Outside Yijing City, outside Fengwu Army Camp

Yuan Song, Lin Huaiwu, and Guo Zhiping bowed to Ye Mingsheng and his party who were walking slowly and said in unison:

"We are waiting to welcome you..."

Ye Mingsheng, who rushed to Yi Jing, listened to the words of the three generals under his command, smiled and nodded, and slowly walked into the camp surrounded by everyone.

Entering the middle of the military camp, Ye Mingsheng gave another public speech in front of hundreds of military attaches at all levels and tens of thousands of soldiers of the Fengwu Army.

The content of Ye Mingsheng's speech had three aspects. First, he said that Zhao Fuqu was cruel and unkind. The high-level officials of Youyan were seriously corrupt and the people of Youyan were in dire straits. He, Ye Mingsheng, had compassion for all living beings in the world and could not bear the suffering of the people of Youyan being bullied.

I want to bring peace and prosperity to the people of Youyan one by one.

Secondly, Ye Mingsheng highly affirmed the results achieved by the First Division, the Second Division, and the Third Division in the battle to enter the Pass, and personally commended the advanced individuals and collectives who performed extremely well in the battle!

In addition, Ye Mingsheng also made a lot of promises, promising that as long as the brothers captured Youyan, their positions and money would be no problem. He also reiterated that the local government would be responsible for supporting disabled veterans who returned home, and the government would also provide pensions to those who unfortunately died in battle.

Subsidies and preferential policies have been implemented to his family.

At the end of his speech, Ye Mingsheng also reiterated the discipline and military law in the army. Everyone must fight bravely and not flinch at all. Anyone who escapes from the battle and refuses to move forward will definitely be punished by military law.

Under Ye Mingsheng's kindness and power, the fighting spirit of the Fengwu Army officers in the camp suddenly rose to a new level. They were all eager to capture Yi Jing and dedicate it to Ye Mingsheng...

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After completing these tasks, Ye Mingsheng and a group of senior generals of the Fengwu Army walked into the Chinese Army camp to prepare to listen to the frontline combat report.

After laughing and joking with Yuan Song and the others, the meeting got down to business. As the frontline commander appointed by Ye Mingsheng himself, Yuan Song naturally took the initiative to stand up and walked to the Yijing sand table in the center of the camp to report to Ye Mingsheng.

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"I'm reporting to the Governor, our army has been besieging Yijing for three days. During these three days, our army used a combination of virtual and real tactics to attack the seven gates of Yijing, constantly changing the targets of the main attack and feint attacks, so that the people in the city

The Yan army was exhausted and suffered heavy casualties!"

"At present, counting the series of battles our army has fought since entering the customs, the number of casualties is 318 killed and 609 wounded in the first division, 421 killed and 580 wounded in the second division.

Thirteen people, 411 people of the Third Division were killed and 491 injured! A total of 1,150 people were injured and 1,683 people were injured...

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Hearing this number, Ye Mingsheng calmly calculated it in his mind. At present, the total number of casualties should be almost 3,000. The number of soldiers and horses before their three divisions entered the customs was almost 20,000. Together, the total number of casualties was almost 20,000.

There are nearly 60,000 people, so the casualty ratio should be about 5%!

Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng couldn't help but nodded slightly. In the pre-war staff deduction, He Jingyun and a group of staff gave a casualty ratio of about 7% within ten days of the war, so as of now it is already

The expected goal was achieved and the number of casualties was reduced by 2%. The plan seemed to be progressing smoothly!

While Ye Mingsheng was calculating in his mind, Yuan Song continued to introduce:

"Since our army entered the customs, it has annihilated a total of 15,000 enemy troops, including more than 5,100 beheaded and captured more than 10,000 enemy troops. In addition, there are more than 5,000 enemy troops who tried to increase their numbers.

The local brave regiments in Beijing were trained and a large amount of grain, weapons and horses were seized!"

"Currently, the Yijing defenders are severely undermanned due to the effective destruction of our army's tactics. They have begun to recruit a large number of young and strong defenders in the city. We are confident that we can capture Yijingcheng and annihilate it in no more than ten days.

