Since he decided to take action against Jin Luo Kingdom, the war machine of Zhennan Army quickly started to operate.

The first guard of the Eastern Barbarians, the second guard of the Eastern Barbarians, the third guard of Guizhou, the fourth guard of Guizhou, the second guard of Xiangzhou and the fourth guard of Xiangzhou, as well as hundreds of battalions drawn from the five prefectures and the Eastern Barbarians, then they began to withdraw troops from the Southern Barbarians' Protectors' Protectors in batches and gathered into the Guizhou Prefecture.

In mid-February of the 22nd year of Jianping, the Zhennan Army and the Jinluo Imperial Army clashed on the border between Guizhou Prefecture and Yingzhou Prefecture, causing more than 100 casualties to the Zhennan Army's First Guard in Xiangzhou, and more than 500 casualties to the 17th Town of the Jinluo Imperial Army.

Of course, the Zhennan Army took the initiative to provoke this conflict, but then the Zhennan Army turned against each other, demanding that the Jinluo Kingdom be responsible for the conflict, and offered sky-high compensation.

In a hall in the imperial palace of Jinluo City, the capital of Jinluo Kingdom, Xiahou Zhen, the emperor of Jinluo Kingdom, punched the dragon case in front of him, and shouted in anger: "It's too much! It's too much! The casualties of more than 100 people actually asked our Jinluo Kingdom to compensate 30 million taels of silver. This is obviously a blackmail. I will not compensate Zhennan Army with one tael of silver!"

Xiahou Cheng, Minister of War of the Jinluo Kingdom, said with a serious expression: "Your Majesty, based on the information we have obtained, before this conflict initiated by the Zhennan Army, the Zhennan Army was constantly increasing its troops into Guizhou Prefecture, many of which were withdrawn from the Southern Barbarian Protectorate. In addition, this border conflict was obviously deliberately provoked by the Zhennan Army, so I feel that it is very likely that the Zhennan Army will take action against our Jinluo Kingdom."

Emperor Xiahou Zhen frowned instantly, "Did the Zhennan Army have learned that our Jinluo Kingdom is going to unite with Liang Kingdom and the Grassland Alliance to be prepared to attack Yan Kingdom? Zhennan Army chose to take action first?"

At this time, Liu Hengde, the left prime minister of Jinluo Kingdom, said: "Your Majesty, our Jinluo Kingdom and Liang Kingdom, and even the grassland alliance led by the Dong Qiang tribe, conspired to attack Yan Kingdom. The three parties strictly kept this secret. Those who knew about this may not exceed twenty people in the three parties. I feel that the Zhennan Army should not know about this matter yet, otherwise there would be no border conflict. The Zhennan Army would directly send troops to attack our Jinluo Kingdom."

After pausing for a moment, the left prime minister Liu Hengde continued: "Li Bin, the commander of Zhennan Army, is obviously an ambitious hero. After annexing the Dongzhou Prefecture of our Jinluo Kingdom, he quickly ate the Nanman Protectorate of Wei Kingdom in one bite. This time, Zhennan Army created a conflict on the border between Yingzhou Prefecture and Guizhou Prefecture. Maybe it was Li Bin, the Zhennan Marquis, wanted to completely annex our Jinluo Kingdom!"

Emperor Xiahou Zhen's eyes flashed with fierce light, "Annex our Jinluo Kingdom? The Zhennan Army is not afraid of knocking off all the teeth! Contact Liang Kingdom immediately and say that our Jinluo Kingdom agrees to the conditions proposed by Liang Kingdom, Guizhou Prefecture and Dongzhou Prefecture can be given to Liang Kingdom! In addition, the thirty towns and soldiers from various places of the imperial guards immediately entered a state of combat readiness, and at the same time, local officials began to recruit young and strong men from all over the country to prepare to cooperate with the imperial guards and the government soldiers to fight."

