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The red sun slowly fell into the mountains in the west, and the west was stained with crimson by the afterglow of the sunset. A full moon had already hung on the vast and deep sky in the east, sprinkling cold moonlight, shining on the way home for a row of tired birds who were returning home.

When it was time to have supper, white cooking smoke could be seen everywhere in Delhi City, firewood, dry horse manure and even various pungent smoke and fireworks left after the burning of coal. The New Year's Eve is near, and even the New Year's Eve in Delhi City, thousands of miles away from the pass, began to have a new flavor.

As night falls, the sky is getting darker.

After dinner, Li Jing first sat at the headquarters for a while, talked to several important civil and military officials in Delhi, and listened to several briefings from the attendant's room. After taking the lights, he got up and went back to the backyard.

In the backyard, Gongsun Lan was sitting on the kang, Megan and Julie, around the kang table and fighting against the landlord. As the weather was cold today, the rivers and seas were frozen, and the navy's ships were basically retreating into the military port. At this time, the navy's marshal became an ordinary family member. He stayed in Delhi City all day long and threw the navy's affairs aside.

The three duchess sat together and fought against the landlords, just like ordinary people, scheming and arguing, having fun. Seeing him coming, he had been blown up twice. Megan, who was sure to lose, turned his eyes and immediately cunned the pair of three and one 510 bad cards in his hand into the pile of cards on the table, stretched out his jade hands and rushed over to hug Li Jing, and kissed him on the face.

"Sanlang. You finally want to come back. You leave us here. But you ignore us all day long and don't even eat a meal together. Alas, I'm so bored. If I had known it, I would have gone back to Vladivostok."

Li Jing kissed her back and smiled and said, "Isn't it better to be so idle at home all the time? Besides, you are heavy now. You should rest well, which is suitable for running around."

In the summer, Megan and Julie led the navy from the mouth of Heilongjiang River to help fight. They rarely stayed with Li Jing for a few months. By autumn, both of them were already pregnant one after another, and Gongsun Lan was also pregnant. Perhaps because now, Li Jing only had three fields left for farming outside the pass, and there was more time to cultivate, and the three of them became pregnant. When the fleet retreated in autumn, Li Jing simply kept them all and handed over the fleet to Li Xu and other naval generals.

Gongsun Lan stepped forward to help Li Jing take off her coat, changed into a pair of warm fur slippers, and got on the kang together.

"When will we end this war? I don't want to give birth to my child here at that time." Gongsun Lan said.

Li Jing shook his head, "I hope it will end before the spring next year. You have also seen that we have now completed the most important step. The four armies have reached their designated position and have intercepted the retreat of the tribe army to escape. It is now winter. The tribe coalition forces fought nine battles with us in the best escape season with high and fat autumn, low rivers, dry swamps, easy to walk, and clear weather. It is a struggle for us to fight for our lives. But although we have paid more than 100,000 losses, we have defeated all the Hu people. Until now, they have not broken our four-sided encirclement net. Now, the war has been in winter, the weather is severely cold, the rivers are frozen, and the roads are covered with snow. In such a season, it is very difficult for the tribe coalition forces to retreat."

Gongsun Lan looked at Li Jing and smiled, took back her eyes, put away the cards, and took the mahjong box directly, opened the mahjong box, poured the mahjong on the table, and started to yard. While placing the cards, he said, "But this winter is the last chance for the tribe army to break through. They were surrounded by us for half a year, and the logistics was interrupted for so long, hundreds of thousands of people were unable to survive this long winter and spring. If they don't break through now, it will be even worse when spring is gone. Although it is cold, at least they can follow the smooth ice surface of the Huhan River.

Retreat north, then retreat from the unshui and black water to further north. But once spring is over, the weather will warm up, the glaciers will thaw, and all rivers will become blocking ropes to intercept their retreat. The soft roads will become swamps, swallowing countless Hu people, and by that time, their horses will probably be dissatisfied and hungry, and they will not be able to wait for next autumn. In any case, after the tribal army failed to break through this autumn, they can only break through this winter. This is their last chance.

