Yan Liang rubbed his eyebrows with a headache, don't look at the fact that the imperial court has gathered 200,000 troops now, and there are still reinforcements coming in a steady stream, but for the victory or defeat of this battle, he has already known in his heart, and it can be said that the imperial court has lost.

I haven't lost yet, that's because the King of the Five Lakes Chen Gui is busy stabilizing the territory he has just occupied, after all, even if the King of the Five Lakes has long been ready to rebel, it is impossible to support the 100,000 army by his own family alone, and whether it is the army that was expanded by private soldiers before, or the nearby garrison army that was later recruited, it needs to be reorganized and trained before he can command freely, and even the previous conflict and battle are just the other party taking the opportunity to train troops.

It won't be long before the Five Lakes King straightens out the territory he occupies now, and the next thing is the end of the imperial court.

This is not Yan Liang's delusion, in fact, anyone with a little vision can see that the time of the imperial court is running out, and many people have begun to secretly hook up with Chen Gui, the king of the Five Lakes, neither Yan Liang nor the emperor can do anything about it, and even Yan Liang has to think more about the Yan family in private.

No wonder Yan Liang is so pessimistic, look at the current situation, although Chen Gui only occupies the five lakes, it seems that he can't compare with the entire Chen State, but today's Chen State is not the heyday of the year, it has begun to decline, and these years have suffered natural and man-made disasters one after another, resulting in turmoil in the world, and faint chaos has emerged, but it has been covered up by the three hundred years of rule of Chen State, but Chen Gui's rebellion lifted the only remaining fig leaf of Chen State, revealing the weak nature of Chen State, it is conceivable that even if Chen Gui's rebellion is suppressed, this Chen State will also fall into endless turmoil, and most importantly, Chen Gui will not necessarily lose。

In order to compensate Chen Gui, the emperor not only gave him the title of king, but also gave him the richest five lakes in Chen as a fief.

Of course, although Wuhu is Chen Gui's fiefdom, he can only get a part of the local annual tax revenue, and has no right to interfere in military and political affairs, but for Chen Gui, who is skilled and scheming, after the death of the emperor, there is no one in the world who can restrain him, which caused the rebellion.

In the successive disaster years, Wuhu is the only place where the people at the bottom can barely eat enough to be fed while still receiving sufficient taxes, plus the millions of people here, Chen Gui only needs to digest this place, and can completely rely on the grain and grass provided by the Wuhu to maintain an army of 100,000 for ten years.

And who in Chen Guo can resist Chen Gui's 100,000-strong army for ten years?

No, Yan Liang can give a definite answer, even he can't, unless he is given tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to the border pass for ten years of training, he will have the confidence to compete with the other party, because war is not simply clever and intelligent can be changed, no matter how exquisite the strategy can not be built in the attic in the air, elite veterans, low-level officers, capable generals, rich war experience, these cannot come out of thin air.

Chen Guizhen has been guarding the border for decades, he is a veteran of a hundred battles, his command ability can throw him out of three streets, and he has a group of elite soldiers under him, and now he can also lead the troops to block the other party in the five lakes, that is because the other party is busy digesting the territory in his hand, and has no time to take care of him, and he can still hone his soldiers and generals if he stays, otherwise Yan Liang is not sure if he can survive three days.

If these were enough to make Yan Liang lose confidence, then the appearance of the Immortal Wu family would make him fall into despair.

The Wu family of immortal art is the alchemist of the previous dynasty, and later the previous dynasty collapsed, the Wu family took advantage of the chaos to take away a book of heaven from the royal library, and after a hundred years of painstaking research, the Wu family of immortal art shocked the world, but decades ago the Wu family suddenly disappeared without a trace, until now Yan Liang knew that the Wu family had taken refuge in Chen Gui, the king of the five lakes.

If it weren't for the timely arrival of the iron-clad guest, Yan Liang would even consider retreating thirty miles and then camping, even if this would be held accountable by the imperial court, he would admit it, because even if he could bear it, his generals would not be able to stand it, and then it would not be thirty miles back and camp, but a rout of a hundred miles.

"How's the training of the new army?" Yan Liang said, letting people serve tea and sit down with the iron-clad guest.

"30,000 recruits have been transferred from various ministries and are being reorganized, fortunately, the garrisons in various places have eaten a lot of empty salaries, and they have urgently recruited a group of recruits after receiving the order of the imperial court, otherwise it is really difficult to find so many suitable sources of soldiers. The iron-clothed guest took a sip of tea and put it down, touched the wine jug in his arms and forced him to take a sip, he couldn't drink alcohol in the army, so he had to endure it.

"Why don't you transfer some veterans?" Yan Liang frowned and said, his time was running out, the training of recruits was as short as three months or as long as half a year, and even if he was trained, he could not compare with the elite under Chen Gui, the king of the Five Lakes.

And in any way, he doesn't have so much time, and the court won't give him so much time, after all, in order to support the 200,000 army, the court has emptied all the family funds, so it has to increase taxes in various places, but everyone knows that this is drinking to quench thirst.

"No, those veterans have long been abolished, I don't feel at ease when guarding the camp, let alone taking them out to fight, although the recruits are all newly recruited, but most of them are from farmers, hard-working, and have not been contaminated with the problems of veterans, so that they can fight after training. "There is no way for the iron-clad guest, the garrisons everywhere are almost rotten, there is no way, all over the place is rotten, just if you train an elite, then what do you want to do, naturally you have to kill you to rest assured, so the generals who are still alive are rotten, in order to save their lives, the soldiers under them are also rotten.

Otherwise, Chen Gui would not have gone to train his troops at the most critical time in the early days of the rebellion, instead of taking the opportunity to capture more territory, and he really couldn't bear this kind of battle that was worse than each other.

Yan Liang and the iron-clothed guest can be said to be powerless about this, the containment of the imperial court, the lack of strength of their teammates, the strength of their opponents, everything makes the two of them exhausted, and they can only barely maintain the current situation, as long as it does not deteriorate, the two of them will be satisfied, as for the imperial court's three letters a day urging him to start a war as soon as possible to exterminate the rebellion, Yan Liang didn't see it, and he didn't even have an explanation, the meaning is very clear, you have the ability to withdraw me.

But except for the little emperor who is in a hurry to get angry, the ministers below all know that the big ship of Chen Guo is about to sink, even if Chen Gui's rebellion is quelled now, it will not last a few more years, so even if the emperor roars at the ministers like a trapped beast on the main hall all day long, he can't change the facts in front of him, even if Yan Liang is withdrawn now, who will take over this hot potato, no one is a fool, who will take over this mess.

So the emperor can only keep repeating the roar, and then wave his sleeves as a retreat, almost everyone is used to it, but no one notices that Jinyiwei seems to be too busy during this time, and there are some anomalies in the imperial tomb, but these are all covered by this big war that determines the fate of Chen Guo, and no one notices these anomalies at all.