Lu Yuan knew what Wei Guochaotang was thinking after thinking about it for a moment.
However, he was not too worried about this matter.
The Liang State was able to fight against the Chu State, not only because of its strong foundation, but also with the support of the Xu State behind it.
But there is a prerequisite for Xu Guo to support Liang Guo with confidence.
That is, the Xu State was in the rear and did not directly border the Chu State. There was no major war in its homeland.
It was precisely thanks to the stability of the country that Xu Guo was able to spare enough resources to support Liang Guo without being distracted by other things and involving his own energy.
This is the core essence of the matter.
But Xu Guo was able to have this condition because Liang Guo stood in front, thus ensuring his safety.
But does your country, Zhao, have the ability to withstand such conditions?
Don't forget, the East County of Zhao State is still facing the invasion of Chu State's west camp.
Two million Chu troops are hoarding in Dongjun, threatening the security of Zhao at all times.
In order to resist the Chu army, Zhao also had to station more than a million troops in Dongjun, and the two countries were wasted in this way.
Under such circumstances, Zhao Guo has too much time to take care of himself, so how much energy and thought does he have left to help Wei Guo?
And even if he wanted to help, he actually didn't have the ability to do so.
The core of the development of the Wei, Zhao, and Xu Three Kingdoms over the years is actually the same path.
That is to gradually give up the old mainland outside Zhongzhou and focus on operating the land it already occupies in Zhongzhou.
That is, the two counties of Henan and Nanyang in the Wei State, Dongjun in the Zhao State, and Le'an County in the Xu State.
In order to manage the two counties of Henan and Nanyang, the Wei State moved more than three-quarters of the country's population to these two places, and established an eastern capital, Heyin, in Henan County.
This kind of treatment is exactly like that of the future imperial capital.
The two kingdoms of Zhao and Xu are also not bad.
In Dongjun, two-thirds of the population of Zhao State, more than 16 million people, lived here. It can be said to be the most prosperous place in the country.
At the same time, a southern capital city, Diqiu, was also established in Dongjun.
Now Zhao's main force in Dongjun is basically surrounding Diqiu City to confront the Chu army.
The Xu State was not so radical because it was far away from Zhao and Wei and could not respond jointly.
In Le'an County, he only moved half of the country's population, about 12 million people, and also set up a southern capital, Leling.
With this explanation, is it very clear?
The State of Zhao moved a large number of people, and half of the key east county was taken away by the State of Chu. It was lost almost instantly, equivalent to one-third of the country's population.
At the same time, another third of the population was also seriously threatened by the Chu State. They were always under the flames of war. A large number of strong men were conscripted into the army, making it difficult for them to produce with peace of mind.
Under such circumstances, it would be difficult for Zhao Guo to support himself in the fight, so how could he still have the energy to help Wei Guo?
The Wei State wanted to obtain enough money and food from the Zhao State to support its wars in the Heyang and Guannei war zones, but it was simply overthinking.
He sent an envoy to ask for help from the State of Zhao, but he was afraid that instead of not receiving the money and food, he would be asked to take away a lot of things.
Therefore, it is difficult to tell in the long run, but in the short term, Zhao State will not be able to provide any help to Wei State.
But with Wei's current situation, let alone the long term, it's difficult to see whether it can survive such a short term.
Therefore, Lu Yuan did not pay too much attention to the affairs of the Wei court after he was sure that the opponent's grassland army had been completely wiped out and that the overall situation on the battlefields of Henan and Nanyang was decided.
This small court that moved to Shuofang Lingshou may still be able to maintain Guozuo in the future, and even Shuofang County can continue to be in its hands.
Because Lu Yuan didn't have much interest in this northern border county, which could only exist for 20 to 30 years at most.
But the Chu State can successfully acquire the remaining three counties of Guannei, Henan, and Nanyang, so there is no problem.
In a year and a half at most, the above three counties will all be Chu lands.
The most important territory of Wei State will be controlled by Chu State.
And if the Wei State has lost all these, how can it cause trouble with only Shuofang County, which has a population of more than three million?
Although this country, the third most powerful country in the world, still seems to be powerful and has some potential for hegemony, looking beyond the surface and looking deep into the inside, it is doomed to be weak.
A small and peaceful court is not worthy of much attention at all.
Lu Yuan only reminded Huang Xin to do a good job in the defense of Hanzhong and Guannei counties, and to be careful of the invasion of barbarians in Yongxi and the southern grasslands.
