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Chapter 1057: Chapter 432 Breaking the Game_2 Chapter 1057: Chapter 432 Breaking the Game_2 The people of Liang had been besieged within the city, cut off from external contact.

Although they had experts helping to relay messages, how could their efficiency and preparedness compare to the Chu army outside the city?

In fact,

the Chu army had learned of the arrival of the Xu Army as early as ten days ago, right when the Xu Army entered the territory of Liang.

Since that time, the Chu army had begun to scheme and prepare specifically for this Xu force.

“The Xu people have reached the north of the city by now, haven’t they?”

Inside the Central Army tent, after Lu Yuan had finished reviewing a document and set down his pen, he turned to an attendant beside him and asked.

“Your Majesty, the Xu people arrived at the north of the city just a moment ago.”

The attendant standing by, upon hearing the inquiry, immediately replied respectfully, “Real Qingyu is currently engaging with these Xu vanguards according to plan, and the battle has already begun.”

Lu Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly upon hearing the reply.

After communicating with his avatar named Qingyu, he quickly understood the situation and nodded, “Good, the progress of the battle is smooth.

It seems it won’t be long before we can break the spirit of the Xu people.”

He was quite pleased with the progress of the battle.

While Lu Yuan was slightly irritated by Xu State’s uninvited participation, he also couldn’t help but feel delighted.

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Because he realized that this was actually an opportunity, an opportunity to devour the main force of a million from Xu State.

Previously, Xu State had been holed up inside Dongping County, single-mindedly building a defensive system, with over a million troops standing guard without venturing out.

Against such a turtle shell, Lu Yuan wasn’t unable to attack, but it was destined to come at a steep price.

Just look at the situation in Great Liang and other military expedition zones to understand the heavy losses that would come from capturing such a heavily guarded, well-prepared defensive line.

It would be a victory bought at the cost of the loss of millions of lives.

For the sake of attacking Liang and Dong Counties, enough people had already died under Lu Yuan’s command.

He had no desire to continue, to lose so many more in order to conquer Dongping County.

He didn’t have that many lives to squander on such endeavors.

After all, the cannon fodder had already been exhausted, and sending more troops would mean sacrificing his own people.

Hence, with those Xu people hiding in Dongping County, within the turtle shell, Lu Yuan had no intention of disturbing them for the time being.

Compared to the copper-wall and iron-barrier defenses of Xu State’s Qingzhou and two counties, the kingdom of Liang, which had been battered and whose defenses were leaking everywhere, was undoubtedly better prey.

Moreover, this piece of meat was larger and more abundant; gobbling it up would be far more satisfying than taking Xu State.

Ignoring such a delicious treat to gnaw on hard, stuffed dry rations instead would be a choice only for someone who had lost their senses.

Lu Yuan hadn’t lost his senses; therefore, he of course had no designs on Xu State.

At least, he didn’t until he had eliminated Liang.

But now,

Xu State had lost its mind, abandoning its stronghold, and actively joining the fray.

Didn’t they think about whether a conflict of this scale was something their weak forces could join?

A million-strong army might sound impressive.

But in the current Nine Provinces, which faction couldn’t field a million soldiers?

Any of Lu Yuan’s expeditionary forces had more troops than this reinforcement force.

The Xu people thought a million soldiers could save Great Liang; they must be naive or foolish, or perhaps they assumed the Chu army couldn’t fight anymore.

After half a year of fighting, the Chu army had indeed suffered serious losses, with casualties reaching two million at the Liang County battlefield alone.

However, most of these casualties were defectors from Liang.

The actual number of Chu soldiers who had died wasn’t that high; in total, not even half a million.

And among these half a million, the majority were civilian workers.

The losses among the Chu army’s elite forces, in fact, were not significant.

So now, the Chu army outside the city still numbered two and a half million, with one and a half million of those being elite soldiers.

Furthermore, there were another half million newly arrived defectors from Wei Country, excellent cannon fodder.

Thus, counting soldiers, civilians, and defectors, the Chu army still commanded three million troops and remained exceptionally strong.

Meanwhile, inside Great Liang, only a few hundred thousand exhausted Liang soldiers remained.

In such a situation, Lu Yuan truly didn’t know where the people of Xu State got the confidence to believe that sending a million reinforcements could lift the siege of Great Liang.

Yes, if this million-strong Liang army managed to enter Great Liang, they could certainly stabilize the city’s defenses that were on the verge of collapse.

With such defensive advantages, the three million-strong Chu army might not be able to take the city.

But when a million more mouths appeared, would there be enough grain inside Great Liang for all of them?

According to what Lu Yuan knew, although Great Liang had not yet suffered famine, a rationing system had already been implemented, indicating that food supplies were running short.

And consider that Great Liang, as the former number one imperial capital of the world, had maintained a population of a million people even in recent years despite its decline.

Feeding so many mouths, in addition to the original million-strong defenders, the consumption resembled astronomical figures.

Before the city was besieged, it had been possible to continuously transport grain through routes outside the city.

But now, with the surrounding sieges by Chu forces, these routes had naturally been severed.

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No new supplies could come in; only the accumulated stores from previous years were left to be consumed.

Although Great Liang had anticipated food consumption issues after a siege and had stockpiled a large amount of grain as military provisions in advance,

no matter the preparations, this was still an issue for feeding one or two million people, and not something easily resolved.