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    "Empire Hegemony" Chapter 1074

    On the front line of the province in the middle of the river, the fields and woods around a dilapidated small county town were densely packed with tents.

    The 300,000 troops led by Hu Ziyang entered the Hezhong Province eastward and fought several battles with the army of Deputy Marshal Liang Bin.

    In order to regain the crown prince controlled by Liang Bin, Hu Ziyang's troops also tried their best to launch an attack.

    However, Liang Bin had strong city guards in Hezhong Province. Although Hu Ziyang and the others attacked ferociously, they still failed to take back the crown prince, and suffered heavy casualties.

    Now the situation has also undergone tremendous changes. Hu Ziyang, Marshal of the Imperial Guard, had to suspend the attack, and was going to wait and see before making a decision.

    Because now even if he snatched the crown prince into his hands, it would not be of much use, because the orthodox position of the Dragon family royal family had been subverted by Chen Ziang.

    Chen Zi'ang, the new former Crown Prince, is now the hottest orthodox heir.

    Now the Far Eastern imperial court is falling apart, and various forces are trying to stand on their own. Hu Ziyang, the Grand Marshal of the Imperial Guard, and his army are now rootless, unable to return home.

    Compared with those forces that have seized a certain territory, Hu Ziyang's situation is even more difficult.

    Because they have Liang Bin's Imperial Guard troops to the east, and the rebel emperor Long Tian's rebel troops.

    To the north of them is the aggressive prairie wolf cavalry, with a force of up to 100,000.

    The west and south are now under the control of the Qinghe Army, and the strength of the Qinghe Army is even stronger.

    Although the army led by Hu Ziyang still has more than 200,000 troops, they are caught in the cracks of various forces, which puts them in danger of being besieged at any time.

    Previously, what Hu Ziyang thought was to withdraw westward immediately after snatching back the crown prince, and go to the border areas of the western provinces to rest and recuperate.

    Because although the borderlands in the west are bitterly cold, there are not many powerful forces. If they go, they will definitely be able to gain a firm foothold.

    But now their plan to snatch the crown prince has failed, and the road to the west has also been blocked.

    The Second Corps of the Qinghe Army has entered the Gyeonggi Province. Although it has not occupied the capital, it has controlled most of the roads in the prefectures and counties.

    If Hu Ziyang and the others retreated westward, they would definitely have a bloody battle with the Qinghe army.

    Even if they break through the Qinghe Army's blockade, there will be another fight in Qinghe Province, Western Province, Beichuan Province, Nanchuan Province and others, as well as a large number of insurgents waiting for them.

    And it is even more impossible for them to go to other places, because the rebels and wolf cavalry are not something they can provoke.

    Rather than saying that Hu Ziyang and the others are resting here now, it is better to say that they are trapped here.

    Hu Ziyang, the all-powerful Grand Marshal of the Imperial Guard, has become a lot haggard these days because of worrying about his way out.

    Fortunately, Hu Ziyang's prestige in the Imperial Guard is very high. Although they are in a difficult situation, the army has remained stable.

    "Master."

    "I have seen the handsome man."

    Hu Ziyang led a few generals to inspect the camp, and the soldiers of the Imperial Guard who were squatting or sitting saw Hu Ziyang approaching, and they all got up and saluted one after another.

    Seeing these tired-looking soldiers with pale faces, Hu Ziyang felt a faint pain in his heart.

    These soldiers followed him to fight north and south, and first fought fiercely with the rebels in the province in the middle of the river.

    Then he went to Hexi Province to defend the Qinghe Army, and then fought back to the capital, and then went to the river.

    These soldiers never left him, Hu Ziyang, but the repeated battles made these soldiers exhausted.

    And from the first meal these soldiers put into the army, they hardly had enough to eat.

    ?Because the Far Eastern imperial court has long been unable to make ends meet, their money and food are constantly searched for, barely maintaining the supply of the army.

    Now that the emperor is dead and the Far Eastern court has also collapsed, Hu Ziyang and the others have completely cut off the source of money and food.

    ? Although they looted a lot along the way, facing more than 200,000 mouths, it was a drop in the bucket.

    When Hu Ziyang saw these weak soldiers, especially when he passed by the wounded barracks, and saw those soldiers with missing arms and legs moaning in pain, he felt even more guilty.

    These soldiers followed him, Hu Ziyang, to fight and fight all the way, but he let them starve and suffer from cold and pain.

    the "Snapped!"

    "ah!"

    When Hu Ziyang came to a camp, he heard the cracking of the whip and the screams of pain from a long distance away.

    When they got closer, they realized that more than a dozen bare-chested soldiers were tied to the hitching post, and an officer was whipping them fiercely with a scarlet whip.

    Seeing the horrific appearance of these dozen or so people who were beaten and bruised, Hu Ziyang couldn't help but frowned.

    "What's going on, why did you beat them?" Hu Ziyang asked.

    An officer who was beating the soldiers saw the arrival of Generalissimo Hu Ziyang, and trotted over in a hurry.

    "Reporting to the commander, these bastards secretly became deserters last night and were captured by us." The officer reported loudly.

    "Okay, they are all my brothers. They have been beaten to pieces. Please spare them this time."

    The soldiers who heard the screams of being whipped turned out to be deserters, Hu Ziyang was merciful and let them go once.

    "What are you still doing in a daze, thank you, Commander!"

    So the officer froze for a moment, then turned his head and yelled loudly at the bound soldiers.

    "Thank you, Marshal, for your mercy."

    "Thank you, Marshal."

    The deserters who were already on the verge of death also expressed their thanks weakly as if they had received an amnesty.

    "Are there many deserters in the camp?"

    Seeing someone go up to untie the ropes for these deserters, Hu Ziyang also turned to ask his lieutenant general.

    The lieutenant general also sighed, and said with embarrassment: "To tell you the truth, commander, there have been more than a thousand deserters in the past few days."

    "However, I also issued an order that all deserters will be severely punished after they are captured. Now the trend of deserters has been stopped." The lieutenant continued.

    "Why should they be deserters? I remember that there were very few deserters in our battalion before."

    Hu Ziyang was also taken aback when he heard that there were so many deserters.

    "Marshal, we have run out of food and pay, and they can't even get enough to eat, so they became deserters." The lieutenant general explained.

    "Marshal, we can't go on like this anymore. Although the deserters are severely punished now so that they don't dare to flee, if they starve for a few more days, they probably won't be able to stop them." Another general of the Imperial Guard also said with a solemn expression.

    Hu Ziyang didn't expect that the problem had become so serious, and he couldn't help but let out a long sigh. He, Hu Ziyang, had fallen to such a point.

    "Pass down my military order to take out all the food and distribute it to the brothers, so that they can have a full meal first." Hu Ziyang ordered.

    "Marshal, no, we implement a rationing system now. Although each person can only drink one bowl of porridge a day, we can still last for a few more days."

    "If all the food is taken out and eaten, we won't last for two days."

    "When the time comes when there is no food, I will think of a way and carry out my order." Hu Ziyang said.

    "No."

    "Convene the participating generals and above generals to the big account of the Chinese army. We should make a decision on what to do in the future."

    Hu Ziyang also knew that they had no time to wait and see. If they continued to wait and see, the troops would collapse, so they could only discuss a way out as soon as possible.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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