A few days later, in the palace of Daliang City, the capital of Liang Kingdom, the emperor of Liang Kingdom, Jiang Xu, smiled and said to the prime minister of Liang Kingdom Song Gong: "The Jin Luo Kingdom has agreed to the conditions issued by our Liang Kingdom and is willing to give all Guizhou Prefecture and Dongman Protectorate to us Daliang. The Jin Luo Kingdom only has Xiangzhou Prefecture, Congzhou Prefecture, Fuzhou Prefecture and Junzhou Prefecture, as well as Laizhou Prefecture and Kunzhou Prefecture of Yan Kingdom."

After the establishment of Liang Kingdom, it also imitated the Great Yan Empire and established the prime minister and six ministries, but there was only one prime minister in Liang Kingdom.

People from all nomadic peoples on the grassland only had names but no surnames. After the founding of the country, the Gaoliang people also imitated Yan State and added surnames to themselves. The royal family of Liang State gave the name Jiang as the surname.

Song Gong, the prime minister of Liang Kingdom, hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, do we Daliang really want to wade into this muddy water? Although our Daliang has had a tense relationship with Yan State for more than 300 years, there has never been a war. Once we Daliang takes action this time, our Daliang and Yan State will be as powerful as water and fire in the future!"

Emperor Jiang Xu laughed and said, "Prime Minister, this time the grassland alliance led by the Eastern Qiang tribes has already joined the five major tribes of Di Qiang, Northern Qiang, Jinle, Heijie, Chijie, and six middle-level nomadic peoples, including the Southern Qiang, Wurong, Western Qiang, Gao Heng, Dangfan, and Lou Yi. The twelve tribes united together are enough to gather three or four million grassland cavalry. If we add the army of Daliang and Jinluo, Yan will not have any future!"

Prime Minister Song Gong said worriedly: "Your Majesty, Yan State has been in chaos in recent years, but the foundation of Yan State has not wavered. Besides, there is the Zhennan Army with huge forces. I still have too many concerns about this three-party alliance. The Great Yan Army has been proven by the corpses of countless people."

Emperor Jiang Xu waved his hand, "Prime Minister, this is the best opportunity for our Daliang to rise. According to the agreement with the Dongqiang tribe, the grassland alliance only needs the four northern prefectures and Yuzhou prefectures of Yan State and the Kunzhou prefectures of Jinluo State. The remaining eight prefectures and capital roads of Yan State will belong to our Daliang. In addition to the Guizhou Prefecture and Dongman Protectorate who were given away by Jinluo State, our Daliang will replace Yan State and become the world's largest power!"

Prime Minister Song Gong smiled helplessly. He knew that Emperor Jiang Xu had made up his mind. No matter how much he persuaded him, he would never change the emperor's determination to attack Yan State. The emperor was still too young and energetic.

The Emperor of Liang Kingdom, Jiang Xu, was just 30 years old this year, but he ascended the throne at the age of fifteen.

"Your Majesty, although the Ministry of War has recruited millions of cavalry from the people, and our Daliang's standing army still has 750,000 cavalry and 300,000 infantry, these forces are still far from enough to attack Yan State. Moreover, we Daliang must be some defense against the two allies, so I feel that at least one million cavalry and 500,000 infantry from the people. Since we want to attack Yan State, we Daliang must do our best!" Prime Minister Song Gong said decisively.

"Prime Minister, there is no limit on the number of cavalry or infantry recruited from the people. This time, we, Daliang, must make a desperate bet. As much as we can recruit, the more we can recruit. The more we can get, the better. If the Ministry of Revenue is not enough, I will allocate silver directly to the Ministry of War from the royal treasury!"

On February 26, the 22nd year of Jianping, the Jinluo Kingdom officially rejected the compensation conditions proposed by the Zhennan Army. On the afternoon of the day when the Jinluo Kingdom refused to compensate, hundreds of thousands of troops of the Zhennan Army immediately divided into three groups and invaded the Yingzhou Prefecture of the Jinluo Kingdom.

