In addition to the border passes, the empire has been peaceful for a long time, and most of the county towns do not even have garrisons, only relying on a class of officials to maintain order, and only two or three thousand people are stationed in the county seats, which is still without empty salaries, so a state is only tens of thousands of horses.

It costs a lot to raise soldiers, and these tens of thousands of horses and horses will consume at least the output of a county for a year, and if it is an elite soldier or cavalry, it will cost more, so in the peaceful years, who will support a large army, is not afraid that the emperor will be suspicious and destroy him.

This also led to the fact that the rebels were in a no-man's land, because there were no officers and soldiers to stop them.

For a time, because the two princes issued holy decrees, they each mobilized no less than 100,000 troops into Zhongzhou, resulting in emptiness in various places, and the anti-thieves attacked all the battles and were invincible.

At the same time, there is also the ambition of those who take the lead, who are no longer willing to accept this little thing in their hands, because they find it too easy to get more, they don't need the handouts of those people at all, they can easily get it with their hands.

Countless thieves are attacking the city in the local area, but the two princes who have already beaten the red eye don't care about those homeless people at all, in their opinion, as long as they inherit the throne by dividing the winner, those Diao people will naturally defeat themselves without a fight.

It's a pity that they died too well, because of the natural disasters that lasted for ten years, which led to the displacement of people, and then the war between the two princes, which directly created millions of displaced people, and indirectly affected no less than 10 million, and finally out of control, the displaced people became anti-thieves, and they were also merging and merging with each other in the continuous siege of the city, and finally formed a million anti-thief army led by the three major forces and supplemented by the other eighteen people.

The Red Turban Army, the Black Mountain Army, and the Heavenly Dao Army respectively occupied the land of Guan Ling'an and the three states, and the other eighteen people also occupied the two states of Heshan.

The world is only ten states, and half of it will be gone at this time, and then let the two princes and those ministers toss, I'm afraid there will be nothing to do with them.

The gang of people in power who were having a good time finally came to their senses, and Nima got away with it!

Although the two sides will not shake hands and make peace, they also know what to do now, after all, if they continue to fight, they can only be finished together, and first kill those bastards who want to take advantage of the opportunity to share peaches, and then they will fight it out.

After reaching a certain consensus, the two princes issued a holy decree at the same time to mobilize a large army to fight against the thieves, but unfortunately the two of them got away with it before, in the case of red eyes, the two only knew to mobilize any army that obeyed their orders, and coerced and lured if they did not obey the order.

The first emperor has two princes, and one of them will always become the emperor, but now he doesn't obey the order, and when the other party ascends the throne, I'm afraid that he won't even have the opportunity to be put in small shoes, so he can only choose one side to stand in line first.

What's more, although the holy decree issued by the two princes did not meet the regulations, in the case that the first emperor did not determine the successor, this was already the highest will, so he could only pinch his nose and admit it, and let the two princes transfer his army, which also happened to save a sum of expenses.

Therefore, when the two princes came to their senses, they found that they had lost two or three hundred thousand horses, which was almost the vast majority of the standing army of the entire empire, and the remaining bit was not enough to suppress the homeless people and the robbers who took advantage of the opportunity to rebel.

The two princes are bald, and the army that can be mobilized is only 350,000 people, which is not enough to defend Zhongzhou, how dare they go out to exterminate the thieves.

Fortunately, the foundation of the empire is not bad, and there is still some foundation left after being tossed one after another.

Under the tacit understanding of the two sides, many warehouses that had been sealed for a long time were opened one by one, a large number of old grain armor and copper coins full of patina were pulled out, and the two princes recruited 100,000 young men in one go.

The 100,000 men were divided into two and belonged to the camp of the two princes, equipped with weapons and armor that had been moved from the dusty warehouse, and with some veterans, it was a bit of a bit of a training.

However, compared to the million-strong army of anti-thieves, even if it is full of water, and if it is discounted and discounted, the number of people far exceeds that of the imperial court.

What's more, even if the thieves were all exiles who had not undergone any training before, but those who were still alive until now had seen blood, on the other hand, on the side of the imperial court, although the 100,000 troops were neatly organized, but the vast majority of them were newly recruited young and strong, and they had not received any training at all, let alone seen blood, and it was really hard to say who lost and who won when it really fought.

Therefore, in order to increase the bargaining chips, the two princes informed the world at the same time that the righteous people of the world were allowed to form a righteous army to resist the thieves, and called on the squires to train the villagers to protect their homes, but they did not know that this was the source of chaos in the world.

But even if they knew, they didn't have a choice, except for the 100,000 new recruits they had newly gathered, there were a lot of troops left, but they were useless.

For example, the 100,000 forbidden army guarding the imperial city is the elite of the elite, and sending out to exterminate those anti-thieves is the same as playing, but the 100,000 forbidden army only obeys the emperor's orders, and the prince is playing with eggs, and he will choose who will be the emperor first, so don't think about this army.

In addition, there are 400,000 troops stationed at the border pass, which is the largest military force in the entire empire, but unfortunately these 400,000 soldiers and horses are all in the hands of the four kings with different surnames, and these soldiers and horses can only be mobilized by the emperor using the jade seal and tiger talisman, otherwise even the four kings with different surnames cannot mobilize these troops into the customs, because once they do this, it is tantamount to complicity in rebellion.

The entire empire has not mobilized a border army to enter the customs for three hundred years, even if the two princes take the throne, they dare not open this head, because once they are allowed to enter the customs, it will be difficult to let them out, the four kings with different surnames are not those who seem to be happy, but in fact have no foundation to compare with the thieves, their inheritance is as long as the empire, and the two princes can not play with them, and it will be miserable if they are not set up as puppets, so they don't even mention it, it can be seen that the two princes are not hopelessly stupid.

After Yan Xu knew this, he couldn't help but shake his head, but he knew that this matter could not be stopped at all, after all, under this order, I don't know how many families have profited, and once they oppose it, they will be enemies of all the families in the world.

The family itself is the basis of the empire's rule, even those red-eyed thieves do not dare to provoke those real families, after all, the history of some families is as long as the history of the empire, not to mention the power of the court, the influence between the scholars, just the countless lands under it can feed tens of thousands of troops, and I don't know who will take advantage of the real fight.

What's more, these anti-thieves are illiterate, except for those who live a day by day, but anyone with a long-term vision knows that if they want to really gain a foothold in the local area, they must rely on these families, and only with their support can they gain a foothold in the local area, even if they are anti-thieves, unless they are willing to break everything and start over, but the price is that they become the public enemies of the world.