The Tang Empire used the armistice treaty to plunder a total of about 9 million square kilometers of land from the Gisk Empire and the Orenza Empire, and a total of about 8 million square kilometers of land from the Hessel Kingdom and the Revelli Kingdom, so that the land area of the Tang Empire expanded to about 118 million square kilometers.

The approximately 17 million square kilometers of land plundered from the above four countries were divided into 46 provinces, increasing the number of provinces in the Tang Empire from 207 to 253.

In the face of the Tang Empire, which straddles the Eastern Continent and the Southern Continent, at this time, no country will question its status as the world's number one power, including the Sharad Empire, the only one in the nine-nation military alliance that has not signed an armistice agreement with the Tang Empire, and must also admit that there is a huge gap between them.

On the evening of November 1, 3016 in the Tang calendar, in a study room in the palace of Feni City, the capital of the Salad Empire, Herris, the emperor of the Sharad Empire, said to Prime Minister Shurik with a lonely expression: "Now of the nine countries of the Nine Nations Military Alliance, only our Sharad Empire has not signed an armistice agreement with the Tang Empire. ”

Although Emperor Herris has never been soft on the Tang Empire, he also knows in his heart what kind of predicament the Salad Empire will face if the army of the Tang Empire invades the territory of the Sharad Empire.

Prime Minister Shurik said with a bitter face: "Your Majesty, after many days of negotiations, the Tang Empire is only willing to reduce the war indemnity of 40 billion Tang Yuan to 30 billion Tang Yuan, cede one million square kilometers of land and hand over twenty super dreadnought battleships and twenty battle cruisers. ”

After a pause, Prime Minister Shurik continued: "In addition, according to the information obtained by our Sharad intelligence department, the Tang Empire has gathered more than 40 million army troops and more than 5,000 warplanes in its western border area. ”

Emperor Herris suddenly said with a hideous expression: "Yingluoba and Noomi, the two bastard countries, have actually sold our Shalad Empire, I really want our Shalad army to attack the Yingluoba army and Noomi army in the territory to relieve the hatred in my heart." ”

Prime Minister Shurik hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, at this time, we must not have a conflict with Yingluoba and Noomi, otherwise our Sharad Empire will be equivalent to facing the three major powers in the world at the same time, and there are no eternal friends between countries, and there is no eternal enemy, once our Sharad army fights with Yingluoba army and Noomi army, Yingluoba and Noomi may unite with the Tang Empire, then the situation faced by our Sharad Empire is an unsolvable situation." ”

The expression on Emperor Herris's face softened, "I am just talking angry, now Yingluoba and Noomi are in the territory of our Sharad Empire, and the combined army units alone are almost 17 million, and in the case that the army of the Tang Empire will attack our Sharad Empire at any time, if our Shalad army really fights with Yingluopa's army and Noomi army, then our Sharad Empire is equivalent to stepping directly into the abyss." ”

Prime Minister Shurik sighed and said: "Your Majesty, if the Tang Empire really launches an attack on our Shalad Empire, it will be a very difficult thing to block the army of the Tang Empire just by relying on the strength of our Sharad Empire itself, do you think about the armistice conditions currently proposed by the Tang Empire?" ”

Emperor Herris said decisively: "I can't accept the three conditions proposed by the Tang Empire now, especially the land cession, I absolutely can't accept it, even if it's an inch of land, I won't agree to cede it to the Tang Empire!" ”

Prime Minister Shurik shook his head helplessly, he actually knew in his heart that according to the character of Emperor Herris, it was absolutely impossible to agree to the current three-point armistice conditions of the Tang Empire, and even Shurik himself thought that the current three-point truce conditions of the Tang Empire against the Sharad Empire were too harsh.

If the Sharad Empire accepts the three armistice conditions currently offered by the Tang Empire, then the Sharad Empire's domestic will definitely be excited, and he, the prime minister, will definitely not be able to stand.

Therefore, although intellectually, Shurik believed that an armistice agreement should be signed with the Tang Empire at all costs, but after listening to Emperor Herris's categorical words, Shulik did not persuade again.

Then Shurik pondered for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, since the war with the Tang Empire is unavoidable, the minister suggests that the plan of all the people should be launched immediately, and at this time, our Shalad Empire can only take out our family funds to fight with the Tang Empire, and our Sharad Empire has no way out." ”

Emperor Herris nodded slightly and said: "Now our Salad Royal Army has one hundred and seventy infantry divisions, and I am going to establish another two hundred light infantry divisions with a strength of 50,000 people, and every city and village must establish civilian armies, and the war with the Tang Empire will definitely be a war of attrition, although the Tang Empire has a population of 5.4 billion, which is six times the population of our Sharad Empire, but as long as our Sharad Empire dares to fight with the Tang Empire, our Sharad Empire still has a chance to win." ”

The Sharad Empire's all-in-one plan was soon in full swing within the territory of the Sharad Empire.

The Sharad Empire, like Yingroba and Noomi, does not prohibit the private ownership of firearms, so in the homes of ordinary people in the Sharad Empire, they generally have private firearms, which makes it much more convenient for the Sharad Empire to organize civilian arming, and there is no need for the Sharad army to arm the civilians and prepare more weapons and ammunition, many people in the Sharad Empire carry their own weapons and ammunition to participate in the civilian armies.

This also allowed the Sharad Empire to organize hundreds of millions of civilian armed forces in various cities and villages in a short period of time.

As time passed, the situation in the border areas adjacent to the Tang Empire and the Sharad Empire became more and more tense, but until the Chinese New Year's Eve in 3016, the Tang Empire army did not cross the border between the two countries and launched an attack on the Sharad Empire.

In the last two months of the Tang calendar year 3016, the Tang Empire has been busy taking over the land ceded by the Gisk Empire, the Orenza Empire, the Hessel Kingdom and the Revelli Kingdom.

