Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 87 The Growing Crack

Not long after Su Yi's independent fleet won the great victory in the Anbo Port naval battle, the army troops of the Su family secretly gathered two infantry brigades, two marine brigades, Twenty field infantry brigades and 64 supplementary regiments launched a large-scale counterattack against the Sharad Empire Army that attacked Wuyang City.

In fact, He Yunfei, the commander of the army of the Su Family Army, has been planning this counterattack against the army of the Sharad Empire for a long time. He Yunfei hopes to use this counterattack to change the current situation of the Ziyue Empire, and the Su Family Army can also take this opportunity to seize some territory.

The reason why He Yunfei chose the army of the Sharad Empire to fight back is because the Sharad Empire has already obtained huge benefits from the Cangyu Empire and Liuyun Empire. Once the army of the Sharad Empire loses in the territory of the Ziyue Empire If it is too large, the Sharad Empire will probably withdraw its troops from the Purple Moon Empire.

Under the command of He Yunfei, about 80 troops of the Su Family Army and 90 troops of the Ziyue Empire, on December 3011, [-] in the Tang Dynasty, attacked the five Sharad Empires entrenched near Wuyang City with overwhelming momentum. A regiment of infantry launched an onslaught.

Millions of troops from both sides fought fiercely in the surrounding areas of Wuyang City for fifteen days. The battle was extremely tragic, and finally ended with the defeat of the army of the Sharad Empire. Afterwards, the troops of the Su Family Army pursued the victory and directly drove the army of the Sharad Empire out of Weinan Province .

During the 70-day Battle of Wuyang City, the army of the Sharad Empire suffered nearly 12 casualties, the Su Family Army suffered about 50 casualties, and the Ziyue Empire's army suffered more than [-] casualties. But the winning side belongs to the army of the Su family and the Ziyue Empire.

And because of the failure of the Battle of Wuyang City, the Sharad Empire finally chose to withdraw from the Ziyue Empire. The army troops of the Sharad Empire that entered the northern region of the Ziyue Empire all withdrew to the territory of the Cangyu Empire at the end of January in the year 3012 of the Tang Dynasty. .

After the army of the Sharad Empire retreated, almost 80.00% of the northern part of the Ziyue Empire that was released was occupied by the Su Family Army, except for a small part recovered by the Royal Army of the Ziyue Empire, especially those related to the Cangyu Empire. The four neighboring provinces were basically acquired by the Su family army.

In order to compete for territory, the Su Family Army and the Royal Army of the Ziyue Empire even broke out conflicts in many places, which made the rift between the Su Family Army and the Ziyue Empire wider and wider.

In the palace of Suisheng City, the accompanying capital of the Ziyue Empire, Empress Ouyang Xue asked Prime Minister Guo Xian in a deep voice: "What about Su Yi? Dingnan Province, Luochuan Province, Lianshan Province and Shanjiang Province were almost all given by the Su family army. Preempted, Su Yi has to give us Ziyue Empire an explanation for this!"

Dingnan Province, Luochuan Province, Lianshan Province and Shanjiang Province are the four provinces adjacent to the Cangyu Empire within the Ziyue Empire.

Prime Minister Guo Xian said with a solemn expression: "Your Majesty, the Su family army explained that the reason why they occupied Dingnan Province, Luochuan Province, Lianshan Province and Shanjiang Province is to prevent the Sharad Empire from invading again."

As soon as Prime Minister Guo Xian finished speaking, Yuan Lin, the Minister of War, said angrily: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister, what the Su family said to prevent the invasion of the Sharad Empire is definitely an excuse. Now Su Yi has completely exposed his wolfish ambitions. We Ziyue The empire must take immediate action against the Su family army!"

At this time, Navy Minister Liu Yongcheng said with a wry smile: "This is really rejecting tigers at the front door and entering wolves at the back door. Now even the millions of soldiers of the Sharad Empire are no match for the Su family army. Once our Ziyue Empire and the Su family army really tear themselves apart, then we The Ziyue Empire's situation is even more difficult, don't forget that the Su Family Army is also the main force on the front line against the Jisk Empire Army and the Orensa Empire Army."

Yuan Lin, Minister of the Army, immediately said: "Then we can't keep appeasing the Su family's army. According to the information obtained by the intelligence department, the Su family's army has started a new round in the territory of Dingnan Province, Luochuan Province, Lianshan Province and Shanjiang Province. Expansion of the army, and the Su family army also directly recruited hundreds of thousands of captured officers and soldiers of our Ziyue Empire Royal Army who were rescued, and then allowed the Su family army to expand so unscrupulously, even if our Ziyue Empire can finally take Jisk, Orenza The armies of the two countries are also driven out, but at that time, the name of the Ziyue Empire is not certain."

Prime Minister Guo Xian sighed and said: "Your Majesty, it seems that Su Yi came to help our Ziyue Empire resist the invasion of Sharad, Jisk, and Orenza this time. The problem is that the strength of the Su family's army is expanding too fast. It is very difficult for our Ziyue Empire to restrict it now, once the conflict between the two sides intensifies, the consequences may not be acceptable to our Ziyue Empire."

Empress Ouyang Xue frowned and asked: "Most of the soldiers in the Su family army are from our Ziyue Empire. Can't we think of a way from this aspect?"

Prime Minister Guo Xian said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, the military pay of the Su family army is very high. An ordinary army soldier has five silver dollars every month, and these five silver dollars are paid in real money, and the pension is ridiculously high. The Royal Army of the Ziyue Empire is constantly poaching, and based on this alone, it will be very difficult for people from our Ziyue Empire who join the Su Family Army to be pulled back."

The Ziyue Empire’s finances had been in deficit before the war. Because of the war, the Ziyue Empire’s finances were even more difficult to make ends meet. The navy officers and soldiers of the Ziyue Empire had not been paid for almost half a year. After the outbreak of the war in the Rensa Empire, they did not receive a penny of military pay.

The military salary can’t be paid out, let alone any pensions. The Ziyue Empire’s army has suffered millions of casualties in this war, but the family members of the fallen soldiers who can receive pensions are simply rare. The Ziyue Empire is only for their own Only a small number of family members of the fallen soldiers were given a pension of 30 silver dollars because of the need for publicity.

According to the current pension standards of the Su Family Army, if an ordinary soldier is killed in battle, the family members will first receive a one-time pension of 300 silver dollars, and the family members of the soldiers who died in battle will also receive some subsidies from the Su Family Army every month. The subsidy is tentatively set at Parents, wives, and children of soldiers who died in battle can receive one hundred catties of rice and thirty cans of meat each month.

Secretary of the Navy Liu Yongcheng sighed and said: "Your Majesty, the Su family army is different from the three countries of Sharad, Jisk, and Orenza. After all, Su Yi is from Tang Dynasty, not to mention that the Su family army is very powerful. Not to mention the army of the Su family army, it is only the one of the Su family army. The fleet has attracted many people from Ziyue Empire."

Queen Ouyang Xue gritted her teeth and asked: "Then what should we do now? We can't really let the Su family army gobble up our Ziyue Empire's territory bit by bit!"

(End of this chapter)