Chapter 227

【You combined your troops into one route, and a total of 400,000 troops marched north majestically.】

【Marching to Yunshan, you set up a formation.】

【Tuoba Shuyi, with 500,000 troops, and 120,000 elite soldiers from Qianyuan to help.】

【Tuoba Shuyi relied on the geographical advantage and the large number of people; the two sides fought fiercely for half a month and went through two battles, like dragons entangled, difficult to distinguish.】

【In the same month, 30,000 reinforcements from Daqing and 20,000 cavalry from the northern tribes, Shache, Dazhi, and Shuangyue, also arrived one after another.】

【Therefore, using the troops on hand, you led 50,000 elite cavalry alone, leaving 400,000 troops to be commanded by Feng Haiping, to contain Tuoba Shuyi at Yunshan.】

【On the map, you drew a circle to make a prison, first conquering the land of the Northern Wind, and then encircling Yunzhou.】

【In the same year, Qianyuan and Han and Chu countries also launched a decisive battle in the land of Longnan.】

【At the end of the year, the Korean princess Yuwen Liqian, carrying a mission, went to the Yan State.】

【The next day, the Yan State sent 100,000 troops to aid Korea.】

【For a time, the situation in the world added changes.】

【If the north can exhaust the strength of the Yan State, Qianyuan will surely march north.】

【If the Han-Chu alliance can hold the country's gates, the Yan State will march south.】

【In this way, two battlefields in the north and south were quietly formed.】

【Fires of war were everywhere, war drums were thundering, and smoke was everywhere.】

【Looking at the center of the world map, although Daqing has not been disturbed by the war for the time being, the people are panicked, because the situation in the north and south battlefields is really pulling one hair and moving the whole body, making people frightened and unable to be at peace.】

【The wheels of history are rolling in!】

【These few months!】

【In the restaurants in Daqing, in the wine shops in the countryside, banquets are endless every day, noisy and boiling.】

【The storyteller speaks eloquently, the folding fan shakes lightly, and in a slow and orderly manner, he depicts the offensive and defensive tricks of the north and south battlefields vividly.】

【Famous scholars from all over the world came one after another, took the stage to lecture, quoted classics, and analyzed the world situation.】

【The "March straight to Huang Long Prefecture in June" you wrote at the northern camp of Taicang, and the dates above began to spread throughout the world.】

【In the same year, the Qianyuan Empress also wrote "March straight to the south in June, garrison horses in Han and Chu" in the Longnan battlefield.】

【A group of scholars and generals in Daqing held maps, sat together, and frowned.】

【They carefully studied the northern situation; Lu Chen's layout is obvious to anyone with eyes, and the Northern Wind will surely reinforce everywhere.】

【And Lu Chen, who wrote "what date to attack what place," almost dragged it all out.】

【Equivalent to a positive plot.】

【Conquering a city is so difficult! The Northern Wind is already in a life-and-death autumn, and its soldiers must be high-spirited and fearless of death.】

【Lu Chen only led 50,000 troops, wanting to sweep across the north, which is really difficult.】

【Every large city has heavy troops, and the generals are not stupid, so they must be prepared to wait for the invading enemy.】

【The eyes of the world are all focused on the land of the Northern Wind; the outcome of this battle will concern the overall situation of the world.】

【In November, you appeared in Hezhou with your army; interestingly, this time it was your old opponent "Zhou Tiancheng."】

【Zhou Tiancheng, after fleeing from the original Chongcheng, was able to quickly gather the original team, totaling 40,000 people; he personally went to Tuoba Shuyi to plead guilty.】

【Tuoba Shuyi saw his sincerity and ordered him to make up for his crimes and guard Hezhou.】

【Unfortunately, the land of Hezhou has no danger to defend; after passing the original Chongcheng, the Northern Wind has no real large city that can be defended, which is an offensive and defensive battle.】

【He Sheng and Zhou Yong were defeated by you in the Battle of Taicang and took it as a shame.】

【They think you just used grain and grass as bait to win by luck.】

【Tuoba Shuyi added 30,000 troops to Zhou Tiancheng and personally sent many great generals to help; this time, they reorganized their drums and vowed to wash away their shame.】

【Zhou Tiancheng led the troops to station in Dongyang, Hezhou, with an old Northern Wind general as his deputy.】

【He Sheng and Zhou Yong were stationed in Jian County, Hezhou, and the two formed a horn shape.】

【You led 50,000 troops, but couldn't take it for three days!】

【So you divided your troops into two routes, one route sent Jia Fu to attack Dongyang.】

【You led a route of 20,000 people to attack Jian County.】

【You attacked Jian County three times, but none of them succeeded.】

【After He Sheng fought you, he was overjoyed, thinking that Lu Chen was nothing more than this.】

【Zhou Tiancheng wrote to warn him, telling him to act cautiously, remember the lessons of the Battle of Taicang, be careful in everything, and not leave Jian County without authorization, so as not to fall into your tricks.】

【This day!】

【You gathered your troops at night and told the soldiers loudly to sleep well tonight and "attack Dongyang from the west" tomorrow.】

