The current situation could no longer be described as critical. There were already four to five million people who had rebelled against Li Qi. There were nearly a million soldiers who could fight. The bandits were powerful and the government troops were on the lookout. If the Chu family was not careful, there might really be the danger of destroying the country.
At the time of national subjugation and extinction, the Chu family could no longer care about money and food. General Long Feixiang petitioned the Chu Emperor Chu Jiangsheng to quickly issue an edict to speed up the recruitment of soldiers everywhere to guard against the Heavenly Saint thieves. He also requested to allow the local despots to recruit rebel troops to fight against the thieves.
Chu Jiangsheng Wang Yun after the memorial, and sent Zhonglang generals Lu Da, Huang Hao, Zhu Jiong, each led elite soldiers, divided into three roads to attack Tiansheng rebels.
Huang Hao led 80,000 elite soldiers to Liaozhou and was responsible for eliminating Li Qiyi, who had nearly 400,000 soldiers in Jing City. Lu Da led 70,000 elite soldiers to Haizhou and was responsible for eliminating Fang La, who had nearly 300,000 soldiers in Haizhou. Zhu Jiong led 80,000 elite soldiers to Dongzhou and was responsible for eliminating Zhuang Yan, who had more than 200,000 soldiers.
After sending out all 250,000 soldiers, the vast Weizhou was almost empty. The capital and the Wei City only had 30,000 soldiers, while the entire Si Province only had 50,000 soldiers. This was undoubtedly a dangerous situation for the capital of a country.
General Long Feixiang suggested recruiting 100,000 soldiers to defend the capital, but the Spirit Emperor Chu Jiangsheng felt that 100,000 soldiers were not enough, so he waved his hand and ordered 200,000 soldiers to be recruited.
In a short time, 250,000 soldiers had gathered at the citadel, but their combat strength was unknown. In any case, their mission was only to protect the stability of the capital and the citadel. But at this moment, news came from the battlefield that things were not going well.
Huang Hao was indeed from a family of generals. Not long after he went to Liao Province, he set up an ambush in Wei County and wiped out 150,000 soldiers of the Heavenly Saint Army in one battle. He won the first major victory since the war with the Heavenly Saint Army. Although his battle record was extremely glorious, Huang Hao's army also suffered nearly 30,000 casualties.
The loss ratio of one to five was definitely good news. Logically speaking, they should celebrate. However, the key was that the Heavenly Saint Army of Liaozhou still had 250,000 soldiers. Moreover, they had recruited 100,000 young and strong men from the crowd to join the army. The number of soldiers had recovered to 350,000.
The Heavenly Saint Army did not have any pay. As long as they had food, they could fight. Moreover, they had sufficient reserve soldiers. The imperial court army had to be paid. If this continued, the treasury, which was already not rich, would really be empty.
The most important thing was that through this battle, the Chu Clan also knew that the Heavenly Saint Army was not as weak as they had imagined. Although their equipment was simple and they lacked training, their resistance was very tenacious. It was almost impossible to quickly destroy the Heavenly Saint Army.
Huang Hao only had 50,000 men left. Although they were all elites, it was undoubtedly extremely difficult to take down the 350,000 fearless Heavenly Saint Army. Helplessly, Huang Hao was forced to turn into a defensive position while replenishing his troops on the spot and preparing for a defensive counterattack.
By the middle of May, the two sides had fought dozens of times, and both sides had won and lost. The battle situation gradually fell into a stalemate. Under Huang Hao's efforts, the battle situation in Liaozhou was barely maintained in an undefeated situation.
The situation in the north was not going well, which worried the imperial court. However, the Central Plains and the south were even more dangerous.
Lu Da, who was born in a family of generals, met Fang La, a rebel. The friction between the two sides was extremely intense, and the East County of Hai Province became the main battlefield between the two.
In terms of their ability to lead troops, the two of them were equally matched. They had fought more than ten times and both had suffered casualties. Although Fang La was full of wisdom, Lu Da was cunning and could always see through Fang La's plans. Helpless, Fang La had to lead the main army to surround Lu Da in East County and then send General Shi Bao to lead 100,000 troops to continue attacking the other provinces and counties of Hai Province.
Seeing this, Lu Da was also helpless. He felt exhausted dealing with Fang La, so how could he spare the strength to divide his troops to rescue him? Thus, he could only replenish his troops on the spot while ordering the county mayors of Hai Province to defend themselves.
Although the battle situation in Liao Province and Hai Province was unfavorable, they managed to block the attack of the Heavenly Saint Army. However, Zhu Jiong of the Eastern State was not so lucky.
Zhu Jiong himself was a first-rate commander, but he was facing the best commander, the God of War Zhuang Yan. Moreover, he was at a disadvantage in terms of soldiers, so he was naturally in a miserable state.
In the first battle, Zhu Jiong had wanted to use his superior soldiers and armor to break through Zhuang Yan's battle formation. He had wanted to conquer the Eastern Region before going to destroy Hai Province's Fang La. Who knew that he would fall headfirst into Zhuang Yan's carefully arranged pocket formation.
