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Originally, in his conception, the casualties of the entire army should be reduced to at least 6,000 people.

Now the number has reached 10,000!

"Marshal, the automatic rifles used by our army this time were urgently manufactured by the Dai County Military Factory. Ammunition is quite scarce. You don't need to blame yourself for the casualties."

Qin Tianye, who had been following Xia Yun for many years, saw what Xia Yun was thinking at a glance and immediately comforted him.

In fact, the facts are exactly as he said.

The 50,000 elite troops directly under Xia Yun are equipped with automatic rifles that are far beyond the current era.

However, due to the shortage of supplies in Dai County, each soldier was actually given very little ammunition.

"You are right. I am being too demanding."

Xia Yun nodded, what Qin Tianye said made sense.

If every soldier of the elite troops can be equipped with hundreds of rounds of ammunition in this war, the number of casualties in our army can be reduced by at least half!

However, this also brings up a new problem.

As Xia Yun gained more and more power and had more and more troops, the shortage of supplies in Dai County had become his top priority.

If he does not find more resource producing areas, the development level of Dai County and the forces under his command will inevitably stagnate!

"Qin Tianye, you will immediately organize a local exploration team in the Hexi Corridor to be responsible for the resource exploration mission in the Hexi Corridor area."

Xia Yun immediately issued an order.

"Yes, handsome!"

……

At the same time as the great victory in Shuoxi City, a shocking event also took place in the imperial court in the capital, thousands of kilometers away.

This day's evening court.

A group of Jiangnan Party officials, led by Xu Miao, all gathered in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

According to the rules of attending court in the past, Xu Miao, as a third-rank official, should have stood in the middle of the queue.

However, this time, Xu Miao stood at the front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and the ministers following closely behind him were all officials of the first or second rank in the imperial court!

Xia Yunruo was here at this time.

It is certainly possible to see at a glance that at least half of the officials in the court have openly challenged him!

But unlike previous evening court sessions, there was no empress on the dragon throne.

At the same time, the Chief Censor of the Inspectorate, the Ninth Prince Xiao Yan, the Grand Marshal of the Imperial Army Yang Wenzhao, the Chief Minister of the Cabinet Xu Jinsong and a number of other pillars of the imperial court were not in the Hall of Supreme Harmony!

Naturally, these people did not disappear.

In fact, all these people are in the imperial palace at this moment!

Inside the Qingxuan Palace.

The empress sat on the dragon throne at the first seat in the hall, while Lei Zhenning, Xiao Yan and others sat on both sides of the hall.

The empress was flipping through a memorial in her hands, and a very gloomy look appeared in her beautiful eyes.

"Lord Xu, is Pei Xingyuan's letter true?"

After her gaze stayed on the memorial for a quarter of an hour, the empress's cold gaze suddenly shifted to Xu Jinsong.

However, when Xu Jinsong heard this, a look of embarrassment appeared on his face.

After hesitating for dozens of breaths, Xu Jinsong spoke with an uncertain tone.

"In reply to your Majesty, this memorial was sent directly from Gansu to my son Xu Miao by Pei Xingyuan, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu. I... I dare not guarantee the authenticity of the letter."

After hesitating for a long time, Xu Jinsong finally gave an uncertain answer.

"You dare not guarantee it? Then why did Xu Miao openly gather all the ministers at the evening court and use this letter to impeach Xia Yun?"

The empress frowned instantly, with a look of dissatisfaction in her eyes.

Just half an hour ago, what should have been an ordinary evening court session turned out to be a surprise because Xu Miao gathered a group of ministers and openly impeached Xia Yun in the hall.

This caused the entire court meeting to develop in a direction that was rapidly becoming uncontrollable.

Although Xu Miao had impeached Xia Yun several times in the court before, he did not have any real evidence in those previous impeachments.

But this time it's different.

Xu Miao submitted a letter of complaint from Pei Xingyuan, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu. The letter clearly stated that after Xia Yun entered Gansu, he was domineering and deceived his superiors and subordinates, which caused a collective mutiny of 100,000 troops of the Daliang Dynasty!

You must know that as a commander leading troops to fight, once his subordinates mutinied, it would be an extremely serious crime in the Daliang Dynasty!

Once the matter is true, the entire court will be shaken! By then, even if the empress is the emperor of Daliang, she will not be able to continue to unconditionally protect Xia Yun.

"Lord Xu, what is going on here? Could you please explain it to me?"

At this time, Xiao Yan asked immediately.

At this moment, everyone's face was full of confusion. They had just read the entire contents of Pei Xingyuan's complaint letter.

Among them, Xiao Yan, Lei Zhenning, Yang Wenzhao and others knew Xia Yun quite well. They knew very well that Xia Yun was by no means a domineering person.

"Your Majesty, my Lords, I really don't know about this."

Xu Jinsong shook his head and let out a helpless sigh.

Xu Miao's impeachment of Xia Yun today was also beyond his expectations.

Before the incident, he didn't receive any information at all.

Like the empress and others, he only found out that Xu Miao had gathered a group of officials to openly attack Xia Yun today after Xu Miao took out the complaint letter in court.

To be fair.

If he had received Pei Xingyuan's memorial in advance, he would never present it directly in the court, but would present it to the empress in advance.

Looking at Xu Jinsong's embarrassed expression, the empress suddenly shook her head.

"Lord Xu, you...are old."

There was an extremely complex meaning in the empress's words, but the officials present at this moment were undoubtedly the most shrewd of the shrewd.

They could naturally understand that the empress meant that Xu Jinsong had lost control over the officials in Jiangnan.

Xu Jinsong felt a jolt in his heart.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Jinsong knelt down in front of the empress.

"The old minister is guilty."

Xu Jinsong lowered his proud head as the head of the cabinet. He knew clearly that what the empress said was right.

As he grew older, he did lose control over the Jiangnan party officials.

On weekdays, most of the high-ranking officials of the Jiangnan Party in the court would just discuss matters with Xu Miao.

"Whether this memorial is true or false, Xia Yun is currently the Grand Marshal of the Northern Expedition and has command over all the troops of the Liang Dynasty. The court should not offend Xia Yun at this time."

"Your Majesty, I suggest that we put this matter aside for the time being. We can first send a court official to Xia Yun's army in the name of the Ministry of War to comfort the troops and at the same time order him to secretly investigate the situation in Gansu."

Just as the atmosphere in the hall was about to become completely silent, the Imperial Censor suddenly spoke.