After more than two years of recuperation, not only has the strength of the Yun family increased greatly, but the strength of other families is also steadily improving.

In order to resist the deterrence of the "Northern King Nanyun", the families expanded their armies vigorously, and all men who had reached the age of fifteen were conscripted into the army, so that the strength of the armies of the major families continued to increase, even the smallest families, the number of troops was more than 60,000, and then counting the "Northern King Nanyun" and the strength of the imperial court, the number of troops in the entire Dali Empire has exceeded one million.

Because of the large-scale expansion of the army, in addition to the territory of the Baode Wang family and the Yunhua Yun family, the territory and livelihood of other families have been greatly affected, some people can only flee into the mountains in order not to be caught as soldiers, and some people fish in troubled waters to collect benefits.

After the autumn harvest, in the area under the rule of the Baode Wang, the army was frequently mobilized, and the grain and grass were constantly converging in the front.

Obviously, Wang Shuo will not do it in the cold winter, I am afraid that after the weather warms up after the year, the Wang army will move west or south.

In order to deal with the Wang army, which may come soon, the Su and Shen families in Huizhou transferred most of their troops to the north of Huizhou, and finally gathered 80,000 troops of the Su and Shen families in the north of Huizhou, which is equivalent to two-thirds of the strength of the two families, and the remaining forces of the Su and Shen families should be deployed in the west and south of Huizhou to guard against the imperial court and the three major families of Hezhou.

To say that the most worried about Wang Shuo is Qinzhou Dongfang and Lin's two families, there is no other reason, Dongfang and Lin's territory and Wang's territory border the most, and Dongfang and Lin are the weakest, although now the total strength of Dongfang and Lin's two armies is as much as 140,000, but half of the recruits who have enlisted in the army within two years, and the total strength of Wang's army is close to 250,000, and there are brave men recruited from Xinzhou, Dongfang and Lin cannot resist Wang's army even if they use all their strength.

In the past two years, both the Dongfang clan and the Lin clan have shifted their focus to Suzhou, wanting to be far away from the core area of the Wang clan, and at the same time closer to the territory of the two families of their allies Laizhou, so as to support each other.

Wang Shuo is ready to make a move, Yun Yi is not like this, the Yun clan's army has expanded from 52,000 to 94,000 people, with enough troops, the Yun clan no longer needs to huddle in Zezhou.

With the issuance of Yunyi's war mobilization order, the Second Cavalry Division of the Yunjia Army, which is still training in Yingzhou, has set off from Yingzhou and returned to Yunhua County, and will take a train to the northwest of Zezhou after the year, and similarly, the First Cavalry Division stationed in the Zezhou City area will also leave for the northeast of Zezhou after the New Year.

The Yun family's army is moving, and the other component of the Yun family's army, the city defense army, is also moving.

The Yun family army is the main combat force in the Yun army, responsible for attacking the city, but if the Yun family army divides its troops to defend it after capturing the territory, the Yun family army, which originally has fewer troops than other families, will increase with the increase in territory, the more troops will be divided, and the number of troops that can continue to attack the city will be greatly reduced, and finally it will be unable to continue to expand the territory, which is what Yun Yi does not want to see.

Therefore, the Yunjia army continued to attack the city forward, and the city defense army followed behind, stationed in the various cities captured by the Yunjia army, and at the same time maintained the law and order of the place, and the Yunjia army, which did not need to divide the troops, could keep the offensive moving forward.

There are about 28,000 city defense troops in the Yun army, and Yun Yi will mobilize 18,000 of them to accompany the Yun family's army.

The city defense army is mainly stationed in the cities under the rule of the Yun family, protecting the city, and maintaining the security of the area by the way, a few years have passed, the security under the rule of the Yun family is relatively good, and the maintenance of public security in various places is mainly the government of the local government, the city defense army only cooperates with the government to maintain law and order when necessary, and the situation in various places under the rule of the Yun family is very small.

You must know that before the Guangming Sect started, the warriors were the only factor that affected the security of various places, but under the rule of the Yun clan, the vast majority of the warriors were registered warriors of the Warrior Guild, and the registered warriors of the Warrior Guild had regulations that they must abide by, if they violated the regulations, not only would they become famous in the Warrior Guild, but the Warrior Guild would also offer a "high price" reward, so the warriors were very peaceful under the rule of the Yun Clan, and it was rare for ordinary people to have conflicts.

And with the Yunjia army stationed on the front line, all parts of Zezhou will not encounter enemy attacks at all, and the role of the city defense army is slowly decreasing, but Yun Yi also thinks of the role of the city defense army in the future (with the Yunjia army), so the scale of the city defense army is also continuing to expand, but the expansion is not as large as the Yunjia army.

After the Yun family army went out to fight, the city defense army of more than 18,000 people would also follow, responsible for guarding the city captured by the Yun family army, and at the same time assisting officials to maintain local law and order.

In fact, the Yun clan has been prepared early, constantly hoarding a large amount of grain and grass and weapons and ammunition on the front line, which is enough for the Yun family army to go on the expedition, limited by the fact that there are no railway tracks in the area outside Zezhou, the Yun family will transfer a large number of carriages to the front line for the Yun family army to transport various materials after the expedition, and at the same time, the road repair team is also preparing, and after the Yun family army captures the territory, the road repair team will also follow and build the rail road.

In addition, some of the deputy officials in the three places under the Yun clan successively received orders from above, ordering them to go to the four counties of Helin, Gap, Luwei, and Huichuan to wait after the year.

The officials who received the transfer order were all happy, although they did not get detailed information, this order alone had made them understand that the Yun clan would make a big move, and the most likely was to go to Laizhou and Hezhou, and the territory of Laizhou and Hezhou occupied by the Yun family army would need these officials to manage, and these deputy officials would directly become the main officials of the main place.

The Yun family's undisguised move was undoubtedly noticed by the five major families in Laihe Erzhou, causing the high-level leaders of the five major families to worry.

More than two years have passed, but the high-level leaders of the five great families of the battle more than two years ago still remember vividly, the strength of the five of them is growing, and the strength of the Yun clan is also growing, even the strongest of the five Montessori does not dare to say that they can resist the attack of the Yun clan.

The five great families have recruited a group of Mo family disciples to study the Yun family's trains, firearms and other strange instruments for them, firearms are relatively simple, and they can be imitated, but the performance is too poor, and it is difficult to solve the rifling of the Mo family disciples in the barrel of the fire gun, and the performance of the fire gun created by the craftsman is not as good as the bow and arrow, and in the end, it is not finished.

In the face of the frequent mobilization of the Yun clan's army in Zezhou, the five major families of Laihe Erzhou could only mobilize their own troops to the Zezhou side, and the five families had already agreed that once one of them was attacked by the Yun clan, the other four would support or attack the Yun clan's territory.

The pace of war is approaching, and Yun Yi and Wang Shuo are waiting, waiting for the end of winter and the arrival of spring. 10