"The Hu people must fight to trap beasts. This is their last chance. Can we stop them? In the few battles in autumn, we almost fought with them for equal losses, and more than 100,000 casualties were killed or killed. If the Hu people fought hard to break through the siege, I am afraid we may not be able to stop them."

"Of course you can stop it. The key is how much loss you have to pay." Li Jing skillfully built the Great Wall and played mahjong with a few women every night. It was almost an inevitable activity. Although Delhi is a big city, it is just a military fortress. At the beginning of the invasion of the Hu people, they robbed the place, making it a fortress with only military purposes. The winter here is extremely cold, and the temperature can reach minus 40 degrees Celsius. In such weather, no one is willing to go out unless necessary.

"But we cannot waste all our precious troops here." Julie said, "Even if the Hu people can break through this time, it will almost never be able to fight against us anymore. In such a winter, we can let them go. The severe cold and food shortage of food can make them frostbite and starve to death. We don't have to fight with them at all, so that they can force them to retreat. I think our goal has been achieved by now. We send troops to curb the tribes' southward and to swallow the Bohai Sea, rather than expecting to destroy the coalition forces of hundreds of tribes in one fell swoop at this time. This is unrealistic. If we force ourselves too much, we will pay greater losses. In the autumn battle, we lost more than 100,000 people, but fortunately these losses are mostly Bohai Sea and surrendered tribe soldiers. But if we have to fight again this time, we are afraid that we will inevitably suffer a lot of casualties."

This concept is actually a large part of the soldiers in the army. In everyone's opinion, such a vast place outside the pass cannot truly eradicate the roots. For those Hu people, at most they can defeat and drive them to the bitter and cold land further north. Especially for the soldiers who have been stationed in the Bohai Sea for three years, they are already a little tired of this battle, tired of the cold in the north, and tired of everything here. They feel that it is meaningless to continue fighting here.

This emotion was spreading, and Li Jing knew very clearly that he must end the war before the arrival of next summer and start training in the autumn. In addition to the emotions of the soldiers, Li Jing also made this plan with news from the Central Plains.

Huang Chao was dead, his Qi Empire collapsed, and the Yang brothers have now integrated a powerful alliance, from Guanzhong to Henan, to Shannan and Jingnan. Hedong, they have more than 20 vassal states. It can be said that they occupied half of the vassal states in the world. In the Battle of Chang'an alone, they had already gathered the power of Qiandu, with a soldier of 400,000. Even if it was a mob, this force had begun to show great strength.

Although Li Jing understood that this alliance aimed at Huang Chao was still loose in a short period of time and could not be integrated immediately. It was also obvious that they would definitely be able to integrate it in less than a long time. The information sent from Zhongyuan has shown that the Yang brothers were already planning to make the Shouwang Li Jie the Seventh Brother of the Emperor, and to depose the one Tian Lingzi had.

It is conceivable that when the Yang brothers really establish a new emperor, after their alliance is integrated, they will definitely attack the outside world, either Tian Lingzi in the southwest or Li Jing in the northeast.

Under such a situation, Li Jing cannot guarantee that the Yang brothers will not attack him. Especially when he put hundreds of thousands of troops outside the pass, this is an excellent opportunity for the Yang brothers no matter how you look at it.

"Many soldiers cannot adapt to such cold weather. They stay in the fort camp all day long and shivered. In such a season, if they go out to fight, most of them will be frostbite and frostbite directly." Gongsun Lan raised a very practical question. The winter in Haidong is too cold. For most soldiers from the pass, this ghost place is extremely cold, except for the short warm and comfortable summer, most of the rest of the year. Especially in winter, it is even more ice-filled, and the snow in the wild is high. In such a season, the biggest enemy is not the tribal coalition forces, but God.

