No enemy troops?

How is this possible!

There shouldn't be an ambush, right?

The coalition army was suspicious, but it could not withstand the temptation to seize the city, so it could only continue to advance, and at the same time send troops to garrison the main city, in case something happened, it could be regarded as leaving a way out for themselves.

In less than a month, the army of 1.1 million people was left behind with 400,000 troops, and the main force was only more than 700,000.

When they arrived at Chenbu Pass, after some inquiry, the Jin army really arranged some troops in the peripheral cities along the line, but there were not many of them.

For a while, Gongsun Zhi could only smile bitterly.

Qin Kan is worthy of being one of the five major generals of the Jin army, and his reputation for being good at defense is really not false, and he actually used a small number of troops to drag down the 400,000 troops of his coalition army.

The 700,000 coalition troops, against the 600,000 Jin troops who were defending the danger, were stalemate for a while.

At this time, it was early spring, and it was not cold to say that it was cold, so the army was stationed in the land of ten miles of Chen Buguan.

However, in this way, the consumption of grain and grass is a big problem.

In particular, Ruan Guo, after being stationed for more than ten days, began to be restless, and Ruan Funing, the commander of the Ruan army, went to the commander's tent several times to discuss with Gongsun Zhi to discuss whether to take down Chen Buguan.

……

At the same time, Cangjun is also facing this problem.

It's not that the army is blocked, in fact, in front of the powerful siege vehicles, the Cangchu coalition army is not afraid of any passes.

The main problem faced by the army was that on the one hand, it had to divide its troops to stay in the occupied cities, and on the other hand, it was in a situation of food shortage.

Because now, in addition to the Cang army, the 300,000 Chu army also has to consume large-scale food, and according to the news received, the 200,000 troops of the Yun State have also entered the Che country, ready to come to join the coalition army.

Once it reaches the sphere of influence of the Cang Kingdom, its grain and grass will definitely be borne by the Cang army.

Although the State of Chu and the State of Yun will definitely pay the silver money for the purchase of grain and grass in Cangguo after the war, the problem is that the current food burden of Cangguo is also very important!

After all, grain is grown from the ground year after year, and it is not guaranteed that you can buy it with silver.

Che and Jin, because in the preparation for the war, last year the government sent troops to collect grain and grass in the people, the people basically have no extra rice and grain at home, along the way through many cities, the people have to rely on miscellaneous grains to support, go up the mountain to get wild food, go down the pond and down the river to catch loach fish, these people themselves are enough to choke, even if the army wants to collect grain and grass, it is not easy.

Unless it's a brutal snatching and slaughter.

However, the massacre is absolutely indispensable, and the Chu army has this intention, but Sima Hong has already regarded these places as the land of Cangguo, and these people as subjects of Cangguo, how can he agree?

So, I had to spend a lot of money to buy it from Cangguo.

This has also caused the price of grain and rice in Cangguo to rise rapidly, and even the price of flour for making instant noodles and compressed biscuits has more than doubled.

Fortunately, the people were more confident in the imperial court and supported the war against the Jin State, but it did not cause much turmoil among the people.

In March, the 200,000 Yunguo army, from the northwest of the Cangguo, directly interspersed into the Jin State, and successfully joined the Cangchu army.

Cang Chu's 900,000 coalition army directly became Cang Chuyun's 1.1 million army.

A very coincidental number, whether it is the Four-Nation Alliance led by Wei or the Three-Nation Coalition led by Cang, is one and 1.1 million.

Coupled with the more than 700,000 troops of the Chu State in Wangji and the 200,000 Cangguo Qinglong Army in the country, this is the total strength of the entire Raiding and Jin Alliance.

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In April, the fighting had been raging for a long time.

Since the great victory in the first month, there has been no good news for a long time.

Perhaps the only thing that is a little turbulent is the state of Chu, the state of Mang, the state of Fan, and the state of Ya, and the four countries joined forces to attack Wu and failed miserably.

As for why he failed, it was nothing more than that under the battle with hatred, Xiong Fang, the general of the Chu State, rushed forward with greed, fell into the pocket of the Wu army, and was firmly pressed to the ground and beaten.

Although the 500,000 army saved more than 200,000, the general Xiong Fang was also ashamed and killed himself with his sword.

Right now, the state of Chu is mobilizing the forces of the whole country and vowing to capture the state of Wu.

In short, on the battlefield of the Jin Kingdom in April, the two coalition forces did not make any substantial progress.

also took advantage of this gap to recruit a million soldiers from the Jin State and filled the battlefield.

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At the beginning of May, it was the season when the people were busy with farming.

Whether it's corn or some of the rest of the crops, it's basically time to sow seeds.

At the same time, barley wheat is also harvested during this season.

The weather was a bit muggy.

In ordinary years, the vast and rich hilly plains of the Jin Kingdom were busy days when peasants were fighting with bison carts and merchants, and all the conscription and government affairs that disturbed the people would cease to make way for the country's grain reserves.

Of course, unless necessary, there is no such thing as a war in this season of competition with the heavens.

This year, however, is different.

Cangguo is going to make a big move.

The reason is simple, the burden of grain and grass is getting heavier and heavier.

This is where the weakness of the Cangguo heritage lies, in the past few years, there have been wars almost every year, although the people have become rich, but the granary is still very tight, unlike some large countries such as Ruan and Jin, as long as there are no major natural and man-made disasters, the storage of strategic materials and food, enough for a million troops to eat for five or ten years is not a problem.

In this regard, Cangguo cannot afford to consume.

Not to mention that it has been five years and ten years for a million army to eat, even five months is enough to choke.

Yang Mu, who is far away in Leyuan City, also deeply feels the pressure on grain, the price of grain and rice among the people has risen three times, if it weren't for the government has been suppressing grain prices and cracking down on unscrupulous rice merchants who raise prices, I am afraid it would have risen to ten times.

Therefore, the only way to alleviate the pressure on grain is to invade the Jin country and open the Yishui granary.

That's right, it's the Yishui granary.

It is important to know that food is too difficult to transport, and the role of storage is also as a strategic material, used for disaster relief or to support the needs of a major war, and it is impossible to pile up the grain of the whole country.

There's no need for that, and the gains outweigh the losses.

So, there is the granary of the country.

There are a total of five national granaries in the Jin Kingdom, led by Jincheng Taicang in Kyoto, and the Yishui warehouse in Yishui City is one of them, gathering the grain collected by hundreds of cities in the west every year.

According to the information available, this Yishui warehouse can hold five million stones of grain, even if the Jin army prepares a lot of grain and grass, it should have two or three million stones.

One stone of grain is enough for a soldier to eat for about two months, and two or three million stones are enough for the Three Kingdoms Alliance to eat for half a year.

It's just that Yishui City is a big city, and it is extremely difficult to capture it.

Because there is Yishuicang, the position in the cities of the Jin Kingdom is very important, and several fortified cities are set up around it to defend.

In addition, you have to worry about burning the grain and grass after the defeat of the Jin army.

Although, in the past, when the granary was designed, there were very strict fire prevention measures, and even if it was set on fire, it was unlikely that the grain and grass would be burned.

However, grain and grass are the top priority of the Three Kingdoms Alliance, and even if an extra 10,000 stones are burned, it will be a very big loss. （）