Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2438 The Han Dynasty's Plan B: Su Qin's Mission to the Manchus

With the death of their commander-in-chief, Weiming Linggong, the remaining remnants of the army became even less of a threat. With no way out, they were forced to lay down their weapons and surrender.

The two remaining Dongyi generals, Renduo Baozhong and Achuo, attempted a final resistance, but were shot dead by Lao Huangzhong amidst the vast army.

The entire process was completed very swiftly and efficiently by Han Xin, taking less than half an hour.

At the same time, facing the Blackstone City, which was now extremely empty, Huang Feihu broke into it with almost no effort.

At this time, Blackrock City had only two or three hundred wounded soldiers left, and only one general, Jilas, remained.

With virtually no city defenses, Huang Feihu charged straight in with just one charge.

Seeing the situation of the battle develop to this extent, Ji Lasiyi, as a general, cursed Wei Minglinggong three times as a fool while on the city wall in grief and indignation, and then jumped off the city wall in anger.

After entering the city, Huang Feihu learned from the lessons of his previous experience in Wangshan City, where he was stationed at Lufa. While guarding against the enemy setting fire to the city, he also immediately sent people to carefully check the city's water sources.

Lu Fa pulled a similar trick last time in Wangshan City.

On the surface, he ordered Balu to feign setting fire to the city after he left, hoping to perish together with the enemy. However, in reality, he poisoned the most important wells in the city, intending to poison the Han army on a large scale.

Fortunately, in such a rush, Balu simply couldn't find enough poison to put into so many wells. After dilution, it wouldn't be so easy to poison so many people.

Moreover, the fact that a small number of people drank the water immediately alerted the Han army.

Therefore, thanks to the treatment provided by the army doctors led by An Daoquan, the situation was ultimately resolved without serious harm. Lu Fa's ruthless move not only failed to severely damage the Han army, but also poisoned many Dongyi civilians.

However, Han Xin had just captured Blackstone City and breached a corner of the second line of defense of Dongyi, but he had already received news from Luo Wang that the troops of the Sun Kingdom in Nanping Road would officially join the great battle in no time.

Although the Sun Kingdom had consolidated its occupied territory after the initial major battle in Nanping Road, it had to withdraw most of its troops due to logistical problems.

However, the combined land and naval forces still maintained a size of nearly 200,000.

With 200,000 troops about to enter the battle, Han Xin, as the commander-in-chief, naturally had to consider the upcoming changes in the battle situation.

Therefore, upon receiving the news, Han Xin immediately ordered the Fiery Whale Legion to be mobilized.

The Fierce Whale Legion, together with Black Tooth Changzhi's 100,000-strong army, will unite to block the Sun Kingdom's troops.

The Han Dynasty's strategy toward the Eastern Yi was from the very beginning to first deal with Yelü Abaoji, and then expel the Sun Kingdom, which was an outsider.

With the addition of Heichi Changzhi and the Fierce Whale Legion, Han Xin hoped they could hold off the Sun Kingdom's troops and buy him time to deal with Yelü Abaoji.

Both sides had 200,000 troops. Han Xin's expectation for his side was merely to hold off the Japanese, not to defeat them. This was not because Han Xin believed that the Han army was inferior to the Japanese army, but simply because of the overall strength of both sides.

As a renowned general, he naturally possessed a clear understanding of the relative strengths of both sides, rather than merely relying on superficial troop numbers. The majority of Hei Chi Changzhi's 100,000 troops were new recruits with limited combat effectiveness; this alone was enough to lower the overall combat strength of his 200,000-strong force.

As for the Fierce Whale Legion, it is nominally numbered 100,000, but in reality, it only has 60,000, or even 30,000.

Shi Lang's Tianhe Navy was designed to be an inland navy based on inland rivers, with its warships mainly consisting of small and medium-sized vessels, and a limited number of large warships.

A navy capable of fighting the Sun Kingdom is destined to operate not on inland rivers, but on the ocean. Its warships are large and super-large, similar to those at Yanbei Water Pool. The Tianhe Navy would be of limited use in such an environment.

As for Fu Youde's marines, unless they are transferred to the front lines to fill the gaps, they will have no use for their troops until the Yanbei Navy establishes a solid landing base in Nanping Road.

Moreover, this also takes into account Yelü Abaoji's Jinghai Navy stationed in Dongping Road, which is very likely to join the battlefield there as well.

In contrast, after conquering Nanping Road, the Sun Kingdom quickly absorbed the military technology and a large number of military craftsmen of the Eastern Barbarians, and the military equipment of its troops was comprehensively improved.

Moreover, a series of technological advancements spurred the development of domestic gold and silver mines, giving them sufficient resources to develop trade and acquire a large number of warhorses and iron ore from the Eastern Yi through trade with the Northern Di.

In the past few years, even Yanbei and Xiping have become extremely wealthy along this trade route, demonstrating the enormous scale of commercial development among the various forces in recent years.

This is precisely why, although the numbers of both sides appear to be similar on the surface, the actual combat power that each side can mobilize is far different.

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Yanbei, northern capital.

At this time, Wang Yu also received news from Luo Wang about the movements of the Sun Kingdom.

While the intelligence network was sending its findings to Han Xin's camp, it was impossible for it to miss Wang Yu's side. In fact, it could send the intelligence to Han Xin's camp, but it was impossible for it to miss Wang Yu's side.

Or rather, when their envoy Kuai Tong, sent to Nanping Road, began to have his freedom restricted, he had already guessed that the situation in the Sun Kingdom was developing in the direction they least wanted to see.

However, the speed at which the Sun Kingdom joined this battle greatly exceeded the expectations of the Han Dynasty.

If they can wait until Han Xin and Wen Zhong take Zhongping Road, it will not only mean that they have captured the political center of Dongyi, but also that they have eliminated a significant portion of the enemy's main force.

If the Sun Kingdom were to join the war at this point, it would be the best possible outcome for the Great Han Dynasty. Even if the enemy were to join the war, the Great Han Dynasty would still be confident that it could win the battle within the originally planned timeframe.

However, due to the early entry of the Sun Kingdom into the war, it has become difficult for the Great Han to complete the war within the expected timeframe and plan.

In order not to slow down the next step of the Great Han, Wang Yu had no choice but to activate the backup plan.

"Zhongkang, summon Su Qin!" Wang Yu called out to Xu Chu outside the door.