War is an extension of politics. But in this troubled era, the unjustified force overthrew the righteousness and changed this law.

War is the only way to have politics.

The world was dragged back to the primitive by the chaotic princes, and briefly returned to the period of the princes who were ruled by the clans. No one believed in the imperial power anymore, because people found that the imperial power in their own territory was not even as effective as their own words, and the emperor's edict could no longer control the life and death of the people, when everything about the imperial power was as fragile as a blank sheet of paper, ambition grew in the world.

There was land everywhere for them to conquer, and even every step these men took was given the title of 'Pacifying the World'.

But if no one cares about etiquette and morality, the so-called pacification is just another whipping of the devastated land and people.

Ma Yue understood this truth earlier than all the princes in the world, and the reason why he still felt a little ridiculed when he remembered it. This is simply because he despised imperial power earlier than the people of the world, and the Yuan family, who started earlier than him, was knocked to the ground by him with a punch and disappeared into the tide of this era. When he armed himself, the soldiers and horses of Liangzhou were able to dominate the world. But the third time, he knew that this time he would no longer have that advantage.

The power of technology can be easily copied, especially for low-tech scary objects such as heavy armor, stirrups, horseshoes, and saddles. The military strength of the Liang Kingdom began to stagnate in the winter of the fourth year of Jian'an, and he had no new methods, but the seeds planted in the early years were still taking root and sprouting, so his eyes turned to the culture and technology of the Liang Kingdom.

It takes ten years for a skilled apprentice to become a master, which is far more time than the training of a military general who can fight well, a official who writes a pen, or a clever strategist. However, Ma Yue still insisted on continuously cultivating craftsmen, and even far surpassed the number of generals and officials in the number of craftsmen.

These trainings are meaningful today, and the total number of troops that can be organized in the entire territory of the Liang Kingdom is about 100,000, which does not include the current multi-mouthed annexation states. However, Liang Guo was able to organize more than 7,000 assembly lines to make ordnance and armor, and skilled craftsmen were able to make elaborate weapons and armor in the shortest possible time with unique technical means. Every month, Liang Guo has 7,000 sets of military loads into various arsenals.

Limited by Liangguo's national strength, Ma Yue could only maintain a standing professional military force of about 60,000, a number that only tripled from ten years ago. But if it is a conscription, Liang Guo can recruit three hundred thousand, and even in a crisis of the situation, he can unify the men of the whole country and forcibly conscript, even the people of the Western Regions. All of them can be equipped with the Liangguo system, which is superior to the military uniforms of all parts of the world, and set foot on the battlefield.

Liang Guo's abundant arsenal determined that he could quickly arm a hundred thousand, two hundred thousand, or even three hundred thousand soldiers and horses to fight the enemy.

Although the princes everywhere have been desperately arming their own forces over the years, Liu He of Youzhou has 100,000 Hu cavalry, Gongsun Zan of Jizhou has 130,000 soldiers who can fight, Liu Bei of Jingzhou can raise 60,000 troops, and Cao Cao of the imperial court can easily raise 80,000 troops, and even Jiangdong Sun's father and son claim that the soldiers and horses are not more than the river, and they can cross the river with 400,000. Even those powerful clans in Xuzhou each controlled more than 10,000 soldiers and horses.

Just from the comparison of numbers, Ma Yue knew in his heart that the Liang State that he was planning to develop was not necessarily their opponent, that is, the weakest Liu Bei had 60,000 soldiers, and the imperial court as foreign aid. But he knew that his efforts over the years had not been in vain, and the development that Liangguo could seek could only be like this.

60,000 soldiers and horses marched from the eastern mountains of Bingzhou into several strands, all the way to the Jizhou Plain. In an instant, it was divided into ten generals and rushed to Leping County, Jizhou, surrounded the county separately, and attacked the city. Ma Yue commanded the two generals to advance towards Yecheng non-stop.

Each general is led by a partial general, and a full general is in charge of two general departments, collectively referred to as the headquarters. Similar to the captains of the Han Dynasty, the generals in Liang are mostly young people of Wanning, Cheng Wu, and Wang Shuang's generation, or Jiang Xusiliang and other old experience but not outstanding military achievements. If Gan Ning and Xu Huang have already reached the front and rear generals, the two youngest brothers of the Ma clan, Ma Chao and Ma Dai, are ranked as Yaowu and Xiaoqi miscellaneous generals respectively.

The dispersed tactics can make the most of the strong military strength of the Liang Army, because the individual Liang Army has extremely excellent armor and is most suitable for small group operations. Correspondingly, there were 30,000 horsemen levied by the Liang Kingdom, and these young riders brought their own horses to participate in the last front of the war, relying on the speed of horses to carry two stones of grain and grass between the counties every day, and quickly transmitting the war preparations.

From Longdu to Jizhou, twenty-four cities were marked on the way before the battle, and the horsemen went to the counties and counties to wait for the grain and grass to be escorted before the army was dispatched. With the movement of soldiers and horses, grain and grass shuttled between the twenty-four cities at a speed of 100 miles a day, and was rapidly deployed.

Under normal circumstances, such a war would involve more than 100,000 people. And Liang Guo exchanged the 60,000 manpower for 30,000 horses.

When the war began, the role of the horsemen would be even more important, in addition to food and grass, they would also need to transport the damaged armor of the soldiers, and escort the bodies of the wounded and fallen soldiers with the army, which was no less meaningful than the front-line battlefield.

