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Chapter 204: Fate-breathing

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The 11th day of the first lunar month of the 995th year of Hualongli, at noon

The knee-breaking snow in many places in the vast area with a radius of more than 2,000 miles on both sides of the Yulong River has not yet melted. Both marching and logistics support are major problems. But in this case, Dongfang Bai still puts forward the general attack on the Jinlong army, which will entrench in Shiyan Town, Northwest County and Hubei Prefecture on various fronts.

After the restoration and replenishment of troops after the liberation operation, the preparations for the war were already ready, and only the will of Emperor Liu Piaoxu was waiting for.

On the western front of more than 1,000 miles from the four prefectures of Northwest County, the Northwest Legion of the Later Tang Empire and its reserve army of 400,000 troops have guarded all the dangerous passes and built a solid line of defense: crisscrossing deep ditch and high walls, tower posters, countless super divine arm crossbows and the magic dragon blood bullets imitating the Free Army, the magic machine crossbow and the mobile catapult... enough to make the more than one million Golden Dragon Army confronted with fear!

The war is ultimately a competition of economic and strength. After the huge war machines of the Later Tang Empire, which had a large population, were not any country in the Hualong Continent today who could compete with each other: the expensive super divine arm crossbows, almost every division is equipped with thousands! The new imitation divine machine crossbows, each division is equipped with two thousand! There are also various attacking equipment. The magic dragon blood bomb is only equipped with four major legions and four major reserve legions on the front line of the Southwest County and the Super divine arm crossbows. The Later Tang Empire spent more than 20 million gold coins, not counting other weapons!

Only the Later Tang Empire has such strong production capacity and wealth strength. No wonder someone started to discuss before the war: If the Golden Dragon Army was defeated, it would not be defeated by the famous general Dongfang Bai, but by Liu Piaoxu's gold coins!

The battle situation between the Golden Dragon King Liu Cao and Prime Minister Zhuge Ming in Longzhou City was very worried: Dongfang Bai's 400,000 troops were deployed on the western front to take a defensive posture, naturally in order to concentrate on dealing with the Golden Dragon Army Dragon Army trapped on the front line of Shiyan Town and the Southern Army occupying a vast area of ​​the southwest county.

Over the past month, the Dragon Element of the Golden Dragon Army has been constantly strengthening the fortifications and walls of Shiyan Town, strengthening the training of soldiers, and improving combat effectiveness, but because it was cut off from foreign aid by the 400,000 troops of the Central Army and the Reserve Corps of the Later Tang Dynasty, more than 200,000 people were trapped in an isolated town, and the food and equipment and weapons were basically not supplemented. The entire army was destroyed only sooner or later.

The southern legion of the Jinlong Army, which was entrenched in the southwest county, was also cut off the land passage from the local area by the Yuwen family, the Southwest Legion of the Later Tang Dynasty, which returned to the western part of Jiangling Prefecture. Although the Jinlong Army followed the Free Alliance's approach and released hundreds of thousands of private slaves and private slaves from the newly occupied areas of the Southwest County, in an attempt to expand the army in a large scale, but due to the unfavorable situation, there were not many people participating in the Jinlong Army. They used all kinds of methods that were almost half-tempered and half-forced, and they still only recruited 160,000 people. The equipment was average, insufficient training, and their combat effectiveness was really doubtful.

The southern legion of the Golden Dragon Army, including the reserves, had only 400,000 people in the western part of Jiangling Prefecture, and the southwestern legion of the Yuwen family and the reserve legion of the reserve legion reached 400,000 in the northern part of Hubei Prefecture. The guards of the Later Tang Empire and its reserve legion of the Guards of the Later Tang Empire have been replaced with 400,000 troops, which has put a lot of pressure on the city of Hongya City, which has been newly trained in Dongting Lake on the east side of the southwest county. After continuous expansion, it has become a full-scale corps, with a total of 1,000 main warships and 200,000 naval soldiers can land in any prefecture in the southwest county at any time to cooperate with the army's operations!

