Under the imperial city of Jiaozhi, as soon as Zhao Rui's slogan was released, the people became excited. They had never thought that such a good thing could happen in the world.
Not only the people around the imperial city came, but also the people dozens of miles away received the news, and under the leadership of their respective clan leaders, Li Zheng, came here to collect supplies.
Many of them immediately decided to become soldiers after seeing Dashang's recruitment notice.
They used to have no military pay as soldiers, and at most they were given a ration. Sometimes they even had to spend their own money to buy armor and weapons.
Dashang's army was different. Not only were they given a full set of armor, weapons and war horses, they were even given military pay. As long as you joined the army, you would immediately receive one month's military pay.
In just one day, as many as 80,000 people came to sign up to join the army.
Zhao Rui didn't care so much. He selected 50,000 relatively strong men among them and distributed them armors and weapons. Then he took them to the west. Before leaving, he had to take Qi Si and leave 30,000 horses behind.
She maintains order here.
In the Drow King's camp, more than a dozen generals gathered together, but these people seemed a bit free and unorganized, as if they did not obey King Drow's orders at all. Some even took a simple armchair and lay down in the tent.
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"Everyone, today's army has gathered here to recapture the imperial city that was taken away by the great merchants. The plot information said that the enemy only has 200,000 people. We have nearly 700,000 troops. It will be easy to destroy them. I don't know.
Which general is willing to be the vanguard?"
All the generals at the scene were extremely silent, but the faces of the few generals who were thinking were full of fear.
Although the hundreds of thousands of troops they have are massive, they are pieced together by various forces, and the coalition forces will not be able to exert much power in a real war.
And the merchant army is really terrible.
When they first arrived here, they encountered a group of sentry troops searching westward.
There were only a thousand people in total, but the fighting power that broke out shocked everyone.
They killed only a few hundred people at the cost of nearly 10,000 casualties, and the rest easily broke through the encirclement.
If every army of Dashang is the same as these thousand people, then their so-called 700,000 people are just a bunch of chickens and dogs in front of an army of 200,000 people.
The drow king's breathing suddenly became rapid, and the report of the previous battle was now placed on his table.
Coupled with the fact that the Shang army had occupied the entire imperial city without bloodshed, he had already considered retiring and even wanted to surrender to the great merchants.
But as the most powerful vassal king in Jiaozhi, how could he surrender so easily?
Taking a deep breath, he slammed the table and stood up.
"If you big businessmen can occupy the entire Cochin country so easily, then their next target will definitely be the Khmer! If we can't inflict heavy damage on them now, the consequences will be disastrous."
The generals who had been extremely silent just now were suddenly moved, and they also knew the reason.
One of the middle-aged generals, who was relatively fat and thin, slowly stood up.
"Indeed, it's a shame. We can't sit still and wait for death. The opponent only has 200,000 people, and they are not familiar with the local environment! The army in our hands is all elite, and there are 200,000 elephant troops. There is no need to be afraid of them."
"Yes, our Khmer dynasty's army is invincible and we will definitely defeat them."
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The scene became inexplicably lively. At that moment, everyone gathered together, formulated a complete combat plan, and then led the army eastward.