"The military city is just a small city, and it is not a strange pass, let alone a dangerous city, and the general will take it down easily." A subordinate patted his ass.

General Zhengnan lowered his head and took a sip of wine.

No one will refuse compliments, and General Zhengnan is no exception, but this does not mean that he is a mediocre general who is easily carried away. On the contrary, he was a rare and shrewd senior general in the Ming Kingdom, otherwise, the emperor would not rashly let him lead hundreds of thousands of Ming troops to the battle.

General Zhengnan looked out the window, the sky was getting dark, took another sip of wine, and said lightly: "Tomorrow, another 50,000 troops will be mobilized, and the military city must be captured." ”

"The general is wise!" Everyone bowed their heads in response.

General Zhengnan didn't say it, but in fact, he already had a case in his heart. It's just that the internal fighting in the Ming Kingdom is not endless, and the army is not an iron plate. Many times, the general of Zhengnan thinks more about how to check and balance.

But if the vanguard general can't take the military city before he arrives, he will change someone else to lead the army.

It's just that General Zhengnan is very strange in his heart, the resistance of the Han army in Yunzhou, according to the observation so far, seems to be very weak, but the resistance in the military city is unexpectedly tenacious. Such a contradiction, General Zhengnan felt that there was something inappropriate, but he couldn't say anything for a while.

General Zhengnan really wanted to see in person what kind of wall the military city of the Han State was. But after many victories on the battlefield, he could not predict that he would never have the opportunity to go to the Han military city again.

At this time, the beauty song and dance just stopped. General Zhengnan suddenly heard a faint commotion from outside the city.

General Zhengnan had a pimple in his heart and said, "Is it noisy outside the city?" ”

Hearing the general's words, everyone present stopped speaking and listened quietly.

Sure enough, everyone heard a commotion, but it seemed to be quite far away, and some could not be heard clearly.

"Someone." The general shouted.

A pro-soldier walked in, clenching his fists and obeying the order.

"Check it up. What's going on out there. The general said. The pro-soldier was ordered. Step back and check out.

For a long time, this faint voice still came from time to time, and an inexplicable panic suddenly rose in the general's heart, faintly floating in the bottom of his heart. The pro-soldiers have not returned for a long time. General Zhengnan could no longer sit still. He refused to allow the beauty to continue pouring himself wine for fun. Straight up and out of the house. All the people present saw this. Naturally, they couldn't continue to sit safely, and they all got up and followed the general out of the house.

At the door, the general's personal troops. When I saw the general, I flocked to the general's side. The general of Zhengnan waved his sleeves and said, "Follow me to the city tower." ”

In this way, the general of Zhengnan led hundreds of pro-soldiers, plus the generals and colonels who followed, there were thousands of people, and marched to the west gate of Nanyucheng. Not far from the west gate is the military camp of the Ming army, where at least 200,000 troops are stationed.

The biggest concern of the general Zhengnan is the 200,000 army, and in the war with the Han State, it seems that it is also this 200,000 army that is most likely to go wrong. After all, they are not under their noses, and what the army is most afraid of is bombing the camp.

After the general and the generals of the southern army, after climbing the tower of the South Jade City, they looked at the past at a glance and saw that the army barracks not far from the west gate were full of fire, and the dense fire in the camp was dense, and this was where the military tent of the Ming army was.

This seemingly calm scene really makes it impossible to judge what is happening in the barracks.

"But there is a reward, what happened to the barracks?" General Zhengnan asked the soldiers around him.

"Report!" Before the soldier could speak, the soldier who had been sent to investigate happened to return.

"What's the matter?" The general was shocked for no reason.

"The vanguard general is defeated." The soldier replied.

"What!" General Zhengnan was incredulous, "How many men and horses are there in the Han army?" ”

"It is impossible to estimate, but according to the words of the defeated soldiers, the Han army has used demon law." The soldier replied.

General Zhengnan clenched his fists, looked at the camp in the distance, and asked, "Why is there so much noise in the barracks?" ”

"The general in the battalion received a message from the vanguard general that the Han army was about to leave the city, so they were preparing for battle." The soldier replied.

General Zhengnan's face remained unchanged and said, "Go back to the camp." ”

"General, the situation is unknown, don't be impatient, it's better to send someone to find out the situation first." One of the staff members hurriedly spoke out to stop him.

