The westernmost town of the Eastern Qi Kingdom, Dingtianguan.

Ji Changwei, the lord of the Eastern Qi Kingdom, was holding his hands behind his back at the moment, watching the endless and endless tents of the Western Qin army camp under the Guanxia.

Dingtian Pass is the most important pass in the west of the Eastern Qi Kingdom.

It's not so much a pass as a jaw-dropping fortress.

The Eastern Qi Kingdom is surrounded by the sea on one side and borders on enemy countries on three sides.

To the north, bordered by the Northern Swallow.

To the south, it is bordered by Southern Chu.

However, in the place where the north and Beiyan border, there is a demon beast forest cut off from it, and the Northern Yan army is weak, and it does not pose much of a threat to the Eastern Qi, and the relationship between the two sides has always been good, so in the north, the Eastern Qi State only arranged a four-way border army, which is rotated every ten years, and the main purpose is to train the troops with the help of the endless beast tide in the demon beast forest.

Although the military strength of the Southern Chu State in the south is only slightly inferior to that of the Eastern Qi, and the relationship with the Eastern Qi is not very good, but in the south of the Eastern Qi Kingdom, there is the Jixia Academy, and the Southern Chu occasionally wants to play some tricks, such as once breaking through the southern defense line and entering the hinterland of the Eastern Qi State, but the elder group of the Jixia Academy was dispatched to beat the Southern Chu army and fled, and even the general of the unified army was captured by the three deans of the Jixia Academy, so on the southern border, the Eastern Qi State only released six border armies in case of contingency.

Under such circumstances, most of the military strength of the Eastern Qi State was placed on the battlefield of the Western Front.

The reason is simple, the pressure on the Western Front is the greatest.

Eastern Qi has to face the world-famous Northern Zhao Iron Cavalry and Western Wei warriors, and there are also the sharp soldiers of Western Qin, the first power in the East, who are eyeing each other, for the Eastern Qi State, the biggest enemy has never been the demon beast, but the three western kingdoms.

Therefore, most of the military strength of the Eastern Qi Dynasty was deployed on the western front, and there were 20 border armies alone, which was 1.2 million troops, not the kind of border army that had only graduated or been formed not long after Ji Renfeng and their command, but a professional soldier with rich experience who fought on the northern front.

And the third master of the royal family, the great commander of Ji Sen, who is at the peak of the nine grades, also led his 300,000 personal guards to sit on the western front, if there are still a large number of monks in the Great Dao period in the general border army, then the 300,000 personal guards under the command of Ji Sen are all monks in the immortal period, which can be called the most elite force of the Eastern Qi royal family.

It is precisely because of this that when it was attacked by the Western Qin army, the Western Front did not fall.

In the past two years, the two strongest countries on the Eastern Continent have waged a desperate struggle on the Western Front.

Western Qin wanted to unify the east and become one of the four strongest states on the mainland.

Eastern Qi, on the other hand, had to survive the pressure of the rebels and the outside world.

In the three countries of Northern Yan, Northern Zhao and Western Wei, the royal city has been captured by the Western Qin, and the Southern Chu, it is said that the situation is not very good now, the border has been broken by the Western Qin army, and the royal city is defending to the death.

There are still those who have the ability to resist, only Dongqi is left.

"Your Majesty, the latest news has arrived...... The city of Ying, the king of Southern Chu, has been breached, and Southern Chu is no longer able to resist. ”

Grand Commander Ji Sen walked behind Ji Changwei and whispered.

"It's hateful, the rebels made a mistake, otherwise, with the force of Western Qin, we will definitely have a chance to defeat them, and we can even take the opportunity to restore the royal city of Northern Zhao and Beiyan! Now that the royal city of Southern Chu has been breached, only we are left to fight against Western Qin, once the army of Western Qin in the south comes to converge, I am afraid it will be difficult for us to hold Dingtian City!"

Ji Shaowei next to him hammered the city wall heavily and shouted angrily.

