Realm of Power

Entering Yanzhou, the place of the Fourth War, I thought it would be a solid strategic center. Who knew that all I saw was ruins? Fatty was disappointed and handed over all affairs in Yanzhou to Yue Shan, who was born in the Yanzhou Army. , after all, they are familiar with Yanzhou, and no one in the entire empire can cross Yueshan, who is the upper echelon of the Yanzhou army.

"Sir, your Majesty's army is staying in Yanzhou. Are you also planning to take advantage of the fighting on the front line in Daizhou to suddenly go south?" In the northern wilderness, during the battle to persuade Yue Valley to surrender, the up-and-coming adjutant Fei Tang's eyes flashed on his face and he asked curiously road

"I don't know. I just think that if your Majesty really wants to participate in the war in Daizhou, there is no need to enter Yanzhou. Wouldn't it be better to attack Daizhou directly?" Yue Shan shook his head and said with a wry smile. "No matter how desolate Yanzhou is, it will eventually be It is the center of the barrier between the north and the south. The empire cannot give up easily, and controlling Yanzhou is tantamount to Mastering the gates to the north and south of Central and South Asia is of extraordinary significance to the empire in terms of military strategy and commercial channels. The most important thing is that His Majesty’s move is obviously to fully control Yanzhou. This is Yanzhou, known as the sky in Zhongbia, you are also from Zhongbia, how could you not know the meaning of Yanzhou?

"It's just because I know that I can't understand."

Fei Tang licked his lips that were dried by the cold wind and said, "The Long family has three hundred thousand to go south to Daizhou. At least in a short period of time, the Yelu family will not have time to take care of the north. Although Yanzhou is still in ruins, Most of what collapsed was wall rocks. The general outline of the defense line was not damaged. It only needs to be repaired and it can still be used. I believe that Your Majesty also saw this and asked Your Excellency to do this. The reason is that your Excellency is from the Yanzhou Army. Logically speaking, since the northwest and Yanzhou have been captured, the empire's 100,000-strong army should choose to station or retreat. However, the armies did not receive orders to station. On the contrary, since entering Yanzhou, the order to prepare for war has been issued, so I have no idea what your Majesty is going to do! Since there is no target to attack, what is the purpose of this war preparation? "

"We don't need to consider this matter. I believe that His Majesty has already been planning the next step since he entered the northwest and conquered Yanzhou. Otherwise, just to shock the Yelu family or the Long family, there is no need to personally lead the ten The "Yueshan" of the armies of thousands of empires stared at the undulations in front of me like a giant dragon. The general land of Yanzhou has a complicated look in its eyes. "Although I don't know how to put it, it seems so. If you master the Yanzhou barrier, you can go south or north. But at present, the people involved in the Long family and Yelu The fight over the family is obviously not worth it, since it’s either going south or going north!”

"Going north?" Adjutant Fei Tang's face was stunned. The north of Yanzhou is. ??...Wang Ting!

Feitang suddenly took a breath of air, His Majesty’s target is the Royal Court! Yes, why didn’t I expect that compared to the Long family with three hundred thousand in hand, and the Yelu family sitting in the imperial capital, they just got out of the car miserably in Yanzhou. Although the Long family used the Long family to kill Yelu Guda, but they themselves Wang Ting, who was also seriously injured, was undoubtedly a shaky goshawk with almost all its fur.

"I am a Yanzhou soldier who was born and raised in Yanzhou. I still know a lot about the Northern Royal Court." Yue Shan sighed and smiled at the corner of his mouth. "When the empire crossed thousands of miles of wilderness, its purpose was not the northern grassland, Your Majesty. The coveting of grassland does not last for a day or two. In the northern wilderness, we had a fierce collision with two of the Royal Court's eight armies. Originally, we all thought that Your Majesty would take advantage of the victory to launch a decisive battle with the Northern Royal Court. Although we knew that Your Majesty would still send Yelu The family drove south from Ongnatso and reached a tacit truce with the royal court."

Yue Shan took a deep breath and chuckled, "Facts have proved that His Majesty's eyes are so vicious. Letting the Yelu family go south in Onnatso was like opening the prelude to the weakening of the royal court. As expected, the subsequent situation was exactly as His Majesty expected. Like that, with the rise of the Yelu family, The power that originally belonged to Wang Ting began to shrink significantly. After Wang Ting finally occupied Yanzhou, it was reduced to fighting against a part of the Yelu family's border troops. This time, it almost lost all its capital. With such a great opportunity in front of you, how could your Majesty let it go? "

"Forget it, in fact, His Majesty wants to destroy the Royal Court. Isn't it my Yueshan's lifelong wish?"

Yue Shan paused, looking at his devastated hometown, and thinking of the enslaved family members of the Yanzhou Army, his eyes became more and more bloodshot. He had already sent people to look for him, and he believed there would be results soon. Just thinking about the past two years, The sufferings these Yanzhou military families suffered at the grassland people made them look hurt.