Qingyunzi and Qingyunzi tried to end the Heyang war as soon as possible, and then divided their troops to support the battlefield in Guannei, so they didn't invest too much energy.
Compared with the Yongzhou battlefield of Wei State, where the overall situation has been decided, the Qingzhou battlefield, which is more magnificent now that various countries are involved, deserves his attention.
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The snowflakes bloom in spring and the cold winter gradually recedes.
In the blink of an eye, it is another new year, and the time has come to the spring and March of the 42nd year of Shenwu.
Last year's cold winter was like a realistic story that truthfully told the hardships faced by all countries.
The Chu State was in dire straits, with an army of 18 million, 18 million immigrants, and millions of victims in the country, which were consuming his thirty years of accumulation at an alarming rate.
The Liang Kingdom was in trouble and lost half of its territory in one breath. The Liang Empire was always within the attack range of the enemy. The position of the world's number one overlord was turned into a joke after being handed over in one battle.
The Wei state was in a difficult situation, half of its territory was lost, and the imperial capital was hunted to the north, almost becoming a small and peaceful court.
The state of Zhao was in dire straits. Dongjun, which was the core business, was attacked by the Chu army. Emperor Qiu of the southern capital sounded the alarm every day, and there was little peace.
The Xu State was in a difficult situation. In order to contain the Chu State and protect its own barrier, the whole country gritted its teeth and sent grain and grass to its former enemy Liang State, almost hollowing out itself.
The Tang State was in trouble. They originally invaded the Liang State to take advantage of it, but they were attacked by the Liang State and the Xu State. They lost 800,000 troops in one breath, and nearly half of the main force in the country.
Later, even when he wanted to take revenge and go back, he was threatened by all the surrounding hegemons at the same time, which was extremely frustrating.
Xu State was in trouble. As he continued to advance southward, the territory of Jing State in the south continued to shrink. Instead, Jin State's determination to resist continued to grow.
Especially with the reunification of Zheng State, it became a hegemon no less powerful than Tang Xu, and regained the ability to interfere in other countries.
Therefore, facing the aggressive and growing Xu State in the east, Zheng Guo chose to support the Jin State without hesitation, supporting this original enemy as his eastern barrier.
Facing the alliance between Zheng and Jin, Xu Guo had to avoid the edge for a while and stopped his expansion southward.
At the same time, the strength of Tang State next to him was also expanding rapidly.
In recent years, I don’t know what stimulation I have received, and my desire for expansion is particularly strong.
Now, regardless of the interests of all countries, he desperately cooperates with the Chu army to suppress Liang Guo, looking like he is in a daze.
Faced with such a powerful and capable neighbor who also had no limits and was very capable of causing trouble, even Xu Guo felt a headache and fear.
Although he gave up the move to expand southward because he was worried about the alliance between Zheng and Jin, he was also afraid that his neighbor Tang would suddenly stab him in the back.
The Jin State is equally difficult to deal with. To the north is its sworn enemy Xu State, which has taken away the territory of its three counties. At the same time, it is still eyeing it and wants to go south.
In the south, Zheng Guo was reunited and his strength increased dramatically, completely blocking his hope of replenishing the north and the south.
Facing the attack of the two great powers Zheng and Xu, the Jin State was like a small boat in the wind and waves, which could be destroyed at any time.
The state of Zheng was even more difficult to resist. The state of Chu, which was originally good and served as a barrier to the east, suddenly became powerful.
The Liang State, the mighty overlord of the world, was almost destroyed by Chu State's attack.
Chu State also instantly changed from its original barrier to the biggest threat to the east of Zheng State.
So in order to resist and guard against this threat, Zheng had to send troops to contain the Chu army, and had to coordinate with other countries to support Liang.
The relationship between Chu and Zheng suddenly took a turn for the worse.
By the end of September last year, with the millions of Chu troops in Yangxia County, they directly abandoned Liang State and turned around to attack the neighboring Gaomi County of Zheng State.
The relationship between the two countries has completely changed from allies to irresolvable enemies.
Although in Gaomi County, the Zheng army also gathered 800,000 people, and its strength was not inferior to that of the Chu army.
But facing the elites in Yang Xia's camp who were selected by Lu Yuan from all over the Chu Kingdom, it was still difficult to resist.
After just over a month of fighting, Gaomi County has lost less than half of its troops, and the battle line is on the verge of collapse.
