Chapter 255

At the same time that Qiu Xu withdrew his troops from Guangji Hekou, Tianxing Navy also went north from Hekou military port to Qiyan port, the last shore port of Tianxing that can accommodate naval warships.

For the departure of Qiu Xu and Tianxing Navy, Gu Qingcheng, who has been monitoring Qiu Xu's army, Gu Jieyun, who has led the main force of Fengxiang army to the north coast, or Yu Yuanpu, who has long wanted to fight with Tianxing Navy, has no intention of pursuing him. Now that the war has been fought, only Heyan city and Wangdu Zhongxing city are left in Tianxing City, which can block Fengxiang's army. Instead of fighting with Qiu Xu now, it's better to leave the war for the future.

Now the most important thing for Fengxiang army is to take Yancheng, the second largest city of Tianxing with 80000 troops, and pull out the last nail to the south of Tianxing capital.

After leaving the Hekou stronghold to the garrison of Jing Navy, Gu Jieyun and Su Leyi led the main force of 100000 Fengxiang troops and Gu Qingcheng's 10000 Fengxiang riders to Heyan County via Guangji River, while the white wolf king led the wolves to move from Pingqiu mountain road to Heyan city.

Ten days later, the Fengxiang army landed at Chai Yuanjian's water stronghold. After a little renovation, it went north to join Princess Tianxiang, who was stationed in the south of Heyan city. Fengxiang's army, after its division in Nanhai county a few months ago, once again gathered together and surrounded Heyan.

Gu Jieyun, the commander-in-chief of the 150000 Fengxiang army, gathered to raise his account. Looking at all the generals in the account, Gu Jieyun nodded with satisfaction and said, "since Nanhai county was divided, our Fengxiang army has captured nine counties, nearly half of Tianxing's territory. After this battle, my commander will detail your achievements and present them to your majesty and the pavilion, I'll give you a reward. "

"Thank you, Gu Shuai." All the people in the account were smiling when they heard the words, and they gave a military salute. Although the greatest contribution to this battle was made by Lu que, who was in charge of the whole situation by the imperial capital, it was a real contribution to the control of the seven counties in Henan and the two counties of Xihe and Hekou. Da Qian established his country with his army, and he was particularly generous in military merit awards. As long as the Tianxing war is over, many of the people in this account can be upgraded. If he is outstanding in the next war, it is not impossible to be a marquis depending on his military achievements.

Soldiers who don't want to be generals are not good soldiers, and generals who don't want to be commanders are also not good generals. Now the opportunity is in front of us. Except for Yu Tianxiang and Gu Qingcheng, the remaining generals are all rubbing their hands. Even the new generation of talents such as Nie Pingjing, ye Zhiqiu, Meng Cang and Li Chang are not immune from vulgarity.

"Now there are only two places to be guarded to the south of Tianxing King Ji, one is Pingshan pass to the north of Xihe County, and the other is Heyan city in front of us. In Pingshan pass, there are general Zhuge's troops stationed in the south of the pass and Zhai Ning's ten thousand light cavalry. We don't need to pay attention to them for the moment. Now the most important thing for us is to take the whole county of Heyan and get through the channels to attack the star cities. Do you have any strategies to defeat the enemy? " Gu Jieyun looked around his face in the account and said.

The generals all looked at each other. From the beginning of the battle of Tianxing, they were marching, besieging, forcing and persuading Lu que to surrender according to the previous strategy. Before the military discussion, Gu Jieyun and Su Leyi directly assigned tasks. It was the first time for them to consult the public like this. Therefore, before making clear Gu Jieyun's attitude, it was difficult for everyone to speak. For a moment, the military account fell into silence.

"Since there is no one to talk to, the military adviser will say something first." Su Leyi naturally understood why the generals hesitated. As a military adviser, she naturally could not let the atmosphere continue to be silent.

