Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2166 Feng Yi plots for the country, the true god falls?
In this battle, Gan Ning was somewhat reckless. Although he did not make any irreparable mistakes in the end, he almost caused the death of the fierce general Wu Zixu.

Gan Ning's idea was correct. Although the enemy was suspected of luring them deep into their territory, they had a steady stream of landing troops behind them. It just took time for them to land one after another.

Once their troops charged in and engaged the enemy, they could create an opportunity for Fu Youde in the rear to counter-encircle the enemy.

But if this were to succeed, it would naturally be a great achievement, and even if significant losses were incurred, it wouldn't overshadow his accomplishments. After all, the results were substantial.

No general ever believes that victory after victory can be achieved without incurring any losses; they always try to minimize losses.

However, no matter how great the losses, there must be results in the end. Without results, even the best ideas are useless.

The problem now is that Shi Le escaped before Fu Youde's troops could land and counter-encircle him.

Since we failed, we have naturally made mistakes without achieving anything.

However, Gan Ning did indeed kill Shi Le's son Shi Kan with an arrow in this battle, and then killed Shi Le's father Shi Zhouhezhu in battle.

They also made contributions in this battle.

Therefore, for the time being, Yue Fei will record the merits and demerits of this matter, and they will be handed over to Wang Yu for final judgment after the battle.

Even if Gan Ning said that, he was still the commander of the Tianhe Navy and had not made any fundamental mistakes. Yue Fei was not qualified to take his position directly because of a minor problem during the war.

After that, Yue Fei acted swiftly, taking advantage of the fact that Xuanyuan Huang's follow-up troops had not yet arrived, and headed straight for Luyuan County, which was just beyond the ferry.

Luyuan County serves as a supply base for the ferry crossing, which in turn acts as an outstretched hand of Luyuan County. The two are mutually reinforcing and indispensable.

If we can eliminate him, the difficulty for the enemy to retake this crossing will double.

Moreover, Yue Fei also wanted to obtain the supplies from Luyuan County so that it could become a logistical support base for the ferry crossing. Naturally, this county should have a large amount of supplies stored at all times.

Of course, after Yue Fei saw the details of Shi Le's retreat in the military reports, he no longer had much hope for these supplies.

From the various details of Shi Le's escape, Yue Fei clearly deduced that the enemy had taken the initiative to withdraw.

If it were him, having abandoned the ferry crossing, he wouldn't be willing to hold out in Luyuan County alone.

This county town is not a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

This county town is only important as long as the ferry crossing at Qian'an still exists. If the ferry crossing at Qian'an no longer exists, this county town loses its inherent value.

Having abandoned the ferry crossing, how could Shi Le possibly remain to defend Luyuan County?

Therefore, Yue Fei no longer believed that he could intercept that batch of supplies.

Anyone with even a modicum of military skill would have moved supplies before deciding to abandon the crossing.

After all, the resources of the Great Yan Dynasty were relatively scarce, so it was impossible for them to leave them to others so easily.

Although Shi Le had abandoned Luyuan County, he did not completely abandon it.

Although all his troops had withdrawn, he had people organize the people.

The Great Yan Dynasty originated with the Celestial Masters sect, which combined religion and state. Xuanyuan Huang was both the ruler of Great Yan and the leader of the Celestial Masters sect. The Celestial Masters sect has also grown and expanded in tandem with the development of Great Yan in recent years.

It can be said that the teaching staff of the Celestial Masters sect can be seen in almost every county town.

These people also have ample experience in organizing the people.

While Shi Le was trading space for time, shrinking his defenses to preserve his strength and waiting for Xuanyuan Huang's reinforcements to arrive, he was also making full use of the strengths of his Celestial Masters sect to wage a total war, a people's war.

While it's true that ordinary people can only be mindlessly organized when they're desperate for survival, in the current situation, even if they had a lot of skill points in this area, the results of being incited would still be less than satisfactory.

However, it still has some effect.

When Feng Yi led 10,000 soldiers on a forced march, all they saw were several thousand men and horses crookedly standing on the city wall.

Therefore, Feng Yi did not launch a direct attack. After all, although they were all peasant soldiers, they did not even know how to form ranks and stood loosely on the city wall. A single charge could easily scatter them.