The general paused, and after a few thoughts, he said, "It's okay, send someone to find out the situation." After finishing speaking, he took out a token and handed it to the pro-soldier who gave the order, and said, "Give this token to General Hu Kui and let him control the three armies." ”

At present, the situation is unknown, and General Zhengnan has no other way, knowing that he can only trust his subordinates at this time.

"Yes!" The pro-soldier took the token and said.

Here, the vanguard general was rushing out of the mountains with a rout. The soldiers, who ran fast, soon came to the vicinity of the barracks of the Ming army. When the sentries of the Ming army saw the rout of the vanguard general, they were suddenly shocked in their hearts, and hurriedly took a few rout soldiers to the camp.

The army of the general of the southern army was stationed in Nanyu City, although he had won this battle before, but he had always been steady, and he still arranged for his proud protégé, General Hu Kui, the tiger general personally appointed by the emperor of the Ming Kingdom, to garrison the Ming army camp outside the city.

The sentry hurriedly took these routs to the center of the camp to see General Hu Kui.

As soon as the defeated soldiers saw General Hu Kui, they hurriedly knelt down to report the military situation, and informed them that at this time, all the 50,000 troops under the vanguard general's account had fled. Moreover, the defeated soldiers also told General Hu Kui an important news, the spider monster sent by the Han army was chasing after them.

When General Hu Kui heard this, he knew that the situation was extremely bad, and he was shocked in his heart, and immediately ordered the army to line up to meet the battle. When they stepped out of the camp, they saw more and more Ming army routs, and in just half an hour, the routs that returned from the desert were not thousands below, and this scene made General Hu Kui's heart sink more and more.

These thousands of routs only brought fear that upset the morale of the army. General Hu Kui was furious when he saw this scene, and immediately ordered these routs to be gathered together. Formed into an army, trying to stabilize the morale of the army and let them continue to fight.

However, the defeated soldiers begged to let them go. They were willing to be deserters.

General Hu Kui saw that they had no fighting spirit at all, and was about to send a team of supervisors. didn't think about it, the vanguard general and other senior generals also ran out of the mountain in embarrassment.

General Hu Kui jumped on his horse to stop the vanguard general from continuing to escape.

"General, I'm defeated." The vanguard general's uniforms were scattered and his appearance was lost. His eyes were full of panic and defeat. When he saw General Hu Kui, he immediately said.

"What the hell is going on, as a dignified general, you are so panicked!" General Hu Kui was furious and shouted loudly.

"If you don't see it with your own eyes. I won't believe it either. The vanguard general fell to his knees in panic. Then he said in horror: "General Hu Kui." Hurry up and lead the troops back. ”

General Hu Kui frowned, pointed at the nose of the vanguard general and scolded: "Bold! Dare to disturb the morale of the army on the battlefield! A seven-foot husband, shrouded in the battlefield. Still heroic. Look at you, cowardly as a mouse, helping the enemy to be majestic, what kind of system you have become! ”

"You don't know what to do!" The vanguard general's face changed drastically and shouted, he was very unhappy, others said that he was cowardly, but this time he could only grovel: "It's not that his subordinates retreat without a fight, but they are invincible." ”

"Get out, I will report to General Nanda and punish you for your crimes. If you lie again, I will immediately behead you. General Hu Kui shook his horse to the ground, furious.

The vanguard general was silenced for a moment, but still whispered, "You will regret it." ”

General Hu Kui glanced at the vanguard general with disdain on his face, and no longer paid attention to him, but immediately turned around and shouted loudly towards the army: "Order, the Han army is coming, and the whole army will go out to meet the battle." ”

"Fight!" With the heralds, constantly conveying, the whole army of the Ming army, waved their fists, and immediately made preparations for war.

General Hu Kui ordered a general to first lead the 10,000 soldiers directly under him to meet the enemy at the exit of the mountain range.

General Hu Kui was even more overjoyed when he saw this, and felt that General Zhengnan was also very sure of this war and trusted himself very much, so he immediately sent troops and sent troops to divide the 200,000 army into several squares and exit the mountain range to form an encirclement.

