Chapter 316: The Great War Begins

"Expedition!" On the stage, Yun Yi drew his sword and pointed to the north, shouting.

"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! Wansheng! ”

The officers and men of the First Infantry Division of the Yunjia Army, who were neatly arranged under the stage, roared in unison, and the morale of the First Infantry Division was high.

Subsequently, Shi Mincai, the left (deputy) general of the Yunjia Army, the commander of the First Route Army, commanded the army to set off, pointing at the area controlled by the Boling Wang clan in Laizhou in the north.

On the twenty-third day of the first month of the fifth year of Tiancheng, almost at the same time, the other three Yun clan's armies located in Honggou County, Luwei County, and Huichuan County also set out under the orders of their respective commanders and embarked on the road to hegemony in the world.

The Yun army's troops went out to Laihe Erzhou in four ways, and the great war in the north of the Dali Empire did not stop.

On the battlefield of Qinzhou, under the onslaught of the Wang army, the high-level leaders of the two major families in Qinzhou, the Dongfang clan and the Lin family, had already seen that the two families could not resist the Wang army, and finally made a decision to completely abandon Qinzhou and retreat to Suzhou, and connect with the two families of Laizhou Wangsun and the three families of Mengli Hu in Hezhou (Tongzhou has the territory of the Hezhou family) to fight against the Baode Wang family.

After making a decision, the top management of the Dongfang clan and the Lin clan ordered the Qinzhou army on the front line to delay the Wang army as much as possible, if it was not defeated, it could retreat, and it was never allowed to pay too much price in order to block the Wang army, on the other hand, the two great families were also busy transferring the population and materials from the north of Qinzhou to Suzhou, and before the Wang army did not attack here, they would take away all the "things" that could be taken away as much as possible, and what they left was to fund the Wang army and increase the strength of the Baode Wang family.

Most of them are reluctant to leave their hometowns to go to Suzhou, but under the threat of death, they can only pack up and take everything they can with their families to embark on the difficult journey to Suzhou, not knowing how many people will die on the road.

There is no way for the Qinzhou family to move the population, and the major families understand the importance of population, and the more people they have under their rule, the more soldiers they can recruit, and they can form a larger army.

At one time, the population of Suzhou was nearly 4 million, but under natural disasters and years of war, the total population of Suzhou has been less than 3 million, and the youth and strength have decreased sharply.

In addition, the Dongfang clan and the Lin clan only occupy three-quarters of the territory of Suzhou, and the southern part of Suzhou is still in the hands of the Baode Wang clan, Wang Shuo is also worried that when the war starts, the southern area of Suzhou, which is farthest away from Yuanzhou and has few garrison troops, will be attacked by the armies of other families, and in the past two years, most of the population in the southern area of Suzhou has shifted to the northeast area of Tongzhou and the southern area of Qinzhou, not counting the population of migration, and the population of Suzhou has been less than 2.5 million.

The population has plummeted to such an extent, if the Dongfang clan and the Lin clan do not migrate the population from Qinzhou to Suzhou, then the strength of the Dongfang clan and the Lin clan will only become weaker and weaker, and they will become the bottom existence among the major families in the Dali Empire, and stop thinking about competing for hegemony in the world.

The war in Qinzhou continued, and it didn't take long for the information of the Wang army's attack on the northern part of Qinzhou to be known by the major families one after another, and the members of the family alliance were shocked, originally the North King Nanyun was the two most powerful in the family, and the other families could only barely confront the North King Nanyun when they established the Family Alliance, if the Wang family defeated the Dongfang Clan and the Lin Clan, the strength of the Family Alliance would be weakened by nearly two percent, and it would not be the opponent of the North King Nanyun.

Seven families of the Family Alliance, including Laizhou Wangsun, Hezhou Menglihu, and Huizhou Su Shen, made a decision to support the Dongfang clan and the Lin clan.

On the twenty-fifth day of the first month, the two families of Laizhou Wangsun and the three families of Mengli Hu of Hezhou each sent 10,000 horses and a total of 50,000 troops, starting from the south and west of Tongzhou, and marched to the north of Tongzhou controlled by the Wang family, in order to share the pressure of the Dongfang clan and the Lin clan in Qinzhou.

Wang Shuo's advisers had already predicted that after the Wang army attacked the northern part of Qinzhou, the northern part of Tongzhou and the southern part of Suzhou would become the target of the family alliance, Wang Shuo had made all kinds of preparations, and now Wang Shuo did not leave many people in the northern part of Tongzhou and the southern part of Suzhou, and the population of these two places was also migrated to the east as much as possible.

Today, the Family Alliance has taken away the northern part of Tongzhou and the southern part of Suzhou, and Wang Shuo will lead a large army to take it back in the future, and the Family Alliance will have to pay a terrible price for it.

The five great families of Laihe Erzhou made a move, and the Su and Shen families in Huizhou also followed, and the Su and Shen families did it earlier.

Before Wang's 100,000 troops marched to the north of Qinzhou, Wang Shuo had already gathered 70,000 horses in the south of Yuanzhou to prevent the invasion of the Su and Shen families in Huizhou.

Compared with the Qinzhou family that suffered heavy losses in several wars to encircle and suppress the Guangming Sect, the fierce and martial Huizhou people are more worthy of Wang Shuo's attention, and in the military sequence of the former Dali Empire, the Huizhou army and the Xinzhou army are synonymous with elite.

Wang Shuo gathered 70,000 horses in the south of Yuanzhou, and the Su and Shen families also gathered 80,000 troops in the north of Huizhou, which was almost equivalent to two-thirds of the total strength of the Su and Shen families.

After the Su and Shen families learned that Wang Shuo had sent troops to the Qinzhou family, the top leaders of the Su and Shen families unanimously decided to attack the north, on the one hand, to recapture part of the northern area of Huizhou controlled by the Wang family, and on the other hand, to share the pressure for the Qinzhou family.

On the twenty-fourth day of the first lunar month, 80,000 Huizhou troops marched to the area north of Huizhou controlled by the Wang clan.

Seeing a large-scale enemy attack, a small number of Wang's troops stationed in the northern area of Huizhou withdrew directly and withdrew to Yuanzhou, and the Huizhou army recovered the area controlled by the Wang family without bloodshed, but the footsteps of the Huizhou army did not stop and continued to advance to the north, and the Huizhou army wanted to attack the territory of Yuanzhou, and it was best to force Wang's army to return to Yuanzhou.

On the second day of the first month of February, the 80,000 Huizhou army and the 70,000 Yuanzhou army confronted each other in the border area of Yuanhui and Huizhou Prefectures.

However, just as the war was about to break out, a violent shaking sound suddenly sounded from the east side of the battlefield.

This is the earth shaking.

Before the spies reported, Su Yu, the head of the Su family, and Shen Jiguang, the head of the Shen family, who personally commanded the Huizhou army, judged from the "booming" vibration that it was cavalry, a large force of cavalry, and the largest cavalry formation in the Wang army was Wang Shuo's tiger cavalry.

"How can Wang Shuo be here?" Su Yu and Shen Ji glanced at each other, both of them were surprised, both of them thought that Wang Shuo should be Qinzhou, how could he be here, is this a trap.

However, Wang Shuo's tiger cavalry was approaching, and there was no time for Su Yu and Shen Ji to think, Su Yu directly issued a battle order to the Huizhou army: "Release the arrow!" Shoot arrows to the east side area! ”