Seeing that Zhu Jiong had fallen for his trick, Zhuang Yan ordered his second son, Zhuang Ming, to lead the entire army of elites to forcefully block the Chu army's charge. As a result, Zhu Jiong was in a miserable state. The 80,000 elites were almost wrapped up in dumplings by Zhuang Yan's 200,000-strong army. If Zhu Jiong had not reacted quickly enough to break out of the encirclement, the outcome would have been a complete annihilation.
However, even if they managed to break out of the encirclement, the casualties of the army were still very high. After breaking out of the encirclement, more than half of the 80,000 elite soldiers had been killed or injured, leaving only 30,000 soldiers with low morale. Zhu Jiong could only fight and retreat, then recruit soldiers to defend on the spot while asking for reinforcements from the imperial court.
However, there was one thing that Zhu Jiong should be glad about. Zhuang Yu had requested to attack the other counties, so he was not in Zhuang Yan's army. If Zhuang Yu had been there, Zhu Jiong would have been completely wiped out. He would not have been able to break out of the encirclement.
The three armies had failed to achieve anything, and Zhu Jiong in the south had suffered a crushing defeat. This made Emperor Chu, Chu Jiangsheng, furious, but even more terrified.
Is Great Chu going to die in my hands? I don't believe it! Chu Jiangsheng's roar resounded throughout the entire court, but he was still unable to turn the tide.
Although Huang Hao and the other two generals were unable to suppress the Heavenly Saint Army, and Zhu Jiong was directly defeated, Chu Jiangsheng had no choice but to use them. This was because almost all the generals in the court had been sent out, and there were no more generals to send. Moreover, even if they were to change generals at the last moment, they probably wouldn't be able to do better than the three generals. Therefore, they could only provide assistance. After all, they couldn't just watch them lose, right?
However, at this time, in addition to the 50,000 veterans, there were only 200,000 new recruits who had never been on the battlefield. However, the Chu royal family could not care less about these. Although the new soldiers of the Wei City had never been on the battlefield, they had also received nearly two months of training. They were better than the untrained soldiers of the Heavenly Saint Army!
Thus, the 250,000 soldiers that had just gathered at the Wei City sent out another 150,000 in the blink of an eye. Huang Hao received 30,000 reinforcements, Lu Da received 50,000, and Zhu Jiong received 70,000.
After the reinforcements sent out to defend the province, Chu Jiangsheng ordered another 150,000 soldiers to be recruited. However, no matter how many new soldiers there were, it would still be difficult to wipe out the Heavenly Saint Army. Therefore, General Long Feixiang offered to mobilize the elites of the border army to suppress the Heavenly Saint Army. Fang Zheng had no other choice, and Emperor Jiangsheng could only agree.
This time, the generals who had been recruited were Wang Li of Guan Prefecture, Chen Yu of West Prefecture, Dong Zan of North Prefecture…
Two years ago, the Wang family had moved their focus from Wei City to Guan Province, rooted and re-developed. Wang Wu took the initiative to resign from Wei City and asked to be transferred to Guan Province.
In the past two years, Wang Li had repelled the Eastern invasion of the Great Xiongnu, which numbered more than ten thousand people, eight times. With his outstanding military achievements, he was granted the title of North General and Marquis of San Guan.
With the help of Wang Li's authority, Liu Yu led the Wang Family's caravan through all kinds of difficulties and finally monopolized the trade between Guan Province and the Western Grassland. She also controlled the four most profitable businesses in Guan Province, grain, cloth, iron horses. After two years of explosive development, the Wang Family had become a business family.
After reading every single word in the report, Wang Teng closed the report in satisfaction and fell into deep thought.
"Great Chu is already in a mess. Father will soon lead his troops south, and I've been silent for two years. It's time for me to be born. After learning from Master for two whole years, he did not know how much his cultivation had increased. It was time to take a big inventory!”
For the past two years, Teng Wang had not tested his strength. There was no other reason, but he had been too busy and neglected it. However, Teng Wang believed that other than charm, everything else would definitely improve greatly.
"Little loli, give me a big inventory of the past two years.”Qin Hao sent a message to the little loli.
"Alright, let's begin the inventory. Ding-dong. The host's current strength is at the level of a Grandmaster.”
"Alright, let's continue with the inventory."
[Ding-dong. During the past two years of studying with the Sword Dao Myths, the name of the host's nameless disciple has spread. At present, the host's reputation in Great Chu has been widely spread. The second phase of the prestige mission,'A little fame,' has been completed. The reward is 50 summoning points.]”
" Ding-dong. The third phase of the Reputation Quest,'Great Fame,' has been completed. You are rewarded with 60 Summoning Points.”
"I didn't expect to be able to gain Reputation by walking around with Master.”
In the past two years, Qin Hao had spent a lot of effort to complete this reputation mission with a frighteningly high failure penalty.
[Ding-dong. As the host has completed the third phase of the Reputation Mission, the fourth phase of the Reputation Mission,'Famous in All Directions,' has been unsealed.] The reward for success is 70 summoning points. The mission is limited to three years. Failure penalty: 140 summon points deducted.”
"Currently, the host has a total of 50 60 summoning points, totaling 110 summoning points."
"These two years of torture really weren't in vain. The summoning point could be used for a top-notch summoning!
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