A natural disaster, a war that affected the whole of the Dali Empire, the year of suffering has just passed, and the new year is coming, but for the people in most parts of the Dali Empire, the suffering does not end there.

On the second day of the first lunar month, more than 80,000 Qinzhou Guangming troops, who had retreated to the two northeastern counties, abandoned the two northeastern counties of Qinzhou and marched into Xinzhou under the order of their commander, Yuan Chang, the holy son of the Guangming Sect.

After learning that the Qinzhou Guangming Army had withdrawn to Xinzhou, which was further northeast, the two major forces mobilized troops to enter the two northeastern counties of Qinzhou and began to grab territory.

The Guangming Army in Qinzhou has been withdrawn, and now there are only two forces left in Qinzhou: the Qinzhou Family Alliance and Wang Shuo's Yuanzhou Army.

Qinzhou family: "Qinzhou is our Qinzhou people, you are Yuanzhou people, give up the territory in your hands, and hurry back to your Yuanzhou." ”

Yuan Zhoujun: "These territories are not your fiefdoms, they were taken back by our Yuan Zhou Army from the Guangming Army, what qualifications do you have to order us to give up our territory." ”

The Qinzhou family coalition army and the Yuanzhou army did not give in to each other, the swords and soldiers were opposite, and the two sides were quite restrained and did not fight.

The Qinzhou Family Coalition Army also has a certain degree of confidence, because the Qinzhou Family Coalition Army has more troops, with 110,000 troops, while the Yuanzhou Army in Qinzhou has less than 60,000 troops, and the difference in strength is relatively large.

Although the difference in strength is so big, the Yuanzhou army did not have a trace of fear, the Yuanzhou army was in the battle with the Guangming Army in Yuanzhou before, under the leadership of Wang Shuo, every battle must be won, and the Yuanzhou Guangming Army was defeated, but the Qinzhou family alliance army could not defeat the Guangming army, or because of the appearance of the Yuanzhou army, the Guangming army was defeated and retreated, which shows that the strength of the Qinzhou family alliance army is not good, even an ordinary Yuanzhou sergeant believes that as long as they are led by General Wang Shuo, the Yuanzhou army is invincible, is just a Qinzhou family coalition army, what is there to be afraid of.

An unexpected skirmish led to a bloodshed, in which the Qinzhou family coalition army and the Yuanzhou army were each injured.

After learning of this, Wang Shuo personally led 5,000 tiger cavalry to assault the defense line of the Qinzhou family coalition army, killing nearly 10,000 heads, but the number of tiger cavalry losses was no more than 1,000.

Hiss!

The strength of the Yuan Zhou army made the Qinzhou family coalition army gasp, and some cowards proposed to give up those territories in Qinzhou to the Yuan Zhou army, which were not their fiefdoms anyway.

In desperation, the two leaders of the Qinzhou family coalition army, Guangwu Dongfang clan and Changyi Lin clan, could only decide to give up the territory of the four counties, but because of this battle, Guangwu Dongfang clan and Changyi Lin clan saw that the loose family alliance army was not good, and the two families were ready to unite more closely.

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Just after the New Year, a Hezhou Guangming Army of more than 50,000 people entered the territory of Hengzhou and joined the Hengzhou Guangming Army.

Hengzhou is a small state, the population is only a little more than Zezhou, and the land is rich and thorough, and it is only slightly better than Zezhou.

Hengzhou and Hezhou are under the jurisdiction of the Aoki Hall of the Bright Sect, Cheng Ying, the master of the Aoki Hall, saw that the battle situation in Hezhou has been deadlocked, and can only find a breakthrough point from the side of Hengzhou, and finally Cheng Ying chose the same strategy as the dead Heishui Hall master Liu Kun, and entered Hengzhou from the Hezhou Guangming Army, and took Hengzhou as quickly as possible, and then gathered the Guangming Army of Hengzhou, and then supported the Hezhou Guangming Army in turn, and finally took Hengzhou and Hezhou in one fell swoop.

