On the morning of May 1st, in a hall in the imperial palace of Jinluo City, the capital of Jinluo Kingdom, Liu Hengde, the left prime minister of Jinluo Kingdom, said to Emperor Xiahou Zhen in a deep voice: "Report to Your Majesty, Yan State has once again refused to negotiate with me Jinluo, and still demanded that I Jinluo must surrender unconditionally."

Emperor Xiahou Zhen snorted coldly, "Does Yan really think that I, Jin Luo, will definitely be defeated? This time I have to let Yan State lose money!"

Then Emperor Xiahou Zhen asked Xiahou Cheng, Minister of War: "How many soldiers have we gathered in Lingzhou City, Luzhou City and Yingzhou City?"

In the face of the attack of the Dayan army, the Jinluo Kingdom did not adopt the tactic of defending every city, and also gathered all its troops to the three prefectures of Lingzhou Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture and Yingzhou Prefecture, preparing to place the battlefield of the decisive battle in these three prefectures.

Xiahou Cheng, Minister of War, immediately said: "Your Majesty, in Lingzhou City, we have gathered the 14 towns of imperial guards, 600,000 xiang troops, 500,000 barbarian troops and 400,000 temporary recruits in Luzhou Prefecture. We have gathered the 14 towns of imperial guards, 600,000 xiang troops, 250,000 barbarian troops and 300,000 temporary recruits in Yingzhou Prefecture. We have gathered the 850,000 imperial guards, 105,000 xiang troops, 900,000 temporary recruits in three prefectures, and 900,000 temporary recruits in three prefectures. We have also been armed and reorganized, and can almost be used as the xiang army."

After pausing, Xiahou Cheng, the Minister of War, continued: "According to the latest information, although the total strength of the three armies invaded by Yan State is more than we know before, the three armies combined are only about 1.65 million. In terms of military strength, our Jinluo Kingdom still has a considerable advantage. In addition, in the capital road, our Jinluo also has seven towns of imperial guards, 400,000 xiang troops and 400,000 temporary recruits, two towns of imperial guards in Yizhou Prefecture, two towns of imperial guards, two hundred thousand xiang troops and 200,000 temporary recruits, and two hundred thousand temporary recruits in Guizhou Prefecture. There are two towns of imperial guards, 150,000 temporary recruits, and 300,000 barbarian troops."

In addition to the capital road, the Jinluo Kingdom currently has eight prefectures, namely Lingzhou City, Luzhou City and Yingzhou City adjacent to the Dayan Empire, as well as Yizhou Prefecture, Guizhou Prefecture, Xiangzhou Prefecture, Dongzhou Prefecture and Congzhou Prefecture.

Among them, Congzhou Prefecture has the smallest area, and now there are only three counties left. In the face of the attack of Li Bin's army, the emperor of Jinluo Kingdom, Xiahou Zhen and the Ministry of War of Jinluo Kingdom have even made plans to temporarily throw away Congzhou Prefecture.

Dongzhou Prefecture can be said to be the largest prefecture in Jinluo Kingdom. It borders Yingzhou Prefecture and Guizhou Prefecture, and is much larger than the capital road of Jinluo Kingdom and the other seven prefectures combined.

The population of hundreds of barbarian tribes in Dongzhou Prefecture is at least 30 million, which also makes Dongzhou Prefecture the most populous prefecture in Jinluo.

Almost all of these barbarian tribes have soldiers. With a population of more than 30 million, it is no problem to recruit millions of soldiers who can fight. If necessary, it can be done even if tens of millions of barbarian troops.

Unfortunately, although the Jinluo Kingdom spent decades to conquer these hundreds of barbarian tribes, the means of conquest were mostly bought with money, and there were not many barbarian tribes conquered by force.

This also led to hundreds of barbarian tribes having only superficial obedience to the Jinluo Kingdom. If the Jinluo Kingdom wants to recruit soldiers from these barbarian tribes or ask these barbarian tribes to send troops to fight for the Jinluo Kingdom, they have to speak with money.

Emperor Xiahou Zhen nodded slightly and said, "By doing this, I, Jin Luo, have gathered about 3.7 million troops in Lingzhou City, Luzhou City and Yingzhou City. There are also reserve teams of about 2.2 million in Beijing Road, Yizhou Prefecture and Guizhou Prefecture. I, Jin Luo, will definitely win this national battle with Yan State!"

Xiahou Cheng, Minister of War, hurriedly praised: "Thanks to His Majesty who used a lot of money from the royal treasury, I, Jin Luo, have gathered so many troops in just a few months."

When Emperor Xiahou Cheng mentioned the royal treasury, he really felt like a knife cut in his heart.

To hire only one and two million barbarian troops, it would cost about 10 million taels of silver every month. In addition, in order to recruit soldiers from various barbarian tribes, the Ministry of War of the Jinluo Kingdom spent nearly seven million taels of gold to purchase 400,000 barbarian soldiers and supplement them to various towns of the Jinluo Imperial Army.

