The forty-one year of Shenwu was a year belonging to the State of Chu.
Since the Chu army crossed the river in April, the long-established momentum of the Chu State has completely exploded and began to sweep the entire world.
The Liang State, as the world's largest overlord, collapsed under the attack of the Chu State. In just a few months, it lost one-third of its territory. The capital of Liang was once besieged by the Chu army and was almost destroyed in the first battle. .
The overlord of Zhongzhou who used to dominate the world with one against three, seemed to be a paper tiger in front of Chu State, which could be broken by being poked.
The contrast between before and after is simply jaw-dropping.
Is Liang Guo too weak?
Everyone thinks about it, it seems that just five years ago, the Liang Kingdom had just defeated the three kingdoms of Wei, Zhao, and Xu, and its military might shocked all other countries.
His reputation was so great that he even scared Zheng Guo. He just heard that Liang Guo wanted to attack him, but he hadn't confirmed it yet?
The State of Zheng hurriedly invited the State of Chu and paid for it to cede territory, hoping to divert trouble eastward and avoid the threat of the Liang State.
If you want to say that such a country is weak, it would be too insulting to the major hegemons that were defeated by Liang Guo and were frightened.
Therefore, Liang Guo is definitely not weak.
Even above the Nine Provinces, before the Northern Expedition of the Chu State, the Liang State was the number one overlord in the world.
Relying on his illustrious military exploits, he is recognized as the number one overlord by all countries in Kyushu.
It is precisely because of this that when this first myth was broken by the Chu State, the shock to the people of the world was simply unimaginable.
This also caused a lot of trouble for Chu State.
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Lu Yuan spent this winter in Donghai County.
After half a year of fighting, this county has become the center of the Liang Kingdom's frontline camps. Countless soldiers and horses are deployed here to gather and distribute, assuming the heart function.
"In order to defend the only county in Zhongzhou, Zhao State was frightened and sent more troops to Le'an. Tang State took advantage of the situation and attacked Qingping County. I can understand all of this. After all, it was for self-protection and to take advantage."
Lu Yuan looked through the recently compiled news and felt a little angry in his heart: "But Zheng Guo also came to join in the fun, strengthened his troops at the Yangxia border, and threatened the retreat of my Yangxia camp. What is this?"
Throwing down the memorial about the news about Zheng Guo in his hand, his dissatisfaction with Zheng Guo became more and more intense.
The relationship between Zheng and Chu was originally extremely close.
As early as more than ten years ago, the two countries had diplomatic exchanges. After establishing good diplomatic relations, they have continued to communicate with each other, have endless business trips, and have extremely close official and non-governmental exchanges.
Last year, Zheng Guo even ceded Yangxia County in exchange for Chu State's blessing. The relationship between the two countries had reached its peak.
It may be that it was precisely because of the cession of Yangxia County that the Liang and Chu kingdoms fought, and this year's war that attracted the world's attention broke out.
Then, the results are embarrassing.
According to the original idea of Zheng Guo.
The Liang State is the largest country in the world, and the Chu State is the second largest country in the world. The national power and strength of the two countries are far superior to the other countries.
If these two countries fight against each other, there will be absolutely no winner in the short term.
Although Yangxia County is far away from the Chu mainland, the power and resources that the Chu army can project here are relatively limited and cannot compare with the Liang army.
But the same Liang State, as the overlord of Zhongzhou, borders six overlords in total. There are also pirates in southern Xinjiang causing trouble, and too many enemies involve too much energy.
In this case, the strength that Liang Guo could finally mobilize to deal with Chu State's Yangxia County was extremely limited.
One cannot project too much, and the other cannot go all out, so the war between Jiaodong and Yangxia is destined to be a bad war.
The two countries of Chu and Liang will therefore continue to invest in military resources and fall into endless consumption.
Zheng Guo, on the other hand, can take advantage of the opportunity of the confrontation between the two great powers to concentrate on resisting the enemies in the north, developing the country's internal affairs, and slowly accumulating strength to cope with more severe impacts in the future.
Um.
From the perspective of this plan, everything is perfect.
The premise is that the two kingdoms of Chu and Liang can really develop as Zheng Guo thought and as planned.
