The new prime minister of the Dawan Kingdom, Safowan, heard that King Yeman thought that the twenty-four cavalry regiments and sixty-eight infantry regiments of the current standing army of the Dawan Kingdom were still insufficient, and he couldn't help frowning and said: "Your Majesty, this time the city of Dawan was captured by the broken army, and the treasury of our Dawan Kingdom has suffered a great loss, although it will not make our Dawan Kingdom hurt its muscles and bones, but it is already a little difficult to support the 9.2 million standing army, if we continue to expand the army, the financial pressure on our Dawan Kingdom will increase a lot of burden. Is His Majesty the King thinking again? ”

King Yeman waved his hand and said: "Maybe it won't be long before our Dawan Kingdom will start a war with the Broken Army again, so now everything in our Dawan Kingdom must serve this war, and if the financial revenue is not enough, we will increase taxes, and in any case, we must expand at least six cavalry legions and twelve infantry legions before the war, otherwise there will be no bottom in our lonely hearts!" ”

Hearing that King Yeman was going to expand six cavalry regiments and twelve infantry regiments all at once, Prime Minister Safowan couldn't help but gasp, "Your Majesty, if you expand six cavalry regiments and twelve infantry regiments at once, you can only increase the taxes of each province, and it is impossible to raise a standing army of 11 million only by relying on the financial revenue of our entire Dawan country now." ”

King Yeman said categorically: "Then do as the prime minister suggests, increase the taxes of the provinces, and as for the expansion of six cavalry legions and twelve infantry legions, then it is decided." ”

Prime Minister Safowan smiled bitterly in his heart, how did it become my suggestion, the proposal to increase taxes was obviously put forward by King Yeman.

However, Safowan did not dare to correct King Yeman's words, "Your Majesty the King can rest assured, the minister will urge the military as soon as possible, and expand six cavalry regiments and twelve infantry regiments, and now the people of our Dawan country have great indignation against the Broken Army, and it should not be too much of a problem to recruit another 1.8 million people to join the standing army." ”

King Yeman nodded with satisfaction and said, "I believe that with this 11 million standing army and the millions of auxiliaries recruited in wartime, our Dawan Kingdom will definitely be able to completely defeat the Broken Army!" By the way, Gu has already sent people to contact the various forces that are hostile to the Broken Army, and I believe that when our Dawan Kingdom starts a war against the Broken Army, the Broken Army is likely to face the dilemma of fighting on several fronts at the same time! ”

Prime Minister Safowan then said: "Your Majesty the King is wise, in this way, the army of the captives will be defeated!" ”

Then the Prime Minister Saffor said to King Yeman: "Your Majesty, there are some ...... in the palace now Deserted, is it a group of beauties selected from various provinces to be sent to the palace? ”

King Yeman understood what Prime Minister Safuwan meant, this time the army captured Dawan City, almost snatched nearly 300 princesses of King Yeman, in addition to 83 princesses with a charm value of more than 80 points were occupied by Liu Ji, more than 200 other princesses were also taken away by Liu Ji, and were rewarded to many generals of the Broken Army, and only more than 40 old and decrepit princesses escaped.

Although King Yeman is fifty years old this year, he still maintains a great enthusiasm for the affairs of men and women, and men certainly like young and beautiful women, and King Yeman is no longer very interested in the remaining forty or so elderly princesses in the palace.

"It's really too deserted in the palace, so let the prime minister do it!"

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, sighed and said to the strategist Tang Yan: "I never thought that the Broken Army could defeat the Dawan Kingdom, the first powerful country in the Western Regions, so easily, not only let the Great Wan Kingdom spit out the various provinces and vassal states of the Gaochang Kingdom, but also cut off ten provinces from the Great Wan Kingdom.

Strategist Tang Yan said in a deep voice: "According to the news that our Red Fox has gotten, the reason why the Broken Capture Army was able to defeat the Dawan Kingdom this time is almost the same as the process of the Broken Army's victory over the Qingyi Clan, the Northern Metropolitan Governor personally led hundreds of thousands of elite troops of the Broken Capture Army, and suddenly appeared in the capital of the Great Wan Kingdom, and then defeated the defenders of the Great Wan City, captured the capital of the Great Wan Kingdom, and captured the king of the Great Wan Kingdom, Yeman, which forced the Great Wan Kingdom to agree to the rather harsh conditions. ”

Zhang Mingqi frowned and said: "This Metropolitan Governor has always been very strange, how did the Broken Army let hundreds of thousands of troops appear in the enemy's capital without knowing it? Do you Red Fox have any clues about this? ”

