After Liu Jingban's division returned to the dynasty, when he ordered the new troops in various places to advance eastward, replenishing the border army and the Yanzhou army, the Yanzhou army withdrew, and the border army occupied the important city on the border of Dayi to recuperate.

At this time, the news of the death of the old emperor of Dayi also spread to the world, and Liu Jing was in a very good mood for a while, and immediately issued an order to order Li Mang's southern expeditionary army to continue to attack, and the logistics materials were then allocated, and then sent envoys to the Nanli Kingdom and Tianfu Kingdom in the southwest to step up contact, in order to advance and retreat strategically.

Li Mang has been stationed in the prison city for a month, and he has been waiting impatiently, but fortunately, there are many women by his side every day, and he can pass the boring time.

On the other side of the border, it is Anli City, an important checkpoint in Xingzhou in the north of Dawu, and at this time, the city has already stationed 500,000 Binzhou troops urgently transferred by Emperor Dawu.

Li Mang had a plan in his heart a few days ago, but the war in the east was unresolved for a while, and he didn't want to trouble Liu Jing, so he endured the desire to attack.

When Kankan got Liu Jing's letter today, he was overjoyed and hurriedly beckoned everyone to discuss the matter. I saw that in the hall of the City Lord's Mansion, Li Mang sat on the main seat, and Bai Qiu, Liu Ming, Liu Lang, and Sanbao sat upright.

"Second brother, Sanbao, how did you settle down a few days ago?" asked Li Mang straight to the point.

"The personnel are already in place, just waiting for your order" Bai Qiu said, and Sanbao also nodded.

"Okay, Liu Ming, Liu Lang listen to the order" Li Mang nodded, stopped talking nonsense, and ordered directly.

"Subordinates are here" Liu Ming and Liu Lang brothers, who often mix with Li Mang and others these days, have seen Li Mang's strength in leading troops earlier, and they have already been convinced at this time.

"Let Liu Ming be the general, Liu Lang assist, lead an army of 700,000, and go straight to the city of Anli, remember, the enemy does not come out, I will not attack, surround the three queyi, and leave the road to Linli City, can you understand?"

"Understood," the two of them stood up and saluted.

Li Mang then looked at Bai Qiu and Sanbao, and said: "You two immediately set off to Linli City, command the heavenly army, and secretly cut off all supplies to the front line for me, regardless of whether Anli City is fighting or not, as long as the enemy retreats, you don't have to worry about it, let it enter the city, and then wait for Liu Ming and Liu Lang's army to follow, and then you wait for my order to act."

"Yes," the two of them also stood up and responded.

Although Anli City is a border city in the north of Xingzhou, it has the original territory of Jiangguo as a buffer, so there are people living in the city, and it is even quite prosperous. A month ago, after the Binzhou Army was stationed, the people in the city were moved to Linli City, and the Heavenly Army was also mixed in disguise at that time.

Li Mang's strategy is to only besiege and not attack, completely isolating An Licheng. The war happened too suddenly, and there was not much grain and grass reserves in Anli City, and now the food of the army was almost transported from the rear every day.

At this time, Dawu had no soldiers to send, and in the huge rear of Xingzhou, there were not many troops escorting grain and grass, almost all of them were sent by the city defense army to transport some of them, and then the Binzhou army sent people to pull them away, so the heavenly army mixed into Linli City to make trouble completely worry-free.

The most important thing is that Li Mang is unwilling to fight the 500,000 Binzhou army in the fortified city of Anli City, it is best to trap it to death, as long as the enemy army retreats to Linli City, the city wall is not strong, and the inside and outside should be combined, it is not difficult to annihilate it.

The Daxing army was launched, which naturally made the Binzhou army in Anli City nervous, and the captain Wu Cheng had already stood on the city wall, and ordered his subordinates to make all the preparations for battle.

It's just that the 700,000 army came to the city wall but did not go further, but divided the troops into two units, and walked around Anli City, and after a while, two long dragons composed of 700,000 soldiers completely surrounded the north, south, and east directions of Anli City, and then actually set up camp and buried the pot to cook, which really made Wu Cheng confused.

"Siege but not attack? Then why did you leave the rear alone? Do you want me to abandon the city and leave? Deliberately left the road? That's not right..."Wu Cheng stood on the city wall, looked down on everything, and muttered to himself.