With a slight cough, Su Leyi said, "it's almost five months since the battle of Tianxing. In these five months, we have captured half of Tianxing's territory, but we haven't met a real hard battle. If I don't tell you the reason, I think you all know it. Now what I want to say is that the good days of relying on the general situation to crush people will come to an end from now on. In front of us is Yan Jiancheng. To the north is Tianxing Wangji, the most brilliant area of Tianxing. Tianxing people will fight for every inch of land. From now on, every battle we face will be extremely hard, And we don't know how to face it all by ourselves. "

"The military strategist is right." Gu Jieyun nodded and said, "there are 18 counties in Tianxing. The two counties in Jiangbei belong to Daqian last year, and the seven counties in Henan and the two counties in Hebei of Guangji also fall into our hands. Now Heyan county is bounded by Heyan City, the West and the South belong to us, and the Northeast belongs to Tianxing. That is to say, there are only six and a half counties left in Tianxing kingdom, The next war will be much more difficult than before. Now our 150000 troops are encircling Heyan. Wai Ge orders that we must take this city before December. That is to say, we only have 40 days at most. Do you have a good plan in mind to let our army conquer this city as soon as possible? "

"Forty days?" The generals frowned at the news. Now the whole army of 150000 Fengxiang troops is here. Even if Heyan city is a strong Star City, it's not impossible to defeat it. But it's not easy to win it in 40 days.

"Marshal Gu, the Soviet division, Xie Daoxian and Chai Yuanjian have been strengthening the city defense for a long time. Obviously, they intend to defend the city. If we want to attack the city within 40 days, we have to attack it by force. I have ordered craftsmen in the army to build a batch of Siege equipment. We can try to attack the city first, and then we can plan for the defense on the city." Yu Tianxiang said first.

"It's a way." Gu Jieyun smell speech noncommittal nodded.

Although what Yu Tianxiang said is feasible, even if we find out what the defense of Heyan city is like, we still have to attack the city by force. This is the last thing Gu Jieyun wants to do. Although there are 150000 Fengxiang troops, there are 50000 Fengxiang cavalry. That is to say, only 100000 soldiers can be used to attack the city. At this time, there are 100000 Tianxing defenders in Heyan city, They don't have enough advantages in military strength, and the other side has a wall to rely on. The geographical advantage is not on their own side. Even if they win in the end, they will win miserably.

"Those who want to fight tigers and leopards must first break their claws and teeth. I think they should first take the land of Heyan County, and then make plans." Gu Qingcheng thought about it and said. As Gu Qingcheng, who knows Lu Que's mind best, knows that Lu que absolutely doesn't want this Fengxiang army to lose too much, because this Fengxiang army is not only one of the twelve main armies, but also a reliance on which to balance the Korean situation in the future and Yu Tianxiang's assistant politics in the future. So it can't be said that a strong attack is not feasible now, but it's just a last resort.

"As for the others, you are all the middle and high-ranking generals of my team, but there are other ways." Gu Jieyun looks at his niece Gu Qingcheng and asks.

The general in the account either bowed his head and frowned, or looked up and looked around. The best way to take down such a strong city as Heyan city is to besiege the city and cut off the grain until it collapses. But this method is the most time-consuming. Forty days of grain storage in Heyan city is absolutely not enough. In addition, they had to attack the city by force, but looking at Gu Jieyun and Su Leyi, they obviously didn't want to waste their troops when the victory was all on the side of big Qian. In this way, it seems that both roads are blocked, and they can't think of a better way.

Gu Jieyun and Su Leyi saw this and looked at each other. Su Le Yi said, "in that case, let's go to the tent first. Princess Royal, deputy commander of the city, general Nie and ye Jun Shi."

All the generals bowed and left one after another.

"Your Highness, is there any news from the Xie family?" After waiting for the general to leave, Su Leyi looks at Yu Tianxiang and asks.

"Not yet." Yu Tianxiang shook his head and said, "Xie Daoqin, the eldest daughter of the Xie family, has come to Heyan City, but no news has come out so far. If there is no accident, the Xie family is still hesitant to surrender."