【At night, you found confidants, relaxed the defense of the prisoners, and let them escape back to Deng County.】

【After receiving the news brought back by the prisoners, Zhou Yong was suspicious and felt there was a trap, so he advocated defending Jian County and not acting rashly.】

【He Sheng remained stationary!】

【Early the next morning, you really led the army to attack Dongyang, and Zhou Tiancheng was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses.】

【Today, you ordered people to cook early and told the soldiers to "surprise attack Dongyang" at night. At the same time, you again relaxed the defense of the prisoners and let them escape back to Deng County.】

【After receiving the news from the prisoners, Zhou Yong couldn't make up his mind for a while, so he sent a letter to Dongyang to strengthen precautions.】

【At night, you really led troops to attack Dongyang but failed; Zhou Tiancheng had long been on guard.】

【You had to retreat.】

【Today, you told the soldiers to rest well tonight and "attack Dongyang again tonight" tomorrow, and you deliberately relaxed the defense of the prisoners again, letting them escape back to Jian County.】

【After receiving the news from the prisoners, He Sheng and Zhou Yong were very suspicious. Jingzhou is outside Hezhou; is Lu Chen going to withdraw?】

【The two of them discussed again and again, but in the end, they still couldn't make up their minds and chose to defend Jian County to avoid falling into your trap.】

【The next day, you led the army to leave Hezhou and went straight to Jingzhou.】

【After He Sheng learned the news, he broke the bamboo chopsticks for eating in the army, regretting it too late.】

【The defensive general of Jingzhou had long expected it, and with the 40,000 troops reinforced by Tuoba Shuyi, although you led the army to attack Jingzhou, due to the enemy's tight defense, you failed to take the city and had to retreat to Hezhou.】

【After resting for a day, you told the soldiers to rest well in the afternoon, "attack Dongyang again tonight," and you deliberately relaxed the defense of the prisoners again, letting them escape back to Jian County.】

【After Zhou Yong and He Sheng learned the news, they couldn't wait any longer, and they decided to set an ambush on the way to Dongyang at night, hoping to defeat you in one fell swoop.】

【At night, He Sheng waited full of expectation for the arrival of the Yanbei Army, but unexpectedly, news came that Lu Chen was attacking Jian County.】

【He Sheng was shocked and immediately prepared to return to aid Jian County.】

【However, Zhou Yong calmly analyzed the situation and believed that the situation was gone; if they returned to aid Jian County at this time, they would likely encounter an ambush and be even more dangerous.】

【He suggested that it would be better to retreat to Dongyang, join forces with Zhou Tiancheng, and plan a strategy to resist the enemy together.】

【Although He Sheng was unwilling, he also understood that what Zhou Yong said was not false.】

【The two led 20,000 troops and rushed to Dongyang.】

【Unexpectedly!】

【Yu Xu and Xie Ling had already set up an ambush here; after a fierce battle, the two were defeated and fled, suffering heavy losses.】

【The next day, you led the army to easily take the empty Jian County.】

【Zhou Tiancheng saw this, lost Jian County, and could no longer defend Dongyang; in desperation.】

【He could only withdraw and retreat elsewhere.】

【At this point, you successfully took the two cities of Jian County and Dongyang, which is considered to have completely occupied the land of Hezhou.】

【At this time, it was November 17th, exactly the same as the date you wrote at the northern camp of Taicang.】

【After Tuoba Shuyi heard the news, although he was furious, he still remained calm and sent Wu Long with 30,000 Qianyuan troops to reinforce Hezhou, while he himself sat in Yunshan.】

【After Zhou Tiancheng joined forces with Wu Long, the troop strength reached more than 50,000, with great momentum, preparing to come and take Hezhou again.】

【You ordered Jia Fu to attack Jingzhou, while you left more than 8,000 people to guard Hezhou.】

【He Sheng saw you divide your troops, just scolded you for being stupid and arrogant; 8,000 people, even with two cities as support, could not resist 50,000 troops.】

【"They will only be besieged and die!"】

【However, in just six days, the facts overturned his cognition.】

【Within six days, He Sheng and Zhou Yong and others could not take the two cities for a long time, but under your clever command, they were restrained everywhere and exhausted.】

【Relying on the advantage of being able to advance and retreat in the two cities, you achieved great victories in many small battles, which He Sheng and Zhou Yong could not believe at all.】

【"How is this possible?"】

【"The two cities they defended before could only shrink and not come out!"】

【"But how did it become so easy to advance and retreat in your hands."】

【Wu Long was not happy in this battle; he had always been tied up.】

【The opponent always anticipated the enemy's opportunities, so he was always restrained by others.】

【After another half a month, Lu Chen even organized an attack outside the city under the siege of such a large army.】

【Zhou Tiancheng's direct line suffered heavy losses in this battle, which was his reliance in the Northern Wind.】

【He had a crime to make up for, and every time there was a battle, he had to take the lead.】

【Before defending the original Chongcheng, they were just defending and did not really appreciate the terror of Lu Chen's use of troops.】

【Now, encountering Lu Chen head-on, they knew that this person's use of troops was like a god, both upright and good at using oddities, making people impossible to guard against.】

