Chapter 816: Whetstone
Chapter 820
This sonorous war completely shattered Li Xing's dream of stepping on the top of the mountain.
Li Xingzai used thunderous means to defeat Li Xing's most elite first battalion with lightning speed. Cut the generals and broke the army, killing and wounding more than 10,000 people. It shows Li Xingya's resolute courage and military strength that has always been despised by Li Xing.
Without victory in the war, there is no diplomatic confidence.
The attitudes of the princes who had agreed to participate in this alliance became ambiguous. The things that were promised were also delayed.
Li Xing understood that they were doubting their own strength. If you can't even clean up the little Li Xingzai, why do you believe that Li Xing has the qualifications to win the world.
Li Xing's mood changed from extreme joy to extreme anger. He ordered 100,000 soldiers and horses to attack Luofeng City.
In order to become famous, Li Xingzhao told the world and coerced Li Xingzai for being afraid of war and cowardly and secretly colluding with the Rong clan. also released rumors that Li Xingzai was not Emperor Ming's own blood, but was born of an affair between the imperial concubine and the guards.
Li Xing is here to mobilize the people, and Li Xingzai is not idle. On the one hand, it reorganized its armaments and was ready to respond to war at any time, and on the other hand, it also launched a propaganda war with Li Xing.
Tell the world with a war letter, and count Li Xing's ten major crimes. Speaking from when he was in Chang'an, he said how he bullied men and women and did a lot of evil.
The war has not yet officially begun, and the war of words between the two sides is already inextricable. Spreading rumors and slandering each other, the two who fought fiercely did not realize that there would be no winner in this propaganda war, and what they consumed was the prestige of the Li family's royal family in the hearts of the people of the world.
The war in Chang'an in the north is currently in a state of truce, and the winner has not yet been decided, while the war in the south of the Yangtze River is ready to break out at any time.
The winter has not yet passed, and most of the empire is already in the midst of war.
The other princes were not idle, recruiting their own troops, sharpening their knives, staring at the whole world with vicious eyes, thinking about how to cut the fattest flesh from the deer of the empire.
Li Xing's 100,000 Yangzhou soldiers surrounded Luofeng City, and Luofeng City became an isolated city. After the preparations were properly arranged, Li Xing immediately began to attack.
He didn't get the upper hand in the war of words, and now Li Xing couldn't hold it anymore, thinking about defeating Luofeng City and killing Li Xingzai, he took a bad breath out of his chest.
With the momentum of taking it, the army attacked Luofeng City. After several times, the losses were severe, but no effect was received.
Li Xing suddenly realized an embarrassing fact: Luofeng City is not easy to fight.
Luofeng City is in the gap between the three forces, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and by the sea on one side, surrounded by pirates and bandits, and the land is barren and difficult to cultivate.
The key problem is that Luofeng City is too small, and being too small is naturally a shortcoming, which severely restricts Li Xingzai's development. However, in the case of a heavy siege, this becomes an advantage.
30,000 soldiers and horses are enough to arrange and arrange properly, enough to guard a Luofeng City. Because of the complex terrain outside the city, Li Xing's army could not be used.
Besides, Luofeng City was definitely not as weak as he believed. There are strategists Chu Yunsheng, Qi Jiguang, who has trained soldiers, and generals like Xu Wentian and Hua Mulan.
Now Li Xingzai's strength is not enough to take the initiative to attack the enemy, but it is more than enough to defend a small Luofeng City.
Li Xing originally wanted to kick the first foot and kick off his prelude to dominating the world. Unfortunately, he kicked the first kick to open the door.
An army of 100,000 camped thirty miles outside Luofeng City. In Li Xing's handsome tent, he fiddled with the stove in front of him, and his expression was a little decadent.
Although it is Jiangnan, the weather is still getting colder and colder day by day after winter. Li Xingshuai's tent has a special person to serve, and there are heating things such as stoves and blankets, which can make the wind blow in, and it is as warm as spring. But ordinary soldiers do not have such blessings, and can only use their bodies to bear the cold.
It has not been attacked for a long time, and it is currently in the armistice stage. Li Xing was inside the big tent, and he could hear crying every night. Some are the wails of wounded soldiers, others are the loss of loved ones in the war.
And if it continues like this day by day, it is a huge consumption of grain and grass.
War is never a pleasant thing.
Li Xing stood by the stove and let out a long sigh from his mouth. Li Xing may not be the strongest prince in the entire empire, but he must be the richest one.
But even Li Xing, who is so rich, is in pain with such consumption. War is a process in which you stab yourself and I stab yourself and consume each other. Until one of the parties simply can't afford it and is eliminated from the table, the winner takes all the chips from the table.
Li Xing glanced at Hong Liao on the other side and said, "Luofeng City has not been able to defeat it, does the military advisor have any strategy to take Luofeng City?"
Hong's expression was very calm, and he did not look decadent because of the disadvantage of the teacher, at this time Li Xing asked, he said: "Your Majesty, in my opinion, the current situation is not without benefits for us. ”
"Oh, what's the explanation?"
Hong said: "There has been no war in Jiangnan for a long time, and with the same strength, it is a recognized fact that Yangzhou soldiers are defeated by other princes. Can they still fight? I think Your Majesty has the same doubts in his heart. It happens to use Luofeng City to train troops, so that they can familiarize themselves with the battlefield and know what the dead are all about. ”
"You just said that training is ......," Li Xing had a thoughtful look on his face.
Hong nodded: "It's training." It is currently winter, and the cold in the north is even worse, so we lost the time to let the Jiangnan soldiers go to the north to fight. For the time being, we can wait until the beginning of spring next year before marching to the northland. At present, Luo Fengcheng happens to be used as a whetstone to create an indestructible treasure knife for His Majesty. ”
"Besides......" Hong paused: "Luofeng City may not be defeated, as long as Your Majesty does not care about casualties and costs, he will definitely be able to break Luofeng City within three days." ”
"But that would be too expensive. Li Xing sighed.
Hong's face returned to the expressionless face just now. Lu has pointed out to Li Xing that how to choose is his own business.
Li Xing fell into deep thought, how could there be a city in the world that could not be attacked, as powerful as Chang'an, which had also been broken by the enemy several times. As long as you don't care about the cost, regardless of the consumption, you can use the corpses to pile up a city at any time.
It's just that this price is not what Li Xing is willing to bear.
After a while, he opened his eyes, and he already had a choice in his heart: "According to the strategy of the military division, Luofeng City will be used as a whetstone to train troops in Yangzhou for me." ”
Li Xing made up his mind and immediately began to carry out this matter. The 100,000-strong army took turns to attack the city, fighting both day and night, naturally suffering heavy casualties, but the soldiers were also growing rapidly.
But after the 100,000 army was sharpened again, Li Xing transferred troops from Yangzhou to change the defense, grinding again and again, eliminating the weak and leaving the strong.
This is also a huge drain, but it can make your team grow quickly.
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