Ling Xia and Xia Yuanwen talked secretly for an afternoon, and no one knew what the two talked about? I only know that Ling Xia and Xia Ning'er didn't leave the coalition headquarters until the evening, but after the two went out of the city, there was no trace, Xia Yuanwei and Xia Yuanlan sent out to search for a circle and did not find Ling Xia and Xia Ning'er, and they inquired along the way, some people said that they saw them out of the city, and some people said that the two of them rested from the city.

In the past few days, the turmoil in various places, first Gangning Ichiro led the troops to the city of Xuzhoujiang, the soldiers and horses of the Japanese were stationed in Zhouning County, fifty miles away, Zhouning County was very close to the city gate of Xuzhoujiang, which belonged to the periphery of Xuzhoujiang, and not only stationed two divisions of the war guard army in the city, but also more people lived inside, although they knew the news of the Japanese invasion of the city in advance, but everyone thought that the Japanese would station the corps opposite the city gate, because it was an open area of the plain, which was convenient for attack and suitable for placing military camps.

But no one expected that when the Japanese soldiers came to the city, people found that they had made a mistake in judgment, and Gangning Ichiro actually gave up the wide land opposite the gate of the territory, but chose this small county town located on the flank, and at night the Japanese used blitzkrieg, and captured Zhouning County in less than half an hour, killing all the soldiers who defended the city, and slaughtering all the people in the city.

Seeing that the Japanese Kou temporarily chose to stand still, Zhuge Yiyan and Nangong Xiongba, who were in charge of the southern theater of operations, breathed a sigh of relief, they didn't dare to let the theater have any mistakes, when they were divided into four theaters of war, they were not cut according to the territory map, the prince's faction, the second prince's faction, and the emperor's faction were all divided by their own territory, among the three factions, the emperor's territory was the largest, and his supporters included both local feudal officials and royal clansmen, such as Ling Xia's Ziyanjiang and Xia Ning'er's Liulijiang, which all belonged to the northern theater.

Since the emperor's supporters were located at the north and south ends of the Xia Dynasty, the imperial court faction divided these territories into two theaters, that is, the two theaters of war in the south and the north.

It is said that after the division of the war zone was over, the emperor found that half of the territory in the northern war zone was not attached to him, such as Wu Lanjiang of Zhenguo Gong, Ziyan Jiang of Ling Xia, Liulijiang of Xia Ning'er, Cheng'an and Yanxiu of the disaster, and several independent territories.

It is precisely in view of this that when Nangong Xiongba fought against Gangning Ichiro, he actually had a chance to win, but the emperor was annoyed that the governors of those territories did not obey the discipline of the imperial court, so he hinted to Nangong Xiongba and let him be responsible for the territory attached to the imperial court, as for those territories that did not obey the orders of the imperial court, they were left to fend for themselves.

After Nangong Xiongba received the holy decree, he did not understand the emperor's intentions, but Mr. Dongfang saw through the emperor's thoughts, which led to the end of the rout in the northern theater, and the outside world thought that the emperor did not pursue Nangong Xiongba afterwards and lost the responsibility of the northern theater, because Nangong Xiongba was the emperor's uncle, but in fact, the real reason was that Nangong Xiongba carried out the emperor's idea.

Different from the complexity of the emperor's power, the supporters of the crown prince Xia Yuanwei are basically military generals, when the first emperor canonized the military generals as the governors of the territory, considering that they are all soldiers, he canonized the territory of the eastern region to the generals who have made military achievements, so that those territories are naturally divided into the eastern theater, because most of the territory of the eastern theater is the territory of the prince, so he is responsible for the military of the eastern theater, Xia Yuanwei let Gu Xiuyuan and Lu Zhuweng be responsible for the deployment of the war in the eastern theater.

Since ancient times, the civilian official group has been opposed to the military generals, the military generals are concentrated in the east, and the territories under the jurisdiction of those civil officials are entrenched in the west, and most of the supporters of the second prince Xia Yuanwen are civil ministers, so that those territories are coordinated as the western theater, after the establishment of the theater, Peng Tiangang and the second prince are in charge of the headquarters of the coalition army, and Long Jiuzhong and Qiu Luobei are jointly responsible for the military and government affairs of the war zone, because Qiu Luobei is very contemptuous of Long Jiuzhong's behavior of forcing the palace to rebel, so the relationship between the two is not very good.

Because the theater is divided by territory, so the three factions in power are all trying their best to maintain, and the insanity of the northern theater is different, the eastern, southern, and western theaters are their real roots, and no one is willing to let their family base be damaged, and because of this, seeing that the eastern theater is in danger of being annexed by the Japanese invaders, the crown prince Xia Yuanwei would rather compromise with the emperor than give up his own territory, because once Zhang Huaji withdrew his troops, the eastern theater changed in an instant and was captured by the Japanese invaders.

At the beginning, Xia Yuanwei in order to implement the plan of all-out war with the Japanese invaders, borrowed five corps from the southern theater from the emperor, thinking that he could destroy the enemy in the eastern theater of operations, but unfortunately it backfired, from the beginning of the battle, the war guards were led by the nose of the Japanese invaders, if it were not for Ling Xia in the later period to level the gap between the two sides, the main force of the war guards would have been trapped and killed in Hanzhu Province by the Japanese invaders, at this time the enemy and us were still stuck from Zhuji Town, in a state of confrontation.

Just when the two sides were engaged in a tug-of-war, Gangning Ichiro sent troops to attack Xu Zhoujiang, and the emperor took the opportunity to withdraw troops to return to the defense as a threat, forcing the prince to compromise with the imperial court, although the emperor finally achieved what he wanted, but the four corps under the command of Zhang Huaji remained in the Eastern Theater, as a result, the pressure in the southern theater increased sharply, although the emperor sent Nangong Xiongba to preside over the military affairs of the theater in advance, but this time it was Gangning Ichiro who came to attack the city, after all, Nangong Xiongba was defeated in the hands of Gangning Ichiro.

Originally, the Southern Theater had six corps of battle guards, but when Zhang Huaji was ordered to support the Eastern Theater, he took away five corps in one go, and now Zhuge Yiyan has only one corps in his hand to defend the city, Gangning Yilang led three corps in the siege this time, and the battle guards are not opponents no matter how they look at it, and now Nangong Xiongba and Zhuge Yiyan have concentrated all their forces in Xu Zhoujiang, and at this moment they are anxious, and the two of them are looking forward to Gangning Yilang resting for a few more days, and also looking forward to Long Jiuzhong's reinforcements coming over as soon as possible.

At this moment, everyone's eyes are focused on Xu Zhoujiang, although the distance between the Western Theater and the Southern Theater is very close, but if you rush to Xuzhoujiang from the military station in the Western Theater, even if you cross the theater in a straight line, it will take more than 2,000 miles, after Long Jiu received the military order to support, except for a little rest on the first day, the rest of the time is to rush around the clock, and finally in the early morning of the ninth day, he led the battle guards of the four corps into Xuzhoujiang.

In the Yahou Hall of Zhouning County, Gangning Ichiro was reviewing the military information, and at this time, Nakajima Xue'an came in with a sealed piece of information, opened the information, and saw that it was written, "Long Jiuzhong has led reinforcements into Xuzhoujiang." After reading it, Ichiro Gangning's cold face showed a hint of sinisterness: "It's finally here, the old man has been waiting impatiently for a long time." ”