The offensive and defensive battle of Daliang City was more difficult than expected.

Among them, the tenacious will of the Liang people to resist is one thing.

On the other hand, it was Xu Guo's help.

In fact, at the end of June, after losing all the outlying strongholds and cutting off contact with the outside world, Daliang City, which was completely isolated, was shaken by the city defense and was about to be unable to hold on.

It was at this time that the Liang people sensed that the situation was wrong, and took advantage of the defenselessness of the Chu army to immediately send a congenital grandmaster to break through.

This innate grandmaster, who was the envoy, did not go to the hinterland that was still under the control of the Liang State after leaving Daliang, but went directly north to the Xu State.

The situation in the hinterland of Liang is already very bad.

Liang Guo is in the rear, although he still holds the territory of six or seven counties, the population of these territories is probably about 20 million.

But these 20 million people are already young and strong, and there are no men, only the old and the young.

In this case, from among the remaining old and young, squeeze a handful, and maybe another army of one or two million people can come out.

But these two million troops will all be children and old men under the age of 15 and over 70.

This kind of army composed of soldiers, the quality is not even as good as that of the people, and it is not enough to be sent to the battlefield to be used as cannon fodder, so what is the use of taking it out?

Therefore, it may be possible to recruit a large army from the rear, but it will not relieve the siege of Daliang City.

In the south and east of the Liang State, although there are also two or three million soldiers and horses, there are also a large number of Chu troops in these two directions, and there is even the-stirring stick of the Tang State.

Although the soldiers and horses on these two sides can be mobilized, but when the people leave, the Chu army and the Tang army will come.

The rear hinterland of the six or seven counties will no longer belong to the Liang State.

If that's the case, then it's better to let the girder fall.

Without the girders, the Liang State can still survive.

But without the territory of those counties in the rear, Liang Guoke died immediately.

Which of the two is more important, those monarchs and ministers in Daliang City can naturally see clearly.

Therefore, on his own, he will not be able to save Liang, and he will not be able to let Liang Guo survive this catastrophe.

wants to keep the girders, and wants Liang Guo to lose less after losing the girders.

The last resort is to ask for foreign help.

Looking at the surrounding areas, the only one who can help Liang at this time is the one that borders Liang State, and even Xu State, which already borders Chu State and is also facing the threat of the Chu people.

Therefore, the envoys sent by Daliang City, after breaking through the siege, had a very clear purpose, that is, to run to Xu State to move rescue troops.

As for whether Xu Guo will be willing to help them, Liang Guo is still very confident in this.

Because now, the situation is already obvious.

Now, the girder is about to be unable to be saved.

And as soon as the Liang was lost, the Liang County also fell.

The Chu people seized Liang County, plus Jiyin County, which had been occupied last year, so from the south and west, they formed a flanking attack on Dongping County in Qingzhou, which is now controlled by Xu State.

Dongping County will face the blows of the Chu State from both sides, and the border environment will be extremely bad in an instant.

If Xu Guo wants to hold this territory, it will also be extremely difficult, and he may lose it at any time.

But did Xu Guo dare to lose Dongping County?

Dongping County, but Xu is one of the only two counties in Zhongzhou in Henan.

It was also last year that Liang Guo took advantage of the loss of power and took the opportunity to grab the territory.

It is also a carefully selected site.

Last year, Liang Guo was so depressed, and the hinterland in the rear was so empty, why did Xu Guo just grab a Dongping County?

One of the biggest reasons is because Dongping County is located in the south of Xu State, and it is also in the east of Le'an County, another county controlled by Xu State Qingzhou.

Yes, the biggest role of Dongping County is to act as the eastern barrier of Le'an County, which is used to block the infiltration of Chu State into Le'an County.

The status of Le'an County is roughly equivalent to the East County of Zhao State.

Not only did it arrange half of the population of Xu State, but there were 12 million people in the county, and it was now the imperial capital of Xu State, and the whole country was there.

Yes, since the beginning of last year, it seems that the state of Chu has become more and more unstoppable in Zhongzhou.