The 600,000 Golden Dragon Army of Shiyan Town and the southwestern county, in the territory of the enemy country far away from its local area, had to fight with the Central Army of the Later Tang, the Southwest Army, the Guard Army and the Navy, which had excellent armaments and well-trained, and were like wolves and tigers. The commander of the Later Tang army was also a famous general Dongfang Bai, and almost no one was optimistic about the fate of the Golden Dragon Army!

The war potential of the Golden Dragon Kingdom has almost reached its limit: On the Northwest County Front of the Later Tang Army, the Golden Dragon Army deployed the Zhenhai Army, the Northeast Army, the Central Army, and the Wanghai Army. A total of 640,000 regular troops, plus a large number of reserves, totaling 1.14 million troops! But if you want to attack and tear the defense line of the Northwest County of the Later Tang Army and reinforce the difficult Longxiáng Army, the Southern Army, may at least pay hundreds of thousands of more troops than the Later Tang Army. Whether it can succeed is still unknown.

The Black Tiger Army of the Demon Cult, which occupied the two prefectures in the southern part of Jiang'an County of the Golden Dragon Kingdom, has recovered some vitality and has gathered more than 400,000 troops again. Regardless of the combat power of the Black Tiger Army, it always needs a strong force to suppress the two elite divisions of the Ganlan Legion tuned from Ganlan County, the westernmost end of the Golden Dragon Kingdom. It failed to invest in the main battlefield with the Later Tang Empire, but with the Imperial Guard and a group of reserves to suppress the counterattack that the Jiang'an Prefecture's Black Tiger Army may launch to the northern region at any time...

The heartlands of the Golden Dragon Kingdom, such as Longxiáng County, Chile County, Heishui County, and other areas have lacked well-trained regular army garrisons. Only a small number of regular troops led some temporary recruitment reserves to guard the poor people began to cause trouble. Dozens or hundreds of thieves rose up, ranging from tens of thousands to nearly ten thousand, as small as hundreds or even dozens of people, causing great damage to the internal affairs and economy of the Golden Dragon Kingdom!

Longzhou City Golden Dragon King Palace

Unexpectedly, Sima's family would collapse soon! Zhuge Ming sighed and said to Liu Cao: Your Majesty, from the current situation, I think I can only make a profit, so I ask the seventh prince Sima Lang to send troops to Jiangling Mansion as a supporter

From a strategic perspective, only the seventh prince Sima Lang and the Ding family of Jianghan County can provide strong support to the Jinlong Army in the southwest county. The former occupies Jiangyin City, an important town in the eastern part of Jiangling Prefecture, blocking the dozens of miles of rivers and rivers connected to Dongting Lake. There are hundreds of thousands of water and land troops in Yanbo Mansion in Nanhu County. The latter occupies the territory of Wuling County. The Linjiang Mansion in Jianghan County faces Jiangling Prefecture across Yulong River, with strong navy and transportation capabilities.

To get to the bottom of the matter, what caused the Golden Dragon Kingdom to face unprecedented crisis is the sudden death of the Jade Dragon King Sima Yuan, causing the division and division of the Jade Dragon Kingdom, which caused the good situation obtained by the Shuanglong Qi Sect to take a sharp turn for the worse. Otherwise, if the Shuanglong continued to cooperate, the pressure in the Southwest County would be greatly reduced. The Black Tiger Gang was mobilized by the Golden Dragon Army to annihilate, so how could there be such a dilemma?

Because of the misjudgment of the situation before, Liu Cao, the King of Golden Dragon, failed to timely recognize the eldest prince Sima Tai, supported by the Ding family, which directly led to the Ding family reaching a secret agreement with the Yuwen family, the wealthy Yuwen family in the southwest county, to help Yuwenshu's Southwest Army cross the Yulong River and recover the western part of Jiangling Prefecture. This is also an important reason for the unprecedented dilemma of the hundreds of thousands of Golden Dragon Army in the southwest county, which is now amid the unprecedented dilemma of the hundreds of thousands of Golden Dragon Army and the Jinlong Kingdom in the southwest county.

What is even more annoying is that the Ding family was defeated in Dongguan Prefecture and the northern part of Qingyuan Prefecture. Even the Spring and Autumn Wuji Order was launched, and the defeat was not restored. He announced that he would join the Free Alliance unconditionally. Now he no longer had the power to make independent decisions, so Sima Lang became the only hope for the Jinlong Army to get rid of its current situation!