But they marched hastily and did not bring any siege equipment.

At the same time, Feng Yi also believed that he hadn't reached the point of going on a killing spree yet. These people were the future productive force.

Feng Yi then adopted a strategy of winning hearts and minds, using Meng Tian's past massacre of the resisting aristocratic families in Qingbei as a warning to others, hoping to force the aristocratic families in the city to cooperate from within.

In the past, Dongcang adopted the Nine-Rank System, so the Qingbei aristocratic families supported Dongcang as much as they could.

For this reason, Meng Tian massacred over a thousand aristocratic families before and after the Battle of Dongcang. Although most of them were only minor aristocratic families, he rarely encountered the truly powerful ones.

However, it truly resulted in a massive bloodbath.

To put it bluntly, 90% of the aristocratic families are small or medium-sized families, and the number of large aristocratic families is very limited in each region.

The executioner's blade that Meng Tian raised back then was enough to serve as a deterrent.

As for the powerful families in the East China Sea and Guangyang regions, which were the original strongholds of the Great Yan Dynasty, their influence had already been largely suppressed.

However, when Qingnan Road fell into their hands, Xuanyuan Huang had already begun to change his strategy towards the aristocratic families.

Therefore, the powerful families of Qingnan Road have maintained their strength well, and if they can be brought over, they can truly work for them.

Feng Yi wanted to force the powerful families in the city to their side, not just for the sake of this small Luyuan County, but more importantly, he wanted to tear away the fig leaf between the powerful families and the main beneficiaries of the Great Yan Dynasty, and clearly expose the gap between them.

Every power, from its inception, determines many of its future political and military course. Naturally, this also means it will face historical legacies that require considerable time to address.

But how did the Great Yan Dynasty rise to power?

The very rise of the Great Yan dynasty determined its existing power structure, placing it in opposition to the aristocratic families. This is precisely why events like the Nangong family's occurred.

This resulted in a devastating blow to the power of the aristocratic families in the Donghai and Guangyang regions, leading to the relocation of many of them. Similarly, the aristocratic families in the Heyang region also suffered a major blow.

It was precisely because of the historical problems left over from the very beginning of the family that the development of the Great Yan Dynasty was hampered for so long by that incident.

Although Xuanyuan Huang began using the Nangong family last year to regain favor with the aristocratic families, this is not something that can be done overnight. Moreover, the existing problems and rifts have not disappeared; they have merely been temporarily concealed by Xuanyuan Huang.

If the aristocratic families betray their masters as soon as the Han army attacks, what will the existing vested interests of the Great Yan Dynasty do?
The crack that was temporarily covered up will be torn open again, bloodily.

The latter was Feng Yi's true objective. As for a small county town, he didn't even consider it a concern.

Feng Yi's strategy was not to win over the hearts of a small county town, but to win over the hearts of the entire Great Yan Dynasty.

Feng Yi was one of the top generals in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. There were various reasons why generals were not well-known at that time.

However, being unknown does not mean that the generals of this period lacked ability.

As one of the founding generals, and one of the top generals among the founding generals, Feng Yi's first move was to strike at the heart of the matter.

His first move was a plan to govern the country.

As it turns out, with the aristocratic families of Qingbei Road as role models and Meng Tian's butcher's knife in the Battle of Qingbei as a deterrent, the aristocratic families of Luyuan County were indeed much more compliant!
To put it bluntly, Dongcang implemented the Nine-Rank System back then, which was extremely friendly to aristocratic families. That's why it was able to gain such strong support from these families.

But what is the situation on the Great Yan side in comparison?
Xuanyuan Huang only began to ease relations with the aristocratic families last year, which is fundamentally different from the intensity of Dongcang's implementation of the Nine-Rank System.

Therefore, how could these powerful families possibly risk their lives for the Great Yan?
In the latter half of that night, the four great families in Luyuan City gathered all their servants and suddenly attacked the city gates, opening them to let Feng Yi into the city.

From then on, Feng Yibing gained control of Luyuan County without bloodshed.

At the same time, they planted a potentially fatal seed within the Great Yan Dynasty.

