After the mysterious withdrawal of the Eastern Qin Kingdom, the entire Yugu Continent fell into a strange calm again.

This calm, like the calm before the storm, is irritating and depressing.

Seven days later, under the secret escort of the Praetorian Guards, the crane in the clouds quietly came to Yuehua City.

Walking into the familiar palace, he did not have a trace of excitement, on the contrary, he hid silently in the imperial study alone, not letting anyone disturb him.

Everyone understood and didn't say anything, but fortunately, Yun Yu's big and small affairs were presided over by Mu Qianmei, and a large number of people such as Jiang Yunyi, Ouyang Bo and Zhuang Shujun were trying their best to assist.

Thousands of threads, thousands of threads, are all in Mu Qianmei's experience in her previous life, combined with the current actual situation, drastically taken care of, one by one gradually straightened out.

In the past half a month, the occupied city has basically settled down.

Yun Tianxiao's escape, coupled with the sudden retreat of the Dongqin ** team, Mu Qianmei took over all the cities of the original Yunyu Country without hesitation.

At the same time, some small cities near the Yunyu Kingdom of the former Central Wu Kingdom were also included in the territory of the Yunyu Kingdom.

These were some small victories during the war, and now that the enemy situation is unknown, Mu Qianmei did not make any big moves, but just seized all the time to rectify and develop.

The coalition forces of various countries are still in Yunyu Country for the time being, but the temporary alliance composed of people from the rivers and lakes, since each gang has its own affairs, many big gangs will go back first.

Only some people from small gangs and some lonely knights and the like stayed in this era of war, after all, Mu Qianmei is still the leader of the martial arts alliance, how can the leader of the martial arts alliance not have his own power?

Feng Tianyu and Ouyang Bo also returned to the beggar gang.

This time, this brand-new Yunyu country is truly worthy of its name, and all the work can be carried out vigorously.

Because there is now only one Yunyu State, the escape of the puppet emperor Yun Tianxiao is equivalent to an official declaration that this puppet state affiliated to the Eastern Qin State has ended and completely withdrawn from the historical stage.

Yun Yu has entered a new era, saying that it is the restoration of the crane in the clouds, but it is better to say that the era of Mu Qianmei is coming.

Because the person who really leads all this is Mu Qianmei.

Of course, Yun Zhonghe is the emperor of the previous dynasty after all, so it is more justifiable, and the most important point is that he is Mu Qianmei's father.

One is right, one is capable, and the other is tacit, and it is natural to create a new era.

Although Yun Tianxiao took almost all the wealth with him when he fled, the treasure of the crane in the cloud was enough for the new Yun Yu to support a framework.

Moreover, Mu Qianmei also has the industry of the beggar gang, and she is still providing her with a large amount of funds to collect people, in addition to the needs of the beggar gang itself, she can also use it in the construction of Yunyu.

Now, they can manage their own national affairs openly, and Mu Qianmei first straightens out Yun Yu's finances, because the economy is the foundation of all affairs, and without the economy, everything cannot really be carried out.

Secondly, it is to recruit troops with great fanfare and expand its own military strength, because in this era of war, without a strong military strength as a guarantee, everything is empty talk.

Yun Yu carried out a large number of conscription work, and once the new recruits joined, they immediately joined the intense training, accelerated the pace of army building, and were ready to participate in the war at any time.

Mu Qianmei carried out heavy deployment in places that might be attacked by the Eastern Qin State, and other places were relatively weaker.

Twenty days later, the Eastern Qin State announced that the traces of Qin Siyue, the princess of the Eastern Qin Kingdom, and Wu Mingjie, the former prince of the Central Wu Kingdom, had been found in the Northern Han Kingdom, and that the Northern Han State had deliberately hid them.

Subsequently, it was also discovered that the Northern Han Kingdom still contained some royal members of the former Zhongwu State and Shangyan Kingdom, and it seemed that they had the intention to support their restoration.

More importantly, the number one gang of beggars on the rivers and lakes, whose origin is the Northern Han Kingdom, is inextricably linked with the Northern Han Kingdom, and now it is on the side of the Yunzhong Crane in the Yunyu Kingdom, and is in frontal conflict with the Eastern Qin State.

