The foreigners who temporarily lived in Jiehe City did not expect that another war would break out so soon.

When the war broke out, Xia Kingdom took the lead in clearing out the natives of Jiehe City because there were too many spies among these people.

Although these spies did not do much because of the strong control of Jiehe City, these spies from the outside world did not do much, in order to prevent this, these work is not redundant at all.

Perhaps no foreigners will come to Jiehe City from now on, but this doesn't matter, because the Xia Kingdom has passed the chaotic period when it first occupied the land outside the pass.

At this time, the land south of the Jiehe River was firmly grasped by the Xia Kingdom, and no longer allowed spies from other forces to invade easily.

Even if there are some fish that miss the net, the city guards are not vegetarian. Most of the city guards in the Xia Kingdom are arranged outside the pass.

At this time, soldiers of the First Infantry Division were stationed everywhere inside and outside Jiehe City. In addition to guarding the bridge, they also had the headquarters in the city to protect the city.

When Li Jing and the Fourth Heavy Dressing Division arrived at the northern border, he set up his general command in Jiehe City, the closest to the empire.

First, in addition to facilitating command and dispatch of the army, second, Li Jing wants to learn about the battle situation ahead earlier.

The Jiehe Bridge in Jiehe City just passed through a large number of troops of the First Infantry Division a few days ago, and now it has captured the local pass on the north shore.

Although the lords in the north could not seize the bridgehead of the north bank, they could build a fortress surrounding the bridgehead of the north bank a little farther away, just like Xia State built a solid pass on both sides of the Jiehe Bridge.

However, this pass was bombarded by the artillery battalion of the First Infantry Division of Xia's First Infantry Division, and was captured by the Xia army after several days.

It is precisely because of this that the vassal federations on the north bank of the Border River have time to mobilize troops to deal with the attack of the Xia Kingdom.

When Li Jing learned that the federal government of the princes mobilized heavy troops to defend, he did not issue any orders to each division, but asked each division to decide how to fight on its own.

After learning the news, Qi Jiguang from the First Infantry Division discussed with Chief of Staff Lu Su, he decided to temporarily suspend the march and rely on local key passes for defense.

The reason why Qi Jiguang and Lu Su made the defense decision was that from then on, they could get support from the naval fleet and even the Marine Corps.

Second, because there are many enemy troops, instead of attacking them one by one at a long distance, it is better to let the enemy gather and then annihilate them together to effectively and save trouble.

This move has certain risks. For example, if the enemy cannot hold on, it will reoccupy the pass here by the enemy, and it will also put the Jiehe Bridge within the enemy's attack range. In severe cases, it may even threaten the Xia Kingdom's homeland.

However, these risks are all based on the defeat of the First Infantry Division. However, will Qi Jiguang, Lu Su and even Li Jing let this happen? The answer is definitely not!

Huo Qubing, the fourth-level division in the middle attack position, made the decision that Huo Qubing made was completely opposite to the First Infantry Division after learning that the enemy would gather heavy troops.

Huo Qubing doesn't like defense. He likes to take the initiative, or he likes to attack.

Not to mention the best choice made by the First Infantry Division due to its right time and place, the Fourth Heavy Equipment Division is a unit with sufficient mobility and offensive power.

So if the fourth-level equipment division is allowed to defend, it means giving up its own advantages, which is a waste of the fourth-level equipment division's combat power.

Besides, the Fourth Heavy Equipment Division is not as convenient as the First Infantry Division, with a bridge, so instead of defending land that does not require defense, it is better to take the initiative to attack.

Therefore, after Huo Qubing crossed the river, he immediately divided the Fourth Heavy Division into two parts, one part was the main force composed of three infantry regiments, two artillery battalions, the Houbao battalion, the division headquarters, and the other part was the mobile unit composed of two cavalry regiments.

After crossing the river, the two cavalry regiments launched an attack in all directions, making the enemy completely unable to understand the main attack direction of the Fourth Heavy Division, so they had to use a large number of troops for defense.

The main force of the Fourth Heavy Equipment Division started a zigzag march and attack route. Wherever it went, in addition to destroying the enemy, it would destroy towns and clean up foreign citizens, so that wherever the Fourth Heavy Equipment Division went, it became a deserted and uninhabited land.

When the Federation of Princes saw the sharpness of the fourth-level armored division of the Xia Kingdom, there was no choice but to give up part of the area and start gathering a large army to fight to the death.

Although giving up some areas to concentrate troops and fight to the decisive battle, it will be better than being defeated by the Fourth Heavy Division of Xia Kingdom and gradually encroached on it.

The Federation of the princes was thinking that long pain was better than short pain, so Huo Qubing was willing to accompany him. After all, he and the Fourth Heavy Division were not afraid of anyone when fighting in the wild, although he was not as siege now.

Since the Cavalry Division was adapted into the Fourth Heavy Division according to the Imperial Guards, it has no longer been able to engage in field battles like the previous cavalry divisions. It has a single purpose, but can engage in more scope of combat.

