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Although Shangguan Yuanji liked leisure, for Tang Yin to be able to entrust the management of three counties to him, it showed how much importance he placed on him and how much trust he had in him. Shangguan Yuanji was moved by Tang Yin's understanding, and said: "Rest assured master, this subordinate will do my best to create a strong shield for you!"

Hearing him say that, Tang Yin secretly heaved a sigh of relief, patted Shangguan Yuanji's shoulders and said: "Yuanji, your energy is limited by yourself, and it is impossible for you to travel back and forth between the three counties. You can leave the affairs of each county to anyone you trust to manage, and you just need to take charge of the overall situation with Huaiyang."

Shangguan Yuanji nodded, and laughed: "This subordinate understands."

Tang Yin thought for a moment, then said: "Right now, the army's food is still tense, from the three counties, especially the matter of Jinguang County preparing the food, we must hurry."

"Yes!" "Milord."

"Also, as for the remaining three county guards in Jinguang County, use them if you can, kick them all out if you can't, don't hold back on face, and don't worry about them. Just go and do it."

"Understood."

"The taxes and expenses of the Jinguang County are a terrible debt. I will transfer Master Zong Zong Yuan over to assist you. After all, he is relatively familiar with the situation of the Jinguang County."

"Yes!" "Thank you, my lord."

After Tang Yin finished explaining all the problems that he could think of, he got Zhao Hui to come over as well. He also told him that the army was preparing to head south to attack Lehu County, so he could prepare more military rations and fodder to make up for his military expenses. Zhao Hui had not been pushed aside by Tang Yin and had even continued to take his place as the County Head. Naturally, he was grateful to Tang Yin and followed his lead.

On the fifth day after Tang Yin dismissed Yu Tao, Princess Shauna and a few of her generals arrived at Huaiyang and gave Tang Yin a piece of news. The letter Shauna wrote to Knies had already been delivered to Bessa City and Knies had also promised to send a message to the king of the Dookie, informing him of this matter.

After hearing what Shauna had to say, Tang Yin was extremely happy.

Originally, in the eyes of him, Shauna and the others, it was a certain thing, but something went wrong. After receiving King Bessa Knies's message, as the king of the city, Alden did not agree, but did not reject him either. Instead, he made a condition for Tang Yin to personally go to the Dookie City for a while.

Knies was obviously not satisfied with his reply, and once again sent someone to the Dookie City to inquire about the meaning of his words. This time, Alden wrote a long letter to Knies, explaining his difficult situation.

There was a border between the Dookie and Feng Ning, and the place that was close to the Feng Country was a barren land filled with evil water. There were no interactions between the two states, but the area that was close to the Ning Country was very wide, and although the two sides were not on good terms, there were not many conflicts between them. Strictly speaking, the Dookie were filled with fear of the Ning Country, which was flourishing at the moment. They were lending Tang Yin a path, and this was not what would happen after it was completed. Doing this would mean offending the Ning Country, and what if the Ning Country came out to take revenge in the future? As the king, Allen Ricky had to consider this point carefully. Thus, he brought up the condition of seeing Tang Yin. Firstly, he wanted to see if Tang Yin was really that outstanding of a person, and secondly, he wanted to discuss this clearly with Tang Yin. It would be fine to take the chance, but if Ning Country were to send troops in the future to exact vengeance, would he send troops over to assist him?

After looking through his letter, Knies basically understood Alden's worries. He immediately replied and guaranteed by patting his chest, that if his Ning Country were to attack the Dookie, Baisha would definitely help him. However, Alden was determined to meet Tang Yin, and only if Tang Yin came personally would he consider borrowing the trip.

He never thought that Allen Ricky would insist on such a small matter. In the end, Knies had no choice but to seal the letter for Tang Yin and explained the matter. However, Knies and Alden's return letter had been delayed for almost a month, and when Knies's letter arrived at the Huaiyang, it had already been one and a half months.

During this period of time, Tang Yin of course wouldn't stay idle. While he organized the three counties, he took the time to train his army, eliminated the old, weak, and disabled soldiers, and then recruited strong youths from the three counties, thereby increasing the overall strength of his Tianyuan Army.

At the same time, the scouts of the Sky Eye and the Earth Web returned to the Jinguang County, reporting the latest developments there to Tang Yin.

The number of soldiers that were stationed at Tong Gate were not too many, at least not too few. It was around fifty thousand, and during this period, the people at Tong Gate were constantly strengthening the defenses of the cities at the east side. It could be seen that the Ning Army was also worried that the enemies would attack from the Feng Country side. In addition, the two hundred thousand soldiers led by Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi had all retreated to the Yan City. King Ning did not send any more reinforcements to the two of them, but she did not order them to return to the Ning Country either.

