The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 189

[Chapter 187 War Potential]

The new moon is like fire, it is time to kill.

When the capital of Yan Kingdom, in which he is living a life of luxury and intoxication, Yan Wangxi is enjoying the enjoyment of wine, pond and meat forest.

Hearing the news that the two counties in the east of him had changed hands, and that a huge army was heading for the capital of his country of Yan, he was shocked to get up from the pile of women. color.

The incompetent Yan Wangxi, and his anxious ministers, especially his uncle, Yan Chunjun, came together to discuss how to deal with it.

When Yan Chunjun and the general Yan Yi heard the news, their hearts froze, and they remembered what happened to them in Feixue Pavilion a month ago.

‘Could it be that the person before was the commander-in-chief of this army, and he actually committed such a catastrophe, he must not let King Yan know, otherwise he would die.

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The two of them thought of this idea at the same time in their hearts. They didn’t know what their thoughts would be after their respective supportive thoughts.

The two of them are secretly thinking about it, and naturally they won’t say what they really think in their hearts.

Instead, he tried his best to persuade King Yan not to act rashly for the time being, but to gather troops and horses from all over the country and gather them to the capital of Yan to see what happened to the enemy.

Then make a decision, whether it is war or peace, which charter will it be released at that time!

“Your Majesty, I don’t know how many enemies there are at this time, and I don’t know whether they are real or not. I rashly dispatched troops, and the number of troops and horses that Yan Guoguo can dispatch now is only 70,000 to 80,000 people. I’m afraid it’s the enemy with unknown strength. Let’s look first. Let’s make a decision for a while!” Yan Chunjun was loyal and dedicated to the country and the people.

“That’s right, Your Majesty, at this moment, my army is not fully prepared for the expedition. Many soldiers have gone home on vacation and have not yet returned to the camp. If they send troops hastily, I am afraid that they will cause complaints from the soldiers, and the military will be afraid and unable to fight!” The military general, Yan Yi, also said like an insider.

“This, but if you don’t take advantage of the enemy’s unsteady foothold and have not fully digested the opportunity of the two armies, send troops to repel the enemy, I am afraid that the enemy will gain a firm foothold and then send troops to invade our country of Yan, what should we do?” Although King Yan was stunned, he was fascinated by alcoholism. At this moment, he suddenly encountered this kind of danger. When the country was destroyed and the family was destroyed, it also showed a little bit of his ability as a king.

“Your Majesty, don’t worry. At this moment, the capital of Yan Kingdom has all the troops combined, but he has 100,000, and two or three of him will be left behind, and ten thousand people will stay behind. Only seven or eighty thousand can really be sent out to fight.” General Yan Yi , I first talked about the strength of the capital of Yan State at the moment, and then continued to speak.

“But if you wait a month, or even half a month, to gather troops and horses from other counties in the Yan country and gather them in Yandu, you can gather an army of nearly 200,000 people. Whether it is to stay behind and defend against the enemy? Or Sending troops to retreat from the enemy? The odds of victory will greatly increase, and the state of Yan is not in danger of being destroyed!”

“This, although what Aiqing said is not a problem, it is also a blunt statement of the old minister, but…” Although Yan Wangxi heard Yan Yi’s remarks, although he admitted that there was some truth in his heart, he was still a little hesitant.

“Your Majesty, when the break is constant and the chaos is reversed, this is not the time to fight. You should wait for it to change. I will wait to sit firmly in the capital, and then make plans after seeing the strength of the enemy. That is the right thing to do!” King Yan’s hesitation and hesitation, Jun Yan Chun, who knew King Yan’s personality very well, interrupted King Yan’s words directly and put pressure on him.

“This, since the two Ai Qing said so, then let’s wait and see what happens, pass my Wang Ling, convene the defenders from all over the Yan country, and gather the Yan capital to prevent the enemy from aggression!” King Yan paused, and then decided Dao, obviously the persuasion of the two humeral officials in his eyes reversed his original plan.

Wang Ling’s order was quickly transformed into a decree. With the communication of various messengers, it was sent to the guards in all parts of the Yan Kingdom. Those guards were either sad, angry, happy, or excited, in a variety of moods. , constantly appearing in the hearts of the guards everywhere.

But the king’s order cannot be disobeyed. Since their king has made an order, those of them who are generals must follow it and cannot disobey, otherwise there will be a loss of ministers and their lives will be lost.

Therefore, in every county and county of Yan State, the males of each household were recruited for war, and all the males were forcibly pulled out by the yamen and military soldiers.

They put on battle armor, prepared battle fighters, and formed armies. Under the leadership of the military chiefs of each county, they rushed to the capital of Yan State and formed a powerful army.

Every man in the Warring States Period, as long as he is over twenty years old, must have experienced a war.

There may be more than a dozen fields.

Because from the Spring and Autumn Period to the end of the Warring States period, the five-hundred-year-old war has made every country’s war mobilization ability perfected to the extreme, and it can maximize the use of every country’s resources. A trace of strength to support the war.

Just like the Qin State that fought in the Battle of Changping, the Qin State had a population of about 4 million at that time, mobilized the entire country’s troops, and invested nearly 700,000 people in the war. into the battlefield.

With all the old and weak women, they help the army transport rations in the rear. The operation of the entire country is basically maintained by a group of women, and economic production can be said to have stagnated or even regressed.

Zhao State has a population of about 3.5 million, and it also mobilized about 450,000 men to participate in the war. This is also because of the incomplete reform of Zhao State, many strong men have become slaves of various nobles, and cannot all serve the reason for the war.

Therefore, in the Battle of Changping, Zhao State was defeated, and these 450,000 men died. When Qin State sent hundreds of thousands of troops again to fight the Battle of Handan.

When Zhao State was around the capital, more than 100,000 slaves of nobles were eagerly dispatched to help the national army defend the city until reinforcements from other countries came.

At the same time, Yan State in the north also sent more than 100,000 troops to attack Zhao State.

However, he was repelled by Lian Po, the defender of the north of Zhao State, led by tens of thousands of troops.

Looking at it this way, the entire Zhao State’s population of 3.5 million was able to mobilize his army of nearly 700,000, with a ratio of 5:1. This shows how powerful the military mobilization capabilities of various countries were during the Warring States Period.

And the Warring States period did not go without a war for a year, so the men in each of their countries had basically gone through the experience of war and had a certain amount of experience.

Pull them out, and you can immediately form an army, and they are not the kind of rabble, but those who have killed people and seen blood.

(End of this chapter)

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