The expansion of the wing army and recruiting strong men all require silver, and the military pay and food of millions of troops are a considerable expense every month. Now the gold and silver reserved by the royal treasury are being consumed rapidly. Whenever Xiahou Zhen sees the accounts of the royal treasury, he wants to peel Li Bin and get cramps.

If Li Bin had not emptied the treasury of Jinluo Kingdom and even almost emptied the city of Jinluo, how could Xiahou Zhen use the reserves of the royal treasury? With the original treasury of Jinluo Kingdom, it would be enough to support the Jinluo Kingdom and the Great Yan Empire to fight for several years.

Fortunately, after capturing Dongcong Kingdom and Fujun Kingdom, Emperor Xiahou Zhen moved some of the gold and silver seized from these two countries into his own royal treasury to support the crazy expansion of the Jinluo Kingdom in recent times, and also gave Emperor Xiahou Zhen and the civil and military ministers of the Jinluo Kingdom the confidence to defeat the Dayan Empire again.

"How are Xiangzhou Prefecture and Congzhou Prefecture?" Emperor Xiahou Zhen suddenly asked.

Xiahou Cheng, the Minister of War, immediately said: "Your Majesty, now the army under Li Bin's army has divided into two groups and attacked the territory of Xiangzhou Prefecture and Congzhou Prefecture. At present, in Xiangzhou Prefecture, the army under Li Bin's army is blocked in Huaide City. In Huaide City, we have three towns of imperial guards, 100,000 xiang troops and 100,000 temporary recruits. As long as we can defend Huaide City, the army under Li Bin's army will not be able to enter the hinterland of Xiangzhou Prefecture. The three counties of Congzhou Prefecture have basically been captured by the army under Li Bin. Only Dongcong City is still in the hands of our Jinluo, the 35th, 36th and about 80,000 xiang troops are defending Dongcong City."

Emperor Xiahou Zhen hesitated and said, "In order to deal with the main force of the invading army of Yan State, we decided to focus on guarding the Xiangzhou Prefecture and Congzhou Prefecture, and even intentionally gave up Congzhou Prefecture. Now, Jin Luo is on the Beijing Road, Yizhou Prefecture and Guizhou Prefecture, and there are almost 2.2 million troops. Can we consider giving Li Bin some lessons?"

Xiahou Cheng, Minister of War, shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, although the army under Li Bin is nominally the imperial guards of Yan State, it is basically composed of Fujun people and Dongcong people. The combat effectiveness is simply incomparable to the regular imperial guards of Yan State. Therefore, the army under Li Bin's army does not pose much threat to our Jin Luo. Even if the army under Li Bin can capture Congzhou Prefecture or even capture Xiangzhou Prefecture, it will not shake our Jin Luo's foundation. I believe that it will not be too late to defeat the main force of the invading army of Yan State, and then we can take over Li Bin and his army. At that time, our Jin Luo State can still take the original Fujun country into his pocket again."

In fact, Xiahou Cheng, the Minister of War, had some words not been said. Although the Jin Luo Kingdom had already gathered 3.7 million troops in Lingzhou City, Luzhou City, and Yingzhou City, Xiahou Cheng was very worried about the combat effectiveness of these armies. After all, even the Jin Luo Imperial Army, with the strongest combat power, had a large number of new recruits.

Once the war broke out with the imperial guards with extremely strong combat power in the Great Yan Empire, Xiahou Chengzhen didn't know what the 3.7 million troops gathered in Lingzhou City, Luzhou City, and Yingzhou City could finally be fought.

Therefore, Xiahou Cheng did not dare to use the 2.2 million reserve teams of Beijing Road, Yizhou Prefecture and Guizhou Prefecture. These 2.2 million reserve teams need to be ready to support three main battlefields at any time.

In order to win the decisive battle between Lingzhou City, Luzhou City and Yingzhou City, the Jinluo Kingdom can almost be said to have bet on everything.

You should know that the entire Jinluo Kingdom is not counted as Dongzhou Prefecture, but the population of Congzhou Prefecture is only about 40 million. In order to fight the Great Yan Empire, the total number of troops and men recruited by the Jinluo Kingdom across the country has exceeded 5.6 million, which is simply incredible for a country dominated by farming.

In addition, the Jinluo Kingdom also spent a huge amount of money to hire one.2 million barbarian troops. If the decisive battle between Lingzhou City, Luzhou City and Yingzhou City is lost, then for the Jinluo Kingdom, this war will basically be considered a loss, and the Jinluo Kingdom will inevitably fall into the abyss that will never be restored.

Emperor Xiahou really knew these things very well. If he wanted to dispatch troops to Xiangzhou Prefecture and Congzhou Prefecture, it was more because Emperor Xiahou really had too much resentment towards Li Bin, and he wanted to capture Li Bin alive immediately and skin Li Bin and get cramps.

