In the autumn of Wei Jia'an's twenty-seventh year, Xiao Jingxuan began to make sacrifices to heaven and earth and officially launched a war against Weiguo.
In order to successfully conquer the Wei Kingdom, Xiao Jingxuan did not sit in Yizhou, but personally led five thousand tiger and leopard cavalry to Dazhou.
At the same time, Yang Xiong, who was in Luzhou, also led an army to start from Luzhou Port and launch an attack on the coastal areas of Weiguo.
When Xiao Jingxuan arrived at Dazhou City, Lei Ben had already made all preparations before the attack.
In order to be able to better attack, Lei Ben sent a large army in advance, crossed the mountains, and set up camp on Weiguo's territory in advance.
After a long journey, Xiao Jingxuan finally left Dazhou and arrived at the camp.
Xiao Jingxuan looked at the map in his hand and fell into deep thought. There is only one large city in the mainland of Weiguo, which is Pingcheng, the capital of Weiguo.
Apart from this, other places in Weiguo are more like villages and towns. Moreover, Weiguo's army is also relatively complex.
In addition to the so-called royal army, there are the city guards. After that, there are the rural soldiers.
And those stationed in various places are rural soldiers. Although rural soldiers
The number of soldiers is large, but the combat effectiveness is extremely low, and due to the scattered garrison, the number of rural soldiers in any place is only a thousand, and the number is only a few hundred.
As for the City Guards, they are even more bizarre. They simply live up to the title of City Guards. It turns out that the City Guards are the private army of the nobles who defend the country.
In addition to protecting the territory of the nobles, the only thing left was to fight against the royal army.
However, although the number of city guards is not large, only 20,000, most of them are stationed around Pingcheng.
As for the royal army, as the pillars of maintaining the imperial rule of the Wei Kingdom, the number of the royal army reached 30,000.
As the most elite force in the entire Wei Kingdom, it is also well-equipped. The defense of Pingcheng and the guarding of the palace are both responsible for the royal army.
In other words, more than half of Weiguo's army is stationed in the royal capital of Weiguo.
He looked at the Kanyu map in his hand, and then compared it with the map sent by the secret guard.
Xiao Jingxuan said with a headache: "Lei Ben, this battle is not easy to fight. It is not easy just to find the enemy."
Lei Ben looked at the map and nodded.
After thinking for a moment, Xiao Jingxuan planned to divide his troops. Each unit would lead the attack as a unit.
Xiao Jingxuan personally led an army of 10,000 to the main camp to hold down the formation for all armies.
Xiao Jingxuan only had one request, and that was to capture a place and recruit all the young people in the place to build the plank road.
In short, it is necessary to build mountains when encountering mountains and build bridges when encountering rivers. The road from Weiguo to Dazhou must be opened.
Only in this way can we better rule Weiguo in the future.
As the military order was issued, the army began to move towards the towns of Weiguo.
Xiao Jingxuan sat in the camp, closed his eyes and rested, waiting for the triumphant return of the armies.
At this time, Yang Xiong's army also arrived near the coast of Weiguo and launched an attack on nearby towns.
In this battle, except Yang Xiong and Lei Ben, Xiao Jingxuan did not mobilize other generals.
If it weren't for the large number of troops mobilized this time, neither of these two people, Xiao Jingxuan, would want to use them.
Nowadays, most of the generals under Xiao Jingxuan are from Xiaowei. Although these people have made great achievements in battle, they also have many shortcomings.
First of all, the origins of these people destined them to have a close relationship with the Wei State.
Although they are all generals of the Yan Kingdom now, most of their families and tribesmen are around Luocheng.
In addition, the Xiaowei are the loyal soldiers of the Wei Emperor. No one knows whether these people will be able to continue to be loyal to Xiao Jingxuan once the battle between Wei and Yan takes place.
In this war, most of Lei Ben's troops were soldiers who had settled in Yan State, while all Yang Xiong's troops were from field soldiers. All officers in the army at all levels came from the Guards Battalion.
These people all came from various major camps, and a large part of them were former Yan soldiers.
In addition, some students from Xiao Jingxuan's Yulin Academy in Yingzhou began to join the army.
Although the number of people is not large, Xiao Jingxuan believes that with these people taking power, Xiao Jingxuan will be able to greatly strengthen his control over the army.
As the army continued to capture enemy towns, groups of young men who defended the country were escorted to the camp.
Xiao Jingxuan actually doesn't have much kindness in his heart towards these young men. After all, they are not from my race, so their hearts must be different.
Xiao Jingxuan left behind 5,000 infantry and 1,000 tiger and leopard cavalry, under the command of his deputy general Xiao Yuan.
At the same time, the heavy responsibility of road construction was handed over to Xiao Yuan. Xiao Jingxuan had only one military order, which was to open the road as soon as possible.
Apart from this, Xiao Jingxuan does not have too many requirements.
Xiao Yuan was a relatively cold-blooded and cruel person among the personal guards. All his family members died under the iron hoof of the barbarians.
Later, when Xiao Jingxuan was in charge of Fengzhou, Xiao Yuan went begging for food in Fengzhou. Later, when Xiao Jingxuan was in charge of Yingzhou.
When Xiao Yuan turned eleven, he traveled thousands of miles to Yingzhou. Later he was fortunate enough to be admitted to Yulin Academy.