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The Eastern Qin State listed various reasons, and the ultimate intention was nothing more than to formally declare war on the Northern Han State.

On the twenty-first day, the million-strong army of the Eastern Qin State, which had already gathered on the border of the Northern Han Kingdom, suddenly launched a large-scale siege battle.

The Northern Han Kingdom didn't care much about the calm and transfer of the Eastern Qin Kingdom some time ago, and the affairs of the Yunyu Kingdom had not been resolved, so they didn't expect the Eastern Qin Kingdom to suddenly turn against themselves and point the finger at themselves.

So, they didn't do anything to prepare.

It wasn't until the Eastern Qin State listed the various crimes of the Northern Han State that the Northern Han State woke up from a dream and knew that these deployments were originally aimed at themselves.

However, at this time, it was too late to wake up, and the enemy was currently deploying troops, and it was too late.

The Northern Han Dynasty was originally a large commercial country with strong economic strength, and in this troubled era, it also urgently recruited troops and horses, with more than one million troops.

In addition to sending 200,000 troops to support Yunyu Country, there are also 900,000 troops in the country, and if both sides are prepared for battle, they can also fight a protracted war.

However, now the armies of the Northern Han Kingdom are relatively scattered, and for a time they could not organize an effective defensive counterattack.

When the Eastern Qin State suddenly launched a war, many of the troops of the Northern Han State were still on the way to be deployed, and they could not reach the designated position in time.

Such a time difference actually made the million-strong army of the Eastern Qin State attack the city and plunder the wall, and the road was very smooth, and they attacked the capital Luoya City.

The general Zhang Xiaoting also seemed to have regained his past state, all the way on a rampage, the momentum was extraordinary, there was almost no delay halfway, and some small cities did not even wait for them to attack the city

, he took the initiative to open the city gate, and surrendered the city.

This time, Zhang Xiaoting, who was riding on a war horse, finally let out a bad breath, and suddenly felt a lot more refreshed, and he looked high-spirited.

He even thought in his heart that if he could find such a state when he was facing the enemy Yunyu Country at that time, those wars would definitely not be so aggrieved.

It only took twenty-six days for the army of the Eastern Qin State to attack under Luoya City, which can be called a magical blitzkrieg, and when the other party had not fully reacted, it directly attacked their capital city and approached the imperial city.

After an urgent call, the remaining troops of the Northern Han Kingdom were basically gathered in the capital Luoya City, with about 600,000 people.

However, Zhang Xiaoting's million-strong army is fighting more and more, and now with the surrender of the army, it has actually reached 1.2 million people.

600,000 defenders, against 1.2 million siege troops, in fact, it is not too bad, the ratio of one to two, the defenders have the advantage of the city wall, as long as the defense is properly deployed, there is still a chance.

Previously, Mu Qianmei's 100,000 defenders fought against Zhang Xiaoting's 900,000, and they could advance and retreat in a certain way, which is the best example.

It's a pity that there is no Mu Qianmei here.

Although Zhang Xiaoting's siege battle was difficult, he now had 200,000 troops in his hands, and there was no way, the surrendered army could only be forced to charge forward.

He launched a fierce attack almost regardless of casualties.

At this time, on the other side of the Yugu Continent, the Southern Tang Kingdom and the Western Chu State also refused to give in to each other for a while because of the border problems for many years, and almost when the Eastern Qin State launched an attack on the Northern Han State, they also launched a huge war.

After years of preparation, the Southern Tang Kingdom, a million cavalry rushed into the territory of the Western Chu State.

It is said that the Western Chu State is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but when facing the millions of iron cavalry of the Southern Tang Kingdom, he was still forced to retreat step by step.

In general, the combat strength was still insufficient, and the Southern Tang Kingdom actually fought smoothly, and it only took a month to reach Litiancheng, the capital of the Western Chu Kingdom.

Both the Northern Han and Western Chu have reached a precarious moment.

The ** teams that were originally sent to support Yunyu Country immediately withdrew from Yunyu when the war broke out and rushed back to their own country urgently.

In the early dynasty, the crane in the clouds sat on the throne, and the civil and military officials were talking about the current situation in the Yugu Continent, making suggestions for the current situation of Yun Yu, and trying to sort out a clear clue.

In this situation, what should Yun Yu do next? Where do we go from here? The ministers deliberated and argued.

