After the immortal disappeared

Xin Yi nodded: "If you have the opportunity, you will definitely not miss it."

A strong wind blew by, whining and bending the reeds by the river.

"The wind has picked up -" He Lingchuan stretched out his fingers, as if combing the autumn wind, "The wind direction has changed recently, and it is blowing from the other side at night."

"Have you been observing this?"

He Lingchuan nodded: "The weather is favorable, the location is favorable, and we originally had all of it. Now, the weather is about to change."

When the weather changes, the battle is coming.

…

He Lingchuan's intelligence was very accurate. As expected, Bega's army arrived at the front line two days later, but hidden dangers in Jinying's country also began to erupt at this time.

Twenty thousand Siro troops were stationed on the front line, and their supplies basically depended on Jin Yongguo. The latter was already somewhat stretched. Fortunately, food was brought in during the autumn harvest and the reserves were replenished.

At this time, Xin Yi burned the transfer warehouse, and several other groups sent by He Lingchuan also burned several major granaries in Jinyang. About 50,000 shi of grain were burned to the ground.

You know, back then He Chunhua tried his best to raise 20,000 shi of food for the northern front line of Yuan Kingdom, which was enough to feed Zhao Pan's 50,000 army for a month; these fires in He Lingchuan directly burned down the enemy's front line for several months. of rations.

Jin Yingguo did not expect that in addition to burning the frontline transfer warehouse, he would also burn down its large domestic warehouses. Now, not to mention supplying Xiluo's army, Jin Yingguo had difficulty even feeding its own people.

At this moment, Bega's army arrived.

It was on its way in a hurry and didn't bring much luggage. When it came, it had to ask for food and drink from Jin Yingguo.

There are still 23,000 soldiers in Shiluo's army and 15,000 in Bega's army. Together they are almost 40,000. Jin Yingguo was suddenly under great pressure.

The transfer warehouse was burned down, but the army could not go hungry for a day. Jin Yingguo had no choice but to search for food from home again to supply the front line.

All of a sudden, civilians stopped working.

Many of the items confiscated by Jin Yingguo officials were life-saving food or seeds for the common people. To rob even these would cost lives.

The civilians couldn't understand that the officials were ruthless enough to steal food from their own hands to supply foreign troops and support their invasion of Panlong Territory!

This war has nothing to do with the Jinyang Kingdom. Why do the people of the Jinyang Kingdom have to suffer?

The food search was a big deal, with conflicts between officials and people everywhere, and civilian uprisings everywhere.

While Jin Yingguo was in dire straits, the Siro army and the Bejia army on the front line were also pressing for food, non-stop.

However, the two armies knew very well that Jin Yongguo really couldn't afford it, and in the end they had to provide food and drink by themselves.

Where to do it?

Naturally, both sides set their sights on the Maohe Plain.

This autumn, there will be another bumper harvest in the Maohe Plain. Although Yuheng City led the farmers to harvest grain, the land was so rich that the harvest could not be finished in a short while.

If the Bega and Shiluo people want to have enough to eat, they have to go to the Maohe Plain to grab it!

But He Lingchuan had thought of this step long before setting fire to the granary. The Maohe Plain is on high alert and must be defended to the death.

If the two armies huddled on the border of the Jinyang Kingdom want to enter the Maohe Plain, they must either break through the obstruction of Yuheng City, then there will be a large fertile field behind the city, and they can rob it as much as they like; or the two armies must enter from Longchuan River.

After several years of management by Wen Daolun, Yuheng City had strong financial resources and was willing to spend money on defense. It had already built a camp city in the two gaps in the original border defense, which also served as an auxiliary city to specially garrison troops. The three cities were distributed in a triangle, forming horns and guarding each other. They also cooperated with other fortifications, so that the Siro army, which had previously underestimated the enemy, suffered a big loss as soon as they arrived.

If they charge Yuheng City forcefully, it would be like trying to grab a mace with bare hands. Bega's army looked a bit overwhelmed, so they gave priority to the second method, which was to take the Taki River.

Different from the previous guerrilla attacks by the Siro army, this time the Bega army had to tear a gap in the defense of the Maohe Plain and establish a foothold before they could seize food, kill people and march on the Maohe Plain.

Although Takigawa has been developed as a land of plenty, the terrain here is very complex and it is also called the Thousand Island Numa River. Bega General Fushan Retsu had been entrenched in Takigawa for more than a year. When he returned, he drew detailed maps and made annotations for the military, which were used as important information for the attack on the Muhe Plain.

However, when Bega's army tried to enter the Taki River in the upper reaches of the river, they discovered that the terrain here had become different. Some islands were merged together, and some large islands were cut into small pieces. The waterways and tides were not the same as before. But generally speaking, the waterway has become narrower, and can only accommodate four or five small boats in parallel. The depth of water everywhere is a mystery, and large boats cannot enter at all.

If you can't move a big ship, you can't transport powerful troops.

Of course there is a wide lake deep in the Takigawa River, but there are water barriers set up by Yuheng City everywhere, and the water in the Takigawa River is not safe to begin with——

Water monsters are rampant.

After Fushan Retsu was beaten away, all the aquatic monsters in Takigawa were incorporated into Yuheng City. Those who refuse to surrender must die or flee, and those who cannot be left behind will either die or flee. In the eyes of these monsters, no matter how famous Bejia is, he is not as good as the one currently in charge of Yuheng City.

