After the five giants of Jicheng now occupied the entire mouth of the Jihe River, they decided to mobilize all the ships of the major forces in Jicheng to transport their troops, and use force to force the Zhoushui Alliance to give up half of the sea access.

The five giants began to carry out a general mobilization in Jicheng, demanding that all large and small chambers of commerce in Jicheng send ships, money, troops, farmers, and materials to participate in this action to seize the sea.

For a while, the players in the entire Jicheng City were in a panic and complained.

In the streets and alleys, the players in the restaurant and teahouse were discussing, "Hey, man, have you heard, the Big Five want to fight against Zhou Shui's people, and they are in Tanggukou, three hundred miles away!" Troops were to be transported by water, so all the ships in the city had to be requisitioned. This is terrible, this time we have to dispatch 20,000 or 30,000 NPC troops, and if we fight a battle, I'm afraid they will all die. ”

"Cut, those guys, they obviously want to fight for territory, but they want to requisition our boats, what is this about?! After this battle, I have no benefit, and all the benefits are for them. ”

"No way, who called them the boss of our Jicheng! If they can take Tanggukou, it will directly connect the shipping channel from Jicheng to the Bohai Sea, which will definitely be beneficial to the hegemony of the Big Five. But it has nothing to do with us, let's just do some small business in Jicheng. ”

"Look at this battle, what are the chances of winning it?"

"It's hard to say, if the Big Five all go their best, it should be very likely to take Tanggukou."

In Jicheng, there are small vendor players, workshop owner players, and players of various professions.

Perceptions of the battlefield vary.

Between Jicheng and Zhoushui Walled City, the relationship is neither good nor bad. However, since the road was built, the merchants and players between the two walled cities have been very close, and all kinds of goods are transported back and forth between the two walled cities in an endless stream of horse-drawn carriages, which is far stronger than the other walled cities.

Therefore, many small merchants and small workshop owners are not happy to see the two walled cities go to war, and once the war starts, it will affect and damage the commercial relationship between the two walled cities, and then damage their vital interests. Even if the battle is won and the mouth to the sea is occupied. They don't have much to gain and maybe more to lose. For the Big Five, ships, money, food, and troops should be requisitioned for warfare. The attitude of most players is negative.

The main ones who support this war are the few giant players at the top. They want to control shipping, access to the sea. It will form a strong deterrent force for the entire hinterland of Yan Kingdom, so as to achieve hegemony as soon as possible.

Whether you are willing or not, all kinds of land requisition work is proceeding at a fast pace. On the Jihe River, large and small boats in Jicheng are constantly gathering. Troops and materials are also being concentrated.

While preparing for war, the Big Five also sent high-ranking envoys to negotiate with the Zhoushui Alliance. Ask the Zhoushui Alliance to give up half of the territory to the sea. If you give up half of the territory. Everyone is safe. If you don't let it, then you will meet each other.

The Zhou Shui Alliance was furious. sternly refuted the demands of the five giants of Jicheng, drove the Jicheng envoy back, and gave an official answer: there is absolutely no way to give up an inch of territory. If you have the ability, you can take it yourself.

The atmosphere between the players of the two walled cities suddenly became extremely tense like a bonfire about to burn.

The Zhoushui Alliance also immediately entered the first level of combat readiness, and the whole alliance was mobilized, ready to go to war at any time.

In addition, it also began to reduce the various materials exported to Jicheng, all strategic materials, food, bronze, horses, red medicine, war bows, leather, salt, minerals, carriages, wine, etc., as many as hundreds of important military items and raw materials, only allowed to be purchased from Jicheng, but it is forbidden to sell to Jicheng.

The ships of the Zhoushui Shipyard also stopped supplying Jicheng. At the same time, the Zhoushui Alliance also issued a warning to the lonely Bohai Shipyard that it must not sell ships to players in Jicheng.

Lonely has no objection to this, and says that he is willing to abide by the peace agreement and never buy a ship for Jicheng - in fact, even if he wants to sell it now, he can't do it. Because his boat had to pass through the mouth of Tanggu before it could enter the Ji River. The Zhoushui Alliance has established a military base at Tanggukou and intercepted all non-Zhoushui boats, and his boats cannot enter the Jihe River at all.

The five giants of Jicheng once again formed a top Jicheng delegation, led by the five giants of the bloody sky, the confusion, the bright moon of the year, the second emperor of Qin, and the North Darkness, and went to the Zhoushui City Walled City to negotiate with the Zhoushui Alliance, with an extremely tough attitude, and once again demanded that the Zhoushui Alliance must give up half of the access to the sea.

