The capital of the Yan Kingdom, this prosperous city in the north, was completely depressed at this time. All the strong men in the city were recruited by their king to fight on the battlefield.
How could Jicheng, with only a few old, weak, women and children left, be able to support the prosperity of this huge city, and they were not in the mood to do so. Their husbands, sons, fathers and brothers were all on the battlefield, so how could they be in the mood to do this
Inside and outside the city, there are two armies with more than 400,000 people gathered. Under this city, they will fight a war that is destined to affect the entire world.
"Your Majesty, do we really want to fight this siege battle with the Yan Kingdom?" The cunning and cunning Cao Cao, as a very important commander of the 300,000-strong army, naturally did not want his army to go to waste. Earth was wasted in this pointless siege.
"Of course not. I just hope to gather Yan's army here, and then surround and contain them so that they cannot be dispatched." Zhong Yu naturally knew the questions of many of his generals.
"Then your Majesty has achieved his goal. Do you have any other preparations at this moment? Can you tell me the plan so that you can cooperate with your Majesty?" Cao Cao continued to ask. He had been guessing what the man in front of him was thinking.
"All the troops of Yan State, except for the border troops who have not been mobilized, all the troops that can be summoned from various places have arrived here, so they must be extremely weak, and at this time, we have a lot of room for maneuver!" With a confident face, Zhong Yu revealed his target plan.
"So that's it. Does Your Majesty plan to take the opportunity to occupy various places, or do you just rob some people and materials and withdraw immediately?" Cao Cao understood His Majesty's intention, but he didn't know how serious he was.
"Of course it's about plundering the population. With our country's current strength, it's impossible to capture the Yan Kingdom without more than 100,000 troops. Send troops to attack various parts of the Yan Kingdom to garrison and suppress possible rebellions. It will cost me nearly 100,000 troops.
Then there are the border troops of Yan State in the north and south, which also have 100,000 people. If you want to destroy them, you will have to lose at least 50,000 to 60,000 people. In addition, if you want to take this powerful city, you will not lose 20,000 of them. Thousands of people, don’t even think about it!
After such calculations, if you want to take over the entire Yan Kingdom, you must be prepared to lose nearly 300,000 of them, and leave more than 100,000 of them to stay behind to deal with the prying eyes of other countries. Where is the current Yuguo? The price you can pay! "Speaking of this, Zhong Yu sighed, he was not Qin after all.
Not as domineering as the Qin State that would swallow up the entire world a few years later.
When the Qin State unified the world, it had millions of troops, enough food and grass for the army for ten years. The whole country worked hard to defeat the two countries of Han and Zhao, and intimidated the two countries of Yan and Wei. They ceded territory for peace.
After digesting the two countries of Han and Zhao, they directly destroyed Wei State, forcing Yan State to dare not fight at all, and directly ceded Guangyang County, begging Qin State for temporary forgiveness.
After the incident of Jing Ke's assassination of Qin, Qin only sent 100,000 troops, but Yan State, which still had nearly 200,000 troops, was defeated steadily and did not dare to fight Qin at all.
why is that? Is it because Yan's army is not strong enough? But they were able to defeat the Hu people and retreat. The reason was because they lacked this spirit. They were afraid of the Qin State from the bottom up. No nobles or civilians dared to fight with the Qin State, so the country perished so quickly. !
Although the strength of my current imperial kingdom is comparable to that of the Seven Warring States Heroes in the world, to be honest, its strength is only equivalent to that of the Yan Kingdom before the war!
Even if they could defeat the Yan State, in their eyes, it was just relying on luck. The element of luck was very heavy and was not enough as a basis for their surrender.
And whether he can destroy the Yan Kingdom is still a question. Everyone in the Yan Kingdom was just worried about how far the Yan Kingdom's strength would decline after this war, but they never thought that they would destroy the country.
Because even if the Yan State really cannot withstand it, will the other six countries really sit back and watch this country, which has been inherited for 800 years, be destroyed by enemies from the north who don’t know where? Definitely not, it will just be a replica of another HD battle.
The three kingdoms of Wei, Zhao and Qi will definitely send reinforcements. Even the Chu State in the south and the Qin State and South Korea in the west will send troops and will not sit idly by.
So how could I, who was greatly weakened at that time, be an opponent of the six nations in the world
It is inevitable to retreat steadily, and it is inevitable to spit out the three counties that they annexed again. They may even be counterattacked into their own country, allowing them to launch a war of annihilation. This is what Zhong Yu does not want to see.
Therefore, his war this time was just to take the opportunity to rob the wealthy population of the three western counties of Yan State.
After all, although Yuguo is said to have a relatively large population, plus the two counties of Liaodong, Liaoxi, and Youbeiping that it currently occupies, it has a population of about 5 million.
However, they are still very rare in their vast land. It can be said that the land is vast and the people are sparse.
Now he has newly occupied the three eastern counties of Yan State. These three counties are equivalent to one of his own states. The territory of modern China was originally a province, and he plans to divide it into the administrative districts of a state.
Only the more than 700,000 people now are naturally not enough. No matter how hard it is, we have to fill it with millions of people, so that we can barely rule and develop such a vast place.
So where did the extra 300,000 people come from? My own kingdom? Of course it's impossible.
His current imperial kingdom still has a fairly large territory, which is the former grassland part of the Donghu people. It has not been effectively managed and ruled, and is in ruins.
If you want to completely fill this place and control it to prevent it from taking advantage of other grassland tribes, you will naturally need the endless population of your own kingdom to fill it.
This grassland part is quite vast. Its territory is what is now China's NMG Province, and is divided by a sharp cut to the north of what is now China's HEB Province. The entire northern half of the province is the grassland boundary of the Donghu people.
This is a place equivalent to two provinces. If you want to fill it, even if the grassland is vast and grassy, and it is not good at farming, it will take millions of people to barely control it and establish a set of administrative rules.
Zhong Yu is already working on this plan. If it succeeds, he will have one more state, Mengzhou.
Therefore, it is impossible for these 300,000 people to count on the local resources of his royal kingdom. Then they can only plunder enough people from the current place of Yan Kingdom and move to the three eastern counties.
As for Yan State, after all this trouble, its population was greatly reduced and half of its territory was lost. Its strength may only be half of its original strength or even less, and it may become a kingdom that is as unworthy of its name as South Korea.
He will no longer be known as a great nation. After he regains his strength and digests the current territory and population, it will just be a matter of killing him in one fell swoop.
(End of chapter)