Chapter 1176: The Situation Is Corrupt

Feifeng Fire Cavalry Divine Soldiers descended from the sky, respectively eliminated and captured a senior general of the enemy army, although the results were not large, but they swept away the previous Xu Huang was ambushed, and the downturn brought about by the fall of Shaocheng County also announced the official start of the Shang Army's counteroffensive!

Because Matsuda Kenhide was captured, the Shang army easily obtained a lot of information about Yamatai, as well as important information about Poseidon's intervention in the war.

Although Matsuda Kenhide knew nothing about it, he also had a general understanding of Yamatai and Poseidon through his business side.

According to Kenhide Matsuda, Poseidon didn't know what went crazy this time, and he was thousands of miles away from the ocean, and he was so elite that he did his best. The Seven Sea Fighter Legions under his command were all dispatched, Amphitrite of the Queen of the Sea, and the Mermaid Sacrifice Legion under the command of the Queen of the Sea, more than a dozen sons of the sea god, the giant shark legion, the sea giant legion, the sea dragon legion, and the elite army in the Poseidon system can be said to have all come.

Of course, since it is an ace army, the number cannot be too much, and the constraints of space also limit the number of troops that Poseidon can dispatch, and after removing the fish monster cannon fodder that can be manufactured in batches, there are exactly one million brought to the Chinese battlefield under the command of Poseidon.

Compared with the Poseidon Legion, Yamatai's combat effectiveness is stronger, and more than thirty core generals have S-rank titles at the very least, and Himiko, the queen of Yamadai, is very likely to have SS-level titles!

However, after knowing the enemy's intelligence, Liu Yi did not panic at all - reinforcements from Xiangping have arrived!

As early as after Liu Yi entered Chenzhou alone, Shang Ji ordered his army to enter a state of combat readiness, and under the leadership of various main generals, he followed in Liu Yi's footsteps to support Chenzhou.

Later, with the deepening of the understanding of the enemy army, Shang Ji also continued to strengthen reinforcements.

As before, the regular army within the Shang army was divided into local county soldiers and the central main force, of which the main force was thirty-six combat corps, each of which numbered between 200,000 and 300,000, and the lowest was a sixth-order special army, which was very strong in combat effectiveness.

The number of county soldiers varies slightly according to the size of the county, its population, whether it is on the border, etc., and the number of county soldiers in large counties is even above one million, while the number of soldiers in small counties is only about 350,000.

At present, the Shang Ji Army has a total of 37 counties under its jurisdiction, and the total number of county soldiers is as high as 30 million!

Coupled with some garrison troops, naval division troops, and some special armies that are not included in the establishment, the total strength of the Shang Ji army is approaching the 50 million mark.

This figure may seem exaggerated, but compared to the 5 billion people under the rule of Shang, the ratio of soldiers to civilians is already very low.

Yuan Shao only has only one Jizhou, with a total population of less than 2 billion, but the scale of the army has gone to 80 million, which is still the result of Yuan Shao's reference to the practice of Shang Ji and the streamlining of the government, you must know that when Han Fu was in charge of Jizhou, the total military strength of Jizhou was once close to the 200 million mark.

Of course, fighting a war is not a numbers game, and the comprehensive combat power of the 50 million army of the Shang army far exceeds that of Yuan Shao's 80 million army.

Thirty-six combat corps, Youzhou left three to guard, because the coastline of Qingzhou is relatively long, left six to guard, and finally just in case, also left seven combat corps in Pingzhou to act as a strategic support corps, and the remaining twenty combat corps were all sent to Chenzhou, including Shang Ji personally commanded, the strongest combat effectiveness of the Praetorian Guard Corps!

In addition, in view of the fact that the enemy army had a large number of fish monster cannon fodder troops, Shang Ji also issued a mobilization order for county soldiers, and transferred fifty county soldiers from Pingzhou, Yongzhou and other places as auxiliary forces.

Fortunately, this operation was concentrated on the Shang Ji mainland, and the logistical pressure was much less, otherwise such a huge army dispatch in such a short period of time would directly drive the quartermaster crazy.

At the same time as the elite army was dispatched, many world-famous top generals were also dispatched, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Dian Wei, Tai Shici and ......, countless generals arrived in Chenzhou one step ahead and fought side by side with Liu Yi.

They are also the confidence of Liu Yi to dare to order Su Huan to take the initiative to fight when the enemy situation is unknown, if so many top generals are pressing, if Su Huan is still defeated, then it is better to simply raise the white flag and surrender.

However, the death of Boros also angered the enemy army, and Poseidon gave up the idea of playing, and directly sent three henchmen, Garon, Elzak, and Io, and the three army of sea fighters.

Not to be outdone, Himiko sent out a heavy army group headed by Tsukiyomi and supplemented by powerful generals such as Tsukiyomi, Sushi Rihime, Jimmu, and Kenyulei, as well as a large number of former Japanese Warring States historical generals and a large number of Ashigaru who surrendered to the Yamatai forces.

The two sides joined forces, landed from Shaocheng County, and slaughtered Yongzhong City.

Just when the main army of the Sea Evil landed, Shang Ji also personally led the Praetorian Guard Legion to Chenzhou.

However, Shang Ji had just arrived in Yongzhong City when he received a piece of bad news!

The Chenzhou Navy Division fleet was attacked by the enemy, and the Poseidon troops united with the Himiko troops to launch an attack on the Chenzhou Navy Division's home port in Dongping, and the Chenzhou Navy Division resisted, but because of the enemy's strength, the Chenzhou Navy Division was defeated, and had to withdraw from the home port and retreat northwest along the Chenzhou coastline.

In this battle, the main battleships of the Chenzhou Navy Division lost three-fifths, and it can be said that the vitality was greatly damaged.

More importantly, the flagship of Li Congmao, the commander of the Chenzhou Naval Division, sank, and Li Congmao was also unfortunately killed in battle, and the Chenzhou Naval Division was temporarily managed by Ling Tong.

Although Li Congmao's presence is thin, he is also one of the few S-level generals in Chenzhou. Moreover, in the Shang Ji army system, the commander of the Fourth Fleet of the Navy Division can be roughly equivalent to the commander of the main combat legion.

Li Congmao directly broke the record of the highest-ranking general killed in battle since the establishment of the Shang Army.

Worse news is still to come, after the defeat of the Chenzhou Naval Division, the enemy army took advantage of the situation to occupy Dongping Port, and used Dongping Port as a springboard to land in large numbers.

In the face of the wolf-like coalition army, the defenders were defeated, and the enemy army soon occupied a large area of the city, including the fall of a huge city.

At this point, the enemy army gained a firm foothold in Chenzhou.

Therefore, as soon as Shang Ji came to Chenzhou, he had to face the embarrassing situation of fighting on two fronts.

Moreover, because the enemy has a strong naval superiority, and the coastline of Chenzhou is very long, the Shang Ji defense is very passive, because they may land from any place.

To put it simply, the current situation in Chenzhou is equivalent to repeating the process of Shang Ji's destruction of Lee's Korea, except that Shang Ji has changed from the original attacker to the current defender.

Shang Ji has always bullied people with the navy before, and now he finally tastes the taste of being bullied by the navy.

The sailors were also excited because of the defeat of the Chenzhou sailors, and they asked for battle, and Ling Cao directly sent a blood letter to ask for war, but after repeated deliberations and discussions, in the end, Shang Ji suppressed the sailor's request for war with an almost arrogant attitude, and ordered Ling Cao to never act rashly.