These guys are everywhere. Although they are not directly hostile to the army, it is easy to destroy ships, attack sentries, and inform the soldiers and civilians of Takigawa.

Although Bega is known as the "Monster Country", it is a long way from here, and the domestic aquatic and amphibious monsters cannot get there at all.

The Bega army tried here several times and found that it was really difficult to gain a foothold.

There are outposts everywhere in Longchuan, some of which were left by the former bandits, and some were added by Yuheng City later, like nails all over the water. The Beijia army finally pulled out a few, stabbing themselves with blood, and they were snatched back by the enemy in two days.

The Beijia army's skills, in this narrow, cramped, damp and dark place, can't even play one or two percent.

How difficult it was for Yuheng City to attack Fushan Lie and Longchuan bandits back then, and the current Beijia army also feels that deep pain.

The commander of the Beijia army, Bai Moji, fought with Yuheng City in Longchuan for six or seven days, and felt that his patience was exhausted. He brought his troops here to cooperate with Beijia's "concern" for Panlong City's northwest line; if the northwest line didn't fight, Beijia and Panlong City would not be considered to have officially torn their faces, and he couldn't formally launch a large-scale attack here.

So what he can do now is only a small-scale "competition", which has no advantage in front of Yuheng City. After all, the Bega army was unfamiliar with the place, and they wanted to suppress the local tyrants here just after arriving. That was just making things difficult for themselves.

Bai Moji also knew that it was wrong to fight like this, which weakened Bega's prestige.

Originally, wherever the Bega army passed, it was like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves and cutting the Gordian knot, so outsiders were submissive; the soldiers and civilians of Yuheng City must have been afraid of Bega, but if they were allowed to win a few battles, their awe would plummet.

Psychological game has always been one of the main factors in the victory or defeat of war.

But Bai Moji also knows his own suffering. The Xiluo Army and the Bega Army together have nearly 40,000 people. The Jinyao Kingdom really can't afford their daily food, drink, and defecation. Even if Bai Moji throws the King of Jinyao into the pot, he can't squeeze out much money.

The army's reduction of food supply is too damaging to morale. Wherever Bega's army is rampant, why can't they even have food when they arrive at the Jinyao front?

So Bai Moji turned around and cut the Xiluo army's food quota. The other side has more people than them, and if they eat less, won't they be fuller?

All of a sudden, the Xiluo army was in a mess.

Originally, they didn't want to attack the territory of Panlong City. They were forced to join the army by the king, and they had no subjective motivation. After they came, they were beaten by the Yuheng Army, threatened by the Beijia's governor, and ordered around by the Beijia army next door. Now they are not given food?

I can't do it anymore, I really can't do it anymore.

The news of cutting food just came out, and before it was issued, two camps of Xiluo army ran away.

They knew they couldn't beat the Beijia army, and they didn't plan to rebel, they just wanted to escape. The swords of the supervisors were blunt, but they didn't stop their determination to escape. Several supervisors were dragged down and killed.

Fortunately, there was a river between Jinyao Kingdom and Yuheng City. Now it was the flood season, and the river was turbulent, so the other side couldn't get through for a while. Otherwise, the Yuheng Army will take advantage of the chaos to attack, and the Beijia Army will definitely have a headache.

It took a lot of effort for the newly appointed military governor Lu Wushuang to quell the riot, and then he went directly to Bai Moji to discuss a solution.

"General Bai, there are actually two solutions at the moment." She was pragmatic, "Or, ask Lingxu for food and grass..."

Before she finished speaking, Bai Moji frowned: "Ask for food from the country? Do you also need to ask for some for your Xiluo Army?"

"If you can get it, that's the best." Lu Wushuang smiled, "Don't bother two masters for one thing."

Bai Moji said unhappily: "You have to understand that the shortage of food on the Jinyao front is not my problem! My army hasn't arrived yet, and the food and grass here have been burned. Lu Zhifu, you've failed in your duty!"

It's been a long time since his army has encountered such a bad environment before the war has started, and they can't eat before the war.

Even in the Yuan Kingdom War that made the whole country talk about it with fear 20 years ago, Beijia's army didn't go hungry for a day.

I don't know what route Qinggong took in Lingxu City to send such a female disciple with no experience in military management!

He was even more unlucky, and had to cooperate with Lu Wushuang.

Lu Wushuang knew that the Beijia army had experience in long-distance combat, but firstly, they were all small-scale battles, and secondly, they hadn't gnawed such a hard bone for a long time.

She hadn't fought head-on with Yuheng City on the other side, but she knew that the other side's leader was not simple. Before she arrived, the Xiluo army was almost collapsed. When she just arrived at the front line of Jinyao and was not familiar with the work, she set fire to several large granaries in Jinyao.

The fire in the transfer warehouse was indeed beyond her expectation.

She realized the problem of food shortage as soon as she arrived, and specially strengthened the control of the granaries in the rear. She had no control over other granaries in Jinyao, but the transfer warehouse was ostensibly managed by the Xiluo army, but in fact, it was guarded by Qinggong disciples she sent. Their cultivation and spiritual perception were far beyond that of ordinary soldiers, and there were magic arrays secretly guarding them.

Even so, five of the seven large warehouses were burned down, leaving only one warehouse of grain.