Ji Changwei shook his head.

He sighed: "This is the will of God, the rebels will rebel at this time, and the national war will start at this time, which is a great catastrophe for my Eastern Qi, at this time, we can only do our best, there is no other way." ”

The three deans of Jixia Academy stood beside them, silent.

In Dingtian City, the most high-end forces of the entire Eastern Qi Kingdom have been concentrated, and the three masters of the royal family and the three deans of Jixia Academy are all here, and the masters are like clouds, and the military strength is huge.

However, in the past two years, it has been pinned down here by Western Qin with half of its military strength, and no matter how much Eastern Qi has exhausted all methods, it has not been able to break through the blockade of the other party's large array.

The commander of the army of Western Qin is not a figure of the royal family of Western Qin, although there are several peak masters of the Western Qin Nine Products with the army, but the commander of this army is the first general of the Western Qin Bai Qi, this person is proficient in Tao strategy, good at using soldiers, and he is also the peak monk of the Nine Grades, and he defeated the Northern Zhao and Western Wei in a continuous blitzkrieg, and it was this famous general who made great contributions.

And when the strength was still slightly inferior to that of the Eastern Qi State, he simply dragged down all the forces that the Eastern Qi could now mobilize, and cleared the obstacles for the other armies of the Western Qin to sweep away the Southern Chu.

Now, Southern Chu has been conquered by Western Qin, and when the other half of the Western Qin army arrives, will Eastern Qi really be able to resist it?

Commander Ji Sen looked ashamed, he was already the strongest general in Eastern Qi, but compared to Bai Qi, he was still a step behind.

Listening to the Rain Master, the Twilight Mountain Master, and the Evil Moon Master, they could only be silent at the moment, although they were all the strongest monks on this continent, but what they were good at was educating their children and fighting personally, and they were really not good at unifying the army to fight.

Ji Changwei shook his head, turned his head and bowed slightly, and then said: "Princess Wushuang, Princess Huixin, I'm sorry, I'm incompetent, not only did I fail to help Northern Zhao Beiyan restore the country, but I ...... We may not be able to win ourselves. ”

The two women standing behind Ji Changwei returned the salute at the same time, if Fang Rui was here, he would definitely be surprised, because these two women were familiar to him......

It was Zhao Wushuang who was called Princess Wushuang by Ji Changwei, and it was Yan Hui who became Princess Huixin.

"Uncle Ji doesn't need to be polite, Dongqi has always been friendly with my Dayan, otherwise my father wouldn't have asked me to lead my children who could still fight to support when the royal city was breached...... It's hateful that Western Qin actually has such a strong strength, it seems that they have been waiting for this opportunity to fight for a long time. Yan Hui said in a low voice.

"I, Da Zhao, have always had unpleasant things with Da Qi, Wushuang is here to make amends to Uncle Ji, if our three kingdoms can work together and join forces against Western Qin from the beginning, we will not end up like this. Zhao Wushuang said loudly.

"This is the end of the matter, and if we say this more, we will see the outside. ”

Ji Changwei smiled bitterly: "There are still more than two years to go before the five-year covenant, and then we can only resist as much as possible, the army is pressing, and it is very difficult for Dingtian Pass to hold it, but Dingtian Pass is still hundreds of thousands of miles away, even if the pass is broken, we are not without a chance." At that time, our Eastern Qi technical fighters will deploy layers of defenses, try to delay the advance of the Western Qin army, and harass on the two flanks, and even highlight the strange soldiers, invade the territory of the Western Qin, and delay the pace of their march, and the heavy task will be handed over to the assassins of Northern Yan and the iron cavalry of Northern Zhao. ”

"It is incumbent upon us. Zhao Wushuang arched his hand: "The Northern Zhao troops who have participated in the resistance to the Western Qin army can no longer be used, but I still have 100,000 iron cavalry under my command, although I am not good at defending the city, long-distance raids and sporadic harassment are my business, and I will do my best." ”

"I, the assassins trained by the secret martial arts, although they suffered a lot of losses in the process of resisting the Western Qin army, there are still tens of thousands of soldiers who have not yet fought, and they will be handed over to us to destroy the enemy's baggage supplies. Yan Hui replied in the same way.

