empire wars

Chapter 184 Unifying the South

After Qin Yuan's army entered Tianwu Prefecture, the power of the entire Tianwu Prefecture immediately became very tense.

Because of the lessons learned from Tianchuan Yizhou and Nanjiang Jingzhou, everyone knew that once Qin Yuan took Qin Yuan, their fate would definitely be very miserable.

As for Qin Yuan's ability to take down Tianwu Prefecture, no one doubted it at all.

Even if it was two legions, 40 troops, that attacked Tianwu Prefecture this time.

However, Qin Yuan personally took command, and the elite troops he led were comparable to a million-strong army.

Coupled with the fact that the Tianwu State army led by Li Deyi suffered consecutive defeats in the frontier battles, the entire Tianwu State family forces lost information about it.

There are only two innate experts in Tianwu Prefecture.

Although he had not encountered Qin Yuan before, he was not killed in battle.

However, with only two innate warriors in combat strength, they were no match for Qin Yuan's army at all.

Not to mention that Qin Yuan made the move himself, I'm afraid even Zhao Yun couldn't beat him alone.

"According to reliable sources, the members of the Taishan Covenant are basically gathered in the Central Plains, and they are probably plotting some kind of plan."

Guo Jia said to Qin Yuan, "However, because of this, there is no innate strong man in Tianwu Prefecture. Our army has been invincible all the way, and has not encountered any obstacles. Another point, Li Deyi retreated again and again. retreat, it seems that they don’t want to fight our army.”

"Li Deyi is a smart person. He knows that he is invincible, so he will definitely not conflict with us."

Qin Yuan smiled lightly and said, "On the other side of the Taishan Covenant, please pay attention."

Although there were only 20 members left in the Taishan Covenant, Qin Yuan did not take it lightly.

After all, the combined strength of twenty innate warriors is like a nuclear bomb, which can easily destroy a city.

"Okay, the news will be passed on to Lu Bu and other generals. I believe they will handle it carefully."

Guo Jia nodded and said.

Now, except for Qin Yuan's headquarters, Zhao Yun and Bai Qi's two famous generals, the other nine legions have rushed to the north to participate in the battle of the Central Plains.

The nine legions are an army of 180 million.

In addition, every legion commander is a general with innate combat power. Every famous general has a hundred exclusive special arms, and the combat power is not weaker than ordinary innate high-level warriors.

If it really broke out to fight with all its strength, the twenty innate warriors of the Taishan Covenant combined might not be opponents.

This is also one of the reasons why Qin Yuan was relieved of the situation in the north and concentrated on conquering the south.

At this time, the army led by Qin Yuan encountered the first difficulty, an important fortress located in Tianwu Prefecture and Nanjiang Jingzhou.

Within the city, there were one hundred thousand garrison troops stationed.

"One hundred thousand defenders."

Some doubts appeared on Qin Yuan's face.

Could it be that Li Deyi wanted to stop his army with 10 people?

Not to mention Qin Yuan, even any army under Qin Yuan's command would not be able to stop it.

Qin Yuan looked at Zhao Yun and King Nanjing.

Both of them were eager to give it a try and wanted to order an attack on the city immediately.

"Attack the fortress together and take it as quickly as possible."

Qin Yuan said to the two of them.

"Yes!"

Zhao Yun and King Nanjing answered together.

40 troops attacked the fortress from all directions.

In the end, after spending most of the day, the fortress was finally captured and the passage to Tianwu Prefecture was completely opened.

However, shortly after entering the territory of Tianwu Prefecture, Qin Yuan received information about the actions of Li Deyi's army.

"My lord, according to the news from the front, Li Deyi led an army of 50 troops and marched all the way to the north."

A spy has a message.

The strong man broke his wrist, no, he completely abandoned his family background, and he was unwilling to fight Qin Yuan.

Li Deyi really knows the current affairs, but this kind of person is also the most difficult to deal with.

Unlike Li Qian of Tianchuan Yizhou, Nanjing King of Nanjiang Jingzhou, no matter how powerful Qin Yuan is, he will at least collide with him and decide the outcome.

"My lord, are we in pursuit?"

Zhao Yun asked aloud.

"Don't chase after poor bandits, what's more, Tianwu Prefecture is still five days away from here, and we can't catch up at all."

Qin Yuan thought for a while, then shook his head.

Since Li Deyi gave up Tianwu Prefecture, there was some discrepancy with Qin Yuan's plan, but it did not affect the overall situation.

Qin Yuan now occupies the western part of the land of Shenzhou, and if he takes the southern part, he can form a semi-encirclement circle to encircle and suppress the Central Plains.

"According to the plan, take Tianwu Prefecture first, and then cooperate with Bai Qi to capture Nanhuang Yuezhou."

