On the afternoon of January 20, 432 of the Great Jin Dynasty, in the meeting hall of the Northern Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in Shangyuan City, Liu Ji held a piece of paper in his hand and said to the Wenchen generals in the council hall: "This is really a tree that wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, the Metropolitan Governor has just stopped for two days, and the Southeast Xiang Army has made a big move, and now the Southeast Xiang Army has invaded Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou at the same time, and the imperial court has sent a letter of help to the Metropolitan Governor, hoping that our Broken Capture Army can send troops south to stop the Southeast Xiang Army's attempt to seize Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, Do you think our Broken Army should send troops this time? ”

As soon as Liu Ji's words fell, Wang Ben, the commander of the Guards Legion, said: "My lord, this time Dawan has suffered a big loss in the hands of our Broken Army, not only gave up all the territory of the original Gaochang Kingdom to our Broken Army, but also ceded ten provinces, Great Wan Kingdom can be said to hate our Broken Army, maybe it won't be long before Dawan Kingdom will wave its troops into the territory of the Western Regions Protectorate, so the last general thinks that the matter of sending troops south should be cautious." ”

Liu Ji nodded and said: "According to the information obtained by Heishuitai, Dawan Kingdom has been reorganizing its armament recently, and a number of cavalry corps and infantry corps have been newly formed. ”

Jia Xu, the commander of Heishuitai, immediately said: "Lord Qiqi, if you count the six cavalry legions and twelve infantry legions that are being formed in the Dawan Kingdom, the size of the standing army of the Dawan Kingdom will reach thirty cavalry legions and eighty infantry legions, and its total strength will exceed 11 million. ”

Liu Ji then sighed and said: "Dawan is worthy of being the first power in the Western Regions, this time we have suffered such a big loss in the hands of our Broken Army, but it has little impact on the overall strength of Dawan Kingdom, it seems that the three legions and five elite troops of the Western Regions Protectorate cannot be used for the time being, so that there is not much left of the army that our Broken Army can mobilize at present." ”

Zhang Liang said to Liu Ji at this time: "Lord, in the entire Great Jin Dynasty, only the Southeast Xiang Army can be counted as the opponent of our Broken Army, if the Lord wants to control the authority of the Great Jin Dynasty in the future, our Broken Army must not watch the Southeast Xiang Army expand its strength, the population of Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou combined is about 34 million, once these populations are also returned to the Southeast Xiang Army, it will inevitably make the strength of the Southeast Xiang Army stronger." ”

At present, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Qiongzhou, Suzhou, Lianzhou, Zhejiang, and Fuzhou, which are occupied by the Southeast Xiang Army, have gone through a lot of wars, but the total population still exceeds 100 million, more than one-third of the population of the Great Jin Dynasty, and the huge population base enables the Southeast Xiang Army to maintain a huge army with a strength of more than 7.5 million.

Xiao He followed and said: "My lord, no matter what, our Broken Army must not sit idly by and ignore the annexation of Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou by the Southeast Xiang Army, don't forget that there are Guizhou and Yuzhou in the southwest, and the Southeast Xiang Army will definitely not let go of these two states, if you add the population of Guizhou and Yuzhou, there are at least 50 million people in the entire five southwestern states, if these 50 million people are returned to the Southeast Xiang Army, then the Southeast Xiang Army can easily expand the size of the army to more than 10 million, and in the future, our Broken Capture Army wants to clean up the Southeast Xiang Army, But it's even harder. ”

Xiao He then hesitated a little and said: "If the Southeast Xiang Army is allowed to gain a firm foothold in Leizhou and Qinzhou, the Southeast Xiang Army may swing its troops to attack the Great Zhou State. ”

Liu Ji came to his heart, and he was still a little hesitant about sending troops to the five southwestern states, you must know that the Broken Army not only needs to face the threat of Dawan Kingdom, there are many nomads on the grassland, and they are full of hostility to the Broken Army, and the Qingyi people in the other 100,000 mountains also have a grudge against the Broken Army. Perhaps Liu Ji can also transfer Wei Wushu's 250,000 people from Xiangzhou and Fuzhou.

And the Guards Legion, the Mo Dao Soldiers, and the Wei Wushu are almost all the mobile troops of the Broken Army, and Liu Ji is not willing to empty all the mobile forces of the Broken Army.

Now as soon as Xiao He mentioned the Great Zhou Kingdom, Liu Ji's eyes flashed, "It is true that the southeast army cannot be allowed to expand unscrupulously, it seems that the governor of this capital has to personally go to the five states in the southwest!" ”

Subsequently, after discussing with several Wenchen under his command, Liu Ji decided to lead the five cavalry brigades and ten infantry brigades of the Guards Corps, as well as the 200,000 troops of the Modao soldiers, a total of one million troops, to rush to the five southwestern states.

