On the evening of January 14, 432 of the Great Jin Dynasty, in a conference hall in the mansion of Dou Yan, the chief lieutenant of the military department in Canglong City, thirteen important ministers of the imperial court who controlled the real power of the Great Jin Dynasty gathered here, and everyone's face showed a heavy expression.

Dou Yan, the captain of the military department, said in a deep voice to other important ministers of the imperial court: "In less than ten days, one city and eleven counties in Leizhou have lost three counties, one city and nine counties in Qinzhou have also lost three counties, and one city and eight counties in Hengzhou have lost four counties. ”

Zhao Boran, the captain of the Criminal Department, gritted his teeth and said: "Zhang Mingqi, this bastard, the imperial court has given him all the seven states in the southeast, but he is still not satisfied, and he brazenly sent troops to the southwest, and sent troops to invade Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou at the same time, our imperial court must not sit idly by this time, we must send troops to support Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, and teach Zhang Mingqi's southeast army a hard lesson!" ”

At this time, Yang Zhong, the chief lieutenant of the Ministry of Officials, smiled bitterly and said: "According to the information obtained by the imperial court, the Southeast Xiang Army is now organized into seven legions, and these seven legions have sixty guards, and the strength of each guard is about 125,000 people, which indicates that the total strength of the entire Southeast Xiang Army has reached 7.5 million, and this time the Southeast Xiang Army has drawn out a total of 20 guards, a total of 2.5 million troops, and at the same time attacked Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, of which the Southeast Xiang Army that entered Leizhou is the second legion, The Sixth and Seventh Army Corps of the Southeast Xiang Army entered Qinzhou and Hengzhou respectively, with the Second Army of the Southeast Xiang Army having one million men and the Sixth and Seventh Army Corps each having 750,000. ”

After a pause, Yang Zhong, the chief lieutenant of the Ministry of Officials, continued: "And the combined armies of Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou may only be more than 1.1 million, and the current armies of these three states have lost hundreds of thousands, and in the face of more than 2 million troops of the Southeast Xiang Army, even if our imperial court sends out the 16 Guards Forbidden Army, it may not be able to prevent the Southeast Xiang Army from annexing Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou." ”

Leizhou is the largest state in the southwest of the five states, with a city and eleven counties, with a total population of more than 15 million.

Among the three forces in Leizhou, the power of Zhou Mu Lin Cheng is the largest, controlling one city and six counties in Leizhou and having an army of 260,000, Litang County Taishou Xu She, controlling the territory of three counties and having 120,000 troops, and Banjiang County Taishou Zhao Yongzhong controlling the territory of two counties and having 80,000 troops.

At present, the two counties of Zhao Yongzhong, the Taishou of Banjiang County, have been captured by the Second Army of the Southeast Xiang Army, and Zhao Yongzhong, the Taishou of Banjiang County, was also killed by an arrow while defending the city, and almost three-quarters of the 80,000 troops in the hands of Zhao Yongzhong surrendered to the Southeast Xiang Army, and the remaining one-quarter of the army, part of which fled, and part of which was annihilated in battle.

And a county under the command of Xu She, the Taishou of Litang County, has now fallen into the hands of the Second Army of the Southeast Xiang Army, and the Second Army of the Southeast Xiang Army is attacking the other two counties controlled by Xu She, the Taishou Xu of Litang County, and the 120,000 troops of Litang County Taishou Xu She, now there are only more than 80,000 people left.

Qinzhou has one city and nine counties, with a total population of about 10 million, before there were only two forces left in Qinzhou, namely Liu Du, the state pastor and Yuan Xin, the Taishou of Dangyang County, of which Liu Du, the state pastor, controlled one city and four counties in Qinzhou, with about 200,000 troops, and Yuan Xin, the Taishou of Dangyang County, Qinzhou, controlled the remaining five counties of Qinzhou and also had about 200,000 troops.

At present, the three counties controlled by Yuan Xin, the Taishou of Dangyang County, were captured by the Sixth Army of the Southeast Xiang Army, and the 200,000 troops in the hands of Yuan Xin, the Taishou of Dangyang County, were also wiped out by the Sixth Army of the Southeast Xiang Army, nearly 130,000, of which more than half surrendered to the Southeast Xiang Army, and the Sixth Army of the Southeast Xiang Army was attacking the other two counties in the hands of Yuan Xin, the Taishou of Dangyang County.

Hengzhou has a city and eight counties, with a total population of about nine million, and there are two forces left in Hengzhou before, namely Li Hao, the state pastor, and Sun Ju, the Taishou of Luodian County, of which Li Hao, the state pastor, controls one city and four counties in Hengzhou, with 150,000 troops, and Sun Ju, the Taishou Sun Ju of Luodian County, controls the four counties of Hengzhou, with 100,000 troops.