Qin Yuan gave the order.

Li Deyi escaped very timely, even very decisively, without any nostalgia at all.

Even if Li Deyi hesitates for a few more days, Qin Yuan will have the strength to completely keep Li Deyi in Tianwu Prefecture.

Unfortunately, Li Deyi did not give Qin Yuan a chance.

Leading an army of 50, and persuading most of the aristocratic families in Tianwu Prefecture to follow him to the north.

After all, if they stay, the lives of these aristocratic families will not be easy.

Although Qin Yuan would not kill them all, he would definitely make them bleed.

The army of Tianwu Prefecture fled, and the defenses of the remaining cities were almost zero. Along the way, they encountered very few obstacles. Basically, every time they reached a city, the gates were opened wide and they surrendered to Qin Yuan's army.

After all, even Li Deyi ran away, and the remaining regular city guards had no strength, let alone the courage to fight against Qin Yuan.

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Li Deyi could escape, but the city escaped a lot.

There are also people living in Tianwu Prefecture, it is impossible for them all to escape with Li Deyi.

Therefore, when Qin Yuan's army marched into Tianwu Prefecture, it took the entire Tianwu Prefecture into its pocket without much effort.

However, Li Deyi was able to lead the army to the north, but the Zhunan alliance formed by several princes in Nanhuang Yuezhou was not so lucky.

After Nanjiang Jingzhou and Tianwu Prefecture were occupied by Qin Yuan, the road to the north of Nanhuang Yuezhou was completely cut off.

Now, their only way is to fight the army led by Bai Qi.

If they can win, they might be able to keep the territory of Nanhuang Yuezhou.

It is a pity that the Zhunan Alliance did everything they could to pull up an army of nearly 50, and fought against Bai Qi's army for three days and three nights, but they were defeated and fled.

Of the 50 troops of the Zhunan Alliance, 30 were killed and 20 surrendered.

And the leaders of all the princes and princes in the alliance were beheaded for public display, and even the aristocratic families behind them were ransacked and exterminated.

After defeating the only major force in Guangdong Province in the Southern Wilderness, the next step was much simpler. Bai Qi only needed to send out a small part of the army, and he took over the cities smoothly.

Ten days later, the entire Nanhuang Yuezhou fell and fell into Bai Qi's control.

And Tianwu Prefecture, also under the leadership of Qin Yuan, was successfully taken down.

"The three big states have provided me with a luck value of nearly 18."

Qin Yuan, who had stayed in Tianwu City for more than half a month, couldn't help smiling when he received the last fortune value from Nanhuang Yuezhou.

With a luck value of 18, if it is exchanged for generals, it is enough to exchange for 36 famous generals.

If it is exchanged for the tenth-tier arms, it is enough to exchange for [-] tenth-tier arms, each of which has the strength of the acquired realm.

It can be said that in the entire land of China, as long as Qin Yuan is not stupid, he has no power at all and is his opponent.

Even if it is the sum of all the forces in the entire mainland of China, they are not opponents.

At this time, Qin Yuan can really say that he is not afraid of making enemies in the world.

It used to be a slogan, but now it is strength.

Although he occupied Tianwu Prefecture and Nanhuang Yue Prefecture, Qin Yuan did not go north immediately.

Because the entire three southern states have not been occupied by Qin Yuan for a long time, although some major troubles have been resolved, there are still many small troubles.

After all, with a sudden change of owner, many things have to be rearranged.

In particular, it took a long time for Qin Yuan's own people transferred from Xiyong Liangzhou to train.

It is naturally impossible for the officials and generals of these three states to let the original people stay, and they must be replaced by Qin Yuan's own people.

Whether they agree or not is not in Qin Yuan's consideration.

After all, those original officials did not voluntarily surrender, but Qin Yuan's army approached and had to surrender. The treatment of the two is completely different.

"After stabilizing the situation in the three southern states, we will start the Northern Expedition, and the time is scheduled to be half a month later."

After discussing with Guo Jia and others, Qin Yuan made a decision.

After all, the speed at which Qin Yuan occupied the territory was so fast that the original territory expanded several times.

The territory not only needs to be conquered, but also needs to be governed. This is the biggest problem.

After all, it is easy to fight the country, but it is even more difficult to defend the country.

Central Chu Yuzhou.

The original state shepherd was assassinated in the early days when the feudal lords were fighting for hegemony.

As a result, the entire Central Chu Yuzhou fell into chaos, and all the surrounding princes stretched out their claws.

The most domineering among them, but Yuan Zi, occupied most of the entire Central Chu Yuzhou, and only a little bit, took down the entire Central Chu Yuzhou.

