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In fourth and fifth place are Gongsun Chan and Gongsun Du. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Both of them are the princes of Yinan, and the difference in power is not big, although Gongsun Du has a little advantage in terms of military strength, but Gongsun Chan is definitely stronger than Gongsun Du in terms of combat power. After all, Gongsun Chan is a war maniac, and the combat power of tens of thousands of troops under his command even exceeds that of Cao Ying of Lianghuai!

In sixth place is Yuan Shao.

In fact, Yuan Shao, who fled to Xuzhou, did not rank so low, and in Xuzhou, Yuan Shao could barely maintain the operation of an army of 100,000, of which about 20,000 or 30,000 elites. The main reason why the ranking is so low is that Yuan Jun is really afraid of being beaten by the Tianci army.

Now the morale of the Yuan army is the weakest time in history, if the Tianci army continues to move south, then the Yuan army may not even have the courage to fight, if Yuan Shao can't come up with a good way, then Yuan Shao's end is indeed not far away.

Among the princes, the last in the ranking was Liu Miao in Shuzhong.

Liu Miao inherited Liu Dai's blessing and was able to control an army of about 150,000. And among these 150,000 troops, 10,000 elite divisions can barely be put together. Of course, there may be more than 10,000, after all, the quality of the soldiers in Shu is still good, mainly because there are no capable generals under Liu Xuan, such as Zhang Ren and Yan Yan in Shu have already been voted under Liu Tai, without generals, it is destined that the Shu army can only rank last.

If the seven princes can unite sincerely, they will still be very powerful, not to mention anything else, just in terms of military strength, more than a million. Of course, it is obviously impossible to want the princes to unite without the slightest gap, unless one of the princes can completely surpass the power of the other princes, otherwise, even if the princes are so united, they cannot be the opponent of the Tianci army.

This time, Cao Ying's request for the alliance was different from usual. Cao Ying has already pointed out in the text that if those who are willing to join the alliance, regardless of any princes, the command must be all assembled in the alliance, and the alliance leaders can set up absolute strategies by voting, but the alliance leaders are only temporary minds and do not have absolute command.

Cao Ying's idea is very good, in this way, it can greatly reduce the uncooperative attitude of the princes, after all, if the princes agree with every decision, then there will be no disputes. And now that the survival of the princes in the world is imminent, it is impossible for the princes to be stupid and waiting for Liu Tai to be kind enough to bypass him, right?

If you are together, you will benefit both, and if you divide it, you will be broken by the God-given army!

Just before the second southern expedition of the Tianci army, the princes finally reached a consensus, including Gongsun Chan and Gongsun Du, who had never participated in the alliance, expressed their willingness to attend the alliance meeting, after all, Gongsun Chan and Gongsun Du did not want to follow in the footsteps of the Central Plains princes.

In Huaxia 194, due to the huge pressure of Liu Tai in mid-February, the princes' meeting headed by Cao Ying was determined to be held in Lianghuai, such as Cao Ying is now the second great prince of Liu Tai. Not long ago, Cao Ying's achievements on the battlefield in Yuzhou are also obvious to all, for so many years, Cao Ying is the only one who can compete with the Tianci army for a short time without falling behind, if it were not for the limited strength of the two Huai, and the reason for the local war, maybe Cao Ying can force the Tianci army to be more embarrassed.

In this way, Cao Ying's leading position can at least be determined.

In fact, Cao Ying doesn't want to be the first bird, after all, the first bird has never ended well, but the current situation is different, if Cao Ying does not come forward to unite the princes, then the end of the princes is really not far away. In order to resist the footsteps of the heaven-sent army, Cao Ying can only do this!

Yuan Shao, who was the first to arrive in Shouchun, after all, Xia Pi City, where Yuan Shao is now stationed, is actually the closest to Shouchun, and Yuan Shao, who was distraught by the trivial matters in Xuzhou, naturally wanted to leave the cage of Xia Pi City as soon as possible, and with Cao Ying's invitation, it was naturally the best choice.

Yuan Shao can be said to be extremely sad, once the first prince in the world, but now he can only act by looking at Cao Ying's face. Although most of Xuzhou is still under Yuan Shao's control, Cao Ying's army is actually stationed with the help of Cao Ying's army, after all, Yuan Shao, who fled to Xuzhou, actually does not have too many troops stationed in various passes, and it is also a last resort to let Cao Ying's wolf enter his own den.

However, Cao Ying didn't do anything excessive, after all, both sides are grasshoppers on a line at the moment, with Yuan Shao in front of them, Cao Ying's words can still be better, if Cao Ying annexes Yuan Shao as soon as possible, then don't talk about the alliance of princes, I'm afraid that it will be Cao Ying who will be destroyed next.

