Martial Arts: Start with 100,000 Xiliang Cavalry

Chapter 311 Hedging Bets, A Powerful Helper

The Dong'an army captured most of the villages and towns in the south in less than seven days with the force of the wind sweeping the fallen leaves.

This is a big blow to Xifeng, because the southern area of ​​Xifeng country is the main factory area, and many heavy industries are located here.The loss of these factories will greatly affect its domestic production, whether it is civilian production or military production.

Xifeng's response method is very interesting. Delz did not rush to regain the territory, but established a solid line of defense at the junction of the central area and the central area.This line of defense is called the Lierte line of defense because it is close to the city of "Lierte".

Undoubtedly, the establishment of this Lierte line of defense proved that Daerz did not plan to send troops into the south, but planned to abandon the south and block the Dong'an army at the line of defense, preventing them from entering the northern central area.

When this news reached Qi Jiguang's ears, he also agreed in his heart.If he was the upper decision maker of Xifeng, he would probably make this decision as well.

Now that the Dong'an army has largely controlled the southern region, if Xifeng invests more troops, it will not take advantage, and it will lose a lot.On the contrary, if a line of defense is established in the central region, as long as the Dong'an army can be blocked in the southern region, a protracted war can be fought.

Xifeng, which has two large areas in the central and northern regions, will definitely have an advantage over Dong'an in a protracted war.After all, although there are many factories in the southern region, the population is not large, and the environment is relatively harsh, so it is not a permanent place for the army.

However, by doing so, Xifeng's high-level executives are equivalent to abandoning the citizens of the southern region.

After the news of the establishment of the Lierte defense line spread, the citizens of Xifeng in the southern region were very desperate, even angry, and resented that Xifeng's senior management had abandoned them.Especially in some unoccupied areas that were still stubbornly resisting, after discovering this fact, their hearts were ashamed.Some simply gave up defense and handed over the area to the Dong'an army on their own initiative.

In this way, Dong'an did not have to worry about the reinforcements from Xifeng, and the speed of advancing in the southern area was greatly accelerated. In less than a month, the southern area was completely occupied.

This speed is enough to shock the whole world.

Xifeng is a big country in the world, and its territory is the largest within the Xiguo.Although its southern region is not as large as the central and eastern regions, the southern region alone is larger than the entire territory of many small western countries.

This is also the reason for the fear of those small countries.Dong'an was able to capture the southern region of Xifeng within a month. Doesn't that mean that it can also capture the entire territory of these small countries in a month?
For a while, these high-level officials in the West Country fell into a certain degree of panic.

Many top leaders meet frequently to discuss strategies.

They are still hesitating now whether to join forces to help Xi Feng deal with Dong An, or take the initiative to bow to Dong An, give up fighting against him completely, and recognize him as the boss.

There are support for either, but relatively speaking, there are more of the former.Because Dong'an is an empire composed of orientals after all, they would always feel that their dignity and honor would be compromised if they bowed their heads to the oriental empire, especially those nobles, who couldn't stand the loss of face.

As for the civilians at the bottom, they don't care about these things. What they care about is peace, as long as the war does not happen in their own country.

Newspapers from various countries are also tracking and reporting on this war. When all the southern regions fell, nationals of all countries were discussing heatedly.

In the taverns of the Saxon country, everyone was discussing the battle.

"The Dong'an people are too fierce! It's only been a month, and the southern part of Xifeng is gone. If this continues, won't the whole of Xifeng fall in half a year?"

"I still underestimate Dong'an..."

"I don't know what the top management of our government thinks? Let me tell you, this is the time to make a move..."

"That's right, our Saxon country is almost the country with the best relationship with Dong'an in the western country. This time, we should also get a share of the pie."

"It's hard to say... Dong'an is the Eastern Empire after all, and we and the Xifeng people are of the same language..."

The citizens of the Saxon country are both excited and worried.This kind of situation not only happens among the people, but also permeates these two sentiments among the high-level people.

Members are arguing over whether to add insult to injury and seize Xifeng's overseas islands, or whether to support Xifeng in large quantities with weapons and equipment.Many congressmen debated for a long time, and finally came to a conclusion that the two should be carried out at the same time.