Now Luodian County Taishou Sun Ju has been defeated and killed, Sun Ju's four counties have fallen into the hands of the Seventh Army of the Southeast Xiang Army, and most of the 100,000 troops under his command have also surrendered to the Southeast Xiang Army.

The three corps of the Southeast Xiang Army captured so many territories in Leizhou, Qinzhou, and Hengzhou, and the total losses did not exceed 100,000, and because they incorporated a large number of troops from Leizhou, Qinzhou, and Hengzhou, the strength of the troops increased instead of decreasing, and the total strength of the Southeast Xiang Army in these three states now exceeded 2.6 million.

If the Great Jin Dynasty wants to save the situation in Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, it must send at least about two million additional troops to these three states, but the total strength of the Sixteen Guards Forbidden Army controlled by the Great Jin Dynasty is less than 1.2 million, even if they are all sent to Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, they may not be able to change the situation of the war, not to mention the important ministers of the Great Jin Dynasty, It is also impossible to send out all the last hole cards of the imperial court.

As soon as Yang Zhong, the chief lieutenant of the Ministry of Officials, finished speaking, Zhao Boran, the chief lieutenant of the Criminal Department, shouted excitedly: "Even if there are more troops in the Southeast Xiang Army, our imperial court cannot watch the Southeast Xiang Army annex the three states of Lei, Qin, and Heng!" ”

The reason why Zhao Boran, the captain of the Criminal Department, was so excited was because Mu Lincheng of Leizhou Prefecture was Zhao Boran's brother-in-law, and Zhao Boran certainly did not want Leizhou to be annexed by the Southeast Xiang Army.

Captain Dou Yan sighed and said: "Captain Zhao, don't be too excited, today thirteen of us are gathered here, just to discuss countermeasures, of course our court does not want to watch the Southeast Xiang Army annex Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, but our court only has the sixteen guards in the hands of the forbidden army, and if we want to stop the southeast wing army, unless the sixteen guards are sent to Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, there is a chance to prevent the southeast wing army from annexing these three states, but these sixteen guards of the forbidden army are the last hole cards of our court, It is impossible for the imperial court to send all the sixteen forbidden guards out of Canglong City at once, alas-"

Zhao Boran, the chief lieutenant of the criminal department, pondered for a moment and said: "Taiwei Dou, our thirteenth family can make up at least one and a half million thousand dings, with this one million and a half thousand families, and then send eight guards of the forbidden army, it should be enough to smash the southeast Xiang army's attempt to annex Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, in addition, the imperial court can also recruit the troops of various states to jointly send troops to crusade against the southeast Xiang army, if the imperial court can let the broken army go south, then the southeast Xiang army is not to worry!" ”

Sun Mingtao, the captain of the Ministry of Works, frowned at this time and said: "Our thirteenth family a few years ago, when the southeast wing army besieged Canglong City, they each lost a large number of families, and wanted to make up 1.5 million families, each family got at least 100,000 families, or even more, this is impossible for our Sun family to do, and now our Sun family's family is counted, there are only less than 60,000 people, and our Sun family can produce 10,000 families at most. It was enough to prevent the Southeast Xiang Army from annexing Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou. ”

Subsequently, Wang Zhihuan, the chief lieutenant of the Ministry of Rites, Zheng Kai, the chief lieutenant of the household department, Han Renji, the secretary of the military department, Wu Ziyu, the secretary of the ministry, Zhang Shunran, the secretary of the household department, and Chen Sikai, the secretary of the criminal department, also spoke out one after another, saying that their respective families could not make up how many families to support Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, and even these ministers opposed the sending of the forbidden army, believing that the forbidden army was equivalent to the important weapon of the country and could not be easily transferred out of Canglong City, which made the face of Sun Mingtao, the chief lieutenant of the Ministry of Industry, more and more ugly.

In fact, these important ministers of the court are unwilling to lose their own strength, not really unable to make up 100,000 families, according to the strength of the thirteenth family, it should not be a problem for a family to take out 100,000 families, and they are unwilling to let the forbidden army support Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, which is also the same reason, you must know that the sixteen guards of the forbidden army are now controlled by the thirteenth family.

