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Volume 1: Saving the Three Thousand Beauties in the Harem Chapter 431: The Final Battle

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    (Dameng and Shishiro also showed up on time, and received a big red envelope. Thank you so much! Also, thank you to "Little Pig Running Wild" for the little red envelope.)

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    The Kingdom of Jin did not reply immediately, claiming that the cause of trouble was serious and needed serious consideration, and asked King Hua to extend his grace.

    It is related to the fate of the country and personal honor and disgrace. This request is indeed not excessive, but the Northern Expedition Army Headquarters responded categorically that only half a month is allowed.

    Anyone with eyes can see that this is a tactic of the Jin people to delay the attack. Why did the Tianzhu army wait for half a month?  The reason is simple. The Tianzhu Army also needs half a month to prepare.

    The 80,000-strong Heavenly Execution Army invaded with force, marched across thousands of miles, swept dozens of states, and had the potential to destroy the country in one battle.  Everything went well in the early days of the war, but as the army continued to penetrate deeper and the front continued to lengthen, the pressure on logistics became increasingly prominent.  Although nearly 30,000 laborers had been mobilized before, and many states and counties had surrendered without a fight, so food, materials and labor could be mobilized on the spot. However, as the Northern Expeditionary Army penetrated deeper and deeper into the hinterland of Liaodong, logistics and  The pressure on public security is also increasing.

    The strategy of the Tianshu forces against Jin is to encroach and occupy it, rather than to grab a handful and leave like the Jin Kingdom's southern invasion.  Since ancient times, the most troublesome thing for occupying forces is that it is easy to occupy but difficult to consolidate.  To consolidate the occupied areas, the two most basic things are to focus on both the military and people's livelihood, and both hands must be strong.

    ??Military, maintain law and order, suppress resistance, ensure there are no backyard fires; people's livelihood, restore normal production order.  Commercial circulation, and most importantly, food!  When there is food, the people will feel at ease.  Without food, the people will be in chaos.

    The rear needs troops to maintain law and order, ensure the safety of food routes, and need enough food to stabilize people's hearts; similarly, the front line needs as many troops as possible to complete the siege of Shangjing; more food and military supplies are needed to support this last and most important task.  A crucial battle.

    This is a contradiction, how to balance it while ensuring the stability of the rear.  It will not affect the frontline war.  The most important consideration is the commanding ability.

    When Di Lie led tens of thousands of troops on the eastern front.  After setting foot in the birthplace of the Jurchens and pressing out of Hushui, I saw the faint linear city walls of Shangjing, but I was not in a hurry to attack.  Instead, they stationed troops under the city and ordered the entire army to slow down the pace of the attack.  At the same time, logistics and transportation were strengthened. On the one hand, all casualties were transported back to the temporary field hospital set up in Zhendingfu, and on the other hand, food, weapons and winter supplies were urgently transported to the front line as soon as possible.

    It was already early October, and the weather was getting colder and colder day by day. However, most of the soldiers of the Tenchu ??Army were still wearing summer clothes and single clothes. When camping, they only had a thin blanket or fur.  Now it can barely withstand it, according to locals.  In previous years, the weather would inevitably turn colder in mid-October or at the end of October, and it would not be surprising if it even snowed.  If half a month passes and the winter clothes haven't arrived yet, it will probably be a big problem.

    ?You must first protect yourself in order to better attack the enemy.  Therefore, the top priority is not to rush to attack the city, but to make all preparations for the next siege and general attack.

    At this time, there were only two remaining parts of the Jin army: Shangjing (today's Acheng, Heilongjiang) and Zhaozhou (today's Daqing).

    "Only 30,000 troops were able to survive in the capital, half of them were newly recruited soldiers. It is estimated that they are not even able to defend the city, but there are still more than 10,000 elites, so they should not be underestimated.  The Zhaozhou defender is Arubu, the eighth son of Aguda, and he is also a strong general. He has participated in the southern invasion many times, the most recent one being the pursuit of Zhaogou in the third year of Jianyan.  However, before the war was over, he was recalled to Beijing, so he missed the opportunity to fight against the Tenchu ??Army, and thus escaped.

