This emperor is too strong!

Chapter 177 Great Chu Crisis
Qingqiu Palace.

"Too deceiving!"

Yan Chuyun gritted her silver teeth and slapped the case hard, her eyes sparkling with fire.

Although she had already guessed Da Xia's plan, when this scene really happened, she was still very angry.

The main reason, of course, was that her countermeasures had failed, which annoyed her especially.

Before she fell asleep, she had just received the two great news of Ke Xin's successful coup d'état and the army's defeat of Ronglin's defense line, but she never expected that the situation would turn around when she woke up!

Emperor Yunbo was inexplicably captured by Daxia's army, and even now she still doesn't know how Daxia did it.

On the other hand, the Great Xia Pioneer seized the north bank of the Songjiang River as quickly as thunder, not only blocked the Qingqiu army's way to the north, but even gave its own army a big blow, resulting in the tragic death of nearly a thousand soldiers!
The key problem is that one's own side can't confirm the opponent's first shot.

"Your Majesty! Daxia's food is too ugly, and he also killed many of our soldiers. This account can't just be settled like this!"

Jiang Zhan was filled with righteous indignation and said angrily.

"I suggest that you directly declare war on Great Xia!"

Prime Minister Luo Dingbang frowned slightly, and interjected: "Your Majesty, this matter needs to be cautious. Daxia's army is powerful. If we go to war with Daxia at this time, we will probably lose both sides! And we will not be able to take Daliang again. "

Jiang Zhan snorted coldly, and said with a sullen face, "Luo Xiang, are you looking down on Daxia too much, or are you looking down on my Qingqiu army?"

Luo Dingbang's face darkened, and he stared at Jiang Zhan displeased.

"Master Jiang Wei, what do you mean by that?"

"what for?"

Jiang Zhan sneered again and again, "Daxia has sent two major armies to attack Dachu and David respectively. If there is another war with us, it will be a third-front war!"

"I believe the prime minister should understand the various taboos of fighting on the third front without me having to say more."

"Even in terms of the number of troops that can be invested, there is a big gap between Daxia and our dynasty."

"In this case, my Qingqiu Dynasty can still be afraid of him Daxia?"

Luo Dingbang glared at Jiang Zhan, and said in a deep voice: "When did the truth tell you that you will not go to war with Daxia now because you are afraid of them? The truth is very clear, it is not an opportunity to fight Daxia for life and death. Before annexing Daliang, we can't lose both sides with Daxia!"

"You have to be clear, although Daxia took out two legions to attack the direction of Da Chu and David, they still have three major legions!"

"The three major armies, 180 million troops, how much less than my main battle army?"

"joke!"

Jiang Zhan sneered, and said disdainfully: "Will Xiang Luo settle accounts? If Daxia is caught in the quagmire of war in those two directions, how can two legions solve it?"

"At the very least, they have to keep a legion to reinforce the war in the other two directions!"

"In this way, the army that Daxia can invest in my direction is at most two legions! How can two legions with 120 million troops fight against us?"

"you……"

"All right!"

Yan Chuyun snarled impatiently, interrupting their argument.

"Right now is indeed not the time to start an all-out war with Daxia. If we don't win Daliang, our strategic space is too narrow. And if we lose both, it is possible that Daliang and other forces will take advantage of the loopholes and benefit."

"However, this matter can't be left as it is. I, Qingqiu, invested a lot in order to win Yunbo, and paid far more casualties than expected. I can't let Daxia pick the fruits of victory in vain!"

"In this way, pass the decree to General Hussars and tell him that I will give him three days to come up with a feasible strategy. Except that he cannot go to war directly, he can give him authority for everything else, and let him decide!"

"If the matter fails, or if three days have passed and no solution has been found, then let him return to the imperial court, and the matter will be shelved!"

Luo Dingbang and Jiang Zhan were not too satisfied with Yan Chuyun's decision, but it was the best compromise.

"According to the order!"

……

On the fifth day of August, night.

The imperial capital of Great Chu, the imperial palace.

Although it was late at night, the main palace in front of the palace was still brightly lit.

Especially in the Palace of Military Strategy, more than [-] ministers of civil and military affairs gathered together, everyone frowned and looked extremely serious.

In addition, although the little emperor of Dachu is not here, the queen mother Miyan is also sitting here in person.

"It shouldn't be. I have replayed it more than a dozen times, but every time I failed. How did the Great Xia army do it?"

"Thirty thousand cavalrymen fought all the way from the front battalion to the back battalion, penetrated [-] lines of defense, and completely pierced the entire Wanglong camp. How is this possible? What kind of army can do this?"

"That's right, even if these cavalry are all innate, even if they can leap all kinds of trenches and resist horse formations, they can't stop the thunderbolt and crossbow rain attack. What is the situation of this battle? Could it be that there are generals? Betrayal, cooperate with the other party internally and externally?"

A group of ministers stared at the war chess on the sand table and talked about it constantly. Apart from being serious, their faces were quite ugly.