However, the Ming army had just prepared, and General Hu Kui suddenly found that the Ming army guarding the first wave seemed to have seen something terrible, and they collapsed without reporting it, and the situation was no different from the rout of the vanguard general, and they all fled!

By this time, the sun had completely set, and the sky was already very dark.

In this case, several spider machines suddenly came out of the dark mountains together, just like the flood beasts that were overwhelming in the darkness suddenly appeared in front of them, and the impact on the psychology of the Ming soldiers was so great that it can be imagined.

The various rumors brought by the rout of the vanguard general's faction had already made the Ming soldiers panic, and when they encountered this frightening thing again, these vanguard soldiers of the Ming army were even more unbearable than the soldiers of the vanguard general, and they almost had no resistance, and they were about to collapse.

General Hu Kui never thought that these soldiers who were comparable to death squads under him would have a moment of desertion, and he was very surprised in his heart, in order to suppress the soldiers from retreating, he immediately dispatched the supervision team to deter the deserters: "The supervision team is ordered, if you see a deserter, you will not be forgiven!" ”

The overseer team of more than 1,000 people immediately stepped forward and stopped the rout.

However, the defeated soldiers were not afraid of the Overseers, who were in control of their life and death, and still rushed backwards, as if they would rather be hacked to death by the Overseers than meet the enemy again.

General Hu Kui had never encountered such a scene in many years of fighting, and when he was about to go to force back the deserters in person, he found that even the Governor team had fled in panic!

In the dark of the night, General Hu Kui could not see what was ahead, but he knew that the situation was extremely bad. At this time, he couldn't help but think of the last sentence of the vanguard general, and his heart was suddenly shocked.

Suddenly, two huge black figures suddenly appeared in front of Hu Kui hundreds of paces.

In the dim light of the fire, Hu Kui was horrified to find that there were two huge spiders in front of him.

He finally understood the meaning of the vanguard general's words!

General Hu Kui also wanted to retreat for a while. But when he turned back and saw that he was leading the army, despite the horror in his heart, he had to suppress the panic, and immediately ordered his thousands of soldiers, armed with spears and torches, to rush forward to stop the giant spider.

Unexpectedly, the giant spider ignored the spear and torch and continued to move forward. Without a pause, nothing could stop them.

"General, youkai." More and more soldiers standing beside General Hu Kui saw clearly what their enemy was, and they all said in horror.

"What if it's a youkai!" General Hu Kui said sharply, "Even if you fill it with human lives, you have to fill these monsters to death." Whoever can kill one will be rewarded with ten thousand gold. ”

However, just as General Hu Kui tried to re-energize the army, a series of firecracker-like sounds rang out all around.

Bang bang bang

Originally stood in front of General Hu Kui. Thousands of routs a hundred paces away from the giant spider. They all fell to the ground suddenly.

Seeing this, the soldiers of the Ming army standing behind him immediately could no longer care about General Hu Kui's encouragement, and the army's heart plummeted. Helplessly, although their superior, General Hu Kui, could not bear the fear in his heart, he did not mean to lead his troops to retreat, but ordered the whole army to rush forward! The soldiers also had to clench their weak weapons to meet the enemy.

Pity. They are unable to do any damage to spider machines. These monster spiders. It is invulnerable. Invulnerability. When encountering such a monster, no matter how elite the Ming soldiers are, they have no will to lose their lives.

General Hu Kui was horrified to find out. Not only him, but even the Ming troops in other squares were also attacked.

The disparity in strength made the fighting spirit of the Ming army completely wiped out, and more and more soldiers began to ignore the general's orders and retreated wildly.

It was difficult for General Hu Kui to control the morale of the army

The worried General Zhengnan has been on the city tower, waiting for General Hu Kui's good news, but the sky is already dark, there is still no movement ahead, and General Zhengnan gradually feels uneasy.

Sure enough, half an hour later, General Hu Kui's subordinates came with news that the 50,000 army led by the vanguard general had been routed, and the vanguard general had retreated around the city to the north of Yunzhou with the rout.

The general of Zhengnan was immediately furious, and ordered that the vanguard general must be captured alive and brought back to Nanyucheng to engage in military law.