After the second infantry division crossed the river from Anzhou in the northwest of Xia State and entered the territory of the Federation of the Dukes, the terrain here was not as complicated as the western mountainous areas, but the hilly terrain at the junction of the mountains and plains was also complex enough.

Although the march in hilly areas is not as unobstructed as plains or as unchanged as mountains, there are not many places that can be passed through due to its terrain limitations.

Therefore, Di Qing decided to concentrate his troops and steadily advance forward and launch an attack, and make steady progress and steadily advance. This is Di Qing's tactic of this time.

Because the Xia Kingdom divided its troops into three groups, and the lords in the vassal federation had already lost the initiative, they could only deal with it passively.

The Xia Kingdom's army was divided into three groups, so in order to confront the princes, the federations could only divide their huge forces into three parts for confrontation.

After the 700,000 army was divided into three parts, the enemy forces faced by each route of the Xia army were no longer so exaggerated.

But in fact, the total number of enemies the Xia army had to face had not changed at all. It was just three small battlefields that had a division of nearly 50,000 troops to fight against the enemy's more than 200,000.

Perhaps the people from the Federation of the Princes also knew the principle of defeating one by one, so the Federation of the Princes did not divide the 700,000 troops into three parts, but instead concentrated the 400,000 troops to gather them on the eastern battlefield.

On the other two battlefields, they were only divided into 150,000 to restrain the speed of the Xia army, and were preparing to eliminate the Xia army in the east first and then concentrate their superior forces to wipe out the other two routes, or they were preparing to attack the Xia land through the Jiehe Bridge after destroying the Xia army in the eastern army.

Qi Jiguang led nearly 50,000 troops from the First Infantry Division to defend against the attack of the 400,000 troops of the vassal states.

The nearly ten times the advantage of military strength gives the attacking party a lot of confidence, but if we consider the weapons, equipment, quality of troops, command level of the two sides, it is actually the Xia side that has the advantage.

In other words, except for the large number of troops, the other aspects of the vassal federation are different from those of the Xia Kingdom.

The army of the Federation of the Lords was not without elite troops. The information obtained from Chen Ping's Foreign Information Department was that the three major dukes in the Federation of the Lords all had a ten thousand knights and an elite standing army. Including the elite forces of the Lord Yu, the elite army of the Federation of the Lords still had 100,000.

If it were in the past, such a huge elite army could be said to be invincible, and no territory could afford it.

However, it is not enough to put the 100,000 elite troops of the vassal state in the Xia State, because the more than 100,000 troops of the vassal state are all elite, and it is still an army that is more elite than the elite troops of the vassal state.

The Xia army equipped with muskets and artillery was a gap between the two eras for the army in the cold weapon era. If it weren't for the expansion of Xia, and the transportation in this world was inconvenient, the world, at least this continent could be fully acquired by Xia.

The reason why this continent has not been captured by the Xia Kingdom is that in addition to the development plan of Xia Kingdom itself, the other benefits brought by the inconvenience of transportation in this world to the indigenous forces on this continent.

Even if the train can connect two distant places, the railway cannot be repaired in a short time. The construction speed of the railway can be said to be the development speed of Xia State in another aspect!

Therefore, even if the Xia State's dispatch of troops was weakened by the vassal federation, it did not care about the number of troops sent by the other party, or even the more, the better. This is also the reason why the Xia State sent three divisions at once this time - in order to put enough pressure on the vassal federation.

It was precisely because we wanted to attack and weaken the feudal federation that we sent troops to launch an attack. In order to weaken the feudal federation to the greatest extent, the Xia State sent three divisions of troops.

If you really want to send troops to teach a lesson and punish the other party, it would be enough to send a division just like you would deal with the Anyuan Kingdom on the plateau.

The weakening of the feudal federation is one of the reasons for the Xia Kingdom's foreign layout. In fact, there is another reason for sending troops this time, that is, to test the impact of the entire army's reorganization, general leaders' replacement, permanent logistics support units and other aspects on combat effectiveness.

After all, all aspects of the army involve the influence of combat power. If the expected results cannot be achieved after reorganization, then the problem must be found to solve the problem.

Thinking back to the beginning, the Xia Kingdom's army had only a mere 300 people, which was the size of a company that has grown step by step to hundreds of thousands of people today, but it was very difficult.

I don’t know how many times the organization has been modified, let alone the weapons and equipment have entered another era.

It is precisely because of the rapid and stable development that the current Daxia Empire has become so powerful.

It is also because of such a strong military force that this "punishment" war completely ended with the plan of the Xia Kingdom.

Nearly one million troops ended with a comprehensive victory in the Xia Kingdom after more than a month of battle.

As the failed vassal federation, except for the 700,000 troops, there were no more than 700,000 troops left, and there were no more than how many towns were burned by the Xia army, and even some lords were captured by the Xia Kingdom.

Of course, the 100,000 elite troops of the vassal federation were basically lost. If the Xia army had not voluntarily withdrawn when they saw it, it would have been possible that they would have the ability to completely occupy the entire vassal federation in this way.
Chapter completed!