While seizing Xifeng's overseas interests, sell them cheap materials and equipment.In this way, even if Xifeng is dissatisfied, it is hard to say. After all, among the countries at present, only the Saxon country has enough background to continuously support them with supplies.

However, the top officials of the Saxon Kingdom were also worried that doing so would dissatisfy Dong'an.Therefore, they simply proposed to Dong'an that if Dong'an's overseas troops needed equipment and supplies, the Saxon Kingdom was willing to support them.

This kind of behavior of selling arms and equipment to both sides of the war, in the eyes of the Saxon country, maximizes the benefits, and neither side will offend too much.This is also equivalent to a two-way bet. Although the top management is unanimously more optimistic that Dong'an will win this battle, it is not appropriate to place all bets on Dong'an. It is a gambler's behavior and is not advisable.

Even if the winning rate is 99%, there may be 1% accidents.For example, the Saxon country is now very clear that Dong'an is the real central government, which means that if the most important person has a problem, the whole country may have a big problem.

Even in the distance, even if Su Yuan, the monarch, has no problems, if his successor has problems decades or hundreds of years later, the whole country may fall into turmoil.This is the shortcoming of the big central government. With the advantage of "concentrating power to do big things", it will definitely have its disadvantages.

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"The Saxons are really shrewd."

The southern central city of West Maple, Monn.

Su Yuan is in the city hall at the moment, watching the telegram message from the Saxon country.

The content is the proposal to sell equipment and supplies.

Su Yuan smiled and said to Zhou Shu: "If this continues, after a battle is over, the Saxon country will not need to use a single soldier, but it will make a lot of money. No, it should be said to be a huge profit."

"The Saxon country bet on both sides, which is also in line with their usual methods." Zhou Shu's attitude towards the Saxon country is also average.In her opinion, there is only one principle that the Saxon country pursues, and that is the supremacy of interests.For this principle, everything else can be given up.

"However, we don't need to buy supplies from them." Zhou Shu continued, "Now we occupy the entire southern area of ​​Xifeng, and the output of the factories here is enough for us to consume."

When everything serves the war, all personnel and food are rationed.The same is true for all the Xifeng people in the southern area. There is no trading market, only the large canteens opened everywhere, which will provide them with three meals a day.

In this regard, Su Yuan let the summoned soldiers be responsible. The food they made might not be very tasty, but there would definitely be no deduction.

As a result, those nobles who had no time to escape from the south were naturally extremely dissatisfied, but many bottom-level Xifeng people were very satisfied.Because they usually eat two or even one meal a day, and they often eat bad things.Now under Dong'an's canteen system, they have three meals a day, with vegetables and meat, which is much better than before.

It is also these people who are very active in recruiting workers in the factory and actively join in.Dong'an people are also more optimistic about these people, and arrange better positions for them, or ask them to help manage other Xifeng people.

"Speaking of it." Zhou Shu remembered something, "It's been a week since Natalie sent back any news, so nothing will happen, right?"

"Don't worry." Su Yuan smiled mysteriously, "I just sent her a powerful helper not long ago, and nothing will happen to her."

The capital of West Maple.

In an ordinary apartment building, Natalie looked at the five people wearing strange equipment in front of her, and said in a deep voice, "The official action will take place in three days. Are you ready?"

"Yes, sir." The five said in unison.

Each of them was wrapped in thick and large armor, and they even carried strange firearms as tall as half a person in their hands.There is a pipe at the end of the firearm that connects to a wing-shaped energy tank on everyone's back. The liquid in the tank is very special, called "super condensed vaporizer".

There is no doubt that they are from the Frozen Legion in the Red Police.

The frost guns in their hands can freeze people and even buildings, and then kick them into pieces with just one heavy kick!
Such a powerful existence was naturally summoned by Su Yuan from the soldier talisman.At present, even the Dong'an Academy of Engineering has no way to research this kind of super condensed gas and air ejection backpack.

Half a month ago, Su Yuan summoned a total of ten frozen legionnaires during a routine call.

He sent five of them to the capital of Xifeng to cooperate with Natasha.