Although Yuan Shao's strength has now been weakened to the extreme, Yuan Shao is the first gate in the world after all, and after the decline of Yuan Shu, most of the Yuan branches have recognized Yuan Shao's leadership position. Being recognized by the Yuan branch is equivalent to saying that Yuan Shao has actually become the head of the Yuan family!

As the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and the Yuan family did suffer heavy losses under Liu Tai's blow, but after all, the branches in various parts of the world are still intact. Moreover, those gate lord clans and merchants still recognized the leadership position of the Yuan family, and with the support of the gate lord clan and merchants, Yuan Shao's important surname among the princes can be imagined.

Even if all Yuan Shao's soldiers and horses died, as long as he was still the head of the Yuan family, then all the princes, including Cao Ying, would not dare to kill Yuan Shao easily. Just like Liu Tai was unwilling to kill Yuan Shu, after all, Yuan Shu's identity was too sensitive, and being imprisoned was the best result. Now that the era of Yuan Shu has passed, it is natural that Yuan Shao, the only orthodox bloodline of the Yuan clan, will ascend the throne.

In 194 of Huaxia, following Yuan Shao in early March, Liu Bei and Sun Jian of Jingnan arrived in Shouchun one after another. And Yizhou's Liu Miao and others are still fighting in the Tianci Army at the moment, and it is impossible to come to Shouchun in person, so they can only send envoys to represent themselves with full powers, but it is worth mentioning that Gongsun Du, an "idler", did not send a messenger, but came to Shouchun in person, it seems that Gongsun Du really attaches great importance to this alliance.

The disadvantages of the alliance of princes have always been very big, and the disagreement between the princes is the biggest reason, if Cao Ying can't solve this problem this time, then even if the princes are in alliance, the actual significance is not great. And because the territory between the princes is too scattered, there may be many loopholes, and these loopholes can be a huge blow to the alliance at that time.

Can Cao Ying handle these troubles? At least all the princes, including Yuan Shao, did not have this confidence. The princes who went to Shouchun to participate in the alliance this time are not only the big princes on the surface, in fact, some of the gate lord clans have come forward, after all, this alliance is likely to be the last hope of the gate lord clan, if it fails, then unless the gate lord clan is fleeing from Middle-earth, otherwise, they must behave in a proper manner under the control of northern Xinjiang, if there is a little neglect, what awaits them is complete extermination!

In 194 years in China, the alliance was not so easy to form in mid-March, and the princes and the lords of the gate valve clans entered Shouchun City one after another in the rest of the month, and under the auspices of Cao Ying, the formation of the alliance was officially started, but the progress was very limited. The reason why this is so is mainly because of the distribution of benefits.

According to Cao Ying's idea, it is to unite the strength of all the princes and gate valves, just like the concept of losing and prospering. But there are a lot of problems involved, since everyone has to pay, we must always see a little gain, right? If there is no gain at all, why do the princes and gate lords pull the entire family into the chariot? Isn't this the act of a fool?

Of course, the princes and clan lords who were able to enter Shouchun City to discuss the alliance were also representatives of Liu Tai's firm opposition to the unification of the world. These powerful people are extremely opposed to the policy of northern Xinjiang, and if there is a trace of a peaceful solution, the gate lords will not embark on this dead end.

In the 194th year of China, at the beginning of April, when the alliance was in full swing, the second wave of the southern expeditionary army in northern Xinjiang began to move. (Note: The mobilization of troops and horses does not mean that the southern expedition is immediate, and in a short period of time, it is impossible for the Tianci army to continue to occupy the territory of the princes) The opponents of the Tianci army this time are Yuan Shao and Cao Ying, Yuan Shao occupies Xuzhou, and Cao Ying occupies the eastern and southern regions of Lianghuai and Yuzhou. According to the plan discussed by Liu Tai and other core layers of northern Xinjiang, the second phase of the Southern Expedition was to completely occupy all the areas north of the Yangtze River, so the soldiers and horses used in northern Xinjiang this time must have exceeded the first stage.

The number of soldiers and horses mobilized in the first phase of the Southern Expedition did not exceed 400,000. But in the second stage of the southern expedition, because the opponent's strength was strengthened, Liu Tai decided to mobilize an army of 500,000! Moreover, the commander of this southern expedition was personally served by Liu Tai! After all, the 500,000 Tianci army has already accounted for half of the entire strength of the Tianci army, and if there is a case, it will definitely be a huge blow to the northern frontier.

