"Dongjun needs reinforcements?"
When Lu Yuan received Huang Lin's request, he couldn't help but frown.
He had strongly supported the war in Dongjun on the West Road, and he still supports it now.
For this reason, one million cannon fodder was even transferred there, hoping that the situation could be opened up as soon as possible.
And the result did not disappoint him.
The battle situation in Dongjun, which had been sluggish at first, did make rapid progress after receiving the support of one million cannon fodder.
Not only did they capture Liangcheng, but they also made dumplings of Zhao's million-strong army on the Baima front line, blocking more than half of the opponent's main force in one go.
After Zhao Ren lost Liangcheng, the situation in Dongjun also fell into a deadlock and was on the verge of chronic death.
Looking at each other now, how long can he hold on before dying completely?
But now.
It was in this good situation that Huang Lin not only did not further attack the Zhao people, but quickly harvested the results.
Instead, he came to ask for more assistance to deal with the increasingly unfavorable war situation over there.
To be honest, if he hadn't been sure that the other party was his clone and could not betray him, Lu Yuan would have doubted this guy's intentions.
However, it was precisely because the other party was his clone that after the communication between the two spirits, he quickly figured out the Chu army's situation in Dongjun and understood the difficulties faced by the other party through the connection between the spirits.
In Dongjun, the situation of the Chu army was indeed a bit bad.
The Zhao people gathered a main force of two million in the direction of Diqiu. Now after these main forces were consumed by the war, there are still about 1.75 million people left.
In the direction of Baima, there are also about 400,000 Zhao troops.
To the north of the river, in Jizhou, the homeland of Zhao State, it is also expected to recruit an army of 1.5 million to about 2 million.
Therefore, even based on the most optimistic estimate of the situation, the number of troops gathered in Dongjun in the next few months by the Zhao people was at least 3.6 million.
Yes, many of these 3.6 million people are civilians recruited temporarily. They are a mob, and their strength is not as strong as those carefully trained soldiers.
Moreover, the Zhao people lost Liangcheng and only had half of Dongjun left. There would be serious supply problems in Henan and they would not be able to support the army for long periods of time.
It may only take March or May for these millions of troops to collapse due to lack of food.
But having said so much, one problem cannot be concealed after all, that is, this is an army of more than 3.6 million people!
Even if there are 3.6 million pigs, if you stand still and let you kill them, they will be exhausted and the swords will break.
Not to mention an army of 3.6 million people organized and trained under military law.
And in contrast to that.
The Chu army in Dongjun now only has 1.4 million people on the Liangcheng front line and 600,000 people on the Baima front line. The total number is just 2 million troops.
If we only compare military strength, it is just over half of Zhao Jun's total strength.
Well, compared with the Northern Expedition this year, the Chu army's strength decreased by 500,000.
As for the one million cannon fodder that was transferred, it had been consumed long ago, and there were only tens of thousands left in the camp.
After only half a year of fighting, the Chu army lost 1.5 million soldiers and horses in Dongjun.
Although two-thirds of them were cannon fodder, this number of casualties was already exaggerated.
But considering what Xilu Xingying has accomplished in the past six months, these casualties are quite reasonable.
First, on the Baima front line, in order to confuse the Zhao army and create opportunities for a surprise attack, the Chu army had to risk a large number of casualties to attack Zhao's Baima defense line.
Just for such a confusing act, the Chu army suffered no less than 500,000 casualties.
Huang Lin then raided all the way, starting from Wating County, and captured more than ten cities and towns along the way, all of which were taken with the lives of cannon fodder.
Even if only 20,000, 30,000, 50,000 or 60,000 people died in a city, it would still be a large number in total.
If it were a big city like Wating or Liangcheng, the casualties would be over 100,000.
Counting these together, there were hundreds of thousands of casualties.
In the past month, the Zhao army launched another counterattack, and the Chu army had to fight back. The two armies broke out countless battles, each costing two to three hundred thousand men.
Adding up these casualties, the Chu army lost 1.5 million people, which is actually quite normal.
After all, the Chu people are on the offensive side, and the Zhao people have the defensive advantage. If they want to break through the opponent's defense and achieve major results, how can they not pay a certain price?
