Li Jinghuai's main force was not moving forward quickly, but was very firm.

The basic process is to rest on the first day in the Dangxiang Fortress that has just been conquered, set out on the second day to advance to the next fortress, arrive at the target on the third day, and conquer the fortress on the same day, and then rest to prepare for the next round of attacks.

This kind of step-by-step attack is purely to suppress people with power. Li Jinghuai does not consider any gorgeous military use actions at all, because it is not easy to make mistakes.

Li Jinghuai believes that as long as he does not make any mistakes, Dangxiang people will not have any chance.

This is true. Although the Chinese army is not fast in advancing, every time they conquer a fortress, the Dangxiang people will lose two to three thousand troops. The defenders of these fortresses are all new forces, and the losses are all permanent losses.

The Dangxiang people could not continue to bear this meaningless loss like this. They now have only two choices:

First, concentrating troops to fight the Chinese army can compare the combat effectiveness of both sides. This is equivalent to changing Lingchi to beheading. In addition to being a little more refreshing, the death penalty remains unchanged.

Second, give up some of the fortresses on the front line, gather the scattered troops, and fight the Chinese army in the core Xing and Ling areas.

The biggest benefit of doing that is that in the decisive battle in the Hexing and Ling area, the Dangxiang Army had the shortest supply line, while the attacking Chinese army had a long supply line. If the Chinese army could be cut off, it would be the only military opportunity to turn the tables.

The disadvantages are also quite large. After all, it is the core territory near the capital, with the densest population and the highest productivity. If you suffer a military disaster, the loss will be a huge number. You can't recover in more than ten or twenty years.

For a normal regime, the battlefield is a failure in its core territory.

For Li Qianshun, the great emperor of Xia State, he still doesn't want to choose either option now.

His approach is:

First, send envoys to negotiate peace and retreat on the condition of claiming to be subordinate to the army.

Of course this is impossible. Li Jinghuai, who is usually kind to others, even hangs the head of the Dangxiang envoy at the gate of the military camp - China seems to have no tradition of fighting between the two countries without killing them.

After the peace talks were hopeless, Li Qianshun placed his main hope on his "anti-China encirclement".

More than 30 years ago, when the Great Zhou was still in Jiangbei, the Western Army of the Great Zhou had actually gradually overwhelmed the Dangxiang people, and they had even reached Lingzhou.

However, as the Jurchens suddenly rose and headed south, the Western Army, which was still moving little by little towards Xingling, had to retreat to the local area.

But it is not that easy to retreat before the enemy. Li Qianshun's troops pursued the Zhou army closely and chased the Zhou army from Lingzhou city. As a result, the Western Army of the Zhou Dynasty completely collapsed, achieving the greatest military victory in Li Qianshun's life.

Li Qianshun is now over 60 years old, and his health is already worse than before. Although he is unwilling to give up, he must admit that he has been unable to be on the throne of the Great Kingdom of Dabai.

But at the last moment of his life, Li Qianshun hoped that he could replicate the glorious victory he had in the past - if he could do it, he thought he could become a great emperor who was no longer as famous as the founding emperor Jingzong in the history of the Great Bai Kingdom.

To do this, Li Qianshun must persuade the Great Zhou or the Mongols to attack China from behind.

According to the current known information, the troops that the Chinese army attacked the Dabai Gao Kingdom should be between 100,000 and 200,000, and the troops that crossed the sea to attack Fusang were also more than 100,000.

In this way, the Chinese army's troops were fighting abroad at as many as 200,000 to 400,000. For a Jiangbei regime, this number was already very shocking. Li Ganshun believed that the Chinese army should not have more mobile troops, and at most there was a little garrison force.

In this case, no matter how strong the Chinese are, the Chinese army will have to retreat after the 200,000-300,000-300,000 troops of the Great Zhou Dynasty suppressed them.

As long as the Chinese army retreats, it is an opportunity, and you can win if you seize it.

Unfortunately, the problem now is that Li Ganshun is not sure whether the Great Zhou of Northern Mongolia and South will be persuaded by his envoys. At this time, we will send troops together to deal with China.

He now really hopes that there will be a means of long-distance communication that can allow him to contact the messengers far away from Chahar and Lin'an.

Unfortunately, there are no telegraphs, radios, satellite phones and the Internet in this era, so Li Ganshun did not know whether the encirclement he expected would be successful, so he could only choose to bet on his own strategy to succeed.

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Xingqing Mansion, after another imperial military congress that had been open all night before the decisive battle, the most powerful priests of the Dabai Gao Kingdom (also the patriarch of the tribe) walked out of the palace and returned to their respective residences.

The one who walked in front of these high-ranking officials and nobles in the Party was naturally the most powerful tribe leader in the country: Renduo Chuqing, who had no collectors, Wuzang Epang, and Ye Boma, who had no collections.

These top party powerhouses who stomped their feet and were about to have an earthquake in Dabai Gaoguo are now full of worry.

"Your Majesty is thinking about the victory thirty years ago."

Mozang Epang said with a sad face:

"Can the Mengwu people and the Zhou people be reliable?"

“It’s not reliable.”

Renduo Chuqing answered:

"Even if they follow His Majesty's will, they will definitely wait until we can defeat both sides!"

Li Ganshun planned to bet that the Mongolian army and Zhou army would come back to rescue him, so he did not change his previous strategy, neither withdrawing the defenders of the castles in the south, nor taking Xingling's main force to go south to seek a decisive battle.

This means that the defenders of the fortresses in the south were abandoned, and only after the Northern Mongolian and Southern Zhou joined the war, Li Ganshun would lead the main force to attack.

The Emperor Dade thought it was quite beautiful, but everyone present found it difficult to accept it. The reason was very simple. Most of the defenders of the fortresses in the south were their tribal soldiers. Now the captured generals who died in battle were either Renduo or Wuzang, or Ye Bo, and there was no surname Wei. These royal generals were all squatting in Xingling, waiting for the battle to follow and pursue the Chinese army as the Emperor Dade had imagined.

"We can't wait for their famous masters!" Ye Boma said gritting his teeth: "When the Chinese army arrives in Xingling, even if we really win, the children will all die in the battle. How can we gain a foothold in the country after that!"

The Daxia Kingdom was a tribal coalition regime, which was actually equivalent to the royal family Weiming and Renduo, and Wuzang, and Ye Bo and other major tribes ruled the world together.

Because they have soldiers.

The Wei Mingjia's soldiers were about one-third of the total military force of the Xia Kingdom, and their large tribes accounted for another third, while the others were small tribes, as well as Tubo (such as Yu Zang Huama), Han people, Xizhou Uighurs, Gaochang and other Western Regions.

The rights, land and wealth distribution of Xia Kingdom were also based on the strength of each tribe. The Wei Ming family was the strongest, so they were clans, while other large tribes controlled the position of priest for a long time.
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