Chapter 1659: struggling

In the second half of the thirty-fifth year of Tianxuan, the operations of the Yi Emperor Territory and its branch territories on the Southern Continent, the Northern Continent and the Western Continent did not fully follow the goals proposed by Qu Mao at the mid-year meeting. The armies in its branch territories are not working hard, but there are too many uncertainties.

 In fact, at the mid-year meeting, Qu Mao also overestimated the military strength of Emperor Yi's territory and its branch territories, and also underestimated the difficulty of completely wiping out the members of the God's Chosen Alliance on the other three continents.

Although on the Western Continent, in mid-October of the 35th year of Tianxuan, due to the cooperation of the Fulu Empire and the Fulu Alliance, the coalition forces of the Yi Emperor Territory and the Shaliu Empire, Shayi Empire, and Reese Empire had successfully eliminated the last family affiliated to God. The God-Chosen player lords of the Alliance chose the forces, but of the Western Continent, Southern Continent and Northern Continent offensives planned by Qu Mao at the mid-year meeting, only the Western Continent achieved the preset goals.

Regarding Qu Mao's request to join forces to eliminate the members of the God's Chosen Alliance, Fuzhi, the leader of the Fulu Alliance, still responded and supported unconditionally, even though the remaining member forces of the Fulu Empire and the Fulu Alliance were also destroyed due to the six-year miniature battle. This resulted in a shortage of resources, but he still cooperated with Qu Mao's army to fight without hesitation.

With this kind of cooperation, the army organized by Emperor Yi's territory was able to eliminate the last member of the God's Chosen Alliance in the Western Continent in less than four months. However, the troops on the Western Continent could not be immediately transferred to the Central Continent. After all, maintaining a certain military strength in the newly captured territory is the fundamental guarantee for stable rule.

 As for the Southern Continent and the Northern Continent, the general offensive situation has made some significant progress, but it has not achieved the expected goals.

The situations on the Southern Continent and the Northern Continent are still different. There are four remaining member forces of the God's Chosen Alliance on the Southern Continent. Compared with the Peiquan Empire, Deyi Empire and Jinbing Empire in Emperor Yi's territory, there is one more. power, but the three branches of Emperor Yi's territory occupy a larger territory, so they still have a certain advantage.

However, the terrain of the Southern Continent itself is complex enough, and the three God-chosen player lords Zhuang Peiquan, Liu Deyi and Shen Jinbing are not specialized in military planning, so the final battle between the four God-chosen alliance members is inextricable. You Sheng There are negatives.

Since the Dugu Empire announced its participation in the war, the members of the God's Chosen Alliance have become more morale. Even though the miniature battles in the previous six years have exhausted the war resources, the will to resist has always existed.

The general offensive operation on the southern continent inevitably reached a stalemate. At the end of the thirty-fifth year of Tianxuan, the goal of ending all wars proposed by Qu Mao at the mid-year meeting of the thirty-fifth year of Tianxuan was naturally not completed. Moreover, on the southern continent Not even one member of the God's Chosen Alliance has been eliminated.

The Yi Emperor Territory has three branch territories on the northern continent: the Liede Empire, the Heroic Empire, and the Xiangxi Empire. Zhao Liede, Jia Yingpeng, and Zuo Xiangxi are all the chosen player lords of the Yi Emperor Territory, who are very good at military planning and military operations. , It’s a pity that there is a troublemaker in the Northern Continent, the Northern Continent’s native Chosen Players and Lords Alliance.

Whenever Yi Emperor's Territory and its branch territories are about to obtain key military results, the alliance of local God-Chosen player lords in the Northern Continent will inevitably come out to cause trouble, causing Yi Emperor's Territory and its branch territories to miss out on key military results and spend countless lives. At the expense of key results.

 Faced with this situation, Zhao Liede, Jia Yingpeng and Zuo Xiangxi were all helpless, and so was Qu Mao.

If they only face three members of the God's Chosen Alliance, Zhao Liede, Jia Yingpeng and Zuo Xiangxi think it is a matter of control, which is very easy. However, facing the God of Choice Alliance and the Northern Continent's local God's Chosen Player Lords Alliance at the same time, This means that the three branch territories will face the forces of 8 God-Chosen player lords at the same time, which seems a bit stretched. Being able to barely maintain the balance of power is because the personal abilities of Zhao Liede, Jia Yingpeng and Zuo Xiangxi make up for their overall strength.

 The combat situation on the Central Continent far exceeded Qu Mao’s expectations.

Qu Mao originally wanted to trade space for time in the Mid-Continent in order to pay 10% of the territory captured by the Fenghua Empire, Taiji Empire and Congrong Empire in the early stage, which is 2% of the entire Mid-Continent area, and delay the time to stop the Dugu Empire. After half a year, which is the thirty-sixth year of Tianxuan, troops from the Southern Continent, Western Continent and Northern Continent will be dispatched to the Central Continent for a decisive battle with the Dugu Empire.

However, the Dugu Empire had been holding back for seven or eight years, and suddenly entered the war. Its military strength was still beyond the expectations of Qu Mao and others. The 24 general attack routes deployed by the Yi Emperor's territory and its branch territories on the mid-continent were greatly affected by the fierce attack of the Dugu Empire. After successive defeats, by the time Emperor Yi's territory held a summary meeting for the thirty-fifth year of Tianxuan in the Imperial City of the Mughal Empire in the Eastern Continent, the territory lost in the Central Continent had exceeded 5% of the entire area of ​​the Central Continent.

 Equivalent to the fact that after the general attack on Emperor Yi's territory, a quarter of the territory captured in the Central Continent has been lost, and the Dugu Empire's offensive momentum shows no signs of slowing down.

 The general offensive launched by Emperor Yi's territory and 12 branch territories on the other four continents against the trend, immediately entered a difficult situation within half a year after the Dugu Empire chose to participate in the war.

The strategy goals on the Southern Continent, Northern Continent, and Western Continent were stagnant, making Qu Mao’s general offensive plan difficult and at a loss as to what to do.

This was not because the military commanders in Qu Mao and Emperor Yi's territory didn't work hard, but because the situation was changing too quickly. It was not until the Eastern Continent and the Holy Land in Emperor Yi's territory that they successively sent more troops to the Central Continent at the beginning of the thirty-sixth year of Tianxuan. After 20 million, this situation barely changed.

At the year-end summary meeting for the thirty-fifth year of Tianxuan and the mid-year meeting for the thirty-sixth year of Tianxuan, Qu Mao still worked hard to adjust the deployment of the army. However, even starting from the second half of the thirty-sixth year of Tianxuan, the army on the Western Continent began to After rushing to the Central Continent for reinforcements, the situation only improved slightly, and there was no astonishing reversal as Qu Mao imagined.

Fortunately, with the passage of time, the advantages of the strong military industrial production capacity of the Yi Emperor Territory and the sufficient military resources brought by the long-term stability of the Holy Land of the Yi Emperor Territory and the Eastern Continent began to emerge, and the situation began to develop in a direction that was beneficial to the Yi Emperor Territory. .

It’s just that the Southern Continent and the Northern Continent, which originally planned to end the battle in half a year, still didn’t end the battle when Qu Mao held a year-end summary meeting for the thirty-sixth year of Tianxuan. The time dragged on for a full year and a half, which made Qu Mao a little dissatisfied. .

Even in the second half of the thirty-fifth year of Tianxuan and the whole year of Tianxuan’s thirty-sixth year, Qu Mao focused all his time and energy on supervising operations on the other three continents, but it was to no avail.