The gaze turned to the northern battlefield.

In October last year, Yuan Hao, the leader of the Guangming Sect, gathered 110,000 Guangming troops in Tongzhou, wanting to go south to collect Laizhou, but he did not expect that the Linzhou Guangming Army was difficult to gain a foothold in Linzhou under the pursuit of Guo Wei's counterinsurgency army, and could only retreat to Tongzhou.

Guo Wei's counterinsurgency army was approaching, and Yuan Hao's plan to go south to Laizhou failed, so he could only lead 110,000 Guangming troops to the border area from Tongzhou to Linzhou to block Guo Wei's counterinsurgency army.

Subsequently, the Guangming Army retreating from Linzhou converged with the Guangming Army led by Yuan Hao, making the number of troops in Yuan Hao's hands reach 136,000, such a huge force is already the largest Guangming Army in the entire Dali Empire, if it is placed in other states (no Linzhou), it is simply an invincible existence.

However, Guo Wei's counterinsurgency army was not weak, and even had fewer troops than the Guangming Army led by Yuan Hao.

When Guo Wei's counterinsurgency army was first formed, there were only more than 100,000 people, and a few months later, it increased to 140,000 people.

As of October last year, thanks to the efforts of the imperial court and the Linzhou family, the total strength of the officers and troops in Linzhou had approached 400,000, and the number of defenders in the cities of Linzhou ranged from 1,500 to several thousand, and the number of officers and troops guarding Xinping City had recovered to 50,000.

In fact, this is not the limit of Linzhou's official army, you must know that the total population of Linzhou is close to 6.5 million, and the limit of recruitment can exceed 1 million, which is really a terrible number, and the population base represents the war potential, so Yun Yicai tried every means to increase the population under his rule.

All of a sudden, the area bordering Tongzhou and Linzhou gathered 136,000 Guangming troops and 180,000 official troops, and the total strength of the opposing sides has exceeded 300,000, which can be called the largest battlefield in the Dali Empire at present.

Although the counterinsurgency army has more than 40,000 troops than the Bright Sect, the gap between the two sides is not large, there are many new recruits in the counterinsurgency army, and there are fewer recruits in the bright army, and most of the soldiers have seen blood, coupled with the faith and armament of the bright army, the two sides are basically in a state of parity.

When a certain number of troops is reached, many tactics are no longer applicable, and they can only be fought hard, but this will also cause great damage to both warring parties.

Yuan Hao didn't want to see the losses of the Bright Army too great, and if the losses were too great, it would take more time to capture the other states of the Great Li Empire in the future.

Guo Wei also did not want to see the losses of the counterinsurgency army too much, Guo Wei was a member of the family (not from the Guo family with seven surnames and twelve clans), but Guo Wei's heart was not completely towards the family, it was considered a neutral faction, if it were not for this, Guo Wei would not have been appointed as a lieutenant by the deceased Fang Yao, responsible for managing the country's military affairs.

The ideas of Yuan Hao and Guo Wei greatly reduced the battles of the Guangming Army and the rebel army of more than 10,000 people, most of which were battles of 1,000 people, so that before the coldest month of winter, the losses of both sides did not exceed 20,000.

However, in order to win this crucial war, even if a lot of damage was paid, the strength of both sides was more than before the war, the strength of the Guangming Army has reached more than 140,000 people, and the strength of the counterinsurgency army has reached 210,000, the strength of both sides is rapidly expanding, and the balance of the war is tilting towards the side of the counterinsurgency army.

However, things took a turn for the better again, just after the New Year, the counterinsurgency army was not ready to launch a general attack on the opposite side of the Guangming Army, but the Guangming Army in Suzhou took the initiative to evacuate Suzhou, the total strength of the Guangming Army in Suzhou was as high as 95,000 people, the Suzhou Guangming Army was divided into two roads after leaving Suzhou, one was about 30,000 Guangming Army from the left deputy helm to the north of Tongzhou, to guard against the family alliance army in Suzhou, and about 65,000 people on the other road directly entered Linzhou from the northwest of Linzhou under the leadership of Jiang Zhou, the helmsman, and broke three cities in just five days. Including a county seat, Baoqing County.

Shocked to hear this, Guo Wei was furious, and directly ordered Miao Da's wolf to ride north to Baoqing County, and ordered Yang Lin to lead 50,000 infantry to follow, and must eliminate or expel the Guangming Army that entered Linzhou, but also because of this Guangming Army that invaded Linzhou, Guo Wei's plan to launch a general attack on the opposite Guangming Army was temporarily shelved.

When the Suzhou Guangming Army withdrew from Suzhou, the remaining 73,000 Guangming Army in Laizhou, under the leadership of the helmsman Jianxin, launched a fierce attack on the weak area of the blockade line of the Laizhou Shijia coalition army, and then the 70,000 Guangming Army broke through the blockade line and entered Tongzhou.

After entering Tongzhou, the 70,000 Guangming Army from Laizhou was also divided into two routes, one was about 30,000 Guangming Army led by Wang Jun, the left deputy helmsman, sitting in the south of Tongzhou, guarding against the family alliance army in Laizhou, and the other about 40,000 Guangming Army was personally led by the helmsman Jianxin, and went straight to the north, and finally converged with the 140,000 Guangming Army led by Yuan Hao, making the strength of Yuan Hao's hands reach 180,000, and the counterinsurgency army opposite Yuan Hao only had 150,000 people left after transferring the wolf cavalry and 50,000 infantry, in this battlefield, For the first time, the strength of the Bright Army surpassed that of the counterinsurgency army.

After the Guangming Army from Laizhou and the Guangming Army led by Yuan Hao had just converged, Yuan Hao, who had been preparing for a long time, gave an order and launched a general attack on the counterinsurgency army under his command of 180,000 Guangming Army.

"Coming to the world!"

"The light shines and dispels the darkness!"

Fanatical slogans sounded, and the 180,000 soldiers of Bright who were not afraid of death rushed in the direction of the counterinsurgency army.

Guo Wei originally thought that the Guangming Army that invaded Linzhou was the Guangming Army on the opposite side and quietly divided its troops in the past, and his own forces still had an advantage in the frontal battlefield, and it was impossible for the Guangming Army to launch a large-scale attack, but he didn't expect that the Guangming Army that invaded Linzhou was not at all the Guangming Army on the opposite side, and the Guangming Army on the opposite side was increasing unabated, and the strength was even 30,000 higher than his own.

Guo Wei hurriedly ordered all units of the counterinsurgency army to line up to meet the enemy.

In the sky, arrows rained down, and on the ground, hundreds of bed crossbows on both sides fired hundreds of giant crossbow arrows with the thickness of their arms at each other.

A giant crossbow bolt shot into the enemy's array, directly piercing the shield of the shield soldier, and the giant crossbow bolt did not stop and continued to advance, piercing the bodies of seven soldiers in a company.

A terrible weapon of war.

The two sides did not know how many soldiers died under the arrows, giant crossbow arrows, and stones thrown by trebuchets, and finally the two sides fought each other with swords and soldiers.