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On June 11, the Royal Bank of the Kingdom of Byron was officially opened. The next day, the Royal Chamber of Commerce of the Kingdom of Byron was officially established.

On July 20, the 300,000 Tairong aristocratic coalition army, led by Xiaohu Liantong, approached Yaolin City. Xiaohu Tengyuan personally led 100,000 kingdom coalition troops to defend Yaolin City, and confronted the noble coalition army, and the second battle of Yaolin City began.

In the last Battle of Yaolin City, Meier's use of "multi-stage strikes" left a deep impression on the noble army. Considering that Tengyuan had nearly 5,000 musketeers in his hands, as well as sufficient ammunition, Xiaohu Liantong did not rush to attack the city, but divided his troops into 100,000 troops and went all the way north to cut off the connection between Yaolin City and the outside world.

Tengyuan had been prepared for this for a long time, and had already hoarded enough grain and grass in the city for half a year. When he saw that Xiaohu was connected and divided into troops, he personally led hundreds of elite soldiers to attack the camp of the aristocratic army at night in the middle of the night on July 28. Xiaohu even informed Dao Tengyuan that he would carry out a night attack, but there was nothing he could do about it. The number of soldiers of the kingdom army is too small, or scattered, come and go as you want, Tengyuan's force is invincible, Xiaohu can only deploy heavy troops to defend where the grain and grass are located, so as not to be burned by Tengyuan.

As for the soldiers in the big battalion, Xiaohu Liantong didn't care about their lives or deaths. He divided the camp into districts, which were forbidden to travel between districts after nightfall, and those who violated the order were killed, regardless of their status.

Teng Yuan tossed and turned with his elite troops for a few nights, but only inflicted less than 3,000 casualties on the noble army, and more than half of them were killed and wounded by friendly forces because they ran to the adjacent area in panic. Teng Yuan and his troops only caused a limited degree of confusion to the enemy army, and did not hurt the enemy's bones. Seeing that the night attack tactics were ineffective and unwilling to kill again, he stopped the night attack and continued to confront the noble army.

The 100,000 noble army marching north broke through four cities in a row, and on September 11, they reached the border between the Kingdom of Taeyong and the Kingdom of Byrons, and blocked all the passages in the northern part of the Kingdom of Taerong. Xiaohu Liantong ordered this army to divide 50,000 soldiers and deploy them on the border between the Tairong Kingdom and the Egus Kingdom, but did not launch an attack on the Egus Kingdom.

On September 25, 10,000 Byronic troops arrived at the border between the Kingdom of Tairong and the Kingdom of Byrons and confronted the enemy troops stationed on the opposite side. Since the Kingdom of Byron is still in a neutral state, and the nobles of Tairong have not declared war on the Kingdom of Byrons, although the two armies seem to be tense, they are actually just putting on a show and have no intention of fighting.

On October 1, the main force of the Ilibi army in the west of Xiaohu was ambushed by the noble army, and because the Dugu Kingdom army stationed nearby did not send troops to rescue, the 60,000-strong army was annihilated. On the 9th of the same month, the army of the ancient kingdom that had invaded the western part of Xiaohujia retreated in an orderly manner, retreated to the cities it had occupied, and made every effort to send slaves stolen from the occupied areas to the country.

The retreat of the Dugu Kingdom Army turned the tide of the battle in the territory of the Xiaohu family in an instant. Taking advantage of the victory, the aristocratic army repelled the Dugu Kingdom army, recaptured large swaths of lost territory, and forced the two Dugu Kingdoms located on the west side of the Xiaohu family to withdraw from the war. The Ilibi were too large to organize another offensive in the short term, so that the noble army could draw its hands from the Western Front and divide its forces to support the other battlefields.

On December 8, Xiaohu Liantong received 50,000 reinforcements from the Western Front. Taking advantage of the high morale of the whole army, he launched a fierce attack on Yaolin City two days later. The siege lasted three days and three nights, with heavy casualties on both sides.

In order to disperse Tengyuan's musketeers, Xiaohu Liantong launched an attack on Yaolin City from four directions. Since all four directions were the main direction of attack of the enemy, Tengyuan had to break up the musketeers into four teams. More than 5,000 musketeers inflicted heavy casualties on the besieging side, but because the battle was too fierce and the muskets were used too frequently, Tengyuan lost nearly 2,000 muskets on the first day.

Most of the muskets lost were due to mechanical failures, which could be reused after repairs. However, due to time constraints, there were not enough craftsmen to repair the muskets, and by the next day less than a hundred muskets had been restored. So by noon on the third day, Tengyuan had no musketeers to use.

Xiaohu Liantong thought that the opportunity had come, so he stepped up his offensive and added another direction of attack. Without the deterrence of muskets against the enemy, the pressure on the defending kingdom army increased greatly, allowing the enemy to climb the city wall several times. Tengyuan had to go into battle in person and put out fires everywhere, which barely defused the offensive of Xiaohu Connectivity.