Anyway, Lu Yuan recognized these losses.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have transferred one million cannon fodder. Isn't the purpose just to let those cannon fodder bear the price?
It's just that the speed at which this price is lost is a bit too fast.
How many months has it been?
Two months, or three months?
In such a short period of time, one million cannon fodder was gone.
Now Huang Lin wants to continue to ask for cannon fodder from him. Lu Yuan wants to give it, but he has to be able to give it.
For the original Chu State, there was actually no shortage of cannon fodder.
In the past year or so, the Chu army successively defeated Liang, Wei, Zhao, Zheng and other countries, and captured a total of 4.7 million prisoners in a series of wars.
After deducting the wear and tear of these captives from continuous labor service for more than a year, there will eventually be about 4.5 million people left.
But in this year's Northern Expedition, the Chu State had successively consumed about 1.7 million cannon fodder in order to break through Liangjun's outer defense line and conquer the surrounding cities of Daliang.
The Liang people's resistance to Liang Jun was far more tenacious and fierce than that of the Zhao people.
The national power of Liang State, even if it is in decline now, is still far stronger than that of Zhao State.
The hard bone of Daliang is far harder than that of Diqiu in Dongjun.
Unlike Zhao State who fought alone, Liang State had secret help from Xu State, Xu State, Zheng State, Jin State and other countries.
Among them, the State of Xu, after the Chu army was approaching step by step and showed a tendency to break through Liang, took the initiative to stand up and expressed its explicit support for the State of Liang.
This support is not only more money, food and materials, but also includes directly sending troops.
Therefore, if Lu Yuan wants to capture Daliang, the price he has to pay is far more than if Huang Lin wants to capture Diqiu.
With 1.7 million people, they only captured the outlying counties of Liang County and captured the camps outside Daliang.
After cleaning up the above strongholds, the next Daliang City will be even more difficult.
Daliang was once the first imperial capital in the world, or it was now the first imperial capital in name only. Its city defenses were far stronger than those of Mengshan Pass and Liangcheng.
In order to win it, Lu Yuan had to pay even more.
He finished clearing the camp strongholds outside Daliang in early June.
After clearing the perimeter, they immediately launched an attack on Daliang non-stop.
Then.
In just ten days of fighting, the Chu army suffered an astonishing 200,000 casualties.
Even if most of these casualties were captured and surrendered, 20,000 people died in one day, which is extremely shocking.
Compared with the heavy casualties of the Chu army, the casualties of the Liang army defending the city were only a small 30,000 to 50,000.
The casualty ratio between the two sides was almost five to six to one.
This is the price of storming a great city.
But the problem is, in order to capture this majestic city, Lu Yuan still had to endure all this.
Therefore, even if he knew that the casualties were staggering, he had to grit his teeth and hold on.
Throughout June and now July, for more than a month, the Chu army has been sieging the city with this intensity.
When they were clearing the strongholds outside Daliang, they thought it was a flesh and blood slaughterhouse rarely seen in the world. When they officially attacked Daliang, everyone realized that it was just an appetizer.
After fighting for more than a month, the Chu army lost another 700,000 lives.
The result was the elimination of half of the defenders in the city, which meant the lives of 150,000 Liang troops.
There are still 150,000 Liang troops left in Daliang City. Although the city defense has become somewhat shaky due to the shortage of manpower.
But the overall signs are that the beam is still strong, and it is still difficult to see hope of breaking through in the short term.
But for the Chu army, in order to capture Liang County and seize Daliang, they had already sacrificed 2.5 million lives.
Not a single one of the 2.3 million Liang prisoners captured in the previous Northern Expedition was used in this brutal siege and attrition war.
He even paid 200,000 Chu army lives.
However, even so, it is still one step away from laying the foundation.
As for this step, a conservative estimate would require half a million lives.
Where did these half a million people come from?
Now under Daliang City, there are roughly two million troops from the Chu army's direct lineage, including those civilians.
In Liangjun, in the area occupied by the Chu army, there are still about 800,000 Chu troops stationed in order to maintain local stability and security.
Therefore, Lu Yuan could still afford the sacrifice of these 500,000 people.
But if you can avoid killing your own people, it is naturally better to avoid killing your own people.
Therefore, for the next attack and defense of Daliang, he still insisted on using prisoners as much as possible to reduce the losses of his own people.