It is also because of the cold wave in the north, which is also becoming more and more serious.

Therefore, in order to contain the great enemy and the influence of survival pressure, Xu finally decided to officially move the capital.

In September last year, Emperor Xu moved to Leling, the southern capital, with hundreds of officials of the imperial court, nobles, royal clans, and a large number of troops.

This wave of migration not only brought a large number of elites, but also millions of people from the northern capital.

With so many people moving south, Le'an County has naturally become more and more crowded, and it is gradually difficult to resettle.

Moreover, in the Xuzhou region, Xu also controls the territory of the three counties, which together are 112 million people.

But the cold wave in the north was already approaching the northern frontier of Xu again last year.

The land of these three counties is estimated to be unable to be preserved for a few years.

In the land of Xuzhou, Hebei, the remaining more than 10 million people will also step up their southward migration in the next few years.

In other words, there are more than 10 million people in Xu, and they urgently need to be resettled.

Here in Kele'an County, it is now very congested, how can there be more plates to house these people?

The newly occupied Dongping County in the east is empty enough, and with a little development, tens of millions of people can be accommodated.

But facing the Chu State there, it has become the forefront of the Zhao State, and I don't know when the war will ignite.

Migrating to such a border area, you will only do this kind of thing after your brain is pumped.

Therefore, Dongping County is not a good place to resettle.

But if Dongping County can't do it, Xu Guo will have no new territory.

It is in Qingzhou in total, and it only occupies two counties, and now the territory of these two counties has been planned, and there is really not much room for survival.

If Xu wanted to resettle the migrants, he had to find a new site to accommodate a larger population.

And if Xu Guo wants to continue to expand and want new territory, there is only one choice left, and that is to ask Liang Guo.

After all, Liang Guo is in Qingzhou, and there are six or seven counties, and his strength is declining greatly, so he is naturally the best fat in the eyes of many evil wolves around.

Who wouldn't want to take a bite out of him?

But here's the awkward part.

Now Xu and Liang have just formed an alliance.

Just last year, in August last year, before Xu Guo wanted to move the capital, in order to stabilize the security environment near the imperial capital, and in order to better support Liang State, he formed an alliance with Liang State.

Both sides are allies, and they have just formed an alliance, and you Xu Guo will attack your allies.

Tell me, when this thing gets out, how will Xu Guo mix up?

This is even worse than the backstabbing of the State of Chu to the State of Wei.

Because although Chu stabbed Wei, no one can deny one thing, that is, there has never been any covenant between Chu and Wei.

Neither on paper nor verbally, none of this.

Over the years, the state of Chu has always pursued a policy of neutrality.

In other words, it is a left-right policy.

The State of Chu opens its doors to do business, and whoever comes is a friend, as long as the money is given, the State of Chu will sell everything.

Whether it is weapons, food, cloth, medicinal materials, etc., as long as you can afford it, Chu can sell it.

In addition, the state of Chu is far south of the river, and it does not join the war in Zhongzhou, and it has its own strong strength, and there is indeed a demand for countries in the war.

Under various conditions, Chu State, such a middleman, has been recognized by all the hegemons of Kyushu.

This is also the reason why Chu was able to do business in Wei, Liang, Zheng, Jin, and even detoured to do Zhao and Xu.

has done business with so many countries, even in order to maintain these businesses, the state of Chu cannot have alliances with other countries, not even biased moves.

Under this constraint, it was certainly impossible for the Chu State to form an alliance with the Wei State.

In the past, the so-called joint dispatch of troops was just to set a direction and then fight separately.

The two armies did not converge, one fought Helong, the other fought the grassland, and the enemy forces they faced were different.

It can only be said that the general direction and the general purpose are the same, and the two sides have a tacit understanding.

Therefore, the state of Chu backstabbed the state of Wei, theoretically speaking, there is no psychological burden.

This is not a betrayal of the alliance, and there is no paper agreement between Chu and Wei.

At most, it is a business partner who has always cooperated tacitly, which has a great impact on business and a greater impact on business reputation.

As for the rest, that's not true.