Opinions differed, and some proposed to support the Northern Han Kingdom, after all, resisting the Eastern Qin State was a common interest of several countries.

Some people suggested supporting the Western Chu State, and not letting the Western Chu State fall into the hands of the Southern Tang State, otherwise, the Yugu Continent would become a situation where the Eastern Qin State and the Southern Tang State fought separately.

Some people also suggested that they should not help each other, and wait for them to compete with each other, and they can be the fisherman who will ultimately benefit.

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For a while, all kinds of suggestions were true, and they all sounded reasonable.

The crane in the cloud couldn't help frowning, a little irritated.

One of his biggest headaches is that when something big happens, everyone puts forward their opinions and suggestions, but he is difficult to choose and doesn't know how to decide.

Because what everyone says seems to make sense.

Out of habit, he couldn't help but look at the national teacher, who used to be guided by the national teacher at this time, giving him some clearer hints and giving him a decisive direction.

However, the national teacher did not speak immediately today, and when Yun Zhonghe looked at him, he seemed to glance at Mu Qianmei inadvertently, and did not speak.

Yun Zhonghe just woke up from a dream, the recent affairs, all the big and small affairs, are basically taken care of by Mu Qianmei, she should be the person who knows the overall pattern and situation best.

Due to returning to the sad place of the palace, the crane in the clouds evoked a lot of sad memories of the past, so he was sad in the palace for a long time, and finally under Tana's guidance, he gradually let go of some thoughts.

Unconsciously, he slowly found that he seemed to be more and more inseparable from Tana.

Soulmates are hard to find, and now Tana is his soulmate.

Mu Qianmei was originally standing not far in front of Yun Zhonghe, which was the closest position to the emperor.

She is just a princess, and she has never officially held any official position, but when Yunzhonghe is away, everyone is used to looking at her as a horse, so her status is quite delicate.

is not the emperor, but she is often exercising the rights of the emperor, she does not have any official position, but she stands on the court but makes people feel very natural, and does not feel any abruptness.

When the national teacher looked at her, Mu Qianmei had no choice but to walk out of the queue and said respectfully:

"Back to my father, Erchen believes that in the current situation, no matter who we support, it is too late. Moreover, three countries have supported us before, and now two of them are on the opposite side, who should we support? Since it's too late to rescue, and we can't afford to ignore one over the other, why don't we take this opportunity to develop our strength? ”

"The main force of the Eastern Qin State is busy attacking the Northern Han Kingdom, and the Southern Tang Kingdom is fighting the Western Chu Kingdom, we are just far away from the war, in the middle of the Yugu Continent, if we want not to be annexed, we must develop and grow rapidly."

"Now, the middle of the Yugu Continent is just the time of emptiness, while we are developing our own strength, we are constantly expanding to the surrounding cities, even if we can't quickly develop to the level of the Eastern Qin Kingdom and the Southern Tang Kingdom, but the closer we are, the better!"

"When their war ceases, it is estimated that the Northern Han Kingdom and the Western Chu Kingdom have already perished, at that time, our Yunyu is in the middle of the two major forces, if it is not strong enough, it may be quickly divided by them."

"We can't let them

It has become the two major forces fighting in the chamber, but to make the Ugu Continent a three-legged situation, so that we can maneuver around it and have room for survival and development. ”

"After all, when we are strong enough, whoever wants to destroy us must consider the price after the war, so the best choice at the moment is to develop and strengthen our own strength, and take advantage of the situation to speed up and expand our territory."

After listening to Mu Qianmei's words, everyone was silent, even if there were still people with different opinions, they all didn't speak again.

Princess Yunyu Zhi Duoxing, the suggestions she put forward were generally not opposed, and most of them also agreed with what she said.

Therefore, when the Eastern Qin State and the Southern Tang Kingdom were struggling to attack the capitals of the Northern Han State and the Western Chu State, the Yunyu Kingdom did not stop, they quickly selected some surrounding cities of the Eastern Qin State, and also began to attack the city and plunder the walled city to expand the territory.

In the middle of the Ugu continent, he has developed his own strength.

For a time, the Ugu Continent was full of wars and desolation.