Unlike Liu Kun, Cheng Ying divided the army of 50,000 as soon as he made a move, and when this 50,000 and the Hengzhou Guangming Army converged, the strength of the Hengzhou Guangming Army directly overwhelmed the Dangtu Huang clan, if there was no accident, Hengzhou would eventually be controlled by the Guangming Sect.

When the family coalition army knew that the Hezhou Guangming Army had divided its troops into Hengzhou, it quickly assembled a large army to launch a fierce attack on the Guangming Army, intending to take the opportunity to wipe out the Hezhou Guangming Army or drive it out of Hezhou.

Cheng Ying knows very well the current situation of the Hezhou Guangming Army, and before the division of troops, the Hezhou Guangming Army can still confront the family alliance, and it is more difficult to block the family alliance after the division of troops.

In order to preserve the vitality of the Hezhou Guangming Army, Cheng Ying ordered the Hezhou Guangming Army to fight and retreat, and it was bound not to be besieged by the family coalition army, and it could not suffer much loss itself, and try to delay time for the Hengzhou Guangming Army.

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The Guangming Army in Laizhou and Suzhou are at a disadvantage in the battle with the family coalition army, which is also a matter of no choice, the Laizhou Guangming Army was transferred by Liu Kun, the master of the Heishui Hall, to enter Zezhou, if there is no Yun Clan, Zezhou is probably already the world of the Guangming Sect, and then the Zezhou Guangming Army is in Laizhou, and the situation in Laizhou is not necessarily the situation now; In Suzhou, it was Guo of Tongzhou who led the army to retreat to Suzhou, and the strength of the family alliance in Suzhou increased greatly, and the Suzhou Guangming Army could only continue to shrink its strength.

Laizhou and Suzhou one in the south of Tongzhou and one in the north of Tongzhou, both border Tongzhou, Tongzhou is the general rudder of the Guangming Sect, if the general rudder can send troops to support, the situation will be another situation, but it is a pity that the Tongzhou Guangming Army also has its own enemy - the counterinsurgency army from Linzhou, so that the Tongzhou Guangming Army is pinned down and unable to support the Guangming Army of Laizhou and Suzhou.

In order to change the situation in Laizhou, Suzhou and Tongzhou, it is necessary to make a change, Yuan Hao directly issued an order to the Laizhou Guangming Army and the Suzhou Guangming Army, asking the Guangming Army of the two states to retreat to Tongzhou and cede Laizhou and Suzhou to the family.

Yuan Hao also has his own thinking, the family has never been a heart, most of the time they think for themselves, they will not do things that harm their interests, once the bright army of the two states is withdrawn, the family alliance in the two states is likely to stop, or even the alliance is broken, the probability of them sending troops to attack Tongzhou is very low, the family hopes that the light army will wipe out the 200,000 counterinsurgency army of the imperial court, so that the strength of the imperial court will be greatly reduced, and there will be no longer any threat to the rise of the family.

After the New Year, the Laizhou Guangming Army suddenly launched an attack to the north, and suddenly the blockade line of the family alliance army in one fell swoop, and then the Laizhou Guangming army divided into two roads, one to the west, to the junction of Tongzhou and Laizhou, used to defend the family alliance army in Laizhou, and the other continued to the north to converge with the Guangming Sect army led by Yuan Hao.

Similarly, the Guangming army in Suzhou retreated to the south and retreated into Tongzhou, and then divided into two routes, all the way to the west, to guard against the family alliance in Suzhou, all the way to the south, and joined the Guangming Sect army led by Yuan Hao.

Similar to Yuan Hao's strategy, the family alliance forces of the two states did not continue to pursue the Guangming Army after occupying the remaining territory after the retreat of the Guangming Army, and the Boling Wang clan and the Chungling Sun clan in Laizhou were busy negotiating to divide the territory, and the Thorn Tong Sha clan, the Miyang Lu clan, and the Yan and Guo clans in Suzhou were also busy negotiating and dividing the territory.

Especially in Suzhou, because of the addition of Guo's outsiders, the interests of the two local forces of the Thorn Tong Sha clan and the Miyang Lu clan were diluted, resulting in some dissatisfaction with the Guo family of the Thorn Tong Sha clan and the Miyang Lu clan, and a conspiracy against the Guo family was slowly unfolding.