Otherworldly Castle Era

"Everyone gathers together again to discuss the military. This is Liu's blessing!" All the generals have had the experience of being in the command and general staff, so there is no need for Li Jing and Liu Ji to rearrange their positions again.

Therefore, Li Jing immediately issued the first task of reorganizing the General Command and Staff Headquarters: "Generals, discuss it, during the round of battle, where should our army's first goal point?"

Now that the decision has been made, it is good to determine the first goal of that round earlier, and it is even more necessary to run the generals together.

"General Qi, the chief of the general staff, the final general thinks that we should take advantage of the victory at the moment." As soon as Li Jing's words fell, Huo Qubing stood up first. He clasped his fists and said after a salute: "There are many enemy troops defeated, and most of them fled. Going to the West, I will finally think that the next goal is the West’s "Eight Sons Union."

"General Qi, Chief of the General Staff." After Huo Qubing finished speaking and sat down, Lu Su stood up at Di Qing's sign and reported: "The final general also believes that we should pursue the enemy while taking advantage of the decisive victory. but……"

Speaking of this, Lu Su glanced at Huo Qubing, who you also think so, and then said: "It's just that I will finally think that we should launch an offensive to the north and take advantage of the situation to surrender the weakened'Yili United'. Then, he will go east again. It’s okay for the'Bernsey Germany' to launch an offensive, or to launch an offensive towards the'Eight Sons United' in the west.

After all, Lu Su, the staff member, was professional, and it was involved from the cause to the follow-up, so that the observers had to accept it.

Subsequently, the other generals also put forward their own suggestions, but in general they were divided into two directions, one is to go north, surrendering the relatively weak Yili coalition in the coalition; the other is to attack west, mainly to eliminate the enemy’s remaining forces. As for Xiangdong, no one mentioned it.

The alliance forces against Xia's army this time are actually composed of three big coalitions.

The first is the "Eli Union" in the place where Xia's army is at this time. It was originally an alliance formed by the four viscountry domains in the Fulimet Nation. Later, two viscountry and three baronies were added. There are six viscountry collars and three baronial collars.

The Yili Union estimates that it has about 300,000 troops. Among them, it is worth noting that the neighboring Baxter country to the north is the power of the "Gaffey Gold Chamber of Commerce", and its monarchy has also expanded with the support of the Chamber of Commerce.

The Garfield Chamber of Commerce is the largest chamber of commerce south of the Baron River. It controls the currency issuance rights on this site. It can be said to have no power at the same time. However, since the defeat of the Xia State, it has converged and seen its surrounding territories later. All of them are expanding their power, which supports the expansion of the territory where their base camp is located to the point of a monarchy.

The second is the "Bernsey Germany" on the east side of Yili United. Its monarch is Ibi Burnside, who was originally an earl. The monarchy was established after annexing other weak joint territories around it. It has about twenty more troops. Million.

The eastern part of Bernese Germany is a scattered union of a large group of territories, because its terrain is many waters and it is facing the sea, and it has good water warfare. This can only stop the expansion of Bernese Germany.

The third is the "Eight Sons Union" in the west of Yili United. From its name, it can be known that this is a combined force composed of eight viscount territories, with about 300,000 troops.

The total strength of the three forces united was about 900,000. This time the fight against Xia's army, a total of more than 700,000 gathered before and after. It was completely fighting with all their strength, but in the end it failed.

The combined forces seem to have a huge number of troops, but in fact they are distributed to specific territories. In fact, there are only tens of thousands of people, and most of them are auxiliary soldiers. Only less than one-fifth of them are combat soldiers. The so-called "Elite" is nothing more.

Because of this, after eliminating more than half of the enemy's viable force, Li Jing and Liu Ji can slap their chests to ensure that there is no place where Xia Guo's army cannot reach.

...

Two days later, Liu Ji received an order from Yang Song to return to Xia, and at the same time an order from Yang Song was handed over to Li Jing.

In Yang Song's order, in addition to allowing Li Jing and the commander-in-chief he formed to continue to lead the army to perform tasks, it was to make Li Jing not rush to withdraw the army immediately and maintain the status quo for the time being.

