Lord of the Misty World

Chapter 456 The End of the Battle
For the Qinghe Kingdom, since the beginning of winter, monsters can no longer hide because of the lack of food and winter supplies, plus the dead grass and wide field of vision in winter.

In such an environment, the Qinghe Kingdom's legions all had a certain advantage in combat. On the long front, it was impossible for monsters to be as comprehensive as the Qinghe Kingdom.

Deployed on a battlefield as long as [-] kilometers, there must be some areas with dense monsters and some areas with few monsters.

As for dense areas, the Qinghe Kingdom guaranteed the communication of the entire front through the erected rune signal base stations.

When it is found that the number of monsters in a certain area has decreased, quickly mobilize a large number of troops through the road to gather, and then form a local area to fight more and less, quickly fight, quickly annihilate, and quickly evacuate.

On this procrastinating battlefield, it is precisely with this kind of battle that thousands or tens of thousands of monsters are wiped out again and again, and little by little adds up, reducing the number of monsters little by little.

With the arrival of winter, heavy snow falls, and on the endless prairie, the white snow turns the whole land into pure white.

As the temperature dropped and the cold intensified, the monster legions also retreated to their own camps, generally not going out, and the frontal battlefield became much more relaxed.But for the Qinghe Kingdom at this time, this is actually a good opportunity.

The air force bombed and the ground penetrated. At the same time, the Winter Legion on the Eastern Front marched forward indomitably in the cold winter, constantly annihilating the monster tribes they encountered.

After spending ten days, Sejuani brought the Winter Legion to the mountainous area where the Mountain Legion was located.At this time, the Mountain Army also took advantage of the winter to continue to expand and occupy the area.

At this time, this mountainous area, 150 kilometers to the east, has been occupied by the Mountain Army, and here, the Mountain Army also encountered some special ethnic groups.

The Mountain Army, near the [-]rd Infantry Division, found a trace of an orc tribe here when they were besieging a mountain peak.

This tribe is a cat tribe with a population of about 1000. Because the cat tribe is quick to move, they chose this steep mountain as their residence, avoiding the harassment of various monsters, and survived with difficulty.

However, facing the carpet-like search and occupation of the Mountain Legion, the cat-human tribe still found that it was an orc tribe living here at first, and the Mountain Legion was going to be wiped out.

But I didn't expect that after seeing the fighting power of the Mountain Legion, the cat-human tribe chose to surrender, which caused trouble for the Mountain Legion.

The cat people, the intelligent race of the orcs, are gifted with swift action and agility.The entire ethnic group is similar to humans, but has a pair of cat ears and a cat tail, and has facial features and sharper nails on both hands and feet.

Because the cat people tend to be thin and weak as a whole, in the eyes of humans, they are a race similar to humans, and the people tend to be petite and cute.

Different races are not absent in the Qinghe Kingdom. There are elves and dwarves in the Shannan Road of the Qinghe Kingdom. Now it is not a big problem to have another similar cat-human race.

But for other races, the Mountain Legion cannot make their own decisions and needs to report.When the report was delivered to Di Feng's hands.

Looking at the information about this cat-human tribe in his hand, as well as the photos he took, and seeing that it was not much different from humans, Di Feng thought over and over again, and finally decided to take in this cat-human tribe.

"The Mountain Legion is allowed to temporarily accommodate the cat-human tribe, and in the event that the orc tribe is found in the occupied area later, if the orc tribe does not resist and has no tendency to violence, they are willing to unconditionally obey the arrangements of the Qinghe Kingdom.

The Mountain Army Corps was allowed to take him in temporarily, and he worked on the construction site in Beibei Port. After the labor inspection, he entered the new house according to his ethnic performance to decide whether to join the Qinghe Kingdom. "

In view of this special situation, Di Feng gave the Mountain Legion the power to make a temporary decision. In the steep and complicated mountains, there is definitely more than one orc tribe like the cat-human tribe.

After all, the Beastmen used to be a force at the same level as the Chiwu Royal Court and the barbarians, but they couldn't hold back the monsters going south.

In fact, in Di Feng's opinion, in the few battles Qinghe Kingdom is fighting now, if Qinghe Kingdom did not develop rune technology, but focused on spiritual power martial arts as the core, I am afraid that it would not be able to deal with these monsters going south.At that time, the Qinghe Kingdom will suffer the same fate as the Beastmen and the Chiwu Royal Court.

