by fire oil, and the one whose body and head were missing, and whose eyes were as angry as life, were shocking.
The disheveled guard of Xiong Ping Pass was surrounded by a group of soldiers from the Tiger Legion. This guard who was loyal to the Emperor of Liang, Xiao Zhuang, refused to surrender until his death.
Yuchi Jingde admired this man very much, and since he had not made a move for a long time, he ignored the strong dissuasion of the deployment and fought alone with the guard. The two fought for a hundred rounds, and the guard was stabbed by Yuchi Jingde.
Cut off the head.
When Xiongping Pass fell, Yuchi Jingde led the Tiger Legion and 20,000 surrender troops to march straight in and invade the hinterland of Xiongping County with overwhelming force.
At the same time, North Route Army Xu Shiji led the Wagang Camp to capture the entire territory of Bajun.
The news of the annihilation of the 200,000 troops on the east road reached Mingyue Mansion. The morale of the 40,000 defenders in Mingyue City was immediately shaken. With the joint efforts of the National Security Bureau and the Military Intelligence Bureau, a mutiny broke out in Mingyue City. The general and his soldiers
The confidants were jointly killed by several subordinates, and the city gate was opened from the inside. With the help of internal and external cooperation, Mingyue Mansion was also captured by the seal battalion led by Huang Shaoqiu, and a large amount of food and grass and 30,000 surrendered troops were harvested.
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With secret help from the Ministry of National Security and the Military Intelligence Office, on the fourth day of March, Qin Qiong led the main force of the Violent Bear Army, the Steel Knife Army, and the Huaibei Army's East Route Army. After more than half a month, he easily captured most of Jiujiang County and nearly half of the county along the way.
Just open the door and surrender.
On March 10, Xu Shiji of the North Route Army led the Wagang Army and the SEAL Army led by Huang Shaoqiu successfully met in Wu'an County. They joined forces and launched an attack on Wu'an County. It took more than 20 days to capture the entire Wu'an County.
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So far, out of the thirty-four counties and one hundred and forty-seven counties of the Liang Kingdom, eight counties and forty-seven counties have been captured by the Da'an Empire. Nearly a quarter of the territory has been lost. And when troops were sent from the Da'an Empire,
Less than two months have passed.
The speed of Da'an's army and the continuous defeat of his own army really frightened Xiao Qiang and Liang Guo's civil and military officials at all levels.
I thought that their territory was not much smaller than that of Da'an, and they even had more troops than Da'an. They would be able to block the offensive no matter what!
People are always used to overestimating themselves. Xiao Zhang always believed that he had conquered a huge territory early, had the blood of the previous Nanliang royal family, and was the chosen one. He even looked down on poisonous generals like Wang Junlin who were born in wild ways, and in his
In his plan, even if Wang Junlin does not come to attack him this year, he will send troops to the north after destroying Shen Faxing in Hangzhou and Lin Shihong in Yuzhang, destroying Wang Junlin and Li Shimin, and then unify the world.
As a result, more than a month ago, we had a dream of unifying the world, but now we are about to destroy the country.
You really don’t know if you don’t fight, and you’ll be shocked if you fight.
In fact, it does not mean that Xiao Zhang's army is weak in combat effectiveness. After all, he proclaimed himself emperor in the troubled times of China. His generals and soldiers have all fought in Jiangnan for many years. At least they will not be worse than the original army in the heyday of the Sui Dynasty.
However, Da'an's army is too strong, and Da'an's empire is too strong. This kind of strength is no longer the strength of a single soldier, or even the strength of a simple army.
This is the crushing of advanced political systems, professional armies, and powerful military technology over backward systems, military models, and traditional weapons and equipment.
In addition, Wang Junlin took advantage of cheating and recruited so many strong men over the years that he almost got most of the powerful people in the Sui and Tang Dynasties into his bowl.
Under this situation, Liang Guo lost a quarter of its territory in more than a month, and the army lost nearly half of their total strength, more than 300,000. If you calculate it carefully, there are actually inevitable factors in it.
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In other words, it would be strange if Da'an's army lost to Liang's troops.
In fact, Wang Junlin never worried that he would not be able to destroy the Liang Kingdom from the very beginning, and Xiao Zhan's importance in Wang Junlin's heart was far beyond that of Li Yuan and Li Shimin.
This can be seen from the fact that Wang Junlin personally led a group of troops to attack Hedong when Li Yuan, Li Shimin and his son were attacked the year before last.
Therefore, Wang Junlin's recent focus is not actually on how to conquer the Liang Kingdom. He has also left these matters to generals such as Qin Qiong, Xu Shiji and Yuchi Jingde. What he has spent the most time and energy on lately is mainly to conquer so many territories.
Especially since the army captured counties so quickly, how to bring these places under normal governance as soon as possible.
Although Fanyang College had been operating at full capacity before, enrolling a large number of students, canceling winter and summer vacations, and stepping up time for training, thus preparing a large number of backup officials, it still felt that it was not enough.
This requires the use of some surrendered Liang Guo officials, but these people cannot be abused and must be carefully selected and screened. This kind of thing is not easy to do.
After enough people are allocated, the governance model of Liang State will be completely transformed into the model of Da'an State. This process is actually quite complicated and requires many people to do a lot of work. This will definitely involve the vital interests of different groups. Akari
You will encounter a lot of resistance secretly.
Fortunately, Wang Junlin has capable ministers such as Du Ruhui, Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng, Pei Shiju and Yu Shiji. He has also trained a large number of capable officials over the years. Although the process will definitely not be so smooth, it will definitely not be possible if he continues to push forward.
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In addition, what Wang Junlin is paying attention to recently is that Nie Xiaoyu has been in seclusion on Snake Island for almost half a year. He doesn't know what he has created with the body of the No. 1 Killer King.
Finally, on the first day of March, Wang Junlin took a boat out to sea and arrived at Snake Island.