However, after the consumption in the two battlefields of Liangjun and Dongjun, as well as the consumption of the Yangxia camp in Yuzhou, the prisoners of Liang, Zhao, and Zheng captured by the Chu State have been almost consumed.
Although there are still a few Wei prisoners left, there are only about a million people left.
"I need at least 500,000 people here. This is the minimum requirement to ensure that we can conquer the beam."
In his mind, after calculating the number of prisoners on hand, Lu Yuan finally could only give this reply to the clone Huang Lin's request: "So what I can give you is also only 500,000 people, no more." ”
This is how the last one million Wei captives decided to belong.
Liangjun and Dongjun, the middle camp and the west camp, each have an equal share of 500,000 people.
However, after distributing this batch of cannon fodder, the strength of the West Road Camp only increased to 2.5 million people.
The gap with Zhao people is still more than 1.1 million people.
Facing the Zhao people's crazy counterattack, with such a huge gap in troops, there is still a big risk of capsizing the camp on the west route.
It would be great fun if they couldn't stop Zhao Ren's counterattack in the end and lost Liangcheng, which they had finally won, out again.
How could he give up the results he had finally gained after paying such a high price so easily?
So Lu Yuan thought about it and contacted Qing Yunzi again.
The Heyang camp led by Qingyunzi was responsible for the two counties of Henan and Nanyang in the Wei state.
After more than a year of siege, the Wei troops in these two counties finally surrendered in May this year.
Afterwards, these Wei army prisoners were surrendered and sent to the battlefield of Dongjun one after another. Now these last batch of people will soon be sent as cannon fodder.
As for Heyang Xingying, which had achieved this great victory, it also entered into adjustments and repairs after capturing the two counties.
When the Heyang camp started the Northern Expedition last year, it had one million soldiers and two million civilians, for a total of three million people.
After more than a year of fighting, although the army camp was progressing smoothly, the resistance of the Wei people was also extremely tenacious.
Especially Nanyang.
The Wei people here would rather change their sons and live in peace, but they would still resist to the end and would not surrender even to death.
This will to resist is simply amazing.
Therefore, when faced with the siege of the Chu army, the Wei army here also launched several counterattacks.
In order to block these counterattacks and surround the opponent, the Chu army also sent many soldiers and horses to intercept.
Naturally, there will be many casualties in this attack and blockade.
The Wei army in Nanyang County lost seven to eight hundred thousand people.
The Chu army also lost five to six million lives.
Although the resistance of the Wei army in Henan County was a little lighter, it was not that light because of the belief in protecting the homeland and the country.
Moreover, the Wei army in this county has more people, and Zhao Guo is behind it, and its strength is far stronger than the Wei army in Nanyang County.
In order to capture this county, the Chu army even made more sacrifices, with a total of 800,000 or 900,000 casualties.
Therefore, although they finally succeeded in forcing the surrender of the remnants of the Wei army in the two counties, they successfully captured the two counties of Heyang.
However, the sacrifices and casualties paid by the Heyang camp were actually quite high, with almost half of the people lost.
After the rest of the troops and horses in the camp were rested, there were only 1.6 million people left, including 600,000 soldiers and 1 million civilians.
Regarding these freed soldiers and horses, Lu Yuan did not let them rest.
After only a month's rest, in early June, Lu Yuan transferred 800,000 people from the Heyang camp, sent them to the battlefield in Guannai, and placed them under the command of the Hanzhong camp.
Last year, under the direct command of Lu Yuan, the Western, Central and Eastern Routes of the Northern Expedition to Liang State camped in the Qingzhou area.
The Hanzhong camp, which fired the first shot of the Northern Expedition, fought with the Wei State in the Guannei area with great momentum.
Although the Chu army suddenly turned against them, it did catch Wei by surprise.
Even the imperial capital of Chang'an was directly surrounded by Chu troops approaching the city.
But as Huang Xin originally reported, the folk culture of Wei people is martial, and the war potential of the other party is actually not weak.
The Chu army was caught off guard, and a flying dragon came directly in front of them and killed them at the gate of Chang'an City, which really frightened the Wei state.
But after the panic, when they reacted, the Wei people resisted extremely resolutely.
