Seeing that Bai Baixian did not express any opinions, Qi Ren continued: "Although there are several cities in my Bai Kingdom, there is only a cold city near Chen State, and the cold city is a strong city for my Bai Country to resist Chen State, and it cannot be ceded off, so it is not advisable to cede land and negotiate peace. ”

"Second, I don't have any treasures that can be called heirlooms, so there is no treasure to offer. "The White Kingdom is not a big vassal state, and there is no treasure that can reach a city.

Therefore, the method of negotiation and reconciliation is still in the third place. Qi Ren's voice became smaller and smaller, and he could feel Bai Boxian's gaze falling on him, heavy as a mountain.

"You mean to let Zixi go to Chen Guo to be a proton?" Bai Boxian almost gritted his teeth and said this, Zixi is not his only son, but he only has such a son.

Zixi also has an older sister, but she has been married a few years ago, if she negotiates peace, must she sacrifice her son?

"Think twice, we have no chance of winning this battle. Qi Ren fell to his knees, he knew what he was talking about, he was asking Bai Boxian to send the prince of the white country to the hands of the enemy country.

But although the monarch loves His Royal Highness Zixi, Bai Boxian is still in the prime of life, a son or Bai Guojiang, which one is heavier?

"Is there really no other way?" Bai Boxian's voice carried a trace of tiredness, and he also supported it for a long time, although he didn't want to show it in front of people, but at this moment, he could no longer resist the pressure like mountains and seas.

The white country has reached the point of life and death.

"I think we should ask the front-line soldiers what they mean, I can't understand the real situation on the battlefield here, and I'm afraid it's not appropriate to rush into peace. "Jiang Qian's ranks, although the logistics are unsustainable, but the two armies are still complete, and no one is willing to negotiate peace.

"Accurate!" Bai Boxian breathed a sigh of relief, and he was reluctant to go to Chen Guo as a proton until he had to.

The only thing expected now is that Bai Yingwu and A Ning can withstand the pressure in front.

An urgent report was sent from Baidu to the front line, asking about the direction of the battle and whether it could be held, ignoring the matter of Ah Ning's private transfer of troops.

Regardless of the response of the Hancheng side, another wartime decree was issued above the court.

Bai Bae-hyun must prepare for the worst, and if Chen Guo does not agree to their request for peace, he will not sit idly by.

Besides, Bai Boxian didn't easily expose Ah Ning's disobedience to his orders, he was a little panicked, if the right army was out of his control, how should he deal with himself?

Therefore, the conscription is not only forced by the situation, but also Bai Boxian's own selfishness.

"The monarch has an order, Chen Guo has already pressed the territory with a large army, and there are no eggs under the nest? Therefore, a wartime conscription order was specially issued, ten people were out of one ding, down to fourteen years old, up to fifty years old, if there was any disobedience, if there was any hiding, it would be punished as a deserter!"

In the seven cities of the White Kingdom, every city lord has received an order for compulsory conscription, and no matter how old or young, one male must enlist in ten people.

Each city has a limit on the number of conscriptions, and if the conscription is not completed within the time limit, the lord of the city will be replaced.

Therefore, no city lord dared to slack off, and the white country was full of chickens and dogs.

"He's still a child, he's only thirteen years old, thirteen years old!" In a village in Ning'an City, a group of soldiers were catching strong men next to the village.

Twenty or so people were already tied up in ropes and gathered in front of the village, and a woman knelt on the ground with a half-old child in her arms and cried.

The twenty or so people had sad faces on their faces, but they did not dare to resist. This conscription order is mandatory, the city lord is not enough to levy enough people, the city lord is punished, the county magistrate is not enough, the county magistrate is punished, and when he arrives in the village, although the village chief is not an official position, he must also be involved.

Among the more than 20 people, there was an old farmer with gray hair and a rickety body. People who live for seventy years are rare, and people who are forty or fifty years old, because of their perennial labor, are actually no longer suitable for the battlefield, but they are also among the conscripts.

And most of these people are of this age, only one or two young adults, and most of them have already gone to military service.

There are more than 300,000 people in the white country, and raising an army of 20,000 is already the limit. No matter how much more conscription is enlisted, only women and the old, weak, sick and disabled will be left in the village, and once there are heavy casualties on the battlefield, there will be no one to plant in the next year.

Reckless use of military force will squeeze the national strength of the entire country to the extreme. The goal of the conscription order was to recruit about 10,000 more adult men, which was more than the White could handle.

Bai Boxian naturally knew it, but he had to do it. He wants the white country to be stable, and he also wants to sit firmly on the throne of the monarch.

And in order to complete the task, the governors at all levels are doing everything they can. A fourteen-year-old may not be as heavy as a general's sword.

No matter how the woman cried, the recruiters mercilessly tied the child into the crowd.

This scene was played out in all the villages and towns of the White Country, and in just a few days, the towns were still good, and some of the smaller villages did not have a single male left, and became veritable "widow's villages".

As for the rich and noble families and the nobles of the White Kingdom, they did not need to go to the battlefield in person, but they had to contribute adult slaves, according to the ratio of the family population to one.

Originally, some families were large and there were not enough slaves and needed family members to go, so a little money could be used to exempt the chief in charge of conscription from his own military service.

