But if the victims come back with tens of thousands of people, that would be a big problem.

Qin Shou looked around and saw that his personal guards were quite far away and probably couldn't hear it.

Fortunately, it’s fortunate. Otherwise, if he wanted to silence the witness, he would still be a little reluctant to kill the personal guards he had trained himself.

Although Qin Shou didn't really want to speed up his advance, according to his judgment, it would be best for him to set up camp outside the battlefield for defense, constantly looking for opportunities to weaken the Qinghe army, and finally launch a fatal blow to the Qinghe army.

From Qin Shou's perspective alone, this approach is actually the best.

After all, he was very clear about the level of his soldiers.

Although the 40,000 people brought this time were actually not inflated due to the tense war situation, he was very clear that at most only 5,000 of them were veterans drawn from the garrison corps, and the others were new recruits who had been conscripted for less than three months. The bloodiest scene they had seen was probably the slaughter of the old cow at the departure ceremony.

If we lead this team forward directly, once the veterans are unable to hold on, the new recruits will likely collapse.

Of course, we don't want to send new soldiers to the battlefield and then collapse, and then drag the old soldiers back.

In general, it is very dangerous to go up and fight directly.

He hoped to stay away from Qinghe's main force, and then continuously send out mixed teams of new and old to train his own soldiers through small-scale battles.

The battlefield can accelerate the growth of soldiers.

Even though people will die.

But if it takes three months, even if one third of the new recruits die, he can still get more than 20,000 soldiers who have fought in battles and seen blood, which is enough.

Unfortunately, he knew very well that no one would give him that much time.

Neither Khmer nor Qinghe, nor Yang Yizhen who was resting with his eyes closed on the horse next to him, would do so.

He also knew that the Khmer had been mobilized to the limit in this war.

From the age of fourteen to fifty, all the male adults in the country had basically been conscripted.

There are still more than 200,000 soldiers under Xinyuetu's command, 40,000 in his own hands, and 50,000 in the reorganized Taijing Garrison Corps. The total number of garrisons in various places is about 50,000, most of which are concentrated in Daqima and Jingdong.

By this calculation, the small Khmer Empire actually mobilized a maximum of 400,000 troops.

This does not include the initial losses.

If these are added, Cambodia mobilized more than 600,000 people for this war.

This does not include the personnel used as logistics laborers.

This time the troops passed through many places, and Qin Shou clearly saw that in many villages there were only children and old women left. The others either joined the army or were conscripted by the government to build defensive fortifications in various places.

Haha, it did eliminate the soil for civil unrest.

Qin Shou began to understand why the civil unrest and rebellion against officials that had intensified in the past few years had quickly disappeared. Those people were either killed by officials and soldiers, or became officials and soldiers themselves.

It is unknown how long Cambodia’s already poor treasury can last.

To be honest, these were not things that a military general like him should consider, but he turned around and looked at his prime minister, and felt that he still had a chance to become the right prime minister, so it would not be wrong to consider the things that the prime ministers should consider in advance.

But now we are not far from the defense line of the Qinghe Third Army, so it is time to make preparations.

The next day, Pan Liangyong, who was sitting in Jingdong City, received another letter by carrier pigeon. The letter was signed by the Right Prime Minister Yang Yizhen, saying that the reinforcements had arrived and were camping 30 miles south of Jingdong. They would launch an attack on the Qinghe Third Army at noon that day. He hoped that the Jingdong defenders would cooperate when the opportunity arose.

Pooh!

It's the Qinghe First Army that's surrounding Jingdong. You launched an attack on the Third Army and asked me to cooperate. What should I cooperate with? Perform a ritual in the city to ask God to bless you?

Pan Liangyong said to his deputy general beside him: "Yang Yizhen is too impatient. He didn't come early, but he launched the attack too early."

The deputy general was speechless after hearing this, but he couldn't ignore his superior's words, so he said, "The Right Prime Minister is ignorant of military affairs. Could it be that the general in charge of the army didn't try to dissuade him?"

Pan Liangyong said coldly, "Qin Shou is leading the army. Do you think he can defeat Yang Yizhen? There aren't many troops left in the country. If they are defeated by him in a reckless battle, then Cambodia will be beyond the reach of even the gods."

The deputy general thought for a moment and said, "Lord Pan, there's no need to be angry. There must be other reasons. Besides, Qin Shou is a veteran. Even if he can't defeat the Qinghe people, at least he won't be badly defeated. As long as the losses are not too great, we can just treat it as a military reconnaissance."

Qin Shou on the other side understood Yang Yizhen. After all, Cambodia could not withstand a protracted war. If the war dragged on for a year or two, not to mention failing to save Jingdong, even if Mengyang was recaptured, Cambodia would be terribly weak. By then, if the Qinghe people came back, Cambodia would not be able to withstand it.

However, although he understood it, Qin Shou couldn't help but smile bitterly as he looked at the lieutenant generals, captains and captains in front of him. It was impossible to make a big pot of rice with just these few grains of rice.

After a period of preparation, the Qinghe Third Army built a large camp with a circumference of more than ten miles on the route that the Cambodian reinforcements had to pass. On the side facing the Khmer people, the defensive fortifications were stacked layer upon layer, and it looked like a tough nut to crack.

And if we bypass this camp, it won’t make much sense.

If the entire army bypasses, it will inevitably be attacked from the side by the Qinghe people. If only a part of the army is sent to bypass, well, that will give the Qinghe people the opportunity to divide and annihilate them.

Since we want to advance quickly, we have to use force. As long as we break the Qinghe people's camp, things will naturally get better later.

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