Amongst the many kings, Yan Chu was considered a very young Sovereign King. Ever since he ascended to the throne, the development of his Ning Country was very fast, the power of his nation was increasing, and Yan Chu himself had mastered both martial arts and literature.

From Yan Chu's point of view, the battle between Tang Yin and the new Sovereign King, was a civil war of Feng Country, the internal conflict of Feng Country, which made it difficult for Ning Country to interfere too deeply in the battle, to fight against the main force of Tianyuan Army, which had to be the Windman himself, so the Ning Army did not need to get involved, as it exhausted their own national power.

Originally, they should not have fought with Tianyuan Army, but instead, wanted to eliminate the outsiders hurriedly. In the end, it caused the Ning Army to lose as many as two hundred thousand soldiers. Although Yan Chu did not blame the two of them, he was already dissatisfied with the two of them.

Yan Chu was a talented and vigorous Sovereign King, but he also had his fatal weakness, which was being headstrong and not being able to hear what others beside him thought. As long as he thought that it was the right thing to do, no one could change it. He hoped that Zhong Tian would fight with Tang Yin and let Feng Ren fight against him, regardless of who lost, it would be a great internal drain on their Feng Country, causing serious damage to their nation's power, so in the future it would be difficult for them to contend against the Ning Country. However, he neglected one point, Zhong Tian was unpopular, if he did not have the help of the Ning Country army, and only relying on himself, he would not be able to stop the attack of the Tianyuan Army, and and Zhan Wudi's power would be able to block five hundred thousand Tianyuan Army.

After Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi were defeated, the two hundred thousand exhausted and anxious troops of the Ning army had all gathered at their Yan City. Their morale was low and they lacked the will to fight. Zhong Tian's situation became even worse, not only did the second son, Zhong Wen, die in battle, his Central Army were also destroyed, and he wanted to gather new men and reform his Central Army, it was easier said than done, the document on recruiting new soldiers was posted, but no one came to recruit new soldiers in different parts of the Feng Country, in the end, Zhong Tian could only issue a mandatory order, in every household, one person must enter the army, if they could not pay, they would have to pay, and if they did not have the money, they would have to disobey the decree and be executed.

When the order for the forced conscription arrived at a place, it caused the citizens of various parts of the Feng Country to be angry, the voices against Zhong Tian became louder, and no one dared to carry out Zhong Tian's orders, the laws were not heavy, if a family did not obey the order, the local officials could still follow the orders, but if every family did not listen to the orders, how could they kill all the local citizens?

They were right under Zhong Tian's nose, unable to even dodge if they wanted to. No matter if they tried to intimidate or threaten him, in the end, they had actually gathered more than a hundred thousand people for Zhong Tian, and had also gathered all of the slaves that were in the Yan City together, barely making up a total of one hundred and fifty thousand people to make up the number of people in the Central Army.

It was just that this Central Army was no longer the same as the previous one. Not only did the soldiers have no experience in battle, they also had not received any formal military training. What was even more laughable was that there wasn't even a proper general in the entire army.

A general would not have a good general, and a soldier would not have an elite soldier. One could imagine the combat strength of this set of Central Army.

Not only would it not show any results, it would also cause the people to become even more dissatisfied. Although Zhong Tian had reorganized his Central Army now, in reality, it was useless, and could not withstand a single blow from him. Furthermore, his Ning Country had not even sent any reinforcements to Zhan Wushuang and Zhan Wudi, which was even more foolish, causing the two Zhan brothers and the two hundred thousand Ning troops under their command to wait to die on the spot. If they did not take the opportunity to attack from the south, how long would they have to wait for that?

Coincidentally, Knies's letter had also been delivered to Tang Yin's hands. After he finished reading it, he did not think much about it, and decided right away to personally make a trip to Dookie.

Hearing the news, Qiu Zhen, Shangguan Yuanji and the rest all came over, Le Tian and Ai Jia followed.

After seeing Tang Yin, Qiu Zhen went straight to the point: "I heard that Master is going to the Dookie City State?"

"That's right!" Tang Yin was surprised to see so many people all of a sudden. He strangely nodded, looked at the crowd and laughed, then asked: "Is there a problem? Everyone here wouldn't think that the Dookie has evil intentions towards me, right? "

"It's very possible!" Qiu Zhen said bluntly, "During this period of time, General Le and General Ai have also gathered a lot of information regarding Ning Country. The relationship between Ning Country and there have never been any conflicts, moreover, there are frequent exchanges, both sides have flourished in business at the border, and this time, the king of Dookie has requested for Master to personally go negotiate with him, I'm afraid that he has ill intentions, his intentions are bad! "

This point was something that Tang Yin did not consider. After hearing Qiu Zhen's words, he frowned and remained silent.