The Guards Legion and the Mo Sword Soldiers are now stationed near Shangyuan City, so Liu Ji quickly led the Guards Legion and the Mo Sword Soldiers to set off, Zhang Shaohua, Liu Meng, Zhang Baofeng, Chen Hao, Chen Zhong These peerless fierce generals were also brought by Liu Ji, in addition, Liu Ji also brought seventy-two puppet bodyguards with peerless military strength and one hundred and eight puppet bodyguards with top military general strength.

Now the number of puppet bodyguards with peerless military strength under Liu Ji has reached eighty-seven, and the number of puppet bodyguards with the strength of top military generals is one hundred and thirty-nine.

Soon after Liu Ji led the Guards Legion and the Modao soldiers to set off from Shangyuan City, the news of the southward movement of the Broken Capture Army was learned by various forces.

In a study room in the mansion of Dou Yan, the chief lieutenant of the military department in Canglong City, Yang Zhong, the chief lieutenant of the military department, smiled bitterly and said to Dou Yan: "This time Liu Ji is very happy, and he didn't even bargain with the imperial court, I thought that Liu Ji would open his mouth to the court lion again this time!" ”

Dou Yan, the captain of the military department, sighed and said: "To be honest, now in the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty, the Broken Army and the Southeast Xiang Army have become the two strongest forces, Liu Ji of course does not want to watch the strength of the Southeast Xiang Army become stronger, this time the Broken Army sent troops so happily, there is no intention of competing with the Southeast Xiang Army for the five southwestern states in it, our imperial court invited the Broken Army to go south this time, it is likely that it is just to refuse the wolf into the tiger, maybe the five southwestern states are not occupied by the Southeast Xiang Army in the end, or they have become the bag of the Broken Army." ”

Yang Zhong, the chief lieutenant of the ministry, shook his head and said with a bitter face: "If the imperial court loses the five southwestern states again, then only Meizhou, Wanzhou, Dazhou, Yuzhou, Yongzhou, Liuzhou, Yizhou, Guizhou and Yuzhou will remain, Taiwei Dou, if this continues, sooner or later, the authority of the Great Jin will fall into the hands of the Broken Army or the Southeast Wing Army." ”

Dou Yan, the captain of the military department, said helplessly: "There are only sixteen guards left in the imperial court now, and the total strength is less than 1.2 million. ”

Yang Zhong, the chief lieutenant of the ministry, hesitated for a moment and said: "Captain Dou, the forces of our thirteenth family in Meizhou, Wanzhou, Dazhou, Yuzhou, Yongzhou, Liuzhou, Yizhou, Guizhou and Yuzhou can be said to be the strongest. ”

"Taiwei Yang, now the thirteenth family has its own plan, I heard that there are already many children of the thirteenth family who have joined the broken army, and even among the southeast wing army, there are also many generals from the thirteenth family, not to mention the integration of the armies of Meizhou, Wanzhou, Dazhou, Yuzhou, Yongzhou, Liuzhou, Yizhou, Guizhou and Yuzhou, even if it is to integrate the family members of our thirteenth family, it must be difficult to do it."

"Alas-those short-sighted people don't want to think about it, if the Broken Capture Army or the Southeast Wing Army control the authority of the Great Jin, can our Thirteenth Family still have a good life?"

On the evening of January 24, 432 of the Great Jin Dynasty, in a meeting hall of the Southeast Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Prefecture, the Great Jin Dynasty, Zhang Mingqi, the Southeast Metropolitan Governor, said to the strategist Tang Yan with a gloomy face: "Liu Ji has led the Broken Army south, with more than one million troops, how should our Southeast Xiang Army respond?" ”

Zhang Mingqi originally thought that even if the Broken Army went south, it would not be possible to send many troops, after all, the Broken Army still had the huge threat of the Great Wan Kingdom, and the various nomads in the grassland and the Qingyi tribe in the 100,000 mountains, the Broken Army had to be on guard at all times, but what Zhang Mingqi didn't expect was that the Broken Army not only sent troops very happily, but also sent a million troops at once.

