In the basement under the ruins of the original Ministry of Defense building in Yueyang City, Su Yi met with representatives of five rebel soldiers, and encouraged these representatives, and immediately promoted the representatives of four of the rebel soldiers to deputy company commanders.

Cai Zhenyang, a soldier king with high prestige among the rebel soldiers, was directly promoted by Su Yi to a company commander of the headquarters guard battalion.

This time, more than 300,000 human soldiers from the 20 garrison infantry divisions of the Ice Lion Country all participated in this pre-battle uprising, and after two days and one night of fierce fighting, although this pre-battle uprising was successful, the human soldiers who participated in the uprising suffered great losses, and the number of dead exceeded 80,000.

Of the 220,000 human soldiers who survived, there were also nearly 20,000 wounded, of whom more than 6,000 were seriously wounded.

The 200,000 human soldiers who could still continue to fight were immediately divided among the nine provisional divisions under Su Yi's command, making the strength of Su Yi's troops swell to more than 500,000 at once, not counting the more than 70,000 wounded who were recuperating in more than a dozen field hospitals in the central city.

Originally, the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom, which had been advancing by leaps and bounds on the battlefield in the territory of the Great Qin Kingdom, did not expect that it would encounter such a big hard nail in Yueyang City, the capital of the Great Qin Kingdom.

As of the evening of February 13, 2538 in the Divine Calendar, the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom has lost more than 470,000 people in Yueyang City, not including the 300,000 human soldiers who revolted.

At present, the area where the Great Qin State has not fallen, the newspapers have reported on the defense of Yueyang City at length, describing Su Yi as the god of war of the new generation of the Great Qin State, and Yueyang City has been called a city that will never fall by many newspapers.

In order to capture Yueyang City, the capital of the Great Qin State, as soon as possible and break the will of the army and people of the Great Qin State to resist, the army of the Ice Lion State almost suspended the military offensive on other battlefields in the Great Qin State, and transferred a large number of troops from various battlefields to the battlefield of Yueyang City.

At the same time, the Ice Lion Kingdom recruited a large number of reservists in the country and began to supplement the seventeen Praetorian Mechanized Infantry Divisions and twenty-six Garrison Infantry Divisions on the battlefield of Yueyang City.

These twenty-six garrison infantry divisions are all the main garrison infantry divisions composed of orcs, and as for the twenty garrison infantry divisions dominated by human soldiers, the Ice Lion Kingdom has no plans to rebuild it for the time being.

Marshal Kayano, who commanded the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom to attack Yueyang City, although he was eager to capture the entire Yueyang City overnight and kill all the humans in Yueyang City, but after the human soldiers of the twenty garrison infantry divisions successfully revolted, Marshal Kayano ordered the troops of each division of the Ice Lion Kingdom to first suspend the attack on the defenders of Great Qin in the city, and mobilize heavy troops, and the guards also controlled about a quarter of the Dongcheng District and one-fifth of the Beicheng District in the hands of the Ice Lion Army.

Marshal Cajano was ready to wait for the troops drawn from other battlefields, as well as the reserve officers and soldiers who had come from domestic support, to arrive at Yueyang City, and then launch a new onslaught on Yueyang City.

At this time, the number of troops under Su Yi's command has increased to more than 500,000, and with the large number of weapons and equipment that Su Yi has brought from the world of the Tang Empire and the Han Kingdom, Su Yi has actually the strength to break the encirclement of the Ice Lion Kingdom army on Yueyang City.

At present, the army of the Ice Lion Kingdom on the battlefield of Yueyang City, excluding the wounded, has less than 500,000 troops, and it needs to be divided into four directions to form an encirclement of the entire urban area of Yueyang City.

However, the area around Yueyang City has been occupied by the Ice Lion Army, and even if Su Yi opens a passage in the encirclement, he will not receive support from other Great Qin troops, so after the Ice Lion Army slowed down its attack, Su Yi did not order his troops to take the initiative to attack, but stepped up a new round of reorganization of the nine provisional divisions under his command, hoping to integrate the 200,000 rebel soldiers into the nine temporary divisions as soon as possible.

In this way, the battlefield of Yueyang City, which was originally full of artillery fire, suddenly fell silent, of course, this does not mean that the battle in Yueyang City will end, both sides are actually accumulating strength and preparing for the next more brutal battle.

On February 16, 2538, in Jinju City, the capital of Nanjiang Province of the Great Qin State, Cai Yongchang, the current president of the Great Qin State, convened the military and political leaders of the Great Qin State and held a secret meeting.