In Chang'an City, although the Wei monarchs and ministers chose to temporarily hunt north, they still left an elite garrison of 100,000 people and six innates for the princes and ministers who stayed in Chang'an.
In addition, another 200,000 civilians were recruited from the original people in Chang'an City, so there was still an army of 300,000 people in Chang'an City.
With the strength of Chang'an City and these defenders, the Chu army came from afar and it would not be easy to take it down easily.
After the Wei monarchs and ministers withdrew from Chang'an and gained a firm foothold in Shuofang County, they immediately made preparations to resist the counterattack.
Not only did he dispatch clan ministers to Chang'an, the western capital, and Heyin, the eastern capital, and ordered them to prepare defense areas in Heyang and Guannei.
At the same time, troops were also being recruited in Shuofang County, preparing to gather troops and horses to support the front line at any time.
Wei State even sent envoys, relying on their remaining influence in Yanzhou, to recruit mercenaries from some barbarian tribes occupying Yanzhou to strengthen their own forces.
These various measures not only made the Wei army in the direction of Heyang become more resistant, but also engaged in a deadly fight with the Chu army.
Even within the pass, in addition to the 300,000 Wei troops in Chang'an City, the Wei people also raised 500,000 soldiers and horses in the Gyeonggi area to carry out various resistances.
In Shuofang County, through the efforts of the Wei monarchs and ministers, 600,000 soldiers and horses were recruited, as well as 300,000 barbarian troops lured with money and food benefits.
With so many efforts, the Wei people gathered 1.7 million soldiers and horses on the front line of Shuofang in the pass.
Don't worry about whether these soldiers and horses can fight, the numbers are quite bluffing.
Moreover, the Hanzhong camp of the Chu army was actually the weakest among all the Chu army camps.
The total military strength is only 2.4 million, of which 2 million are civilians, and the real fighting force is only 400,000.
This is also because in order to confuse the Wei State, they had to send troops to Helong first and fight with the foreign tribes in the Western Regions for a while, and they lost a lot of soldiers and horses.
By the time they attacked Wei, the number of troops was even smaller.
With this kind of strength, even if they had the advantage of a surprise attack at the beginning, it would not be that easy to defeat Wei's remaining power in Guannei County and capture Chang'an City.
Therefore, the entire Hanzhong camp led by Huang Xin spent last year in a tug of war with the Wei army.
Battles broke out one after another around the ownership of Chang'an City on both sides, resulting in many casualties on both sides.
The fight has been going on until now, but no one can do anything about anyone, and the battle has reached a stalemate.
Judging from this situation, unless the Wei State is exhausted until it collapses, Chang'an will definitely not be captured by just camping in Hanzhong.
So, in view of this, when Heyang went to camp, he won the victory on the battlefield of Heyang.
Seeing that this camp was idle, and the Hanzhong camp, which was also on the Wei battlefield, was in a deadlock, Lu Yuan naturally couldn't watch it.
So they transferred half of the remaining soldiers and horses from the Heyang camp and sent them to the Hanzhong camp, intending to inject new impetus into this stalemate war.
Give Wei the final fatal blow and completely end the fate of this empire.
"But now it seems that it is not only the Hanzhong camp that needs support, but the West Road camp also needs support."
Lu Yuan rubbed his forehead, and finally sent a transfer order to Qingyunzi: "Leave 300,000 people to garrison the Second County of Heyang, and then pull out 500,000 people and transfer them to the Xilu Xingying."
At the insistence of Huang Lin's clone, he continued to provide a second wave of assistance.
"One million people were transferred successively, and counting the original ones, there are 3 million troops and horses in the west camp, and the Zhao army only has 3.6 million people.
If you still can't beat it, then this clone is too useless and you can just go back and rebuild it. "
Lu Yuan whispered to himself, exhausted mentally and physically.
It is really tiring to coordinate several camps and handle the affairs of millions of people.
It was so tiring that even he had a hard time holding on.
But now, the world is not at peace and the war has not stopped. Even if you want to take a rest, you cannot learn.
"It is much more difficult to unify these nine states than originally thought. Sure enough, it is not that easy to recreate the great achievements of the three emperors in ancient times..."
Lu Yuan sighed, then lowered his head at his desk again to handle official duties.
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