"Bang--" Zhao Zhe, the emperor of Dayan, slapped the border urgently on the dragon case in front of him, and said with almost gritted teeth: "The Jinluo Kingdom is simply too bullying. He dared to openly kill my envoy of Dayan. Could it be that I really think that my millions of soldiers in Dayan are a decoration!"

At this time, four people stood in front of the Long case, namely the Crown Prince Zhao Chang, the Secretary of the Secretariat Zhang Jialuo, the Secretary of the Secretariat Shi Naijie, the Secretary of the Secretariat Jiang Wenjun, and the three behind were the three prime ministers of the Secretariat of the Great Yan Empire.

The three prime ministers of the Secretariat were all first-rank officials, mainly responsible for assisting the Emperor of Dayan to approve memorials and decide on national policies. Their status was still above the Six Ministers of the Dayan Empire. The six ministers of the Dayan Empire were the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Works. The Six Ministers of the Six Ministers were also official positions of the First-rank.

The Jinluo Kingdom was a neighboring country in the eastern part of the Great Yan Empire and was once a vassal state of the Great Yan Empire. More than 80 years ago, many military officials of the Jinluo Kingdom had the ultimate dissatisfaction with the Jinluo court's court's emphasis on culture and over military affairs, and the civil and military affairs were not allowed to be treated, which triggered a rebellion that changed dynasties.

In this rebellion that swept across the country, the original royal family of Jinluo Kingdom was overthrown, and a military official named Xiahou Xun became the final winner.

Since Xiahou Xun ascended the throne and became emperor, the Jinluo Kingdom quickly embarked on the road of external expansion, began to attack small surrounding countries, and also cut off tribute to the Great Yan Empire.

Of course, the Great Yan Empire did not want to see a strong enemy appearing in the east, let alone the small countries attacked by the Jinluo Kingdom, were nominally vassal states of the Great Yan Empire.

So in the twelfth year of Hongguang, 83 years ago, the Great Yan Empire mobilized 300,000 troops to attack the Jinluo Kingdom.

In the early stage, the Dayan army conquered more than ten cities of the Jinluo Kingdom in succession, and almost everything was attacked by the military commander. However, the Dayan army was trapped by the Jinluo Kingdom to lure the enemy into depth, and the food route was cut off by the Jinluo Kingdom's army. In the end, less than 50,000 troops fled back to the Dayan territory.

The unwilling Great Yan Empire mobilized another 400,000 troops three years later, in the fifteenth year of Hongguang, and began to attack Jinluo twice.

In this attack on the Jinluo Kingdom, the Dayan army learned from the lessons of the last time and chose to take steady steps from the beginning, advancing little by little towards Jinluo City, the capital of Jinluo Kingdom.

However, this time, the Jinluo Kingdom used a lot of money to borrow 300,000 troops from several half-cultivated and half-grazed barbarians to the east. Together with the 450,000 troops gathered by the Jinluo Kingdom, they defeated the main force of the Dayan army in one battle and pursued and attacked the Laizhou Prefecture of the Dayan Empire.

Fortunately, the reinforcements from the Great Yan Empire arrived in time and soon drove the Jinluo army out of Laizhou Prefecture. However, the second attack on Jinluo also caused heavy losses to the Great Yan Empire. The 400,000 troops entered the Jinluo Kingdom, and in the end, only more than 100,000 people were left to withdraw back to Laizhou Prefecture.

After the Jinluo army and the barbarian army invaded Laizhou Prefecture, the Great Yan Empire suffered nearly 70,000 troops and hundreds of thousands of people.

The failure of the second attack on the Jinluo Kingdom made the Great Yan Empire unable to send troops to carry out the third attack in the short term, and also made the Jinluo Kingdom more unscrupulous. It took less than ten years to annex seven surrounding small countries, and its land area expanded to nearly one-quarter of the Great Yan Empire, and its population reached almost one-sixth of the Great Yan Empire.

In the 24th year of Hongguang, the Great Yan Empire, which suffered a second major loss in the Jinluo Kingdom, once again gathered more than 600,000 troops and began to attack Jinluo three times.