Dou Yan, the captain of the military department, coughed and said: "The sixteen guards of Canglong City are the last hole cards of the imperial court, it is better not to send them or not, as for the family members of our thirteenth family, it is the hole card of our thirteenth family, it is best not to use it, and the army of the states is not to be used, and the army of the states is not expected to have much effect, and now that Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou have been removed, the states that can obey the will of the imperial court are left with Meizhou, Anhui, Dazhou, Yuzhou, Yongzhou, Liuzhou, Yizhou, Guizhou and Yuzhou, However, these nine states should not be able to send many troops, so if they want to relieve the siege of Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, they have to find a way from the broken army. ”

The hussar general Xiao Su said in a deep voice at this time: "If the Broken Army can really send troops south, it should indeed be able to prevent the Southeast Xiang Army from annexing Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, but the Broken Army has just let the Dawan Kingdom cede the various provinces and vassal states of the Gaochang Kingdom, as well as the ten provinces of the Great Wan Kingdom itself, and turned these areas into the twelve states of the Western Regions Protectorate, the Great Wan Kingdom can be said to hate the Broken Capture Army to the core, according to the news obtained by our court, the Great Wan Kingdom is stepping up preparations for war, and may wave troops at any time to the Western Regions Protectorate, So I'm worried that the Broken Army will not easily send troops south, and a Dawan Kingdom will have to contain at least a few million troops of the Broken Army! ”

Hussar general Li Hong smiled bitterly and said: "I heard that Liu Ji suddenly appeared in the capital of Dawan with hundreds of thousands of elite troops of the Broken Army this time, and captured Dawan City in one fell swoop, and then the Broken Army created a horrific tragedy in Dawan City, millions of civilians of Dawan Country were slaughtered, and the enmity between the Broken Army and the Great Wan Kingdom is very big, and the Broken Army will probably not send troops south in order to prevent the revenge of the Great Wan Kingdom." ”

Hussar general He Guangzong then said: "The slaughter of millions of civilians in Dawan City by the Broken Army this time is still finished, I heard that Liu Ji also looted all the beauties in Dawan City, and even hundreds of princesses of the king of Dawan Kingdom have been occupied, where will Dawan Kingdom and the Broken Army give up, maybe it won't be long before the war between the Dawan Kingdom and the Broken Army will be ignited again, and it seems that it should not be easy to let the Broken Army send troops south at this time." ”

Yang Zhong, the chief lieutenant of the Ministry of Officials, sighed and said: "No matter what, you have to give it a try, I hope Liu Ji can take care of the overall situation, otherwise the imperial court can only sit back and watch the Southeast Xiang Army annex Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou." ”

After the other twelve important ministers of the imperial court left the mansion of Dou Yan, the chief lieutenant of the military department, Dou Bing, the general of the cavalry, met Dou Yan, the chief lieutenant of the military department, in a study, "Uncle, have you discussed any solutions?" ”

Dou Yan smiled bitterly and said: "Many ministers are reluctant to let the imperial court send troops to Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, it seems that the families represented by these ministers are afraid of the Southeast Xiang Army. ”

Dou Bing, the general of the cavalry, frowned and said: "Then you can't watch the Southeast Xiang Army annex Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, if you let the Southeast Xiang Army annex these three states, maybe the Southeast Xiang Army will continue to annex the other two states in the southwest after annexing these three states, and even more states and counties in our Great Jin!" ”

"Alas, everyone understands this truth, so the thirteen of us finally decided to ask the Broken Army to send troops south to prevent the Southeast Xiang Army from annexing Leizhou, Qinzhou, and Hengzhou."

When Dou Bing, the general of the cavalry, heard this, his brows furrowed even tighter, "Uncle, asking the Broken Army to go south is tantamount to rejecting the wolf and entering the tiger, and my nephew is worried that after the Broken Army enters the southwest, it will not leave easily." ”

Dou Yan, the captain of the military department, nodded and said: "The old man is also very worried about this, but now it is basically impossible for the imperial court to send troops to support Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, even if the old man himself is not willing to let the Yulin Right Guard controlled by our Dou family in the forbidden army, as well as the hundreds of thousands of families that our Dou family has worked hard to cultivate, go to Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, even if the southeast wing army can be driven out of these three states, how many of the Yulin Right Guards and the hundreds of thousands of families of our Dou family can be left?" What's more, these three states are not in the sphere of influence of our Dou family at all, and our Dou family can only make wedding dresses for others in the end. ”

Dou Bing, the general of the cavalry, smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Uncle, now that most of the troops of the Broken Capture Army have been contained by the Great Wan Kingdom in the territory of the Western Regions Protectorate, will the Broken Capture Army send troops this time?" ”

"To be honest, the old man doesn't know if Liu Ji will send troops, if the Broken Army can't send troops south, then Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, and even the entire five southwestern states, will have to be annexed by the Southeast Xiang Army."