Zhou Jiyun gave up everything he could. At this point, he ignored the pressure from the Presbyterian Church. The greater the territory, the greater the pressure he was under. The elders who really had the right to speak in the wealthy families hoped that Zhou Jiyun could operate the six eastern counties as the capital for them to bargain with the Emperor of Qi, but Zhou Jiyun knew very well that without the support of the Great Qi Dynasty, he could not defend these places at all. Bian Wushuang was dealing with him with the power of a country.

What is important is the survival of the troops in his hands rather than the amount of territory. He voluntarily gave up those territory and all his troops were shrinking to Kunling County. He only retained one place outside Kunling County, Tongfang County, which was the door that the Chu army had to knock on to attack Kunling County.

The 50,000 troops under his command were arranged 20,000 people in Tongfang County and his rear. However, in the grand pass of Kunling County where he was stationed, he left only 5,000 people. Compared with this big city, 5,000 people are really not worth mentioning.

Zhou Jiyun believed that if the Chu army was allowed to attack Kunling County, he would have failed and there was no need to struggle. There were not many guards above the city and no more defensive arrangements. However, outside the city, the fields that had turned into golden yellow have become a seductive scenery.

When shrinking the territory and guarding Kunling County with all his strength, Zhou Jiyun did not follow Cao Yun's approach in the three counties of Taoyuan. Although some generals also made such suggestions, Zhou Jiyun believed that he had no ability to digest these manpower at all, which would cause greater chaos in Kunling County. He lived a good life with the people of Kunling County under the rule of Yue Kaishan. His resistance to them was strong, and his momentum to resist Qi in other places had never weakened.

One more person means one more mouth and one more burden. Zhou Jiyun doesn't want Kunling County to become a miserable place. Even if Kunling County is facing extreme shortage of manpower, he has never regretted it. Changning County, Daqi, has been in chaos because it has placed too many people in the Former Yue, but Xian Bisong can use the local forces to suppress these chaos. He has no advantage in Kunling County.

Standing at the head of Kunling County and watching the army walking out of the city gate of Zhengluoyi, he is about to go to a new battle. This battle is still important to the survival of Kunling County. As long as they win, at least they will stabilize the enemy in one direction and win a chance to survive for Kunling County.

"Can you confirm the authenticity and reliability of the information?" He looked at Uso beside him. Even though he had experienced many battles, he was still nervous at this moment. If this was the other party's plan, he could be sure that he would not be able to come back. Once he could not come back, Kunling County would naturally be finished.

"Don't worry, how dare you joke about such a big thing!" Uso said casually: "I have told you that in this battle, political struggle comes first and military affairs come later. Jiyun, you must remember that all wars are ultimately just for politics, so, don't worry, go there, I'll wait for you to return in Kunling County."

Zhou Jiyun took a deep breath, nodded, stopped talking, turned around and walked towards the city tower. The two old men standing beside Uso followed him down the city wall without saying a word.

Under the command of Bian Wushuang, nearly 100,000 troops rushed towards Tongfang City, but the direction Zhou Jiyun went was not far away.

The general stationed in Tongfang County is Zhou Jiyun's general, and Wulin, a rich family of aristocratic families. Like Zhou Jiyun, he is also an extremely outstanding among the children of aristocratic families. In fact, in Zhou Jiyun's army, those who hold important positions in the army are basically children of aristocratic families.

Everyone says that there are many children of aristocratic families, which is actually just a prejudice. In fact, a family that can pass on for thousands of years without losing is far more strict with their children and nephews than ordinary families. Although these people have no shortage of food and clothing since childhood, they have to go through some training and hardships that ordinary people cannot imagine. The losers can only become some children who have no other sins except spending money. Only those who are truly outstanding will stand out in the rounds of competition and truly support the power of the family. However, because of this, fewer people win after being cruelly eliminated, and more losers will make the world think that these children of aristocratic families are very unbearable.

Like Zhou Jiyun, Wulin is a hero of the people polished in the army. As children of aristocratic families, their biggest advantage over ordinary people is that they have more ways to save their lives.

But even so, the number of children from aristocratic families was still very large, and those who survived were not ordinary people, because the education they received since childhood was completely different from that of ordinary people.

It is naturally impossible for Tongfang County to station 20,000 troops. In fact, 20,000 troops are arranged within a range of dozens of square kilometers. If people can fly in the air, it can be seen from high altitude that Tongfang's defense has become one prism after another, with the smallest defense point, but hundreds of people stationed, the largest one reaches 5,000.