What makes Zheng Guo even more uncomfortable is.
As the main force on the Gaomi front line was restrained by the Chu army, Changguang County, which was behind Gaomi County, was suddenly attacked by the Chu army from the sea.
The 100,000 Zheng navy in Changguang County were completely wiped out in one battle when faced with the Chu state, which had always been dominated by its navy.
Without the water barrier, the Chu State's 500,000 land troops carried by the waterway camp directly landed in Changguang and began to wreak havoc on Zheng State's rear.
The remaining 200,000 Chu naval forces began to block the sea of Zheng, followed the rivers deep into its interior, and began to block its water transportation routes.
After his betrayal, the revenge from Chu State spread vigorously on the land of Zheng State.
This former ally of Chu State also enjoyed the two-way camp treatment enjoyed by Wei State.
I don’t know how it feels.
Not only from all countries in Kyushu, but also from Yongxi and southern grasslands. The days of Bukhanna, Moro and Huotuluo were not very easy either.
The first two were completely defeated in the battle with the Chu army on the Helong battlefield.
Both countries lost more than a million people each and a lot of land.
Although with the withdrawal of the Chu army later, the lost land was quickly recovered by them.
But the lost population cannot come back as the land is recovered.
With the size of the two countries, losing more than a million people in one breath is enough to make people feel distressed, even to the point of breaking their bones.
As for the Huotuluo Kingdom, let alone that.
The 500,000 Wei troops led by Meng Chenglin attacked his capital directly.
Although during the offensive and defensive battle of the capital, the Wei army gradually lost to the Huo Tuluo army that was gathering more and more due to the lack of supplies.
But after all, Meng Chenglin's troops were the elite of the Wei army. Even if they were in a desperate situation, the final explosion should not be underestimated.
In order to eliminate this Wei army, the Huotuluo army sacrificed more than 700,000 people, which was more than the number of Wei soldiers who died. Only then did they achieve the final victory of the war.
But even so, the Huo Tu Luo army failed to capture Meng Chenglin and other senior generals of the Wei army.
Except for the three Wei soldiers who had no time to evacuate, they were held back by the Huotuluo people, and were eventually killed among the thousands of troops.
Behind Meng Chenglin, he still led five innate talents from the Wei State, all the way out of the Blackwater City battlefield, breaking out of the encirclement.
Later, they got in touch with the rear army and continued to fight with the Huotuluo army that was hotly pursuing them. They fought and retreated. During this period, they killed a large number of Huituluo people and successfully withdrew back to Wei.
However, by the time he returned to Wei, most of Guannei County was already controlled by the Chu army.
The evacuated Wei army ran directly into the Chu army, which had been prepared for a long time, and then was left to wait for work and made dumplings directly.
In the end, he did not escape the fate of being annihilated.
On the other hand, Meng Chenglin and other innate masters once again showed their flexibility.
Seeing that the situation was not good, he abandoned the army and broke through again to escape.
When facing the innate masters who are prepared and want to escape, it is indeed not that simple to capture them.
However, the Chu army did not care about this.
The Innate Grandmaster is certainly a strategic nuclear bomb and is a country's most important deterrent weapon.
But no matter how effective deterrent weapons are, they can only serve as a deterrent.
Without the cooperation of the ordinary army, the role that the Xiantian Grandmaster can play is still somewhat weak.
This battle can destroy the Wei army in the Western Expedition. The last few hundred thousand remnant soldiers have wiped out the last elite main force of the Wei state.
The remaining Wei State, even though it still has millions of troops, is just a ragtag group of people, unable to be of much use except to defend the city.
Without the crux of the Wei army's westward expedition, the state of Wei would have been ruined.
As the biggest contributor to the scrapping of the Wei State, the Huo Tuluo Army who had been working hard to eliminate them on the grassland certainly deserved a lot of credit.
Likewise, the price paid is not small.
More than 1.1 million Huituluo troops were lost in this battle.
Although Wei Guo was beaten and crippled, how were they any better?
The loss of so many warriors was almost a devastating blow to a country with a population of just over 10 million.
Wei Guo broke the ridge beam, but they took out the entire ridge beam, making it difficult to stand up again.
The Huotuluo army's original plan, after destroying the main force of Wei, took advantage of the trend and marched eastward to make up for its own losses by taking Wei into trouble, it also came to nothing with the entry of Chu.
In the hands of the Chu State, the Huotuluo State, which had been defeated, had no chance of seizing food from the tiger's mouth.