Xie Daoqin is the emissary of Dark Phoenix. It's no secret among several people. Some time ago, she heard that Yan Wensheng, the star king, and Qiu Qiao, the queen, had left the star city. Before she came to the south, they all thought that she was persuading her brother Xie Daoxian to surrender. However, Heyan city has not moved up to now, which means that either Xie Daoqin's failure rate or Tianxing's Xie family is still waiting, and the war situation at this time still doesn't make Xie family make up their mind.

"It's a bit of a problem." Su Leyi frowned and pondered for a while, and said, "your majesty and waige both hope that the battle of Tianxing will end before the new year's festival. Then we must conquer Heyan city before November, so that we can connect with the conquered nine counties. But if we attack by force, even with the fighting power of our Fengxiang soldiers, we will lose too much in the end, which will affect the subsequent star city battle. "

"Mr. strategist, I've always been puzzled that we have won the Tianxing war. As long as we fight steadily and step by step, we can destroy Tianxing. Why did waige suddenly speed up the war process and make us so short of time that we have to face heyanjiancheng?" Nie Pingjing asked suddenly.

Gu Jieyun, Su Leyi, Yu Tianxiang and Gu Qingcheng look at each other. Among the six people in the account, all four of them know the real reason behind this. Only Nie Pingjing and ye Zhiqiu don't know.

"Waige is worried that xiyuanze will break out a tide of beasts, so it is necessary to end the Tianxing war this year, so as to get our Fengxiang Legion and the two legions of Yulin and benlei on the North Bank of Huangyanjiang out of the quagmire of war. After the Tianxing war, we will take advantage of the terrain of Huangyanjiang to deploy our defense, while the two legions of Yulin and benlei will return to defend zhennanguan." Su Leyi sighed and said.

"Animal tide?" Nie Pingjing can't help but cry out when he hears the words. It's the first time he's heard of such a thing. Thinking of the records of animal tides in historical records, he had a cold war.

Now he finally understood why waige suddenly accelerated the war process since September, and why half of the thunder troops were suddenly transferred back to zhennanguan in the confrontation of Huangyanjiang River, which clearly had absolute superiority. Although it is not sure whether the tide will really happen, nor the specific time of the tide, compared with the disaster after the outbreak of the tide, Nie Pingjing thinks it is not too much to withdraw from Tianxing and Nanli now.

"We don't have to worry about the animal tide for the time being. The king of Zhongyang on the North Bank of Ning'an River and the Duke of Dingguo on the North Bank of Huangyan river will pay close attention to xiyuanze. What we have to consider now is how to win Heyan city as soon as possible, and we can't lose too much troops." Su Leyi said that she took a look at Ye Zhiqiu and asked, "Mr. Ye, you belong to the Changqing army. According to the Daqian military system and waige military order, the two battalions under your command are not dispatched by our Fengxiang army. But since Lu que sent you to the south, he naturally valued your talent. I don't know what you can do."

Although Ye Zhiqiu is young and looks a little immature, Su Leyi can't underestimate Lu que, the current chief of Qingquan Academy. After all, two years ago, ye Zhiqiu was the top one in the Chongyang exam.

Ye Zhiqiu took a look at all the people in the account and thought for a while before he said, "since the siege of Heyan, brother Nie and I have come up with a lot of strategies to get Xie Daoxian and Chai Yuanjian to send troops out of the city, but both of them are unmoved. Obviously, they are determined to defend themselves. In this way, we can't use any tricks, if we don't want to attack the city by force, Maybe we have to use our power. "

"Use power?" Nie Pingjing shook his head and asked with some doubts, "the garrison in the city is not instigated at all, and the grain in the city is above us. Xie Daoxian and Chai Yuanjian are determined to live and die together with Heyan city. How to use the power in such a situation?"

Ye Zhiqiu said with a cool smile, "brother Nie, in the art of War written by the Duke of Wei, Shi is divided into many kinds. Since Xie and Chai are not affected by our national and military situation, and the grain situation and terrain are above us, there are only two kinds of Shi: water and fire, either flooding or burning the city."