You Wei Guo thinks it's good with me Chu State, that's a matter of you, what does it have to do with me?

In terms of righteousness, the state of Chu has no immorality, and it can be regarded as maintaining the final bottom line.

But Xu Guo and Liang Guo are not in this relationship.

They had a clear covenant and they had signed the Letters of Alliance.

If Xu Guo stabbed Liang Guo at this time, it would be a real betrayal of the alliance, distrustful of the world, and despised by all countries.

In the future, if Xu Guo wants to cooperate with other countries and carry out various diplomatic and commercial activities, it is impossible to think about it.

All countries will also guard against Xu Guo, and they will be extremely vigilant against this villain who betrays the alliance.

The state of Xu will fall into a situation that is even more isolated than the state of Chu.

Well, this is a theoretical consequence.

In fact, with the rising variable of the Chu State, it is a little difficult to say how the countries will treat the Xu State in the end.

After all, before the greatest righteousness of resisting Chu, Xu State, an important hegemon, was still a force that was difficult to ignore.

Without the State of Chu, according to the original international rules, everyone could naturally isolate the State of Xu at will.

But with the state of Chu, under the pressure of life and death, everything may be uncertain.

But it's also the maybe, so anything is possible.

It is possible that countries may or may not target Xu Guo, and the probability between meeting and not is enough to make people jealous and dare not try it easily.

Anyway, Xu Guo didn't dare.

It already borders on the State of Chu, and it is even very likely to become the next unlucky person to be hit by the State of Chu after Wei Liang and Zhao Zheng.

Xu Guo's need for international help is no less than that of Liang Guo.

Without the help of Liang, Wei, Xu, Zheng, Zhao, Jin and other countries, Xu Guo had no confidence that he would be able to carry it down and not be destroyed when facing Chu.

Therefore, international reputation is still extremely important to Xu Guo.

This also leads to the fact that he obviously has an urgent need for expansion, and there are also excellent expansion directions around him.

But out of reputation concerns, he didn't dare to make a move on Liang Guo at all.

And if the martial arts are not good, in the end, they can only write.

Therefore, after moving the capital last year, it began to gain a firm foothold in Le'an County.

While Xu Guo vigorously helped Liang Guo, he also constantly sent envoys to Liang to communicate and work on the monarchs and ministers of Liang State.

This is to talk about these high-level Liang State officials, and discuss with them the matter of ceding or selling the land.

As long as Liang Guo is willing to give up a county, then Xu Guo is willing to pay a lot of money to buy it.

This activity has been carried out for more than half a year and has achieved great results.

Until now.

Seeing that Daliang was about to be unable to be saved, the envoy of Xu Guo, who was still in Daliang City, took the initiative to put it forward.

Liang ceded a county in exchange for Xu's offer to send troops to rescue him.

Under the crisis of the fall of the national capital and the survival of life, this proposal has been approved by the monarchs and ministers of the Liang State.

As long as Xu Guo can send 1 million troops, come to the rescue of Liang and help Liang Guo keep Liang, or help them rebuild a new second line of defense, that is, the Shanyang County defense line after Liang.

Then Liang was willing to cede Qingping County in the rear and cede this county to Xu as Xu's third county in Qingzhou.

Well, this Qingping County is in the northeast of Qingzhou, at the junction of Xu, Qing, Henan, and Jing Prefectures, and is a real frontier area.

The population is not large, 17.8 million.

To the north and east of this county, which was the territory of the Tang State, for the Liang State, it also bordered the enemy state.

For the safety of this county, Liang Guo stationed 300,000 troops here, in addition to 500,000 Xu troops, stationed here.

From the above complex components, it is not difficult to see that the situation in Qingping County is very bad, not only facing the foreign enemy of the Tang State, but also suffering from the infiltration of the Xu State.

It can even be said that there are already many prefectures and counties in Qingping County, which are actually under the control of Xu State.

The Liang State's control over this place was not tight, and its rule was quite weak and not stable at all.

If it weren't for this territory, which was to block the Liang State's invasion of Qingzhou and an important stronghold to shield the hinterland of his rear, the Liang State would have wanted it a long time ago.