The leaders of the thirteen factions in the military of the Great Qin State all attended this secret meeting, including Zhao Zeling, the vice minister of national defense who left Yueyang City, and the people who participated in this secret meeting on the government side, except for President Cai Yongchang and Vice President Li Qingwei, only the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Industry attended.

As soon as the meeting began, President Cai Yongchang said to everyone in a deep voice: "Now that we have more than 12 million square kilometers of land in the Great Qin State, almost 7.5 million square kilometers have fallen, and the population of the occupied area accounts for almost half of the total population of our Great Qin State. ”

In the past, President Cai Yongchang also proposed to start armistice negotiations with the Ice Lion Country, but when President Cai Yongchang just said this proposal, he was strongly opposed by various military bigwigs, but this time President Cai Yongchang reproposed to start armistice negotiations with the Ice Lion Country, and the bigwigs of the thirteen factions of the military looked at each other, and no one immediately stood up to oppose it.

Vice President Li Qingwei then sighed and said: "The difference in strength between our Great Qin Kingdom and the Ice Lion Kingdom is too big, according to the current situation, if we continue to fight, our Great Qin Kingdom may really die, and I also think it is better to start armistice negotiations with the Ice Lion Kingdom as soon as possible." ”

Minister of Defense Liu Fuchen suddenly sighed and said: "Our military also knows that if we continue to resist, the chances of winning this war are very slim, but the appetite of the Ice Lion Country is too great, if we start armistice negotiations with the Ice Lion Country now, the Ice Lion Country will definitely open its mouth, and if we can't make it happen, we will have to cede half of the territory of the Great Qin State." ”

President Cai Yongchang immediately said: "I think that even if half of the country is ceded, as long as our Great Qin State is not completely annexed by the Ice Lion State, it is not impossible to accept. ”

At this time, Vice Minister of Defense Zhao Zeling suddenly couldn't help but say: "Your Excellency, now the main force of the Ice Lion Country's army is contained in Yueyang City, and Yueyang City is still controlled by our Great Qin Army, now should we discuss how to support Yueyang City, and we can also discuss how to take the opportunity to expand the strength of our Great Qin Army, I feel that as long as Yueyang City has not been completely captured by the Ice Lion Army, our Great Qin Kingdom will have a chance to turn defeat into victory." ”

After Zhao Zeling left Yueyang City, he couldn't help but regret it a little, he didn't expect that Su Yi could still firmly hold Yueyang City with the remnants of the troops in Yueyang City, and even successfully planned the front uprising of 300,000 human soldiers in the Ice Lion Country, and now Su Yi has become the hero of the entire Great Qin Kingdom, with at least 500,000 elites in his hands.

You must know that now the Great Qin Army, in addition to the troops under Su Yi's command, barely has only 3.5 million left, most of which are new recruits, and there is a shortage of weapons and ammunition, it can be said that Su Yi has become a newly rising faction in the Great Qin military, and its strength has surpassed the thirteen old factions of the Great Qin military.

President Cai Yongchang immediately smiled bitterly and said: "If it is possible, I, as the president, of course I don't want our Great Qin State to cede land to the Ice Lion Country to pay compensation, but our Great Qin State really can't hold on, now let Minister Zhang of the Ministry of Finance and Minister Sun of the Ministry of Industry introduce the finances of our Great Qin State, as well as the production of weapons and ammunition." ”

The Minister of Finance sighed and said: "Generals, in order to resist the invasion of the Ice Lion Country's army, our Ministry of Finance has done its best to raise military spending, but as more and more regions have fallen, our Great Qin State's financial revenue has plummeted, and now it is in serious deficit, and it may not even be able to make up the military expenses of 10 million Qin Yuan next month." ”

Qin Yuan is the currency issued by the Great Qin State, before the invasion of the Ice Lion State, Qin Yuan was still relatively strong, one Qin Yuan could buy about ten kilograms of rice, but with the successive defeats of the Great Qin State army on the battlefield, it also affected Qin Yuan greatly, and now in the territory of the Great Qin State, one Qin Yuan can also buy three or four kilograms of rice.