However, people in the world are not fools, and Kyushu is undergoing rapid changes and the situation is unpredictable.
Chu State has come, and Liang State has also followed, and the two countries are indeed fighting fiercely because of Yangxia County.
During Shenwu's forty years, everything was indeed as Zheng Guo expected and was not out of their control.
But this year, in the 41st year of Shenwu, everything changed with the sudden northern expedition of Chu.
Liang was quickly defeated, and the eastern third of the country was captured by Chu.
The rest of the central region with Daliang as the core also began to be raging with war. The Chu and Liang Kingdoms launched a fierce battle here, and the entire central region became war-torn.
Liang Guo's weakness was suddenly exposed to everyone's eyes.
Everyone suddenly discovered that the world's number one overlord was actually so weak at this time, as if anyone could step on him.
Then the wolves came.
The State of Zhao sent troops to Xingyang County, hoping to take the opportunity to expand its territory in Zhongzhou.
However, he bumped into the main camp of Chu State and was instantly beaten to a bloody head.
Not only did he not get any benefits, but he was also chased back to his lair, and half of the remaining East County was also taken away.
If Zhao had not realized that the situation was not going well, he had directly given up his defense in the northern Xinjiang, and urgently withdrawn another million troops from the country to go south to join this war.
Otherwise, Zhao Guo may be driven directly back to Hebei and hand over all the achievements of the previous ten years of development in Zhongzhou.
But even so, Zhao State only had 1.2 million troops on the battlefield in Dongjun.
As for the Chu army's west-route camp, with the help of Canglong Dao, they had successively pacified Xingyang and Jiyin counties in the summer and autumn of this year, successfully completing their original mission.
So we set out to camp on the west road. In addition to leaving 300,000 troops and horses in each of Jiangxia, Xingyang, and Jiyin counties, with one innate to guard the place, the remaining two million troops were devoted to the war in Dongjun.
With two million people against 1.2 million people, even if there are a large number of civilians among the Chu army, the quality is not good.
But after the numbers are piled up, the actual strength is no worse than Zhao Jun.
Not to mention, Zhao Jun's 1.2 million army actually included a large number of civilians and recruits, which was almost the same as the Chu State.
The gap between the two countries in terms of innate combat power is even greater.
The Xilu Xingying was joined by seven innate masters from Canglong Dao, and the number of innate masters directly reached twenty-seven, even though three people were left to guard the area under the jurisdiction of the Xingying.
There are still twenty-four people who can be put into the East County front line.
On the contrary, it's Zhao Guo's side.
After years of war, the number of innate masters in the Zhao Kingdom was reduced to only twenty-one.
In the previous battle with the Chu army in Xingyang County, the Zhao army was defeated miserably. Several Xiantian masters leading the army were besieged by the Chu army, and one of them died on the spot.
Within Zhao State, at least six innates must be left in Hebei to guard the northern border and hinterland.
Therefore, in the end, there were only fourteen innate masters who could be used on the front line of Dongjun.
With twenty-four people against fourteen people, there are still a large number of Lu Yuan clones on the Chu side. This kind of master is equivalent to the second level of Xiantian.
With this huge disparity and gap, it goes without saying how great the disadvantage of Zhao Jun will be after the two sides fight.
After the initial fight, three people were seriously injured in an instant.
The Zhao State no longer dared to engage in a head-on battle with the Chu army.
In order to resist Chu's aggressive invasion, Zhaojun was even forced to go on the defensive.
With several important cities in Dongjun as the core, all the troops and horses are divided into three parts, ensuring that each city can gather three to four hundred thousand troops and four or five innates.
Use heavy troops to fortify the city to resist Chu's attack.
It has to be said that in the face of this turtle shell tactic, the Chu army really had no good solution.
Huang Lin led the camp on the west road and tried to fight for a while. In addition to losing more than 100,000 troops, Zhao Jun did not even break the outer defense lines of the three major cities in Dongjun, which shows the strength of its defense.
Seeing this situation, Huang Lin did not continue the strong attack, and began to turn to siege, or build deep ditches and high forts to consolidate the territory he had occupied in Dongjun, and began a confrontation with Zhao Jun.
After all, Zhao State is a one-state hegemony, one of the few overlords in nine states.