After the end of the fighting, both sides began to count casualties. The defenders suffered about 20,000 casualties, and the noble army suffered about 50,000 casualties. The failure of the siege war caused the morale of the noble army to plummet, and Xiaohu Liantong could only continue to besiege the city, waiting for the next opportunity to attack.

At the end of December, there was not much food in the city. Unlike Harayama Castle, there is a large area of farmland within the city walls, and the buildings in the castle are dense, and there is almost no place for farming. The farmland in Yaolin City was outside the city, and Xiaohu Lian occupied these farmlands after the siege.

At the end of October, Xiaohu connected a group of soldiers and asked them to cultivate the fields outside the city and produce military rations on the spot. At first, he just used a small piece of farmland to test Tengyuan's reaction, and when it came to the harvest period, Tengyuan did not send troops out to burn the fields, so he directly expanded the scale of farming and sent troops to protect the soldiers in charge of farming.

At the end of December, after the crops were ripe, Teng Yuan and his elite soldiers went out of the city at night and burned all the farmland connected to Xiaohu. The soldiers of the noble army were furious that the enemy had burned the crops they had grown with their own hands, and cried out that the enemy would pay the price. Taking advantage of the high morale of the noble army, Xiaohu Liantong launched a siege war again.

Some people may ask, didn't Tengyuan see through the strategy of connecting Xiaohu Lake?

Of course, Tengyuan saw through the strategy of connecting Xiaohu Lake, but he still chose to burn the field. Xiaohu Liantong's hand is very yin, he deliberately farmed under the noses of the defenders, although the area of the first farming was very small, and the harvest was not much, but after all, it was the grain harvested under the noses of the enemy. The enemy looked angry, and the army looked happy.

The second time, he directly expanded the scale of the farming, stimulating the nerves of the enemy army, giving the defenders the illusion that if they did not do anything else, the besieging side would receive a stable supply of food in the local area. If Tengyuan does not burn the fields, the morale of the defenders will drop because the enemy army can replenish grain and grass on the spot, and the noble army can also get food and grass supply on the spot.

In other words, whether Tengyuan burns the field or not, he can benefit from it. This plan of Xiaohu connection is similar to the "pumping the car" tactic in Chinese chess, the forehand general, the backhand pumping the rook, no matter how the opponent chooses, he can occupy the initiative.

In fact, Teng Yuan has a way to crack the strategy of connecting Xiaohu, he can personally go out and kill those soldiers who are farming, so that the morale of the noble army will drop. But he didn't do this, but chose to burn the fields after the crops were ripe, so that Xiaohu Liantong had a chance to attack the city, why is this?

The answer is simple, there is not much food in the city. Xiaohu Connect didn't know this, but Teng Yuan knew in his heart that he had to end this battle by February next year. But now that the strength of the kingdom army is at an absolute disadvantage, and the opponent is the cautious and cunning Xiaohu connection, if Tengyuan takes the initiative to attack, it will be easy to fall into the trap of the other party. Therefore, Tengyuan can't take the initiative to attack, and he definitely can't connect with Xiaohu to go out of the city for a decisive battle, so he can only give Xiaohu a chance to attack the city and look for a chance to defeat the enemy.

On January 8, 137 AH, another piece of bad news reached the city of Byrons.

The aristocratic army defeated the coalition forces of the Ilibi League and the Dugu Kingdoms in a plain east of Xiaohujia, killing 80,000 enemies and capturing 90,000. The reason why the aristocratic army was able to win this war was also thanks to the looting of the Dugu people in the territory of the Xiaohu family. The aristocratic army imitated Gray back then, and preached in the army that the Tairong people would become slaves of the Dugu people after the defeat.

When the soldiers of the noble army heard this, they all fought desperately. The total strength of the coalition army was 250,000, and the total strength of the noble army was 120,000, compared to the battle when Gray fought with 30,000 against 150,000 Leitin, the difference in strength between the two sides was not huge. Moreover, the Dugu army came for benefits, unwilling to pay too much loss, and always betrayed its allies when fighting.

The end of the Dugu army's betrayal of its allies is to make the coalition lose the entire battle. Due to the fact that the Tugu people sold their teammates on the battlefield too much, the Ilibians did not care about the Tugu people when they were defeated and retreated. Because the aristocratic army hated the Dugu people too much, most of them were chasing and killing the rout of the Dugu people, and only a few were chasing and killing the rout of the Ilibi people. So in the end, the Ilibi army withdrew 80,000 men, and the Dugu army was almost completely annihilated.

The Taeyong nobles took the opportunity to negotiate with the Dugu Kingdom, which had lost its main force, and forced them to withdraw from the war. In this way, the ancient kingdom that the Xiaohu family needs to face is only the Kingdom of Egus.

