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Chapter 1047: Chapter 429 Military Expedition Movement Chapter 1047: Chapter 429 Military Expedition Movement “Reinforcements needed at Dongjun?”

When Lu Yuan received Huang Lin’s request, he couldn’t help but frown.

He had been very supportive of the military campaign in Western Expedition’s Dongjun before, and still was up to now.

For this purpose, he even transferred one million cannon fodder there, hoping that they could quickly open up the situation.

And the results, did not disappoint him.

The previously unyielding battle situation in Dongjun indeed made rapid progress after receiving support from one million cannon fodder.

Not only did they capture Liang City, but they also surrounded and eliminated over half of Zhao Army’s one million force on the Baima front line, sealing their fate.

After losing Liang City, the situation in Dongjun for the Zhao people entered a deadlock, teetering on the brink of slow death.

Now, it was just a matter of time to see how long the opponent could hold out before completely dying?

But now.

In such an advantageous situation, Huang Lin not only failed to further strike the Zhao people and quickly reap the rewards.

Instead, he turned to Lu Yuan for more assistance, to cope with the gradually deteriorating battle situation there.

Truthfully, if he hadn’t been sure that the other party was his own avatar and could not betray himself, Lu Yuan would have doubted his intentions.

However, precisely because the other was his avatar, after their divine consciousness communicated, he quickly understood the Chu Army’s situation in Dongjun through the connection of their divine souls and grasped the difficulties they faced.

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In Dongjun, the situation for the Chu Army indeed looked grim.

The Zhao people had gathered two million troops near Diqiu, and after the war’s attrition, about one million seven hundred fifty thousand remained.

At the Baima front, there were also about four hundred thousand from Zhao Army.

And in the north of the great river, in Zhao’s heartland, Ji Province, it was expected that another one and a half to two million soldiers would be conscripted.

Therefore, even by the most optimistic estimates, the Zhao forces gathering in Dongjun in the next several months will amount to at least three million six hundred thousand personnel.

Yes, many of these three million six hundred thousand people are temporarily conscripted civilian workers, a ragtag army, their strength incomparable to those of well-trained soldiers.

Moreover, the Zhao people having lost Liang City and holding less than half of Dongjun, would have serious supply issues in Henan, and were fundamentally incapable of sustaining the army in combat for too long.

Perhaps just three to five months would be enough for these millions of troops to disintegrate due to lack of provisions.

But after saying so much, we still cannot obscure one fact: we’re talking about an army of over three million six hundred thousand!

Even if it were three million six hundred thousand pigs standing still letting you kill them, you would be exhausted doing so, and your swords and blades would shatter.

Not to mention an organized army of three million six hundred thousand, trained and commanded by military law.

In contrast.

The Chu forces in Dongjun are now composed of only one million four hundred thousand men on the Liang City front and six hundred thousand on the Baima front, totaling just two million soldiers.

In terms of strength alone, this is only slightly more than half of Zhao Army’s total strength.

Hmm, compared to the start of the Northern Expedition this year, Chu’s military strength has decreased by five hundred thousand.

As for the one million cannon fodder previously transferred, they were long since exhausted, with only a few tens of thousands remaining in the camp.

In just a short half year, the Chu Army had already suffered losses in Dongjun reaching one million five hundred thousand men.

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Although two-thirds of them were cannon fodder, the number of casualties was still staggering.

However, considering what the Western Expedition achieved in this half year, those losses seemed fairly reasonable.

First, on the Baima front, to confuse the Zhao Army and create an opportunity for a surprise attack, the Chu Army had to endure heavy casualties, assaulting Zhao’s Baima defenses.

For just this deceptive maneuver, Chu’s losses were no fewer than five hundred thousand men.

Then, Huang Lin advanced, raiding from Watign County onwards, capturing over ten large and small cities along the way—all piled up with the lives of cannon fodder.

Even if one city cost the lives of only twenty or thirty thousand, or fifty to sixty thousand, the total was still considerable.

If it came to big cities like Wat County and Liang City, then the dead and wounded climbed to over one hundred thousand.

Adding these up, the casualties reached another several hundred thousand.

In the past month, the Zhao Army launched a counter-attack, and the Chu Army was forced to respond.

Both sides erupted in countless skirmishes with losses on both sides reaching two to three hundred thousand.

Adding up these losses, for Chu’s one million five hundred thousand casualties, it actually seems quite normal.

After all, the Chu people were the aggressors, while the Zhao people had the advantage of defense.

To break through the opponent’s defense and achieve significant victories, how could they not pay a certain price?

Anyway, Lu Yuan approved of these losses.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have sent one million cannon fodder, with the very purpose being for them to bear the cost, right?

It’s just that the rate at which this cost was being expended was, admittedly, a bit too fast.

How many months had it been?

Two months, or three?

In such a short time, one million cannon fodder were gone just like that.

Now Huang Lin wanted to continue asking for cannon fodder from himself, and Lu Yuan would like to give it, but he too needed to be able to provide it.

For the original state of Chu, cannon fodder was not in short supply.

In little over a year, Chu Army had consecutively defeated Liang, Wei, Zhao, Zheng, and other states, capturing a total of four million seven hundred thousand prisoners in a series of wars.

Taking into account the attrition from labor over more than a year, there should still be about four million five hundred thousand of these prisoners left.

However, for this year’s Northern Expedition, to break through Liang’s peripheral defenses and capture the surrounding forts of Diqiu, nearly one million seven hundred thousand cannon fodder were already gradually spent.

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