The Southern Naval Crusade was expected by many people.

In the case of Nanhai Prefecture, once the reunification is completed, its internal situation will be able to skyrocket several times in an instant.

With a population of 20 million, a strong national defense industrial system, and rich land, these have created the foundation of Daheng Second State.

In the era of Duke Meng more than 20 years ago, Nanhai Prefecture was an important player in the struggle for world domination.

Now that the reunification has been completed under the leadership of Lin Ziran, it will inevitably become an important role in the struggle for world domination, just like the era of Duke Meng.

Therefore, the growth of the strength of Nanhai Prefecture after the reunification, and even the subsequent Eastern Crusade, these are all expected by many people.

Even many people don't think that Dongdingzhou can stop the Eastern Expedition of the Southern Navy!

After all, there is a huge difference in the overall strength of the two sides, not to mention that Nanhai Prefecture has completed reunification, while Dongding Prefecture is still in a state of tripartite division, so it is also a high probability that the Southern Navy will win the Eastern Crusade, especially in the absence of external impressions.

Many feudal towns are already psychologically prepared, once Dongdingzhou is not supported, then Dongdingzhou will be supported, Dongdingzhou will be supported to block the southern navy, and then the elite troops of the southern navy will be dragged down, and the war will be normalized and protracted.

In order to deplete the war potential of Nanhai State, and eventually drag down the war strength of Nanhai State.

This is not some nonsense, but a fact.

It was very expensive to fight a war in these years, and what caused Daheng to collapse more than fifty years ago?

It's not because of a constant Olympic war!

A large-scale war was enough to drag down the Daheng Empire, a world-class power at that time, and now a medium-scale war with a scale of hundreds of thousands of people can also completely drag down Nanhai Prefecture, even if Nanhai Prefecture is the industrial and commercial economic strength of Daheng is enough to rank second.

But the real development of the situation was both expected and unexpected.

Dongdingzhou was defeated, which was expected by them.

But what they didn't expect was that Dongdingzhou would be defeated so quickly!

From September 2, when the Southern Navy launched a full-scale attack, until September 19, when Xia Yiming's last stronghold was conquered, and the large-scale organizational resistance in Dongding Prefecture was crushed, it took only 17 days.

Seventeen days!

In such a short period of time, in many battles, it was even in the early stages of war.

However, the Southern Navy has already swept through the three major feudal towns of Dongdingzhou and completely controlled Dongdingzhou.

How is this possible?

It's absolutely impossible!

But such an impossible thing happened right in front of us and became a fact.

This made countless people feel surprised, even panicked.

In Chongke City, the capital of Zishengzhou in the north of Dongdingzhou, Feng Ziqi, the commander of Zishengzhou, held the emergency report from Dongdingzhou in one hand and touched his eight-character beard in the other.

The situation in Dongdingzhou is a bit weird, and it is incomprehensible everywhere, and even far beyond his expectations, so that after the South Navy completely went south to Dongdingzhou, Zishengzhou, as a large state to the north of Dongdingzhou, couldn't even come up with an emergency response.

What kind of emergency countermeasures, naturally, are to send troops to intervene, and we can't just watch the South China Navy rush out.

However, the expected intervention of troops is at least a month away, and at the beginning tens of thousands of troops should be sent over, at most 40,000 or 50,000 troops should be sent over, and more intervention will be focused on material support such as weapons and ammunition.

The main force to resist the Southern Navy will still be the three major feudal towns in Dongdingzhou.

Zishengzhou, on the other hand, did not think that he needed to send hundreds of thousands or even more troops south to help Dongdingzhou resist the southern navy.

This situation should not have occurred at all.

But the reality is, it just appeared.

This made Zishengzhou feel great pressure.

Sit back and watch the South China Navy control Dongdingzhou, slowly integrate Dongdingzhou, and integrate the South China Sea and Dongding?

How is this possible, once Lin Ziran completely digests Dongding Prefecture, he will be able to become the largest domain town in Daheng in an instant with two states!

In the thirteen states of Daheng, there is no feudal town that can sit on the land of two states, even if it is a feudal town that completely controls an entire state, if Lin Ziran is counted, there are only five.

Lin Ziran must not be allowed to slowly integrate Dongdingzhou.

We must start a war as soon as possible and take down Dongdingzhou, even if we can't take it, we must drag down the Southern Navy in Dongdingzhou, and we can't let the Southern Navy use Dongdingzhou.

After pondering for a long time, Feng Ziqi began to make his arrangements!

He began to order the Zishengzhou army under his command to carry out a large-scale mobilization, and the troops on the southern front close to Dongdingzhou immediately entered a state of combat readiness, on the one hand, to prevent the southern navy from going north, and on the other hand, to prepare in advance and wait for more large troops in the rear to arrive.

On the other hand, he began to send people to contact several surrounding states, and even Jingzhou began to contact.

In fact, there is no need for Feng Ziqi to send people to contact, Jingzhou in the east, that is, the Ji royal family, has already reacted and started to prepare for war, and after Feng Ziqi's people went, the contact between the two sides can be said to be very smooth, and soon reached an agreement to advance and retreat together, and send troops together to suppress Lin Ziran.

The other feudal towns were also concerned and unanimously expressed their support, and several coastal feudal towns in the north have already indicated that they will send fleets south.

Ningyu Prefecture in the south is too late to protect itself, and it can't be mixed, and the interior of Quyang Prefecture is a mess, and there are more than a dozen large-scale feudal towns in a small state, and the internal situation is even worse than that of the previous Nanhai Prefecture, at most, it is just to contact a few small feudal towns to organize a coalition army to go south.

On the Quyang Prefecture side, although the two major feudal towns are still fighting among themselves, they obviously also know the importance of the matter, and the commanders of the two major armies told Feng Ziqi's envoy that they will temporarily cease fighting internally, and prepare to organize troops to march south again, break through the Luohe Gorge for the second time, and enter Nanhai Prefecture.

Feng Ziqi's external contact was not just to contact one or two families, but to contact all the surrounding feudal towns, even those that had no direct contact with the Southern Navy.

The inland feudal towns in the north are not bordering, and it is impossible to send troops over, but they have also successively expressed their support for certain weapons and ammunition and other materials, their ideas are simple, as long as you fight, it is a good thing, they can watch from the sidelines, and finally see if there is a chance to let Zishengzhou and the Southern Navy lose both, but they can directly send troops to swallow them in one bite, and directly lay the foundation for the unification of Daheng.

I have to say that there are many feudal towns with this kind of thinking, even Feng Ziqi wants to take advantage of this opportunity to enhance his prestige, and he also hopes to take down Dongding Prefecture through this war.

Even the Ji royal family on the side, they also saw an opportunity to restore the power of the royal family, it is difficult to say in other places, but this Dongding Prefecture seems to be able to put it under the control of the royal family again.