Although the number of the Heavenly Army is as high as one million on the surface, the area controlled by the northern Xinjiang has become larger and larger over the years, and the soldiers and horses have become more and more scattered. For example, there are nearly 150,000 Tianci troops stationed in the Western Regions, 60,000 in Xiliang, 180,000 in the Northeast, 120,000 in Yizhou, and 30,000 in Xiangyang, and these places add up to more than 500,000.

And the total number of the Heavenly Army plus the Sailors is only 1.12 million! That is to say, Liu Tai's mobilization of 500,000 troops this time has completely hollowed out all the soldiers and horses in Youzhou, Jizhou, Longzhou, Mengzhou, Sili and other regions, even so, the 500,000 land troops are obviously not enough, of which there are still 60,000 Tianci army and water division troops to make up 500,000!

In the second phase of the Southern Expedition, there were two gathering points, the first point was Xuchang in Yuzhou, and the second point was Beihaiguo. On the Xuchang side, Liu Tai handed over to Gao Shun to command, with about 200,000 soldiers and horses, while on the Beihai side, Liu Tai personally commanded it, plus the naval division troops, and the soldiers and horses were about 300,000. The scale of this southern expedition is huge, so the preliminary preparation time is about a year to a year and a half, and now Liu Tai has officially issued the approval, that is to say, from this moment on, the northern Xinjiang will make every effort to prepare for the second southern expedition.

The amount of money and food spent by an army of 500,000 is astronomical! You must know that as soon as the army moves, the money and grain prepared will be at least two years, and with the current situation in northern Xinjiang, it is impossible to come up with such a large amount of money in a short period of time, of course, if Liu Tai uses the money and grain from the private treasury, there will be no problem.

Don't think that it seems easy to fight in the south and north in Northern Xinjiang over the years, in fact, you know that the expansion of Northern Xinjiang has reached its limit. The newly conquered areas such as Yanzhou, Sili, Sanfu, and Liangzhou are all unable to make ends meet, and they cannot be self-sufficient at all, and the north has to spend countless amounts of money and grain every month to maintain normal operation. Without a one-year buffer, people in these places would not have been able to resume normal production.

If at this moment, Liu Tai continues to march south desperately, Sanfu and Xiliang are better to say, after all, it has been some time since they have been under Liu Tai's rule, and they can barely maintain a self-sufficient situation, but Yanzhou, Sili, Nanyang and other places will have to completely stop supply, and the people in these areas are still in dire straits.

It is impossible for Liu Tai to do this, with Liu Tai's surname, he would rather postpone the time of the unification of the world for a few years, and it is impossible to ignore the people, besides, Liu Tai has waited for so many years, do you still care about a year or two? With the heritage of Sili and Yanzhou, it will take two years at most to resume normal production, you know, in history, Cao Yingke relied on the miserable Yanzhou destroyed by the Black Mountain thieves and Lu Bu to dominate the Central Plains and even the entire area north of the Yangtze River.

It can be seen from here that Yanzhou's heritage is terrifying, no matter what, Yanzhou is the birthplace of the Chinese people, the most central area of the Central Plains, and the cohesion is simply incomparable with other states and counties, as long as Liu Tai can provide a relatively stable platform, then there is no problem at all in resuming production and public security.

In 194, in mid-April, in fact, not all the civil and military forces in the northern Xinjiang regime agreed with Liu Tai's second phase of the southern expedition. After all, the losses brought by every southern expedition to northern Xinjiang are too great, such as the first phase of the southern expedition campaign commanded by Gao Shun not long ago, on the surface, the Yuan army suffered heavy losses, but the Tianci army suffered about thirty or forty thousand casualties, of which the number of dead was not much, but the number of wounded was very terrifying.

It has long been stated that the treatment of soldiers in northern Xinjiang is very generous, and all aspects are biased towards the military, so if these wounded soldiers can no longer go to the battlefield, then the money and food to be paid in northern Xinjiang is a bottomless pit, hundreds of thousands of wounded soldiers, for the huge northern Xinjiang has no problem at all, but what about 10,000, 20,000, or even 30,000?

For example, a wounded soldier can receive a monthly relief fund of ten yuan, and the purchasing power of ten yuan is 300 catties of rice (about a month's ration for a family of three). In other words, for 10,000 wounded soldiers, Northern Xinjiang will have to pay a subsidy of 3 million catties of grain every month! What a terrifying number, no matter how rich Northern Xinjiang is, it can't be like this, right?

Of course, the supply of wounded soldiers is not unlimited, and it is not gratuitous. Every wounded soldier has to pay a certain amount of labor to get a subsidy and some wages, and there will never be a free lunch in the world, if there is, it is also the compensation you have paid and now earned.

(To be continued)