In the previous plan, until the second stage, Xia's army would not have to maintain such a huge number outside the customs, just let a part of the army that needs to carry out the task on the front line. After all, the army outside is very capable of burning Xia's national strength.

Although Liu Ji couldn't understand the changes after receiving Yang Song's order, he could still think that there should be some change in Xia Guozhi.

After discussing and explaining with Li Jing, Liu Ji hurried back to Apocalypse City non-stop.

And the reason for this change, but also from the second day of the day of the decisive battle.

...

On June 23 of the seventeenth year of the Apocalypse, the day after the victory of the decisive battle, Xun Yu of the Department of Administration entered the palace alone with a memorial memorial.

"Prince tells the king, the minister has important matters." Yang Song met Xun Yu in the study. After the other party saw the gift, he presented memorials and respectfully said: "The country's total population is expected to increase to about 25 million by the end of the year, and the output of steel will be around 25 million. It is expected that the ten-year goal will be reached by the end of next year."

Yang Song, who was about to read the memorial, heard this and put aside the memorable memorial and listened intently to Xun Yu’s report. I thought it would take a lot of time to finish reading the memorial, so it would be better to listen to the other party directly. Convenience.

Just listen to Xun Yu’s continued report: “There are 24 counties, 173 counties, and 1,569 towns in this country. This country includes the Southern Wasteland, Linhai Basin, Tianqi Plain, and the East China Sea Islands. All land tools that can be easily developed have been developed."

Xia Guo will be able to develop to where it is now in just a dozen years, and a large part of it is the convenience of occupying a vast land.

Xia Kingdom’s original and actual occupation of land is 2.6 million square kilometers, of which there are more than 500,000 in the Apocalypse Plain, more than 1.5 million in the Southern Wilderness, and more than 500,000 in the Linhai Basin. The overseas islands are now the land area of ​​Xia Kingdom.

When developing land, Xia Guo chose places with better terrain, such as water and land, and available natural resources in the surrounding area. This is one of the reasons why Xia Guo didn't have too much effort to expand.

In addition to the convenient railway transportation, the strong power of the steam engine, the strong and effective court, the perfect compulsory education system...and many other factors, Xia's national strength is not weak!

These are all Yang Song knew, but he still didn't know why Xun Yu said these and what the purpose was, so he kept listening.

"If the population continues to grow, the minister infers that in the 20th year of the Apocalypse, the country's population will reach more than 30 million. If you want to add counties and towns, it will not be as easy as it is now."

When Xun Yu said this, his tone changed and he suddenly became agitated: "Beyond Shanhaiguan, but there is a large enough land. The ministers dare to expand their territory and hope that the king will expand his territory to become the people!"

That's it! Yang Song finally knew that Xun Yu came to see him today, what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd-this is for him to annex the land north of Shanhaiguan!

It is not that Yang Song has never thought of directly occupying the land outside the pass. After all, the domestic reality is clearly placed in front of him, but the land outside the pass is easy to occupy, but it is difficult to defend.

After all, there is no natural moat outside Shanhaiguan to use ~www.novelmtl.com~, which must maintain a huge army to defend the long border.

In addition, the indigenous people outside the customs are also a big problem. In the case of not being able to effectively keep secrets, Xia Guo is not good to directly raise his butcher knife to them directly and neatly.

Speaking of secrecy, the secrecy of the land outside the customs can't be as it is now, completely controlling all the information of Xia Guo in place. At that time, whether it is steam engines, factories, railways or the normal life of the people, customs, administrative systems, and even education, technology, etc. will be "publicized."

Other than that, this later point was the reason why Yang Songxia could not decide to continue expanding the territory. It was necessary to know that it was precisely because he knew that there was still a moat in the north of Linhai Basin before he decided to send troops to annex it.

At this time, Xun Yu suggested that he expand the northern territory, which somewhat embarrassed Yang Song. He also knew that expansion was a matter of time, but he just couldn't make this determination-this was the first time Yang Song had hesitated!

So Yang Song finally had no choice but to order Liu Ji to drive back from the front line, discuss with him and other important officials before making a decision-if the army really needs Li Jing to coordinate and command, he wants to bring Li Jing too. Tuned back.