【He Sheng and Zhou Yong could no longer say any sarcastic words.】

【Their 400,000 brothers were slaughtered by Lu Chen step by step from the original Chongcheng to now.】

【Zhou Yong is a wine-drinking scribe in the army, with the duty of advising military secrets and offering strategies.】

【He also tried to use strategies, sending scouts, prisoners, and surrendered people, using their own way to treat them, but they were repeatedly seen through by the other side, and even countered, suffering harm.】

【The other side seemed to have seen through him thoroughly!】

【Zhou Yong already doubted himself, suffered many blows, and was already crazy in the camp, chanting: "Is it Lu Chen who is me, or am I Lu Chen."】

【The 20,000 old soldiers who survived from the original Chongcheng led by Zhou Tiancheng, from the hot blood of revenge, finally leaked their spirit in this half month.】

【"How can we win against Lu Chen!"】

【You saw the timing was ripe, and one day before, you quietly mobilized 40,000 troops under Jia Fu to raid Zhou Tiancheng's camp at night, beheading more than 7,000 enemies, and Wu Long and Zhou Tiancheng and others fled in a panic.】

【You gathered the large army again, pointing your sword at Jingzhou.】

【In the blink of an eye, half a month passed, and the Northern Wind forces stared closely at your next move, trying to guess your strategic intention.】

【However, you unexpectedly stopped the pace of conquest and did not rush to advance the offensive.】

【It was almost the end of the year, so you gathered the surrounding generals and had a reunion dinner far away from home.】

【In the camp, there was singing and laughter, a lively scene, temporarily forgetting the fires of war.】

【You wrote a letter home and also left a letter for your master on Mount Zhongnan.】

【In the dead of night, you put on your clothes and stood alone outside the camp tent, staring at the vast sky.】

【At this time, Lu Yu walked quietly to your side, accompanying you silently.】

【Your cultivation had long reached the peak of the martial path, and it was difficult to go any further. Even after marching north, the luck gathered, but it still failed to break through the shackles of this layer of heaven and earth.】

【You naturally sensed Lu Yu's arrival, but did not turn around, just said softly:】

【"You'an, I have already written two letters for you and signed your name."】

【Lu Yu heard this, the corner of his mouth hooked into a warm smile, and he sighed: "Brother, you always understand me so well."】

【"As a man, one should live freely and unrestrainedly!"】

【Lu Yu said heroically.】

【You just smiled after hearing this.】

【The letters sent home every year were all written by you for Lu Yu, but every letter sent from home was carefully kept by Lu Yu.】

【At this moment, Lu Yu keenly captured an unprecedented emotional wave in you, which made his heart move slightly.】

【With the increasing urgency of the northern war, the brother who had been calm and introverted since childhood rarely revealed the fluctuations of his mood.】

【You muttered: "I also want heaven to give me another ten years to make everything perfect."】

【You sighed: "But it's too late!"】

【Lu Yu laughed: "Brother, the ages are long, and there will be successors!"】

【You looked at the vast galaxy and nodded slightly!】

【At the beginning of the year, you continued to send troops to Taizhou with an unstoppable posture, and now you have captured a large area of the western territory in the north.】

【Yunshan is a point; you have already drawn a semicircle on the west side of the Northern Wind.】

【Drawing a circle to make a prison!】

【Wherever you go, the Northern Wind trembles, and people are panicked.】

【In the early spring of the same year, Qianyuan also won three battles in a row, and its soldiers pointed directly at the capital of the Chu State.】

【Chu State, the state of etiquette with the longest history, has the longest history of founding the country.】

【Now the emperor is young, political power is lost, and Gongsun Dunran, in the name of "fake emperor," does the things of the Son of Heaven, not doing usurping things in morality, but just a person who deceives the world and steals his name.】

【The two countries clashed, the Chu soldiers bled on the battlefield, but the scholars in the capital opened the gates of the Chu State without authorization at a critical moment, welcoming the Qianyuan Empress's army into the city.】

【The front line collapsed, and blood drifted!】

【The Qianyuan Empress happily accepted the surrender of the Chu State and incorporated the Chu soldiers as a vanguard force to continue attacking Korea, intending to expand the results.】

【Now the southern war situation, only Korea is supporting alone, precarious, and the situation is worrying.】

The people of Daqing, hearing the news of the surrender of the Chu State in the south.】

No one is not concerned about the northern battlefield, anxious.】

After all, there is a thousand-thread connection between the Prince of Yan and Daqing, and many people who moved south have received the deep grace of the Prince of Yan.】

Naturally worried about the Yan State.】

Qianyuan and Yan State, whoever can withdraw first will be able to seize the opportunity and control the overall situation.】

The north is remote, and the news is lagging, often taking half a month to reach.】

However,】

Whenever military intelligence comes, the capital of Daqing must be boiling and lively.】

Although it is half a month apart, the news sent by the Northern Wind is always the most exciting.】

In the restaurant, it is even more noisy.】

Whenever the military situation of the Northern Wind is lectured, there are no seats, and the guests are full, and everyone is focused, for fear of missing a trace.】

(End of chapter)