Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2253 Another Attack on Zhao Song, Zhu Ming in Qian

With the war against Yan over, the next step is to address the governance of these four realms.

However, this was not a problem that Yue Fei needed to concern himself with.

As a general, all he needs to do is to fight well.

As for local governance issues, those are matters for officials in the imperial court to worry about.

These political issues are not something a general should be concerned with.

What truly worried Yue Fei was the issue of prisoners captured during the campaign against Yan.

The four provinces of Qingnan, Heyang, Guangyang, and Donghai have fought battle after battle, and the number of prisoners of war they have captured from the Great Yan Dynasty, even if it is only a preliminary count, is as high as 300,000.

Of the 500,000 troops of the Great Yan Dynasty, more than 60% were actually taken prisoner.

What really gave them a headache was that most of these prisoners were new recruits from the Great Yan Dynasty.

After all, it is these new recruits with insufficient combat power who collapse at the first touch and are the easiest to capture.

Even after reorganization, they will not have enough combat power in a short period of time.

What troubled Yue Fei even more was that Zhuge Liang had already arrived before he could reorganize these prisoners.

Under Shinzen's protection, they secretly arrived in the Tokaido, unbeknownst to everyone.

Along with Zhuge Liang came Wang Yu's orders.

"His Majesty has decreed that General Chang Yuchun, the Tiger-like Warrior, shall lead the Tiger-like Warriors and the Fierce Whale Army into Hedong immediately, then cross the river to Hexi. Furthermore, 50,000 troops from Hebei and Yannan shall be transferred to General Chang Yuchun's command."

"General Feng Yi, the Iron Lion, is leading 50,000 Central Imperial Guards back to Henan to join forces with General Xue Rengui to defend against Zhao Kuangyin!"

"With General Li Jing as the leader and General Guo Ziyi as the deputy, they led the Manxiong Army and the Feiyu Army into Henan, out of Yangguan, and directly attacked Lian Po's troops, then attacked Yangxi Road to the west."

"Yue Fei is appointed as the Grand Commander of the four armies of Donghai, Guangyang, Heyang, and Qingnan, leading the Iron Lion Army to guard these four routes, controlling the various armies in Zhennan and the surrendered troops of Dayan, and completing the reorganization as soon as possible to threaten Jiang Chaoyu of Yangdong Road to the south!"

After meeting Yue Fei and the others, and exchanging brief pleasantries, Zhuge Liang immediately read out Wang Yu's new orders to them.

At the same time, it was taken into consideration that each army suffered varying degrees of casualties in this major battle.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang ordered each army to select the elite troops from the prisoners of the Great Yan to temporarily replenish the ranks of those who had been killed or wounded.

After all, the casualties of the Han army in the battle against Yan were not great. Even if some prisoners were temporarily added, the impact on the combat strength of each army was not significant.

At least, even if there is some impact, it is within their acceptable range and will not affect the subsequent operations.

According to the imperial court's plan, the post-war rest and recuperation of various armies, as well as the selection of elite troops from prisoners of war for replenishment, should be completed as much as possible before March of the fifth year of the Yuan Shi era.

The war against the Zhao Song dynasty officially began in March of the fifth year of the Yuan Shi era.

The reason why Wang Yu did not rest after the war against Yan, but immediately prepared to take down Zhao Song as well.

Essentially, it was because the victory in the war against Yan exceeded their expectations.

Originally, Wang Yu thought that with Xuanyuan Huang's abilities, this battle might take two years.

The supplies he prepared for the war against Yan were all prepared with a three-year timeframe in mind.

However, in just over half a year, the Great Yan had already been crushed by them, and the four regions had completely fallen into their hands. Moreover, the casualties during this process were not too great. In total, the Han army mobilized a total of 700,000 troops in the two armies to conquer Yan.

However, the casualties after these four attacks were less than 100,000.

However, with fewer than 100,000 casualties, they not only defeated the Great Yan, but also captured the four regions.

Moreover, he also took advantage of the opportunity to recruit 120,000 elite troops from Zhennan into his own service, and captured more than 300,000 prisoners in the war against Yan alone.

It could be said that if they had reorganized all these prisoners at this point, their troop numbers would have increased rather than decreased.

Before the war, there were 700,000 troops; after the war, the number of troops reached one million.

Even though this million-strong army has some inflated numbers due to the fact that some of the prisoners were from the Great Yan, the number is still there.

The food and supplies that had been prepared for three years, and which were planned to last for two years, were used up in just over half a year.

Therefore, at this point, it was inevitable that Wang Yu would want to take down Zhao Song as well.

Firstly, they had already begun fighting against the Da Wu and Tuoba tribes on the western and northern fronts.

If we don't fight now, and wait until later to fight the Song Dynasty, we might encounter even greater obstacles then.

Therefore, it's better to do it in one trip.

At least for now, the Golden Horde is still holding back some of the Tuoba tribe's strength in the grasslands, preventing the Tuoba tribe from launching a full-scale attack on Zhongxing Pass.

The pressure from the North is still within their acceptable range.

If we wait until later, who knows what the situation in the North will be like then?
Even back then, the forces that the Great Wu was willing to mobilize were absolutely incomparable to what they are now.

Secondly, the smaller dynasties in the southwest of the Song Dynasty joined forces and mobilized a total of 200,000 troops to invade the territory.

After these eight dynasties united, there were eight different ideas among the 200,000-strong allied army.

Therefore, those dynasties fought this battle to a complete rout. Despite having the numerical advantage, they were instead overwhelmed by the Song Dynasty. In fact, Zhao Kuangyin used them as a training ground, sending several new recruits there in rotation.

However, although the Eight-Nation Alliance fought a disastrous battle, at least at this point, they had not yet been completely defeated.

Therefore, it was no matter what, it could still tie down a portion of the Song army.

This situation also presents an opportunity to start this war.

Thirdly, although Zhao Song's forces allowed Jiang Chaoyu's group to enter Yangdong Road.

However, judging from the intelligence from Luo Wang, the situation in Da Qian during this period was also very turbulent.

Zhu Yuanzhang of the Great Wu took advantage of the fact that the Great Qian Dynasty was at its weakest when both the court and the rebel kings were fighting each other, and he intervened in one fell swoop, almost unstoppable.

Zhu Yuanzhang personally led an expedition across the sea, and in one fell swoop, he directly defeated the two rebel kings, Hong Xiuquan and Li Zhen, who were located in the southernmost part of the Great Qian Dynasty.

Meanwhile, not long after, Zhu Yuanzhang's son, Zhu Di, also successfully destroyed the Da Chuan Dynasty and entered the territory of the Da Qian Dynasty by land.

After Zhu Yuanzhang's two armies joined forces, and taking advantage of the fact that Xiao Ping'an and Jiang Che had just gone through a major battle, Jiang Che, as the loser, naturally suffered heavy losses.

Even though Xiao Ping'an was the winner, and his power was far greater than Jiang Che's, he was already in a weakened state when he fought the battle. Therefore, even though he won the battle, he still suffered losses and was not in a good mood.