For such a powerful enemy, it was still too much to defeat him with just the help of the West Route Camp.
If you want to deal with this kind of hegemony, you have to rely on the strength of the entire Chu State.
Moreover, Chu State’s initial plan was not to deal with Zhao State, and Zhao State’s territory was not within the target.
It was an unexpected surprise to be able to take away half of Zhao's Dongjun at this time.
Now that I can't win the remaining half, it's not a disappointment, just accumulating experience.
In short, around the Liang State, those who wanted to follow the Zhao State and add insult to injury ended up in a miserable state.
But compared to the miserable situation of Zhao State.
Other hungry wolves who had no direct contact with the Chu army had gained a lot from this wave of Liang's downfall.
Xu Guozai increased his troops in Le'an County and increased the number of garrison troops in this county to 600,000.
Turning around, I saw that Dongping County, next to Le'an County, originally had 300,000 border troops. After several redeployments, the number had been reduced to less than 50,000.
Guarding a county with 50,000 troops and placing them in the rear, far away from the heart of the war, is nothing. It is enough to maintain the stability of the place.
But if it is placed on the border with other countries, in this era of wars that are intensifying and the scale of the war is getting larger and larger, it will appear extremely unreasonable, and it is almost the same as being undefended.
In Xu Guo's eyes, the current Dongping County is like a shy girl who took off her gauze, opened her arms, and winked at him.
It can be said that the scenery is infinite and alluring.
Tell me, when faced with this kind of temptation, should you do it or not?
Xu Guo is on the list.
It didn't take much effort. It just mobilized 200,000 troops from the country and drove towards Dongping County in a mighty manner.
The county was successfully captured without much resistance along the way.
Liang Jun in the county seemed to have expected this.
Seeing Xu's army approaching, he took the initiative to retreat, taking the last 50,000 troops with him to the direction of Daliang.
With this peaceful handover, Xu State easily captured its second county in the Zhongzhou area, making it the second largest winner in this war besides Chu.
However, after capturing Dongping County, Xu State did not continue to explore southward.
Although in the south of Dongping County and Le'an County under his control, as well as Shanyang County, Jiaoxi County and other places, the military defenses were equally empty.
If Xu Guo wants to fight, it is not impossible to win.
But now, Liang Guo's situation in Qingzhou is really not good.
In the face of Chu's attack, although Liang relied on Daliang Jiancheng and a series of defense lines with Daliang City as the core, it successfully blocked the first wave of Chu's offensive and barely maintained its regime.
But Chu State's performance this year is really too eye-catching and scary.
No one knows, when this winter is over and next spring begins, and Chu launches a second attack, will Liang be able to survive?
And if the Liang State cannot survive, no matter how much territory the Xu State goes south to seize, it will not only further dilute its own few troops, but also give the Chu State every opportunity to defeat them.
There is really no benefit left.
On the contrary, it is guarding the two counties of Dongping and Le'an that have been captured now. For Xu Guo, there is still a good chance to keep it.
Because these two counties are close to the mainland of Xu State.
This territory is under attack. If the country can quickly mobilize troops, horses and supplies to come to support.
Fighting a defensive battle with someone in front of his own home, Xu Guo still had a lot of confidence.
I didn’t see how miserable the Zhao State was. The main force of the Chu State’s attack in Xingyang was lost. But in the end, the Chu State’s two million troops marched into Dongjun. Didn’t they fail to take this territory away from the Zhao State?
With this successful example, Xu Guo asked himself that he still had a lot of confidence in defending Dongping and Le'an counties.
Therefore, out of this consideration, after capturing Dongping County, Xu State made no further moves.
Even after seeing Liang Guo handing over Dongping County in such cooperation, Xu Guo was satisfied and took the initiative to find the two countries and asked if they needed some money, food and materials from their side to help them resist Chu's invasion.
Well, that's help.
Facing the sudden rise of the behemoth Chu State, the countries in Kyushu are not fools.
They all know that if the Liang Kingdom falls, then the Chu Kingdom that annexed the Liang Kingdom will really widen the gap with other countries. From now on, everyone will no longer be players of the same rank.
After the Chu State annexed the Liang State, one country truly had the strength to challenge the world alone.