With the destruction of a big force, there must still be some orc tribes in the cracks between the monsters. If they can be integrated into the Qinghe Kingdom at that time, they can be regarded as a strange race, and they may be able to play some role.

After Di Feng's decision was sent to the mountain army, there was also a way to resettle this cat-human tribe.

The entire cat-human tribe went down the mountain with their own supplies. After collecting the weapons, they were led by a squadron of the Mountain Legion to the North Port.

On the other side, the Winter Legion arrived at the stronghold that the Mountain Legion had just established in the southern part of the mountain range, and the two sides joined forces, representing this coastal area and completely becoming the territory of the Qinghe Kingdom.

After leaving the guards stationed in various places, the entire army of the Winter Army headed west, attacking the monster army from the flank.

And because the monster legions on the front line are all within [-] kilometers of the front line, in the rear, because of the mobilization of monsters, large areas are deserted.

And on the prairie in winter, the field of vision is even wider, and there will be no fish that slip through the net.

"Order, the Cold Winter Legion cooperates with other legions on the Eastern Front to start annihilating the monster army, recover the lost ground, and advance northward."

At this moment, it was the cold winter, the snow was flying heavily, and the ground was covered with snow.Among the beheaded monster tribes, a large number of frostbitten monsters were seen to death, and the severe cold reduced the combat effectiveness of the entire monster army.

But the soldiers of Qinghe Kingdom, wearing cotton clothes and having enough food, took this opportunity to start a counterattack. Fighters flew in the sky and chariots roared on the ground.

A large amount of artillery fire poured into the camp of the monsters. Under the counterattack across the board, a large number of monsters were killed. In such weather, only a few monsters were still able to fight, but those few monsters were nothing against the army of the Qinghe Kingdom. .

Thus, a new rout began. With the help of the winter weather, the Winter Legion opened a breakthrough, and once again wiped out a monster army of hundreds of thousands from the flanks.

After that, the Winter Legion went all the way west, piercing through the monster legions along the way one by one. When the Winter Legion took a month to hit the western border, the entire monster army was not much left.

After a big defeat, the monsters were fleeing to the north, and the army of Qinghe Kingdom pursued northward. With the speed of each mechanized army, these monsters were no match at all.

Soon, a large number of monsters were caught up and then wiped out.And these soldiers who rushed to the front continued to pursue without caring about cleaning the battlefield.

A pursuit battle lasted for a month, and the armies of the Qinghe Kingdom pushed [-] kilometers horizontally.Through the steppes, in the more northern regions, it becomes swamps, lakes, mountains, Gobi.

These areas are no longer fertile land, and it takes a lot of time and energy to cultivate them. However, as the northern front, because of the complex terrain, fortresses can be built to block the monster army going south.

Pass through the [-]-kilometer prairie and continue northward to [-] kilometers. When suitable pass fortress locations are determined along the way, a new front is established.

After two months of fighting, the front line has advanced [-] kilometers, winter has also passed, and the climate has warmed up, which is suitable for large-scale construction.

So far, the Qinghe Kingdom's third phase of the campaign has been a complete success, and the new line of defense is being built against the peaks and hills to block more enemies.

In the Qinghe Kingdom, in the headquarters, everyone breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and handled the work with joyful expressions on their faces.

"Your Majesty, the third phase of the campaign has been successful. Our army has continued to advance [-] kilometers north. Adding the original [-] kilometers, it can be said that we have more than doubled the territory of this war.

And most of these lands are arable land, that is to say, there is no need to worry about food in our country with a population of at least [-] million. "

"very good."

Di Feng nodded.

"In the third battle, our army annihilated about 700 million monsters and wiped out the main army of monsters, but there are still at least a million monsters on this great plain that need to be carefully encircled and suppressed.

What we need to do now is to build railways and roads to the border, and then divide the newly occupied areas into counties and establish guard posts and garrison troops.

When all the monsters are cleaned up, these areas can be allocated and then developed. "

The planning of the newly occupied area is indeed a big deal, because the previous wars mainly occupied more land, and did not clean up those monster remnants.