The siege battle of Yunyu Country is better, because it is far away from the war, many cities are not guarded by large armies, and they seem to be very empty, and the attack is quite smooth.

Moreover, with the escalation of the war, in order to concentrate its troops, the Eastern Qin State also began to send the defenders of various cities to the battlefield, which was reluctantly abandoned some unimportant cities and focused on defending some strategically important hub cities.

Yunyu State does not dare to really fight a tough battle at present, firstly, the personnel are limited, and secondly, the cities after the annexation also need time to digest and manage, so they did not launch an attack on the cities guarded by heavy troops, but chose the cities where the Eastern Qin State had weak defenses and even took the initiative to give up, strengthen management, and unite with their own cities to form a line of defense and strictly defend.

Every time she occupied a city, the first thing Mu Qianmei did was to recruit troops and arrange for rapid training of the army.

Mu Qianmei knows very well that in addition to the physical fitness of soldiers, the strength of the army is also very important.

So, she paid a lot of money to hire people from the Crystal Building to join Yun Yu, open the Ministry of Military Industry, and then combined some military knowledge in her previous life, give them some suggestions, and let them go all out to develop new weapons.

Weapons play a significant role in warfare, and sometimes even play a decisive role.

This side is developing in a tense and orderly manner, and the defense of the two capitals of Luoya City and Litian City is very difficult and cruel.

When a country concentrates its military strength to defend only one city, its cohesion and combat effectiveness are extraordinary, and Zhang Xiaoting finally stagnated and was stopped outside the gates of Luoya City.

Three days have passed, and no have been laid, five days have passed, and there is still no lay, and ten days have passed, and there is still no lay.

The losses on both sides were very heavy, there was no other way, the fight was a crowd tactic, the defenders fought more desperately, and there were city walls to maintain, so the casualties were slightly smaller.

However, Zhang Xiaoting also let his soldiers rush forward after he had exhausted the surrendered army.

One group fell, and the other followed.

One batch, one batch, another batch!

Casualties are increasing day by day, and the siege is still very difficult.

It wasn't until the thirteenth day that he finally broke through the city gate and entered the city of Loya.

The battle outside the palace is also tragic and abnormal, because when you arrive here, it is a country, a real moment of life and death, loyal people, sworn to defend to the death.

It took another two days and paid a heavy price for Zhang Xiaoting to finally completely capture the palace and occupy Luoya City.

At this time, Zhang Xiaoting's million-strong army had only 500,000 people left.

Moreover, many of them were wounded soldiers.

It can be said that this victory is only a pyrrhic victory.

Like them, the pace of the Southern Tang Kingdom's attack also became extremely difficult after it reached the Heavenly City.

Due to the hardships and dangers of the Heavenly City, the time for the Southern Tang Kingdom to attack the city was three days later than the Eastern Qin's attack on Luoya City.

The price paid was the same as that of the Eastern Qin State, and it was more than 500,000 casualties before it won a tragic victory.

By the time both sides captured the capital, the New Year had long passed, and all countries were spending Chinese New Year's Eve in the midst of war.

There is bloody rain everywhere, how can you be in the mood for the New Year?

Around the Chinese New Year alone, more than three million people completely disappeared from the Ugu Continent.

In fact, there is no real winner in this war.

The number of casualties in each country is quite high, and it can be said that in a short period of time, no country will dare to start a war recklessly.

Moreover, after capturing the capital, it will also take a slow process for the Eastern Qin State and the Southern Tang State to take over the other cities of the occupied country, and they will not have time to take care of Yun Yu for the time being.

This loss will take a long time to recover and develop, if it is said that who pays the least price and gains the greatest benefit, then of course it must be Yunyu Country.

Quietly, they obtained a large area of land in the middle of the Ugu Continent at a very small cost.

Although the territory they occupy is not as small as the current Eastern Qin State and the Southern Tang Kingdom, it is not much smaller.

The point is, they pay the least price.

The struggle for hegemony of the five countries ended so hastily, to the surprise of many people, the era of the three kingdoms has come inadvertently, who can unify the Yugu Continent?

Perhaps, there will be a long time.

Three countries, everyone has a chance, and the most worrying and full of expectations is the newly developed Yunyu country, compared with the two big-name powers, how many opportunities can it have?

The future may not be bright, but the road will certainly be tortuous.