The ten super dreadnought battleships and ten battle cruisers delivered to the Datang Royal Navy by the combined navies of Hessel and Revelli were all handed over to the Datang Royal Navy in mid-November of the Tang calendar 3016.

This also allowed the system to reward Su Yi with five Colorado-class super dreadnought battleships, five Nelson-class super dreadnought battleships, and ten Hood-class battlecruisers.

The ten super dreadnought battleships delivered to the Tang Royal Navy by the Hersel and Revelli navies were transferred to the Seventh Fleet, bringing the number of super dreadnought battleships in the Seventh Fleet to sixty-two, and ten battle cruisers were transferred to the Ninth Fleet, increasing the number of battle cruisers in the Ninth Fleet to forty-eight.

The five Colorado-class Super Dreadnought Battleships and five Nelson-class Super Dreadnought battleships rewarded by the system were transferred to the Second Fleet, bringing the Second Fleet to twenty-one Colorado-class and nineteen Nelson-class, and ten Hood-class battlecruisers to the First Fleet, bringing the Hood-class number of the First Fleet to forty-eight.

In the early morning of January 1, 3017 in the Tang calendar, Su Yi also got a New Year's gift package from the system, but this year's New Year's gift package only has a silver treasure chest, which is much worse than the New Year's gift package in previous years.

After Su Yi clicked on this silver treasure chest, there was only a low-level amplification card in it.

The low-level amplification card can increase the number of restricted purchases of any kind of product in the system mall, at least doubled, and at most increased by five times.

After Su Yi got this low-level booster card, he didn't use it immediately, but stayed for the time being, and at present, any goods in the system mall, including biochemical people, did not have what Su Yi urgently needed, so Su Yi decided to keep this low-level booster card for emergencies.

In the new year, Su Yi bought all the fighters, tanks and warships that could be purchased in the system mall, including 2,400 Messerschmitt Bf109 fighters, 1,200 Junkers-88 dive bombers, 1,600 Matilda 2 tanks and 1,600 T-34/76 tanks, which were quickly delivered by Su Yi to the Datang Royal Air Force and the Datang Royal Army.

The sixty-eight super dreadnought battleships, ninety-two battle cruisers, forty-eight heavy cruisers, seventy-two light cruisers, two hundred and eighty-eight destroyers and one hundred submarines newly purchased from the system mall were all temporarily stored in the system's goods warehouse by Su Yi, and they were not taken out and immediately delivered to the Datang Royal Navy.

The reason why Su Yi did not hand over these newly purchased warships to the Datang Royal Navy is that the scale of the Datang Royal Navy is already very large, and the navies of other countries in the world are all combined, and they are obviously weaker than the Datang Royal Navy in terms of strength.

Raising such a large navy will consume a huge amount of military spending every month, so if it is not necessary, Su Yi is not ready to expand the scale of the navy, and even Su Yi is ready to let the Datang Royal Navy gradually mothball some warships with relatively backward performance.

Early in the morning of January 3, 3017 in the Tang calendar, in a palace in the Imperial Palace of Chang'an City, Su Yi asked He Yunfei, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Army of the Tang Empire: "Yunfei, how are the preparations for attacking the Sharad Empire?" ”

He Yunfei said with a smile: "Your Majesty rest assured, all preparations have been made, at present, the strength of our Royal Army in the western border area has increased to more than forty-five million, and there are more than 18,000 tanks alone, and the Air Force has also gathered more than 7,000 fighters of all kinds in the western border area, as long as Your Majesty gives an order, the steel torrent of our Tang Army will surely sweep through the entire eastern region of the Sharad Empire." ”

Su Yi nodded slightly, "This time, our lowest combat goal is to capture all the areas east of the Lester Mountains of the Sharad Empire, so that in the future, our Tang Empire can rely on the Lester Mountains to block the counterattack of the Sharad Empire, and we can also block the forces of other countries in the Western Continent to the west of the Lester Mountains." ”

The land area of the Sharad Empire is as high as 19 million square kilometers, with forty states, the Lester Mountains run through almost the entire Sharad Empire, and to the east of the Lester Mountains, there are fifteen states of the Sharad Empire, with an area of about seven million square kilometers.

He Yunfei immediately said: "The troops of Yingluoba and Noomi in the territory of the Sharad Empire before, although there are still some of them that have not completely withdrawn from the Sharad Empire, but the armies of Yingroba and Noomi have already withdrawn to the west of the Lester Mountains, and the time is ripe for our Tang Empire to attack the Sharad Empire, I don't know when Your Majesty is going to give the order to attack?" ”

In the last two months of the Tang calendar year 3016, the Tang Empire's army did not launch an attack on the Sharad Empire, and another reason was to wait for the withdrawal of the troops of Yingluoba and Noomi from the Sharad Empire.

Since the armistice agreement has been used to force Yingluoba and Noomi to abandon the Sharad Empire as an ally, then the Tang Empire must also give Yingroba and Noomi some time for them to withdraw the troops sent to the territory of the Sharad Empire.

Su Yi pondered for a moment and said, "If the Royal Army and the Royal Air Force are ready, then set the time for the attack on January 10!" By the way, the recent actions of the Sharad Empire are not small, not only hastily forming two hundred light infantry divisions with a strength of 50,000 people, but also mobilizing civilians to organize a huge civilian army, it seems that after the offensive is launched, the Royal Army will encounter a lot of tough battles. ”

He Yunfei nodded and said: "Your Majesty, in the face of the stubborn resistance that may be encountered, our Tang Royal Army has been fully prepared in our hearts, and we are also confident that we will finally complete the plan drawn up by Your Majesty and capture about seven million square kilometers of land east of the Lester Mountains of the Salad Empire. ”