Their last chance to recover was gone.
From now on, not to mention continuing to conquer Guannei and Shuofang, even if you want to protect yourself, it will be too much.
On the grassland, people only obey the strong.
Now that the Huotuluo Kingdom has been drained of its spine, it is natural that it can no longer be called a strong one.
Then the prairie barbarians who were originally enslaved by them, as well as the remnants of many large and small tribal countries they conquered during their migration, may continue to be their slaves and be oppressed by them.
In fact, in the entire southern grassland, the vassal tribes in the Huotuluo Kingdom are already ready to move.
It's not even just these client tribes.
The Yongxi Bakhna Kingdom and the Moro Kingdom, which are adjacent to the southern grasslands, were somewhat ready to invade after seeing the miserable state of their neighbors.
The situation in Yongzhou is now clear.
The former overlord Wei State declined rapidly under the attack of Chu State. It has almost become a partial imperial court and no longer a good one.
And with a powerful country like Chu blocking the east, the resistance faced by Bukhanna and Moruo if they wanted to advance eastward was far greater than that of Wei.
The hope of continuing to move eastward was almost slim.
In this case, relying only on their own country and family, they have no chance to compete for survival territory from the Chu State.
Even if the three of them unite, the chances are slim when each has their own selfish motives and people's hearts are not aligned.
The only opportunity is probably to integrate the three Western Region countries and unite them into one, forming an unprecedented power.
The total population of the Bukhanna, Moro, and Huotuluo Kingdoms is still 40 to 50 million, and their potential is even stronger than that of Wei before the war.
If they can really be unified, then the whole country will fight for Yongzhou with the Chu State, and then contact the other nine states to cooperate, maybe there will be a chance.
No, in the eyes of these foreign countries in the Western Regions, it should be said that there is much to be done.
So now that an integration opportunity is in front of them, they certainly won't let it go.
Having lost most of its main force and entrenched in the entire southern grassland, the Huotuluo Kingdom has become fat in the eyes of the Bakhanna Kingdom and the Moro Kingdom.
If nothing unexpected happens, in the next few years, or even ten years, the foreign races in Yongxi and the southern grassland area should have little energy to visit here.
All in all, since last year, all countries in Kyushu have fallen into a tense and difficult atmosphere.
I began to struggle to survive for my own survival, and it was difficult to endure.
At this time, the longer you endure, the more you survive until the end, you will be the ultimate winner.
If the Chu State survives to the end, the nine states will naturally be unified and the world will be unified.
If all the countries hold out until the end, with Lu Yuan's extraordinary combat power and without taking action personally, they can keep their current state and continue to fight Chu for more than a hundred years.
It will continue until they are innately withered and no longer a deterrent.
It's a race for survival, and once it begins, there's no turning back.
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Early spring in March.
After a winter of recuperation, while other countries were still licking their wounds, the eastern part of Qingzhou was initially integrated.
Lu Yuan sent another three million troops to the north to Liang County to conquer Daliang.
On the day the troops were dispatched, Kyushu, which had been peaceful for a while in March and April, suddenly became boiling again, and the disaster of war struck again.
Same month.
After a busy summer and autumn last year, the more than seven million immigrants who were still stranded in the south of the Yangtze River and had not been resettled continued to move north under the arrangements of officials from the Chu State who were successively dispatched.
According to the plan, in the spring and summer of this year, the last of these first batch of immigrants will gradually fill the two counties of Donghai and Chengyang.
Also in the same month.
News came back from Lingnan and Southwest.
After testing last year, the barbarians in the Yulin and South China Sea confirmed that the Chu State had indeed begun large-scale immigration and was abandoning the two places.
Instant madness.
After a winter of preparations, this spring, when the cold winter subsided, waves of immigrants from the two places began to arrive in droves.
The defensive forces deployed by the Chu State in Lingnan and Southwest were simply difficult to stop without the support of the local people.
Frontline officials and generals have begun to request orders, hoping to gradually withdraw the back line of defense, with a more heart-warming retreat, and a local area defense with sufficient support from local people.
Treat Lingnan and Southwest as the Helong in the northwest, purely for military training and buffering purposes.
After receiving the request, Lu Yuan thought for a while and agreed to the proposal.
The end of the world has become more and more intense.
Even he can't stop this trend.
We can only struggle as hard as we can in this storm to find a clear path for ourselves and the Chu State.
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