"So, there's still a lot to be done. ”

Ji Changwei nodded, turned his head to the three deans and said, "It's time to take out the reserves of Jixia Academy over the years. ”

Listening to the rain Venerable nodded: "The innate spirit treasures accumulated in the outer courtyard over the years can immediately form a million army, and now in the land controlled by my Eastern Qi, there are countless scattered cultivations, as long as I give me a certain amount of time, I can train them into soldiers worthy of a battle!"

The Venerable Evil Moon also squinted and laughed, "Although there are not many people in the inner court, all of them are the children of this dean's own training, and they can also help the assassins under Princess Huixin." ”

The people on the twilight mountain are holding their sulk, the three courtyards of the lower academy, the outer courtyard and the inner courtyard are powerful enough, and the middle courtyard is basically his lonely family, and at this time, it seems that he is the most idle among the three deans.

"Ah Zi, don't be sulky, I will train my troops, and I will also use the Jiaoyuan Tower in the middle courtyard, and your help will be indispensable when the time comes. Listening to the rain master, he patted the shoulder of the man on the twilight mountain and said.

"Don't call me by my common name, okay!" the man on the twilight mountain glared at and listened to the rain on the mountain.

The atmosphere of the scene began to gradually become lively, although the shape is bad now, but it is not without the power of a battle!

If the remnants of Northern Zhao and Northern Yan, coupled with the huge war potential of Eastern Qi, are all mobilized, this battle will still have to be fought.

After all, they didn't need to wipe out the Western Qin army, they just needed to prevent the royal city of Linzi from falling before the five-year deadline expired.

The national war, after all, is not a battle of life and death, in fact, in the previous battles, there were not many monks who died, and most of the monks were captured and could not participate in the war.

In the process of Western Qin's destruction of the other four kingdoms, all the monks of the four kingdoms who participated in the battle could no longer participate in the next battle after the fall of the royal city, and Western Qin did not need to deploy troops to rule the places where they were defeated, all they had to do was to conquer the five royal cities, and that would be enough.

Like the wars between countries before, the purpose of the Central Celestial Empire's launching of the national war was to test the war potential of each country and see if it could select more talents, rather than letting the countries on the mainland fight in a bloody and devastated spirit.

Therefore, Beizhao and Beiyan, who were unwilling to fail, could only let the two princesses who did not shoot in the national war lead the remnants of the army that did not shoot in the national war to come to Dongqi to help Dongqi defend.

The other top monks, because they had shot in the national war, could no longer interfere in any way.

Zhao Wushuang and Yan Hui were still training in Eastern Qi at the beginning of the national war, and it was very common for the children of various clans to experience training in other countries, and when they knew such news and were about to return to China to participate in the war, the royal city of their country had already fallen.

There is no way, among the two northern countries, Zhao State produces iron cavalry, and Yan State produces assassins, neither of which is good at defense, only Western Wei has resisted for a period of time under the attack of the Western Qin army, and it is precisely because of this that Western Wei is now completely unqualified to aid Eastern Qi.

Now, another famous general of the Qin State, Wang Qian, has defeated Southern Chu, and the two armies converge, and it will become more difficult for Eastern Qi to defend, they can only choose to exchange space for time, and try to delay the rest of the time, so that Western Qin cannot break through the walls of Linzi!

So staying here and letting Xiqin serve in a pot is obviously not a good choice.

The general commander of Ji Sen will stay, lead a border army to defend it to the death, and hold it for as long as he can, and the three deans of Jixia Academy will go back to train recruits, and the masters of the royal family will be on the road to Linzi all the way, layer by layer, to gain time.

This is the last resort, and it is also the greatest effort that the whole country of Eastern Qi can make.