After hearing the words of Prime Minister Zhuge Ming, King of Golden Dragon Liu Cao said a little upset: It would be fine if Sima Lang asked to admit that he was the orthodox position of the Jade Dragon King, but he also asked for control of the Southwest County after the war. If he agreed to him, what is the point of joining forces with Sima Yuan to launch a battle against the Later Tang Dynasty, besides the waste of money and the loss of troops and generals?

Your Majesty, this time and then, if the Jade Dragon King Sima Yuan is still not dead, it is still our Double Dragon Alliance to deal with the Later Tang Army. Our coalition will definitely have a great chance of victory, but now most of the Jade Dragon Kingdom has been divided by the Grassland Army, the Li clan of Xiliang, the Yinming Army and the Free Alliance. The new Jade Dragon King Sima Yuan and the Guard King Sima Cheng only occupy a territory that is insufficient to Wuling County, and the morale of the army is completely lost, the financial resources are exhausted, and the energy is exhausted. Zhuge Ming respectfully advised:

The most urgent task of our country is to eliminate the Black Tiger Army in Jiang'an County, rescue the Dragon Corps and the Southern Corps. It is important to preserve their strength, not to mention that the Zhenhai Mansion, which is located in the Northwest County, is still in the hands of our country. As long as the army is in hand, the strength remains, why worry about not having a chance to make a comeback!

The Qing family said so much, and issued an order: First, agree to Sima Lang's conditions to secretly order the southern legion to give up control of the northern part of the southwest county and withdraw back to Jiangling Prefecture as soon as possible, and leave the defense to the Yulong Army, a subsidiary of Sima Lang; Second, take the Golden Dragon Secret spies to obtain the method of manufacturing the Liberation Alliance Flying Dragon Battleship at any cost in the shortest time; Third, send three additional reserve divisions to Zhenhai Prefecture to jointly guarantee the control of Zhenhai Prefecture with the Zhenhai Prefecture, and organize merchants to open up trade routes with the Oppa mainland as soon as possible; Fourth, secretly contact Dongfang Bai and Yuwenshen... The Golden Dragon King Liu Cao is not an ordinary person, and in the complex and chaotic situation, he made the most correct judgment and response

Your Majesty is wise! Zhuge Ming's face was obviously relieved. The Golden Dragon King Liu Cao was a person who refused to surrender easily. These decrees were cut off when they were done. Taking the overall situation as the key, it fully demonstrated his strategic vision of being a strategic person and is worthy of being one of the heroes of the world.

If the Later Tang Empire was a solid piece and the orders were prohibited, the Dragon Xiáng Army and the 600,000 Southern Army had no chance. Unfortunately, when the family interests were often higher than the national interests, the actions of the Eastern and Yuwen families might not be completely developed in the direction expected by the Later Tang Emperor Liu Piaoxu...

Another thing is that this king's secret order was passed on to the Ximen family... A hint of cruelty appeared on the face of the Golden Dragon King Liu Cao

The foundation of the Ximen family, the master of martial arts, is located in the Jinlong country. The secret order issued by the Jinlong King, the Ximen family will sell a little face no matter how powerful the martial arts family is, they cannot compete with the royal power that controls the army and the orthodox and righteousness...

A strange war soon broke out in a vast area of ​​nearly a thousand miles in the four prefectures of the southwest county...

Since the eighth day of November, he has successively captured Taihe Pass and Longxi City, occupied the entire Longxi Prefecture, and then captured Yulong Pass, marched into the southern part of Xiliang Prefecture, and entered Yinchuan Prefecture eastward... The results of the grassland coalition were quite significant under the guidance of the national army, namely the demon coach Pang Deyan, the grassland king Mengmuzhen took many policy measures to attract the hearts of the people to consolidate the rule of the newly occupied vast areas.

In the past two months, at least one million grassland herders have entered the newly occupied areas. Together with the original indigenous people who had not yet retreated, Longxi Prefecture, the southern part of Xiliang Prefecture, and the western part of Yinchuan Prefecture, a large number of rich resources have been developed by the Grassland Alliance, especially the manpower under the National Military Palace. The production of copper and iron, which was originally extremely scarce, has been greatly improved, so the military equipment has been greatly improved compared with before.