The remnants of the Yan army in the city···················"

After listening to Yuan Song's report, Ye Mingsheng looked around at him and Lin Huaiwu, and Guo Zhiping and the other three smiled and praised:

“You guys did a great job!”

In the face of Ye Mingsheng's praise, the three Fengwu Army generals did not dare to take credit. They all expressed humbly that such results were possible only because of the proper command of the adults, the perfect planning by colleagues in the staff department, and the support of brothers in the logistics department.

Very good.

After talking about this, Ye Mingsheng asked:

"Are there any problems on the front line that you need me to help you solve?"

After hearing Ye Mingsheng's inquiry, Yuan Song and the three of them looked at each other, and then Yuan Song spoke again:

"Sir, our frontline soldiers are currently very motivated to fight and have sufficient food and supplies. If there is any problem, it is that we have some gaps in firearms and gunpowder!"

Ye Mingsheng frowned slightly when he heard this and asked:

"Didn't I prepare for you what you need for ten days of high-intensity fighting before setting off?"

Faced with Ye Mingsheng's question, Yuan Song said helplessly:

"Sir, it rained all night and brought blood. Although we have wrapped many layers of oil paper, some gunpowder is still damp. In addition, in order to break through Yi Jing as soon as possible, we have prevented several large-scale attacks in the past three days.

A large-scale offensive, so the frequency of using firearms has also increased accordingly, and the loss of firearms has also increased a lot..."

"Currently, there are still 50 red-coated cannons on the front line that can be used. About 80% of the Weiyuan gun and Polu gun can be used. There are still about 200 boxes of grenades left. The gunpowder ammunition we have stored, according to our current

With the war intensity, it can be used for up to five days!"

"In addition to firearms and gunpowder, medicines such as hemostatic medicine and knife wound medicine can be guaranteed at present, but the reserves are not very large. We have ordered doctors from all over the surrounding areas to find medicines, but we still need our logistics brothers to work harder!"

Listening to what Yuan Song said, Ye Mingsheng felt a slight headache. He rubbed his temples and said:

"In addition to bringing 20,000 soldiers to the front line this time, I also brought some ammunition supplies. You will send someone to receive them later!"

"Thank you for your consideration!"

As soon as these words came out, Yuan Song, Lin Huaiwu, and Guo Zhiping all had surprise in their eyes, and they all bowed to Ye Mingsheng and thanked him:

Ye Mingsheng waved his hand and ordered with a smile:

"You fight well on the front line. You don't have to worry about logistics. The staff and I will keep an eye on it for you..."

An hour after the combat meeting ended, Yuan Song began to organize the offensive against Yi Jing. Ye Mingsheng also appeared in front of the battle to supervise the battle. In front of Ye Mingsheng, the soldiers of the Fengwu Army worked extremely hard.

Under the cover of artillery fire, they bravely launched an attack on Yijing City without fear of life and death. They stormed the wall of Yijing city and held a stalemate with the Yan army for almost half an hour before being forced to retreat because they were outnumbered.

Although the city wall of Yijing has not yet been captured, Ye Mingsheng can feel the overall decline of Yijing through the observation of the telescope. If this continues, I believe that it may not take ten days to capture the city of Yijing!

Realizing this, Ye Mingsheng was in a very good mood. The general staff divided the invasion of Youyan into three stages. The first stage was to enter the pass and attack Jizhou to capture Yi Jing, the power center of Zhao Fuqu's Yan army regime.

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The second stage is to deal with the counterattack after Zhao Fuqu leads the main force of the Yan army back to the division. The third stage is to defeat the counterattack and capture the remaining prefectures and counties of Youyan to achieve the goal of completely controlling Youyan.

The advice received from the pre-war staff sand table deduction was that as long as the Fengwu Army could capture Yi Jing within fifteen days, it would have enough time to respond. Zhao Fuqu led the main force of the Yan Army to return to Youyan and then counterattack.

