Since the almost complete annihilation of the Quartet Coalition Army in the First World War of Tongzhou City, the families and imperial courts in the neighboring three prefectures of Laizhou, Linzhou, and Qinzhou in Tongzhou and Suzhou were very worried about the attack of the Guangming Army, and they gathered large armies on the border.

The total number of officers and soldiers in Linzhou is only about 100,000, of which only 15,000 are elite, and most of the remaining officers and soldiers are recruits who have not participated in a battle, and their combat effectiveness is very low.

Wang Shuo personally led 50,000 Yuanzhou troops, Hezhou Mengli Hu three families each sent 15,000 troops for a total of 45,000 troops, and Huizhou Su and Shen two families each sent 10,000 troops for a total of 20,000 troops (Huizhou family losses are more serious, but the Huizhou army is very strong).

In addition, the two kings and grandsons of Laizhou also told the imperial court that the Laizhou army would cooperate with the coalition forces to launch an attack on Tongzhou.

Although the Dongfang clan and the Lin clan in Qinzhou and the Yun clan in Zezhou all received the edict of King Qin, they were all using various excuses to shirk.

Other families can also see that these three families are shirking, and all the families also understand that there are only about 70,000 men left in the hands of the Dongfang clan and the Lin clan, if they send troops to Qinwang again, there will be fewer troops left in Qinzhou, and the Yuan Zhou army, which occupies one-third of the territory of Qinzhou, is likely to continue to encroach on the territory of the Dongfang clan and the Lin clan, so the Dongfang clan and the Lin clan dare not send troops, maybe when the coalition army launches an attack on the Guangming army in Tongzhou and Suzhou, the Dongfang clan and the Lin clan will also send troops to Suzhou and pocket part of Suzhou.

When it came to the Yun Clan, although the Yun Clan also controlled a state alone, everyone knew that Zezhou was the most backward and poorest week among the eleven states of the Great Li Empire, and the population of the Guangming Sect was less than 2.5 million before the incident, and after the war, the population dropped to less than 2 million, and only about 20% of the young and strong remained.

Controlling such a state, the Yun family is still just a second-rate family that has been inherited for more than two hundred years, and the combination of the two, the strength of the Yun family will not be much stronger, basically the existence of the bottom of the major separatist forces in the Dali Empire, and Zezhou borders Laizhou and Hezhou, and the five major families in the two states, I don't know when Zezhou will change hands.

In December, the Yuanzhou Army, the Huizhou Army, and the Hezhou Army gathered in the western part of Linzhou, and the imperial court also gathered nearly 50,000 officers and troops in the western part of Linzhou, led by the later general Zhou Qun.

There is no way to let Zhou Qun, the general who was defeated by the Guangming Army, lead the official army, and the generals in the court are almost frightened by the Guangming Army, only Zhou Qun, the rear general, wants to be humiliated and willing to lead the army to the battle, Zhou Da had to hand over nearly 50,000 officers and troops to Zhou Qun.

In this way, a total of 150,000 troops were assembled in the western part of Linzhou, and there were very few recruits in the Yuanzhou army, Huizhou army, and Hezhou army, and most of the nearly 40,000 horses in the official army were recruits, and in addition to the 5,000 infantry army and 5,000 Dangkou cavalry, most of them were recruits, and generally speaking, the combat effectiveness of the 150,000 army was still very strong, especially the 20,000 Huizhou army and Wang Shuo's 5,000 tiger cavalry, which could be called elite.

In addition, the Laizhou family will participate in the attack on the Tongzhou Guangming Army, and the Qinzhou family may also send troops to Suzhou, so it can be said that the coalition army is superior in terms of strength, and the quality is not bad, and the overall strength is more than the Guangming Army entrenched in Tongzhou and Suzhou.

As for the commander of the coalition army, he was nominally commanded by the rear general Zhou Qun, but the real situation was that they did not govern each other, and when they arrived on the battlefield, they would discuss it.

