Blessings and misfortunes do not go alone!

Bad news continued to reach Yang Jian's ears in the palace of Daxing City, Chang'an, one after another, and one was worse than the other!

In the past, when the Sui Empire was at its strongest, almost every piece of news could stir up turmoil within the entire empire, where did anyone dare to provoke the Sui Empire at that time? But now Yang Jian has become a little numb under the blows of continuous bad news.

From the moment he was almost captured by the Xia army who attacked by surprise in Zhuo County, the situation of the entire Sui Empire quickly collapsed, and since he hurriedly returned to Chang'an, all kinds of bad news have fully covered his sight.

First of all, the land of Youzhou centered on Zhuo County was quickly captured, and Wang Jingren, the Taishou of Hejian who led the army north, was also defeated and killed, and the soldiers of the rest of the counties and counties in Hebei were frightened and were unable to go north to recover Zhuo County, resulting in the loss of logistics for the million-strong army on the front line in Liaodong.

In this case, the million-strong army on the Liaodong front was quickly defeated and all lost in the hands of the Xia army, and then the 300,000 people under the command of Yanrong in Jiaodong were also annihilated under the attack of the Xia army who suddenly crossed the sea to the south.

The news of the more than 300,000 Xia troops who annihilated Yan Rong and attacked Keqi Prefecture in the west had just arrived, and then the news of the annihilation of the naval forces under Yuan Jingshan and Zheng Xiaoru was received.

The loss of 1.5 million troops in one go, the loss of more than 2 million young people, and even his beloved son Yang Guang, the king of Jin, were missing after the defeat in Liaodong, these tragic bad news made Yang Jian simply grief-stricken, but he knew that he had to hold on.

Before Yang Jian could straighten up and take a breath, a series of even more unfortunate bad news came from Jiangnan!

The 200,000 Sui troops who attacked Yizhou County of the Xia State with the assistance of the navy army were also facing great danger, and under the strong blows of the major fleets of the Xia army, the Sui army's naval division, which had more than 2,000 ships, had almost all perished under the blow of more than 1,000 warships of the Xia army.

The Xia army used the combined forces of the Yizhou Fleet, the Ryukyu Fleet, the Second Fleet of the South Seas, and the East China Sea Fleet to completely wipe out the originally seemingly powerful Sui naval division, and even the Sui naval division Metropolitan Lai Hu'er sank at the bottom of the Yizhou Strait with his own warships.

After losing the cover of their own naval army, the 200,000 Sui army that had landed in Yizhou, under the leadership of the great general Yu Juluo, had completely seized all the land on the west coast of Yizhou except Keelung City, but after losing the late stage of the naval army and foreign aid, it was resisted by the scorched earth of the Xia State, and the Sui army seemed to be destroyed at hand.

The Sui army in Yizhou was in danger of being annihilated, but the Sui Empire, which had lost almost all of its naval forces, was unable to rescue and support at all, and the Sui Empire still faced many attacks.

After the Xia First Fleet successfully annihilated Yuan Jingshan and Zheng Xiaoru's troops at Jiaozhou Port, it quickly moved south, and it took less than two days to seize Yuzhou Island, which was geographically important but had few garrisons, and began to build a large port here.

The fact that the First Fleet of the Xia Army was able to capture Yuzhou Island so quickly also had a lot to do with Mi Ke, a group of members of the Mi family who participated in the Xia Army, and the members of the Mi family were not just Mi Ke, although others did not have Mi Ke's achievements, but there were also some members of the First Fleet.

With the secret support of the Xia State, the Mi family of Yuzhou Island has a strong business strength in various businesses, and over the years with the operation of the Xia State on Yuzhou Island, the Xia State has a very strong support force here, and when the Xia army attacked, the original inhabitants of the island cooperated with the Xia army to quickly capture here.

When Wang Yong first occupied Sanqi, Wang Ze coveted Yuzhou Island, which was seized by Nan Chen at that time, and now this largest island in Jiangbei has officially fallen into the hands of Xia Guo himself, which can be regarded as Xia Jun's own wish.

After occupying Yuzhou Island, the First Fleet of the Xia Army and the accompanying Xia Army began to attack and harass the coastal counties of the Sui Empire north of the Yangtze River.

Many of the people in the early Xia Kingdom were mostly people from coastal counties, and there were many in Donghai County, even if the Sui Empire had a bad relationship with the Xia State in the later period, and there were few exchanges between the two sides, but it could not block people-to-people exchanges.

Many people in the Xia Kingdom still write letters to their relatives in the Sui Empire, so the people here are not without envy for their relatives who live hundreds of acres of fertile land in the Xia Kingdom and are full of cattle and sheep.

In the past, the Sui army strictly forbade private sailing, and they could only hope that one day they could live the same life as their relatives with envious expressions, but the sudden arrival of the Xia army finally made them feel that the opportunity was rare, so the people of the coastal counties of the Sui Empire went to sea to join the army of immigrants.

The Xia State not only migrated a large number of the people of the Sui Empire, but also encouraged and mobilized dozens of Western vassal states to come here to mobilize the people to migrate, after all, these vassal states are too remote, even if they have been supported by the Xia State, the population is still too sparse, which is very unfavorable to the spread of Han civilization in Kunlun.

This time, the Xia army attacked the Sui Empire in an all-out way, and these vassal states also gained a good source of population, because the time was too urgent, these vassal states simply hired the fleets of various chambers of commerce in the Xia State to help with transportation.