Ten generals besieged the cities in various places, and the strength of the two sides was not much different, and the defenders of the city could not go out of the city to meet the enemy...... Three days later, eight cities in Leping County, Jizhou were breached, and when the battle report reached Yecheng, Gongsun Zhan was almost so angry that he vomited blood.

This is not the end, and then at a very fast speed, the Liang State Army then pacified Leping County, but on the seventh day, the Liang State Army has continued to advance towards Zhao State.

Gongsun Zhan hurriedly sent orders to all parts of the country, surrounded the entire territory of Zhao State into a big pocket, and placed 50,000 soldiers on the border of Zhao State, not seeking to defeat but only to delay the offensive of the soldiers and horses of Liang State to continue to advance, and he personally led 40,000 troops south to Wei County, trying to defend the north and attack the south, and defeat Cao Cao with the least number of troops first. On the other hand, the envoys to Jiangdong had already set out on their way to form an alliance with Sun Jian, asking him to send troops north to contain the imperial forces of Cao Cao and Liu Bei.

After all, that's their common enemy.

When Sun Jian saw the envoy, he only smiled slightly, although the eldest son Sun Ce was still inconclusive about the war in Xuzhou, but the old minister Huang Gai had just pacified the Shanyue bandits and incorporated a large number of strong soldiers, even if Gongsun Zhan did not say that he would seize this opportunity to fight Liu Bei fiercely. However, Sun Jian didn't look down on Gongsun Zhan.

Sun Jian, who claims to be the first prince in the world, can't look down on anyone!

"How does your general deal with the alliance of the three princes?" Sun Jian sat in the lobby and smiled at Gongsun Zhan's envoys: "Defend the north and attack the south? Thanks to your general's figure, I won't form an alliance with him, unless he can withstand this hurdle, there is no need for Sun to form an alliance with a prince who is about to fall. Go back and tell your general, the lion fights the rabbit and does his best, not to mention the general calls for the rabbit? ”

Gongsun Chan is a rabbit, so who is a lion?

The envoy left with an iron face, even Sun Jian, who was mighty in the world, couldn't be so arrogant, right?

He didn't know that Sun Jian had confronted Ma Yue several times more than ten years ago, and he knew that that person's ability and talent were the best in the world, and there were countless heroes and warriors around him to help, although Gongsun Chan was not bad, the pattern was smaller than Ma Yue, and the two fought against Ma Yue A little bit bigger, but now he still wants to retain his strength to contain Ma Yue, and surround Ma Yue with half of the army, don't you look for death?

"However, it's time for my Jiangdong to go north to fight, the more chaotic they fight, the better!" Sun Jian clapped his hands and summoned the generals, and immediately ordered to go down to prepare military rations and rush to make armor, "The Jiangdong Army is going north to fight!" ”

With just one sentence, the entire Jiangdong was in full swing, a regional machine no less than that of the Liang Kingdom was put into operation, hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers began to mobilize, all kinds of ordnance, requisition of grain and grass, and millions of Jiangdong people all entered a wartime state.

"Father, who are we going to fight this time, is it still Liu Xuande?" Sun Ce arched his hand and asked, "Then Liu Jingzhou is slippery like a loach, how should we fight him?" ”

Sun Jian was actually sensed by the situation of Ma Yue's troops this time, and said with a smile: "And divided into three routes, divided into three places in Jingzhou, and led an army down the river from Wuling and Lingling to attack Yizhou, didn't Zhang Lu guard against the north of the Chen soldiers of Liangguo?" Just made up an opportunity for us to go straight to Chengdu...... By the way, didn't Zhang Lu in Hanzhong have a grudge against Liu Zhang for killing his mother, send him a message, if he is willing to attack Liu Zhang, he will not only give him all the land north of Pujia when he takes down Yizhou Sun, but also hand over Liu Zhang's life to him, let him be killed alive, wouldn't it be happy to get revenge? ”

"But father, aren't we going to march on Liu Bei? Why fight Yizhou at the same time? Sun Ce was puzzled, but was gently tugged by the young Sun Quan, and said: "Brother, my father probably didn't regard Liu Jingzhou as an enemy, Jingzhou's soldiers and horses are not the opponent of the Jiangdong Army at all, and my father is only afraid that he intends to use Zhang Lu to contain the rear of King Liang...... The battle line of Liangguo is a little long. ”

Seeing his youngest son's intelligence, Sun Jian smiled, got up and rubbed Sun Quan's bun and smiled at Sun Ce: "Bo Fu, in the future, your brothers will support each other, and you will be relieved to be a father." Zhong Mou thought well, for his father is to take the first step to capture Yizhou, when Zhang Lu is in the north, Xitong Wudu north to Sanfu, choke the neck of Liangguo, cross the river from the north for his father, and take Jingzhou directly The time has come to seize Sanfu to split Liang, Ma Junhao has no Sanfu, what can he do in the Western Regions? Placed in Gongsun Chan...... As long as he can hold back the attack of others, he is placed in the alliance or something, it is absolutely unworthy. ”

The Sun family's army contained its own ambitions, mixed with the desire to annex Yizhou and divide the Liang Kingdom, and sent troops.

King Liang was still in Jizhou and led his army to sweep in all directions, except for the two generals under Wang Shuang, who stayed in Leping County to supervise the grain road, 50,000 soldiers and horses entered the encirclement of Sun Zhan, the Duke of Zhao.

The war has begun!