Iron Dynasty

The flickering firelight in the treasury made the figures of the generals flicker.

After seeing the reserves piled up in the treasury, Lu Fei said: General Niu told us to wait for food and grass before attacking Yingzhou, but now it seems unnecessary. With the food and grass left by the barbarians, we can rest for a few days. Then they set up Yingju and completely cut off the communication between the barbarians and Goryeo.

Lei Ming said: That's right, I will send someone to Shanhaiguan to deliver the letter now.

No need!

As soon as his voice fell, a slightly hoarse voice sounded outside, and then Niu Ben, surrounded by guards, arrived at Jinzhou City.

General.

When the generals saw Niu Ben, they bowed and saluted.

This Northern Expedition is led by Xiao Ming, while Niu Ben is the general of the legion, and his position is still a bit higher.

Niu Ben's eyes swept over the generals and said, You guys did a good job this time, but it only took a day to knock down Jinzhou City, which is really beyond my expectations.

General, this is all due to the new-style artillery shells, mines and marksmen. Without these, we estimate that it would take tens of thousands of casualties to capture Jinzhou City. Lu Fei said sternly.

Niu Ben nodded. When he was in Shanhaiguan, he saw the power of these cannonballs. Because of this, he would go to Jinzhou City in advance, but obviously the speed of attacking the city was faster than he thought.

Hahaha, you don't have to humble yourself. The emperor said that it is the soldiers who decide the use of weapons. This shows that you have trained your soldiers well.

After all, Niu Ben glanced at the pile of grain and grass, and at this moment, he saw that the warehouse was full of grain and grass materials, and he continued, Since you don't have to worry about grain and grass now, I will give you a new order.

Yes, General. The generals said excitedly, and the momentum of this triumph made each of them enthusiastically devote themselves to the war.

After inspecting the supplies in the warehouse with the generals, Niu Ben and the others returned to the camp, and then he said: The battle of Jinzhou City has just ended, and you will be given three days to rest. Depart from the state and take Yingzhou together with Ye Qingyun.

After a pause, Niu Ben continued: Luo Xin, you lead 40,000 musketeers and 30,000 cavalry to Raozhou City, Lu Fei, the northernmost Jianzhou City will be handed over to you.

Yes, General, I always like to chew on hard bones the most. Lu Fei laughed.

Among the three cities, Jianzhou was undoubtedly the most difficult to attack. Unlike Raozhou and Yingzhou, Jianzhou was located in an extremely remote place, and this place was very cold even in spring.

According to the map provided by Xiao Ming, 1,600 miles north of Jianzhou is the marked Siberian snowfield. To attack this city not only requires long-distance travel, but also defends against the cold winter.

And this is also one of the reasons why the Ministry of Military Aircraft decided to go to the northern expedition in the spring. It is now June. If it continues to drag into winter, their soldiers will not be able to adapt to the severe cold climate.

After all, most of their soldiers came from south of the Great Wall.

After deciding on the next strategy, a group of generals began to prepare for the war. At this time, Niu Ben was in charge of the household registration affairs of Jinzhou City.

The emperor attached great importance to the places outside the customs, and he also attached great importance to the people of Kanto who had regained their freedom.

These soldiers living in the bitter cold have adapted to the climate here and are very suitable for fighting in this land.

Although they have conquered the barbarian cities one after another in a short period of time, they are still unable to completely encircle and suppress the barbarian grassland power, and now they need soldiers to protect the six cities outside this pass.

Obviously, the Kanto people are the most suitable for this role.

And they also have a more grand plan, which is to turn the extreme north of Siberia into the territory of the Great Yu Kingdom, but before that, they still have a lot of things to do.

The next day, the Dayu cavalry, who had chased the barbarian cavalry for a day, returned to Jinzhou City under the command of Qi Guangyi.

Seeing Bei Shan's corpse, there was a huge cheer in Jinzhou City, and the three most powerful Taijigu under the barbarian Tiankhan's command were all killed, but this was enough to make the barbarians hurt.

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Shengdu, the once peaceful and prosperous golden tent has become no longer peaceful.

The news of the fall of Pingzhou has caused shock waves here, and the fall of Jinzhou City is like a bolt from the blue, giving the banner heads of the grassland tribes a heavy blow.

I won't waste the lives of tribal warriors fighting the Great Yu Kingdom in the city. It's just too stupid.

The golden tent was filled with flag heads from the grassland tribes. Different from the festive atmosphere of the previous enclave of the Great Yu Kingdom, the faces of each flag head are now very solemn.

Beishan, Boduo, Wushugu, they destroyed everything in the Golden Horde, and now less than 30% of our tribe's cavalry have returned. If we continue to fight like this, only women and children will be left in the tribe. This war can no longer be fought. Hit it.

We can't fight anymore. The Great Yu Kingdom has occupied Jinzhou. How can we fight this?

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,"The flag leaders in the golden tent were arguing with each other.

Dolgo was sitting on the sweat seat, and he punched his fist fiercely, All you have lost are soldiers. Now all three of my beloved sons are dead, so are you satisfied?

The news of the deaths one after another almost drove Dolgo mad. It was his sons, and although he was harsh on them on weekdays, it was a father-to-son spur.

But now, everything is in the past.

There was deep hatred in his eyes, and a voice screamed in his heart, Vengeance!

It's just that this hatred gradually subsided in the cowardly language of the flag leaders, revenge? Is he still capable of revenge now?

Shut up all. Dolgo growled.

The flag leader was shocked by Dolgo's voice and all fell silent.

At this time Dolgo said: We can't just give up, once we leave here, I'm afraid we won't be able to come back.

As soon as his voice fell, a sturdy tribal leader stood up, and he looked directly into Dolgo's eyes, Continue? Dolgo, aren't you ashamed? You brought the Golden Horde into the country. Perish, my tribe will no longer obey your orders, and you will no longer be called the Khan of Heaven.

Gertu is right, we will not send soldiers to follow you to die. The soldiers are frightened. They would rather die on the grassland than in the cold city. Our grassland and the Western Regions still have large territories. , these territories combined are larger than the Great Yu Kingdom, and this is the place we should guard. A flag leader followed and booed.

Dolgo looked at Gertu. He was the flag leader of the Goshawk tribe in the grasslands, and the only large tribe that could stand side by side with the Blood Wolf tribe. Since the Blood Wolf tribe suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Jizhou, this Gertu was rebellious. Unruly, after the blood wolf tribe suffered heavy losses in the battle of Jizhou, he became more and more arrogant, and he faintly ignored him as a heavenly Khan.