Two consecutive defeats turned the tide of the war around. If it weren't for Teng Yuan's defeat of Xiaohulian's offensive again on January 18, and taking advantage of the victory to pursue and defeat the besieging aristocratic army, forcing the enemy to lift the siege, it wouldn't be long before those forces who watched from the sidelines would have put their bets on the side of the Taeyong nobles and found a reason to declare war on the Ilibi and Taeyong kingdoms.

After the defeat of Xiaohu Connection, he gathered the remnants of his army and withdrew to Bogu City to rest. However, the 100,000 troops deployed in the north did not withdraw, and their mission was to completely separate the kingdom of Tayyong from its allies in the north. Now there are only two strongholds left in the territory of the Tairong Kingdom in the territory of the Xiaohu family, one is Chunshan City, and the other is Yaolin City, as long as these two cities are captured, the Tairong Kingdom will exist in name only.

At that time, Mel had only two choices, either to end the war between the Tayron Kingdom and the Tayron nobles, and then negotiate with the Elibi Alliance to end the all-out war of the races, or to let the Byronic Kingdom enter the war. The regular army of the Kingdom of Byron was only 10,000 men, which did not play much role in the all-out war of the races.

In the eyes of the Tayon nobles, as long as Maier was not a fool, he would definitely choose the former. But on February 19, 137 AH, the situation suddenly reversed.

On this day, Emperor Ira suddenly announced that the Ira people would wage a racial all-out war against the Taeyong people. Everything happened without warning, and the Taeyong nobles were caught off guard. When they received the news, their expressions were exactly the same, because they were stunned and their eyes were wide open, and they couldn't even make a sound.

Some people may ask, Emperor Ira has no grievances with the Taeyong nobles, and the Taeyong nobles are still in an advantage in the war, why did he suddenly attack them?

Do you remember King Yongshan? King Yongsan is the king of the Ira people who hated them because he was calculated by the Taeyong nobles, and he was credited with 30% of the Emperor's declaration of war. After the outbreak of the all-out racial war between the Ilibi and the Taeyong, the king of Yongsan repeatedly appealed to the emperor and encouraged the emperor to launch a racial all-out war against the Taeyong.

In the aftermath of the cataclysm, Emperor Ira, who had ruled all the Ira's people, lost some of his dominance due to the dispersion of the territory. However, the Ira people's deep-rooted legal concepts and monotheistic beliefs allowed the Ira Emperor to still wield great power. Of the entire race, only the Ira Emperor has the right to wage a total race war, because he is the only one who is the legitimate ruler of the Ira race.

The reason why Kamijin Prefecture, which has been autonomous, is still considered a territory under the rule of Nagasan Province is because Emperor Ira did not give Kamijin Prefecture the right to become independent. Therefore, even if the Wei family has become the emperor of Shangjin County, the top leader of Shangjin County can still only be called "County Cheng", because the top leader of the county-level unit in Ira is the County Cheng.

If the Wei family claimed to be the king without authorization, or did not recognize Shangjin County as the de jure territory of the Yongshan Kingdom, the Wei family would be regarded as "traitors" and would lose the support of the people. Therefore, at the beginning, Wei Lin would rather lose money and cede the land than sever the legal connection with Yongshan Kingdom. Because Kamijin Prefecture was not in danger of being annexed at that time, the cultural differences between the Ilibi and Iraa people were very large, and the Bujin Republic could not annex Kamijin Prefecture in one go, so it could only eat five towns in the north. As long as Shangjin County is still there, Wei Lin can sit firmly in the position of the county leader, and he can still ride on the head of the people as a prestige.

But the Bylensburg forces, led by Mayer, were different. Is Meyer the great theologian Gray? The son of Byrons and the great hero who destroyed the Black Shrine. Although he is a foreigner, it is not difficult for him to gain the approval of the Ira. At the beginning of the founding of Byronsburg, Welling just regarded Mel as a nail nailed in the territory by the Xiaohu family, and did not care. But after Maier brought back hundreds of thousands of Leiding immigrants, he suddenly had the ability to defeat Wehrin.

In the absence of the territory of the former Satomi Shrine, Byronsburg could have used the territorial dispute as an excuse to declare war on Kamijin. There are three forces that support him around Shangjin County, one is the Bujin Republic, the second is the Xiaohu family, and the third is the Egus Kingdom.

Even if King Nagayama persuaded Emperor Ira to launch a full-scale racial war, by the time reinforcements arrived, his Kamijin Prefecture would have already been in Mer's pocket. The difference in strength between the two sides is too great, as long as Maier can get out, he can cut off the Wei family's retreat in a month. When the time comes, the Wei family can run, but they can't take all their property with them.

Welling attaches great importance to private wealth, and even more to power. He was afraid that his property would be taken away by Maier, and he was afraid that after the war, Emperor Ira or King Yongshan would support their cronies to be the county governors, so he did not hesitate to become a traitor and took refuge in Xiaohu Connection.