Unexpectedly, the pro-soldiers brought news again, the Han army sent troops, and General Hu Kui's 200,000 troops retreated! When the general Zhengnan heard this, he suddenly collapsed on his seat.

But this was far from the time when he could slowly digest the news of the defeat.

When the Ming army in the military city was defeated and fled in chaos, the Han army ambushed in Nanyucheng took advantage of the situation and broke down the Ming army in Nanyucheng step by step with superior forces. This Ming army led by the general Zhengnan was defeated in less than two days after it arrived in Nanyucheng. Wei Qubing took tens of thousands of Han troops and easily captured Nanyucheng. Once again, the southern jade city was occupied by the Han army.

In the end, more than 100,000 of the Ming army, including the recruited people, were captured. The Ming army, which had retreated from Nanyucheng, had to continue to flee north.

After the Han army occupied Nanyucheng, it did not stop, and continued to the north, with the help of spider machines, broke through the city gates, and occupied the big city in the north of Yunzhou in one fell swoop.

The Han army showed no mercy, not only completely removing the traces of the Ming royal family in Yunzhou, but also sending more than 10,000 Han troops to garrison Chengzhou in the north of Yunzhou. Chengzhou is the granary of the southern Ming Kingdom.

As soon as this news came, the Ming court was shocked. The emperor of the Ming State was furious, unable to tolerate the dignity of the court being trampled on by this, and issued an order to the imperial army in person, and asked the states of the Ming State to immediately assemble and send troops, forming a million army to prepare for battle.

Soon after the Han State occupied Yunzhou, the governor immediately issued a decree to issue the government decree of the occupied area originally implemented in Nanyucheng to the entire people of Yunzhou, and regarded Yunzhou as the territory of the Han State.

Maybe there is Nanyucheng in front of you, and the resistance from all over Yunzhou is not very strong. Under the conscious drive of the Han army, the Ming army was routed and most of them had withdrawn from Yunzhou. Without the restraint of the Ming army, almost all the local heroes in Yunzhou surrendered as if they were resigned. Not only that, but there are also some families, just like the Nangong family, who surrender to the Han army. This hastened the submission of the people of Yunzhou.

On this day, after finishing the affairs of the island country, Du Le took the time to teleport back to the foreign land, wanting to collect energy stones and virtual helmets. When he learned that the territory of the Han Kingdom had expanded again and occupied Yunzhou, he was amazed.

After learning that the Ming army took the initiative to attack, and the Han army first showed weakness to lead the enemy, and then broke the enemy in one fell swoop, Du Le was very pleased and ordered to reward the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions in the war.

In fact, the Han army did not eliminate many Ming troops in the campaign. Of the 300,000 Ming troops and more than 200,000 people, there were less than 50,000 Ming casualties. The Ming army injured by the spider machine was not even a thousand. Most of the soldiers of the Ming army panicked because of extreme fear, and even trampled on each other, or did not hesitate to swing their knives and kill their colleagues in order to fight for the escape route!

This is a big victory for Han! Such a battle greatly encouraged the people of the Han Kingdom.

No matter how big the Ming Kingdom is, it is not the opponent of the Han Kingdom.

Although most of Yunzhou is a mountainous area, the area of fertile land still occupies half of the territory of Yunzhou, which is extremely important in terms of strategic position. Therefore, Du Le decided to turn Yunzhou into a mine and farm of the Han Kingdom, and implemented a centralized farm system in Yunzhou.

As for the management of the government, Du Le agreed with the strategic plan formulated before. Du Le was not greedy, as long as the Ming emperor was willing to negotiate peace and cede Yunzhou, the Han army could promise not to send troops to attack the rest of the Ming state.

This is because in less than two years, the Han State developed extremely rapidly, not only annexing the Qi State and the Jin State, but also occupying Yunzhou. However, although the policy of the Han State is good, after all, there are still too many newly occupied places, and the current strength of the Han army is not enough to control so many places.

Du Le wanted to expand his territory, but he definitely didn't want a chaotic situation, and there were too many wars, which was extremely inappropriate for the newly established forces. Therefore, forcing the emperor of the Ming State to negotiate peace is the best way.

When he learned that the emperor of the Ming Kingdom was going to drive the imperial expedition in person, Du Le knew that the opportunity of the Han Kingdom had come. (To be continued......)