The Yelu family went south until the massacre in Linhang. More than three to four million Central Bians died in this series of wars, and more than ten million Central Bians were displaced as a result. The once prosperous land of Zhongbia, It completely turned into a bloody battlefield filled with war. The horseshoes of the grassland people repeatedly broke the pride of the Central Asians and destroyed the most brilliant light of civilization in the Eastern Continent.

The situation in Zhongbia has undergone earth-shaking changes in just two months. In the south, the Yelu family's horseshoes shattered the revival of the Zhongbia Empire in the south. In the northwest, the empire effortlessly Having obtained the northwest, now we have easily entered Yanzhou. These two areas have been the focus of China's defense from west to east for thousands of years. Together with the north-south barrier corridors, now All have fallen into the hands of the empire, and in Daizhou, the 300,000 Long family troops going south are fighting to the death with the grassland army on the Daizhou front line. In the Imperial Plains, the Yelu family, which has withdrawn from the Daizhou front line, has secretly sent envoys. Negotiated an armistice with Zhongbia, and made it clear that the Yelu family would stop attacking the Zhongbia region. In the south, the Song people vaguely assumed power and led the south to fight against the Yelu family.

In the face of these turbulent trendsetters, who can still remember what a glorious name Yanzhou Army once was?

For decades, this war army, composed mainly of Yanzhou people, fought against the grassland army one after another. More than a million people died in the battle, so that the population of Yanzhou was only about one million at its maximum, and among them Only one out of ten men can live to be fifty years old. Even the women and children of Yanzhou have learned to pick up simple weapons since childhood and have become a common practice of fighting fiercely. It is these Yanzhou people who use their flesh and blood to fight. It has supported the prosperity of China for more than a hundred years,

However, Zhongbia has a completely different attitude towards Yanzhou. An army and one ethnic group protect Zhongbia and fight bloody battles. They could have received enough respect and gratitude, but in Zhongbia they did not Not so. In more than a hundred years, the original Yanzhou Army might have made all the Central Asians People feel moved and feel like a protective being, but in the span of more than a hundred years, even if there is any gratitude, it has long been worn away by the impatient levy and taxation, not to mention the principle of governing military affairs. In the first battle against the north, the court always used civilian officials as commanders and military attachés as assistants.

These civil servants, who are always accustomed to pointing at maps and scolding Fang Qiu, often don't know much about war, let alone being in the battle formation in person. The most recent one was thirty miles behind the front, and they were already considered brave and well-prepared. Many times, the so-called commander's tent where civil servants are stationed, It's not far from the battle formation, even fifty or sixty miles away. The so-called strategizing and winning a victory thousands of miles away is what civil servants are most proud of. If the general's tent is not set up a hundred miles away, it will be considered very good, and the battle is won. It was the command and dispatch of the civilian officials that won the battle, and the defeat was due to the incompetence of the soldiers at the front.

It was because of this that the Yanzhou Army was destroyed.

At that time, the old Khan Wang Ting suddenly died of illness. The Central and African sides believed that they could take advantage of the opportunity and immediately mobilized 300,000 troops to march into the northern grasslands, hoping to take back the Hexi Valley that had been lost ten years ago from Dong Ting. It is a narrow strip of land located on the northern edge of Yanzhou. It is famous for its low-lying terrain and abundant water. It is also one of the few grasslands in southern China that can raise fine war horses.

Ten years ago, it was occupied by the Dongting Army.

In the past ten years, the quality of China's war horses has weakened rapidly. Due to the lack of war horses, some of the troops that originally needed war horses have been replaced by collected pack horses. The combat effectiveness of these cavalry equipped with pack horses is extremely poor, and they are simply useless. It cannot become a first-line cavalry and can only be used as a second or even third-line reserve cavalry.

"As long as we take back the Hexi Valley, within ten years, our army will be able to form a cavalry group to counterattack the north. Even if we face the Royal Court cavalry, we can still fight with them."

The Zhang family, who was responsible for commanding the overall situation, ordered the Yanzhou Army to take the initiative to attack the Hexi Valley in the hinterland of the grassland. Although they knew that the Yanzhou Army had just occupied the Hexi Valley, it resulted in a three-pronged counterattack by hundreds of thousands of grassland people. The Zhang family of the army It was also bad, and the Yanzhou Army was urgently ordered to return, but the Yanzhou Army had been cut off by the Prairie Army and could not evacuate quickly. In the end, it was too late to dispatch, and the Prairie Army bypassed Yanzhou and directly entered the Imperial Capital Plain, triggering the first attack. The failure of the Baili Changting Battle,

More than 100,000 imperial guards were killed, and more than 200,000 civilians were robbed and carried away.

