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"Empire Hegemony" Chapter 806
? Xingshui Mansion in the southwestern region of Yunshan Province, where the rebel camp is located.
Messy tents and shacks made of branches filled the wilderness outside the city of Xingshuifu, as if a dense forest had grown out of thin air in the wilderness.
The rebel patrols in messy clothes shuttled back and forth, smoke filled the tents, and groups of rebel soldiers gathered together to drink and gamble, shouting and cursing one after another.
The leader of the rebel army, Yang Hao, was defeated at the hands of the southern army, and he almost put his life on the line.
After he escaped from birth, with the assistance of Wu Feng, chief of staff, he quickly threatened the young and strong people and pulled up a strong army.
? Although Wu Feng, the chief of staff, went around to raise money and food for the army, it was still a drop in the bucket for the chaotic and large number of rebels.
Therefore, in order to keep the morale and combat effectiveness of the rebels strong enough, Yang Hao relaxed the military discipline of the rebels, and even openly allowed them to plunder.
Every time they capture a town, all the men in the town will be incorporated into the army, and the women will be rewarded to those meritorious rebel soldiers.
However, 70% of the spoils seized by the rebel soldiers are kept for themselves, and only 30% need to be handed over to Yang Hao.
It was the rebel leader Yang Hao who was stimulated by this policy, the rebels were like locusts passing through the border, and their strength grew rapidly like a snowball, and they were able to maintain a strong combat effectiveness all the time.
On weekdays, Yang Hao didn't bother to care about the regular troops of the rebel army. As long as they didn't join the enemy, he let them sleep late, fight and fight, and didn't care about their military training.
Because once on the battlefield, the rebels of these regular troops are actually just consumables. If they want to survive under the cruel military regulations on the battlefield, they must follow the officers at all levels to charge and smash the enemy.
And all the brave veterans in the regular army who can survive three battles will be transferred by Yang Hao to the Tiger and Leopard Battalion directly under him.
Yang Hao's Tiger and Leopard Battalion has now expanded to more than 30,000 troops, and these 30,000 elite veterans have all passed through the gate of hell several times.
?Compared to Yang Hao ignoring the regular troops, he trained the elite of the Tiger and Leopard Battalion very strictly.
Soldiers in the regular army have no military pay, and most of them are young and strong people who have been coerced into the army and have not received any training. They are desperate cannon fodder on the battlefield.
All they have is up to them to grab, from the hands of their enemies and from their companions.
However, the elite veterans of the Tiger and Leopard Battalion are not only paid, but also have sufficient food supply, equipment, and rewards.
As long as the towns cannot be conquered by conventional troops, Yang Hao will definitely send out elite tiger and leopard battalions.
The tiger and leopard battalion is basically selected elite soldiers, plus they are well paid and well equipped, so they are the trump cards in Yang Hao's hands, and they will always win every battle.
It is precisely because Yang Hao holds such a powerful and bloodthirsty tiger and leopard battalion in his hands, so those regular rebel troops dare not make the slightest change.
Every rebel soldier has tattoos on his face, not only his name, but also the number of the unit he belongs to.
Once they fled the battlefield, they would not be given any chance to justify themselves if they were caught, and they would all be killed on the spot.
It is precisely because of Yang Hao's cruel military regulations and systems that their rebel army seems loose, but its actual combat effectiveness is quite sturdy.
In just a few months, they defeated the Southern Army in Yunshan Province and lost dozens of towns.
Long Tian, ??the former fourth prince of Pingyang Province, was also quite satisfied with the achievements of Yang Hao, the leader.
So he sent someone to Yunshan Province to praise the leader Yang Hao for his achievements.
At the same time, Long Tian also ordered Yang Hao to attack eastward as soon as possible on the basis of the existing territory and break into Dongjiang Province.
? Yunshan Province, Dongjiang Province and Jiangnan Province have always been the grain-producing areas of the Far Eastern Dynasty.
Yunshan Province first experienced the fight between the Qinghe Army and the rebels, and then experienced the battle between the Southern Army and the rebels.
Now it is the Qinghe Army, the Southern Army, the rebels, and various small groups of bandits and rogues fighting in a melee, so the Yunshan Province is devastated, resulting in the barrenness of large areas of land, and the grain production has been greatly affected.
