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Wei Country struggled to survive, having lost half of its territory, with the Imperial Capital hunting in the north, nearly becoming a marginalized little court.

Zhao Country struggled to survive, its core-operated Dongjun was attacked by the Chu army, with alarms ringing daily in South Capital’s Emperor Hill, leaving almost no peaceful days.

Xu State struggled to survive, in order to curb Chu State, to protect its own barrier, the entire nation gritted its teeth and sent food and fodder to its former enemy Liang, nearly emptying itself.

Tang Kingdom struggled to survive, originally invading Liang to pick off easy benefits, but ended up being sandwiched between Liang and Xu State, losing eight hundred thousand troops in one go, nearly half of its main forces gone.

Even when it wanted to retaliate, it faced threats from all surrounding powers, an extremely stifling situation.

Xu State struggled to survive; as it continued to advance southward, the territory of southern neighbor Jing Kingdom kept shrinking, replaced by the growing resolve of Jin Country to resist.

Especially with Zheng Kingdom regaining unity, once again becoming a power not inferior to Tang Xu, regaining the ability to interfere in other countries’ affairs.

Therefore, in the face of the aggressive Xu State expanding to the east, Zheng unhesitatingly chose to support Jin Country, bolstering this former enemy as its eastern barrier.

Facing the alliance of Zheng and Jin, Xu State had to temporarily avoid the limelight and stop its southern expansion.

Meanwhile, next to them, Tang Kingdom’s power was also rapidly expanding.

In recent years, spurred by unknown motivations, its desire to expand had become particularly intense.

Now, regardless of the interests of other countries, it aggressively cooperated with the Chu Army in suppressing Liang, recklessly rushing forward.

Facing such a neighbor with strength, capability, no bottom line, and very capable of stirring up trouble, even Xu State felt a headache and dread.

It abandoned its southern expansion not solely due to the alliance of Zheng Jin but also out of fear that Tang might stab it in the back.

Jin Country likewise struggled to survive, with Xu State to the north having seized three of its counties and still coveting to head south.

To the south was Zheng, which had unified and greatly increased its power, completely cutting off Jin’s hopes of compensating the loss in the north with gains in the south.

Facing the squeeze from the two powers Zheng Xu, Jin Country was like a small boat in a storm, at risk of capsizing at any moment.

Zheng Kingdom had it even harder, originally Chu State as a good eastern barrier, suddenly rose to power.

Mighty Liang, the Supreme Dominator of the world, almost perished under Chu’s strike.

Chu State quickly changed from a barrier to Zheng’s largest threat in the east.

Therefore, in order to resist and prepare for this threat, Zheng had to deploy troops to contain the Chu army and coordinate with other countries to support Liang.

The relationship between Chu and Zheng turned sour in an instant.

By the end of September last year, when Chu’s million-strong army in Yangxia County directly abandoned Liang and turned their heads to invade Zheng’s adjacent Gao Mi County.

The relationship between the two countries went from allies to irreconcilable enemies.

Although Zheng had gathered eight hundred thousand troops in Gao Mi, which was not much less than the strength of the Chu army.

Yet facing the elite selected by Lu Yuan from all over Chu in the Yangxia Expeditionary Army camp, they were still somewhat difficult to withstand.

After just over a month of fighting, Gao Mi lost nearly half of its territory, and the battlefront showed signs of collapse.

What’s more distressing for Zheng was that.

As the main force on the Gao Mi front line was tied up by the Chu army, Changguang County, located behind Gao Mi, suddenly also fell victim to a surprise attack by the Chu forces coming from the sea.

Zheng’s hundred thousand naval troops in Changguang, facing Chu known for its navy, were wiped out in one battle.

Lacking the barrier on the water, Chu’s fifty thousand land troops carried by the naval expedition landed in Changguang, began rampaging through Zheng’s rear.

The remaining two hundred thousand Chu navy troops began to blockade Zheng’s sea routes, penetrating inland along the rivers, and started to seal off its waterborne trade routes.

After its betrayal, the retaliation from Chu unfolded vigorously on the lands of Zheng.

The luxury of two-front expansion that Wei enjoyed, this former ally of Chu, was now experiencing it too.

One wonders how they felt about it.

Not just the Nine Provinces, but even the countries to the west of Yong and the southern plains, like Bahan Na Country, Moro Country, and Huotuluo Country, were also not having an easy time.

The former two, in their clashes with the Chu forces on the Helong Battlefield, suffered a crushing defeat.

Both countries lost more than a million people each and a significant amount of territory.

Although the territories lost were swiftly reclaimed following the retreat of the Chu army.

However, the loss of population was not something that could be regained with the recovery of the territories.

For both countries, a sudden loss of over a million people was heartbreaking, even bone-deep.

As for Huotuluo Country, it goes without saying.

The five hundred thousand strong Wei Army led by Meng Chenglin had gone straight to its capital.

Although in the battle for the capital, the Wei Army was gradually defeated due to a cut-off supply, outnumbered by the increasingly larger Huotuluo army.

But still, Meng Chenglin’s elite Wei troops, even facing an impossible situation, should not be underestimated for their last stand.

To eliminate this Wei force, Huotuluo Country sacrificed more than seven hundred thousand lives, even more than those Wei soldiers killed, to achieve the final victory of the war.

But even so, Huotuluo Country did not manage to capture Meng Chenglin or other high-ranking Wei military officers.

Except for three Inborn Wei generals who were unable to retreat in time and got dragged down by Huotuluo soldiers, ultimately dying stubbornly in the throngs of enemies.