Chapter 2989 Desperate Counterattack 27

Not to mention the upper class of Xihu, the middle and lower class didn't want to fight anyway. After all, among the people who died, there were many relatives of middle-class people, and they didn't want their relatives to die either.

As for the upper class, they are the minority after all. When most people don’t want to fight, even if you rely on violence, force, and pressure to force them to fight, it won’t work. After all, the middle and lower classes don’t want to fight. If a few people force the majority, it is force. Can't.

People at the top who have "vision" actually want to keep fighting, thinking that if they keep fighting like this, they may lose.

But the people below who have no "foresight" only know that their relatives are gone, and then they have robbed a lot of things in the past two years. They have glory and wealth to enjoy, and they don't want to fight.

The people at the top are popular and the people below have no foresight, but unfortunately, no matter how angry they are, it is useless. They can't recruit troops now, and the remaining people don't want to fight. After that, the Xihu army can only withdraw.

After withdrawing, we did not occupy the bastions we had occupied before. To occupy these bastions, we had to retain people. It would be useless if we left too few. If we left too many, we would have to rely on the capital to supply food and grass, which was too troublesome, and the capital The families of these soldiers also missed them, so the senior officials simply withdrew to the capital and no longer cared about the bastions of Enron.

Of course, they only retreated to the capital and did not leave the Central Plains, because unless Tang Anran knocked on the door and defeated them, they would not leave.

How could they hand over the things they got so easily.

More importantly, they felt that Tang Anran only survived in the north with the help of the bastion. Siege warfare may not be enough. In this case, what are they afraid of? In the future, they will occupy the city and Tang Anran will occupy the countryside. , let’s not offend the river.

Now that the enemy is gone, An Ran naturally takes the bastion back and continues to build new bastions in the countryside.

Now Anran can continue to build the bastion with confidence and boldness. She is not afraid that the Xihu people dare to stop her, because the other side sent 50,000 troops to fight but failed to win. How dare they stop her from building the bastion?

Not only An Ran understands this truth, but everyone under her rule also understands this truth.

As early as the first time they defeated the Xihu people by relying on the bastion, the people in the base were no longer so afraid of the Xihu people. Now that they can't even defeat the 50,000-strong army organized by the other party's top leaders, everyone has more confidence. , I am not afraid of the Xihu people at all, so I can build a fortress wherever I want.

They didn't dare to build close to the city before, but now they dare to build close to the city. Anyway, the few Xihu defenders in those cities didn't dare to come out to fight them.

And will Enron drive away the Xihu people? Of course, they will be driven away. Whoever wants to follow them will not be allowed to snore on the side of the bed. Of course, they will be driven away.

But before that, she had to build infrastructure first. When the infrastructure was almost done, it would not be too late to deal with them. Anyway, now that she had defeated the Xihu army of 50,000 people, the enemy did not dare to do anything to her for the time being. She had plenty of time to build infrastructure. .

Just because Enron doesn't attack the Xihu people doesn't mean that no one will.

I heard that the 50,000 troops of the Xihu people had not defeated Anron, and the people in the Southern Dynasties were a little ready to make a move. Many people analyzed that the Xihu people entered the Central Plains and enjoyed the beauty of the colorful world, but now they have slacked off, and their combat effectiveness is not as good as before. As a result, some people in the Southern Dynasty court said that they would counterattack and drive away the Xihu people, and then they would deal with Tang Anran and restore the unification of the world.

Their analysis is not necessarily wrong, because the Xihu people have indeed enjoyed the colorful world and are much slacker than before in the difficult environment, but their combat effectiveness is still much stronger than that of the Southern Dynasty army.

Therefore, if they think that the Xihu people cannot defeat An Ran or them, then they are overthinking it.

Even if the combat effectiveness of the Xihu people dropped from 100 to 80, it would still be better than their unqualified combat effectiveness. They would still not be able to defeat the Xihu people.

But these people don't know. Seeing that the Xihu people can't even beat a woman like Tang Anran, they feel that they can definitely beat them. After all, it's not like they can't even beat a woman, right?

Thinking of this, these people from the Southern Dynasties became excited.

Before, everyone was afraid of the Xihu people. Seeing the Xihu people Chen Bing by the river, they were in fear all day long, fearing that they would fight across the river. But now they saw that the Xihu people had not even beaten a woman from Tang Anran, so they were no longer afraid, and immediately Ask the imperial court to send troops to recover the northern land.

They are so active in asking for war. In addition to really wanting to regain their lost territory, they also want to be remembered in history. They would not say this when they couldn't win, but now that they can win, they will naturally seize the opportunity.

Seeing that the Xihu people could not defeat Tang Anran now, the imperial court thought it was okay - mainly because they also felt that they were much stronger than Tang Anran - so they immediately agreed to the ministers' request and began to send troops across the river to prepare for the reconquest. Lost ground.

At first, the people from Xihu didn’t really react.

There was no other way. We had just suffered heavy losses in the battle with An Ran, and everyone was still recovering their emotions, so they were not in the mood to care about the Southern Dynasty.

However, when a large army was mobilized to fight An Ran, there were not many people guarding the riverside. This really allowed the Southern Dynasty to succeed and successfully crossed the river.

The people of the Southern Dynasty succeeded, and their morale was greatly boosted. They felt that the Xihu people were really in trouble, and regaining their lost territory was just around the corner.

Those Xihu people who lost quickly reported to the royal court that the Southern Dynasty had invaded.

When Wang Ting heard that those losers from the Southern Dynasty were fighting, he couldn't help but became furious, thinking that if he couldn't defeat Tang Anran, could I still defeat you? You feel that we have suffered heavy losses recently, so you take advantage of the situation and take advantage of it. Do you think we can't defeat you?

At that moment, the royal court sent 20,000 troops to fight against the Southern Dynasty army.

It's not that they look down on those fish belly in the Southern Dynasty, but that these people are really not good at fighting. Sending 20,000 people to fight them is enough to look down on them. In the past, it didn't take even 10,000 people to beat them and escape. After all, they There is a saying that describes Xihu's military strength, saying that they are "invincible".

In fact, they are just making excuses for their own incompetence. Even they themselves know that they will never dare to boast and say that they are absolutely invincible. If nothing else, they have never won against Tang Anran, so they know that they are absolutely invincible. The enemy is fake, it's just that the Southern Dynasty army is not good enough. If they encounter a tough opponent like Tang Anran, they may not be able to be undefeated forever.

And just as the people of Xihu thought, although they couldn't defeat An Ran, they couldn't defeat the people of Southern Dynasty.

Therefore, the 200,000-strong army brought out by the Southern Dynasty thought that they could regain the lost ground by relying on their large numbers. In the end, when they came into contact with the 20,000-strong army, they were quickly besieged by their cavalry. As before, they collapsed at the first contact and many people ran away. When they arrived at the river, they ignored the natural dangers of the river and jumped into the water, preparing to swim across the river to avoid risking their lives if they stayed in the north.