After Xiao Yuan arrived at the academy, he practiced martial arts diligently, and it took him less than two years to break through and enter the Guiyi realm. Later, he was accepted as a disciple by Xiao Jingxuan, and his martial arts improved by leaps and bounds.
The reason why Xiao Jingxuan arranged Xiao Yuan to be the chief officer of road construction this time was because he took a fancy to Xiao Yuan's cruelty.
Xiao Yuan also understood Xiao Jingxuan's profound meaning very well. It can be said that Xiao Yuan adopted an extremely cruel method towards the guards who built the road.
Xiao Yuan locked the hands of all the young men with iron chains. There were a thousand people in a team, and two supervisors were selected from them.
Xiao Yuan did not allow his soldiers to beat or scold these young men who were defending the country, but he gave the supervisor a whip.
Every day, all members of the team with the worst progress will have no food to eat. The team with the highest progress will be able to eat.
In order to allow the supervisors to play their role better, Xiao Yuan also stipulated that the supervisors of the teams with the worst progress would be executed.
It is precisely because of Xiao Yuan's policies that the progress of road construction is very fast. Of course, the mortality rate among Weiguo's young men is not small. Almost hundreds of young men die every day.
Xiao Jingxuan did not care about these things. At this time, Xiao Jingxuan led the army and began to march towards the capital of Weiguo little by little.
Because he needed to recruit young people and pacify the surrounding towns, Xiao Jingxuan was not in a hurry to march.
In Xiao Jingxuan's eyes, this place will be the granary of Yan State in the future. For the long-term peace and stability in the future, the strength of the local people of Wei State must be weakened.
From now on, Weiguo is destined to need immigrants. Only by completely turning Weiguo into the territory of Yan can it maintain its rule.
As the army marched, Xiao Jingxuan finally made contact with Yang Xiong's troops. After deciding on the rendezvous location, Xiao Jingxuan let Yang Xiong go freely.
However, as the battle line lengthened, Xiao Jingxuan finally ran into trouble because the army began to run out of food.
You must know that the daily consumption of an army of 50,000 is staggering. However, due to impassable roads, the food and grass from the rear were not delivered on time.
The most important thing is that the Wei people do not have much food and grass to collect.
Although the food for the young adults is very poor, the huge amount makes the daily consumption of the young adults an astronomical figure.
Looking at the map in his hand, Xiao Jingxuan began to think about food and grass. Is it really necessary to launch an attack on Pingcheng in advance?
As the capital of the Wei Kingdom, Pingcheng is also the largest city in the Wei Kingdom. The food stored in Pingcheng can definitely meet the consumption of the army.
Just when Xiao Jingxuan didn't know what to do, Wei Guo's peace delegation finally arrived at the camp.
However, it is a pity that this mission was not sent by the royal family of Wei State, but by the nobles of Wei State.
These nobles saw that Xiao Jingxuan was powerful and that Wei Guo was determined not to be able to stop Xiao Jingxuan's army. So they all made crooked ideas.
Looking at the surrender document in his hand, Xiao Jingxuan also fell into deep thought. This surrender document was not from the royal family of Wei, but a private surrender document from the nobles in the city.
After Xiao Jingxuan thought for a moment, he looked at the messenger.
"Go and tell your master that after you surrender, I can guarantee the safety of all your property except the land, but you must be sincere. If you don't want to, I won't force you. After the city is destroyed, it will be too late.
Already."
After saying that, Xiao Jingxuan began to let people see off the guests.
Xiao Jingxuan despised these nobles of Weiguo to the extreme. However, in order to reduce casualties, Xiao Jingxuan could only leave a way for them to survive. As for whether they could catch it, it depends on their luck.
After these people left, Xiao Jingxuan began to study the Kanyu map in his hand.
Today, Xiao Jingxuan has mobilized almost half a million of the young men of the Wei Kingdom to build roads.
Basically, the roads have almost been built. Regarding these young and strong people, Xiao Jingxuan has no intention of letting them go back.
Next, Xiao Jingxuan plans to build six cities in Weiguo. Adding Pingcheng, there will be seven cities.
Then use seven cities to complete the rule of Weiguo. But now, he still needs to find a way to continue to consume the population of Weiguo.
After another five days, Xiao Jingxuan finally reunited with Yang Xiong's troops. Now, Xiao Jingxuan's combatable troops reached about 70,000. Next, the army can directly attack Pingcheng.
Xiao Jingxuan ordered people to recruit 50,000 civilians from the remaining people of the Wei Kingdom to build siege equipment. At the same time, these people would also become the vanguard of the siege.
Xiao Jingxuan knew that with the issuance of his military order, he did not know how many people of Weiguo would be displaced.
Although it was cruel, Xiao Jingxuan did not think that what he did was wrong.
There is no right or wrong in war, there are only victors, princes, and losers.
After calming down, Xiao Jingxuan continued to order the army to continue marching towards Pingcheng.
After arriving in Pingcheng, no surprise, the enemy chose to resist. Xiao Jingxuan did not care about this.
As for the peace envoys sent by Weiguo, Xiao Jingxuan did not see any of them, but only ordered the army to besiege the city.
With the arrival of the young men of the Wei Kingdom, a large number of siege equipment was built.
The most effective one was naturally the catapult. Secondly, ladders, arrow towers, and siege engines were also built one after another.
As huge boulders flew towards the city wall of Pingcheng, it also meant the beginning of this cruel war.