Chapter 149: The Afterhand
Wan Yan looked at the empress wistfully: "The old minister has disappointed Your Majesty, the 600,000 army has not broken through Yingzhou City for almost two months, but has lost the lives of twenty soldiers, the old minister is incompetent!" ”
"The old minister thought that he would be able to break through Yingzhou in twenty days, and the army went straight into the hinterland of the dragon, but he never thought that he would not even take the first city, and the old minister was ashamed."
"I have failed His Majesty's high hopes!"
The empress raised her hand slightly and waved: "Uncle Huang doesn't have to blame himself, it's not your fault, I never expected that I would be able to capture the big dragon at one time." ”
"Dalong has been recuperating since Li Zheng's dynasty, recruiting troops to prepare for war, and developing people's livelihood!"
"Counting Li Baiyu's dynasty, Dalong has been preparing for nearly forty years before leaving such a large family foundation, and the mutual market has accumulated a family foundation for Dalong, and the subjugation of the Western Regions has allowed Dalong to get a steady stream of war horses."
"Liu Mingzhi even made Dalong get countless sophisticated weapons, especially the terrifying firearms such as the artillery Lei Zhenzi."
"It took almost forty years of recuperation to have such a fruitful foundation!"
"Forty years of confidence to break through in just one month is just a whimsical idea."
"It's rare that you can attack the heavily defended cities of Yingzhou, Jeju, and Fuzhou, and you have lived up to the name of the king of Jinguozhen."
"You know, what you are facing is not a group of wine bags and rice bags, but the six guards of the Northern Frontier, who are known as the elite of a hundred battles, and the six generals of the six guards who use their soldiers like gods!"
"Insolence, Nangong Ye and the six of them, taking out one at will is an existence that should not be underestimated, not to mention joining forces together."
"I'm proud, but I'm not conceited."
"I know where the Great Dragon is stronger than us, and I also understand the shortcomings between us and the Great Dragon."
"Although our Dajin is gradually prospering, especially with the help of the limelight of the mutual market, we still have a long way to catch up compared to the big dragon with greater profits."
"This time, if it weren't for the Turks' self-knowledge and not Dalong's opponent, they would have joined forces with our Dajin tacitly to resist Dalong's troops together, and only relied on my Dajin to face Dalong's million-strong division alone, it would definitely be in danger."
"It's just that the soldiers' armament is just two grades behind Dalong."
"Do you know why I chose to take the initiative to send troops? Instead of being passively defensive. ”
After thinking for a while, he shook his head and nodded: "The old minister should understand His Majesty's intentions, but I don't know if the guess is wrong." ”
The empress smiled slightly: "I guessed correctly." ”
"In this national war, I ordered to take the initiative to attack, and many courtiers were puzzled, thinking that the casualties should be much smaller than those of taking the initiative to defend the city."
"They are also thinking well, occupying the city wall can indeed reduce the casualties of the soldiers."
"The losses of the besieging side are about three times that of the defending side, and this has been the case since ancient times."
"But that's just the past."
"Uncle Huang, you are old, I am not in the prime of life, we don't want to admit it but we have to admit that the world has changed, and it has become very different from before."
"The appearance of Liu Mingzhi subverted many people's cognition, but in the end, Liu Mingzhi proved that he was right with his strength."
"Conformism is not our Dajin's style in the first place, otherwise the ancestors would not have proposed to rule the Han with Han, turning our people into a country of agricultural mulberry planting."
"It is precisely because of this that I know that this world is changing every day, and we have to change, and if we don't change, we will fall behind the dragon more and more."
"The national strength will be further away from the big dragon."
"They don't understand the power of the dragon's artillery, but I do."
"Their hearsay about the power of the dragon's artillery, but I've seen it with my own eyes."
"The power of a hundred artillery pieces is better than 50,000 elite soldiers!"
"Our troops are coming to the city and attacking the Great Dragon City, which seems to have suffered heavy losses, but in fact, it has invisibly minimized the damage caused by the Great Dragon's artillery."
"After Flying Bear made the artillery, I almost never stopped asking Flying Bear about everything about the artillery."
"Although Flying Bear said a lot of things that I didn't understand, at least I understood a little, and the power of artillery lies in siege."
"If the city gate does not need to be rammed and the stones are sealed, as long as the bombardment is realized, the city gate will be lost if it is not four or five cannons."
"It is precisely because of this that I chose to take the initiative to attack and curb the terrifying advantage of the Great Dragon Artillery."
"Otherwise, if we passively defend and wait for the Great Dragon soldiers and horses to take the initiative to attack and attack our border cities, with the power of the Great Dragon Artillery, my twelve border cities may not be able to support for a month, and they will collapse under the terrifying power of the Great Dragon's artillery, and even fall completely in the end."
"Therefore, I stated the pros and cons in the letters, went deep into the grassland alone, and reasoned with the little girl Huyan Yunyao, and promoted the joint army of our two countries."
"That's right!"
"Dalong faced the combined forces of our two countries, and had to turn defense into attack."
"I asked you to send troops to take the initiative to attack, why don't you take offense as defense."
"Uncle Huang has witnessed the power of Dalong's artillery this time, if we defend the city and let them attack the city with artillery, there will be more than 200,000 dead and wounded soldiers."
"It could be wiped out."
"It may also be a direct death to the country."
"My heart hurts, but I can't help it."
"I didn't think of this method until Yue'er came back from Liu Mingzhi last time, and kept muttering that offense is the best defense.
"It turns out that my decision is right, as long as our soldiers walk a certain distance into the city wall, the dragon's artillery will be useless."
"In this way, the strength of the two sides has fallen to a similar level."
"Although you didn't break through the Great Dragon Border City this time, you also made a great achievement."
"Because you have supported the opportunity for the left, center and right armies to enter King Qin, this is the biggest victory in this national war."
"Next, it depends on what happens to Li Yunlong and these guys."
"I secretly manipulated Li Yunlong's rebellion, and I have been preparing for nearly seven years, and now I have finally seen results, I hope his obsession with the throne will not disappoint me!"
"If they succeed, Dalong will have to rewind the national strength by at least twenty years, and no matter how strong they are at that time, they will not pull us too far."
"It is impossible to unify the world and succeed in one fell swoop, there are too many powerful countries in Dalong, and we must gradually cycle and eat away at the power of Dalong little by little."
"Walls of copper are often broken from the inside!"
"Let's wait and see, as long as the big dragon is in chaos, the national strength will definitely decline."
Wan Yan looked at the empress with a gleam in her eyes and nodded silently: "It seems that you have not forgotten your original promise, but it's a pity that Yan Yu, this girl, married to the Turks." ”
"Otherwise, if the two of you sisters join forces to govern the country, my Dajin's national strength will be far more than that."
"It's a pity that you two sisters can't join forces, and this kid Feixiong has no intention of politics."
"The burden of the Jin Kingdom is going to be on you two."
"I don't know if Yue'er's trip to Dalong this time can bring unexpected results."
The Empress turned slightly, squinting at the south.
"I believe in her, Yue'er has never disappointed her mother."
"Yue'er's safety?"
"Foolproof!"
"You're not clever at this trick, but only Yue'er can do it in the whole world!"
"It's really not clever, so I have no choice but to make this decision."
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