In the 3873rd year of the Xia calendar,

Xia Liang, the general of Xuanzhou, rebelled, killed King Xuan, and conquered three states. He then sent King Xuan's head to Fengzhou and surrendered to the Datong Army. At this point, all the princes of the Chen Kingdom died.

The Datong Army took over the three states. At this point, the Datong Army had controlled 30 states of the Chen Kingdom. The Datong Army established a country, named Datong, and temporarily established the capital in Fengzhou.

After Datong was established, Lin Jiang did not marry a wife or concubine, nor did he build a palace. Apart from conferring titles on his ministers, there was only one thing left, which was to continue the war.

In October, Lin Jiang led 200,000 troops and arrived in Mizhou. At this time, Mizhou was already the front line against the demons. After Xia Liang, the general of Xuanzhou, surrendered to the Datong Army, Lin Jiang ordered him to reinforce Mizhou. Together with the troops brought by Lin Jiang, Mizhou already had 600,000 troops.

"The guilty minister Xia Liang pays homage to His Majesty"

Upon learning that Lin Jiang had arrived, Xia Liang came to pay homage.

"General Xia, no need to be polite. Please stand up quickly."

"Thank you, Your Majesty.

" "General Xia, please tell me about the current situation ."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Seeing that Lin Jiang was so concerned about the situation, Xia Liang immediately told Lin Jiang about the situation.

A few years ago, after the demons defeated the remaining troops of the Immortal Kingdom at the Great Wall, they began to focus their energy on the south and began to erode the remaining territory of the Chen Kingdom step by step.

Although the border troops of the Chen Kingdom fought desperately, the effect was very poor and they were not opponents. There were two reasons. One was that the border troops themselves were not elite. The elite troops of the Southern Chen were kept by the warlords to annex territory or resist the Datong Army. The second was that the food and grass were insufficient. This was related to the internal situation of the Chen Kingdom. In fact, the two reasons can be combined into one.

Anyway, under the fierce attack of the demons, the Chen Kingdom was defeated and lost two states and seven counties. If the territory was counted, it was actually three states. The seven counties were the territory of several states, so it was not counted as one state.

"The monsters have a large number of servants?"

Lin Jiang was shocked when he heard Xia Liang's words and asked.

"Yes, Your Majesty, we humans also have many traitors, and the monsters have used psychological tactics..."

"What psychological tactics?"

"According to the people who escaped from the north two years ago, the monsters have issued a clear ban, not allowing ordinary monsters to eat people at will, and not allowing monsters to come and go at will. They have established monster cities in various places for monsters to live in and restrain their behavior. The monsters have also slaughtered most of the noble families and wealthy families, and given their real estate and fields to those ordinary people. The taxes are lower than those of the State of Chen. As a result, a large number of people actually support the monsters, saying that the monsters are higher than the Chen family, and they would rather be monsters than people of the State of Chen."

Xia Liang said slowly. He had just learned about these things not long ago and felt very shocked. Is this still the monster in his mind? But this is indeed the fact, because a large number of monster servants have appeared on the battlefield, all of whom are human.

"How many demon vassal troops are there?"

"There should be 70,000 to 80,000 on our front line. They are very fierce. I don't know about other places."

"What about the number of demons?"

"I don't know. The North has been occupied for nearly 30 years. The number of demons may have doubled."

"We only have Mizhou on the northern border."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Send a message to the rest of the borders, asking them to surrender to Datong. Datong can replenish all their military pay and weapons, and send them reinforcements..."

Lin Jiang said immediately. The border defenders were too weak. It was unthinkable to rely on them to guard the border. For the safety of the flank, Lin Jiang decided to recruit them.

"Your Majesty, if this is the case, the pressure on Datong will be too great. There are still several states in the south that have not been taken, and there are countless mountain bandits still making trouble. Hundreds of thousands of troops have consumed countless money and food. If we take on the responsibility of the border, at least one million more troops will be spent. Datong's finances can't bear it anymore."

"We have to hold on even if we can't. This is the bearing and responsibility of a great country. There is no need to say more about this. Just follow it. When they decide to surrender, send people to reinforce their strength immediately."

Lin Jiang said. He also knew that it would be a disadvantage to do so, but this disadvantage must be taken. According to the monster's approach, there is really a possibility of extinction of human civilization. He doesn't want to live in the monster's world after waking up next time.

Moreover, Lin Jiang doesn't believe how open-minded the monster is. Maybe the human race is a third-class citizen or a fourth-class citizen in the monster's territory. Is it possible that Lin Jiang will kneel down to them?

Then Lin Jiang and Xia Liang inspected the front line together. Today's front line uses some mountains and rivers as a line of defense, plus a large number of fortresses and the like.