As a result, there are still many monster activities in the newly occupied area. At this time, the reconnaissance planes in the sky started their operations and conducted terrain surveys in various areas.

At the same time, a base point established along the way is also cleaning up the surrounding monsters.

At this time, the three transportation lines of the Qinghe Kingdom, the middle road, are building roads and railways at full speed, all the way north, until the new northern border.

The western supply line was built along the border between Qinghe Kingdom and Liang Kingdom, because the border also required a lot of fortifications, strongholds and camps, so the speed was not fast.

On the contrary, in the eastern region, except for land roads and railways, a large amount of materials are transported by sea to the northern port, and then through the airport there, before the mountain road is repaired, they are transported to various borders.

Supply is not a problem for the time being, but because a large number of workers are needed everywhere at this time, the labor force of the entire Qinghe Kingdom has almost reached its limit, and the construction of three supply lines.

In addition, the urban construction and road planning of the newly-built counties were simply started from scratch, and hundreds of cities were built at once, which was a bottomless pit for the Qinghe Kingdom.

Moreover, after the division of the newly occupied areas, hundreds of counties will be added, which is another huge project.Hundreds of cities are built from scratch, and all the facilities in the city need to be available.

For the Qinghe Kingdom, this is simply a bottomless pit of salvation, and because millions of troops are fighting, the initial investment is not much.

But now, there are more than 2000 kilometers of borders in the north and more than 1000 kilometers in the west. There are countless forts, camps, sentry towers, warehouses, airports, stations and other facilities.

These are all major projects. At this time, the Qinghe Kingdom can't spare manpower to build the newly occupied area.

The war is over, but it does not mean that the fruits of victory can be swallowed. The construction of the newly occupied area is almost equivalent to building a new Qinghe Kingdom from scratch. Somewhat unlikely.

This time, it was not because of lack of money, but because of insufficient manpower, and the materials produced by various industrial bases could not meet the needs of all places for a while.

When Di Feng returned to the court and returned to his lord's mansion, he saw a lot of things piled up together.

"Your Majesty, since the war is over and the entire country needs a lot of labor, I propose to reduce the service period of the national conscript system in the next few years to one year.

In addition, for the newly occupied areas, priority should be given to the construction of main roads, and other roads will be temporarily abandoned to save labor.

According to our development speed, it will only take one or two years. When the construction of the northern defense line is completed, we will be able to draw a large number of engineering teams to construct projects across the country. "

"OK then."

Looking at the current situation, Da Da also looked at the analysis of the General Administration Office, and it can be seen that the labor force of Qinghe Kingdom has almost reached its limit.

Manpower is needed for production everywhere, and there are at least 600 million young and middle-aged people in the military, industrial bases, and farmland production in various places, and there is no sufficient labor force.

"Now the national army has a huge number, occupying a large amount of labor force." Di Feng said to Zhang Xiu.

"Now that we have won a battle, we don't need too many guard troops in the future. In addition, all areas in the Qinghe Kingdom are relatively peaceful. I think we can cancel the guards across the country and change them to a small number of full-time combat troops in charge of various regions. safety.

In this way, at least the central road can completely remove the guards and liberate hundreds of thousands of laborers. "

"Abolish the guard." Zhang Xiu listened to Di Feng's words, thinking about the feasibility of this plan.

"Also, with the increasing population of our country, we have sufficient combat troops, and now we don't need a general conscription for anything.

After all, there are now millions of young people who come of age in the whole country every year. If all these young people enter the army, even if they are guard soldiers.

It is also a huge expenditure, and the best time for young people is spent in training for several years and cannot enter production. Therefore, I think it is time to take this opportunity to give up the national military service system and change to the recruitment system. "

"I think so."

Zhang Xiu nodded.

"Now the number of armies in various regions is sufficient, and the navy has several 10 people waiting for warships. There is absolutely no need for us to implement universal military service.

In this way, every year we can reduce the investment of 200 million recruits in equipment, food and wages.When there is a new war in the follow-up and the number of troops is insufficient, the recruitment of soldiers will be carried out.

We have a militia system, which is actually not much different from the guards. "

"it is good."

Di Feng nodded.

"Your government affairs department and the logistics department of the lord's mansion will work together and give me a specific plan."

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)