Then it took another day to capture Jingdong.

Ten days later, news came from Daqima that on September 20th, the eighth year of Tianxian, the commander of the Second Army, Lu You, used explosives to blow up the city and captured Daqima in one day.

However, Lu You's method of attack is different.

He did not take the approach of directly blowing down all the walls on the Daqima side, but instead sent out a suicide squad, who, under the cover of smashers and powerful crossbows, directly delivered the explosive packs to the locations of the four city gates, and then ignited them at the same time, immediately opening all four gates of Daqima.

Then Lu You, who tried hard to maintain military discipline, ordered a siege from all sides.

Of course, since it was certain that no reinforcements would arrive, the morale of the defenders of Daqima was even lower than that of Jingdong. Even though many officers were not at the city gate at the time and they had organized considerable forces that could theoretically be used for a counterattack, they still chose to surrender.

Of course, the envoy from Xin Yuetu was also shocked at the scene.

Later, news from the Intelligence Department stated that the army had been unable to capture Jingdong and Daqima for more than 20 days. Xin Yuetu had already mobilized a large part of the field forces in his own territory, but announced the cancellation of the mobilization on the day the special envoy returned, and wrote to Lin Hai again to emphasize the alliance between the two sides.

Of course, this is a later story.

Therefore, on September 30th of the eighth year of Tianxian, Lin Hai had confirmed that the last obstacle to the Khmer capital of Taijing had been removed, and the attack group composed of the Qinghe First and Third Armies, led by him personally, began to move towards Taijing.

Although there will be many cities and passes along the way, Lin Hai knows that they will no longer pose any obstacles to him.

As for Lu You, after absorbing a lot of Khmer surrendered troops, he began to attack from north to east. The end point of their attack was the dividing line between the Sin Gyeongtu forces and the traditional forces of the Khmer Kingdom.

In other words, once Lu You's army completes its attack mission, Xin Yuetu will be permanently locked between the two huge forces of Qinghe and Chen Dynasty.

I hope he can accept it calmly.

After setting out from Jingdong, the Qinghe army's advance speed was actually not greatly affected by the cities along the way.

After all, there is no way to defend a city without defenders.

When Liu Sanwa went to attack Yang Yizhen's camp, he found that Yang Yizhen had been running for quite a while. He didn't even have the idea of ​​"chasing him and maybe catching up with him". It can be imagined how decisive Yang Youshang was in running at the beginning.

However, as the right prime minister in charge of the military affairs of the Khmer Kingdom, Yang Yizhen did not just run away. At least he thought about it a little while running.

First of all, Jingdong is definitely no longer able to be defended.

Although Kengtung was still under Khmer control at the time, the fall of the city was only a matter of time, so he had to consider what to do after Kengtung fell.

It is obvious that it is unrealistic to rely on the cities along the way to carry out resistance step by step.

Whether from a military or practical perspective, once the Jingdong-Daqima defense line falls, the next fortress city that can resist is actually Taijing.

So he decided to strengthen Taekyong's defenses at all costs.

Therefore, every time he passed through a city, Yang Yizhen, as the right prime minister, ordered the local garrison to immediately take all their equipment, military supplies, and everything they could carry and start to converge on Taijing.

Staying in their respective cities would only give Qinghe the opportunity to defeat them one by one.

There is no need to even defeat them one by one. Once Jingdong falls and Qinghe's main force appears at the gate of the city, most of the garrison troops in these places will surrender immediately, and a small number may think for a few minutes before surrendering.

Instead of doing this, it would be better to take them all away. At least after they are incorporated into the Taijing Garrison Corps, it will not be so easy for them to surrender.

Then he ordered local officials to transfer everything in the treasury to Taijing, whether it was money, grain, cloth, or anything valuable.

Of course, this was a transfer "as much as possible". If time was insufficient, he would allow local officials to set fire to the government treasury and not leave a piece of cloth or a grain of rice for the Qinghe army.

Finally, he asked local officials to evacuate before the Qinghe army arrived, and to take as many young and strong local people as possible with them during the evacuation. As for the elderly, the weak, and the disabled, they should all be left behind.

In this way, although the effect of clearing the countryside could not be completely achieved, a huge mess was left in Qinghe.

You don't have to occupy these cities, after all, they are part of your offensive route.

Then you go and occupy it, you have to send troops to guard it, and you have to be responsible for the food, drink and life of the people inside and outside the city, right?

Don’t you, Lin Hai, love your people like your own children?

Well, now I am defenseless, please love me with all your strength, love as much as you can. When these people rush towards you with their mouths open, crying out for hunger, but it is of no use at all, I wonder what you can use to love me!

According to Lin Hai, Yang Yizhen finally made some useful decisions.

It can be said to be Yang Yizhen's highlight moment.

These were also open conspiracies, and were indeed problems that the Qinghe army had to face during its advancement.

Lin Hai also had a headache dealing with such problems.

It is actually quite simple to garrison troops in various cities. After all, there is basically no possibility of resistance in these cities, so there is no need to leave regular troops behind. It is enough to leave some mobilized soldiers and militia behind.

The real problem is supply.

After all, in the Qinghe Army, supply problems are often solved by mobilized soldiers and militia. Now, not only has the number of mobilized soldiers and militia decreased, but a lot of military rations have to be freed up to go to various cities for disaster relief.

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