A large amount of food and equipment were continuously transported through the Yulong Guandong. Dozens of 10,000 cavalry teams responsible for escorting no longer returned to the grassland, which greatly increased the strength of the grassland coalition forces in the pass.

The greatest advantage of the grassland people is that everyone is soldiers. Including children and women over six years old, almost everyone is struggling on horseback. When they need it, almost everyone can become soldiers. Xiliang Prefecture has stationed 500,000 grassland troops to guard against the counterattack of the Li family. In front of several strong cities in Yinchuan Prefecture, 700,000 grassland cavalry and 150,000 infantry suppressed Sima Changfeng's Roland Army and the reserves to almost breathless!

In Yinchuan City, Lingwu Town, Yongning Town and Helan Town in Yinchuan Prefecture, Sima Changhe, who had just been named the mighty Duke of Yulong, deployed a 400,000 army, and built a solid defense line and position based on the city.

I thought that even if I face a million troops, I could still stand firm and kill the grassland army that was not good at attacking and fighting in the infantry battle. But what Sima Changhe could not have imagined was that the well-prepared grassland coalition attacked Yinchuan City in just one night, forcing him to leave a large number of troops to cut off the rear, and lead the only 90,000 cavalry of the Roland Legion to retreat to Jinling Mansion wildly, or simply run to death!

The wide and deep moat, high and thick walls, and the defense of 160,000 Jade Dragon Army soldiers, still could not withstand the offensive of the Grassland Alliance only because the Grassland Alliance had the same powerful siege weapon, Feitian Divine Clothes!

When conquering the nine-grade magic sword, Li Wenlong guarded by Taihe Pass, Feitian Divine Clothes showed off his power for the first time. After two months of repeated trials and improvements from the disciples of the National Master Palace, Feitian Divine Clothes can already be used to shake the wings of the operator's arms and fly into the sky. After a period of running-up, the operator can vibrate his wings and fly into the sky until exhausted or damaged by Feitian Divine Clothes for too long. Those with advanced skills can fly to a height of more than 60 feet and fly dozens of miles!

Although the flying god suit is far inferior to the lift-off height of the Free Army's Flying Dragon Warship, and is not as good as the Flying Dragon Warship. It can carry a large number of weapons and personnel to conduct air attacks, it is also considered an extremely powerful new war weapon!

Within two months, the grassland coalition forces used the rich resources of the newly occupied areas to make 200,000 sets of flying divine clothes. On the tenth night of the lunar month, 100,000 infantry landed in Yinchuan City from the air and quickly controlled all key parts in the center of the city. Outside, 400,000 grassland cavalry forced to knock on the gate with chariots attacking the city tower. Inside, there was a fatal blow from the divine weapons from the sky. How could Sima Changhe be invincible?

Yinchuan City is more than 280 miles apart from Jinling City. The official road is wide and the terrain is flat. There are twelve small and medium-sized towns of varying sizes in the middle. Sima Changhe dared not stay for a moment and could only escape to Jinling City with strong city defenses. There are also 160,000 newly formed Jinling Legion, plus the remaining 90,000 elite cavalry, who should be able to withstand a while, and then dispatch troops from ShiYàn City to reinforce.

Although the flying god suit is powerful, it mainly lies in the fact that if you are prepared in advance, you can still fight!

Escape! Escape! Escape! Escape!…

Sima Changhe left behind the 30,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry behind, and in the blink of an eye, he was submerged in the torrent of the pursuing grassland coalition cavalry. The prairie coalition with superb cavalry chased him and chased him one hundred and ten miles east of Yinchuan City. He left the plain area of ​​Yinchuan Prefecture and began to enter the hilly area. Sima Changfeng breathed a sigh of relief. The terrain here is no longer suitable for cavalry to make large-scale impacts. As long as a small number of people cut off, they can cover the large group of people and horses to escape calmly.

Report! A large number of grassland troops strangled the important roads in Xifengling, 15 miles ahead! Just when Sima Changhe thought he was about to escape from Shengtian, the report of the detective shocked him!