Because early this morning, the Great Xia army launched an attack on the Wanglong camp. The opponent did not make any tentative attacks, but launched a full-scale attack as soon as they came up!
Da Chu has always been prepared for Da Xia, so he deployed 50 troops in the Wanglong camp.

In their thinking, even if Daxia really mobilized troops against Dachu one day, relying on the 50 troops of the Wanglong camp, at least they could contain the opponent for ten days and a half months.

With this time, Da Chu is enough to mobilize all available forces to continuously support the past.

But the result?

From sunrise to evening, in less than a day, the Wanglong camp was defeated by the enemy in one fell swoop!
In this battle, apart from 50 to [-] of the army of [-] who fled, the rest either died in battle, were seriously injured and captured, or abandoned their weapons and surrendered.
Faced with such an ending, the ministers of the Great Chu were astonished, but they were also filled with unimaginability. They could not imagine how the great Xia managed this battle.

According to the scattered news from the front line, they replayed the battle many times, but no matter how much they replayed, they couldn't get a result that was close to the facts.

In the end, some people even began to doubt their own generals, suspecting that someone secretly surrendered to the enemy and cooperated with the enemy internally and externally, which is why such a disastrous defeat occurred.

"Humph!"

A heavy cold snort suddenly sounded, suppressing all the discussions.

"The Queen Mother."

The ministers looked terrified, and bowed their heads to Mi Yan.

"What the Ai family wants to listen to now is not your wisdom after the fact, but the coping strategy!"

"The Wanglong camp was defeated. From west to east all the way to the Chunhua Mountains, the enemy can drive straight in! Now that the main force of Daxia Bifang's army has begun to continue eastward, what should we do?"

"Should we mobilize heavy troops to fight Daxia on the plain? Or concentrate our forces on the Chunhua Mountains and fight against the enemy relying on geographical advantages?"

"Or, to induce the enemy to continue to divide their troops, divide and annihilate them?"

Mi Yan said in a cold voice, her charming cheeks were covered with frost.

Although she had already been mentally prepared for Daxia's army to loot, she still didn't expect the opponent to come so fast, let alone how powerful the Daxia army would be!
In just one day, 60 troops defeated her own 50 troops, and she was still in her own well-defended camp, which really shocked her.

Hearing Mi Yan's question, Lian Sansheng, the imperial historian, stood up immediately.

"Queen Mother, it is absolutely not advisable to divide the troops, and it is even more inadvisable to take the initiative to attack! The military strength of the Great Xia army may be stronger than we expected, and the Wanglong Camp is a lesson from the past!"

"Therefore, I suggest that the three Chunhua Passes be used as the core to gather heavy troops to defend layer by layer, and use the defense of the three passes and the favorable location of the Chunhua Mountains to block the enemy's army to the west of Chunhua!"

As soon as Lian Sansheng finished speaking, he was immediately questioned.

"Then if the enemy detours from the south, why don't they forcefully attack the three Chunhua passes?"

"Wouldn't it be better? What we have to do now is to buy time!"

Lian Sansheng smiled calmly with wise eyes.

"It will take three or four days for the enemy to reach the Chunhua Mountains, and another six or seven days if they want to go south and bypass the Chunhua Mountains."

"With this time, we are able to make more adequate preparations. And there is a high probability that King Xiu will be able to resolve David's war and send some of the main force back to help."

"In this way, we can attack the enemy's Bifang army on both sides and defeat it!"

clap clap~
As Lian Sansheng's voice fell, there was a slow applause, and at the same time, an inexplicable sentence sounded.

"As expected of Dr. Yu Shi, the ability on paper is really high..."

Lian Sansheng's face darkened, and he glared at the big-eyed general who spoke, that is, Ding Yi, General Dingbo of Da Chu.

"General Ding, what do you mean?"

"What do you mean? Humph!"

Ding Yi sneered and said mockingly: "Lian Yushi thinks that the Great Xia army is a string puppet who can be manipulated by you as you wish?"

"The general is only talking about a very simple possibility. If Daxia sends troops to attack the three passes at the same time, but two of them are just feints and the other is the main force, then you who have dispersed all the troops, how to deal with it?"

"If this barrier is breached, the enemy army will be able to travel all the way to the foot of the imperial capital! Then, what can you do?"

Lian Sansheng opened his mouth, but didn't know how to respond, his face turned red and white alternately.

"So, in terms of war, you, the censor, should not give advice indiscriminately. Don't think that after reading a few military books, you are a real military strategist. That will only harm the country and the people!"

Ding Yi criticized without hesitation, and had no intention of saving face for Lian Sansheng at all.

At this time, a minister with a good relationship with Lian Sansheng walked out with a sullen face.

"Then what to do according to General Ding's intention? General Ding is a veteran on the battlefield and a famous military veteran, so he has a perfect strategy to defeat the enemy, right?"

Ding Yi glanced at the speaker, and snorted expressionlessly.

"Don't give this general a high hat, and don't play the tricks of your civil officials' text traps! This general will not accept this trick!"

(End of this chapter)