The Zhang family put the responsibility for this on the commander-in-chief of the Yanzhou Army, Goldman Sachs. They said that Goldman had colluded with the grassland people. The entire Yanzhou Army had ulterior motives and watched the imperial capital being attacked without any rescue. The rebellion was so obvious that it led to the grassland army. The mighty march southward without any resistance shook the capital and shaken the foundation of the country.

The Zhang family is an official. They have controlled the military armament of the entire Central and South Asian dynasties. They are also the emperor's in-laws. Miss Zhang family has just been named a noble concubine by the emperor. With the Zhang family coming forward, no one dares to speak out. Only Prime Minister Li Tai said something fair. However, the Zhongbia Emperor, who was eager to shirk responsibility, could not listen. Ordering the Yanzhou Army to take the initiative to attack the hinterland of the grassland people was the emperor's secret order. Otherwise, the Zhang family would not have such huge power. But for this kind of thing, How can you say,

He ordered the execution of all the young and old of Gao Sach's army and declared the entire Yanzhou army to be rebels in Central Asia. The emperor originally thought that Gao Sach would only commit suicide in shame and apologize, so he withdrew the order just like this. After all, the people of Yanzhou also acted for Zhongbia has been sheltering from the wind and rain for so many years. To say that all Yanzhou people are traitors is still a bit too much. Under the pressure of Prime Minister Li Tai, this old prime minister who had experienced three generations of emperors, when he heard the emperor's order to kill the entire Goldman family, Cheng Cheng almost pointed at the Zhang family and scolded him, thinking that Li Tai's daughter had just been killed because of the Zhang family's plot. He died at the hands of the Zhang family at one point, and the emperor felt a little sorry in his heart, so he even wrote down the will to withdraw the order.

As long as Goldman Sachs is dead, everything will be fine. I still accept the Yanzhou Army. That’s what the emperor thought anyway. From his birth to the present, the Yanzhou Army has died and suffered countless casualties in the war for China and Bia. It seems that it is deserved. , Yanzhou is a poor place, with so many mountains, people cannot feed themselves, if not If they went to serve as soldiers and fight, the people of Yanzhou would probably have starved to death long ago. It was not that Yanzhou made sacrifices for Zhongbia, but that Zhongbia spent a lot of effort and money to raise a dog named Yanzhou Jun. , as a dog, you must have the awareness of being a dog. When your master wants you to die, you should die happily.

It is not uncommon in the history of the Yanzhou Army to directly execute the commander-in-chief of the Yanzhou Army due to defeat in the war.

A arrogant and fierce general must use heavy methods if he wants to rule, not to mention a ferocious guard dog. How can he be obedient without a few sticks? Every time he fights against the north, he is appointed from the court. The first thing the civilian commander did when he arrived at the Yanzhou Army was not to arrange military affairs, but to pick out a few people he didn't like and kill them on the spot.

Establishing authority has become a tradition for civil servants to regard themselves as commanding the evil dog of the Yanzhou Army. How many strong generals in the Yanzhou Army did not impose all kinds of unknown so-called officials on the prairie people who deeply hated them. Executed on the spot

I thought that it would be the same this time, but no one expected that the Yanzhou Army Commander-in-Chief Gao Sheng rebelled. However, more than 100,000 Yanzhou Army troops betrayed Zhongbia along with Gao Sachs. Even after being betrayed by the former commander-in-chief, they still fought to the death. Fighting to the last man, more than 150,000 people were killed by the prairie army. The final breakthrough was only about one tenth, and no one surrendered.

If this kind of thing were placed in the Oubaluo area, it would be the tragedy of a hero, but this is Zhongbia, and the people of Zhongbia have completely different feelings towards the Yanzhou Army.

How could the grassland people come here if they are not those Yanzhou people who are greedy for life and afraid of death?"

"So many people died, all caused by Yanzhou people!"

"Forgive those lowly Yanzhou people? Are you kidding me? Will the millions of innocent souls in the imperial capital agree? Will the tens of millions of Central and African people fleeing south for their lives agree?"

All kinds of angry words just show the position of Yanzhou in the hearts of most Central Asians.

It was the betrayal of the Yanzhou army that led to the catastrophe of the imperial capital. Over the past hundred years, in order to support these Yanzhou people who were not engaged in production, the court only increased tax collection items, which accounted for all tax items. One-third of the total, I don’t know how much money is spent every year to support this mountain barbarian in the north who swallows gold and silver blood. Yanzhou people fight for China and Bia. Bloodshed and sacrifice for China and Bia is what the people of Yanzhou should do. Otherwise, in a mountainous area like Yanzhou, what qualifications do the people of Yanzhou have to receive a large amount of material supplies and a large amount of gold and silver rewards every year? In my opinion, the First Army of China and Belgium is just a blood-sucking parasite lying on all the people of China and Belgium. Do we still need to be grateful to the parasites?

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