BookMe Chapter 412 Strategies to quell chaos
Chapter 412 Strategies to quell chaos
Gulanzhou, Gulan City
Hu Yanlie is discussing important matters with his generals and officials in Huyan Mansion. His palace is now filled with various guard posts, for fear that someone will come to assassinate him.
Recently, chaotic parties have emerged and become more and more powerful. There is a trend that cannot be suppressed.
At first, Hu Yanlie didn't take it to heart. It had been like this for so many years. The rebels would come out to make trouble every once in a while. He sent people to suppress it and then left.
But this time is different. This time there is obviously a unified organization and command. There are simultaneous uprisings in many places in Qulan Prefecture, and some places have successfully seized power.
If this is just the case, it is not enough for Hu Yanlie to pay so much attention to it. After all, if the place is lost, it is enough to send troops there and then come back. Those rebellious parties are not as good as his army in terms of numbers and equipment and are not opponents at all.
Just when Hu Yanlie was about to send people to suppress it with the same means as usual, he suddenly received a notice that a team of about ten thousand people came from the sea, seized a dock, and landed in Gulan Prefecture!
Moreover, the opponent is obviously a regular army, with uniform armor, well-equipped equipment, and excellent combat power. Their garrison at the dock is no match for them and will collapse at the first touch.
After Hu Yanlie heard the news, he immediately became anxious. He immediately sent people to take the teleportation formation, and then organized all the garrison troops near the seaport to block the enemy, and they must not be allowed to seize the remaining port terminals.
He judged that this should be the enemy's vanguard, opening the way for the larger army, so they must be prevented from seizing the dock.
It has to be said that Hu Yanlie's sense of smell is indeed accurate, but Gulan State is too big for his elite troops to get through in a short time. The teleportation array does not have enough energy to transport so many troops.
The combat effectiveness of the garrison in the coastal area is relatively low, and they cannot resist the elite Yuling Army. After all, the western coastline of the Yaxin Empire has not been invaded by outsiders for too long, and they have long forgotten to be prepared for danger in times of peace.
So even though Hu Yanlie's special envoy came over with orders and assembled all the nearby garrison troops, trying to hold on with bunkers, bows, arrows and artillery and defeat the Yu Ling Army, in the end the Yu Ling Army easily captured the three largest docks. !
Hu Yanlie summoned all his generals and officials this time to discuss what to do next. Whether to suppress the frequent bandits in the territory first or to concentrate on retaking the dock and keeping the enemy at bay.
Someone suggested asking the Empire Central Committee for help and asking them to send people to support them, so that they could concentrate their efforts on one thing.
Hu Yanlie shook his head and said that he had sent someone to send news to the capital as soon as possible, asking the central government to send someone to support him.
"But we don't have to expect anything from the Eight Kings. They want me to fight with the bandits and both sides will suffer, so that they can reap the benefits. So even if they really send people to help us, they will definitely delay again and again, letting us follow The thieves are going to consume"
Hu Yanlie said that the Huyan family has always been a thorn in the side of the empire. The empire has long wanted to eradicate the Huyan family. How can it send troops to support it now?
Someone else suggested: "Sir, our troops are all in the vicinity of Gulan City. Naturally, the best choice is to suppress the rebellion first. If we travel a long distance to the coast and the enemy has already left, wouldn't we waste a lot of time in vain?" "
Hu Yanlie: "I think so too, but I can't judge the enemy's next move. Damn it, I lost the battle and don't know who my opponent is. This battle was so useless!"
Hu Yanlie naturally did not expect that this heavenly army would come from Yuling Island, which is hundreds of millions of miles away. He only thought it was the remnant of the prince or a force from another country. The most likely one was the White Feather Divine Kingdom.
Then the man just said: "We can let the indigenous groups and pirates on the coast contain this group of people and buy us time. After we quell the rebellion around us, we can send a large army to destroy them."
After hearing this, Hu Yanlie frowned and said: "Those people are usually used to fight bandits and bandits, but they can fight regular troops? Do they have this ability!?"
At this time, a man who looked like a military general rolled his eyes, thought about it, and said cautiously: "Master Qi, I will have a good plan in the end."
Hu Yanlie waved his hand and said, "General Ping, please tell me quickly." This person's name is Ping Yilong. He is a hussar general under Hu Yanlie. He commands 50,000 troops and is Hu Yanlie's confidant general.
Ping Yilong said: "In the vacuum zone between the Thorn Islands in the west of the empire, there are hundreds of thousands of pirates entrenched. If we can use them, it is enough to deal with these ten thousand enemies. Even if we cannot completely eat them, we can contain them. One moment is enough!”
Hu Yanlie: "I haven't thought about what you said, but most of those pirates were driven out from us. They have suffered losses here, so how can they cooperate with us?"
Ping Yilong's eyes flickered and he hesitated to speak. Hu Yanlie saw it and said sharply: "General Ping has something to say, but it doesn't hurt to say it!"
Ping Yilong gritted his teeth and said, "Actually, I still have contact with them. If the conditions are sufficient, I can convince them to help us."
As soon as he said this, everyone around looked at Ping Yilong with strange eyes. You, an imperial general, have been in contact with pirates. What do you want to do?
Hu Yanlie squinted his eyes and looked at Ping Yilong, and said with a hint of reproach in his tone: "You Ping Yilong, you actually support the bandits to respect yourself. I said that we have been suppressing bandits for several years, why are there more and more pirates being suppressed? It turns out it's you Collude with them!”
Although Hu Yanlie said so, his face was calm and there was no sign that he was really angry. Ping Yilong immediately bowed his head and apologized: "It's the general who didn't do his job well, but this pirate is cunning. He floats on the sea all day long and elusive, unable to locate his position. , the general contacted their leader out of desperation. Under the general’s persuasion, they left the empire and only made trouble outside.”
Hu Yanlie nodded and said: "What General Ping said is true. Get up. Since the merits and demerits are equal, I will not hold you accountable for the mistakes you made before. You must pay attention to it in the future!"
Ping Yilong immediately raised his hands and said, "Thank you, sir!"
There was no reaction on the faces of the other characters around, but they all had something in mind. Hu Yanlie's attitude was obviously that he had known about this for a long time. He deliberately indulged Ping Yilong in raising the bandits, mainly in order to defraud the central government of the food and salary for suppressing the bandits.
As long as this banditry is not eliminated, Gulan Prefecture will always have reasons to ask the central government for money, so Hu Yanlie turned a blind eye to this matter.
Since Ping Yilong proposed to use pirates today, Hu Yanlie would act out a play with him to fool him about Ping Yilong's previous affair with pirates.
Now that he had talked about it, Hu Yanlie asked Ping Yilong to explain his plan in detail.
Ping Yilong immediately began to describe his arrangements. How to use pirates to contain the 10,000 enemy troops that suddenly appeared?
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