After only a month of marching on the safe march of floats, the Qingzhou army took all of Laizhou and part of Yanzhou east of the canal.

Conquer dozens of powerful families in the two provinces, more than ten robbers who occupy the mountains as kings, and gain a population of up to 200,000 people!

However, this result also just shows how exhausted Jiangbei has been after more than ten years of war - it has now occupied two and a half prefectures of Qi Province, most of the area of Qingzhou, and the population under its rule, men, women, and children will only add up to 500,000 people.

According to this figure, the number of people still alive in the old Qi Province may be ...... million.

This is Qi Province! All dynasties have been large provinces in the Central Plains with a large population and the advantage of salt and iron! This number may not even be one-fifth of what it was in its heyday, right?

In this way, the peninsula of Qi Province is at least not the main place where the war occurred, and it is difficult to say whether the provinces of Hebei, Shaanxi, and Henan, which have been hit the hardest by the war, can keep one-tenth of the population before the imperial court moves south!

It was only at this time that Xu Shiyang realized that perhaps the Central Plains was far more deserted than he imagined!

This also explains why Qingzhou's march went so smoothly this time - everyone is really, really tired!

There is a regime that can restore order, and many people no longer care about the legitimacy of this regime, and they are not in the mood to dwell on what the main purpose of this regime is.

"The march went more smoothly than expected."

Xu Shiyang can see it, Xu Muhe can naturally see it, he has reminded him before, what the people want most now is actually simple stability, and now the facts have proved his correctness, and the gradual breeding of this ambition makes it natural to hope to use the psychology of the people to obtain greater benefits.

"Yes, it did go more smoothly than expected."

Xu Shiyang looked at the summary report of the battle situation, and when the area under control was more than doubled, the Qingzhou Army only suffered more than 100 casualties, and most of them were sick and wounded.

Even with the addition of those newly joined Dockfort militia, the losses did not exceed five hundred.

"Do you want to continue the march?"

Xu Muhe asked tentatively:

"At least occupy the Qi province east of the Yellow River, so that more people can be gathered to fight against the Tartar ......"

A rabble, it doesn't matter how many people gather.

But Xu Shiyang also believes that this is indeed a good opportunity, and with the current situation, it seems that there will not be too many obstacles to continue to expand to the edge of the Yellow River.

"Yes, it's okay to take advantage of this opportunity to continue the attack."

Xu Shiyang agreed:

"It's just that the troops participating in the war this time should rest and recuperate, and let's change to another battalion."

Xu Muhe has nothing to do with this, what he wants is territories that can show his dignity and dignity, and it doesn't matter to him who helps him take these territories.

……

Let's turn back the clock and see what happened in the world during this time.

First of all, Liaodong, after the victory over the Mughurs, the Jurchens entered a short period of recuperation.

Since everyone knew that the Jin army would soon enter the customs, sweep Qi Province and open the Grand Canal again, the Jurchens did not let Nanshan go, and after only a few months of rest, various nobles and nobles began to scavenge for food in their own areas of domination, preparing for the new war that was about to begin.

The Jurchens were a semi-slave, semi-feudal fishing and hunting society, and their agriculture was almost entirely dependent on the looted slaves of all ethnic groups, and the production was frighteningly low, so they had to resort to more harsh means to scavenge food from the bottom to maintain the minimum consumption of the troops.

This triggered a violent social upheaval within the Jin Kingdom, and the price of grain in Liaodong once climbed to a sky-high price of 15 guan and one stone, and many Jurchens were so hungry that they simply violated the ban and killed cattle and horses, and killed many slaves and cannibals.

Slaves fled and armed resistance came one after another, and even some of the smaller True Jurchen tribes could not stand the oppression from the top and fled the fertile Liaozhong Plain region, heading north to try to enter the territory of the savage Jurchens.

At the beginning of November, the main forces of the Jurchen Zhuangli Wanyan Zonggan, Wanyan Zongbi, and Sushi Lie Zhining launched a large-scale offensive against the savage Jurchens and the fugitive Jurchens, capturing 7,000 Dingkou and killing tens of thousands, which barely curbed the Jurchens' tendency to flee.

As for the escape of slaves of other Han, Khitan, Bohai, Goryeo and other ethnic groups, the Jurchens have not bothered to pay attention to it, many of these people have fled directly into the deep mountains and old forests, even if the Jurchens are fishing and hunting peoples, it is very troublesome to catch them, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Fortunately, preparations for war were still in progress, and the civilian grain stocks were constantly concentrated in the hands of the army, and the Jurchens had gradually accumulated the strength to launch another large-scale campaign.

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To the west of the Jin Kingdom, a civil war broke out among the Muguls who suffered a major blow, and the Mongwu of Modong, who were driven westward by the Jurchens, fought with the Mongols of Monan and the Marquis of the Han army who took refuge in the Mongwu, and the losses on both sides were not light, but in general, the Mongwu were gradually gaining the advantage.

Looking a little further south, the Dangxiang people and the allied forces of the Buddhist states in the Western Regions were still in a stalemate with Zoroastrian invaders such as Pars.

In the midst of the war, the once prosperous continental road trade gradually dried up, and the most popular materials in the south of the Yangtze River could no longer be transported to Pars and the West through the war-torn areas, and the gold and silver specialties of the West could not be transported to the East through Pars.

However, as a result, the maritime trade that had been handed over by the Pars and Tianzhu people gradually began to flourish, and the Pars, Tianzhu and Da Zhou were still able to obtain a great deal of wealth from this international trade to support the poverty and luxury of the ruling class.

From the Western Regions to the south, the Tubo attempt to enter the Sichuan region was again defeated, and finally the Sichuan army of the Great Zhou defeated the invasion of the Tubo army, and the Tibetan attack on Dali also failed to achieve any results.

Here, Da Zhou and Dali formed a not-so-close alliance to jointly resist the harassment and attacks of the Tibetans.

Finally, there is Gangnam.

In the core area of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the war caused by the peasant uprising tended to intensify.

Fang La's army had 300,000 troops, numbering one million, and conquered Jiangning in October of the thirteenth year of Jianxing, and a month later, Fang La was proclaimed emperor in Jiangning.

Although the area under Fangla's actual control was small, all the areas involved in the turmoil were located in the heart of the Great Zhou, and every day it lasted, the losses caused to the Great Zhou were very staggering.

Moreover, geographically speaking, Jiangning is not far from Lin'an in any case, and Emperor Jianxing issued an edict that this civil strife should be quelled as soon as possible no matter what.

The Great Zhou Dynasty took the privy envoy Tong Guan to lead 150,000 troops as the main force, and the front division of the palace commanded Gao Yu to lead 60,000 troops as the flank, pressing on Jiangning step by step.

Behind them, there are 100,000 people's troops, including Xu Shiliu's Shunyi army, only in terms of strength, the Zhou army is not under the Fang La army, not to mention the weaponry and training, the Zhou army has a greater advantage.

Zhou Jun's problem is that he is not united enough, and the coach Tong Guan should have been regarded as the main peace faction, but now, he seems to have become ambiguous between the main battle and the main peace.

Gao Yu is a staunch Lord-peace faction, but his 60,000 subordinates cannot guarantee the suppression of the people's army with the main battle faction as the core.

Now, the 300,000 Zhou army is purely to maintain superficial unity for the common goal of dealing with Fang La, if Fang La is really destroyed, I am afraid that even the face of the various factions will not continue.

The showdown between the main battle and the main peace is just around the corner.