"Indeed, this is the biggest problem. The severe cold weather and the soldiers of our army who were mainly from the pass that could not adapt to the severe cold in the east of the sea. But if it were just this problem, it would be better." Li Jing grabbed a 90,000 yuan in his hand, tapped an 80,000 yuan with 90,000 yuan, and then a 70,000 yuan card. In fact, the Qin army had expected this problem. So far, not long ago, Li Jing sent 50,000 troops and 100,000 civilians to the intersection of the Nenjiang Songhua River in Fuyu north. Except for more than 10,000 of them, the rest were recruited from the four provinces outside the pass, Liaodong, Liaoxi, Andong and Rehe, half of which were tribal soldiers.

"The 50,000 newly recruited recruits recruited in the fall are basically soldiers from the Liaodong region, mainly tribal soldiers. In addition, we have summoned 100,000 civilians from the Bohai Sea, which can adapt to the severe cold weather in the Northeast. These 50,000 soldiers and 100,000 civilians will be supplemented with the Da'an front in Fuyu North."

Although all kinds of efforts have been made, there is still a big problem.

If the tribal coalition really wanted to break through this winter, it would be difficult for the Qin army to guess their breakthrough direction. The thousands of miles of front line were too wide. Although they knew they would break through along several rivers, Delhi in the northeast was fine. There were a large number of mountain monuments here. Delhi guarded the narrow plains of the valley and could wait for it. But in the northwest direction, besides the gathering of Nenjiang and Songhua River, there was the Songnen Plain area of ​​the three major plains in the northeast. There were endless plains everywhere. If it was spring and summer, the continuous swamps and lakes here would still be a place of death, with only a few muddy roads. But if it was winter, although there was thick snow, they could choose to break through anywhere thousands of miles.

It is unrealistic that Li Jing cannot intercept all the places he is in.

Now, the only thing Li Jing can do is to establish defense lines along several important rivers such as Songhua River, Nenjiang River, Mudanjiang River, etc., gather troops and guard those rivers. Instead of giving up these major roads to the coalition forces, they forced them to return north from the thick snow-covered plains. Li Jing planned to use the unique coldness of the eastern desert in the outer sea outside the border to deal with these tribal troops. The Qin army would guard the fortresses one by one, and then deploy the tribal troops and Bohai troops under the Qin army to the north, so that they could intercept and chase the coalition forces.

In any case, although the final decisive battle has not begun, Li Jing has already won the victory as he wished. Although the victory was somewhat imperfect, it was enough. The tribal army could not continue to stay in the Bohai Sea, so they could only escape further north. Their strength would inevitably be greatly damaged, and after these years of battle, the Bohai Kingdom has completely become a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

The Qin army's war in the northeast for several years was a result. The tribe's vitality was severely damaged and it would retreat further north and west. The entire Bohai Kingdom would be occupied by the Qin army. By the fall of next year, the Qin army could withdraw its main force back to the pass, and then send a few elite small troops northwards to drive the tribes farther away.

Gongsun Lan was a little surprised, "You are willing to accept such a result, which is a bit incomplete."

Li Jing grabbed a card, touched his fingers, and slapped the table with a smile: "Seventy thousand, what if you want, touch it yourself, give it money!"

All three women pouted. They knew that Li Jing was doing something, so everyone refused to type with ten thousand words. Who knew that he could still touch it, and it was the last one of the seventy thousand.

Li Jing counted the money happily, "I'm satisfied, the plan we made before was too big. In fact, it's difficult to fight a war of millions. Because in such a war, the biggest enemy is not the other party, but ourselves, logistics supply, etc., and for our battle, in addition to supply, there is also bad weather. To swallow the other party's army, we have to need more troops, but in such weather, we can't gather more troops at all. The weather is one, and logistics has become the most important thing.

The problem of keys. Therefore, now, we can't fight the decisive battle at all. We broke their supply line and we had already won. Although we could not achieve a greater victory, the result was already very good with the help of the weather. Although the process was very different from our plan, the result would be the same in the end. We won, and the Hu people lost this greatly and were no longer able to threaten us! Look, just like this card, you have been stuck in my seventy thousand, but in the end I touched the last seventy thousand myself."

"You have recruited so many tribal warriors and Bohai civilians. Are these people trustworthy?"
Chapter completed!