The ancient monarchy system had many drawbacks, but it also had many advantages, such as that no matter how much the Confucian literati made trouble, it had no effect, and it could not change the empire's iron-blooded foreign means.

When Yan Zonggan led 300,000 of the most elite iron horsemen of the Jin Kingdom to Tokyo Road, what he saw was the burned farmland and villages, as well as the homeless people of the Jin Kingdom.

Sienna and others faithfully implement the scorched earth tactic, which is generally used by the defender, also known as the fortified wall, but the attacker rarely does this.

The imperial army had already learned of the attack led by Yan Zonggan, so Sienna immediately led the army to retreat to the Goryeo border, while the Eastern Route Army led by Han Shizhong continued to burn and slaughter in the northern part of the Shangjing Road.

When the speed of both sides is about the same, it is difficult for one person to catch up with the other, let alone catch up with two people in different directions.

Wanyan Zonggan's cavalry troops, although their mobility is very strong, but the Sienna Legion, which is all infantry, does not rush forward.

However, this imperial western route army was hovering around the border of Goryeo, and if a large number of Jin cavalry pursued, they would immediately withdraw to Goryeo territory, and hold on to the defense built here with the help of the defense and offensive built here.

Han Shizhong's Eastern Route Army also played this routine, Wanyan Zonggan tried to cut off the retreat route of the army to Goryeo and outflank it from the south, but unfortunately the Eastern Route Army still had the Asha Yellow Sea Fleet on the coast of the Whale Sea to respond. If Wanyan Zonggan encircled and suppressed from the north, the Eastern Route Army of the Empire would flee to the border of Goryeo.

For a time, Wanyan Zonggan led 300,000 Jin State Iron Cavalry, and he was helplessly chasing the two armies of the Imperial Army.

Wherever the imperial army went, whether it was a Jin village or pasture, the available materials such as livestock and grain were taken away, and the houses, farmland and pasture that could not be taken away were inevitably burned and destroyed.

On Tokyo Road, where production is heavy, there are unripe crops burning everywhere, and all the villages and towns are turned into rubble and ruins, and countless people of the Jin Kingdom have fled to the Shangjing Road in the north with their families.

Although Sienna and Han Shizhong and others led their troops to attack the hinterland of the Jin Kingdom, there were some things that the empire strictly forbidden, first of all, to kill ordinary people who had no ability to resist, and secondly, to rape ** women.

In order to cause greater panic in the Jin Kingdom, when the imperial army destroyed the villages and villages, they would also deliberately leave a ration for the people of the Jin Kingdom, so that they could flee to the north.

Every day, bad news reached Shangjing, and countless refugees from Jinguo entered the major towns of Shangjing Road, causing a huge panic, and the grain-producing area of Dongdong Road suffered a devastating blow, which was also an unacceptable loss for Jinguo.

What does it mean to add insult to injury? What does it mean to fall into a well? Soon these once arrogant Jin people will know!

The Tangut people, who once bowed down to the Jin State, were the first to make a move!

The Tangut people, who had suffered from a great drought and natural disasters, did not dare to rob the powerful empire, so they had to make a move against the countries of the Western Regions.

It's just that the Western Regions are too far away, and the grain that was snatched back is a drop in the bucket, so when he saw the war between the empire and the Jin Kingdom, the Western Xia was like a jackal and bit down hard at the weak Jin Kingdom.

The Tangut people detoured through Mongolia and invaded the Beijing Road of the Jin Kingdom, but they were different from the imperial army, so they were called burning, killing, lewdness and plundering everything, and immediately set off a bloody storm in the west of the Jin Kingdom.

There is a saying called "Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, the way of heaven is good reincarnation, if you don't believe it, look up, who will be spared by the heavens!" ”

The Jurchens, who were once oppressed by the Khitans of the Liao State, treated the Mongols in the same way after the establishment of the Jin State.

After the establishment of the Jin State, the northern region was under the rule of the Jurchens, and the northern and southern steppes of the desert were independent and did not belong to each other, and the Jin State implemented a policy of "divide and rule" and "reduce the ding" of slaughter and plunder.

The so-called Ding reduction policy is that the Jin State sends a large army to the Mongolian steppe every few years to kill a round of killing, killing some Mongolian young and strong men, reducing the number of strong men, and eliminating hidden dangers.

The Mongols of course had to resist such harsh ruling methods of the Jin people, and the Mongolian tribal alliance had organized many rebellions over the years, but unfortunately they were suppressed by the Jin people.

Compared with the Jurchens, Li Nan was more afraid of the Mongols, so he did not agree to the aid offer of the Ba child, and later this person returned to Mongolia and became a khan, and continued to lead the tribes against the Jin, and was nailed to death on a wooden donkey by Jin Xizong in the name of "punishing the rebellion of the ministry".

Now that the Jin State and the empire are fighting fiercely, and the country is still invaded, the Mongols who hate the Jin State will naturally not sit idly by. Under the leadership of the swift man, he also began to counterattack the Jin Kingdom.

As a result, two enemies, the Western Xia and the Mongols, appeared to the west of the Jin State and invaded the Shangjing Road and the Beijing Road. To the east, Asha's fleet attacked the area along Shirt Road.

In the south, there are the four major armies of the empire confronting Wanyan Zongbi on the Great Wall, and there are two armies in the Goryeo area, Sienna and Han Shizhong, constantly harassing and attacking.

Peace!

Jin Guo was really scared, so after discussing with many courtiers and tribal leaders, Jin Xizong finally lowered his arrogant head and sent a convoy of envoys escorted by Wanyan Zonggan to Shunju on the border of Goryeo, asking for peace with the empire.

Just when Sienna and Han Shizhong and other generals thought that Li Nan would spit disdainfully and drive away the messenger of the Jin Kingdom, he pondered for a moment and agreed to the matter.

"Why?" After sending off the envoy of the Jin Kingdom, Han Shizhong asked in a somewhat impulsive voice.

This is also Li Nan, an emperor who treats his own people more kindly, if he is replaced by another emperor, it is estimated that Han Shizhong's approach with a questioning tone will be cut off.

Li Nan knew that Han Shizhong and other generals in the army were eager to capture the Jin State and finish their work in one battle, but that was not realistic.

"The reason is simple." Li Nan said to Tyrion, the Minister of the Interior beside him, "Tell us about the losses of the empire since the war with the Jin State. ”

After Tyrion complied, he took out a notebook from his bosom and read it aloud: "Since the beginning of the war in April, the Empire has invested five major infantry legions, three major fleets, one cavalry corps, as well as 300,000 patrol soldiers and 800,000 logistics men, for a total of more than 1,520,000 participants.

In several battles, the number of dead was 33,512, and the number of seriously wounded and disabled was 78,104. Consume food for ......"

Hearing Tyrion's various figures, all the generals present were dumbfounded.

They didn't expect that in this great battle of victory of the imperial army, their own side would unknowingly lose more than 30,000 people killed and more than 70,000 wounded, and the food and salary consumed was an astronomical amount that could make other countries collapse in an instant.