But at that time, Qin Yuan sent 60 troops from the three major northern Qiang armies into the Central Plains, occupying a small half of Central Chuyu Prefecture with a strong attitude.

After Qin Yuan became the enemy of the world, the war in Yuzhou in Central Chu became more and more fierce.

Even in the end, it directly evolved into the main battlefield where the two sides fought.

Evergreen County.

Originally occupied by the Northern Qiang Liancheng Division, the current Northern Qiang Second Army was renamed the Fenghu Army, led by the famous general Li Cunxiao himself.

As the war expanded, major armies also came to aid.

In today's Changqing County City, there are three major legions gathered, namely Li Cunxiao's Fenghu Legion, Guo Ziyi's Zhongwu Legion, and Li Xin's God Demon Legion.

Yongling County, adjacent to Changqing County, was originally occupied by Yuan Zi, but it was captured by the Bingxian Legion led by Han Xin.

Stationed in Yongling County, there are also Ma Chao's Shenwei Legion and Li Jing's Zhenguo Legion.

Further north, there is Xinghe County at the junction of Sizhou and Jizhou, Hebei, which was conquered by the God of War Legion led by Lu Bu. Yue Fei's Feiwu Legion and Meng Tian's Xuanyong Legion were stationed here together.

So far, Xinghe County, Yongling County, and Changqing County from north to south have been occupied by Qin Yuan's side, and formed a defense line running through the north and south, cutting off the enemy's road to the northwest.

There are three counties, each with three major armies, each with 60 troops.

The total force has reached as many as 180 million.

The enemy's vassal forces also gathered millions of troops.

Originally, Yuan Zi only wanted to send hundreds of thousands of troops to join the battle, but Lu Bu led the army to fight at his door, so he had to go all out and mobilize all the troops in the territory, claiming to be an army of one million, to confront the three major armies of Xinghe County.

Gongsun Chi and several small princes, with a total of 80 troops, maintained a trend of going south, near Yongling County.

Zhao Shangqian received the support of many aristocratic families, led an army of 70, and confronted Li Cunxiao and other three major armies in Changqing County.

In addition, Li Deyi, as well as some small and medium-sized princes, formed a reserve army of millions of troops, stationed in Changhai County, which is adjacent to Changqing County.

On Qin Yuan's side, there are nine armies and 180 million troops.

On the side of the allied forces of the princes, led by the four major princes, they united dozens of small and medium princes, with a total of 350 million troops, confronting it.

The difference in strength between the two is exactly doubled.

Not only that, but the military strength of the princes is increasing every day.

Although their strength was double that of Qin Yuan's, they knew that in a real fight, they would not be opponents at all.

At this time, they completely abandoned the development of the territory and continued to build ordnance and recruit soldiers. Even recruits who had been in the army for less than a month were directly brought onto the battlefield.

If these vassals were to ignore all costs, it would not be a problem to raise an army of tens of millions of soldiers continuously.

But in this way, no matter whether they win or lose the battle with Qin Yuan, if these forces want to recover, they may not be able to slow down in decades.

Doing so will undoubtedly exhaust all the foundation and potential.

No one would do that unless it was absolutely necessary.

On a mountain peak on the border of Changqing County, figures flew through the sky.

The first old man with fluttering white hair is Shangguan Hong.

Now it is promoted by everyone as the temporary leader of the Taishan Covenant.

"According to our spies, there are three innate powerhouses in Changqing County, namely Li Cunxiao, Guo Ziyi and Li Xin."

Shangguan Hong said to the crowd, "The target of our operation this time is these three people."

The people around him were all innate warriors.

Including Shangguanhong, there are 21 people in total.

However, Xia Yuanfeng, the original guardian of the Taishan Covenant, was not among them.

It seems that during this period of time, Shangguan Hong and the others did not gain anything, but received reinforcements from some places.

"I have never heard of the names of these three people. I even sent people to investigate, but I can't know their identities and backgrounds. It's like they appeared out of thin air. It's really strange."

Among the crowd, an ancestor from the hermit family said doubtfully.

Indeed, even if it is some hidden innate powerhouses, they at least know some clues, or which force they come from.

However, he didn't know anything about these innate realm generals under Qin Yuan.

"In this quick battle, kill these three people as quickly as possible. Zhao Shangqian and Li Deyi will act together with us and lead the army to attack Changqing County."

Shangguan Hong didn't answer the man's question, but told about the task. "Qin Yuan has already unified the south, and will go north in a short time. We don't have much time left. This time, we can only succeed and not fail."

After Shangguanhong's words fell, twenty figures cut through the sky and headed towards Evergreen City.

At this time, a huge army of one million people crossed the border and entered the range of Changqing County.

(End of this chapter)