After the Zhennan Army invaded the Yingzhou Prefecture of Jinluo Kingdom, the Jinluo Kingdom announced to the outside world that due to the Zhennan Army's invasion of Jinluo Kingdom, the Jinluo Kingdom decided to tear up the peace agreement signed with the Dayan Empire before and no longer recognize it as a vassal state of the Dayan Empire.

The Dayan court still had a lot of complaints about the Zhennan Army sending troops to the Yingzhou Prefecture of Jinluo. After all, the Jinluo Kingdom signed an alliance with the Dayan court, and the Jinluo Kingdom was already a vassal state of Dayan.

However, when the Zhennan Army learned that the Zhennan Army was preparing to capture Yingzhou Prefecture in order to open a passage to the four prefectures in the northern part of Dayan, the Zhennan Army could quickly send troops to support the Hengzhou Prefecture, Xiongzhou Prefecture, Qizhou Prefecture and Bozhou Prefecture in the north, the Dayan court did not question the Zhennan Army about this matter.

Of course, the Dayan court was not prepared to send troops to help the Zhennan Army, but only sent an Imperial Guard to Huaizhou Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture and Kunzhou Prefecture.

Li Bin attacked Jin Luo Kingdom this time, but he was not planning to completely annex Jin Luo Kingdom. He just wanted to capture the Yingzhou Prefecture of Jin Luo Kingdom and then stopped, and then forced Jin Luo Kingdom to agree to cede Yingzhou Prefecture to Dayan.

However, Li Bin never expected that the Jin Luo Kingdom had colluded with the Liang Kingdom and the Twelve-Grand Grassland Alliance headed by the Dong Qiang people early on.

After the war in Yingzhou Prefecture broke out, although the army of Jinluo Kingdom fought to the death, the Sanlu Zhennan Army still captured almost half of Yingzhou Prefecture in less than a month.

However, the war in Yingzhou Prefecture suddenly changed on March 24th. More than one million cavalry of Liang Kingdom and more than two million cavalry of the twelve nomadic peoples including the Dongqiang tribe suddenly appeared in Yingzhou Prefecture and quickly defeated the northern army of Zhennan Army in Yingzhou Prefecture.

The second guard of Xiangzhou, the fourth guard of Xiangzhou, and Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan were severely damaged. Su Wencang, the deputy commander of Xiangzhou's fourth guard, was killed in the battle.

Su Wencang is the highest-ranking general among the fallen soldiers of the Zhennan Army since its establishment.

After the remnants of the northern army broke through the encirclement, they retreated all the way to Zunyang City in Yingzhou Prefecture. However, the troops of Liang Kingdom, Jinluo Kingdom and the grassland alliance surrounded Zunyang City.

In a study room in the Nanda Governor's Office in Chengzhen, Guizhou, Li Bin asked Zhuge Liang with a gloomy face: "Fan Kuai, does Xu Chu and the others have any new news coming back?"

Fan Kuai is the head coach of the second guard in Xiangzhou, and Xu Chu is the head coach of the fourth guard in Xiangzhou.

Zhuge Liang shook his head with a serious face and said, "After the second guard of Xiangzhou, the fourth guard of Xiangzhou, Xiahou Dun, and Xiahou Yuan were surrounded in Zunyang City in Yingzhou Prefecture, the news of Fan Kuai, Xu Chu and others was interrupted, but now it is certain that Zunyang City has not yet been lost."

At this time, Chen Ping, one of the four major military advisors, said to Li Bin with a wry smile: "Lord, this time the army of the northern route that entered Yingzhou Prefecture was sneak attacked by the Liang Kingdom army and the grassland alliance army. It was all because our Yun Club's intelligence work was not done well. Please punish me!"

The intelligence agency of Zhennan Army was named Yunshe by Li Bin, and Chen Ping is now the person in charge of Yunshe.