The coalition army is assembled in the west of Linzhou, and if it wants to launch an attack on Tongzhou, it will not be possible until the ice and snow melt and the weather warms up after the year, and the imperial court has prepared a large amount of grain, grass and cold materials in the northwest of Linzhou in advance, which can ensure that the 150,000 coalition troops will not lose their combat strength because of the cold winter.

When the allied forces of the imperial court and the family assembled in Linzhou, the Guangming Army in Tongzhou and Suzhou had already received the news, and the elders of the Bright Sect gathered in Tongzhou City to discuss how to deal with the upcoming coalition army.

It's just that the current Bright Sect is completely different from the previous Bright Sect, and the top leaders of the Bright Sect now entrenched in Tongzhou and Suzhou are the Great Elder, the Second Elder, the Fourth Elder, the Sixth Elder, the Seventh Elder, the Ninth Elder, and the Eleventh Eleventh Elder.

The seven elders are all innate grandmasters, and the worst strength is also the innate fifth order, and the highest great elder is already the innate seventh order, and his strength in the Bright Sect is second only to the sect leader Yuan Hao's innate ninth order.

If Yuan Hao is still there, Yuan Hao has the grace to join the elders, coupled with Yuan Hao's strong strength, the elders can willingly obey Yuan Hao's orders, but now that Yuan Hao is dead, all the elders have some careful thoughts in their hearts, and the great elders can't suppress the other six elders, resulting in any order from the Light Sect now needs to be discussed by the seven elders, and only when the four elders agree, the order will be issued.

Privately, all the elders are transferring the wealth of the Bright Sect and keeping it behind, after all, they also have families, even if the Bright Sect is gone, they can take their relatives to a certain place with their wealth to live in seclusion, with the strength of their innate grandmasters, they can fully develop into a family, and even develop into a family that has been inherited for more than a hundred years.

However, it was all the situation of the Guangming Sect being gone, the family and the imperial court gathered 150,000 troops, and the total strength of the Guangming Army in Tongzhou and Suzhou was also 150,000, and the 130,000 troops in Tongzhou City were recruited later.

There is no way, after years of war, the Qingqiang part of Tongzhou and Suzhou have died in the war, and it will be difficult for the Bright Sect to recruit a large number of soldiers.

The 150,000 coalition troops, as well as the family armies of Laizhou and Qinzhou, the enemy is very strong, but the 150,000 Guangming Army is not weak, and it is not yet known who will win and who will lose, and the seven elders of the Bright Sect have decided to fight with the enemy.

The first step of the Illuminati is to transfer most of the Bright Army in Suzhou back to Tongzhou, if the Bright Army is scattered in Tongzhou and Suzhou, then the hope of victory for the Illuminati is very slim, and it will only be broken by the coalition forces.

The second step is to place the 120,000 Guangming Army in the east of Tongzhou, so as not to respond to all changes, depending on how the enemy will attack, and most of the remaining Guangming Army will be deployed in the south of Tongzhou, as far as possible to block the Laizhou family from marching to Tongzhou.

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Xinzhou is one of the three states controlled by the Bright Sect, and the commander of the Shinshu Bright Army is Yuan Chang, the holy son of the Bright Sect, after Yuan Chang led the Bright Army to take Shinshu, the troops in his hands were less than 100,000.

Yuan Chang also got the news that the Qinzhou family was severely damaged and Wang Shuo led 50,000 Yuanzhou troops to Qinwang, which was good news for the Guangming Army in Xinzhou, but Yuan Chang could not send troops to Qinzhou or Yuanzhou.

The strength of the Guangming Army in Yuan Chang's hands is very strong, half of which is still the elite recruited by Xinzhou, but there is still the last place in Xinzhou Wuwei Pass that has not been broken by the Guangming Army, in Wuwei Pass, there are 50,000 elite officers and soldiers, as well as Qiu Chi Yan's family, the remaining 20,000 men and horses of the Du Kang Cheng clan, a total of 70,000 troops, Yuan Chang must leave enough troops to guard against Weiwu Pass, so that there are not enough troops for Yuan Chang to attack the city and plunder the land.