It will not send valuable troops to be stationed here.

Now that Xu Guo has the need to expand its territory, and Liang Guo himself also has the need to ask for reinforcements from abroad, the two sides are willing to do so, so they naturally hit it off.

It is a very cost-effective thing to exchange a border county that has been semi-out of control and has been initially infiltrated by Xu State for one million reinforcements from Xu State.

In this way, the hole in the north can let Xu Guo go up.

The current Liang State, dealing with a Chu State, is almost going to kill the whole old man.

I really don't have any more energy to deal with another mad dog-like Tang Kingdom.

Throw the chicken rib of Qingping County to Xu Guo, and then let it help Liang State resist Tang State, help shield Liang State's northeast border, and go to fight that mad dog.

Liang Guo himself could also withdraw the 300,000 border troops in Qingping County and use them to the more critical front line in the west.

The current Liang State, after a series of losses, is in short supply of troops.

Whether the Great Liang can hold it or not, it can't change the fact that the Liang State lost millions of troops because of this battle.

Whether this battle is won or won, it doesn't make much sense anymore.

Whether it is won or defeated, how to reconstruct the western defense line after the war is the top priority of the Liang State.

If this can't be done, then even if the girder is saved, it won't be of much use.

Because you don't have the troops to defend it, even if the flag of Liang is still hung on the city of Liang, can this city still belong to Liang State?

It's just a matter of letting the Chu people take what they want.

Even if the defense line can't be filled in time, let alone the girder, whether the Liang counties behind the girder can be kept is a problem.

After losing a large amount of territory, the Liang State, which became an ordinary hegemon, lost the heritage of the first country in the world, and its drawbacks were revealed at this time.

The average hegemon, even if it monopolizes a state, has a population of twenty or thirty million.

With this background, I worked hard, and I got four or five million soldiers and horses.

Now the Liang State has filled in one million people on the eastern front, more than one million people on the southern front, and more than one million people on the western front, a total of only four million soldiers and horses.

But now, in the second Northern Expedition of the Chu State, the 1.2 million soldiers and horses in the Daliang Defense Area of the Western Front have been consumed in one wave.

More than a quarter of the strength of the Liang State was gone.

With its national strength and its population, after losing these troops, it will not be able to recover at all in more than ten years, without waiting for the children of the country to grow up.

But how can there be ten years for him now?

Therefore, this wave of blows is a real, completely irreparable loss.

The war potential of the Liang State was directly emptied by a quarter.

And his defense line has also appeared a fatal hole, which is urgently needed to be filled by new forces.

The 300,000 soldiers and horses of Dongping County are also very important at this time.

But these 300,000 people can only quench their thirst for a while, and it is simply impossible to rely on these men and horses to build a new western defense line.

There are millions of people, just a little enough.

However, with the current situation of Liang State, how can there be millions of people to extract it.

You can't just follow the above and recruit those old people and children under the age of 15 and over 70, right?

With the temperament of those princes and nobles, they don't have much psychological burden on this, and they can do this kind of thing without a lower limit.

But if you can do it, it has to work.

This kind of rabble army is really pulled to the battlefield, and I am afraid that when the time comes, not only will it fail to stabilize the defense line, but on the contrary, the defense line will become more and more weak and chaotic, and it will be vulnerable to attack.

Therefore, if you can't do it from within, you can only ask from without.

The million-strong army of the Xu State, rescuing the beams, this is only one aspect.

With the help of the opponent's troops and horses, the construction of a new western defense line is the real key core.

And after the two countries reached an exchange of interests, Lu Yuan's strategy suddenly added new variables.

In mid-July, in the northeast of Liang County, which was originally occupied by the Chu army, bad news suddenly came.

A large number of Xu troops entered the country, and with the cooperation of the local Liang people, they expelled the Chu army from the area and recaptured the area.

Outside the city of Daliang, the banner of Xu Jun appeared.

Daliang City, which had been besieged by the Chu army for a long time, regained contact with the outside world.

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