As for the monsters, most of them are still tribes. They have occupied a large area for grazing. Yes, grazing. The monsters are extremely carnivorous. Now that they are not allowed to eat humans casually, they mainly eat cattle and sheep. The consumption of cattle and sheep is extremely high. As the population of the monsters increases, they can only continue to expand, otherwise they will have to clear out the population inside to satisfy their appetite.

"If we can get through the connection between Mizhou and the Great Wall Corps, and connect this front, then the problem will be much easier."

Lin Jiang looked at the map. There was only a 2,000-li gap between Mizhou and the southwest of the Great Wall Corps. Part of this blank area was occupied by monsters, and part was high mountains. If they could connect, then their defense would be much easier.

The Great Wall Corps had the support of the Datong Army in recent years, and their life had been much better. But overall, they were still no match for the monsters, and could only barely hold back some of them. The route from Hezhou to the Great Wall Corps was too long. If ten kilograms of food were sent there, twelve or thirteen kilograms would be consumed on the way, which was too inefficient.

"Your Majesty, this plan is difficult to implement. There are too many mountains and forests in this area. Even if the monsters don't attack in this area, we can't get through unless we can drive out all the monsters in this area."

"I just said it casually. You can study it again,"

Lin Jiang said. He was not an expert in this area. The Martial Academy had trained qualified staff officers who were more professional than Lin Jiang.

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In the northern part of Mizhou, Lin Jiang appeared quietly with more than a hundred riders. In front of everyone, there were herds of cattle and sheep. Under their feet, there used to be prosperous villages and towns, but now they have become ruins, overgrown with weeds, and become food for cattle and sheep.

More and more people are fleeing in the northern part of Mizhou, and Lin Jiang is getting more and more familiar with the society of monsters. The rumors are all true, but very one-sided.

For example, the monsters have expressly prohibited monsters from eating people, but if a monster eats people secretly, the monster will not be executed. At most, he will be fined or sent to the army. As for the human race, if he dies, he dies.

The oppression of the monsters is still there. They are really not doing charity. It's just that too many humans have been killed, and there are fewer people and more land, so there are few conflicts now.

As for the monsters, cities and tribes are parallel. The monsters that invaded the Xian Kingdom and the Chen Kingdom are mainly the five major tribes, and these five major tribes have dozens of vassal tribes.

The five major tribes have now grown and become very large. They have occupied many cities and built demon cities inside. The demons mainly live in the demon cities.

The vassal tribes were sent out by them to capture cities and territories. If the vassal tribes made great contributions, they would be given cities as territories, and then some small tribes would be divided out to continue to capture cities and territories.

So a cruel fact is that the demons who annexed the two states of Chen State before were only the weakest among the demons, and the strong ones were still in the hinterland.

"Your Majesty, what we have in front of us is a small demon tribe. The demons have divided into many tribes, occupied a lot of territories, and many human beings have become their servants."

"Take a demon tribe as a starter and test their strength."

Lin Jiang nodded. They came this time to test the strength of the demons. Although Lin Jiang killed many demons, it has been so long, who knows what they have become. The demon world now is very different from that of the past.

The group rode away and quietly approached the monster tribe. The monster tribe lived in a still intact village, as if there was no difference from ordinary humans.

"Enemy"

"Enemy attack"

When approaching the tribe, Lin Jiang and others were discovered. The reason was very simple. The humans under their command never dared to approach them so openly.

"Kill"

Lin Jiang waved his hand, and more than a hundred riders dispersed and rushed directly into the tribe. The monsters fought desperately.

The fight began. The people Lin Jiang brought were all his personal guards. Needless to say, they were either strong or talented with potential, much stronger than the monsters.

But the monsters' resistance was very strong. Not only the adult male monsters fought desperately, but even the old, weak, women and children were not inferior. They were very calm in the face of death.

After an hour, the battle ended. All three or four hundred monsters in the entire tribe died in the battle, and Lin Jiang also paid the price of more than ten deaths.

“It is unknown how the strength of this tribe ranks within the monster race. How many people have reached the strength of martial arts masters?”

“The adult monsters are young and strong, with strength ranging from elite acquired warriors to early innate warriors. It is not fixed.”

“The strength of the old, weak, sick and disabled monsters varies greatly, but overall, their physical fitness is much stronger than that of humans.”

“There are very few strange things about these monsters. They look no different from humans. When they fight, their blood surges, and their strange parts will appear, such as scales and claws, or tail and horns…”

Everyone gathered together, talked about their discoveries, and gathered to Lin Jiang. Lin Jiang asked someone to record it. Most of the Datong army had never seen a monster, so they had to be trained in advance.