    Arubu is the same general who led troops to support key state capitals like Pucha Shijianu, Hu Shihai, and Wanyanang. So far, the other three generals have either been defeated or dead, and only Arubu is still in Zhaozhou.  Struggling to support.  His 8,000 defenders faced three consecutive days of attacks by two brigades of the Tianzhu Army's Fourth Reorganized Division, three brigades of Qin Feng's Army (one brigade remained to guard Linhuang Mansion), and nearly 15,000 troops. They suffered heavy casualties.  The strength of the troops was reduced sharply to more than 6,000 men.  If it hadn't been for the Tianzhu Northern Expedition Army Headquarters to issue a military order to suspend the offensive and reorganize the army to prepare for war, Arubu's losses would have been even greater.

    In addition to the above prefectures and prefectures, the Jin Kingdom also had three vast areas in the northeast of Huining Prefecture, namely Supin Road (today's north of Jixi, Heilongjiang, to Khabarovsk, Russia), Huli Gai Road (today's Heilongjiang)  North of Hegang, to Kuye Island) and Puyu Road (to the north of Heihe, Heilongjiang).  The area of ??these three roads accounts for almost one-third of the entire Jin Kingdom.  These places are all the places where the Jurchens started. They are all deep mountains and forests, lakes and swamps, full of wild men and beasts, and traps everywhere.  Even if an army enters it, there will be death but no life.

    ¡°If the Jin people gave up going to Beijing and fled into this dangerous place, the Tianzhu Army would really be unable to pursue them But the question is, are the Jin people still the Jurchens of the past?  In other words, how many more girls were born back then?  It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. The Liao Kingdom has already enjoyed theCan the Jurchens, whose inheritance has lasted for more than ten years, return to their primitive living environment of poverty and desolation?

    Apes evolved into humans, can humans still degenerate into apes?

    It seems that the Jurchens still have a broad escape route, but in fact, there is no retreat!

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    "No one ran away! Great!"

    Di Lie was overjoyed after confirming that all the important figures in the Jin Kingdom were sticking to Beijing, intending to fight to the death and survive.  He had been rushing all the way because he was worried that important figures in the Jin Kingdom would run away.  Among the entire Tianshu forces, no one knows better than Di Lie what the primeval forests and endless snowfields north of Heilongjiang mean to mankind.  If the kings and ministers of the Jin Kingdom really determined to become primitive people again and go to their hometown, the Tianzhu Army would really have nothing to do.

    Of course, this will not affect the demise of the Jin Kingdom, but it will always be a thorn in the side if the culprit cannot be caught.  This is like when the Jin Kingdom destroyed the Liao Kingdom and occupied Shangjing, but Emperor Tianzuo Yelu Yanxi ran into the mountains to hide.  As a result, if this king is not caught, the top brass of the Jin Kingdom will not be at peace.

    However, Jin and Liao are different.  More than a hundred years after the founding of the Liao Dynasty, it has a deep foundation. No matter how dishonest the Liao Emperor is, he still has a strong popular foundation. If the Liao Emperor does not fall for a day, he can still be like a big banner, attracting the hearts of the entire Liao Kingdom.  The Jin Kingdom was only more than ten years old, and the land it occupied was almost all the territory of the Gu Liao; more than 80% of the people under its rule were survivors of the Gu Liao; even the composition of the army, the soldiers of the Gu Liao accounted for more than 70%.  It can be said that the Jurchens used force to suppress the resistance of the Khitan, Bohai, Xi people, and Han people.  The Jin Kingdom does not have the century-old foundation of the Liao Kingdom at all, let alone the recognition of the people of the old Liao Dynasty. Once the Jurchens abandon the capital and go deep into the mountains and forests, they will never come back in this life.

    This is the real reason why the monarchs and ministers of the Jin Kingdom tacitly agree that as long as there is a glimmer of life, they will not run away.