Then he seemed to think of something? He turned around and hurriedly shouted to his pro-soldiers: "When was the last time you escorted grain and grass, and when is the next time?"

Without thinking about it, the soldier replied, "The last time was five days ago, and today is the day, and the group has just left."

Wu Cheng stroked his forehead with his hand, sighed, and said to himself: "I hope I have too much heart."

In Linli City, a team of 10,000 people of the Binzhou Army once again received more than a dozen truckloads of grain and grass materials from the city lord, and then slowly walked towards Anli City as before.

It's just that not long after they left, in a dense forest outside the city, 10,000 heavenly troops were also assembled, and as soon as Bai Qiu gave an order, these 10,000 people chased after them, and the speed was comparable to riding a horse.

Not long after, the team escorting the grain and grass appeared in the sight of Bai Qiu and Sanbao, only to see Bai Qiu shouting: "If there is no one left, all the grain and grass will be burned and killed."

I saw ten thousand black shadows speeding forward again, at this time the leader of the team could hear the sound, and was about to turn back, then he heard two "aggressive" sounds, and two short arrows were inserted in the carriage not far away, his face changed greatly, and he was about to remind his subordinates to pay attention, only to see more arrows shooting, and the people around him all wailed and fell to the ground.

When the man looked back, he saw that about 10,000 men in black had swept not far away, and some of them had raised their crossbows again.

The "Heavenly Army" was shocked and was about to shout, but he was already hit by several arrows and fell off his horse. These two words will also be the last two words in his life.

In the border war, the reputation of the Heavenly Army has spread all over the country, but the Heavenly Army is too mysterious, and the countries have only received a little bit of news, such as the Heavenly Army is equipped with small crossbows is one of them.

The battle here ended in just a few minutes, the Celestial Army piled all the grain, grass and corpses in one place, ignited it and quickly left, and the 10,000 Celestial Army in the dense forest outside Linli City gathered again, and then changed into civilian clothes and left in batches. Some picked firewood, some carried a rabbit, some carried a package, some pushed a cart, some carried a hoe, in short, they all returned to the city safely, and no one showed any flaws.

At sunset and dusk, in Anli City, Wu Cheng waited for the team escorting grain and grass and did not return, so he confirmed his guess, looked at the border army and the state army stationed outside the city in distress, and went down the city wall.

He knew very well at the moment that the army outside the city would not attack the city, but he would not let himself go out from other directions, so he could only retreat to the rear, and as long as he withdrew his troops, he would abandon Anli City, but if he didn't withdraw, how many days would the grain and grass in the city be eaten?

He repaired a book, wrote down the predicament of the moment, and then called the pro-army, ordered him to go out of the city overnight, and must hand over this letter to the city lord of Linli City, so that he could hand it to His Majesty the Emperor.

He can only do this now, if His Majesty lets him fight, he will go out of the city to fight to the death in a few days, even if he fights the last person of his Binzhou army, it is not a pity to die, if he wants to withdraw, he will abandon Anli City and retreat with peace of mind, and no one will say whether he is right or wrong.

It's just that soon after this pro-army left the city, it was discovered by the heavenly army guarding outside the city, and naturally the letter was also intercepted and placed on Li Mang's desk.

In this way, the two armies confronted each other for a few days, and the grain and grass in Anli City were finally cut off, not only food, but also not a drop of clear water.

Wu Cheng couldn't wait for a reply, and even the pro-army who sent the letter disappeared, he was very disappointed, and the person who sent the letter must have been more than lucky at this time.

The fate of the nearly half a million army was in his hands, and he felt too much pressure to breathe, and after a night of hard thinking, he finally decided to abandon the city.

In the early morning of the next day, when Liu Ming and Liu Lang got up from their sleep, they received a report from their subordinates that Anli City was already an empty city.

The two of them were overjoyed to report the matter to Li Mang, who would have thought that Li Mang had received the news sent by the spies of the Heavenly Army at night, and had already set off on the way at this time.

Li Mang's plan took the northern fortress of Xingzhou without a single soldier, which really made the army admire, and when they saw Li Mang's arrival, they gave way one by one and saluted respectfully.

Li Mang was naturally used, but he was also very modest, praised Liu Ming and Liu Lang a few times, and then led the troops straight into Anli City, last night Wu Cheng was still in the city lord's mansion in Anli City to give orders, and this morning Li Mang was sitting in the hall.