The war to attack the Jinluo Kingdom lasted for a year and a half. During this period, the Great Yan Empire increased its troops by more than 400,000, and the total force it used exceeded one million.

However, the three attacks on Jin Luo finally failed because of the barbarians' troops. However, the Great Yan Empire and the Jin Luo Kingdom both suffered extremely heavy losses in this war. Nearly half of the million troops of the Great Yan Empire were lost, and the Jin Luo Kingdom even lost millions, of which the army exceeded 700,000.

After three attacks on Jinluo, the Jinluo Kingdom took the initiative to sign a peaceful alliance with the Great Yan Empire, promising to not invade any vassal state of the Great Yan Empire and the Great Yan Empire.

After three attacks on the Jinluo Kingdom, the Great Yan Empire also damaged its vitality. Seeing that the Jinluo Kingdom was a little surrendered, it went down to agree to the peaceful covenant.

In the following decades, the Jinluo Kingdom did not send troops to invade the borders of the Great Yan Empire, nor did it try to annex the remaining vassal states of the Great Yan Empire in the surrounding areas.

However, the Jinluo Kingdom used the decades to conquer many semi-cultivated and semi-pardoned barbarians in the vast jungle and mountainous areas east of the Jinluo Kingdom.

Including the vast jungle and mountainous areas, the Jinluo Kingdom's current land area is even larger than that of the Great Yan Empire, and its population is one-third of the Great Yan Empire. Its strength is no match for decades ago.

Today, Xiahou Zhen, the emperor of Jinluo Kingdom, has continuously expanded his army since he ascended the throne six years ago, making the number of standing troops in Jinluo Kingdom exceed one million. This is not the millions of barbarian soldiers who can be recruited from many barbarian tribes at any time.

Just when the Urong tribe began to invade Qizhou Prefecture, the Jinluo Kingdom suddenly sent troops to the Dongcong Kingdom. In just over a month, the Jinluo Kingdom's army occupied the entire territory of the Dongcong Kingdom. The Dongcong Kingdom was nominally a vassal state of the Dayan Empire and would pay tribute to the Dayan Empire every few years.

The Jinluo Kingdom annexed the Dongcong Kingdom, which was equivalent to tearing down the peaceful alliance with the Dayan Empire. The Dayan Empire immediately sent an envoy to Jinluo City to find an explanation for the Emperor Xiahou Zhen of the Jinluo Kingdom.

What the rulers and ministers of the Great Yan Empire did not expect was that the Jin Luo Kingdom not only killed the envoys sent by the Great Yan Empire, but also continued to increase troops to the borders of the two countries, as if they were going to fight with the Great Yan Empire.

The Secretariat Zhang Jialuo frowned and said, "Your Majesty, since the Jinluo Kingdom conquered many barbarians, the Jinluo Kingdom has taken action against our Da Yan more and more frequently in recent years. Before, it sent troops to annex the Dongcong Kingdom, completely tore up the peace alliance between the two countries. Now it has killed our Da Yan envoy and continued to increase troops to the borders of the two countries. It seems that our Da Yan cannot avoid another battle with the Jinluo Kingdom."

A cold light flashed in the eyes of Zhao Zhe, the emperor of the Great Yan, "Does the Jinluo Kingdom really think that if you conquer some barbarians, you can challenge our Great Yan! This time I must teach the Jinluo Kingdom a lesson!"

The Left Chief of the Secretariat Shi Naijie immediately said: "Your Majesty, the most important thing now is to increase troops to the borders of Laizhou Prefecture, Huaizhou Prefecture and Kunzhou Prefecture, which are adjacent to the Jinluo Kingdom as soon as possible to prevent the Jinluo army from invading. In addition, I suggest that the imperial guards and military troops be recruited from all prefectures and counties across the country as soon as possible to prepare for the fourth attack on the Jinluo Kingdom!"

The words of the Left Prime Minister Shi Naijie of the Secretariat were immediately stunned by the words of Emperor Zhao Zhe, Prince Zhao Chang and the other two prime ministers.

Even if the emperor Zhao Zhe was about to teach Jin Luo a lesson, it just meant that a situational war was launched on the borders of the two countries, and the attack on Jin Luo was equivalent to a full war against Jin Luo.
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