As for the shortfall in the number of conscripts, it is naturally filled in the mountain villages in remote places.

Five days later, the cities had basically completed their conscription targets. And these soldiers will go to Baidu one after another, about 12,000.

The whole territory of the White Country is bleak, there are so many young men missing, and there are vacancies in many places.

Fortunately, most of the fields have already been planted, otherwise a large amount of land will be left uncultivated, and many people will starve to death in the coming year.

The bandits in the mountains are also becoming more and more rampant, without the encirclement and suppression of the right army, and the officials in the big cities cannot spare manpower to deal with them, resulting in serious banditry in various parts of the white country, and it is a mess.

And Bai Boxian, who was far away in the royal capital, did not let go of his mind because he had enough soldiers, and food and weapons were still a big problem.

The stockpiles of weapons and armor were simply not enough to arm the new army, and once these supplies were given to the new army, the supplies for the left and right armies fighting on the front line could not be supplied.

But Bai Bae-hyun can only use these weapons to the new army, and now he has only this army in his hands that will completely listen to him!

He couldn't let these men go into battle with wooden spears and cloth clothes, these were his descendants.

The new recruits had no training, and there were some veterans who had been discharged and were now being re-drafted.

Bai Boxian set aside a piece of land outside the white capital to serve as a garrison and training ground for the new army.

Bai has a garrison of 3,000 troops, which can train these recruits who have not even seen blood.

The most serious problem facing Bai Boxian now is the problem of food, more than 10,000 people are not engaged in production, and the materials consumed are extremely large.

The White State had not saved any food for three years in a row, and now it was even more stretched to recruit new troops.

Soon after, another grain requisition order was issued. It's just that this time the forcible conscription was targeted at those nobles and wealthy families.

In the name of the monarch, like each family "borrowed" grain, the amount borrowed would leave a voucher, which would be repaid in turn after a few years.

The major families naturally refused, and in some places they encountered resistance. But no one dared and no one could disobey the orders of the monarch.

No matter how dignitaries in the place, they will eventually have to open warehouses and produce grain for national use.

It was only at this time that Bai Baexian breathed a sigh of relief for the time being. Counting the original guards of the royal city, he already had 15,000 soldiers and horses.

Although this new army is uneven, it does not even have much combat effectiveness. But as long as he is given time, this army can eventually become a capable army!

And the military power of this new army was completely pinched in his hands, if it wasn't for Chen Guo's attack, he might not have the opportunity to recruit soldiers.

Whether it is above the court or Bai Yingwu, they will feel that this is a drain on national strength.

But now the situation is different, he has a reason, and justifiably has an army that is completely under his orders!

Even if Chen was defeated, he would be able to retain most of the permanent soldiers, and it can be said that he finally did not have to secure his throne in the middle of the involvement of the left and right armies.

What's more, he was not at ease with those two armies.

Now as long as he gets through this difficulty, no one can shake his position as the monarch of Bai Boxian!

After reading the recitals presented to him by the local governors, Bai Boxian picked up the battle report that had just been sent back from the front.

On that day, he asked Bai Yingwu how the battle was going in front of him, and Bai Yingwu said that the cold city could still be held, but there were many wounded after the first battle, and medicinal materials and medical officers were urgently needed.

And because of the arrival of the right army, the food in Hancheng was also a little insufficient, and their food could have lasted for more than three months, but because of the increase of 10,000 people, they could only hold out for more than a month.

And on the day of the war, the army of Chen Guo, which was touched into the city, burned down two granaries and suffered heavy losses.

The rations and grass of the right army cannot support their long-term operations, and they also need the dispatch of Baidu.

As for what Bai Boxian said about whether peace can be negotiated, Bai Yingwu said that peace must not be negotiated.

There are still more than three months to go in the middle of winter, when Chen Guo retreats without a fight, as long as he can hold out for three months, Chen Guo's army will naturally consume Chen Guo's countless resources, and if you want to organize such a big war again, it will take two to three years to prepare.

At that time, as long as Bai Guo stationed troops and grain, Chen Guo would have no chance to take advantage of it.

What Bai Yingwu didn't express was that Chen Guo sent troops this time because Xu Dingbang died on the battlefield.

In another two years, Ah Ning will be no worse than her father. As long as the left army and the right army join forces steadily, Chen Guo will not be able to eat them at all.

These can only be understood by Bai Boxian himself, and Bai Yingwu cannot express that he has reached a consensus with the commander of the right army, which will make Bai Boxian even more suspicious of him.

He doesn't care, but if Bai Boxian makes any unwise decisions, then Chen Guo will definitely take advantage of Bai Guo's internal instability to start a war again.

War is an unbearable burden.

Bai Boxian threw aside the battle report in his hand, and with the new army, he had confidence. He was not willing to negotiate peace.

As the weaker party, negotiating peace means accepting humiliation.

He wants to be a generation of Ming monarchs, not the humiliated lords of the country in the history books.

Unlike the big people who are worried about the world, in the storm of war that swept the two countries, there are still small people.

Everyone has their own worries and problems, and Bai's life, who was pardoned and returned to Shuocheng, encountered his problems.