Strategist Tang Yan shook his head and said: "My lord, my subordinates also feel very unbelievable about this, and they have already made many of our Red Fox spies in the Broken Army to investigate this, but so far, those spies of our Red Fox have not found any useful clues. ”

Zhang Mingqi shook his head and said: "In the future, whoever is the enemy of the Broken Army will have to deploy enough troops in their base camp, otherwise once the Broken Army captures the old nest, the battle will not have to be fought anymore!" ”

Strategist Tang Yan smiled bitterly and nodded, "Lord, the Broken Capture Army defeated the Dawan Kingdom this time, and its strength is even better than before, if our Southeast Xiang Army still guards the seven southeastern states, this acre and three points of land, in the end, our Southeast Xiang Army is likely to be ...... by the Broken Army."

Although the strategist Tang Yan's words were not finished, Zhang Mingqi, the governor of the southeast, had already understood what the strategist Tang Yan meant, and Zhang Mingqi said in a deep voice: "Mr. Tang is reasonable, our Southeast Xiang Army really can't just guard the seven states in the southeast This acre and three points of land, we must continue to expand the territory of our Southeast Xiang Army, so as to shorten the strength gap with the Broken Army." ”

After a pause, Zhang Mingqi asked the strategist Tang Yan: "Mr. Tang, now that the main forces of our Southeast Xiang Army are contained in Zhezhou and Fuzhou, they are used to guard against the Lu State, and there are not many troops that can be used. ”

Strategist Tang Yan pondered for a while and said: "Now the Jiao State, Xun State, Gu State, and Lai State south of Zhezhou and Fuzhou have all become the territory of the Lu State, and with the strength of our Southeast Xiang Army, it is difficult to snatch the eight states of these four countries from the hands of the Lu State, so if our Southeast Xiang Army wants to expand outward, we can only fight the idea of other states and counties in the Great Jin Dynasty." ”

Zhang Mingqi sighed and said: "The governor of this city also thinks so, but our southeast wing army has not completely torn the face with the imperial court at present, if our southeast wing army attacks other surrounding states and counties, the imperial court can give up, our southeast wing army is not afraid of the imperial court, but the broken army also belongs to the army of the Great Jin Dynasty on the surface, in case the imperial court transfers the captured army south, our southeast wing army will be equivalent to setting fire to the body." ”

The proud record of the Broken Army's successive battles has made Zhang Mingqi, the commander of the Southeast Xiang Army, a little afraid of the Broken Army, not to mention that in the south of the Seven Southeast Prefectures, there is also the enemy of Lu State, once the Southeast Xiang Army and the Broken Army start a war, the Southeast Xiang Army in order to guard against the Lu State, it is impossible to invest all the troops and compete with the Broken Army, and in the face of the strong Broken Army, if the Southeast Xiang Army cannot use all its strength, then it is difficult to have a chance to win.

Strategist Tang Yan then said loudly: "Lord, most of the main forces of our Southeast Xiang Army, although they have been contained in the territory of Zhejiang and Fuzhou by the Lu State, but the situation of the Broken Army is not necessarily much stronger than our Southeast Xiang Army, this time the Broken Army defeated the Dawan Kingdom can be said to be a trick, according to the news that our Red Fox has gotten, now the Great Wan Kingdom is stepping up its military expansion, and it may find trouble with the Broken Army at any time, and the Broken Army must station a large number of troops in the Western Regions Protectorate in order to guard against the Great Wan Kingdom, The various nomads on the grassland and the Qingyi tribe in the 100,000 mountains are very hostile to the Broken Army, and in order to guard against the various nomads and the Qingyi Tribe, the Broken Army must have a large number of troops to be contained in Beiting Duhufu and Huazhou. ”

Zhang Mingqi's eyebrows raised slightly, "What does Mr. Tang mean, does he mean that even if the imperial court wants to transfer the captive army south, the captive army should not be able to send many troops?" ”

Strategist Tang Yan nodded and said: "The lord is wise, his subordinates think that now is the best time for the expansion of our Southeast Xiang Army, and the Broken Wing Army is actually not a cause for concern, because the Broken Capture Army can't draw too many troops to stop the expansion of our Southeast Wing Army to the outside world." ”

Zhang Mingqi was silent for a long time before asking, "Then Mr. Tang thinks where should our Southeast Wing Army expand?" ”

"In the periphery of the seven southeastern states, there are Leizhou, Qinzhou, Hengzhou, Liuzhou and Yizhou that can be used as the target of the expansion of our Southeast Xiang Army, but if Liuzhou or Yizhou are captured, the territory of our Southeast Xiang Army will be bordered by Fuzhou controlled by the Broken Army, so my subordinates suggest that our Southeast Xiang Army set the goal of expansion as several states in the southwest."