Emperor Xiahou Zhen sighed and nodded, "Then wait until he defeated the three main troops of Yan State, and then mobilize the army to teach Li Bin a lesson!"

Xiahou Cheng, Minister of War, breathed a sigh of relief, "Your Majesty is wise."

On May 10, the 18th year of Jianping, the main force of the Dayan Middle Road attacked the army, and arrived more than fifty miles east of Lingzhou City, Jinluo Kingdom, and began to set up camps.

It was not that the Yan army did not want to get closer to some camps in Lingzhou City, but there was a huge camp that stretched for more than twenty miles to the east outside Lingzhou City.

On the evening of May 10th, in the commander's tent of the army camp in the middle of the Dayan Road, Xie Zhitong, the Minister of War, the commander of the army, said to the generals in the commander's tent: "According to reliable information, the Jinluo Kingdom has gathered nearly 500,000 imperial guards, about 600,000 wing troops, more than 500,000 barbarian troops, and almost 400,000 strong men, and 400,000 strong men are also equipped with weapons and armor. In this way, our middle army will face two million enemy troops in Lingzhou City. In order to ensure the safety of the rear and grain transport channels, Laizhou Guards and 30,000 troops did not come to Lingzhou City. The troops that our middle army can use for combat are only about 920,000, including 25,000 heavy cavalrymen of the Cavalry Guards."

Although Li Bin and all the generals under Li Bin left the Xiaoqi Guard, the formation of the Xiaoqi Guard was not affected much. Now the Xiaoqi Guard has 25,000 heavy cavalry, and each heavy cavalry is equipped with two Dongman horses wearing fine iron vests.

Du Huairen, the deputy commander of the Ministry of War, who was the deputy commander of the army in the middle, continued: "At present, the left and right sides of the side division troops are also facing Yingzhou City and Luzhou City of the Jinluo Kingdom respectively. The Jinluo Kingdom has also gathered a million troops in Yingzhou City and Luzhou City, so it is impossible for the left and right sides of the side division troops to send troops to support the battle in Lingzhou City."

Prince Zhao Chang immediately said loudly: "Although the Jinluo Kingdom has gathered two million troops in Lingzhou City, there are not many real elite troops. I think our middle army has a great chance of winning."

King Zhao Zhi of Song followed and said, "What the prince said is very true. Now fifteen inner guards and cavalry guards are gathered in the middle army. What is the two million Jinluo army? It is just a group of native chickens and tile dogs. I am willing to lead the left and right Zhigu to fight first!"

King Zhao Zhi of Song was seriously injured in the last battle with the Jin Luo Kingdom. He was raising himself for more than two months before he could get up. The left and right Zhigu, who served as the head coach, also suffered heavy damage. In the end, less than 5,000 troops were able to withdraw from Pingwu City.

King Zhao Zhi of Song made great efforts this time to seek revenge on the Jin Luo army.

Xie Zhitong said: "No matter what, the Jinluo army is in Lingzhou City, and if we want to defeat the Jinluo army in Lingzhou City, our middle army will not be able to pay a considerable price."

After pausing, Xie Zhitong continued, "But the court has learned about the situation in Lingzhou City, Luzhou City, and Yingzhou City. The Ministry of War is recruiting strong men in various prefectures and preparing to support our three sieges of attacking troops."

King Zhao Jing of Yue asked at this time: "Shi Shuai, then when will our middle army launch an attack? Should we wait for the support of the imperial court to arrive before launching an attack?"

Xie Zhitong said flatly: "Our three armies consume a lot of food and supplies every day. We cannot wait in Lingzhou City, Luzhou City, and Yingzhou City. Moreover, if we want to defeat the Jinluo army in these three cities, we must mainly rely on the imperial guards of each of our three armies. The large number of strong men recruited by the Ministry of War in each prefecture are just to supplement the losses of our imperial guards. Therefore, starting tomorrow, our middle army will launch an attack on the enemy in Lingzhou City."

The prince Zhao Chang then said loudly: "Sir Xie, I am willing to lead the Xiaoqigu, the Zuo Rengu and the You Rengu, first to launch an attack on the Jinluo army outside Lingzhou city!"

Xie Zhitong pondered for a moment and said, "Then tomorrow will be the first to fight with the Knight Guard, Zuo Ren Guard, You Ren Guard, Zuo Zhi Guard and Right Zhi Guard!"

On May 11, 18th year of Jianping, the siege of Dayan Middle Road and the Jinluo army launched a fierce battle outside Lingzhou City. On the day of the war alone, the total casualties between the two sides exceeded 150,000, of which more than 40,000 were injured and more than 110,000 were killed or killed in the Yan army, and more than 110,000 were killed or killed in the Jinluo army.

On May 12, the Dayan attacking army on the left and the Jinluo army started a war outside Yingzhou City. On the same day, the Dayan attacking army on the right and the Jinluo army also broke out outside Luzhou City. At this point, the three main battlefields in the Jinluo Kingdom were fought.
Chapter completed!