Therefore, Liang State must not be destroyed, and Qingzhou must not be surrendered to Chu State.
Only Dongping County was taken, and the remaining territory of Liang State was left to Liang State, allowing him to use it as a foundation to continue dealing with Chu State.
In this way, the state of Liang became a barrier to other countries, a barrier to the state of Chu.
In Xu Guo's mind, this is what he thought.
This is also done for the support of Chu State.
Nothing to say.
For the help that came to my door, I felt itchy with hatred for Xu Guo's taking advantage of the situation.
But at this moment when the country was in danger, no matter how angry everyone in the Liang State was, they could not refuse the olive branch sent by Xu State.
In the end, I could only accept the help with a smile and a lot of gratitude.
Then he took the supplies sent by Xu State, recruited troops in the rear, and went down with Chu State at the front line of Daliang.
The blood of Liang people has actually become the flesh and blood walls of all countries at this time.
A wall to resist the Chu State.
Xu Guo gained a lot from Liang Guo.
Tang State, which borders Liang State, had a good harvest this time.
After receiving the news that Chu State was showing great power and Liang State was completely defeated.
The Tang State, located in Jingzhou in the northeast, was shocked and quickly realized that this was an opportunity for its own expansion.
To be honest, Tang State's expansion in Zhongzhou over the years is actually not bad.
After the split of Zheng State more than ten years ago, Liang State seized the opportunity and continuously penetrated and invaded Beizheng. Finally, through a series of war and diplomacy methods, it successfully seized the two counties of Beizheng in Yuzhou and gained its own territory in Zhongzhou. admission tickets.
If this trend continues, before Jingzhou is completely engulfed by the cold wave, the Tang State's expansion in Yuzhou may eventually be one step closer to occupying three or four counties.
Being able to occupy the territory of three or four counties in the future Zhongzhou, this achievement is enough to make Wei, Zhao, Xu and other countries envious.
But to be honest, Tang Guo was not very satisfied with this result.
The territory of three or four counties may allow him to maintain the status of a great power in Zhongzhou in the future.
But is one big country enough?
Look at the Liang Kingdom next door, which occupies fourteen counties in Qingzhou, almost monopolizing a state.
With a body of this kind, he is called a hegemon.
In comparison, a Tang state with three or four counties was just a second-rate small country.
What makes people even more desperate is that Tang State also borders Liang State.
Being bordered by a big country that is four or five times our size is a hopeless thing when one thinks about it.
If Liang Guo had an idea, Tang Guo would not be able to resist on its own.
And what if we join forces with other countries to resist Liang's invasion?
Take a look at all the events that have happened in the land of Kyushu over the years, and you will know what the final outcome will be.
When people's hearts are divided, even if all parties unite, they are often not able to unite as a whole to form a great power rival.
In the past, the two Zheng states in the north and south and the Jin state united with each other to resist the invasion of Tang Xu, and eventually lost their territory one after another, and internal wars and conflicts broke out.
Recently, the allied forces of Wei, Zhao and Xu were defeated by Liang Guo at Changyuan, and the main forces of the three kingdoms were dispersed.
Aren’t the lessons brought by these examples painful enough?
Therefore, as a member who personally participated in these things, Tang Guo knew deeply how unreliable it was for all parties to unite against the enemy.
Therefore, instead of expecting all parties to cooperate sincerely in the future, it is better to take advantage of this moment to try to improve your own strength and make yourself strong enough to face any chaos in the future.
Therefore, compared to Xu Guo, who took over a county of Liang Guo and accepted it as soon as it was good, he did not continue to be greedy, but instead supported Liang Guo.
After seeing the same opportunity, Tang State not only sent 800,000 troops, but also directly captured Qingping County in the northeast of Liang State.
Even more unsatisfied later.
After leaving 100,000 troops to guard Qingping County, the remaining 700,000 troops began to divide into two groups and attack Jiaoxi and Donglai counties in the heart of the two countries.
He wanted to take advantage of the emptiness within the Liang Kingdom to expand the territory as much as possible and reap the benefits.
In this gluttonous feast, the Tang Dynasty opened its mouth wide and wanted to eat every meal here.
Then, he was taught how to behave.
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