Chu Imperial Palace, Qingxin Palace.

Qin Ming smiled when he heard the news of the raid from the four border gates.

In this raid, the southern and white kingdoms lost a total of 70,000 troops.

Aolai lost 30,000, Qingguo lost 40,000, and Mongolia lost 20,000.

Almost a tenth of the troops were lost in the first battle.

And the four battlefields of the Chu State combined, the loss was only 20,000.

However, this is the beginning of the great war.

Qin Ming sat on the dragon chair and wrote down his war decisions on several border passes under the paperwork.

After a short time, he handed it to the secretary of the military department and said: "Order, next, do not take the initiative to attack, wait for the enemy to approach, use bows and arrows, and drop bombs to strike at the enemy, and minimize our losses." ”

The military department Shangshu took the paperwork and bowed away.

You must know that the army of Chu is guarding the pass, and the enemy army is attacking the pass, and in such a battle, the difficulty of the enemy army will increase several times.

If they want to break through the pass, it will be very difficult, not to mention the counterattack of the Chu army?

Fighting a conservative war in this way almost determined the situation of Chu State winning steadily.

Unless, the enemy also has thermal weapons, for example, bombs.

Otherwise, if you want to break through the pass of Chu, you will need several times the number of troops.

But do they have it now?

Not only not, but in two more battles, their strength can basically be equal to the Chu army.

In this way, not to mention breaking through the pass, it is good to be able to leave safely!

Qin Ming's order quickly reached the front line.

As a result, nearly a million troops in the four passes were stubbornly guarding the inside of the passes, and on the upper floors of the pass city, the firearms soldiers were ready at any time, the cannon barrels were set up one by one, and the bombardiers were also in place.

Comparatively speaking, the cannon barrel is more accurate and faster.

The bombardier is easy to carry, but not accurate.

In a place like the pass, it is natural that the cannon barrel is easy to use.

Only when the enemy comes, the cannon barrel is aimed at the densely populated area, and then the length of the bomb's lead is controlled, that is, the burning time, basically, it can attack the enemy more effectively.

In the next few days, the armies of several countries also attacked the border passes of Chu State, however, under the power of archers and artillery, the enemy suffered heavy casualties.

They completely underestimated the strength of the Chu State, mainly because they knew that the Chu State had an army of more than one million, but they could never have imagined that the Chu State actually used a million troops.

Generally speaking, even if there is a war, it is necessary to use a part of the army to deter other border gates to prevent others from stabbing in the back.

But the state of Chu did not do this, the Xia State and the Yan State in the southwest, the State of Chu almost did not send troops to guard the border passes, and the western part was originally owned by the State of Chu, needless to say.

The states of Ulan and Jin in the northwest would not pose a threat to the state of Chu, nor would they need to be garrisoned by large armies.

Therefore, the state of Chu basically gathered all its forces this time.

This was something that the five countries did not expect.

Although the five countries also have a large number of troops, they can only send some of them, because they need large armies to defend their own countries.

As a result, their strength was only 400,000 more than that of Chu.

But in the first battle, it lost more than 100,000 people, and now, taking turns attacking, the losses are even greater, and it is about to be equal to the million-strong army of Chu State.

If you continue like this, you will definitely lose.

As a result, the emperors of the five countries exchanged letters with each other, discussing the plan for this war.

However, no matter how it is discussed, in the face of the bombs and powerful forces of the Chu State, there is almost no solution.

Under the fire, almost the armies of the five countries suffered countless casualties every day.

If it continues like this, it will be a matter of time before it loses.

In the face of this situation, the emperor of the white country and the king of the Mongolian country took the lead, they are only small countries, and the 200,000 soldiers and horses sent by each have already lost almost half, and if this continues, they will be the first to lose.

Therefore, in their letters to Nanguo, Aolai and Qingguo, they all said that they could no longer fight.

Although the emperors of Aolai and Qingguo were unwilling, they also understood that if they continued to fight like this, they would not be able to break through the pass of Chu at all.

So, letters were exchanged and asked what the emperor of the southern country meant.

The Emperor of the Southern Kingdom was in the palace, and his face was extremely ugly. He naturally wants to continue fighting, losing soldiers and horses or something, in his opinion, it doesn't matter, he just wants to win, he just wants to make Chu a big mess, he just wants to occupy the palace of Chu and let him slowly look for the elixir of immortality.

However, without the help of the other four countries, it would be almost impossible to fight the Chu State.

He doesn't know what to do now, keep fighting? The losses are too great for the other four countries to be together.

Don't fight? Isn't that the plan in vain again? And if he retreated, in the near future, he believed that Qin Ming would definitely take revenge.

At this moment, he was caught in a difficult choice.

In the end, he wrote a letter telling the other four countries not to attack first, and all the large armies were stationed on the border.

The other four countries felt that this was also a way, for the time being, not to fight.

As a result, they retreated their armies for dozens of miles and set up camp.

After Qin Ming received the news, he sneered.

"If you can't beat it, you still have to covet my Chu country, it's ridiculous!"

"Your Majesty, what should we do now? Is it to take the initiative to attack, or ......" The military department Shangshu asked Qin Ming.

Qin Ming was silent for a long time, and after thinking for a while, he said: "Let's wait and see what happens, in addition, the production of bombs in the military department cannot be slack." ”

The military department gave up his hand and left immediately.

Qin Ming sat on the chair, probably understanding that the emperor of the southern kingdom wanted to attack, and the other four countries had the intention of retreating.

He also understood that at this moment, the Emperor of the Southern Kingdom must be extremely entangled.

At the same time, he was also very curious, what would happen to this emperor of the southern kingdom?

In this way, after being quiet for several days, Qin Ming received a document written by the Emperor of the Southern Kingdom.

The above content made Qin Ming feel very funny.

Roughly speaking, the emperor of the southern kingdom proposed that the emperors of the five kingdoms and Qin Ming meet at the southern border pass to talk about this matter peacefully.

Qin Ming doesn't know what to think about this product, you have hit the door, if you can't beat it, you have to talk about it? Even, Qin Ming didn't know what capital he had to talk about.

However, Qin Ming still wanted to go, he was very curious, what the hell did this Southern Emperor want to do in order to get the immortal medicine.

He wanted to go, and the ministers were against it.

But the objection is invalid.

Qin Ming didn't mean to discuss with the ministers, there were hundreds of thousands of troops in the south, and he Qin Ming would not be afraid if he went to his own border, right?

Don't you see, he also stood on the main hall of the Southern Palace, didn't he also be safe and sound, and retreated?

Of course, this time, not as a negotiator, but as an emperor, and several other emperors, to meet!

So, Qin Ming set off on the same day, sat on the dragon chariot, and was hugged by the large army of travelers, and went to the south.

To say that the efficiency of this Ministry of Engineering is still good.

Some time ago, Qin Ming didn't ask the road to be repaired, and the pipeline was widened and repaired.

The order of the Ministry of Industry issued the workshop of the local yamen, and the workshop of the local yamen immediately began to build roads in the areas under its jurisdiction.

On such a good road, Qin Ming's army arrived at the southern border pass in less than two days!

(End of chapter)