Qin Xiaobai, Sheep, Nameless, Qianli Buliu and others received the Jicheng delegation.

At the negotiation table, Qin II looked at the table proudly and said: "Now we have prepared more than 200 ships, which can transport 20,000 troops and many supplies at one time. In addition to the waterway, we can also transport countless troops and materials to Tanggukou with the No. 6 carriage. Truth be told, you don't stand a chance to defeat us! Leaving you half of the sea access to the sea is already very benevolent. ”

Qin Xiaobai's mood was a little heavy.

He didn't expect that the Big Five would actually join forces to snatch the sea. He has always avoided conflicts with Jicheng, because the total number of players in Jicheng is too large, and once they are united, it is difficult to deal with, and if they are not careful, they will be stumped. But it would be impossible for him to back down and divide half of the access to the sea.

Sheep, Nameless, Thousands of Miles and the others, seeing that Qin Xiaobai didn't say a word, they didn't say anything special, and they all didn't speak.

The whole negotiation has almost become a stage for Qin II to show off his strength, and he hyped up the strength of Jicheng. When he saw that Qin Xiaobai and the others didn't say a word, he was even more proud, and he talked endlessly. He was alone, and he talked for more than ten minutes, until his mouth was dry, and he stopped unsatisfied. The five giants of Jicheng have successively said that they are constantly pressuring, wanting to use various "facts" to prove that the Zhoushui Alliance cannot compete with the five of them.

The entire negotiation process took an hour. The four speakers and deputy speakers of the Zhoushui Alliance said very little, and occasionally responded twice, almost most of the time it was the five giants of Jicheng who were talking. Although the five giants of Jicheng were a little strange why the four leaders of the Zhoushui Alliance were so silent, when they thought of the current situation, it was clear that the Zhoushui Alliance had been forced into a corner.

This time the two sides negotiated at the highest level, and the Big Five of Jicheng still didn't get the results they wanted. Qin Xiaobai's calm attitude was beyond their expectations, neither an angry rebuttal, nor a promise to give anything away.

Qin II's mouth was numb, and he didn't get any results.

Qin Xiaobai's words put an end to this long negotiation. For this sentence, he thought for a long time and said, "I already know what you think. From January to February 28, my Zhoushui Alliance continued to purchase a total of 23.8 million catties of surplus grain from various chambers of commerce in Jicheng, and I think this point may not be clear to the five people.

I advise the five that it is better to abandon the plan to attack Tanggukou by force. The food in your hands can't hold out for 100,000 troops to fight for 10 days. Our Zhoushui Alliance is enough to hold on to 100,000 troops for a month and 10 years of operations. I don't want to turn the other cheek with you. If you must go to war, I will accompany you! I hope you can defeat me in ten days! Otherwise, you will never have this opportunity. ”

The blood-colored sky, the confusion, the bright moon of the year, Qin II, and the North Darkness shook almost at the same time, and they looked at Qin Xiaobai in disbelief. Xiaobai has been quietly buying grain from Jicheng? Did all the grain in Jicheng flow into his warehouse?

Negotiations concluded.

The five giants of Jicheng did not have any more cards in their hands that could be used to put pressure on the Zhoushui Alliance.

They also had no intention of staying in Zhoushui Walled City, and immediately returned to Jicheng in a carriage, eager to know whether what Qin Xiaobai said was true.

Subsequently, the five giants quickly checked their respective grain reserves, trying to find out how much surplus grain there was in Jicheng.

They were shocked by the results of a thorough investigation.

Because the five forces fought each other and blocked intelligence, they didn't know how much surplus food there was in the entire Jicheng, nor did they know how much food the other party had. Intuitively, there should be a lot of food in Jicheng, after all, with such a huge capital with hundreds of thousands of players, it is impossible to have a shortage of food. So they also didn't have strict control over the grain.

But as a result, it made them feel cold. There are some unknown player forces that have set up many grain purchasing offices in Jicheng, specializing in exchanging various commodities for food. They usually don't pay much attention to it, thinking that it is a grain merchant player in Jicheng, but now when they check, it turns out that the grain in the hands of many grain merchants has disappeared, and they don't know where to go. After investigating the ordinary players in Jicheng, there is almost no surplus food in their hands, which is basically only enough for their own tribe to eat.

Of course, the Big Five also have a large amount of food reserves of their own to deal with emergencies.

According to statistics, they only have about 10 million catties of grain in their hands. It's about enough for 100,000 troops to eat for fifteen or sixteen days. That is to say, even if Jicheng dispatches 100,000 troops, it will not be able to fight for many days, and it will be forced to retreat. The more troops are out, the faster the retreat will be.