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Wang Yu, who was far away in Henan, could not possibly receive the military report that Yue Fei had crossed the river in real time.

At this moment, he was inspecting the area below Liangguan Pass.

Just yesterday, Zhao Kuangyin's 200,000-strong army arrived at Liangguan.

Of course, not all of his army entered Liang Pass, as Liang Pass could not accommodate such a large army. The vast majority of them were encamped and set up camp below the pass.

It was precisely because Zhao Kuangyin's army had arrived that Wang Yu selected a thousand Black Riders and, along with Li Yuanba, came to inspect the enemy camp.

Although the Song Dynasty had 600,000 troops, 200,000 of them were new recruits who had been in the army for about six months and whose combat strength could not keep up with the other troops.

Therefore, after attracting these 200,000 troops, coupled with the troops that Zhao Kuangyin had to leave behind to guard various places, if the Song Dynasty wanted to intervene in their eastern battlefield again, it would not only need to borrow the route through Zhennan, but also the number of troops that could be mobilized would be very limited.

Wang Yu inspected the enemy camp without any attempt to conceal his presence.

Furthermore, the enemy's scouts are not to be underestimated, and there's nothing to hide.

In military campaigns, it is perfectly normal to let warhorses roam for miles, or even dozens of miles.

Especially in the military, the more heavily armored units there are, the farther the scouts can be sent out. Heavy armored units don't wear armor during normal marches; they conserve their energy and only put on armor temporarily during combat.

Therefore, only by sending out enough scouts and intelligence agents can we prevent being wiped out when our side is vulnerable.

Wang Yu wasn't afraid of being discovered while patrolling the enemy camp. With the Black Riders' speed, even if they were spotted, they could break out of the encirclement and return to camp in an instant.

Not to mention, the enemy has a large number of scouts and intelligence agents, so why don't the Han Dynasty have them too?

Wang Yu would not give the other side a chance to surround him.

Wang Yu openly probed the camp, and sure enough, Zhao Kuangyin soon received the news and personally went up the camp wall to meet Wang Yu's gaze.

If it hadn't been so sudden and unprepared, Zhao Kuangyin might have even set out tea and snacks and invited Wang Yu to chat at his camp.

But just as the two were staring at each other from hundreds of meters away, a voice suddenly rang in Wang Yu's mind.

"Ding! Zhao Changling's Flame Spear skill is advancing and will soon be upgraded to a True Divine Skill..."

Wang Yu was accompanied by only one divine general, Li Yuanba. If it weren't for this inspection, he wouldn't even have known that a true divine general had fallen so unexpectedly.

However, it's unclear whether it's Vulcan or Gun God who will die this time.

He had met the gunslinger Mu Linye during the great battle in Xirong.

Their strength is what it is, and in today's world, that's really all they are.

Some powerful high-ranking divine generals are actually capable of matching him.

Of course, no matter what, he is a true god-general. Even if some high-level god-generals are capable of matching him, it is basically impossible for them to kill him.

However, this is only a fair fight!

In reality, there is rarely a fair chance of fighting on the battlefield.

Just like Ye Changqing back then, which of those who besieged him could match his strength?

But so what? Although he had many trump cards, he couldn't withstand the endless drain of soldiers or the siege of a large group of divine generals.

Even if he wanted to break through, he wouldn't have had a chance.

Surrounded on a lonely mountain, with a million-strong army of surrounding people spread over hundreds of miles, not to mention Ye Changqing, even Ye Shangjue alone could not break through.

Moreover, he will most likely be alone, without a horse. Since ancient times, if one is determined to surround and kill someone, the first thing to do is to take care of their mount, completely cutting off any possibility of escape.

As for Vulcan, Wang Yu had never met him.

However, now that things have come to this point, even if we can't guess exactly which one it is, we can at least narrow it down to a few people.

Of those ranked high on the Dragon and Tiger Ranking and the Four Directions Fiend Ranking, excluding those he had already seen and including those who rose to the top later, there were only a few left.

However, judging from the current situation, Vulcan's strength is probably far superior to Gun God's.

Judging from their strength, the Gun God is more likely to fall.