Li Bin waved his hand to Chen Ping and said, "Now is not the time to hold people accountable, and Jin Luo Kingdom will actually collude with Liang Kingdom and the grassland alliance of the twelve tribes. This is something none of us would have thought."

Then Li Bin asked, "When will the troops in Zunyang City be assembled?"

At this time, in addition to Zhuge Liang and Chen Ping, the other two of the four major military advisors in the Zhennan Army were also present in the study.

Zhang Liang immediately said, "Report to the lord, within three days, the first guard of Guizhou, the second guard of Guizhou, and Yan Liang, and the seventy battalions under Wen Chou can set off. However, this time, Liang Kingdom dispatched more than one million cavalry, and the grassland alliance of the twelve tribes dispatched more than two million cavalry. In addition, the army of Jinluo Kingdom, relying solely on two outer guards and seventy battalions, the total number is only 220,000 troops, and it is difficult to escape the siege of Zunyang City."

Pang Tong sighed and said, "But wait for the troops from other prefectures and the Eastern Man Protectorate to come over, maybe Zunyang City has been captured long ago."

Li Bin said flatly: "Zunyang City is in danger and can't wait anymore. I will lead 60,000 personal guards, heavy armored cavalry, glorious knights, guards and 64 wolf generals, together with the first guard of Guizhou, the second guard of Guizhou, and the seventy battalions under Yan Liang and Wen Chou, to rescue Zunyang City! In addition, let the other two armies in Yingzhou Prefecture rush to the vicinity of Zunyang City as soon as possible to meet me!"

The Zhennan Army had two other armies in Yingzhou Prefecture, including the middle army and the south army.

The middle army is composed of the first guard of the Eastern Barbarians, the second guard of the Eastern Barbarians and 140 battalions, and the southern army is composed of the third guard of Guizhou, the fourth guard of Guizhou and 70 battalions.

Zhang Liang, Chen Ping, Zhuge Liang, and Pang Tong looked at each other, but no one spoke out against Li Bin personally going to rescue Zunyang City. Now, the reinforcements sent to Zunyang City in a short time can be sent to Zunyang City. In addition to the first guard of Guizhou, the second guard of Guizhou, and the seventy battalions under Yan Liang and Wen Chou, only the ace troops of Zhennan Army under Li Bin were left.

Zhuge Liang then said, "Lord, my subordinates are willing to go with you to rescue Zunyang City, and we are also helping him come up with some ideas."

Pang Tong immediately said, "Lord, let Pang Tong go with him too!"

"Okay, those two military advisors will follow me to rescue Zunyang City."

Just when Li Bin was about to lead his troops to rescue Zunyang City, at the county magistrate's office in Zunyang City, Fan Kuai asked Xiahou Dun: "Brother Yuan Rang, is your injury important?"

Xiahou Dun waved his right arm, shook his head and said, "It's nothing serious. Thanks to wearing two layers of infantry heavy armor and one layer of leather armor, the arrow did not hurt the bones."

Xiahou Yuan frowned and said, "The general of Liang Kingdom is indeed very good at archery. At that time, he was at least 150 steps away from my brother, but he could shoot through two layers of infantry heavy armor and one layer of leather armor with one arrow. Next, we are on the city wall, so we must be careful."

Xu Chu sighed and said, "I didn't expect that the Jinluo Congress would collude with the grassland alliance of the Liang Kingdom and the Dongqiang tribes, and our northern army was completely destroyed."

Xu Chu's words made the generals in the room look dark.

Fan Kuai then asked Xu Chu in a deep voice: "Old Xu, how many people are left to fight in the fourth guard of Xiangzhou now?"

Xu Chu said: "My fourth guard in Xiangzhou has only more than 15,000 people retreated into Zunyang City. After these three days of defending the city, more than 3,000 people have been lost. Now there are about 12,000 soldiers who can fight."
Chapter completed!