The other five were transported back to Jinghai by boat, and transported to the Engineering Academy, so that the engineers could study the equipment on them.Carry out anti-cracking and development.

This is pretty much standard procedure.Since the establishment of the Engineering Academy, every time Su Yuan summoned soldiers with advanced technology, he would send them to the Engineering Academy for the engineers to study in order to extract advanced technology and feed back Dong'an's technological research and development progress.

There is only one purpose for doing this, and that is to make Dong'an's technology develop rapidly by leaps and bounds.It is also because of this that Dong'an has initially completed the overtaking of Western countries' technology at the current stage, and even completed a substantial overtaking in some fields, the extent of which is almost more than ten years.

Looking at the five frozen soldiers, Natasha nodded slightly.

She has sneaked into the capital of Xifeng for so long, and she already knows the situation here very well.

Right now, rich people and nobles from all over Xifeng are all running to the capital.Obviously, with the complete fall of the south, they all think that other places in Xifeng are no longer safe.Right now, the only way to feel a little more at ease is to stay in the capital.

The influx of a large number of people made the capital of Xifeng very chaotic. For this reason, Delz had to mobilize many troops to station in various passages of the city to check the foreign population, as if he was afraid that some Dong'an spies would sneak in.

However, Dong'an's spies had been lurking in Xifeng for a long time, and Natasha also entered some secret places by virtue of her superb disguise technique.Moreover, she also secretly met with the "surrender faction" headed by Marty.

At that time, she disguised herself as a tall white man without any flaws, Marty and others believed it.The plan they put forward was that after the assassination was completed, the capitulators would come to power and announce peace talks with Dong'an.Marty and others asked Natasha to make a promise, that is, at the peace talks meeting, Xifeng was willing to cede the entire southern region to Dong'an in exchange for the security of the central and northern regions.

That is to say, the content of this transaction is that the Surrender Faction trades the death and resignation of Deltz and others in exchange for Dong'an not making any further progress, not breaking through Cottle's line of defense, and seizing more territory from Xifeng.

How could Natasha, as an agent, be in charge of this matter.She sent the message to Su Yuan, who replied in agreement.

So Natasha agreed to the request of Marty and others, and the cooperation intention between the two parties was initially reached.

After the cooperation was reached, Marty and others secretly provided Delz's itinerary plan for the last two weeks, and wanted to discuss with Dong'an Teshang on which day to start.Natalie told them she would do it a week later when Delz went to the hospital for a check-up—but that was a lie.

Natalie's real hands-on time was three days later, when Delz went to inspect a factory, and wiped it out by hand.

As a professional agent, Natalie knows that absolute trust does not exist.She would remain suspicious of Su Yuan and anyone other than the summoned soldiers.What's more, Marty and these Xifeng executives.

Even if they had no motive for setting a trap, Natalie would still not believe it, but would act on her own ideas.This is also the authorization given to her by Su Yuan, so that she can "act by ear" without worrying about other things.

The current situation is unstable, and Delz himself is very careful. He usually has [-] or [-] bodyguards when he goes in and out.In addition, as many as a hundred National Guard soldiers will be deployed within one kilometer of their own.

With such a defensive strength, according to the original calculation, Natasha must get the support of Tan Yaqi's special warfare team.It's not that she herself is incapable of carrying out the assassination mission, but that she lacks the weapons at hand.If she has a high-magnification and high-precision sniper rifle, she can completely complete the task by herself.

As for the help from Marty et al?She doesn't need it.And she thinks that it is safest to carry out the assassination by herself.Hand it over to Marty and others, maybe it will be bad.

There is no high-precision sniper rifle right now, and Su Yuan gave her the order to "protect her own life as the highest priority", so Natasha will not risk her life.

She had planned to contact Su Yuan and ask Tan Ya to bring a team to the capital for support.However, Su Yuan sent her five frozen legionnaires.

After knowing the ability of this special soldier, Natasha had a new assassination plan.

Three days later, accompanied by dozens of bodyguards, Delz inspected a military factory in the capital.

But what he didn't know was that Natasha and several soldiers of the Frozen Legion had already sneaked into the factory while working.And Natasha also killed the factory's security captain, disguised as him...

(End of this chapter)