Strategist Tang Yan said with a wry smile: "Lord, this time it was the subordinates who did not think about it, I didn't expect that Liu Ji to dare to mobilize a million troops to the south at this time, it seems that we must send some additional troops to Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, relying only on three legions, on the one hand, we have to fight against the local armies of the three states, and on the other hand, we have to deal with the million-strong army of the broken army, and the strength should be a little insufficient." ”

Zhang Mingqi pondered for a moment and asked: "Mr. Tang, the one million troops of the Broken Army going south should first enter the territory of Hengzhou, and the Governor of this capital is ready to send the Third Army to Hengzhou to join forces with the Sixth Army to resist the Broken Army!" ”

Now a city and eight counties under the jurisdiction of Hengzhou, there have been six counties occupied by the Sixth Army of the Southeast Xiang Army, in addition to the four counties controlled by Sun Ju, the Taishou of Luodian County, the Sixth Army has taken two counties from the hands of Li Hao, the state of Hengzhou, Li Hao's 150,000 troops, at present there are less than half left, if nothing else, the remaining one city and two counties in the hands of Li Hao, the governor of Hengzhou, will soon be occupied by the Sixth Army of the Southeast Xiang Army.

Strategist Tang Yan hesitated for a moment before he bowed his head and said: "The six guards of the Sixth Army are in Hengzhou, so far, there has not been much loss in strength, and even after the integration of a part of the Hengzhou army, the strength has risen a lot, if you add the eight guards under the jurisdiction of the Third Army, our Southeast Xiang Army has gathered more than 1.75 million troops in Hengzhou, blocking the one million troops of the Broken Army, it is still somewhat certain." ”

Although the Third Army Corps and the Sixth Army Corps of the Southeast Xiang Army combined had a total of 1.75 million troops, the strategist Tang Yan was not confident that he could defeat the 1 million troops of the Broken Army with this 1.75 million army, but the strategist Tang Yan felt that with the Third Army and the Sixth Army Corps, it should still be possible to block the Broken Army in Hengzhou.

Then the strategist Tang Yan said to Zhang Mingqi: "My lord, as long as our Southeast Xiang Army can block the Broken Capture Army in Hengzhou, we will not delay the other two legions of our Southeast Xiang Army and completely capture Leizhou and Qinzhou, as long as our Southeast Xiang Army can capture Leizhou and Qinzhou, our Southeast Xiang Army will have the opportunity to expand into the territory of the Great Zhou State." ”

Zhang Mingqi immediately said: "Then do what the Governor of the Metropolitan will do, immediately let the Third Army Corps go to Hengzhou, and convey the order of the Governor of the Sixth Army to Chen Hongxin, the commander of the Sixth Legion, that the Sixth Army must capture the remaining cities and two counties in Hengzhou as soon as possible, and strive to let our Southeast Xiang Army completely control the entire Hengzhou before the Broken Army enters Hengzhou." ”

In a palace in the Imperial Palace of Dawan City, Yeman, the king of Dawan Kingdom, asked Leyard, the leader of the Shadow of Dawan Kingdom, with a surprised expression, "Is this news accurate for your Shadows?" Did Liu Ji really personally lead the troops of the 1 million Broken Army to the five southwestern states of the Jin Kingdom? ”

Leyard nodded and said: "Your Majesty, this news will definitely not be wrong, according to the calculation of time, Liu Ji is now with the army of one million broken captives, and he is about to leave Qianzhou of the Jin State, this time the southeast wing army of the Jin State sent troops to the southwestern states of the Jin State, the purpose is to annex these states, and Liu Ji, as the most powerful warlord of the Jin State, of course does not want to watch the power of the other warlord expand, and it is normal for the Broken Army to send troops this time." ”

King Yeman couldn't help but get up from his seat, walked back and forth a few times, and then said to himself, "This is a good opportunity for our Dawan Kingdom. ”

At this time, Leyard hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, at present, our mission of shadow contact allies has not yet achieved any results, if at this time, our Dawan Kingdom will use troops against the Broken Army, our Great Wan Kingdom may only be able to face the Broken Army alone, in addition, this time Liu Ji only brought a million troops, and the millions of Broken Troops in the Western Regions of the Jin Kingdom, Liu Ji did not mobilize a single soldier, so it is better for us to be cautious." ”

King Yeman sighed and said: "The various legions that were damaged in the war before our Dawan Kingdom have not fully recovered their combat effectiveness, and many recruits still need to be trained, and the newly formed legions will also take a longer period of time to complete the reorganization, it seems that this opportunity can only be wasted in our Dawan Kingdom." ”

Leyard immediately said: "Your Majesty is wise! ”

King Yeman then said, "You Shadow must step up your efforts to contact those forces that are hostile to the Broken Army, and strive to form an alliance to defeat the Broken Army before our Great Wan Kingdom completes its preparations for war!" ”