In fact, Kong Donglai's calculations were very deep. Once Anyang and Jin State confronted each other, Anyang would not be in a good situation, and Jin State would also suffer heavy losses, so that Jin State would not be able to attack Nanyang County. In this way, Nanyang County would have some time for peace and be able to develop to the north and capture cities.
By the time Jin State recovered, Nanyang County would probably have been established.
And Anyang is so powerful now, it is enough to deal a heavy blow to Jin! Jin is also a big country, and it will definitely not give up easily. In this case, the two families will definitely fight each other and never give up - at least that's what Kong Donglai thinks.
This is Kong Donglai's thinking, the thinking of a politician. Therefore, Kong Donglai ignored Nangong Zhi's strategy and prepared to do nothing and let the Nanyang County army be defeated.
Of course, in order to prevent Anyang from rebellion, Kong Donglai agreed to Nangong Zhi's strategy on the surface and asked Nangong Zhi to lead troops to block it. But secretly, Kong Donglai was ready for "active defeat". He didn't even care about losing part of the land in Nanyang County.
However, Kong Donglai seemed to have worried too much, and Anyang did not fall into Kong Donglai's calculations - it did not continue to attack Nanyang County.
After Yan Zhengqing and Wang Jian joined forces, they only took the 70,000 to 80,000 defeated soldiers of Nanyang County as prisoners. Then, Anyang did something "very interesting", forcing these prisoners to swear to help guard the Anyang border! Those who dared not to swear would "die in battle".
Anyway, Anyang had killed more than 100,000 Nanyang County soldiers in this war. Of the 300,000 Nanyang County troops - about 150,000 soldiers and about 150,000 civilians, only about 50,000 escaped in the end. The rest were either killed in battle or captured, and no one knew exactly how many were killed or captured, so it was easy to cover it up by killing a few people at random.
Under the threat of death, the captives from Nanyang County began to swear to help Anyang guard the border for a year. After a year, Anyang would release all the captives - this was the exchange condition. Of course, if the situation was good, they would be released earlier.
In this way, when Kong Donglai was still "hoping" that the Anyang army would continue to attack so that he could go to Jin State for help, the Anyang army left behind about 70,000 prisoners, 10,000 elite soldiers, and 100,000 civilians to guard the border; the other 70,000 main forces, after wandering around the border of Nanyang County, actually attacked directly to the east!
To the east, target: Dongyuan County! Final destination: Luliang County!
It turned out that Anyang's battle strategy was also very clear. After all, Anyang's current strength was limited, and it was unable to develop inland, and it would cause public anger. It just so happened that there was a Luliang County to the east of Anyang and a Dongyuan County to the south. Moreover, these two counties happened to be isolated and close to the sea. They were simply fat meat at the mouth of Anyang County!
Therefore, the real military strategy of Anyang is to first annex Luliang County and then wait for an opportunity to annex Dongyuan County. The isolated Dongyuan County and Luliang County are too tempting.
Therefore, Yan Zhengqing and Wang Jian led 70,000 elite troops and marched day and night to attack the east, leaving Yang Yishan to guard the border.
Planes, etc., flew directly back to Anyang City to check and replenish supplies and fuel, and brought a large amount of bullets, talismans, elixirs, etc. to the army.
Kong Donglai waited for a day, but the Anyang army did not come. Kong Donglai thought: Oh, Anyang is resting. He must be tired from fighting continuously. But you guys come quickly. As long as you come, even if there are only 10,000 miscellaneous soldiers, I will definitely be "defeated".