"Flooded? Burning the city? You mean throwing fire oil, or digging a river? "

Ye Zhiqiu nodded and said, "it is true that last year, even later than now, Lu Shuai and vice Shuai Gu dug up the Huangyan River, cut off Qiu lie's road to return home, and destroyed the mad lion army in xiaoqingshan. Five months ago, the two armies of gale and Huxiao used thousands of barrels of fire oil to force the army to surrender. This is the magic effect of water and fire. I think we can follow suit. "

"You can have a try." Gu Jieyun thought for a while and said, "but the water potential is not feasible. Heyan city originally means Haiqing, Heyan and Chengping. Heyan county is also named because of this. The terrain of this city is like turtle's back. When it was built, flood drainage was considered. Only by lowering the water level after autumn, Guangji River can't flood Heyan city."

"As for the fire ~" Gu Jieyun said, there was a slight pause and continued to say, "it's OK to use fire. Tianxing dwellings are mostly built by plants and trees. They can burn when they touch the fire. Even if they can't burn the city, they can also hurt the morale of the city and force Xie Daoxian to surrender. It's just that we didn't carry too much kerosene. As for the black oil fire, it's just a little bit of the thing that ignites the fire in the military stove. Now that you have put forward this strategy, you must have a case in mind. Let's talk about it. "

"Yes." Ye Zhiqiu hugged his fist and said, "there are not many ordinary fire oil and fierce fire black oil in our army, but Fengxiang army doesn't have them. It doesn't mean Jing Navy doesn't have them. It's only six or seven days' waterway from the river mouth, so it's completely in time.

"The king of Heyang?" Gu Jieyun's eyes brightened when he heard that the Fengxiang army landed in Nanhai County by sea. Except for food and grass, there were not many other things that were not conducive to action, and there were not any large siege equipment. But they didn't have them, which doesn't mean that yuyuanpu, the king of Heyang, didn't have them. The fire oil, especially the black oil of the fierce fire, is not heavy when it meets with water and is difficult to put out. It is the supreme weapon of Naval War and water war. It is also an essential material for the Jing Navy. As long as you send a letter to the king of Heyang and ask him to bring some black oil of the fierce fire, ye Zhiqiu's plan is completely possible.

"That's a good idea." Yu Tianxiang said with a smile, "Uncle Wang, I'll write to him. I'll borrow the fire oil from Uncle Wang."

"That's fine." Gu Jieyun and Su Leyi looked at each other and nodded.

All the armies of Da qian do not belong to each other. After all, Nanmeng huoyou belongs to the Jing Navy. Without the imperial edict of your majesty, the writing of waige, or the consent of the two military ministers in Nanjiang, they will have a lot of trouble after borrowing it. It is almost inevitable that they will be included in the imperial censor's book, but if Princess Tianxiang comes out, there will be no such problem, Niece Guan and uncle borrow some things, who can say what. Moreover, this is the internal affairs of the Yu royal family. Even if it is not proper, it is not something that ordinary officials can say.

Seeing that the fire attack plan had been decided, Gu Qingcheng suddenly thought of something. Looking at Yu Tianxiang, he asked, "by the way, Tianxiang, before I went to Hekou, didn't you always try to persuade Qiu Wenhui and Chen Guangliang to surrender? What's the result now? The Qiu family is one of the three families of assistant government, and the Chen family is only second to the three families of Shiqing. If these two people join Daqian, maybe we'll get something unexpected. "

"At first, they had some ideas, but later they didn't know what happened. They would rather die than surrender. I had no choice but to lock them in the camp and send heavy soldiers to guard them." Yu Tianxiang sighed and said helplessly.

"Maybe they are also waiting for the outcome of the battle of Heyan." Gu Qingcheng thought and said.

"I don't think so. Chen Guangliang is hard to say, but Qiu Wenhui should not surrender. Through this period of contact, I feel that this man is rare in Tianxing. He has courage and character. Maybe the day when Heyan city broke was the day when he killed himself. The reason why he is alive now is that he hopes Heyan city can block Fengxiang's army and give Tianxing a chance to breathe. " Nie Ping Jing shook to have to sigh tone to say.

"Your Highness Tianxiang, bring these two people. I want to meet them." Su Le Yi smelt speech to ponder for a while, opening mouth to say.