    In early October, Di Lie smiled and accepted the "three compensation services" of the Jin people to apologize for gifts, money, and people. On the one hand, he sent Sa Lihe to convey the Tianzhu Army's demand for the Jin Kingdom's unconditional surrender to stabilize the Jin people; on the other hand, he personally visited the battlefield outside Shangjing and conducted field work  Survey and be prepared to resolve by force.

    Shangjing, the imperial capital of the Jin Kingdom, was built only more than ten years ago.  As the capital of the early Jin Kingdom, its construction has obvious traces of simplicity and simplicity, and it has not been affected by war since the day it was built.  Therefore, in terms of defense facilities, it is even inferior to Yanjing.  There are at least three gates outside Yanjing City, which serve as three supporting points to form strategic depth.  But Shangjing does not have a single city gate, and its shape and defensive power are only equivalent to one of the state cities in Youyun's sixteen states.

    Di Lie and a group of generals stationed their horses on Songpeng Mountain, seven or eight miles east of Shangjing. They looked down from a high position. Through the scope, they could clearly see the various facilities of Shangjing: the wide moat and the two-foot-high outer city wall.  , urn city, horse face, gate tower, turret, inner city wall, inner city moat, imperial city The defensive measures of the city wall are also extremely complete: barriers, hammers, woks, rolling stones all available.

    Ling Yuan gave instructions on the city defense of Shangjing and conveyed the analysis and conclusions of the staff to the generals present: "If we capture Shangjing by force, the first obstacle is the moat. The moat of Shangjing is four feet wide, with the Hun Tong River and the Hun Tong River upstream.  The Hu Cicada muddy water is injected into the river, and the Hu River is interspersed downstream. Simply cutting off these three rivers is not a task that can be completed in a month. The second difficulty is that the Jin people recently excavated the Zhang Yu Kuan and Wu Jing City.  A foot-deep kerosene trench is filled with kerosene. Once our army launches a strong attack and breaches the moat, the kerosene in the trench will be ignited to prevent our army from breaking through the wall with explosives. According to estimates by experienced personnel in the army, the trenches are filled with kerosene.  Kerosene can burn continuously for more than ten days. Just clearing the two peripheral checkpoints is enough to consume our army for nearly two months, and our army cannot besiege Shangjing for two months"

    Yang Zaixing and He Yuanqing looked at each other and couldn't help but said: "This severe cold in the north is really making it difficult for the three armies to support it?"

    Yang Zaixing and He Yuanqing are both from the south of the Yangtze River. It is the first time in their lives to leave Guandong. It is difficult to imagine what the winter in the Northeast is like.

    Di Lie looked serious and nodded heavily: "Our army can only fight until this month, and at the beginning of next month at the latest. If we fail to conquer Beijing, we must withdraw our troops decisively. Otherwise, the army will be badly treated without Jin Bing's action."  Climate beatdown.¡±

    The generals never doubted the military leader's judgment, and upon hearing this, they were all speechless.

    Zhang Rui gritted his teeth, fisted his palms, and said angrily: "If we can't overcome this double barrier of water and fire within a month and have to withdraw our troops, we will only be able to defeat the enemy and fall short of our achievements. This is really unacceptable."

    These words express the feelings of the generals, but the two difficulties are real. How to solve them is a difficult problem before us.

    Di Lie stood at the top of his horse, letting the mountain wind blow. The man was like a rock and the horse was like a sculpture.  The clouds and mist between the peaks and mountains are misty, opening and closing, and the city of Shangjing is visible in the distance in the vast plains, sometimes clear, sometimes blurry, and sometimesDi Lie's eyes became brighter and brighter

    On October 12, the deadline has arrived, and the Jin Kingdom has not responded, and has even refused to hand over the war criminals listed on the list.

    On the same day, the Tianzhu Northern Expedition Army Headquarters issued a general mobilization order for the final battle against the Jurchen Jin Kingdom.

    The final decisive battle is about to begin, and the most important mission at the beginning of the establishment of the Tianchu Army will be completed in one battle.

    In this battle, the Tianzhu Army will not only fight against humans and earth, but also against heaven!

    Is the world unkind?  Or will man conquer nature?
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