Now the former fourth prince, Longtian, has received strong support from many provinces, as well as the Northern Army and Zhendong Army. He has strong strength and occupies half of the country.
Long Tian can now say that his soldiers and horses are numerous.?, with nearly a million troops, but it also brought him great pressure.
Although there are various provinces and aristocratic families providing money and food, after all, the northern provinces have been suffering from drought for years and there are not many food reserves.
So now Longtian must get strong support from the food and grass in the Southern Army area, otherwise his million-dollar army will collapse.
Jiangnan Province, a major grain-producing area, is now in the hands of the Qinghe Army, and Long Tian can be said to be out of reach now.
However, Dongjiang Province and Yunshan Province are close at hand. As long as Yang Hao's troops move eastward and take down Dongjiang Province, the food and grass crisis on the front line can be alleviated.
What's more, Dongjiang Province is also the food supply place of the imperial court of the royal capital. Yang Hao's occupation here is equivalent to cutting off the food supply of the imperial court of the royal capital. If one goes up and down, the odds of the former four princes fighting for hegemony will be greatly increased. .
In order to encourage Yang Hao to move eastward and conquer the Dongjiang province as soon as possible, the original four princes have promised Yang Hao that once he seizes the world, Yang Hao will be crowned king and guard the southern region for generations.
Yang Hao was just an orphan at the beginning, and was adopted by the inspector of Qinghe Province.
Now he has become a key general that Long Tian relies heavily on. After receiving Long Tian's promise, Yang Hao has been brewing a huge battle plan recently.
Yang Hao hoped to take advantage of the tense period of the confrontation between the Qinghe Army and the Southern Army in the Changdong Prefecture area to further provoke the relationship between the two sides.
When the two sides fought, he led the army to sneak attack the Qinghe army's rear, together with the southern army, first wiped out the Qinghe army in Yunshan province, and then turned around to pack up the southern army and invaded Dongjiang province.
Yang Hao felt that his plan had at least an 80% chance of winning, because when the Southern Army and the Qinghe Army fought, the Southern Army would be happy to see it succeed if he led his troops to fight the Qinghe Army.
But what Yang Hao didn't expect was that when his plan was still on paper, their scout Qingqi reported that the Qinghe Army had rushed to occupy Pingyong Mansion.
"What, the bandits attacked and occupied Pingyong Mansion?!"
After Yang Hao received the report from the scout Qingqi, he also jumped up, his face full of disbelief.
"It is absolutely true that we captured the rout soldiers who fled from Pingyong Mansion to the countryside." The scout chief said firmly.
"Take the captured rout, I want to question myself!" Yang Hao said with a dark face.
"No!"
Soon, several ragged rebel soldiers were brought to Yang Hao. Seeing Yang Hao who was full of murderous aura, these rout soldiers trembled with fright.
After they escaped from Pingyong Mansion, they did not dare to return to the army, but prepared to flee from the army.
Because once they return to the team, Pingyong Mansion falls, the main general is killed, and they will also die.
But on the way to escape, they were too hungry. When they were robbing food in the countryside, they were caught by the rebel scout Qingqi.
"Didn't the thieves confront the southern army in Changdong Prefecture? How could they raid and occupy Pingyong Prefecture?"
"There are still 20,000 troops in the fort trenches we built in the border area of ??Pingyong Prefecture. Why didn't there be an early warning?!"
Yang Hao questioned several defeated soldiers, wanting to get real information, because he really couldn't figure it out, because he deployed a full 40,000 troops on the front line of Pingyong Mansion, and Pingyong Mansion was occupied by a surprise attack .
"The confrontation between the bandit army and the southern army in Changdong Mansion was a cover-up. In fact, their main force bypassed our frontal defense line, entered from the northern area of ??Pingyong Mansion, and raided the capital."
"Then what does Lu Jiang of Pingyong Mansion do for food? He has 20,000 brothers in his hands. Could it be that the small Pingyong Mansion can't hold it?!"
"General Lu and several generals were attacked and killed by the bandit army before the start of the battle. When the bandit army approached Pingyong Mansion, no one in the city was in charge of the overall situation. Although we fought hard, we still failed to defend Pingyong Mansion. " The rout said tremblingly. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com