Tongfang City, as the core of this defense system, has three thousand cavalry and five thousand infantry. Cavalry is used as a mobile support force, while five thousand infantry is used to defend the city.

After Zhou's troops retreated to Kunling County, Tongfang County, as the front line, had undoubtedly shown its role in key positions. The small county town was constantly thickening, raising and strengthening.

Compared with other troops in Qi State, the equipment of this army is actually better, because their backs are the wealthy family group with the strongest financial resources in Qi State. In the past, in addition to getting everything provided by the state to the army, they could also get a lot of assistance from the wealthy family. Even ordinary soldiers could own a suit. In terms of equipment alone, they were no worse than the Long Xiang army. This was much better than the Chu army, which was one of the reasons why Zhou Jiyun was so fucked after he entered the six eastern counties.

Of course, the situation has changed greatly now. The Chu army obtained a large amount of weapons and armor from the Ming people, and the quality of these weapons and armor was better than that of the Qi people.

In addition to the equipment sold by Mingren to Chu, such as Thunderbolt Fire, Enclave Car, and Crossbow Machine, secretly made some small moves, causing the key components to be constantly damaged and had to rely on the Ming army to supplement them, other things such as swords, guns, swords, halberds and armor were real good things.

Wu Lin was patrolling his position. He was in a heavy mood. This time the pressure he was facing was unprecedented. What puzzled him was that Zhou Jiyun, the commander of the army, did not arrive at Tongfang to personally command in this battle that concerns their life and death fate, but handed over the command to him.

He was not nervous, but was just worried that his shoulders could not bear the burden. The continuous intelligence of the scouts showed that the Chu army had come out in full swing, with a total force of more than 100,000, while he had only 20,000.

Of course, the war was not just about the number of people, but the five-to-one ratio still made him feel heavy.

"What did the general think? Is there anything more important than this war?" He complained dissatisfiedly to Yue Kaishan, who had just escorted food and supplies to Tongfang.

"The general naturally has something he must do. Since he has given you the command of this war, he believes that you can defend Tongfang." Yue Kaishan smiled and said, "Why, General Wu doesn't believe in himself?"

Wu Lin took a deep breath, "I just don't understand."

"It's good that the general commands the battle. Yue will coordinate the logistics supply for the general in the same field!" Yue Kaishan said lightly.

"Mr. Yue County Magistrate won't go back to Kunling?" Wu Lin was stunned and shook his head: "Mr. Yue County Magistrate wants to leave Tongfang. As for the war, there is no place in Tongfang that is safe. Your life and death are of great importance. I cannot bear this responsibility. As for the allocation of logistics, there are still such talents under my account."

"I must stay here!" Yue Kaishan said sternly." General Wu, after the war begins, something strange may happen to you, but please don't worry or hesitate."

Wu Lin looked at Yue Kaishan up and down: "Is there anything I can't know?"

"Yes." Yue Kaishan did not avoid it, but said straightforwardly: "It's important, General Wu should not ask me."

"I understand!" Wu Lin nodded, "My task is to guard Tongfang."

"Yes, if Tongfang can't defend it, then everything the general will do will be meaningless." Yue Kaishan nodded.

"Is it the Wanzhou story again?" Wu Lin was not stupid. Although Yue Kaishan was vague in his words, he could still guess a rough idea from a military perspective. Because the war began, the main general disappeared without a trace. It was too unusual.

Yue Kaishan smiled slightly: "I don't know, General Wu, don't guess, just let the officers and soldiers know that the general will lead reinforcements to arrive after the war begins!"

Wu Lin nodded. "I understand."

Tongfang was preparing to face the attack of the Chu army. In the direction of the Chu army, the troops stationed in various states were gathering towards Tongfang County from different directions. The front of the army was the 10,000 cavalry commanded by Jiang Shangyan.

However, as the commander of the army, Bian Wushuang has not set off yet. He is seeing off a person who is about to leave the Jinghu War Zone. This person is Ning Zhiwen, the navy commander who has made great contributions to the Jinghu War Zone.

Luo Liang and Emperor Sword arrived at the Jinghu War Zone to supervise the battle. He came with Luo Liang, and there was also an imperial edict to appoint Ning Zhiwen as the governor of Quanzhou County. Ning Zhiwen was transferred. This was of course the first step for Min Ruoying to prepare to eliminate the influence of the Ming army in the Jinghu War Zone.

"The road is smooth!" Bian Wushuang raised his wine glass to Ning Zhiwen with a smile.
Chapter completed!