The Minister of Industry followed up and said: "Due to the bombing of the arsenals of our Great Qin State by the Air Force of the Ice Lion Country, our Great Qin State has lost more than 95% of its weapons and ammunition production capacity, not to mention the current 3.5 million Great Qin Army, with the current weapons and ammunition production capacity of our Great Qin State, even the supply of weapons and ammunition for the 500,000 Great Qin Army cannot be guaranteed." ”

After the two ministers of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry finished speaking, President Cai Yongchang said with a wry smile to Vice Minister of Defense Zhao Zeling: "Minister Zhao, if it is possible, our Great Qin State will never give in to the Ice Lion Country, but now our Great Qin State really can't hold on." ”

Zhou Botao, chief of the General Staff, frowned and said: "Your Excellency, Yueyang City is still firmly in the hands of our Great Qin Army, and the people may not understand the armistice negotiations with the Ice Lion Country at this time." ”

Vice President Li Qingwei immediately spoke: "According to the information obtained by our intelligence department, the Ice Lion Country army has transferred six Praetorian Mechanized Infantry Divisions and eight garrison infantry divisions from various battlefields to the battlefield in Yueyang City, and in addition, in the Ice Lion Country, in one breath, it is ready to send more than 500,000 supplementary troops to the various divisions of the Ice Lion Country Army gathered in Yueyang City, with the current strength in Su Yi's hands, even if it can block this new round of attack of the Ice Lion Country, but in the end, it will definitely not be able to hold Yueyang City. The Ice Lion Kingdom could have mobilized more troops to join the battlefield in Yueyang City, but Su Yi couldn't get any reinforcements at all. ”

Then President Cai Yongchang pondered and said: "We start armistice negotiations with the Ice Lion Country, and it is not possible to reach an armistice agreement immediately, I think we can talk about it first, and when the two sides reach an agreement, maybe Yueyang City has been captured by the Ice Lion Country army, and even if our government signs an armistice agreement with the Ice Lion Country, the people in the country should understand." ”

In the end, under the advocacy of President Cai Yongchang, the bigwigs of the thirteen factions of the military reluctantly agreed to start armistice negotiations with the Ice Lion State, striving to end the war that exhausted the national strength of the Great Qin State as soon as possible.

However, what the military and political leaders of the Great Qin State never expected was that the appetite of the Ice Lion Kingdom would be so big.

When the Great Qin State contacted the Ice Lion State through some channels, hoping to start armistice negotiations with the Ice Lion State, the Ice Lion State directly issued a request for the Great Qin State to surrender unconditionally.

Once the Great Qin State chooses to surrender unconditionally to the Ice Lion Country, then the Great Qin State will be at the disposal of the Ice Lion State, and all the Great Qin State troops will have to surrender to the Ice Lion Country army, and as long as the Ice Lion Country is willing, even if the Ice Lion State annexes the entire Great Qin State, it will be very easy, and the Great Qin State, which has lost its army, will not be able to resist at all.

On February 20, 2538 in the divine calendar, still in the same room, the military and political leaders of the Great Qin State gathered together again.

President Cai Yongchang said with a gloomy face: "I didn't expect the Ice Lion Kingdom to be so ruthless, and asked our Great Qin State to be willing to start armistice negotiations only if we agree to surrender unconditionally." ”

Zhao Zeling, vice minister of national defense, gritted his teeth and said: "We have surrendered unconditionally, where else do we need any armistice negotiations, it seems that our Great Qin State can no longer have any illusions, and can only mobilize all the forces that can be mobilized to continue to fight with the Ice Lion Country." ”

Minister of Defense Liu Fuchen shook his head and said, "Unconditional surrender is impossible, if the Ice Lion Kingdom insists on such conditions, our Great Qin State has no other way to go." ”

Zhou Botao, chief of the General Staff, said in a deep voice: "I feel that since the Ice Lion Country has broken off the way for the two sides to negotiate an armistice, it is better to make public the unreasonable demands made by the Ice Lion Country, so that the people of the Great Qin State know that only resistance can allow the Great Qin State to survive, otherwise all the Great Qin people will become slaves of the country." ”

President Cai Yongchang, who has always supported peace talks with the Ice Lion Country, also said lonely: "Everyone, unconditional surrender is unacceptable, in that case there will be no difference from the death of the country, now our Great Qin State has only one way left to continue to resist, I think it is okay to publish the unreasonable demands made by the Ice Lion Country, let us Great Qin Kingdom recognize the reality for people like me who still have illusions about the Ice Lion Country." ”

Early the next morning, the news that the Ice Lion State demanded that the Great Qin State be willing to start armistice negotiations only if it accepted unconditional surrender made the headlines of newspapers all over the Great Qin State, and even the surrender faction of the Great Qin State extinguished the idea of ending the war with the Ice Lion State through armistice negotiations.