, and now there is a high probability that they can capture Yi Jing in less than fifteen days. This is undoubtedly a certain advantage in dealing with the second phase of the war...

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In order to cope with the next day's work at night, Ye Mingsheng was ready to take an early rest. However, to his surprise, Qi Dechao came to his camp and reported:

"Sir, Zhao Jian'an has sent an envoy! He wants to negotiate peace with you, Your Excellency!"

Hearing this, Ye Mingsheng immediately guessed what trick Zhao Jianan wanted to play. The so-called peace talks were fake to delay time, but they were real!

Zhao Jianan saw that Yi Jing was in a difficult situation, so he wanted to delay the time and get his reinforcements to arrive. It seemed that he was now at the end of his rope and even resorted to such tricks!

Thinking of this, Ye Mingsheng was too lazy to see this envoy, and was going to let Qi Dechao blast him away. Although he had seen through the opponent's trick, there were still rules that should be followed when the two armies were fighting and not killing the envoy, so Ye Mingsheng also

Don't be prepared to embarrass the other party's envoys.

But when Ye Mingsheng was about to give instructions, Qi Dechao continued to introduce:

"My lord, the person here is called Sun Zhunde. He is a high-ranking official under Zhao Fuqu, who is involved in politics in Youyan. Do you want to meet him?"

Hearing the name Sun Zhunde, Ye Mingsheng blinked, and there was a hint of excitement in his eyes. If he remembered correctly the information given by the Coordination Office, this Sun Zhunde was the right-hand man of Zhao Fuqu's regime, second only to Huang Wenze, and even more so.

Zhao Jianan is Youyan’s biggest helper. It’s a bit surprising that Zhao Jianan can send him here to take him seriously...

After hesitating for a while, Ye Mingsheng thought it was still early to see the sky, but he thought it would be okay to meet Sun Zhunde, so he ordered Qi Dechao:

"Bring him here!"

"Yes, sir!"

After a cup of tea, a tall and tall middle-aged scribe walked into Ye Mingsheng's tent. Qi Dechao introduced Ye Mingsheng:

"Sir, this is Sun Zhunde, the political advisor of Youyan!"

Following Qi Dechao's introduction, Sun Zhunde met Ye Mingsheng's eyes, and then saluted Ye Mingsheng with his hands raised in a neither humble nor overbearing manner:

"Your Excellency, Sun Zhunde, has met Governor Ye!"

Ye Mingsheng nodded when he heard this, and then didn't bother to talk nonsense to Sun Zhunde, and said straight to the point:

"Does your master have reinforcements? Just send you here to delay time under the guise of peace talks?"

Sun Zhunde, who was struck by the central issue when he said this, was suddenly shocked. He gradually realized that Governor Ye, who came from a humble family and was a powerful figure in Liaoyang, was by no means an easy person...

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Because Ye Mingsheng's arrival was quite popular today, the Yan army in the city also knew the news of Ye Mingsheng's arrival. At the beginning of the period, some generals in the city suggested to Zhao Jian'an to send a hundred men who dared to die to fight outside the city to see if they could

He killed Ye Mingsheng in a sneak attack. Even if he couldn't kill Ye Mingsheng, he still put eye drops on Ye Mingsheng to make him sick.

Faced with this proposal from his subordinates, Zhao Jianan thought for a while and then chose to give up. After all, it was not very realistic to get rid of Ye Mingsheng with more than a hundred dead soldiers under the protection of thousands of troops. In addition, the defenders in the city were not very realistic.

It was very abundant, and every soldier had to use it on the edge. Using a hundred dead soldiers to disgust Ye Mingsheng was undoubtedly a very luxurious thing.

After experiencing the siege in the afternoon, Zhao Jianan felt that the Fengwu Army's offensive was so powerful that it would be difficult for him to hold on until reinforcements arrived. He didn't know what he was thinking, so he came up with a trick, which was to ask Ye Mingsheng for peace.

Come to delay the time until Zhao Yong and Zhao Fuqu return to the army.
To be continued...