In the next six months, it is estimated that at least more than 2 million Han people flowed into the major vassal states in the West, which greatly increased the national strength of the local vassal states and rapidly expanded their sphere of influence.

After the first fleet attacked the north north of the Yangtze River, and the major fleets of the Xia Kingdom south of the Yangtze River were not willing to be lonely, after the Yizhou Strait completely annihilated the Sui army's Laihu's Nursery Division, the Xia Army's Yizhou Fleet, Ryukyu Fleet, and East China Sea Fleet also began to launch a powerful offensive against Fujian, Zhejiang, and other coastal counties south of the Yangtze River.

Like the counties in Jiangbei, the people of the Sui Empire here had the same thoughts, and many people who originally wanted to leave the Sui Empire now went to sea by boat, just for the fifty acres of fertile land promised to them by the Xia State, and if they were willing to go to the West, they could each get at least 100 to 200 acres.

In addition to these fleets carrying out their own actions with the Yangtze River as the boundary, the second fleet of the Xia Army quickly moved north into the Yangtze River, tracing from the mouth of the Yangtze River to the Yangtze River and continuously attacking the counties along the river of the Sui Empire along the way, where the wealth of the counties was no less than that of Jiangdong.

In order to ensure a surprise attack on Yizhou, most of the Sui army's troops were drawn from the counties along the river, which eventually led to the elite troops of the Sui Empire's counties along the river being withdrawn.

Fortunately, the second fleet of the Xia army is all sailors, at most, they just went ashore to loot and rob the people, and they have no ability to capture the county at all, otherwise they will still suffer from the chaos within the Sui Empire.

However, when the Second Fleet traced back to the mouth of Poyang Lake, Ouyang Wen, the Taishou of Huancheng, used fishing boats to transform countless fireboats down the river, and the fires in the sky were overwhelming, and the Second Fleet of the Xia Army had to slowly retreat to the Jingkou (Zhenjiang) area because the ships were made of wood and smeared with flammable materials such as tung oil and asphalt.

However, in this way, the threat of the Xia Army's Second Fleet to Danyang County and other Jiangdong counties still existed, especially the rich counties around Taihu Lake were under the threat of the Xia army, and the Xia army could capture these rich counties at any time.

Even if the overall economic scale of the south was still not as developed as that of the north at this time, the rich land of Jiangdong has always been the core essence of Jiangnan, and if the counties here were seriously damaged, the economic impact on the Sui Empire would still be great.

The Xia army's attack was like a fuse, before their attack, Jiangnan was like the peaceful and prosperous era of Haiyan Heqing, but after the Xia army invaded the Sui Empire, many restless scholars in Jiangnan took advantage of the situation to raise troops.

Even bandits and bandits from all over the country also rebelled, and the less powerful plundered the countryside, and the more powerful simply raised troops to occupy the counties and counties like those noble clans, and these people proclaimed themselves kings, governors, generals, and other different names.

The news that Jiangnan quickly fell into a mess quickly reached the hands of Yang Jian in Chang'an, and before he had time to find a way to deal with the bad news, Yang Jian received an eight-hundred-mile urgent report from Lingnan from Lingnan, Wei Huan, the general manager of the Lingnan march.

The Xia army, which had been quiet and did not make any movement in Rinan County, suddenly mobilized more than 100,000 troops to the north and stormed Jiuzhen County and Jiaozhi County north of Ninan County.

At the same time that Wei Wei sent out an urgent report, this Xia army had already captured all Jiuzhen County and Jiaozhi County, and even the three counties of Zhuya, which were originally under the governance of the Xian family, all fell because of Xia Guo's dissatisfaction with the vacillating attitude of the Feng brothers after the death of Madame Xian.

The 100,000 Xia troops who completely occupied the entire Jiaozhou successively purged some of the remaining local indigenous Haoqiang, as well as the die-hard supporters of the Sui Empire, and then continued to march north to Ningyue County (Qinzhou), and the fall of the entire Lingnan seemed to be imminent.

From Longyou, Mobei, Hetao, Bingzhou, Youzhou and other inland to Sanqi, Donghai County, the Yangtze River, and even the entire coastal areas of the East China Sea and the South China Sea, they all fell under the powerful offensive of the Xia army in an instant.

For a time, the entire Sui Empire seemed to be under the powerful offensive of the Xia State in all directions, and only one southwest was not attacked by the Xia army, and it had to face the attack of the rapidly rising Tubo and the newly restored Tuyuhun, which could be said to be surrounded by enemies.

At this time, Yang Jian began to faintly regret why he provoked such a powerful enemy as the Xia Kingdom, and even more regretted why he felt that this was the will of heaven and did not continue to attack after the 300,000 army that attacked Liaodong for the first time was destroyed halfway?

After all, the Xia State at that time had just been established and was not strong enough, if he had united with the Turks to send troops to destroy the still weak Xia State at that time, there would be no such situation as it is now, but there is nothing in this world.

What's more, at that time, the Turks were strong, and how could they have put the Sui Empire, which had just unified the Central Plains, in their eyes, so everyone walked by themselves, and it was inevitable that the Sui Empire would face such an encounter when Wang Ze appeared.

Faced with the empire's unprecedentedly powerful external threats, Jiangnan was in chaos again, and the bandits and other hidden forces in the north of the Sui Empire were not willing to be lonely and began to make trouble.

A large number of riots continued to occur in Shangdang County and Changping County in Hebei, Huai'an and Yizhou in the land of Jianghuai, and many counties and counties were seized one after another.