Leizhou, Qinzhou, and Hengzhou, as well as Guizhou and Yuzhou, are known as the five southwestern states of the Great Jin, and south of Leizhou and Qinzhou, is another old enemy of the Great Jin, with twenty-two states.

In more than 400 years, nineteen large-scale wars broke out between the Great Jin and the Great Zhou, but no one completely knocked anyone down, and the two countries won and lost each other in the nineteen wars.

Now the situation of the Great Zhou Dynasty is not even able to catch up with the Great Jin, because the Great Zhou has been plagued by natural disasters and man-made disasters in recent years, so that there have been a large number of rogues in the territory of the Great Zhou, and at present, almost half of the states and counties of the Great Zhou have fallen into the hands of several major rogues, and the remaining half of the states and counties of the Great Zhou have also been controlled in the hands of several princes, and the Great Zhou court has almost existed in name only.

Nowadays, the Liukou in the states of the Great Jin Dynasty have been eliminated under the suppression of the local armies in each state, especially the seven southeastern states, as well as Qianzhou, Pizhou, Qinzhou, Xiangzhou and Fuzhou controlled by the Broken Army, and the Liukou have basically been cleaned up.

Thanks to the fact that the Great Jin Dynasty has also taken care of itself over the years, the pair of old enemies of the Great Jin and the Great Zhou have been able to live in peace over the years, while the Lu State, which has ambitions for the Great Zhou, has two subject states of the Great Zhou, and the Mu State and the Bai State are in the middle, so they cannot directly invade the Great Zhou State.

Originally, there were a total of six countries between the Great Jin, the Great Zhou and the Lu State, namely the Jiao State, the Xun State, the Gu State, the Lai State, the Mu State and the Bai State, of which the Jiao State, the Xun State, the Gu State, and the Lai State were the subject countries of the Great Jin, but at present, these four countries have been annexed by the Lu State, and the Mu State and the Bai State are the subject countries of the Great Zhou, the Mu State has the territory of five states, and the army is about 1.3 million, and the Bai State has the territory of three states, and the army is about 900,000.

In addition, the population of Mu and Bai is quite large, once a war breaks out, Mu and Bai can quickly recruit a large number of young and strong men to join the army, and even Lu has some scruples about the war potential of Mu and Bai, so Lu tried to annex the Great Jin first, and then deal with the Great Zhou and the two subject states of the Great Zhou.

Strategist Tang Yan then went on to say to Zhang Mingqi: "My lord, if our southeast wing army can capture Leizhou and Qinzhou in the southwest, we can even expand into the territory of the Great Zhou State in the future. ”

Zhang Mingqi couldn't help but flash a glimmer of light in his eyes when he heard the strategist Tang Yan mention the Great Zhou Kingdom, "The Great Zhou Kingdom has twenty-two states, and the population is only slightly less than that of our Great Jin, almost close to 200 million. In accordance with Mr. Tang's plan, our Southeast Xiang Army first put the expansion goals in Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou! ”

"Lord, the armies of Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou, compared to our southeast Xiang Army, there is an obvious gap in strength, if our Southeast Xiang Army can draw out three legions, then it is completely possible to attack these three states at the same time, it is best to annex these three states with lightning speed, so that the imperial court has no time to intervene, and then plot the other two states in the southwest."

"Although there is a threat from the Lu State, our seven legions of the Southeast Xiang Army have sixty guards under their jurisdiction, with a total strength of more than seven and a half million, in addition to the first legion and the Praetorian Guard legion, three legions can be drawn out!"

After Zhang Mingqi, the governor of the southeast, listened to the advice of the strategist Tang Yan, he transferred the second, sixth and seventh legions of the southeast Xiang army, and in early January of the Great Jin Dynasty 432, he brazenly launched an invasion of Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou at the same time.

The armies of Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou were not too strong, and the invasion of the Southeast Xiang Army was too sudden, which caught the armies of these three states by surprise, resulting in the armies of Leizhou, Qinzhou and Hengzhou were almost defeated after the war, and soon a large area of territory in the three states fell into the hands of the Southeast Xiang Army.